{
"Johnson Timeline" : [
{
  "date" : "1/1/1937",
  "desc" : "At around noon on this day a gondola-shaped object, the color of gun metal, crossed the path in front of a aircraft flying near the Virginia-North Carolina border ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_0",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 17" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/1/1952",
  "desc" : "On this night at the North Bay RCAF Base in Nipissing, Ontario, Canada Warrant Officer W. J. Yeo and Airman Crandell observed a strange craft in the sky at a NORAD installation. The UFO swung like a pendulum in the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "newspaper clipping dated April 16, 1952" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/1/1953",
  "desc" : "At 9:45 p.m. in Lewis and Clark County, northwest of Craig, Montana a disc with illuminated windows was seen over the Missouri River for ten seconds. It was estimated to be about 10 meters in length and flew at 3,600 miles per hour. Fifteen minutes later a bright object hovered in the sky over the northwest horizon of Calgary, Alberta for ten minutes. It too shot away at a high speed with fantastic acceleration. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing Loren Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953 (volume 1), p. 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/1/1957",
  "desc" : "At 2:10 a.m. a F-86D USAF pilot flying near Guam in the Pacific Ocean sighted a UFO that remained unexplained by Project Blue Book. At four o'clock in the morning in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand two people in Rissington saw a huge luminous cigar hovering low over the horizon, and shooting beams of light in several directions. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 4577; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, A History, 1957: January-March 22, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/1/1958",
  "desc" : "A photograph of a brilliant light making a ninety-degree turn and then shooting away was taken at Trindade Island in the Atlantic Ocean at 7:70 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 172" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/1/1961",
  "desc" : "Mr. Pisani, a government topographer, had just passed a truck on the Andean Highway between La Victoria and El Vigia, Venezuela on a clear day when he witnessed a flying disc of polished blue steel swoop down very close to the hood of the truck and lift it about a meter into the air. The truck overturned onto a sandbank, causing minor injuries to the driver. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 185, citing H. Gonzalez; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 514" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/1/1964",
  "desc" : "On this day in 1964 many residents of Shanghai, China saw a large cigar-shaped object flying over the city. Chinese Air Force MIG jet fighter aircraft were scrambled to intercept the unknown object, but were unable to catch up with it. The populace were told by officials that what they had seen was a U.S. missile. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John W. Spencer, World Atlas of UFOs, p. 131" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/1/1966",
  "desc" : "At 6:23 a.m. thirty sky watchers in Tokyo, Japan sighted a huge bow-shaped, dark brown UFO, its length ten times the apparent diameter of the Moon. It hung over the northern horizon for eight minutes. At 6:40 a.m. a second huge stick-like craft was seen that blew forth a mass of white clouds behind it. A bright flash of light was seen high in the sky that day in Aitape, Papua New Guinea. It was visible for five minutes and left behind a smoke trail. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Y. J. Matsumura, Flying Saucers, October 1966, p. 39; Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 156" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/1/1968",
  "desc" : "Mr. Kakizawa of Yokohama, Japan took a photograph of a UFO at 4:45 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, October 1968, p. 16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/1/1970",
  "desc" : "From the second floor of the Cowichan District Hospital on Vancouver Island, British Columbia five nurses saw a silver metallic Saturn-shaped UFO. It was about 50 feet in diameter and hovered close by with a \"necklace of lights\" around the rim. At 5:00 a.m. they could clearly see two tall male figures inside the craft wearing tight-fitting dark coveralls. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_9",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, January-February 1970, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/1/1971",
  "desc" : "At 6:30 a.m. a mini-bus driver near Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales saw an object in the sky above the road. The cigar-shaped object turned at an easy angle and traveled toward Newport. One of her passengers also saw it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_10",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, August 1971, p. 26" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/1/1971",
  "desc" : "A one hundred foot diameter spherical UFO, bright as the Moon, wobbled as it hung in the sky south of Alamogordo, New Mexico after 3 a.m. It sent out bright orange objects that then landed on the side of the Sacramento Mountains. \"It kicked the objects out...fast...and they flew right to the ground.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_11",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Alamogordo Daily News, January 3, 1971" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/1/1971",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. in Kosice, Slovakia a woman reported being taken aboard a UFO together with her friend and her cat. They were all brought from her apartment through a window in a trance-like state and delivered into an otherworldly environment where everything appeared to be made out of ice. There she met three beautiful female humanoids who wore silvery spacesuits. The beings paralyzed them and loaded them onto a wagon-like sledge. The woman awoke the next day with pain all over her body and with no further recollection of the event. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_12",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1971, citing Dr. Milos Jesensky" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/1/1972",
  "desc" : "At 4:30 a.m. a 25 meter long cigar-shaped object hovered over a power station in the town of Nedre Leirfoss in Sor-Trondelag, Norway. It made a rumbling sound, ejected flames, and shot away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_13",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Contact U.K." ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/1/1973",
  "desc" : "At 12:15 a.m. on a highway in the state of Los Lagos, Chile a married couple had their car engine stall the moment a UFO flew over their car. The disc-shaped UFO had a green light and a flashing red light. Their car engine came back on by itself after the UFO had gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_14",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "newspaper clipping, January 3, 1973; FSR, May-June 1973, Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 55; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume II): A Thirty Year Report, p. 254" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/1/1973",
  "desc" : "At sea off the coast of Mauratania, several crewmembers aboard the SS Wilhelm Kohle sighted two silver discs at 9:15 a.m. flying at a high altitude and heading toward the northwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_15",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register (Volume 5), 1974, case 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/1/1973",
  "desc" : "A domed disc-shaped UFO was sighted in Tres Arroyos, Argentina at 10 p.m., and figures could be seen on board working behind an instrument panel. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_16",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Christian Vogt, Phenomenes Spatiaux, June 1973, p. 22" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/1/1975",
  "desc" : "Four soldiers at a military base saw a luminous yellow-white cone-shaped object descend at a high rate of speed at 6:25 a.m. and hover near their car in Quintanaortuno, Spain. The object went dark. Soon four more UFOs appeared, forming a row \"emitting jets of white light downward.\" Traces were found and photographed at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_17",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 199; Skylook, April 1975, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/1/1976",
  "desc" : "Three witnesses watched a 15-meter long football-shaped object hover 800 meters above a road at one o'clock in the morning in Marle, France then shot straight up in the sky fast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_18",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1979" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/1/1977",
  "desc" : "There were several UFO reports on this day from France and Portugal. A pink glowing sphere hovered in the sky for six minutes in Creysseilles, France at 1:30 a.m., then flew away to the east toward the Mezayon Valley. At seven p.m. a luminous yellow-orange ovoid hovered in the sky for five minutes over Saint-Donat in Drome department, France. It drifted toward the southwest and was gone by eleven p.m. At 7:50 p.m. in Chabeiul, also in Drome, France a lenticular metallic disc with flames coming from the bottom made a 180-degree turn and flew off toward the south. The witness's eyes were sore from the glare of the light. At 8:00 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Perez had a close encounter with a ten-meter long ovoid object in nearby Valence, France that chased their car. They also complained of eye pain and conjunctivitis as a result of the encounter, and a watch of theirs had stopped working. The UFO made a reappearance 40 minutes later. At nine p.m. in Leca de Palmeira, Oporto Province, Portugal a TV crew filmed a UFO. It made a sound like an electric motor. At ten p.m. a luminous hemisphere-shaped object, about .65 meters in diameter, maneuvered and glowed among trees in Eyragues, France in Bouches-Rhone department. Broken branches were found later in the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_19",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michel Figuet and Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 637; Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1979; International UFO Reporter, February 1977, p. 2; Lumieres dans la Nuit, September 1977; Victor Lourenco, PORTUCAT computer catalogue" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/1/1977",
  "desc" : "Late on this night in New Canaan, Connecticut a young witness remembers being floated through his house downstairs against his will. Terrified, he saw a being shorter than him that floated beside him at the same time. He tried to grab the wall and banister but could not get a firm hold. His next memory was of being in the driveway being floated down the road surrounded by several gray-colored figures. He tried to get away but his legs just cycled aimlessly in mid-air. He had vague memories of being in a dark room with a metallic floor with some \"people\" that were involved in a project, which calmed him down and made him feel good. This was all he could remember. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_20",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/1/1978",
  "desc" : "Mr. Hallstrom witnessed a metallic domed disc with a clear dome and several windows over Santa Monica, California at 1:07 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_21",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies, case investigation files, report dated January 18, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/1/1998",
  "desc" : "At four o'clock in the morning a man in Huelo, Hawaii, who had earlier that night seen some lights moving out the sky over some nearby fields, was awakened when he felt some type of \"knock\" in his head, perhaps some form of telepathic communication. He looked out his window to see a multicolored UFO emitting multicolored light beams in his direction. He woke up his friend and they both saw a figure standing in the bedroom. Terrified, they hid under the covers and when they looked again a few moments later the figure had vanished. The craft, however, was still outside outside but a little further off, and stayed visible until sunrise. The figure was described as tall, with a huge head and large staring eyes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_22",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/1/2001",
  "desc" : "At shortly after midnight several motorists reported sighting five discs flying along the western shore of North Island, New Zealand near New Plymouth. One of the UFOs paced a car, hovering 100 feet overhead of the vehicle, causing radio static. The UFO changed color from orange to violet as it flew. After several minutes the UFOs formed into a linear formation and flew off rapidly to the south. A silent orange object was videotaped over Deception Bay, Queensland, Australia that evening, moving from the southeast to the northwest. The video appears to show a dozen windows on the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_23",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), April 2001, p. 20; Sheryl Gottschall, UFO Research Queensland website" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/2/1953",
  "desc" : "Near Adelaide, South Australia a ghastly looking creature over six-feet tall, with a long scaly body, hissed at residents of Berri from the top of a tree. It leapt to the ground and ran off when someone fetched a gun. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_24",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 157" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/2/1953",
  "desc" : "Two UFO photographs were taken on this day, one in Bulawayo, Rhodesia and a second in North Bankstown, Australia. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_25",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "CUFOS, letter; Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 157" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/2/1957",
  "desc" : "At nine o’clock in the evening in the South Yorkshire town of West Melton, England two witnesses saw a domed disc-shaped UFO spinning and rising into the sky. It reversed course and passed overhead. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_26",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: January-March 22, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/2/1959",
  "desc" : "In Calhoun County, Alabama at 7 p.m. a silent silver globe hovered and maneuvered over the Anniston Army Ordnance Depot. The UFO made several quick circles in the sky then flew off toward the southwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_27",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Bluebook files counted in official statistics" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/2/1968",
  "desc" : "In Castle Rock, Colorado 12 people saw a transparent bubble with 12 lights. It hovered fifty feet above the ground, and then shot straight up into the sky, shooting out two balls of flame while doing so. The lights were the color of car headlights covered over with mud. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_28",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Bluebook files counted in official statistics" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/2/1968",
  "desc" : "Two snowmobile drivers in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada observed a pulsating, orange-yellow object nearby at 4:00 p.m.. This object was extremely bright. One of the snowmobile's engines stalled during the sighting and its driver felt a sensation of increased heat. The object moved out of sight shortly thereafter and the snowmobile could be restarted. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_29",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 232, citing NICAP UFO Investigator, Vol. 4, No. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/2/1971",
  "desc" : "In Valencia, Spain at 2:30 p.m. three silver discs flew silently in a linear formation at a low altitude. They then tilted and separated, flying toward the south. Less than three hours later, at 4:15 GMT, two independent witnesses in Corfton, England saw a reddish-orange light about the size of a car flutter from side to side as it descended, leaving behind a black trail of smoke. It continued to descend vertically, and stopped burning just before it hit the ground. No traces were found at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_30",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 124; Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, August 1971, p. 20, citing The Bridgenorth Journal, January 8, 1971" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/2/1973",
  "desc" : "In Nowra, New South Wales, Australia at nine o’clock in the evening five people saw a large disc make a 180-degree turn in the sky and follow their car. Figures could be seen through windows in the craft. The craft flew off to the east and out over the sea. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_31",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 141" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/2/1975",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. in Arguedas, Spain 30 military witnesses saw a domed-shaped object on the ground at an Air Force Base. Body lights were visible on the craft, and the ground was illuminated as the UFO took off. The sighting lasted four minutes, and ground traces were found. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_32",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted Phillips, Skylook, December 1975, p. 16, citing Vicente Juan Ballester Olmos" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/2/1975",
  "desc" : "Two hours and fifteen minutes later, at 2:45 p.m. on the eastern shore of Kauai, Hawaii a married couple took three photographs of a 25-foot square UFO, flying below the clouds. Mr. and Mrs. Lindstrom reported that the UFO flew off slowly to the south-southwest. The photographs are regarded by CUFOS as of excellent quality and reliability. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_33",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies, report dated January 7, 1976; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume II): A Thirty Year Report, p. 293" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/2/1978",
  "desc" : "Four young men were driving home on an isolated road in a flat boggy area called Simonswood Moss in Rainford, England when they realized they had taken a wrong turn onto a narrow dirt road bordering a ditch. Suddenly a seven foot tall figure appeared in the glare of the headlights, eight meters ahead. The being was wearing a white fluorescent one-piece suit with boots. It had no discernible facial features and it had very short arms ending in claws. It also had a box with two flashing red lights on its chest. The figure took two steps towards the witnesses and stopped. The witnesses panicked, left the area and drove to a nearby farm where they notified the authorities. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_34",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case #377, citing Peter Hough, UFOs 1947-1987: The 40-Year Search for an Explanation" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/2/1978",
  "desc" : "A man was sitting in his front room in Gomez Palacio, Mexico reading late at night when he suddenly looked up to see a tall blond, blue-eyed man in his room. The witness asked, \"Who are you?\" When he received no reply he asked, \"What are you doing here?\" At this point the stranger, whose body was surrounded by a strange glow, turned around without touching the floor. The visitor floated through the doorways of two other rooms and onto the patio at the rear of the house, followed by the witness. The glow around the man's body increased and he flew up into the air and out of sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_35",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing Paul R. Hill, APRO Bulletin, September 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/2/1979",
  "desc" : "Mr. L. M. went to open a window inside his house in Nuoro on the island of Sardinia, Italy because of the intense humidity when he noticed two short human like figures \"floating\" ten meters above the ground outside the building. Startled, he watched the two figures from his balcony. The two humanoids wore transparent coveralls, like plexiglass, and under that gray metallic outfits that emitted a bluish glow. They wore white-colored helmets on their heads with clear visors. He could see that their faces were normal; very handsome with large eyes. They also wore white tight-fitting boots and had a dark cylinder shaped \"container\" around their waists. During the encounter the witness felt chills. As the beings approached the house they smiled at the witness and were soon lost from sight in the distance. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_36",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, citing Archivio S.U.F." ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/2/1995",
  "desc" : "At around midnight in Durham, England a woman driving on a highway noticed her car lose power. At the same time, a short distance away, stood a short, goblin-like creature with large, bright oval-shaped eyes. It crossed the road in an “odd” way, only six feet away from her car. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_37",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, June 1995" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/2/1995",
  "desc" : "At 6:25 a.m. a huge, coin-shaped disc hovered near the shoreline of New Port Richey, Florida for about a minute, and then shot away “like lightning.” ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_38",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/2/1997",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon in Campina Grande do Sul, Brazil a woman waiting for a bus heard a loud roaring sound resembling that of a lion. Moments later she heard what sounded like \"heavy steps splashing in water.\" She next saw a dark round form that flew right over her street. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_39",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, citing Carlos Alberto Machado" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/2/2000",
  "desc" : "At 1:15 a.m. a man in Mission, British Columbia saw an object larger than a van hovering outside his home. It made no sound. An occupant was observed inside the craft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_40",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, UFO Research Manitoba, 2000 Canadian UFO Survey, case 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/2/2000",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. a silver-gray object flew south in a straight trajectory over Yucca Valley, California. It made a low humming sound and had a tail of bright orange flame. The UFO was reported to the FAA by aviators, ground observers, and radio news stations. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_41",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), April 2000, p. 16, citing Filer’s Files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/2/2001",
  "desc" : "A bright round light approached a family traveling in a car on a road in Corralito, Argentina in the early morning hours. The UFO halted, backed up, rose to the height of some power lines parallel to the road, and then paced the car. It responded to the flashing of the car headlights by “turning off.” A local power failure was reported at the same time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_42",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), April 2001, p. 20, citing Filer’s Files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/2/2003",
  "desc" : "At 4:05 p.m. local time a man took a photograph of a spherical UFO over Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_43",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/2/2003",
  "desc" : "A pale blue, oval-shaped object made right-angled turns in the sky over Wyreema, Australia at 10 p.m. for a few seconds, then vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_44",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/2/2003",
  "desc" : "At 4:30 p.m. CST a dark gray, cigar-shaped UFO was sighted hovering over some fields in Garfield county, and were seen from a highway running between Enid and Tulsa, Oklahoma. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_45",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/2/2003",
  "desc" : "At 5:20 p.m. PST two black triangular craft flew above San Jose, California at an altitude estimated to be above 30,000 feet. They hovered, then moved very slowly toward the east, and then reversed direction moving slowly toward the west. Two hours later a huge cigar-shaped flying object with 3-5 blindingly bright horizontal lights flew low overhead in Los Angeles, California. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_46",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/2/2003",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. a disc-shaped craft with lights around the perimeter flew over Winnebago, Minnesota and was sighted by two witnesses. The lights on the UFO changed color from white to red to green to blue. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_47",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/3/1948",
  "desc" : "A disc-shaped object shot across the sky from west to east in 30 seconds over the coast of Vaasa, Finland. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_48",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files, case 99; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1289; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1948, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/3/1953",
  "desc" : "At one o'clock in the afternoon a metallic dome shaped UFO maneuvered five feet above a hayfield in Santana dos Montes, Minas Gerais State, Brazil. Two 5.1 foot tall men jumped out. They had a shining ball on each of their square-toed shoes. There was a third occupant visible in the hatchway of the craft. One of the men had a cylinder that it pushed into ground, and withdrew. They then got back into the craft and it flew away. The witness, Sr. M. Ramos Bessa, had a severe headache after his close encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_49",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 143" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/3/1955",
  "desc" : "At 7:25 a.m. two people in a car in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia saw a flying object approach to within 70 meters of them after their vehicle was stalled. On that same day in Vienna, Austria six silver discs flew overhead, leaving a trail of red vapor. Some citizens were panicked. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_50",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 248; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4260; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 30, citing Vallee" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/3/1958",
  "desc" : "At 4 o'clock in the afternoon a nuclear physics college student, Mr. Delacy, shot 90 seconds of 8 mm movie film of nine silver globes over Diamond Head on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_51",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/3/1959",
  "desc" : "At 1:30 p.m. a six-foot long shining cigar-shaped object flew over Adelaide, South Australia. It gave off a red glow. It was followed shortly by a six-foot square object, spinning and shining brightly in the daytime sky. At 8:00 p.m. another cigar-shaped UFO hovered over Dover, Ohio at 40 meters altitude. It was large, silent, and had red, green and white lights on its surface. At about the same time or shortly after eight p.m. a round orange object flew south of Rochester, New York. It made a crackling noise as it flew. A nocturnal light exited from the larger craft, and flew off quickly to the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_52",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 164; Loren Gross, The fifth horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History, 1959: January-March, p. 4; NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1959, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/3/1963",
  "desc" : "An airplane being flown over the state of Cordoba, Argentina had a close encounter with a UFO. The UFO projected a beam of light at the aircraft, and one of the plane's four engines quit working. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_53",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Nachrichten (Germany), February 1966, citing a newspaper clipping" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/3/1966",
  "desc" : "On this evening Mr. Staver, a rocket expert, watched a group of nocturnal lights maneuver in the sky over Los Altos, California, then shoot off to the west at an estimated 1,200 mph. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_54",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1966, p. 2; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers - Here and Now, pp. 58, 97" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/3/1967",
  "desc" : "At two o'clock in the morning a woman professional secretary driving down a road in New Richmond, Indiana had a close encounter with a bright, domed disc-shaped UFO. She described the object as looking like an inverted mushroom; it hovered over her car as she drove for 10-15 minutes. Her forward motion slowed, and she could not make her car accelerate to get out from under the UFO. The object finally made an odd maneuver in the sky and flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_55",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 199, 454" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/3/1967",
  "desc" : "On this day in 1967 a strange little man entered the county courthouse in Athens, Ohio and asked for directions. He was fascinated with a ballpoint pen, as if he had never seen one before. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_56",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Hans Holzer, The UFOnauts, p. 288" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/3/1968",
  "desc" : "At five o'clock in the morning Ms. Emma Grimble, an early riser, was sweeping the upper hallway of her guest house home in Ashtabula, Ohio when she heard a commotion downstairs near the tenant's mailboxes. Yelling \"Get away from those mailboxes!\" she rushed downstairs but was dumbfounded to see two little men, greenish yellow in color, clambering around the boxes and attaching themselves to the wall by \"suction cups on their hands and feet.\" They glistened like metal, possibly wearing flexible, tight fitting metallic clothing. At her appearance the two little creatures rushed out the front door. She heard quite a loud scrambling around, as if there may have been five or six of them. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_57",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-11, citing D. L. McCulty, Saucer News; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case 24" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/3/1971",
  "desc" : "On this night three small, fuzzy, round objects moved near a bridge and hovered over it as a car approached in Aberdeen, Washington. The engine of the car stopped, the radio had heavy interference, but the headlights remained on. The three objects, which were only about two feet in diameter, then rose slightly and drifted down the river quite slowly. The car could then be restarted. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_58",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, May-June, 1971; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 304, citing APRO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/3/1973",
  "desc" : "At 10 p.m. on this night in Blacksburg, South Carolina on Highway 43 a metallic domed disc chased a car at a very low altitude. The car's headlights dimmed during the sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_59",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "newspaper clipping dated February 9, 1973; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 325, citing UFO Register 1974" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/3/1975",
  "desc" : "There were several close encounter reports on this day for 1975 in Tasmania, over the English Channel, in Argentina, and in the U.S. Midwest. At 8:30 p.m. in Cape Girardeau, Missouri physicist Harley Rutledge and his wife had a close encounter with a 20-foot in diameter, semi-convex glowing domed disc, that rose from behind some trees. There was a dim yellow light coming from its dome. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_60",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Harley D. Rutledge, Project Identification, p. 195" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/3/1977",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 a.m. a 24-year-old woman and her young sister were doing the wash next to their rural home that was near Carapito Beira Alta, Portugal. They saw on top of a nearby hill a strange looking bulky figure that was dark and motionless. It resembled an eight-foot-tall box with a round head on top and legs that appeared too thin towards the bottom. A strange sound, resembling several dogs barking into a microphone, seemed to emanate from the figure. The two witnesses became afraid and locked themselves in their house. They next heard a sound like someone was dragging something outside on the sand path that encircled their house. The sound stopped at the edge of a nearby pine grove. This was too much for the 24-year-old woman, who suffered a nervous collapse. Investigators found a small radioactive spot at the foot of the hill, plus other ground traces in evidence. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_61",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, case # 107, citing Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos & Fernandez Peri, Enciclopedia de Los Encuentros Cercanos con Ovnis" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/3/1978",
  "desc" : "The Stovold family was driving between Cadnam and Fordingbridge, in Hampshire, England in the late afternoon when they spotted a turreted disc-shaped object hovering just 300 feet over the heath a short distance away. It had lights on the top of its dome. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_62",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "D. N. Mansell, Awareness, July 1978, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/3/1979",
  "desc" : "At 11:15 p.m. a couple was crossing a roadway in Mirabello, Italy when they noticed a red beam of light on the ground. They got into their car and drove closer to get a better look. As they approached they perceived a strong burning smell, an odor like burnt human hair. The light resembled a pulsating vertical bar, red in color encircled by a round halo. As they got even closer they saw a human like figure walk in front of the light, and moments later a second figure walked from the opposite direction. As a result of the intense cold the witnesses had to leave the area. As they drove away they observed a similar but larger light on the ground in front of a nearby orchard. The light slowly pulsated. Again the witnesses had to leave because of the cold weather. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_63",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case 1555; Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Italian UFO Catalogue" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/3/1979",
  "desc" : "There were two incidents involving missing time or abductions on this day. The first occurred in Mindalore, South Africa. A man and a woman were driving in foggy conditions near a mine at 11:50 p.m. They saw a gray cone-shaped craft with four legs that had landed, and then experienced a 20-minute lapse of time, but they did recall witnessing humanoids associated with the craft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_64",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Cynthia Hind, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1979, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/3/1979",
  "desc" : "The second experience also occurred while driving. Mr. Filiberto Cardenas, age 45, was driving on Okeechobee Road just north of Miami, Florida with three family friends when the car engine suddenly failed. He and another man got out of the car to check under the hood when a large luminous object emitting a humming sound descended over the vehicle. The witness vanished in plain sight of the others, apparently taken up into the object by a beam of light.<br/><br/> He was found dazed two hours later and 16 miles away from the original location by a police officer. Later he recalled being taken up and blacking out. He found himself onboard the object and three human-like beings all dressed in tight-fitting white suits took him to an ocean front setting where they opened a \"lock\" on a rock and entered through a tunnel beneath the sea. The beings were of average height, wearing outfits that covered their heads with winged snake-like emblems on their chests.<br/><br/> They spoke to the witness in Spanish and mainly spoke about coming wars and disasters. He was led to a seat made out of stone and given a liquid to drink that tasted like honey. A huge door then opened in front of him and several persons came out. Cardenas began feeling a strong pressure in his chest and at this point an individual approached him and told him he was welcomed. The individual appeared totally human and spoke with a South American accent. Indeed this man told Cardenas that he was from earth but had lived with extraterrestrials for a while now. He was then taken through a corridor into what appeared to be a great city. He then entered a small room where he was suddenly sucked into the wall, which then flipped over and became a bed. Paralyzed, he was unable to move and noticed several figures moving around him. As a light blinded him something was inserted into his ear. From the wall there emerged what looked like several arms ending in suction cups that covered his body. He felt no pain but could not move.<br/><br/> After the examination he was taken to another room. There he saw a tall seat and on it was a tall man wearing a cape; he also saw numerous consoles and monitors. He was shown images of three pyramids joined by a thin ray of light. Cardenas apparently slept several times and was awakened and given several tablets to eat. In another room he saw several human like figures wearing gray coveralls. In another room he saw a large gathering of people in what he thought was a \"party\".<br/><br/> Soon he was taken into another room where he saw a large rocket-style ship in which he was taken along with three other humans. He was made to sit on a suction-like seat. After a short trip he was made to exit and given something to eat. He last saw the object disappear into the distance. He was found disoriented by a police officer in an isolated section of the city. A medical exam found 108 tiny pricks on his body. Days after the encounter he suffered from severe sweating, extreme thirst, extreme temperature changes, and a strong sulfur like smell followed him, he also suffered from memory loss, decreased sexual appetite and strange time altering episodes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_65",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Miami Herald, January 5, 1979; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of A Mystery; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case 458, citing Virgilio Sanchez-Ocejo; Cynthia Hind, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1979, p. 3; John F. Schuessler, UFO-Related Human Physiological Effects, p. 84" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/3/1980",
  "desc" : "In Van Nuys, California a huge, domed disc-shaped object dropped from the sky at 8:30 p.m. to just 50 feet above the car containing three female witnesses. It tilted, then shot up. Two more discs then joined it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_66",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ann Druffel, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1981, p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/3/1984",
  "desc" : "At 4:14 a.m. an ovoid UFO flew low over Lake Michigan and was sighted by three women in Port Washington, Wisconsin. The UFO had three portholes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_67",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald R. Schmitt, International UFO Reporter, March-April 1984, p. 3; UNICAT, case # 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/3/1986",
  "desc" : "On a farm in Roseville, Placer County, California at 8:15 p.m. a 300-foot in diameter disc-shaped object flew right overhead, then made a fast 90 degree turn and was gone. The house and barn both shook as a result. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_68",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, case # 1037" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/3/1988",
  "desc" : "Some very bright lights in the sky paced a car for several miles around 5 p.m. in Grimsby, England. It was seen for nine minutes before it departed by shooting straight up. At 9:30 p.m. an ovoid flying object was seen over southern Leeds, England, then an airplane appeared in the sky. The UFO zig-zagged toward the plane, causing a near collision, then was gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_69",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, pp. 11-12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/3/1994",
  "desc" : "A cone-shaped UFO approached a house in Ecouis, France at 11:45 p.m. shining a yellow light on it. It then flew away to the southeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_70",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 322" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/3/1995",
  "desc" : "In the town of Molenbeek, Brabant, Belgium at 3:50 a.m. a very luminous orange triangular UFO with a yellow center, passed overhead at 50 meters altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_71",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17046, citing Banque OVNI Reports, issue # 95" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/3/1995",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. east of Rishon Letzion, Israel two nine-foot-tall giants in metallic suits were seen glowing in the desert. The depth of the impression of their 8 km long tracks in the ground indicated their weight was more than a metric ton. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_72",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17049; FSR, volume 41, number 1; Michael Hesemann, UFOs: The Secret History" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/3/1995",
  "desc" : "At 5:00 a.m. a woman and her neighbors in Gladstone, Oregon witnessed a triangular craft with white and blue lights. She and her neighbors witnessed a total of five aerial craft. They also reported military jets in the area. At 6:00 p.m. that evening in Marysville, Washington a young man saw a similar large triangular craft with blue and white lights moving slowly in the night sky. It finally streaked off to the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_73",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/3/1998",
  "desc" : "In Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania a number of cyclops looking humanoids exited from a delta-shaped UFO and took a pet parrot from the yard of a home in the city. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_74",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Cynthia Hind, UFO Afri News, July 1998" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/3/1998",
  "desc" : "Also on this day a huge silver disc-shaped UFO followed a car in Traunstein, Bavaria, Germany. The lights on the rim of the craft were rotating. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_75",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 18008, citing Phenomena, issue 38" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/3/2000",
  "desc" : "A 16-year-old girl in Stockbridge, Georgia awoke at 4:15 a.m. to see a short alien being standing next to her hed.  The undescribed being seemed surprised that she woke up and was holding one of her legs. She suddenly received a mental image of a flying object with five beings aboard in her backyard. Three days earlier her mother and brother had also seen beings in their rooms as well, according to the source. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_76",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 2000 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 3564, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, January 2000 archived webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/3/2002",
  "desc" : "At 7:15 p.m. two witnesses driving in in Dubuque, Iowa  had a close encounter with a domed disc-shaped craft. The UFO had light blue flashing lights, was saucer-shaped with a dome-like top on it, and it behaved as if it wanted them to stop, according to the main witness. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_77",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, January 2002 webpage, report uploaded January 11, 2002" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/3/2004",
  "desc" : "On this day a metallic disc-shaped object hovered a few thousand feet above a yacht anchored offshore of Santa Monica, California. Those aboard took a photograph of the object. The estimated size of the UFO, base on the length of the yacht, was 30 feet. A few moments later the craft darted away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_78",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Preston Dennett, UFOs over California: A True History of Extraterrestrial Encounters in the Golden State, p. 213" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/3/2009",
  "desc" : "At 9:25 p.m. three dark orange or reddish orange colored objects were seen flying in a triangular pattern over Davie, Broward County, Florida. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_79",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, January 2009 webpage, report uploaded January 10, 2009" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/4/1913",
  "desc" : "An airship with lights was spotted by three witnesses including police as it flew over Dover, Kent, England southeast toward the sea; \"motors\" were heard. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_80",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lucius Farish, newspaper clipping, January 6, 1913; Desmond Leslie & George Adamski, Flying Saucers Have Landed, p. 36" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/4/1949",
  "desc" : "At 2:07 p.m. in Hickham Field, Honolulu, Hawaii Captain Paul Storey sighted a large, round, flat disc-shaped object that \"blinked\" and flew silently with a type of whitish reflection. The top of the craft looked dark. It flew at 3,000 feet altitude and circled the airfield, blinking once per second, finally flying away climbing into the northeast sky. The sighting is listed by the Air Force as an “unknown.” ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_81",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 275; Michael David Hall, UFOs: A Century of Sightings, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/4/1954",
  "desc" : "Mr. Chesneau, a fireman at the Marignane Airport in France, saw a round luminous object slowly coming down and called the control tower to report it. When he came out again, the object had disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_82",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jimmy Guieu, Les SV Viennent d'un Autre Monde; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 205" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/4/1958",
  "desc" : "A woodcutter in Stavanger, Norway saw a UFO land in a forest at 2:30 in the afternoon. A very tall man with a tan face got out. The being wore a helmet as part of his uniform. After a few minutes he got back in the craft, and it took off without making any noise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_83",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case 455" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/4/1959",
  "desc" : "At 1:30 a.m. five people saw a luminous globe make sharp maneuvers in the sky about ten miles south of Clines Corner, New Mexico. It then hovered over a highway intersection for fifteen minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_84",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/4/1963",
  "desc" : "A domed disc with tripod landing gear landed in a park in Rome, Italy. It was estimated to be five meters in diameter. The man who witnessed the landing said he felt a gust of wind as the UFO took off vertically and vanished into the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_85",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case 557, citing Momento Sera January 9, 1963; Robert Pinotto, Flying Saucers, January 1966, p. 60" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/4/1965",
  "desc" : "At 5:15 p.m. a procession of three bright, orange to red elliptical objects passed before observers in Bethel, Vermont at high speed and low altitude in rapid succession. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_86",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, case investigation, report dated January 18, 1965" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/4/1966",
  "desc" : "Three witnesses riding in a truck in Concepcion del Urugruay, Argentina had a close encounter on this night with a luminous green object surrounded by haze. The EM effects on truck caused the engine to slow and flip over. No serious injuries were reported. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_87",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Cronica, January 5, 1966; Uriondo Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, June 1973, p. 11; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II, p. 273" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/4/1971",
  "desc" : "A policeman woke up in his home and saw a 30-meter diameter disc in the yard outside his home, located between the towns of Crawford and Pine Bush in Ulster County, New York. The UFO hovered and pulsated close to his house for 40 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_88",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 9224, citing Ellen Crystal, p. 19" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/4/1972",
  "desc" : "On this night a car was levitated in Sweden with possible missing time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_89",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "S. Helmer, FSR, May 1972, p. 31; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions:  The Measure of a Mystery, case # 243" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/4/1973",
  "desc" : "In Londrina, Parana State, Brazil Joao Marques, age 31, observed a UFO hovering over the road near his home at 2:30 a.m. A door in the craft opened, and a human-like figure in white descended on a rope to the ground. The being then picked up a bit of grass and put it to his nose or mouth, then discarded it. He next picked up a hydrangea plant, which he took with him. He ascended the rope and entered the craft, and the UFO left. The height and other features of the being were not given. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_90",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1973-125 (A1185); Walter Buhler, SBEDV Special Bulletin" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/4/1974",
  "desc" : "Two woman driving in a car in the suburbs of Chicago followed a low flying UFO in Berwyn, Illinois at around 5:15 p.m. The object had two bright lights and a red tower-shaped structure. It flew at an estimated 75 feet above the ground, then hovered over a high school athletic field. It turned off its lights when it flew away. At shortly after 7:00 p.m. a UFO hovered over Legler Lake, Minnesota. At eight p.m. in rural Lake county Minnesota police officers Haugan and Dufresne of the Waldo Township Police saw four “unbelievably bright” lights, the color and hue of a burning log, from their patrol car. The lights flew to the west, then banked and flew off toward the southwest at an estimated 800 feet altitude. Their sighting lasted 30 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_91",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON Field Investigation files, report dated January 6, 1974; CUFOS case investigation files, report dated May 12, 1975; Two Harbors (MN) Chronicle and Times, January 10, 1974" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/4/1977",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m. man was training his German shepherd dog in a pine grove in Carapito Beira Alta, Portugal when the animal suddenly became agitated and sat next to him. He then saw hovering 10 meters from the ground a dark metallic domed object that was emitting a beeping sound. Near the object was a very tall, heavy set figure, human like. The object suddenly emitted a silvery lighting flash and disappeared, and so did the bulky figure. The witness suffered from severe headaches soon after the incident, and his dog died with no obvious cause of death in August of the same year. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_92",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, case # 106, citing Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos & Fernandez Peri, Enciclopedia De Los Encuentros Cercanos con Ovnis" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/4/1978",
  "desc" : "The witness was lying in his bed in Wrose, England on this night when a short silvery transparent figure suddenly appeared hovering above the bed. It seemed human like and was wearing a monk like robe. It also appeared to have some short wing like protrusions and a bright halo type light around its head. It vanished in plain sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_93",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case 1790, citing Nigel Watson, Portraits of Alien Encounters" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/4/1979",
  "desc" : "A group of four farmers saw a small glittering sphere float about in the sky over Jitra, Malaysia at 6:45 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_94",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ahmad Jamaludin, Summary of Unidentified Flying Objects and Related Events in Malaysia, p. 86" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/4/1979",
  "desc" : "That same morning at around seven a.m. in Rowley Regis in the West Midlands, England, Mrs. Jean Hingley had waved goodbye to her husband on a bitter cold morning when she saw a light in the garden. Thinking he had left the light on she went to investigate, but it was turned off so she returned to the kitchen. She put down some food for the family Alsatian dog and called him from the garden, but he flopped down as if drugged and gazed at the ceiling, glassy-eyed. Then, with a \"zee---zee-zee\" noise, three weird creatures flew past her into her lounge. They were only one meter tall and had waxy white faces, coal-black eyes with no eyebrows, and very thin mouths. They wore silvery clothes with transparent fishbowl-type helmets over their heads. These humanoids also had transparent “wings” or wing attachments. Jean clung to her sink paralyzed but then, she says, she also suddenly floated towards the lounge.<br/><br/> Jean noticed that the aliens were inspecting the ornaments on the Christmas tree with interest. They also probed into her mind with telepathy—“It was like a light or an X-ray penetrating.” They told her she would not be harmed and, when she asked where they were from, one said, “We come from the sky.” When she explained the house was decorated to celebrate Jesus’s birthday, they claimed “We know all about Jesus.”<br/><br/> They said they would return. “We come down here to talk to people but they don't seem to be interested.” Finally, when she showed them how to light a cigarette they fled as if in terror, taking a mince pie each with them. Outside in her garden was an egg-shaped object with windows. They floated into it, and it took off, emitting a bluish flash and pulsating twice before disappearing with a flash. The dog returned to normal, and Jean called the police. The electric clock in the house had stopped, and all her cassette tapes were magnetized and unplayable. In the snow where the object had sat was an oval outline, which the local UFO group was able to photograph before the snow melted. She also suffered from a case of conjunctivitis as a result of her close encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_95",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Alfred Budden, Fortean Times, June 1988, p. 40; Jenny Randles, Abduction; Patrick Huyghe, Field Guide to Extraterrestrials, p. 92; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 440" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/4/1988",
  "desc" : "Two 35 centimeter red spheres maneuvered low over a field in Vetterslev, Denmark starting at 6: 45 p.m. and continuing for two hours. Melted snow and small footprints were later found in the field. During that same time there were at least eight UFO sightings reported throughout parts of Yorkshire, England. At 8:10 p.m. a torpedo-shaped object, resembling a World War II V-1 German “buzz-bomb,” flew over the city of York. It reportedly emitted smoke, flame, and debris, and was followed through the sky by a brilliant ball of light. At 8:45 p.m. a thin, pencil-shaped UFO with red and blue running lights was sighted in Selby. At 9:10 p.m. a ex-RAF man saw flashing lights around a 400-foot diameter, layered disc that glowed orange in Leeds. In Dewsbury at 11:30 p.m. a disc flew back and forth in the sky, making a swishing sound. It either extinguished its lights, or vanished, because its disappearance seemed to be instantaneous. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_96",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Scandinavian UFO Information Newsletter, issue #11; Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, pp. 14-17" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/4/1990",
  "desc" : "Several people in Mauriac, France at 12:40 p.m. witnessed a black disc-shaped UFO with two rows of square windows. It had four legs and a tube in the front, and moved through the sky slowly and silently. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_97",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #300" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/4/1992",
  "desc" : "A farmer in Saga Prefecture, Japan, who had been experiencing cattle mutilations heard his dog barking at night and went out to his barn to check. He saw a small white object floating in his barn, like a jellyfish with things like tentacles hanging from the bottom. It drifted outside and vanished. When he investigated further he found he had a cow with a broken leg. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_98",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database website, Case # 2343" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/4/1994",
  "desc" : "At five minutes after midnight in Tronville-en-Barrois, France a domed disc-shaped object landed or came very close to landing in a field, illuminating the entire area. Three figures are seen inside a doorway, one of them exited from the door of the craft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_99",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Claude Raffy, Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 322" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/4/1994",
  "desc" : "In Maplethorpe, England at 11:25 p.m. a huge, silent triangular craft was seen near some microwave transmission tower dishes. Several televisions in the area changed channels. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_100",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/4/1996",
  "desc" : "Madeline Tolentino was driving with her 2-year-old son in her Isuzu Trooper in Campo Rico, Puerto Rico with the windows rolled down. They were driving on Route 185 near a horse track called El Comandante at seven p.m. when she smelled something pungent, like sulfur, which irritated her throat. She kept driving and suddenly saw a creature with glowing red eyes. It ran across the road in front of her SUV and disappeared. Frightened, she returned home to tell her husband. He went back to the area and noticed the pungent odor but did not see the creature. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_101",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case #2807, citing Chat Deetken" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/4/2003",
  "desc" : "At 2:40 a.m. PST three large, white circular UFOs hovered in the sky over Rosswood, British Columbia. In San Isidro, Texas at 5:15 a.m. twelve oval-shaped objects moved around in the sky for over one hour. Eleven or more bright objects moved across the sky in formation in clear daylight in Chula Vista, California at 2:30 in the afternoon. That evening at 9:41 p.m., in Bayport, New York, two glowing objects chased each other, swirled around, and danced in the night sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_102",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, UFO Reporting Center, January 2003 website" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/4/2003",
  "desc" : "In Fulton, Missouri Bob Simon, age 25, awoke at three a.m. while he was being dragged towards the bedroom window by an unknown intruder. He looked up to see a very tall thin humanoid with red eyes, no mouth, and a gray body. It had huge hands with very long fingers. Recovering his senses, Simon struggled with the alien and managed to grab a small knife next to his bed and stab at the alien. The alien seemed to have been hurt, and relaxed his grip on Simon. There was a sudden blast of bright light and the creature vanished. Simon claimed to have scratch marks on his body. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_103",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2003, citing UFO Watch" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/4/2004",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. an Aer Lingus Boeing 737-400 with 135 people on board was damaged by near a miss with a UFO while flying 15 nautical miles offshore of Ashbourne, Ireland. The UFO caused a power drain and a purple glow around the 737 as the triangular UFO flew in front of the airliner. It also caused a huge turbulence in its wake. A second aircraft encounter occurred on the same night at 10:30 p.m. when a A330-200 with 213 people on board encountered a flashing strobe light over Slane, Ireland. The airliner encountered a triangular UFO with an estimated 360 foot wing span. The UFO circled the plane aggresively. The second encounter lasted several minutes. Both encounters were tracked on airborne radar. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_104",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dermot Butler, Conspiracy of Silence: UFOs in Ireland, pp. 41-42" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/4/2004",
  "desc" : "A white egg-shaped object was seen floating in the sky at 10:00 a.m. PST in Hayward, California. It was five feet in diameter at the thiner dimension. The two witnesses then saw two more objects about three-fourths the size of the first, also egg shaped, gray in color, but not metallic. A white object changed shape slightly into a smooth diamond 200 feet up. The sightings lasted five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_105",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Preston Dennett, UFOs over California: A True History of Extraterrestrial Encounters in the Golden State, p. 214; MUFON UFO Journal, issue 430" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/4/2004",
  "desc" : "Two oval objects that could travel at extremely high speeds were sighted in Holyoke, Massachusetts at 2:00 p.m. EST. At 2:30 p.m. a silver disc-shaped object with a bulge on one face, estimated to be maybe 30 feet across, was sighted in Fort Myers, Florida. It reflected sunlight and bobbed around at between 3,000 and 5,000 feet altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_106",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, UFO Reporting Center, January 2004 website" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/4/2004",
  "desc" : "A very large, hovering disc-shaped object that appeared to be lighted from within was sighted in Four Oaks, North Carolina at 7:00 p.m. The object also appeared to have flashing lights on the outside. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_107",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, UFO Reporting Center, January 2004 website" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/1954",
  "desc" : "In Tooma, New South Wales, Australia three bright orbs moved very fast through the sky to the west at noon, orbited one another, then turned to the south in a line. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_108",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: January-May, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/1954",
  "desc" : "A red circular object landed and took off at night in San Sebastian, Spain. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_109",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 3178; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 104" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/1954",
  "desc" : "Mr. Chesneau, a fireman, saw a round luminous object slowly descend toward the Marignane Airport, France at 9:00 p.m. He went inside and called the control tower to report it. When he came outside again, the object had gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_110",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 123, citing Jimmy Guieu" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/1954",
  "desc" : "Three separate observers in Murchison, Texas witnessed a bright silver, saucer-shaped UFO that hovered for 3 minutes. It was gone in seconds. It was also seen in Tyler, Texas. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_111",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 3179; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: January-May, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/1955",
  "desc" : "A red circular object three meters in diameter was observed to land and take off again in San Sebastian, Spain. Three independent witnesses saw the object come to ground. They described it as a very bright red globe 2.5 meters in diameter, which they thought was made of a metallic material. When one witness approached to within 100 meters, the object took off. The principal witness was a 23-year-old man named Galarraga. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_112",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 248; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 18; UNICAT database, case 565, citing Stendek" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/1956",
  "desc" : "At midday two soldiers at Fort Wood, Missouri saw a big silver balloon like object fly by slowly. No balloons were scheduled for release in the area at that time. The object rotated, then vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_113",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 4893" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/1958",
  "desc" : "At around 4 p.m. a silver gray disc followed two witnesses in their car along the side of road in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, South Africa at low altitude. It then abruptly shot off into the sky. Later that same evening in Beachwood, Ohio three nocturnal lights traced a perfect triangular path in the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_114",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Cynthia Hind, UFO AfriNews, July 1992; (2) Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 15; Otto Binder, What We Really Know About Flying Saucers, p. 38; Richard Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 90" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/1965",
  "desc" : "At 5:56 p.m. an aerospace engineer named Bruton on Wallops Island, Virginia watched a round glowing object that moved rapidly from horizon to nearly overhead at the NASA station in seconds. Radar tracked it at 6,000 mph. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_115",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1965, p. 1; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, August 1965, p. 56; Donald B. Hanlon, Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1966, p. 14; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 150, 317; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 412" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/1966",
  "desc" : "Violet Bricker was driving two miles north of La Harpe, Illinois on Rte. 94 at 8:15 a.m. when she observed a light flash that she first believed was an approaching plane. As it neared she saw it was more dirigible-shaped and closed rapidly on a collision course with her. It stopped and hovered over the telephone lines opposite her car. It was ovoid shaped and made no sound, and was about as long as a Piper Club. It had a single bright yellow-white light on the end facing her. There were no doors, ports, or landing gear visible, but a lateral line like a seam encircled the UFO. It began revolving in a clockwise motion on its axis, bringing the other end in view and exposing a two-foot platform on which stood a \"man\" wearing a bulky, white, one-piece suit. He was about five and one half feet tall, stocky build, and he stood with his left hand against the object and his right hand on his hip, staring directly down on the witness. His face had a ruddy complexion and his eyes were dark, but he looked entirely normal otherwise. The object drifted about on its axis and the man was lost from view. Ms. Bricker was so taken aback by the experience she could not recall if she actually stopped her car or not. She recalled seeing a man and a woman on foot not 20 feet away to whom she signaled frantically to catch their attention, but to no avail. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_116",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Smulling, Skylook, August 1970, p. 19; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-01 (A0691); Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 20" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/1967",
  "desc" : "At 4:00 a.m. a 32-year-old man was driving to work in Winsted, Minnesota in his 1964 Chevy truck when he had to get out and inspect his vehicle when the engine stalled. Only then did he observe an intense light to his right, coming closer. He saw it land on the road and locked himself inside the cab of his truck. The craft settled on a tripod landing gear; it measured 25 meters in diameter and was 10 meters high. Something similar to an elevator came down from it, and a man dressed in blue coveralls \"with something like a glass fish bowl on his head,\" of medium height, seemed to check something and then left. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_117",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 809" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/1967",
  "desc" : "At 5:40 p.m. four observers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania watched a disc-shaped object for 45 minutes as it buzzed, circled, and flipped over several times, then shot off to the south. A box-shaped object was then seen flying north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_118",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 7424; NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1967, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/1967",
  "desc" : "On or about this date six witnesses from three families driving on Highway 55 two miles east of Farwell, Minnesota had their car engine falter when several tiny lights passed their windshield. The car functions alright after the lights had departed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_119",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 5; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 31" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/1968",
  "desc" : "On this night six observers with binoculars in Nelson, British Columbia, Canada watched four saucers hover over a radio tower. They had flames coming from the top and flat bottoms. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_120",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Brad Steiger & Joan Whritenour, Flying Saucer Invasion, p. 95" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/1968",
  "desc" : "An very bright, yellowish orange, disc-shaped UFO landed at a remote distance from two men, Sr. Massague and Sr. Aguade, in the Torrellas de las Foix mountains, Barcelona, Spain at 8:15 a.m. It was ten meters in diameter, and estimated to be about 3500 meters away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_121",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 54, citing CEI" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/1969",
  "desc" : "At four o'clock in the morning a glowing object rose to the surface and floated on the ocean off the coast of Vina del Mar, Valparaiso, Chile. The surface of the sea boiled and there was an odor of sulphur in the air. At 9:00 p.m. in Port Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil soldiers at the Vila Floresta watched a hovering fireball that shot a fiery beam when it began moving. At 11:45 p.m. on the highway between Campos and Itaparuna, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil a single witness stopped his car to watch a metallic domed ovoid-shaped object hovering over a nearby hilltop. The dome on the object glowed a purple color. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_122",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 118; (2) Walter Buhler, FSR Case Histories, June 1971, p. 9; (3) UFO Nachtrichten, February 1973, citing a newspaper source" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/1970",
  "desc" : "Between 7:00 p.m. and 8:30 the sky and the village of Montigne, Charente, France were lit by and odd luminesence. At 9:00 p.m. a red disc-shaped object was seen flying at a very low altitude. The witnesses were 19-year-old Mr. Aubineau, 21-year-old Mr. Mijon, his son and two other children. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_123",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 336" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/1971",
  "desc" : "A car driving between Penrith and Windsor, New South Wales, Australia was paced by a one-meter ball of light  for 13 minutes. It flew away when the car stopped. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_124",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bill Chalker, FSR, September-October 1973, p. 21; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, January 1991,  p. 20" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/1971",
  "desc" : "An engineer in Suceava, Romania saw a star-like light zigzagging in the sky. It vanished at 8:45 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_125",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 271" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/1972",
  "desc" : "While snowmobiling in East Kingston, New Hampshire five witnesses came upon an object close to some railroad tracks at 10:45 p.m. It glowed yellow, hovered 10 feet above the tracks, 300 feet away. It rose vertically, then descended behind some trees. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_126",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 341 & 358" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/1974",
  "desc" : "At 6:00 p.m. a motorist watched a nine meter in diameter domed disc-shaped object fly to the west over the reservoir in Rambouillet, Yvelines department, France. It directed a beam of light down on the water. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_127",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, June 1975" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/1974",
  "desc" : "At 4:25 a.m. two police officers, Abbington and Regot, in a patrol car in St. Charles, Missouri followed an oblong UFO with two white rectangular lights and a rotating red light in the center. The object moved directly toward police at one point, and made a hissing sound like escaping steam. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_128",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George D. Fawcett, Saga UFO Report, April 1975, p. 50; John F. Schuessler, Skylook, February 1974, p. 16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/1974",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. a disc-shaped object paced a car with six witnesses north of Glenham, North Dakota causing electrical system interference. The UFO followed the witnesses home. Small windows were seen through binoculars. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_129",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Emenegger, UFOs: Past, Present and Future, p. 128" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/1975",
  "desc" : "Carlos A. Diaz was walking home from the bus after a late night at 3:30 a.m. in Puerto Ingeniero, a town outside Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires, Argentina when he saw a blindingly bright that emitted a bent beam of light and found himself paralyzed. He then heard a humming noise and was levitated off the ground. He fainted, and when he came to he was inside a spherical room about 8 feet in diameter with luminous walls. Three beings, about 5' 9\" tall, entered the sphere. Their heads were half the size of human heads, shaped like smooth green knobs, with small noses and small ears, and were completely devoid of hair. They were dressed in pale cream colored \"rubber\" suits that covered their entire bodies up to their necks. Although their arms terminated in fingerless stumps, they were nevertheless able to pull out large clumps of Diaz's, but this caused him no pain. They even pulled out some hair from his chest. Finally Diaz fainted again, and when he awoke he found himself lying beside a road outside Buenos Aires. The time was 7:30 a.m. but his watch had stopped at 3:50 a.m. He was nauseous the entire day, and was taken to hospital. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_130",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Pedro Romaniuk, FSR, November 1975, p. 39; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1975-01 (A1381), citing Pedro Romaniuk & Jorge R. Martinez; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 227" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/1975",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 p.m. 15-year-old David Mahon was in his backyard in Brownstown, Illinois photographing his dog when he heard a loud droning noise and saw a black disc-shaped object passing overhead. He took five photographs, then felt himself being levitated upward and he lost consciousness. He recovered conciousness in a small cubicle only five feet in diameter. There was a row of blinking orange lights that encircled the room at waist height. He remembered being in this compartment for less than a minute. He then fainted again and recovered consciousness near his home. His father told him that he had been gone for nearly an hour. The photographs of the UFO were overexposed and out of focus. There were two other witnesses who briefly witnessed the flying disc in Brownstown. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_131",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Eileen Sperber, 1975 letter to CUFOS; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1975-02 (A1382); Vandalia (IL) Leader-Union, February 4, 1976" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/1975",
  "desc" : "At 4:50 p.m. three witnesses in separate cars observed a very large (88 meters in diameter) disc-shaped object hovering near a water tank north of Wakefield, Rhode Island. There was a red glow coming from the windows in the craft. It faded from view after four minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_132",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald R. Todd, APRO Bulletin, January-February 1975, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/1975",
  "desc" : "At 6:55 p.m. in Laulne pres de Lessay, Manche department, France a domed disc-shaped craft 15 meters long with portholes, took off from a landing on  a farm. It had three legs as landing gear. The principal witness was 12-year-old Yvon Vildier, but two more adult witnesses named Marie LeClere and Richard (first name only) observed it as a light in the sky. It left behind traces on the ground and a petroleum odor. The ground marks included three large landing pod imprints, irregularly spaced in a triangle 1 m x 1.6 m x 2.5 m, and three small center clustered imprints. The entire event from first observing a luminous phenomenon in the area to the disappearance of the craft lasted 20 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_133",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Roland Godefroy, Phenomenes Spatiaux, March 1975, p. 9; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 530" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/1976",
  "desc" : "At 5:50 p.m. Jean Claude Silvente, age 10, was walking through a vacant lot overgrown with brush and surrounded by buildings in Domene, Isere, France when he heard a noise, and saw that a bell-shaped UFO had landed next to some bushes. It was about 30 feet away from him, about 15 feet high, a luminous white color, and resting on five thin legs. A door in the craft opened and a very tall man, at least two meters tall, emerged. He wore tight, white luminous coveralls and had long blond hair. On the back of each hand was a green circle. He walked stiffly with his arms extended in front of him, in the manner of a sleepwalker. When the boy sneezed, this “giant” turned toward him, and Jean Claude ran home. A short while later he was sent out by his mother to get some milk, and while returning home he saw the same being again. It was following him on the sidewalk 80 feet behind, still with its arms held out stiffly in front of him. Jean Claude ran home. Note: An almost identical humanoid was seen in Chamouilley, France in October of that same year. It had similar features, was tall and had blond hair, and it also walked in the manner of a sleepwalker with one slight difference, it appeared to be wearing tight-fitting goggles. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_134",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Charles Bowen, Saga UFO Report, November 1976, p. 62; Bil Gil Helair, Skylook, May 1976, p. 5; Alain Gamard, UFO Register, volume 7, p. 44; Jean-Claude Bourret, OVNI l' Armee Parle, p. 146; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Human Reports, case 1976-02, citing Michel Levy, Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 159" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/1977",
  "desc" : "Two separate truck drivers in Nysater, Varmland, Sweden had a close encounter at 1:15 a.m. with a disc-shaped object on Highway 18. The saucer was just above the roadway, with five legs extended as landing gear. Both of the observers were paralyzed and frozen in place for five minutes, 150 meters away from the craft. The UFO emitted a solid coherent light beam. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_135",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bertil Soderquist, MUFON UFO Journal, January 1978, p. 18; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 270" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/1977",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 a.m. EST in Napanee, Ontario, Canada three police officers watched a bright object hovering over the Lennox Hydro Electric Power Station. A red NL nocturnal light bounced up and down for 10 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_136",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 11901; MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 118" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/1977",
  "desc" : "At 4:10 a.m. a 30 foot in diameter domed disc was seen over power lines near the town of Bednesti, 20 miles west of Prince George, British Columbia, Canada on Highway 16. A beam of energy struck two witnesses in separate cars, and both experienced 20 minutes of missing time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_137",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Sinclair, APRO Bulletin, March 1977, p. 1; Joseph Kovacs, report to CUFOS, January 14, 1977" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/1977",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 a.m. two teenagers in Wrexham, Wales took photographs of four disc-shaped objects flying in a procession of objects. Their clear photos were analyzed and pronounced as genuine by the Kodak film company. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_138",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 11903; Warrington, UFOs: a British Perspective, p. 89" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/1977",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. a gray, 15 meter disc-shaped object hovered silently at 25 meters altitude near Eriswell, Suffolk, England for 20 minutes, 100 meters away. It then shot up into the sky and flew away. There were two witnesses and a dog present. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_139",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 11906" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/1979",
  "desc" : "Two members of the Quezet family in Mindalore, Gauteng province, South Africa experienced a 20 minute episode of missing time in the pre-dawn hours when they had a close encounter with an ovoid object that made a buzzing sound. Meagan Quezet and her 12-year old son Andre were out looking for their dog shortly after midnight after they heard it barking. Soon they noticed a peculiar pink glow beyond a tarmac road. Thinking that it was a police car, they approached the area. As they reached the glow they noticed that it came from a peculiar egg-shaped craft resting on the ground on several thin leg-like protrusions. The intense pink glow emanated from the top of the craft. Suddenly5 or 6 men jumped to the ground from an opening in the craft. One walked to the far end of the object, two remained standing in front of it, and two others approached the witnesses. The men appeared to speak among themselves in a loud \"sing-song\" unintelligible language; two kneeled down and appeared to touch the asphalt. All the men wore tight-fitting white suits; all but two had hoods that covered most of their faces. The one who appeared to be the leader approached Mrs. Quezet and spoke to her in a high-pitched unintelligible voice. He made a slight bow towards her as if in a form of salute. He had a black beard, frizzy black hair, and slanted eyes and dark olive skinned complexion. Soon the men walked back to the craft and entered the object, the craft then emitted a whistling sound, the thin leg-like protrusions telescoped back into the craft, which then rose up and disappeared into the clouds. Under hypnosis the witness recalled being taken inside the object where she saw chairs, panels and a table. She was asked to come with them but she refused.  ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_140",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Xenolog, March 1979, p. 19" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/1979",
  "desc" : "Jean Hingley had waved goodbye to her husband as he went off to work in the bitter cold morning in Rowley Regis, West Midlands, England at around 7:00 a.m. Then she saw a light in the garden. Thinking her husband had left the carport light on, she went out to investigate, but it was still to dark, so she returned to the kitchen. She put down some food for the family Alsatian dog, Hobo, and called him from the garden, but he flopped down as if he had been drugged and gazed at the ceiling, glassy eyed. Then, with a \"zee-zee\" noise, three weird looking creatures flew past her into the lounge. There were only three and a half feet tall, and had waxy white faces and coal-black eyes with no eyebrows and very thin mouths. They wore silvery uniforms, with a transparent fish-bowl type helmet over their heads. They also had transparent wings, and floated. Jean was left clinging to the sink, paralyzed, but she next suddenly also floated towards the lounge. Jean noticed that the aliens were inspecting the ornaments on their Christmas tree with interest. She said they also probed her mind with telepathy, \"it was like a light or an X-ray penetrating.\" They told her telepathically that she would not be harmed, and when she asked them where they were from, one of them reported \"we come from the sky.\" She then explained to them why the house was all decorated, to celebrate Jesus's birthday. \"We know all about Jesus,\" they claimed. They said they would return. They also claimed that \"we come down here to talk to people but they don't seem to be interested.\" Finally, when she showed them how to light a cigarette, they fled in terror, taking a mince pie with them. Outside in her garden was an egg-shaped object with windows. They floated into it and it took off, emitting a bluish flash and pulsating twice before disappearing with a flash. The dog returned to normal, and Jean called the police. Her electric wall clock had stopped, and all her cassette tapes were magnetized and unplayable. In the snow outside where the object had sat, there was an oval outline, which the local UFO group was able to photograph before the snow melted. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_141",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1979 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 440, citing Alfred Budden, Fortean Times, issue # 50; Jenny Randles, Abduction" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/1979",
  "desc" : "In the town of Bannalec, Finistere, France a 15 meter in diameter circular object hovered near the ground at around 10 p.m. for three minutes. It had a blue halo, and shot away very fast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_142",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, February 1979" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/1979",
  "desc" : "At 6:20 p.m. three red triangle-shaped UFOs were sighted over Interstate 290 in Auburn, Massachusetts; AM and CB radios were affected. There was steering loss, loss of power, and the main witness's car was reportedly levitated as well. Ms. Emery felt heat, paralysis, and she had a skin rash as the result of her close encounter. The UFOs flew off to the northwest. Also during this period of repeated sightings of low level lights and a diamond-shaped object over the area, a witness reported seeing a 7-8 foot tall hairy figure in a field at 11:00 p.m. near Sturbridge, Massachusetts. He shone a spotlight at it and the creature ran towards him. The witness fired three shots at it and then ran away, shooting one more time over his shoulder. The shots appeared to have no effect on the creature, but it stopped and did not pursue him further. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_143",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Raymond Fowler, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1979, p. 8; (2) Ann Druffel, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1979, p. 17; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2192; Albert S. Rosales, 1979 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case addendum # 741, citing CUFOS" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/1980",
  "desc" : "At around five a.m. the witness, a 33-year-old painter living in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England suddenly awoke in his bedroom to see a huge two-meter tall glowing green figure standing at the foot of his bed. It looked to him more like a holographic image than a solid figure. The being apparently communicated with the witness using telepathy. Among the many things mentioned was that his race regularly transported human beings to other planets in order to colonize them. When a planet was in danger of overpopulation they somehow started a war in order to reduce the number of inhabitants on that planet. He also warned that the Earth was in danger of \"breaking in half.\" Apparently the witness's wife slept through the entire encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_144",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1980, case #3423, citing Jenny Randles" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/1980",
  "desc" : "A light in the sky flashed and changed colors as it moved over Santa Ponsa, Islas Malgrata, Baleares, Spain at 8:00 p.m. It made upward jumps in an oscillating motion, and would stop cold at times. Three powerful lights in a triangle pattern were higher in the sky, changing color from orange to blue to white, and making left-to-right moves. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_145",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Heiden, UFO Newsclipping Service, June 1980, p. 10, citing Baleares, January 6, 1980" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/1986",
  "desc" : "Police and several other witnesses in Mineral Point and Vermont, Wisconsin (both located in Iowa County) saw a silent nocturnal light at low altitude that hovered, turned, and made other maneuvers. It was covered on the local TV news. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_146",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, case 1076; Jay Rath, The W-Files: True Reports of Wisconsin's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 84" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/1992",
  "desc" : "A luminous glowing ball of light flew eastward in a descending staircase flight trajectory over Longchaumois, Jura department, France at 8:45 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_147",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 312" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/1994",
  "desc" : "On this night a disc-shaped object with portholes and lights was sighted over Wilsden, West Yorkshire, England. The lights on the craft turned off when an airplane passed nearby. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_148",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, February 1994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/1995",
  "desc" : "Beginning at around 10:00 p.m. a silent, sky-blue colored disc-shaped object hovered for five minutes over Errington, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. There were small red discs on the bottom of the object and a beam of light along the middle. It was back the next night at the same time as well. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_149",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Chris Rutkowski, 1995 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 5, citing the National Research Council" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/1997",
  "desc" : "B. C., a 57-year-old farmer living in Ille et Vilaine, Chantepie, France was awakened at two a.m. by a noise like an explosion and a strident whistling sound. His wife continued to sleep. He got out of bed and went to the kitchen to get something to eat. Suddenly he saw a bright flash of light outside. He looked out the French windows of his farmhouse and saw lights in the middle of a field resembling headlights. He grabbed his shotgun and went out to investigate. Running toward the light, he attempted to shout a warning, but oddly no sound came out of his mouth. He next was hit by some invisible force field and was unable to move. He then saw two small beings emerge from the luminous form. The figures looked to be transparent and passed close to him, seemingly unaware of his presence. The figures then walked toward the nearby barn. At the same time he felt a prickling sensation and began to sweat. The small beings walked by him a second time and disappeared inside the luminous form. The light shot up into the sky vertically at an incredible speed. B. C. was now able to move and he returned to his kitchen, still sweating. When he got back to his bedroom his wife was still in bed sleeping. He appeared to have experienced some missing time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_150",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, citing Sentinel News # 6, July-August 1997" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/1998",
  "desc" : "At 2:50 p.m. a silent, round disc-shaped object flew to the northeast slowly from Springfield, Missouri in an overcast sky. It tilted to reveal a silver top and a gray body. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_151",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 3, issue 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/2000",
  "desc" : "At 4:28 a.m. Police Officer Stevens in Millstadt, Illinois took a photograph of a huge arrow-shaped UFO flying from the northeast to the southwest at 1,000 feet altitude. There were three lights in back and many dimmer lights sprinkled on the surface like \"starfield camouflage.\" This was one of a series of several UFO sightings by police from eight police departments and civilians between 4:00 a.m. and 4:30 a.m. around Scott AFB in St. Clair and Madison counties, Illinois, which are both eastern suburbs of St. Louis, Missouri. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_152",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Valerie Schremp, Concord (NH) Monitor, January 10, 2000; Brent M. Raynes, Alternate Perceptions, April 2000, p. 49; UFO Magazine (USA), April 2000, p. 16; UFO Magazine (UK), May 2000, p. 47; MUFON UFO Journal, March 2000; Curt Sutherly, UFO Mysteries: A Reporter Seeks the Truth, p. 211" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/2001",
  "desc" : "At 6:45 a.m. a 50-year-old high school teacher on his way to work in East St. Louis, Illinois got a good look at a silent, arrow-shaped UFO in Frank Holton Park, juat as the sun was coming up. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_153",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Curt Sutherly, UFO Mysteries: A Reporter Seeks the Truth, p. 211" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/2001",
  "desc" : "A self-luminous white cigar-shaped object with a luminous trail, hopped forward in flight slowly behind a mountain in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada at 10:30 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_154",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2001 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 10, citing UFOBC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/2001",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. a lemon-shaped object was seen \"swinging back and forth\" over Kelowna, British Columbia. After a few minutes it then moved to a higher altitude. The sighting lasted five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_155",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2001 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 8, citing UFOBC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/2002",
  "desc" : "At 2:00 a.m. a rectangular UFO was seen briefly over Florissant, St. Louis County, Missouri. It appeared to the witness to be a two-story tall rectangle with very large windows on the side of the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_156",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, January 2002 webpage, citing Missouri Investigators Group" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/2002",
  "desc" : "A single stationary silver disk, reflecting sunlight, was seen over Brooklyn, New York at 8:40 a.m. EST for 15 seconds. It didn't move or wobble at any time that it was hovering there. Two flying discs were seen In Santa Barbara, California at 9:30 p.m. PST. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_157",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 2, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/2003",
  "desc" : "At 1:13 a.m. a witness in Plain Dealing, Louisiana reported several multi-colored lights maneuvering in the sky under the cloud cover. They made no sound, and were red, blue, and green in color. They moved up, down, side-to-side, and stopped to hover at times, but made no fast movements. The sighting lasted 54 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_158",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, January 2003 archived webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/2003",
  "desc" : "At 3:08 a.m in Courtenay, British Columbia, Canada a small, bright, crescent-shaped object was sighted moving fast through the sky. It looped, flashed, and turned fast for 45 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_159",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, January 2003 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/5/2004",
  "desc" : "At 4:03 p.m. a saucer-shaped object was seen hovering below a strange looking cloud, over a mountain in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_160",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 11, citing HBCCUFO and NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/6/1948",
  "desc" : "Mrs Bernice Zaikowski of Chehalis, Washington heard a “sizzling and whizzing” sound at three o'clock in the afternoon, and looked up to see a “birdman” hovering 200 feet above her barn. She watched “a man equipped with long silver wings fastened over the shoulders with a strap” ascend rapidly, hover, bank, then fly away. “He flew in an upright position and appeared to be manipulating controls strapped to his chest.” The wings did not flap, instead they retracted close to his body during ascent, and were extended to hover or proceed in horizontal flight. Mrs Zaikowski said five other adult witnesses and a number of children also saw the birdman. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_161",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1948-05, citing The Portland (Oregon) Journal, April 30, 1950; Hans Holzer, The UFOnauts, p. 117; John A. Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 206" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/6/1950",
  "desc" : "Three military witnesses, including one named Zimmerman, were flying in a U.S. Air Force C-47 transport plane near Howard, Kansas on this day when they sighted a silverly metallic, football-shaped object flying on a straight level flight path. They estimated the object was between 30 and 60 feet long, was flying at 2,000 feet altitude at a speed of 400 mph. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_162",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, January 1950; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 2; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 11" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/6/1961",
  "desc" : "At 3:00 a.m. Luis G. Ferre Casas, age 33, and two other witnesses watched as a domed disc-shaped object, six meters in diameter, landed quietly on a mountain in Torroia del Priorato, Tarragona, Spain. It was the color of moonlight. A dog who was with them refused to approach the landing site. The incident lasted 20 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_163",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, FSR Case Histories, February 1974, p. 10; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, OVNIs: El Fenomeno Aterrizaje, p. 49; Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 31; UNICAT database, case 488, citing Ballester Olmos" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/6/1966",
  "desc" : "Three gray discs and two multi-colored cigar-shaped UFOs, with the colors pink, blue, and white, were seen hovering over Sapporo, Japan at 1:49 p.m. by Miss S. Fujii. At 1:55 p.m. 16 more UFOs appeared to the left of these, gradually vanishing after 30 seconds. Many more appeared in a display at 2:09 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_164",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Y. J. Matsumura, Flying Saucers, October 1966, p. 39" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/6/1967",
  "desc" : "Six luminous spheres were seen flying over Aveyron, France at eleven o'clock at night. A luminous shaft of light descended towards the ground near the witness. A humanoid figure was seen standing inside the luminous shaft. The being communicated via telepathy with the witness and told him that someday \"He will write a book.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_165",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, The Invisible College, p. 31, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 109; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, case # 2427, citing Jacques Vallee" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/6/1968",
  "desc" : "A night security officer was conducting his rounds in Milano, Italy when he came upon a flat, pancake-shaped object resting in a courtyard. He approached and could see that it had a transparent dome on top and a circular railing around it. Next to the UFO were two human-like figures wearing blue coveralls and black helmets and gloves. Inside the dome a third figure was moving about. The two outside seemed to be performing some repairs on the object. The witness walked up to offer his help and shone a flashlight at the object. The two figures suddenly scrambled into the object, which emitted a bright flash and took off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_166",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Maurizio Verga, ITACAT: Italian UFO Catalogue; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case 25" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/6/1969",
  "desc" : "Maren Merino was working in the kitchen of her family's small café in Pontejos, Santander, Spain at 9:15 p.m. when she looked out the kitchen window and saw an intensely bright light. Her daughter, 25-year old Felicidad Fernandez Merino then entered the kitchen and also observed the light. Felicidad asks her mother about it, but she continued to ignore the light. Thinking this was abnormal, Felicidad yelled to two other women, including a woman called Paquita. All three women then opened the window and saw an incredible scene: on a field only 30 meters away, and hovering about three meters from the ground, was a luminous square 4-5 meters wide. It was an intense orange-white color. Inside the luminous square they saw the silhouette of a man walking about. From the right another figure appeared and both walked toward the left side of the illuminated square. Next, from the opposite end of the square three more figures appear, making a total of five figures. By now the witnesses are totally fascinated and shout out to the beings. At this time they are joined by another witness, 35-year-old Antonio. When Antonio looked out the window the craft vanished from sight.<br/><br/> According to the witnesses the movements of the humanoids was mechanical in nature, with arms straight down their sides with no apparent joint movement. The beings were tall and well built, with normal features, chestnut-color hair, and light skin. They wore something similar to black, tight-fitting coveralls with sleeves and turtlenecks. The incident lasted for five minutes. As the witnesses continued to look for the UFO a small shiny sphere descended from the middle of the sky, falling to the ground in a curved trajectory. The body of the UFO again became visible, clearly displaying the shiny square section and the portion of the object hat had been invisible to the witnesses thus far. It was a dull silver color, lightly fluorescent, and shaped like a domed cupola. The object then rose slowly and disappeared quickly, leaving behind a brilliant greenish track that persisted for about 15 minutes after the object left. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_167",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 100; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, OVNIs: El Fenomeno Aterrizaje, p. 86; UNICAT database, case 435; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-03 (A1017), citing Manuel Pedrajo and Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/6/1973",
  "desc" : "Mr. Lew was driving in his truck between Tiddington and Wheatley in Oxfordshire, England at 6 a.m. when a circular-shaped UFO crossed the road in front of him at a low altitude, as if intending to land in a nearby field. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_168",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, volume 5 (1974), case # 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/6/1974",
  "desc" : "Martin W. Barry, a Marine Corps sergeant, was making his usual early morning five mile run in the park in Santa Ana, California. He was out running in a driving rainstorm, when he came upon a seven-foot-tall, bulky figure standing in a slumped forward posture, with long arms dangling nearly to the ground. Behind it was hovering an orange pulsating flying saucer, only a few feet off the ground. The creature's head accounted for more than half of its height. It had very large eyes, and its legs were \"squashed\" and \"stubby.\" It waddled up to Barry and struck him on the chest, knocking him into a pool of water. It then waddled away and climbed aboard the UFO, which rose into the sky. Others reportedly saw UFOs over Santa Ana that day. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_169",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Human Reports, case 1974-63, citing Andrew Gallagher, Ideal's UFO Magazine, # 1, March 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/6/1974",
  "desc" : "At 6 p.m. two women watched a strange looking bullet-shaped metallic object move across the sky above Bend, Oregon travelling from the southeast to the northwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_170",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bend Bulletin, January 7, 1974" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/6/1975",
  "desc" : "near Lordsburg, New Mexico - Three peopIe listening to a CB radio in their parked car at around 11 p.m. saw lights approaching them from behind. As the driver tried to move the car, the CB radio broke into static and the engine wouldn't start. A bluish light beam then shone on the car for a few seconds and the group heard a sound like the hum from high tension wires. The light then disappeared and they could start the car. As they drove away, they saw a blue glow behind a nearby hill. The battery on the car went dead a few days later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_171",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO BuIIetin, June 1975; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 376, citing APRO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/6/1976",
  "desc" : "Returning from getting milk in Domene, Isere, France at 6 p.m., Jean Claude Silvente, age 10, again saw a two-meter tall Nordic looking being wearing silver coveralls, the same as he had seen the day before. The man was standing on the sidewalk only 30 yards from his house, in the same posture as before, but only 12 feet away from him this time. He spilled the milk and ran. His sister’s boyfriend, who had been following him, saw nothing. But when they returned to the same spot Jean Claude, his mother, his 17-year-old sister, and ther boyfriend all saw a red “headlight” dive down from the sky at them “as if it would land on them.” They ran away in panic to a nearby police station. At 8:20 p.m. a cigar-shaped UFO with lights on the bottom flew slowly over the town of Laissaud, Savoie, France. It periodically emitted beams of light downwards for 5 minutes, then zoomed away to the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_172",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Charles Bowen, Saga UFO Report, November 1976, p. 62; Bil Gil Helair, Skylook, May 1976, p. 5; Alain Gamard, UFO Register, volume 7, p. 44; Jean-Claude Bourret, OVNI l' Armee Parle, p. 146; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Human Reports, case 1976-03, citing Michel Levy, Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 159; (2) Michel Figuet & Jean-Loius Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 594" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/6/1977",
  "desc" : "At 1:15 a.m. Mrs. Florida Malboeuf, about 50 years of age, was sitting at her window on the Rue Casgrain in the city of Montreal, Quebec when she saw an oyster shaped, flat bottomed metallic object with a row of white lights around its base. It came flying in from the north and landed on the rooftop of a three-storey apartment building across the street from her, only 60 feet away. Immediately two figures appeared on the roof, they were over six feet tall and thin, with long arms and they wore white one-piece uniforms with their heads covered with tight \"bath helmets.\" They stood looking at the street, then at the sky, then they apparently returned to the object. A moment later they disappeared, and the UFO rose from the roof about 20 feet, and then flew off to the east. Her son Andre went over to the rooftop in question and found there a large elliptical shaped crust of ice, 0.8 inches thick, and about 18 feet in diameter that was on top of the snow, evidently formed by the local melting of the snow. In relief on this plaque and going toward the façade of the building, were four small, narrow footprints only 6.5 incheslong. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_173",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-01, citing Marc Leduc & Wido Hoville, UFO Quebec" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/6/1978",
  "desc" : "Two men leaving a beachfront cafe in Santo Antonio de Caparica, Estremadura, Portugal at 10:30 p.m. saw a bright bluish light flying low over the ocean descend at a steep angle at high speed. The light then stopped, and descended more slowly into a wooded area next to a nearby campground. Both men ran into the woods, which were now illuminated by a bluish glow. Upon entering a clearing, they saw a 2.1 meter tall human-like figure, standing eight meters away from them. It wore a loose fitting silvery outfit that was shiny in appearance. The being also wore a large white helmet with a narrow black visor across the eyes. The figure seemed surprised by their presence, turned around and with a heavy, slow motion walked back towards a metallic blue, saucer-shaped craft with a dome on top, that was hovering very close to the ground. Both men became frightened and fled in panic from the clearing. During the encounter one of the men felt a buzzing sound inside his head, and later suffered from insomnia. The next day an eight meter in diameter circle was found in the ground in the clearing. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_174",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UNICAT database, case 609, citing Galaxia 2000; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 108, citing Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos & Fernandez Peri, Enciclopedia de los Encuentros Cercanos con Ovnis" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/6/1990",
  "desc" : "The witness, a repeat abductee, was awakened at around midnight in Townshend, Vermont by a strange-cloaked humanoid that stood by the side of his bed and communicated with him, telling him not to tell anybody about the visit. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_175",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1990, case # 2437, citing Raymond E. Fowler, The Allagash Abductions; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 15533, citing Raymond Fowler" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/6/1995",
  "desc" : "A British Airways Boeing-737 flight with 60 passengers aboard was buzzed by a bright wedge-shaped object as it flew over the Pennine Alps in Derbyshire, England on its descent to Manchester Airport at 6:40 p.m. The object appeared to be only meters in front of the airliner as it flew at 13,000 feet, and it was so close that the co-pilot instinctively reacted by ducking down inside the cockpit. It had small lights, made no attempt to change course, and made no discernable sound or turbulance. The object did not appear on radar. However, there was at least one witness on the ground to the close encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_176",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Curt Sutherly, UFO Mysteries: A Reporter Seeks the Truth, p. 194; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 47; Lynn Picknett, Mammoth Book of UFOs, p. 156; Michael Hesemann, UFOs: The Secret History; FSR, March 1995" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/6/2003",
  "desc" : "The witness's car headlights and engine died when an ovoid UFO approached the car in Moundville, Alabama at 4:00 a.m. Two egg-shaped objects were later seen moving in a Z pattern in the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_177",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, January 2003 archived webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/7/1948",
  "desc" : "A very large saucer-shaped object descended over the Clinton County, Ohio Air Force Base at 7:20 p.m. It was witnessed by several including the control tower staff, who viewed it through binoculars. It came so close to the ground that it may have landed. It then ascended and shot away to the southwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_178",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Wilmington (OH) News Journal, January 8, 1948" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/7/1952",
  "desc" : "A dot appeared in the western sky over the Apple Valley Airport in San Bernardino County, California that grew to a golden shining disc, 100 feet in diameter. The UFO cavorted for several minutes, made 90 degree turns, and flew away at twice the speed of a jet. It also was completely silent. The witness was a 57-year-old man named Mattern. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_179",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Edward Sullivan, Civilian Saucer Intelligence--Los Angeles, letter from witness dated April 13, 1952" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/7/1958",
  "desc" : "At 2:15 p.m. two human looking figures again appeared to Mrs. Appleton in Aston, Warwickshire, England and spoke to her in a mechanical form of English. Their message stated that \"our images are projections.\" Her first encounter occurred the previous November 18th, when a man appeared next to her fireplace while a whistling sound was audible. He was tall and fair, wore a tight fitting plastic garment, and seemed to communicate with her through telepathy. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_180",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 456, citing Charles Bowen, The Humanoids, p. 4; Hans Holzer, The UFOnauts, p. 87" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/7/1966",
  "desc" : "An 18-year-old high school student in Georgetown, Alabama was returning home from school when he observed a large silver ball about 15-20 feet in diameter. The ball was only 15 feet from his car at its closest approach. As it hovered near the car the engine died. The object was making a whining sound. It then moved behind the car and left. The car could then be restarted. The witness's watch also stopped working. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_181",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 158, citing Schopick" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/7/1967",
  "desc" : "At 5:45 p.m. a domed disc with lights on the dome appeared over St. Louis, Missouri. It hovered silently, then sped away. The entire sighting lasted ten minutes, according to the witness Mr. Siebel, who wrote and account of his sighting to the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_182",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP files, letter dated January 21, 1967; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 325" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/7/1970",
  "desc" : "At 3:45 in the afternoon two cross-country skiers, Aarno Heinonen and Esko Viljo, heard a buzzing sound and saw a round, ten foot wide metallic object with a flat bottom and a dome in the sky outside of Imjarvi, Finland. It was wrapped by a reddish-gray mist. The UFO descended to within ten feet of the snow-covered ground in a forest clearing and the buzzing sound ceased. It was described as being so close to Heinonen that he could have touched it with his ski pole.<br/><br/> The two men next saw a beam of light come from an opening in the bottom of the craft. It created an illuminated area three feet in diameter on the snow beneath it, edged with black. A red gray mist descended again, and when it cleared both men could see, only 10 feet away, a three foot tall little man on the ground standing in the illuminated area. He had thin arms and legs, a pale waxy complexion with a hook nose, and wore a light green coverall uniform with darker green knee boots, white gauntlets, and a conical metallic helmet.<br/><br/> He held a small black box at his chest level with a pulsating yellow light from which a beam was emitted. Then the mist descended again, and long red, green and purple \"sparks\" floated out from the lighted area. A flame of sorts rose from this spot and the being entered the UFO. Then the mist vanished along with the UFO. After this experience, Heinonen found that his right leg was numb. He vomited and he passed urine that was black in color. Viljo also suffered severe physiological effects. Aarno Heinonen would go on to experience other close encounters, two years later, in a series of contacts with a fair skinned female being. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_183",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Sven-Olof Frederickson, FSR, May 1970, p. 23; K. Gosta Rehn, APRO Bulletin, July-August 1970, p. 6 & September-October 1970, p. 4; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1970-04 (A1075)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/7/1971",
  "desc" : "In Dennis, Massachusetts a metallic cylindrical object was seen descending over a frozen lake at 7:10 a.m. The leading edge of the object tipped forward, and a trail of flames issued from the rear. The investigating witnesses, two teenage boys, found an elongated hole in the ice and steam rising from the agitated water. The UFO made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_184",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Walter N. Webb case investigation files; NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1971, p. 1; Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 357" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/7/1974",
  "desc" : "Driving toward Warneton, Belgium along the French-Belgian border, the witness experienced the failure of the lights, engine, and radio of his car. He saw a landed object 150 meters away in a field to his right. The UFO was shaped like a World War I British helmet, was 7 to 10 meters wide, and stood on tripod landing gear. It had patches of orange luminescence on top with a white light underneath. Two beings were seen coming from the direction of the object, walking slowly and stiffly toward the car. The shorter entity wore an outfit with horizontal rings around the torso and a round helmet with a large, circular face plate showing a pear shaped, grayish head with no hair, round \"marble like\" eyes, a rudimentary nose, and a slit-like lipless mouth. He held an object like a short thick ruler with a pointed tip, aimed at the car. The taller entity wore a cubical helmet transparent in form, showing a face identical with the other's but with a small rectangular box under the chin. His suit was a dull metallic gray one-piece coverall, including gloves and heavy, pointed boots. He wore a black belt with a luminous disc in front and a diagonal \"Sam Browne\" strap from belt to shoulder, with a vertical row of \"buttons\" on each side of the chest. Both beings had long arms. The interior of the helmets appeared to be illuminated. A third entity was seen standing guard near the object.<br/><br/> The two beings approached to within four meters of the car and the taller was seen opening and closing his mouth. The witness felt a slight shock on the back of his head and heard, simultaneously, a low pitched, modulated sound. The two suddenly wheeled around and walked quickly back to the object, which now pulsated an electric blue color on top. The three beings boarded, the landing gear withdrew, and the object rose slightly, hovered, then ascended rapidly at a 60 degree angle. A car was then seen approaching, whose driver said he had seen the object and its occupants. As the primary witness drove off, he continued to get poor reception on his car radio. The duration of the close encounter was about 20 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_185",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-1, citing Jean Marie Bigorne, Lumeires Dans la Nuit" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/7/1986",
  "desc" : "At a trailer court in the mountain community of Butler, Pennsylvania at 10:54 p.m. a UFO emitted six \"solid\" light beams towards the ground. About 20 minutes later in Pittsburgh a silver-grayish disc-shaped UFO with body lights hovered in the sky, with a mist forming around it. The object tilted and then moved out of sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_186",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 29" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/7/1997",
  "desc" : "Ryan Chapman and two other witnesses were staying in a cabin at an undisclosed location in Florida when they saw strange flashing lights in the sky late on this night. Feeling apprehensive the witnesses decided to make a perimeter check of the area. Suddenly one of them screamed when he saw a large disc-shaped craft hovering over the cabin. One witness loaded his gun and began firing at the craft, but when nothing happened they ran back toward the cabin. Their way was blocked by several short thin gray-skinned humanoids that were carrying long needle-like implements. The creatures grabbed the three men who attempted to escape but were somehow overpowered. Ryan felt a pain in the back of his neck as he fell to the ground and blacked out. The next day, after coming to, they found strange marks on their chins, wrists and behind their ears. A scorched area was reportedly found on the roof and walls of the cabin. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_187",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 2572, citing Internet Sightings page" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/7/1999",
  "desc" : "At six o'clock in the morning Lindsey Knott of Crawley, West Sussex, England reported seeing bursts of lights in her room and then finding herself onboard a round object with low continuous windows. She saw control panels located at the center of the craft that were manned by two metallic robot-like creatures and two dark-hooded beings. She also met the apparent leader, who she described as as human-looking and tall, with shoulder length blond hair, pale eyes, very pale skin, and wearing a dark blue jumpsuit. The night after the incident she awoke to find her room very warm and cloying. The air appeared distorted and fuzzy, and she also saw more flashes of light. She suffered from headaches and toothaches after the incident. She also felt hypervigilant. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_188",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1999, case # 3834, citing UFO Abduction Raw Data Page, UFO Watch" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/8/1943",
  "desc" : "In the late afternoon in Chauny, France many people witnessed several small brilliant metallic objects fly silently from the north to the south in groups of three. The UFOs moved faster than balloons, and the procession lasted for a period of two and a half hours. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_189",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 20" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/8/1951",
  "desc" : "A group of three delta-shaped objects with wingspans of 15’ flew over US Highway 81 south of Forth Worth, Texas at 10:45 p.m. One passed overhead at a low altitude, and made a faint humming sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_190",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics case 864" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/8/1956",
  "desc" : "At nine o’clock in the morning on Robertson Island, Antarctica a photograph was taken by the Chilean Antarctic Expedition of two cigar-shaped objects, hanging in a vertical position in the sky for 64 minutes. The objects were estimated to be 150 meters in length, and their presence was reportedly confirmed by radar. They shot away at an estimated speed of 40,000 kilometers per hour. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_191",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon Creighton, Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1968, p. 20" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/8/1959",
  "desc" : "Shortly after nine a.m. on a clear day two MEc employee in Hobart, Tasmania saw a 2.7-meter long object disappear between buildings. Three more were seen in the sky and a fifth object shaped like an inverted skittle with a ball handle dove in the River Derwent. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_192",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies case files, report dated January 21, 1959 citing USAF" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/8/1969",
  "desc" : "A humanoid was spotted making repairs on a hovering disc-shaped craft for twenty minutes at ten p.m. in Edina, Missouri. He looked surprised when he saw the witness. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_193",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 8705 citing APRO Bulletin January-February 1971" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/8/1971",
  "desc" : "At 3:00 a.m. in Dumfries, Scotland a Mrs. Bunn sighted a white, bowl-shaped saucer hovering in the sky. The object was absolutely silent and moved back and forth in a small area of the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_194",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "newspaper clipping dated January 9, 1971" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/8/1971",
  "desc" : "At noon at Tafi Viejo, Argentina in the State of Tucuman two men in their thirties sighted a 3-meter in diameter Saturn-shaped saucer with two antennae. The UFO landed 30 meters away from them in a field of maize. It made a whistling sound as it took off and sped away. A tree in the vicinity subsequently died. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_195",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Phenomenes Spatiaux, September 1971, p. 33" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/8/1972",
  "desc" : "A short humanoid being in the middle of the road attempted to stop a truck in Camas, Spain (Sevilla Province) at 9:35 p.m. When the truck driver refused to stop the being jumped into a nearby ditch. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_196",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 153 citing Manuel Osuna Llorente" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/8/1972",
  "desc" : "On the same night a fifteen year old boy named Skiver took a night time photograph of a hovering UFO in Beckemeyer, Illinois at about ten p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_197",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "newspaper clipping dated May 31, 1972" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/8/1973",
  "desc" : "In Ellenboro, North Carolina a teenager named Gowen noticed his radio making a strange static noise. He looked outside and saw a one-foot wide box in his yard moving very slowly at a few feet above the ground. The snow on the ground in the area beneath the UFO had melted, and a greenish gunk was found on the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_198",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George D. Fawcett case files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/8/1974",
  "desc" : "After leaving his job in Springfield, Ohio Mr. Justice, age 50, experienced the failure of his car lights and engine at 3:13 a.m. He then saw multicolored blinking lights descend just meters in front of his car, followed by the appearance of a blinding white oval of light approximately six feet in diameter, apparently showing the interior of a UFO. He could see five small occupants within, seated on high backed chairs and wearing bright colored robes. Each had very long brown hair that reached almost to the floor. They appeared to be three to four feet tall, but the witness could not recall their facial features. The UFO brightly illuminated the surrounding terrain and his car's interior. After five minutes the interior light went out and the UFO ascended rapidly with another display of multicolored, flashing lights. A maintenance man on the workplace premises had noticed a failure of his \"pager\" radio four times between seven and eight o'clock earlier that evening although no UFOs were seen. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_199",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-2; citing Leonard Stringfield for CUFOS; J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies case files, report dated July 9, 1974" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/8/1974",
  "desc" : "At 7:40 a.m. three men driving on a highway south of Enterprise, California saw a steady white light come down vertically from the sky. They said that it appeared to land some place near the Pacheco School in Shasta County. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_200",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Redding Record Searchlight, January 11, 1974" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/8/1974",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon In Zafferana, Italy a woman was working alone in a small room of her house when she felt a strong rush of wind. She turned around and was confronted by a very bright light, within the light she was able to see a tall man wearing a tight-fitting coverall outfit with gold colored boots. He had short light hair, light skin and large almond-shaped eyes. The witness was not frightened and said she felt a sudden sense of joy and peace. The<br/><br/> Perhaps a coincidence, but on this date in both of the years 1974 and 1975 a cattle mutilation report and a humanoid report occurred within the same 24-hour period. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_201",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1974, case # 559, citing Angel Franchetto, Los Extraterrestres y Nuestro Futuro" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/8/1974",
  "desc" : "A cattle mutilation was reported in McPherson County, Kansas. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_202",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jerome Clark, Fate, August 1974, p. 79" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/8/1975",
  "desc" : "A cattle mutilation was reported to have occurred on this day in rural Texas. At 11:30 p.m. near a power station in Brookby, New Zealand a man and a woman saw an occupant inside a small domed disc-shaped UFO. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_203",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies case files, newspaper clipping dated February 7, 1975; FSR, October 1976, p. 30 citing Spaceview" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/8/1979",
  "desc" : "At three o’clock in the morning in Tunis, Tunisia a group of people witnessed a small disc, about 1.5 meters in size, hovering near a lake for 10 minutes. It then shot away and was gone in a split second. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_204",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, February 1979" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/8/1979",
  "desc" : "At 5:30 p.m. in San Croce Sull’Arno in the Tuscany region of Italy a 40-meter wide domed disc with an antenna flew over a farm at only ten meters above the ground. The farm animals were panicked and a tree bent over as the object passed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_205",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Italian UFO catalogue" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/8/1979",
  "desc" : "In Rome City, Indiana at eight o’clock in the evening two people sighted a 15-foot long cylinder at a low altitude near a school. The UFO had an intense light, and shot away at a high speed after five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_206",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, December 1979" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/8/1981",
  "desc" : "Perhaps the best documented and most thoroughly investigated case of physical effects from a UFO occurred on this day in Trans-en-Provence, France. At five p.m. Mr. Nicolai, a gardener, saw a metallic disc-shaped object making a whistling sound land hard in a garden. It was estimated to be eight feet by six feet in size, and had four openings on the underside. It also had a thick band around the middle section of the object. The case quickly came to the attention of the police and was soon investigated by GEPAN, the French government’s scientific team of UFO investigators. The physical traces included evidence of vegetation and soil heating, skid marks, and circular ground marks. The chemical analysis revealed that the soil had been heated to temperatures not in excess of 600 degrees Celsius. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_207",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist’s Search for Alien Contact, p. 104" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/8/1981",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. on a boat near Flinders Island, Tasmania two men saw two nocturnal lights exchange light beams. The sea was illuminated by the UFO display, and the batteries on board the boat were found to be dead. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_208",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Research Australia Newsletter, May 1982, p. 7 citing Tasmania UFO Investigation Centre, report dated March 6, 1982" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/8/1984",
  "desc" : "At 3:00 a.m. EST in the witness’s bedroom in Framingham, Massachusetts a short humanoid pointed a beam at the witness in bed. The witness felt that the being could telepathically read her mind. When the being had left a three-foot long by 18\" cylinder shot straight up into the sky outside. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_209",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, August 1991" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/8/1984",
  "desc" : "Seventy-five minutes later, at 3:15 a.m. CST, on Interstate 80 three people driving in a van outside Cozad, Nebraska saw a 100-foot diameter disc hover 80 feet over the highway. It was blazingly brilliant and had more than 15 colored circular lights around the rim. They heard an intermittent beeping on the van's CB radio. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_210",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, March 1984, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/8/1987",
  "desc" : "A couple in Lakeland, Florida reported a large vertical cylinder in the sky over their house on this night. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_211",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 198" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/8/1995",
  "desc" : "At around nine o’clock in the evening a house located between the Yatzitz and Yaziv communities in Israel shook as if an earthquake was happening. The occupants of the residence saw a three-meter tall creature with long legs and no arms outside. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_212",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup website, volume 1 number 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/8/1997",
  "desc" : "On this night in Ixtapalapa, Mexico a 53-year-old woman awoke to find three short dwarfs cavorting about her bedroom while she was unable to move. After ten minutes they disappeared in a bright blue flash of light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_213",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997 citing Contacto OVNI" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/8/2003",
  "desc" : "At 10:21 a.m. a triangular craft with a light on each corner hovered silently over Dardanelle, Arkansas. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_214",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/8/2003",
  "desc" : "At 3:30 p.m. a reflective metallic craft was sighting high in the sky over the mountains in Santa Barbara, California and at 10:00 p.m. in Union City, California a UFO was seen entering a triangular shaped light. The light then pinched shut and vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_215",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/8/2003",
  "desc" : "At 6:15 p.m. in Spicewood, Texas a cylindrical object with lights appeared in the sky for three minutes, and then vanished abruptly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_216",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/8/2003",
  "desc" : "At 7:00 p.m. in Williamsburg, Ohio a UFO was reportedly seen in the sky for five minutes that appeared shaped like an ordinary airplane, but could hover, levitate upwards, and back up. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_217",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/9/1963",
  "desc" : "On this day in Trail, Oregon a large, bright UFO emitted a cone-shaped tail and humming sound. A dog reacted to the UFO's presence by howling. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_218",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 68" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/9/1964",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. several green saucer-shaped UFOs maneuvered offshore over the surface of the sea near Nicastro, Calabria, Italy for ten minutes. As fishermen approached in a boat dove under the sea. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_219",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, case  # 6460, citing ITACAT, case # 56" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/9/1966",
  "desc" : "On this night the engine and lights of a car with three women passengers suddenly died in Chascomus, Argentina. At the same time they saw an object flying slowly away from their car. It was emitting a blue beam of light. After the object had disappeared from view the car could be restarted. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_220",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, citing FSR Case Histories, Supplement No. 17" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/9/1967",
  "desc" : "At 5:30 p.m. there was a knock at Edward Christiansen's home in Wildwood, New Jersey. Seventeen-year-old Connie Christiansen went to the door. Stunned, she reported back to her mother, \"It's the strangest looking man I've ever seen.\" Mrs. Christiansen then went to the door and unlatched it and looked outside. It was growing dark and was bitter cold out. There was no car in view and this seemed unusual because the Christiansen home was in an isolated area and guests were unlikely to be arriving on foot. A tall man stood at the door and asked if Edward Christiansen lived there. He then said he was from \"the Missing Heirs Bureau\" and asked to be let in. They invited the stranger inside. The visitor must have been at least two meters (six and a half feet) tall, and was enormously broad shouldered. He wore a Russian fur hat with a black visor on it and a very long black coat that seemed to be made out of thin material--too thin for the cold weather. He told the family \"this will only take forty minutes.\" As he removed his hat he revealed an unusually shaped head that was large and round, while his face seemed angular and pointed. He had black hair, which was closely cropped. There was a perfectly round spot on the back of his head as if that area had been shaved recently. His nose and mouth seemed relatively normal, but his eyes were large, protruding, like \"thyroid eyes,\" and set wide apart. One eye appeared to have a cast, like a glass eye, and did not move in unison with its companion.<br/><br/> During the course of the conversation Mr. Christiansen noticed a badge on the stranger's shirt pocket, which he quickly covered with his hand and removed, placing it in his coat pocket. It resembled a gold or brass badge and it seemed to have a big K on it with a small x alongside and letters and numbers around the edge, according to Connie Christiansen. Underneath his thin outer coat he was wearing a short-sleeved shirt made of a Dacron like material. His trousers were of a dark gray or black material, and were a little too short. He wore dark shoes with unusually thick rubber soles. A strange feature on his leg fascinated Connie and Mrs. Christiansen. When he sat down they could see a long thick green wire attached to the inside of his leg. It came out or his socks and disappeared under his trousers. At one point it seemed to be indented into his leg and was covered with a large brown spot. The Christiansen's noted that the visitor had an unnatural pallor. His speech was also strange, with a high \"tinny\" voice that seemed especially peculiar coming from such a large man. He also spoke in a strange, hard to understand, sing-song manner. At one point when his face reddened he asked for a glass of water, and swallowed a large yellow capsule which he gulped down. He then returned to normal. After about 40 minutes he donned his hat and coat and told Mr. Christiansen that he would be in touch. When he reached the road, he made a gesture and a black 1963 Cadillac drove through the trees and pulled up. He climbed into the car and it drove away with its headlights off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_221",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, case 22, citing John A. Keel, The Mothman Prophecies" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/9/1967",
  "desc" : "On the same night Jules Derome, age 60, of Acton Vale, Quebec, Canada reported that he encountered and photographed several 90-centimeter tall luminous humanoid forms in his garage. The strange forms disappeared by moving through the wall of the garage and presumably outside. The photos only show a vague luminous area. The witness apparently has had additional subsequent encounters. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_222",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, case 23, citing CASUFO and Denys Breysse, Project Becassine" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/9/1970",
  "desc" : "On this night a disc-shaped object was seen in the sky over a farm in Rouillac, Charente district, France followed by a flash. The next day a big hole in the ground was found in a field on the farm, and some soil was missing. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_223",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ion Hobana and Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 64; Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1970" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/9/1974",
  "desc" : "A UFO with a red light on top, and with green, orange, yellow and white flashing lights around the middle traveled west to east over the Deschutes River Canyon, then stopped over Grass Valley, north of Madras, Oregon at 1:30 a.m. It was joined by a second object. That night a UFO with a multi-colored ring of lights was seen descending slowly near Route V eight miles south of Sedalia, Missouri. It disappeared behind a ridge at 8:20 p.m., and may have landed remotely. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_224",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Bend Bulletin, January 9, 1974; (2) Ted R. Phillips, Skylook,  February 1974, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/9/1976",
  "desc" : "Jean Dolecki, age 55, was driving home after sunset at 7:10 p.m. near Echevis, Isere department, France when a luminous object appeared in the sky and landed 100 yards away in a farm field beside the road. It had the form of a \"coffee pot\", a 50-60 foot high cylinder with a narrow waist, the upper portion larger than the lower one, and was about 40 to 45 feet in diameter. From the bottom a bright white light turned on, which illuminated it. The top surface seemed to be vibrating, and on each side near the top was attached a relatively small vertical helix, which also vibrated. A door opened in the upper portion, and three beings that looked like “robots” resembling “aluminum diving suits,” 6.5-7.0 feet tall, descended. They had square heads, disproportionately small legs, and in lieu of arms, a telescopic “pole” about 7 feet long, mounted on their chests. These entities moved about near the UFO for about ten minutes, walking in a mechanical manner and wagging their poles up and down. They then re-entered, and the machine took off, disappearing at a rapid speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_225",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gil Bil Helaar, Skylook, May 1976, p. 4; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1976-16 (A1445), citing Gil Helaar" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/9/1978",
  "desc" : "Two members of the Gould family were sitting in their living room in South Middleton, Massachusetts at 7:30 p.m. when they saw an approaching large yellow ball of light angling towards the ground through their window. One of them ran out the back door to glimpse the object disappear behind some trees. Telephone interference was experienced in the home at about this time. Later one of the children in an upstairs bedroom reported seeing a white figure at the foot of his bed that tried to touch him. Moments later the father heard a noise coming from an empty room, and when he went to investigate he then heard a noise at the window. Pulling back the curtains, he saw a white figure standing on top of the back porch roof, only four feet away. The figure was hooded and seemed to be wearing a mask. Later while investigating a noise at the door to the front porch he again saw the white suited figure standing just outside the glass door. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_226",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb, MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 143; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 22; David F. Webb, FSR, June 1981, p. 23, citing Raymond E. Fowler; David F. Hall & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1905" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/9/1979",
  "desc" : "At three o'clock in the morning a milkman at the Willow Grove Exit of the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania suddenly encountered a bright orange circular UFO hovering over his truck. It vanished abruptly. Other witnesses reported UFO sightings in Norristown, Lower Merion, and Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_227",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "King of Prussia Today's Post, January 11, 1979" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/9/1979",
  "desc" : "Three police officers driving on a highway in Castel D'Asso, Latium, Italy saw a 10 meter in diameter glowing disc-shaped object at or near the ground at 5:30 a.m. They tried to use their two-way radios but experienced radio interference. The saucer shaped craft rose to one meter altitude and moved away rapidly in a horizontal direction. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_228",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Verga Maurizio, ITACAT, case # 143" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/9/1979",
  "desc" : "A domed ovoid-shaped UFO chased a car driving along Route 26 for three hours between Tacuarembo, Argentina and Melo, Uruguay during the day. There were four people in the car, two of them police. The UFO changed color and brightness, from red to bluish white, formed over a base ring of plasma. It made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_229",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newspaper Clipping Service, April 1979, p. 14, citing El Heraldo, January 17, 1979 & La Razon, January 12, 1979" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/9/1984",
  "desc" : "Mr. & Mrs. Sprinster had a close encounter with a multi-colored triangular shaped UFO 10 miles west of Torrington, Connecticut on Route 4 at 9:30 p.m. The object moved very slowly, and dropped in altitude to pace their car. Its underside was criss-crossed with tubes and grill work. A red light in the center of the object detached, circled the object three times, then returned back to its original position. It left by making a sharp turn to the south. The encounter lasted 10 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_230",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Philip J. Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/9/1984",
  "desc" : "Two witnesses in a car driving north of Hawthorne, New Jersey at 9:33 p.m. saw two silent 75-foot in diameter parabolic discs 200 feet above SR 208. The objects seemed to be avoiding being seen by passing cars. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_231",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1983, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/9/1984",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. a metallic object described as blimp like with red lights buzzed two cars on US Highway 395 south of Pearsonville, near the China Lake Weapons Center in Kern County on a clear night. At 10:30 p.m. several independent witnesses reported seeing a huge silent cigar shaped object over the highway on SR 14 15 miles north of Mojave, Kern County, California. It was only 100 feet over the road and had red lights on the bottom; it flew off to the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_232",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) APRO Bulletin, November 1984, p. 1; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14071; (2) Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1984, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/9/1986",
  "desc" : "Multiple cars stopped along Interstate 84 in Hartford, Connecticut at 9:00 p.m. to watch a silent boomerang-shaped object, estimated to be the size of a Boeing 747, with white, red, blue and green lights as it moved low through sky, then hovered for 15 seconds before heading off to the west. The boomerang seen over Hartford and New Britain was also seen by dozens of witnesses in Torrington, Connecticut. A family reported the UFO, with 10 white lights, hovered directly over their house, engulfing their home in a brilliant white light. They were so frightened they fled to the basement. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_233",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14294, citing Dale Goudie, CUFON; Philip J. Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, pp. 5-7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/9/1993",
  "desc" : "Popudinske Mocadliny, Slovakia - The witness saw first an orange ball of fire at a minute before midnight, resting in a field. Later they saw a flying triangle only 30 cm in diameter that landed on top of a nearby pigeon house. A door opened and a tiny smoky humanoid exited the object. Two weeks later the witness saw a similar humanoid in his bedroom. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_234",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, citing Dr. Milos Jesensky" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/9/1995",
  "desc" : "A young girl noticed lights outside her house in Marion, New York at 3:30 a.m. She then saw a four-foot tall humanoid being and weird lights in the yard. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_235",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, January 1995 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/9/1999",
  "desc" : "A black disc-shaped object, 10 meters in diameter, hovered over houses in the town of Cava Dei Tirreni, Campania, Italy at 10:30 p.m. The UFO circled the town twice, then flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_236",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, January 25, 1999" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/10/1953",
  "desc" : "At 3:45 p.m. northwest of Sonoma, California two military witnesses with high credibility and training, named McNab and Hunter, saw a UFO make 90-degree and 180-degree turns and full stops, rise vertically, then shoot off toward the northwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_237",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 115; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2326; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 38; MUFON UFO Journal, issue 237" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/10/1957",
  "desc" : "Six witnesses in Stafford, England including a man named Roestenberg sighted a cigar-shaped object moving toward the southwest at 4:35 p.m. It left behind an orange trail twice its own length. When a jet plane approached it rose vertically and vanished into the sky. The duration of the sighting was five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_238",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard F. Haines, CE5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 170; Flying Saucer Review, January-February 1957, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/10/1961",
  "desc" : "At 12:14 p.m. a Polaris missile launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida was paced by a UFO. Its radar signal was so strong that the radar tracking locked onto the UFO instead of the missile.The UFO stayed on the radar screen for several minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_239",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "William R. Corliss & Jerome Clark, UFO Calendar 1999; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 411" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/10/1961",
  "desc" : "At 9:12 p.m. a bright red disc-shaped object was sighted near Benjamin, Texas by two men in a light plane. It followed their Beech Debonair airplane, zigzagged, and then landed. The pilot was interviewed by the US Air Force. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_240",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 32; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 43; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., UFOs: A New Look, Washington DC: NICAP, p. 24" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/10/1967",
  "desc" : "A gray 30-foot long ovoid UFO with a blue halo flew only 25 feet above a car on a road in Bruceville, Indiana at 8:30 p.m. It had lights on its rim and made no sound as it flew. It show away toward the southeast. The sighting lasted two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_241",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 19" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/10/1973",
  "desc" : "At one a.m. in Quarouble, France a glowing box shone a strong beam of light. It made some complex maneuvers, ascending into the sky, then flew off toward the southeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_242",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 126" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/10/1975",
  "desc" : "On this night three teenagers named Jones, Symms, and Dencie were driving by Lake Erie in St. Thomas, Ontario when a blue light came and hovered over their car, and then followed it along road. They made a sharp turn in their car, and the UFO made an even sharper turn. The car then stalled, and the radio went off as the light drew closer. It then flew off toward the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_243",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "London (Ontario) Free Press, January 10, 1975" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/10/1976",
  "desc" : "Near the shore of the ocean in Merville, Normandy, France a witness named Masseron heard a voice repeating \"LPX LPX...\" at around ten p.m. and saw a 1.5 meter long ovoid object standing on the ground. A black being stood nearby. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_244",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, June 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/10/1978",
  "desc" : "A 25-year-old man name Price observed two irregularly shaped bright yellow objects in the night sky while driving near Grafton, New South Wales, Australia at around 4:00 a.m. One of the objects approached and appeared to slowly move down a mountainside. It seemed to periodically issue a \"shower of sparks\". This initial sighting lasted for about 20 minutes. The man then drove on but had difficulty recollecting the next part of his journey. Some 30 minutes later he observed a very bright object that looked like a \"chicken coop\" at a place called Bakers Creek Falls, near Armidale, New South Wales. The object was on the ground, stationary for 10 minutes, and then it moved. It was a very large elongated object with \"portholes\", hovering over the ground. He took photographs but they only show a blurred yellow shape.<br/><br/> Mr. Price next got out of his car and set off walking into the paddock to try to get closer to the object. However, as he got nearer the object appeared to retreat into an extensive fog. The witness advanced and saw the fog retreating out of the ravine. Suddenly the movement of the fog stopped and returned along its original path towards him. It quickly enveloped him, reducing visibility to less than 10 feet. The fog was accompanied by a sound similar to a vacuum cleaner. Then the fog quickly dissipated along with the sound, leaving the witness alone. He returned to his car in the morning and noticed two \"shockwaves\" one minute apart, as if the whole area was suddenly shaken, and then normality. The witness could not recollect up to an hour of the journey despite traveling on a twisting and turning road, which presumably required the driver's constant attention. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_245",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "ACOS Bulletin, September 1978, p. 27; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 248; Mark Moravec, PSIUFO Phenomena" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/10/1978",
  "desc" : "On or before this day at 4:20 p.m. a married couple named Blakemore encountered a black cylindrical UFO with a turret at the rear in Blandford, Dorset, England. The UFO emitted a cloud of fog or smoke, radiated beams of light, and then ascended into the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_246",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "D. N. Mansell, Awareness, July 1978, p. 4, citing the Yeoville Gazette, January 13, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/10/1978",
  "desc" : "Mr. Gould, age 52, was chopping wood just north of his house in South Middleton, Massachusetts at 2:30 p.m. when he spotted a white-suited figure standing on a path about 90 feet away. The figure was described as four and a half feet tall with broad shoulders and arms that hung down its sides. It wore a square helmet with two round eyeholes and gray gloves, each with three digits. The witness spoke English and French at the figure but got no reaction. After awhile the witness drove back home and on his way there spotted a large egg-shaped object on a slope in a partially wooded area. The object was dark gray in color and had bubble like windows. Ground traces were found. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_247",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb, FSR, June 1981, p. 24; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1906, citing Raymond E. Fowler; MUFON UFO Journal, issue #143; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 491" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/11/1948",
  "desc" : "Two U.S. Air Force transport pilots, Helton and Pargoe, flying over Hartford, Connecticut in the afternoon observed a red disc-shaped object that flew at high speed, dove at a 45 degree angle, and had a blue center. The Air Force explained the report as a daytime meteor. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_248",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1294; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History, 1948, p. 13; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/11/1953",
  "desc" : "A huge reddish-orange glowing ovoid object buzzed and then circled the town of Kerrville, Texas at around 6 p.m. causing odd TV and radio interference. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_249",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Charles Maney, Challenge of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 190; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 2947" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/11/1958",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 a.m. a U.S. Navy P2V-5F with a crew of four flying north of Adak Island, Alaska sighted a formation of three lights flying at 900 knots and picked them up on radar. The radar targets then merged into a single blip.The sighting lasted five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_250",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1958: January-February, p. 19; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 30" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/11/1963",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. Antonio De Luca, a 43-year-old farmer in San Pietro Vernotico, Sardegna, Italy was awakened by restless farm animals and went out to calm them. Fifteen minutes later he saw a domed disc-shaped object land in a small square in the village, went towards it, and became paralyzed and unable to move when he got to within 10 meters of it. The translucent upper dome showed two dark figures moving about inside. Two minutes later the craft, 4.5 meters long and 1.5 meters high, ascended in the direction of Brindisi, and emitted a vertical beam of green light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_251",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, September-October 1970, p. 28; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 290, case 558" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/11/1965",
  "desc" : "At 4:10 p.m. several witnesses in Washington, D. C. reported seeing 12-15 white oval-shaped objects that moved in and up-and-down oscillating path as they flew along. The sighting lasted three minutes. Jet interceptors wereobserved in pursuit. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_252",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald B. Hanlon, Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1966, p. 14; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious Business, p. 128; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. & Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 171; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, p. 76" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/11/1965",
  "desc" : "The Seaside (Oregon) Signal on January 12, 1965 noted that Mrs. Paul Zimmerman Gearhart and her two sons saw a triangular UFO which came slowly out of the southeast and then \"suddenly plunged into the sea some miles offshore\" at Tillamook Head, Oregon. It left two trails of fire behind. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_253",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 42" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/11/1966",
  "desc" : "Beginning at 6:20 p.m. EST, police and citizens reported first a brilliant light source, then later a bright egg-shaped object that hovered at low altitude over Wanaque Reservoir, New Jersey. It flew in circular patterns over the reservoir, occasionally making abrupt changes in altitude and other vertical maneuvers. Sightings by up to a hundred independent witnesses continued for more than an hour. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_254",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, Jan.-Feb. 1966, p. 3; New York Journal-American, Jan. 12, 1966" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/11/1966",
  "desc" : "Six people were driving to a scout hall in Myerstown, Pennsylvania at 7:40 p.m. when the headlights of their car repeatedly dimmed out and came back on. The radio also had heavy static. They proceeded to the scout hall without further incident. On the return trip, they saw a silent disc-shaped metallic UFO approach the car, swerve to the right, and parallel the car for several minutes. The glowing object hovered for five minutes over an open field while they watched, then \"got a tremendous burst of speed\" and left nearly instantaneously towards the northwest. There was no electrical interference when the UFO was actually in view. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_255",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 89; UNICAT, case # 375; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 160, citing Project Bluebook" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/11/1967",
  "desc" : "Mrs. Park McDaniel was outside her home during the day in Point Pleasant, West Virginia when she saw what she first took to be a small plane approaching. As it drew closer she saw that it was man-shaped and had wings. The creature swooped low over her house and circled above a nearby building before going out of sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_256",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-5, citing John A. Keel; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, case 24" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/11/1967",
  "desc" : "That same night in Aveyron, Basses Pyrenees, France a farmer sighted a \"shell\" shaped object taking off from his farm. The man then proceeded to chase a ball of light in his car. The nocturnal light stayed 150 yards ahead of him until his engine died and his lights went out, when he then noticed a \"saucer shaped\" object descend. The saucer was slightly bigger than a Peugeot car, 9-12 feet above the ground, and came down about 60 feet away. The top of the object had two transparent cupolas in each of which he could see a helmeted figure, human like and dressed in green and white coveralls. He felt a wave of heat and a temporary sensation of paralysis. He watched a nearby road sign vibrating near the oval object. With a whistling sound the UFO rose to 50 meters altitude then dropped back again to near ground level. Becoming brilliantly yellow-white, it finally took off at tremendous speed. As it did so his lights came back on and he was able to start the car normally. Several days later the witness experienced trouble sleeping, followed by some weeks of excessive sleepiness. The area had been the site of repeated UFO incidents for a year. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_257",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-6, citing G. Canouges, J. Chasseign, Fernand Legarde, & F. Dupin de la Gueriviere; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, case 25; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 182, citing FSR, volume 17, no. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/11/1969",
  "desc" : "At 8:20 a.m. a weatherman at the Sibiu Meteorological Station in Romania tracked a disc-shaped object with a theodolite for 40 seconds. It flew toward the northeast against the wind in a clear sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_258",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 175" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/11/1971",
  "desc" : "At 2:50 a.m. a government official and three members of his family witnessed 16 ball-shaped objects as they flew over Kuusamo, Oulu province, Finland in an eschelon formation. They made no sound at all. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_259",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Information Sweden, February 1971; Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, August 1971, p. 27" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/11/1973",
  "desc" : "At around 2:00 a.m. two people watched a mushroom-shaped object landed next to a barn in Fort Erie, Niagara County, Ontario, Canada. A very low flying maneuvering light also paced a car occupied by a single eyewitness driving between Thorold and Stone, Niagara County, Ontario. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_260",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Thorold News, January 11, 1973; J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, volume 5 (1974), cases 45 & 48" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/11/1976",
  "desc" : "At 5:55 p.m. a 14-year-old boy was walking through the falling snow to a friend’s house in Hamden, Connecticut when he saw a large glowing figure floating, near some sumac bushes 400 feet away. The figure was seen in profile from the waist up. There was no discernible face, and the back of the head was flat and corrugated. The glow from the head extended above the bushes that were 7-8 feet high, and extended about 9 inches from the body, with a less luminous silvery outer glow that extended another 9” beyond that. The teen ran to a friend’s house; then they got two other friends, and armed with a 22-caliber rifle he returned to the site. When they encountered the figure again one of them shone a flashlight on it, and it fell backwards behind a ridge. When the flashlight was pointed away the figure rose up again, and remained in view for 3-4 seconds before slowly ducking back behind the ridge. When it came up a third time, he shot at it twice with the .22 aiming over its head; it slowly descended for the third and last time. One of the witnesses was unable to see the being. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_261",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1976-17 (A1446), citing James P. Barrett, APRO; CUFOS files, report dated February 29, 1976" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/11/1978",
  "desc" : "At 9:35 p.m. a noisy disc-shaped object with a \"rear spoiler\" and headlights followed two 15-year-old teens in Mytchett, Surrey, England. It had portholes and flew overhead. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_262",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, June 1978, p. 25" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/11/1978",
  "desc" : "A group of witnesses in South Middleton, Massachusetts had a close encounter with a battleship gray ovoid or elongated UFO at 4:30 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_263",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb, FSR, June 1981, p. 24 citing Ray Fowler" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/11/1979",
  "desc" : "Nightly appearances of flying discs over the city of Sorocaba, Sao Paulo State, Brazil began on this evening and continued for the next 10 nights. The objects emitted different colored lights and were seen by several thousand city residents. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_264",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1979, p. 14, citing La Razon, January 12, 1979" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/11/1979",
  "desc" : "On this night a short humanoid about 80 cm tall, wearing a helmet with two luminous antennae, approached a witness in Fortaleza, Ceara State, Brazil and touched him on the arm, burning him. The being wore a silvery suit and blue boots, and apparently arrived in a gray-colored object about 15 meters in diameter with lighted windows. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_265",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, citing Antonio Faleiro" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/11/1991",
  "desc" : "At 10:45 p.m. an ABC-TV film crew videotaped a red UFO over Gulf Breeze, Florida during a skywatch. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_266",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bruce S. Maccabee, 1991 MUFON Symposium Proceedings, p. 249; Ed Walters & Bruce Maccabee, UFOs are Real: Here's the Proof, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/11/1992",
  "desc" : "An abductee drove into a black void on Interstate 90 near Issaquah, Washington at around 9:00 p.m. resulting in an undisclosed length of missing time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_267",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, August 1993" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/11/1998",
  "desc" : "A juvenile sighted a domed disc-shaped UFO hovering over his house in Barnegat, New Jersey on this night. It had alternating green and yellow lights around its rim. On top there was a glass dome and a pilot-like figure apparently wearing some type of helmet could be seen inside. Frightened, he ran inside his house but could still see the disc hovering outside. A strange symbol was also seen on the side of the disc. It also had an antenna on top and other markings on the bottom right under the rim lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_268",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case #3154, citing MUFON" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/11/2001",
  "desc" : "A widespread power outage accompanied by radio interference occurred in Sao Vicente, Sao Paulo State, Brazil at 3:30 a.m. when a large disc-shaped object flew over, heading southeast toward the sea. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_269",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 6, no. 4, citing Praia Grande Picares; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #  18157" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/11/2004",
  "desc" : "An egg-shaped object, glowing a yellowish amber color, moved up and down in the sky over West River, Maryland at 3:28 a.m., and then started zigzagging sideways. The duration of the sighting was two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_270",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, January 2004 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/11/2005",
  "desc" : "At around one o'clock in the morning several disc-shaped UFOs flew about 200 feet from a witness's car while driving on Interstate 10 from Albuquerque, New Mexico to El Paso, Texas. The close encounter lasted two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_271",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, January 2005 webpage, report uploaded January 19, 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/12/1950",
  "desc" : "Flying over the Gulf of Mexico northwest of Cuba, a USAF B-29 picked up three unidentified radar blips. The bogeys hovered for awhile, and then orbited the B-29 at 3,000 mph. The bomber's airborne radar jammed for an additional ten minutes after the sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_272",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/12/1951",
  "desc" : "At 10:05 p.m. two U.S. Air Force airmen at Stewart AFB in Orange County, New York saw a fireball drop from a high altitude, and then zig-zag. It made clear cut maneuvers, and changed colors. At 11:01 p.m. a saucer-shaped object hovered near Fort Benning, Georgia for 20 minutes, then shot off to the south. U.S. Army 2nd Lt. A. C. Hale saw a light with a fan-shaped wake remain motionless like a star then speed away. It was estimated to be the size of a matchhead held at arms length. There were nine other witnesses. A Project Blue Book unknown. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_273",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1951 (volume 2), pp. 2 & 3; (2) Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 868" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/12/1953",
  "desc" : "In Santana dos Montes, Minas Gerais, Brazil Sr. M. Ramos Bessa had a close encounter with a small domed disc-shaped UFO that landed in a field at 1:00 p.m. Two humanoids wearing \"brilliant lead\" colored suits w shining ball on each of their square-toed shoes. Soil sample.Physiological effect: severe headache. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_274",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Rogerson, World-Wide Catalog of Type 1 Reports, case # 265" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/12/1956",
  "desc" : "At 5:30 a.m. a scarlet colored object streaked across the northeast sky in Kuantan, Malaysia and then dove into the sea. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_275",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ahmad Jamaludin, Summary of Unidentified Flying Objects and Related Events in Malaysia, case # 17" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/12/1965",
  "desc" : "At one o'clock in the morning Mr. Don Flickinger, a U.S. Border Patrol officer, had his patrol car buzzed by a bright round flying object in Lynden, Washington not far from the Canadian border. The UFO hovered, then acelerated away with the sound of rushing air. The object had been tracked on radar. That same night, a round, glowing 30 foot wide object with a dome on top landed on a nearby farm in Custer, Washington melting the snow in a 12 foot diameter circle. The object illuminated the yard, trees, and the side of the farmhouse. The circle was melted in snow 16 inches deep, and the ground beneath was also scorched. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_276",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, April-May 1965, p. 4; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 170; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 630; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious Business, p. 94; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 132; UNICAT, case # 396" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/12/1968",
  "desc" : "On this night while driving on a highway in Carlisle, Pennsylvania two female witnesses, Ms. Lehman and Ms. Little, saw a large round white object, at times reddish, that emitted smaller objects that maneuvered around independently. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_277",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1968, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/12/1969",
  "desc" : "At eight o'clock in the morning two local UFO investigators had driven to an isolated area of Mount Misery on Long Island, New York in order to photograph the landscape. Walking on foot near a wooded hill, they caught sight of a tall human like figure that appeared to have a disfigured face and long wild black hair. He also wore a long black garment. Upon seeing the UFO investigators the being retreated silently into the woods. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_278",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1969, case # 1897, citing John A. Keel, Strange Mutants" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/12/1975",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 a.m. ten 3.5-foot-tall humanoids gathered soil samples for three minutes in Hudson Park in North Bergen, New Jersey only 100 feet from the street. They wore coveralls with helmets and got back into a domed disc-shaped craft. The disc made a humming sound when it took off, and CB radio interference was noted. Ground marks. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_279",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted Bloecher, Proceedings of the CUFOS Conference: 1976, p. 33; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 64" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/12/1979",
  "desc" : "On this night in the farming community of Sorocaba, Sao Paolo State, Brazil three newspaper reporters watched a large luminous disc-shaped object descend and hover near the ground, while hundreds of other witnesses watched several luminous discs maneuver over the nearby village. Two small beings, about four and a half foot tall, emerged from the object. The beings were human in appearance and were wearing one-piece outfits with fishbowl type helmets over their heads. The helmets emitted bright beacons of light. Suddenly everything became very dark and moments later the disc ascended and disappeared behind some nearby hills. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_280",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case # 1641, citing A. J. Gevaerd and Wendelle C. Stevens, UFO Abductions at Maringa" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/12/1980",
  "desc" : "On this night in the town of Huayana, in the Potosi Valley, Bolivia a man saw a lenticular-shaped object over him. The UFO projected a beam of light and formed a dome shaped luminous form on the ground, not far from the witness. He then experienced strange sensations when he walked inside the light dome. He was met there by a tall, blond-haired humanoid that had tanned skin and slanted eyes with a very prominent chin. The man claimed he had sensations of love and serenity projected to him by the tall humanoid. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_281",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1980, case # 1577, citing Luis Fernando Mostajo, The Missing Link, issue # 124" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/12/1988",
  "desc" : "At 5:25 p.m. Ed Walters was driving in his pickup truck on US 98 in Gulf Breeze, Florida when an object appeared ahead of him shining a white beam of light through the windshield, partially paralyzing his forearms and hands. He stopped the truck and pulled over to the side of the road. He now felt numb and his arms were stinging. The object approached quickly and hovered three feet above the roadway. He was able to grab his shotgun and got out of the truck, attempting to crawl under it. At this point the object brightened and came closer. A beam of white light struck Walters on the back of his legs. The object next began rotating and a blue beam of light appeared under it. The beam deposited five small beings on the roadway, all of whom wore some type of shield like coverings. They had large black oval-shaped eyes and carried glowing rods. The beings approached Walters, who then managed to crawl back into his truck and was somehow able to start it; he then drove quickly away from the area at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_282",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Edward Walters, Gulf Breeze Sightings, p. 107; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1988, case # 359, citing Donald Ware, Walter Andrus & Charles Flannigan, MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 239" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/12/1989",
  "desc" : "On this night a woman driving her car in Duclair, Seine-Maritime department, France observed within 30 meters of the top of a marsh an enormous cylindrical form with a cupola on top. The UFO was emitting a yellow light, had a series of red luminescent portholes, and a white base. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_283",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "GEIPAN, case # 26" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/12/1989",
  "desc" : "Two men driving in Underwood, Indiana saw a diamond-shaped object for five minutes moving across the roadway in front of their car. They drove directly under the craft, 100' above them.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_284",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "1/12/1990",
  "desc" : "A man and his three daughters were driving on Five Points Road in the suburbs of Indianapolis, Indiana at 8:30 p.m. when they saw a domed disc-shaped object and stopped the car. The object hovered and moved, titled at an angle. It had a little dark dome on top, multicolored lights (red, white, green and blue), and a beam of light that shone toward the ground. It moved up and down, and approached and receded. It also made no sound. The witnesses were frightened and resumed driving to get away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_285",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Norma J. Croda, MUFON case file # 900737; Francis Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 128" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/12/1993",
  "desc" : "On this night, during a period of appallingly poor weather conditions and repeated UFO sightings in the area, several local residents of Langeness Fjord, Iceland reported seeing small gray-colored humanoids walking on the ice on a nearby glacier. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_286",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 1320, citing Tony Dodd, UFO Magazine (UK), Vol. 12, # 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/12/1993",
  "desc" : "On this evening two men, Joseph Wiek and Harold Egeln, were having dinner at a coffee shop in Greenwich Village, New York when suddenly time seemed to slow down and everything became frozen in \"time\". Harold saw three humanoid figures enter the restaurant's front window in a blast of light. Joseph saw the three humanoids enter, but instead of a light blast he saw one carrying something that looked like a \"trumpet\". Later Harold had a bizarre dream where he saw a saucer-like object rimmed with what appeared to be trumpets, descend over the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_287",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 3870, citing S.P.A.C.E." ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/12/2000",
  "desc" : "In Caboolture, Queensland, Australia a woman reported that a thick white cloud came through her screen door, across the kitchen, blocked her TV, and went up against a wall before it faded. Out in her backyard was a large triangular object with a red arrow marking. She reported that she has had strange visions since the event. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_288",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Australasian Ufologist, January 2001, p. 38" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/12/2000",
  "desc" : "Hundreds of motorists on Highway A-1 in Rome, Italy saw a circular luminous object followed by a cylinder of light, which hung in the sky for several minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_289",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (UK), May 2000, p. 53" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/12/2000",
  "desc" : "A family in rural northeastern Missouri chased a UFO in their car starting at 8:45 p.m., but it suddenly came closer and hovered over them, then followed them home. They witnessed more than 30 lights that travelled at random through the sky, and they also claimed to have seen seven aircraft flying around the scene. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_290",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), July 2000, p. 4, citing CAUS; Lynn Picknett, Mammoth Book of UFOs, p. 178" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/13/1910",
  "desc" : "Several thousand people in Chattanooga, Tennessee watched a white cigar-shaped object that passed rapidly over the city at around 11:00 a.m. at 500 to 1,000 feet altitude. It disappeared into a bank of smoke along the river. \"Flags on the custom house hung limp [so the wind]…would not have propelled a...balloon.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_291",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers Are Real, p. 61; Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 8; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious Business, p. 27" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/13/1957",
  "desc" : "Two men, West and Liddell, watched as a forty meter in diameter fluorescent oval-shaped object nearly touched down on the grass in Balfour, New Zealand at 3:10 a.m., but it jumped away as the two men approached. It changed to a bluish-white sphere with a dark red center. It cleared a fence, and then vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_292",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 106" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/13/1958",
  "desc" : "At 6:30 p.m. in Casino, New South Wales, Australia Brian Crittendon, age 21, was chased by a dome-shaped object that emitted a narrow light beam toward the ground. He was so frightened that he drove home on a flat tire, followed for five kilometers by the object, which was about 50 meters away from him and 10 meters above ground. It overtook his car at a speed in excess of 100 km/h. Radio interference was noted but the UFO made no noise. There was an independent witness to the UFO. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_293",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs in the Southern Hemisphere, p. 49; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 457; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 89" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/13/1959",
  "desc" : "A witness driving alone in Bygholm, Denmark saw a stationary object ahead in the sky. After about five seconds the object moved toward the car and passed over it at a height of 100 meters. The car's engine stopped at this point but the headlights were not affected. The object, which now changed color from yellow-green to yellow-white, moved quickly away into the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_294",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 75; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 97, FSR, Vol. 5, No. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/13/1959",
  "desc" : "At 7:00 a.m. Robert Collins, while driving a pick-up truck near Greenville, Pennsylvania, noticed lights in the sky he thought were a plane making an emergency landing. The lights eventually coalesced into a single bright light. This light then hovered over his truck for several minutes. His truck's engine, lights, and radio failed at this point. The light, which was too bright for Mr. ColIins to discern any structure, departed quickly to the west and out of sight in 30 seconds. The truck then could be restarted. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_295",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Greenville (PA) Record-Argus, January 31, 1959; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 98, citing Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 75" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/13/1967",
  "desc" : "Nine-year old Freddie Amos woke up at 1:30 a.m. in his farmhouse in Iola, Kansas to see a round object hovering motionless low over an adjoining field. It was 25 feet in diameter, had a dome on top, short wing-like protrusions, and three wheels on its underside. There were red lights on the ends of the \"wings,\" and a blue light on top of the dome. A man stood inside the dome looking out, and another man was visible sitting behind a console behind him. The man standind wore a \"crinkly\" green uniform that covered him entirely; his face was in shadow and his facial features could not be seen. This \"terrible\" man frightened the boy although he could not say why. He got back into bed but continued to watch the object, which circled his house and hovered again for five minutes back in its original position before flying off. In the morning some of their cows were found to have broken through the fence around their pasture. One had broken her leg. A pond in the pasture near the site continued to remain unfrozen although the temperatures were well below freezing. This encounter occurred during a minor concentration of UFO sightings at nearby locales. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_296",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-7, citing Mary Conger for NICAP; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, case 26" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/13/1967",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. Pilot Carl M., a flight officer, and passenger Jimmie Moran on a Lear Jet 23 en route from Houston, Texas to Las Vegas, Nevada flying at 41,000 feet and 300 knots saw a red oval luminous object in the 10 o'clock position. The object split into four similar red oval objects vertically a number of times, each separated by about 2,000 ft and each emitting a \"red ray\". They then retracted up into the top object. Albuquerque radar tracked the object 39 miles ahead of the Lear jet moving on the same heading, with no transponder signal. The object blinked off visually for 30 seconds then blinked back on. Albuquerque control contacted a National Airlines DC-8 over Casa Grande, Arizona, whose pilot confirmed the Lear Jet pilot's reports. Albuquerque control warned the Lear that the object suddenly darted towards the Lear at high speed, and within seconds the radar blips merged. The object flooded the Lear Jet with intense red light so bright the pilot had difficulty seeing his instrument panel, and it maintained a position in front of the Lear for a few minutes. Then, it blinked off-on again and started to fall back behind the left wing, but then pulled forward again. When the object blinked off the Albuquerque radar controllers would lose contact with the object, then regain it when it blinked on again. Both the UFO and Lear jet made left turns over Winslow, Arizona, when Los Angeles ARTC Center radar picked up both targets. Past Flagstaff the object climbed at a 30° angle disappearing to the west in less than 10 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_297",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek, Hynek UFO Experience, p. 72; Charles Bowen, FSR, May-June 1972, p. 13, Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 35; UNICAT, case # 318" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/13/1968",
  "desc" : "At 6:20 a.m. in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania a large round white object, at times reddish, emitted smaller satellite objects that maneuvered independently. The larger UFO was 40 to 50 feet in diameter UFO and about 350 feet in the air. It rose slowly, and gave off a white haze. The white light then changed color from red to reddish-orange then back to white. It emitted four small red balls of light from a hatch, then five white ones. There were at least 20 witnesses. That night in Dillsburg, Pennsylvania the Rev. R. Mossir reported sighting four pulsating objects leaving a white UFO, which seemed to explode in the sky after the red objects left it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_298",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, March-April 1968, p. 1; Skylook, February 1968, p. 1 & 5; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 414" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/13/1969",
  "desc" : "In Vado Ligure, Italy at around 6 p.m. an eight meter in diameter circular object was seen taking off from a construction site, crushed grass was found at the landing site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_299",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 8708; Maurizio Verga, ITACAT, case 63" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/13/1970",
  "desc" : "A witness riding on a motorcycle on highway D123 north of Cramoisy in Oise department, France encountered a low flying, slow moving, 10 meter long sausage-shaped object with a row of portholes in front at 6:45 a.m. The witness felt sick later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_300",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 9556, citing LDLN Lecteurs" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/13/1977",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m. a 17-year-old woman driving in Plantation, Florida had her car paced by a disc-shaped object. It engaged in erratic maneuvers, and then was joined by a second disc. Both objects flew off to the east. They did not appear on radar. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_301",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, pp. 2 & 36" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/13/1979",
  "desc" : "On this evening, perhaps as early as 4:30 p.m., a 50-year-old farmer named Mancini in Viterbo, Italy spotted a large blindingly bright fiery red sphere descend in a nearby pasture. The sphere changed colors to a bright orange and then to red, and finally dimmed to reveal a two-meter wide metallic sphere. A small man only 20 inches tall, wearing a silvery white suit, emerged from the object and walked around the object, frequently bending down as if he was picking things up. Frightened, the witness ran away from the scene. The object took off and flew to the northwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_302",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1979, p. 15 , citing Hoja Lunes, Jan. 15, 1979; Maurizio Verga, ITACAT, case 143; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 13608; BUFORA Journal, Vol. 8, No. 3; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case # 996" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/13/1979",
  "desc" : "At 11:50 a.m. a 12-year-old boy named Suarez, the son of the school's janitor, was alone in a school room in Loreto, Santiago del Estero province, Argentina when he heard a sudden noise. Looking around, he saw a rectangular silvery object, five feet tall by two feet wide and three feet long, hovering a few inches above the schoolyard ground. Two flaps opened on the sides of the object and two little men emerged and descended. Each was about three feet tall and dressed in shiny aluminum colored one-piece coveralls, and their hands had only four fingers. Both wore helmets with dark faceplates that covered the eyes. They each had a device with a tube and clock-like instrument attached. They entered the school and one being grabbed the boy. A voice coming from the object spoke to him in Spanish telling him to sit down. Once seated the boy was paralyzed and unable to move from the chair, while one of the beings went into another room and the other went back inside the object. A reddish beam of light from the object knocked the witness out. When he woke up later the object and beings were gone, but a strong sulphurous odor remained behind. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_303",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1979, p. 15; citing Cronica, Jan. 16, 1979; FSR, July 1979, p. 21; Thomas E Bullard, UFO Abductions, The Measure of A Mystery, case 53; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case # 499" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/13/2000",
  "desc" : "Three pinkish-red objects were sighted travelling in vertical formation in Mount Warrigal, New South Wales, Australia at 10:55 p.m. They then performed incredible acrobatics for the next 20 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_304",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (UK), May 2000, p. 52; Australasian Ufologist, July 2000, p. 50 & January 2001, p. 46" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/13/2000",
  "desc" : "Late on this night in Jacksonville, Florida a woman suddenly awoke to find herself being dropped onto her bed by a non-human looking entity. Close to her face she saw a huge head on a thin body. At the same time she felt a puff of breath coming from the entity's open mouth. She sensed that the being was surprised that she had woken up. Although terrified, she still fell asleep. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_305",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case # 3441, citing South Florida Skyscan" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/13/2007",
  "desc" : "In Vaughan, Ontario a cigar-shaped object flew parallel to the highway at midnight, gliding quietly like a submarine. The object had illuminated windows. The sighting lasted about 30 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_306",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 16, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/14/1950",
  "desc" : "At 4:45 p.m. Fairchild plant workers at the nuclear research facilities in Oak Ridge, Tennessee watched a brilliant fiery ball of light hover over restricted military airspace for about two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_307",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/14/1951",
  "desc" : "At 12:38 p.m. four witnesses flying in an airplane over Big Bear Lake, California saw three circular or disc-shaped UFOs that were 40 to 50 feet in diameter and flying at 30,000 feet altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_308",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1951, p. 3; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/14/1955",
  "desc" : "An unknown object struck the wing of a USAF B-47 flying over California. The plane was able to make a safe emergency landing. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_309",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 408" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/14/1956",
  "desc" : "A 51-year-old amateur astronomer in Houston, Texas named Johnson reported sighting four gray ovoid objects flying by at 10:15 p.m. in linear echelon formation, toward Ellington Field. They made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_310",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "CUFOS files, letter dated April 16, 1966; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956 (Volume 6), p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/14/1965",
  "desc" : "At 8:50 p.m. seven UFOs paced a Quantas Airlines Electra flying between Auckland, New Zealand and Sydney, Australia. The sighting was confirmed by multiple radar units tracking the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_311",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, April-May 1954, p. 4; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, August 1965, p. 57" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/14/1965",
  "desc" : "A newspaper boy in Riverside, California at 5:30 a.m. saw a 30 meter long football shaped UFO making a whining noise. It hovered at 135 meters altitude before it made a 180 degree turn and shot off to the southwest very fast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_312",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Fate, July 1965; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 304; APRO Bulletin, March-April 1965" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/14/1965",
  "desc" : "At midnight James Myers saw an object rise from the ground in Norfolk, Virginia. It appeared as a bright, circular silvery craft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_313",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald B. Hanlon, Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1966, p. 14; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 631, citing Fate, July 1965" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/14/1965",
  "desc" : "Many people witnessed brilliant nocturnal lights hovering and maneuvering over Lake Elsinore, California. They moved erratically in patterns; they also would brighten for five minutes and then dim for three minutes in a repeated cycle until after an hour they rose and disappeared to the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_314",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lake Elsinore Valley Sun, January 21, 1965;<br/><br/> Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 228" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/14/1965",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. that same night a newspaper reporter was driving between Enfield and Wilmot, New Hampshire when his car completely faiIed--lights, radio, and engine. He got out to investigate and heard a hum like an electrical whine, then saw a bright light 2,000-5,000 feet high. It was hovering, then moved away quickly on a straight trajectory. The lights and radio then came back on and the engine also started by itself. The whole sighting lasted only 15-20 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_315",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Manchester Union Leader, January 16, 1965; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 137" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/14/1966",
  "desc" : "A black or dark gray cigar-shaped object with two amber lights was sighted hovering over Wanaque Reservoir, New Jersey at 1:45 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_316",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "James Moseley, Saucer News, Summer 1966, p. 26" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/14/1969",
  "desc" : "George Vas and his wife and two daughters were asleep in their trailer near Childers, Queensland, Australia when they were awakened at 4:30 a.m. by the barking of their dog. They also heard a loud buzzing noise like a swarm of wasps. It came from a UFO shaped like a sombrero, about 25-30 yards in diameter, which gave off a brilliant violet luminosity. From the craft three beings descended. They were huge, \"about 3 times as large as humans,\" and had \"blocky arms and legs and shapeless bodies.\" They emitted a purple and yellow glow. For about ten minutes they gathered sugar cane and other plant specimens, without concern for the observers. Mrs. Olga Vas said that the beings descended from the larger craft in a small object similar in shape. At one point one of the entities came close enough to the group for Mr. Vas to call out in alarm. The \"spaceman\" showed no concern and moved away only after picking up several rocks. The giant creatures re-entered their craft and the UFO took off vertically. When it took off the hair on the witnesses' bodies stood on end, as if affected by a form of static electricity. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_317",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bill Chalker case files, case # 2014; Bill Chalker & Keith Basterfield, Australian Catalogue of Close Encounter Type Three Reports, p. 22; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-04, citing Keith Basterfield" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/14/1969",
  "desc" : "A one-foot in diameter sphere with 5 spikes was seen hovering in the woods in La Barbee, Sarthe department, France for 45 minutes. It then flew to the southwest, turned and flew off to the west. A small disc-shaped object was again seen in the area the next day. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_318",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 8711, citing FSR, July-August 1969" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/14/1973",
  "desc" : "At 12:45 a.m. while driving near Christchurch, New Zealand two people first heard a humming sound, then a dark object descended toward the ground at a 45 degree angle. It made a 90 degree turn, and next shone spotlights all over the pastoral countryside at a low altitude. The observers drove away frightened. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_319",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Research Australia, March 1983" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/14/1973",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m. EST a 27-year-old witness named Allen saw a 30 meter long football-shaped object hovering 30 meters over a trailer park in Chillicothe, Ohio for 10 seconds; it then shot up vertically. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_320",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Data-Net Report, March 1973, p. 16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/14/1973",
  "desc" : "A round flying object reportedly hit several trees in Mentmore, England at midnight. There were metal fragments found in a heap as well as strips of aluminum. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_321",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted R. Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, p. 88 (case 545)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/14/1976",
  "desc" : "Mrs. J. Stewart was driving on a highway in East Bethel, Minnesota and when she arrived home she could not account for at least one hour of her time. Under hypnosis she recounted being abducted from her car by a tall figure dressed in white. There were two more such beings in the door of a translucent UFO. bottom bubble of UFO. She recalled at one point that the face of the being was very close to her own face, and it had big slanted eyes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_322",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Swanson, CUFOS case investigation files, report dated January 22, 1976; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1447, citing Brad Ayers" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/14/1978",
  "desc" : "In Redding, California a woman named Chapin woke up in the middle of the night to see a strange entity standing near her bed. He had a flat head, large eyes, and a big nose. He appeared to extend his arms over her. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_323",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact, p. 187" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/14/1979",
  "desc" : "The Moreno family called a local newspaper to report the sighting of a five meter in diameter metallic, oval-shaped object that moved rapidly through the sky over Pilar, Madrid, Spain at 6 p.m. It disappeared behind some tall buildings, and left behind a small trail that faded away quickly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_324",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newspaper Clipping Service, March 1979, p. 15, citing Hoja Lunes, Jan. 15, 1979" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/14/1979",
  "desc" : "At 7 p.m. three orange disc-shaped objects traveled to the northwest over Antibes, Alpes-Maritimes, France at 250 meters altitude in a triangular formation. They then vanished as if erased from the sky, nearby some hills. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_325",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 13610, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, February 1979" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/14/1981",
  "desc" : "An odd sound was heard at 7:30 p.m. as 16 round objects with body lights maneuvered overhead in Wadesboro, North Carolina. TV sets in the area experienced interference.  ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_326",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Tarheel Group, MUFON UFO Journal, April 1981, p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/14/1984",
  "desc" : "A speeding red light, the shape of a triangle and larger than a normal aircraft, hovered over Surrey, England and then disappeared. It returned two minutes later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_327",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, June 1984, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/14/1993",
  "desc" : "A woman in southern California reported a series of bizarre incidents beginning at 3:55 a.m. during which she heard a loud buzzing sound, and then a red light pouring into her house through windows. She suffered related health effects. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_328",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, report uploaded Nov. 2, 1999" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/14/1996",
  "desc" : "A UFO landed in a paddock in Large George, New South Wales, Australia at 8:45 p.m. It was a brilliantly illuminated object, possibly cigar shaped, with windows on the side. When it left it rose vertically. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_329",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 208" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/15/1957",
  "desc" : "In the early morning hours of this day in Balfour, New Zealand, William West and Wallace Liddell saw an object similar to a shooting star come close to them. As it got closer it appeared to be an oval-shaped craft, fluorescent, about 40 cm in diameter. It came down toward the ground and nearly touched the grass but did not land. They rushed towards it to capture it, but it jumped away and turned into a bluish-white sphere with a dark red center. Each time they tried to catch it the object jumped further away. It cleared a high fence and slowly vanished. The Invercargill Weather Bureau had no explanation. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_330",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Grey River Argus, January 15, 1957; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 254" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/15/1965",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. five miles northwest of Wilmot, New Hampshire Mr. Knee saw a glowing light that made a humming sound. His car radio, lights and engine died while the luminous object hovered nearby; the electrical power returned when the UFO sped away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_331",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Walter N. Webb case investigation files, case # 51" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/15/1967",
  "desc" : "At 6:30 a.m. local time a 69-year old woman in Ikuri, Finland suddenly awoke to see through her bedroom window that a 1.2-1.4 meter tall creature was in her yard, walking through the deep snow using stiff mechanical steps. The being wore a blue-green tunic and baglike trousers, and had some kind of helmet with four antennas. It also wore some kind of mittens on its hands. The face could not be seen. It walked past the swing in the yard and disappeared into thin air. It left round footprints on the snow. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_332",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, citing Mervi Virtanen" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/15/1967",
  "desc" : "At 3:00 a.m. EST, or about three and one-half hours later, a red oval-shaped UFO that looked like an upside-down saucer with a white glowing rim, approached and circled the witness's home in Boxford, Massachusetts before flying away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_333",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 343" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/15/1967",
  "desc" : "After another three and one-half hours, at 7:30 p.m. local time, attorney Ong Huck Hong and his son observed a domed disc in Selat Utara, Malaysia. The object moved up and down, slowed its pace, and appeared to be changing its shape. There were whirling bars of light on the dome that resembled windows. The UFO flew off toward the south. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_334",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ahmad Jamaludin, Summary of Unidentified Flying Objects and related events in Malaysia, p. 25" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/15/1967",
  "desc" : "Wildwood, New Jersey. Two nights after the Christiansen family heard strange metallic sounds over their house, Mr. & Mrs. Christiansen returned home to find their children in a very distraught state. They had heard the strange metallic sound again, and then heard heavy footsteps crunching through the thick woods outside. A 19-year old neighbor present at the time looked out the window to see a tall humanoid figure hurrying away from the house. He was wearing a long white cape. When the man reached a five-foot high fence he leaped over it effortlessly disappeared into the woods. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_335",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, case 27, citing John A. Keel, The Mothman Prophecies" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/15/1969",
  "desc" : "During the afternoon of this day Ludwig Pallmann felt a burning sensation from a ring given to him by someone he presumed was an extraterrestrial. The sensation was a signal for an upcoming contact, so Mr. Pallmann took his motorboat to a local sandy beach on Isla del Altar, El Salvador. There he noticed that several huge concentric circles ruffled the normally placid waters of the lake. Shortly after that he encountered a human looking being named Satu Ra, who he had met on previous occasions. Satu Ra was sitting motionless on a nearby rock. He wore dark green coveralls and had on a broad instrument belt on which was a large device. Ra was inexpressively sad. He told Pallmann that another extraterrestrial that they both knew, named Xiti, had been killed. Supposedly a disaster had befallen the expedition on another planet. Shortly after this close encounter locals reported observing a silvery disc-shaped UFO hovering over the capital city San Salvador. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_336",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1969, case 32, citing Timothy Good, Alien Base" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/15/1969",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. a man driving from Extremadura stopped his car in Las Pajanosas, Sevilla province, Spain and got out to investigate a light he saw nearby. When he got to within 200 meters of it he could see an illuminated rectangle in which several figures were seen walking in front of. A dog that had been watching the light with him had its hair raised and was growling softly. Alarmed, the witness left the scene. When he returned a few days later with a friend they found three apparent landing marks at the site, six feet apart. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_337",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-05, citing Felipe Laffitte; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1969, case 33" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/15/1971",
  "desc" : "A 69-year-old woman awoke abruptly in Ikuri, Tampere, Finland at 6:30 a.m., and watched out her window to see a 1.2 to 1.4 meter (four-foot) tall being appear in the yard and walk in the deep snow using stiff and mechanical steps. The creature wore a blue-green tunic and baglike trousers, and had some sort of helmet with four antennae. It also wore something like mittens on its hands. Its face could not be seen. The creature walked past the swing in the yard and disappeared into thin air. It left round footprints in the snow. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_338",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1971, citing Mervi Virtanen, Finland" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/15/1974",
  "desc" : "Two students were walking along the beach in Mar Del Plata, Argentina at midnight when they sighted a small white light moving towards the coast from the sea. It divided into three lights as it came closer. They walked to the nearest pier to catch a better look of the lights and began walking down the pier when two more lights became visible to their right. They could now see that the lights were five humanoid beings that were walking gracefully in the water. The seawater reached their chests. These beings were dressed in diving suits and their heads were covered with helmets with a mask and a tube going onto their backs. The beings walked out of the water and onto the road, leaving the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_339",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1974, case # 242, citing Fabio Picasso, Strange Magazine, # 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/15/1975",
  "desc" : "Several reports were made of a green disc heading in an eastward direction near the airport in Groton, Connecticut. Witnesses included an American Airlines crew and two Air National Guard pilots flying in the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_340",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, September 1975, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/15/1986",
  "desc" : "At around seven p.m. the witness was walking home on Wiktorska Street in Mokotow, Poland when he saw a dull metallic bowl-shaped flying object descend and land in a vacant field between two buildings. Moments later a hatch slid open from the top of the object and a woman dressed in black came out. The man felt compelled mentally to go with the woman, who took him inside the UFO. it was very bright inside the craft and he saw two men wearing dark tight-fitting overalls with hoods. He was ordered to lie down on a table, and at this point he lost consciousness. He later awoke standing at the door outside of his house with no recollection of what happened in between. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_341",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1986, case # 952, citing UFO Newsclipping Service, issue # 209" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/15/1991",
  "desc" : "In 1991 a 20-foot diameter circle was discovered in the ice on the Charles River near Waltham, Massachusetts. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_342",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Massachusetts MUFON" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/15/1998",
  "desc" : "A 50-year-old grandmother and government employee was abducted on this night from her home in Atlantic City, New Jersey. She was in great terror and in fear of her life during the abduction. No other details were provided. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_343",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case # 3130, citing George Filer, MUFON" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/16/1947",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 at night in the North Sea an RAF Mosquito pilot picked up a strange object on radar 50 miles north of the coast of Holland. The UFO seemed to be taking evasive maneuvers when approached by the fighter aircraft. The UFO was pursued for 30 minutes until over the Norfolk, England coast, at which point the object darted away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_344",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, December 1977, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/16/1955",
  "desc" : "At 1:00 p.m. a pilot of a light plane flying over Talara, Peru encountered a domed, disc-shaped UFO maneuvering at 20,000 feet. It focused a beam of light onto his plane. He gave chase but the disc ascended to an altitude too high to follow. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_345",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 24, citing the APRO Bulletin" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/16/1957",
  "desc" : "The crewmen of a USAF B-25 flying northwest of Fort Worth, Texas sighted a round, white light at eight o’clock in the evening making rapid maneuvers in the night sky. It made several 45-degree turns. The radio compass flipped over toward the UFO and held there during the duration of the 40-minute sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_346",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "USAF Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/16/1958",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 a.m. a doctor in Villa Velha in the Brazilian state of Espirito Santo and three others witnessed a large silent metallic Saturn-shaped UFO hovering offshore. It directed a beam of light downward into the ocean. Later than same day a famous set of photographs of a Saturn-shaped UFO was taken at 12:15 p.m. from a Brazilian Navy ship participating in the International Geophysical Year explorations, and anchored at Trindade Island in the Atlantic Ocean. Sr. Barauna, the ship’s photographer took the photographs, but over 100 witnesses aboard ship witnessed the maneuvering UFO. The four photos are somewhat over exposed, but show the object reversing direction and flying back over a craggy mountaintop. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_347",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History -1958: January-February, p. 23; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 164" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/16/1966",
  "desc" : "At four o’clock in the morning, Mr. Coquil, age 23, was driving by a pasture in Kerrodien en Bolazec, France when he saw a luminous, box-shaped UFO rise from the roadside. The object was about five meters in length and had portholes and red lights on the corners. It passed over his car and landed in a field on the other side of the road. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_348",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Phenomenes Spatiaux, March 1966; APRO Bulletin, May-June 1966; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 27" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/16/1967",
  "desc" : "At 6:10 p.m. a man in Charleston, South Carolina saw two round objects in the sky. They were described as silver and blue with a red ring. A beam of light projected from the end. Radar contact with the object was initially confirmed but later discounted by later analysis of the weather conditions at the time. Six people traveling in a car between Mount Sunapee and Warner, New Hampshire at around 7 p.m. encountered a dark, battleship-gray Manta Ray shaped UFO with two lights. It paced their car for three minutes and later swooped low over a home. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_349",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon D. Thayer, in Edward Condon (ed.) Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 129; NICAP case investigation files; NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1967, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/16/1969",
  "desc" : "While driving down a highway in Las Pajanosas, Spain in Sevilla province a man and his dog encountered an illuminated rectangle on or near the ground at 10:30 p.m. His dog began howling. The silhouettes of beings could be seen moving around in front of the lighted source for the ten minutes the UFO was on the ground. Later investigation found three apparent landing imprints, arranged in a triangle six feet apart. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_350",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 101, citing investigation by Felipe Laffitte" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/16/1973",
  "desc" : "At 7:00 p.m. a domed, metallic object followed a car near Winston-Salem, North Carolina and the car was raised off the road by the object. The two witnesses felt weightless and they could not control the car until the object had departed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_351",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 326, citing UFO Register 1974" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/16/1977",
  "desc" : "On a clear and cloudless morning a giant flying saucer appeared over the southwestern part of Moscow, Russia. It was photographed as it hovered for more than an hour. It had a grayish-blue surface, but was distinctly visible against the blue sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_352",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Stonehill, The Soviet UFO Files, p. 69" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/16/1979",
  "desc" : "Two women teachers, Ms. Griselda and Ms. Gonzalez, in the city of David in Panama, sighted an oval-shaped UFO in the evening while walking home from night school. The UFO was spinning and gave off orange and blue lights. It stopped and changed direction without turning, and made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_353",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thompson, UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1979, p. 15; citing El Sol, January 18, 1979" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/16/1991",
  "desc" : "Three notable reports occurred on this evening. At eight p.m. in Bettignies, France a car’s headlights dimmed and the car radio experience radio interference when a huge black, delta-shaped craft passed by at a low altitude. The UFO rose to a higher altitude and flew off rapidly toward the east. At 7:50 p.m. in Gulf Breeze, Florida a red ball of light was sighted over the Sikes Bridge. It moved west, hovered, and then drifted in the sky for five minutes. That same evening in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma a UFO that first appeared as a white light made an abrupt turn and revealed four red lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_354",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1997; Bruce S. Maccabee, MUFON 1991 Conference Proceedings, p. 249; Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, citing MUFON Oklahoma" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/16/1992",
  "desc" : "At four o’clock in the afternoon a gray disc swooped down over a car with four passengers and pursued it for seven minutes in Columbus, Georgia. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_355",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, citing B. Knell" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/16/1995",
  "desc" : "A 40-year-old man looked out of the window of a store at 5:45 p.m. and saw a UFO over a shopping mall in Miami, Florida. He ran outside to view it more closely. The multi-colored disc-shaped object was rolling in loops on a trajectory that passed in front of a nearby building. It continued rolling as it flew away, and was in view for three minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_356",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mary Margaret Zimmer, MUFON field investigation files, case 950406E" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/16/2003",
  "desc" : "Several interesting cases occurred on this day. At 4:25 a.m. in Marbella, Spain a round UFO with three flower petal-like shapes around its center was seen in the sky for five minutes. It was silver in color with black circles, and a silver framework was visible on the object. At 1:34 a.m. EST in Westchester county, New York a witness in Portchester sighted a large dark object in the night sky with a watery reflection. It looked to be cylindrical in shape. At 4:30 p.m. in Wildrose, North Dakota a man called to report that he saw a gray triangular UFO in the sky that was making a buzzing or humming noise. He reported that he got to within an eighth of a mile of the object before it flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_357",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, web-page archive for January 2003" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/17/1967",
  "desc" : "Mr. F. Bedel, age 23, was driving on Route 135 about 8 kilometers north of Freetown, Indiana on this night when he saw a plate-shaped object with red, yellow, blue and white blinking lights. He lost control of his car and ran off the road. Less than two kilometers away and at about the same time, Phil Patton saw an identical object that came within 30 meters of his car. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_358",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 810" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/17/1967",
  "desc" : "A woman walking home in Romieres, France at 6:45 p.m. saw a beam of light, about one meter in width, sweep across the ground in her direction. It came from a circular, white object that turned off its main light. She then saw reddish spots before it vanished entirely. Another witness saw the phenomenon from a separate location, two kilometers away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_359",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 811" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/17/1968",
  "desc" : "Linda, a young woman, was on her way to Junior Achievement class in Ipswich, Massachusetts at around 6:30 p.m. when suddenly some bright lights in the sky attracted her attention. She looked up and saw a cigar-shaped object hovering overhead with bright flashing lights. She watched as it came down several hundred feet from her and stopped about 150 feet from the ground. The UFO made no noise and had a solid row of red and green lights going on and off in sequence along its midsection. It also had five steady bright white lights spaced evenly along the top section. Linda walked closer just before the UFO rose upm to a higher altitude, levelled off, and then moved away into the distance. She saw a tall man in a dark coat and a dark brimmed hat, who had been standing closer to the object. When she called out to him he turned and ran down the darkened street. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_360",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFO Testament; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/17/1995",
  "desc" : "The witness was driving in her car at the corner of Congress and Gateway in Boynton Beach, Florida at 5:10 a.m. when she saw a seven foot tall brownish being with long stringy arms and legs on the side of the road. It also had an elongated head and dark eyes. At the same time a transparent craft, shaped like a multi-sided crystal, with two other beings inside, \"tumbled\" across the road about 60 feet in front of her car. The witness slammed on her brakes and when she turned to look again both the object and the humanoid were gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_361",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, case # 2821, citing Skyscan, August 1997" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/17/2000",
  "desc" : "At 4:30 a.m. in Columbia, Kentucky the witness awoke with a start and noticed a very bright light coming through the window. It was most white but also red and green, and it hurt his eyes. He also heard a loud pulsating sound. Looking toward the window he saw the outline of a figure, the size of a little boy, but it was gone in an instant. The terrified witness covered his head with his blanket and began to pray. After ten minutes the sound and the lights went away. Others in the area had seen low flying objects over their farms around the same time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_362",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case # 3612, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/18/1950",
  "desc" : "A slow moving disc-shaped or spherical UFO moved through the sky over Summit, New Jersey at 7 p.m. It was reddish-orange in color, and gave off a steady light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_363",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Edward Sullivan, CSI-Los Angeles case files, letter dated 1952 from W. Wilkinson" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/18/1954",
  "desc" : "A cigar-shaped object circled the town of Setif, Algeria at a high altitude. It left a blue smoke trail as it flew off toward Saint Arnaud in the east, where it was also seen. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_364",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, UFO Reports from the Files of the CIA, p. 17; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History: 1954: January-May, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/18/1956",
  "desc" : "A 50-meter wide glowing object dove into the ocean north of Maiqueta, Venezuela on this night. A large-scale search of the area found nothing. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_365",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, July 1956" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/18/1957",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 a.m. many people in Campo Quijano, Argentina witnessed a metallic ovoid UFO land on the slopes of the mountain Cerro Negro. It was viewed through binoculars, and was visible for seven hours. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_366",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, supplement 12, December 1972, p. 9; Larry Hatch, U computer database" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/18/1960",
  "desc" : "Two men driving in a car, Haley and Baker, at 10:55 p.m. in Lakota, North Dakota had their car's headlights dim as a UFO flew nearby. The object flew off towards a field approximately 1.5 kilometers from the highway. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_367",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Grand Forks (ND) Herald, January 21, 1960; USAF Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 17" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/18/1966",
  "desc" : "Near Fetebrogh, New Jersey the lights of a Volkswagen car failed as an object with pulsating lights appeared nearby. This object then began to make a pass at the car, so the witness drove away quickly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_368",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 162, citing Allen L. Erskine, Why Are They Watching Us?" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/18/1966",
  "desc" : "Two surveyors were working near the China Lake Naval Ordnance Depot in Kern County, California at 4:55 p.m. when a black, humming UFO came straight at them. It passed directly overhead at an estimated 150 feet. It trailed a \"wake\" behind it like a jet dumping fuel. They noticed that the object had some kind of field effect on their theodolite, moving its setting west by 5 level gradations. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_369",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek, International UFO Reporter, March 1982, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/18/1967",
  "desc" : "At midnight a flash in the sky was noted shortly before a power outage in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Fifteen minutes later a lighted reddish orange domed disc was sighted on the opposite bank of the Green River from four witnesses. When they drove in get help a red glowing object buzzed their car. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_370",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, Casebook of a UFO Investigator, p.173" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/18/1967",
  "desc" : "In Shamokin, Pennsylvania a disc-shaped UFO approached at a low altitude, emitted two beams of light downward, turned, then rose suddenly into the sky and joined a second UFO. Both sped away horizontally. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_371",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mount Carmel (PA) Item, January 19, 1967" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/18/1968",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. in Umbrete, Spain a brilliant, turtle-shaped domed disc flew over an olive grove. It was estimated to be 1.2 meters in length, and was at an altitude of only 200 meters above the trees. It was lost from sight behind some trees. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_372",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Data-Net Report, March 1971" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/18/1971",
  "desc" : "At ten o'clock in the morning in Campo Quijano, Argentina a metallic ovoid-shaped UFO landed on the slopes of Cerro Negro. It was seen by many witnesses and viewed through binoculars. A domed UFO with a beam of light was sighted in Quincy, Illinois at seven p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_373",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 9230; Data-Net Report, July 1971" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/18/1974",
  "desc" : "A six-meter long UFO rose vertically in response to light signals flashed at it by three witnesses in Landivisiau, France. It changed shape to a sphere, then left by rising vertically into the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_374",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jean-F. Boedec, Les OVNI en Bretagne: Anatomie d'un Phenomene, p. 74" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/18/1977",
  "desc" : "A UFO witness in Bussieres-Saint-Georges, France was thrown into some bushes when three glowing balls of light flew overhead at one a.m. The witness had 75 minutes of missing time, and the incident was followed by many days of persistent headaches. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_375",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 317" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/18/1979",
  "desc" : "A two-meter wide orange disc-shaped UFO mades two passes over two witnesses in Metzeral, France at five p.m.. The UFO made a buzzing sound and had lights at both ends. Both witnesses' eyes hurt after the close encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_376",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, July 1979" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/18/1979",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 later that same night in Lusiana, Italy a witness's car engine died when an ovoid UFO landed nearby. A door in the craft opened and two humanoids emerged. They reportedly had vibrating antennae-like ears or antennae on the sides of their heads. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_377",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Maurizio Verga, ITACAT: Italian UFO Catalogue; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2274" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/18/1982",
  "desc" : "In the Hessdalen Valley of Norway a luminous metallic ovoid flew over telephone lines at 7:30 p.m. in a mining area. Magnetic anomalies were recorded. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_378",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, November-December 1983, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/18/1983",
  "desc" : "Two hundred people, including school students, a boys soccer team, their coaches, and two detectives witnessed two triangles of light fly over Cardiff, Wales at dusk. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_379",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Philip Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 26" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/18/1985",
  "desc" : "On this evening around 8 p.m. a green glowing disc crossed a road in Waldeslust, France at a low altitude. There was a plasma glow surrounding the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_380",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 306" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/18/1989",
  "desc" : "The family of a retired USAF non-commisioned officer was awakened by their dog at 3:57 a.m. They saw 6-8 objects over their own land and some nearby property for the next hour and three-quarters. The objects would vanish at times when jet aircraft flew over. The event continued and the lights were still present when the family left for work andschool that morning. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_381",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON field investigation files, case 890603" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/18/1991",
  "desc" : "At 3:30 p.m. 15 people on a bus in Czestochowa, Poland saw a spherical UFO ascend between two buildings. One witness saw humanoids on the balcony of an apartment building. Later that night in Krakow, Poland at 10:45 p.m. another spherical UFO with an appendage was sighted over the city. A possible UFO landing site with burnt traces was found in Batovice. In Murowana, Poland a 30-meter long cigar shaped UFO at 10:50 p.m. shooting out a stream of glowing gas. At eleven o'clock in Skarzysko-Kamienna, Poland a yellowish-red colored cigar shot off extremely fast while it offloaded smaller objects that fly away in different directions. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_382",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issues 309 & 326" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/18/1992",
  "desc" : "Several witnesses on a bus in Col de Vence, France saw an intensely red, Saturn-shaped object skim over the nearby mountaintops. The ring around the UFO was sharply defined. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_383",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 312" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/18/2000",
  "desc" : "A shiny spherical object was seen at 6000 feet altitude over the Puerto Belgrano Navy Base, Argentina at 12:45 p.m. A powerful whirlwind developed at ground level directly below the object. Weather station reported that the atmospheric conditions at the time were not conducive to the natural formation of such winds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_384",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), May 2000, p. 17" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/18/2000",
  "desc" : "A oval-shaped UFO was sighted in Dayton, Nevada at 6:15 p.m. A bright light shone straight out of object, and it was surrounded by smoke or a fog-like cloud. A similar phenomenon was reported at the same time in Crescent City, California. The witness saw a bright light beam that looked like the spotlight from a police helicopter. He noticed a blue trail of smoke from the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_385",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/19/1967",
  "desc" : "A 15-year old boy was in his room at four o'clock in the afternoon, in an undisclosed town in Indiana when he heard a sound like a rumbling train. He went to his window to check and was startled to see a shiny flying object moving slowly 25 feet above the ground. The UFO was described as jar shaped with a silver quilted surface and had an opening on the top. The object seemed to follow the contour of the land and made several sharp-angle turns around trees. The teen grabbed a small plastic camera and snapped several photos. One of the photos seems to show the head of a humanoid like figure protruding from the opening on top of the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_386",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, case # 1841, citing Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters: The Filter Center Files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/19/1979",
  "desc" : "The witness was driving to the town of Bastia, Italy in Liguria province in the evening and had just turned a curve in the road when his vehicle's engine suddenly stalled. As he looked under the hood he noticed two figures looking at him from behind a nearby electrical pylon on the side of the road. At first he thought they were electrical company workers and did not pay them any attention. But he soon looked back at the two figures more closely and noticed that one was about 2.50 meters in height and massive in appearance, while the other figure was somewhat shorter. Both wore shiny tight-fitting outfits. The figures stared at him for a few minutes and then walked back into the woods. Soon after his encounter with these two strange beings he was able to start his engine. That same evening another witness saw a bright bluish light descend into the same woods. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_387",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, citing Notizieufo, X-Files # 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/19/1988",
  "desc" : "A father and daughter were driving to pick up the mother from work at around 5:00 p.m. in Benton, Louisiana. They pulled into the parking lot of her work and stopped to wait for her. The lot, the street, and the nearby Interstate highway were all in their normal hubbub of activity. The daughter brought her father's attention to a streak of light in the sky. Almost as soon as he focused on it, the light seemed to appear immediately in front of them, about 150 feet away and about 50 feet above the ground. It was a dull silver or steel gray disc-shaped object. Around the perimeter were openings like wind scoops, which spun about fairly rapidly. From the top of the disc emerged a sheath from which extended rotary blades like those seen on helicopters. The craft performed this extension as they watched, although the blades did not turn. The disc was about the size of an automobile and about five feet tall. It never made any noise for the minute and a half of the performance. A strange silence permeated the environment. \"It seemed...that there were no cars moving, [we] didn't hear a thing in the world. Nothing. Just like the world stood still.\" Then the device zipped away, and as soon as it had left \"the traffic on I-20 came alive and the parking lot became active.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_388",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Swords, International UFO Reporter, Summer 2002, p. 21" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/19/1991",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. in 1991 a 31-year-old respiratory therapist was driving home in Massachusetts and observed a domed disc with a large square window emitting white light. It hovered low (25 feet) over a tree across the street that was only 360 feet away. Electrical interference was reported in the form of static on the telephone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_389",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1992, p. 19" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/19/1993",
  "desc" : "In Beldon, Western Australia at three a.m. the witness awoke to see a figure kneeling to the left side of his bed about half way down the side. The figure was thin and had normal features, except that it had no hair and the ears were defined only by a faint outline. A golden box-like object appeared to be attached to the being's neck just below its right ear. The witness reached out to touch the figure, but his hand went right through it. It then disappeared, to re-appear seconds later passing through a closed screen door. His dog at the foot of the bed watched the whole incident but did not react in any noticeable way. There were no sounds, smells, or other anomalies noted. The entity was wearing a grayish-green polo shirt that had a higher than normal neck line. It had a belt that supported a pair of loose fitting trousers. It was too dark to see any footwear. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_390",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 2680, citing Brian Richards, UFORUM" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/20/1951",
  "desc" : "At 8:26 p.m. the control tower in Sioux City, Iowa warned the Mid-Continental Airlines DC-3 flight to watch for an approaching unidentified aircraft. The crew saw a bright light that quickly closed with them. They saw that it was cigar-shaped with no wings, and it paced their aircraft for a short while before shooting out of sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_391",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, January 1951; Edward Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 118; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/20/1966",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m. a blindingly bright oval-shaped UFO hovered over a car eleven miles west of Katanning, New South Wales, Australia. It made a buzzing sound like swarming bees and caused a temporary paralysis of the four witnesses inside the vehicle. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_392",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Charles Bowen, Flying Saucer Review, September-October 1966, p. 32: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume 2): A Thirty Year Report, pp. 198 & 267" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/20/1967",
  "desc" : "In 1967 in Methuen, Massachusetts three teenaged girls saw a string of red lights moving low to the ground about 500 feet away. As they drove nearer, the object connected with the lights swung around to reveal a trapezoid shape with two red and two white lights and a metallic body. The object was now hovering at 100-300 feet altitude and as it moved to the side of the road, the engine, radio and headlights of the girls' car suddenly failed. The generator light continued to pulse, however. The object abruptly shot away to the southwest at 6:45 p.m. and everything in the car worked normally again. Later that evening another group of three witness observed the same object 15 minutes later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_393",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, Jericho, NY, 1975, p. 343; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 183, citing Fowler" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/20/1969",
  "desc" : "In 1969, at Weymouth, Massachusetts near an abandoned ammunition depot, an object was sighted which looked like a white dish inverted upon a dish with a dark ring around its perimeter. It had a dome on top and one red and two amber lights on its leading edge. It moved up and down a few times before moving out of sight around 10:30 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_394",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, Jericho, NY, 1975, p. 355" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/20/1988",
  "desc" : "The four member Knowles family was driving on the Nullabor Plain west of Mundrabilla in Western Australia at around 4:30 a.m. when their car started being paced by a mysterious light. It followed them for nearly 90 minutes. The close encounter took a dramatic turn when the UFO buzzed the car from behind and somehow lifted it from the road. The car was airborne a few feet above the ground for a short period, then was dropped back onto the highway surface, causing the tires to pop. The UFO had a bright yellow light in the center and looked like the sketch below. The \"egg-cup\" shaped object then flew off. The car had dents and scratches on the roof, and their luggage that had been strapped to the roof was gone. An ash residue was also found inside the car. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_395",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Pat Delgado, FSR, June 1988, p. 1; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume 2): A Thirty Year Report, pp. 30, 205, 276" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/20/1993",
  "desc" : "At two a.m. a witness in McLarenvale, South Australia reported waking up to a loud humming sound in the house and bright lights. Then he saw a white humanoid figure standing in his bedroom. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_396",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 1689, citing Tasmanian UFO Report 1994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/20/1996",
  "desc" : "Hildo Lucio Galindo of Jardim Andere, Varginha, Brazil opened his bathroom window at eight o'clock in the morning and caught sight of a short creature with oily brown skin, crouched in a nearby alleyway. It had very small hands with three exceptionally long fingers. It ran away when Hildo cried out. The creature had no hair or clothing and was between four and five feet tall. Later that morning several calls came into the local fire department about a \"wild animal\" on the loose on the north side of the park. When the fire department arrived they found the military was already on the scene. According to some witnesses a group of children had thrown stones at the strange creature and it made a soft buzzing sound, like a bee. The creature was reported to have been captured by the military and put in a wooden box with a white plastic or canvas cover, and driven away in an Army truck.<br/><br/> Around the same time local residents heard three shots and saw soldiers come out of the woods carrying two campaign sacks. One sack held something motionless, and the other contained something living. Sources said that the soldiers had shot a creature in the chest, killing it instantly. Others saw Army trucks near the woods while still others saw two F-5 jet aircraft fly over the area at low altitude.<br/><br/> Reportedly, a total of eight creatures were reported to have been captured that day. One was dead, two were injured, and five were supposedly taken alive and unhurt. Earlier that same morning, at 1:30 a.m., two farm workers in the same general area had spotted a group of agitated animals running from the area. Upon investigating they saw a metallic gray submarine-shaped object hovering some five meters above the ground. It looked to be trembling like a curtain, and was emitting a smoke or fog. Military witnesses later admitted that this was the object that had later crashed.<br/><br/> Cont: In the afternoon at around one p.m. three girls were walking past a plot of vacant land when they spotted another bizarre looking creature. It was only about 80 cm tall, and had brown skin, bulging red eyes, bulging veins, enormous feet, and three protruding lumps on its head. The being was unclothed and its body seemed covered with an oily substance. The girls panicked and ran away to tell others. Soon units of the local fire department arrived and apparently took the creature away. The residents learned of the rumor that a similar creature had been captured earlier. The small creature emitted a strange buzzing like sound. Others saw strange cigar-shaped objects flying low over a field. It was rumored that the military later took the creature to the nearby city of Campinas, Brazil. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_397",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, cases # 2795 and #2373, citing Ubirajara Franco Rodrigues and Brazilian UFO Report # 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/21/1933",
  "desc" : "At 10:50 p.m. a luminous white object, with the apparent size of a 12 cm coin held at arms length, hovered over Bondy, Seine-St-Denis, France for five minutes, rose higher in the air, then shot overhead. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_398",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 316" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/21/1952",
  "desc" : "Two pilots of a Navy TBM plane from Mitchel AFB on Long Island, New York chased a white, circular, domed disc at 9:50 a.m., which finally accelerated and outdistanced them, climbing away. The TBM torpedo plane was flying at 6000 feet altitude when the crew first spotted the object. The disc was very light on top, but dark on the underside. It was estimated to be from 20 to 30 feet in diameter, at a minimum distance of only 2000 feet. When it was first seen it was at 200 feet, and then climbed to the plane's altitude. It started a rapid climb from there and soon vanished from sight. The official Air Force explanation at the time was that it was a balloon, which nearly everyone who has reviewed the case doubts. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_399",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 401; Richard H. Hall, Radar-Visual UFO cases in 1952: The UFO sightings that shook the government, p. 9; Terrence Wright, Intelligent Man's Guide to Flying Saucers, p. 139; UNICAT case 807, citing Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 161" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/21/1957",
  "desc" : "A l arge shiny metallic sphere hovered over an Army military installation in Arlington, Virginia at 10:45 a.m. It vanished and reappeared twice. Meanwhile, some small brown discs were also seen maneuvering in the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_400",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: January-March 22, p. 28; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 409" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/21/1958",
  "desc" : "Two white, silent, hat-shaped saucers flew over the Tumacacori Mountains in Arizona at 4:00 p.m., heading toward the southwest. They flipped over, then flew in a sawtooth trajectory and entered a cloud. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_401",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1958: January-February, p. 33" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/21/1959",
  "desc" : "A luminous object was seen falling into the harbor of Gdynia, Poland on this night. Divers were sent to retrieve it and brought back a piece of un-rusted metal whose composition was not publicly disclosed. Several days later, a strange male figure wearing \"a sort of uniform\" was encountered dragging himself along the beach. Part of his face appeared to be burnt and his hair singed. After being taken to hospital it was discovered that the uniform he wore was made of metal, and the being's organs were quite different from those of a human being. It had six digits on its hands and feet. The creature died after an armband was removed, and the body was sent to the Soviet Union. An autopsy allegedly revealed a different structure of internal organs and a spiral system of blood circulation. It had six fingered extremities and was about 1.60 meters in height. The body was placed in a freezer and stored in an underground bunker, supposedly in the Moscow area. The divers apparently also found another half of the object that crashed, embedded in the underwater mud.<br/><br/> According to additional details revealed later, a second alien body was recovered on shore a short time after the first recovery. The alien that had still been alive was treated at the Gdynia-Redlow hospital, but soon fell into a coma-like state after an arm bracelet was removed. Both aliens had six digits on their hands and feet. An autopsy was conducted on one of the dead aliens; the one in a coma was put in a special chamber aimed at supporting its vital functions. The six-fingered being taken to the U.S.S.R. is allegedly being stored in an isolated top-secret underground bunker, located under a building on a biomedical research center facility east of Solnechnogorsk. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_402",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1959-02, citing Ion Hobana and Julien Weverbergh; Anton Anfalov, Lenura Azizova, Larissa Chora, and Bronislaw Rzepecki" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/21/1966",
  "desc" : "At around midnight near Shearwater Lake in Crockerton, Wiltshire, England a resident of Frome, riding on a motorcycle, saw three \"gray garbed and white faced\" figures, looking like frogmen, jump into a hedgerow. They had wide-spaced eyes and no apparent mouths. One figure was seen to have fair hair. They were shorter than normal humans, but with big shoulders, rather large heads, and thin legs. He turned around and came back, and saw a \"large saucer of light\" rise from the lakeside. The saucer hovered briefly before flying off in the direction of Cley Hill. Ground traces were found at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_403",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #7058, citing Arthur Shuttlewood, The Warminster Mystery, pp. 156-158; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-02 (A0692)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/22/1919",
  "desc" : "A two foot wide, intense glowing ball flew slowly at a low altitude over Shuttlewood, Derbyshire, England at 8:10 p.m. It engaged in controlled maneuvers for 45 minutes. There were at least 40 witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_404",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ananda Sirisena, FSR, March 1975, p. 17" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/22/1945",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon Allied POWs on the ground watched a white, football-shaped object following a bomber at 18,000 feet between Heydebreck and Kedzierzyn, Poland. On the same day there was an unexplained skyquake in Louisville, Kentucky.  ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_405",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Jenny Randles, Science and the UFOs, p. 9; (2) George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 510, citing Tiffany Thayer, Doubt magazine, 1945, p. 172" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/22/1950",
  "desc" : "At around 4:00 a.m. a radar blip was detected approaching the Kodiak Islands at 1,800 mph over Kodiak, Alaska, according to airborne radar. It then buzzed several planes and boats. A U.S. Navy plane failed to intercept the UFO because it was too highly maneuverable. It had two orange lights rotating about the center, and made no detectable sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_406",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bruce Maccabee, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1978, p. 7; UNICAT, case # 359; Lawrence Fawcett & Barry J. Greenwood, UFO Coverup, p. 164; Richard Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 399" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/22/1951",
  "desc" : "A saucer-shaped object hovered next to a test balloon 50 miles southeast of Holloman AFB, New Mexico. It grew in dimensions, and flashed once every second. It flew off to the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_407",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1951, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/22/1952",
  "desc" : "At 12:20 a.m. a radar station at Murphy's Dome, Alaska tracked a UFO moving at 1,500 mph at 23,000 feet. Three F-94s were vectored in. There were solid radar returns on the ground radar as well as two airborne radars. At one point the short range radar stopped working, preventing anything being tracked close to the station. The third jet approached to within 200 meters of the UFO, but pulled up for fear of a mid-air collision. No radar malfunctions were found. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_408",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 165; Michael David Hall, Captain Edward J. Ruppelt: Summer of the Saucers -- 1952, p. 86; Project Blue Book Special Report # 3, report dated April 30, 1952; UNICAT, case # 599" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/22/1956",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. a Pan American Airways flight engineer named Mueller sighted a saw long cylindrical object with yellow exhaust while flying not far from New Orleans over the Gulf of Mexico from Louisiana to Florida. The UFO flew to the east into the clouds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_409",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, January 1957; Paris Flamonde, UFO Exist!, p. 435; Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 246; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 27" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/22/1958",
  "desc" : "Two luminous  objects skipped about and played tag in the sky over Wimberley, Texas at one o'clock in the afternoon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_410",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "San Marcos (TX) Record, January 23, 1958; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1958: January-February, p. 39" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/22/1961",
  "desc" : "An electronics professor at Bordeaux University and three school teachers observed an elongated, glowing, orange object in Cestas-Gazinet, France at 6:30 p.m. Interference with their car's ignition was noted. One witness was said to have felt a slight indisposition and to have heard or somehow perceived the word \"ZEMU\" repeated twice. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_411",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 515; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 111, citing Vallee" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/22/1961",
  "desc" : "A metallic UFO was filmed at 4:45 p.m. as it approached Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, then made a U-turn and sped away. There were at least six witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_412",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, May 1961, p. 5; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 95; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, September 1970, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/22/1967",
  "desc" : "There were eight separate reports of saucers and a boomerang-shaped object from Wharton and El Campo, Texas on this evening, starting at around 8 p.m. The UFOs were engaged in erratic darting maneuvers. It made big news at the time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_413",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers - Here and Now, p. 143" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/22/1969",
  "desc" : "A dark oval object with a central light on the top and bottom and four white lights around the edge moved in a side-to-side swaying motion over Lexington, Massachusetts at 9:50 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_414",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, case report dated January 25, 1969; Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/22/1971",
  "desc" : "Three bus company employees were towing a bus from East Budleigh to Exmouth, England when they saw three orange balls of light in a straight line move across the sky. They had \"a lot of smoke around them and they disappeared after a few seconds.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_415",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, August 1971, p. 25, citing the West Morning News" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/22/1971",
  "desc" : "Two boys, Stewart and Lyle Leppke of Peabody, Kansas were doing their early morning farm chores at around dawn when they observed a lighted object in the cattle lot. When they flashed their light on it, they saw a diminutive figure less than two feet tall moving about near a UFO with small windows that was hovering just above the ground. They immediately went to the house to tell their mother who called the sheriff; but the UFO had departed by the time the sheriff got there. The boys said the object hovered a few feet off the ground, and when it departed it tipped to one side and then sped rapidly up and away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_416",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peabody (KS) Gazette Herald, January 28, 1971; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-03, citing a newspaper source; Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, p. 110" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/22/1971",
  "desc" : "At 9:05 p.m. Richard Williams, his wife, and son were driving toward Willard, Ohio from the north when they saw a low flying object that \"looked like a bat\" coming toward their car. \"On the middle of each wing there seemed to be a rocket or a jet engine, and it had red and white lights on each wing and on the tails.\" They thought at first it was a plane crashing. It was 25-30 feet in diameter and came to within 100 feet off their car and then took off toward the east. There was a transparent \"cockpit\" in the front of the object, through which could be seen the movements of some kind of humanoid creature, silhouetted by a flashing light behind it. Multiple reports of UFO sightings this night came from Tiro, Sandusky, and other sections of Huron County, Ohio around the same time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_417",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Norwalk (OH) Reflector, January 23, 1971; Mansfield (OH) News Journal, January 23, 1971; Skylook, April 1971, p. 5; APRO Bulletin, January-February 1971, p. 7; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-04, citing a newspaper sources" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/22/1974",
  "desc" : "On this evening a domed, disc-shaped object was encountered over a gravel pit in Norton, Massachusetts. It had lights around its edges. It blew out orange and white smoke when it left. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_418",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1974, p. 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/22/1977",
  "desc" : "On this night six people in a car in Chalmette, Louisiana watched a domed, disc-shaped object with legs at a low altitude for 10 minutes. It reportedly was spinning; it tilted and played among the trees. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_419",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, March 1977, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/22/1978",
  "desc" : "Beginning at 9:30 p.m. a disc-shaped object hovered over the city of Figueira da Foz, Portugal for 30 minutes, radiating red, green, and white lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_420",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Victor Lourenco, PORTUCAT database, case # 200" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/22/1982",
  "desc" : "A female was abducted in Weaver, Iowa by several 5-foot-tall beings with large heads, cat-like eyes, and small mouths. They were hairless, and had long arms and hands with only four-digits. She was submitted to a physical exam, and allegedly had something implanted into her head. During the exam, the aliens were particularly interested in her hands and wrists. A tube was inserted into her body and she could feel fluid or drugs going through her arms. They communicated with her using telepathy, and told her that she would perform some important task in the future. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_421",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 451" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/22/1984",
  "desc" : "At 7:25 a.m. a blurry red object was viewed by the crew of United Airlines flight 729 westbound at 43,000 feet altitude 30 miles east of Toledo, Ohio. left contrail, visible only a few seconds. At 7:00 p.m. a car was chased by a UFO in Waycross, Georgia. It illuminated the interior of the car with a red light. There were many nocturnal light reports in the area on the same evening. At 7:09 p.m. an orange ball of light hovered silently for one minute over Huntington, West Virginia. It suddenly moved west at a high rate of speed. It made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_422",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Gribble, International UFO Reporter, March 1984, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/22/1984",
  "desc" : "At 7:00 p.m. two witnesses in Arnold, Missouri reported that a 25 foot diameter, white glowing saucer paced their car for three minutes at only 150 feet altitude. Three helicopters were seen circling the area afterwards. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_423",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 11075, citing MUFON UFO Journal, issue 191" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/22/1986",
  "desc" : "Three saucer-shaped objects, stacked vertically, were seen over Prestatyn, Clwyd, Wales at 9:00 p.m. They went south toward Meliden, performing aerobatics. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_424",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Devereax, Earth Lights Revelation, p. 73" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/22/1988",
  "desc" : "A 60-foot long triangular UFO flew to the east low over the road, just ahead of the two witnesses' car in Kettlewell, North Yorkshire, England at 9:00 p.m. It had many lights, some of which were flashing. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_425",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 20" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/22/1989",
  "desc" : "A pilot flying at 6,500 over Texarkana, Texas observed a large silver, cylinder-shaped object flying 300 feet below him at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_426",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Gribble, UFO Reporting Center; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14732" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/22/1992",
  "desc" : "On this evening, starting at 7:40 p.m., two observers watched for 80 minutes as a blue triangle hovered in the sky over Woodstock, New Brunswick, Canada. They took 10 minutes of videotape of the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_427",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, January 1992 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/22/1992",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. two observers in Welkenraedt, Belgium watched a huge triangle-shaped object fly off to the north-northwest at 40 km/h. It directed two beams light on an apartment building. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_428",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Inforespace, issue 84; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15628" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/22/1993",
  "desc" : "Several students at the local Camp Crame elementary school in Quezon City, the Philippines were burning some wood in a wooded area next to a tamarind tree, when a gigantic black figure with a tail and two horns appeared. The students panicked and some seemed to go into a trance and started speaking in an unfamiliar language or tongue. The figure appeared to vanish in plain sight. The incident was interpreted as a \"demonic\" manifestation and possession. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_429",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 572, citing Fortean Times, issue # 68" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/22/1995",
  "desc" : "On this day lights flashed and maneuvered near a truck on the highway near Beatty, Nevada for 45 minutes. They moved faster than any jet. The two witnesses experienced 2-3 hours of missing time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_430",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17083" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/22/1996",
  "desc" : "A 300 foot long blimp-shaped UFO moved slowly through the sky over Redding, California at 8:00 p.m. It hovered for 75 minutes, making a purring sound, and then turned and moves off fast to the south. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_431",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Francis Ridge, UFO Intelligence Newsletter; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17581" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/22/2002",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. Robert La Marco and his family saw a very bright disk while driving to basketball practice in Hazlet, New Jersey. The UFO hovered, then shot off to the east at incredible speed towards the Atlantic Ocean. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_432",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 26" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/22/2003",
  "desc" : "The witness had just left work and was driving home when he reached a place by a small lake in Prospect, Connecticut at 10:03 p.m. He noticed someone walking along the road so he flashed on his high beams. He then saw the figure walk out from the side of the road, stop in the center for a second, then continue across. It was grayish in color and it was walking on two legs, but it ambulated like an ape walks, swaying as it walked erect. The feet were small with brownish-black areas on the side. When it reached the other side it stopped and looked at the witness, waving its skinny arms. Lights appeared behind it. The man described the creature as around six feet tall, with large, foot-long pointy ears. The eyes were dark black with no apparent nose. Although the weather was cold, the witness did not see any condensed breath come from its small mouth. The mouth had a red silver strip on top. As the witness drove by he looked back to see the creature still standing by the road, and the woods behind the creature suddenly lit up like day. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_433",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2003, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/22/2003",
  "desc" : "Starting at 9:16 p.m. a bell-shaped UFO with four lights was viewed for 26 minutes over Crawfordsville, Indiana. At 10:00 p.m. a videotape was made of a round, red light that emitted a shower of lights in Oxnard, California. The object moved back and forth in the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_434",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, January 2003 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/22/2004",
  "desc" : "A lighted triangular craft was sighted flying low and slowly over traffic on I-35 in Olathe, Kansas at 6:45 p.m. An hour later a similar triangle was spotted over Deridder, Louisiana. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_435",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, January 2004 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/22/2005",
  "desc" : "Four discs flew east over the mountains in Rancho Cucamonga, California at 9:16 a.m.; they were shiny and reflective like polished aluminum. A small propeller aircraft just south of the mountains started to approach the area and the four objects vanished immediately as the aircraft came into view. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_436",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 30, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/23/1950",
  "desc" : "At 4:40 a.m. a U.S. Navy P2V3 patrol plane flying from the Kodiak Naval Air Station in Alaska spotted two orange lights rotating about a common central point, which maneuvered in the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_437",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, September 1978, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/23/1959",
  "desc" : "A bright silver object was sighted as it arced across the sky in the Panama Canal Zone. It was tracked by US radar. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_438",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 119, citing New York Times, January 23, 1959" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/23/1964",
  "desc" : "An underwater submarine object (USO) was seen at around 9:00 p.m. at the Northeast point at Groote Eylandt in the Northern Territory, Australia. Large lights in the water made a compass go haywire. A shadow in the center of the lights rotated clockwise, causing the lights to pulsate. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_439",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ivan Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 112; Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 204" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/23/1965",
  "desc" : "Williamsburg, Virginia - At 8:40 a.m. cars stalled near the intersection of US Highway 60 and State Route 614. A 31-year-old businessman named Mains, whose car had stalled, observed a mushroom-shaped object hovering over a nearby field about four feet off the ground, 500 feet away. It was metallic gray and about 75-80 feet tall. There was a red-orange glow coming from the near side, and a bluish glow from the far side. Soon the object rose slightly and then accelerated horizontally speeding off towards the west, making a noise like a vacuum cleaner. The sighting duration was 25 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_440",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, pp. 177-178; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 138, citing Project Bluebook; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 249 & 314; UNICAT, case # 283" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/23/1966",
  "desc" : "More saucer nests were discovered in crushed reeds in Cooktown, Queensland, Australia. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_441",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee,  The Invisible College, p. 52" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/23/1966",
  "desc" : "Two witnesses who wished to remain anonymous reported to NICAP that they were changing a tire near Essex, California at 11:45 p.m. when they saw a disc-shaped object land 200 yards away from them. Upon closer investigation they found the object to be 75-100 feet in diameter and 25 feet in height. A door slid open and a seven-foot tall being appeared. He called to them by name, and conversed with them via telepathy. He said his race was from another star and that 400 American citizens are actually from his race. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_442",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-05" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/23/1967",
  "desc" : "Another abduction by aliens occurred to Betty Andreassen and four other members of her family in South Ashburnham, Massachusetts. The abduction involved a medical exam with instruments used during the exam, communication, and psychological aftereffects. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_443",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 529" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/23/1968",
  "desc" : "At 12:45 a.m. a luminous object landed in Copahue, Neuquen province, Argentina and stayed on the ground for four hours. It was watched by several witnesses who were too afraid to approach. It finally rose vertically, and left behind a large burnt area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_444",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, February 1973, p. 14; APRO Bulletin, July-August 1968, p. 7; Lumieres dans la Nuit, March 1968" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/23/1968",
  "desc" : "A college yearbook photo editor from Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario took 12 photos with a 35mm camera using tri-X film with five other witnesses at 7:15 p.m. The images showed a slightly off-centered, luminous domed disc-shaped object. Another photograph of a luminous UFO was taken by a married couple, Mr. & Mrs. Wood,  in Old Haversham, Northamptonshire, England at 5:25 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_445",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science, Spring 1968, p. 7, citing Sudbury Star, January 24, 1968; (2) David Abbott, FSR, July-August 1968, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/23/1968",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m., five miles from White Rocks, Utah, a woman named Chapman spotted a blue half dome-shaped object that moved slowly, then changed color to red and moved away very fast! It then maneuvered over the Uintah Mountains. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_446",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Frank Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, p. A-59" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/23/1971",
  "desc" : "A brilliant ovoid object flew from east to west over Lerida, Spain for five minutes at 8 p.m. It left a zig-zag contrail. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_447",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 124, citing Courrier Catalan" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/23/1973",
  "desc" : "On this evening a teenage girl driving on Interstate 85 in Gaffney, South Carolina noticed that the radio reception of her car radio was mysteriously blocked. Then she noticed a yellow oval-shaped object with \"white lights blinking on and off and going around on its bottom\". The UFO followed the traffic on I-85. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_448",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Rodger Painter, Gaffney Ledger, February 2, 1973; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, case # 63" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/23/1974",
  "desc" : "The entire village of Llandrillo, Wales heard a loud explosion that was preceded by violent shaking of the ground. Running outside, many people saw blue and orange lights floating in a circle around Cader Mountain east of the village. Police and RAF personnel were in the area quickly and cordoned off access to a supposed crash site on the barren hilltop. A nurse, telephoned by the police, was on her way up the mountain to the crash site with her daughters when she saw something sitting on the ground ahead of her. It seemed to be intact and was very large, circular and glowed orange. She and her daughters got to within a few hundred feet of teh object when the police and military showed up and told her to leave. According to UFO researcher Tony Dodd, a retired military man using the name of \"Robert Prescott\" told him that he and some others had been assigned to transport two crates from the crash site to the top secret military weapons research facility at Porton Down near Salisbury, England. According to Prescott, military personnel opened the crates and found two humanoid bodies about 5 to 6 feet tall, and so very thin they were almost skeletal in nature. Other units allegedly transported live aliens from the \"crash\" site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_449",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1974, case # 3925, citing CSETI; Nicholas Redfern, Cosmic Crashes" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/23/1976",
  "desc" : "At 1:30 a.m. in Lompoc, California a nurse driving not far from Vandenburg Air Force Base had a close encounter with a 50 foot long ovoid UFO. Her car radio went wild, and she felt like she had been hypnotized. Near Vandenburg AFB ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_450",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 12150, citing MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 273" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/23/1976",
  "desc" : "At 5:15 p.m. a 17-year-old witness had gotten off the bus in Bolton, Lancashire, England and was returning home to her housing development. She then saw an object with two lights, one amber and the other red, over the Rumsworth Reservoir. The object suddenly streaked toward her and came to hover directly over her. The metallic looking UFO was about 25 feet in diameter and shaped like an octagon, with one amber light and a flashing red light. It had a curved base and a flat top. It rotated on its axis, and the witness's teeth vibrated as if ultrasonic sound waves were emanating from the object, causing her pain in her mouth. Also, pressure on her shoulders knocked her down, and she attempted to scream but was unable to. She ran home terrified. Later under hypnosis it was revealed that she had suffered a 45 minute period of missing time and could vaguely recall an abduction experience. She could only recall being inside a room with a tall blond or albino woman who wore a long gown. She was told by this woman “not to be afraid” and felt that information was being inserted into her brain at high speed. She was also given several apocalyptic messages.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_451",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jenny Randles, FSR, May 1976, p. 32; Bolton Evening News, January 24 & 27, 1976; John F. Schuessler, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1982, p. 3; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1976, case # 518, citing Jenny Randles, Alien Contacts and Abductions" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/23/1977",
  "desc" : "This humanoid encounter began at 12:30 a.m. when a penetrating sound and bright lights coming from the sky awoke the villagers of Santa Rosa, Lara State, Venezuela. A circular UFO with intense multicolored flashing lights, emitting waves of heat, circled the small community and landed on the banks of the Turbio River, causing panic. Two small human like figures, walking stiffly, could be seen moving about inside the object \"slowly and in a robot like fashion\" for the next five minutes. When a crowd of people armed with flashlights approached, the object took off when someone shone a flashlight on the object's interior. It left behind a 12 foot wide burn mark, landing gear imprints, and a \"greasy granular material\" on the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_452",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark da Silva, FSR, June 1977, p. 13; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-03 (A1703); Jerome Clark & William R. Corliss, UFO Calendar 1999" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/23/1978",
  "desc" : "A dark brown hat-shaped object was seen hovering over the beach in Colares, Para State, Brazil at 11:30 p.m. It had two legs that were visible, looked transparent, and had a bottom that reflected a greenish blue light. Its estimated distance was 400 meters, and it was in view for 10 minutes. At 11:53 p.m. a reddish-yellow light flew over Belem, Para, Brazil from north to south at 900 feet altitude. It traveled at a medium speed 1000 meters away, with a trajectory curving to the left. It made no sound, and the duration of the sighting was one minute. On the same day an object was filmed with a Canon Super 8 movie camera in Rio Laranjeira, Para, Brazil using Extachrome film. It looked like a fried egg or a domed disc. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_453",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Pratt, Operacion Prato, pp. 24 & 45" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/23/1978",
  "desc" : "At 7:40 p.m. a 48-year-old carpenter named Senecal and one other witnessed a distinct disc-shaped object that hovered over Toledo, Ohio for five minutes. It had windows and a structure on top. It shot away to the south. Total duration of sighting was 10 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_454",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, March 1978, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/23/1978",
  "desc" : "On the same day a Mrs. Grusheski had a close encounter with a UFO in Hilltown, Adams County, Pennsylvania. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_455",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George M. Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 774, citing Doylestown Daily Intelligencer, January 24, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/23/1979",
  "desc" : "A dentist and three students were traveling by car late at night on the barren plain of Toquilla, Casanare province, Colombia when suddenly their motor engine stalled. They then saw two metallic objects land nearby and three men wearing tight-fitting silvery outfits and large helmets came out. There was a sudden whirlwind that surrounded their vehicle and they could no longer see the figures or the objects. When the \"whirlwind\" went away the figures and objects were no longer there. They had \"disappeared like magic\". ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_456",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1979, p. 15 and April 1979, p. 15, citing La Provincia, January 26, 1979 and Cronica, January 25, 1979; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2195, citing Cronica" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/23/1979",
  "desc" : "A gray cigar-shaped object with portholes and green and orange lights, circled the hills and bay of Stanraer, Dumfries, Scotland. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_457",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jenny Randles, Flying Saucers and How to See Them, p. 100" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/23/1981",
  "desc" : "At two o'clock in the morning Dario Mazzaglia, a farmer in Los Acantilados, Buenos Aires province, Argentina observed flames in the distance, and then saw an ovoid UFO with a reddish-orange glow hovering low over the ground for more than a minute. It made a whistling sound on takeoff. Burnt grass was found at the landing site later, with the roots burnt 3 cm below the surface. Three circular landing gear marks were located around the burn. Electromagnetic effects included interference with the radio and vehicle headlights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_458",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UNICAT, case # 606" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/23/1987",
  "desc" : "Three witnesses watched a blue ovoid object hover over houses in Gig Harbor, Washington at 9:30 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_459",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, case # 1212" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/23/1988",
  "desc" : "A massive \"footprint-shaped\" or peanut-shaped UFO was seen over Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England at 12:45 a.m. It had many tinted-glass portholes, and flew slowly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_460",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 20" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/23/1989",
  "desc" : "At eight p.m. a polygon-shaped object descended over a power plant in Andebu, Norway and hovered for 2 minutes. It shot up vertically when it left. At 8:30 p.m. in Sande, Norway two people watched a 7 meter long dark object with lights and windows that moved slowly towards a house. It had sharp edges.  ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_461",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Inforespace, issue 83" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/23/1989",
  "desc" : "Two women, aged 64 and 42, saw a disc-shaped object hover 90 feet overhead in Gainesville, Florida at five a.m. for five minutes. It was 10 feet in diameter and made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_462",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Gribble, UFO Reporting Center; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15283" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/23/1989",
  "desc" : "A 73-year-old couple in Greens Fork, Indiana sighted a UFO shaped like sperm whale without the tail at 9:30 p.m. The couple were the parents of a woman newspaper reporter who reported their sighting. The object moved slowly and low overhead until out of view. There was also a smaller satellite object that was yellow in color. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_463",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Francis Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 119" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/23/1991",
  "desc" : "A manta-ray shaped object was sighted maneuvering in the sky over the city of Great Houghton, South Yorkshire, England at 1:20 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_464",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 141" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/23/1993",
  "desc" : "A 34-year-old adult driving with two children in Charlestown, Rhode Island drove under and past a slow-moving, large, lighted, silent domed disc-shaped object with a flat bottom. They stopped to watch as a second object with blinding lights appeared and then moved off, drifting to the northwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_465",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jerold R. Johnson, MUFON UFO Journal, July 1994, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/23/1995",
  "desc" : "At 6:15 a.m. a metallic disc-shaped object was sighted from Seattle hovering low over Puget Sound to the west. It made noises, then streaked away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_466",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/23/1997",
  "desc" : "A green oval-shaped object with six windows passed over Littleton, New Hampshire from Vermont across the Connecticut River at 6:50 p.m. After a few minutes it took off over the mountains. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_467",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Manchester Union Leader, March 3, 1997; Michael David Hall, UFOs: A Century of Sightings, p. 332" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/23/1998",
  "desc" : "A father and son driving between Holstein and Heartwell, Nebraska at 6:05 p.m. witnessed a glowing triangular object hover for 6-7 minutes; it then turned on end and flew off to the south. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_468",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Jan. 1998 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/23/2000",
  "desc" : "There were three sightings in California reported on this day. At 11:05 a.m. in Petaluma in Sonoma County a metallic disc was seen that was about as wide as it was tall. It was about the size of a pea at arm's length. In Covina in Los Angeles County a lighted object moved from west to east across a cloudy sky at 6:30 p.m. It made no sound as it flew. Finally, twenty minutes later in Fontana in San Bernardino County a saucer-shaped UFO hovered for a few minutes, spinning at a high rate of speed. It was completely illuminated by a self-luminous glowing light, and it moved slowly over city after hovering. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_469",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Jan. 2000 webpage, reports uploaded on Feb. 16, 2000" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/23/2001",
  "desc" : "A huge silver cylindrical object with \"falling leaf motion\" was seen over Vancouver, British Columbia at nine o'clock in the morning. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_470",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2001 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 31, citing UFOBC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/23/2001",
  "desc" : "A driver in Salisbury, North Carolina felt a strange presence while driving at 8:00 p.m., and looked up to see a saucer directly above the car. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_471",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Jan. 2001 webpage, report uploaded Oct. 11, 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/23/2008",
  "desc" : "At 3:30 p.m. a photograph of a “phantom UFO” was taken by a woman showing the object flying over a lake, Lago Menendez in the Los Alerces National Park, Chubut province, Argentina next to the Torrecillas Glacier. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_472",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Luis Burgos, www.ufoinfo.com, citing Inexplicata" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/24/1950",
  "desc" : "At 4:50 p.m. a UFO shaped like a hemisphere with a flattened lower part, and estimated to be 70-80 meters in diameter, maneuvered in the sky five miles away from a C-45 transport plane flying from Pope AFB in Halifax County, North Carolina. The C-45, flying at an airspeed of 160 mph, could not catch up with it. The object oscillated with a pendulum motion. The Air Force explanation was that the object sighted by military pilots Fehrevach and Edwards was a balloon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_473",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 14; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 11" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/24/1953",
  "desc" : "At 1550 hrs. in Suwon, Korea two 0.36 meter diameter discs were spotted by an airman in the sky to the east of the airfield. They were lost from view in the clouds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_474",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard F. Haines, Advanced Aerial Devices Reported During the Korean War, p. 65" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/24/1957",
  "desc" : "At around 11:00 a.m. an airman and two others on the ground in Chippenham, Wiltshire, England witnessed a dark saucer-shaped object with a black stripe that appeared behind a jet. It abruptly vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_475",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Flying Saucers, August 1957, p. 36; UFO Nachtrichten, September 1957" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/24/1957",
  "desc" : "On this night an airline pilot flying over Indianapolis, Indiana and many others saw four brilliant nocturnal lights trailing a large pulsating ovoid object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_476",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 136; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 28" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/24/1958",
  "desc" : "An unidentified object followed behind Sputnik II while orbiting over Brooklyn Park, South Australia on this evening. It travelled fast to the east, and then swung to the north before disappearing. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_477",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 163" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/24/1959",
  "desc" : "Mr. Armstrong and a second person in Centennial, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia heard skyquakes at 11:30 a.m. They then observed a metallic, cigar-shaped object hovering for 5 minutes. It made 90 degree turns, then shot away extremely fast. It was absolutely silent. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_478",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 53; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: January-March, p. 32" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/24/1963",
  "desc" : "On this day a U.S. Post Office safety engineer in Lexington, Kentucky saw a large round UFO traveling east to west, and a delta-wing aircraft traveling from north to south. The line of flight of the disc-shaped UFO intersected the aircraft's path at a right angle. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_479",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 140; Paris Flammonde, UFO Exist!, p. 367" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/24/1967",
  "desc" : "A 14-year-old youth with the last name of Kirsch took a photograph of a disc-shaped structured object over Yorba Linda, California at 5:25 p.m. The photo was reported in the Santa Ana Register newspaper, and subsequently evaluated by NICAP as that of a genuine (not hoaxed) flying object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_480",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Santa Ana Register, June 7, 1967; Ann Druffel, MUFON UFO Journal, June 1976, p. 10; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 286" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/24/1967",
  "desc" : "At 8:10 p.m. Nicholas Rinaldi, a 37-year-old commercial artist, as well as 19 other people driving along Interstate 91 in Cromwell, Connecticut spotted a 300 foot long dark cigar-shaped object flying low over some highway construction on the new Route 9 interstate highway extension. Rinaldi drew a sketch of the object, which had three bright red lights, one at each end and one in the center. The UFO made a whirring sound. The total duration of the sighting, based upon the times reported by the independent witnesses, was 15 minutes. The Air Force attempted to explain the craft as a mis-identified helicopter, based on the notion that a helicopter would have had three red running lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_481",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald A. Johnson, on-site investigation; Middletown Press, January 26, 1967; APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/24/1968",
  "desc" : "At around 3:00 a.m. two men watched from the shore at Henley Beach, South Australia as a yellow shaft of light shot down from a UFO in the dark night sky. The shaft of light was about four inches wide and lighter in color than its yellow source. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_482",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 180" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/24/1968",
  "desc" : "John Everhart was driving home in Indiana, Pennsylvania at 3:30 p.m. when he saw a round, saucer-shaped object with a dull aluminum finish hovering over a pond some 100-200 feet away. Its top section was transparent, and he could see two men, normal in every appearance, wearing light gray coveralls inside. He could also see levers and little lights as might appear on a computer. Under hypnosis he remembered \"hearing\" them talk, perhaps telepathically. They were engaged in fixing something and hurried when they saw him watching them. In a subsequent hypnotic session he recalled being led into the UFO by a slender man in black. Inside were four seats on pedestals, and the light inside the craft was so bright that it hurt his eyes. He was sent by elevator into the room where the repairs were going on. The men spoke to each other in English. He was instructed to sit in a chair that rendered him immobile. There was a time lapse in his memory of several hours between his leaving work and his returning home. This case is apparently an early abduction report describing apparently normal human-looking abductors. No further hypnotic regression sessions were attempted. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_483",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-12 (A0912), citing William Weitzel; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, April 1969, p. 22; Brad Steiger, Saga UFO Report, October 1976, p. 30" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/24/1968",
  "desc" : "At 10:20 p.m. two Saturn-shaped objects were sighted over some woods in Fayette County, Indiana. One of the objects landed, while the other passed over a house, making a motor sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_484",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 25" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/24/1968",
  "desc" : "Numerous witnesses reported seeing a huge glow in the sky that flew over Concepcion del Uruguay, Entre Rios, Argentina to the southeast.  This was followed by a huge power blackout at 11:00 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_485",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, July-August 1968, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/24/1970",
  "desc" : "A witness named Herbosch reported a blindingly bright saucer-shaped object that was seen at ground level at 7:45 p.m. in Rhode-St. Genese, Brabant, Belgium. It was absolutely silent, but despite its closeness gave off no detectable odor nor heat. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_486",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Bonabot, Catalog of Belgian Cases, case 287; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 9559, citing Charles Garreau, Soucopes Volantes Vingt-cinq Ans d'Enquetes, p. 198" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/24/1974",
  "desc" : "A young woman returning home at Aische-en-Rafail near Lierneaux, Belgium at 4:03 p.m. saw an object shaped like a flattened cupola resting on the ground. The engine and radio in her car both failed and she stopped near the object. It had three sections, colored red, yellow, and black. After about 30 seconds, it rose up slowly and disappeared behind a line of trees. The car's engine came on by itself as the object left. There were two other sightings that evening in France and another in England. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_487",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 359, citing SOBEPS News, No. 9, June, 1977; Richard H. Hall, Skylook, February 1976, p. 10; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 142; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 255" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/24/1974",
  "desc" : "On this night in Souppes-sur-Loing, Seine-Marne department, France two witnesses watched an ovoid UFO give off flashes and change color. It also made multiple stops and starts, before finally shooting off rapidly to the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_488",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 142" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/24/1975",
  "desc" : "On this night an orange glowing ball flew over Barham, Kent, England at a low altitude and illuminated the area. It stopped and hovered for awhile, then engaged in some maneuvers. It finally flew off toward the south. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_489",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 11648, citing FSR, volume 21, number 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/24/1978",
  "desc" : "Between Leicester and Hinckley, England at least 17 people saw a delta-shaped object shortly after 7:00 p.m. It flew low overhead, making no noise. It had steady red, blue, and yellow lights and as it headed south from Leicester it was seen by 12 more witnesses in Hinckley. There was also a sighting earlier that evening of an unusual nocturnal light by a married couple in Patcham, East Sussex, England. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_490",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Philip J. Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 18; Awareness, July 1978, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/24/1979",
  "desc" : "In this day in Toquilla near Tunja, Colombia a dentist and three students were traveling by car when their engine suddenly stalled. They then saw two metallic disc-shaped objects land on tripod landing gear nearby, and three men wearing tight fitting, silvery outfits and large helmets who exited from a hatch in one of the objects. A sudden whirlwind surrounded their vehicle and they could no longer see either the figures or the objects. When the \"whirlwind\" abated both the figures and the UFOs were gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_491",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 13623, citing UFO Newsclipping Service, issue 119; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979 [electronic version], citing Miguel Forero, Centro Investigacion OVNI, Colombia" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/24/1979",
  "desc" : "Driving near Lindale, Texas at around 10:00 p.m. 20-year-old John Scott Cates had stopped his car and gotten out to relieve himself when a blue beam of light from the sky struck him. It caused his hair to stand up like an electric static charge. Two UFOs with a violet-red light moving between then appeared, and he experienced a six-hour long memory lapse. His next recollection was sitting in front of the car on the ground. He was scared, shaky, cold, and his stomach was in knots. He noticed that his engine restarted when a ringing noise sounded. He had a memory loss and the clock in his car was found to be 5 1/2 hours off. He was left with holes in his shirt, holes in his trousers and socks, and a 5-inch wide diamond-shaped burn on his chest. His hair was also somewhat burned. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_492",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 201(b); Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO; p. 191; Richard C. Niemtzow, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1979, p. 3; Bob Pratt, UNICAT database, case # 62, citing Richard C. Niemtzow; John F. Schuessler, UFO-Related Human Physiological Effects, p. 85" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/24/1982",
  "desc" : "In the village of Ipoh in Perak, Malaysia five early morning joggers watched a Saturn-shaped object with a revolving rim and sharp lights descend nearby them at around 7:00 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_493",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ahmad Jamaludin, FSR, December 1988, p. 22" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/24/1982",
  "desc" : "A flashing light with irregular flashes of red and white traveled from west to east silently across the sky in Stockdale, Texas. It arced slightly and appeared to hover in the eastern sky, 30 degrees above the horizon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_494",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek, CUFOS case files, report form dated January 24, 1982" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/24/1988",
  "desc" : "At 5:30 p.m. on this evening at his home in Gulf Breeze, Florida Ed Walters took his twenty-first UFO photograph of a domed, disc-shaped object. The blurring movement of the object suggests that when the object left it accelerated at 20 G's, according to photometric analysis. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_495",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 210, citing MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 239" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/24/1989",
  "desc" : "Two large triangular shaped objects that were accompanied by 4-5 smaller bright objects were seen by dozens over Valliant, Oklahoma for more than an hour. The large objects had red, white, and blue lights. They hovered and moved slowly at tree-top level. The smaller lights maneuvered between them. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_496",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 109; McCurtain (Oklahoma) Daily, February 1, 1989" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/24/1992",
  "desc" : "A 50-year-old woman and her husband were in the kitchen of their home in Mezobereny, Hungary when a short, dull black, egg-shaped figure suddenly crossed the room and passed into the adjoining room, making a strong \"snorting\" sound. The upper half of the being was blue-gray in color. Next, a vibrating vertical line became visible. Next to the stripe a beautiful woman appeared and looked at the woman. The main witness then followed the two beings into the room where they vanished. The husband was somehow prevented from witnessing this encounter. Three days later, at 6:30 p.m., the woman heard a loud female voice and felt compelled to go out to the garden. There she saw an ovoid, cabin-like object on the ground. She entered it, and inside she found herself in a large gray room where numerous naked children and women stood around. She then lost consciousness, and later woke up back in her bed. The next day large red sunburn-like spots appeared on her upper belly, and the lower parts of her breasts. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_497",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "SOS-Ovni Phenomena, issue 12; Albert S. Rosales, 1992 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 629, citing Gabor Tarcali, Hungarian UFO Network" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/24/1995",
  "desc" : "Two clamshell-shaped discs accompanied by a cluster of small, white satellite objects flew over Lebanon, Tennessee at 4:42 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_498",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/24/1997",
  "desc" : "A witness in a car driving north of Dourdan, Essonne department, France at 9:15 p.m. sighted at least two disc-shaped objects emitting several beams and small blue lights. The UFOs maneuvered around in all directions for over a minute.  ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_499",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 342" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/24/1998",
  "desc" : "In Santiago, Chile at the Alfalfal Dam five observers first saw two fireballs fly pass at 8:00 p.m. Next, an 18-meter long ovoid object flew up the river canyon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_500",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 3, number 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/24/2000",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m. a group of friends were sitting in a house in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and when they glanced out a window they saw a dark figure jumping behind the trees. It had no distinguishable features as the entire body was dark, but its body fluctuated in and out of transparency. The witnesses had apparently seen this and multiple other humanoid figures on other occasions, in different locations. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_501",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000 [electronic version], citing UFO Database.com" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/24/2001",
  "desc" : "On this evening a luminous object hovered over Canyon Lake in Comal County, Texas. Spotlights of the Army Corp of Engineers dam facility lit up the low flying object. Four helicopters appeared and attempted to surround the object, according to the married couple who witnessed it. The UFO maneuvered away, the vanished. After the helicopters departed two more UFOs appeared and returned to the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_502",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), April 2001, p. 20" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/24/2003",
  "desc" : "At 6:13 p.m. a black equilateral triangle with three glowing white dome lights on the tips of its apexes, plus a small red blinking light and a small constant red light was sighted over Kingston, Ontario by a woman. It flew just above the treeline, and passed silently, directly over her car. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_503",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, UFO Reporting Center, January 2003 web archive" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/24/2007",
  "desc" : "A slow-moving cylinder was sighted high in sky over Ottawa, Ontario at 12:25 p.m. It sped up, then streaked across the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_504",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 31, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/24/2010",
  "desc" : "A multi-colored, illuminated, circular object hovered nearby, and crossed over a busy interstate highway in Tampa, Florida at 7:40 p.m. The sighting lasted for 6 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_505",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, UFO Reporting Center, January 2010 webpage, report uploaded February 14, 2010" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/25/1967",
  "desc" : "Harold Lenz was driving to work in Winsted, Minnesota at 4:30 a.m. when the engine of his pickup truck stalled near Howard Lake. He got out to check under the hood and saw a bright luminous object, 75 feet long by 30 feet wide, approach and land on three legs on the highway. It made a loud whirring noise. Something like an elevator descended from the bottom and a man walked out. He was dressed in a silver-blue, tight-fitting coverall uniform with a \"fish-bowl\" helmet over his head. He was about average height and appeared to be human. The UFO occupant seemed to examine something on the object. He then got back into the UFO and it took off. The total event lasted between 3-4 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_506",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-08, citing USAF Project Blue Book files; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case , citing 184, citing Vallee" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/25/1967",
  "desc" : "At around two a.m. three teenage girls--Susan, Tanya and Marianne--were enjoying a typical teenage pajama party in Pittsfield, Pennsylvania and were doing anything but sleeping when all three simultaneously spotted a peculiar light shimmering through the closed curtains of Susan's bedroom. Without warning the drapes parted of their own accord and a midget-sized triangular object was revealed, hovering a few feet from the house. It began beaming a pinkish light of a painfully brilliant intensity into the bedroom. When the triangle moved to the second window, the curtains repeated their opening act, and the light intensity increased several fold. At this point the girls became quite frightened and tried to flee, but all three girls quickly became weak and paralyzed, unable to cry out or do more than whimper helplessly. After a few more torturous moments the light effect dissipated and their mobility was restored, although a dizzy sensation continued to haunt the girls for nearly an hour. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_507",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, citing Robert A. Goerman" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/25/1967",
  "desc" : "Shortly after sunset, Betty Andreasson, her parents and her seven children were frightened by a pulsating reddish-orange light outside their backyard in South Ashburnham, Massachusetts. This was accompanied by a \"silent vacuum\" and failure of all the lights in the house. Four entities appeared before Betty in the kitchen after passing through a closed door. The beings were nearly identical in appearance, with large baldheads, gray skin, large wrap-around eyes with hazy, light gray interiors. They had \"scar like\" mouths and holes for noses and ears. They wore sparkly, dark blue uniforms with a lighter blue \"Sam Browne\" strap. They had bulky hands, possibly gloved, and wore boots.<br/><br/> Their leader, named Quazgaa, was slightly taller and his suit was darker that the others. The reported height of the entities was between 3 1/2 and five feet. Quazgaa began telepathic communication with Betty in the kitchen. He asked her for some food and was offered some left over meat. The beings declined, asking that it be cooked again and she cooked it on the stove. They followed her into the living room where she handed the leader a Bible. He created several copies and handed them to the crew. He in turn handed her a thin, blue book containing their form of knowledge, which remained in her possession for nine days. During these proceedings the other family members were sitting in the living room in a trance state. However, Betty's daughter remembered and confirmed part of the above testimony. Betty was then \"talked into\" going onboard the entities' craft. She was on board for an estimated two hours. During this time she was led through several rooms, was given a physical exam, and had a needle inserted in her nostril and another in her navel, and had a body scan by a device that looked like a giant eye. She was then placed in an enclosed seat that was filled with a soothing liquid, in which she was \"prepared\" for an unusual journey.<br/><br/> Accompanied by two guides she visited an alien realm where she saw cities, strange bug-eyed creatures, and a vast ocean. She had a traumatic religious experience, which led her to believe that the beings were some form of \"angels.\" Returning from the journey she was led back to her home by two of the entities, one named Joohop. Her family was still in a state of suspended animation. Her daughter later recalled being \"baby sat\" by the one remaining entity. The beings, holding spheres of light in their hands, proceeded to put the family to bed, Betty the abductee being the last. The incident included automatic writing, speaking in strange tongues, visions, message transfer and telephone \"contact,\" some of these occurring under hypnosis and others during the investigation. Betty was found to have several previous contacts and numerous post-1967 abduction experiences as well. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_508",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-127, citing Ray Fowler, Joe Santangelo, Jules Vaillancourt, David Webb, Fred Youngren & Dr. Herbert Edelstein" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/25/1968",
  "desc" : "At eleven o'clock at night, Dr. Axel Aberg Cobo, a Professor of Human Relations and Journalism, was walking along the beach in the town of Torres, Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil when a silver colored, luminous object emerged from the ocean only 25 yards away from him. He felt as though he was paralyzed. Shortly, two men over six feet tall, \"who looked as though they were made of crystal,\" walked up to him stiffly, without bending their knees. He felt as if they were communicating with him telepathically. They greeted him by touching shoulders, and one of the beings, which had introduced himself as \"Rubinako,\" said to him, \"Krebs, Navis, Karsicujo and Krero.\" Only partially paralyzed, Cobo noted these words, writing them down with a ballpoint pen on his bare arms. They next told him they would meet him again in Mar Del Plata, Argentina. He had a vague recollection that the craft took off vertically. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_509",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, citing Flying Saucer Review, November-December 1968; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case 29" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/25/1987",
  "desc" : "At eleven p.m. the witness was alone in her apartment in Yalta, Crimea, Ukraine and had just gone to bed when seven to nine human-like figures suddenly appeared in her bedroom, standing in front of her closed French windows. The entities were of medium height. Some were male while the others were female. The men were bearded and the woman had straight hair down to their shoulders. All had beautiful faces with clear penetrating eyes. The witness attempted to move but could not. She then received a telepathic message telling her to remain still. She felt no fear but instead had an overwhelming sensation of joy. The beings gathered around her bed and bent over her. She noticed one of the women place a device on her nearby piano and bend over it. At one point she saw a light-colored disk and was told that it was her ovum. Later the entities informed her that it was their time to leave and they gradually faded away. The witness suffered from gynecological problems as a result of the encounter and has never been able to subsequently become pregnant. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_510",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1987, case # 1801, citing Vladimir Rubtsov, Ph.D., MUFON Symposium Proceedings 1994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/25/1998",
  "desc" : "A man was walking his dog in a wooded area of Nursery Woods, Cumbria, England at 4:45 p.m. when he heard some snapping branches. Thinking it was a deer he stopped and looked around. Looking through the trees he noticed a large creature covered in a sort of ginger brown hair that seemed to be drinking from a pond about 150 meters into the woods. The creature appeared to stare at the witness, when it stood upright, the witness estimated to be about 6 feet 6 inches in height. The witness quickly left the area. There was no reaction by the dog reported. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_511",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, citing Cumbria Creature Chronicles" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/26/1950",
  "desc" : "Three orange cylinders flew to the north at 1600 km/h over Elmendorf AFB, Alaska. It was witnessed by a Lieutenant Colonel and another military witness. It was lost from sight when it disappeared into an odd looking, lone small thin cloud. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_512",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1498" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/26/1953",
  "desc" : "At 6:20 p.m. an airman witnessed a 60 meter long luminous cigar-shaped or rectangular object with hazy ends, that flew from east to west over Sampson Air Force Base in Ontario County, New York while climbing slightly. It made a high frequency humming sound. It flew at an estimated 2500m altitude. In one minute the object traveled through an arc of 70 or 80 degrees. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_513",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 2958, citing Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 5; Project Blue Book Report #10, report dated February 27, 1953; NARA-PBB85-816" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/26/1953",
  "desc" : "At 9:15 p.m. MST Air Force personnel stationed at the 769th AC&W station in Continental Divide, New Mexico observed an aerial phenomenon simultaneously by electronic and visual means. To the naked eye the object appeared as a very bright reddish-white object estimated to be 10 miles west of the radar site. The object passed behind a hill and then reappeared, apparently heading in a northerly direction at a slow speed. The airman making this visual observation reported it to personnel manning the radar equipment. They stated that they had an unidentified blip on the radar scope, appearing west of the station approximately 9 miles away. The scope showed the object to be on a 270 azimuth at an altitude of 10,000-15,000 feet moving away from the site at 12-15 mph. It was eventually lost on radar at the 18 mile range. The object was under visual and radar observation intermittently for 45 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_514",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book Report #10, report dated February 27, 1953; Gordon D. Thayer, in Edward U. Condon (ed.), Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 192; UNICAT, case # 653; (NARA-PBB85-814)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/26/1955",
  "desc" : "At 6:15 p.m. J. M. Holland saw a black smoke trail make a circle in Lakeland, Florida. There was an explosion and some objects fell from sky. A Project Blue Book unknown. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_515",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 3401; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 102; Don Berliner, The Blue Book Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/26/1956",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon a woman in her driveway in Toledo, Ohio spotted a silver, pancake-shaped disc that flew by smoothly for about a minute. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_516",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Alexander Mebane, Civilian Saucer Intelligence New York Newsletter, February 1956, p. 5; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956 (volume 6), p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/26/1958",
  "desc" : "A very bright object landed before numerous chemical workers in Shimada City, Japan at 4 p.m. They reported beings falling from the sky without parachutes. They wore strange suits and spoke an unknown language. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_517",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Flying Saucer Review, May-June 1958; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 458; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0458" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/26/1959",
  "desc" : "On the island of Hokkaido, Japan at 4 p.m. many witnesses watched two glowing lens-shaped discs that flew slowly to the west. One made a 180 degree turn to the east. Both were completely silent. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_518",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: January-March, p. 34" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/26/1965",
  "desc" : "A group of teenagers, including Steve Miller, age 16, were driving on Route 250 near Brands Flats, Virginia at 7:30 p.m. when they saw a little man about 3 ½ feet tall sitting by the road watching the cars go by. He was wearing a silvery looking one-piece outfit. They got out of the car and pursued the little man. Two more little men joined the first and ran with him, and they easily outran the teens leaving no footprints in the muddy ground. The group then contacted the Staunton police, and within an hour a group of police were on the scene, as well as a young news photographer, Charles Weaver. Weaver, and another man named Huffer approached a barn, which the photographer entered first. Huffer heard his companion call out to him, and when Huffer entered the barn he found Weaver on the ground. Weaver claimed something struck him and knocked him down. The pair left the barn quickly, but as they fled they thought they saw a little man standing in front of the building. Weaver paused long enough to take a photo before joining up with the other investigators. The disposition of the photograph has never been determined. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_519",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1965-09 (A0619), citing a newspaper clipping, January 27, 1965" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/26/1967",
  "desc" : "Sixty military witnesses at a U.S. base in Heidelberg, Germany heard a pulsating sound at 8:30 p.m., and then saw a shiny metallic dirigible-shaped object hovering over a building 100 feet away. As jets approached to investigate the object, it took off with lights flashing in a regular cycle. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_520",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 4; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, p. 326" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/26/1967",
  "desc" : "Three women saw an oblong, gray and red object, with prongs of various colors was seen over Jamaica, Queens borough, New York at 1:30 a.m. Parts of the UFO seemed to move independently. The sighting lasted more than two hours. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_521",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP New York case investigation; Condon Committee UFO Study" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/26/1967",
  "desc" : "On this morning, about a week after seeing a large metallic sphere hovering above a highway near Charleston, West Virginia, Tad Jones was driving along the same highway at the same time when he came upon a man standing on the roadside in the same spot where the sphere had hovered. Thinking that it was a hitchhiker Tad slowed down and called to him. The man did not reply but merely waved him on. He described the man as very tanned, wearing a blue coat, and a blue cap with a visor. He was holding a box in his hand. It appeared to be some kind of instrument with a dial on it, like a clock, and a wire ran from it to his other hand. A later check with the local gas company proved negative as far as it being one of their men. Furthermore, no such instrument described by Jones was in use anywhere by any of their employees. He saw the same man again the next day, but drove on. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_522",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John Keel, FSR, May-June 1967, p. 4; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, case # 3096, citing John Keel, The Mothman Prophecies" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/26/1967",
  "desc" : "A Methodist minister was driving on Route 185 near Coffeen, Illinois at 9:00 p.m. when he saw an object that was flat on the bottom and rounded on top cross the road 100 meters in front of him. It made no noise and moved slowly. He estimated that it was 20 meters in length and three meters in height. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_523",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 812, citing USAF Air Technical Intelligence Center" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/26/1968",
  "desc" : "Two men in River Bann, Derryvore, Ireland saw a disc land in a field. Several entities emerged and placed probes into the hides of several paralyzed cows in the field. The UFO then took off and showered a fog-like substance that caused a tingling sensation, and the UFO then disappeared into a cloud. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_524",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jenny Randles, Little Giant Encyclopedia of UFOs" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/26/1969",
  "desc" : "On a farm southeast of Fernley, Nevada while milking cows at five o'clock in the morning, a young man named Schade saw a red glowing sphere moving slowly, ten meters above the ground, a quarter of a mile away. The object hovered, the emitted white mist. Each time it stopped moving the light went out. Finally, the UFO ascended with a jerky motion toward the west and Reno. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_525",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Massingill, NICAP case file, report dated February 24, 1969; Data-Net Report, October 1971, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/26/1970",
  "desc" : "A close encounter occurred west of Nykopping, Sweden at around 6:00 p.m. when a small saucer-shaped object dove at a car with two teenage girls inside. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_526",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Andre Liljegren, AFU Sweden News, issue 25" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/26/1971",
  "desc" : "A young couple out driving in the early hours of the morning in Jackson, Ohio had a close encounter with a spherical object that rose from the ground, and then hovered directly in front of their car. The driver stopped his car and backed away. The ball of light changed color from orange to purple. When the drove off it followed them. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_527",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Columbus Dispatch, January 27, 1971; NICAP UFO Investigator, March-April 1971, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/26/1972",
  "desc" : "At three a.m. Norman Chastain was out fishing late at night in the St. Johns River near Blount Island, Florida when he saw something like \"half a ball\" with orange and blue flashing lights. It came \"directly toward my boat\" and hovered noiselessly overhead at 150 feet. He turned off his light and the object slowly moved off. He had drifted to the shore and with his spotlight he could see in the nearby woods \"the darndest looking human-like creature one could ever imagine.\" Waht he saw was a humanoid creature about five feet tall, with pointed ears, large eyes, and a sharp chin. Next a brilliant white light hit him that paralyzed him until dawn. He noticed an \"overpowering stench\" in his clothes and hair, and threw away his clothes. Three nights later he smelt the same odor again, and in the morning found a fungus like growth similar to \"a cluster of several flesh colored heads looking at me;\" he said they \"had teeth, big eyes, a wide mouth, and pointed ears,\" and looked \"like the devil looking creature\" he saw on Blount Island. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_528",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lloyd Brown, The Jacksonville Journal, January 28, 1974; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1972-05, citing Jacksonville Journal" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/26/1974",
  "desc" : "At 2:59 a.m. Captain Berglund and the flight crew of his SAS Boeing 727 airliner flying east of Lisbon, Portugal encountered a precise V formation of 10-15 bright glowing orange disc-shaped objects, flying at 31,000 feet altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_529",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, January 1989, p. 22; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 64; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, p. 121" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/26/1976",
  "desc" : "M. Claude Cretin, while driving at 9:45 p.m. between Bouze and Beaune, Cote D’Or department, France saw a searchlight beam flash three times. He then noticed a humanoid being standing in the bushes about 20 feet away beside the road. The being was wearing a diving suit of yellow-orange color with a round-topped helmet and a rectangular face plate. Atop the helmet was a whitish light. He could only make out the upper portion of the figure because the bushes blocked his view. After driving on, he went and notified the police, who investigated on the following day and found freshly broken branches at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_530",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1976-21 (A1451); Alain Gamard, UFO Register, Volume 7, p. 44, citing Le Bien Public, March 24, 1976" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/26/1977",
  "desc" : "Three witnesses in Anchorage, Kentucky watched as a 100 foot in diameter domed disc hovered at 80 feet altitude over a snowy field at 10:30 p.m. Their dogs barked during the close encounter. The craft flew toward the south, then vanished. The incident lasted five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_531",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, January 1977, p. 4; International UFO Reporter, April 1977, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/26/1979",
  "desc" : "At 8:45 p.m. a restaurant worker south of Denbigh, Clwyd, Wales, U.K. first spotted a domed ovoid object hovering silently for several minutes, only 120 feet overhead. Two police constables, Berwyn Jones and Nevil Hughes, also witnessed the phenomenon together with several other independent witnesses. The object was a dark metallic color, and it emitted a strong beam of light. It flew off to the southeast of the valley. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_532",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, March 1979; Gary Heseltine, UFO Magazine (UK), July 2003, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/26/1981",
  "desc" : "At 4:30 p.m. a police patrol car stalled in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France when it encountered a cigar-shaped UFO. The five meter long object had portholes, and was hovering four meters over a field. It moved over the road, then turned and flew away toward the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_533",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14165, citing Robert Roussel, OVNI, Verites Cachees, p. 151" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/26/1981",
  "desc" : "In Newton, North Carolina at 8:35 p.m. police and an amateur astronomer witnessed a silent rectangular UFO, which maneuvered at 300 feet altitude. It had flashing lights on its sides.  ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_534",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Tarheel UFO Study Group, MUFON UFO Journal, April 1981, p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/26/1984",
  "desc" : "Mrs. Green and her 7-year-old son were driving in Texas when they first encountered radio interference. UFO stops car, car out-of-control into ditch, bright light, 75 minutes missing time.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_535",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "1/26/1991",
  "desc" : "On January 13, 1991 border guard Istvan Balogh woke up in his bedroom in Oroshaza, Hungary and heard a loud booming voice repeat three times, \"We will meet soon.\" The voice had a metallic quality to it. On this date he had just returned from the movies at 1:15 a.m., and had stepped out on his terrace when he saw a small gray disc-shaped object, four meters in height and two meters in width. As he stared at the object a bright beam of light struck him. His next conscious memory was onboard a craft. He was inside a room with a window about 1 meter in diameter. He was then approached by two human-like figures with 3-digit hands and skin with a greenish complexion, wearing black uniforms. They communicated telepathically with him, telling him that they came from a world that was 15 million light years from earth. They were able to travel such vast distance using dimensional portals. He remembered seeing an illuminated moon-like crater and a pyramid. He was eventually returned to his home at 2:00 a.m. He went and reported his story at the hospital, and as a result he was later fired from his job as a border guard. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_536",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1991, citing CUN Milan" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/26/1998",
  "desc" : "At 8:45 p.m. outside Bartelso, Illinois an oval-shaped object was seen hovering over a flooded field at about 50-75 feet altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_537",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Jan. 1998 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/26/2001",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m. a cone-shaped UFO was sighted in the South Waikato area of New Zealand by 12. There were independent reports to the Auckland Observatory at the same time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_538",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Jan. 2001 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/26/2001",
  "desc" : "In Oceanside, California a triangular shaped object, 50 feet in diameter and at only 300 feet altitude, was reported flying at a speed of 25 mph. It was a dark camoflage-green color, and was shaped like a tall slice of pie. It had two 10 foot wide white pods on the underside. It was in view for 30 seconds.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_539",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Jan. 2001 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/26/2002",
  "desc" : "In Cape Girardeau, Missouri a radar patrol police officer witnessed an unlit dark disc-shaped object move across the highway at 8:45 p.m.  He pointed his radar gun at the object, but got no return.  Next, he attempted to pursue the object, but it disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_540",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Jan. 2002 webpage, report uploaded Feb. 22, 2002" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/26/2003",
  "desc" : "Anatoly Yurevich awoke in the middle of the night in Karaganda, Kazakhstan to the sounds of footsteps, then saw a two foot tall creature standing at the side of his bed. It was very heavy set, perhaps weighing as much as 115 kilos (250 lbs.). His dog hid under the bed blankets shaking with fear. The creature touched his knee and then pulled on the blanket. It then vanished in full view. After a couple of minutes the witness felt a severe pain in his lower abdomen. His dog growled for 20 minutes after the incident, after which he was able to go back to sleep. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_541",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2003, citing RU.UFO Guest book entries" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/26/2006",
  "desc" : "In Trienta y Tres, Uruguay many people saw intensely bright \"stars\" in the afternoon sky beginning at around two o'clock and lasting for about 30 minutes. They made no sound, and engaged in very rapid multi-directional maneuvers, up-and-down, and right-to-left. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_542",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John Hayes, ufoinfo.com" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/26/2008",
  "desc" : "At 4:10 p.m. six witnesses watched a silvery pill-shaped object that flipped over as it flew across the sky in Popkum, British Columbia. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_543",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dittman Geoff, 2008 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 44, citing HBCCUFO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/27/1973",
  "desc" : "On this evening a motorist driving near Gaffney, South Carolina reported static on his car radio as he was paced by an oval, metallic UFO. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_544",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 327, citing UFO Register, 1974" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/27/1977",
  "desc" : "At 1:05 a.m. a teenager in Prospect, Kentucky spotted a rectangular, orangish-red object coming down to near his jeep. His jeep's radio failed 15 seconds into the sighting. He felt compelled to watch the object, which stayed in the vicinity only a short time. Later under hypnosis, however, he related being taken inside the object and examined by three strange creatures who were shaped like machines. The electrical system on his jeep went haywire the day after the sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_545",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 406, citing CUFOS" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/27/1977",
  "desc" : "At two o'clock in the afternoon Donald Fender, age 49, a self-employed bee keeper from Greeneville, Tennessee was driving on Route 40 to Madison (north of Nashville). He was in his pickup truck and had his dog with him. In the vicinity of Cookeville, Tennessee his dog began to act strangely, and Fender felt \"like someone wanted to talk to me.\" Obeying an impulse, he turned off onto a side road. He noticed a long balloon-like thing that stretched along one side of the road for a distance of about a mile or so. It was white and silky in color and texture. He then saw another one on the other side of the road. Curious, he pulled over and stopped his car. His dog was by then acting quite agitated.<br/><br/> Suddenly, without any transition, he found himself inside a solid white oval-shaped room, or enclosure, approximately 50 feet long. He sensed, rather than observed, five humanoids gathered around him. They were small in size and they stared at him. One was to his immediate left. They began to question him about a number of things, most of which Fender was unable to remember. They also gave him certain information: they told him they \"were emissaries of peace\" and that they could enter Earth's atmosphere only at this point---or \"window\"--along the road, that this spot would \"become the future home of space travel.\" They also told him of dire events including major catastrophes that would come about in the near future.<br/><br/> He was shown various scenes as though he were floating far above them, of areas of mass devastation. These included scenes of farmlands he identified as being in England, which were devoid of any life. After approximately 15 minutes he suddenly found himself back in his truck with no idea of how he got there. Along the roadside there was no longer anything unusual to be seen, and his dog was behaving normally again. He felt very strange and disturbed by the experience. Arriving at Madison an hour later than he expected, he was unable to account for the lost time. There was a good deal about the experience that he was unable to recall. He was so upset about it that within a week he drove to Washington, D.C. to report the incident officially. He went to the Department of Defense where he claimed he spoke to Defense Secretary Brown himself. His story was met with little enthusiasm. There was more to his story than he was willing to divulge to investigators, he claimed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_546",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-05, citing Leonard H. Stringfield" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/27/1978",
  "desc" : "Four men were out pouching early in the morning in a field by the River Weaver in Fordsham, Cheshire County, England when they sighted a silvery balloon-like object float down along the course of the river and land on the bank. It emitted a strong purplish glow that made it hard to look at. Two figures of normal height emerged. They wore silvery suits and had miners lamps on their heads, and these glowed purple. Cows on a nearby field seemed to become paralyzed and unable to move. Using a metal cage, the UFOnauts penned in one cow and seemed to measure it. The witnesses became frightened and ran from the area, and as they ran they felt a strange tingling sensation in their groins. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_547",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 519, citing Jenny Randles, Abduction" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/27/1993",
  "desc" : "At 4:39 a.m. a woman in North Miami, Florida got up to go to the bathroom. On the way back to her bedroom she suddenly felt compelled to go to the kitchen and pull open the window. She then became afraid and went back to bed, but as she turned over in bed she heard a sound like a train and then a sound like an automatic door closing. She woke up two hours later and went to take a shower; there she realized that both of her knees were coated with an unknown white powdery substance. Her son remembered seeing a humanoid figure standing in his doorway and then going back to sleep. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_548",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 1676, citing Karla Turner, Taken" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/27/2003",
  "desc" : "The witness was asleep in bed with her boyfriend at their home in Florida when she suddenly awoke and looked at the doorway and noticed two creatures that were \"squishy\" in appearance. They were dark colored and about three feet tall. By her bedside there was another creature, who was very tall, thin, and with large yellow eyes. It was between gray and lime-green in color. Terrified, she pulled the covers over her head, but suddenly she did not feel afraid anymore. She then felt very confused and does not know if she left her bed, but she could not speak. At one point she was lying on her stomach and something was being inserted in her rectum. When her fear returned a creature that somehow was made to appear human comforted her, telling her not to be afraid that she would not be hurt. The tall creature seemed very comforting towards the witness. He stood over her, patted her on her head and told her telepathically that they were not yet done. Soon she found herself back on her bed, very scared and confused. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_549",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2003, citing website Great Dreams.Com, Stories" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/28/1953",
  "desc" : "On this evening in 1953, at 6:10 p.m., 5 silent orbs flew over Corona, California in a V Formation. Flying at an estimated 2,000 feet altitude, they changed into a row formation, then back again into a V formation. Speed was estimated at 150 mph. They flew from the southeast to the northwest. Later that same evening, over the Naval Air Station at Point Mugu on the California coast, US Marine Corps jet fighters pursued a red disc-shaped UFO. The UFO out accelerated the jets and moved away at high speed. Project Blue Book listed this later case as an official \"unknown\". ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_550",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren Gross, UFOs: A History 1953, p. 067; Project Blue Book files, case #2361" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/28/1955",
  "desc" : "On this night in 1955, a blue nocturnal light followed a snowplow in the Blue Mountains in Oregon. It moved away when the snowplow stopped, but came back when plowing resumed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_551",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, March 1955" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/28/1967",
  "desc" : "At 1:45 p.m. a group of school boys encountered a \"little blue man\" about three feet tall, wearing a helmet, on Studham Common in England. The humanoid said something unintelligible, and disappeared and re-appeared four times, leaving behind a cloud of smoke. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_552",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Flying Saucer Review, July 1967, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/28/1967",
  "desc" : "By this date things were more or less back to normal at the Kushner household in Pittsfield, Pennsylvania following a frightening close encounter experience with a brilliant pink triangular UFO three nights earlier (on January 25th). However, shortly after dinner two strange men arrived at the door. They identified themselves as military investigators and flashed what appeared to be USAF identification. Mrs. Kushner described the ID card as having black printing on a durable white stock. Both men wore tan trench coats which they kept buttoned from knee to collar. The taller of the two, who did all the talking, was described as thin and deeply tanned, and having blond hair and green eyes. The other gentleman was heavy set with dark hair, piercing blue eyes and was also deeply tanned. The men were polite but very insistent about one thing: they wanted every shred of information about the girl's experience. Neither parent could explain why they allowed their children to be so intensely grilled by these \"government agents.\" The men moved about the house with apparently total knowledge of the contents of the rooms, the placement of furniture and other objects. Their clothing looked as if it had been newly purchased and the bottoms of their shoes were unscuffed. When the mystery men left they backed their vehicle out onto the roadway, turned off their headlights, and powered away down the road. At one point one man was seen writing strange symbols in vertical columns, starting from the left, going down one column, up the next, and down the third. This was in a small booklet. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_553",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, citing Robert A. Goerman" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/28/1968",
  "desc" : "On this evening over Keats Island, British Columbia in 1968, a dark UFO with red and yellow lights at both ends was seen weaving from side to side. It stopped in place two or three times, and when it did the lights dimmed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_554",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John Magor, Our UFO Visitors, p. 44" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/28/1969",
  "desc" : "In 1969 at 10 p.m., a guard in San Lucar de Barrame, Spain watched a \"pot\" fly silently over trees at a low altitude, from north to south. The UFO illuminated the area like daytime. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_555",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Computerized Catalogue; Larry Hatch \"U\" database" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/28/1973",
  "desc" : "In 1973 a domed, semi-circular object hovered over a pond in Winsford, England at 6:35 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_556",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Newspaper clipping dated February 8, 1973" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/28/1975",
  "desc" : "In 1975 an ovoid-shaped UFO hovered over a football field in Dolianova, Italy. Only 10 meters above the ground, the object rose slowly into the sky at an angle when a car approached. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_557",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "ITACAT computer catalogue" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/28/1976",
  "desc" : "In 1976 two physiological effects cases occurred on the same night, the first in Benacazon, Spain and the second in Dargo, Victoria, Australia. The first occurred at 12:30 a.m. in the European time zone, while the second occurred several hours later at 11:30 p.m. local time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_558",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, May 1976, p. 21; FSR, October 1976, p. 30" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/28/1979",
  "desc" : "On this evening in 1979 a 1.5-meter long ovoid hovered over a house in Vannes, France. The UFO zipped over above an empty lot. It beamed white beams of light down onto the ground and up into the clouds, at around 5:15 p.m. A UFO witness to repeated UFO encounters experienced lasting physiological effects due to the close approach of 2 disc-shaped UFOs. The observer also heard a mechanical voice in his head that said, \"We mean you no harm.\" Also on this day, a disc-shaped UFO shot dazzling beams of light onto a road in Taining County, China. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_559",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, September 1979, p. 3; Paul Dong, UFO over modern China, p. 126" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/28/1980",
  "desc" : "Three UFO encounters were reported in France on this day in 1980. The first occurred in La Racine at 4:20 a.m. An orange, glowing, lima bean shaped UFO flew up highway D34 for several kilometers in a northwesterly direction, closely following the terrain. At 7:10 p.m. near Grandrieux, a four-meter diameter cylinder-shaped disc followed a car up and down route N377. Several square windows ringed the UFO. Later, at Aurillac around 9:10 p.m. a luminous orange sphere flew by closely while shining down a beam of light. Meanwhile, several nocturnal lights hovered high overhead. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_560",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, April 1981, July 1981, and issue #214." ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/28/1981",
  "desc" : "In 1981 at 5:30 in the morning, a disc was sighted maneuvering over some woods and landing behind some trees in Colle Maddalena, Italy. A burnt circle of grass and some charred tree branches were found at the landing site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_561",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "ITACAT Italian UFO Catalogue" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/28/1984",
  "desc" : "In 1984, an orange sphere was seen to land on a ridge in Flemington, New Jersey. Two witnesses saw the UFO descend and land at 6:30 p.m., while many others saw a bigger object rise from the same spot 20 minutes later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_562",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, March 1984, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/28/1990",
  "desc" : "In 1990 a super large craft with bright blue lights around its perimeter was reported in Stockbridge, Michigan. In Gulf Breeze, Florida that afternoon, a MUFON UFO investigator and three others videotaped a round orange UFO that emitted white flashes of light from the top and bottom of the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_563",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1988-1994; MUFON UFO Journal, May 1990" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/28/1993",
  "desc" : "In 1993 several UFO reports occurred over Alabama and Pennsylvania. At 5 a.m. noise attracted a witness to the window of her home in Dog Town, Alabama where she saw a UFO with several lights. In Adamsburg, Alabama at UFO was sighted at 6:30 p.m. that was described as fat in the middle, and tapered at the ends. A photo was taken of a stealth-aircraft like UFO in Gadsden, Alabama. The US Air Force denied that it was one of their aircraft. At 10:15 p.m. a yellow ball of light with a green flashing light was seen in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_564",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1988-1994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/28/1994",
  "desc" : "On this day in 1994 a huge, dark, disc-shaped object, reddish-brown in color, vanished suddenly in the skies over Coulommiers, France at 1:14 p.m. European time. The UFO was sighted by the crew of an Air France A320 airliner, and reported to air traffic control. Ground military radar tracked the UFO for 50 seconds at a speed of 100 knots. About one hour later, at 8:20 a.m. local time in Lancaster, New Hampshire a diamond-shaped UFO with blunt points paused in the sky, then vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_565",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1988-1994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/28/1996",
  "desc" : "In 1996 at 11 p.m. in Bridgeton, Missouri three nocturnal lights were seen maneuvering in the sky. The objects were seen to join together and separate repeatedly. They flew in a general southwest direction. About a half-hour later in Union, Missouri five nocturnal lights were videotaped flying slowly toward the southwest. They made a faint humming sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_566",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, \"U\" computer database" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/28/1996",
  "desc" : "A woman in Chandler, Arizona reported a visitation by \"aliens\" in her bedroom late at night. They reportedly gave her a medical examination. The next morning she awoke with some scars and other anomalies on her body. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_567",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case #2342, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/28/1997",
  "desc" : "In 1997 a witness going to bed at 10:30 p.m. in Colebrook, New Hampshire shut off the bedroom light and then saw a large object, like sunlight reflecting off metal, rise up to clear a ridgeline. The light then went out, but the witness could still perceive that the silhouette of the UFO was still visible in the sky. It flew over the ridge and was gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_568",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON investigation files, case 970128E" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/28/2000",
  "desc" : "At 5:30 p.m. on this date in 2000 a driver and passenger were driving westbound on the New Jersey Turnpike between East Rutherford and Secaucus, New Jersey when they spotted a triangle-shaped object flying in the northern sky. Two large, bright cylindrical UFOs were sighted in the southwestern morning sky in Beaverton, Oregon at 7:30 a.m. The UFOs were the apparent size of a lentil held at arm's length. Four other reports occurred that evening in British Columbia, Oregon, California, and Arizona. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_569",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center; UFO Research Manitoba, 2000 Canadian UFO Survey" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/29/1950",
  "desc" : "Mr. Quintana of Denver, Colorado saw a silvery green ovoid object hovering about 15 meters above a slope on South Table Mountain. It landed slowly in a small ravine. Then it shot upward at very high speed. Its diameter was about 20 meters, and it had a revolving middle band. A greenish light flashed under it, and the witness felt a rush of air and a pungent smell. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_570",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 194, citing Flying Saucers, July 1959" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/29/1952",
  "desc" : "Several bright discs, each estimated to be three feet in diameter, followed a B-29 Superfortress flying 30 miles west-southwest of Wonsan, Korea at 11:20 p.m. A second sighting occurred at 11:24 p.m. with a different squadron of B-29s flying near Sunchon, Korea. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_571",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Kenneth Arnold & Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 157; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 15; UNICAT, case 625, citing Life magazine, April 7, 1952" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/29/1953",
  "desc" : "Hearing a commotion in his barn, a farmer in Conway, South Carolina observed an object about seven meters long and four meters wide at treetop level. It was light gray in color and lit up inside. It resembled an egg sliced in half lengthwise. The witness fired his gun at the object. Numerous livestock died \"mysteriously\" in the area after the sighting. At 2:00 p.m. four huge metallic discs, each the size of a B-36 bomber, flew over Malibu Beach, California at a speed in excess of 1,000 mph. At five minutes before midnight an F-94 jet interceptor and two other fighter aircraft reported seeing a dark gray, oval-shaped UFO flying over Presque Isle, Maine. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_572",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 202; Fate Magazine, June 1953, p. 12, citing Los Angeles Examiner; Project Blue Book files; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 219" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/29/1954",
  "desc" : "A married couple was driving six miles south of Santa Ana, California in the afternoon when their car radio quit and the engine missed as a disc-shaped UFO passed low over their car. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_573",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, March 1954; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/29/1962",
  "desc" : "A Royal Dutch Air Force F-86 jet interceptor was chased by a UFO over the eastern Netherlands. The event was witnessed by six members of the military and the UFO was detected by ground and airborne radar. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_574",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, September 1962, p. 1; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 122; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 33" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/29/1967",
  "desc" : "At around 10:00 p.m. Mrs. Enid Campbell saw from her window in her home near Knox City, Missouri what at first looked like the full moon, but as it got closer she could see that it was a Saturn-shaped object, with the main body white in color like a frosted light bulb and a shiny gold horizontal ring around the center which had numerous round holes. The object came up to within several feet of her window before stopping, and through its semi-transparent material she could see a control panel with a lever on top, and two occupants, one seated at the panel, the other standing. They wore \"shiny, silvery wetsuits.\" She called her sons Gene, age 18, and George, age 14, who came to the window in time to see the object as it rose and moved away. While it hovered nearby two smaller white luminous spheres approached and entered the craft through an opening, after which the holes in the central ring jetted out red fire. Then the object ascended vertically and disappeared. The snow on the ground under the spot where it had been hovering was melted, and the ground over which the object first approached the house failed to grow plants, while plants elsewhere grew normally. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_575",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Skylook, April 1971, p. 12 and November 1972, p. 8; Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 27; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-10, citing Ted Phillips for MUFON" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/29/1968",
  "desc" : "A woman living alone in an isolated cabin on Keats Island, British Columbia had for several days witnessed mysterious lights and unknown objects maneuvering over some nearby hills and a nearby lake. On this afternoon two men dressed in neatly pressed, apparently new dark coveralls, and claiming to be from the public water company, visited her. The men acted nervous and seemed surprised that she lived there alone. They finally left disappearing down a nearby footpath. They seemed to have no obvious means for getting on or off the island, and she completely disbelieved their story that they were from the public utility. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_576",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Guttilla, Saga UFO Report, Summer 1974; John Magor, Our UFO Visitors, p. 44; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case #1079, citing Peter Guttilla, Saga UFO Report, July 1974" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/29/1969",
  "desc" : "At ten o'clock in the morning an 80-year-old woman in Matadepera, Barcelona, Spain witnessed a pear-shaped UFO with a horizontal axis that landed very close (within 11 m), making a \"revving\" noise. It was estimated to be three meters long and had a 2.5 meter diameter, and was wider in the front. It gave off bright colors, green and yellow mostly, and was described as \"very pretty.\" After landing it made an abrupt turn to pass under some high tension (5 Kv) power lines. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_577",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jose Maria Casas-Huguet, FSR Case Histories, December 1972, p. 1; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 102; UNICAT, case # 426, citing Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, OVNIs: El Fenomeno Aterrizaje, p. 88" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/29/1970",
  "desc" : "A man and woman in their mid-twenties had a close encounter with a disc-shaped object while driving on U.S. Highway 44 in Cassia, Lake County, Florida. The object made a whirring sound, and emitted a variety of flashing multicolored lights. There was an independent witness. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_578",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, September 1970, p. 5; Data-Net Report, March 1970, p. 14, citing Sun News" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/29/1972",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. in Chatsworth, Ventura County, California a slowly rotating disc-shaped object with lights around the rim was seen for a minute by a mail carrier. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_579",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 9468, citing NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1972" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/29/1974",
  "desc" : "A flight instructor and his student were flying over the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Santa Ana, Orange County, California in the middle of the day when they were buzzed by five glowing red UFOs, which circled their plane for the next hour. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_580",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 38" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/29/1976",
  "desc" : "Mr. Carrasco, a 29-year-old farmer, was walking home at 12:30 a.m. in Benacazon, Sevilla province, Spain when he heard a noise “like a jet.” Turning around, he saw a brilliant light hovering in the sky; it approached and landed 18 feet away. It was dark green, rectangular, and taller than a telephone booth, and it stood on three legs. From this landed object emerged two men 6’6” or more in height, who came to within 12 or 15 ft of the witness. They were clad in dark but luminous tight fitting clothing resembling rubber or plastic, with wide belts whose buckles emitted blindingly bright and hot flashes of red and white light; he could not see their faces, but noticed that they had shoulder-length blondish-white hair. The witness put his hands over his face, but could not stir from the spot. He heard the men talking in a language he could not understand; then he began to run. The UFO rose and flew over him, emitting something that burned him; he lost consciousness until at 0230A he found himself at the door of his house in Benacazon. He had to be hospitalized for shock. In the hospital he was found to have strange sooty black marks on his right cheek, on the palms of both hands, on his shoulders and on his right arm; these began to disappear after 7-8 hours. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_581",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joaquin M. Nogales, MUFON UFO Journal, August 1976, p. 16; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1976-31 (A1452), citing J. J. Benitez, FSR, Vol. 22, No. 1 & Iker Jimenez" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/29/1976",
  "desc" : "At around 10:15 p.m., while driving near Pahrump, Nevada southwest of Las Vegas, Country & Western singer Johnny Sands saw a rusty orange cigar-shaped object descend from the sky. The object was at least 60 feet long, and had flashing red and white lights on one end and a dark ring around the middle section, which also had portholes. His car stopped running, and he got out to check the engine. He next saw two men, about 200 feet away, walking toward him. They wore silver sparkling one-piece uniforms with a diagonal black stripe, and a round white central emblem. He wanted to get back into his car but felt paralyzed and unable to move. As the men approached, he saw that they were bald and had close set squinting eyes, a grayish white complexion, and something that lookede like folds or gills under their ears. Their mouths were very small and their noses “puggish.” One of them questioned Sands in English, but he did not hear the words coming from the being's mouth. It spoke in a slow, “robot-like” voice. The voice asked him, “What are you doing here?” and he replied, “I am an entertainer.” The next question was “What are your means of communication,” which he was at a loss to answer. Four or five other questions were asked, which he has chosen not to reveal. They said that they would see him again. Turning to go, the leader brushed his fingertips over Mr. Sands hand, which seemed to release him from the paralysis. They walked away, and the car started again. Many observers reported seeing rust-colored cigar shaped objects over the Las Vegas Valley that night. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_582",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, March-April 1976, p. 1; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1976-32 (A1453), citing Bob Pratt, National Enquirer" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/29/1979",
  "desc" : "In the early morning hours a married couple in Bissoe Truro, Cornwall County, England were awakened at around two a.m. to find their bedroom lit up brightly. One of the witnesses looked out the window and was amazed to see a bright hovering oval-shaped craft. Inside could be seen two human-looking men with long wavy blond hair. The UFO glided silently away and then shot away at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_583",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case 1435, citing Bob Boyd, Plymouth UFO Research Group" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/29/1980",
  "desc" : "At ten p.m. three National Telephone Company officials, Gomez, Polar, and Aguilar, on the highway between the towns of Desaguadero and Pomata, Peru saw a bright circular UFO with red and white lights on the bottom hover stationary at 1000 meters altitude. It went behind a cloud for three minutes, then was observed for five more minutes as it flew over Lake Titicaca. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_584",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Heiden, UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1980, p. 13; translating El Commercio, February 16, 1980; Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1980, p. 14, translating La Razon, February 15, 1980" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/29/1982",
  "desc" : "At two o'clock in the morning a student in Bankstown, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia had a low level close encounter with a five-meter thick rectangular object with a glassy metallic surface. The object was only 100 meters away. It had bluish yellow bottom lights, and green lights on the side. The UFO caused nearby trees to sway, TV static interference, and streetlights in the area to turn off. The object took off with a vertical ascent. After the object left the streetlights came back on 20 minutes later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_585",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bill Chalker, UFOIC case files; Mark Cashman, Project 1947 EM Effects Catalog website" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/29/1986",
  "desc" : "In Dal'negorsk, Vladivostok, Russia in eastern Asia a red fireball flew parallel to the ground with an estimated speed of 15 meters per second, leaving no wake or trail. At 7:55 p.m. it dove silently into the slope ofHill 611 (a mountain 611 meters in height), then jumped up-and-down six times. A very bright light, like flames from a welding torch, was observed coming from the mountain for an hour, then the red ball of light took off. Traces at the site included a fine, glassy metallic fabric debris, lead and iron pellets, and magnetic anomalies. Temperature at the crash site was estimated to have been as high as 25,000 deg C. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_586",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Stonehill, The Soviet UFO Files, p. 92; William R. Corliss, Remarkable Luminous Phenomena in Nature, p. 283" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/29/1987",
  "desc" : "At 5:43 a.m. several Mozambican laborers working in Zimbabwe reported seeing a large, brightly lit balloon-shaped object passing over Chimanimani, Zimbabwe. The witnesses were able to see two men inside the craft. One was dressed in blue and the other in white. The witnesses interpreted the object as \"witch doctors\" traveling from South Africa. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_587",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1987, case # 1050, citing Cynthia Hind, MUFON Symposium Proceedings 1987" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/29/1989",
  "desc" : "A woman in Redding, California reported six giant beige triangular objects that moved from south to north at low altitude at 9:35 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_588",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case 238, citing Robert Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/29/1990",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 a.m. a brilliant disc-shaped object stopped over the town of Montbazon, Indre-Loire department, France, hovered for about a minute, then shot away at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_589",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 301" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/29/1990",
  "desc" : "A huge dark mass flanked by two beacons, and lit by a halo, was seen over farm country in Wellman, Iowa at nine o'clock in the evening. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_590",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case 831, citing UFO Newsclipping Service" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/29/1996",
  "desc" : "At two o'clock in the morning an orange glow was seen in some woods east of Villalba, Lugo, Spain. Then a 25 foot in diameter dome rose from the woods, but sank back down again. It had a metallic door that was visible on one side. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_591",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 17591" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/29/1998",
  "desc" : "A shiny metallic daylight disc, saucer shaped with a dome on top and with row of blinking red lights, was seen flying over Coventry, Rhode Island at two o'clock in the afternoon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_592",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, January 1998 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/29/2000",
  "desc" : "There were several UFO reports made on this evening in and around Sydney, New South Wales, Australia between 8:30 and 11:00 p.m. In one report from South Penrith six witnesses watched four objects that stopped moving across the sky at 9:30 p.m. and then backtracked. At 10:15 p.m. five bright lights in a triangle formation changed to a straight line, looking like balls of fire, giving off what seemed to be smoke. These five bright lights were also observed by a married couple from Glenmore. They reported that after about eight minutes the first light disappeared, then the third one. The object or objects were just below the cloud cover. There were also sightings in Adelaide, South Australia this night. Single and multiple bright orange orbs were seen flying over the city, and they were seen to disappear in vicinity of the Blue Mountains. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_593",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Karen Burden & Robert Frola, Australasian Ufologist, January 2001, pp. 40 & 46; UFO Magazine (USA), June 2000, p. 37" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/29/2001",
  "desc" : "At 12:15 p.m. a resident of the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil reported that first everything froze on the street. Then a UFO appeared overhead with multicolored lights--white, blue and red--spinning on the underside. A door in the object opened, and a tall being with long skinny arms, a skinny body, and a large head appeared in view. The door quickly shut, and the object shot away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_594",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Doug Moffett, Australasian Ufologist, April 2002, p. 36" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/30/1897",
  "desc" : "A mystery airship with an immense artificial bright light was sighted in the early evening by several \"sober observers\" in Hastings, Nebraska. It was estimated to be 12 meters in length, and perhaps 800 feet in the air. Days later it was seen 40 miles south of Invale, Nebraska. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_595",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Omaha Bee, February 2, 1897; Philip Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 3; Loren E. Gross, Charles Fort, the Fortean Society, and UFOs, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/30/1944",
  "desc" : "On this day several 30-cm amber \"foo-fighter\" balls followed some US fighter planes of the 415th Squadron flying southwest of Landau, Germany. They were chased away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_596",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "SOS-OVNI France, Phenomena, issue 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/30/1953",
  "desc" : "Research chemist Wells Alan Webb and two other witnesses were traveling on Highway 80 seven miles east of Yuma, Arizona when a nocturnal light appeared and spun in the sky over a mechanic in a plane; the UFO then accelerated up into the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_597",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Charles Maney & Richard Hall, The Challenge of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 152; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 51; Otto Binder, What We Really Know About Flying Saucers, p. 54" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/30/1956",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. in Lamar, nine miles east of Holdenville, Oklahoma a low flying, 120 foot long ovoid object illuminated an area 15 acres in size; it then pursued four witnesses in a car for 16 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_598",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: January-April, p. 20" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/30/1958",
  "desc" : "At 11:45 p.m. a lawyer, his wife, and their nephew felt an electric shock at a point 220 miles north of Arequipa, Peru heading towards Lima. Several seconds later the headlights and engine of their car failed. An inverted mushroom-shaped object was then observed, about 15 feet in diameter, descending from the sky. It hovered for about eight minutes at a 150-foot altitude, glowing red. A truck and a bus were also affected by the presence of the UFO. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_599",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 90, citing Charles Maney & Richard Hall, The Challenge of Unidentified Flying Objects" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/30/1959",
  "desc" : "A truck driver driving this night on U.S. Route 52 near New Richmond, Ohio saw a bizarre gray \"ugly\" creature with tentacles crossing the road ahead of the truck. Two hours later, just across the border in Covington, Kentucky a woman reported seeing a strange grayish creature with a lopsided chest, ugly tentacles, and rolls of fat running in a bent over fashion. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_600",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1959, citing Bigfoot: Tales of Unexplained Creatures, UFOs, and Psychic Connections" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/30/1965",
  "desc" : "Sid Padrick, age 52, was walking on the beach in Manresa Beach, Santa Cruz County, California just before 2.00 a.m. when he heard a sound and saw a large dark disc-shaped object that approached from the Pacific Ocean. He started to run from it, but heard a voice frpm it saying, “Do not be frightened, we are not hostile.” It descended to within two feet of the beach. Mr. Padrick was invited by the voice to come onboard, which he did. The UFO, which bore no lights, was shaped like a 50 foot sphere with top and bottom cut off, and surrounded by a horizontal flange. The witness entered through a brilliantly lit antechamber, and was met by a young man dressed in a tight fitting, bluish white two piece uniform, continuous with the boots. The UFO occupant identified himself as \"Zeeno\" and said that he came from a planet invisible to us, as it is always behind one of the planets we can see. He further explained that their society had no sickness, vice or crime. Padrick saw on a TV screen another such vessel, identified as their “navigating craft.” He was taken for a ride to a spot in the mountains and brought back to the beach after two hours. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_601",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Major Damon B. Reeder, U.S. Air Force for Project Blue Book; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1965-10 (A0620), citing Paul Cerny; John Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 228; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, August 1965, p. 58 & October 1966, p. 30" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/30/1965",
  "desc" : "A triangular UFO was spotted about 8:30 p.m. by Chad Rayfeld, a 17-year-old high school senior, and several friends in Newport News, Virginia. They estimated it was three times bigger than an automobile, very bright, and moving fast across the James River in the direction of Richmond. At the base of the triangle was an orange light with a white light at the leading apex. The triangle made no noise, and was visible for about 20 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_602",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Newport News (VA) Daily Press, January 31, 1965; Project Blue Book files; J. Allen Hynek personal case files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/30/1967",
  "desc" : "At 7:05 a.m. in Lander, Wyoming Mr. J. Kenney, an ex-Air Force man, sighted a long, thin cigar-shaped object that flew to the northeast for 15 seconds. There was an intense blue light the entire length of the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_603",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1967, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/30/1967",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. CST nine people in Granite City, Illinois reported sighting a cup-shaped object with a dome on top. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_604",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gilbert L. Bernier, UFO-INFO, April 1967, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/30/1967",
  "desc" : "At 8:04 p.m. CST Delton Schwanz, a commercial pilot with 29 years experience and a past U.S. Air Force serviceman, was driving with his wife Della and children Robert, Roger and Diane five miles southwest and 20 miles west of Crosby, North Dakota when they saw a bright white, sharply outlined lozenge-shaped object in the western sky. It had a length to width ratio of 4:1 and an elevation of 15°-20°. It momentarily stopped, then moved in level flight to the left, making a smooth climb in the southwest and dropping white \"strips\" of light that descended vertically. It disappeared to the south at azimuth 170° by ascending to about 30°-45° elevation. Two other men were independent witnesses, driving by car west of Crosby near the intersection of Highways 5 and 85, where they reported seeing a large white light moving rapidly from west to south and dropping a \"piece\" of the object, then vanishing suddenly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_605",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, pp. 64-65; Willy Smith, UNICAT, case # 315" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/30/1968",
  "desc" : "At two o'clock in the morning a security guard in Cinco Picos, The Azores experienced radio interference, then had a close encounter with a saucer-shaped object and two humanoids. The guard shined his flashlight at the disc; he was gassed and fainted; this was followed by 10 minutes of missing time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_606",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 8073; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 93" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/30/1968",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. in Torres, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil a luminous object rose from the sea and descended onto the beach. Next, three stiff-walking figures appeared. There was also telepathy reported. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_607",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 8182, citing Charles Garreau, Soucoupes Volantes, Vingt-cinq Ans d'Enquetes, p. 141; GEPA Phenomenes Spatiaux, December 1968" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/30/1970",
  "desc" : "Two policemen in Mrewa, Zimbabwe saw three shiny metallic oval objects hovering near their cruiser at 9:30 p.m. The headlights went out during the sighting, which ended when the objects moved away at high speed. The headlights did not come back on until 10 minutes after the objects had gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_608",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Eileen Buckle, FSR, September-October 1970, p. 33; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 288, citing FSR, Vol . 16, No. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/30/1971",
  "desc" : "On this night a witness named Nicolae watched a nocturnal light that maneuvered for ten minutes around a central point in the sky over the city of Predeal, Romania. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_609",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 271" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/30/1971",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. in Canelinha, Santa Catalina, Brazil a dog began behaving frantically, and then the witness's lantern went out. Next, a beam of light levitated the observer and that was his last conscious memory. He woke up the next morning at 8:00 a.m. after 12 hours of missing time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_610",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 9771; citing FSR, January 1973" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/30/1973",
  "desc" : "A strange light with a cone on top was seen by a single eyewitness from Benowa Estate, Nerang, Queensland, Australia at 3:45 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_611",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Bernard Delair, The UFO Register (volume 5), case # 39, citing Adelaide Sun Mirror, February 4, 1973" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/30/1979",
  "desc" : "At 7:29 a.m. a young man named Patrick, a previous UFO abductee, was driving in Quitman, Texas when he experienced either an abduction or teleportation experience that included five minutes of unexplained missing time. He found himself in Gilmer, Texas, a distance of 30 miles away from his last known location. He also had a strange cut on his arm. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_612",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard C. Niemtzow, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1979, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/30/1981",
  "desc" : "At around 1 p.m. three photographs were taken of a giant daylight cloud-cigar shaped UFO north of Florence, Arizona with a Kodak Instamatic camera. There were six military witnesses. The whole object could not fit into a single frame. Its apparent size was compared to a 12\" ruler at arm's length. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_613",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, May 1981, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/30/1983",
  "desc" : "Four witnesses were driving in a car down a road in the countryside near Olkusz, Katowice, Poland at around 9 p.m. when they had a close encounter with a cylinder of light, which became a glowing ovoid object. During the encounter they noticed that the surrounding scenery appeared strange and altered. After the experience all observers were very tired. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_614",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bronislaw Rzepecki, FSR, March 1988" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/30/1984",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. nine oil platform workers in a swampy area 50 miles west of Miami in Dade County, Florida watched a 200 foot in diameter domed disc-shaped object with a huge red glow and a silver dome, engage in a high speed vertical descent and then hover for 10 seconds. It then changed color from orange to a metallic chrome color, then back to orange. It also had dozens of flashing lights. It instantaneously moved away to the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_615",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Gribble, International UFO Reporter, March 1984, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/30/1989",
  "desc" : "In the predawn hours in the ocean off Shagwong Point, Long Island, New York a fishing boat's radar system and other electronics failed when it was approached by a light on the sea or hovering just above the water less than a mile away. A diamond shaped UFO estimated to be 150 feet in size was then seen as it moved toward the boat, turned west, and then finally south, making a slight humming sound. There were three witnesses on board and the incident lasted several minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_616",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Philip J. Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 31; Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1991, p. 215, citing the UFO Newsclipping Service" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/30/1989",
  "desc" : "At 9:40 p.m. a witness in Blenfleet, Essex, England spotted a 300-foot long \"bus\" in the sky at 900 feet altitude. It had two rows of windows, and it moved slowly and silently through the sky.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_617",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "1/30/1989",
  "desc" : "Three witnesses in Battle Mountain, Nevada saw a delta-shaped object in the sky with a red light at 5:00 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_618",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case # 16, citing the UFO Newsclipping Service" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/30/1990",
  "desc" : "On this night, from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada a woman church minister claimed she was taken onboard an alien craft that left Earth's gravity. Her next memory was of being inside a huge \"Embryo Fertilization Room.\" Small beings were working on people on tables. Although celibate, she was Impregnated, and later had a miscarriage. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_619",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John F. Schuessler, UFO-Related Human Physiological Effects, p. 103, citing a private communication; Lorne Goldfader, Enigma, St. Louis UFO Study Group, October 1990" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/30/1991",
  "desc" : "In Virginia, Minnesota three witnesses watched a triangular UFO with mulicolored lights for 30 minutes as it hovered 600 feet off the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_620",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case # 1023, citing William I. McNeff" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/30/1993",
  "desc" : "At 7:45 p.m. two teenagers in Oceanside, San Diego County, California watched an ovoid object approach them from the Pacific Ocean. The object stopped over them, then continued on to the east. It had a triangular shape inside or on the side of the object that was spinning. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_621",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1993" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/30/1995",
  "desc" : "At 8:29 p.m. in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania the County Emergency Agency supervisor received a call regarding a triangular ship in the sky that was seen emitting three beams of light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_622",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/30/1995",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. in Olympia, Washington a young girl reported seeing several reptilian or lizard-like humanoids with bright red eyes standing outside her bedroom window. Her father went to investigate but saw nothing. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_623",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case #2340, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/30/1995",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. two witnesses had a close encounter with a white disc-shaped object in Pierceland, Saskatchewan, Canada. The disc-shaped object had windows and \"legs\" and moved slowly over a field, close to the witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_624",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Frank Ducks, 1995 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 11, citing the National Research Council" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/30/1997",
  "desc" : "The abductee received a telepathic warning in advance that she would be taken from her home in San Bernardo, Santiago Province, Chile. At 10:00 p.m. the young woman was abducted for three hours. Her fetus was reportedly taken, and she was found all wet when she was returned. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_625",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17866" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/30/2000",
  "desc" : "A huge black triangular object hovered silently above a crab fishing boat at 11:15 p.m. while the fisherman was engaged in hauling up a line of traps off Farlon Island near San Francisco, California. The man was onboard his 25 foot boat with his dog but had no other witnesses around, when he was hit by a beam of white light from the craft, which caused him fall backwards into the boat's cabin. He grabbed his Rugger 10-22 rifle and fired 100 rounds of .22 caliber ammunition at the bottom of the craft, trying to shoot out the light. While grabbing a second magazine clip he saw a hatch open up on the bottom of the object and two men leaned out, shouting \"Stop shooting at us you idiot.\" He also heard a hissing sound like air escaping from a punctured tire. The object then moved off to the south. A helicopter then appeared and hovered over the boat. The chopper was flat black in color, and it was silent with no markings on it. As the chopper hovered a flash of light was again directed at the boat. He last saw the triangle gain altitude and disappear towards the south. The helicopter was last seen heading towards the Golden Gate Bridge. It is uncertain if what the witness allegedly encountered was a secret U.S. government project, or something even more strange. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_626",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, January 2000 webpage, report uploaded February 2000, p. 16; UFO Magazine (USA), May 2000, p. 16, citing Filer's Files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/30/2004",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. witnesses in Willard, Missouri saw a orange sphere moving slowly across the sky in repeated figure eight patterns. It disappeared completely after 15 minutes.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_627",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Jan. 2004 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/30/2006",
  "desc" : "Around two o'clock in the morning two friends awoke to a low humming sound, and a clattering noise against all the windows of the country house they occupied in Bragg Creek, Alberta, Canada. They looked outside and saw 20 or more tiny blue lights in the sky. They quickly picked up a video camera and began to film. The lights were high in the sky, and maneuvered freely in all directions, at times hovering together, one on top of the other. This continued for about an hour. They then noticed the objects getting much larger as they slowly descended to earth. They claimed they managed to get one or two close ups on video, but the quality was not great. The ridge about 1 ½ miles to the north then began to emit a day-like glow. Most of the objects were now no longer visible, but the humming sound had become almost deafening. Suddenly a strong wind began to blow out of the north, and the light on the ridge pulsated along the horizon, while clouds of smoke appeared to rise up slowly from each of six lit up areas. One of them next tried to make a phone call to a neighbor, but the phone was not working and instead made an unusual buzzing sound. They both leaned out the window to get a better view. Soon after, they heard a very eerie howl, not like any coyote they had ever heard, and almost like a siren but not as perfect. It was followed by a loud blood curling scream, definitely unhuman. A warm strong breeze next came out of the north, and it had a smell like burning plastic. A security light outside kept turning on, and they heard crashing and banging against the house, followed by a scratching along the walls on every side. Both of the witnesses then saw a tall, very pale humanoid figure with glowing eyes that ran across the driveway. Petrified, they shut themselves inside but continued to listen intently. When they next looked out the window they could see the smoke puff up from the illuminated hilltops again, and once again saw tiny blue lights that shot up into the sky, hovered briefly, and began to get smaller as they flew to a high altitude in the sky, where they remained visible for a long time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_628",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Jan. 2006 webpage, report uploade Feb. 14, 2006; Geoff Dittman, 2006 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 31; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2006, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/30/2007",
  "desc" : "At 9:25 a.m. a disc-shaped UFO was sighted over Interstate 270 N in Rockville, Maryland. At 6:44 p.m. CST a smaller object slowly merged with a larger disc-shaped object over Round Lake, Illinois. Then both vanished in a second as it shot up vertically from approximately a mile above the earth into outer space. In Quincy, California at 10:50 p.m. a tri-colored cylinder-shaped object was seen flying at about 500 feet altitude. It disappeared into the mountains 5-10 miles away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_629",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Jan. 2007 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/30/2008",
  "desc" : "Just after midnight a crescent-shaped object with red, green, and white lights was sighted in the sky to the east of Denver, Colorado. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_630",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Jan. 2008 webpage, report uploaded February 14, 2008" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/30/2009",
  "desc" : "At about nine o’clock on a clear sunny day in San Diego, California, when the witness looked out the window of the train he saw two silver disc-shaped objects side by side very close together in the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_631",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Jan. 2009 webpage, report uploaded March 19, 2009" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/30/2012",
  "desc" : "The witness was driving on Interstate 95 near exit 26 in Waltham, Massachusetts at 8:55 p.m. At the time there were construction crews working on both sides of the highway. He next saw a rectangular craft in the sky flashing red and white lights at about the height of a street light. It stretched across the three left lanes of the highway. The craft did not move and appeared dark with flashing lights and a couple of dome-shaped windows. It made absolutely no noise. It had a narrow beam of light that was directed down at the state troopers. The sighting lasted 30 seconds. Half an hour later, driving on the opposite side of the highway, the witness noted that the construction crews had gone, but the state troopers were still there, looking confused. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_632",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Jan. 2009 webpage, report uploaded March 19, 2012" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/31/1916",
  "desc" : "Royal Flying Corps pilot Lt. Morgan was flying at 5000 feet over Rochford, Essex, England on this evening on the lookout for Zeppelins. At 8:25 p.m. he saw an object with a row of lights like the windows on a railway carriage with the blinds drawn. He tried to close but his airplane's engine started malfunctioning. When he fired a pistol at the lights they rose rapidly into the heavens and disappeared out of sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_633",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall,  From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 10 citing J. Morris, p. 81; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 6;  Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland's UFO Phenomenon, p. 89" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/31/1960",
  "desc" : "Six in a boat on the ocean on the coast of Lae, Papua New Guinea saw a 14 meter diameter umbrella-shaped craft swaying back and forth in the sky in overcast skies at around five o'clock in the morning. It had four windows on the underside. It shot up vertically. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_634",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Flying Saucers, May 1962, p. 36; APRO Bulletin, May 1961" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/31/1963",
  "desc" : "An object was reported to have landed in Ganada de Algosaray, Argentina. The Lopez brothers found traces in the grass and evidence of intense heat. There was a police investigation, during which a whitish powder was found at the landing site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_635",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 561, citing Flying Saucer Review, January-February 1966" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/31/1965",
  "desc" : "At 6:15 p.m. three men sighted two discs hovering over some high-tension power lines between Kent and Renton, Washington. The UFOs appeared to be connected to each other. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_636",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 248; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 248; APRO Bulletin, May-June 1965" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/31/1965",
  "desc" : "On the same night a group of people in Torrent, Argentina in the province of Corrientes saw a craft land and five tall, \"Cyclops\" beings (i.e. creatures with only one eye in the middle of their foreheads) emerge. The creatures entered a house and reportedly attempted to abduct a local man, but were driven off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_637",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Phenomenes Spatiaux, June 1965, David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0621; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 263" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/31/1969",
  "desc" : "At around 8:00 p.m. a small “space ship” approached General Moacyr Uchoa and his investigating team on Wilson P. Gusmao’s Alexania Fazenda, Goias State, Brazil where UFO sightings had been occurring frequently for more than a year. It performed some maneuvers before landing 100 meters away. Senor Gusmao left the group of investigators and walked up to within a meter of the vessel, which he found to be only two meters long and a meter wide, hovering 18 inches above the ground. A door in the top of the craft opened, and a crew member stood up in the hatch. He looked at Gusmao while manipulating something on his belt, which Gusmao thought was a camera. Then he turned around, and as if obeying an order a big light arose from the nearby ridge. The occupant then turned to face Gusmao, and he put his hand on his belt again, causing a luminous halo to surround his body. After this, the onlookers could see him only as a ball of light. Then, with a slight gesture, he slipped down again into the craft, which took off rapidly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_638",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Moacyr Alfredo Uchoa, FSR Case Histories, December 1972, p. 15; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-07 (A1022), citing SBEDV and General Moacyr Alfredo Uchoa" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/31/1974",
  "desc" : "A V-Shaped light appeared over a car northeast of Tarbes on highway N21, France around two o'clock in the morning in the Pyrenees. The four witnesses felt heat and electricity, and later had headaches. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_639",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database case 11084; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 133" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/31/1978",
  "desc" : "John C., age 10, and his friends Eddy and Michael H. (8 and 10 years old) were playing on the ice in the playing field of the Montvale Memorial Elementary School in Montvale, New Jersey at 6:15 p.m. It was dark, and the school's floodlights illuminated the field. The boys then noticed a \"plane\" like object that passed slowly over the field. Moments later a second object arrived, which was described as shaped like a square with large yellow lights in each corner, with a slight dome on top and a red light underneath. The object emitted a red beam of light towards the ground, but stopped short before touching it. They next noticed several humanoid figures moving around the school park, walking stiffly. These figures were of average height and bald headed, and dressed in bright yellow outfits with boots and gloves. One of the beings looked different, because he had a larger head which seemed \"creased\" down the middle and had on a brown cape over the yellow suit. As the boys watched the figures, they noted an uncanny silence and an unpleasant sulphur like odor in the area. The figures walked away towards the nearby Public Works Garage. The boys then noticed another figure, this one a woman standing in the parking lot. She had medium long brown hair and wore a dark suit with blue fur around her shoulders and when she walked, she did as if in slow motion. She sat down on a low fence then raised her arm very slowly and pointed to the sky, apparently at another hovering square shaped object. The woman then also walked towards the Public Works building and at one point seemed to appear and disappear as a police vehicle drove by near her. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_640",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, March 1978, p. 36 & April 1978, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/31/1988",
  "desc" : "A woman had a close encounter with a silent charcoal black triangular object while driving in the suburban town of Eureka, Pennsylvania at 6:50 p.m. The object passed only 30 feet above her car. It had three bright white headlights on the side facing her when sighted, six small white lights underneath in two clusters of three, and a red light on the bottom forward. The edges of the object sloped out underneath. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_641",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Stan Gordon, MUFON Field Investigations Database, case # 880940" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/31/1990",
  "desc" : "A huge manta ray shaped object, described as bigger than a 747 without the fuselage, was seen by many witnesses in Piketown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania at 6:30 p.m. It was estimated to be flying at 10,000 feet altitude and had blinking lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_642",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1991, p. 238" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/31/1993",
  "desc" : "A farmer in Dodge County east of Columbus, Wisconsin had a close encounter with a large flat disc-shaped object with a dome on top at 8:10 p.m. It illuminated the farm with light beams that faded and intensified. Sheriff deputies then chased the UFO for 20 miles. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_643",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newspaper Clipping Service, February 1993" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/31/1996",
  "desc" : "Near Romatambo, a remote mountain village in Ancash province, Peru at eight o'clock in the morning, several Quechua Indian shepherds tending their flocks watched six objects fly over the area. According to one of the witnesses, Silvia Bedoya, age 40, the objects apparently emerged from nearby Lake Cococha. The objects formed what seemed like a protective circle around a larger cigar-shaped, mother-ship style object. The flight of the objects illuminated the whole valley in an eerie deep purple light. The \"mother ship\" landed upriver from the village. Soon two occupants emerged from the object. These were described as about a meter tall with large oversized heads, long spindly arms and short bandy legs. They wore gunmetal gray helmets and matching one-piece coveralls. The humanoids took out transparent containers and, ignoring the shepherds, collected many samples, including soil, grass, alpine weeds, and water from the nearby river. Soon the UFOnauts re-entered the large object and all the objects shot away into space at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_644",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 337; Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Volume 1, issue # 15; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case # 2472" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/31/2002",
  "desc" : "A senior INS Border Patrol officer and his dog witnessed a disc-shaped object very quickly pass over their patrol vehicle at 5:30 a.m. in the desert near Jacumba, San Diego County, California. A warbling sound emanated from the object, which the dog reacted to. Seconds later, a dozen more discs are witnessed flying to the east with a delta-shaped object in their midst, then fly off to the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_645",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 18183, citing Filer's Files, Volume 2, Number 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/31/2003",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. a large white object like two saucers rim to rim flew slowly at a low level over a farm field and farmhouses in Villeneuve, Alberta, Canada. There were two witnesses and the sighting lasted almost two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_646",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 18191; Geoff Dittman, 2003 Canadian UFO Survey, case 40, citing Alberta UFO Study Group" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/31/2005",
  "desc" : "At ten o'clock at night a triangular object hovered over a frozen pond in Columbia City, Indiana for three minutes and melted the ice. On the same night in Wood River, Nebraska a bright oval-shaped object allegedly picked up a cow. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_647",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, January 2005 webpage, reports uploaded Feb. 8, 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "1/31/2007",
  "desc" : "At 7:00 p.m. a green hamburger-shaped UFO with porthole hovered 500 feet in the air over Hibbard, Quebec, Canada, making no noise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_648",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case 41" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/1/1897",
  "desc" : "A large glaring light circled for a few minutes in the sky over Hastings, Nebraska at 9:30 p.m. It then descended to an altitude of 200 feet, traveled at a remarkable speed, slowed, and again circled for 15 more minutes. Finally, it descended once more and disappeared mysteriously. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_649",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/1/1948",
  "desc" : "At shortly after two a.m. in Circleville, Ohio a Mr. Stevenson, a hog farmer, witnessed an 18 meter in diameter domed disc that hovered six meters above his hog barn, then flew over a shed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_650",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ed McCann, Circleville Herald, August 3, 1952" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/1/1954",
  "desc" : "Two bright white objects approached a cosmic ray research balloon over Tuscaloosa, Alabama at 2:00 p.m. It was witnessed by several scientists from the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and one of them named Baumgartner took some photographs. The first two objects were joined by four others. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_651",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 22; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 152, citing Loren Gross" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/1/1958",
  "desc" : "A huge luminous disc hovered for more than 30 minutes over farm country in Ladapeyre, France beginning at 11:30 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_652",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 131" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/1/1967",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. three witnesses in Boadilladel Monte, Spain independently saw a craft emitting light signals land a few meters away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_653",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 813" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/1/1968",
  "desc" : "On this night a sentry at Cinco Picos AFB on the Azores Islands, Sr. Serafin Viera Sebastiao, age 36, noticed interference on his transistor radio then saw a UFO so close to the ground that he could see four occupants. The metallic oval object was topped by a transparent \"tower\" with a small balustrade against which two of the beings were leaning. The other two could be seen as silhouettes inside the transparent tower. After telephoning another sentry he approached and shone his flashlight on the craft. He was enveloped in smoke emitted by the UFO and fell to the ground in a faint, where the other sentry found him a few minutes later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_654",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, July-August 1968, p. 34; FSR, September-October 1968, p. 36; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 904; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-14, citing FSR" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/1/1968",
  "desc" : "At 8:15 p.m. two men six miles west of Vernal, Utah named Allred and Barton saw a reddish orange ball of light that was much larger than the biggest star. It moved rapidly, blinked on-off, and disappeared in the south. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_655",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Frank B. Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, Appendix case 60" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/1/1978",
  "desc" : "At 10:20 p.m. the witness saw a large silvery disc-shaped object shoot overhead and land behind some nearby trees in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England. Two figures about six feet tall were next seen standing next to the landed UFO. Both were human looking wearing silvery suits. The UFO then left the area at very high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_656",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 165, citing Nigel Watson, Strange Magazine # 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/1/1993",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m. in Noranda, Western Australia Kylie C. awoke and saw a small figure standing beside her bed, halfway down the side. At the foot of her bed stood three taller beings. The smaller figure had dark almond-shaped eyes, small nostrils, and thin lips. Its head was bald and prominent. It had a potbelly and appeared to have only three fingers on each hand. The witness felt the desire to reach out and touch the figure as an overwhelming feeling of love and compassion embraced her, but she was unable to move or call out. The being moved back and disappeared, but before it did it gave her a telepathic message that \"its not time yet.\" The following morning she was sore behind the ears and found some small pin pricks in the same area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_657",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 2682, citing Brian Richards, UFORUM" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/1/1994",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. the witness's vehicle engine stalled in Badalucco, Italy as a silvery cigar-shaped craft hovered over the road. The craft then directed several beams of light towards the ground. A humanoid figure is also seen standing on the road near the vehicle. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_658",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1994, case # 2506, citing Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 website" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/1/1998",
  "desc" : "At around 2:30 a.m. Rowena Judd was asleep in her bedroom in Freemantle, Western Australia when she suddenly awoke to see a humanoid figure standing at her bedroom door. The figure seemed to be dark in color and had a shining light around it. No facial features could be seen. It seemed to disappear. Two weeks later a beam of light came out of the sky after a loud zipping noise and illuminated the Judd house. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_659",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case # 3022, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup Vol. 3 # 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/2/1954",
  "desc" : "At 7:45 p.m. in Greenwich, Connecticut a low-flying luminous disc-shaped object turned north and followed the local river upstream. It glowed from the inside, and scared the two boys named Morrell and Moshier who observed it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_660",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: January-May, p. 32" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/2/1955",
  "desc" : "At 11:15 a.m. Dario Celis and his co-pilot Cortes were flying 25 miles southwest of Barquisimento, Venezuela when their radio cut out. Their aircraft was then buzzed by a multicolored Saturn or top-shaped object that was rotating counterclockwise. The body of the craft was green, but around the center of the object was a red ring or band that emitted flashes of brilliant light. Above and below this band were lighted portholes.  The UFO leveled off and raced away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_661",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 249; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 74; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/2/1955",
  "desc" : "At the Miramar Naval Air Station, California at 11:50 a.m. USN Cmdr. J. L. Ingersoll sighted a highly polished sphere with reddish-brown coloring. The object appeared to be falling in the sky, then it instantly accelerated to between 1,000-1,500 m.p.h. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_662",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 3416; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1955: January-June, p. 19; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/2/1958",
  "desc" : "At 3:30 p.m. farmer Yasukichi Nakaguchi and his son, and Kametaro Takuma, saw an egg-shaped object that landed silently in Hokkaido, Japan. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_663",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 459" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/2/1958",
  "desc" : "At 8:15 p.m. a UFO with a cone-shaped orange flame at its tail moved southwest to northeast over Seacombe Gardens, Adelaide, South Australia. It made a droning noise like a motor, and flew at an estimated altitude of 20,000 feet. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_664",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 163" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/2/1966",
  "desc" : "Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Wise of Salisbury, North Carolina saw a silver colored, diamond-shaped object in the sky at 11:15 p.m.. It had several smaller balls of light constantly circling it in very fast motion around it in a dazzling light show. The UFO hovered over some trees for 3-4 minutes while a dog barked, and then zipped out of sight. The sighting lasted for an hour. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_665",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 10193; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 52; Lloyd Mallan, Science and Mechanics, December 1966, p. 30" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/2/1967",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m. pilot Sanvitti and co-pilot Calderon were onboard a Fawcett Airlines DC-4 airliner flying between Chiclayo and Lima, Peru when their plane was paced by a cone-shaped object. The aircraft's magnetic compass oscillated 15 degrees left, then 20 degrees right, the cabin lights dimmed, and their radio went out. The bright luminous UFO first came toward them, then stopped above them giving off a blue beam of light; it went away, then came at then again joined by a second object flying behind. Finally, both UFOs sped away. The close encounter lasted for more than six minutes, and was witnessed by a total of 58 passengers and crew. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_666",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 9, 118 & 326, UNICAT case #551, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, April 1982, p. 16; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 187" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/2/1968",
  "desc" : "On this night Serafin Vieria Sebastiao, a military sentry at Criaco do Cabrito on the Azores Islands noticed interference on his transistor radio and then saw a UFO so close to the ground that he could see four of its occupants. The UFO was oval shaped and metallic, and was topped by a transparent \"tower\" with a small balustrade. Two beings were leaning against the railing, the other two could be seen as silhouettes inside the transparent tower. After phoning another sentry he approached the craft and shone his flashlight on it. Immediately he was enveloped in a fog or smoke emitted by the UFO, and he fell to the ground in a faint. The second sentry found him a few minutes later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_667",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-14, citing FSR, July-August 1968; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case 37" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/2/1969",
  "desc" : "On this night near near Nuble, Chile--close to the \"Los Francos\" thermal springs--a strange sphere was seen passing overhead. Two car engines started by themselves even though their batteries were disconnected. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_668",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 259, citing CONTACT (UK)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/2/1971",
  "desc" : "Two women, Mrs. Sinikka Kuittinen and Mrs. Manninen were driving from Kuusamo, Finland towards Oulu at 8 p.m. when in the town of Kiiminki they observed a light behind the car on the right hand side of the road. After some time the light passed over to the left side of the road, during which the ears of Mrs. Kuittinen plugged up. When they came to a field the light disappeared. Suddenly Mrs. Kuittinen, who was driving, saw a one meter tall creature with a helmet on its head. It was clad in a brown-green coverall suit and crossed the road using small jumps, disappearing on the other side of the road. There were no houses or other buildings in the area. The women were very scared and did not stop to investigate if it had left tracks, but drove straight to Oulu. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_669",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, August 1972; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-05, citing Mervi Virtanen" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/2/1977",
  "desc" : "A 21-year-old man reported to police in Concord, California that on leaving a restaurant at 4:10 a.m. he was confronted by two short, gray-skinned men with large skulls, no hair, and eyes with black pupils. The next thing he knew he was in a school playing field and facing a circular craft. The craft had landed on the ground there and had a ladder extending toward him. Next he found himself inside the object with no recollection as to how he got there. He was examined by the beings, and told telepathically that they were on \"a mission to study life habits\" on Earth. They also told him that their craft was from a larger ship located outside the Earth's atmosphere. While on board he stuck his hand into a chamber, which cause \"all sorts of lights to go off.\" Finally, he found himself outside an apartment complex in Concord, where for 15 minutes he was paralyzed and unable to move. He called the police at 5:33 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_670",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case Humcat 1977-06, citing The Concord Transcript" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/2/1980",
  "desc" : "Two aliens briefly paralyzed a female witness in Araguari, Brazil. The beings were described as being a little bit over one meter in height and having large heads. They used a small object that emitted a luminous beam. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_671",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1980, citing Revista Brasileira de Ufologia" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/2/1995",
  "desc" : "A woman woke up at three a.m. in her home near Dallas, Texas and found herself staring at a short thin white being in her bedroom. She was lying on her right side and its face was only slightly above hers. It was about 3 or 4 feet tall. Next she saw movement out of the corner of her left eye and saw its hand lift slowly off her shoulder. The hand had three very long, white, slender fingers with rather bulbous tips on the ends. The creature was very white and frail looking. Its abdomen was sunken and hollow looking which made its chest seem to protrude. The being moved slowly toward the top of her head. She had the feeling that the being was scanning her mind. A cold paralysis or electric sensation spread throughout her body as she heard the being whisper something. Her next memory was of seeing the being standing by the hallway staring at her. She then went back to sleep. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_672",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, case # 2978, citing Amy Lynn" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/2/2000",
  "desc" : "Several people in Priolo, Siracusa, Sicily, Italy saw a humanoid figure suspended high in the sky over the sea at eight o'clock in the morning. Others claimed the object resembled a silver bullet. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_673",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (UK), May 2000, p. 10; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, citing UFO Roundup" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/3/1953",
  "desc" : "At 3:15 p.m. a silver disc-shaped object silently zig-zagged to evade US military jets over Dietrich, Idaho. It then shot off toward the west at a very high altitude. Project Blue Book lists the explanation for the encounter as due to a weather balloon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_674",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, February 1953, case 9; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: January-February, p. 74" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/3/1954",
  "desc" : "At 11:15 a.m. a rotating top-shaped object, with beams of light streaming from its portholes, was seen by several on board an airliner flying near Barquisimeto, Venezuela. Radio contact with the control tower was interrupted when the plane's radio operator tried to tell the airport about the UFO. The UFO was green with a red strip in middle, and descended very rapidly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_675",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 22; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: January-May, p. 34; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 65" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/3/1957",
  "desc" : "A woman named Salter was driving in an uninhabited part of Georgetown, Connecticut around ten p.m. when she encountered a five-meter long cigar-shaped object close to the ground on the left side of the road. It had several portholes, half a meter in diameter, that were lit by a yellow light. She saw shadows moving about inside. After a short while the UFO took off going straight up. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_676",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0416, citing investigator Harvey Courtney, APRO Bulletin, March-April 1962, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/3/1964",
  "desc" : "At 2:00 a.m. a woman in Gum Creek, South Australia awoke to a bright light in her room. She saw a man approximately five feet four inches tall with a red face and a big nose in her room. He held a black box that buzzed when he pointed it at her. He also wore a helmet, green coveralls, and a brown jacket. She sank back into her bed and fell asleep. She later became a UFO contactee. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_677",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bill Chalker & Keith Basterfield, Australian Catalogue of Close Encounter Type Three Reports, p. 13; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0581, citing Keith Basterfield; David F. Webb, Proceedings of the CUFOS Conference: 1976, p. 267" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/3/1965",
  "desc" : "At 10:45 p.m. several people witnessed a large, seven-meter diameter disc-shaped UFO ascend from the beach in South Brighton, New Zealand. It emitted a whistling noise as it rose up, and dogs in the area behaved in a highly agitated manner. Flattened dune grass was discovered at the landing site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_678",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 69; Jacque Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 635, citing the Press Evening Post, February 4, 1965; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume 2: A Thirty Year Report, p. 262" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/3/1967",
  "desc" : "Numerous witnesses saw UFOs with flashing lights and domes maneuvering in the sky over Piggott, Arkansas. Small satellite objects and merging objects were seen during the event. Dogs reacted by barking. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_679",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 71" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/3/1977",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. several children at a youth camp in Tasmania, Australia at Seven-Mile Beach observed a stationary, dome-shaped object hovering near the beach. The object then moved behind some trees, partially obscuring it. On the dome was a row of windows through which at least two of the children reported seeing a thin humanoid figure with a round head. It seemed to be moving back and forth behind the window. One child described the object as similar to two plates placed edge to edge, with flashing yellow white lights along the edge and a red light on top of the dome. The object disappeared from view behind the trees. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_680",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-68, citing Tasmanian UFO Investigation Centre" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/3/1981",
  "desc" : "At 9:40 p.m. a luminous ovoid object maneuvered at 30 meters altitude in Ross, Tasmania and paced a car. When the car approached a hotel, it shot straight up and out of sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_681",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Keith Roberts, UFO Research Australia Newsletter, May 1982, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/3/1983",
  "desc" : "At 1:10 a.m. a 28-year-old woman observed a very large metallic, cylindrical flying object with structural detail up close while driving on a highway near Mobile, Alabama. She could see 20-30 occupants inside through the windows. They appear to pay no attention to her, although she feels a sense of euphoria during the event. She had earlier had dreams of a UFO abduction encounter including a physical exam. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_682",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ed Brown, APRO Bulletin, May 1984, p. 1; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 103" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/3/1984",
  "desc" : "Mr. Jonsson was driving home in Tingsryd, Sweden at around 1:00 a.m. when he saw a disc-shaped object 80 meters across and some 5-10 meters above the road ahead of him. He got to his home, got his camera, and went back to the site of his encounter. His car stalled, and he recalled seeing several beings who attempted to abduct him. He had nearly two hours of missing time. An independent witness verified seeing the UFO. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_683",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Doris Graziano, APRO Bulletin, June 1985, p. 8; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 270" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/3/1994",
  "desc" : "Six witnesses, including a Mr. Giulo, observed a strange humanoid wandering around on the nearby rocky shore in Ancona, Italy at 9:00 a.m. The humanoid was described as about 1.5 meters tall and wearing a tight-fitting black coverall that covered his entire body including his unusually long feet. The face was elongated with two huge round eyes that had round black pupils. The creature appeared to be wearing earphones and a helmet with a thin protruding antenna on one side. It seemed to stagger as it moved slowly. After ten minutes it rose up, slowly and vertically, into the air, disappearing from sight quickly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_684",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1994, case # 2507, citing CISU Italy" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/4/1951",
  "desc" : "A young girl, who was to have other UFO encounters later in life, was playing in her garden in Withdean, East Sussex, England between 6:30 and 7:00 p.m. when she saw a hovering disc-shaped object with a transparent dome on top. Inside the dome she could see three men, and they appeared to be looking down at her. The domed object made a descent into the garden and three humanoids with bald, domed heads exited. The men wore khaki-colored outfits, and carried a weird looking object. They floated toward the girl, then reversed direction, reboarded, and took off. Their exit was \"like a film in reverse.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_685",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jenny Randles, Alien Contacts and Abductions, p. 65" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/4/1953",
  "desc" : "At 1:50 p.m. U.S. Weather Bureau observer Stanley H. Brown in Yuma, Arizona, using a theodolite, sighted a dull white, oblong object that was tracked flying straight up vertically, then leveling off and being joined by a second, similar looking object. The second UFO twice flew away and returned to the first. The two dull white objects maneuvered errratically, then in unison against the wind, one degree apart. A thin mist was seen around the edges of the objects.After five minutes both objects were lost to sight behind some clouds. A Project Blue Book unknown. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_686",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2388; UNICAT case # 795, citing Dr. James E. McDonald; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 40; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 240; Project Blue Book Report #10, February 27, 1953; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 78" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/4/1954",
  "desc" : "At 5:29 p.m. four air traffic controllers at Carswell AFB in Fort Worth, Texas sighted and tracked on radar a huge cigar-shaped object that flew without making any noise at 4,000 feet altitude. Separate blips on the radar screen parted and rejoined. The sighting lasted 10 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_687",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, p. 281" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/4/1955",
  "desc" : "A woman on a moped saw four blue-green lights in the middle of a vineyard in Cerat, Pyrennes-Orientales, France at 7:25 p.m. The lights were arranged in an arc, five feet above the ground. Two tall beings stood motionless nearby.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_688",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "2/4/1965",
  "desc" : "On or about this date several people in Torrent, Corrientes province, Argentina observed five luminous objects in flight at night. A transparent craft landed, and five creatures about two meters high, with one eye in the forehead and flashing helmets, emerged and tried to abduct one of the villagers. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_689",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 636; citing Charles Bowen, FSR Special Issue # 1: The Humanoids, p. 39" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/4/1973",
  "desc" : "While driving from Iron Knob to Kimba, South Australia on Route One, Brian Hunt and his passenger, Miss Sharon Kinckler, observed a red light at 9:50 p.m. approximately 32 kilometers northeast of Kimba. It was in a clearing to the right of the road. As they passed it, the two observed a red orange lighted area of rectangular shape, about 10 feet high by 5 feet wide, in which they saw a sharply defined man in a white spacesuit. The figure was of normal height and appeared to be of ordinary shape, but was suspended some 2-3 inches above the ground. He floated into the middle of the lighted area some 2-3 feet above the base. Brian called this to his companion's attention as he accelerated past the scene, and Sharon was able to see the orange glow spread across the entire highway behind them. When they arrived at Miss Kinckler's home in Kimba, they called the local police and a constable accompanied them back to the site. The light was gone and no traces were found. Two other independent witnesses were subsequently located by investigators. Mr. Allen Degnor, a Ceduna truck driver who passed by the same area at 10.00 p.m. described essentially the same phenomenon. Mr. Max Inglis, who had passed Brian and Sharon just before reaching the site of the strange phenomenon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_690",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-03, citing Dean Piovesan, Peter Horne, Peter Howell and Keith Basterfield" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/4/1977",
  "desc" : "Basford, Staffordshire, England - At 2:25 a.m. an automobile club patrolman sighted a luminous orange object at some distance from his car. His two-way radio had heavy static while the object was in view. There was simultaneous radio interference at the Stafford police headquarters. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_691",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 407, citing Northern UFO Network News, 1977" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/4/1977",
  "desc" : "At 1:30 p.m. several schoolboys at Broad Haven school in Pembrokeshire, Wales saw a huge silvery object on the ground about 300 yards away from them in an adjoining field. David George, age 9, said it was making a humming sound, and looked like a saucer with a point on top. He saw a man with long pointed ears and wearing a silver suit standing next to it. Tudor Jones, age 10, Jeremy Passmore, age 9, and David Ward, age 10, also saw the being. David Ward said, \"the people wore green--they had sort of cameras---and they had pointed ears.\" The landed UFO was still there at 2 p.m. The object was a seen third time, again in the same place for five minutes, by a total of 14 boys and one girl. Their drawings show a domed, disc-shaped object. The site where the UFO was seen was surrounded by a muddy swamp; no traces were found. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_692",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-07, citing Randall Jones Pugh, BUFORA; Randall Jones Pugh, FSR" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/4/1999",
  "desc" : "Jorge Alfonso was walking his dog in Cabo Frio, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil at 8:30 p.m. when he noticed a bright light some distance away. Thinking that it was a car that had broken down he approached to offer assistance. As he got nearer the light he was surprised to see that it was an object about three meters in diameter. Through a doorway he could see a humanoid operating some type of controls. He approached to within 30 meters of the object. Two minutes later the craft rose slowly up and disappeared into the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_693",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1999, citing Thiago Luiz Ticchetti, EBE-ET" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/5/1883",
  "desc" : "A huge fireball flew over Lake Glasfjorden near Arvika, Sweden towards the northwest for 18 seconds. It turned toward the southeast and zigzagged through the sky for an additional 50 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_694",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Willy Smith, International UFO Reporter, May-June 1984, p. 4, citing Nature, March 1883" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/5/1934",
  "desc" : "On this evening an unknown mysterious airplane made an emergency landing on Fager Mountain in Malsev, Troms, Norway. Two men were seen clearing away snow, and the engine noise was heard throughout the valley. Parallel marks in found in the snow, 75 meters in length, as well as two sets of footprints. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_695",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John A. Keel, FSR, July-August 1971, p. 18; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0107" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/5/1950",
  "desc" : "Seven people witnessed two cylindrical objects maneuvering in the sky at 5:10 p.m. near Falmouth Airport on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. A fireball dropped from one of them, then they climbed into the western sky and disappeared. Listed as a Project Blue Book \"unknown\" case. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_696",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Cape Cod Standard Times, February 6, 1950; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 17; Project Blue Book, February 1950 summary report" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/5/1963",
  "desc" : "On or about this date a student, Anastasio Lenven, saw an object land on the school grounds in Asuncion, Paraguay. In a separate observation, several residents, including an official of the Ministry of the Interior, saw an object flying at very high speed over the city. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_697",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 562" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/5/1967",
  "desc" : "At 1:45 a.m. a boomerang-shaped object was seen for six minutes by seven musicians and five other observers in Oakland City, Indiana. The UFO flew off to the northwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_698",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 27" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/5/1967",
  "desc" : "On this evening Timothy Johnson, a 14-year-old teenager in Hilliards, Ohio heard his dog barking and a strange noise, and then saw an 75-foot long ovoid object descend with tripod legs extended. The UFO had a rotating pattern of lights and came down to 30 feet over some railroad tracks, then landed near a school. It made a steady humming sound. From an elevator-like shaft came five or six tall, human-looking figures wearing black robes, who placed small spheres around the craft. A man walked up to them and appeared to speak with the entities. The teen was then noticed and the man ran after him, catching him by the back of the neck and causing burn marks. The man next dragged Timothy almost to the craft when his captors suddenly became panic-stricken, dropped him, hurriedly gathered up the spheres, and reboarded the craft, which took off rapidly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_699",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, May-June 1967, p. 6; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 816; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 326, 472; Raymond E. Fowler, Casebook of a UFO Investigator, p. 181; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-13 (A0782)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/5/1967",
  "desc" : "At 9:45 p.m. M. Louis Monin, age 49, was outside his house in Sauvigny-les-Bois, L'Yonne, France when he saw an intensely yellow luminous ovoid object coming at very low altitude over a nearby cemetery. He called his 17-year-old granddaughter Marie Solange to watch it. The fat cigar-shaped object approached, then oscillated and turned red-orange, and finally landed in Monin's garden, 110 feet away from them. It was about 60 feet long and 20 feet high. At each end of the cigar was a jet of \"flames,\" directed obliquely downward, and a crackling noise could be heard. Next, a stout little man, 3.5-4.0 feet tall, appeared standing beside the object. Monin and his granddaughter immediately went back into the house to call his wife, but when the three of them came out again the little man was gone and the UFO now appeared as a red-luminous ball about 25 feet in diameter. This ball took off and was soon lost from view. The observation lasted five minutes, and no landing traces were found in the garden. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_700",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-14 (A0783), citing M. Copin & Fernand Legarde for LDLN; UNICAT, case # 608, citing Joel Mesnard, GEPA Phenomenes Spatiaux, December 1969" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/5/1968",
  "desc" : "Nicholas Rinaldi, age 38, a commercial artist, observed a large cigar-shaped object at low level in rural Cromwell, Connecticut at 8:25 p.m.  He tried to approach it in his car but it flew away. This was his third low-level sighting of a dark cigar-shaped UFO since his first spectacular close encounter on January 24, 1967 with 19 other separate witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_701",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald A. Johnson, on-site investigation" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/5/1970",
  "desc" : "On this day a spinning domed disc-shaped object, glowing orange and blue, approached three observers at Chesterfield Inlet, Northwest Territory, Canada to within 50-60 feet. The motors of their three snowmobiles quit working. The disc shot straight up vertically and was gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_702",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UNICAT, case # 133, citing L. Couvrette" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/5/1971",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon two young men, P. Aliranta and E. J. Sneck, were working in the woods in Kangaskyla, Kinnula, Finland when Mr. Aliranta noticed a 15 foot wide metallic saucer-shaped object descend and land on four thin legs in a clearing 50 feet away. After it landed a short entity just under 3 feet tall glided to the ground from an opening in the underside. It was dressed in a green one-piece \"diver's suit\" and wore a helmet with a circular faceplate. It approached the young men, walking on top of the deep snow, and Aliranta moved toward it with his power chain saw in hand. Through three windows in the upper part of the object three more entities could be seen. The humanoid retreated from Aliranta and was levitating into the object from underneath when the young man grabbed it by the heel of its boot with his bare hand. He found that touching it burned like a hot iron and he had to let go at once. As soon as the being was back inside the object it ascended with a slight buzzing or humming sound. Both men felt stiff all over and had difficulty moving. Four landing leg marks and small footprints were left behind in the snow. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_703",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Tapani Kuningas, FSR Vol. 17 # 5; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1102, citing Tapani Kuningas" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/5/1972",
  "desc" : "In Evillers, France a red disc with blurry edges flew silently toward the north at a steady speed until gone from view. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_704",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1974" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/5/1976",
  "desc" : "Two women saw a dark domed disc with red and white lights through a second floor bedroom window at their home in France. Inside the transparent dome they could see two human like figures. They had tight fitting hoods on their heads. The UFO flew away over an orchard. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_705",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1861, citing Joel Mesnard" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/5/1978",
  "desc" : "Thirty miles east of Baladonia, Western Australia a 30-year-old truck driver was paced by a UFO on the Eyre Highway at around one o'clock in the morning. At some point during the incident, a brightly lighted object passed him, and then a small dull light pursued him for 30 minutes, retreating only when other traffic approached. He then had three hours of lost memory. The only memory he had was of a fragmentary recollection of some conversation with an entity about an invention. At sometime after four a.m. he found himself a few miles outside the town, with most of his clothing scattered about the truck cab. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_706",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bill Chalker, MUFON UFO Journal,  August 1980, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/5/1978",
  "desc" : "Thirty-year-old Julio Fernandez and his English Pointer dog Mus were driving in his car to do some early morning hunting for hares. They were driving towards Soria province, Spain. At about 4:30 a.m. Julio stopped to drink coffee and anis at a wayside bar known as the Hostal 113, beside the highway on the outskirts of Algora. At 5:45 a.m. Julio left the bar and drove on, half an hour later passing Medicaneli. Suddenly he \"knew\" that he had to be at a certain location 15 km further on, and put his foot down on the accelerator. At this point his conscious recollection stopped.<br/><br/> Later under hypnotic regression Julio remembered driving his car when for no accountable reason he suddenly braked. From this point on the car seemed to act of its own accord, reversing, and then coming to a halt after having entered a narrow dirt trail backwards. Then the engine stopped, the lights went out, and the radio cassette player ceased to work. It was as though the electrical current had been completely severed, because the new battery no longer charged and the plugs no longer sparked properly.<br/><br/> Mus started growling, so as a precaution Julio took his Winchester single barrel, semi-automatic shotgun out of the trunk and loaded it with its maximum of five carriages. It was then that he caught sight of two somehat human looking beings coming down the road. They halted only one and a half meters from him. They wore seamless one-piece pastel green coveralls that reached to the feet and gave off a very faint luminosity. Their uniforms had no zippers nor openings and gathered at the waists. The suits were sufficiently tight fitting for their muscles to show. They wore pale yellow cowls or hoods, leaving only the face uncovered.<br/><br/> The men were about two meters tall and had extremely broad shoulders, with powerful dorsal muscles showing prominently, narrow waists, and they seemed unusually athletic. Among features that set them apart from ordinary human beings were the exceptionally long arms and hands, large crania and very large eyes. Julio felt a sense of peace and calm envelop him. When they addressed him he at first thought they were using speech, but later realized that their lips did not move, so he assumed they communicated telepathically with him.<br/><br/> They asked him to calm down and to follow them. Julio obeyed, taking along his dog and the gun. Julio was then led to a huge mushroom-shaped craft that had been concealed behind two hills in the bottom of a small valley, though hovering four meters above the ground. It was shaped like an inverted soup plate, had a matt, silvery metallic color, and appeared to have a diameter of about 60 or 70 meters and a height of some 15 to 20 meters.<br/><br/> Arriving underneath the central area of the craft, Julio noticed its had a completely smooth surface, as though molded in one piece, with no rivets or fittings. At this point he became aware of a powerful odor of pine, or possibly ozone, a smell also detectable on board. Julio's gun and knife levitated upwards into the craft. A smooth metallic cylinder then emerged silently from the center of the disc, stopping just above the ground. It was about four meters in height and 2.5 meters in diameter. A door, sliding upwards, opened in the descended cylinder's wall, revealing a small compartment lit by a strange white light coming from everywhere that Julio found disturbing.<br/><br/> By now frightened, he hesitated before stepping through the door into the shaft. The dog refused to follow him so Julio had to drag him in. What was now an interior elevator rose silently, stopping at an entrance to a corridor, where they alighted. Further along was another corridor, with two metallic doors, about 2.5 meters high. The whole appearance of the place was the most clinically aseptic. The walls were continuous with the ceiling, being joined by a gentle curve. Continuing along the circular passage, he came to a small ladder. The ladder looked like the steps of a swimming pool, with a very shiny finish and a cylindrical handrail. One of the beings led the way up, scaling the steps in two jumps with phenomenal agility. With some difficulty Julio followed, carrying the dog under his right arm and with the gun over his shoulder. He noticed the railing felt cold. At the top of the ladder was another individual who assured Julio that he had nothing to worry about. The \"flight deck\" was about 15 meters wide and five meters high. In the center stood a kind of console. It had some resemblance to an electronic organ. It was about 2.5 meters wide and had set metal footings with a transparent screen. The control table itself stood upon a circular platform. Elsewhere stood three smaller consoles set around the circumference of the room, in front of which were high conical seats. Also set close to the surrounding wall was a large square lead gray panel and a metallic rectangular table.<br/><br/> Set around the dome at intervals of about one and a half meters were rectangular windows made out of something like smoked glass. Meanwhile, his dog Mus had been around the flight deck, sniffing at everything, including at least one of the aliens, who reacted in a surprised manner. When Julio called out to his dog, the sound of its name evoked surprise among the entities. On asking where his hosts originated, Julio received an unintelligible mental response, including the expression \"three seven, squared.\"<br/><br/> The aliens indicated that they would like to examine his dog and take blood samples from him. Mus was carried to a rectangular table and blood from his paw was extracted using a fairly normal looking syringe. The men then communicated to Julio that they wanted to examine him and placed him behind the screen on the rectangular table. After a few minutes he was given to understand that was all to be required of him. But in subsequent recollections---which proved harder to recover and which clearly he found disturbing---Julio said that numerous samples had been extracted from him, including blood, semen, urine, spinal fluid, saliva, and gastric juices. He believed that two women, similar facially to the men, were also onboard at the time. Julio was ordered to sit on one of the seats at the central console. Next to Julio sat one of the crewmembers who raised the left armrest and nimbly fingered several silvery buttons. The seat began to revolve along a track in the central console. Julio continued to sit beside the crewmember, his dog and gun at his side. Suddenly, a brief, piercing whistle was heard, producing a slight commotion on the flight deck.<br/><br/> The tallest of the three crew members quickly headed toward one of the consoles and all three studied the remote viewing screens in front of them. An image appeared of an older looking man. The crew members began talking among themselves. The man on the screen seemed to be a superior and spoke first, and then the others conversed with him. The language sounded harsh to Julio, he described it as sounding like a mixture between German and Korean. They seemed to spit out the words as they were talking, and some of the sounds were like coughs. The image disappeared from the viewing screen and Julio found himself back in telepathic communication with his hosts. Hectic activity ensued; as crewmembers started desperately pushing buttons. The central platform began to rotate in a counterclockwise direction, halting when the control console came in line with what Julio assumed was a \"computer.\" Another whistling sound could be heard, from which point Julio seems to have passed out. After another whistle Julio was awake again. The crewmembers showed interest in Julio's gun and, passing it around among themselves, asked him about its use. A heavy smoker, Julio lit a cigarette. The men asked if they might take one away for study and deposited it into the same cylinder. Soon Julio was escorted to the lift cylinder, the metal door rose and he was back outside, in bright sunlight.<br/><br/> He staggered back to his car, where his dog awaited him, having run ahead. The car engine now worked, and he drove away without bothering to look back at the disc. Among the information imparted telepathically to Julio by the UFOnauts was that other, shorter beings were coming here who employed less ethical methods. These others, it was explained, \"are engaged in probing and programming\" the minds of those humans whom they have contacted or kidnapped. Julio Fernandez was killed in a car crash in 1992, coincidentally near the site where he claimed to have been abducted. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_707",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1979, p. 15, citing Cronica, May 22, 1979; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1918; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions The Measure of a Mystery, case 143, citing FSR, February 1985, p. 4; Timothy Good, Unearthly Disclosure, pp. 126-139" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/5/1978",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. a corporate pilot flying northwest of Klamath Falls, Oregon had a close encounter with a V-formation of ten bright orange-white lights which paced his plane, climbed rapidly, then sped away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_708",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, p. 124" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/5/1979",
  "desc" : "A young man driving in Lawitta, Tasmania, Australia experienced the brilliant illumination of his car at 9:50 p.m. by a bright white light that enveloped his car. His car radio died, then the engine and headlights, and he experienced paralysis and other physiological effects. He next experienced several hours of missing time and memory loss.  He was treated for shock. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_709",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 24, 258, 303 & 456; MUFON UFO Journal, August 1980, p. 6; Jenny Randles, Time Storms: Amazing Evidence for Time Warps, Space Rifts, and Time Travel, p. 37" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/5/1979",
  "desc" : "At 2:00 a.m. two women spotted a UFO while driving home from work in Brick Township, New Jersey. It was bright orange, fuzzy semi-circular with blue tints. It was seen just above the treeline, and estimated to be the size of a Zeppelin. It hovered over a lake near the airport, and then over the airport. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_710",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Asbury Park (NJ) Press, February 5, 1979; UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1979, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/5/1990",
  "desc" : "At 2:35 a.m., on an overcast night, a witness in Richmond, British Columbia first noticed a light outside the apartment building window, which came closer and became a deep red, glowing hamburger bun-shaped UFO. The object changed exterior coloration on approach from white to red. The witness roused a friend to observe the receding object, and the man and woman watched as it turned to first pink and then white as it flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_711",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dan Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, August 1990, p. 21, field investigator Michael Strainic" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/5/1990",
  "desc" : "In Pensacola, Florida at 6:30 p.m. a 36-year-old man saw a 20-foot in diameter disc-shaped object with a steady white light on top and a pulsating red light on the bottom. He called his wife and another witness to come watch. The object followed a curved flight path with a wobbling motion. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_712",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Carol & Rex Salisberry, MUFON CDROM database of UFO reports, case #900327" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/5/1990",
  "desc" : "At 9:15 p.m. in North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania a couple in their mid-thirties saw a oval-shaped object with pointed appendages and the top and bottom that hovered at 20 to 30 feet above the ground. The body of the craft was silver-white. There were rows of silver squares on side, which were rotating around the craft. It also had a row of red, green and blue lights that flashed in unison.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_713",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Wayne Willis, MUFON CDROM database of UFO reports, case #900407" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/5/1993",
  "desc" : "In Pensacola Beach, Florida a ten meter long \"helicopter\" without rotors emitted three sets of four balls of light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_714",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 15959, citing UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1993" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/5/1995",
  "desc" : "In Greenville, North Carolina a square-shaped object with stripes buzzed a car at 1:30 a.m., then followed the car home. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_715",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 17105, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/5/2000",
  "desc" : "A motorist driving in St. Andre de Cubzac, Gironde, France at around two o'clock in the morning reported to the government that he saw a luminous phenomenon moving quietly and slowly at low level, which then hovered above a nearby wood. Its distance while hovering was 200 meters, with an estimated altitude of 150 meters. The sighting lasted 30-40 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_716",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "GEIPAN, case # 320" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/5/2000",
  "desc" : "In Lordsburg, New Mexico two enormous \"mothership\" craft were reportedly seen on the ground eight miles away. The estimate of their size was more than 2,500 feet in diameter. Small satellite craft were also seen departing and returning. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_717",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), May 2000, p. 16, citing Filer's Files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/6/1953",
  "desc" : "At 1:13 a.m. PST a B-36 was flying in the vicinity of Rosalia, Washington inbound to Spokane AFB when a round white omni-directional light was sighted. The light was at an altitude of approximately 7,000 feet on a southeasterly course, and began circling the B-36 and rising above it as the aircraft approached it.  The light was visually observed for a period of three to five minutes. The B-36 made a 180 degree turn toward the light which was estimated to be moving at a speed of 150 to 200 knots.The report contains a very accurate sighting description, showing that the object circled as the B-36 approached it, and the light commenced flashing at short intervals. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_718",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p 133; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 240; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 20" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/6/1963",
  "desc" : "A 21-year-old painter name Salmaso, walking through the snowy woods outside of Padua, Italy saw a very large, round luminous UFO. Nearby stood a man wearing a garment that appeared to be made of a cellophane-like material. He took four photos before the man climbed aboard the craft and took off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_719",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "James Moseley, Saucer News, June 1963, p. 21; CUFOS files, newspaper clipping dated February 11, 1963; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0558" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/6/1966",
  "desc" : "At 5:05 a.m. Mr. & Mrs. K. R. Gulley of Nederland, Texas sighted a yellow lighted disc or tadpole-shaped object at 500 feet altitude. It cast a pulsating red glow that illuminated their lawn. Their house lights went out, and a high frequency sound disturbed the ears of both witnesses.The sighting lasted from 5-10 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_720",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 17; The Hynek UFO Report, p. 186; UNICAT, case # 287; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 10196; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 52" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/6/1966",
  "desc" : "A domed disc-shaped object maneuvered through the sky over Obispo Trejo, Cordoba Province, Argentina for over a minute  at 2:30 p.m. There were five witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_721",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Roberto Enrique Banchs, Flying Saucer Review, January-February 1966, p. 9; September-October 1966, p. 29" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/6/1966",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. Vicente Ortuno and another man observed a bright luminous orange disc-shaped object, about 11 meters in diameter and with three legs, which came down making a humming sound, landed in a pasture on the \"El Relajal\" estate in Aluche, Madrid province, Spain and took off again shortly thereafter at high speed. It left behind three rectangular holes 15 cm x 30 cm, 6 meters apart, and a circular area of burned grass at the landing site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_722",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 725; Anotonio Ribera, FSR, September-October 1969, p. 4; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, p. 9 case 40; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 263" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/6/1967",
  "desc" : "Mr. Donald Guseman and Mrs. Marie Guseman spotted a large, Saturn-shaped object at 8:45 p.m. in Odessa, Delaware. The UFO was 50 feet in diameter and 20 feet in height and had two bright lights, a green light on one side and a red light on the other. It hovered motionless over some trees, then slowly moved north and suddenly vanished after two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_723",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/6/1967",
  "desc" : "Miss R. Ford was driving between Deming and Las Cruces, New Mexico at about noon when a cigar-shaped object started pacing her car. It was green with a long row of shiny windows, and had two small propellers atop each end. It hovered over the highway, while a second object rose from ground and joined up with the first, and then both sped out of sight in seconds. Note: Deming contains copper mines. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_724",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP case files, citing the Lubbock Aval. Journal, August 10, 1967; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 327 & 375" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/6/1969",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 a.m. people in Pirassununga, Sao Paolo, Brazil were excited about a mysterious disc-shaped object on a hillside. Tiago Machado, age 19, got out his binoculars and went up the hill, approaching to within 30 feet. It had a narrow dome on top, was aluminum colored, about 12 feet in diameter and 5 feet high. A hinged door was open in the top of the dome, and from this two humanoid figures emerged and seemed to float to the ground. Two others were visible inside the craft, through windows. The beings, 4.5 feet tall, were dressed in tight, silvery garments without buttons, covering them from head to foot. Their facial features were seen through transparent helmets. Their skin was yellow, and they had slanting eyes, and mouths with thin, slit-like lips. They came to within 3-4 meters of the witness. When they laughed at the witness, who was smoking a cigarette, he could see that they had black teeth. He tossed the cigarette pack close to one, who put his hand above it, and the pack floated up into his hand. The thumb of his hand was set further back than on a human hand. The beings spoke in “hoarse, guttural” sounds. When a friend called out to the witness the entities walked backward and re-entered through the door. The second one, when halfway through, pointed a tube at Machado, which emitted a bluish flame that “floated” toward him. When it hit him, he felt pain and was paralyzed; as the UFO took off, almost horizontally, the witness fainted. A red welt remained where the flame had struck him. On the ground were found three landing gear leg marks. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_725",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Walter Buhler, FSR Case Histories, June 1971, p. 9; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A1023, citing SBEDV Bulletin, September 1973" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/6/1969",
  "desc" : "Barbara Mina Da Silva was weeding a rice field later that same morning at a place called Chacara Do Benedito, Pirassununga, Sao Paulo State, Brazil when two boys, Joao Batista Da Silva, age 9, and Benedito Paulino Ramos, age 13, called to her attention a “shining little tent” 500 meters away. She described it as white, looking like one of the triangular tents used by exterminators of the sauva ant. Nearby were three men with helmets, whom she took to be the workers fighting the ants. The boys told her that the men’s clothing was shining, but she described it as gray. She continued her work, when suddenly the boys cried out, “Look, the little tent has disappeared.” She saw that both tent and men had indeed gone. Shortly afterward the boys pointed out a “luminous ball the size of the sun” stationary just above the woods. It disappeared after 30 minutes, and soon after a Brazilian Air Force helicopter appeared and descended about two kilometers away. The helicopter was seen on several occasions during the next few days. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_726",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A1023, citing Nigel Rimes, FSR Special Bulletin #3, p. 39" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/6/1980",
  "desc" : "Mr. Pavao, a 55-year old farmer from Montargil, Portugal had just left his farm and was taking his sheep to the fields at around eleven o'clock in the morning. He heard a noise and had a feeling that something was happening behind him. At the same time his dog started to panic. He turned and was surprised to see two eight-foot tall humanoids standing close to him and staring at him. The humanoids looked very strong and were dressed in gray suits. Their faces looked human except their eyes and skin appeared different. Their hands were hairy and very big. The beings approached him with friendly gestures and touched his left shoulder and several other parts of his body. At the same time they spoke in an unknown language with a modulation similar to human speech. One of the beings then pointed to the sheep, and Mr. Pavao told him the type of animal it was. Meanwhile the two beings kept talking and laughing. The witness then gave an order to his dog to fetch one of the sheep. When he looked back towards the beings he saw an intense flash of light that blinded him for a few seconds. After that the beings had vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_727",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1980, case # 2378, citing Victor Laurenco, PORTUCAT" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/6/1989",
  "desc" : "On this night a woman in Perm, Russia saw a bright disc-shaped object hovering over the area. The craft brightened suddenly and the witness became disoriented. She could only remember that her own dog attacked her. Later, under hypnosis, she recalled confronting two very tall figures within a light. The beings touched her on the back with a very cold metallic triangular device, which had the effect of blocking her memory of the experience. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_728",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case # 578, citing Jacques Vallee" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/6/1996",
  "desc" : "At around 7:30 p.m. farmer Louis Boisvert, 19, saw a very large metallic triangular craft with a set of red lights hovering over his barn in Thurso, Quebec while he was plowing snow with his tractor. This was on the same night that witnesses saw a large triangular vessel hovering over the town of Buckingham, Quebec. The craft flew very slowly over the barn. The light coming from the triangle did not illuminate the ground or even the roof of the barn. After the craft left Boisvert and his father noticed that their electric water pump was not working. Troubled by recurrent dreams, Boisvert underwent hypnotic regression. He was then able to remember that he had hopped off the tractor and ran to the barn where his father was working. As he rushed into the barn, he saw his father standing there with a blank expression on his face. Besides him stood two reptilian looking creatures with long faces, scaly leathery skin, black eyes, clawed hands, and gaunt arms and legs. Both Boisvert and his father were taken onboard the triangular object by the humanoids and later released. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_729",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case #2481, citing CEIPI Quebec" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/6/1998",
  "desc" : "A family of three living near San Francisco, California remembered hearing noises during the night and waking up thinking somebody was in the house. Later they remembered seeing lights. In the morning they all woke up with bloody noses. Their young son remembered seeing a tall, greenish colored being in his bedroom. The being was over 6 feet tall, and it communicated with him, although he couldn't recall the message. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_730",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case # 2989, citing UFO Network" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/7/1950",
  "desc" : "A 30-foot wide cone-shaped object flew in over the shoreline at Alameda Naval Yard in California. There were six military witnesses in total, and the sighting lasted several minutes. One witness reported it as possibly a plane with engine trouble. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_731",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "newspaper clipping dated February 9, 1950" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/7/1953",
  "desc" : "An orange light was seen in the sky over Korea and an F-94 fighter jet was scrambled to intercept it. The F-94 pilot saw the bright object change speeds and altitude, then pull away from him. The UFO's presence was confirmed on radar. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_732",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 405; Richard F. Haines, Advanced Aerial Devices Reported During the Korean War, p. 60; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 257; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 133; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 20" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/7/1963",
  "desc" : "At 11:45 p.m. three people in two separate airplanes sighted a disc-shaped object over a missile site near Charlottesville, Virginia. It shot off at a speed in excess of 2000 knots. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_733",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1963, p. 3; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 33; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 43" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/7/1967",
  "desc" : "At 11:55 p.m. two married women in Oakhurst, California watched as a solid round object sprayed out many contrails and disintegrated in the sky. Next, a silver cigar-shaped object hovered vertically, then flew away rapidly to the southwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_734",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP case files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/7/1969",
  "desc" : "Shortly after 7:00 a.m. in Pirassununga, Sao Paulo State, Brazil the shouts of people exclaiming about a mysterious bluish-white object that had landed on a hillside awakened Tiago Machado, age 19. He grabbed his binoculars and went to look at it, approaching to within 30 feet. It was a domed disc, aluminum colored, about 12 feet in diameter and five feet high. A hinged door was open on the top of the dome and from it two humanoid figures emerged and floated to the ground. Two more beings were visible through windows inside the craft. The beings were 4.5 feet tall and dressed in tight-fitting silvery coveralls without buttons. Their facial features were visible through transparent helmets. Their skin was yellow, their eyes slanting, and their mouths were thin and slit-like. They came to within 3-4 meters of Tiago. When they laughed at him while he puffed a cigarette, he could see that they had black teeth. He tossed the cigarette pack close to one, who put his hand over it and the pack floated up into his hand. The thumb of his hand was set further back than it would be on a human's hand. The beings spoke in “hoarse, guttural” sounds. When a friend shouted out to Tiago the entities walked backward and re-entered the craft through the door. The second one pointed a tube at Machado when halfway through, and it emitted a bluish flame that “floated” at him. When it hit him he felt pain and was paralyzed. The UFO took off in a horizontal direction just as the witness fainted. A red welt remained where the flame had struck him. On the ground were found three landing-leg marks. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_735",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Irene Granchi, APRO Bulletin, March-April 1969, p. 5; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1023, citing Nigel Rimes, Ned S. Martins & Reginaldo Da Silva; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 160; Nigel Rimes, UFO Percipients: FSR Special Edition No. 3, p. 40" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/7/1970",
  "desc" : "In New Martinsville, West Virginia an oval-shaped silver disc with lights around the rim turned, hovered silently over a house, then vanished as USAF jets drew near. The lights on the object rotated counterclockwise. Their were six witnesses from the Moore family. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_736",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Teets, West Virginia UFOs: Close Encounters in the Mountain State, p. 90" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/7/1972",
  "desc" : "A triangular object was tracked on radar and sighted by several observers on the ground at Sarajevo Airport, Yugoslavia at 7:30 p.m. as it increased speed, and then disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_737",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Milos Krmelj, FSR Case Histories, February 1973, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/7/1976",
  "desc" : "A man and a woman reported they had five hours of missing time that occurred near a wharf on Talbot Island, in Duval County, Florida at 10 p.m. Under hypnosis they revealed an abduction experience, including a table exam onboard a craft, with a screen image of the inside of the woman's body. There were seven different humanoid types, a body implant, and communication to the woman that she was \"coming along real well.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_738",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "CUFOS files, letter from investigator Evelyn Brunson dated March 14, 1977; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1456, citing Evelyn Brunson" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/7/1977",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 p.m. school students from a school in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England saw a gray flattened cigar-shaped object moving slowly through the sky, surrounded by a vapor or mist. It changed color to orange, then to green, and flew off toward the east-southeast. The sighting lasted 10 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_739",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Northern Network files, case report dated March 1, 1977; Awareness, July 1977, p. 20" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/7/1978",
  "desc" : "The International UFO Reporter reported that a 23-year old police officer named Linnevold was fired from his job for chasing a UFO during a sighting that occurred on this night shortly after 1:00 a.m. in Calmar, Iowa. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_740",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, July 1978, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/7/1984",
  "desc" : "The witness awoke to a loud humming at four o'clock in the morning in Atco, New Jersey and a bright light illuminated the bedroom. Outside a bright white 10-foot wide circular UFO with a hump in the middle--a domed disc--was hovering over a neighbor' s yard, 200 feet away. It ascended in a zigzag at a high rate of speed. A lawn ornament figure was reported missing. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_741",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Gribble, International UFO Reporter, March-April 1984, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/7/1987",
  "desc" : "On this night three motorists in Potters Mills, Pennsylvania and the Seven Mountains area encountered a large 300 foot long hovering oval object. It had lights around its perimeter, and the mountainside terrain was brightly illuminated by its presence. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_742",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 30; UFO Magazine (USA), June 1990, p. 16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/7/1989",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. several witnesses were driving together along an isolated section of Route 4 in Sassovivo, Italy when they started to see intermittent circular flashes of light ahead of them. As they got closer they saw five circular objects on the ground alongside the road. The vehicle's engine stalled as five humanoids, about 90 cm tall, emerged from the crafts and surrounded the vehicle. The humanoids wore white, astronaut like suits, and had black hair and large staring eyes. They moved rapidly around the vehicle, completely ignoring the witnesses. For some time their vehicle was prevented from moving. After awhile the humanoids went back into their circular objects and then these craft disappeared from sight. The source indicated that the driver died soon after the encounter, but provided no information as to the cause of death. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_743",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, citing CUN" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/7/1989",
  "desc" : "A 17-year-old girl observed a small sphere with red and blue lights hovering only 3 meters over her backyard in New Haven, Connecticut. It was 60 feet away, and reportedly caused her a temporary tingling sensation. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_744",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15297; Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case 240, citing Robert Gribble" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/7/1990",
  "desc" : "Jaroslav Novotny was on his way to his parent's home in the evening when he saw a large orange, spherical object that descended with a falling leaf motion close to the ground in a garden in Ostrozke Nove Uesi, Czechoslovakia. It emitted three bright oval-shaped beams of light from an extended antenna that illuminated the surroundings quite clearly. A large figure with an oval-shaped head was seen in a window in the object. It had almost human facial features, but it had large yellow eyes and what appeared to be a large mouth.  As the craft left it appeared to create an air turbulence that caused trees in the garden to bend over. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_745",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 301; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15558; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1990, citing LDLN and Project Becassine" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/7/1995",
  "desc" : "Nocturnal lights, alone and in a triangular formation, were sighted near the Bangor Nuclear Submarine Base from U.S. Highway 101 in Quilcene, Washington at around five o'clock in the early morning. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_746",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Feb. 1995 webpage; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17109, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/7/1996",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m a nocturnal light flew over Sydney, New South Wales, Australia and was observed from Turramurra. It stopped in midair, next made several zigzag maneuvers, followed by 70 degree turns, and shot off to the south. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_747",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17606" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/7/1997",
  "desc" : "Two children in Westbury, Tasmania, Australia reported that they had witnessed a cigar-shaped object at 9:00 a.m. It flew to the west slowly, turned vertical, and went up-and-down rapidly. They then lost sight of it while it was making a descent. Their sighting lasted a couple of minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_748",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17869" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/7/1997",
  "desc" : "On this night a dark triangular object appeared over the village of Burnside, near Cumnock in Strathclyde, Scotland. It was seen again 7 days later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_749",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland's UFO Phenomenon, p. 74" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/7/2008",
  "desc" : "At 12:10 a.m. a white orb made sharp turns in the sky at high speed over the local paper mill in Iroquois Falls, Ontario, Canada and then flew away. The sighting lasted 15 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_750",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2008 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 64, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/8/1672",
  "desc" : "A dark \"flying ship\" hovered in place over the ocean near Cherbourg, France during a wind. It had no sails, and eventually flew off to the south after 33 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_751",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 186" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/8/1951",
  "desc" : "A four engine Super-Constellation R5D Navy transport, flying at a speed of 200 knots at 10,000 feet between Iceland and Newfoundland, saw a UFO ascend from the surface of the Atlantic Ocean in the pre-dawn hours. They watched it on the surface for 8-10 minutes while approaching it, and it was so bright that they thought at first that perhaps the auto-pilot had gone off course and it was the lights from a city. It moved at 1,500 mph with a white flow and with a reddish-purple fiery ring around the rim. It shot up and at the aircraft, and due to the object's high speed, its size and direction of travel it looked like it would collide. The pilot quickly disengaged the auto-pilot and stood by to push the nose of the plane over in hopes that they could pass underneath. Everyone onboard began ducking, including the relief crew. \"It stopped its movement toward us and began moving along with us about 45 degrees off the bow to the right, about 100 feet or so below us and about 200 to 300 feet in front of us. It was not in a level position; it was tilted about 25 degrees. It stayed in this position for a minute or so. It appeared to be from 200 to 300 feet in diameter, translucent or metallic, shaped like a saucer.\" When it moved away it made no turns, and was out of sight in only a few seconds.Gander radar did track the object in excess of 1,800 mph. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_752",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, September-October 1970; Weinstein Dominique, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 13; UNICAT, case # 691; Carl Feindt, www.waterufo.net/item.php?id=76" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/8/1967",
  "desc" : "In Newbury, Massachusetts at two o'clock in the afternoon two silvery cigar shaped objects moved in a straight line, then separately shot straight up vertically and were gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_753",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP investigation files, report dated February 14, 1967" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/8/1969",
  "desc" : "Waking from sleep at 1:30 a.m. witness Douglas Fay looked out his window in Glen Rock, New Jersey and saw a bright red, star-like object flying toward the north in jerky, stop and start movements. Before it disappeared from view three smaller red dots were released from the larger object and flew off in various directions. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_754",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP investigation files, report dated February 8, 1969" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/8/1974",
  "desc" : "On this evening at Wadi Jawlan in Yemen east of Al-Makalla, three Arab men saw three large white disc-shaped objects glide toward ground and land in the nearby desert. When on the ground a bright light and three beams of light were directed upward into the sky. The objects stayed on the ground for several hours. Later at the landing site investigators found three imprints, each 85 cm wide, arranged in a triangle with sides 5.3 meters in length. The vegetation was also burnt. On the same evening at 7:30 p.m. a glowing domed disc was sighted in Douvrin, France just 15 meters above the ground. It vanished, then reappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_755",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Gordon Creighton, FSR, December 1974, p. 12; (2) Lumieres dans la Nuit, December 1974" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/8/1976",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. a silvery white disc-shaped object flew over Kissimmee, Florida at less than 300 meters altitude, making a whistling noise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_756",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, May 1976" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/8/1979",
  "desc" : "At six o'clock in the evening an oval-shaped flying object approached a car driving between Broad Hinton and Clyffe Pypard in Wiltshire, England. It came to within 150 to 300 feet at its closest approach. It had a cluster of very bright strobe-like lights that lit up ground. The UFO made a V-turn, then stopped over a water tower before departing. It made no noise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_757",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1979, p. 12, citing the Wiltshire Gazette, February 15, 1979" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/8/1982",
  "desc" : "Starting at 3:11 a.m. a large, multicolored flying object paced a commercial aircraft for 82 minutes. VASP flight #169 was paced by the UFO from Pernambuco state near Petrolina to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It was disc shaped and had flashing red, blue, orange, yellow and white lights. The airline crews of two more planes also witnessed the UFO. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_758",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Irene Granchi, International UFO Reporter, July 1982, p. 11; APRO Bulletin, April 1982, p. 1; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 44, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/8/1982",
  "desc" : "That evening in Bakersfield, Vermont a delta-shaped object followed a car home, then flew overhead. The witness ran inside his house to hide. The UFO made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_759",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 13830, citing Joe Nyman" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/8/1985",
  "desc" : "A 19-year-old man named Thomas was abducted in the early morning hours in Pwllheli, Wales. He was seized by the arm and floated into a 25-foot diameter domed, disc-shaped craft by beings wearing gray uniforms and octagon-shaped helmets. They communicated with him using telepathy and gave him a physical exam. He was also taken on an off-world journey. He returned in a state of shock, with a sunburn on his body. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_760",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 563" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/8/1986",
  "desc" : "While driving on State Route 117 in Lima, Ohio at 7:00 p.m. a young couple spotted a dark triangular UFO with three bright lights, hovering over some trees near a farm. The object was estimated to be 50-60 feet long and made no sound. Their sighting lasted five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_761",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John P. Timmerman, International UFO Reporter, July-August 1986, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/8/1988",
  "desc" : "In Gulf Breeze, Florida at around eight o'clock in the evening, Ed Walters and his wife witnessed a small bright orange ring in the sky. Mr. Walters snapped a Polaroid photograph of it, then experienced two hours of missing time. He claims he has no memory of taking the photo. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_762",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Edward Walters, UFOs are Real: Here's the Proof, p. 20" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/8/1989",
  "desc" : "A man in Gulf Breeze, Florida was awakened by his dogs, and saw a UFO descend making a sizzling sound and land in a vacant lot only 80 feet away from his house. He awoke his wife and son. They saw three small discs land. When the man shone a flashlight at one of the objects it flashed back and then they all disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_763",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ed Walters, UFO Abductions at Gulf Breeze, p. 184; Rex Salisberry, MUFON field investigation file database, case 890405; Larry Hatch, U computer data, case 14819, citing MUFON UFO Journal, issue #255" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/8/2004",
  "desc" : "At 6:25 p.m. EST a silent UFO with one light, no running lights or tail light, and no vapor trail passed over a home in Chester County, South Carolina. As it flew over dogs in the neighborhood were barking loudly. At 5:45 p.m. CST or about 20 minutes later, a small reddish spherical object, that flashed red at varying intensities and intervals, was sighted over Houston, Texas. It seemed to wobble laterally as it flew. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_764",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Feb. 2004 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/9/1902",
  "desc" : "At 7:40 p.m. a \"meteor\" turned, looped, and curved for 12 seconds over Paris, France. Its tail lasted 90 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_765",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/9/1913",
  "desc" : "At 9:02 p.m. a formation of lights resembling an express train in the sky was seen over Eesterhazy, Mortlach and other parts of southeastern Saskatchewan. It emerged from the northwest, and continued across the sky in several successions for more than three minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_766",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "William R.  Corliss & Jerome Clark, UFO Calendar 1999; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 42; citing Sky & Telescope; George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 283, citing The Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1913, p. 145" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/9/1915",
  "desc" : "A large dark airship flew at a low altitude near Bigfork, Montana around five o'clock in the late afternoon. It headed off toward the southwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_767",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, volume 8 (1977), citing the Flathead Courier, February 11, 1915" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/9/1953",
  "desc" : "A U.S.Marine Corps pilot chased a rocket-like object for over three minutes over Cherry Point, North Carolina at 10:30 a.m. The luminous object with a red glow climbed rapidly. It had no wings or tail section. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_768",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files, February 1953; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #2981" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/9/1957",
  "desc" : "On or about this date a woman driving along a desolate road in Ridgefield, Connecticut encountered a five meter long cigar-shaped object close to the ground on the left side of the road. It had several portholes about half a meter in diameter that were lit by a yellow light. Shadows could be seen moving around behind the windows. It took off going straight up. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_769",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, case 86, citing APRO Bulletin, March 1962, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/9/1962",
  "desc" : "Mr. R. Wildman was driving along a road in Aston Clinton, England taking a new car to Swansea for delivery, when at 3:30 a.m. he encountered a 40-foot wide oval-shaped domed disc with black marks around the rim, 20-30 feet above the ground. The object seemed metallic, was white in color with portholes, and made no sound. The car's engine stopped when he was 20 meters away, but the headlights remained on. The incident lasted five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_770",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 75; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 538; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project, p. 24; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 19; Leonard Cramp, Piece for a Jig-Saw, p. 214; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, case 129" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/9/1966",
  "desc" : "At 8:20 p.m. a glowing ovoid object hovered and made circular maneuvers in the sky for 15 minutes in Heytesbury, near Warminster in Wiltshire, England. It changed colors as well, reported the witness, a man named Baldwin. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_771",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Arthur Shuttlewood, The Warminister Mystery, p. 157; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 7066; Contact U.K. catalogue of UFO reports" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/9/1967",
  "desc" : "Police officer D. E. Swider was driving on Interstate 65 eight miles south of Seymour, Indiana at 7:50 p.m. when he encountered a huge, round object that moved slowly, changing colors from white to red to orange as it slowed, then accelerated. Venus was visible at the time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_772",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 28" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/9/1967",
  "desc" : "At 8:45 p.m. Donald and Marie Guseman were driving on U.S. Highway 13 in Odessa, Delaware when they encountered a 50 foot wide disc-shaped object with a cupola and ports underneath, and forwardly placed light beams. It also had a green light on one side and a red light on the other. It hovered motionless over some trees, then emitted light beams that swung upwards at a 45-degree angle into the sky. The object began moving away, and then suddenly disappeared. Their close encounter lasted two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_773",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 11350; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., UFOs: A New Look, p. 12; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 54; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 327" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/9/1969",
  "desc" : "At 1:00 a.m. in St. Martin de Londres, Herault department, France a 40-year-old farmer and his assistant saw a large stationary disc that hovered low over his goats in a pasture. The billy-goat became impotent as a result, and his dogs started barking every morning at 2 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_774",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, July 1969; FSR, January-February 1970, p. 13 & January-February 1972, p. 26; UNICAT, case # 491 citing Fernand Lagarde, Mysterieuses Soucoupes Volantes, p. 57" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/9/1973",
  "desc" : "At 3:00 a.m. three people driving in a car on the A414 highway between Hemel Hempstead and St. Albans in Hertford, England encountered a bright yellow sphere hovering low over the road, about 20 or 30 feet above a viaduct. Their car engine stopped. The car engine restarted inself when the sphere rose vertically into the sky and departed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_775",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, March 1973, p. 32; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 56; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project, p. 63; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 254" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/9/1974",
  "desc" : "At around 9:00 p.m. four people riding in a car traveling on a highway north-northeast of Evansville, Indiana were levitated by a UFO and lost consciousness. When they recovered they had over two hours of missing time. One of the abductees recalled interacting with an occupant of the UFO, who looked to be human, and who somehow knew the names of the four of them. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_776",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 46; Larry Hatch, U computer database" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/9/1974",
  "desc" : "That same night David Swanner of Shores Community, Tennessee claims he was invited by two \"men\" to ride in a UFO. In a few moments after accepting their invitation they flew over San Francisco, then the Hawaiian Islands. His round trip excursion took only 45 minutes. The purpose of their presence, he was told, was to warn of the \"possible destruction of Solar System by atomic bombs.\" The UFOnauts were between four and five feet tall, wore white coveralls, and had long, pointed chins, with tall foreheads and small eyes, ears, and noses. They claimed that their lifespan was between 125-175 years. Mr. Swanner was instructed to inform the public. He claims to possess proof, but it \"cannot now be revealed.\" This was his third close encounter with the aliens. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_777",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted Bloecher, MUFON Symposium Proceedings 1975, p. 51 & 55; Stanley Ingram, Pulaski Citizen, October 30, 1974; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-05 (A1301), citing Stanley Ingram" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/9/1978",
  "desc" : "At around two o'clock at night residents of Saline, Michigan saw a boomerang or triangular object hovering near their homes. Mr. & Mrs. Sibson as well as an Air Force mechanic reported their sightings to the Center for UFO Studies. According to them it made a slight humming noise, and was the size of three 747's with a \"great intensity of light coming from the center fuselage area.\" It flew off toward the west slowly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_778",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "CUFOS files, letter dated February 17, 1978; Philip J. Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/9/1979",
  "desc" : "Over 50 UFOs surrounded the butane freighter \"Tamames\" in the Mediterranean Sea as it approached the Escombreras refinery in the Baleares Islands. The ship's log reports that clouds appeared at 3:00 a.m., and the ship's radar showed the presence of many huge aerial objects. The presence of yellow lights in the clouds continued for six hours. The radar of a second ship also reported the presence of the UFOs, but not ground radar. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_779",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1979, p. 15, citing Pueblo, February 9, 1979" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/9/1979",
  "desc" : "A dark, beehive-shaped UFO was encountered by a 53-year-old man named Hathaway at 9:00 p.m. while he was driving near Liverpool Creek, Queensland, Australia. The failure of his car's engine and lights closely corresponded with a brilliant flash of light coming from the object. It rose vertically when it left. The witness experienced memory loss for some of the events surrounding his close encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_780",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Keith Basterfield, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1979" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/9/1988",
  "desc" : "In Oswestry, Shropshire, England a 45 foot in diameter yellow cloud of something that looked like fog was seen straddling a hedgerow around 8:00 a.m. It glowed brightly and made a noise like rushing air. A dog ran into it and disappeared for a time. The two adult witnesses, a man and a woman, reported feeling a tingling sensation and smelling a sulphur smell. The dog was later found unconscious, wet and hot; its eyes were red and it seemed close to death. It died a few weeks later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_781",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jenny Randles, Time Storms: Amazing Evidence for Time Warps, Space Rifts, and Time Travel, p. 11" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/9/1993",
  "desc" : "A young boy went outside at 7:25 p.m. in Colebrook, New Hampshire and saw a domed disc-shaped object approaching from the northeast. He went and got his stepfather, and both of them witnessed two hovering discs. The discs appeared to be the size of a house, about four feet apart, and only 50 feet in altitude. They seemed to have a pink glow on the far sides. Their lights blinked, and then both discs disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_782",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Sandra Black, MUFON Field Investigation case files, case 930604J; MUFON UFO Journal, October 1993" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/9/1993",
  "desc" : "On the same night Mr. C. Wagh was at the Bridge of Earn in Central Scotland when he sighted six white lights in a straight line. He viewed then through binoculars as they hovered for the next 15 minutes. They seemed to be about 6 to 8 feet apart. They suddenly went out. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_783",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland's UFO Phenomenon, p. 159" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/9/1995",
  "desc" : "La Canada, Avila, Spain - A 28-year-old security guard was fixing his guard dog's dinner at 9:55 p.m. The dog was tied to a heavy tonnage truck, and he suddenly began barking furiously and staring at the nearby railroad tracks. The man looked around but did not find anything unusual, so he fed his dog and went back to the guard shack. Fifteen seconds later the dog began barking again. When he stepped outside he was confronted by a bizarre looking, shiny white figure that floated quietly above the ground. The apparition was about 1.5 meters in length and floated horizontally just above the ground. At the same time the dog's food dish began to vibrate and \"jump around.\" The figure was wearing what looked like a flowing tunic, and a conical hat concealed its facial features. It advanced slowly towards the witness. The terrified man noticed the humanoid had long hair, resembling that of a woman's, and it carried that looked like a baton in one hand. The man fled from the area and didn't return until he had found some additional witnesses. When they returned to the site they found bizarre symbols that had been traced on the ground with a sharp tool. One of the symbols resembled a six-pointed star and others were \"STN\", \"BEL\" and the letter \"U\". Superstitious locals attributed these symbols to be \"demonic\" in nature. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_784",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, citing Iker Jimenez, Encuentros: La Historia de los OVNI en Espana" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/9/1998",
  "desc" : "Driving into Sioux City, Iowa at 11:45 a.m. a 50-year-old woman and her adult son saw a gray rectangular object and followed it for about three quarters of a mile at 70 mph, until they lost sight of it among some hills. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_785",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Barbara Trout, MUFON case files, case # 980401SC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/9/1999",
  "desc" : "At 6:30 p.m. four police constables near a lake in Sheffield, England saw an orange UFO with a triangular formation of red lights surrounding it that appeared to revolve around the object. The phenomenon was seen from two locations, and viewed through binoculars for 30 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_786",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Heseltine Gary, UFO Magazine (UK), July 2003, p. 11, citing Andy Ellis" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/9/1999",
  "desc" : "At 11:45 p.m. a group of fishermen in Pisco, Peru watched an anomalous light emerge from the ocean, bank sharply right, and then head for the shore to the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_787",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 18079, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 4, no. 8 (February 22, 1999)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/9/2000",
  "desc" : "In Bristol, Vermont at 6:15 p.m. a large luminous triangular cloud flew to the northeast, and split into four objects as it approached the horizon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_788",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), May 2000, p. 17, citing George Filer, Filers Files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/9/2001",
  "desc" : "At around 8 p.m. two campers in Villa Frontera near Arica, Chile spotted a UFO hovering over a group of 10 white-robed cultists, who were holding hands and chanting. The UFO bathed the ground in a powerful light. The next day cell phones in the area would not work, and the witnesses complained of headaches, stomachaches, back pain, and dizziness. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_789",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Australasian Ufologist, January 2001, p. 54, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, March 15, 2001" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/9/2003",
  "desc" : "At 2:10 a.m. three witnesses in Indian Mountain, New Brunswick, Canada saw a smooth, round orange ball which moved through the sky and descended slowly into the trees. The sighting lasted seven minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_790",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2003 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 49" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/9/2004",
  "desc" : "Bright amber lights flashing in a random sequence on what appeared to be a disc-shaped object was seen over Lincoln City, Oregon at 7 p.m. They later came to within what the witnesses said was 30 feet of their house, and returned by flying back out over the Pacific Ocean. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_791",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Feb. 2004 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/9/2007",
  "desc" : "At 5:30 p.m. a strange \"fly-strip-looking\" spiral-shaped object was seen hovering and floating over houses along Lake Ontario in Grimsby, Ontario, Canada. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_792",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 52, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/10/1951",
  "desc" : "A giant, bright orange-red disc was observed by the pilot of a four-engine, U.S. Navy R-5D transport flying 90 miles from Gander, Labrador, Canada. The UFO maneuvered nearer to the plane, which was flying at 10,000 feet altitude at the time. The UFO sighting was dubbed the \"Gander UFO case.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_793",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John R. Colombo, UFOs over Canada: Personal Accounts of Sightings and Close Encounters, p. 211; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/10/1955",
  "desc" : "In Altamira, Venezuela at 9:30 p.m. a teenage couple saw a huge disc-shaped UFO fly from horizon to horizon. It had two pulsing blue lights on the bottom, and was in view for more than six minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_794",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Coral E. Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 64" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/10/1956",
  "desc" : "On this night in Costa Mesa, California two flame-colored discs hovered over the Marine Corp Air Base for two minutes. They flew away when approached by a plane. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_795",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, January-February 1956" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/10/1967",
  "desc" : "Several people in Haliburton, Ontario witnessed a large yellow, glowing object fly over at treetop level at 2:30 a.m. It made a loud roaring noise. At 3:42 a.m. an eight-meter wide blue disc was seen hovering very low over the NASA/AEC nuclear facility at the Plum Brook Naval Air Station in Erie County, Ohio. It was seen by a male witness as it was about 1.5 miles away from his car. The disc moved toward the ground and heavy static came over the car radio as he tried to contact his headquarters at the Air Station. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_796",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP, citing the Lindsay Post, February 18, 1967; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 185, citing NICAP UFO Investigator, March-April 1967" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/10/1967",
  "desc" : "At 5:30 that same evening a dark, triangular shaped UFO flew blunt-end forward over North Woodstock, Connecticut and hovered over a farm. The object had a white light in each corner, and was quiet when hovering, but made a roaring sound when it moved off. Television interference was also reported during the sighting. At the same time in nearby Worcester, Massachusetts a UFO with three bright lights hovered over a house. The refrigerator contents reportedly froze, and the color TV set in the house had the color fade out of the picture during the encounter. After five minutes the UFO flew south, stopped briefly, and then sped away. Ninety minutes later two UFOs were seen circling low over a house in Mahopec, Putnam County, New York. Six human-appearing occupants were seen on board the craft, and one of them appeared to wave at the two witnesses, who drove their car following the UFO. Reportedly one of the witnesses received a telepathic message from the occupants. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_797",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "The Hartford Courant, February 11, 1967; Worcester Gazette, February 20, 1967; Fred Dennis, on-site investigation, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1556" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/10/1969",
  "desc" : "An abduction occurred in the early morning hours of this day in Green Cove Springs, Florida. At around three a.m. two single adults, a man and a woman, \"Francis\" and \"Wells\", were driving by automobile along a highway when they had three unaccounted hours of missing time. Under hypnosis in 1977 they recalled being in a curved hallway, and seeing four short, Grey aliens who had large eyes and ears, no hair, small slit mouths, and wore tight coveralls. The aftereffects of their encounter included headaches, depression, and skin rashes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_798",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Krutz, Fate, and HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1666" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/10/1969",
  "desc" : "Later that same night in Dartmouth, Massachusetts at 10:30 p.m. a truck driver saw a fiery ball hovering over some snow covered trees. When he approached to within 200 feet with a flashlight it accelerated away at a 45-degree angle, causing the snow on the treetops to swirl through the air. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_799",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ray Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 355" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/10/1972",
  "desc" : "At shortly after seven o'clock in the evening a dome-shaped UFO flew from north to south over Fort Duchesne, Utah and was seen by three women hovering over a field for ten minutes. It then shot away to the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_800",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Frank Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, case A80" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/10/1975",
  "desc" : "At 7:00 a.m. a silver metallic sphere descended over Foligno, Italy made a ninety-degree turn at ground level, and then shot away fast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_801",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Maurizio Verga, ITACAT: Italian UFO Catalogue" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/10/1975",
  "desc" : "Later that evening at 6:00 p.m. a man in Poulderat, France Messr. J. Raphalan saw a red luminous rectangular object hovering over his farm. It shrank to a band of light, and then disappeared. At 8:20 p.m. Messr. M. Fraisse, age 33, witnessed a dark, helicopter-shaped object hover silently over a field for ten minutes in Carces, France. It emitted beams of light, an caused TV interference at the time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_802",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, March 1975 and May 1975" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/10/1975",
  "desc" : "At 7:00 p.m. in Annandale, New York two 15-year-old teenagers saw a low-level, 20-meter diameter disc for ten minutes, then watched it shrink away to nothing. At the site there were snapped tree branches and scorched earth. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_803",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "CUFOS files, report dated February 27, 1975; NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1975; Skylook, December 1975, p. 16; Margaret Sachs, Celestial Passengers, p. 108" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/10/1976",
  "desc" : "In Hamden, Connecticut on Denslow Hill two 14-year-old teenagers, Grey and Barnet, saw two very short humanoid beings shuffle rapidly across a road. They wore purple-colored luminous one-piece suits and their waists were 20-22 inches above the ground. When the boys followed them a bright white, lemon-shaped UFO blinked on, and took off into the air only 15 feet away from them. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_804",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "James P. Barrett, case investigation files, and HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Encounters, case A1457" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/10/1977",
  "desc" : "From a window in her house Ms. Lois Stovall of Tucson, Arizona saw a luminous object in the sky approach her house from the north. She and her grandmother, Mrs. Alice Buckner, went our to the yard at 7:30 p.m. for a better view and saw it hovering over a small tree less than 50 feet away. It was capsule shaped with a cylindrical vertical axis, and transparent on the side facing them with dark vertical bars. Through the transparent surface they could see a flame-like light and a human-shaped figure, gray all over gray, that looked puffed up like a balloon. It had ridges or rings running round the appendages, like the Michelin Man. She could not see any hands or feet. This figure in an inflated suit was about four feet tall and was standing crouched over in a space only barely big enough for him. The light was coming from between his feet. Mrs. Buckner walked directly beneath the object and tried to touch it but it was hovering two feet too high. She could see there was a faceplate in the being's suit, and she could barely make out some sort of face behind it. The object began to ascend, and soon passed out of sight to the south. Ms. Stovall saw three helicopters with glowing red cabin lights flying very low over the adjacent school grounds. The investigators were unable to find any plausible source for these mystery aircraft. Mrs. Dessie Turner, a neighbor, also saw the object while it hovered, and estimated that it was 6.5 feet high and 2.5 feet in diameter. She thought she could see a shadowy figure inside. She also saw the helicopters. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_805",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Encounters, case 1977-8, citing Coral Lorenzen, APRO; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, APRO Bulletin" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/10/1981",
  "desc" : "The witness had parked her car in her apartment parking lot in Auburn, Washington at 11:35 p.m. when she saw a huge lighted object with a ring of flashing lights. The UFO left but a second smaller craft appeared and descended with a falling leaf motion. The witness ran to her apartment and apparently blacked out. Under hypnosis she recalled that a light shone on her and she suddenly found herself in a domed room with smooth white floors, walls and ceiling. The room contained a desk-like object with lights and an examination table. She undressed and two beings entered, held her by her arms and pressed her down on the table. A third being examined her abdomen. The beings were humanoid with light bulb shaped heads and with large unblinking eyes, small noses and ears, and slit-like mouths. They were thin with sloping shoulders, long hanging arms with 4 long fingers and had grayish skin. They wore metallic blue coverall uniforms with an insignia of a triangle inside a circle on the chest. Another being wore a reddish orange colored uniform. They conversed with the witness by using telepathy. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_806",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Thomas E Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of A Mystery; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 463" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/10/1982",
  "desc" : "At shortly after midnight a UFO with an intense, lime green light hovered just six feet above the snow-covered ground in Willernie, Minnesota. Five spots of fire fell to the ground as the object rose, and melted holes in the snow. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_807",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joe Twohy, newspaper clipping" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/10/1982",
  "desc" : "On this day in the Black Sea six Soviet sailors discover and investigate a \"disabled ship\" in the fog. They are missing for five days. When they are returned they report that they had been pulled up into a cigar-shaped UFO, and the beings onboard the UFO communicated with them by gestures. One of the men reportedly went insane, dove overboard, and was drowned. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_808",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 74, citing the National Enquirer, November 2, 1982" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/10/1982",
  "desc" : "On the same day as the alleged disappearance of the Soviet sailors a close encounter occurred in Escanaba, Wisconsin. At 11:35 p.m. on Highway C537 three seventeen-year-old young women were driving in a car near a river when they encountered a low flying domed disc. The mist from the rear of the object looked like \"lit up snowflakes.\" The rim around the bottom of the UFO had red windows all the way around it, and a red light shone through the windows. Their sighting lasted seven minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_809",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Kenneth Schellhase, International UFO Reporter, May-June 1982, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/10/1989",
  "desc" : "In Fyffe, Alabama a lighted triangular-shaped object with rounded corners flew around in the sky and was watched for more than an hour by four witnesses, including police. It flew over the police cruiser at an estimated distance of 1,500 meters at a steady speed, and made no sound. There were other sightings in surrounding communities, including De Kalb City, Dawson, Dog Town, and Lick Skillet. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_810",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Rheta Grimsley Johnson, Commercial Appeal, March 15, 1989" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/10/1995",
  "desc" : "Evan Canoose and two of his friends had been camping in the area of Larch Mountain Honor Camp near Vancouver, Washington. At 6:30 a.m. Mr. Canoose was alone when he saw a strange creature about 30-40 feet away. It had an peculiar \"out of focus\" quality. He said that he and the creature stared at each other for 45 seconds. He described the creature as built like an orangutan, with a reddish-orange color, a wide chest and waist, and a black, flat face with black chest markings. It occasionally moved its right arm and hand back and forth. The witness heard no noises nor detected any odors during the encounter. Evan estimated the creature's height at six feet four inches tall, based on where it stood next to a tree. Feeling uneasy, Canoose went to his car and did not see the \"blurry\" creature leave. He did not tell his companions about his encounter until their trip home. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_811",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, citing Peter Byrne, The Western Bigfoot Society Newsletter, issue # 44" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/10/1996",
  "desc" : "The witness woke up at two a.m. in Huon Valley, Tasmania, Australia to find her bedroom lit up, and she had an overwhelming feeling to go outside. From the verandah she saw the source of light to be a bright long elliptical shape about 50cm away in the paddock. There was a brilliant bluish white light and a metallic smell you could almost taste. Standing in the garden was a tall thin figure over two meters tall. The figure beckoned the witness with its left hand. She walked down the verandah steps then suddenly became alarmed and returned back home. She threw some furniture outside, and then everything went dark. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_812",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case #2606, citing the Tasmania UFOIC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/10/1996",
  "desc" : "The witness was at an Italian restaurant in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia when she noticed a short Grey, troll-like entity walk up to the restaurant, climb up the steps, stand still and stare briefly at the witness before disappearing around the corner. Others in the city reported seeing objects over the area and possibly other entity sightings. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_813",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case #3358, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, February 1996 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/10/1996",
  "desc" : "On this night at 9:45 p.m. a dozen blinking lights and a solid orange light hovered in the western sky over the San Luis Valley. Healing arts students coming from a class in Crestone, Colorado saw and reported them. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_814",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Christopher O'Brien, Enter the Valley, p. 309" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/10/2000",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. an orange disc-shaped UFO was seen 100 meters away at low altitude in Pontelongo, Veneto, Italy. It had stong beams of light. Suddenly it was gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_815",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #18134, citing UFO Roundup" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/11/1937",
  "desc" : "Several fisherman off the coast of Kvalsik, Norway watched what looked like a large plane descend toward the sea around 9:00 p.m. It extinguished its lights and produced a cloud or fog cover, then vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_816",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John A. Keel, FSR, September-October 1971, p. 22" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/11/1952",
  "desc" : "A bright, yellowish orange object with a pulsating flame exhaust was spotted at a high altitude by the crew of a US Air Force AT-11 trainer flying near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at three o'clock in the morning. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_817",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #1052; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 15; Project Blue Book Special Report #5, March 31, 1952" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/11/1953",
  "desc" : "A U.S. Air Force C-119 was paced by an unknown object while flying over North Africa. A disc-shaped object passed the transport plane while flying between Tunis, Tunisia and Tripoli, Libya at 9:45 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_818",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 240; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 133; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 20; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 405" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/11/1955",
  "desc" : "At 7:15 p.m. a US Air Force C-124 crew flying over Ryuku Island, near Okinawa, Japan sighted a yellow or amber object, shaped like a \"Jack-O-Lantern\", flying at 1,000 miles per hour. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_819",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 25" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/11/1956",
  "desc" : "In Bastrop, Louisiana at 4:00 p.m. at least five silver disc-shaped objects emitted a \"smoke screen,\" darted rapidly, then ejected smaller satellite objects that dispersed in all directions.\" The duration of the sighting was 45 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_820",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Civilian Saucer Intelligence--New York Newsletter, May 1956, citing a newspaper account" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/11/1957",
  "desc" : "At 11:45 a.m. in Honolulu, Hawaii a luminous disc-shaped object entered some clouds, then rose above them accompanied by a second, smaller object. Both objects maneuvered about for a couple of minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_821",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: January-March 22, p. 40" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/11/1965",
  "desc" : "On this day three very large red oval objects were visible out of the cabin window of a Flying Tiger Airlines cargo plane flying over the North Pacific between Anchorage, Alaska and Tachikawa AFB, Japan. The UFOs paced the aircraft for 30 minutes. They were estimated to be from 200 feet to 1000 feet in diameter, at a distance of five miles. They were tracked on airborne radar making a high speed vertical ascent at extreme speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_822",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, May 1965, p. 1; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., UFOs: A New Look, p. 6; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 3, 76, 117, 242, & 249; Richard Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 412" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/11/1966",
  "desc" : "Two witnesses named Barnes and La Porte reported that at 11:55 p.m. a glowing orange object with a dome hovered near the Skowhegan, Maine airfield. It maneuvered in the sky for four minutes, and was seen by police as well as civilians. It was also tracked on both Air Force and FAA radar. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_823",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "James Moseley, Saucer News, June-July 1966, p. 28; Robert Barnes, NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1966, p. 1; Bangor Daily News, February 14, 1966; Maine Daily News, February 14, 1966; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 6, 242; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 28" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/11/1967",
  "desc" : "At 1:45 a.m. Miss Hildebrand, age 19, and Michael McKee fled when they saw a large shiny object off to the side of the road in Milford, Ohio. Returning a short while later to the scene with a policeman they found broken branches at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_824",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 817" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/11/1968",
  "desc" : "An oval, domed object passed low over a car at the edge of a pond in Johnston, Rhode Island at 7:00 p.m. It had pulsating white and pinkish-red lights around the rim, making it look like a flashing theater marquee. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_825",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 351" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/11/1972",
  "desc" : "On this evening two 13-year old boys named Akkan and Green in Loughborough, Leicester, England noticed a square object in the sky with a central red light and four white corner lights, as their train pulled out of the railway station. It hovered over a nearby field, and directed powerful light beams down onto the field. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_826",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, July 1972, p. 30" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/11/1972",
  "desc" : "At 10:40 p.m. on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, a 24-year-old credit manager was driving near the shore in Apollo Beach, Florida when a 16 meter wide disc flew 30 meters ahead of his car at just 120 meters altitude. It was about 50 to 60 feet in diameter with a series of windows about the size of a door around its girth. The windows were lit and the light behind them was revolving. It flew off toward the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_827",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1972, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/11/1973",
  "desc" : "Two Coast Guardsman, including one named Whiteley, viewed a huge wheel-shaped UFO with binoculars at Hengistbury Head, Hampshire, England at around two o'clock in the morning. It was at an extreme altitude and flew offshore to the south. It reportedly was spinning slowly.  ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_828",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bournemouth Evening Echo, February 12, 1973; FSR, July-August 1973, p. 30; J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, Volume 5 (1974), case #78" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/11/1973",
  "desc" : "Six witnesses, including Mrs. Jack Huffman, observed an oval-shaped object during the day at 5:10 p.m., from Tolly's Supermarket in Decatur, Illinois. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_829",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Skylook, May 1973, p. 15; Jay Rath, The I-Files: True Reports of Unexplained Phenomena in Illinois, p. 61" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/11/1973",
  "desc" : "In the evening at around 8:00 p.m. two delta-shaped UFOs were seen in Draytonville, South Carolina. One hovered at a low altitude, the other landed. The second UFO had an antenna, and paced a car. There were a total of four witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_830",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gaffney Ledger, March 23, 1973; NICAP UFO Investigator, June 1973" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/11/1974",
  "desc" : "An orange hemisphere followed a car in Chalons-sur-Marne, Marne department, France at night. Meanwhile, a large cloud-cigar was seen over some trucks. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_831",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 135" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/11/1975",
  "desc" : "On Staten Island, New York a silent 20-foot long orange oblate object slowly diminished in size and vanished. Charred ground and snapped-off tree limbs were evident. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_832",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Staten Island (NY) Advance, February 14, 1975" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/11/1977",
  "desc" : "Police officers Creel and Luke had a close encounter with a UFO in Flora, Mississippi. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_833",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1977, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/11/1980",
  "desc" : "At around 4 p.m. a woman in Bisuschio, Italy went outside to hang some linen to dry and was looking towards a nearby hill when she saw a strange dwarf creature in a tree about 50 meters away. He was about 30-40 cm tall, and was wearing black clothing. She went back inside and looked at the creature again out a window, at the same time calling her son to come see. She also called her mother in-law on the telephone. The boy observed the tree with a pair of binoculars but was unable to distinguish any additional features. The being appeared to move from branch to branch, and then seemed to stand on a very thin branch that appeared incapable of supporting his weight. The humanoid looked to be trying to conceal his face with his hand. He soon disappeared from sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_834",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1980, citing Denys Breysse, Project Becassine" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/11/1980",
  "desc" : "In Botafuegos, Spain later that same night five witnesses, including Rafael Tobajas, spotted a low flying whitish-orange luminous object lifting off from some nearby woods. Minutes later the object divided into three separate luminous sections, then re-united again into one luminous spot. Using a pair of binoculars, they watched the lighted object descend in a falling leaf motion. Near the ground two huge man-like silhouettes appeared in front of the lights. They were grayish in color and over three meters in height. They made huge leaps and strides over the ground, jumping easily over obstacles, but they seemed to move in slow motion and stayed in front of the luminous orbs of lights. According to Tobajas, the humanoid forms stopped briefly by a small creek and seemed to bend down several times. The humanoids suddenly began running at witnesses, who became terrified and drove away frantically from the area. The tall gray humanoid forms persisted in chasing the witness's vehicle for several minutes. Tobajas reportedly encountered similar humanoid figures at night, one year later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_835",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1980, citing Dr. Jimenez del Oso and J. J. Benitez" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/11/1980",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. Carlos Vommaro, age 22, was driving home from dinner at his girlfriend's house westbound on Route 22 between the towns of Ingeniero Huergo and Cervantes in Rio Negro province, Argentina when he noticed a strong glowly light over a field 200 meters away, on the left side of his truck and at about 30 meters altitude. He described the object as having two big \"L\" structures with a luminous rectangular form inside. The edges of the luminous \"L's\" seemed to be covered in a diffused vapor that seemed to reflect the light. Perplexed, Vommaro watched the object as it came parallel to him. Vommaro then decided to escape, speeding up to about 60 mph when suddenly everything around him became dark and he blacked out. When Vommaro woke up he found himself leaning over the steering wheel. The light was now on top of the vehicle, and suddenly from the area of the luminous rectangular area a beam of light shot out, which seemed to spread out in width the further away it got. The beam of light covered the vehicle, but not its interior; it seems to be stronger at the point of origin. Terrified, Vommaro jumped out of his vehicle, running for help but the road is completely deserted. A couple of minutes later he saw a car approaching from the direction of General Roca, and he frantically tried to flag down the car. The car slowed down briefly, but then sped away. Perhaps the approaching driver had seen the luminous object still hovering above the road. After coming to his senses Vommaro now realized he was outside of the town of Cervantes, located more than 15 km away from were he had been, and he has about an hour of missing time he can't account for. When he got home his dogs reacted strangely, did not seem to recognize him, and attempted to attack him. The next day he suffered from lack of appetite, weakness, lumbar back pain, and leg pain. There was also some damage to his car. There were numerous other UFO reports that evening from Argentina and Chile. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_836",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, May 1980, p. 14, citing Rio Negro, February 16, 1980; Philip J. Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 20; Alejandro Chionetti, UFO Press, issue # 12, April 1983" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/11/1980",
  "desc" : "Thirty-two people, including the mayor of Ahilinco, Neuquen province, Argentina saw an object shaped with a triangle high in the sky over the Andes Mountains shortly before 11:00 p.m. It remained motionless for three minutes, then the triangle disappeared leaving the lights visible. After several more minutes the lights gyrated and blinked out, and they could see the dark triangle again silhouetted against the background. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_837",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1980, p. 15, citing Cronica, February 15, 1980; Phillip Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 19" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/11/1980",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. another triangular UFO was seen in Chamical, La Rioja province, Argentina. The triangular object surrounded by light blue luminosity, with reddish hues, left behind a long smoke trail. It was seen by over 200 witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_838",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1980, p. 15, citing Diario Cuyo, February 15, 1980; Phillip Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 20" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/11/1980",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. Dr. Martinez and his family in El Medano, Catamarca province, Argentina saw an enormous orange ball of light that cast three beams of light, one left and one right, and then one down. After several minutes it shot away at incredible speed parallel to the horizon.There was a total of 10 witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_839",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1980, p. 15, citing El Sol, February 15, 1980; Phillip Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 21" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/11/1980",
  "desc" : "At 11:45 p.m. witnesses in San Vicente, Santiago del Estero, Argentina saw a trangular object shine intermittent green, red, yellow lights toward the ground. It remained motionless for five minutes, then disappeared quickly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_840",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Phillip Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 21" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/11/1980",
  "desc" : "A woman driving on Highway G66 in Council Bluffs, Iowa encountered an orange UFO at 11:40 p.m. Her car lights and engine experienced electrical difficulties and she underwent a 32 minute lapse of time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_841",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Omaha (NE) Morning World-Herald, Feb. 14, 1980; APRO Bulletin, April 1980, p. 5; MUFON UFO Journal, February 1990, pp. 20-21; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 258" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/11/1988",
  "desc" : "Beginning at 6:09 p.m. the pilot, Simplicio Pinto, and crew of a LAM Boeing 737 airliner witnessed a hovering object with intense lights like searchlights arranged in a triangle, off the coast of Beira, Mozambique. The object seemed to be a huge box-shaped craft with three lights, which hovered for more than an hour, and then climbed vertically out of sight. The object was tracked on radar. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_842",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 14; Cynthia Hind, UFO Afri News, January 1991; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 45; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 30, 126" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/11/1989",
  "desc" : "Two men were recording music in their apartment in Levittown, New York at around 9:00 p.m. when they began to hear strange noises coming from outside. Going to a window, they saw two US government helicopters hovering overhead. They then saw two more flying in tandem, and between them was a huge, shiny metallic object with multicolored lights. Both witnesses ran outside, jumped into their car, and began following the UFO and the mystery helicopters. Once on the expressway the helicopters left and the giant object turned into a ball of fire before their eyes. Both witnesses then suffered a blackout. When they recovered they realized they were now driving towards the entrance of a bridge. Later, one man recalled being in a room with several short humanoids with large black eyes. He also claimed seeing numerous symbols resembling hieroglyphics. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_843",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, issue #258; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case # 945" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/11/1989",
  "desc" : "A woman at home on a foggy evening in San Antonio, Texas was attracted by a humming sound she heard outside at 11:15 p.m. She then saw a hovering orange, oval-shaped disc that emitted a strong blue beam of light. The beam of light extinguished the closest street light. The next odd thing that happened is that a firetruck appeared driving down her street. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_844",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert E. Morgan, MUFON field investigation case files, case #890402; MUFON UFO Journal, February 1990, p. 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/11/1990",
  "desc" : "A woman driving in Monroe, Michigan at 11:30 p.m. saw a large white ellipsoidal object circling the Fermi II nuclear reactor. The object paced in front of car, emitting \"sparks\" all over for one minute. She stopped her car and observed the same or a similar object in the distance plus another large red object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_845",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Wayne Erickson, MUFON investigation files, case # 900511; Dan Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, August 1990, p. 22" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/11/1995",
  "desc" : "Around 4:00 a.m. a very bright pear-shaped ball of light was seen over trees two nights in a row in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_846",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, June 1995; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 17116" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/11/1995",
  "desc" : "At around 4:00 a.m. four companions who had gone on a fishing expedition had stopped on the roadside near San Antonia Oeste, Argentina after becoming too sleepy to continue driving. They woke up with sketchy memories of being visited by several short, hairless beings who wore luminous white suits and had apparently taken them away for physical examinations. The primary witness felt pain in her left arm. They also realized that their vehicle was parked at a different spot than it had been parked, that was miles away from the original site. Under hypnosis one of the younger witnesses remembered the little men had been accompanied by a tall, heavyset being, with large eyes, a baldhead, long arms, wearing a gray outfit. The tall being was the one apparently in charge, and directed the activities of the little men. Another member of the group remembered being floated out of the vehicle into a dark place. The primary witness also remembered several tall female beings performing some type of operation on her left arm. Locals reported seeing luminous objects in the sky around the same time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_847",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, case # 3206, citing CIFO Argentina" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/11/2000",
  "desc" : "At 9:15 a family in Rockford, Illinois witnessed five objects, three times larger than the visible stars, traveling in a diamond shaped formation of orange and white lights, which then maneuvered around each other. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_848",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), June 2000, p. 37, citing CAUS and NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/11/2003",
  "desc" : "A failed alien abduction attempt was alleged in a report filed with the National UFO Reporting Center: \"I was almost abducted, along with my friends, I think we all feared for our life.\" The experience reportedly occurred at 12:13 a.m. in Merrillville, Indiana. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_849",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, February 2003 webpage archive" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/11/2003",
  "desc" : "In Victoria, British Columbia, Canada two witnesses watched two lights at 7:58 p.m., moving southwest performing manuevers. They split apart, came together again, then instantly vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_850",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2003 Canadian UFO Survey, case 53, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/11/2004",
  "desc" : "A cigar-shaped object was seen in Linthicum, Maryland near the BWI airport at around 2:00 a.m. The witness was in his basement when he heard a very low frequency humming noise for 30 minutes. He decided to take a look outside, and that was when he witnessed the UFO. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_851",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Feb. 2004 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/11/2004",
  "desc" : "At 8:22 a.m. in Lyndhurst, Ohio a silvery metallic, wingless cigar-shaped object moved rapidly in a northerly direction while presenting a side on view; it then disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_852",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Feb. 2004 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/11/2004",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. a boomerang-shaped UFO was observed traveling south to north over Yreka, California. it flew at a high altitude, had a V-shape, with 7 or maybe 8 lights in a V-shaped pattern. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_853",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Feb. 2004 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/11/2008",
  "desc" : "Four red lights in a rectangle were seen flying slowly west to east over Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_854",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Feb. 2008 webpage, report uploaded February 14, 2008" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/11/2008",
  "desc" : "In Yorkville, Illinois a bright round-shaped object was seen for over two hours beginning at 4:00 a.m., that shot straight up into the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_855",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Feb. 2008 webpage, report uploaded February 14, 2008" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/11/2009",
  "desc" : "At 2:20 p.m. a bright white object was seen doing unnatural maneuvers in the daytime sky over Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_856",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, February 2009 webpage, report uploaded March 19, 2009" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/11/2009",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 a.m. in Essex, North Carolina there was a clear daylight sighting of a bright cigar-shaped object that rapidly accelerated and disappeared. Then at 7:30 p.m. a triangle-shaped object with a spinning circle on the bottom, making no sound, was sighted from the southside of Indianapolis, Indiana. The witness saw more objects off to the eastside of the city. In Columbus, Georgia at 10:30 p.m. a close encounter occurred with a UFO that was seen overhead, changing shape and causing the witness's cellphone to turn off. Later, at 11:00 p.m. PST a \"little army of star-like lights\" passed over Sacramento County, California. The witness in Rancho Cordova reported that they created quite a scare. The procession of lights lasted for 14 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_857",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, February 2009 webpage, reports uploaded March 19, 2009" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/11/2011",
  "desc" : "At around 2:00 a.m. two friends were walking on the beach in Clearwater, Florida when they saw one or more objects over the water. It looked like a formation of triangles going in the same direction with a hazy, \"flag like\" outer shell waving like a flag in the middle of the ocean, with air distortion due to heat. At first one witness thought it was a flock of birds, but dismissed the idea because his friend, who lived there, said\"there aren't any birds out here at this time of night\". It went behind a small cloud, but didn't come out the opposite side. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_858",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, February 2011 webpage, report uploaded August 16, 2011" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/11/2011",
  "desc" : "At 7:14 p.m. two witnesses driving in Elkton, Kentucky saw a flying object that first looked like a radio tower with a flashing light in the middle of two other lights. As they got closer it looked like a cigar-shaped object. However, when it started to move it changed shape into an oval shape, then it turned and came straight at them. As it flew over they saw three lights on the object, one flashing, and it again changed its shape into a diamond. At this point there were there were four lights on the bottom of the object, which appeared to be 15 feet wide and about 10 feet long. As it hovered and flew away it again changed shape into a flying disk. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_859",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, February 2011 webpage, report uploaded February 18, 2011" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/12/1944",
  "desc" : "The test launch of a Nazi rocket from Kummerdorf Airfield in Bremen, Germany with both of the top Nazi leaders Goebbels and Himmler present, occurred at 1:00 p.m. on this day. The tracking film showed an unidentified sphere that circled and followed the rocket. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_860",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Claude Poher, Etudes Statistiques Portant sur 1000 Temoignag, case 419; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 498" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/12/1952",
  "desc" : "The pilot and co-pilot of a MATS C-47 transport plane flying between Friendship Airfield and Baltimore, Maryland sighted a bright white UFO at 10:30 p.m. The object moved slowly at first, then accelerated away. The sighting lasted two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_861",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book Report #5, dated March 31, 1952; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/12/1959",
  "desc" : "At 6:10 p.m. a white cylindrical object, shaped like a cigarette in appearance, jerked back and forth over a cloud in Miami, Florida. It then vanished suddenly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_862",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: January-March, p. 48" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/12/1965",
  "desc" : "A strange looking plane was seen to dive into the sea near Minehead on the North Devon, England coast. Four witnesses saw it from two different points along the coast. A lifeboat, two RAF helicopters, and a Shackleton failed to find anything after a 90 minute search, and no planes were reported missing. The \"ghost plane\" may have been seen inland before it reached the sea, for a strange low-flying plane was reportedly seen over Swainswick, near Bath in Somerset, England. The ash-grey \"plane\" was flying about 100 feet above the road in a west-southwestly direction. It had a misty appearance, despite the fact that there was no fog or mist at the time. It came from behind some trees, and then literally just disappeared. \"The strange part was that it made no sound and did not appear to have an engine, but it was certainly not a glider.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_863",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Janet Gregory, FSR, September-October 1971, pp. 29-30; Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 43" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/12/1967",
  "desc" : "The witness, a civilian named Atkinson, first heard a \"chirping\"noise at between 3:30-3:40 a.m., then saw four glowing oval-shaped objects in the sky over Grand Rapids, Michigan. Three were in a line formation while the fourth was off to one side. The UFOs went behind some buildings. The case is listed as a Project Blue \"unknown.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_864",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 11355; Condon Colorado UFO Study, case N1030, citing NICAP; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 54" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/12/1967",
  "desc" : "At 6:00 p.m. a silent, white glowing object hovered just over Highway 15 in Kensington, Connecticut. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_865",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 344" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/12/1967",
  "desc" : "At 9:45 p.m. a domed disc with rotating colored lights was sighted from an apartment building in Wharton, Texas. The disc skimmed over the treetops and performed other maneuvers. The sighting lasted 10 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_866",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP case files; Condon Colorado UFO Study, case N1022, citing NICAP; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 9, 152" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/12/1968",
  "desc" : "On this night a large round object was seen close to the ground in Farm Creek, Utah in Uintah County by a woman named Christiansen. It changed color from green to red, performed a number of maneuvers, and left rapidly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_867",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Frank B. Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, Appendix case 61" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/12/1969",
  "desc" : "At 5:40 a.m. in Pirassununga, Sao Paolo state, Brazil Luis Flozinho De Oliveira, a farm worker, was on his way to work when he was approached and attacked by two strange looking aggressive tan skinned beings. The men were 1.5 meters (4.95 feet) tall and had beards, long hair, and asymmetrical eyes. Both humanoids wore white unbuttoned shirts and long beige colored pants with what appeared to be colorful inscriptions and drawings on them. They also wore dark shiny medallions around their necks. At first stunned, Luis fought back effectively, knocking them both to the ground, one on top of the other. The two humanoids got up and exchanged some words between themselves in a strange language. They then told Luis in perfect Portuguese that they were leaving since he was much stronger than they, and they both fled into the thick underbrush. Luis's dog “rolled up into a ball on the ground for protection” during the attack upon its master. The dog refused to eat anything after the encounter, and died a month later, its body found bloated up. The dog had never been willing to return to the place of the encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_868",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Walter Buhler, FSR Case Histories, June 1971, p. 10; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-09 (A1026), citing Walter Buhler, SBEDV Bulletin, 1975, issue 51; Jader U. Pereira, Les Extra-Terrestres, case 225; FSR, January 1972, p. 26, citing SBEDV Bulletin, January 1970" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/12/1969",
  "desc" : "The crew of a fishing boat off the coast of Quinteros, Chile watched an odd looking object enter the water at around 5:00 p.m and then vanish. Another unidentified aircraft was seen overhead at the same time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_869",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Roberto Enrique Banchs, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 118; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 8746" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/12/1970",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. a shiny ellipsoid UFO hovered over a residential neighborhood in Canning Town, London, England. Three teenage girls who witnessed the object feel into a trance for one minute. The UFO vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_870",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, May-June 1970, p. 22" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/12/1971",
  "desc" : "The good photographs were taken by a family of a domed disc-shaped object in front of some white clouds on the island of Corsica, France. The photos were taken along the cloudy shoreline in the town of Bastia at around 7:00 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_871",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, p. 289" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/12/1972",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m. a gray eight meter in diameter disc-shaped object descended from the clouds, and then landed on four legs outside the town of LaGardelle-sur-Leze, Haute-Garronne, France. It then took off and flew to the south-southwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_872",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1976" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/12/1972",
  "desc" : "At 6:30 p.m. a screech was heard outside in Haydock, Merseyside, England, and a dog ran and hid. Later, a 6 foot in diameter blue fall of light followed a girl home at 60 feet altitude. The close encounter lasted 15 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_873",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "R. P. Knowles, FSR Case Histories, June 1972, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/12/1976",
  "desc" : "A metallic polygon UFO with multi-colored lights was seen moving at a slow speed, under 100 mph, in Magra, Tasmania, Australia. At 3:50 a.m. it then abruptly accelerated to a speed between 500 and 1,000 mph as it sped off to the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_874",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Tasmania UFO Investigation Centre, ACOS Bulletin, June 1976, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/12/1976",
  "desc" : "A large disc-shaped object descended, tilted, and then came down into some trees in Salisbury, Massachusetts near a nuclear submarine base. It rose up, and then performed some amazing maneuvers. There were 13 witnesses and the encounter lasted for over 70 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_875",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Skylook, May 1976, p. 3; Raymond E. Fowler, Casebook of a UFO Investigator, p. 136" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/12/1978",
  "desc" : "At 6:00 a.m. two large cigar-shaped object hovered in a vertical position over Courbevoie, Hauts-Seine department, France. One tilted and flew off to the southwest as the sun was rising; the second soon followed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_876",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 13050; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 217" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/12/1982",
  "desc" : "Mr. Robert Sprout, age 60, reported to the Center for UFO Studies that at 5:45 p.m. he witnessed a square black object with four white and yellow lights arranged in the corners three miles east of Joliet, Illinois. It had an X-shaped, coal-black area connecting the four corners. The UFO changed direction in flight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_877",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "CUFOS case files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/12/1985",
  "desc" : "A woman in Vasa, Minnesota went outside at 11:00 p.m. to see why her dogs \"were going crazy\". She saw two multicolored light clusters hovering over a nearby field. One of them blinked out, while the other one came straight at her. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_878",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Doris Graziano, APRO Bulletin, February 1986, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/12/1986",
  "desc" : "At 12:33 a.m. a 48-year-old woman in Lima, Ohio saw a dark triangular UFO hovering over her neighbor's house, 150 feet away. It was between 50 and 60 feet in length, and 15-20 feet wide. It had a red light on top, and white lights in the lower two corners. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_879",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John Timmerman, International UFO Reporter, July 1986, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/12/1988",
  "desc" : "Numerous witnesses watched as several spherical objects sailed over Svetliy Klyuch, near Dal'negorsk, Vladivostok, Russia at eight o'clock in the evening, and then hovered over a field for several minutes. A beam of light was directed down at a building. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_880",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 121" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/12/1991",
  "desc" : "A repeat UFO abductee, driving west of Westfield, Massachusetts on Interstate 90 (The Massachusetts Turnpike) at 1:40 a.m., watched a huge dark boomerang shaped UFO that blocked out the starry sky.  ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_881",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald M. Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, August 1991, p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/12/1994",
  "desc" : "At 7:20 p.m. the engine of a car with two witnesses inside died when a white sphere, the size of a house, flew spinning over a nearbyfield at only 25 meters above the ground, in Flavigny-sur-Moselle, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_882",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 16309; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 324" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/12/1995",
  "desc" : "Two women in Miami, Florida at 7:45 p.m. sighted a white, glowing sphere at 10 degrees elevation above the ocean. The object was estimated to be the size of an airplance, but its light was powerful enough to illuminate the water below. It vanished, and was replaced by two lights at a higher elevation that were pulsating. One moved down, across, then up into the other light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_883",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mary Margaret Zimmer, MUFON case files, case # 980202SE" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/12/1995",
  "desc" : "A very large orange UFO approached near a boatload of commercial fishermen at sea off the coast of Gustavus, Alaska at 10:30 p.m. The object returned light signals from the boat, and then zipped away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_884",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17118, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Feb. 1995 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/12/2000",
  "desc" : "Two luminous disc-shaped objects were seen in Novellara, Italy for several minutes flying at extremely high speed.  There were several dozen witnesses who reported seeing the two objects at around four o'clock in the afternoon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_885",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (UK), May 2000, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/12/2000",
  "desc" : "Two witnesses from Rockford, Illinois reported that at 10:00 p.m. a bright orange sphere descended out of the eastern sky, then leveled off. It flew a short distance, then turned and flew to the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_886",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Feb. 2000 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/12/2003",
  "desc" : "At 9:03 p.m. a dark triangular craft with structure underneath flew silently over Vancouver, British Columbia. There were two witnesses and the incident lasted three minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_887",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2003 Canadian UFO Survey, case 55, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/12/2006",
  "desc" : "At 11:53 p.m. over Houston, British Columbia four witnesses saw what looked like an egg-shaped UFO standing upright. It looked fully illuminated as if it had an internal light source, and made no sound. It was first seen hovering, then moved out of sight behind a mountain.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_888",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2006 Canadian UFO Survey, case 49, citing www.ufoinfo.com" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/12/2008",
  "desc" : "On a nightly walk in Cloverdale, California a witness spotted a disc-shaped object in the sky at 6:45 p.m. It appeared to be the size of a football field, and it was moving slowly and silently across the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_889",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Feb. 2008 webpage, report uploaded February 14, 2008" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/13/1950",
  "desc" : "In Norre Nebel, Denmark a disc-shaped object maneuvered over a farm at around 9 p.m. and then vanished in a flash. A second disc passed over the area eight minutes later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_890",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1505" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/13/1952",
  "desc" : "A luminous cigar-shaped object, blue on the bottom and green at both ends, flew over London, England on this night. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_891",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "newspaper clipping dated February 14, 1952; UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 19" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/13/1953",
  "desc" : "A UFO that first appeared saucer-shaped, but revealed itself to be cigar-shaped when it tilted, darted all over the sky over Inverness, Scotland at 2:00 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_892",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: January-February, p. 84" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/13/1957",
  "desc" : "Three bright disc-shaped objects were seen flying over Burbank, California at 7:00 p.m. They searched the sky with light beams, then they rose vertically in departure. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_893",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "newspaper clipping dated February 14, 1957; APRO Bulletin, March 1957, p. 5; Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Orbit, March 1957" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/13/1967",
  "desc" : "A witness driving alone at 10:55 p.m. between Ashington and Peg's Wood, Northumberland, England felt a prickly feeling as he sighted a UFO nearby. There was heavy static on the car radio simultaneous with the sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_894",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 186, citing CONTACT (UK)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/13/1967",
  "desc" : "The engine and headlights of a pickup truck failed simultaneously in Big Fork, Montana at around ten o'clock in the evening. The witnesses stepped out of the vehicle and saw a blue-green light overhead, which changed to a reddish-orange color. They felt a great deal of heat. As the light moved away to the right side of the road, the engine of the truck re-started by itself. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_895",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 187, citing Brad Steiger & Joan Whritenour, The New UFO Breakthrough" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/13/1967",
  "desc" : "At 7:15 p.m. an object with three lights in a triangle buzzed a car in Davis, California. It tipped up, revealing a disc-like base with a central red light, and 5-6 dimmer white lights. The object turned and sped away to the southwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_896",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 327; James E. McDonald talk to American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 22, 1967, case 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/13/1968",
  "desc" : "At 4:00 a.m. Robert Union, a former FAA air traffic controller, and his wife sighted a glowing white elliptical object that paced their car for 30 minutes. It crossed back and forth across the road at an altitude of 2,000 to 5,000 feet near Missoula, Montana, maneuvering and making sharp turns before it finally vanished abruptly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_897",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP case files, report dated February 13, 1968; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 153 & 161" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/13/1969",
  "desc" : "A huge luminous globe nearly hit the smokestacks of a factory in Telemark Dalen, Norway shortly before 8 p.m. Then a cigar-shaped object flew by at low altitude flying to the southwest at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_898",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, March-April 1969, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/13/1974",
  "desc" : "On this night a college student in Barrington, New Hampshire sighted a domed ellipse or cigar-shaped object that flew slowly at first, making controlled maneuvers, and then shot away fast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_899",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1974; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 11118" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/13/1974",
  "desc" : "At 8:20 p.m. north of Colleret, Nord, France a domed disc-shaped object was first sighted as it was heading toward the west. It turned to the south over a geological fault line. A second disc followed the same course ten minutes later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_900",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, September 1975" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/13/1977",
  "desc" : "At around 7 p.m. a five meter long walnut-shaped UFO followed a student on a motorbike to a farm in Laspeyre, Lot-et-Garonne, France. It was emitting beams of light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_901",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, June 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/13/1978",
  "desc" : "On this night two young men, LaMazon and Martinez, were driving on National Highway 11 near San Justo, Santa Fe province, Argentina when a strong white light approached their vehicle and the car stopped immediately. A tall being dressed in black approached, stopped three meters away, turned around, then walked back into the light. No traces or footprints could be found. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_902",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thompson, UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1978, p. 16, citing Cronica, February 15, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/13/1979",
  "desc" : "A newsman driving in Cassola, Italy saw a metallic gray disc in a field. It had a weak bluish-glow coming from the bottom of the craft. It rose vertically into the sky very fast. Radio interference was reporeted. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_903",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Verga Maurizio, ITACAT: Italian UFO Catalogue, case 145" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/13/1979",
  "desc" : "A small cigar-shaped object with small windows came out of a cloud in the predawn hours and was seen by four witnesses in Melo, Uruguay. It changed colors from red to green to yellowand finally to blue while it flew in a horizontal straight line. It then went back into the clouds. The witnesses included a young woman and the Police Chief of the city. It was the young woman's second sighting and the Police Chief's third. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_904",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thompson, UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1979, p. 15, citing Cronica, February 14, 1979" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/13/1981",
  "desc" : "The main witness had finished closing up his canteen in Fuentecen, Valladolid province, Spain at 2:30 a.m. He was walking back to his house when he observed several golden lights in a nearby field. He approached the lights but they suddenly rose up, circled, and landed again, this time closer to his home. The man went inside and woke his wife and son, and they all observed an object on the ground that intermittently gave off bright flashes of light. At this time his dogs began barking and acting strangely. His wife became frightened and went back to bed. Later, he heard footsteps and one of his dogs led him to a \"figure\" standing by the fence on his property. The being was a meter and a half tall, box-like in shape, and appeared metallic and almost robotic in nature. It did not seem to have a head, arms or feet. The dog approached the figure and began barking, and then both man and his son heard a strange barking \"echo\" that seem to come from the figure itself. The witness grabbed a flashlight and ran out, he then heard a loud \"crackling\" sound. The figure by now had disappeared. He next saw an object with rotating red lights rise from a nearby field and leave at high speed. A scorched area was found on the ground by government authorities. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_905",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, 19810113; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1981, case # 641, citing J. J. Benitez, La Quinta Columna" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/13/1982",
  "desc" : "A 25 meter arrowhead-shaped UFO with spotlights hovered over a field in Spartanburg, South Carolina at 10:30 p.m. It then followed a car being driven by the witness. An odd silence was noted. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_906",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14349, citing APRO Bulletin, volume 31, no. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/13/1997",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. Marta Aguilar Montoya and her two small children were asleep in their bedroom in Santiago, Chile when she heard a crackling noise that woke her up suddenly. Turning her head, she noticed a small figure about 4-foot 8 inches tall standing next to the TV; it was wearing a tight-fitting suit and a helmet with a visor. The being also wore a backpack connected to the helmet by two hoses, one over each shoulder. Frightened, she brought her two children to her bed and just continued to watch. The being stared at the trio but never made a move towards them. After several minutes the being turned to face the bedroom wall, and again there was a loud crackling sound. It then disappeared through the wall, leaving only its silhouette on the wall, which disappeared after two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_907",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17872; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, case # 2465, citing Luis Sanchez" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/13/1998",
  "desc" : "At 9:40 p.m. a helmet-shaped domed disc flew over Elsternwick, Victoria, Australia. It moved side-to-side while moving forward. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_908",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 18020, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 3, issue 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/13/2003",
  "desc" : "A police crime scene technician in Seattle, Washington was driving home from a crime scene at 2:30 a.m. when it started to rain. His car suddenly began making weird noises and the car radio turned on automatically, scanning through numerous stations at a rate of one a second. Lights inside and outside the car were also flashing. When he looked up he saw a huge triangular-shaped object above the car. In a few seconds blinding blue lights distracted the witness. The next thing he remembers all action suddenly stopped, and his car was parked on the side of the road with everything switched off. When he looked at his watch it was 3:03 a.m. He had lost track of 33 minutes of time. He turned his car engine on and drove back to his office. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_909",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2003, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/13/2004",
  "desc" : "2004, Jordanow, Poland - At one o'clock in the morning Mrs. K. J., age 77, awoke and went to the bathroom and then back to her bedroom. As she passed through the kitchen she was surprised to see a strong fiery orange light outside, floating in the sky. She realized it couldn't be the moon. The light was hemisphere shaped, with a flat bottom and round top. The light had an apparent size 2-3 times larger than the full moon. The light hung over the forest on Hajdowka Hill, 1.5 kilometers from her house. She watched it for about five minutes and started to feel so she went back to bed. During the night she had a disturbing \"dream\" about meeting with a huge shiny \"thing\". She awoke feeling very frightened, around 6:30 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_910",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2004, citing Robert K Lesniakiewicz" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/14/1889",
  "desc" : "On this evening in Catonsville, Maryland near Baltimore a luminous cylindrical object passed overhead, then appeared to descend nearthe village while following the course of the Patapsco River. The landscape beneath the object was lit up as bright as a carbon-arc light, causing alarm among the residents. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_911",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jerome Clark, International UFO Reporter, Spring 2003, p. 21" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/14/1949",
  "desc" : "At 18:40 p.m. two people driving near East Ganado Mission, Arizona saw a greenish white fireball hover, then arc downward toward the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_912",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. Volume 2: 1949, p. 21" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/14/1951",
  "desc" : "U.S. Air Force pilots Cocker and Spradley saw a flat, round white UFO hovering as they were flying near Alamogordo, New Mexico. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_913",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Daniel Lang, The New Yorker, September 1952, p. 6; Kenneth Arnold & Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 154, citing Fate, August 1951, p. 16; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 400" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/14/1960",
  "desc" : "At 4:40 p.m. a silver cigar-shaped object streaked through the sky over Nome, Alaska on a curved flight trajectory. There were four or more witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_914",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1960, p. 8, citing Anchorage Daily News, February 15, 1960; APRO Bulletin, March-April 1960; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 118, citing the Fairbanks Daily, February 16, 1960" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/14/1965",
  "desc" : "Walking along the beach near Guarani, Brazil five local residents saw a large flying object land. Two of them approached to within 60 feet and hid behind a sand dune. They saw three eight-foot tall beings, very thin in build, emerge from the craft. They wore dark, tight-fitting one-piece suits. There were later found landing imprints and footprints at the landing site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_915",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Green Beckley, Saga UFO Special, March 1972, p. 23; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1552, citing Beckley" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/14/1967",
  "desc" : "In Tuscumbia, Missouri at seven o'clock in the morning a Mr. Edwards saw a disc hovering just off ground. It was apparently resting on a shaft in a muddy field, and was rocking back and forth. Several small humanoid beings, grayish green in color, moved around rapidly beneath it. The creatures had very wide set eyes and no visible legs, but they did have quick moving arms. After about five minutes they disappeared behind the shaft, the object rocked, took off, then sped away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_916",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, September-October 1969, p. 5; Ted R. Phillips, Skylook, August 1975, p. 15; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0785, citing Skylook; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 118; Coral E. Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 191; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 9, 327" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/14/1974",
  "desc" : "Two brothers were moving some of their possessions in a truck near Ely, Nevada. At around 4:15 a.m. the engine of the truck began missing and the lights flickered, so they shifted into neutral. They then felt a blast of wind shake the truck and saw an orange colored light moving low to the ground from right to left. They stopped the truck and saw six different lights or objects surrounding them: three blue stationary lights, a red pulsating light, a silver colored saucer, and a reddish-orange saucer. The red light then came directly at the truck, passed close by, and continued on behind them. After the objects had finally disappeared, they found the rear axle on the truck broken in half. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_917",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 360, citing CUFOS" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/14/1998",
  "desc" : "At 1:45 a.m. the two witnesses were parked in an open field in Drente, The Netherlands when there suddenly appeared a flashing blue light over the field and they both saw an object resembling a \"stealth fighter\" with more rounded wings, hovering above a nearby road. The craft descended vertically and landed. Several figures came out of the object. They had long arms and small heads. They looked around briefly and then went back inside the object. The object then rose straight up and in a few seconds it was gone. Others in the area reported seeing a bright light over the area around the same time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_918",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case #2979, citing UFO Sightings in New Mexico & the World" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/14/1999",
  "desc" : "In El Paso, Texas at midnight a witness saw a bright green light descending and it seemed to get brighter as it got closer. It dimmed, revealing a silver disc-shaped object that was spinning. There were several lighted windows around its rim, and through them the witness could see several “shadows” inside. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_919",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1999, case # 3667, citing UFOPI" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/15/1950",
  "desc" : "In a newspaper story published in December 1967, a man from Salzburg, Austria claimed that he was abducted by a five-foot tall Grey humanoid UFOnaut who wore a silver uniform with a fishbowl style helmet. The incident reportedly occurred in a forest five miles north of Salzburg at around 11:00 p.m. at night. He was paralyzed and was floated up to the top of a round craft that had landed in a nearby field. The UFO had a dark interior, and the experience involved an off-Earth journey. The encounter lasted about an hour. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_920",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Charles Bowen, Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1967, p. 11" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/15/1956",
  "desc" : "At 12:40 p.m. a brown cigar-shaped object was seen flying on a straight and level course over Riverside, California by a US Navy enlisted man named Taylor. The sighting lasted eight minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_921",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 027" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/15/1956",
  "desc" : "While a large luminous disc hovered over Keansburg, New Jersey in Monmouth County at 9:30 p.m. two small satellite objects were ejected from it and flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_922",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Alexander Mebane, Civilian Saucer Intelligence of New York Newsletter, May 1956, p. 4; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 185; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: January-April, p. 32" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/15/1963",
  "desc" : "A metallic domed disc with a transparent dome and aerial and a concave bottom hovered 30 meters above the ground at a farm in Moe, Victoria, Australia. It was about eight meters in diameter, and gave off a bluish glow as it emitted a swishing noise. Horses and cattle on the farm panicked and fled. It climbed into the sky at a 45 degree angle going off toward the west and into the clouds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_923",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 117; Keith Basterfield, UFO Research Australia Newsletter, March 1982, p. 24; James Holledge, Flying Saucers over Australia, p. 86" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/15/1969",
  "desc" : "William Black observed a yellow-orange light moving from south to north while walking his dog at 10:40 p.m. in Brooklyn, New York. He saw a small protuberance on the edge of the \"disc\" as it passed overhead. After he crossed the street he saw two light sources going north, which veered slightly and headed off to the northeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_924",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "William Black, NICAP case files, letter dated February 18, 1969" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/15/1970",
  "desc" : "A shiny ball about four feet in diameter, looking like the mirrored ball in a ballroom or disco, zoomed by a residence in Birmingham, England at 6:30 a.m. making a buzzing noise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_925",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 9043, citing FSR" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/15/1972",
  "desc" : "At 4:30 p.m. in Rantau Panjang, Kelantan, Malaysia a 6-year-old boy named Husain saw a 2\" tall being, but with no UFO present. Fifteen minutes later a 12-year-old boy named Yakob confirmed his report by witnessing the same tiny humanoid creature. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_926",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ahmad Jamaludin, Summary of Unidentified Flying Objects and Related Events in Malaysia, cases 58 & 59" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/15/1976",
  "desc" : "Two men, Gelo and Carmona, were riding on a motorcycle between Olivares and Gerena, Sevilla, Spain at 8:10 p.m. when their motorcycle engine died. They then saw a 30 meter long cigar-shaped object on the roadside. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_927",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, October 1976, p. 10; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, case 76" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/15/1978",
  "desc" : "Late at night, a 15-year-old teenage girl woke up in her bed in her home near Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She saw an intense light emanating from outside her bedroom window and was unable to move. However, she was able to see out the window and saw a luminous dome-shaped object hovering very close to the ground in the garden. It was completely motionless, and had pulsating multi-colored lights on its top. Suddenly she heard a voice inside her head that said: \"We will pick you up and you will join us.\" Terrified, she answered in her mind: \"No, I will not come with you because I am materialistic and very attached to the banal joys of life. You are advanced spiritually and extremely distant from my concerns. Leave me, spirituality does not interest me\". After about an hour of what felt like constant mental struggle her paralysis subsided and she was finally able to move. The dome-shaped machine then slowly rose up from the garden. Terrified, she ran for her parents, who saw the slowly ascending object leave, emitting multicolored flashes of light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_928",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing Jimmy Guieu, Our Masters the Extraterrestrial Ones" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/15/1979",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. a 15 meter in diameter luminous domed disc was seen over the Metauro River in Fano, Italy during a rainstorm. It shot out \"black rays\" or beams. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_929",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Maurizio Verga, ITACAT: Italian UFO Catalogue" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/15/1988",
  "desc" : "Nocturnal lights and a domed disc descended over a high tension tower in Rotherham, Yorkshire, England then silently shot off at 12:20 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_930",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 22" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/15/1992",
  "desc" : "A dome-shaped UFO with white windows or lights rotating around the base hovered over Risley Nature Reserve in Warrington, England at 7:15 a.m. It was seen from the M62 highway, and it disappeared into a large cloud. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_931",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, Alien Update, p. 250, citing the Northern UFO Network" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/15/1994",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. a glowing oblong object caused electromagnetic interference effects on a car in Enkopping, Uppsala, Sweden. The UFO then sped away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_932",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 68, citing Paolo Fiorino & Matteo Leone, Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici (CISU)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/15/1996",
  "desc" : "Two witnesses reported that at 8:10 p.m. a luminous cigar-shaped object hovered close to the ground in Proaza, Oviedo, Spain. A sphere with \"sticks\" extended to the ground and illuminated the surrounding terrain. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_933",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17617" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/15/1999",
  "desc" : "For a total of three minutes a single witness in Lucky Point, Knox County, Indiana saw a bright light in the northwest. A silvery, shimmering disc-shaped object the size of a Boeing 707 then came into view, moving silently. The UFO tipped on its side, and then traveled up-and-down in all directions. It next moved in a figure-8 pattern and flew off towards the northwest. A photograph was taken. The next day the witness was approached by three men in dark suits who demanded the print and the negative. The three men identified themselves as employees of Indianapolis Power and Light and asserted that it was illegal to take photos of the power lines. I.P. & L. was contacted and denied that it sent representatives to interview the witness. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_934",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1999, citing Kerry Teverbaugh, Indiana MUFON" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/15/2002",
  "desc" : "A dark, noiseless triangular shaped craft was sighted flying over Salt Lake City, Utah at 3:00 a.m. The sighting lasted from 3 to 4 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_935",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Mar. 2002 webpage, report uploaded Sep. 28, 2002" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/15/2003",
  "desc" : "A shiny metallic oval object was sighted over the Florida Everglades from Fort Lauderdale, Florida at 3:37 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_936",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Mar. 2003 webpage archive" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/15/2004",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 a.m. a white disc-shaped object flew over the middle of the Kent Valley in Auburn, Washington. It slowed down and started hovering. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_937",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2004 webpage archive" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/15/2005",
  "desc" : "At 1:25 p.m. in Maple Ridge, British Columbia two witnesses sighted a large white oval object with legs hanging down. It rose quickly out of sight. At 6:28 p.m. in Ruskin, British Columbia a single witness sighted a large V-shaped object with lighted panels on the underneath side. At 9:00 p.m. in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada two witnesses reported that a multicolored light hovered over them for four minutes, shifted back and forth, then shot away towards the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_938",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2005 Canadian UFO Survey, cases # 7, 8, & 6; citing UFOBC, HBCCUFO, and NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/15/2006",
  "desc" : "The witness was driving alone from Elaine to Crumrod, Arkansas at six o'clock in the evening when he noticed two very bright lights on each side of his car that began to follow him. He turned into the driveway of the first house he came to and the lights did the same. He did not get out of the car, but instead blew the car horn for several minutes while the bright lights remained close to his car. He then saw figures with glowing eyes standing all around the house; they were looking at him. He started calling family members and friends on his cellphone, but it soon went dead and so did the car's engine. A friend whom he had succeeded in phoning came by to pick him up, but did not see anything. His car still would not start an hour after the incident and had to be jump started. The resident of the house refused to come out because he thought there was something “strange” happening outside. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_939",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2006, citing Peter Davenport, NUFORC, March 2006 webpage, report uploaded March 11, 2006" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/16/1953",
  "desc" : "A big reddish flying object passed a USAF C-47 transport plane flying over Anchorage, Alaska at 11:50 p.m. and was witnessed by the pilot and co-pilot. It then hovered for five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_940",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 20; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 405" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/16/1955",
  "desc" : "An aluminum colored hemisphere with a dome on top (a domed disc) hovered for a couple of minutes over a volcano at 1:00 p.m., then flew off quickly to the east. It emitted a small object, which flew off to the west. It was sighted by several pilots and crew members of the Peruvian Air Force, flying to the southeast of Quito, Ecuador. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_941",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, March 1955; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 25" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/16/1965",
  "desc" : "A group of boy scouts lead by a Mr. Smythe sighted a domed disc at 8:10 p.m. in a rural area of Groveland, Massachusetts. The UFO carried a white light on its trailing edge and a blue light on its forward edge. It was estimated to be 150 feet away at its closest approach, and at an altitude of 500 feet. It made a humming noise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_942",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, pp. 62, 331; NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1965, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/16/1966",
  "desc" : "A luminous object was said to have landed in the woods near Brunswick Naval Air Station, Maine at 10:30 p.m. The UFO had flashing red, blue, and green lights. A second object was later seen coming to join the first one. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_943",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 726, citing U.S. Air Force ATIC; Data-Net, January 1971, citing Jacques Vallee" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/16/1967",
  "desc" : "A UFO was tracked by radar and witnessed visually flying over Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean at 1:05 a.m. local Time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_944",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, March-April 1967, p. 11" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/16/1967",
  "desc" : "Raymond Wettling said that in the early morning hours a 180 foot long, cigar-shaped UFO landed in a field beside Interstate 70 near St. Louis, Missouri. Three silver-suited occupants emerged from the craft and invited him aboard for breakfast. He said he spent a pleasant hour and 45 minutes chatting with them inside their craft, over coffee. His hosts showed him through the craft's two rooms. One was lit up with bright red lights, the other looked like a modern office. After he left the ship, it took off straight up at a high rate of speed. No one else reported seeing it, but there was another UFO landing that evening near Weston, Missouri (see below). ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_945",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Chicago American, February 17, 1967; Dennis Stamey, Flying Saucers, June 1970, p. 36; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-18 (A0786), citing the Chicago American" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/16/1967",
  "desc" : "At 10:15 p.m. EST two policemen witnessed a glowing object like a bright light bulb hovering in the sky over a rural part of Amherst, Massachusetts. It ejected a small red object that moved back and forth before suddenly accelerating out of sight over the horizon. The UFO made a swishing sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_946",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 344; Raymond E. Fowler, Casebook of a UFO Investigator, p. 164" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/16/1967",
  "desc" : "A male witness reported that a UFO landed east of Weston, Missouri in Platte County near Hwy. P at 8:30 p.m. not far from the Missouri River. This report is potentially an important sighting, because it is at the intersection of two orthotenic lines of three UFO reports each, from as far west as Yorba Linda, California and as far east as Ascension Island, occurring on this date. To see a map, [Map unavailable]. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_947",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted Phillips, Skylook, August 1970, p. 3 for Weston, Missouri; Ann Druffel, Skynet case files, report dated July 11, 1967" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/16/1967",
  "desc" : "An oval-shaped flying object with three red lights, one green one, and multiple rows of windows flew over US Route 66 in the desert south of Kingman, Arizona at 11:43 p.m. at under 300 feet altitude. As the UFO passed over the highway the car being driven by the witnesses, Mr. & Mrs. Max Recod, was illuminated by a beam of light that also lit up the surrounding terrain. Two other white lights joined the first UFO; they merged with the oval-shaped UFO, then shot up into the sky and away at an extremely fast speed. Mr. Recod is listed as a military witness. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_948",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, November-December 1967, pp. 1,3; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. UFOs: A New Look, p. 44; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 328" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/16/1969",
  "desc" : "On this night in Chateau Des Martins, Vienne, France five horses in the paddock of M. Meingault were panicked by \"something shining\" with intensely bright eyes \"of a very pale, brilliant green.\" Mr. Meingault saw the eyes approximately 3.75 feet above the ground. He re-entered his chateau to get his gun and when he returned saw a \"flying shadow\" pursuing the horses. There was a great deal of damage to the paddock and fences caused by the frightened animals. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_949",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-10, citing Jean-Claude Baillon, FSR, Vol. 16 # 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/16/1971",
  "desc" : "At 6 p.m. while waiting for a bus in Straken, Sweden Ake Westerberg saw a little man standing motionless in the middle of the road about 50 feet away. \"I couldn't see his face; there was just a gray spot there.\" Westerberg stepped closer out of curiosity, and he heard the little figure growl. Then there suddenly appeared a flash of white light so intense that the had to shut his eyes. When he re-opened them a few seconds later the little figure had disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_950",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-08, citing FSR Case Histories # 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/16/1988",
  "desc" : "Two police officers saw a very large spinning oval-shaped UFO with flashing red and green lights around its circumference in the Rosehill area of Willenhall, England. It made no sound and flew off quickly toward the southeast. Two more cops saw the same or a similar UFO from Walsall. Their reports were sent to the Ministry of Defence. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_951",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gary Heseltine, UFO Magazine (UK), July 2003, p. 10, citing Nicholas Redfern, A Covert Agenda, p. 165; Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 23" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/16/1996",
  "desc" : "A huge craft with 50 to 75 lights flew directly overhead of the witness driving on Highway 285 south of Ojo Caliente, New Mexico at 10:05 p.m. The lights on the UFO were sequencing in a clockwise direction. It made no sound, flew straight up, then down, then hovered again. It left flying off toward the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_952",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Christopher O'Brien, Enter the Valley, p. 309" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/16/1997",
  "desc" : "Two teenage brothers in Lago de Rapel, Chile were followed home by a brilliant, noiseless flying object at 4:30 a.m. When they got home they ran inside and woke up their father. He first thought they were joking, but all three looked out a window could still see the object quietly hovering outside. They then woke up their father who thought they were joking. All three looked out the window and noticed that the object had landed on the ground. Next to it stood a being four feet 8 inches tall with a large bald head who wore a bluish colored uniform. All three witnesses became frightened and hid until the object and its occupant left the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_953",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, case # 2464, citing Luis Sanchez" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/16/2000",
  "desc" : "At around 9:15 to 9:30 p.m. five large orange glowing lights flew in from the east over Rockford, Illinois. They maneuvered vertically and laterally. Two left the formation and disappeared. A third light split in two, dropping a new light out of its bottom. All remaining lights then sped away. There were multiple independent reports called into the UFO Reporting Center. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_954",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle; UFO Magazine (USA), May 2000, p. 16, citing Filers' Files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/16/2003",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. a huge \"jet black\" triangular UFO with lights came slowly toward a witness driving on 109th Avenue NE in surburban Juanita, Washington. He pulled his truck to the side of highway and watched the craft for 30 seconds. It made no sound and it had a yellow searchlight on the front apex that moved its beam of light, and then went out. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_955",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, June 2003 webpage archive" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/16/2004",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. a large, silent, fast moving oval-shaped object with light moved back and forth in the sky over a residential neighborhood in Amityville, New York on Long Island. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_956",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, June 2004 webpage archive" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/17/1949",
  "desc" : "Alain Berard saw a large, bright object land near his farm in France with a flash of green lightning. It then became dark. As he approached the craft, the witness saw three figures with stocky short legs, apparently without heads. Frightened, he fired a gun at them three times. A moment later the object took off vertically. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_957",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 193, citing Oltre il Cielo, Volume I" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/17/1953",
  "desc" : "At 10:04 p.m. five airmen of the US Air Force 754 AC&W Squad in Port Austin, Michigan picked up a clear and steady radar return at a distance of 9 miles. The slow moving light changed color from red to pink to pale white to white and then back to red. An explanation of the sighting was changed to \"Venus\" in the Air Force files in 1963. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_958",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2419; Project Blue Book Report #10, report dated February 27, 1953; UNICAT, case # 760; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 41" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/17/1956",
  "desc" : "Multiple radar sets at Orly Airport, Paris, France tracked an unknown blip for four hours beginning at 10:50 p.m. It was twice the size of and airliner, and made 2,000 mph bursts of speed. A visual sighting of the object was briefly made by a pilot landing at the airfield. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_959",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Alexander Mebane, Civilian Saucer Intelligence-NY Newsletter, February 1956, p. 6; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 17; Jimmy Guieu, Flying Saucers Come from Another World, p. 260" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/17/1956",
  "desc" : "In Anderson, South Carolina at 4:15 p.m. several thousand frantic birds took off and flew off >S, some died in the process. A silvery wheel-shaped UFO was sighted by a separate witness. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_960",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Anderson (SC) Independent, February 21, 1956; Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Orbit, April 3, 1956" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/17/1960",
  "desc" : "A grayish black Saturn-shaped disc with exhaust cruised the tops of the hills in New Martinsville, West Virginia. A lighter-colored ring on the object emitted smoke from rear end. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_961",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Teets, West Virginia UFOs: Close Encounters in the Mountain State, p. 82" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/17/1967",
  "desc" : "At 1:05 a.m. in Dorchester, Massachusetts a metallic domed disc-shaped object with 4-5 purple lights around its perimeter hovered at treetop level over a rest home for the elderly before moving away. At 6:55 p.m. in Lawrence, Massachusetts a dazzlingly bright V-shaped object, with a variety of body lights, hovered low over the interstate highway for three minutes. The witness drove under it. There were a series of other, similar reports close by at Methuen and Andover at about the same time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_962",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 344; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 328" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/17/1969",
  "desc" : "A woman in Flinders Park, South Australia heard a whirring sound coming from outside that woke her at 2:50 a.m. She looked out the window and saw an unusual object in a nearby field. A man emerged from the shadows and walked around the object. The figure was very tall and lean with light colored hair. He wore white coveralls. He walked several times around the object. The witness then ran to get other witnesses but when she got back the UFO and tall figure were gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_963",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1969, case #1309, citing Keith Basterfield" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/17/1974",
  "desc" : "At ten p.m. a 10 meter long cigar-shaped object appeared over a vineyard in a rainstorm in Montreal-d'Aude, Aude department, France. It had four blazing lights on display as it moved up a road. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_964",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jean-Claude Bourret, The Crack in the Universe: What You Have Not Been Told about Flying Saucers, p. 86" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/17/1975",
  "desc" : "At 9 p.m. Sheriff Richard Egebakken, as well as four other Wheatland County and state officials, observed a bright round object hovering near the Harlowton, Montana nuclear missile base. The object made rapid darting movements, and bobbed up-down. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_965",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 175" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/17/1976",
  "desc" : "A truck driver driving between Tarraleah and Berridale, Tasmania saw a bright cigar-shaped object ahead and to his left at around four o'clock in the morning. It was low to the ground. The light had maintained its position relative to his truck for some time, so the driver woke up his companion. The driver estimated the object was about one kilometer away and 300 meters in altitude. The two men tried a transistor radio, but it emitted only static until the end of the sighting. They estimated the object to be 10 meters in diameter with a dome on top. After being paced for 60 kilometers, they stopped to change drivers. When they did this the UFO dropped down to within 300 meters of their truck, then hovered nearby. As they started driving again, the UFO moved across the road and paced them again at varying distances until sunrise. A small orange light accompanied the main object during the latter half of the sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_966",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, October 1976, p. 19; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 392, citing ACOS Bulletin, June 1976" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/17/1977",
  "desc" : "During the day a teacher and two canteen workers at Broad Haven school in Pembrokeshire, Wales watched a silvery yellow cigar-shaped object glide over a field emitting a loud humming sound. Before it left the area, a human-like figure was seen briefly to step out of the object and then go back inside. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_967",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, case # 1386, citing J. A. Brooks, Ghosts and Legends of Wales" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/17/1978",
  "desc" : "Three school teachers, Mr. Moreno, Mr. Aguilar and Mr. Coronado were on their way back to the town of Cocula, Mexico from a late dinner, when around 2:00 a.m. they noticed bright flashes of green, red and white light coming from a nearby hill. They stopped their vehicle and got out to get a better look. They walked towards the lights, which appeared to be about 300 meters away. The light seemed to dim the closer they got to it. When they were about 20 meters from it, they noticed that it was now an opaque egg-shaped object, about 15 meters in length. It appeared to have three antenna-like protrusions on top. The UFO now gave off a fluorescent white glow. Curious, the three men continued to approach even closer, and began to surround it. Suddenly, one of the men noticed something moving very close to him and signaled the other two. All three of them then saw a short \"robot like\" humanoid in a freshly dug ditch, and it appeared to be still digging. The being was wearing a tight fitting silvery outfit with a round helmet. The little man simply ignored the trio and kept digging. Frightened all three men ran across the field, got back into their vehicle, and drove away at high speed. The next day they returned to the site and found numerous ground traces, including the ditch. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_968",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 3507, citing J. J. Benitez, El Arbol y La Serpiente" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/17/1994",
  "desc" : "A 10-year-old boy in Barking, London, England witnessed a domed object with reddish-orange lights underneath at 11:30 p.m. It hovered silently at 300 feet altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_969",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/17/1997",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. a 68-year-old woman was outside saying farewell to her son-in-law in La Grange, Georgia when she noticed a disc-shaped object in the southern sky.  As it got closer, she saw three white objects moving in unison and \"floating.\" No one else was outside or driving by while objects were in view. Ten minutes later three female witnesses in Franklin, Georgia were outside when they saw a multicolored spherical object approach at a rapid (but not incredible) speed, then slow down near one house, then speed up again and depart out of sight.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_970",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John Thompson, MUFON case files, cases # 970610E and 970217E" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/17/1997",
  "desc" : "A 46-year-old man in Biloxi, Mississippi was cleaning his carport 1t 2:30 p.m. when he heard the sound of jets and looked up. He also saw three disc-shaped objects in the sky. He went and got his binoculars, and when he returned there were now four objects with multicolored lights. The UFOs slowly moved across the sky and went out of sight. The sighting lasted seven minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_971",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. R. Gillia, MUFON case files, case # 970514bC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/17/1999",
  "desc" : "In Campinas, Sao Paolo state, Brazil Gley Freitas observed a large oval-shaped object on the ground. Next to the object stood two tall humanoids, wearing tight-fitting outfits and helmets. Afraid, the witness did not get any closer. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_972",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1999, citing Thiago Luiz Ticchetti, EBE-ET" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/17/2004",
  "desc" : "A dark triangular flying object with three lights, one at each end, flew over Phillipsburg, New Jersey at 7:00 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_973",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Feb. 2004 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/17/2007",
  "desc" : "At 2:52 a.m. a triangular craft was sighted over the Burke Lakefront Airport in Cleveland, Ohio. It had white lights on the sides, and a red light shimmering in the bottom middle. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_974",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Feb. 2007 webpage, report uploaded Feb. 24, 2007" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/17/2008",
  "desc" : "At 11:50 a.m. a photograph of two “phantom UFOs” was taken in the vicinity of the Uruguay River from Gualeguaychu, Entre Rios Province, Argentina. The photo shows clear, sharp images. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_975",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Luis Burgos, www.ufoinfo.com, citing Inexplicata" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/18/1948",
  "desc" : "At 4:56 p.m. a farmer in Stockton, Kansas saw a 4-foot wide disc that approached to within six feet and appeared to aim some type of tube or pipe at him. The UFO then wobbled and emitted some flames. It shot away flying toward the northwest. At 5:05 p.m. a Mr. Wray took a photograph of an irregular-shaped UFO north of Norton, Kansas. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_976",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 91, Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, Coming of the Saucers, p. 179" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/18/1954",
  "desc" : "At 3:30 p.m. while walking along the coast near Lossiemouth, Scotland UFO contactee Cedric Allingham heard a swishing sound and looked up. He saw a flying saucer that through binoculars looked only slightly different from the one reported by UFO contactee George Adamski. Three hours later he heard and saw it again as it came in for a landing only 50 yards away. \"The whole metallic body seemed to glow faintly,\" but was not translucent. The disc was 50 feet wide and 20 feet high and looked like polished aluminum. A six-foot-tall man with a deep tan and a high forehead got out. His garment covered him from the neck down and he wore no shoes. In each nostril was a tiny tube. When Allingham drew a sketch of planetary orbits, he nodded when Mars was pointed out, and repeated \"Mars.\" In further exchanges he verified Allingham's suggestions that the Martian canals consisted of a central string of water surrounded by vegetation. Allingham touched and photographed the saucer and also photographed the pilot, from a side rear angle. These photos are reproduced in his book. A slight humming sound marked the take off of the saucer. The interview had lasted ½ hour. Allingham's contact claims are regarded with extreme skepticism by most UFO investigators. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_977",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-03, citing Cedric Allingham, Flying Saucers From Mars" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/18/1954",
  "desc" : "On the same day as Cedric Allingham alleged UFO contact UFO sightings were reported in southern California. In Los Angeles an astronomer reported sighting a huge ellipsoidal object that was first seen flying toward the west, but made an instant turn to the north at an estimated speed of 1200 mph. At the same time a retired U.S. Air Force pilot sighted a flying disc in Van Nuys that made incredible maneuvers but no sound. It flew off toward the west as a second disc circled. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_978",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren Gross, UFOs: A History, 1954: January-May, p. 39; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 3288" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/18/1956",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. a golden colored disc-shaped UFO with haze around it circled slowly over the treetops in Atlantic City, New Jersey. It then darted into the air and out of sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_979",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "newspaper clipping" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/18/1963",
  "desc" : "On this morning in Maiden, North Carolina flat metallic disc-shaped objects hovered, then engaged in maneuvers for a lengthy display. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_980",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/18/1967",
  "desc" : "At 4:30 p.m. a cigar-shaped object was seen accompanied by two smaller satellite objects in Chatsworth, Georgia. At 5:45 p.m. west of Syracuse, New York Jerome and Cohen sighted a UFO that left a vapor trail. The object fell downwards, curved until it straightened up its descent, and then vanished. Jerome took two color slides that show a dark smoke or vapor trail. At 9:00 p.m. a coin shaped object surmounted by an orange glow that flickered floated in the sky above West Sacramento, California at a 45 degree angle. It then appeared to approach the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_981",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP investigation files, Syracuse report dated February 24, 1967" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/18/1971",
  "desc" : "An object maneuvered over the town of Umbrete, Sevilla, Spain at 8:35 p.m. The witness, a 15-year-old named Rubio, found rake marks at a flattened, 3-meter wide circular landing spot. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_982",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 139, citing investigator Manuel Osuna Llorente" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/18/1971",
  "desc" : "At 9:50 a.m. Dr. J. Mueller, D. C. Martin Thoele and Theodore Thoele of St. Charles, Missouri observed a cone-shaped, \"cage like\" object, 10 feet wide by 10 feet high, tipped at an angle, approximately 400 feet above the street. The object was noiseless, and a string of lights extended down on what would correspond to three wires of the \"cage\" to a point mid-way between the tip of the cone and its base. The object was occupied by a single figure. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_983",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-09, citing Skylook #45; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, March 1972, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/18/1973",
  "desc" : "In Lexington, Alabama a UFO landed in a pasture at 12:20 a.m., about 300 meters from a farmhouse. According to the witness, named Nix, the light emitted by the object was reportedly so bright that it \"almost hurt your eyes to look at it.\" It was larger than a car but smaller than a bus, and it vanished as if someone had thrown a switch. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_984",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, January-February 1973, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/18/1975",
  "desc" : "Photographs of UFOs were taken on this day in Argentina and Oklahoma. An object that was described at silvery and shiny by the witness, but which appears as flat black against the bright blue clear sky, was taken in Puerto Madryn, Argentina at the ocean shore at 3:20 p.m. A night time photograph of a luminous UFO was taken in Norman, Oklahoma at around 8:00 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_985",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Wendelle C. Stevens, Saga UFO Report, March 1977, p. 39; Robert Schmidt, FSR, November 1976, p. 24" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/18/1976",
  "desc" : "At around eight o'clock in the evening EST two women driving in a rural area reported that lights high in the sky paced their car for 13-14 miles from Chatchee to Lincoln, Alabama. Near Okatchee, Alabama they saw a large orange object in the woods near the ground to their left. Their CB radio stopped working, making no static, no sound at all. Two objects then followed them until they reached Lincoln, Alabama, where the UFOs approached to within 300-400 feet. The women saw five objects at this point. After passing through Lincoln, the objects stopped pacing the car and the CB radio suddenly started working. The two objects that had paced the car were egg-shaped and glowing with a fluorescent light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_986",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "CUFOS investigation file, report dated May 17, 1976; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 392, citing CUFOS" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/18/1976",
  "desc" : "At 6:45 p.m. PST 8-10 discs were sighted flying in a V formation over Rancho Cordova, California. The objects were 3 to 6 meters in diameter, gray in color, and made no sound. Afterwards the witness saw ten aircraft circling that portion of the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_987",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "CUFOS investigation file, report dated March 1, 1976" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/18/1979",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 a.m. an incident involving missing time and vehicle electrical system interference occurred in Lardit, Aveyron district, France. Dark objects flew over a reservoir, followed by a 1.5 meter in diameter metallic disc. The witness experienced semi-paralysis and the car's electrical system failed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_988",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 13644, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, March 1979" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/18/1981",
  "desc" : "Jose Fermin Albornoz, an illiterate shephard, awoke at 4:00 a.m. to the sounds of his animals causing a commotion. Looking out from his hut he saw a \"beautiful\" blue light hovering over a field about 20 meters away. He woke up another shepherd, but his companion became extremely afraid, screamed out and hid under his blanket. He then heard a loud buzzing sound that appeared to originate from overhead. This was followed by something like the sound of a diesel truck, although the remote mountainous area of Manzano Amargo, Neuquen Province, Argentina that they were in was only accessible by horseback. Suddenly two short humanoid entities appeared out of nowhere, standing side by side. The beings spoke to him in an unknown, unintelligible language. Terrified, Jose now became confused and his next memory was of seeing a bright light quickly flying away. He described the humanoids as about one meter in height with extremely wide shoulders. They seemed to have normal hands and feet, but he could not make out any facial features. They wore helmets and tight fitting, dark blue outfits. During the incident some nearby horses stampeded away from the area, apparently terrified. Albornoz said the spherical light was bluish in color, and it did not illuminate the surroundings. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_989",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Carlos Ferguson, UNICAT database, case 463" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/18/1990",
  "desc" : "A woman was out walking her dog in the Waldeck hills, near Korbach, Germany in the early evening when her dog lay down on his back and started whining. The dog wouldn't get up, so she eventually had to start carrying him. Next she heard a low humming sound, which ceased after about 30 seconds. Then a large round object, with a diameter estimated to be 10-20 meters, was seen floating above a clearing and it began to glow with an incredibly bright light for 20 to 30 seconds. After that, its light dimmed and it took on a metallic appearance. The bottom of the oval craft glowed dark red like red-hot charcoal while the object lowered itself silently to the ground. In the meanwhile her dog had run away. The witness, who was now completely blinded, wanted to run, too but was struck by a blue ray of light which paralyzed her. She had trouble breathing, and tried in vain to call out for help but could not scream. She became completely covered in perspiration in under a minute. Then \"there was a voice\" that sounded female and somehow metallic. It said: \"Don't be afraid, nothing bad will happen to you.\" Actually, though, this caused her to become even more panicked and nearly hysterical. The ray of light changed to green and her breathing improved. All of the sudden, two short entities appeared standing in front of her, both of them between 1.40 and 1.60 meters in height, with baldheads and gray skin. They had normal human-like eyes and noses. They wore dark green overalls. On their chests they wore a strange symbol, which resembled \"^`C L\". She did not understand their language. They soon returned to their craft, which stood nearby on four legs and was about 1.50 meters high. The green beam vanished and the witness sank to the ground in a faint. It was 9:30 p.m. when she woke up again, three hours after the start of the incident. She took a few steps and vomited, which she did a second time after reaching home, where her dog was already waiting for her. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_990",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ulrich Magin & Illobrand Von Ludwiger, UFOs - Zeugen and Zeichen, p. 96; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 15564; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1990, case # 241, citing Ulrich Magin & Illobrand Von Ludwiger). (See a similar incident occurring in 1979 on February 21 in Wales" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/18/1996",
  "desc" : "Near Pine Mountain, Georgia driving east on Highway 18 in a roofing truck five miles past Interstate 85, two men saw a silver, cigar-shaped object they first thought was a jet falling through the sky at 5:30 p.m. It stopped in mid-air about 100 feet from the ground, then moved in an S pattern \"in a flash\" and upward at a steep 45 degree angle. The UFO was without wings, made no sound, and was estimated to be about the size of a commercial jet aircraft. The duration of the sighting was between 10-15 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_991",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON field investigation database, case 960908SE, field investigator John C. Thompson" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/19/1951",
  "desc" : "Twelve witnesses flying in an airliner, including two men name Bicknell and Merrifield, while flying near Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania sighted a 200 foot long bullet shaped UFO at 7:20 a.m. At one end of the object was a square-cut, vertical fin. The body of the craft was a dull silver cover, but at intervals along the fuselage were dark vertical bands. The object hovered over Mount Kilimanjaro for several minutes, then moved away fast towards the east at an estimated speed of 1,000 km per hour. They took a photograph of it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_992",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Nairobi Sun Post, February 25, 1951; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, case 9; J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, Volume 6 (1975), p. 36; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Cynthia Hind, UFO Afri-News, January 1990" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/19/1952",
  "desc" : "A reddish-orange fireball zig-zagged for 15 minutes over Corona, California shortly after 6:00 p.m. In addition to zigzagging the ball of light swooped up and down. There were three witnesses. The case was listed as an unknown by Project Blue Book. At 8:00 p.m. three or more green balls of light stopped in midair in Richmond, California. They then shot away to the south-southwest toward San Francisco. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_993",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2364; (1) & (2) Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/19/1956",
  "desc" : "An Eastern Airlines flight crew reported that a white nocturnal light buzzed their plane over Houston, Texas at 6:07 p.m., and then paced them for 28 minutes. A Project Blue Book unknown. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_994",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book \"unidentified\" case #3977; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, February 1992, p. 15; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns, p. 25" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/19/1962",
  "desc" : "Three commercial fishermen driving south on the Dauphin Island Toll Bridge Causeway in Alabama saw a reddish-orange object to the south at about 10° elevation at 6:00 p.m. It changed shape from a round spherical object to an ellipsoidal, football shape, and then became covered with a (possibly artificially produced) fog.The object was estimated to be about one-third the apparent diameter of the sun. They stopped the car to call Dauphin Island AFS radar site (693rd Radar Squadron), which by coincidence happened to have two airmen driving north on the causeway in the opposite direction, and who also saw the object to the west. It was therefore possible to triangulate the object's location at about 30°16' N, 88° 10' W, and between 2-5 miles away from the civilian observers; the object's actual size was computed to be at least 30 feet in length. No radar contact was reported. Venus had set 30 minutes earlier. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_995",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert D. Boyd, A Comparative Unit, p. 89; UNICAT, case # 449; Francis Ridge, www.nicap.com\\Chronology\\1962 UFO Chronology.htm" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/19/1964",
  "desc" : "On this evening in Gum Creek, South Australia Mrs. Player saw a yellow glowing domed disc-shaped object approach, and then hover making a \"tick-a-tick\" sound. Inside the transparent dome of the craft a man could be seen standing at \"wooden railing\". ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_996",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 14; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0582" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/19/1967",
  "desc" : "At 4:30 p.m. Mrs. Lambert and Mrs. Rigel watched a gun-metal gray blunt oval shaped disc, about 25 feet in diameter with a rough bottom, hovering at 20 feet altitude over a plaza in Hollywood, Florida. It had a row of revolving green lights, a row of yellow windows, and an antenna. The heads of people could be seen looking out from inside the windows of the craft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_997",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0789; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 328" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/19/1967",
  "desc" : "On this night some prominent local citizens had a close encounter with a 50-60 foot wide domed disc-shaped object with a large window on top and a band of colored lights on the bottom. It crossed the highway in Lane City, Texas just 54 meters ahead of the car at treetop level. It then stopped and hovered, and finally sped away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_998",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Houston Tribune, 19670223; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 328 & 452" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/19/1968",
  "desc" : "Mrs. Martha Heggs of Bengough, Saskatchewan, Canada had a close encounter with a metallic disc-shaped object with large windows around the domed top. It circled around her farm making a high-pitched sound. Her dog cowered in the snow, and the cattle bolted. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_999",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 12. 280, & 375" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/19/1973",
  "desc" : "At 15 meter wide box-shaped object with a dome on top hovered over a reservoir in Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey, making a humming sound. A second object flew by fast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1000",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 10375, citing NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1976" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/19/1974",
  "desc" : "A police officer and a gas station operator in Rochester, Minnesota saw a UFO \"bigger than a wrecker truck\" at 11:27 p.m. It had a white dome shell on top, several afterburners flaming from the bottom, and flew at an altitude of only 100 feet. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1001",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "CUFOS case files, report dated February 20, 1974; George D. Fawcett, FSR, January 1975, p. 30; John Magor, Canadian UFO Report, November 1974" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/19/1975",
  "desc" : "A woman driving in Orbak, Denmark reported that at 7:19 p.m.--the same moment that a large circular object descended behind her VW car--the engine and lights failed completely. The object gave off a brilliant blue luminescence and the witness felt a sensation of increased heat in its presence and a prickly sensation. After a few moments the object abruptly vanished and the car could be started. The witness became physically ill after the sighting. There were marks left on the car. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1002",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 378, citing MUFON UFO Journal, August 1976; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 255" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/19/1976",
  "desc" : "During a series of close encounter reports from the city of North Bergen, New Jersey, at two o'clock in the morning a Mr. Daliz noticed a human figure in Hudson Park with a light attached to his head, bent over and apparently picking things up from the ground and putting them into a little bag. The witness thought the man was wearing a one-piece uniform, and seemed to be dragging his feet as he walked. He continued doing this activity for 20 minutes. No UFO was seen at the time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1003",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted Bloecher, FSR, October 1976, p. 6; Ted Bloecher, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1976, p. 14; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1976-39 (A1460), citing Bloecher, Stoehrer & Hopkins" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/19/1978",
  "desc" : "Six witnesses in Louhans, Saône-et-Loire, France reported seening a dark disc-shaped object that ascended from a field behind a house. It had portholes around its perimeter, and made a noise on takeoff. The incident lasted several hours. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1004",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, December 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/19/1978",
  "desc" : "At 10:15 p.m. a Mrs. Moon of Tucson, Arizona witnessed two plain coin-shaped discs that flew silently to the north from over housetops to the hills. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1005",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, January-February 1978, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/19/1979",
  "desc" : "At noon four police officers viewed a bluish silvery disc in the sky over Dixon, Solano County, California through binoculars. It looked \"like a frisbee that was dropped and floating down.\" The outer portions of the object looked reflective but it was dark in the middle. No weather balloons were in the area at the time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1006",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dixon Tribune, February 22, 1979; UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1979, p. 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/19/1981",
  "desc" : "At 8:20 a.m. a silver cylinder looking like a flute flew silently over the city of Kunming, Yunan Province, China at low altitude on a clear day. town, silent, clear sky. At 5:50 p.m. an object shaped like a double cylinder, similar to a tuna can on top of a soup can, maneuvered over a mining area in the mountains of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China making a roaring sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1007",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Wendelle Stevens & Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, pp. 207-208" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/19/1981",
  "desc" : "On this evening Mr. & Mrs. Morgan in Corte Madera, California had a close encounter with a gray metallic, rounded disc-shaped object the size of a house. It hovered over some trees giving off a pink and blue aura. It had brilliant square headlights and a blue light underneath. It made a deep, low-pitched sound like a hydroelectric plant. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1008",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joe Graziano, APRO Bulletin, January 1982, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/19/1982",
  "desc" : "At 9:15 p.m. Juan Fattorel, age 41, was driving his truck along a secondary road in Allen, Rio Negro Province, Argentina when his engine suddenly cut out. He coasted to a stop and pulled over to the side of the road. He next heard a loud buzzing sound coming somewhere from his left and in close proximity. When he looked he saw a small silvery mushroom-shaped disc hovering a meter over the ground about 10 meters away. It appeared to be balancing itself with short ascending and descending movements. At that moment his eyesight began to become blurry. He next heard a deep \"electronic\" voice coming from the object, which sounded somewhat threatening in nature. It told him to step out of the truck. Frightened, he refused to move, thinking he would be robbed. When he attempted to restart the truck he felt a painful, tingling sensation in his neck and blacked out. He experienced at least 20 minutes of missing time. When he woke up he was unable to see clearly, with a buzzing sound in his ears and still feeling some pain in his neck. He had some unexplained burns on his skin. A passing motorist picked him up, and he was hospitalized in a state of confusion, shock, and disorientation. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1009",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "La Razon, Feb. 23, 1982; MUFON UFO Journal, February 1983, p. 18; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 258 & 271; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1982, citing Alejandro Chinetti, UFO Press # 15, January 1983" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/19/1983",
  "desc" : "A class of school children, a football team, and police officers Mike Troake and G. Humphreys witnessed a huge triangle during the daytime as it passed overhead in Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales. It flew along the coastline at various points. It was completely silent, and the front was shaped like a Zeppelin. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1010",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Sun Mirror, February 20, 1983; Gary Hazeltine, Police Reports of UFOs (PRUS) Online Database, case # 110" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/19/1993",
  "desc" : "A huge stingray shaped object with a fat belly, wider than it was long, was sighted flying over Goodrich, Michigan at 5:00 a.m. by a 39-year-old woman. Its underside was glowing. It was described as having massive wings that swept forward and ended in rounded tips. It also had a large round brilliant light on the leading edge midpoint of each wing. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1011",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Shirley Coyne, MUFON case files, case # 930614C" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/19/1993",
  "desc" : "At 6:20 a.m. a bus driver and two passengers saw a 300 foot in diameter round object with white lights hovering over a park in Panther, West Virginia. It stayed there until 10:30 a.m.  Later that evening at 8:30 p.m. in nearby Georges Forks, West Virginia an ambulance crew driving along Panther Creek spotted a saucer with red, blue and green flashing body lights around its base. Through the fog the lights had a fluorescent appearance. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1012",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Teets, West Virginia UFOs: Close Encounters in the Mountain State, p. 61" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/19/1994",
  "desc" : "A metallic humming disc-shaped object was photographed over the reservoir in Craigluscar, Fife, Scotland at two o'clock in the afternoon. It left by shooting off the to the east with fantastic acceleration. The photograph is considered genuine. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1013",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 16314, citing SOS-OVNI France, Phenomena, issue # 23" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/19/2000",
  "desc" : "Three pre-teen girls at a sleepover reported seeing a large luminous triangular-shaped object descend into a nearby field in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Later on three short humanoid figures were seeing moving near the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1014",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case # 3540, citing Berne Bennett, MUFON" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/19/2001",
  "desc" : "At 6:48 p.m. a very slow moving, silent, triangular formation of lights flew over Irwin, Pennsylvania, causing some radio interference. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1015",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Feb. 2001 webpage, report uploaded Feb. 24, 2001" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/19/2002",
  "desc" : "A dark triangular object was sighted at 5:00 p.m. moving up a creek bed at 200 feet above the ground towards the Police Headquarters in Mobile, Alabama. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1016",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Feb. 2002 webpage, report uploaded March 19, 2002" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/19/2003",
  "desc" : "At 9:20 a.m. a fast, low-flying gray cigar-shaped object, moving like a cruise missile, flew north across the fields of Raymore, Saskatchewan, Canada. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1017",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2003 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 65" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/19/2007",
  "desc" : "A UFO with three lights stayed suspended in the sky over Dorval, Quebec, Canada for 90 seconds, and then bolted away with an amazing burst of speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1018",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 63, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/19/2008",
  "desc" : "Two strange lights hovered above the surface of a lake in Niantic, Connecticut at eleven o'clock in the morning, broke the surface, and disappeared beneath the surface. At 6:40 p.m. two disc-shaped objects were sighted moving from south to north along the Interstate 5 corridor in Cowlitz County near Kalama, Washington. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1019",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Feb. 2008 webpage, report uploaded March 4, 2008" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/20/1948",
  "desc" : "Six surveyors working in Emmett, Idaho saw a small flat, heart-shaped UFO flying in the sky at 1:15 p.m. It was fuzzy across its back edge as if \"dipped in cream\", and was flying point first below the cloud level at between 2,000 and 4,000 feet. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1020",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Emmett (ID) Messenger, February 26, 1948; Aime Michel, The Truth About Flying Saucers, p. 69; UNICAT database, case # 206, citing Kenneth Arnold, Fate Magazine, July 1948, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/20/1959",
  "desc" : "Wave of fireballs were seen flying over Oklahoma City, Oklahoma starting at 7:30 p.m. One made a 180 degree turn. A compass was reported to have begun spinning during the sightings. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1021",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Hayden Hewes, The Oklahoman, April 18, 1965" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/20/1967",
  "desc" : "At 3:10 a.m. an orange-red dome-shaped object descended from the sky in Oxford, Wisconsin and flew parallel to a truck for two minutes, finally going behind some trees. The truck was driven by a US Air Force veteran. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1022",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 11394; J. Allen Hynek case files; Don Berliner, Australasian UFOlogist, April 1999, p. 54; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 328" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/20/1969",
  "desc" : "Near Norseman, Western Australia a luminous cigar-shaped object was seen following a car at 7:30 p.m. When the UFO first appeared, the car's engine began to stop but then ran normally. The object paced the car for some distance quite low to the ground. It then rose quickly into the sky, raising a cloud of dust and dead leafs from the ground under the point where it began its departure. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1023",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Perth West Australian, February 21, 1969; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 260, citing NICAP UFO Investigator, May 1969, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/20/1969",
  "desc" : "On this night in Pirassununga, Sao Paulo, Brazil the manager of the Bela Alianca Fazenda or ranch heard his pigs grunting and went outside to investigate. He saw a UFO land about 60 feet away. The object was 12 feet wide and 15 feet high, and it rested on tripod landing gear. Three crew members emerged onto a small catwalk around the machine. Each carried a different kind of tool with which they busied themselves, apparently repairing the craft, for a period of two to three minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1024",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-11, citing Dr. Walter Buhler" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/20/1973",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. a glowing sphere followed a car near Draytonville, South Carolina for some distance. The car radio went dead while the sphere was nearby, then functioned normally after the two witnesses lost sight of the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1025",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 330, citing UFO Register 1974" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/20/1976",
  "desc" : "At 7:00 p.m. a young man and woman saw some odd red lights in the sky in Essex County, Massachusetts. Then two flattened disc-shaped objects with three triangular lights descended close to their car and maneuvered nearby for about 10 minutes. The car's radio had heavy static during a portion of the sighting. The two objects finally flew out of view. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1026",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 394, citing MUFON case file" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/20/1977",
  "desc" : "On this night in Gallarta, Vizcaya province, Spain a local farmer, Sr. Juan Sillero, was awakened by the sound of his dogs barking and by a loud humming sound. When he went outside he saw a hovering metallic object with numerous lights and what appeared to be three-legged landing gear dangling down. The craft had a semi-transparent dome on top and was surrounded by rectangular windows. Behind the windows several moving figures moved slowly back and forth. At one point he was approached by two tall, human-looking beings wearing dark diver suit, who explained to the witness that they had to leave the area since they had been \"detected.\" On another occasion the witness saw a robot-like creature exploring the area after it came out of a landed craft. There were other independent witnesses of UFOs descending over the area. The witness saw a craft land in the same area a week later. Landing traces were found at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1027",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, case # 2337, citing Pedro Guirao, OVNIs, Proximo Contacto?" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/20/1997",
  "desc" : "Local farmer Heliodoro Nunez was tending his sheep at around four o'clock in the afternoon in an isolated pasture near Paradeseca, Orense, Spain when his dog began barking. Looking back, he saw three ten-foot-tall entities wearing strange conical helmets. The beings appeared shiny and seemed to change colors at all times. When he saw them he closed his eyes and began to pray fervently, and he did not see the entities depart. Others saw strange red lights over the pasture. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1028",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Volume 2, Number 18; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, case # 2631, citing UFO Roundup" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/20/1999",
  "desc" : "Several people in a car in Alicante, Spain have their cellular mobile phones and the car's electrical system die when they heard a humming sound and witnessed a huge delta-shaped UFO 30 meters overhead. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1029",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Volume 4 (March 8, 1999)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/21/1950",
  "desc" : "At 4:55 a.m. in Durban, South Africa three men in a truck and several other people witnessed a dark red, torpedo-shaped object that had a dark center, flying straight and level. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1030",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 896; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/21/1953",
  "desc" : "In Malang, Indonesia on the island of Java a metallic disc-shaped object was seen twice, at high and low altitudes. It rose up very fast, and shot off quickly to the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1031",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: January-February, p. 92" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/21/1965",
  "desc" : "At least 50 members of the Toba Indian tribe in Chalac, Formosa Province, Argentina watched as a group of UFOs were seen flying overhead at around 9 p.m. One of the craft, bathed constantly in light beams emanating from small wing-like projections, landed in a pasture, and three tall beings enveloped in luminous halos emerged, causing the local population to go down on their knees. The beings approached slowly, with gestures that dissuaded one of the Indians from coming any closer to the UFO. A voice was then heard, telling the witnesses to remain calm for there was nothing to fear, and that the space people would return to bring peace on earth. The humanoids then returned to their craft, which then took off with a blinding luminosity. Photographs were said to have been taken by local police officers. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1032",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald B. Hanlon, Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1966, p. 16; Gordon Creighton, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 39; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1965-13; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 637" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/21/1967",
  "desc" : "Mrs. Wolf, a nurse, was driving down a road in Toledo, Ohio at 7:40 p.m. EST when she had a close encounter with an orange-yellowish flattened sphere. It hovered over the road at treetop height, pulsating, and then emitted a wide beam of light downward. It started pacing her car. Her speedometer was affected and her wristwatch stopped. She also reported that as a result of the close encounter her skin condition cleared up. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1033",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP case files, letter dated March 8, 1967; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 199, 267 & 328-329" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/21/1967",
  "desc" : "Two hours after the Toledo close encounter, another close encounter involving electromagnetic effects and physical traces occurred in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. At 8:40 p.m. CST dogs began yelping when a UFO flew by fast and low. The object's light went out, and the object dropped to the ground. A high-pitched whine with an undertone of humming occurred later for 30 seconds. A 15 foot in diameter ice area was found at the landing site, which caused a compass to spin. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1034",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP case files, report by W. Martiny" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/21/1968",
  "desc" : "On this night at 12:12 a.m. Ms. Cecilia Brewer and five companions were driving home from work between Barkhamsted and Winsted, Connecticut and heading west when their car's engine started to miss and they encountered a silvery domed disc-shaped UFO on the left side of the highway in a forest clearing. The object was at a distance of about 150 feet, and had a cone of white light coming from the bottom of the object. It also had a green lit, rectangular window in the dome. They stopped to watch the UFO before it flew away, the total duration of their close encounter being around 15 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1035",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald A. Johnson, Flying Saucer Observer, citing Lawrence Fawcett, APRO field investigator" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/21/1968",
  "desc" : "At eleven o'clock that night Miss Amato, a 12-year-old girl, heard a \"bloop-bloop\" noise outside her bedroom window and looked out her window at the abandoned Winsted, Connecticut railroad station behind her family's house. She saw a white egg-shaped UFO, a little larger than a station wagon, hovering close to the ground beside the building and railroad tracks. A short beam of light came out of the craft, pointed downward at an angle like a ramp, and 15-20 little men about three feet tall walked down the light beam in single file and jumped from the end of the beam to the ground. They were dressed in dull silver coveralls and wore fishbowl-type helmets. They proceeded to climb up the side of the station, one after another, with a hand over hand movement as if they were swimming or had suction cups on their hands. When they reached the roof, they spread out in different directions and appeared to be interested in looking down inside the building through a skylight. The girl became frightened at this point and went to bed, covering her head with the bedcovers. The building was being used as a storage site for ammonium nitrate fertilizer. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1036",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald A. Johnson, Flying Saucer Observer, May 1968, citing Larry Fawcett, APRO field investigator; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-17; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case 38, citing Larry Fawcett" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/21/1968",
  "desc" : "At dusk a woman living in a cabin near the coast on Keats Island, British Columbia saw a single object maneuvering 60 feet above the ocean. It had frosted yellow side lights with a bright red light in the middle, and it slid back and forth across sky as if on rail. Then a \"big boat\" lit up on the water's surface, and shot six amber 4-foot-wide balls of light up into the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1037",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John Magor, Our UFO Visitors, p. 45" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/21/1979",
  "desc" : "In Littleborough, Greater Manchester, England a rotating object landed in a quarry at two o'clock in the morning. Police and two others went to investigate, but found nothing. Later that evening in Oakenholt, Clywd, Wales a woman out walking her dog at 6:15 p.m. was surprised when the animal suddenly laid down on the ground and began whining for no apparent reason. Glancing ahead of her, she saw a bright orange hovering spinning sphere. She then looked to her side and saw nearby, standing in the shadows among some bushes, two silvery-garbed humanoid figures who appeared to be smiling. Her dog temporarily distracted her, and when she looked back again the figures were gone. The bright orange sphere then vanished, and the dog ran home barking. (For a nearly identical incident, but one involving missing time, see the account on February 18, 1990 in Germany). ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1038",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Paul Devereax, Earth Lights Revelation, p. 101; (2) Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case # 861, citing Jenny Randles & Paul Whetnall, FSR, Volume 25, No. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/21/1995",
  "desc" : "A young man driving in Council Bluffs, Iowa at 7 p.m. saw a huge, gray triangle-shaped object with three solid lights. He pulled off the highway to watch the craft with \"archways\" silently fly over. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1039",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, February 1995 webpage archive; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 17130, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/21/1995",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. in Hanret, Hainaut Province, Belgium Veronique V., who had been involved in previous UFO close encounters, had gone outdoors with her car mechanic to fetch her car which had broken down. Once outside both saw an unusual light in the sky. The mechanic thought it was a plane left to tow the car, while Veronique stayed outside and watched the light descend towards her house. She begins to panic and rushes inside her house, switching off the lights and turning on the television. At the same time her dogs began howling in the backyard, and her small Yorkshire terrier began growling as if there was a stranger in the house. Veronique went upstairs and looked out a window. She then noticed that her room appeared \"to be without walls\" and she saw a hovering triangular UFO direct a beam of white light towards her. The white beam of light lasts for about 10 seconds. On the triangle's front apex she could see different colored lights. The object then began circling the house and Veronique felt a strange attraction to the object, but she fought against it. Suddenly the UFO vanished and everything returned to normal. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1040",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, citing Gerard Grede & Daniel Bukens, SOBEPS" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/21/1999",
  "desc" : "In Bangues, Minas Gerais state, Brazil Jose Joaquim Dos Santos was parked on the side of the road resting in his car at midnight when he looked up and saw a short figure with a very large head looking inside his car through a rear passenger window. Frightened, he got out of the car and saw the short figure disappear into the distance up the roadway. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1041",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1999, citing Antonio Faleiro, Brazil" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/21/2005",
  "desc" : "A man and his son spotted a huge triangular shaped UFO flying over Southfield, Michigan at 6:30 p.m. It flew at a high rate of speed, then suddenly stopped and made a quick turn, and finally shot off into the atmosphere. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1042",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, webpage, report dated May 11, 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/22/1922",
  "desc" : "William C. Lamb was following strange tracks near Hubbell, Nebraska at 5:00 a.m. when he heard a high-pitched sound and saw a circular flying object. It became brilliantly lighted and landed in a hollow. Soon afterward, a creature over eight feet tall was seen flying from the direction where the object had landed. It left tracks in the snow, which Lamb followed without results. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1043",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 189; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 22" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/22/1959",
  "desc" : "Two witnesses saw three white discs pass into a cloud over the city of Warsop, England from which they never reappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1044",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Bernard Delair, Awareness, October 1977, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/22/1963",
  "desc" : "A domed disc-shaped object landed on the frozen surface of Crystal Lake in Fergus County, Montana at 2 a.m. A door on the craft opened for 10 minutes, then shut. Half an hour later a fiery ball flew over Belgrade, Montana causing electrical power failures. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1045",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 6303, citing MUFON UFO Journal, issue #328; (2) Orbit, January 1963, p. 23" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/22/1966",
  "desc" : "At 9:05 p.m. a domed disc-shaped flying object with portholes approached a woman's parked car next to a lake in South Kingston, New Hampshire. It backed away, landed, then rose in a rocking, reverse-falling leaf motion, and finally started to fly away. The witness gave chase, following it in her car. Her car's headlights shone on two objects. One departed, while the other danced around in the sky for 35 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1046",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., UFOs: A New Look, p. 44; Kathleen Marden, MUFON field investigations database, case 980205SE" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/22/1967",
  "desc" : "On this morning at 6:30 a.m. a flying disc was seen at low level over a farm in Milton, Ohio by Mrs. Clevenger. Her dogs reacted strongly to the presence of the UFO. The encounter lasted several minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1047",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 34; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 279" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/22/1967",
  "desc" : "On this night Mr. G. Grammond of Chippenham, England saw an object with flashing red and green lights glide, circle, and then land in a field. He saw it again spinning in the northeast when he came out with two other witnesses five minutes later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1048",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 818" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/22/1969",
  "desc" : "Nathan Brown, a 46-year-old Maori, was walking home in Awanui, New Zealand at one a.m. when he saw a light. He came upon two men sitting with their backs to the road and their feet in a ditch, while a pale young woman with white, shoulder length hair lay across the ditch. She wore a long white gown that covered her feet. The men sat in a relaxed attitude looking down at the woman. They were about 5.5 feet in height, had dark brown skin and closely cropped hair, and wore brown pants and jackets. He questioned the men but got no response. When he stepped closer to see what was wrong with the woman he ran into an invisible barrier that he likened to a bar across the stomach. He tried to grab one of the men but was again prevented by a force that repelled him. This frightened him and he ran off, \"shaking like a leaf.\" The light he first saw was a luminous haze that had no visible source. Mr. Brown found some marks on the ground at the site the following day. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1049",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-12, citing Don Jackson and the Auckland University UFO Group" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/22/1971",
  "desc" : "On this evening five residents of Turun Sanomat, Finland saw a UFO, while another saw an entity dressed \"like a vagabond.\" The being told him to follow him, and then experienced one hour of missing time. He found himself standing in same spot in intense cold, one hour later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1050",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1106, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, August 1972, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/22/1973",
  "desc" : "On the night prior to this experience, Mrs Maureen Puddy \"heard a voice\" calling her name. The next morning she perceived a message telling her to return to the site of her 1972 vechicle UFO close encounter. She contacted two investigators of the Victorian UFO Research group and drove with them to the site at Mooraduc Crossing, Victoria, Australia. On route she briefly saw a man sitting in the front seat of the car whom her passengers did not see. As she approached the spot of her earlier encounter, she saw the same figure standing outside the car, but the others again saw nothing. She reported that the figure was normal sized, wearing a white ski suit style coverall tucked in at the wrists and covering the feet. He had long blond hair. He beckoned to Mrs Puddy, but she did not respond; instead, she appeared to lose consciousness.<br/><br/> She experienced some kind of altered state of consciousness, in which she was able to describe to the two passengers in the car what she was seeing at the moment. She felt she was in a round room lit by an unknown source. The figure appeared in the room with her, and the room was shaped like a large mushroom with a stem at the bottom and a hemispherical dome on top. It appeared to have an inner hemisphere that appeared to be wobbling, and had what looked like hieroglyphics on it. She saw no doors or windows in the room, and became frightened; she started to cry and \"woke up\" with tears in her eyes, but she could recall nothing of what had just happened in her trance-like state. About a week later she was driving with her son, and was seated in the front passenger seat. The same \"man\" again appeared, sitting between them, but her son did not see him. His presence was accompanied by an abrupt change in the weather, which had been rainy. It suddenly cleared, and Mrs Puddy could see for miles. When the figure vanished abruptly the rainy conditions again prevailed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1051",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-09, citing Harry Little and Bill Stapleton" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/22/1973",
  "desc" : "A very low flying disc-shaped object was seen by two in Copnor, near Portsmouth, England at between 6:30-6:45 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1052",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "BUFORA Journal, April 1973, p. 33" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/22/1976",
  "desc" : "Leonard Hegele, a 29-year old student, spotted a seven-foot tall humanoid with three-foot wide shoulders walking through a field about a mile from Interstate I-15 south of Great Falls, Montana at around 10 a.m. It walked with a non-human gait. Mr. Hegele stopped his car and attempted to chase the being, but when he got to within 700-800 feet, the creature turned around to face him and Hegele lost his courage and ran back to his car. While he was chasing the creature Hegele saw a gray, oval shaped object hovering in the air nearby. It hovered only 10 feet above the ground, but periodically rose and fell back down another 15 feet. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1053",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1976-41 (A1463), citing Jerome Clark; Great Falls Tribune, February 23, 1976" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/22/1979",
  "desc" : "In Meanwood, near Leeds, England at around 4:00 p.m. a eight-foot long ovoid object landed for three minutes. It left behind landing traces. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1054",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timmothy Good, Above Top Secret, p. 72" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/22/1988",
  "desc" : "In suburban Irwin, Pennsylvania a silent, orange disc-shaped object flew close by to three witnesses. It had a colorful aura, and shot two beams of light down before zig-zagging away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1055",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Stan Gordon, MUFON UFO Journal, May 1989; MUFON field investigations database, case 880302" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/22/1990",
  "desc" : "A 17-year-old woman felt a gust of wind around 10 p.m. on her family farm in Henryville, Indiana and then saw a bright silver disc-shaped object with lights over some nearby trees, which were swaying. He dog howled, and later became sick. The disc flew away by making a vertical ascent. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1056",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "James Delehanty, MUFON UFO Journal, May 1990; MUFON field investigations database, case 900402; Francis L. Ridge, MUFON Indiana" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/22/1997",
  "desc" : "In Templeton, Massachusetts a 50-foot in diameter disc-shaped object with many lights around the rim made a droning sound as it flew over at 5:30 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1057",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Francis L. Ridge, UFO Intelligence Newsletter, Volume 10, Number 2, citing Raymond Fowler" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/22/2000",
  "desc" : "A disc hovered low over a soccer field in Mexico City, Mexico at 2:00 a.m. It flashed multi-colored lights, then departed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1058",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), June 2000, p. 36" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/23/1952",
  "desc" : "Over North Korea. At 11:15 p.m. the navigator of a USAF B-29 sighted a bluish cylindrical UFO, three times longer than it was wide, with a tail. It flew with rapid pulsations, came in high and fast, and made several turns before leveling out under the B-29. The bomber was evading mild anti-aircraft fire at the time, and the UFO seemed to be maneuvering to avoid the flack as well. The sighting lasted an estimated 45 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1059",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1061; Richard F. Haines, Advanced Aerial Devices Reported During the Korean War, p. 37; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/23/1955",
  "desc" : "A 30-foot diameter top-shaped object with portholes was seen hovering over a field on the Lord Montbatten estate in Broadlands, near Romsey, Hampshire, England by a cyclist at 8:30 in the morning. A shaft of light came from the center of the silver top. There was a man on a platform on the object, who wore dark colored overalls and a helmet. When a blue flash shot from one of the portholes the witness fell to the ground, paralyzed. The shaft of energy was then retracted, and the UFO rose silently away. When it was gone the witness could move again, but was still dizzy. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1060",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1955, citing Timothy Good, Above Top Secret; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4301, citing FSR" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/23/1956",
  "desc" : "In the middle of the afternoon, a blue luminous disc-shaped object was watched by an Army Sergeant for 15 minutes in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. It made a loud rumbling noise, and left behind a white trail of smoke. That evening several French soldiers near Lamoriciere, Algeria watched a huge UFO hover and flash for three hours. It had a ring of portholes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1061",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: January-April, p. 42; Alexander Mebane, Civilian Saucer Intelligence of New York Newsletter, February 1956, p. 6; (2) Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4935, citing LDLN Lecteurs" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/23/1967",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 a.m. Mrs. Rice and Mrs. Weston were talking on the phone in Linstead, Maryland when they were surprised to hear a very loud noise and saw a low flying object pass over their area. A third person also saw the object and many others heard it. The falling snow was swirling underneath it. The object was mushroom-shaped and it supported a dome on top and also a fin. It was green in color, and left in the direction of the Severn River. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1062",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 819, citing Baltimore News, February 25, 1967" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/23/1967",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. MST a luminous orange object paced a car in Boneta, Utah for ten minutes, and then shot straight up on departure. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1063",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Frank B. Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, p. 39 and Appendix case 41F; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 329" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/23/1967",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. CST a red oval object hovered first over a truck, then over the witness's car in Marion, Illinois. A glowing halo surrounded the object. It sped away after a few minutes. The city has industries that manufacture explosives and batteries, and has several coal mines. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1064",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 329, citing NICAP" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/23/1968",
  "desc" : "Several independent witnesses, including two named Hendrickson and Sinclair, watched a nocturnal UFO engage in zigzag maneuvers over the suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia at 8:30 p.m. There was also a high pitched sound associated with the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1065",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 181" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/23/1969",
  "desc" : "On this day two boys claimed they saw an emormous flying object while bathing in a waterfall in the mountains near Edmundo Soares in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. From a vertical door two small men emerged. They had human features and their faces had a greenish tint. Their chests were luminous, and from the waists down they wore ashen-gray trousers. The boys fled down the mountain. They returned later that day with two guards, but there was no longer anything to be found at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1066",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Walter Buhler, FSR Case Histories, June 1971, p. 10; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-19 (A1030), citing Walter Buhler" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/23/1975",
  "desc" : "At sometime between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. two seven-year-old boys named Kono and Yamahata watched a luminous orange UFO approach Kofu, Japan while making a \"ticking\" sound. It landed on three ball-shaped legs in a nearby vineyard. The object was a domed disc, five meters in diameter and six feet high. The boys got very close to it, and discovered the surface of the object was silver colored and had strange words embossed on its surface. A ladder extended out of the craft down to the ground, and a humanoid creature slightly over four feet tall disembarked. He wore a silver uniform and carried something that looked like a gun. His skin was dark brown and he had large pointed ears, but his large head had no facial features: no eyes, nose or mouth. It merely had wrinkles on the \"face\" and three silvery two-inch long \"fangs\" where the mouth should be. Both boys could see one more smaller humanoid in the cockpit holding a control lever. The being that had emerged reached out and touched one of the boys, patting him twice on the shoulder and uttering words \"like a tape recorder running backwards.\" The boy who had been touched sat down, paralyzed either by the touch or fear, but his companion took him on his back and carried him from the vineyard. They then ran to one of the boy's homes and informed their parents, who could at first see the orange light pulsating in the vineyard. Then it disappeared as they watched. Two concrete posts were found pushed over at the landing site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1067",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "CUFOS files, report dated July 14, 1975; APRO Bulletin, November-December 1976, p. 5; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1975-10 (A1391), citing Hayashi Ichinan andYoshihiko Honda" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/23/1978",
  "desc" : "Mr. & Mrs. Morello were sitting in their car in Sesto Fiorentino, Toscana, Italy listening to their car's stereo when they began getting heavy interference on the radio. Mr. Morello got out of the car to investigate and found himself engulfed in a warm, violet cloud of light. He saw four humanoid \"shapes\" and other lights around him. He got back into his car where he found his wife crying. They had a twenty minute lapse of missing time they couldn't account for. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1068",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2162, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #207; Paolo Fiorino, UFO Universe, October/November 1991" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/23/1995",
  "desc" : "In the town of Rivas, near Managua, Nicaragua four boys including 6-year-old Royllin Reyes Martinez were watching television around 9:00 p.m. when they heard a noise like an engine and a saw a strong light coming from outside. They all went outdoors and spotted what looked like a helicopter land at the nearby \"Gaspar Cracia Laviana Town Sports Center.\" They all rode their bicycles to the sports center to better see what was going on. As they got near they could all see a very bright craft on the ground. Royllin attempted to approach closer but could not due to the intense heat. Three of the children then briefly saw two short, \"robot like creatures\" standing next to the object. The beings were \"talking with a sound similar to insects\" and had what appeared to be antennas and were very strange in appearance. Finally, the craft and beings left, leaving the young witnesses in a state of near shock. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1069",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, case # 2134, citing Aubrey Lewallen, National UFO News, May-June 1995" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/23/1996",
  "desc" : "At ten o'clock in the evening Irasema Margarita Cuevas and others in her household in Nuevo Centro, Abasolo, Tamaulipas, Mexico heard their dogs barking outside and went to investigate. Outside they saw a red-orange dome-shaped craft floating a few feet from the ground, near some nearby trees about 50 meters away. Soon a small humanoid emerged from the craft, about one meter in height. It began floating up and down in peculiar movements. From a belt around its waist a bluish beam of light emerged. The being appeared robotic in nature, somewhat resembling a \"Power Ranger.\" After a few minutes the being re-entered the object, which rose up to join a similar craft. They both then flew towards the nearby swamps. Several witnesses then followed the objects and were able to see a brilliant light emerge from behind some trees and a huge column of gray smoke. Upon seeing this, the head of the household, Guillermo Serna Marquez, told his family to return to the house and went into the woods to investigate alone, on the way there he ran into a farmhand who accompanied him into the woods. They saw a luminous craft fly over the trees in the direction of the swamp, then a two meter tall humanoid appeared, floating above the trees and accompanied by the small robotic entity. They watched the beings float around and then enter the dome shaped object. After awhile they grew tired of watching and went home. The next day a large section of the ground was scorched in three enormous circles. Strange purplish-white, foam-like substance was also found at the site. Numerous other strange incidents were reported in subsequent days: small flying red spheres, more animal mutilations, and a large orange sphere that followed some of the UFO field investigators late one night. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1070",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case # 2948, citing Marco A. Reynoso" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/23/2000",
  "desc" : "Two cylindrical UFOs circled the Agnano housing development in Naples, Italy during the day, then ascended to a high altitude in a zigzag motion, one faster than the other. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1071",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), June 2000, p. 37" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/23/2001",
  "desc" : "On this day a metallic disc made numerous zig-zags, wobbles, and sawtooth maneuvers over a farm in Santena, Piemonte, Italy. It made no sound as it flew. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1072",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 18159, citing Revista Info UFO, issue #23" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/24/1950",
  "desc" : "At 1:15 p.m. 16 A.E.S.S. inspectors watched an aluminum colored, round UFO hovering over Los Alamos, New Mexico. It moved around for 20 minutes as if observing the nuclear facility, zigzagged, and shot straight up in the sky. At 1:55 p.m. two Albuquerque, New Mexico Municipal Airport Weather Observers, Luther McDonald and Harrison Manson, watched a white, slightly elongated oval-shaped UFO for 90 seconds through a theodolite while it flew straight and level. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1073",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 26; (2) Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 642; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/24/1952",
  "desc" : "A bright blue cylindrical object approached a B-29 flying over Antung, Korea at 11:15 p.m. It had a pulsating exhaust trail three times the length of the object. When it came within 3,000 feet it emitted a luminous beam of light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1074",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Grudge Report #4, February 1952, p. 29; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/24/1953",
  "desc" : "On this evening Warrant Officer and Mrs. Alden saw two bright red, round objects with big halos fly in small circles over Sherman, Texas at 7:43 p.m. The UFO climbed and then faded out over a 3-7 second interval. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1075",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/24/1955",
  "desc" : "On this morning a cyclist riding his bicycle in Broadlands, Hampshire, England saw a man wearing blue coveralls signal him to stop. The man then grabbed the witness by his hand, and using telepathy invited him to board a UFO hovering above a nearby field. The man accepted the invitation and was allegedly flown on a trip to see the pyramids in Egypt. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1076",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 858, citing Flying Saucer Review" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/24/1958",
  "desc" : "In the early morning predawn hours Dr. C. da Costa and two others were traveling by car in Conceicao Almeida, Brazil when their engine stalled near Santo Antonio de Jesus. It could not be re-started, and although they got out of the car to check the engine they could find nothing wrong, so they decided to sleep in the car. A short while later, at 3:05 a.m., a very large blue silvery disc-shaped object appeared with a flat ring spinning at high speed around the middle of the craft. It descended towards the ground a pendulum motion. Two of the men walked toward it, at which point it rose up to about 600 feet in altitude. The UFO then began a series of high-speed maneuvers, finally disappearing at 4:35 a.m. The car still would not start. At 6:30 a.m. the UFO appeared once more, looking silvery in color and hovering at a low altitude. It then shot away, vanishing almost instantly, and the witnesses' car could be started easily. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1077",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 460; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 91 (p. 15), citing Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/24/1959",
  "desc" : "At 8:45 p.m. American Airlines pilot Capt. Killian on Flight 937 sighted three bright yellow-orange maneuvering lights, changing colors, above the cloud layer while flying over Philipsburg and Bradford, Pennsylvania. His co-pilot also sighted the lights, and up to 37 other witnesses from Pan American and United Airlines flights also reported seeing the unusual lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1078",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1959, p. 1; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 31" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/24/1959",
  "desc" : "At 9:10 p.m. in Victorville, California two young men reported that a red egg shaped object made five passes over their house, which is located eight miles from George AFB. Their pet dogs began howling and ran to get inside the house. They also reported that the UFO caused radio interference. and made a humming sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1079",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: January-March, p. 61; J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 167; UNICAT database, case 280" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/24/1963",
  "desc" : "A luminous bluish-silver colored ovoid UFO was seen over Invercargill, New Zealand at 1:00 a.m., making a whine and humming sounds. One witness attempted to chase the object in a car. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1080",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, September-October 1963, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/24/1968",
  "desc" : "Two men in Westhill, Pennsylvania reported sighting an oval shaped UFO with a finlike rear projection on this night. It had red body lights that dimmed when an airplane flew past. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1081",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, May-June 1968, p. 3; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 153" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/24/1971",
  "desc" : "A bell-shaped disc maneuvered around the mountains in Petropolis, Brazil on this evening at around 9:00 p.m. The glow from the object came on and went off at 30 second intervals. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1082",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Irene Granchi, UFO Abductions and Reports from Brazil, p. 118" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/24/1973",
  "desc" : "A cigar-shaped object hovered low over some pine woods two miles from Gaffney, South Carolina. It had nine windows or portholes along the side. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1083",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, volume 5 (1974), case 118, citing Understanding magazine" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/24/1974",
  "desc" : "A disc-shaped object flew on a wavy trajectory over the nuclear center at Bagnols-sur-Ceze, Gard, France heading west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1084",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 449, citing Liberte Est, February 24, 1974" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/24/1975",
  "desc" : "Two young men witnessed a 60-foot wide disc-shaped UFO hovering over a nearby field in Enfield, Connecticut at 9:50 p.m. The UFO effected their TV reception, and their dogs howled in the presence of the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1085",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "E. Jahn, field investigator, CUFOS case file report dated March 11, 1975; NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1975, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/24/1976",
  "desc" : "A six meter in diameter domed disc hovered over a road in Stratham, New Hampshire at 9:37 p.m. There were four legs on the bottom of the craft, and it was silent. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1086",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, Skylook, May 1976, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/24/1977",
  "desc" : "At 3:00 a.m. Lothar Schaefler saw a cigar-shaped object carrying four very bright lights land about 150 feet away in Langernargen Bodense, Germany. The object emitted an extremely high-pitched, piercing tone of constant intensity. Lothar ran along the outside wall of his kitchen and threw himself on the ground behind some small bushes in front of the backyard fence. The whole area was brilliantly lit now. Next Lothar heard a short whistling sound, and felt a slight draft of air. He saw, appearing from nowhere, two strange alie- looking beings directly behind him. The figures were no more than 1.10 to 1.30 meters tall. The beings had somewhat human-looking bodies, but their long arms reached almost below their knees. Also conspicuous were their oddly cramped-looking fingers, reminiscent of those of spastic children. They wore somekind of frill around the neck - somewhat like a harlequin - with some 6-7 light green \"star like serrations,\" but he could not make any other clothing. Their skin appeared to be paler than human skin. Their hairless heads were completely round, as were their clearly defined mouths. No nose or ears could be seen, and neither did they appear to have necks. The strange figures were rocking their torsos slowly back and forth. Their eyes were slanted and large like those of a cow, and they stared unflinchingly at the witness, who was now paralyzed with fear. He was so terrified that he beat upon the glass of the closed door, instead of opening it. Abruptly, the UFO and the entities then vanished \"like a light being switched off.\" At least six other independent witnesses saw mysterious lights and objects over the area on the same date. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1087",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-09, citing I. Von Ludwiger & I. Brand" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/24/1982",
  "desc" : "At 6:30 a.m. a bright round, lighted object flew over a car in Fleetwood, Pennsylvania. Its passage was accompanied by radio interference effects. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1088",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, February 1984, p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/24/1989",
  "desc" : "A multi-colored triangular shaped object flew over the town of Butler, Pennsylvania making a roaring sound a 8:00 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1089",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Stan Gordon, MUFON field investigation file 900310" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/24/1992",
  "desc" : "At 7:50 p.m. an observer in Porto Alegre, Brazil saw a glow in the clouds, then a saucer-shaped object descending through the cloud. The object directed a beam of light towards the ground. Several figures were visible inside the object, who also shone beams of light at the witness. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1090",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, case # 2395, citing UBPDV Brasil 1992" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/24/1993",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 a.m. a silent bell-shaped object, the color of brushed aluminum, buzzed a car being driven by two women between Mosca and Hooper, Colorado on Highway 17 in the San Luis Valley. It headed off toward the sound flying at 100 feet above the highway. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1091",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 53" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/24/1997",
  "desc" : "A 50-year-old grandmother was sleeping with her grandchildren in a room in Brigantine, New Jersey and had left several lights on to comfort them. At 1:00 a.m. she awoke and noticed that the lights had been turned off. Her eyes slowly became accustomed to the dark and she felt a presence in the room. She then saw two short figures standing near her bed.<br/><br/> She was then startled as one of the beings moved aggressively and grabbed her. She jumped up and punched the being in the face, and his skin felt like hard plastic. She struggled some more, grabbing the figure by the throat, noticing that the neck appeared horribly wrinkled. The being was about five feet tall and thin. She then bit the being; she said it felt like biting a cold piece of ham. After a few more minutes of struggling the being dropped to the floor. Next a third figure appeared in the room, and the two aliens who remained standing moved towards her. One brushed against her face and grabbed her wrist. He seemed to be stronger than the first. She suddenly fainted. When she regained consciousness the figures had gone. The children had apparently been left untouched. She suffered from a severe headache afterwards and found three puncture wounds on her neck. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1092",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George Filer, New Jersey MUFON; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, case #2672, citing New Jersey MUFON" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/25/1909",
  "desc" : "On this night in Anderlues, Belgium a teacher sighted a 25-meter in diameter sphere glide down a road, and then turn and go down a small path. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1093",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "SOBEPS, case 163" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/25/1942",
  "desc" : "At around 2:30 a.m. on this night in Los Angeles County, California a formation of 6-9 luminous white balls of light flying in a triangular formation flew in from the northwest, moving very slowly. They also appeared as steady radar blips coming in from the sea. As they flew over aircraft factories and this was shortly after the United States entry into World War II, widespread panic resulted, and five people were killed by the anti-aircraft fire hitting the ground and in subsequent traffic accidents. In the evening in Santa Monica, California a white disc was sighted hovering high in the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1094",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Preston E. Dennett, UFOs over Topanga Canyon, p. 263; Gordon I. R. Lore and Harold Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 74" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/25/1950",
  "desc" : "Los Alamos, New Mexico. Twelve Atomic Energy Commission security inspectors sighted a cylindrical UFO at 3:55 p.m. while at the Los Alamos nuclear facility. It was silver colored and was flashing, and had tapered ends. The object flew slowly and then sped up, fluttered and oscillated, and changed course. The observations by the various individuals lasted from three seconds up to two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1095",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/25/1953",
  "desc" : "A bright disc was sighted hovering in the night sky in the Sultanate of Brunei, northern Borneo. It remained for 40 minutes and was seen rotating at 30,000 feet altitude over a big oil field. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1096",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 63 for February 1953" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/25/1959",
  "desc" : "At 6:45 a.m., sixty miles north of Barberton, Ohio on State Route 21 in Summit County a dark disc-shaped UFO with a red light on top flew around for five minutes at 150 meters altitude. No blimp was flying in the area at the time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1097",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1959, p. 5; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: January-March, p. 67" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/25/1959",
  "desc" : "On the same morning at 8:30 a.m. in Hobbs, New Mexico an ovoid UFO was seen by a Mr. Dobbs. The car radio repeated a \"dot-dot-dash\" for 35 seconds during the sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1098",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 75; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 99, citing Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/25/1962",
  "desc" : "An Army private and six civilians in Kotzbue, Alaska sighted a red light in the night sky at 7:20 p.m. It was followed 30 seconds later by a blue light. The entire sighting lasted five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1099",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/25/1966",
  "desc" : "In Quipapa, Brazil three young women in their twenties were walking home at 9:15 p.m. near some railroad tracks when they spotted a 9-12-foot diameter disc hovering over their road. The UFO had two headlights. Three little men, who wore large headgear and one-piece coverall suits that had a luminous band across the chest, were seen nearby. There was also a tall being about six feet in height. The women ran and the UFO gave chase. Traces were found at the sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1100",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dr. Walter Buhler, FSR, March 1971, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/25/1967",
  "desc" : "At 5:40 p.m. in Urbana, Illinois a chemical engineering teaching assistant from the University of Illinois saw a bright unexplained light in the sky that changed color from white to red, dimmed and then went out. The light was first seen in the northern sky and flew toward the west; it rose slightly as it flew. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1101",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP case files, report dated February 27, 1967" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/25/1967",
  "desc" : "In Ann Arbor, Michigan at 7:00 p.m. a married couple sighted three brilliant red lights, each with a blinking green light on top with a hazy blue light preceding it. No structural form was seen between the lights, flew relatively slow, made sweeping turn ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1102",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "E.U. Condon University of Colorado UFO study case files, through NICAP" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/25/1967",
  "desc" : "At 7:02 p.m. in Minneapolis, Minnesota seven people sighted three \"brushed aluminum\" disc-shaped objects with a row of lights or ports around the center of each. The objects banked into a turn, whereupon the lead disc glowed red one time, appearing like molten iron, then the glow diminished. The three objects banked into the turn in unison. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1103",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP case files; APRO Bulletin, March-April 1967, p. 6; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, p. 329" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/25/1967",
  "desc" : "In Sioux City, Iowa at 5:25 p.m., Fargo, North Dakota at 7:50 p.m., and Syracuse, New York at 6:05 p.m. UFO photographs were taken of nocturnal lights. In Fargo two teenagers took two Polaroid photos of a round, possibly disc-shaped UFOs, entirely lit with a plain bright light. The UFOs flew up from a low altitude at a 30-degree angle, sped up, and then flew off quickly toward the northeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1104",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, J. Allen Hynek case files; Fargo Forum, February 25, 1967; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 236; Terence M. Wright, The Intelligent Man's Guide to Flying Saucers, p. 189" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/25/1969",
  "desc" : "Near Pau-Uzein Airport, France at 8:00 p.m. four witnesses, including two in Alouette II helicopters, visually tracked a green luminous UFO that flew rapidly from west to east over the airport. The UFO did not appear on radar. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1105",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, page 36, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/25/1969",
  "desc" : "That same night four people in a car in Chabut, Argentina saw a disc-shaped object. The engine of their car quit running when the disc was in view. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1106",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 262, citing Phenomenes Spatiaux, Vol. 20, 1969" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/25/1973",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. a vehicle's diesel engine stopped when a reddish-orange ovoid object was encountered blocking the road in Villenueve-sur-Lot, Lot-et-Garonne, France. The driver was temporarily paralyzed during the encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1107",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Claude Poher, Phenomenes Spatiaux, June 1974, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/25/1974",
  "desc" : "After midnight three 1.5m tall human-looking UFOnauts were seen standing on the rim of domed disc-shaped object as it passes by at 50 kph in York Plains, Tasmania. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1108",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "W. K. Roberts, FSR, November-December 1975, p. 47; Keith Basterfield, In-depth Review of Australian UFO Related Entity Reports, citing Tasmanian UFO Inves. Centre; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2324" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/25/1974",
  "desc" : "At 7:15 a.m. in Toulon, France a white T-shaped object hovered for 5 minutes. Its pointed bottom descended and extended what looked like a wire. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1109",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, November 1974" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/25/1976",
  "desc" : "The first humanoid report on this day occurred in Kettering, Tasmania. A glowing, domed object landed on the beach at 1:00 a.m., making a humming noise. Beings were seen through the windows in the craft. The domed disc made a louder noise as it took off, and flew away toward the east. Later that night numerous witnesses in Maydena, Tasmania, sighted two orange lights. They flew toward the southwest at a speed less than 100 mph. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1110",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 161, citing FSR; Keith Roberts, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1976, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/25/1976",
  "desc" : "In Maneru, Spain at 4:00 p.m. five school children saw a UFO descend and land in a nearby field. The UFO was 8-10 meters wide, and had a transparent dome. A two-meter tall being emerged dressed in a black coverall suit. The figure took a few steps through the field of barley, and then returned to the craft, and took off. There were landing traces at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1111",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon Creighton, FSR, April 1977, p. 27" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/25/1976",
  "desc" : "Eight miles north of Nashville, Illinois at 7:30 p.m. that same evening, while driving by on the highway a woman caught sight of two eight-foot tall beings standing about fifteen feet from the roadway. As her car drew even with the second being a blue light flashed across her face. She drove away in fear, and she continued to watch a blue glow in her rear view mirror. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1112",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Center for UFO Studies case files, report dated February 26, 1976, citing field investigator Kretsch" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/25/1980",
  "desc" : "On a cloudy day at 2:30 p.m. in Youngsville, Pennsylvania a 23-year old man, R. Pennington, heard an explosion mixed with a whining noise, and then saw a 20-foot wide disc with a transparent dome on top out of his truck window. The trajectory of the UFO continued to follow a 250 kW electric transmission line. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1113",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, August 1980, p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/25/1981",
  "desc" : "An Aeroflot YAK-40 airliner flying northwest of Tallinn, Estonia was paced by two orange, elongated objects at 9:24 p.m. The UFOs flew parallel to the plane and then approached from 70 degrees to the right. The crew saw four orange lights on the first object and 3 lights on the other one. After three minutes the first object executed a turn to the right, then to the left. The second object repeated the maneuver and followed after the first some six to eight minutes later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1114",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 176" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/25/1982",
  "desc" : "A large disc with a dome on top flew over the witness's car in Saltsburg, Pennsylvania and shone a beam of light onto the ground. The UFO came very near the ground and may have landed temporarily, then rose up and flew off over the witness's house and out of sight. The entire sighting lasted about five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1115",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Stan Gordon, MUFON and PASU case investigation files, report dated April 1982" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/25/1987",
  "desc" : "Movie producer Paul Davids and two others watched two silent, silver domed discs maneuver close to his residence in Pasadena, California. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1116",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, December 1994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/25/1989",
  "desc" : "In Benayeo, Victoria, Australia near Edenhope, a large oblong UFO with a dome at the rear end hung in the sky at 7:30 a.m., and then vanished in place. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1117",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1991, p. 218" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/25/1991",
  "desc" : "In the early morning at 5:50 a.m. in Tenay, France a witness surprised a wiry \"stork-man\" creature by a trashcan. The creature jumped over a wall and fled. It had claws and talons. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1118",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 323" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/25/1992",
  "desc" : "In Sjaellands Odde, Denmark a thin metallic object was sighted flying at only 8 meters altitude. It had a funnel-shaped center. A short while later in the mid-morning in East Fork, Kentucky two men in a pickup truck saw a gray, disc-shaped flying object moving at 100-feet altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1119",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "SUFOI News, issue #14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/25/1997",
  "desc" : "Two young people reported sighting a triangular shaped object hovering between Shrewsbury and Oswestry near a road in the Shropshire, England countryside. It expelled a flame and then vanished. According to a RAF spokesman, the object was unlikely to be a military experimental aircraft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1120",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Curt Sutherly, UFO Mysteries: A Reporter Seeks the Truth, p. 199" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/25/1999",
  "desc" : "At 5:45 a.m. in Stouthill, Tennessee a cylindrical UFO 150 feet in length hovered just 100 feet above the trees. It had four bright lights along its bottom in perfect alignment. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1121",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/25/1999",
  "desc" : "Shortly before noon 14 forestry workers working in the forest on the lower slopes of Mount St. Helens in Skamania County, Washington witnessed a horseshoe-shaped flying object lift an adult elk out of the forest and fly off with the apparently dead or unconscious animal.  The object had a red and white patch; it first oscillated in flight, then swooped down and abducted the elk in a clear cut, 500 yards away from the men. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1122",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Fairfax, MUFON UFO Journal, July 1999, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/25/2002",
  "desc" : "At 8:24 a.m. a silent, dark, cone shaped object was witnessed in Weiser, Idaho moving slowly and climbing up into the sky. Later that afternoon at 2:30 p.m. witnesses saw a very bright light that was hovering over the drylands of southeastern Washington near the town of Touchet for five minutes. It finally moved rapidly away over the desert hills. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1123",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Feb. 2002 webpage, reports uploaded Mar. 19, 2002" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/25/2004",
  "desc" : "A small disc-shaped object with numerous green lights was seen over Bellevue, Ohio at 7:20 p.m. It moved left and right slowly and was in sight for ten seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1124",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Feb. 2004 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/25/2006",
  "desc" : "A multicolored UFO was sighted in Black Point, Nova Scotia, Canada at 8 p.m. It was first seen to be hovering, then it flew away slowly. There were flashing lights on the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1125",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2006 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 68, citing ufoinfo.com" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/26/1951",
  "desc" : "Ladd AFB, Alaska. At 7:10 a.m. USAF Sgt. J. B. Sells watched a dull gray metallic object, estimated to be 120 feet long and 10-12 feet thick. The UFO hovered, puffed smoke, and sped away after about 90 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1126",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/26/1954",
  "desc" : "Architect R.M. Pierce, Marine Engineer George Avery and one other witness sighted a silver flying disc at 2:30 p.m. in Newburyport, Massachusetts. It had a white trail and made a loud roaring noise for 30-60 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1127",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/26/1966",
  "desc" : "Hanna City, Illinois - An oval object about 15-20 feet in diameter came within three meters of a car around 8:00 p.m. There was interference on the car radio as it passed nearby. The object was glowing red with a dome on top and it made a strange \"signal-like\" noise. It eventually moved off to the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1128",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia; A Century of Landings; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 165, citing Vallee" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/26/1967",
  "desc" : "At 6:00 p.m. local time a low flying, bullet-shaped object flew over Dublin Airport, Ireland. It gave off blue and yellow flashes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1129",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP files, press clipping dated February 27, 1967; Dermot Butler, Conspiracy of Silence: UFOs in Ireland, p. 20" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/26/1967",
  "desc" : "One hour later, a sound like a car without a muffler woke up a school teacher and her husband in Marlboro, Massachusetts at two o'clock in the morning EST. They looked outside and saw a white glowing egg-shaped object with a red light on each side in the sky, swinging back-and-forth in a pendulum motion making a purring sound. At 6:30 p.m. five people in Oxford, Massachusetts, including a newspaper reporter, saw a bright amber oval-shaped object which at times turned red. The UFO alternately hovered and moved at high speed. The reporter took a photograph of the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1130",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 345; Raymond E. Fowler, Casebook of a UFO Investigator, p. 164; (2) Worcester (MA) Evening Gazette, February 27, 1967; NICAP files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/26/1967",
  "desc" : "At 3:45 p.m. EST a married couple named Young in Abbotsford, Pennsylvania saw a small gray object approach just above the treetops and hover for about two minutes, glowing like white-hot metal and wobbling while stationary. The object moved slowly across the highway, stopped, then finally moved away to the west-southwest and disappeared after five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1131",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP report form dated March 28, 1967" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/26/1967",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. nine witnesses including four policemen in Wiarton, southeastern Ontario, Canada saw a bright shining object with body lights changing color from white to green. The UFO appeared to have streamers of light around it. It flitted about, hovered, and then disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1132",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "London (ON) Free Press,  February 27, 1967; NICAP files; Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science, Summer 1967, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/26/1967",
  "desc" : "At 7:45 p.m. two policemen, Edie and Border, in Coshocton, Ohio saw two light-colored saucers of different sizes with associated red flames. The larger object was stationary and the smaller satellite object moved about it. The two objects moved in and out of sight together. Other residents reportedly also had sightings. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1133",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dover (OH) Daily Reporter, February 28, 1967; NICAP files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/26/1968",
  "desc" : "An unidentified man in Phoenix, Arizona was awakened at one a.m. by a sharp knock on his door. \"I saw a man standing in my room at some distance...wearing dark clothing...I couldn't see his face...he was slender and not tall, perhaps five feet nine. He changed position a few times...and then he was gone.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1134",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, citing John A. Keel, Strange Creatures from Time and Space; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case 39" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/26/1968",
  "desc" : "A huge, hairy creature was seen drinking from a pond in Curbarsi, Barcelona province, Spain during the daytime. Upon discovery by the owners of the property the creature fled. It matched the description by a passing motorist of a large hairy biped seen crossing the road several days earlier in Hostalrich. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1135",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, citing FSR, July-August 1968; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case 40" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/26/1971",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. Mr. Robert Milcher, age 18, and a 10-year-old boy in Brooksville, Florida saw a hovering UFO at least 50 feet in diameter. It had red lights and a searchlight like beam, which responded to their flashlight signals. Inside a lighted dome were 6-10 occupants dressed in green coveralls standing around a control panel. They waved at the witnesses. The two boys felt a numbness and stinging sensation in their arms and wrists. When the UFO departed, it emitted a sound like a swarm of bees. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1136",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-11, citing William H. Lefevre, Florida UFO Study Group" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/26/1973",
  "desc" : "Helene, age 14, was riding the family snowmobile near McWaters, Quebec with her two brothers and seven other teenaged friends, all on snowmobiles, when at around 9 p.m. a giant \"headlight\" rose from behind them and flew over, illuminating the entire landscape. After it had gone, all the boys went off on a race, leaving Helene behind. The brilliant light source then reappeared and flew back over her. She estimated it was 60 feet in diameter. Suddenly its light went out, and Helene thought it must have been a plane that had crashed somewhere behind her. She turned her snowmobile around and drove back about 150 meters, then got off and walked toward a very large dark bulk that she could make out among some trees. When she was about 50 feet from it a small, cold hand came from over her shoulder and seized her by the chin, attempting to drag her backwards. Thinking it must be her younger brother playing a joke, she broke free and pushed her attacker back so that he fell down into the snow. Turning to face him, she saw a childlike figure smaller than her 13-year-old brother sitting in the snow. She ran back to her snowmobile and grabbed a flashlight, and turned it on the person who was now walking slowly toward her. She saw it was a being less than four feet tall, clad in a dark, close fitting uniform with a \"plated\" surface, and wearing a helmet covering the head down to the chin. A visor on the helmet reflected the light from the flashlight, and the being's enormous eyes shone brightly in the light, like those of a cat. Terrified, Helene dropped the flashlight, ran to the snowmobile, and fled on it. She was joined by the other snowmobilers, who were returning for her. Her left arm was paralyzed, so she was taken to a doctor at Rouyn, who gave her a sedative. The next day several people went out to the landing site, where they found a large patch of snow melted down to the ground. It was 50 feet in diameter and shaped like a donut. Next to it were the footprints of two small bipeds, a few yards away from each other. The tracks were short and wide with a large protruding great toe. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1137",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-84, citing Jean Ferguson, Les Humanoides" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/26/1975",
  "desc" : "At about 8:45 p.m. a professional man and his companion were on a fishing holiday at a lakeside camp on Lake Sorrell, Tasmania. The main witness was also a former Royal Australian Air Force aircrew member. He saw three glowing objects in the northeast sky, one smaller than the other two, and watched them for some time since they appeared unusual. Then he noticed they were not moving in the same direction as the clouds. Two of the objects moved closer to him and hovered, then receded, intermittently obscurred by clouds. Each had a pulsating red light on the underside. The closer object also had a row of red lights around the rim that were either changing from red to white or rotating. After several minutes the clouds, which had temporarily obscurred the UFOs, started to glow and he saw one object emerge and travel in an easterly direction, stopping over the north shore of the lake. The second object was visible further to the north, stationary over Mount Penny. The main object was now very clearly defined with the red pulsating light very strong. It remained in the area for 8 to 10 minutes. After a bank of clouds went through with a passing storm, the object reappeared, glowed brightly, and suddenly zoomed toward the witnesses \"at phenomenal speed.\" It stopped abruptly 900 meters away and 150 meters up. A brilliant, cone-shaped light beam was projected down toward the lake and swept across the terrain, illuminating the side of the mountain. Then it swept back across the lake beneath the object and faded out. The surface of the lake glowed a flourescent blue. The object then shot away to the northeast \"at a colossal speed.\" The second object sped off in the same direction at the same time. Radio interference was reported at the time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1138",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, July 1975, p. 1; FSR, April 1977, p. 30; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, case 73; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 220-221" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/26/1979",
  "desc" : "Ernaldo Camusoni, age 49, was clearing an overgrown field at the entrance to a farm in Serodino, Santa Fe province, Argentina late in the evening after 8 p.m. when everything became illuminated behind him, turning the darkness into day. When he turned around he saw an approaching object land 40 meters away from him. He tried to make out what the object looked like, but the light emanating from it was too intense to capture much detail. The shape was like a truncated cone. As he approached the object, he saw a strange luminous figure emerge from the rear of the craft. The figure appeared to be robot-like in nature, lacking any arms, and it did not move its body when it walked. Its head appeared to be of normal size, but it had what appeared to be a trunk-like object coming from the area of the face. It wore a very shiny outfit. The robot entity walked towards the witness, approached to within three meters, and stood silently, seemingly observing the witness. Camusoni didn't feel afraid, but did feel curiosity towards the strange entity. Apparently the creature did not want to communicate since it suddenly wheeled around, returning to the object and disappeared behind it. The craft then rose up and disappeared at high speed towards the south, making a rushing sound. The whole encounter lasted five minutes. Ground traces were found the next day. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1139",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UNICAT database, case #601, citing Oscar Alemanno, Quarta Dimension" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/26/1983",
  "desc" : "A mother and daughter named O'Driscoll, driving near the frozen White Pond in Kent Cliffs, Putnam County, New York at around 8 p.m. saw a silent, multi-colored 200-300 foot wide boomerang-shaped object with many lights, at a minimum distance of 100 meters, which seemed to respond to their thoughts. It had a criss-cross lattice structure and tubes on its underneath side. Their car radio experience RF interference. Another independent witness that night saw probably the same object, a V-shaped array of 50 lights with the colors amber, red, and blue. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1140",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek and Philip Imbrogno, Night Seige, p. 8; UNICAT database, case 209, citing J. Allen Hynek; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 156" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/26/1984",
  "desc" : "Project Hessdalen ends its instrumented study in the Hessdalen Valley of Norway, near Roros. Nocturnal lights were seen all over the sky, and appeared to \"climb\" up the mountains, then flash. Observers were hit by a spotlight at 3:10 a.m. on this date. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1141",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 246" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/26/1994",
  "desc" : "A witness in a residential area of Rosyth, Fife, Scotland took two photographs of a saucer-shaped object before he was temporarily paralyzed and frozen in place. The object hovered close by for 15 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1142",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newspaper Clipping Service, June 1994; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 16318" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/26/1997",
  "desc" : "A man was driving to work near Lee, New Hampshire when he saw four balls of white light zigzag in unison over some nearby power lines. They then hovered about 50 feet from the ground looking a little blurry. The witness continued driving east on the road and ten minutes later saw the same lights again over a bog. At this point he began to hear voices inside his head. Now having stomach pains, he heard the voices warn him against studying UFOs. He then asked several questions, which the voices answered. When he came upon some large pine trees there was a blinding flash of orange light, and he felt his vehicle being lifted up. He then apparently lost consciousness. He woke up an hour later inside his vehicle. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1143",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, case # 2800, citing ISUR" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/26/2000",
  "desc" : "Three disc-shaped objects, estimated to be three times the size of 747s, were sighted flying in a V-shaped formation over Waterford, Ontario. They made a 90 degree turn together. The sighting lasted two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1144",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2000 Canadian UFO Survey, case 34" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/26/2006",
  "desc" : "In the late afternoon in Toronto, Ontario a witness was asked by his mother to come outside and check out a strange sight. Together they witnessed a disc-shaped object with a light underneath.  It was moving slowly through the sky, and appeared to be accompanied by many conventional aircraft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1145",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2006 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 69, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/26/2007",
  "desc" : "A motorist driving down the highway in Sacramento, California at 11:00 a.m. saw a cigar-shaped craft with a red light in the middle.  The sighting lasted 15 seconds. Another cigar-shaped object was sighted in San Pedro, Los Angeles County, California at 3:48 p.m. The bottom of the object was red and the rest was white. The second sighting lasted 30 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1146",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Feb. 2007 website, reports uploaded Mar. 8, 2007" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/26/2008",
  "desc" : "At 1:00 a.m. an upside down, white colored V-shaped craft flew over Long Beach, California. A large cigar-shaped object that spawned 8 to 10 or more bright saucer-shaped bright luminous objects, flew over San Fernando, California at 3:30 p.m. At 9:00 p.m. witnesses in Green Valley, Pima County, Arizona saw a triangular craft over the hills to the east, far off in the distance. The craft appeared to remain very stationary, but at times would move. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1147",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Feb. 2008 website, report uploaded Mar. 4, 2008" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/27/1950",
  "desc" : "In Jamesburg, New Jersey two witnesses watched a metallic saucer-shaped object ringed with lights hovering at a low altitude, when it suddenly took off with a swishing sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1148",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950 (volume 4), p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/27/1953",
  "desc" : "At 11:58 a.m. in Shreveport, Louisiana a USAF airman and private pilot spotted five yellow discs making circular turns and fluttering in the daytime sky. Three of the discs vanished while the other two flew objects flew erratic square turns for a total of four minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1149",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/27/1960",
  "desc" : "A nocturnal light trailed after a white, fan-shaped UFO in the skies over Rome AFB, New York at 6:27 p.m. Five military witnesses including control tower officer Capt. J. Huey and four other tower operators witnessed the two UFOs. They moved slowly in a three to four minute descent. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1150",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #6663; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/27/1961",
  "desc" : "A ship's crew watched an oddly shaped flying object twist, turn, and fall into the sea between Lewis and Harris Islands in the Western Isles off Scotland. On that night at 10:15 p.m. a red sphere with light rays projecting out ahead of it was seen by Mrs. Lapham and her daughter for ten minutes in Bark River, Michigan. Her dog howled during the time that the UFO was present. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1151",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Janet Gregory, FSR, September-October 1971, p. 29; US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #7284" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/27/1963",
  "desc" : "Two bluish-green oval lights were seen oscillating in tandem over Braybrook, Victoria, Australia. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1152",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 117" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/27/1966",
  "desc" : "An eighteen year old was driving near Keith, South Australia when he saw a bluish disc-shaped UFO with lights, about 5 meters in diameter. The object hovered, and then vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1153",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 175" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/27/1967",
  "desc" : "There were seven good UFO reports made in North America on this day. Two 12-year-old boys in Bunkie, Louisiana saw two points of light with tails moving in spurts through the sky for about ten minutes at 1:30 a.m. At eleven o'clock in the morning, an engineer named Scott sighted a round, luminescent object the size of a dime at arm's length flying in a \"lazy, lackadaisical manner\" for 40 seconds in Newburgh, New York. A resident of Topeka, Kansas noticed a wide top-shaped UFO with red and blue body lights at 7:05 p.m. local time. The sighting lasted three minutes, and he noted that there was electrical interference on his television at the time. Less than 15 minutes later, at 8:19 EST, a multicolored oval object with red and green lights and a bright white light in the middle, made a ninety degree turn in the sky and then shot out over a road in Grand Haven, Michigan. It stopped in place, then shot away at a speed that was too fast to follow with the eye. At 7:30 p.m. MST in Vernal, Utah a luminous orange dome-shaped object, blue-green and with occasional red flamelike lights on the underside, dipped low and then disappeared over a hill after more than 30 minutes. In Port McNeill, British Columbia at 7:30 p.m. PST four witnesses named Flick, Harrison, and Siemens watched a large, bright, oval-shaped UFO that was white on top and blue on the bottom. They viewed it through a 45x telescope for several minutes. It later changed color to a bright red as it went straight, left, right, and disappeared and reappeared several times. Finally, at nine p.m. MST a cigar-shaped object briefly hovered over a hospital in Edmonton, Alberta. It was white on top and red on the bottom, and made a sound like a siren. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1154",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP case investigation files; US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #11419; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 329-330" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/27/1970",
  "desc" : "A boy saw a UFO that landed on four legs in Terrace, British Columbia around noon. He encountered a humanoid with a greenish tint who jabbered at him in an unintelligible language. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1155",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants and Critters, p. 50" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/27/1971",
  "desc" : "Matt Dickson of Lawton, Oklahoma heard something out the front of his house early this evening. He looked out and in the dark caught a glimpse of a vaguely human-like figure kneeling on the front lawn near a nearby empty fishpond. Curious, Dickson decided to find out who the stranger was. He stepped out on his front porch for a better look and was terrified to see a wolf-like man attempting to scoop up puddles of water from the bottom of the fish pond, crouched on its hands and knees. The sight was so shocking that Dickson suffered a heart attack and had to be rushed to Comanche County Memorial Hospital. In a report to the police Dickson described the creature as tall, with a lot of hair all over its face and body. It was dressed in an indescribable manner. Others saw the same or similar creature that same night. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1156",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1971, case # 3004, citing Sharon Jarvis, Dark Zones" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/27/1972",
  "desc" : "A photograph of a domed, transparent object was taken by a Mr. Roll in Mart, Texas at 8:30 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1157",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "newspaper clipping data February 28, 1972" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/27/1974",
  "desc" : "On a highway one mile east of LaTrobe, Tasmania two witnesses, Thornton and Lamprey, sighted an orange colored UFO with a dome on top at 9:45 p.m. It was either disc shaped or delta shaped with three rounded corners, and it paced their vehicle. The object was about the size of a car. When they turned their car headlights off, the UFO responded by rapidly approaching. Their encounter lasted three minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1158",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "W. K. Roberts, FSR, November 1975, p. 47" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/27/1975",
  "desc" : "In Harris county, Texas a cow and a second dead animal were found mutilated. Both of the eyes and the tongue were removed from the first animal. The sexual organs were removed from the second animal. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1159",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, Zetetic Scholar, 050-016, citing the Houston Post, February 28, 1975" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/27/1977",
  "desc" : "Nils Toms Labba, age 51, a reindeer keeper in Ovre Soppero, Norrbotten province, Sweden was out on his motor scooter in the woods. At 10:00 a.m. near a lake beachfront he observed four strange beings dressed in brown. They seemed to be just staring blankly. Nearby them was a UFO about the size of a car that appeared to be transparent. When he approached to within 500 feet they quickly entered the object, and it ascended silently into the sky. When it took off the light made his eyes irritated. He drove to the landing site on his scooter but found no traces. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1160",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek, Center for UFO Studies, newspaper clipping dated March 8, 1977; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-10 (A1710), citing Noorlandska Socialdemorkraten Lulea, Sweden" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/27/1991",
  "desc" : "A rectangular-shaped light maneuvered low in the sky over Falslev Mar, Denmark at 11:00 p.m. and was watched by a single witness through binoculars. A second light was seen flying quickly from east to west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1161",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Scandinavian UFO Information Newsletter, issue #15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/27/1993",
  "desc" : "A man saw a saucer-shaped UFO in Grain Valley, Missouri that was only 100 feet away from him. A calf was discovered missing. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1162",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, citing American UFO News" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/27/1995",
  "desc" : "Two UFO reports were made in northern England on this night. In Runcorn, Merseyside, England at 9:00 p.m. a spherical UFO sucked water up from the Mersey River through a black beam of some sort. It then changed shape into a rectangular object. In Morecambe in Lancashire, an ovoid UFO hovered over the York bridge for several seconds before shooting behind some clouds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1163",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, June 1995" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/27/1996",
  "desc" : "Flashing lights in a triangular formation flew over Beufort, Sabah province, Malaysia on this night. A car was levitated by a UFO or UFOs in Lugo, Spain and put down on the opposite side of the road at 1:45 a.m. The car's dashboard clock also stopped working. The nocturnal lights associated with the UFO or UFOs were witnessed by independent witnesses. A pilot of a small aircraft over Saginaw, Michigan had to dive to avoid a collision with a very bright ball of light that appeared to jump out at his plane at around 10:00 p.m. In Seattle, Washington a very short dwarf appeared in a woman's bedroom during the night. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1164",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ahmad Jamaludin, Centre for Malaysian UFO Studies website; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 17265; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 48, citing Richard Haines; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case #2341, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/27/1997",
  "desc" : "In Burnie, Tasmania a clear jelly like substance with yellow flakes in it was discovered on a lawn over a one-meter wide area. The substance was between 0.5 and 1.0 centimeters in thickness. It gradually deteriorated into a thin, plastic like cover on the lawn. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1165",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bill Chalker, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 27, citing Tasmanian UFO Information Centre" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/27/1998",
  "desc" : "The witness was walking through her trailer park in West Carrolton, Ohio with her dogs when she saw a bright light hovering above the trailers. Inside the light she saw the face and eyes of a humanoid being. Frightened, she ran to her trailer and called nearby Wright Patterson Air Force Base. She was given a number of a local UFO investigator. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1166",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case # 3153, citing Kenny Young" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/27/1999",
  "desc" : "A dark cigar-shaped UFO was seen spinning on its major axis over Bologna, Italy. It had lights at both ends. It engaged in some pendulum motion, and then flew away at a high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1167",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup webpage, dated March 8, 1999" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/27/2001",
  "desc" : "A triangular object with lights on apexes, and red, blue, and green lights on back surface flew over Irricana, Alberta, Canada making a low humming sound. The sighting lasted five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1168",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2001 Canadian UFO Survey, case 54, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/27/2001",
  "desc" : "Three discs with lights flew over Becket, Massachusetts on this evening. One changed color from white to red and hovered over a pond. They appeared to be chasing each other. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1169",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joe Zalgenas, www.ufopage.com website, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/28/1904",
  "desc" : "At 35.97 N 128.60 W in the Pacific Ocean between Honolulu and San Francisco at 6:10 a.m., three large dull red bodies flew in from the northwest over the U.S.S. Navy ship Supply. The largest one was egg or pear shaped, and six times the apparent size of the sun. The objects flew in an eschelon formation, flying very fast below the clouds. They gained altitude, turned, and travelled off to the west-northwest while climbing above broken clouds. There were at least three sailors as witnesses, including the main witness named Schofield. The duration of the event was more than two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1170",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "New York Herald, March 9, 1904; Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 6; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 36; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. and Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 90; Bruce Maccabee, International UFO Reporter, September 1984, p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/28/1913",
  "desc" : "At 8:15 p.m. the trawler S.S. Othello was returning to port of was 120 miles from the coast of Humberside, England in the North Sea when an airborne object with a powerful searchlight dipped down from the night sky and circled the trawler twice at the height of the ship's masthead, with the searchlight focused on the ship. The UFO made a whirring sound as it flew. The main witness was named Parker. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1171",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Hull Daily Mail, March 4, 1913; Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/28/1952",
  "desc" : "An oil company employee was driving on the highway in Lomo de Ballena, Peru at 4:30 p.m. when he allegedly encountered a 10 meter in diameter disc hovering 500 meters away. Three uniped beings with rough, towel-like skin that looked something like \"mummies\" glided from the hovering object toward him. They communicated a message to him, warning of the dangers of atomic energy. He was also given a short tour flight on the craft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1172",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Greenwell, FSR, November-December 1970, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/28/1953",
  "desc" : "Philippe Daurces and four other witnesses in Beirut, Lebanon sighted a procession of 12 disc-shaped objects with distinct contours at 6:30 p.m. Each craft had a bluish leading edge and left a trail of smoke. They flew across the sky one after the other, crossing the sky on parallel courses within a few minutes. When viewed through binoculars, each had a crimson red light. They flew at a constant speed, and it took them three minutes to fly from zenith to the horizon. They made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1173",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, The Truth about Flying Saucers, p. 129; UNICAT database, case 412, citing Aime Michel; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 183; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference to Outstanding UFO Reports, case 30" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/28/1959",
  "desc" : "Private Gerry Irwin, a Nike missile technician, was driving from Nampa, Idaho to his barracks at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas. He had reached Cedar City, Utah at about 1 p.m. when he observed a glowing object cross the sky. Irwin decided it could have been an airliner on fire attempting a crash landing, so he went to investigate. Using shoe polish, he wrote \"Stop\" on the side of his car, and left a note on the steering wheel that read: \"Have gone to investigate possible plane crash. Please call law enforcement officers.\" A short time later a fish and game inspector did stop and took the note to the Cedar County sheriff, Otto Pfief, who returned to the site with a group of volunteers. No trace of an airplane crash was found, but Irwin was soon found unconscious and taken to a hospital. When Irwin finally woke up form a deep sleep, he was puzzled by the absence of his jacket. He was flown back to Fort Bliss and placed under observation for four days, after which he returned to duty.<br/><br/> Irwin behaved strangely: he was plagued by fainting, didn't seem to be aware of the correct date, and kept asking, \"were there any survivors?\" He was placed in a hospital for psychiatric examination. On April 18th, the day after being discharged, Irwin felt a powerful urge to return to the site of his strange encounter. Once there he walked straight to a bush and found his missing jacket. There was a pencil in a buttonhole with a piece of paper wound tightly around it. Irwin curiously took the paper and burned it. He then went to sheriff Pfief, who provided him with the details of the initial incident. Shortly afterwards Irwin's case came to the attention of the inspector general, who ordered a new investigation. On July 10, Irwin re-entered the hospital. On August 1, he failed to report for duty. One month later, he was listed as A.W.O.L. and was not seen again. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1174",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1959, citing The Ignored and Unexplained; Jacques Vallee, Passport To Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 481" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/28/1959",
  "desc" : "At 8:40 p.m. a round silver disc-shaped object hovered in the sky over the city of Cordoba, Argentina for 15 minutes. It gave off several brilliant flashes before vanishing. At 11:40 p.m. a rotorless silent helicopter-shaped object directed a beam of light at some linemen workers in San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina. Red lights were seen exiting from the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1175",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, May 1959" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/28/1969",
  "desc" : "In Miajadas, Caceres, Spain at 2:45 a.m., during the same time that an earthquake hit the area, a truck driver and his assistant observed a strange craft and five humanoid beings, described as tall and luminous. Seized with an irrational fear, they drove away as quickly as possible. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1176",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-13 (A1030), citing Manuel Osuna" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/28/1974",
  "desc" : "The witness was motorcycling to work in Hirson, France at 5:30 in the morning when his motorcycle stopped suddenly in Origny en Thierache, and he found himself face to face with two beings he described as \"cosmonauts\" standing in the road. The two men grabbed his motorbike and and held on to it firmly. They were dressed in dark coveralls with square helmets, and sleeve-length gauntlets, but it was too dark to see their features through their helmet visors. They wore sleeve-length gauntlets, and one being gestured to the other, who brought out from a bag on his back a small piece of substance resembling chocolate; this he presented to the witness, urging him by gestures to eat it. The witness did so, but to his surprise it had no noticeable taste. They then moved off and let him pass. About 100 feet to the right side of the road he had saw a large, dark circular mass about six feet high, sitting directly on the ground. , where traces of crushed grass were later found. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1177",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Coral E. Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 136, David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-06 (A1302), citing Jean Marie Bigorne, Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #139 (November 1974, p. 9)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/28/1974",
  "desc" : "On a mountain road at 10:30 p.m. between Liac and Gensac, France a motorcycle engine died in the vicinity of three red orbs in the sky. An ovoid and dark mass approached from the hills. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1178",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #137" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/28/1974",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. in Mellionec, Cotes-Nord department, France two luminous 20 cm long ovoid objects hovered only 1.5 meters above the ground, then rose silently over the rooftops of the town. A third object joined them. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1179",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jean-F. Boedec, Les OVNI en Bretagne: Anatomie d'un Phenomene, p. 47" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/28/1974",
  "desc" : "In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil a man reported that he was home alone at 7:30 p.m., standing in his kitchen, when he suddenly was transported to a square room with no apparent doors or windows. A loud voice emanated from a box-like device in the corner of the room which told him to remain calm. A door then appeared in the wall across from him, then the door opened and a large dark, oval-shaped \"apparatus\" emerged. The apparatus came towards him and a yellow light came down from the top of it, illuminating him. From out of the oval-shaped machine emerged a figure that was an exact replica of the witness. This double spoke to the witness and told him that he did not intend to harm him or anybody else. This being then disappeared through one of the walls. A large TV like screen then appeared. The witness could see the actions of his double through this screen and was directed to assist him with his voice. He was finally released and the aliens apparently recalled his double. The aliens told the witness that they were here to help humanity. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1180",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1974, case # 829, citing Irene Granchi, FSR, Volume 32, Number 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/28/1993",
  "desc" : "In County Wexford, Ireland a woman was taking a morning walk along a country road by herself when whe heard an odd sound coming from a nearby ditch by the edge of a field. She went over to look and there she saw a little dwarfish woman, about two foot tall with long red hair, who was trying to pick up a smooth stone that was wedged in the soil. The woman was wearing a purple outfit and had what appeared to be two raven feathers in her hair. When the witness got closer she could see that the dwarf was struggling with the stone. The little woman suddenly noticed the witness and vanished in plain sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1181",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 281, citing The Star Network Heartline, Vol. # 12, April 1993" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/28/1994",
  "desc" : "In Chester, England at 2:30 p.m. a blue domed cigar-shaped object hovered, darted about, then shot up in the sky very fast. It had fins on the ends and a light on the top. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1182",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, May 1994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/28/1996",
  "desc" : "Five people driving on highway 375 in Nevada down an isolated stretch of desert road watched a silent, silvery gray disc land about 50 feet away from them. It was flat on the bottom and about 30 feet in diameter. Three beings described as thin, gray in color and with large heads, emerged from the craft. They shuffled around outside for a short while and then went back inside the UFO, which promptly took off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1183",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case # 2847, citing UFOs On Line" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/28/1999",
  "desc" : "Ana Carolina de Machado reported being chased by three hairy humanoids with large round eyes in Votoporanga, Sao Paolo state, Brazil as she was walking through the city park at 12:12 a.m. According to the witness the humanoids suddenly materialized in front of her and then began to chase her. She managed to elude the creatures by running to a nearby security detachment post. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1184",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, citing Thiago Luiz Ticchetti, EBE-ET" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/28/2006",
  "desc" : "According to the witness, at 12:30 a.m. in Sabana Grande, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico he saw three or four Grey aliens standing near a landed bell-shaped object for 60 minutes. They and the object were 650 feet away. They stood 3-4 feet tall, had long fingers, almond eyes, and big heads. There was a sequence of lights from the top and sides of the bell, as well as the rim of the disc-shaped bottom. There was a probe-like arm that hovered and moved 20 feet from the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1185",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John Hayes, www.ufoinfo.com, Puerto Rico reports webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/29/1916",
  "desc" : "In Superior, Wisconsin at 4:30 a.m. several dock workers observed the passage of a large flying machine in which three men were clearly visible. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1186",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jerome Clark, Anomalist, April 2000, p. 19" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/29/1956",
  "desc" : "At 6:00 a.m. two witnesses in Donelson, Tennessee (a neighborhood of Nashville) watched in astonishment as a 12 inch wide metallic disc flew past their window, banged into a garage, and then flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1187",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 4936; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956 (volume 6), p. 21" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/29/1964",
  "desc" : "Two 10-year-old boys named Mathlin and Jensen saw a glowing disc with landing gear land in a nearby paddock in Plympton, South Australia at two o'clock in the afternoon. The craft had windows and a dome. A door on the craft opened and a seven foot tall occupant with copper skin emerged and walked around. The humanoid wore a tight fitting bluish-black tunic, a purple cape, and a leather-like helmet. He also wore a box in the front attached to his belt. A second occupant was seen through the windows inside the craft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1188",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bill Chalker & Keith Basterfield, Australian Catalogue of Close Encounter Type Three Reports, p. 15; Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 190; UFO Research Australia, case files, case SA64002; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0583, citing FSR, July-August 1970, p. 32" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/29/1968",
  "desc" : "There was a daylight disc sighting in Malvern, Arkansas by six witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1189",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 378, citing Skylook, February 1968, p. 29" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/29/1968",
  "desc" : "On this night in Pulham Market, Norfolk County, England a tall luminous shape or figure glided from an entrance in a nearby hedge; it traveled slowly along the road and then disappeared. There was a single witness, named Webb. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1190",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 186" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/29/1984",
  "desc" : "On the campus of Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio at 3:30 p.m. witnesses observed a black sphere half a meter in diameter that hovered just over a University building, then shot off very fast toward the southeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1191",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, May 1986" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/29/1984",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. a man and his dog in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania witnessed a 40 foot wide diamond-shaped object wobbling in the southeast sky at an estimated 50 feet altitude. He also reported interference on his TV set. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1192",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, April 1984" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/29/1996",
  "desc" : "On March 2nd at 6:30 a.m. police in Cuscatancingo, El Salvador found a 17-year-old boy wandering confused along the shore of Ilopango Lake. Under interrogation he related a bizarre story of being abducted around 10 p.m. on February 29th. During the night he had been walking towards his home during a local power black-out. Suddenly there was a bright flash of blue light behind him. Thinking that it was the police he turned around slowly. His next memory was of being inside a completely white room, where he could not distinguish any walls or furniture of any kind. He realized he was lying prone and unable to move, in some sort of bed. He noticed numerous \"cables\" that appeared to be connected to his chest area, and on his right arm he had attached what resembled an IV machine. He then saw several humanoids about 1.2 meters (four feet) in height. They had very large heads, huge eyes and in the forehead he could see what appeared to be another \"protuberance\" resembling a third eye. They also had sparse beards around the mouth and chin. In a state of confusion he noticed other humans in the room but could not tell if they were also prisoners. He remembered seeing a horrifying scene in which he saw several of the humanoids were operating on a woman, seemingly cutting her in half. Then they took the upper torso of the human female and somehow attached it to a \"hump-like\" area of a female humanoid that had been prepared on another bed. The humanoids wore white tunics which they had a strange insignia over the right breast. He was later taken to the shores of Lake Ilopango where the beings told him that their race \"was in a state of war and could not reproduce in their original normal manner.\" He then had the sensation of falling towards the lake. This part was very confusing and could not be remembered in detail. Several unusual scars were found on the witness's body. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1193",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, citing Dr. Luis E. Lopez, Y Files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "2/29/2004",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. in Brooklyn, Maryland an oval-shaped, very bright light came down into a backyard, very close to the house and residents. The close encounter reportedly lasted ten minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1194",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Feb. 2004 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/1/1950",
  "desc" : "A metallic disc hovered over Chihuahua Airport in Mexico at five kilometers altitude during the day, then shot off quickly toward the south. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1195",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "newspaper clipping dated March 5, 1950; Inforespace, December 1975" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/1/1950",
  "desc" : "Military and civilian radars tracked a UFO flying at between 40,000 and 80,000 feet near Knoxville, Tennessee. At 11:15 a.m. Stuart Adcock, a Knoxville radio amateur with experience in radar technology, called the local FBI agent, Mr. Robey, to report that he had detected an object using a surplus military radar set. The object was circling at at altitude of about 40,000 feet over Oak Ridge nuclear facility. Mr. Adcock reported another detection the next day. No planes were scheduled in the area at the time. The US Air Force suggested that the visual sightings may have been due to a mirage. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1196",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Bruce Maccabee, UFO-FBI Connection, p. 169" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/1/1953",
  "desc" : "A case of spontaneous human combustion occurred on this day on Highway 291 in Greenville, South Carolina to a victim named Wood. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1197",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 450; Fate magazine, July 1953, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/1/1954",
  "desc" : "The Castle-Bravo H-Bomb test occurred this day at 6:40 a.m. on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. The explosion and energy release was much stronger than expected. Castle Bravo was the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by the United States (and just under one-third the energy of the most powerful ever detonated), with a yield of 15 megatons of TNT. That yield, far exceeding the expected yield of 4 to 6 megatons, combined with other factors and led to the most significant accidental radiological contamination ever caused by the United States. Radioactive fallout from the detonation—intended to be a secret test—poisoned some of the Bikini islanders on their return, as well as the crew of the Daigo Fukuryu Maru (\"Lucky Dragon No. 5\"), a Japanese fishing boat, and created an international incident nearly severing diplomatic relations with Japan. The irony of the name \"Lucky Dragon\" of the fishing boat was not lost on any of the newspapers reporting the incident at the time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1198",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database; Gerard DeGroot, The Bomb: A Life (London: Jonathan Cape, 2004)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/1/1954",
  "desc" : "Three daylight discs were spotted over Carrasco Airport in Montevideo, Uruguay at 2:30 p.m. They were swinging back and forth in a falling leaf motion. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1199",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Coral E. & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 55; Richard Hall, UFO Reports from the Files of the CIA, p. 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/1/1958",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. two ten minute sightings of the same UFO occurred 10 minutes apart in the Kunashir Islands, Japan and the Soviet Union. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1200",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 5367" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/1/1962",
  "desc" : "At 10:40 p.m. EDT a single witness in Salem, New York reported a 40 cm x 10 cm flying gold box that slowly crossed the horizon in 3-4 minutes. Mrs. L. Doxsey, 66, saw a gold-colored box, 12-14 inches x 3-4 feet, fly straight and level across the horizon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1201",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 7823; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 103; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 6099" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/1/1963",
  "desc" : "On this day a photo of a flying saucer was taken over the Diet Building, Tokyo, Japan by a Mr. Hagiwara. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1202",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Yusuke J. Matsumura, Flying Saucers magazine, October 1965, p. 67" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/1/1966",
  "desc" : "A man by the name of Quemby had a close encounter with a domed disc in Kelowna, British Columbia. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1203",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vancouver Sun, March 2, 1966; James Moseley, Saucer News, June 1966, p. 30; Charles Bowen, Flying Saucer Review, May-June 1966, p. 33" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/1/1967",
  "desc" : "DeWitt Baldwin was raccoon hunting at night in the woods near Eden, New York when he heard a noise like buzzing bees around 1:30 a.m. He flashed his flashlight on a gold colored, unlighted saucer-shaped object that had landed on the ground. A sliding door opened and a man emerged, dressed in a black, tight-fitting suit and wearing a helmet with goggles. He asked the witness some questions, such as what he was doing there at that hour and where he had been born. He then took Baldwin's gun, looked at it and then handed it back. Baldwin claimed the humanoid broke the muzzle of the gun while examining it. Baldwin said, \"He wasn't white and he wasn't black. He talked very plainly and with no accent. He had black curly hair.\" He told me he would be back, walked up to the saucer, got in and seconds later zipped off out of sight. No footprints or landing imprints were found in the snow where the object had rested. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1204",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "James Sipprell & James M. Reed, NICAP case investigation files; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-22, citing NICAP" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/1/1967",
  "desc" : "Four bright domed discs flew from north to south over Valparaiso, Chile on this day. They had flashing red and blue lights. There were many witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1205",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p. 59; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 7597" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/1/1967",
  "desc" : "At 7:25 p.m. a white glowing ovoid maneuvered silently near some homes in Sharon, Massachusetts, leaving a white luminous trail. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1206",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 345; Raymond E. Fowler, Casebook of the UFO Investigator, p. 164).<br/><br/> 1967 At 7:30 p.m. in Toledo, Ohio a disc-shaped object with flashing red & green lights was seen by two married couples, Mr. & Mrs. Keitl and Mr. & Mrs. Hiner. The UFO hovered briefly, and then suddenly zoomed out of sight; it did this several times over the course of 20 minutes. (Sources: Toledo Record, March 5, 1967; APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/1/1967",
  "desc" : "In Poland, Indiana at 10:10 p.m. four people in a car were chased to their home for several miles by a dark domed disc. The UFO then hovered outside their house. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1207",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 21, citing Don Worley" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/1/1969",
  "desc" : "A white nocturnal light maneuvered in front of a drive-in movie screen in Hectorville, South Australia on this evening. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1208",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 183" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/1/1972",
  "desc" : "A two-meter wide spinning, luminous ball of light hung over a factory in Boussois, France at 6:30 p.m. It moved off toward the northwest in jumps. It was back again the next night, and again the following night. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1209",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, August 1972" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/1/1973",
  "desc" : "For three hours many observers including police witnessed a procession of at least 40 white objects with red and blue lights fly over Saylors Lake in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania beginning at 7:25 p.m. At 9:50 p.m. more than 200 observers reported seeing a 1000-foot long cone-cylinder; with a metal grating and triangular lights on the underside, at Highland Reservoir, Pennsylvania. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1210",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Stroudsburg (PA) Pocono Record, March 2, 1973; Stan Gordon case files; NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1973, p. 1; APRO Bulletin, January-February 1973, p. 6; (2) Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 10389; MUFON UFO Journal, issue 239" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/1/1974",
  "desc" : "At 7:45 a.m. a huge cigar-shaped object glowed red over a vineyard in Epernay, Marne, France. There were three witnesses: Daniel Legrand, age 24, Michel Frappard, age 39, and Mr. Paillard, 39.  It had a dome on its underside. It suddenly vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1211",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 464, citing L'Union de Reims, March 2, 1974; APRO Bulletin, March-April 1974, p. 3; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 135; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 11165" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/1/1974",
  "desc" : "Starting at 7:20 p.m. on the island of Corsica in the Mediteranean Sea, a round orange scintilating light flew to-and-fro over a NATO military base for an hour, then flew south to the town of Solenzara, Haute-Corse, France. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1212",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 464, citing Nice-Matin, March 3, 1974; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 135; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 11167" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/1/1974",
  "desc" : "At 6:30 p.m. a single witness, Mr. Blandiniere, watched a luminous cigar-shaped object with tapered ends for 10 minutes in the countryside of Saint-Jean-du-Falga, Ariege, France. At a farm in Lapenne, Ariege, France at 7:45 p.m. two strong one-meter light-beams, 12 meters apart, were seen over a hill about 500 meters away. A blue glow illuminated the countryside. There were five witnesses: Mrs. Corbalan, her young son Gerard, 19-year-old Odile, 22-year-old Mr. Corbalan, and Mr. Guy Monserat.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1213",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 464, citing La Depeche, March 3, 1974; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 136; Larry Hatch, U computer database, cases # 11166 & 11168" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/1/1974",
  "desc" : "A woman and her invalid husband were sitting on their front porch enjoying the spring weather on this afternoon near Millington, Tennessee when something in the sky caught their attention. They saw five saucer-shaped objects about two feet in diameter that moved at a low altitude slowly through the sky. They floated leisurely over a field across the road from their house and settled down in the midst of a herd of cows some five hundred yards away. Only one cow paid any attention to the small discs. It acted offended by the intrusion and turned and walked towards one of the mini UFOs. The object rose up, flew over the cow, and settled down again behind the cow. Each time the cow attempted to approach it would simply rise up, pass over the cow and settle down on the other side. The woman's husband became upset. He went and got his rifle and started hobbling out toward the field. The wife saw one of the objects fly very close to her husband's head and then rejoin the others as they flew away. By that time her husband had reached the fence and was standing still. His hands were down at his sides, the rifle clutched in one of them. When she got to him he was icy cold and shivering. All he could say was that one of the objects had \"flashed\" him with a bright light. She helped him back up to the house and he went inside to lie down on a daybed. He stayed there the rest of the day and said nothing more. The next morning the woman looked out and saw the cow lying dead next to a pond. Two weeks later her husband also died. The doctor said he had died of a heart attack. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1214",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1974, citing Bob Pratt" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/1/1974",
  "desc" : "At eight o'clock in the evening three observers saw a nearby hillside illuminated by a bright yellow light in Vesta Community, Virginia. A red luminous object was then seen ascending from the site. The object, about the size of a Volkswagen, hovered approximately 300 feet above the hill and went through a series of right angle turns, then headed south toward Stuart, Virginia. Billy Wayne Plasters and Richard N. Clifton drove to the landing site by truck and observed the silhouette of a \"big, tall, heavyset man\" approach from a lighted area. They called out and got no answer. Frightened, they jumped back into their truck and fled. The light on the hillside disappeared a few minutes later. Next day, patches of charred vegetation were found at the site covering a large area. Other people in the vicinity reported seeing strange lights that same night, and hearing unexplained noises. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1215",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Center for UFO Studies files; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-07, citing Nancy Lindsay, The Stuart Enterprise" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/1/1974",
  "desc" : "On the same night a flat, disc-shaped object with many lights on its rim was seen spinning in the sky, in a counter-clockwise direction, over St Louis, Missouri. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1216",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1974" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/1/1975",
  "desc" : "Several witnesses in Oporto, Portugal at 8:15 p.m. viewed a cone-shaped object at 400 meters altitude for 30 minutes through binoculars; the object changed in brightness. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1217",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 11695, citing PORTUCAT, case # 153" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/1/1976",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon a group of boys in Oldham, Cairo Mill, Greater Manchester, England watched a saucer with a transparent dome fly in and out of the clouds for a minute. The dome was reportedly revolving. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1218",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Delair J Bernard, Northern Network News, 1976, volume 26, number 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/1/1978",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. a man named Folger in McKinney, Kentucky had a close encounter with round gray object with a square top and a window. The UFO hovered at just 200 feet altitude, and had colored lights. It shot away fast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1219",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Stanford (KY) Interior Journal, March 2, 1978; UFO Newsclipping Service, issue # 106" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/1/1978",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. a cigar-shaped object with a dome flew toward the east, then turned toward the northeast as it flew through the sky in Sterling Heights, Michigan at 9 p.m. It had colored portholes that flashed light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1220",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/1/1978",
  "desc" : "There were also multiple reports of nocturnal lights and close encounters from several independent witnesses in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on this night, between 9:20 and 10:00 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1221",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "CUFOS files; Pittsburgh (PA) Post-Gazette, March 4, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/1/1985",
  "desc" : "Three silent, teardrop-shaped objects flew quickly over the city of Randburg, South Africa in a V formation, heading toward the northeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1222",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Cynthia Hind, UFO Afri News, July 1990" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/1/1985",
  "desc" : "At shortly after midnight a bluish-white light entered a house in California through the ceiling. Landed outside in the yard was a wedge-shaped craft. Two seven-foot tall beings entered the house wearing blue uniforms and domed helmets. The witness was paralyzed and abducted, and remembers being inside a blue shaft of light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1223",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard J. Boylan, Close Extraterrestrial Encounters, p. 130" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/1/1986",
  "desc" : "Many cars pulled over on I-5 near Payne Field, Everett, Washington at around 8:30 p.m. to watch nine large disc-shaped UFOs drop NLs. The display lasted for nearly an hour before the objects shot straight up and departed. No explanation was given by the U. S. Air Force when inquiries were made. At about the same time, a private pilot flying over Snoqualmie Pass, Washington encountered two amber spheres for one minute duration; there was radio static on his two-way radio during the encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1224",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Robert Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, case 1089; Paul Ferrughelli, case 736; Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1986-94, citing MUFON UFO Journal; (2) Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 192" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/1/1988",
  "desc" : "Watching TV in Johnstown, Pennsylvania at 7:50 p.m., a witness and two friends saw a bright light in the valley, so they went outside for a better look. The object, described as a white oval, remained stationary and silent for another five minutes before it \"took off like streak of lightning.  It just disappeared.\" Later that same evening, a football-shaped object with a white light at the front end and a red light at the tail was sighted by a woman over a farm in Westmoreland, Pennsylvania at 9:40 p.m. It had a reflecting surface on the leading side of the bottom of the object (reflecting white light). The white light flashed while moving, but not while hovering. Her sighting lasted 10 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1225",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Stan Gordon, MUFON investigation files, cases # 880931 & 880932" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/1/1989",
  "desc" : "Many police personnel and others at 10 locations, centered on De Kalb County, Alabama reported UFOs. Sightings started in Fyffe, Alabama at 8:00 p.m. At 10:10 p.m. police from six agencies and a fire chief reported sightings in Geraldine, Alabama, and took one poor-quality photograph. At 11:30 p.m. the highway patrol in Fort Payne reported sighting the Fyffe UFO. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1226",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine, June 1990, p. 26; UFO Newsclipping Service; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15316" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/1/1989",
  "desc" : "At 8:03 p.m. a mother and daughter in Union City, Ohio spotted a huge metallic triangle craft, halfway between the car and their house (1/8th of a mile away). It was described as gigantic, 500 feet in length, and making a low rumbling sound. It terrified them when it moved toward them. The close encounter lasted 10 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1227",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p 120" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/1/1990",
  "desc" : "On this night a woman ran out into 11 inches of fresh snow in her front yard in Otter Tail County, Minnesota to see a hovering disc-shaped craft. The disc ascended into a larger hovering object that appeared suddenly. She then suffered a blackout and was apparently abducted. She vaguely recalled being taken onboard by tall, blond, Nordic type beings who predicted that a catastrophe would befall Earth between the years 2000 and 2011. She also believes that an implant was inserted into her head through one of her nostrils. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1228",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1990, case # 2330, citing Don Worley, UFOs: Alien Encounters 1995" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/1/1994",
  "desc" : "In Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia at 8:00 p.m. a single observer with a telescope observed a silent \"dartboard shaped\" saucer that hovered, and then descended to the horizon; it changed colors as it did so. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1229",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 16322, citing Colin O. Norris, Australian UFO Flying Saucer Research, Adelaide, S. Australia" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/1/1995",
  "desc" : "At 9 p.m. a cigar-shaped object with windows appeared in the sky and looked to be slowly surveying a farm in Sedalia, Missouri. It had a bright light in front and several small lights in the rear of the object. A lady saw the object hovering over a farm less than an eighth of a mile away; it had windows along its side, and gave off a faint hum. She reported it was \"bigger than a blimp.\" After five minutes of hovering, it left towards the southwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1230",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center 1995 Report; Francis L. Ridge, Chronology of UFO Reports, case #1995-009, www.nicap.org" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/1/1996",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. in Trois-Bassins, Réunion, on the shore of the Indian Ocean a six-meter long luminous glowing tube was seen at 100 m altitude. It flew slowly to the east at 30 km/h over the mountains. It was absolutely silent. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1231",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 337" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/1/1996",
  "desc" : "At 10:15 p.m. a big orange ball of light (BOL) dimmed and reappeared in Bath, Illinois. It blinked and then shot off fast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1232",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jay Rath, The I-Files: True Reports of Unexplained Phenomena in Illinois, p. 49, citing NUFORC, March 1996 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/1/1996",
  "desc" : "In Bothell, Washington UFO investigators pursued an ovoid UFO for 10 minutes at 8:00 p.m. It had lights in the middle and on the ends. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1233",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17638, citing NUFORC, March 1996 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/1/1998",
  "desc" : "An object that left a trail of sparks flew over the Badger Army Ordnance ammunition plant outside Lodi, Wisconsin from east to west at 2:20 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1234",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 1998 webpage archive" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/1/2000",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. a V-shaped object that looked a little like a plane, but was fatter and shorter, was reported in Springfield, Ohio. It had many lights on the bottom, and it hovered on the side of Route 4 without making any noise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1235",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2000 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/1/2001",
  "desc" : "A low-flying upright symmetrical disc-shaped craft, rotating like a wheel, moved slowly and silently over the town of Clarion, Pennsylvania and continued east-northeast. It was in view for about a minute. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1236",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2001 webpage, report uploaded December 7, 2006" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/1/2003",
  "desc" : "A witness driving on I-75 near Naples, Florida at 6:22 a.m. saw a low flying triangle with white lights at each apex. It was travelling to the west and passed by in 3 minutes. It made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1237",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 63" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/1/2005",
  "desc" : "At 3:30 a.m. a large, slow moving triangular shaped object that seemed to suddenly disappear was seen in Palatka, Florida. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1238",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2005 webpage, report uploaded November 11, 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/2/1955",
  "desc" : "At 3:00 p.m. MST a hovering, rectangular-shaped object was seen rocking in the sky over Tucson, Arizona. One hour later, at about 5:00 p.m. CST, a car driving ten miles north of Huntley, Illinois was followed for ten minutes by three elongated \"balloons.\" The objects were each about seven meters long and showed eight red lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1239",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, p. 249 case 362" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/2/1957",
  "desc" : "At 8:15 a.m. a small metallic disc flew over some gardens in Kyoto, Japan at a low altitude. It then made a fast exit at a sharp angle up into the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1240",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: January-March 22, p. 60" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/2/1958",
  "desc" : "At 7:45 p.m. a man observed a balloon-shaped object land on the airfield in Tampa, Florida and then take off slowly and hover at 250 meters altitude before disappearing. It had a bright light source on it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1241",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 461" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/2/1959",
  "desc" : "A six-meter in diameter disc hovered 60 meters over a quarry in Mount Airy, North Carolina at 7:30 p.m. It had body lights and was witnessed by two children. The sighting lasted about two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1242",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: January-March, p. 72" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/2/1960",
  "desc" : "Mr. Schedelbauer, a 36-year-old newsman, was driving his car near Labuttendorf, Austria at 1:30 a.m. when he had a close encounter with a round, glowing aerial object. He was able to take a photograph of the luminous UFO, but he also received burns on his face and hands from the encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1243",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Waveney Girvan, Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1960, p. 16; NICAP UFO Investigator, March-April 1960, p. 3; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, September 1961, p. 48" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/2/1964",
  "desc" : "An elongated, silver object was seen hovering in the sky for two minutes over Grassmere, South Australia. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1244",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Flying Saucers, January-February 1966, p. 53" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/2/1965",
  "desc" : "At 1:55 p.m. John F. Reeves, a retired 65 year old, was hunting for snakes in the woods in Brooksville, Florida when he observed a reddish-purple saucer-shaped object on the ground. It was 30 feet in diameter and 6-7 feet thick, and stood on four legs, with a clear dome on top and a row of vanes like an outer rim around the circumference. It also had a set of stairs. He crept to within 100 feet, and after watching it for 10 minutes he saw a robot-like being, about five feet tall, wearing a silver one-piece uniform with a transparent \"fishbowl\" helmet. His hands were gloved and he wore metallic looking boots. His eyes were set far apart and he had a pointed chin. The being walked walked to the craft, then returned with a box that emitted two bright flashes when pointed at the witness; Reeves took it to be somekind of camera. The humanoid then re-entered the craft by walking up a small retractable stairway, and the object rose vertically with a whistling noise. Reeves found at the site many dumbbell-shaped footprints, and four roughly equidistant 6 inch holes, left by the landing gear. There were also two folded sheets of thin tissue like paper that bore messages written in an unknown alphabet. Reeves subsequently had further sightings and contacts. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1245",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, March-April 1965, p. 1; William J. Dunn, Saucer  News, June 1966, p. 6; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 638; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 134; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1965-14 (A0625), citing Marshall S. Cleaver, Robert M. Snyder & R. S. Carr for NICAP" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/2/1966",
  "desc" : "Two years later two silver metallic objects chased an airplane near an aerodrome in Harlin, Queensland, Australia at 10:30 p.m. The UFOs then moved back and forth in the sky, vanished and reappeared, cruised around the sky lazily, and then vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1246",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 152" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/2/1966",
  "desc" : "A woman watched a flashing light the sky two miles east of Roosevelt, Utah on this evening at 7 p.m. It stood still for 15 minutes, then shot straight up in the sky at high speed and was gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1247",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Frank Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, case A08" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/2/1967",
  "desc" : "Two to four silver lights or disc-shaped objects flew over White Sands, New Mexico at 10:25 a.m. and were detected on radar at an altitude of seven kilometers. They circled the White Sands missile base and flew away toward the east. They flew at an estimated speed of 2,000 mph. Several silver discs with green glowing bottoms were sighted by a separate observer in Las Cruces, New Mexico at 11:30 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1248",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, Volume 15, No. 5; El Paso Times, March 5, 1967; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume 2: A Thirty Year Report, p. 330; Patrick Huyghe, Special Report on 1968 Cases" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/2/1967",
  "desc" : "That night in Patterson, Arkansas at 9:30 p.m. a man witnessed a UFO with red lights hovering over some homes, and then move away. Dogs were barking at the time. Two hours later in Piggot, Arkansas, which is five miles to the northwest of Patterson, two high school teachers witnessed four lights in the sky. The first hovered at treetop level, then was joined by the second light, followed by two more. The four objects maneuvered about in different directions, hovered, and then flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1249",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP files, citing Memphis Press, March 4, 1967" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/2/1968",
  "desc" : "A huge saucer moved up and down in the sky over Kampung Kermat, Malaysia at three o'clock in the afternoon, flashing a bright light. It left a slight smoke trail visible and made a humming sound. It was visible for four minutes before it climbed into the clouds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1250",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, July-August 1968, p. 34" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/2/1968",
  "desc" : "At noon two people took a photograph of a UFO in Neenah, Wisconsin. That same day three women in Randlett, Utah watched a round, shiny silver objects maneuvering in the sky through binoculars. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1251",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allen Utke investigation files, case 47; Frank B. Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, case A63" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/2/1970",
  "desc" : "On this night a domed disc UFO looking like the \"scoutship\" described by UFO contactee George Adamski (and widely believed to be a hoaxed photograph by him) descended in a back-and-forth motion in Falkenberg, Sweden and was seen by several witnesses. The object had two antennae, and TV interference was noted in the area at the time. The sighting lasted 25 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1252",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Sven-Olof Fredrickson, FSR, July-August 1970, p. 31" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/2/1971",
  "desc" : "At 7:45 p.m. a disc-shaped UFO, illuminated green from the inside, flew low and fast over the town of Vannes, France shooting off toward the north. One hour later a large bluish-green top-shaped UFO, surrounded by a glowing aura, was seen in Dorking, England. Inside the object was a red ball, which twisted and turned, shooting off sparks. It flew in a straight path to the west, but at one point completely vanished. There were five witnesses total, including independent witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1253",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jean-F Boedec, Les OVNI en Bretagne: Anatomie d'un Phenomene, p. 65; Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, August 1971, p. 25, citing the Dorking Investigator" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/2/1971",
  "desc" : "In Chapelle-lez-Herlaimont, Belgium at 7:40 p.m. several people witnessed a silent, delta-shaped object fly low over Route E41 toward the southwest. Five minutes later in Nivelles, Belgium a long cigar-shaped UFO with two tail fins and red lights front and aft, with white lights on top of each of the two fins, was seen for 30 minutes. In La Louviere, Belgium at 7:50 p.m. a dark rectangular UFO with a triangle of lights moved slowly and silently through the sky. It turned in flew toward the north-northwest. In Nivelles, Belgium again at 8:05 p.m. a nocturnal light swung in a pendulum motion over a major highway intersection. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1254",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michel Bougard, Inforespace, February 1975, pp. 22-24" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/2/1975",
  "desc" : "In the Golfo San Matias, Argentina north of the Valdez Peninsula, a group of men on a fishing boat saw a bright light with a definite form behind it moved horizontally through the evening sky at a low altitude. It came from the Patagonian mesa flying out to sea and made a loud buzzing sound. It stopped in the air, and dived under the sea. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1255",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Wendelle C. Stevens, Saga UFO Report, March 1977, p. 39" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/2/1975",
  "desc" : "At eight p.m. that same evening in Elmwood, Wisconsin a UFO attempted to land in front of a car with the Forster family inside, while the children in the car screamed. The UFO was a disc the size of a car, white in color with lights all around it, and sticklike legs or landing gear. In their panic they repeatedly honked their car horn, which alerted farmer Roger Weber, who came out of his farmhouse and guided the family home. The UFO flew off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1256",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jay Rath, The W-Files: True Reports of Wisconsin's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 67" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/2/1976",
  "desc" : "At 8:10 p.m. a silver box, about five meters in diameter, flew low over the trees in Theville, France. Two men, Messrs. Leveziel and Mahaut witnessed the UFO, which was described as having 30 round holes on each side. It flew off toward the northwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1257",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Francis Leblond, Phenomenes Spatiaux, September 1976, p. 12, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 163" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/2/1978",
  "desc" : "In the city of Gisborne, New Zealand at 5:55 a.m. a man sighted a cigar-shaped UFO with a dome on top. At eight p.m. that evening in Pelotas, Brazil in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Jose Alvaro, age 20, was abducted aboard a UFO and had a forced sexual encounter with a tall female UFO crew member. As in the famous Antonio Villas Boas abduction, he was rubbed down with a sponge and an apparent disinfectant liquid before sex. The woman was described as a tall, human-like female with protuberant eyes, who made groaning noises during sex. He described the UFO as spherical and blue in color. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1258",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Xenolog, March 1978, p. 19; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case no. 129" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/2/1979",
  "desc" : "In Rivera, Uruguay several people watched an ovoid object dive at a truck and circle a radio tower. The encounter occurred at around 7 a.m. and lasted for a few minutes; helmeted figures were reportedly seen onboard the craft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1259",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, August 1979, p. 2, citing newspaper source" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/2/1989",
  "desc" : "At 9:35 p.m. a 60-year-old man in Shrub Oak, Westchester County, New York reported that a huge metallic boomerang-shaped UFO with many lights in front came overhead, just fifty feet above the ground. Later he could not account for about 20 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1260",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, case 246, citing Robert Gribble, UFO Reporting Center" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/2/1990",
  "desc" : "On this evening at 5:15 p.m. in Charlestown, Indiana an eighteen year old witness driving in a rural area saw an oval object hovering just 40 feet above some trees. After five seconds the object ascended and accelerated out of sight. That same night at 11:00 p.m. in Highland, Illinois a married couple in their mid-fifties were driving down a rural road when they sighted a vertical, oval-shaped UFO that moved over the road. They drove to within 30 feet of it in their truck when the object jumped over their truck and bathed it in a white beam of light. After two minutes the couple drove away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1261",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mike Baker, MUFON investigation files, case #900503; Don Krieger, MUFON investigation files, case #900419" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/2/1991",
  "desc" : "A fast moving UFO flew in an erratic pattern over a nuclear power plant in Sosnovyy Bor, Russia at 7:30 p.m. It was picked up on airport radar in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1262",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, Alien Update, p. 176" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/2/1993",
  "desc" : "On this evening in Goshen, Indiana two people in a car had their car bathed by a beam of light from an unseen aerial source. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1263",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case 1707" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/2/1995",
  "desc" : "In Rio Grande county, Colorado west of the town of Del Norte, strong blue light beams were sighted at around 9 p.m. A dead calf was later found missing its brain and spinal column. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1264",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1995" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/2/2000",
  "desc" : "At three o'clock in the morning in Tanah Merah, Kampung Gobek, Malaysia rays of light bathed houses in the village. A UFO was seen hovering over a marsh for several minutes. Later a Y-shaped depression was found, 50 feet long with the tips of the top of the \"Y\" 17 feet apart. There was also a crescent hole 10 feet deep, and 3 holes in the ground a meter apart. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1265",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (UK), May 2000, p.53, citing The Star, March 5, 2000" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/2/2000",
  "desc" : "In Memphis, Tennessee at 1:15 a.m. a formation of three objects hovered in a straight line above the city, occasionally changing color. At 7:45 a.m. two people in Maracay City, Venezuela saw a circular, silver object fly by slowly, but then suddenly accelerate and then abruptly reduce speed. At 7 p.m. in Springfield, Missouri a witness reported seeing four light rotating against an overcast cloud cover. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1266",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/2/2000",
  "desc" : "Finally the same evening in Mexico City, Mexico a pilot sighted a luminous UFO at the same time as the crew of a DC-9 airliner and another crew of a Bell Ranger helicopter. A videotape of the nocturnal light was taken by Salvador Guerrero. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1267",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Carlos Alberto Guzman Rojas, Los OVNIs y la Aviacion Mexicana: 50 anos de encuentros con OVNIs en el espacio aereo mexicano, p. 266" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/3/1950",
  "desc" : "At Selfridge AFB in Macomb County, Michigan two radars tracked an unusual object in the sky at 11:10 p.m. whose presence was confirmed with a visual sighting by a witness named Mattson. The UFO was visible for four minutes and made wide swings and abrupt turns. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1268",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 650; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 28" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/3/1953",
  "desc" : "A USAF F-84 fighter jet flying out of Luke AFB near Quartzite, Arizona filmed 30 feet of 16mm gun camera film that showed a cigar or fuselage-shaped object with a long contrail in a clear sky. The length of the object was estimated to be 100 meters, and the duration of the sighting was seven minutes. Project Blue Book lists the explanation as aircraft, but UFO investigators Richard Hall and Jacques Vallee didn't agree with the interpretation. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1269",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book Report #11, May 1953; Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 229; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 42" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/3/1961",
  "desc" : "A white spherical UFO with a metallic luster was seen during the day flying over Manly, New South Wales, Australia. At 10:45 p.m. a father and son were camping near a lake at Bowna Hume Weir, New South Wales when they saw a disc-shaped UFO with four windows on the ground not far away. Four humanoid figures could be seen between the object and a nearby fire. Their encounter lasted 45 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1270",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 87; Bill Chalker & Keith Basterfield, Australian Catalogue of Close Encounter Type Three Reports, p. 11" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/3/1966",
  "desc" : "Several civilians in Oswego, New York reported that an object that flew toward the south slowly, hovered, and then came within 15 meters of them. It finally flew off toward the southwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1271",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 728" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/3/1967",
  "desc" : "Seven white lights flew in formation from north to south over Chicago Heights, Illinois at around 8 p.m. They changed color to orange and then to red just before fading from sight. They also appeared to be giving off sparks. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1272",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Chicago American, March 4, 1967" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/3/1967",
  "desc" : "A group of high school students came upon two glowing pyramid shaped objects sitting in the middle of the road in Plantation, Florida at 9:00 p.m. The UFOs gave off an orange flash, shot straight up into the sky, and were gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1273",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Pompano Sun Sentinel, March 7, 1967" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/3/1967",
  "desc" : "Mr. and Mrs. Fellows were driving toward Centre Sandwich, New Hampshire around midnight when they saw an illuminated clam-shaped object going up and down in the sky \"like a yo-yo\" near Red Hill. It was turning from white to greenish blue, and followed their car for 20 minutes until they reached Route 113. It left to the northeast. They reported feeling several \"pinging\" electric discharges as it left, and their dog was very nervous during the observation. It made an electric motor sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1274",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1967, p. 6; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 821" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/3/1968",
  "desc" : "A lawyer's home in Castelar, Argentina was flooded by a bright blue light at 12:45 a.m., and their TV set went blank. A thunderous roar like a jet aircraft flying close by was heard next, and a ball of light was seen shooting off at a dizzying speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1275",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, August 1973, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/3/1969",
  "desc" : "On or before this date a 100-foot long noiseless metallic craft was observed in the sky over Glens Falls, New York. According to the newspaper account, the UFO's crew of four men and one woman were also seen onboard. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1276",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Bonenfant, Proceedings of the CUFOS Conference: 1976, p. 48, citing Albany Knickerbocker" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/3/1972",
  "desc" : "At around one o'clock in the morning police officer Williams of Loveland, Ohio slowed his patrol car when he saw what looked like a dog by the side of the road. It stood up, and was tail-less creature with leather like skin and a face like a frog or a lizard, 3 or 4 ft tall. It leaped over the guardrail and went down the embankment to the river. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1277",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1972-38 (A1143), citing Richard Mackey & Ron Schaffner" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/3/1973",
  "desc" : "Around noon in Kampala, Uganda on the shore of Lake Victoria President Idi Amin and his entourage saw a UFO land and then take off again like a \"gentle rocket.\" The UFO was surrounded by \"something like smoke.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1278",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, January-February 1973, p. 10, citing UPI, March 5, 1973" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/3/1974",
  "desc" : "A delta-shaped object made complex light signals from both leading edges of the UFO was 6:30 a.m. in Avion, France. According to the witness named Dejaeger, the object than shrank in size to a dot in the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1279",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 143" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/3/1975",
  "desc" : "Four photographs were taken of two luminous balls, approximately 0.35 meters in diameter, over a hedge in Montsireigne, France at 10:30 p.m. They rose into the sky and were gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1280",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1977" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/3/1976",
  "desc" : "At four o'clock in the afternoon a 12-year-old boy named Ojeda saw a 40-foot in diameter shiny disc in a clearing in the forest in Refrigerio, Brazil. It sat upon some type of metallic platform. Two beings in shiny suits, less than five feet tall, were seen outside making repairs. Blinded by a flash of intense light, he was captured and taken aboard the craft. The beings communicated with the boy using telepathy, and gave him a physical exam on an exam table. He had skin burns resulting from the flash of light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1281",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1465, citing Gray Barker, UFO Report, June 1977, p. 37" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/3/1976",
  "desc" : "Three hours after the abduction of the 12-year-old in Brazil, a luminous green sphere with a luminous tail nearly collided with a French Air Force T-33 jet over Tours, France. The UFO climbed vertically, levelled out, came at the aircraft, and the two-meter wide sphere passed within 30 cm when it passed over the right wing. It didn't show up at all on radar. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1282",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 40" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/3/1980",
  "desc" : "Four family members of a family in Buen Consejo, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico were awakened at midnight by noises on their patio where they kept caged rabbits. When they looked out they were stunned to see five strange looking beings inspecting the cages. Two of the beings were five feet tall and the others were three tall and more heavy-set. The tall thin creatures wore brown one-piece brown outfits, and had grayish skin with large ears, large eyes, and large flat noses with large thick lips. Their fingers were large and were connected by a thin membrane. Both carried a bright metallic-looking sphere in their right hands. The smaller beings were similar in appearance, except they had large bright medallions hanging from their necks and belts. A fifth witness later saw the same five beings enter a landed disc-shaped craft on a roadway near the village. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1283",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1980, case # 72, citing Jorge Martin, Enigma, issue # 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/3/1991",
  "desc" : "A high speed white disc-shaped object made fast turns, and ascended and descended over Sandy, Oregon at 8:55 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1284",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case 1043, citing Skip Schultz" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/3/1992",
  "desc" : "At 6:40 p.m. in Warner, New Hampshire a mother and her son, age 10, saw lights in the sky when they turned a corner in the road. They stopped the car and went into a field to get a better view. They saw a white triangular UFO flying through the sky, making a whirring sound. They continued to watch until the object passed behind and was hidden by some nearby trees. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1285",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON investigation case files, case no. 960507S" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/3/1992",
  "desc" : "Thirty minutes later in the same county, the same or a similar triangular object flew over nearby Bradford, New Hampshire . It had multi-colored lights and made a humming sound. That evening there were other UFO sightings in Salisbury, and Claremont, New Hampshire. At 7:50 p.m. a huge triangle with pulsating bluish-white lights was seen by a Mr. Cross flying just over the treetops along Rte 3-A near the I-93 overpass in Concord, Merrimack County, New Hampshire. He stopped his car and watched as the UFO flew overhead during a snowstorm, making a sound like increasing rain on a canvas tent. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1286",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON investigation case files, case no. 940103E; Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1988-1994; Manchester Union-Leader, March 7, 1992; Timothy Good, Alien Update, p. 252" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/3/1998",
  "desc" : "A brightly lit triangular UFO was sighted over Mansfield, England at 11:50 p.m. It hovered for ten minutes, then darted away toward the southeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1287",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Curt Sutherly, UFO Mysteries: A Reporter Seeks the Truth, citing BUFORA" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/3/2000",
  "desc" : "At three o'clock in the morning a large object emitting bright rays of light was seen hovering over and then landing in a marsh in Kampung Gobek, Malaysia. Found later was a Y-shaped depression with dimensions 45 feet long by 15 feet in width, and a 10-foot-deep crescent-shaped hollow, surrounded by several holes 3 feet in diameter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1288",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), June 2000, p. 37, citing CAUS" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/4/1952",
  "desc" : "On this date in 1952, at 1:35 a.m. over the Sea of Japan, a bright orange, 75-foot long ovoid object passed by a US Army C-54 at a very high rate of speed. Project Blue Book explained it as a meteor. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1289",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book cases counted in official statistics." ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/4/1956",
  "desc" : "In 1956 a 3-meter long metallic blimp with 3 or more windows was sighted in La Guaira, Venezuela at about 10 o'clock in the morning. It flew over the hills silently and slowly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1290",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/4/1960",
  "desc" : "Pilot Charles Morris filmed three silver discs with his motion picture camera, flying over Dubuque, Iowa at 5:57 p.m. The Air Force claimed that no unusual objects appear on any of the frames. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1291",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 40" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/4/1965",
  "desc" : "At 6:30 p.m. a farmer and his hired hand in Corvallis, Oregon saw from their car three yellowish-orange spheres rising fast into the sky from a nearby field. They rose from the ground in sequence, several seconds apart. The next day three oily spots were found at the site. Project Blue Book lists this case as an \"unknown.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1292",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 9301; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 639; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 52" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/4/1967",
  "desc" : "Just before midnight the Sodestrom family observed two plate-shaped objects, one 30 meters in diameter, the other smaller and gray in color, in Vilhelmina, Sweden. They hovered at close range for 15 minutes. The objects left with a hushed whistling sound, illuminating the forest with intense light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1293",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 822" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/4/1967",
  "desc" : "After midnight in Centre Sandwich, New Hampshire a clam-shaped UFO followed a car at a low level for several minutes. A dog in the car at the time was highly agitated, and its hair bristled in reaction to the close approach of the UFO. Approximately two hours later in Vicco, Kentucky another UFO shaped like half an eggshell cut lengthwise, hovered and maneuvered at a low level. A smaller object emerged from the underside of the object and flew away. The UFO varied in color from brown to red to orange to white. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1294",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 279; NICAP case files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/4/1968",
  "desc" : "Several close encounter reports were recorded for this date. A photograph of a UFO was taken in Tully, Queensland, Australia. At 2:00 a.m. a series of large luminous globes circled and swayed over the Ohio River for two hours near Ravenswood, West Virginia. At 6:00 p.m. a magnetic UFO detector went off when a UFO passed over in Carol Stream, Illinois. At 6:15 p.m. a cigar-shaped object approached a car in West Seneca, New York from the left, then went over the road in front of the car. The object was 50-60 feet long with blinking lights.The witness tried to drive away but the car wouldn't respond to the accelerator. As the UFO came quite near, the witness could only see a bright yellow light. The driver of the car felt sluggish and immobilized until the UFO went away. The object disappeared instantly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1295",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) FSR, May 1969, p. 3; (2) John Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 158; (3) NICAP investigation files; (4) APRO Bulletin, March-April 1968, p. 7; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 234, citing CUFOS files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/4/1968",
  "desc" : "At 8:15 p.m. two young men saw a UFO hover over a car ahead of them near Cochrane, Wisconsin. Its headlights suddenly went out. The object appeared metallic and glowed orange while standing still, but glowed redder and brighter when it was moving. The object then approached their car and their car's engine conked out. It hovered overhead for a moment, during which time the witnesses felt increased heat and \"weightless.\" The object left over a nearby field, emitting a cloudy haze all around its periphery. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1296",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 235, citing CUFOS" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/4/1968",
  "desc" : "In Lapoint, Utah a 20-foot in diameter round UFO was spotted on the ground at 7:30 p.m. The witness watched if for half an hour, when its light suddenly went out. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1297",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Frank Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, Appendix case A65" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/4/1968",
  "desc" : "Ricardo Castillo Trujillo, a janitor, saw a long, very bright UFO at 1:45 a.m. making a noise like an electric motor. It landed in an isolated section of Valparaiso, Chile and two crew members emerged. They were dressed in aluminum colored uniforms. Although he could tell they were light-skinned, he could not make out any facial details. Speaking in strange echo-like voices, they asked him about his nearsightedness, promising him that the condition would be cured. \"I didn't understand them too good,\" he said, \"but the fact is that I can see real good now, and without glasses.\" The humanoids promised to return for the witness. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1298",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT, Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-19; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case 45" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/4/1969",
  "desc" : "In 1969 on this date the Canadian Parliament Buildings in Ottawa, Ontario were buzzed by a mysterious red light or craft, and reported by a number of RCMP officers at 7:45 p.m. Earlier that day at 6:40 a.m., on a highway 4 miles west of Atlanta, Missouri a truck's engine stalled and the CB radio failed to work when a 100' wide UFO hovered 50 feet above the highway and directed a strong beam of light onto the road. The driver felt a strong heat sensation coming from the object and described the light as brilliant. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1299",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) John Colombo, UFOs over Canada, p. 213; (2) APRO Bulletin, May-June 1969, p. 4; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 263, citing CUFOS" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/4/1974",
  "desc" : "At 5:40 a.m. six police officers were confronted by a massively large dark humanoid figure or silhouette while they were investigating noises coming from a parking lot in Montmorency, France. It stood at the edge of the lot. When the officers approached, the figure disappeared quickly into a nearby acacia grove. No traces were found. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1300",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1974, citing Denys Breysse, Project Becassine" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/4/1977",
  "desc" : "Three UFO reports are recorded on this day in 1977 from Great Britain. At 8:00 p.m. an elliptical UFO changed color from white to red to green in Oxenden, England. It moved slowly and silently in the sky at an estimated altitude of 500 feet. Forty-five minutes later a cigar-shaped UFO w triangular fins on its upper and lower margins was sighted at Blackpool, England. At 10:00 p.m. in Lytham St James, a 9-year-old girl watched a 3-pointed object hover, spin, and change directions abruptly. The triangular craft had a yellow light at each corner and three red lights clustered underneath, and pulsated. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1301",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Awareness, July 1977, p. 20; Northern UFO Network News, July 1977, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/4/1982",
  "desc" : "In 1982 at 10:30 p.m. a car on the A65 highway in Hellifield, England was surrounded by blue lights and levitated up into the air. The woman driver felt a strong sensation of cold, and experienced 30 minutes of missing time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1302",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Devereax, Earth Lights Revelation, p. 112" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/4/1988",
  "desc" : "In 1988 a well-reported, well-investigated case occurred for over an hour off the shore of Lake Erie near Eastlake, Ohio. At 8:35 p.m. a very large illuminated ellipse or cigar-shaped object with smaller satellite objects hovered over, then landed on the ice on Lake Erie, not far from a nuclear power plant. Among the many witnesses included personnel from the local US Coast Guard station. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1303",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, January 1989" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/4/1990",
  "desc" : "At 10:10 p.m. in 1990 two people in a car driving in New Albany, Indiana watched a huge, manta ray shaped UFO fly overhead at 150 mph. It had rectangular panels on the underside. One hour and twenty minutes later fishermen off the shore of Provincetown, Massachusetts observed several objects and one large craft ascend vertically into the sky until gone from their sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1304",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON Investigation files; Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1988-94" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/4/1992",
  "desc" : "In Perth, Western Australia in 1992 a woman was jolted awake at 2:30 a.m. by a bright blue, glaring light. Through the glare she was able to see a four-foot tall being guiding her son down the hallway. Paralyzed at first, when the being was out of sight she found that she could move again. She ran and grabbed her son, at which point the figure vanished in a flash of white light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1305",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case #2663" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/4/1993",
  "desc" : "In 1993 a UFO hovered over Shanghai, China in the night sky. It appeared to change shape as it hovered, then shrink in size until it vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1306",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1993). Three other unexplained UFO reports occurred on this date. At 12:45 a.m. a 35-year-old woman driving on US highway 23 north of Delaware, Ohio slowed for a lighted object, just off the highway at 50 feet altitude. When she stopped her car the UFO came down to 15 feet above the ground, then its lights went out and the object either went away very fast or just vanished. At 11:45 a.m. a large ball-of-light buzzed a police helicopter and released three smaller fireballs east of Lynview, Kentucky. Finally, a UFO case rated as a high-reliability unknown was recorded as occurring at 11:45 p.m. at Wilson Point, New Brunswick by the Canadian UFO Survey. (Sources: Franklin Reams, MUFON Ohio investigation files; UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1993; 1993 Canadian UFO Survey, case #043." ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/5/1946",
  "desc" : "Sr. Joao Prestes Filho, age 40, had anticipated an uneventful day of fishing in Aracariguama, Sao Paulo State, Brazil but he returned home at 7:30 p.m., terrified by his encounter with a beam of light that came from the sky and struck him without warning nor any noise. He went into his house saying that he had been hit by a silent beam of light, which stunned him and knocked him to the ground. A little while later his flesh looked like it had been cooked, as if it had been exposed to intense microwave energy, and started a rapid deterioration. He died from the effects.  ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1307",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Felipe Machado Carrion, FSR, March-April 1973, p. 14; Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact, p. 124" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/5/1950",
  "desc" : "At 1:30 a.m an ex-Air Force officer driving on Highway 80 in Saltsburg, Pennsylvania said he watched a turtle shell-shaped disc hovering at low altitude. The 15 meter wide object kept away from him when the witness attempted to approach it. At 7:00 a.m. on this same date twenty witnesses watched a 25 foot wide, extremely bright UFO maneuver in the sky over Gering, Nebraska. It appeared to change shape as it flew off toward the southeast. In the afternoon a metallic flying disc trailing some kind of ribbon hovered, darted about, and jumped into some clouds over Houston, Texas. It left flying toward the east. That night in Bloomfield, New Mexico a dark, five-foot diameter disc paced a car. When the driver stopped the car the object circled the car, then sped away at a high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1308",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "newspaper clippings, March 10, 1950 and March 27, 1950; Loren Gross, UFOs: A History, 1950: January-March, pp. 11, 31-32" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/5/1953",
  "desc" : "Two separate UFO radar-visual events occurred at two locations, in northeast Georgia and across the river in South Carolina. An object maneuvered in the sky at 5:07 p.m., then circled Congareee AFB in Sumter County, South Carolina, flying into a prohibited area. An earlier radar-visual sighting of a disc-shaped object was made at the Savannah River (Nuclear) Project. at 3:45 p.m. The sighting lasted for two hours and seven minutes, and RF-80 fighter jets and Air National Guard F-51's were scrambled to intercept. The U.S. Air Force attempted to explain the sightings as a weather balloon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1309",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book Report #11, report dated May 31, 1953; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: March-July, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/5/1957",
  "desc" : "On this morning at 8:13 a.m. a fighter pilot flying over Rouen, France photographed a hat-shaped saucer identical in appearance to the McMinnville, Oregon photograph taken by Paul Trent in 1950. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1310",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Life Magazine, April 1, 1966; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers: Here and Now, pp. 46 & 80; Brinsley LePoer Trench, The Flying Saucer Story, p. P-7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/5/1965",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon two radar technicians were repairing the height finder radar antenna located northeast of Benton Air Force Base near Red Rock, Pennsylvania when a small metallic looking saucer-shaped object landed near them. A beam of light came out of the object and struck both technicians, and that was the last they could remember of the incident. They failed to report to their command post, and a search by both military and civilian police ensued. Sixteen hours later a state trooper found the two men walking on Route 487 in a dazed state. They were taken to a local hospital and found to be dehydrated. Later, trace amounts of alpha radiation were found on their clothing, and unexplained marks were discovered on their necks. One of the men had a brief recollection of encountering strange short creatures, who poked instruments into his eyes, ears, and mouth. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1311",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1965, case # 3376, citing George Filer, Filer's Files, Volume 9, No. 36" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/5/1966",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. a 20 meter in diameter bowl-shaped saucer with a hexagonal cabin hovered over a golf course in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia making a humming sound. It shot away extremely fast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1312",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 7082" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/5/1967",
  "desc" : "At 1:25 a.m. in Lovasen, Vilhelmina, Sweden two discs, one 30 meters in diameter and the other 15 meters in diameter, hovered at 20 meters altitude near an electric plant. They flew to the north, slowly at first and then extremely fast, lighting up the surrounding forest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1313",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Axe Jonsson, FSR, March-April 1968, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/5/1967",
  "desc" : "Four members of the Carter family were driving together between Pierre and Midland, South Dakota on this night when they were approached at telephone pole height by a V-shaped object with a bright light. It made a humming sound as it passed low over the car and it illuminated the ground with a bright light, and the occupants felt a numbness. It thensped away erratically. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1314",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Rapid City Journal, March 7, 1967; APRO Bulletin, March-April 1967, p. 11; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence: Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 267 & 331" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/5/1967",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. U.S. Air Force security personnel watched as a disc-shaped object descended and hovered over a missile site near Minot AFB, North Dakota. Reported by the guards, other airmen in trucks chased it. It shot up vertically when jets were scrambled. There was radar confirmation of the presence of the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1315",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald E. Keyhoe, Aliens from Space...The Real Story of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 10; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence: Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 80, 331, 372" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/5/1971",
  "desc" : "Gilbert Camus, a radio technician, was driving to his shop in Savigny, Jura department, France at 1:10 a.m. He was between Trenal and Condamine when he noticed lights ahead on the right side of the road. As he approached, he saw that these were on a line of eight bluish luminescent rectangles on the ground in a marshy meadow beside the road. Above them he could distinguish, in the moonlight, a flattened hemispherical dome, apparently of dark metal, about 25 feet high and 50 feet wide.<br/><br/> When he got closer to the object he saw three \"animals\" on all fours climbing up the road bank. Their heads were level with his windshield so they \"must have been of great stature.\" Their heads were shaped like an ant's with \"a rounded lobe flanked by two other lobes swelling out like cheeks.\" He saw no faces. In the meadow he could see about 20 more of these beings, some upright and others on all fours. His car had just passed them when it filled with a bluish white light from behind, as if a \"ray\" had been projected at him. He lost control of the car, which spontaneously slowed down to about 12 mph, then recovered its initial speed when he reached the outskirts of Condamine. Later, when he took off his clothes he found on his shirt, below the belt line, several golden yellow rectangles about 1\" by 2\". These disappeared after a few minutes. Three days later similar chocolate brown rectangular marks appeared on his undershirt, and these persisted through 3 or 4 washings.<br/><br/> The paint began to come off his car when he washed it. Most surprisingly, he found himself cured of a liver ailment, which until then had been giving him excruciating headaches. A semi-elliptical imprint was found in the meadow the next day about an inch deep, with a long axis of about 36 feet. Inside the circle dandelions, abundant elsewhere in the meadow were absent, and where it crossed a drainage ditch the ice in the ditch had melted, and the water still seemed warm. At the edge of the woods beside the ground marks a large tree branch was freshly broken off. In the snow were footprints like those of \"shoes without heels\", some as big as 16\" long. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1316",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-39, citing M. Tyrode and Fernand Legarde" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/5/1976",
  "desc" : "At dusk Mrs. T.  went to her back doorstep in Cheshire, Connecticut to call in the children. When she looked up she saw an object moving slowly at treetop level “a few thousand feet away.” Her husband came out and saw it, two. It had a translucent dome on top and gold lights around its periphery. Above the dome was a deep red flashing light, and there were holes in the bottom out of which a blue light shone. Mr. T. estimated its size as 80 feet in diameter. It descended among some trees in a wetlands area near their home. They watched it for two hours, until 9:30 p.m. The man and his two sons then got in their van and drove to a point closer to the object. They noticed an unnatural silence, but could not get a good view. When they returned home Mrs. T. was missing. After searching the house, they returned to the living room when she suddenly showed up. Her speech was slow and slurred, and she claimed that she had been in the bedroom. At 11:30 p.m. the couple went to bed, but they woke up at 12:45 a.m., finding that they had somehow exchanged positions in bed. Both felt nauseous, and the back door of their house was found to be open. The next day an investigator visited them and discovered three wedge-shaped holes in the ground and broken tree branches where the UFO had evidently landed near the house. A few days later the couple vaguely remembered being taken onboard the craft during the hour before they woke up. The husband clearly recalled “being in a galley area where they were eating. An extraterrestrial was sitting there with his head on his hand looking up at me as if saying, “What are you doing here?” This being had wrinkled whitish gray skin, high cheekbones, a high forehead, and eyes that were three or four times bigger than human eyes; he was also bald. He was looking at the man with an expression of “disdain.” Under hypnosis the wife remembered much more. One kind of alien was about four feet tall, a second group, “the doers”, were about 5.5 feet tall; and a third type with huge eyes and pupils like that of a cat, was 6.6 feet tall. The couple said the beings communicated with them by telepathy, and that they believe that “their minds have been probed by extraterrestrials since the March incident.” ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1317",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1976-88 (A1805), citing James Harder, James Barrett & Dick Nycz for CUFOS" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/5/1976",
  "desc" : "Miss Rasmussen, a 23-year-old woman in Redmond, Oregon first saw an object high in the sky at 9:25 p.m., which then dropped down to an altitude of only 75 feet. The object was disc-shaped, about 26 feet in diameter, and had red and white lights revolving around its exterior. Two light beams were directed from the object to the ground. The radio in her car went dead when the object came near, and although the woman kept driving, the radio did not work again until two miles down the road. The object did not follow the car. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1318",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "CUFOS News Bulletin, June 1976, p. 5; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 68, case 395, citing CUFOS" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/5/1977",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. Lonnie Stites and his wife, Deborah, were driving their pickup truck around a bend in the road in McNatt, Missouri when \"the whole area lit up like a football field light was turned on, and a very bright light was shined on our windshield.\" He saw a man of normal height or slightly smaller stature standing alongside the road. He was human looking, but dressed in green coveralls with square glasses and a tight green cap over his ears. He was \"waving us down.\" Up on the hill was another figure carrying what appeared to be \"a ball of electricity about the size of a basketball.\" The second figure was walking away from an object that looked like a water tank, about 10 feet across and 10 to 15 feet tall, with red lights going around it. The UFO was about 50-60 feet from them. Mrs Stites said that she saw two people on the hillside carrying \"basketball sized lights,\" and that the UFO at one point flew over the truck. They turned the truck around and drove away in great fear. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1319",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "St Louis (MO) Post-Dispatch, May 1, 1977; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-11, citing Monte Blue Skelton & Bob Pratt" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/5/1992",
  "desc" : "A military policeman, Luis Ribeiro de Oliveira and his friend Pedro Rodrigues da Silva, had gone hunting for wild ducks in an isolated area in the Rio Palhano area, Ceara State, Brazil. At 6:30 p.m. both men observed what appeared to be a \"star\" descending at high speed. Suddenly a bright light enveloped both men and Pedro ran and hid behind some nearby bushes, while Luis ran towards town with the light chasing close behind him. Luis could see that the light now resembled a luminous, wheel-shaped object the size of a bus. Soon he felt he was being sucked up into the object, while his friend Pedro watched in terror as he saw Luis being taken up into the light. Pedro saw Luis enter the round light and then it suddenly vanished in plain view. Terrified but determined to help, Pedro armed himself with a shotgun and searched the area. However, was unable to find Luis anywhere in the area, so he ran to town and entered the local bar, telling everyone what had just happened.<br/><br/> Five hours later Luis appeared in town and told Pedro what had happened to him after he disappeared. He remembered running and his legs suddenly becoming numb. He then recovered consciousness, hearing strange foreign sounding voices, and when he looked up he saw five strange humanoid beings standing in front of him. Frightened, he asked them in Portuguese what was going on, and he received the following answer: \"Don't be afraid, we won't harm you, we are Catadorians from Catandorius Decnius. Our civilization originated from another higher civilization that lived on the earth 353,000 years ago.\" They pointed to a small pyramid shaped object and told Luis that it was a model of their \"temple.\" The aliens told Luis that they were here on Earth looking for remnants and descendants of that lost civilization that they claimed lived in underground caves and tunnels worldwide. Luis was then placed inside a gas-filled sphere in the middle of the room. In front of him was a panel with multicolored lights, and he heard what sounded like radio transmissions. The five beings stood around him, standing about 1.5 meters (4½ feet) tall, and spoke in a strange language. Nevertheless, their leader could communicate with the witness telepathically in perfect Portuguese. Soon the leader left to speak with the other aliens, and Luis lost consciousness again. When he woke up he found himself in the same place that the UFO had originally picked him up from. Feeling a little dizzy, he searched for Pedro and found his shotgun, and then walked back to town. Luis described the humanoids as short with gray skin, black eyes lacking any pupils or eyelashes, large heads, wide shoulders, and they wore tight fitting clothing with boots and gloves. Their heads and bodies were completely hairless. Their speech was measured and their breathing was heavy and labored. Every time their leader spoke to the others Luis felt a sharp pain in his head. All the humanoids were identical to each other; he could not tell any difference among them. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1320",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15671, citing UBPDV 1992, issue #6, Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, case # 2394,citing UBPDV 1992" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/5/1994",
  "desc" : "A radio died inside the house of the witness at 10:50 p.m. in Martigues, Bouches-Rhone department, France when a delta-shaped object oscillated in the sky outside. The object flew on a westerly trajectory. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1321",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 324" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/5/1997",
  "desc" : "At eight o'clock in the morning a two-meter long vertical cylinder was spotted landed in a field in San Martino d'Spino, Lombardia, Italy. The craft measured one meter in diameter, had three legs and two portholes. It took off to the west when approached. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1322",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17886, citing Revista Info UFO, Italy" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/5/2004",
  "desc" : "Some famous UFO photographs were taken on this day near Mexico City, Mexico. A Mexican military surveillance aircraft captured multiple objects (11) with its infra-red sensors.  The objects were not visible to the flight crew at the time.  There was extensive publicity about this event in May 2004. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1323",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 18196; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center website" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/5/2005",
  "desc" : "Two football-shaped solid yellow lights passed a car and its driver at close range northeast of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. They buzzed the car only four feet away and just six feet off the ground. No sound  was heard or heat felt during the close encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1324",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, Canadian UFO Survey 2005, case # 17, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/5/2006",
  "desc" : "A slow moving, chevron-shaped object with brights lights on the underneath of the wings, made no sounds as it passed over Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at 9:00 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1325",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2006 webpage, report uploaded May 15, 2006" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/5/2007",
  "desc" : "A hovering saucer-shaped object with yellow lights was reported in the sky over Washington, D.C. at 7:00 p.m. It was approached by a bronze-colored object, triangular or flying wing shaped, which hovered nearby. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1326",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2007 webpage, report uploaded March 8, 2007" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/6/1912",
  "desc" : "A \"splendidly lit craft\" passed over Warmley Village, Bath, England at eight o'clock in the evening. It flew very fast to the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1327",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p. 249; Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/6/1954",
  "desc" : "On this night in Hollywood, California three luminous discs hovered at a tilted angle. Two shot away toward the northwest and a short time later the third followed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1328",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: January-May, p. 49" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/6/1957",
  "desc" : "At two o'clock in the afternoon in Hope Township, New Jersey Mrs. Martin heard her dogs barking. She looked outside to see a Derby hat-shaped UFO with a rounded dome, 30-40 feet high and 50 feet in diameter. It made a gentle rocking motion and a low rumbling sound. Beneath it there were streamers or lines of twinkling material. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1329",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted Bloecher, Civilian Saucer Intelligence, New York; J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 151" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/6/1961",
  "desc" : "In South Miami, Dade County, Florida at 10:15 p.m. a man saw a cigar-shaped object with occupants aboard. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1330",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Norbert F. Gariety, Flying Saucers, September 1961, p. 38; Geroge D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, May 1963, p. 34" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/6/1965",
  "desc" : "In Sydney, New South Wales, Australia a formation of eight silent, yellow lighted objects trailing sparks flew through the sky, at a speed many times faster than the speed of sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1331",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 88" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/6/1965",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. in Mobile, Alabama Mrs. B. Crutchfield saw a sphere encircled in the middle with windows. The UFO came to within 150 feet distance, and an estimated altitude of only 65 feet from the ground. Inside she could see a human-appearing pilot or occupant who wore a silver flight suit. A second figure stood in front of an instrument panel. At the time, the witness believed she saw an experimental aircraft of the U.S. Air Force. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1332",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1965-05 (A0615), citing Ted Bloecher investigation, report dated January 9, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/6/1967",
  "desc" : "Mr. and Mrs. Wolanin of Benton Harbor, Michigan reported sighting an oval-shaped or disc-shaped UFO with red, green, and yellow lights around its bottom rim, and with a pulsating red light, at one minute past midnight. The UFO flew on a level flight path from east to west over Benton Harbor. After several minutes a second UFO joined it. Both objects hovered for 30 seconds and then vanished. A hissing sound was reported. This is a Project Blue Book \"unidentified\" case. The entire duration of the sighting was estimated to be more than 40 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1333",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 11454; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 54; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 331" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/6/1967",
  "desc" : "Police officer Courson of Galesburg, Illinois witnessed a domed disc while driving in farm country between Galesburg and Moline at 4:25 a.m. The UFO had a pulsating red rim and a bottom that rotated rapidly. The UFO approached the witness, then passed overhead at a low altitude. Like the Benton Harbor, Michigan UFO of the same night, this object also made a hissing sound. This is also a Project Blue Book \"unidentified\" case. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1334",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 11460; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 54; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 331" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/6/1967",
  "desc" : "At 8:15 p.m. in Olpe, Kansas nine witnesses spotted a cone-shaped, blue-green light that was estimated to be 15 feet in height. The UFO emitted a reddish-orange light as it went over the house. They decided to follow the low flying UFO in a car. The UFO was observed to hover for awhile. It then shot up vertically, and descended slowly. It was described as a lighted interior. The sighting lasted ten minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1335",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP investigation files, citing Topeka Journal, March 7, 1967" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/6/1969",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 a.m. a woman in Glenwood, Missouri noticed her dog acting strangely and attempting to hide under the seat in her car. Next, the hair stood up on her arms. She then saw a bluish-white beam of light ahead on the road. Her car slowed from a speed of 50-60 mph down to 10 mph when it entered the beam. Looking up, she saw a disc-shaped object hovering 1000 feet overhead. The car didn't respond to the accelerator until after it had left the beam. The woman's eyes bothered her for three days following the incident. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1336",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 264, citing CUFOS" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/6/1969",
  "desc" : "On the same day a married couple in Buscot, Alicante, Spain saw three UFOs illuminating a mountainside for three minutes. Their car engine failed when the three objects landed on the mountain. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1337",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, A Catalogue of 200 Type I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 264, citing Ballester Olmos" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/6/1969",
  "desc" : "Sr. Dominguez was driving his truck down a road in Campamento Manantres in the State of Magallanes, Chile at 9:45 p.m. when his headlights dimmed. He noticed a four-meter wide disc hovering six meters away. A door on the craft opened and some beings floated out. The beings were presumably humanoid but were not described sufficiently to classify into any group. There were ground traces left at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1338",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted R. Phillips, Physical Effects Associated with UFOs, case 376" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/6/1975",
  "desc" : "At two a.m. near Melbourne, Victoria, Australia a man and his cousin watched a bright orange hexagonal shaped craft hovering close to the ground and about a kilometer away. They felt a strange vibration coming from it and perceived an audible sound. The craft then took off vertically at high speed. The main witness reported seeing two human-like figures flying around outside the craft, using what appeared to be backpacks. His parents felt the vibration and heard the humming sound but didn't see the UFO. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1339",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 1975 archived webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/6/1975",
  "desc" : "Around midnight Suzanne, a married woman, woke up in Chantilly, France with the feeling that an intruder was in her house. She next heard the sound of dishes breaking. She and her husband went to the kitchen investigate, but found nothing. Her husband went back to sleep, but she remained awake. After awhile she saw a light in the corridor and went back to check. There she confronts a beautiful tall humanoid being with wavy blond hair, wearing a long yellow outfit. The figure seemed to float just above the floor. They exchange glances. The being seemed surprised by her presence and immediately disappeared into the wall. The next day an unusual light came into the house. The witness reports that she experienced a period of \"good fortune\" after the incident. Previously, she reportedly saw odd beings on a train in 1959 and a luminous sphere in 1962. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1340",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1975, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 332" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/6/1977",
  "desc" : "At 1:05 a.m. Mr. Kiese, a security guard, age 18, witnessed an orange, domed disc-shaped UFO descend into the field near his factory's security gate in Sylmar, California. The UFO either landed or hovered close to the ground for five minutes, but no noticeable landing traces were found at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1341",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ann Druffel, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1978, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/6/1979",
  "desc" : "At shortly past seven o'clock in the evening, a luminous dome or domed disc descended and brightly illuminated the surrounding area near a home in Oconee County, South Carolina. There were 14 witnesses, including police. The UFO emitted a light beam, and executed sharp turns during the 44 minutes it was visible. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1342",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, June 1979, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/6/1980",
  "desc" : "A disc hovered over mine tailings in Warren, Arizona at around 1 p.m. and then flew along the ridge of a mountain. It turned on its edge and flew off to the south. The entire sighting lasted eight minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1343",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George Filer, Filer's Files, volume 9, issue 30" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/6/1980",
  "desc" : "Later that same night a witness reported seeing a slow flying disc-shaped UFO over the town of Hudson, New Hampshire at 8:40 p.m. The object made a low, steady humming sound. A second object was seen flying toward the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1344",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1980" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/6/1984",
  "desc" : "A large boomerang or U-shaped UFO was seen by two police officers, Jensen and Myers, west of Norris, South Dakota at around 10 p.m., after having been called out on a reported sighting of the UFO by a citizen ten minutes earlier. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1345",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek, International UFO Reporter, March 1984, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/6/1991",
  "desc" : "At 2:35 a.m. In Strafford, New Hampshire a witness heard his dog barking and went outside to briefly see a missile like object fly over, heading west. Later that morning two people saw a silver missile shaped object near Mount Kearsarge, New Hampshire that possibly touched down of the mountainside. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1346",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, cases 1044 and 1046, citing the UFO Newsclipping Service" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/6/1991",
  "desc" : "On this same morning over Kingston, Ontario a glowing blue-green cigar-shaped UFO stopped in the sky ahead of an airliner, Air Charter flight 866. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1347",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 33" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/6/1992",
  "desc" : "From the shore of the port of Scarborough, South Africa in the Western Cape Province a huge, luminous silver, domed triangular craft hovered near some oil tankers for nearly three minutes at 9:10 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1348",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Cynthia Hind, UFO Afri News, January 1993" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/6/1992",
  "desc" : "In Newton, New Hampshire at 9:00 p.m. a light near a swamp seemed to react to the witness's signal. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1349",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, case 1258, citing MUFON New Hampshire" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/6/1992",
  "desc" : "That same evening in Thompson, Manitoba a group of children saw some bright lights floating near some snow banks. When they approached to investigate they saw a tall hairy humanoid with red glowing eyes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1350",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, case 896, citing Chris Rutkowski, UFO Research Manitoba" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/6/1994",
  "desc" : "Two people sighted a UFO resembling huge cylinders with a very strong beam of light directed toward the ground in the town of Gue-d'Hossus in the Ardennes, France at 12:15 a.m. The sighting lasted two minutes. The grass where the light hit the ground reportedly turned brown afterwards. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1351",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 324" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/6/1996",
  "desc" : "Two adults reported seeing strange lights in Casino, New South Wales, Australia at three a.m. They then experienced a period of missing time. An abduction scenario emerged under hypnosis. The witnesses recalled being paralyzed inside their vehicle and seeing two humanoids, described as tall, gray in color, with small ears, large black eyes, two dots for a nose, a small mouth, with no lips, that entered their vehicle, undid their seat belts, and then carried them outside the car. Two shorter humanoids arrived and carried the children from the back seat of the vehicle. The abductees were apparently taken onboard a UFO, where inside they were given some form of medical examination.One of the witnesses recalled a tall gray humanoid using something resembling a silver staple gun that was pressed against her neck. Another witness remembered flying inside an object and seeing tall buildings with domed ceilings that had strange patterns of top. The witnesses reported another type of humanoid described as tall with a wrinkled appearance. This being inserted some type of rod-like instrument into their eyes. Unusual physiological aftereffects were noted. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1352",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case #2609, citing Keith Basterfield" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/6/1996",
  "desc" : "A teenaged student and a woman worker at a local teaching center in Bindura, South Africa reported seeing a white ovoid UFO, about 1.5 meters in diameter, with an antenna. A small being with a large head was also seen making a strange clicking noise as it wandered near the school. Small round footprints were reportedly left behind by the entity. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1353",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Cynthia Hinds, UFO AfriNews, January 1997; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case #3386, citing Cynthia Hind" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/6/1996",
  "desc" : "Ms. Teide Carballo De Trinidad, a nurse's aide at a local boarding home for the elderly in West Dade County, Florida looked out the window at 11:00 p.m. to see a six foot tall creature, tan in color with a large head, walking swiftly around the yard. She panicked and lost sight of the being as it disappeared behind a wall. The creature walked hunched over. No other details were noted. The next day goats and chickens were found dead and mutilated at the home and in other locations in the area. Strange tracks were also found. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1354",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, personal on-site investigation, case #2241" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/6/1996",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. a glowing sphere hovered over Friol, Spain. The main witness signaled to the object by flashing a light, whereupon the UFO descended and lowered a ramp. Three humanoids exited the craft. Footprints were found at the landing site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1355",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 89" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/6/1996",
  "desc" : "In addition to the UFO reports with humanoid encounters there were two other noteworthy UFO reports on this day. At 10:30 p.m. the Mayor of Autignac, France briefly sighted an orange, ovoid flying object while he was out walking his dog. Secondly, a disc-shaped UFO, estimated to be 50 feet across at the bottom, with a dome on top and red, green, and blue lights around its periphery, was sighted in Frankfort, Illinois at seven o'clock in the evening. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1356",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 337; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 1996 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/6/2005",
  "desc" : "A silent running triangular craft with seven very dim orange lights, outlining the part of the craft that the witness could see, passed over St. Augustine, Florida at 11:57 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1357",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2005 webpage, report uploaded March 11, 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/6/2007",
  "desc" : "A circular object hovered low over the witnesses' barn for 60 minutes in Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania starting at 7:00 p.m. It had white lights that did not blink, and a white antenna that moved back and forth, with a green light at the tip. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1358",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2007 webpage, report uploaded March 8, 2007" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/6/2008",
  "desc" : "A dark cigar-shaped object flew over Gig Harbor, Washington at 9:45 p.m. It could only be seen when a spotlight passed over it, reflecting on the clouds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1359",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2008 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/7/1901",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon in 1901, newspaper accounts report a flying machine was photographed in Silver City, New Mexico. The photograph \"has the appearance of three cigar-shaped objects, which seemed to be lashed together, the one hanging below the other two.\" Unfortunately, the photograph was later lost. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1360",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jerome Clark & William Corliss, UFO Calendar 1999" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/7/1950",
  "desc" : "In 1950, two discs passing over Durango, Mexico stopped in the sky for two hours. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1361",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 211, citing the Los Angeles Times" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/7/1952",
  "desc" : "On this day in 1952, two flat, silver discs parked in the sky over the Tucson, Arizona suburbs for several minutes. The objects were not detected on radar. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1362",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren Gross, UFOs A History: 1952: January-May, p. 24" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/7/1959",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 a.m. Rev. Pearl Kerwin of Silver Spring, Maryland saw a man wearing a white \"helmet\" behind a hedge, so she went around the hedge to meet him. She encountered a being wearing a white, one-piece coverall suit that covered even his feet, with bright blue trunks. The \"helmet\" was part of the suit, like a hood. She yelled and the man ran off very rapidly, apparently \"skimming\" over the ground. John Gill, who saw the creature's face at a distance of 15 feet, said there were two black holes where the eyes should be. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1363",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1959-03, citing Eli Berzweig, Don Neill, & Richard Hall, NICAP" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/7/1967",
  "desc" : "A UFO pursued a car near Elgin, Illinois and then landed in some woods at 12:30 a.m. Something zoomed out of the UFO directly at the car, and then two white beams of light shone through the car's back window. A dog in the car was badly frightened. The UFO, which was reportedly surrounded by a fog or mist, followed the car home. Ten minutes later in St. Joseph, Michigan a multi-colored UFO was reported hovering over Lake Michigan. It was observed through binoculars, and was described as about the size of a tangerine at arm's length. It changed colors from red to green to white, and had what were described as police cruiser lights on its bottom. It made a sound like \"a hot-rod\" initially, which later changed to a swishing-crunching sound.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1364",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "3/7/1967",
  "desc" : "Later that evening UFO investigator Raymond Fowler received a UFO report from Amherst, Massachusetts of a light in the sky, twice the brightness of Venus, that changed color from white to orange as it moved away. It was also seen through binoculars, but no structure could be discerned. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1365",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP investigation files, reports dated March 7 and 9, 1967; Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs Interplanetary Visitors, p. 345" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/7/1969",
  "desc" : "Three luminous UFOs were seen sitting in the evening on the ground on the roadside by many passengers on a bus traveling north of Bocaiuva, Brazil. One of the UFOs later followed the bus, and returned light signals from the bus driver. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1366",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, May-June 1969, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/7/1972",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 a.m. Diana Granville Matthews was driving along the Warminster-Bath Road near Norridge Common, England when she saw an orange oval-shaped UFO that crossed the path of her vehicle. It came from behind a hedgerow to her left and sailed down to road level, no more than 12 yards in front of her car, before lifting and careering over another hedgerow and out of sight. Startled, she did not stop to investigate but continued driving on. No sooner had her dazed vision become re-accustomed to the road when she saw a tall male figure all in white clothing walking towards her on the far side of the road. He was a few hundred yards ahead of her and was loping along quickly . She noted little about his facial features or coloring, but he was of giant stature. She pressed hard on the accelerator and saw the tall figure striding along through deep pools of water alongside the road. She drove home badly frightened. She went to bed but at about 5 a.m. she was awakened by a sharp rapping on her front door. She heard a voice clearly and insistently calling. She got up, went to the front door and opened it but saw no one there. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1367",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1972, citing Ken Rogers, The Warminster Triangle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/7/1973",
  "desc" : "At 10 o'clock on this day in 1973, Japanese tourist Mr. Takao took a photograph of a Buddhist temple in Bangkok, Thailand. A silver-colored, Saturn-shaped flying object showed up in the print when the film was later developed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1368",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, p. 312" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/7/1974",
  "desc" : "At 6 o'clock in the morning in 1974, two men in their twenties sighted a 30 meter long, brightly illuminated \"trolley\" in a field in Comberouger, France. It ascended from the ground slowly and changed shape, then flew away to the east at a high rate of speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1369",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, April 1977" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/7/1977",
  "desc" : "At nine p.m. Mrs. Jane Bowles was driving with a friend, Mrs. Ann Strickland, along a country road near Winchester, Hampshire, England when their car stopped and a brilliant glow \"like a white sun\" lit up the area around them. An oval object was observed that was luminous and making a humming sound. A man emerged from the UFO, one similar in appearance to the one involved in Mrs. Bowles earlier close encounter. He was human like with long hair, a beard, and pink eyes. He approached, holding out his hands, and touched Mrs Bowles. His hands were warm to the touch like a human's. The man looked at Mrs. Strickland and then spoke in an unknown language. He gave something to Mrs. Bowles which she would not divulge, and then he returned to the UFO, which ascended into the sky with a hum and high-pitched noise. The women returned to Winchester, and Mrs. Bowles observed that her hands were red and swollen. She had to remove her wedding ring and she found the skin underneath raw. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1370",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Encounters, case 1977-12, citing Lionel Beer, BUFORA" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/7/1987",
  "desc" : "At midnight a family of three in the town of Ping Wu, Szechwan Province, China, including a young child, was awakened by a loud high-pitched humming coming from outside their small house. All three went outside to investigate and were nearly blinded by a beam of yellow light coming from a huge reddish-orange hat-shaped UFO. It hovered above them, spinning slowly. The humming grew louder and all three had a strange floating sensation, and then blacked out. When they awoke they found themselves strapped to three steel tables in a circular room. The woman began screaming when a tiny hatchway opened in the wall and five three-foot tall humanoid beings stepped into the room. They were human in shape, but with featureless faces having three huge white eyes on their foreheads. Their skin looked translucent and was bluish in color. The creatures said nothing as they proceeded to remove blood from all three abductees' arms. They then inserted long needles into their knees and ankle joints. The husband and the child seemed to have been in a trance-like state during the encounter. Electrode devices were taped to their skulls and the woman was again able to hear the loud high-pitched humming sound. One of the beings made an incision on the child's thigh that was quickly healed by a pencil-like device that was passed over it. Moments later the room became dark and everything began spinning. Their next conscious memory was walking on a roadside, seven miles from their home. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1371",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1987, case # 1376, citing Lillian Crowner Desguin, UFOs: Fact or Fiction" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/7/1987",
  "desc" : "At 8:20 p.m. the witness was walking along a dirt road in Dobroslawice, Poland heading for his house when suddenly he saw five bright flashes of light. He looked in their direction and saw a bright ball of light. It landed between some trees and took off a few seconds later. He continued walking until he saw a strange creature on the road just in front of him. The creature, which was wearing a tight-fitting dark suit, made a long jump into the bushes. Scared, the witness also hid in some bushes. From his hiding place he saw five additional creatures about 1.20 meters in height, wearing similar dark outfits. He started to run from the area when he noticed one of the creatures was walking straight towards his hiding place. He ran about the entire 1.5 kilometers to his house. The next day he went back to the location with his family and found several footprints in the snow and a dead bull with one of its ears cut off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1372",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1987, citing Tymoteousz Tobala & Marcin Mioduszewski, CBUFOIZA, Poland" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/7/1996",
  "desc" : "At shortly after midnight 38-year-old Jose Manuel Castro Gonzalo in Ferreiras, Lugo, Spain was getting ready to retire for the night and glanced out the window to take one last look at the fields. Immediately he noticed a small orange sphere, encased in a multi-colored glow, hovering over a nearby hill. He decided to go out and look at the strange spectacle. At the same time he summoned his brother Cesareo. Jose Manuel then took out a small flashlight and began signaling the object; at the same time yelling \"come down, come down!\" Suddenly the sphere descended at a very high speed to treetop level. Jose Manuel ran upstairs to an outside terrace where he could see the sphere better. Inside the transparent sphere he could see five very tall men. They appeared to be floating around as the sphere slowly rotated and emitted a low humming sound. Moments later a shaft of \"coherent\" light appeared under the sphere; it reached the ground right below the sphere. Soon after, three small humanoids descended to the ground via the shaft of light. These beings seemed to move in slow motion. Once on the ground the three formed a line, grabbing each other's shoulders, not unlike a \"Conga\" line dance. Using quick jumping motions they began moving towards the witness. Frightened, he jumped into bed and hid under the covers until dawn. The next day strange footprints were found at the spot where the small humanoids had been jumping around. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1373",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case #2559, citing Magdalena Del Amo Freixedo, Evidencia OVNI # 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/8/1949",
  "desc" : "A silent greenish-white object was sighted in the sky near the Los Alamos Atomic Energy research facility in New Mexico. It flew toward the southeast at the altitude of the cloud layer, and was seen by guards Patterson and Lang from two guard stations: 103 and 106. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1374",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren Gross, UFOs a History - 1949 (volume 1), p. 57; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, March 1949 report" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/8/1950",
  "desc" : "A Naval commander sighted a UFO in the sky over Mazatlan, Mexico which he described as an \"artificial device.\" At five o'clock in the morning the crew of two airliners, the Air Traffic Controller, and many other ground witnesses at Vandalia Airport, Ohio sighted a bullet-shaped UFO being chased by military jets. The UFO ascended very fast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1375",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 84" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/8/1954",
  "desc" : "A red disc-shaped UFO flew over the Laredo Air Force Base in Laredo, Texas on this day. It tilted to a vertical orientation and then shot straight up into the sky. It was reported by a pilot at the base. At 11:07 p.m. ten to twenty nocturnal lights in a crescent formation--possibly a single crescent-shaped object--flew over San Antonio, Texas. It made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1376",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, May 1954; Donald E. Keyhoe, The Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 110" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/8/1957",
  "desc" : "A pilot saw a circular object flying against the wind in Baudette, Minnesota. It was luminous, about 5.5 meters in diameter, and flew so low that it appeared to suck up the snow on the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1377",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers Top Secret; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 254" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/8/1965",
  "desc" : "At 7:40 p.m. three persons in Mount Airy, Maryland, including an instrument maker for the U.S. Bureau of Standards, saw a cigar-shaped object with six lights--two of them fixed red lights. It flew above them at a low altitude, and avoided hitting their house at the last moment. It was lost from sight in the northeast. The duration of the event was three minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1378",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 9305; NICAP UFO Investigator, May-June 1965, p. 4; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 640; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 238; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 144; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 52" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/8/1966",
  "desc" : "A retired Marine Corps aircraft mechanic saw a domed disc-shaped UFO hover over Chesterton, Indiana at 2:30 in the afternoon. The UFO was surrounded by a bright, misty haze, and hovered above a cloud bank for 4-5 minutes. It then tilted at an angle and shot away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1379",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon I.R. Lore, Jr., UFOs: A New Look, p. 46" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/8/1967",
  "desc" : "There were at least 27 UFO reports made on this day from Australia, Spain, North America, and Peru.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1380",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "3/8/1967",
  "desc" : "Mr. and Mrs. Wallace were driving in Leominster, Massachusetts at 1:05 in the morning when they noticed an unusual light flying over a nearby cemetery. They drove closer to investigate and saw the UFO surrounded by a heavy fog or mist. They described the object as a bright bluish-white, glowing dome-shaped object that was hovering low to the ground with a rocking, pendulum motion. The rim of the object glowed as bright as an acetylene torch. The car's engine, lights, and radio failed. Mr. Wallace got out of the car and felt his arm tugged by some force against the body of the car. He felt tingling electric shocks and felt paralyzed in close presence to the object. The UFO wobbled, hummed, and then shot up vertically into sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1381",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 345; NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1967, p. 7; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume 2: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 199, 250, 267 & 331" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/8/1967",
  "desc" : "That night in Galesburg, Illinois a domed disc-shaped object with a spinning rim and a pulsating red light passed overhead, making a hissing sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1382",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP case investigation files; John A. Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 24; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume 2: A Thirty Year Report, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/8/1967",
  "desc" : "Also that same night an elongated flying object with flashing body lights and light beams at each end was reported by multiple independent witnesses in Goodland, Kansas. The UFO reportedly made a sound \"like a vacuum cleaner.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1383",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Norton (Kansas) Daily Telegram, March 1967; John A. Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 24; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume 2: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 173 & 332, citing James McDonald" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/8/1977",
  "desc" : "Nine independent witnesses watched a red ball of light maneuver against the wind in Gatchelville, Pennsylvania at 7:30 p.m. Holes were found burnt in the ground at a possible landing site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1384",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, The UFO Handbook, p. 120; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 11471" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/8/1982",
  "desc" : "There were two close encounter UFO reports on this day from Georgia and Connecticut. At 1:45 p.m. three former Air Force pilots flying in a private corporate jet saw a ten foot diameter silver disc that flew within 25 feet of their left wingtip. They were flying close to Metter, Georgia at the time, 60 miles southwest of Allendale, South Carolina. At 8:15 p.m. three witnesses in a house in Bethel, Connecticut saw two rows of red lights pass over their house and fly off towards the north-northeast at a low altitude. The UFO caused the house to shake when it passed over. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1385",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, March 1992, p. 17; Larry Hatch, U computer database, cases 13845 & 13846; International UFO Reporter, November-December 1982, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/8/1997",
  "desc" : "A triangle-shaped UFO with a large dome at one end hovered low over a field in Lympe, England near the town of Hythe at three a.m. There were three witnesses. One of the witnesses, Ms. S. Hall, said that it had lots of bright lights around the sides and made a humming noise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1386",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lynn Picknett, Mammoth Book of UFOs, p. 168" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/8/1998",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon a farmer in Rho, Lombardia, Italy saw a white object in the shape of an upside-down pear hovering above a field. He called his wife and both watched the object for about half an hour. During the episode a hatch slid open and an occupant emerged. The UFOnaut was only about 40 inches tall, with two huge black eyes. The being floated in the air close to the object for about ten minutes, then re-entered the object which rose vertically and left at a high rate of speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1387",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case # 3122, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Vol. 3 # 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/8/2003",
  "desc" : "A silent \"flying wing\" was seen by a couple leaving their home in Greenbelt, Maryland at 8:15 p.m. It flew below the clouds at an estimated 600-1,200 feet altitude. It had \"pure white\" circular lights on the wingtips, small red lights in the middle that brightened and dimmed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1388",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2003 archived webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/9/1950",
  "desc" : "At ten o'clock in the morning a disc-shaped object was sighted by witnesses on the ground as well as by passengers and crew of an airliner flying from Santiago to Antilla, Cuba. The ground observers tracked the UFO with a theodolite. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1389",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 54" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/9/1954",
  "desc" : "Mr. J. Stewart, a pilot driving in his car, observed a dark ovoid UFO with a blue glow that stopped and hovered over the Cincinnati GE plant in Hamilton County, Ohio for four minutes before flying off toward the east at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1390",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Newsletter, April 1954, p. 4; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, case 37" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/9/1955",
  "desc" : "On this day at 5:50 p.m. a witness named Metcalfe on the ground in Paris, Illinois reported seeing a bell-shaped flying \"swallow\" an airplane. No aircraft were reported missing at the time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1391",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Brent Raynes, Flying Saucers, June 1970, p. 32" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/9/1963",
  "desc" : "A silver, disc-shaped craft with an oval dome landed on a frozen lake in Crystal Lake, Montana for 10 minutes. A door in the object opened and then shut. The craft took off with a buzzing sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1392",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George Fawcett, Flying Saucers magazine, June 1964, p. 56" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/9/1967",
  "desc" : "At 1:30 p.m. Moline, Illinois police officer Mr. Fisher, age 32, filmed 8mm motion pictures of a luminous oval or disc shaped daylight UFO flying near the Mississippi River. There are 25 feet of film, and the photographer is considered highly reliable, but the UFO has no details that are evident in the film. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1393",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "New York Post, March 10, 1967; APRO Bulletin, March-April 1967, p. 7; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #7631" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/9/1967",
  "desc" : "At 8:25 p.m. a triangular cluster of two red and one white lights hovered at an estimated altitude of 1,000 feet at the Andover, Massachusetts country club. The lights were steady and bright. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1394",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler case files, report dated March 9, 1967; Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, pp. 331, 345" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/9/1967",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. EST three witnesses in Follansbee, Virginia observed an object as they were driving on Route 2. It was round, hovered at rooftop level, and left suddenly at high speed. Its was the size of a car, and the underside showed several lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1395",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 824, citing U.S. Air Force ATIC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/9/1967",
  "desc" : "At 9:05 p.m. CST a huge white disc was seen flying fast towards the east in Onawa, Iowa. It was also seen by independent witness in Eldora, Iowa at 8:30 p.m. The case was listed as an \"unknown\" by the Air Force. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1396",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 11,480; J. Allen Hynek case files; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 54; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 332" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/9/1969",
  "desc" : "In Monreal del Campo, Spain at 10:00 p.m. Mr. & Mrs. Vira watched two UFOs, an ovoid object and a sphere, that flew parallel to the road on which they were driving. The ovoid object landed in a vertical position. The encounter lasted ten minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1397",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, p. 24, case 106" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/9/1977",
  "desc" : "A cigar-shaped, metallic object appeared in the sky over Nelson, Lancashire, England at 3:10 a.m., so the two witnesses stopped their car for a better look. The UFO had lights at either end that were changing color and the entire object was surrounded by a gray mist. The witnesses heard a sound they described as being like the tide coming in and going out. As the object came quite close, their car's engine stopped and the headlights dimmed. After five minutes, the object flew off and the car could be restarted. Both of the witnesses came down with headaches shortly after the sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1398",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, Vol. 23, No. 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/9/1991",
  "desc" : "Shortly after midnight a UFO pursued a couple named Silva in their car on a highway south of Fortaleza, Brazil. The domed disc emitted heat and made a humming sound. It left, returned, left again, then returned a second time and dropped a transparent two-meter wide ball that blew up in front of their car, only six feet away. They believe the UFO intended to harm them. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1399",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jerome Clark, UFO Calendar 1999; Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next?, p. 216" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/9/1992",
  "desc" : "At twn p.m. two women walking home near a lake in Hamar, Norway heard a low frequency rumbling sound, like that of a train on idle. Then a bright light hurt their eyes. Fifteen meters away was a domed craft with a triangular bottom. Inside were two figures. They had long hair, large slanted eyes, and penetrating stares. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1400",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, case 626, citing Ole Jonny Braene, UFO Norge; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 15676, citing Jerome Clark" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/10/1950",
  "desc" : "An oval-shaped, aluminum colored object hung in sky at 40,000 feet altitude over Indian School Road southeast of Phoenix, Arizona at 6:00 p.m. It was estimated to be 200 feet in diameter, tapering to narrower proportions in the rear. It moved silently through the sky with a red fiery trail one hundred feet long, but left no vapor trail. It was gone from sight in 4 to 5 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1401",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 45" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/10/1961",
  "desc" : "F. Reynolds and his son were camping near the water in Bowna, New South Wales, Australia. They observed an object on the ground with four windows in it. There was a fire nearby, and four figures could be seen between it and the object. At 9:30 p.m. it had disappeared. Witnesses in Wodonga, West Albury, Wangaratta and Tallangatta independently observed an unknown object in flight that same evening. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1402",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 516" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/10/1967",
  "desc" : "At 12:20 a.m. a glowing orange-red hemisphere with the flat side down was seen in a rural area of Phillipston, Massachusetts by a single witness. It was ten times the apparent diameter of the moon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1403",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 346" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/10/1967",
  "desc" : "Two men were driving in a remote part of Piggott, Arkansas when their truck's engine failed. Before they could get out of the vehicle to investigate they saw a 50-foot wide saucer shaped object descend to the ground in front of them. Two bizarre looking \"aliens\" emerged from the object and walked over to their truck. The humanoids were described as of average human height, but with large heads that were flat in the back, and gray in color. They had normal eyes, noses, and mouths. They also wore tight-fitting gray diver's suits. The men felt like they were being bombarded with vibrations and had the uncanny feeling that the aliens knew what they were thinking. Rolling down the truck windows, the men spoke to one of the aliens, who reportedly told them that they meant them no harm and they could continue on their journey if they promised to keep this meeting a secret. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1404",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, case # 2583, citing MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 172" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/10/1968",
  "desc" : "At nine o'clock in the evening a dark oval shaped object with a searchlight in the front, wobbled and moved with motion of a boat moving over waves in the ocean. It passed over the local electric power substation in Pawtucket, Rhode Island and flew off following the power lines. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1405",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Walter N. Webb, case investigation files; Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 351" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/10/1969",
  "desc" : "A silver domed disc-shaped object with a beam of light was seen on the road ahead as a married woman drove between Glenwood and Lancaster, Missouri at 10:30 a.m. Her car slowed down from 50 miles per hour to just 8 mph when the beam touched it. Her dog reacted with fear, and her eyes hurt for three days after the incident. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1406",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Smulling, APRO Bulletin, May-June 1969, p. 7; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 32" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/10/1969",
  "desc" : "That same night a domed disc passed over a police car five miles west of Westhope, North Dakota at 10:10 p.m. It then hovered over the road, wobbling as it hovered, and shot a beam of light downward onto the road. The object eventually slid sideways, then lifted off vertically into the sky. The police officer, Mr. Janzen, reportedly felt strange \"psychological forces\" and suffered physiological effects as a result of his encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1407",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, May 1969, p. 3; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 266, citing CUFOS; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 14 & 174" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/10/1972",
  "desc" : "In Decatur County, Indiana west-northwest of Milhausen a farm couple reported seeing a huge delta-shaped UFO at 4:10 a.m. A heavy, reddish-orange stone was found on the ground that later vanished. According to APRO field investigator Donald Worley, the woman suffered chest pains at the time of the UFO encounter, and there was some unusual interference with the investigation by a mystery person. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1408",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, May-June 1973, p. 1; Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 557" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/10/1972",
  "desc" : "In Aubigny, Eure district, France a 63-year-old fireman spotted a disc or oval-shaped object with tripod landing gear descend from the sky, then land 200 meters away. It had a red ball of light on top of it and two portholes. The lights on the object blinked out after 40 seconds. Mr. Lauretz reported that his car engine sputtered and lost power when he attempted to leave the scene by driving away. This effect lasted for the first 200 meters. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1409",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Phenomenes Spatiaux, March 1972, p. 22, citing Progress Soir, March 20, 1972; APRO Bulletin, May-June 1972, p. 1; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 53 (case 314); Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 253" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/10/1975",
  "desc" : "A surgically mutilated dead cow was found in a 30-foot wide crop circle, six miles south of Whiteface, Texas. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1410",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "CUFOS case files, report dated March 10, 1975; Jacques Vallee, Messengers of Deception, p. 185" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/10/1977",
  "desc" : "Indianapolis, Indiana - A 13-year-old boy with the last name of Brandenburg took three photographs of a dark disc-shaped object with a transparent dome near his home shortly before four o'clock in the afternoon, while the UFO was circling the area. The photographs appeared to be genuine, according to APRO. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1411",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "CUFOS case files, report dated April 12, 1977; APRO Bulletin, April 1977, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/10/1978",
  "desc" : "At 10:10 p.m. a round object with glowing blue and red lights was seen by several witnesses in Sylva, North Carolina. It made a humming sound, gave off beeps and flew in circles at a low altitude. It finally flew off at high speed after three minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1412",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Sylva (North Carolina) Herald, March 16, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/10/1983",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. a bright light near the southeastern horizon approached a car with Mr. & Mrs. Waldemar aboard just north of Naylor, Missouri. As the elongated object approached they could see a cluster of red, green, and orange lights on the craft, which they estimated to be 150 feet long from front to back. The UFO turned and flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1413",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, May 1983, p. 1, citing Clay County Courier, March 17, 1983" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/10/1987",
  "desc" : "According to MUFON, a silent triangular shaped UFO buzzed Corydon, Indiana at 11:30 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1414",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case 578, citing Francis L. Ridge" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/10/1988",
  "desc" : "At 8:45 p.m. UFO investigators on the A61 highway north of Sheffield, England saw a large pulsating orange ovoid UFO fly by at 400 feet altitude ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1415",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 25" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/10/1991",
  "desc" : "A 22-year-old man in Citrus Heights, California observed a light gray triangular object flying at 2000-3000 feet altitude at 10:30 p.m. The object was estimated to be 200 feet in diameter, had rounded corners, and flew silently at a speed of between 100 and 150 mph. It flew on a straight course, going directly overhead and finally passed beyond some trees. He could see the lightless object due to its reflection of lights from the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1416",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON field investigations database, case 911003W, John G. Maylone field investigator; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1992, p. 19" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/10/1995",
  "desc" : "In Cass County, Missouri a number of 25 foot in diameter bowl-shaped metallic discs lifted off from the ground in a farmer's field at 6:15 a.m. They wree only 100 feet away from the witness when they took off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1417",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Francis L. Ridge, UFO Intelligence Newsletter" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/10/1997",
  "desc" : "After dropping off his girlfriend at her home in the city of Santa Fe de Bogota, Colombia Juan Sudarsky was walking home alone at around 3:00 a.m. when he suddenly felt very cold. He next saw a purple light drop from the sky, and at the same time he heard a high-pitched screeching sound and he felt dizzy. He fell to his knees, sweating profusely despite the sensation of cold. An orange beam of light then appeared beside him. Several odd looking, medium-sized creatures then emerged from the beam. They appeared to have only one eye and each had a large antenna that radiated an odd blue light. They had a strange orifice where their mouths should have been. The creatures emitted intermittent screeches of varying frequencies. Juan could apparently understand them, because he was receiving mental messages. The beings then formed a circle around Sudarsky, and one of them approached and touched his forehead. He then got a mental message in perfect Spanish, telling him to guard the planet against pollution, because their own world was almost totally ruined, and now there were only 50 of them left. Soon after this they flew back into the purple light via the orange beam of light. Before leaving, the leader showed Sudarsky a strange communication device. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1418",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, case # 2844, citing UFO Sightings in New Mexico and the World" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/10/1999",
  "desc" : "A woman in Belper, Derbyshire, England saw a bright orange light in the sky from her home at 10:45 p.m. and got her binoculars. Looking through the binoculars she could tell the UFO was \"a perfect black triangle\" with a row of red lights on one side. It was also completely silent. Fifteen minutes later a motorist driving down a highway in Duffield, England saw a bright light in sky and pulled into a bus stop for better view. He reported seeing a \"flat, triangular, black shape with equal sides, flying with the point first.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1419",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Curt Sutherly, UFO Mysteries: A Reporter Seeks the Truth, p 206" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/10/2004",
  "desc" : "The crews of a number of fishing vessels fifty miles off the coast of Neah Bay, Washington observed a disc-shaped object with white, red and green lights at 7:00 p.m. on this evening. It flew around at high rates of speed and was in view for nearly half an hour. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1420",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2004 archived webpage reports" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/11/1950",
  "desc" : "A car was buzzed by a brilliant blue disc at 9:00 p.m. as it was being driven from Chualar to Salinas, California. The UFO made a loop, then shot off to the south. There were many calls to the authorities reporting sightings of the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1421",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 47" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/11/1955",
  "desc" : "At 1:15 a.m. in Bexley, London, England a glowing disc-shaped object flew toward the southwest, stopped, then turned back toward the Thames Rivers, then flew off quickly to the northeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1422",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1955: January-June, p. 35" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/11/1963",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. two military witnesses in the Air National Guard, Parish and Joy, were flying over the Pacific Ocean near Oahu Island, Hawaii when they spotted a very bright, crescent-shaped UFO flying at high altitude. The object flew off to the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1423",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, January-February 1964, p. 5; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 33" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/11/1969",
  "desc" : "At 12:15 a.m. a man named Allot drove through a luminous dome in the road in the Loudeac Forest between La Croix-Jartel and St. Julien, France and was temporarily paralyzed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1424",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, computerized catalog; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 8782, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #102" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/11/1969",
  "desc" : "On the same day a motorist in Campinas, Sao Paulo state, Brazil saw a light moving erratically in the sky, changing color from yellow to green, then blue, then purple, then back to green. The color changing UFO came to a halt right in front of his car at 4:45 p.m. The car's engine slowed down and the witness, a man named Randi, temporarily felt paralyzed. After the light flew away, both the car and motorist were back to normal. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1425",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Walter Buhler, FSR Case Histories, August 1971, p. 11; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 45 (case 267)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/11/1978",
  "desc" : "Sometime around 11 p.m. three people were camping on the site of a Maori burial ground in the Waimata Valley, New Zealand when one of them awoke suddenly and saw a being looking at them. Her memory went blank at this point, but she does recall that at 4:00 a.m. the next morning all three of them woke up and left the area. Under hypnosis, she recalled that she and one of her companions were drawn onboard a luminous domed disc-shaped craft by a beam of light. A humanoid being of medium built, who wore a pair of silvery calf-length boots, met them inside. He communicated with her by telepathy and warned them to keep silent about the experience. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1426",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Xenolog, September 1978, p. 14; APRO Bulletin, February 1982, p. 3; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 50" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/11/1984",
  "desc" : "A mother and daughter observed a large cylindrical-shaped UFO hovering outside their family room window in Wolcott, Connecticut. The object was just seven feet above the ground, and only four feet from the window. It made no sound, and stayed there for seven minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1427",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Gribble, APRO Bulletin, June 1984, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/11/1992",
  "desc" : "At 6:30 p.m. a woman in Bellomonte, Puerto Rico was sitting alone in her rocking chair on the rear patio of her home, when suddenly she felt a strong presence nearby. She saw two very tall, muscular men with light skin standing close beside her. They wore tight-fitting black uniforms that covered their entire bodies except for their faces. They were accompanied by two short humanoids with large egg-shaped heads and yellowish skin, wide lipless mouths, and large dark slit-shaped eyes. These creatures wore brown, loose-fitting outfits. The two short beings appeared to be in charge of the situation and were intent on inspecting the terrain and plants, constantly murmuring between themselves in a strange language. The tall beings communicated with her using telepathy, informing her that the short beings wanted her to plant certain different kinds of flowers and trees in her garden. She said that she had felt more comfortable with the presence of the two beings who looked human than with the odd looking short creatures, but that there appeared to be a definite collaboration occurring between the two types of beings. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1428",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, case #434, citing Jorge Martin, Enigma, issues 53-53" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/11/2000",
  "desc" : "At 8:10 p.m. Shaun Boer of Traralgon, Victoria, Australia saw a bright star-like object that was moving through the sky very fast. It made a 45-degree turn and then faded out. Later he remembered being in a round room with a high ceiling. There were several pillars coming down the sides of the walls. The \"room\" seemed to be dirty. In the middle of the room there was a sort of table, resembling a half cylinder, made out of what appeared to be corrugate iron. He recalls that he encountered two types of creatures: some were short with bluish black skin, perfectly round eyes, and they wore coveralls with hoods. The others were the classic Grey humanoids with large black almond-shaped eyes. He later found a triangle-shaped scar on his upper arm. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1429",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case # 3825, citing UFO Abductions Raw Data Page & UFO Watch" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/12/1950",
  "desc" : "On this night a featureless four-meter wide disc circled a ranch in Falfurrias, Texas at 300 meters altitude for a few minutes. It flew off in a southwesterly direction toward Mexico. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1430",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950 Supplement, p. 17" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/12/1954",
  "desc" : "A torpedo shaped UFO was seen on this afternoon at 3:20 p.m. over Klang, Selangor, Malaysia. It shot straight up into the sky when it left. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1431",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ahmad Jamaludin, Summary of Unidentified Flying Objects and Related Events in Malaysia, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/12/1954",
  "desc" : "A U.S. Air Force F-86 fighter jet was scrambled to pursue a UFO over Nouasseur AFB in Morocco at 10:35 a.m. The UFO flew off toward the north, and the jet couldn't catch up with it despite accelerating to 530 mph. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1432",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2937; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 53" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/12/1959",
  "desc" : "On this night 6-year-old Kim Marks of Purnong Landing, South Australia was preparing for bed when he saw a five foot tall man with a crimson face, wearing a red jacket and trousers with white trimmings. He was visible for a minute and a half. Kim's dog did not react. A few hours later, a multi-colored luminous UFO was seen close to the Marks property. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1433",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1959-04, citing Keith Basterfield; Bill Chalker & Keith Basterfield, Australian Catalogue of Close Encounter Type Three Reports, case 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/12/1967",
  "desc" : "A boy who had gone outside in Rochester, Minnesota to buy a newspaper saw an object resembling an inverted mushroom hovering 10 meters above the ground. It was not larger than a car, tilted to a 45 degree orientation, oscillated, and left towards the northwest. He took three photographs of the UFO. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1434",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 825" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/12/1967",
  "desc" : "Four boys, Bob & John Kangas, Mike Kauppi, and Scott Mackay, ages 9-12, were riding on a snowmobile in Palo, Minnesota at 2:15 p.m. when they saw a very bright light coming from an old abandoned hayshed, and a second beam of light about 100 yards away in an open field. Near the latter were 5 moving black \"objects\" about three to four feet high, arranged in a diamond formation with a fifth at the center. These \"objects\" or beings seemed to glide over the deep snow, then moved toward the beam of light and when they reached it, both the light and the \"objects\" faded out of sight. The boys headed for the nearest house, \"visibly shaken, almost to the point of hysteria.\" Two footprints of an unidentifiable shape were found later at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1435",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-23 (A0794), citing Annette J. Boyer, NICAP field investigator" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/12/1967",
  "desc" : "At 7:15 p.m. in McIntosh, South Dakota a single witness saw an object with red, green, and white lights. After he reported the incident, four young men went to the area to investigate. They saw four green lights hovering low over the road, but the engine of their car stalled as they approached. Because their car had stalled on a hill, they turned the car around and coasted downhill. The car re-started then, so they drove away without investigating further. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1436",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 191, citing Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs Over the Americas" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/12/1967",
  "desc" : "Clyde L. Dwyer observed a large disc-shaped object from a window in his South Glenn Falls, New York home at 10:30 p.m. It was approximately 100 feet in diameter and hovered motionless 175-200 yards southeast of his home. Three large square windows were spaced around the midline of the object and just below these, jets of what appeared to be steam were emitted continually from a number of equidistant points around the object. Its dark mass was illuminated by a nearby street lamp. A white light shone from the windows, and two men and a woman could be seen in the central window, with two more men standing behind the window to the right. Although no distinguishing characteristics could be seen, \"these figures were definitely of human appearance.\" After hovering for about five minutes, the object gradually departed toward the southwest. No sound was heard at any time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1437",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-24, citing Richard Bonenfant, CUFOS" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/12/1967",
  "desc" : "A woman and her daughter driving home from church at 11:30 p.m. in Letart Falls, Ohio rounded a corner in a wooded area and saw a huge white figure appear suddenly in front of their car. The creature appeared to have very long hair and was in sight for several seconds before it shot upward into the sky and disappeared. The witnesses assumed they had seen an \"angel.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1438",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John A. Keel, FSR, July-August 1968, p. 13; John A Keel, The Mothman Prophecies, p. 119" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/12/1969",
  "desc" : "Mr. K. Maslund, a radio and TV station technician, was at work at his TV station at 6:30 p.m. in Trejorningsjo, Angermanland, Sweden when he heard the station’s transmission alarm system go off. Opening the door, he saw outside about 50 feet away a UFO 150 meters wide and 5-6 meters tall, hovering in the air. A “tunnel of light” extended from the object through which the witness saw 7 or 8 entities, about 1.30 meters tall by 30-40 cm wide, floating towards him. They passed Maslund within inches and he found that he could not move; after 5-10 minutes, they left the station and re-entered the object through the tunnel, which then closed. The object then took off toward the north and the witness was again able to move. The entities were non-humanoid in shape, looking more like boxes than anything; he had the feeling the entities were inside the boxes and did not want to be recognized in their “true form.” ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1439",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-22, citing Richard Heiden and the Swedish UFO Group" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/12/1969",
  "desc" : "That same evening a family in Merida, Badajoz, Spain saw a disc-shaped object with a dome which glowed \"brighter than the sun.\" It buzzed their car and their car headlights failed. The object then paced the car closely for 20 minutes at a low altitude. A woman also saw the object when she went outside her home after her television reception had heavy interference and static. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1440",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 268, citing Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, FSR Special Issue #3, UFOs in Two Worlds" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/12/1974",
  "desc" : "Keith McDonald and his family were watching at least three UFOs from the window of their living room in Grayslake, Illinois when everyone but Keith became extremely tired and went off to bed. Keith next experienced a time lapse of several hours. Under hypnosis he recalled that three small entities with large eyes, long arms, and pointed ears entered the house and made mumbling sounds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1441",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case1974-67, citing Douwe Bosga, Jerry Clark, Mimi Hynek & Ron Owen" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/12/1975",
  "desc" : "At 4:30 a.m. several anglers fishing in the surf at Punta Ocoa, Dominican Republic saw a domed, disc-shaped object approaching their location. The dome was transparent and illuminated from the inside. Visible inside the craft stood two human-looking figures, wearing bulky helmets on their heads, looking out and working controls. The craft dove into the ocean and disappeared beneath the waves. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1442",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Leonte Objio, APRO Bulletin, January 1982, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/12/2000",
  "desc" : "In the early evening around 6 p.m. three employees of the San Miguel Corporation, a large beer and beverage maker in Manila, the Philippines were walking across the company parking lot to their car when they noticed a strange glow emanating from a large tree on their left. It was a pale blue color. Thinking that it was some sort of decorative lighting, they ignored it and kept walking. Then they heard a low rumbling noise that sounded like: \"Anong balita, anong balita.\" Looking back they caught a glimpse of what appeared to be a naked, human like creature with white hair and glowing rings imbedded in its wrists like shiny cufflinks. It leapt away with incredible speed. With a blur it vanished into some bushes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1443",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, citing Mystical Universe" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/12/2004",
  "desc" : "At four a.m. Mr. M. N. was driving east on Wellington Street in Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario at the southeastern end of Lake Superior and as he came to the center city (known to locals as Soo, Canada). He noticed a vertical beam of light in the early morning sky, from the top of a hill to the north. He stopped his vehicle at a cross street and looked all the way to the end of the street, about 7 blocks away, where the street ends at the base of the hill and has a metal stairwell leading to McDonald Avenue. His eyes focused on a little dark figure standing very still. This caught his curiosity, so he slowly drove towards it. It then started moving from side to side, using fluid movements as if it was floating in the air. It moved as if confused, or afraid and didn't know what to do. As he got closer, the figure's appearance seemed to have metamorphosed into a transparent, shadow-like entity that very swiftly flew up the stairs. To his astonishment, the beam of light that he had seen in the distant sky a few minutes before was now at the top of the hill, only 100 feet away. With his heart racing he drove as fast as he could eastward along the base of the hill until he came to the nearest street that climbed the hill and drove up McDonald Avenue to see what was happening. He arrived at the top of the hill only to find three circle-shaped burn markings on the pavement of the street. About 10 seconds later he heard a weird kind of gunshot sound. When he looked up to the sky he saw a bright light shooting up into the stars. As he watched the spectacle a peaceful feeling came over him and he felt as if every hair on his body was standing on end. The feeling of well being felt like it lasted only a brief 30 seconds, but when he looked again at his watch it was at least 40 minutes later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1444",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2004, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Vol. 9, # 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/13/1950",
  "desc" : "A glowing light descended, then hovered with a swaying motion over farm country in Clarksburg, California at 5:00 a.m. It made a droning sound, and stayed in the area for 15 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1445",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "R. B. McLaughlin, True magazine, March 1950, p. 25; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 49, citing Civilian Saucer Intelligence Newsletter, October 1958, p. 83" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/13/1950",
  "desc" : "An nine meter in diameter object, described as a spaceship with a propeller, allegedly landed in Penon de Los Banos, Mexico on this day. The pilot of the craft conversed in the Spanish language with the witness. His message was that \"they\" will colonize after we destroy ourselves. There was a reported odor of sulphur accompanying the presence of the UFOnaut. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1446",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0157, citing the Durango Herald, March 19, 1950; El Universal, March 14, 1950" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/13/1951",
  "desc" : "At 3:15 p.m. a 200 foot long cylinder with twin tails was sighted over McClellan AFB in Sacramento County, California. It made a turn to the north and flew off at an incredible speed. A Project Blue Book \"unknown.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1447",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 907" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/13/1956",
  "desc" : "At 3:00 a.m. a violet colored saucer-shaped object made several passes over the city of Barquismeto, Venezuela. There were more than 17 witnesses who reported the event. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1448",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: January-April, p. 52" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/13/1956",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 a.m. a silent, silver colored disc flew over Ponta Grossa, Brazil and off to the west, making wild maneuvers in the sky. It flew away with a bang. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1449",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4941, citing Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1956 Supplement, p. 22" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/13/1959",
  "desc" : "Driving over a hill in Purnong Landing, South Australia at 2:10 a.m., 1.6 kilometers from the ferry, two men names Briggs and Towill came upon a multi-colored domed disc on the ground. It was about 10 meters in diameter and 100 meters away from them. The UFO went through a regular sequence of color changes. It had red and blue lights, and when on the ground they were half blue and half red, which would switch colors. When they decided to get closer it rose and flew off. They watched it for 10 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1450",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 157; Keith Basterfield, UFO Research Australia Newsletter, March 1982, p. 23" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/13/1963",
  "desc" : "Fred White was fishing in Richards Bay, South Africa at 10:30 p.m. when he heard a high-pitched whine coming from the east and saw an object come in his direction and land 15 meters away, scattering sand. It was at least 30 meters in diameter, and was shaped like two plates glued together. Through several oval portholes he could see light inside. A man with a fair complexion, wearing a metallic helmet, was looked at him through one of the portholes. He wore a sky-blue, one-piece coverall with no visible buttons or fasteners, and gloves made of shiny mesh. Warm air was felt as the craft took off about six minutes later, and radio interference was noted. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1451",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 568" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/13/1964",
  "desc" : "At 6:17 p.m. a UFO paced a vehicle being driven by a man named Grazier along Salt Creek, Tilley, South Australia. The object was estimated to be 200 feet long, silver in color, and made a whining noise as it chased the car. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1452",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Keith Basterfield, UFO Research South Australia, case SA64005; Ray Palmer, Flying Saucers, January-February 1966, p. 53; Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 190" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/13/1966",
  "desc" : "On this night a news reporter and his family saw an egg-shaped object 150 feet over some power lines in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The felt a vibration and the TV and house lights dimmed. That same night in Black River Falls, Wisconsin a greenish-white object was seen from a house, emitting loud beeps. The witnesses' dogs reacted by barking, and there was static on the TV and stereo radio. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1453",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 318; (2) Allen Utke case investigation files; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 70" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/13/1973",
  "desc" : "Jorge Roberto Herrera, an engineering student, saw a daylight UFO shaped like two plates put together rim to rim about 20 kilometers north of Salta, Argentina. It descended in a falling-leaf fashion until it was within a yard of the ground, then it settled in a tilted position beside the highway he was on. It was aluminum colored while it was landing, but turned color to a dull copper after in landed. It was about 3-4 meters (16 feet) wide. After three minutes some legs thrust out, which leveled the UFO. Then Herrera saw beside it a being 5 feet two inches tall, dressed in a white \"diving suit\" with an opaque helmet. The beings arms were cut off short without any hands. The feet were covered by the suit, with no other footwear. He did not see the entity emerge from the craft. It glided a few feet without walking, then vanished. A few seconds later the UFO retracted its legs, returned to an inclined position, and took off. Herrera was about 50 feet away from it at the time. He took what he thought was one step and found he was already standing at the landing marks, having moved 50 feet without any conscious memory. There were seven imprints at the site, nonsymmetrically arranged, covering an area of only about five feet square. A small truck came up and its driver said that he had seen the UFO and it had caused his engine and his radio to fail. This man drove Herrera, who now felt ill, to Salta. He entered a medical clinic there, where he underwent treatment for eight days without ever being told the diagnosis. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1454",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-86, citing Fabio Zerpa, ONIFE" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/13/1975",
  "desc" : "There were many UFO reports from Ashland and Iron Counties in northern Wisconsin on this night. At 9:00 p.m. a noisy disc-shaped UFO witnessed by the Baker family left a ring-shaped ground mark in the snow in Mellen, Wisconsin. Three nocturnal lights circled and buzzed cars from the Sherriff's department in Iron County at 11:00 p.m. A police radio failed to work for 15 minutes during the encounters. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1455",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, April-May 1975, p. 1; CUFOS case files, report dated March 20, 1975; Jay Rath, The W-Files: True Reports of Wisconsin's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 61" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/13/1977",
  "desc" : "Two teenagers near Mandurah, Western Australia observed a globe of light moving in a straight line in the sky at 8:30 p.m. Their car's engine died during the sighting, which lasted only a few seconds, but their car headlights remained on. The object was bluish-white in color and vanished in the distance, still moving at a steady speed. The car's engine then could be restarted with no trouble. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1456",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 409, citing ACUFOS" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/13/1977",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. Stephen Taylor, age 17, was walking home from a visit to his girlfriend's house in Pen-Y-Cwm, Pembrokeshire, Wales when he saw an orange, luminous, pear-shaped UFO in the sky. He walked to a friend's house to tell him but was not believed. About half a mile further on he noticed that he could not see the lights of farmhouses to his right. Looking closer, he saw that they were obscured by a large dome-shaped object, dark in appearance, about 30 to 40 feet in diameter and 40 feet high, that was resting in the adjacent field. Around its underside there was a dim glow of light. As he watched he heard footsteps, and looking around only a few yards away was a figure \"like a skinny human six-foot tall.\" The being looked \"like an old man\" with high cheekbones, and had large round eyes resembling those of a fish. Over its mouth was a box like device with a tube leading over the shoulder. It was wearing a one-piece suit that looked semi-transparent. Taylor took a swing at the figure and ran for home. On arrival he found his dog acted strangely toward him, snarling and barking, and had to be put outdoors. The dog behaved normally the next day. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1457",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977 -13, citing Randall Jones Pugh, BUFORA" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/13/1980",
  "desc" : "At 7.50 p.m. a 31-year-old man saw a huge cigar-shaped object with red lights at both ends fly silently south to north over the A422 highway east of Alcester, Warwickshire, England. The man's steering wheel became unbearably hot during the flyover, and it caused burns on his hands, including one that left a permanent mark on his left hand. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1458",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Tony Green, FSR, January 1981, p. 32" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/13/1982",
  "desc" : "Several teenagers attending a disco in Messel, near Frankfurt, Germany watched three groups of four lights arranged in squares in the night sky. The first two formations of objects moved slowly, and then hovered. The third group flew fast. At 21:30 a luminous blue domed disc appeared over some woods, and approached to within 100 meters. It was ten meters in diameter, made a humming sound, and had rotating multicolored lights. Police also witnessed the object. The close encounter lasted 20 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1459",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 21" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/13/1987",
  "desc" : "At 4:54 a.m. a silent, tapered 12-foot long cylindrical object pursued a car near Moose Jaw, Saskachewan, Canada for four minutes. It followed the car with three witnesses closely, coming to within an estimated 40 feet. It gave off no Exhaust. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1460",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, May 1989" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/13/1990",
  "desc" : "Ms. D. MacPhee had previously heard strange sounds in her house in Marshfield, Massachusetts at around 11:30 p.m. (March 12th) and discovered some furniture that had been overturned. Later she heard loud knocking sounds coming from the crawlspace underneath the living room floor. She ran upstairs and woke up her husband, but he fell back asleep. At 1:30 a.m. she took a flashlight with her and went to the sunroom, where she found the heavy doorframe knocked down and lying on the grass. See next saw a three-and-a-half-foot tall humanoid floating above the ground. The being had a large oval-shaped head with large black almond shaped eyes, smooth gray skin, a small slit for a mouth and nostril. The humanoid wore a black loose-fitting, cape-like garment. She dropped her flashlight and attempted to run upstairs to alert her husband. A period of about 50 minutes of missing time was reported, confirmed by the clock and her husband, and an abduction event was later confirmed under hypnosis. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1461",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON field investigations database, case 901205, Field Investigator Morton Schafer; Morton Schafer, MUFON UFO Journal, February 1991, issue #274; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2303, citing Morton Schafer" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/13/1990",
  "desc" : "Two women driving in Pensacola Beach, Florida at three o'clock in the afternoon saw two white, milk bottle-shaped objects make an angular descent over Pensacola Bay. The objects were estimated to be about 20-30 feet in length, and reflected sunlight. When less than 150 feet above the water, and at an estimated distance of two miles, the objects dematerialized and vanished in few seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1462",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON field investigations database, case 900422C, citing Field Investigators Carol & Rex Salisberry" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/13/1992",
  "desc" : "At ten o'clock in the morning Mr. Hooker, the chief photographer for WFRV-TV, videotaped a cigar-shaped UFO in Bellevue, Wisconsin, which is a suburb of Green Bay. The UFO traveled from right to left in the frame, passing behind a windmill. Its estimated altitude was 25,000 feet, and it had a speed of 7,000 mph. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1463",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, Alien Update, p. 257" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/13/1992",
  "desc" : "That same night, several witnesses in Jacanas, Puerto Rico watched numerous lights maneuvering over a nearby hilltop. A huge round, lighted craft descended and appeared to land behind the hill. Two women got into their car and drove towards the location to investigate. As they neared the area they noticed a grayish luminous light hovering over the hill, and a columnar beam of light was emanating from it. One of the then went into a trance and would not respond to her companion, so the other decided to drive back to her home. Once at her house they picked up some additional witnesses and they again drove back to the area where the light had been seen hovering. When they arrived, all of the witnesses except for the driver noticed a five-foot tall humanoid figure standing by the side of the road, no more than then feet from their vehicle. The being was thin with long thin arms, a large head and large dark almond-shaped eyes; his skin was gray in color and appeared to have a slight glow to it. He stood motionless looking at the witnesses. Behind him a shaft of grayish light could be seen, apparently coming from the light source above. At this point the witnesses panicked and drove away quickly from the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1464",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, case # 2101, citing Jorge Martin, Evidencia OVNI, issue # 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/13/1997",
  "desc" : "Thousands in Phoenix, Arizona saw lights arranged in a V-shaped formation on this evening beginning at 7:55 p.m. There appear to have been two separate incidents. Earlier in the evening what may have been a huge V-shaped object passed over the states of Nevada and Arizona. Over the next two hours multiple objects or lights, estimated to be one to two miles apart, hovered motionless over the mountains and were seen and videotaped from several locations. The Government explanation of the sightings was that the Air National Guard was performing flight operations from Luke A.F.B. dropping flares, and this may well be the explanation for the later sightings. However, the sightings earlier in the evening remained unexplained. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1465",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 17890, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, March 1997, issue # 343" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/13/2003",
  "desc" : "Three boomerang shaped objects hovered over the ocean off the coast of Panama City, Florida at 11:00 p.m. The sighting was brief, lasting less than 15 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1466",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2003 archived webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/1942",
  "desc" : "Ground radar and German pilot flying in Banak, Finnmark, Norway at 5:35 p.m. detected a 100m long cigar-shaped object, 15m in diameter, that first hovered, and then shot straight up at an impossible speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1467",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Claude Poher, Etudes Statistiques Portant sur 1000 Temoignag, case # 417; Dale Goudie, CUFON" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/1946",
  "desc" : "Two men, Cummings and Gowdy, driving on a road in Havana, Illinois had a close encounter with a flying saucer at 5:00 a.m. The object buzzed their car ten miles east of town on Highway 136. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1468",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 26; Peter Rogerson, World-Wide Catalog of Type 1 Reports, case 157" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/1950",
  "desc" : "At 1:00 p.m. in a cemetery in Veghenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy a witness witnessed a six-meter in diameter metallic saucer with legs. Six four-foot tall humanoids climbed ladders, then gestured. The craft took off and flew to the northeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1469",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A2046" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/1950",
  "desc" : "At around noon a teenager named Richardson, who was located 16 km northeast of Santa Fe, New Mexico, saw a huge shiny sphere hovering over the mountains. It made a sudden burst of speed to the northeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1470",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "newspaper clipping dated March 15, 1950; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950 (Volume 4), p. 21" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/1950",
  "desc" : "On this day a farmworker in Kailua, island of Oahu, Hawaii sighted a silver disc; it had trailing it smaller shining streaks. It flew from the southeast to the northwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1471",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. January-March, p. 50" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/1950",
  "desc" : "On this night a private pilot at Mexico City Airport, Mexico witnessed a 7 meter in diameter dome with a green glow on the bottom. It shot up vertically. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1472",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "H. Edward Hill, Catalog Through 1950, case #315; Frank Scully, Behind the Flying Saucers, p. 209; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 44; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #  1556" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/1950",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. in Pacific Beach, Washington civilians watched a UFO maneuver erratically for about five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1473",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book, March 1950; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. January-March, p. 51" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/1951",
  "desc" : "Nine aeronautical engineers at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico watched at least 12 white objects swirl around randomly in the sky, and then shoot off to the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1474",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1951, p. 21" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/1953",
  "desc" : "At 11:43 p.m. in the Sea of Japan near Hiroshima, Japan a dozen crewmembers flying in a U.S. Navy P2V-5 patrol witnessed several groups of 5-10 lights flying slowly on the left side of the aircraft. A Project Blue Book unknown. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1475",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2496; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 20; J. Allen Hynek case files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/1953",
  "desc" : "A huge saucer-shaped object was witnessed by at least four observers at Skilak Lake, Anchorage, Alaska over the Kenai Mountains. It bobbed up and down several times for 55 minutes, and then vanished.  ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1476",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: March-July, p. 16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/1955",
  "desc" : "A V-shaped formation of lights flew over Lake Harris, Florida at 8:50 p.m. They were reported by two witnesses, Tetrault and Boltman. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1477",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Morris K. Jessup, The UFO Annual, p. 115" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/1958",
  "desc" : "At 8:45 a.m. two residents of Healdsburg, California saw a round object one meter in diameter come from the west and land in their backyard, only 15 meters away. It took off toward the east, turned south, and was lost to sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1478",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 5716; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 270, case 462; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1958: March-April, p. 39" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/1959",
  "desc" : "A disc-shaped object with a sphere on top paced a teenage driving in a car in Kyger, Gallia County, Ohio at 11:45 p.m. It beeamed a light down, and descended to a low altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1479",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: January-March, p. 81" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/1965",
  "desc" : "At 1:30 a.m., while fishing in the Florida Everglades in Hendry County, Florida 45-year-old James Flynn noticed a shiny metallic, domed disc, some 75-100 in diameter, on the ground. His hunting dogs howled, and one dog tried desperately to escape from its crate.  When he approached the object an unknown force struck him in the forehead and knocked him to the ground, causing him to lose consciousness. The wound to his right eye required medical attention, and physical traces in the form of a circle of scorched sawgrass and other damaged foliage was found at the landing site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1480",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1965, p. 6; Lloyd Mallan, The Official Guide to UFOs, p. 24; T. Scott Crain, Flying Saucers, June 1971, p. 8; UNICAT, case #  685; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 262, 267, 279, 379" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/1966",
  "desc" : "At 3:50 a.m. in Dexter, Michigan two police officers, Bushroe and Foster, saw four highly maneuverable disc-shaped UFOs that had red and green flashing lights. They swung back and forth in the sky like pendulums over a swamp. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1481",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1966, p. 5; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 6, 171, 318; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 187; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. & Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 178" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/1966",
  "desc" : "In the pre-dawn hours UFOs were also tracked on radar over Lake Erie from Selfridge AFB in Michigan. The objects displayed extreme speed and maneuverability. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1482",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1966, p. 5; Richard H. Hall, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 242; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 413" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/1966",
  "desc" : "In Southport, Connecticut a domed disc with a row of red lights paced a car along a country road, then swooped down and landed on the road ahead of the car. It rose just in time to avoid a collision. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1483",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John Fuller, NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1966, p. 3; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 318" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/1969",
  "desc" : "The flight surgeon and two other crew members of an Air Force KC-135 flying over Thailand saw a huge black cylinder hovering in the vertical position during a daytime flight. When a fighter aircraft was sent to investigate the object disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1484",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, May 1969, p. 1; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 14, 77, 119; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 37" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/1969",
  "desc" : "At 7:50 p.m. a white barrel-shaped object with antennas hovered over a gravel pit in Malataverne, Drome, France and was witnessed by several. When a 37-year-old policeman named Manselon approached the object he was struck by some type of force field and temporarily paralyzed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1485",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, November-December 1969, p. 32, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit; Gordon Creighton, FSR, September-October 1971, p. 27; William Hauck Dennis, MUFON UFO Journal, October 1976, p. 8; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 325-326" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/1969",
  "desc" : "At 7:40 p.m. and again at 8:15 p.m. several separate witnesses observed a red saucer-shaped object with antennas land on stadium grounds twice in Lins, Sao Paolo, Brazil. It was seen again over the next three days. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1486",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Walter Buhler, FSR Case Histories, August 1971, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/1971",
  "desc" : "Two young men, Brian Scott and Nick Corbin, were in the Superstition Mountains, near Apache Junction, Arizona to gather snakes. During that night, at 9:06 p.m., they saw a light coming towards them over the mountains. As it approached they had a missing time memory loss, and their next recollection was that they were hastily leaving the campsite two hours later.<br/><br/> During a hypnosis session five years later Scott described how the object approached and hovered over them. It was emitting a purplish light from underneath, and he felt a \"pulsating, pulling feeling\" as the two men were lifted up into the craft. They were separated once they were inside, and Scott was led by a 7 foot tall entity down a corridor to a door which \"shattered\" when they entered through it. On the other side was a small room filled with mist, where he encountered 4 or 5 similar beings, 7 foot tall and with grayish skin similar to that of a crocodile, and with 3 fingered hands. The room was cold and the mist emanated from vents in the floor.<br/><br/> Scott was stripped and placed against a very brightly lit wall panel. A machine directly in front of him appeared to \"scan\" him, and a new 9-foot-tall entity communicated with him telepathically and asked why he was afraid. His mind was briefly transported to some other worldly environment, presumably the being's home planet. The beings that examined him had huge ears, no hair, and slit-like mouths. Their feet were elephant like, with three broad toes. When the examination was completed, Scott was reunited with his friend and they were both returned to the ground with no conscious memory of what had taken place. However, they both felt an unspecified terror to such a degree that they immediately packed their gear and returned to town. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1487",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Alvin H. Lawson and William McCall, Proceedings of the CUFOS Conference: 1976, p. 141-143; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-12 (A1109); CUFOS files, newspaper clipping dated February 13, 1976" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/1972",
  "desc" : "At 7:50 p.m. a vertical cigar-shaped object hung in southwestern sky and was visible from Walthamstow, Greater London, England. After one minute it suddenly vanished as though had been switched off. It was described as orange colored with a hazy glow, at 20 degrees elevation above the horizon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1488",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "K. Phillips, BUFORA Journal, April 1973, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/1973",
  "desc" : "In Canton, Ohio a silent disc-shaped object flashed its lights and darted all over the sky at 9:30 p.m. for 5 minutes. There were at least 12 witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1489",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, June 1973, p. 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/1973",
  "desc" : "In Piedmont, Missouri at around 11:00 p.m. a sphere with tripod landing gear was seen rising from a lake; it next hovered over a nearby field. Disc-shaped craft were seen flying at high and low altitudes.Photographs were taken and a power outage was also noted. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1490",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, March 1973, p. 3 citing KPWB Radio; BUFORA Journal, Volume 1, 1973, p. 36; Paris Flammonde, UFO Exist!, p. 371" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/1974",
  "desc" : "On this evening a domed disc-shaped craft was seen hovering near the main NATO headquarters in Bauffe, Belgium. The witness was driving on Highway 53 at the time of the sighting, 5:20 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1491",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Inforespace, August 1976" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/1974",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. Antonia Diez Ramos and her husband, Manuel Valderas Fuentes, both anglers, saw in the yard of their house in Gerena, Sevilla, Spain an ovoid object two meters long by one meter wide. Its edges emitted a strong red color, and the center was transparent. Two forms were distinguished inside. After a while, the object began to maneuver, rising up and disappearing. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1492",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-68 (A1305), citing Capt. Jose Tomas Ramirez y Barbero" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/1975",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. a landed UFO was spotted on a cloudy night in Lake Sorrell, Tasmania, Australia. The 50-foot diameter yellow ovoid rose slowly from the trees, then shot straight up like a bullet. There were five witnesses of various ages from three families. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1493",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Tasmanian UFO Investigation Centre, Australian CUFOS Files, case TA75014; APRO Bulletin, July 1975, p. 3; Ronald D. Story, Space Gods Revealed, p. 345" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/1975",
  "desc" : "On this morning in Mellen, Wisconsin Jane Baker's dog reacted to a domed disc-shaped object over the treetops by whining and pawing at its ears. Jane carried the dog back into the house because she refused to move. However, Jane could hear nothing unusual. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1494",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, April 1975, p. 3; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 337; Joan Woodward, NICAP Category 4 - Animal Effects Cases, www.nicap.org" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/1976",
  "desc" : "A married couple driving between Liria and Olocau, Valencia, Spain saw a dark figure float across the road ahead of them. at 9:45 p.m. Depite being dark it was luminous and shaped like the \"Michelin man.\" Their car headlights died as they approached. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1495",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, November 1978, p. 31" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/1978",
  "desc" : "A luminous dumb bell-shaped UFO hovered over two witnesses driving in Saint Paul, Vosges, France at 7:15 p.m. It rose to enter the clouds, and then left quickly to the south. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1496",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, December 1978; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 13090" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/1982",
  "desc" : "At 3:30 a.m. a brilliant red ball of light (BOL) flew at a very low altitude and illuminated a farm in Woodstock, Queensland, Australia. It darted away and then came back. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1497",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Research Australia, May 1982" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/1983",
  "desc" : "At 3:15 a.m. a police officer, Tony Dodd, observed nocturnal lights passing over the moor in Carleton Moor, North Yorkshire, England. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1498",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gary Heseltine, Police Reports of UFOs, case 116, citing Yorkshire Post" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/1984",
  "desc" : "On this night a string of six orange, sausage-shaped UFOs flew over Sverdlovsk, Russia. They changed color in unison. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1499",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #  14112; FSR, December 1992" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/1985",
  "desc" : "A woman driving in Riverview, Missouri on this night saw three lights in the sky. Two went out, while the remaining one turned into red and white blinking lights on a boomerang-shaped craft, which passed overhead, and then hovered. Other objects followed, as close as 700 feet. ARTC radar had two faint stationary targets on their radar. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1500",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 93" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/1988",
  "desc" : "On this day in Goreloe, Dalniy Vostok, in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East, a very large sphere stopped over the village. Next, a small pink object split off and shot away to the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1501",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 122; Larry Hatch,  U computer database, case # 14665" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/1990",
  "desc" : "On this evening eight crop circle investigators in Oakland, Pennsylvania saw a glowing disc hovering in the sky. They videotaped it for nine minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1502",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, November 1993" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/1991",
  "desc" : "Three witnesses driving east of Binga, Zimbabwe first observed a cluster of red nocturnal lights at a high altitude in the sky. They descended to ground level and buzzed their car. The close encounter lasted five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1503",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Cynthia Hind, UFO AfriNews, January 1992; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15472" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/1992",
  "desc" : "At one o'clock in the morning a disc-shaped UFO appeared in the skies over the Amazon Rain Forest city Ariquemes, Rondonia state, Brazil. The silent three-meter wide disc came down to only three meters above the ground, and yellow light was seen coming from portholes in the craft. A power outage occurred, and several witnesses felt physically pulled toward the object. At the same time in the city of Mafra, Rondonia, Brazil a 15 m cigar-shaped object heading to the southwest makes a stop only one meter over a bridge, as its antenna rotates. It caused witness paralysis and radio interference. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1504",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, cases 15682 and 15683, citing UBPDV Brasil 1992" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/1992",
  "desc" : "At 8:23 p.m. in Gulf Breeze, Florida 52 high quality witnesses watched, took still photographs, and videotoaped as red spheres of light maneuvered in the sky, responding to very bright searchlight signals. Four red balls of light turned bright white, then disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1505",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Patti Weatherford, Islander Pensacola, March 27, 1992; Donald M. Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, October 1992 and July 1993, citing Field Investigator A. Hufford, case 920801E" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/1993",
  "desc" : "On this evening a light fell to the ground in Dromkeal, Ireland; it then split in two, and both halves lifted off from the ground, flew away to the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1506",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dermot Butler, Conspiracy of Silence: UFOs in Ireland, p. 122" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/1994",
  "desc" : "A Boeing 737 Chinese airliner had a near collision with a flying disc while flying north of Dushan, Guizhou Province, China. The autopilot radar system made a turn to avoid a collision. There was extensive news coverage. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1507",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 16338, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 330" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/1994",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. what looked like a B-17 aircraft rumbled by Mennecy, Hauts-Seine department, France. A long, silent, octagon-shaped craft hid behind some trees, and gave off beams and rays of light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1508",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 16339, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 325" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/1995",
  "desc" : "Charles Little and his fiancée were driving in Joshua Tree National Monument, California at 11:30 a.m. when they noticed two objects hovering in the sky: one in front of the car and the other behind it. They apparently lost consciousness and came to two hours later. Later under hypnosis, Little remembered being inside a round object with several rooms, including a main control room with large windows and an examination room with a small table. They encountered three types of humanoids, short Greys with huge black oval-shaped eyes, some tall reptilian creatures, and short hooded humanoids. After their abduction Little found a mark on his upper thigh, and nodules behind his ears. Four years later his fiancée died of esophageal cancer, and Little believes the cancer was somehow related to the incident. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1509",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995 [electronic version], case # 3824, citing UFO Abduction Raw Data Page, UFO Watch" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/1995",
  "desc" : "At 7:10 p.m a large triangular object, radar tracked at 800 feet altitude near St. Petersburg, Russia, was detected for 40 minutes before it split into several pieces. A transponder number was reported, and the speculation is that the object was using the code to pass unnoticed. At 7:40 p.m. a yellowish-orange domed disc with 6-7 bright lights was viewed through binoculars in St. Petersburg, Russia. When it stopped moving, a small, bright sphere of the same color burst out of it and flew off in the direction of Zelenogorsk. The large UFO then blinked out. At about the same time in Lomonosov, a suburb of St. Petersburg, a hovering yellow-orange light changed intensity, and then started to look like a Zeppelin with a tail. It rotated, and shot away in 2-3 seconds. It was estimated to be 1/5th the apparent size of the Moon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1510",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Boruch Michael S. Boruch, International UFO Reporter, December 1995, pp. 13-15; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 339" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/1997",
  "desc" : "At 1:03 a.m. a couple were in a park in Cote-St.-Luc, Quebec, Canada when they heard a loud whirring sound overhead and were engulfed in a white beam. They were unable to move. Overhead they saw, less than 50 feet above them, a silver disc-shaped UFO with multi-colored lights around the rim. They experienced an episode of missing time, their clothes were singed and they had skin burns. The woman also had a round scar on her head. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1511",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 1997 Canadian UFO Survey [electronic version], case 29" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/2003",
  "desc" : "While pulling his car into the parking lot of the Behavioral Health Services Building in Winfield, Illinois the witness noticed three flashing objects coming down in the sky in front of the car. He next noticed more dropping out of the the sky until there were several. Most had red and white flashing lights, with no visible wings, and did not make a sound. Some had blue and aqua lights. Some were triangular, some cigar-shaped, and some were like small boxes with four perpendicular lights. The witness brought several people out from the building, and they all watched the spectacle together. Also during the sighting, a bona-fide helicopter with multi-colored lights flew over. A few of these objects left a contrail. The main witness had spent seven years in the Air Force, and was confident these were not conventional aircraft. He called 911, and a Winfield police officer responded and watched them with him. The lighted objects also discharged balls of light every once in awhile, which also flew around. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1512",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2003 webpage; George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 137" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/2004",
  "desc" : "At 12:24 p.m. in Perth, Western Australia a witness watched as a disc-shaped object flew over from a nearby hill, then hovered for three minutes. Next, it flew overhead in a suburban area. It first flew at a slow pace, then sped off at an extremely fast speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1513",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 39" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/2005",
  "desc" : "At 9:50 p.m. a slow-moving triangle object passed overhead in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada making a turn to the southeast; it had lights on its three corners. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1514",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2005 Canadian UFO Survey [electronic version], case 20" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/2005",
  "desc" : "A witness in Bluefield, West Virginia reported that at 11:00 p.m. a dark to light brown \"rounded boomerang\" or crescent moon-shaped object moved silently overhead. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1515",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2005 webpage, report uploaded May 11, 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/2006",
  "desc" : "In Brick Township, Ocean County, New Jersey a witness reported another boomerang or V-shaped UFO. It was big and had many different colored lights, that went around it in a clockwise, circular pattern. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1516",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2006 webpage, report uploaded May 15, 2006" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/2006",
  "desc" : "In Marlboro, Ulster County, New York at 9:00 p.m. a witness reported a triangle-shaped object with a rounded back, and a blacklight colored rear window. It had a cast frame construction look from the underside, and was slightly illuminated underneath.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1517",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2006 webpage, report uploaded May 15, 2006" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/2009",
  "desc" : "At 6:30 p.m. a cigar-shaped object, emitting orange light, was sighted over the beach in Cancun, Mexico. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1518",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2009 webpage, report uploaded April 14, 2009" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/2010",
  "desc" : "A hovering, flashing, orange chevron-shaped aircraft was sighted over Corvallis, Oregon at 3:40 a.m. It suddenly disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1519",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2010 webpage, report uploaded April 13, 2010" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/14/2011",
  "desc" : "A chevron-shaped object with other satellite orbs was seen low on the horizon in Fredericton, York County, New Brunswick, Canada at 7:10 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1520",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Chris Rutkowski, 2011 Canadian UFO Survey [electronic version], case 176" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/15/1950",
  "desc" : "At 6:15 p.m. a disc-shaped object circled a motorist on highway 153 north of Clearfield, Pennsylvania. There were humanoids inside the craft that were visible through windows, and a bluish-green ray was shot in the direction of the witness but missed. A white light lingered in the area for more than 30 seconds, then the UFO flew off toward the northwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1521",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "William Baggs, Miami Daily News, March 15, 1950; St. Louis Post Dispatch, April 2, 1950; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 52" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/15/1951",
  "desc" : "Three men saw a one hundred foot long metallic cigar-shaped object over the city of New Delhi, India at 9:50 a.m. It gave off a black exhaust when it accelerated. The UFO flew toward the southwest and then vanished from sight. It was visible for over seven minutes. A Project Blue Book \"unknown.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1522",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "U.S. Air Force files counted in official statistics, case #908" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/15/1959",
  "desc" : "A reddish yellow sphere stopped 100 meters over the Torino, Italy airfield at 11:00 p.m. It was pulsating and very bright, and hovered 20 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1523",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Nachtrichten, September 1959; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #5696, citing Flying Saucer Review, July 1959" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/15/1965",
  "desc" : "Mr. James Flynn, a 45-year-old man, was out in a boat with his hunting dogs in the Big Cypress Swamp in Florida when he encountered a metallic cone-shaped UFO at around one o'clock in the morning. The UFO had three rows of square windows and a yellow light. It made a generator-like sound, then emitted a jet-like sound followed by a blast of air. His dogs howled. Then a beam of light shot out from underneath the object, striking the witness in the forehead. He fell unconscious, and awoke with blindness in his right eye. Damaged foliage was found at the site, and Mr. Flynn was admitted to hospital for a five day stay. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1524",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 229; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. & Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 172; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 641; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume 2: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 3, 262, 267, 279" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/15/1969",
  "desc" : "A double saucer with two antennae was sighted hovering over an athletic club in Lins, Sao Paulo state, Brazil. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1525",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Walter Buhler, FSR Case Histories, August 1971, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/15/1974",
  "desc" : "At 1:45 a.m. a man and his fiancé were in a parked car on a road near the shore in Erbalunga, Corsica, France when he looked up and saw on the roadside bank, only 10 feet from their car, the silhouettes of three persons with long arms, bending forward. They appeared \"smooth\" and no clothing was seen. The witness at once backed up and got out of the road; then his fiancé called his attention to a pyramid-shaped luminous object which was just taking off from a spot about 400 feet away. It had a brilliant yellow base separated by a black band from an orange point area; the point was directed diagonally downwards. Once the object was in the air it suddenly disappeared. The car's radio went out as the object took off. A search the next day found no traces. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1526",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-69 (A1306), citing Gilles Morel, Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #157; Alain Gamard, UFO Register, volume 7 (1976), p. 44" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/15/1974",
  "desc" : "A man was sleeping in his van in Metairie, Louisiana after visiting a friend when he awoke at six o'clock in the morning to see a silver disc-shaped object hovering above a house across the street. It made no noise at all. His next memory was of getting out of the van. Later he had vague memories of sitting in some type of cold silvery metallic chair and having several \"people\" standing around him. He remembered that the \"aliens\" told him not to be afraid, and that someday they would be back. He could not recall anything else. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1527",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1974, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/15/1977",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. Mrs. Joan Le Clair and four other local people saw a UFO hovering over some nearby trees in West Jacksonport, Door County, Wisconsin. Mrs. Le Clair looked through binoculars and could see an elongated object, green on top and bottom, with a red band around the center. \"There appeared to be another compartment on the bottom of this disc, and I could see windows in this lower part. There appeared to be a figure inside the object.\" After three minutes the UFO sped away. Other observers of the UFO failed to see the windows or the occupant. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1528",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Sturgeon Bay Advocate, March 17, 1977; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-14 (A1715), citing Thomas Heiman" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/15/1999",
  "desc" : "At 11:15 p.m. 18-year-old Rodrigo Friedrich was returning home from a party in Altonia, Parana, Brazil when he noticed what appeared to be numerous shiny stars in the sky. One of the “stars” began to descend at high speed. He at first thought it was a shooting star and ignored it. Forty minutes later, when he reached home, a bright glow attracted his attention about to a spot about a kilometer away. Curious, he approached and encountered a 30-meter wide disc-shaped object that was completely illuminated. Near the object where six short humanoids, running back and forth and seemingly looking for something. Rodrigo began to get a headache and tried to yell out to attract some additional witnesses, but with no success, so he left. As he walked away he looked back and saw the object climb into the sky at high speed. Several days later Rodrigo began experiencing nightmares in which he saw short, gray-colored humanoids. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1529",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1999, citing Thiago Luiz Ticchetti" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/16/1966",
  "desc" : "A revolving domed disc with lights around its rim circled Great Lake in Portland, Connecticut three times before flying off to the east toward Cobalt. A radio report of another UFO sighting in West Hartford, Connecticut was heard by the five witnesses, two teenage girls and their family members, immediately after their sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1530",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald A. Johnson case files, report dated April 3, 1967" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/16/1972",
  "desc" : "Luis Bracamonte, a truck driver, saw a sparkling mist appear over the fields in Granadero, Argentina around dawn. He stopped his truck and saw the mist replaced by a blindingly vivid light. When he opened his eyes again he saw \"a large oblong machine with a rim on the upper part and wide projections in the under part\" about 100 yards away. Three men with very broad shoulders emerged, walking with difficulty. They \"looked like Chinese, but with sharper features.\" They came up to the witness and one of them touched him, gripping his elbow. They spoke to him in a strange language, but he understood that he should not be afraid of them. Then one of them took out \"a plaque with two shining symbols on it,\" and showed it to him. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1531",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1972-06, citing Jane Thomas, FSR, July-August 1972" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/16/1993",
  "desc" : "Two investigators parked out in the remote desert of Tikaboo Valley, Arizona and started watching mysterious lights maneuver over the area at 8:31 p.m. One of the lights began to approach. It was a large object with bright square-shaped light panels that glowed amber and blue. It transformed into two or three bright orbs of light, and as it passed over their vehicle one of the men attempted to snap a photograph. At this point a state of confusion seemed to have overcome both witnesses, as both then became aware of a strange vehicle driving quickly away from them. A period of missing time was noted.<br/><br/> Later, under hypnotic regression, the first investigator was able to recall that the UFO stopped and hovered over their vehicle. He was then floated up through the bottom of the object and inside was met by a being that seemed to emerge through the brightly lit interior wall of the craft. The humanoid being was gray in color and about six feet tall. Its eyes were slanted and it had what appeared to be black plastic shields over them. Its head was egg-shaped. He wore a two-tone gray suit, with a lighter V in the front and a black belt with a black tube on his right side. He also sported a triangular emblem enclosing a helical coil on the suit's left breast. The being had long arms that ended in four long fingers. He communicated with the witness, then took him gently by the arm and escorted him inside a brightly illuminated dome-shaped room. The witness remembers seeing the second investigator lying on the floor, as if frozen, and apparently being guarded by a short Grey humanoid. He was then placed on a metal table that tilted 30 degrees to face a curved wall filled with a row of video screens. The being said that this process was a mind-sharing procedure that would allow the witness to learn new things. After what seemed like five minutes he was returned to an exit and floated down to the ground, about 20 feet below. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1532",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 1343, citing William F. Hamilton, MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 304" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/17/1903",
  "desc" : "On this evening a father and daughter observed a glowing 100 foot long cigar shaped object with two rows of four equally spaced windows. It was hovering just behind some trees over a farm in Helmer, Indiana. As the man ran toward the object it moved away, and zigzagged across the sky at great speed, accelerating away toward the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1533",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Coral E. Lorenzen & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 14; Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 5, citing Jerome Clark" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/17/1950",
  "desc" : "Six bluish white disc-shaped objects turned in the sky over Ankara, Turkey on this day. They next shot straight up into the sky and vanished from sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1534",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 211" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/17/1950",
  "desc" : "Six to twelve black octagon-shaped objects were seen from the air over Little Rock, Arkansas at 4:30 p.m. The object made a sharp sudden turn to the southwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1535",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, March 1950 report; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 179" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/17/1966",
  "desc" : "A glowing ovoid object descended slowly over Barra de Tijuca, Brazil at 1:50 a.m. It circled Pt. Marisco, and then flew off the the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1536",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/17/1966",
  "desc" : "Mr. Ward saw an object 12 meters in diameter and 7 meters high over Harrow, Ontario, Canada. It emitted a pulsating white light, and landed in a field. It had a revolving section on it with portholes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1537",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ray Palmer, Flying Saucers, August 1966; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 729, p. 323; Data-Net, May 1970" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/17/1966",
  "desc" : "A police officer in Milan, Michigan observed an object in the southwestern sky at midnight. He thought it was a plane about to crash, although no sound was audible. He tried to contact the police headquarters, but his radio transmitter did not work properly. The 16 meter wide object, which now had colored lights spinning around its periphery, came to within 25 meters of the patrol car, followed it for a kilometer, then flew off toward the northwest. The object was described as being like a \"very huge pie\" lighted with red, blue, and white lights spinning completely around it. The witness had been a policeman for 10 years, and had never seen anything like it before. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1538",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 730; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 166; Lloyd Mallan, The Official Guide to UFOs" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/17/1969",
  "desc" : "At 2:45 a.m. a retired army general had become stranded along a dirt road near Barra da Tijuca, Brazil after his car engine had quit. Moments later he saw a light rising above a nearby hill and felt a strong compulsion to walk towards it. After a short walk he came upon an object with translucent walls that gave off a dazzling light. Despite the translucent appearance the object seemed to be made of some metallic substance. Part of the surface of the object flung itself back, and three human-like figures stood in the opening, one a woman. The witness was invited inside by one of the men, who informed him that the other two were also humans. After a short ride in the craft he was told that time, as we conceive of it, doesn't exist. He was eventually released back to his vehicle, which could quickly be started again without any difficulty. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1539",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1969, case # 1483, citing Irene Granchi, International UFO Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/17/1969",
  "desc" : "Mr. Herbert Lancaster told police that a saucer-shaped UFO landed in front of his car at a crossroads in Lincoln, Nebraska on this night and \"turned off\" his car's engine. A human-appearing occupant, \"an ordinary average guy,\" was seen peering out from a window inside the craft. After a short while UFO \"took off at high rate of speed.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1540",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lincoln Star, March 18, 1966; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-27, citing the Lincoln Star" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/17/1972",
  "desc" : "On this night in Loveland, Ohio police officer Johnson's headlights picked up an animal lying on the road. As he opened his car door it rose up on its hind legs and showed itself to be a leathery skinned biped with a frog like face. It was three to four feet tall, like the creature seen by Officer Williams two weeks before. It stepped over the guardrail and went down the embankment of the river. Officer Johnson took out his service revolver and fired a shot at it, but missed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1541",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1972-39, citing Richard Mackey & Ron Schaffner" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/17/1974",
  "desc" : "At 3:30 a.m. Cristobal Munoz Romero, a driver for the President of the Cadiz, Spain City Council, was driving through a foggy area five kilometers from the Rota Naval Airbase near Sanlucar de Barrameda when he saw a metallic white light above and to the right of his car. It advanced to within 10 meters of the road and then, seconds later, he saw the silhouette of a human looking being more than 2 meters tall next to the road. The being appeared to be wearing a diver suit from which projected a bright, cylindrical, solid like coherent beam of light from the front part of the collar. The light could lengthen and shrink. As the car passed by the entity the engine began to fail and the automobile was \"shaking like a leaf\" in a very strong wind. The witness sped up and, in fear, quickly left the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1542",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-08, citing Vincente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 361" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/17/1992",
  "desc" : "In Ipigua, Sao Paulo state, Brazil birds were seen fleeing from a farming area at 5:30 p.m. Next a 12-meter in diameter metallic disc rose up from ground, and a palm tree was seen bending and swaying away from the direction of the UFO when it took off. A circular depression resembling a \"saucer nest\" was left in the vegetation. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1543",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 17660, citing Boletim CEPEX, issue # 28" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/18/1950",
  "desc" : "On this day in 1950, several sightings of daylight discs occurred over the United States, Europe, and South America.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1544",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "3/18/1950",
  "desc" : "At the Atlanta Municipal Airport, Georgia six airline pilots on the tarmac reported sighting an aluminum colored disc that flew silently toward the southwest at between 6000 and 7000 feet altitude. It then made an \"impossible climb.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1545",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon, 1947-1987, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/18/1950",
  "desc" : "A large number of saucers, performing aerobatics, appeared over Farmington, New Mexico around noon, and then flew away at an estimated 1000 mph. A luminous, metallic appearing disc was sighted five miles northeast of Bradford, Illinois at 8:40 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1546",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "unnamed newspaper clippings, March 18 and 19, 1950" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/18/1950",
  "desc" : "At a ranch in Lago Argentino, Argentina, Mr. Wilfredo H. Arevalo, a rancher, saw two objects, one of which landed at 6:30 p.m. He walked within 150 meters of the aluminum looking craft that gave off a blue-green vapor with \"an intense smell of burning benzene.\" A large, flat section on top was revolving above a glass cabin in which could be seen four tall men with pallid faces, dressed in something like cellophane, working at various instruments. When they saw him they shone a light in his direction while a blue light illuminated the craft. The vapor increased and flames, alternately red and green, shot out of the base while the object rose with a faint hum. Both craft flew away toward Chile, leaving bluish trails. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1547",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 108; The Humanoids, FSR Special Issue #1, p. 32; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 194" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/18/1963",
  "desc" : "In 1963 a UFO was seen from Cape Canaveral, Florida as a Minuteman missile malfunctioned and veered off course. On that same night, at 8:30 p.m., the crew of a Greek ship, the \"Hellenic Laurel\", watched a bright white fireball shoot to the east for one minute. It was described as the apparent size of the Moon, and it left a bright white contrail. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1548",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP Investigator, March-April 1963, p. 4; APRO Bulletin, September-October 1963, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/18/1965",
  "desc" : "At 7:00 p.m. on this day, while flying between Himeji and Matsuyama, Japan the crew of a Japanese airliner Convair 240 sighted three elongated objects and one circular UFO at the same time that the plane's automatic direction finder malfunctioned. The circular UFO was described as 15 meters in diameter. The UFOs were also sighted by a private pilot in a Piper Apache flying over Dishima Island. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1549",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Japan Times, March 21, 1965; Brad Steiger, Strangers from the Skies, p. 72; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, p. 117" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/18/1966",
  "desc" : "One year later (1966), at 4:00 p.m., a shiny metallic cigar-shaped UFO, approximately 60 feet long, and completely smooth and featureless, was sighted off the coast, 10 miles north of Puerto Deseado, Argentina. The UFO emitted a gray vapor from its rear. It then vibrated; made a louder rumbling noise, and a black smoke emerged from the rear. The nose of the object tilted up as the object flew erratically to the northeast, then hit the water and disappeared beneath the surface. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1550",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Phenomenes Spatiaux, March 1970, p. 17" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/18/1967",
  "desc" : "In 1967 at 7:50 p.m. a domed oval or domed disc was seen surrounded by a ring of vapor in Stow, Massachusetts. The UFO glowed violet when it was stationary, but changed to a reddish orange color when it danced around in the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1551",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 346" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/18/1967",
  "desc" : "That same night in Lebanon, Ohio a 50-foot diameter, round object hovered over the treetops near a highway. It was glowing white, sometimes red, with a \"halo effect\" and appeared to be rotating. The headlights of a car passing nearby went out. The object emitted a high-pitched sound, and after its departure, the car's headlights functioned normally. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1552",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, March-April 1971; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 193" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/18/1969",
  "desc" : "In 1969 a luminous, football-shaped flying object landed 3 meters from a stranded truck that was stuck in some mud, on a road between Ollague and San Martin, Chile. The driver and two passengers watched the UFO for ten minutes until it took off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1553",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "CICA Botetin Informative, December 1969" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/18/1972",
  "desc" : "The next close encounter occurred in 1972 over the mountains of Upper Austria, at 11:35 p.m. Flying between Krems and Linz, Austria an Austrian DC-9 airliner had a near collision with a huge funnel of white light, which changed color to red. The aircraft's electronic instruments all went haywire during this close approach. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1554",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Alexander Keul, APRO Bulletin, March 1972, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/18/1975",
  "desc" : "In 1975, four photographs of a sombrero-shaped UFO were taken by a 19-year-old student named McCarthy at a quarry off of highway 5 near Waterdown, Ontario, Canada shortly after 1:00 p.m. The UFO was described as being the size of a DC-8 airliner. The UFO had many unblinking lights, and flew from east to west, while maneuvering, at a low altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1555",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, October 1975, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/18/1977",
  "desc" : "In 1997 several men in cars from Canaan, New Hampshire chased a silent, elongated nocturnal light through three towns at 8:45 p.m. EST. At 8:30 p.m. MST a V formation of fast moving lights, most likely from a single, very large craft, were seen heading toward Prescott, Arizona. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1556",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Francis Ridge, UFO Info News; Michael Hall, UFOs: A Century of Sightings, p. 333" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/18/1978",
  "desc" : "On the evening of this date an auto mechanic observing a UFO through binoculars in North Charleston, South Carolina was rendered unconscious and levitated by a tubular, aquamarine beam of light. Amnesia followed and he found himself alone in a field miles away from where he had encountered the disc-shaped UFO. Through hypnosis he recalled an abduction sequence by four-and-a-half-foot tall beings with spongy white skin, big eyes and head, that wore rust colored jump suits. Among the features of the abduction included a physical exam on a table inside the UFO, being given messages and an artifact. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1557",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 294" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/18/1982",
  "desc" : "Mr. J. Duty, an Army reservist, watched a domed disc-shaped UFO hover off to the left side of a highway in Flatwoods, Kentucky around 10:40 p.m. in 1982. The disc had red, green, blue, and white lights around its base, which blinked in rotation. It made a humming noise, circled the witness's car, then flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1558",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George Parsons, field investigator, CUFOS investigation files; Richard Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1982, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/18/1995",
  "desc" : "In 1995 two bright white UFOs paced a car southwest of Falkirk, Scotland at 8:30 p.m. then zoomed away in opposite directions. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1559",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, May 1995" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/18/2003",
  "desc" : "A married couple outside gardening in Buckhaven, Fife, Scotland at 3:30 p.m. in the afternoon saw a black, oval-shaped UFO 8-12 feet wide fly out from behind a rood only 100-130 feet away. The lower part of the object was revolving, and it had a pinkish-red flashing light on it. The ends of the objects looked like manta-ray fins, and it floated oddly through the sky for four minutes. They claim to have taken photographs. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1560",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2003 webpage of archived UFO reports" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/19/1950",
  "desc" : "In 1950 in Sonderborg, Denmark at 2:30 a.m., mechanic J. Matiszewski heard a whistling sound that drew him outside. He then watched a UFO land in a meadow. When he approached to within 50 meters he suddenly felt paralyzed, and he observed that birds and cows in the vicinity were also unable to move. He stood motionless as four handsome men with brown complexions, wearing shiny black suits and translucent helmets, emerged from the craft and engaged in repair activities. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1561",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Willy Wegner, UFO-Landinger 1 Danmark, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/19/1953",
  "desc" : "In 1953 US Army spotter planes saw a round white UFO flying 25 miles northeast of Panmunjon, Korea. It was described as 10 feet in diameter, and moving with a vibrating motion. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1562",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 20" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/19/1958",
  "desc" : "A large, disc-shaped object was seen on the ground near Moscow, Russia. It rose in a spiral motion, then took off and was lost from sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1563",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 463" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/19/1959",
  "desc" : "At 8:45 p.m. on this day in 1959 a metallic disc, six meters in diameter, paced a car on highway 124 southeast of Kyger, Ohio. Electromagnetic effects noted at the time of this close encounter were a buzzing on the car radio and the dimming of the headlights and dashboard lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1564",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gallipolis (Ohio) Daily Tribune, March 20, 1959; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 100, citing Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/19/1959",
  "desc" : "Fifteen minutes later, at 9:00 p.m., two seminary roommates were outdoors on the grounds of the Lady of Grace Monastery in Colebrook, New Hampshire when they saw a silvery colored, Saturn-shaped, ovoid UFO descend over them. The craft had lighted windows around its lower portion and blinking red, yellow, and green lights around its outer rim. It also emitted a loud humming sound. The craft flew towards and then retreated from the witnesses several times. They apparently suffered a period of amnesia. Years later under hypnosis one of the witnesses recalled that the craft landed nearby on three legs and all normal noises ceased. They both were paralyzed and were both then floated up a ramp and taken onboard the craft, where they communicated by telepathy with four humanoids of differing heights, including a taller six-foot tall being that appeared to be the leader. Both were given physical exams and several experiments were conducted on them. They were able to see a \"mother ship\" and other craft through a window in the UFO on which they flew, and were taken onboard the larger craft where they saw other human abductees. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1565",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Morton Schaffer, MUFON field investigations database, case # 930402E; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1959, case # 715, citing Morton Schafer, MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 302" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/19/1966",
  "desc" : "In the pre-dawn hours of 1966, police and others in La Porte, Indiana saw a 40-foot-long luminous football shaped object surrounded by misty white rings. It emitted a brilliant white light as it paced a police car. It was described as having horn-shaped antenna-like projections on the underside that were 13-14 feet long. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1566",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Fred V. Sacksteder, Flying Saucers, October 1966, p. 15). At 5:20 a.m. an elliptical UFO with a row of lights along the bottom was seen over Big Rapids, Michigan. The lights flickered on-and-off one at a time. (Source: Gordon Lore, Jr., UFOs: A New Look, p. 46" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/19/1966",
  "desc" : "At 6 p.m. a flat-topped cone-shaped UFO w oval-shaped windows hovered over Niteroi, Brazil. It was viewed through binoculars as it flew slowly to the west, then shot off towards the east as jet aircraft pursued it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1567",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Irene Granchi, UFO Abductions and Reports from Brazil, p. 44). That night at 11:10 p.m. three crewman aboard the Coast Guard Cutter \"Legare\" had a close encounter with an oval-shaped UFO near Freeport, Texas. There was a power failure in the city at the time. (Source: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty-year Report, p. 318" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/19/1968",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. ten-year-old Gregory L. Wells was returning from his grandmother's house to his own home next door, when he saw a red oval-shaped UFO hovering just over some trees. The large red object was so bright that it illuminated the road. It had a band of dimmer red lights flashing around its center. \"I stopped,\" Gregory recalled. \"I wanted to run or scream but suddenly a big tube came out of the bottom, which moved from side to side until it came to me, and a beam of light shot out.\" Gregory turned away as the light beam hit the upper part of his arm, knocking him to the ground. His jacket caught fire and the boy rolled around on the ground screaming with fright. Both his mother and grandmother responded. Mrs. James Wells, the boy's mother, also reported seeing the UFO, which \"just faded away.\" During the sighting a large street light on a nearby pole went out and the dog barked uncontrollably. The burning jacket resulted in second-degree burns that required medical attention. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1568",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Coral E. Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 198; Leonard H. Stringfield, Situation Red - The UFO Siege" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/19/1969",
  "desc" : "Near Gladstone, Queensland, Australia a saucer-shaped object approached two cars, hovered near one car, and began pulsating. As it got brighter, the cars' headlights spread wider than usual; as it dimmed, the headlights went back to normal. The two cars kept driving together, but the craft again came to hover over one of the cars. The drivers stopped again, but this time nothing happened to the headlights. The object rocked gently while keeping its position. After a few minutes of hovering it flew quickly into the distance. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1569",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 269, citing Data-Net, April, 1970" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/19/1969",
  "desc" : "In 1969 Renato Bifarella of Caltanissetta, Italy on the island of Sicily was looking at the sky with binoculars on a night of a full moon, when at 1:35 a.m. he saw what resembled a “tortoise” hovering in the sky. It was green in color with pale brown spots, and had “legs” underneath. It was 5-6 meters wide and four meters high, with a brilliantly lit turret in which he could see at least two figures moving about. It approached him, and emitted a beam of pink light that struck him and caused him to faint. When he regained consciousness, he could see that the UFO had led down two thick “ropes” that were one meter in thickness. Through binoculars he was able to see that two humanoid figures—one in red overalls and the other in white, with blue helmets---were climbing toward the object. The witness fainted again, and when he came to, the object was gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1570",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case #1969-26 (A1037), citing Francesco Izzo, Italian CE-III Catalogue" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/19/1972",
  "desc" : "In 1972 at 10 p.m. in Acuescoma, Mexico at least four people saw a glowing blue sphere land. It rose giving off blue sparks and making a humming sound. It also left four imprints in the ground forming a square 2.5 meters wide, and a central burn mark. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1571",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Skylook, July 1972, p. 9). There was an electromagnetic effects case that evening in Chard, England. (Source: Harold Watkins, FSR Case Histories, June 1973, p. 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/19/1974",
  "desc" : "In 1974 a witness in Gerena, Spain looked out the window of his home and saw a two meter diameter disc only four meters away from the house. Two helmeted heads of little men were visible inside the craft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1572",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, volume 141" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/19/1975",
  "desc" : "In 1975 two police officers in Stockton, California saw an object hovering over parts of the city on four separate occasions, beginning at 1:20 a.m. The UFO was seen changing shape from a cigar to round in appearance. The Stockton city desk sergeant vouched for the veracity of the two police officers. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1573",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "KLOK radio transcript, CUFOS files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/19/1976",
  "desc" : "In 1976 a flying disc paced a car with three people inside very closely in Big Run, Pennsylvania. White beams of light were directed into the car from the UFO. It flew away when the car reached a highway intersection. An independent observer witnessed the incident. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1574",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1977" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/19/1980",
  "desc" : "In the evening in 1980 a 29-year-old man on a motorcycle was chased for over an hour by a small, oval-shaped UFO. The UFO was about two feet in diameter and had sparks shooting out of it in all directions. It flew low above the ground. That same evening a golden colored UFO hovered over the Mississippi River for 50 minutes near Keithsberg, Illinois. It moved back and forth, descending and ascending over the trees along the riverbank. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1575",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, May 1980, p. 11; MUFON UFO Journal, September 1980" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/19/1986",
  "desc" : "A wave of UFO sightings started in Brazil on this date in 1986. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1576",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A thirty-year report, p. 29" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/19/1992",
  "desc" : "In 1992 at 3:52 a.m. in Haines City, Florida police officer Delgado had a close encounter of the second kind with a 15-foot-wide green, domed disc that paced his patrol car. The engine, lights, and two-way radio of his car failed when the UFO passed less than 20 feet overhead, and he felt the interior of his vehicle become cold. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1577",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "CUFOS investigation files; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A thirty-year report, p. 259" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/19/1993",
  "desc" : "In 1993 a huge flying saucer loomed over a water tank in the state forest near Guanica, Puerto Rico at 9:40 p.m. It was silent and lit up the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1578",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U database, case 15994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/19/1995",
  "desc" : "In 1995 anomalous radar echoes were recorded in the Central European surveillance area by the region's air traffic controllers. That night in Franklin, Georgia a young woman's bedroom was invaded by short, gremlin-like creatures with yellowish-brown skin, large pointed ears, and large round eyes. They stood about 3.5 feet tall, and she believed she received telepathic messages from them. She had a strong sense that her actions were being controlled by them, and she was forced to go back to sleep despite the alarm that she felt. That same evening a UFO landed on a lawn in Mobile, Alabama. The object was dark and its features could not be discerned, but it flashed bright lights into the home on the property. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1579",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO cases-Europe, p. 109; Albert Rosales, Humanoid Contact database 1995; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 1995 report archive" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/19/1996",
  "desc" : "In 1996 anomalous radar echoes were again recorded in the Central European surveillance area by the region's air traffic controllers. At 10:30 p.m. a UFO was seen from Highway 54 in Texas near the New Mexico border, just beyond the intersection with I-10. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1580",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO cases-Europe, p. 109; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 1996 report web page" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/19/1997",
  "desc" : "In 1997 at 4:05 a.m. police in La Escala, Spain saw a yellow light near the ground change color to orange. There was a 4-meter tall shadowy human figure in the center of the light. One witness attempted to photograph it, but the light dimmed, became oval shaped, and vanished. Flattened grass was discovered at the site. Seven hours later, at 5:05 EST, a driver in Nottingham, New Hampshire watched several golf ball sized balls-of-light zig-zag only a meter away from near his driver's side outside car mirror. He heard a voice in his head that told him to drive west. He refused and drove north instead. He then lost control of the car and saw a cylindrical UFO approach, the approximate size of a small 12-passenger bus. The telepathic messages he received included warnings about future events. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1581",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/19/1998",
  "desc" : "In 1998 two diamond-shaped UFOs flew over Grosse Ile, Michigan. They changed shape and color, but maintained a constant speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1582",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, March 1998 web page" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/19/2002",
  "desc" : "In 2002 at 2:00 p.m. a metallic \"saucer\" was seen flying to the north over the skyscrapers of downtown Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1583",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "2002 Canadian UFO Survey, case 109" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/20/1965",
  "desc" : "In Welshpool, Victoria, Australia a yellow zig-zagging light was seen maneuvering in the sky; it stopped for 2-3 minutes intermittently, then rose vertically and vanished. At Margaret Brock Lighthouse in South Australia a disc-shaped, brightly lit object moved slowly about the clouds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1584",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, pp. 118, 190" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/20/1965",
  "desc" : "At 1:00 a.m. three blue discs flew from north to south very fast over the El Toreno oil field in Barinas province, Venezuela. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1585",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, January-February 1966" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/20/1967",
  "desc" : "At 10:45 p.m. a man and his daughter in Butler, Pennsylvania saw two lights that they thought were landing lights on an aircraft, but they came to ground level and flew straight toward the car, then suddenly vanished. At the same time, five figures appeared about three meters away. They had narrow, pointed noses, mouths and eyes like slits, blond hair, rough skin, and were dressed in loose \"hunterlike\" clothes. Witnesses drove away as fast as they could. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1586",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 826" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/20/1973",
  "desc" : "Mrs. Vandervoort, who was living outside the village of Tarcienne, Belgium, went outdoors at 7:15 p.m. to close her shutters. She saw a white light pass over the roof of the nearest house some 100 meters away. The UFO approached silently from the direction of the nearby woods and moved toward the east. In the next hour, at intervals of some minutes apart, she saw a total of 25 similar lights or objects fly over at only 10 to 15 meters above the trees, moving very fast. With the aid of a telescope she observed in the front of one of these objects a \"man\" standing. He was handling a \"board\" and was just a \"tiny\" figure but \"of great height.\" He held one arm straight up. The witness reportedly took photos of some of the lights. \"It was impressive,\" she was quoted as saying, insisting they were not normal aircraft. She said she was familiar with aircraft because there is a Belgian Air Force Base northeast of her locale. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1587",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-87, citing Alain Boisvert, GESAG Belgium" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/20/1974",
  "desc" : "At 11:10 a.m. a man saw a strange object come from the sky and fall into a valley in El Campillo, Sevilla, Spain. He drove to the site and walked into the valley, where he saw a 200-meter-long, cigar-shaped object. Two smaller objects then entered it, but a third object, shaped like two oval spheres with cupolas on both top and bottom, began to chase him. He got in his car and was able to escape, but noticed heavy static on his car's radio as he drove away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1588",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 362, citing Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/20/1974",
  "desc" : "Becky Ingram, age 14, heard \"voices\" in her head several times beginning on March 9th. On this afternoon she compulsively walked out into the center of her school football field in Lewisburg, Tennessee instead of taking the school bus home. Although she recalls seeing nothing in the field, she next remembers finding herself inside a brightly lit room as a ramped door closed behind her. She was confronted by two small humanoid entities, shorter than her. They had blond, short cropped hair and later identified themselves as \"Alton\" and \"Tombo.\" Becky was instructed to lie on a hospital-like bed where she was examined by a gloved implement that was passed over her. She was taken for an hour's trip \"to Australia\" and then returned. She felt weak and sleepy, and for several weeks after this incident she was extremely fatigued and suffered from headaches and other physical symptoms. She had two more experiences over the next four months. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1589",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-82, citing Stanley Ingram & Don Worley" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/20/1977",
  "desc" : "On this night a husband and wife were in a pair of sleeping bags by the seashore in Pebble Beach, California when they saw a bright disc-shaped object come from the ocean straight towards them. The woman had a brief recollection of seeing several tall humanoids without mouths, who communicated with her telepathically and showed her a book. She later recalled that the craft was flat, streamlined, and black in color. A beam of light was shone on the couple and apparently took them inside the UFO. The eyes of the aliens were reportedly black and shiny but rounded towards the nose and did not blink. The aliens were about six and a half to seven feet, thin, with delicate bodies, and very long fingers. They wore skintight one-piece diver outfits like wetsuits. Their heads were completely hairless. The inside of the craft resembled a doctor's office: it was very bright white and warm. The wife was made to lie on a very cold table, where she was strapped down and observed many instruments, one of which made a buzzing sound. The woman had been involved in previous close encounter incidents. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1590",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, citing WBS Newsletter, special edition # 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/20/1993",
  "desc" : "Ziporet Carmel woke up earlier than usual and went to her kitchen in Kadima, Israel at 6:30 a.m. When she got there she noticed the room was bathed in a strange light. She went to check the grounds and when she walked around a storage shed she noticed what looked like a large fruit silo in a nearby field. As she took a closer look she noticed that the silver silo-like object was square in shape. It had 18 square glowing windows along its side. Five huge beams of powerful light shone from the top into the sky. Then, what appeared to be a second storey to the object materialized, doubling its size. A seven-foot tall man figure appeared near the object. Dogs in the area reacted with furious barking upon catching sight of the figure. The being wore a metallic coverall and sombrero-shaped headgear with a veil that completely covered the face. The witness and the entity stared at each other for about 30 seconds. Ms. Ziporet then quietly whispered \"Why don't you take off your hat so I can see your face.\" She then heard a clear voice inside her head that spoke in Hebrew, telling her, \"That's how things were.\" The witness then felt strangely compelled to go back to her kitchen. Later during a search of the field numerous ground traces were found, including an unknown smelly substance that made people nauseous. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1591",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 2003, citing Barry Chamish, UFO Universe, Spring 1995" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/20/1993",
  "desc" : "At five o'clock in the morning Mr. Julio Chagala was sleeping in his home in Catemaco, Mexico when he was suddenly awakened by a bright blue light that entered his room through a window. Everything seemed to become very still and his surroundings were enveloped in that strange blue light. Looking out a window he saw a gold colored disc-shaped object, about 15 meters in diameter, land on a nearby field. The craft was totally silent when it came down. A hatch opened and several very large figures exited. They were about 2.5 meters in height but human in proportions, and they wore tight-fitting silvery diver's suits. They had long arms, pale complexions, large blue slanted eyes, and long golden-blond hair.<br/><br/> Mr. Chagala had by this time walked outside and approached the craft. The visitors saluted him with gloved hands, waving and then gesturing for him to enter the craft. Once inside he noticed that the humanoids had long pointed ears. He also saw numerous consoles and what appeared to be comfortable seats, he also saw a metallic table with several different instruments. One of the humanoids showed him a screen where he saw scenes of war, destruction, and ecological collapse. The craft had taken off and soon landed in an strange beautiful city, filled with humans of all ages. A large golden sun illuminated the city. He was taken to a crystalline waterfall that was surrounded by lovely colored stones. There the humanoids explained to Mr. Chagala that his destiny was to heal and care for his fellow man. He was also told that the aliens had several bases in the area, including one at the Ixtamalapan Lagoon. Chagala was warned of a different kind of humanoid that also visited the Earth, and these were the ones responsible for the reported animal mutilations. His hosts described them as the short, large-headed humanoids with huge black eyes, four fingered hands and protruding stomachs. They typically wore tight-fitting maroon outfits and traveled in small flying craft with ball-shaped landing gear. Mr. Chagala was eventually returned home. He experienced a drastic weight loss after the incident but recovered. Other local residents reported low-flying lights over the area about same time as his encounter. Currently Mr. Chagala is a known healer that uses natural herbs and remedies. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1592",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, citing Grupo Cassiopeia Mexico" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/21/1952",
  "desc" : "At 10:42 p.m. a dull orange saucer was sighted moving slowly at first, then very fast for 30 seconds over farmland in Centreville, Maryland. There were two witnesses, named Hutchison. A Project Blue Book \"unknown.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1593",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1074" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/21/1953",
  "desc" : "Six disc-shaped objects flew directly over the city of Elmira, New York at 3:05 p.m. They flew high and fast, and were viewed through binoculars. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1594",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 2511; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: March-July, p. 18; Project Blue Book Report #11, May 31, 1953" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/21/1965",
  "desc" : "In Malvern, Victoria, Australia a sphere with a red dome on top with three illuminated tails was sighted. It flew off to the south. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1595",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 118" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/21/1966",
  "desc" : "At 8:40 p.m. a ring of lights was seen maneuvering in the sky over Niteroi, Brazil. It was difficult to see the body of the object, but it was assumed to be a disc. Planes appeared and chased the UFO. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1596",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 7102" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/21/1966",
  "desc" : "A police officer investigated a vertically descending luminous object in Exeter, New Hampshire. He came upon it moving back and forth over some power lines at 10:00 p.m. Other police soon arrived, and described the object looking like a glowing egg with a dome, having red, white and green lights around the rim. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1597",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 335" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/21/1966",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. William Van Horn, Civil Defense Director, and over 80 Hillsdale College coeds in Hillsdale, Michigan watched a UFO from the college dormitory. They first saw a pattern of lights on the ground. The source of the lights next appeared to hover and do manuevers over a marsh for the next two hours. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1598",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Duluth (Minnesota) News-Tribune, March 22, 1966; NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1966, p. 05; Mort Young, UFO Top Secret, p. 46; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 732" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/21/1967",
  "desc" : "On this night several teenage girls were driving in a car in Hillsboro, Kansas when they saw a bright light ahead on the road. The light then approached the car and hovered directly over the roof. It was shaped like an upside-down cup on a saucer. The car's engine failed as the object hovered overhead, and although the car was stopped, it rocked back and forth quite violently. The UFO eventually left and the car could be restarted without any trouble. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1599",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 194; APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 5; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs Over the Americas, p. 26" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/21/1973",
  "desc" : "On this night Brian Scott returned to the site of his 1971 alien abduction in Apache Junction, Arizona. He again experienced being taken aboard a UFO by the same nine-foot-tall entities as on the earlier occasion. This time he also encountered a short, squat being known as \"The Host.\" However, he believes the experience was projected into his mind, rather than a real, solid event. The voices of the entities \"didn't seem to come from their mouths.\" He said that on this occasion he also found the pair of boots that he'd lost on his earlier encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1600",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-06, citing Dr. Al Lawson, MUFON and CUFOS" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/21/1974",
  "desc" : "Truck driver Maximiliano Iglesias Sanchez, age 21, was driving to Algunilla, Spain when he encountered a blinding white light on the road near Valdehijaderos at 2;15 a.m. When he was a distance of 200 meters from the source of the light, his car headlights and diesel engine went out. The 8 meter wide metallic UFO, now only faintly luminous, stood of three half-meter long legs, was wider than the road and had no visible openings. A second non luminous object hovered some 16 meters above the ground to the right. Two beings appeared in front of the landed object, and they gestured with their arms. One went around the side of the UFO and returned, then both disappeared to the right side and the object ascended making a humming sound. The figures were human looking, 6 feet tall, and wore tight fitting coverall type garments with a metallic hue. They appeared to walk and move in a normal manner. Mr. Sanchez was unable to make out any facial features. After he passed the site he looked back and saw that one object had landed again on the road. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1601",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 175; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-09, citing Pere Redon, Joan Crexells & Vicente Rico Gil et al." ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/21/1974",
  "desc" : "Valdehijaderos, Spain - At 11:30 p.m. Mr. Sanchez had a second encounter less than 24 hours after his first close encounter, near the same site. Driving the same truck, he encountered three \"ships\" on the ground, and again his motor and lights malfunctioned. As before there were no openings in the UFO, but he saw four men approach him on the road. He got out and ran, and the figures pursued him. After running nearly 2 kilometers he threw himself into an irrigation ditch and hid as the four men searched the area, but they were unable to find him. After waiting a safe period of time, he cautiously returned to his truck. The three objects were still there, and his engine would not start. When he got into the cab and closed the door the same four figures re-appeared, gesturing to each other. They walked around the object and disappeared and it rose off the ground slowly with a humming or whistling sound. The truck then started normally. After passing the site, Mr. Sanchez saw that the third object had again landed and he stopped and returned on foot, hiding about 9 meters away. He saw the figures digging into the roadside with a T-shaped implement and a large horseshoe shaped tool. He could still make out no facial features. After 3 minutes he left. A few days later UFO investigators found radioactive traces and three 12-meter wide circles of flattened grass in the area. Civil guard officers also found traces. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1602",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Coral E. Lorenzen and Jim Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 140; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-10, citing Pere Redon, Joan Crexells & Vicente Rico Gil et al." ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/21/1980",
  "desc" : "Two 19-year-old teenage boys, one the son of the circus owner, had burns on their bodies after a 1:15 a.m. UFO close encounter in Gioia del Colle, Italy. One had burn marks on his wrist under his wristwatch, and the other had scalding burns on his waist where his waist band had two iron studs. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1603",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Massimo Greco, UFO Newsclipping Service, June 1980, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/21/1982",
  "desc" : "On an overcast evening at 9 p.m. a UFO shaped like a vertical football with three tube-like appendages banked to the north across the Ohio Turnpike in Toledo, Ohio and next came in low over a residential area at 200 feet altitude. It flew off to the south. It had three steady white lights and a small blinking red light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1604",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Karl R. Stewart, CUFOS case files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/21/1984",
  "desc" : "At 7:45 p.m. a truck driver driving on Interstate highway I-87 south of Albany, New York saw a delta-shaped UFO that looked larger than a Boeing 747. It paced his truck for five minutes. He reported it had \"prism-ish\" lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1605",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek, Philip J. Imbrogno & Bob Pratt, Night Seige: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, p. 63" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/21/1984",
  "desc" : "Three 12-meter long boomerang-shaped objects hovered at low altitude over a highway in Claxton, Georgia at 8 p.m. One of the object flew directly overhead at treetop level. It had lights all over it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1606",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon 1947-1987, p. 81" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/21/1986",
  "desc" : "At 1:00 a.m. a farmer reported seeing an object with brilliant lights descend and land slowly near him in Santa Ana, Corrientes province, Argentina. Two short humanoids wearing black tight fitting uniforms emerged from the object. They approached the witness and signaled to him, then spoke to him in an unknown language. The beings left when the witness told them he could not understand them. A six-meter circle of burned grass was found on the site and the witness suffered from headaches after the incident. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1607",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1986, case # 926, citing UFO Data Base" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/21/1990",
  "desc" : "At Pereyaslavl-Zalessky, Russia a fighter aircraft was scrambled at 10:05 p.m. to intercept a UFO that was being tracked on military radar. The pilot reported the appearance of a black body with two white flashing lights. Their was the suggestion of a silhouetted saucer-shaped craft behind the lights. The UFO changed altitude and direction at a range of 1,000 meters. It illuminated a cloud, hovered, made S-turns, and moved many times faster than an aircraft. There was also a red light moving parallel to the ground in a horizontal flightpath. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1608",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Igor Maltsev, UNICAT database, case 797; Vadim K. Ilyin, MUFON UFO Journal, November 2001, p. 9; Paul Stonehill, The Soviet UFO Files, p. 50; Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 139" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/21/2004",
  "desc" : "Kingfisher, Oklahoma - Two young women, both college students, witnessed two very bright lights in the night sky at 7:26 p.m., which suddenly descended.  The object, triangular in shape, appeared to land.  It was brightly lit with what looked like halogen type lights, and was clear or hollow in the center. Other cars stopped to park along the highway to look at it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1609",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/22/1870",
  "desc" : "At 6:30 p.m. in the Atlantic Ocean south of Cape Verde, the crew of the steamship Lady of the Lake sighted a gray object in the sky divide into four connected sections while it flew against the wind. Behind it trailed a long hook connected to the center of the UFO. It was visible for at least 30 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1610",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon I. R. Lore and Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 46; Harold T. Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 57; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 11" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/22/1950",
  "desc" : "At 5:45 a.m. two industrialists in Spain saw a bright blue, cloud-like object while driving in Villarta de San Juan, Ciudad Real Province. It emitted a very bright light that appeared to collide with the object. The UFO was seen again 20 times during their drive. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1611",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, citing Stendek, June 1970, p. 17" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/22/1950",
  "desc" : "At Kirtland AFB, New Mexico eleven USAF Sergeants watched a tan-colored flying wing head towards the northwest, turn to the north, and then fly off at a fantastic speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1612",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1951, p. 73" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/22/1953",
  "desc" : "At two o'clock in the morning in an isolated cabin in Tujunga Canyon, California two young women in their early twenties, Shaw and Whitley, remembered seeing an oscillating light followed by a period of about two hours of missing time. Under hypnosis an abduction scenario was recalled. Seven or eight beings, all dressed in black tight-fitting one-piece suits, entered the cabin through closed windows (that is, they somehow passed through the glass panes in the windows). They had oval-shaped, hairless faces. Six of the beings were about five feet tall. Two of the beings were of average height but thin, estimated at 5 feet 7 inches tall. They all had slender builds, narrow shoulders, and long arms. The abductees were paralyzed, taken aboard a domed disc, and given physical exams. The UFOnauts communicated with each other using an unintelligible language, but they used telepathy with the abductees, and allegedly left them with some information about future events. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1613",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ann Druffel, MUFON UFO Journal, February 1976, p. 8; Ann Druffel & Scott Rogo, The Tujunga Canyon Contacts, p. 15; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions, The Measure of a Mystery, case 193a" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/22/1966",
  "desc" : "On this night near the airfield in Key West, Florida in 1966 several disc-shaped UFOs with flashing lights around the rim were sighted from an outdoor theater. The UFOs hovered, then shot away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1614",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 318" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/22/1967",
  "desc" : "A 14-year-old teenager named from Wapello, Iowa reported seeing a domed, disc-shaped flying object with legs near his home. The UFO had a central row of portholes and multicolored lights. The UFO hovered for a short while, then flew away at high speed. This is a Project Blue Book \"unidentified\" case. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1615",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ann Druffel, MUFON UFO Journal, June 1976, p. 10; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 333; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 54" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/22/1969",
  "desc" : "Two unidentified teenage girls were returning home in the Colegio Batista district of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil at around 8 p.m. when they saw a luminous object with a blue light hovering in the west. It had a ring of white lights around it and appeared to be spinning. At home later one of the girls went to the window and saw a little man near a gate ten meters away. He was standing erect and facing her window. He wore a kind of diving suit with a soft green luminosity, and a helmet through which she could see a pair of glowing reflective eyes, like those of a cat. She told her earlier companion and a third girl. The second girl also saw the entity, who by then was standing facing sideways. The third girl ran to the aid of the first witness who was so frightened by the figure's appearance she went into a state of shock. That same evening the boyfriend of one of these girls was walking on the other side of the city when the streetlights went out and he saw the faintly illuminated silhouettes of two small figures standing on a precipice above the street only a few meters away from him. Frightened, he hurried on, but walking through the area later the streetlights were on again and the figures were gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1616",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-23, citing the CICOANI group" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/23/1905",
  "desc" : "On or about this night a small red sphere of light, accompanied by two white lights which danced about it, paced in front of an automobile being driven by a man named Jones in Egyryn, Wales. There was also a female passenger in the car, also with the last name of Jones. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1617",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Roger Sandell, FSR, March-April 1972, p. 31, citing the Barmouth Advertiser, March 23, 1905" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/23/1909",
  "desc" : "An unidentified object with a very strong searchlight flew over Peterborough, England at 5:10 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1618",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 20; Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1960, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/23/1950",
  "desc" : "A Mexican newspaper, El Universal, reported that at least 300 disc-shaped UFOs were sighted zooming around the sky above the city of Jalapa Enriquez, in the State of Veracruz, Mexico on this night. In Yuma, Arizona a UFO hovered over the park at 20,000 feet for two minutes during the day, then left at high speed to the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1619",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 78, citing El Universal, March 24, 1950; (2) Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 75" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/23/1954",
  "desc" : "A disc at very high altitude was seen hovering over Norwich, England at 4:00 p.m. The edges glowed while the center of the object was dark. It flew off to the west at 6:30 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1620",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: January-May, p. 60" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/23/1956",
  "desc" : "While walking along the river bank in Grand Ledge, Michigan at three o'clock in the morning a 27-year-old lab technician named Bassett \"felt the presence of something\" and looked up. He saw a rapidly descending metallic sphere that gave off an orange glow, then stopped just ten feet away and only four feet above the ground. It made no sound. He \"lost all track of time\" and felt the UFO had tried to make contact with him. There was possible missing time associated with this case. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1621",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jerome Clark, The Anomalist, April 2000, p. 21, citing the Lansing State Journal, March 23, 1956" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/23/1957",
  "desc" : "At 12:22 a.m. Civil Aviation Agency radar tracked a UFO over Oxnard Air Force Base, California. Visual reports of the object were made by a GOC observer, police, and Oxnard AFB personnel. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1622",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Civilian Saucer Intelligence--New York files, citing newspaper clipping; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 85" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/23/1957",
  "desc" : "At 6 p.m. a huge ball of fire rose up from behind a barn in Puyallup, Washington. It emitted two strong beams of light. It rose vertically, then flew off quickly to the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1623",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Tacoma News Tribune, March 28, 1957" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/23/1959",
  "desc" : "Two men, Briggs and Elio, saw a strange, domed disc-shaped object apparently on or near to the ground, then later in the sky over Adelaide, South Australia. It was in view for 10 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1624",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 164" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/23/1960",
  "desc" : "At 3:35 a.m. Mr. & Mrs. Larsen sighted an object over their residence in Indianapolis, Indiana that looked like a kite made up of little metallic balls. The object or objects moved in an arc through the sky to the west, then made a 180-degree turn, and finally rose and departed vertically. It made no sound. Listed as a U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book unidentified report. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1625",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 6681; Otto Binder, What We Really Know About Flying Saucers, p. 27; Lloyd Mallan, Official Guide to UFOs, p. 170" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/23/1966",
  "desc" : "Two young men, one name Hallonquist, were walking through a wooded area in Fort Pierce, Florida when they saw a bright object that they thought at first was a balloon covered with fluorescent paint. However, it became so intensely bright that they could not look at it directly. As they walked closer to it, it exploded, leaving no trace. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1626",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 733; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, September 1970, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/23/1966",
  "desc" : "An electronics instructor who was driving to work at a local Air Force Base at 5:05 a.m. observed an object blocking the road in Temple, Oklahoma. It was shaped like an airplane fuselage, 25 meters long, with a \"bubble\" on top resembling the canopy on a B-26. It rested on legs, and had very bright aft and forward lights. There was a door and a short stairway to the side of the object, and a man in coveralls appeared to be examining the craft which bore the identification \"TL 4768.\" When the witness approached, the \"pilot\" went back inside, and a sound resembling that of a high-speed drill was heard and the object rose. No engine was observed. The witness was familiar with all conventional military aircraft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1627",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 734" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/23/1966",
  "desc" : "At shortly before 5 p.m. two domed discs were seen by five witnesses over a forest in Trinidad, Colorado. They tilted, and bobbed up and down in flight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1628",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 270; NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1966, p. 8, citing James E. McDonald" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/23/1966",
  "desc" : "At 11:45 p.m. John King, 22 years old, was driving his in Bangor, Maine when he saw some lights nearby. When they came closer he saw they were part of an elliptical UFO with a dome on top that was glowing yellow, blue, and white. It had a bluish light at one end and a white light at the other. The UFO then landed. As it moved closer through the underbrush, the witness leaned out of his car, which he had stopped for a better look, and fired his pistol at it when it was less than 100 feet away. King fired four shots at the 60-foot long ellipsoid object. He believes that one bullet hit the craft. His car lights immediately dimmed and the radio stopped playing at this point. The UFO stopped at a distance of 50 feet, and emitted a slight humming noise. After a few more moments, it glowed brighter and took off quickly, shooting straight upward. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1629",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, March-April 1966; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 139; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, case 34; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, October 1966, p. 30; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 116; Donald E. Keyhoe, Aliens from Space…The Real Story of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 119" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/23/1974",
  "desc" : "At 12:20 a.m. a middle-aged man named Vallentuna was walking home in Lindholmen, Sweden when at a crossroads he mysteriously felt compelled to take an alternate route. Suddenly a brilliant light blinded him. He threw himself in the snow but something lifted him up to a height of 30 to 45 feet. He next found himself at home with no recollection of how he got there. Under hypnosis he recalled seeing four \"transparent\" beings who had grabbed him, and he then was apparently studied by these beings inside a UFO. He suffered from severe shock after the incident. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1630",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-11, citing Carl Axen Jonson & Joseph Brill" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/23/1974",
  "desc" : "On this night a young man known as \"Anders\" was walking along a dark road in Gustavslund outside Stockholm, Sweden when he heard a voice in his head instructing him to cross the road. Next a blinding light knocked him to the ground, where he lay unconscious until he came to, on his own doorsteps. His wife, disturbed by his condition and baffled by a mysterious burn on the side of his face, sent him to the local Danderyds Hospital. There hypno-therapist Dr. Ture Arvidsson put him under a hypnotic trance and regressed him to the time of the incident. He related how a beam of light had floated him up into the air, then some tall hooded figures touched his head with somekind of unknown device, saying that they would meet him again in the future. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1631",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Information Sweden, May 1976, p. 10; Lynn Picknett, The Mammoth Book of UFOs, John Wallace Spencer, World Atlas of UFOs, p. 103" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/23/1987",
  "desc" : "A woman in Concord, North Carolina heard a crash outside her home in the evening and went to the window to investigate. Though partially obscured by a tree and its limbs, there was no question that she was looking at a domed disc parked in her backyard. The dome was about six feet in diameter and the whole craft was about 25 feet high. From the dome came the brightest orange light that she had ever seen. It was so bright that she could only look for a short while, turn away, recover, and look again. The light created shooting pains in her eyes, so that her eyes didn't fully recover for two to three days. The orange light filled the back of her yard so thoroughly that it seemed almost tangible. \"It was so dense that my outside light looked just like a small light bulb, [and I] couldn't see the post at all.\" Her neighbor heard the noise and told her that everything down by her house looked very orange. All around the object it looked just like a thick orange fog.<br/><br/> The lower part of the craft looked blue-silver, especially what seemed to be an extended 18-20 foot wide ramp. The object was about 75 feet from her. Her eyes were hurting and so she didn't see it leave. No ground marks were found the next day. Two days later her grandson visited and was told the story. He walked the area and held up some keys to the fence gate at the dog lot, which was close to the sight. The keys swung over on their own and hit the metal post, indicating that the post had been magnetized. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1632",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Swords, International UFO Reporter, Summer 2002, p. 23" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/23/2000",
  "desc" : "On this night a factory worker driving in County Antrim from West Belfast, Northern Ireland saw an egg-shaped light in sky, that started pacing his car. Panicked, he sped along road, but then was inexplicably overcome by the urge to stop the car. His last feeling before blacking out was of he and his car being lifted. He awoke six hours later and his next memory was of driving home. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1633",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lynn Picknett, The Mammoth Book of UFOs, p. 178; UFO Magazine (USA), July 2000, p. 25, citing CAUS" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/24/1954",
  "desc" : "A U.S. Marine Corps pilot named Holland, flying a military transport, pursued a silver flying disc-shaped object with extreme maneuverability over Fresno, California on this day. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1634",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO News, June 1954, p. 1; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 23; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 406" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/24/1955",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 p.m. a hat-shaped metallic disc with three windows in the top section flew in front of and under a Beechcraft airplane over the Ryuku Islands, Okinawa, Japan. The plane's Instruments ceased to function, and the engine experienced interference. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1635",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Coral E. Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 65; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 10; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 25" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/24/1966",
  "desc" : "In the afternoon a trapper and a guide saw an oval object with a dome approach them in the forest near Cook, Minnesota. It had flashing lights around its center, and made a loud noise like a generator humming. It angled downward and landed in the distance. When they got to the place where it had landed it had already left, but it left a large melted oval in the snow. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1636",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1966, p. 8; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, October 1966, p. 30; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers - Here and Now! p. 54; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 263 & 319; Jay Rath, The M-Files: True Reports of Minnesota's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 38" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/24/1966",
  "desc" : "At 10:15 p.m. two women driving in Sheboygan, Wisconsin saw a glowing object on the road. As they came near to it they found that it was hovering and displayed two intense white lights, as well as one green and one red light. The object was bowl-shaped, and they lost sight of it when they drove away. They saw it again later, flying low on a south-north trajectory. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1637",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 735" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/24/1966",
  "desc" : "That same night a police reservist in Monroe Township, New Jersey saw a saucer-shaped object flying low enough that he could distinguish two figures moving about inside it. He chased the UFO to police headquarters before it disappeared from sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1638",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-10 (A0699), citing a newspaper report dated March 29, 1966" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/24/1967",
  "desc" : "Numerous reports came from Belt, Montana including one of an unknown object landing. A truck driver named Williams spotted a very large dome-shaped object emitting an intense light that had landed in a ravine. As he approached, it took off and settled back further away, hidden from the highway. At dawn, police and a Malmstrom Air Force Base helicopter made a search of the area, with negative results. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1639",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 158; APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 6; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 827; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 54; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 333" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/24/1973",
  "desc" : "Therines, Oise, France - At midnight M. Brechant, his 11-year-old son Patrice, and his brother-in-law Mr. Cosme, were in a car on a dark night on a UFO hunting expedition. In a field near Songeons, France and some 250-300 meters away from the road, they saw a luminous ball whose light diminished in intensity. For a few seconds 4-6 white luminous rectangles appeared beside it. They tried to drive around the light and observe it from behind. A second luminous ball, likewise in the field, was about 200 meters away. A triangular beam of light emerged from its base, pointing toward the left. Through binoculars Mr. Cosme could see two luminous silhouettes of humanoid beings, one behind the beam and one \"sliding on it\" towards the point, where it disappeared. They seemed to have elongated heads and enormously broad shoulders. He could not distinguish arms and legs but the one behind the beam seemed to carry a sack on its left side. This silhouette gradually \"evaporated.\" The beam then went out, and then the ball disappeared. On their way home their car was pursued by a ball of yellowish-white light that turned yellowish-green at treetop level. The first saw it 300 meters away and it later approached to within 50 meters. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1640",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-88, citing M. Carof & M. Lesbros for Lumieres dans la Nuit" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/24/1974",
  "desc" : "A witness driving between Sanlucar and Barrameda, Cadiz, Spain had his car engine die when he encountered a disc-shaped object hovering over the road. There was also a two meter tall being in a spacesuit. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1641",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 11232, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, March 1975" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/24/1978",
  "desc" : "On this day a 16-year-old boy had gone out into the woods near Penalva, Maranhao, Brazil and disappeared, and a search party failed to locate him. Eighty-one hours later a fisherman heard a shout for help and found the boy standing in a forested area, dazed and unable to stand up. He was taken to a local hospital where he was found incoherent and bleeding from the head where some of his hair was missing. Four of his teeth were also missing. He also seemed to be paralyzed. After three days later in the hospital he was able to talk about what had happened to him. He said he had been gathering guava fruit outside a wooded area when he heard a loud siren like sound. He looked up and saw a bright light coming from above the trees. He then fell down to the ground unable to move, and was then levitated up into a hovering flying object that had three spheres on the bottom. He entered the object through a window and fell softly on the floor. Inside the craft he encountered three short beings that wore uniforms with helmets and visors, and spoke in a loud, incomprehensible language. The boy was then taken on a journey to a strange land with no trees, no lakes, and no birds, and a darkness above him. He could only see a field with tall grass. He was then floated onto a stone table where he was examined. He felt liquid going down his throat and he passed out. His next memory was that of coming to in the hospital. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1642",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next? p. 109; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 540, citing Bob Pratt, in Timothy Good (editor), The UFO Report 1991" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/24/1983",
  "desc" : "After a dramatic UFO sighting that occurred on this night in Mount Storm, New York a man given the pseudonym \"Wright\", a 16-year-old youth, and his 13-year-old sister had recurrent dreams of being abducted aboard a UFO by Grey aliens, which included a physical exam in a chair with a scan by some type of scanning equipment. There were 30 other UFO reports on this night from Westchester, Putnam, and Dutchess counties. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1643",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek & Philip J. Imbrogno, Night Siege: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, p. 163; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2267" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/24/1990",
  "desc" : "A family driving home after visiting relatives near Heist-op-den-berg, Belgium were on a flat section of countryside at around 9:15 p.m. with scattered trees when the seven-year old son pointed out an unusual light in the sky to his mother. The mother described it as a very clear star surrounded by several lights. She pointed it out to the father who was driving. He stopped the car by the side of the road to get a better look. When he looks out of his left window he saw \"many enormous lights\" hovering only 100 meters above their car. The object was absolutely silent. The mother saw ten orange lights through the windshield that appeared to be blinking in a certain set pattern. She then began to feel extremely sleepy and had no energy to leave the car. She then realizes that her twins are fast asleep, and the father then enters the car and they drive home. They got home at 11:20, and realized that the trip that usually takes an hour had taken over two hours this time. The family has refused hypnotic regression because of religious reasons. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1644",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 303; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 15594, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1990, citing http://www/caus.org/pers_cpmtact/pc012601.shtml" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/24/1990",
  "desc" : "On the same night several locals in Chardzhou, Turkmenistan reported encountering a tall robot like creature in the outskirts of the city. The creature was close to two meters tall, massively built, and had a bright circle of light on its chest from which bright beams of light emanated. It walked in a strange mechanical way. It had a huge head resembling a flattened saucer, and two long blinking devices jutting from the head resembling antennas or horns. The front of the robot's head emanated a sort of greenish steam that was very foul smelling. The frightened witnesses fled the area on foot. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1645",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1990, citing Yaroslav Sochka, UFORussia" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/24/2000",
  "desc" : "A 40-year-old woman named E. King reported that she was abducted from her bedroom in Grimsby, Humberside, England in the predawn hours and taken to watch a surgical operation on a man. She was later returned to her home safely. All of her experiences were based on completely conscious recollections, with no hypnosis. There were three other UFO reports in Humberside and Lincoln counties that day. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1646",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lynn Picknett, Mammoth Book of UFOs, pp. 180-181" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/25/1942",
  "desc" : "At midnight U.S. Airman Sobinski and another Army Air Force crewman sighted a luminous orange object closely following their warplane over the Zuider Zee, North Holland, The Netherlands. They fired several rounds at the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1647",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 6, citing Jerome Clark; Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 19; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 396" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/25/1954",
  "desc" : "At 3:30 p.m. a U.S. Marine Corps pilot sighted a disc-shaped object flying at 3000 feet altitude over Cape Canaveral, Florida. The UFO evaded being filmed by the warplane's gun camera. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1648",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 115; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 23" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/25/1958",
  "desc" : "Two disc-shaped objects made fast maneuvers over the Woomera Missile Test Range at 10 p.m. in the desert of South Australia. They shimmered and changed colors as they flew. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1649",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 50; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1958: March-April, p. 53" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/25/1959",
  "desc" : "Two silver spheres joined by a cylinder changed shape to a disc over Warsaw, Poland at around 11:30 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1650",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 212" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/25/1960",
  "desc" : "Making a noise like a gas turbine, a cylindrical UFO hovered over Vichel at around 3 p.m. in Puy-de-Dome department, France for more than five minutes, then shot away to the southeast, traveling sideways like an arrow. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1651",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 5897, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit Lecteurs" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/25/1966",
  "desc" : "At 11:45 p.m. John King, age 22, working with the Bangor, Maine Police Department, suddenly saw above him a very bright object with a dark underside. He fired at it four times with his pistol, hearing the bullets hit a metal surface as the object flew off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1652",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 736" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/25/1967",
  "desc" : "Three red discs hovered over Highway 10C in Joplin, Missouri in the predawn hours. They had windows with white light coming from them. The rose and flew toward the west, where they were joined by a fourth flying disc. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1653",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/25/1967",
  "desc" : "An intensely luminous object woke up several residents in Iguala, Mexico at dawn. People in trains going to Acapulco and people travelling by car saw the same phenomenon. The UFO came down to ground level giving off a blinding light, then took off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1654",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 828" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/25/1971",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m. six soldiers stationed at a radar base at Monte Pani, Cabo De Creus, Spain were alerted by another soldier to a fiery red, disc-shaped craft moving slowly over the area. The guard dogs began howling, and the men all watched as the UFO suddenly shot away at high speed. Moments later one of the soldiers screamed in pain from a sudden bright flash that seemed to come from the ocean nearby. Meanwhile one of the soldiers released one of the guard dogs, a wolfhound with a fierce disposition, that was going crazy inside his cage. The dog ran immediately towards some nearby buildings and was followed closely by two of the men. The dog slowed down and began to grow menacingly, and one of the men felt heavy static in the air and his tongue began to itch. Both men then heard a loud noise coming from some nearby bushes. They saw a huge bulky figure that seemed to move clumsily among the brush. The men yelled at the figure to stop but it changed directions and began moving away quickly. Seconds later the men heard another noise and felt something heavy moving towards them. They fired their weapons in the direction of the noise and everything became silent. A search of the area the next day proved fruitless. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1655",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1971, case # 1417, citing Antonio Ribera, Los Doce Triangulos De La Muerte" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/25/1971",
  "desc" : "At 8:10 p.m. two girls riding ponies in Denton, England saw a bright orange cross in the sky emitting sparks. It followed them to the end of a road, then vanished with a bang. One of the ponies was spooked by the explosion. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1656",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, March 1972, p. 28" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/25/1972",
  "desc" : "At 3:30 a.m. the witness was roused from sleep at his home in Soesterberg, Utrecht, The Netherlands by a loud humming sound and saw a bright light from his window. Looking out, he saw a blinding white light surrounded by a fog, and thought that his car was on fire. He ran out, started his car, and began to move it. His next recollection was that he found himself in a deserted moorland, and he stopped his car. Next, a \"human like figure\" ran past the car from the rear and then \"suddenly...vanished.\" He got out of the car and saw a lens-shaped object on the ground to his left, about 100 feet wide, surrounded by a greenish glow. The green light came from windows in the craft, and three beams shining upward from it. In one of the windows he could see a human-like being. He approached on foot to within 10-12 feet, and he saw this figure motion to him to go back. The figure was between five foot and five foot four inches tall, and wore a tight fitting metallic looking coverall that had a belt with a tube that ran to his collar. He had almond shaped eyes and seemed to be smiling. Behind him was some sort of instrument panel. Several other humanoid beings were seen standing behind other windows. Then the object then \"jumped\" from the ground, floated for 30 feet, and then \"hurled away\" with a scraping noise to the wouthwest. Traces were later found at the landing site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1657",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, August 1976, p. 6; G. S. Wiersema, FSR, November 1972, p. 10; Ted R. Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 509; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1972-07 (A1146), citing the Dutch Ufological Study Center, The Hague" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/25/1973",
  "desc" : "Just after midnight Mr. Brechant, his 11-year-old son Patrice, and his brother in law, Mr. Cosme, were driving in a car on a dark night on a UFO hunting expedition in Therines, Oise, France. They spotted a luminous ball in a field near Songeons only 250-300 meters away. The light diminished in intensity, and for a few seconds 4-6 white luminous rectangles appeared next to it. Then next tried to drive around the field and observe the light from the rear. A second luminous ball was then seen in another field about 200 yards away. From its base emerged a triangular beam of light, with its base on the sphere and its apex pointing toward the left. Through a pair of binoculars Mr. Cosme could see two luminous silhouettes of humanoid beings, one behind the beam and one \"sliding on it\" towards the point, where it disappeared. They seemed to have elongated heads and enormously broad shoulders. He could not distinguish arms and legs, but the one behind the beam seemed to be carrying a sack on its left side. This silhouette gradually \"evaporated,\" then the triangular beam went out, and next the luminous ball turned off. On their way home their car was pursued by a ball of yellow-white light, then yellowish green light at treetop level, which was first seen 300 meters away and later approached to within 50 meters. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1658",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Alain Garnard, UFO Register, volume 7, p. 44; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-88 (A1196), citing M. Carof & M. Lesbros, Lumieres dans la Nuit" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/25/1973",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. a witness driving in Villevueve-sur-Lot, Lot-Garonne, France had a close encounter with a blazing ovoid object on the road ahead. The diesel engine of the car stopped, and the driver was frozen with paralysis for over a minute. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1659",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 9891, citing Phenomenes Spatiaux, issue 40" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/25/1974",
  "desc" : "The witness was driving near Nogaro, Gers, France at 3:00 a.m. when the car engine died. A 0.9 meter tall green-colored dwarf was seen by the side of the road, who had unusually long arms. The car engine restarted spontaneously after coasting past the dwarf creature and the witness drove off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1660",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 11236, citing Michel Figuet & Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 462" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/25/1974",
  "desc" : "At 7:15 a.m. a 34-year-old man was driving in Balagny-sur-Therain, Oise, France an sighted a reddish orange ovoid shaped object hovering ahead of his car. The object shot up rapidly into the sky in a vertical ascent when witness's car neared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1661",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 142, p. 12; Michel Figuet and Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 479" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/25/1974",
  "desc" : "Two farmers watched an orange ovoid object ascend from the ground in Ossey-les-Trois-Maison, France at 8:30 p.m. Ground traces were found. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1662",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1975" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/25/1981",
  "desc" : "At 7:15 p.m. the crews of six boats saw a gray colored, 60 meter tall cone-shaped UFO hovering one meter over the sea off the coast of Ayamonte, Huelva, Spain for 20 minutes. It then ascended vertically. The weather was clear at the time of the sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1663",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, November 1981, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/25/1986",
  "desc" : "A triangular object with rounded apexes approached and then hovered ahead of a car with three witnesses near Downingtown, Pensylvania at 12:30 a.m. It made no sound. The encounter lasted more than four minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1664",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, December 1986, p. 8; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 368" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/25/1995",
  "desc" : "A huge luminous hemisphere or dome shaped observed was observed covering the roadway between Alencon and Bernay, Eure, France at around 4:00 a.m. A conical beam of light came from the bottom of the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1665",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 17178, citing Banque OVNI, issue # 95" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/25/2004",
  "desc" : "At around 7:00 p.m. the crew of a commercial airliner flying near Omaha, Nebraska reported seeing four disc-shaped objects, which remained visible ahead of the aircraft for between 10 and 15 minutes.  The objects did not appear on FAA radar at anytime during the entire sighting. They had many lights and flew off to the west, where they were lost from view ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1666",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2004 archived webpage; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 18197, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/26/1880",
  "desc" : "Lamy, New Mexico - Four men walking near Galisteo Junction in the evening were surprised as they heard voices coming from a \"strange balloon,\" which flew over them. It was shaped like a fish and seemed to be guided by a large fanlike device. There were eight to ten figures aboard. Their language was not understood. The object flew low over Galisteo Junction and rose rapidly toward the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1667",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 180, citing Flying Saucer Review, May 1961; Santa Fe New Mexican, March 27, 1880" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/26/1897",
  "desc" : "On or about this date Robert Hibbard in Sioux City, Iowa was caught by an anchor dropped from an unknown flying machine 22 km north of the town. He was dragged over 10 meters and fell as his clothes were torn. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1668",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 140 & 182, case 11" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/26/1945",
  "desc" : "On this evening several lights followed a night fighter aircraft from the 549th NFS squadron over Iwo Jima, Japan, made a few turns, and had slight radar returns. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1669",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jan Aldrich, Project 1947, citing the 549th NFS History" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/26/1945",
  "desc" : "In the Ruhr Valley, Germany a pink sphere (3' in diameter) passed a RAF Spitfire XI fighter from the 541th Squadron at 340 mph at 11:00 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1670",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 7, citing Jan Aldrich, Project 1947" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/26/1950",
  "desc" : "Several discs were seen from a Lebanese airliner off the coast of the ancient city of Acre (now Akko), Israel. They were travelling north and flying at a high altitude while emitting trails of smoke. At 11:15 a.m. five disc-shaped UFOs were seen, first three, then another two, flying over Bruswick, Georgia. They were silver in color, and flew at 30,000 feet altitude at a speed greater than 1,800 mph. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1671",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/26/1966",
  "desc" : "Jean Voilquin, age 54, saw a strange looking \"wheel\" roll 15 meters away from him in Attigneville, France. It moved at a speed of about 30 kilometers per hour. It was about 80 centimeters in diameter, 25 cm thick; it rolled away at 1:30 p.m. and then vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1672",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 182 case 737" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/26/1966",
  "desc" : "Engineers and technicians in Ann Arbor, Michigan watched a glowing red disc-shaped object maneuver around the sky, descend, and then fly parallel with the road for several minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1673",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1966, p. 4; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 319" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/26/1966",
  "desc" : "On the same night a 13-year-old boy named C. Cozens saw two white oval UFOs land in a field behind the police station in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He walked up to them and touched one. When he touched the antenna he received a strong electric shock, and burns on the hand. Investigators rated his story as reliable. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1674",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Hamilton Spectator, April 4, 1966; Erich A. Aggen, Jr., Flying Saucers, October 1969, p. 5; T. Scott Crain, Flying Saucers, June 1971, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/26/1966",
  "desc" : "Two women were driving back from Amarillo, Texas at just before midnight when they saw a UFO approaching them from the north. Their car engine died and the headlights failed. The object flew over the car and hovered 400 meters away. After 10 minutes the witnesses were able to start their car and leave. They reported the object had a waffle-like surface and glowed with an intense red light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1675",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 182 case 738" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/26/1967",
  "desc" : "The Bailey and Lore families had observed UFOs in the area of their homes in Minitare, Nebraska on several occasions. On the evening of March 26 at around 7:30 p.m., Robert Lore and Cecil Bailey drove north of their farms to look for lights that looked like they had landed on an isolated section of farmland. The two men drove past a man in white coveralls standing alone by the side of the road. Their dog was riding in the car, and it \"really kicked up a fuss\" and appeared to be terrified. When the men got home the lights were once more visible in the sky. One particular bright light was strong enough to light up the hill behind it. When they returned to the site where they had seen the stranger the next day, they found numerous nearly rectangular footprints, some of them 9.75 inches long and others 8.5 incheslong. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1676",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-26, citing Richard Hall; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 334" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/26/1967",
  "desc" : "At 9:45 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. John Dick and Mrs. W. Buhr were driving toward Gretna, Manitoba, Canada. They saw a very bright object at ground level near three radio towers situated 3.5 kilometers south of Altona, Manitoba, illuminating the countryside with a pink glow. The object itself was dark with a luminous band around it, was motionless, and pulsated. It disappeared very suddenly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1677",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 829, citing the Altona Echo, April 19, 1967" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/26/1972",
  "desc" : "A car engine stalled at 5:30 a.m. when three red UFOs came down in a field between Dargies and Grandvilliers, Oise, France. It vanished when the car's headlights lit upon it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1678",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michel Figuet & Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 383" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/26/1974",
  "desc" : "A truck driver was driving in Valdehijaderos, Spain at 2:00 a.m. when he spotted a strange luminous object like a plate placed above another large, round object hovering motionless over the highway about 200 meters from the him. A similar object, also motionless, was seen 15-20 meters away. Two beings came out of the first vehicle, pointed to the observer's truck, then went inside again, and both vehicles flew away. At 11:30 p.m. the same witness witnessed \"three silver ships parked on the highway with light similar to floodlight.\" The observer stopped the motor of his car and some figures approached him. He ran, frightened, and they followed him. They were about two meters tall (6.5 feet). The next day the Guardia Civil made an investigation. They found a hole in the ground, which the truck driver said he had not made. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1679",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall,  The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 346" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/26/1974",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 a.m. a witness driving near Pouldergat, Finistere, France saw a hemispheric dome-shaped following the road. Next a long, half-cylinder shaped object was seen hovering over an intersection. At 9:00 p.m. another hemispheric dome-shaped object was sighted by three witnesses in Pleuville, Charente, France. It was luminous and had two rays of light coming from it. It flew at a low altitude of under 10 meters, and was estimated to be 4-5 meters in diameter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1680",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Jean-F. Boedec, Les OVNI en Bretagne: Anatomie d'un Phenomene, p. 77; (2) Lumieres dans la Nuit, June 1976, p. 20; Michel Figuet & Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 480" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/26/1983",
  "desc" : "On this evening two witnesses driving in Careme, Tarn-Garonne, France encountered sudden fog, and then a huge disc-shaped UFO. Their car turned unaccountably onto an unknown dirt road, and they had a possible missing time experience. The entire experience lasted 50 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1681",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 317" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/26/1993",
  "desc" : "A 20-year-old woman was standing on her back porch in Roslyn Estates, Nassau County, New York when a silent, multicolored domed disc \"glided over the house\" at an estimated 150 feet altitude. She first thought it was a low flying plane, but dismissed that idea because of the shape of the object. The dome on the disc was as tall as the width of the object. The object was covered in bright white flashing lights. Jets soon showed up, apparently to chase the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1682",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Herbert S. Taylor, MUFON field investigations database, case 930402J; MUFON UFO Journal, February 1994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/26/1994",
  "desc" : "Two silver disc-shaped objects danced around in the sky over Earl Shilton, Leicester, England at 4:00 p.m. They made a high-pitched whistling sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1683",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, August 1994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/26/2000",
  "desc" : "Two witnesses observed a triangular object that crossed the sky over Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at steady pace and a high altitude at 10:45 p.m. Its shape was defined by a number of grayish-white, non-blinking lights. It flew to the northeast, and made no sound. According to one witness “the object had to be huge” since it was very high up, but could clearly be seen as it blocked out a portion of the clear sky as it moved. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1684",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Stan Gordon, Pennsylvania Center for UFO Research, www.stangordonufo.com" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/26/2001",
  "desc" : "At 7:20 a.m. there was a UFO sighting of a flying disc in Cochabamba, Bolivia. The local TV stations had close up photos. At 7:30 a.m. a huge, brilliant metallic sphere or disc-shaped object paced a T-33 trainer with a military pilot at a distance while in flight over La Paz, Bolivia. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1685",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 18162, citing Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 61" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/26/2001",
  "desc" : "At 9:35 p.m. EDT a very large, multicolored triangular object with two very bright lights on the front and a reddish looking light on the bottom center was seen over Durham, North Carolina. An extremely large cigar-shaped craft with two flashing lights on each end, which the witness estimated to be at least 200 yards long, was sighted over Valentine, Nebraska at 9:00 p.m. CDT ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1686",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, report uploaded April 1, 2001" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/26/2002",
  "desc" : "A pharmaceutical products salesman was returning along a desrted road around 3 p.m. in Cazalla de la Sierra, Spain when he noticed an object resembling a shiny pear ahead in the middle of the roadway. It was resting on three metallic legs. Somewhat perplexed, he continued to drive closer, and then notice two very tall humanoid beings standing in a nearby field. They were over two meters tall, and wore tight-fitting, white coveralls and helmets resembling those worn by the early astronauts.<br/><br/> He parked his vehicle and approached the two strange figures on foot. One of the men walked away and entered the pear-shaped craft, while the other remained behind. Knowing that these men were \"not from this Earth\", he still asked the remaining humanoid if he needed any assistance. He felt when he approached the strange pair he had entered some kind of a trance, and he seemed to be floating over the road. The being replied and appeared to be genuinely pleased with his offer of assistance, but said that everything was in order. He said that the area was very beautiful and also added, \"Humans don't know what they have. Where we come from we don't have such beautiful scenes; they disappeared a long time ago.\"<br/><br/> The astounded witness next managed to ask the being where he came from. He was told that they hailed from another dimension, a concept that humans have not yet assimilated. The humanoid smiled when he answered the question. The being then bid goodbye and walked towards the nearby shiny pear-shaped object; he then disappeared inside of it. Then the craft emitted a loud whisting sound and disappeared at very high speed towards some nearby cliffs. The witness described the humanoids as about 2.5 meters in height, with wide chests and heavy set, thin legs, generally human features, but with somewhat \"refined\" or sharpened features. Their suits were very tight fitting, and made of an apparent synthetic material resembling plastic. They eyes were very light, almost white, and their speed was hesitant and accented. Also, their movements seemed kind of clumsy. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1687",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database Reports, citing J. M. Garcia and Francisco Padron, Spain" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/26/2003",
  "desc" : "A wobbling silver triangular craft was seen in Carlsbad, California at 2:00 p.m. for half a minute, with a bright light in broad daylight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1688",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2003 webpage archive" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/26/2004",
  "desc" : "An object like a \"dinner plate\" with a dome on the bottom was sighted in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada at 4:22 a.m. It flew slowly, and stopped at one point. The sighting lasted 15 minutes. At 7:50 p.m. two rapid moving almond-shaped discs initially flew in from the Gulf of Mexico heading east toward Brandenton, Florida and then turned sharply south. They moved very fast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1689",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 157, citing HBCCUFO; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2004 archived webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/27/1952",
  "desc" : "At 12:55 p.m. over Downey, California a bright, aluminum colored spot of light hung motionless in the sky above an aircraft factory for 15 minutes. It appeared to turn on edge, and then went straight up out of sight. In Chicago, Illinois two discs were seen exiting from a cloud. They flipped over completely, and then returned to the same cloud. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1690",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren Gross, UFOs: A History - 1952: January-May, p. 27; Edward Sullivan, CSI/Los Angeles case files, letter dated March 27, 1952" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/27/1953",
  "desc" : "A bright orange circular UFO was chased by a USAF F-86 fighter jet over Mount Taylor, New Mexico at 7:25 p.m. The case is listed as an Air Force Project Blue Book \"unknown.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1691",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Bluebook files counted in official statistics, case 2524; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 21" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/27/1959",
  "desc" : "A blue, barrel-shaped UFO landed remotely a half mile away in a wooded area west of Corsica, Pennsylvania at 12:45 p.m. It was seen by a man and a woman. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1692",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lloyd Mallan, Official Guide to UFOs, p. 35; Project Bluebook files counted in official statistics, case 6317" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/27/1966",
  "desc" : "Two women, Smith and Beer, driving from Amarillo, Texas saw a UFO approach their car from the north near Texhoma, Oklahoma. Their car engine died and the headlights failed. The UFO flew over the car, and then hovered at an altitude of approximately 400 meters. The object had a waffle shaped surface on the bottom, and glowed with an intense red light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1693",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Bluebook files counted in official statistics, case 10291; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 325 (case 738); Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 28, citing Vallee" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/27/1970",
  "desc" : "A red cylindrical UFO hung over a tree in El Garrobo, Spain for nine hours beginning at seven o'clock in the morning. It departed by shooting off to the southwest with approached by witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1694",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester-Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, p. 124" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/27/1971",
  "desc" : "Over Highway 21 in Waltham, Massachusetts at 8:20 p.m. a mushroom or jellyfish-shaped UFO, glowing white, hovered and dimmed leaving behind blinking white lights. It streaked away and was gone in a few seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1695",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 357" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/27/1973",
  "desc" : "A reddish-orange ball of light flew parallel to I-95 south of Providence, Rhode Island at 12:15 a.m., pacing a car driven by a hospital worker for 15 minutes, driving at a speed of 55 miles per hour. It then stopped ahead of the witness, pulsated and waited when he stopped his car. It followed him for another 15 miles. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1696",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald R. Todd, APRO Bulletin, May-June 1973, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/27/1975",
  "desc" : "At 11:15 p.m. in Hamlet, North Carolina a retired laborer saw a UFO with a revolving pink light in the front yard of his home. He saw two small creatures \"who appeared to be joined by a silver bar.\" They spoke in a language he couldn't understand. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1697",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George D. Fawcett, Official UFO, November 1975 pp. 12,45; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1395 citing Fawcett" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/27/1976",
  "desc" : "At 6:45 a.m. the engine and headlights of a car died in St. Denis, Reunion, a French territory in the Indian Ocean while in the presence of a small cloud by the roadside. The small cloud then rose up vertically, and shot off toward the southwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1698",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1976" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/27/1978",
  "desc" : "A girl riding on a motorcycle saw a long red triangular UFO hovering 200 feet above the ground in Ratby, England at 9:00 p.m. It made a loud droning noise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1699",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 12585" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/27/1979",
  "desc" : "At 5:20 p.m. an oval-shaped or saucer-shaped UFO flew over the Tabouret Reservoir in Isere, France and then landed on the ground, leaving ground marks. A man was seen outside the craft, according to the police report. At 8:00 p.m. a thirty-foot long cylindrical UFO rose from the surf off of the shore at Oak Bluffs on Martha Vineyard, Massachusetts. The witness was reportedly frozen in place during the 20 minute close encounter, and his watch stopped working. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1700",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Rouseel, OVNI, Verites Cachees, p. 91; MUFON UFO Journal, October 1979" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/27/1983",
  "desc" : "During this evening Russian Air Traffic Controllers had radar-visual reports of a steel-gray colored UFO, the shape of a cigar and the size of an airliner, in view and on their screens for 40 minutes. It was first picked up 50 nautical miles north of Gor'kiy, Russia and vanished about 25 nautical miles from the city. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1701",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, September-October 1984, p. 13, citing Popovich" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/27/1998",
  "desc" : "A man walking his dog in Clifton Park, New York at 11:00 p.m. reported to a UFO hotline that a UFO briefly chased him and his dog. At about the same time a report from Newnan, Georgia described eight or more UFOs flying circles and then jerking up-and-down, and engaging in side-to-side motions. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1702",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/27/2002",
  "desc" : "In Allen, Texas at 8:00 a.m. a three meter wide silver, hubcap-shaped disc flew low and stopped over a field at only five meters altitude. It had lights around its rim. It shot off to the west at an extremely fast speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1703",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 17854" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/27/2003",
  "desc" : "On this night a luminous UFO hovered over the holy city of An Najaf, Iraq. It was interpreted as a religious sign, protecting the tomb of a holy man. The mosque escaped damaged from U.S. bombs. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1704",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), June 2003, p. 31" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/27/2003",
  "desc" : "On this same night at 7:00 p.m. in Liverpool, England a large, stationary pinkish red light was viewed through binoculars by a local resident. It emitted a small white light from the top, then two small side-by-side white lights shot off from underneath on a diagonal trajectory. The pinkish red light then winked out. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1705",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), June 2003, p. 31" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/28/1897",
  "desc" : "The majority of the population of Omaha, Nebraska observed an object arriving from the southeast at 10:30 p.m. It looked like a huge light, flew northwestward slowly, came to low altitude. A crowd gathered at a street corner to watch it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1706",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 181, citing the Chicago Times-Herald, March 30, 1897" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/28/1954",
  "desc" : "After seeing mysterious lights descend over Sumner, Washington five witnesses drove on this evening to an isolated area near some power lines and soon saw a white glowing ball of light wobbling and gliding down from the sky. It apparently went into a clump of nearby trees. The light then approached their vehicle, and moments later the white globe of light passed in front of their car. At that same moment one of the witnesses saw a tall, well-built, broad-shouldered man standing at the same spot where the globe of light had been seen. The figure was encased in a glowing white light. It suddenly disappeared in plain sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1707",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 1862, citing George Hunt Williamson, Other Tongues Other Flesh" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/28/1959",
  "desc" : "On this night three witnesses encountered a seven foot tall luminous humanoid in a swampy area of Charles Mill Lake, Ohio. It appeared to be armless and had large, bright greenish eyes. It left tracks behind resembling those of the footgear worn by skin divers. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1708",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1959, case # 314, citing Loren Coleman, Curious Encounters" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/28/1965",
  "desc" : "A gray ovoid object surrounded by a foggy mist followed a man walking down a road at 11:00 p.m. in Sutton Veny, England. It made a loud noise, and he felt a heavy atmospheric pressure as a result of the object's presence. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1709",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 6679" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/28/1966",
  "desc" : "The chief of police in Linden, Michigan saw red, blue, and white lights hover over his town, then speed away to the north. A truck driver In Niles, Michigan had a UFO with red, green and white lights pace his truck at two o'clock in the morning. When he blinked his headlights it veered away sharply and disappeared. Around 3 a.m. in Warren, Michigan police received over thirty phone calls from residents reporting lights in the sky zigzagging and diving into a swamp. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1710",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mort Young, UFO Top Secret, pp. 64-65; NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1966, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/28/1966",
  "desc" : "At eight o'clock in the evening in Fayetteville, Tennessee a man driving at a speed of about 60 mph suddenly encountered a large lighted object only one meter above the road on a hilltop. As it flew off his car engine and headlights died. The light bulbs in the headlights had to be replaced. The object was oval shaped, seven meters long, dark gray in color, and showed about 30 lights along its periphery. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1711",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 739" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/28/1967",
  "desc" : "In Conifer, Colorado at 12:30 a.m., D. Davis saw a shining light on a hill on the adjoining ranch. As witnesses drove over towards it to check it out the light went out. Two sisters who had stayed back at the ranch saw a man running down the hill. He vanished near the corral. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1712",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted Bloecher case files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/28/1967",
  "desc" : "About the same time as the Colorado event (2:25 a.m. Eastern Time) a cone was seen hovering several feet over a field between Kent and Munroe Falls, Ohio. Four or five beings, each under four-feet tall, stocky and with large heads emerged. They wore helmets and glowed an orange-red color. The witness's car hit one of them, and they saw an arm fly up w a \"mitten\" on the hand. The car had dents and scratches as a result of the collision. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1713",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, March-April 1967, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/28/1973",
  "desc" : "An object shaped like the Apollo space capsule (cone-shaped) made several large loops in the sky over Mount Bouquet, France at 4:00 p.m.. It flew off toward the east at 800 meters altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1714",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 135" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/28/1975",
  "desc" : "Two local investigators were driving around northeastern Pennsylvania in the hopes of catching a glimpse of a Bigfoot creature that had been reported in the area. Around midnight they suddenly came upon two tall dark figures with red glowing eyes, who approached their vehicle as if attempting to encircle them. The investigators snapped several photographs before fleeing the area. The pictures only vaguely show what appears to be the glowing eyes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1715",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1975, case # 1874, citing Paul G. Johnson & Joan L. Jeffers, The Pennsylvania Bigfoot" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/29/1905",
  "desc" : "A large luminous cylindrical object hung in the sky in a vertical orientation over Cardiff, Wales, U.K. on this day at 10:00 o'clock in the evening. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1716",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Computer Catalog, case 248" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/29/1959",
  "desc" : "At eight o'clock in the evening 26-year-old Horst Raps of Lampertheim, Germany had gone out for a walk as recommended by his doctor after being diagnosed with lung disease. As he walked along he sighted a light coming down from the sky. The light approached and he saw an object hovering just one meter above the ground. The craft was saucer-shaped and surrounded by a blue-violet light. It had a cupola on top that emitted bright beams of light. Fascinated, he watched as a stairway descended to the ground and a tall, heavy-set man emerged. The figure wore a tight-fitting, multicolored uniform. He approached Raps and spoke to him in perfect German.. He warned the witness of approaching future dangers and asked him to return to the same place three days later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1717",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1959, citing UFO Geheimnisse, Berlin, January 1998" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/29/1966",
  "desc" : "There are sixteen unexplained UFO reports recorded for this day in UFOCAT. All occurred in either the late afternoon or evening, between 4 p.m. and 11 p.m. local time. One occurred in Australia and one in Brazil. The rest were in the Northeastern United States and Canada.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1718",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "3/29/1966",
  "desc" : "At 4:15 p.m. in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire a witness saw a brown, box-shaped object with silvery tripod legs on the ground, from a distance of only 24 feet. It maneuvered out from under trees before accelerating straight up and out of sight. It made a humming sound and then a higher-pitched whining sound when it accelerated. The witness felt a blast of air from the object, which left landing imprints in the soil.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1719",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "3/29/1966",
  "desc" : "At 4:20 p.m. a L-shaped box was seen sitting on the ground on four legs in Henniker, New Hampshire. It too maneuvered through trees and then ascended. Landing traces were also found at this site.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1720",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "3/29/1966",
  "desc" : "Five hours later, at 9:15 p.m. in Hamilton, Ontario Mr. Cozens saw two white oval-shaped UFOs land in a field. When the witness walked up and touched the four-foot long antenna on one of the objects his hand was burned. There was a flash and a buzzing sound when the injury occurred. The objects had red, blue and green flashing lights in a circle around their centers. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1721",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs Interplanetary Visitors, p. 336; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; James E. McDonald case investigation files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/29/1968",
  "desc" : "At 1:15 a.m. a 22-year-old mechanic riding a motorbike between Fos-sur-Mer and Port Saint Louis in Arles, France observed a UFO descend and land near a power transformer. An opening appeared in the base of the object and a bright white light shone out from it. Then a human-looking entity emerged and descended to the ground on a kind of ramp. He wore something resembling a security guard's uniform with a \"rolled collar.\" The suit was light colored and brilliant, and appeared woven with heavy stitches. The man's hair was in a crew-cut and was very light blond or white in color. The UFOnaut examined the ground around him and then noticed the witness, whom he watched for a moment before re-entering the object. The UFO took off gently with a gust of cool air. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1722",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-21, citing Joel Mesnard & Jean Marie Bigorne; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case 47" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/29/1973",
  "desc" : "Armando Silva and his wife, of La Salina, were at their country home at the seashore near Caracaya, Venezuela. On the evening of March 28th they had seen two elongated bluish objects high overhead. At about one o'clock at night they awoke to stifling heat inside their house. Mr. Silva went to the balcony and saw the two blue, capsule shaped objects they had seen earlier now flying near the shore. One of them dropped into the sea and re-emerged on the surface. It was then joined by the second, which bobbed on the surface nearby. Silva went down to the beach to get a better view.<br/><br/> At one of the small windows of the first little object that came down from the sky he saw a tiny figure like a five-year-old child. The craft was floating only a few meters from shore. \"I was terrified when...I saw a tiny figure...wearing on its head what looked like a great gourd. I cannot say for sure that it was an intelligent being, since I only saw half of its body and its head, which, as I say, looked like a gourd. Nor did I see any arms. And I didn't wait to see if it made any movements.\" Sr. Silva turned on his heels and ran back into the house, where his wife was watching from the balcony. The two UFOs that had come down from the sky were still bobbing up and down in the water when he rejoined her. The incident lasted about 15 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1723",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-90, citing Gordon Creighton, FSR, Vol. 21 No. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/30/1897",
  "desc" : "In 1897 in Denver, Colorado a mysterious light was seen flying through the night sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1724",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "New York Herald, April 12, 1897" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/30/1947",
  "desc" : "In 1947 at 11:00 a.m., Mrs. J. E. Harp of Lutz, Florida her seven-year-old daughter Sandra, and her mother Mrs. W. H. Brown saw several flying discs while driving. The discs were silvery colored and seemed to appear and disappear. They did not have time to count the number, and could not estimate the altitude, size or speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1725",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jan L. Aldrich, Project 1947: A preliminary report on the 1947 UFO sighting wave, UFO Research Coalition, 1997, p. 57, quoting the Orlando Sentinel Star, July 6, 1947" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/30/1950",
  "desc" : "A UFO was seen hovering over Adrian, Michigan at noon. At 11:00 p.m. that night another UFO was seen hovering between Worland and Greybull, Wyoming. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1726",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "newspaper clippings, March 31, 1950" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/30/1950",
  "desc" : "Three discs flew in formation over Autaugaville, Alabama at 5:30 p.m. They went up, down, and then flew away. Thirty-eight minutes later Mr. Townsend, a radio engineer, and 20 others in Selma, Alabama sighted three discs zip across the sky toward the west. One stopped for five minutes, and then shot up vertically, the other two continued on westward. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1727",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1623; newspaper clippings, March 31, 1950; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/30/1950",
  "desc" : "On this night astronomer Harold Wilkins watched a very bright oval glow illuminate the Aristarchus-Herotodus crater on the Moon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1728",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 74" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/30/1952",
  "desc" : "At about 3 p.m. in Greenfield, Massachusetts Mr. Earley sighted a disc that stopped abruptly in the air at 1500-feet altitude. It turned on its edge and then shot off at great speed to the southeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1729",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Boston Traveller, May 5, 1952; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 28" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/30/1954",
  "desc" : "A 15-foot diameter silvery sphere hovered over a kite-flying contest in Newton, Massachusetts at 3:30 in the afternoon. It remained stationary in one place despite the 30 mph wind. After 30 minutes in moved away slowly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1730",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, July 1954" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/30/1955",
  "desc" : "Andy Florio sighted a disc-shaped object at least 100 feet in diameter while driving near Tucson, Arizona. It made a humming sound and had bluish-green lights on its top and amber lights around the rim. He stopped his car when his car radio failed, his headlights dimmed, and the car lost power and slowed to 12-15 mph. The UFO swayed back and forth while hovering and shot a beam of white light at the witness, burning his elbow and bubbling paint on the car. Mr. Florio also felt heat and a tingling sensation. After the sighting the car was checked by a mechanic, and was found to have a defective battery, a dead radio, and only three spark plugs were still firing. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1731",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/30/1966",
  "desc" : "There are 19 unexplained UFO reports recorded for this date in the UFOCAT database, coming off the peak that occurred on March 28.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1732",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "3/30/1966",
  "desc" : "A dark oval-shaped object carrying two bright red flashing lights was seen by three independent groups in the same area of Rehoboth, Massachusetts at different times, beginning at 8:15 p.m. One group saw it hover over a road, then descend slowly into a wooded area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1733",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, case file, report dated April 2, 1966" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/30/1966",
  "desc" : "A 90-foot long oblong object landed near a highway in Pecos, Texas. It stayed on the ground for five minutes. On the same night in Suffolk County, New York in communities such as East Hampton and Napeague, there were numerous reports of oblong-shaped craft hovering, maneuvering, and then flying out to sea. These reports were accompanied by electromagnetic effects that interfered with automobile ignitions, lights, and radio and TV reception. At ten o'clock in the evening in Montauk, New York Mr. Field's 1965 Ford pickup truck experienced total engine failure when the driver came up to the top of a rise in the road and encountered a cigar-shaped object low over the sand dunes. After losing power Mr. Field allowed his car to roll backward away from the UFO. The engine restarted. The UFO took off, circled, and flew out over the ocean. At about the same time the police station in Oswego, New York received many calls over a two-hour period reporting UFOs. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1734",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1966, p. 8; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers - Here and Now! p. 55; East Hampton (NY) Star, April 17, 1966; Gordon I.R. Lore, Jr., UFOs: A New Look, p. 8; Mort Young, UFO Top Secret, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/30/1966",
  "desc" : "At the same time as the New York reports a man waiting in a parked car on the Ohio University campus in Mansfield, Ohio saw a round UFO with two lights land nearby. A door in the craft opened and he could see a \"very thin\" child-sized standing in the doorway. The object rose, moved toward him, rose again, then disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1735",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mansfield (OH) News Journal, April 8, 1966; John Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 15; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, case 742" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/30/1966",
  "desc" : "Mrs. Gillem and her four children were driving through farm country nine miles north of Lewisburg, Indiana at 10:35 p.m. when they observed a reddish-white oval-shaped UFO approach the car. A pulsating sound came over the car radio and increased in frequency when the UFO got close. The UFO changed color to blue, and then pursued their car for several miles. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1736",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Bluebook files counted in official statistics, Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, case 740" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/30/1967",
  "desc" : "On this night near Peterborough, South Australia a car's engine failed and the two male witnesses then saw a disc-shaped object rise from a field by the road. The object gave off a blue and violet glow. It rapidly disappeared into the sky. A few minutes later another disc shot up from another field, emitting sparks the color of a blue mercury-vapor lamp. After the second UFO had gone the car could then be restarted. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1737",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 178; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 33" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/30/1974",
  "desc" : "At 9.30 p.m. in Hombreiro, Spain a blinding light came from a hovering, ovoid-shaped UFO. The car engine quit and the lights went out. The object flew away making a whistling sound, and the car then functioned normally. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1738",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 180" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/30/1976",
  "desc" : "Miss Roseti da Silva, a 23-year-old college student, was blinded by a beam of white light from an unseen flying object in Quixada, Brazil. The energy beam sapped her strength and she lost consciousness. She was hospitalized with burns and nervous exhaustion. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1739",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, August 1976, p. 19" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/30/1978",
  "desc" : "At shortly after 7:00 o'clock in the morning in Albury, New South Wales, Australia a chrome colored cigar-shaped object hovered over a nearby hillside, casting a shadow on the ground. A second stingray shaped object swept through the sky in a slow arc and came to a position beside the larger object. There was an eerie, abnormal silence that persisted over a mile-wide area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1740",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, March 1978, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/30/1978",
  "desc" : "A \"flying boxcar\" covered with lights crossed a field and buzzed a car at low altitude in Pompey Center, New York after 10:00 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1741",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, June 1978, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/30/1981",
  "desc" : "A metallic sphere descended from the sky at a 45º angle and stopped over a house in Magny, France at 11:20 a.m. It then shot straight up and away. A check with authorities showed there were no scheduled balloon releases at that time. That evening there were reports from pilots from all over Pennsylvania at the same time that a pilot reported seeing a rocket or cigar-shaped object southwest of Philadelphia at 11:50 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1742",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1981" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/30/1982",
  "desc" : "An ovoid or \"submarine\"-shaped object flew over a car in Charlottesville, Virginia at 11:15 p.m. It then hovered over the road, made a U-turn, and then paced the car for 15 blocks. It flew away toward the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1743",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, November 1983, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/30/1983",
  "desc" : "Delta-shaped flying objects were seen widely over suburban Shrub Oak, New York at 8:00 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1744",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek, Philip Imbrogno, and Bob Pratt, Night Siege: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, p. 202" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/30/1986",
  "desc" : "Three domed discs paced a bus in Caraguatatuba, Brazil at 11:30 p.m. They made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1745",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Boletim CEPEX" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/30/1988",
  "desc" : "In Grand Canal, Florida at 10:30 p.m. two adults and two girls observed a diamond-shaped UFO over a house. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1746",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ed Walters, Gulf Breeze Sightings, p. 353" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/30/1990",
  "desc" : "There were at least three reports of nocturnal lights from Belgium on this night between 11:00 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. In Ramilles, Belgium at 11 o'clock in the evening several lights flying in a perfect equilateral triangle zigzagged through the sky toward the southwest. At 11:30 p.m. in Jodoigne a triangle of nocturnal lights were seen kilometers apart. F-16 jet interceptors were scrambled and pursued the lights. Also at 11:30 p.m. a sphere that seemed to grow wings was seen in the sky over Jaunchelette, Belgium. Three lights in a huge triangle were also reported. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1747",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, December 1990" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/30/1993",
  "desc" : "A Dauphin helicopter, flying to the east of Mullingar, Ireland at ten minutes past midnight, encountered an unexplained light in the sky. It flashed on and off for two seconds, then became two white lights that flew from the northwest to the southeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1748",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p 47" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/30/1993",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m. at the RAF Shawbury air base in England, a meteorological officer saw a triangular UFO, larger than a Boeing-747, zigzag in the sky at great speed, making a humming sound. It swept the countryside with a powerful beam of light. At the same time in Rugeley, England a family had a close encounter with a UFO that made a humming sound. They thought the object was going to crash, but instead it vanished. At RAF Cosford an aviation expert timed the flight of a UFO seen traveling between Haverfordwest and Pembrokeshire. He calculated its speed at 1100 mph. According to Nick Pope, the UK Air Ministry's representative responsible for tracking UFO reports at the time, zigzagging UFOs were also reported flying over Devonshire, Cornwall, and Somerset Counties at this time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1749",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lynn Pickett, Mammoth Book of UFOs, pp. 150-152" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/30/1993",
  "desc" : "Kadima, Israel - At three o'clock in the morning Aviva Carmel felt drawn to leave her bed and go outside. There she witnessed a silver metallic craft land: first the front end touched down, then the rear. She estimated the size and shape of the craft to be similar to an \"orange storage tank\" or fruit silo, about sixty feet in circumference. She approached the landed craft to investigate and when she got to within twenty feet she saw one of the crew. He was 2.5 meters tall and wore silvery foil coveralls that clung tightly to his body like a second skin. He also wore a helmet with a tinted visor that prevented her from seeing the being's face. Later the following day Carmel ventured back into her backyard and saw the imprint of the craft. It was a circle 22 feet in diameter formed from still living vegetation. Plant life outside the imprint area had died. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1750",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, citing Barry Chamish, FSR, Vol. 39 # 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/30/1995",
  "desc" : "A woman watering her garden at 10:25 in the evening in Saltos Coll, Puerto Rico noticed a three-foot tall humanoid standing 75 feet away from her. The being had a round head, long thin arms, large black eyes, and grayish skin. It walked away up a hill. The witness was unable to move during the close encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1751",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case 2114" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/30/1996",
  "desc" : "Two nocturnal lights were sighted flying south over Americana, Brazil. One object veered away and zigzagged, revealing it to be disc shaped and surrounded by a white glow. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1752",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Boletim CEPEX" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/30/1997",
  "desc" : "At 10:45 p.m. 27 nocturnal lights were seen flying in a diamond formation by two comet watchers in La Tour-de-Pin, France. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1753",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, March 1997" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/30/1998",
  "desc" : "A capsule shaped object hovered over Brighton, New Zealand at 8:30 p.m. While it was hovering a luminous glow spread slowly across the surface of the object. It flew off, leaving toward the northeast. Three objects were seen flying in a triangle formation in Bel Air, Maryland at 10:30 p.m. EST. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1754",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup website, volume 3, no. 14; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, March 1998 web page" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/30/2000",
  "desc" : "At five o'clock in the morning a young couple and their small boy, driving near Little Fox Lake in the Yukon Territory, Canada spotted a 40-foot wide disc hovering some 300 feet away from them. The UFO shot across the road at \"incredible speed\", then stopped abruptly and briefly before shooting off at a 90º angle. The car's lights and tape deck ceased working when the UFO was nearby. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1755",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Research Manitoba, 2000 Canadian UFO Survey, case 50; UFO Magazine (USA), July 2000, p. 24; Jerry Clark, 2002 Unexplained Phenomena Calendar" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/30/2000",
  "desc" : "At 2:00 p.m. a formation of ten objects was sighted flying south at an estimated 10,000 feet altitude in Westchester, California. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1756",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, March 2000 web page" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/31/1950",
  "desc" : "In 1950 a woman driving at night on Highway 80 in Jacumba, California reported that she saw a little man jump out of a landed disc-shaped UFO, and then run down the highway \"faster than Jesse Owens.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1757",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International News Service, March 31, 1950; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0161" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/31/1953",
  "desc" : "At 7:50 p.m. a USAF F-94 pilot reported sighting a white disc-shaped UFO emitting red and blue beams of light. It maneuvered all about the sky over the northeast corner of Honshu Island, Japan. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1758",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren Gross, UFOs: A History - 1953: March-July, p. 28" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/31/1954",
  "desc" : "A small disc-shaped UFO flew over Hammersmith, England at 8:10 p.m. at a high rate of speed. It had a misty looking appearance despite the clear sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1759",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 3316" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/31/1956",
  "desc" : "Three round lights moved erratically and silently over Miami, Florida at 9:00 p.m. in a perfect equilateral triangle formation. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1760",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History - 1956: January-April, p. 57; Richard Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 185" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/31/1959",
  "desc" : "Three Adelaide, South Australia children reported having seen strange objects moving about in the sky. Neil Abercrombie, his mother, brother, and some other friends, all saw a strange object at 6:05 p.m. He described it as an \"elongated circle with indistinct edges\" and said it had been flying quite high. Two other nearby residents saw a round object with red flashing lights at about 7:50 p.m. They said the object circled and disappeared in the west, appearing to be smaller than a plane. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1761",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, London: Robert Hale, 1975, p. 165" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/31/1959",
  "desc" : "Later that same evening the Adelaide Weather Bureau received a report of a UFO at about eight p.m. from Goolwa, near Port Elliott, South Australia. And at 11:30 p.m. a young man spotted a reddish-orange oval-shaped object on the ground about 100 meters from the rural road he was driving on. Barry Neale, age 15, was driving home between Goolwa and Port Elliot, South Australia when he saw the glowing, reddish-orange object on the ground. It had a row of 8 or 9 portholes, was about five meters (16 feet) wide, and it illuminated the trees. He drove around the wooded area in time to see it take off. \"It climbed at an angle of 45 degrees towards Hindmarsh Island and soon disappeared.\" No radioactivity was found at the spot. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1762",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 484; Keith Basterfield, UFO Research Australia, March 1982, p. 23" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/31/1965",
  "desc" : "An aerial explosion, perhaps similar to the Tunguska blast of 1909, affected an area of nearly a million square kilometers, centered over Ashcroft, Canada and was observed some distance away by an airborne airliner pilot, according to John Colombo. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1763",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John Colombo, UFOs over Canada: Personal Accounts of Sightings and Close Encounters, p. 212" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/31/1966",
  "desc" : "At 2:00 a.m. a cluster of lights ahead over the road in Vicksburg, Michigan resolved itself into a lighted disc-shaped object when the witnesses' car got closer. Mr. Udvardy, age 32, heard a low hum like a swarm of bees, and his car engine stalled. The UFO also had a brilliant white searchlight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1764",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP case investigation files; Gordon I. R. Lore, Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 70, Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 29; Geoffrey Falla, Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 34" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/31/1966",
  "desc" : "In San Francisco, California two women observed a large object with a pulsating bluish light on top, an orange light below, windows, and antennae, resting in a construction area at 6:00 a.m. Silhouettes could be seen moving about inside, one of them gesturing as the craft took off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1765",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 744" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/31/1966",
  "desc" : "Charles Kozens, age 13, saw two objects land near Hamilton, Ontario, Canada at 9:15 p.m. They were each 2.5 meters long, 1.2 meters high, and had flashing lights. When he approached and tried to touch an antenna on one of the objects, he received an electric shock. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1766",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 743" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/31/1967",
  "desc" : "Three strange objects--a bright, orange light emitting a shower of green sparks, and two smaller sources--were seen in a field in Hanley, England. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1767",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 830" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/31/1967",
  "desc" : "Carol Watts had the first of a number of alleged contacts with aliens at 10:30 p.m. in Wellington, Texas. He saw a 100 foot long cigar-shaped UFO on the ground. A door opened and Watts was invited to come inside by the occupants and he agreed to go. They gave him a physical exam and took him on a flight into space. He recalled seeing an unidentified map on the wall inside the craft. The encounter with journey lasted no more than 20 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1768",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP case investigation files, report dated April 2, 1967; Hans Holzer, The UFOnauts, p. 154; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery. Volume 2: Catalogue of Cases, case 117A; Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 2, 1967" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/31/1969",
  "desc" : "As many as two hundred residents of of the Coenze neighborhood in Nova Iguaca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil witnessed the descent of a \"mystery airplane\" on Maxambona Hill in the middle of the afternoon. It fell from the sky, falling in an unusually slow manner, in an apparent controlled descent. Among the many witnesses was an elderly man and his children. He told the children to go immediately to the landing site to assist any possible survivors. As he watched hundreds of townspeople converging on the hill, he saw two beings come out of the craft. The craft itself seemed to be slowly \"moving like a wing\" that was shifting slightly in the wind. When the first people neared the site the object and its occupants vanished abruptly, and nothing was to be found at the \"crash\" site. No one heard any engine noise as the craft descended, and investigations at the site by the military police found no wreckage. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1769",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-24, citing Fernande Cleto Nunes Pereira & Dr. Walter Buhler, SPEDV Bulletin, 1975" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/31/1974",
  "desc" : "On this day on the Robertson farm in Callaway, Nebraska a dead mutilated cow and calf were found. The tails had been removed, the blood drained, and the cow's udder had been slit. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1770",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Omaha World Herald, April 9, 1974" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/31/1974",
  "desc" : "A small disc less than a meter in diameter hovered and spun at treetop level over some trees in Tarragona, Spain at 4:00 p.m. The limbs of the trees were thrashed about by a turbulence from the object, and a big noise was heard. The disc flew off to the south. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1771",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, December 1974, p. 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/31/1974",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. a \"small bus\" shaped object was seen in Valensole, France. It had large wide windows and a blue-green neon glow, and figures could be seen moving around inside it. The principal witness, his wife, his son, and an 80-year-old woman all saw the craft, and above it were seven vertical red lights. The object appeared to be on the ground. From the house of the wife's parents, at 8:30 p.m. the man saw it again, and was able to approach, first in his car and then on foot, to within 500 yards of it. Valensole is the site of a famous July 1965 humanoid encounter, and there have been many other close encounters from this location as well. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1772",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-62 (A1608), citing C. Lavigne, Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 153; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 484" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/31/1975",
  "desc" : "At 3:30 a.m. the furious barking of her dogs awoke a woman in St. Hilaire de Cambrai, France. Frightened, the dogs ran and jumped onto the top of the dining room table. The woman opened the curtains and saw a red glow outside and then heard strange, indistinct murmurs and voices. Her son-in-law woke up and looked out a window to see an intensely red rectangular mass about 4.5 meters long and two meters high. It flew half a meter above the ground in a strange hopping motion. It continued on its trajectory, becoming round and greenish-blue in color. Two other family member joined the first two and watched the object move about 80 meters away, now becoming a green spherical form. The dogs calmed down and so the son-in-law went back to bed. Soon the intensity of the sphere lessened, while the remaining witnesses remained watching out a window for the next half hour. At 4:00 a.m. the streetlights brightened and the dogs began barking again. At this point the UFO, now a green sphere, approached the house rapidly and then disappeared. One of the witnesses suffered from eye irritation the next day. Ground traces and \"footprints\" were found in the vicinity of the house. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1773",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/31/1975",
  "desc" : "Nine hours later, at 9:00 p.m. local time, a merchant in Japan felt a strange urge to go out for a walk on the beach. Guchi Shinda, age 42, went for this walk along the beach in Kawanoe City, Shikoku Province, Japan when he started to experience a sensation of weightlessness and saw what looked like multicolored electrical discharges around him. Suddenly, about 30 meters away, a short white creature appeared. The being had red eyes and a mouth and was wearing a white inflated \"astronaut\" suit and a round white helmet. It floated just above the sand, looking towards the witness who heard a loud sound resembling \"electronic music.\" He apparently passed out and did not see the humanoid depart. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1774",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1975, citing CBA Newsletter, Denys Breysse Project Becassine" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/31/1990",
  "desc" : "Two teenagers driving in Gulf Breeze, Florida had approached a stop light at 9:30 p.m. when they saw a UFO over a nearby building. The object hovered briefly, moved slowly overhead, and then ascended out of sight. Minutes later a retired FAA air traffic controller also sighted the object in the distance. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1775",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON case investigation files, case 900735" ]
},
{
  "date" : "3/31/1993",
  "desc" : "Kadima, Israel - The neighbor of the UFO witness from the previous night felt her house tremble during the night. When she opened her eyes she saw \"a bald giant, 7 to 8 feet tall, with round, yellow eyes and a small flat nose, dressed in gray metallic overalls\" standing next to her bed. \"Don't be afraid. I will not harm you,\" she heard in her mind as she saw the being gliding through the room. The next morning, two additional flattened circles were found in the field, eleven and twenty feet in diameter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1776",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, citing Michael Hesemann, UFOs: The Secret History" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/1/1897",
  "desc" : "The whole town of Everest, Kansas saw an object fly in under the cloud cover. It came down slowly, then flew away very fast to the southeast. When directly over the town it swept the ground with a powerful searchlight. It was seen to rise up at a fantastic speed until barely discernible, then to come down again and sweep low over the witnesses. At one point it remained stationary for five minutes at the edge of a low cloud, which it illuminated. All said they could clearly see the silhouette of the craft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1777",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 181, citing Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1966; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr.& Harold Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/1/1948",
  "desc" : "At 9:55 a.m. a ten meter wide silver half disc maneuvered in the sky over Manila in the Philippines and made a number of ninety-degree turns. Lt. Meyers of the U.S. Air Force was leading a flight of four F-47S Thunderbolt  fighters of the 67th Fighter Squadron and was flying south at 1,500 ft altitude when he saw a half-moon shaped \"flying wing\" or crescent about 30 feet wide and 20 feet long, with a small dorsal fin. It was flying on a northerly heading at about 1,000 feet three miles to his east. It made a 90° left turn and leveled out on a westerly heading accelerating rapidly to vanish in five seconds. There was no trail. Estimated terminal velocity was about 11 miles per second or 39,000 mph. Radio interference was reported at the time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1778",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "U.S. Air Force Project Bluebook files counted in official statistics; International UFO Reporter, December 1998; Fund for UFO Research" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/1/1950",
  "desc" : "At seven o'clock in the evening the crew of a fishing boat off the coast of Perugia, Italy watched an ovoid object dive into the sea and a column of water shoot up into the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1779",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Solas Boncompagni, UFO in Italia, Volume I (Periodo 1907-1953), p. 117." ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/1/1954",
  "desc" : "The witness heard a clanking sound at 2:40 a.m., then saw a five-meter wide domed disc land in Menton, France. Two human-looking occupants left the craft. The witness was paralyzed by a beam of light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1780",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 3317" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/1/1959",
  "desc" : "Horst Raps returned to the previously appointed site in Lampertheim, Germany where he had encountered a UFOnaut on March 29th and found the hovering blue-violet disc-shaped craft and the tall humanoid waiting for him. This time he was invited onboard the UFO, and supposedly taken on an otherworldly ride to another planet in the Alpha Centauri system. There he encountered various races of people, who allegedly lived in dwellings shaped like cupolas and cultivated multicolored flowers. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1781",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1959, case # 2440, citing Ulrich Magin" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/1/1963",
  "desc" : "At 3:30 p.m. Mr. A. Mostaccieli in Chileno Valley, California reported seeing cattle panic and run when several small beings got out of a disc-shaped UFO. They caught a calf and took it on board the craft, then collected some plants. He also reported a scorched area 10 meters wide. The local sheriff considered the report a practical joke. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1782",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Petaluma Argus Courier, April 1, 1966; John A. Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 165; John Wallace Spencer, UFO Yearbook, p. 102" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/1/1965",
  "desc" : "Two witnesses in Westford, Massachusetts watched a cigar-shaped object with four slanted windows at 8:50 p.m. It headed to the east in a long, slow S-shaped flight path. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1783",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 6684; APRO Bulletin, July-August 1965" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/1/1966",
  "desc" : "At midnight, Darlene Underwood and her mother of Liberty, Missouri saw two luminous objects land on a hill nearby their house. They watched them them through binoculars, and described them as egg-shaped and about the size of a large car. They then saw the shadows of one or two human-looking figures, and heard the beings shouting at each other loudly in a foreign, unintelligible language. After this they heard the sound of a pig squealing. Next, a point of green light issued from one of the objects, and they both took off and flew away rapidly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1784",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-15, citing Ray Palmer, Flying Saucers, April 1968; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1966" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/1/1966",
  "desc" : "At 4:45 a.m. five witnesses in Warminster, England saw a huge silver cigar-shaped object fly across the sky from west to east. Six red balls of light exited from the object and flew away toward the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1785",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Contact UK; Arthur Shuttlewood, The Warminister Mystery: Astounding UFO Sightings, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/1/1967",
  "desc" : "In a series of night-time incidents that began on March 28th, in Conifer, Colorado at 1:30 a.m. a light like a flashlight came halfway down a hill on the Davies ranch. Rancher D. F. Davies fired ten .38-caliber bullets at it and it disappeared. At 2:30 a.m. Randy Davies, who was still awake, saw a man with a light walk past the ranch house, so he ran outside calling to him. The light went out and the man ran away. At 3:30 a.m. Louise Davies looked out the window and saw a man in the yard, who wore dark clothes and a mask that covered his face down to his shoulders. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1786",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-31 (A0802), citing Oleta Havelock & David Saunders" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/1/1967",
  "desc" : "At 6:30 p.m. EST in Fishing Creek Valley, Pennsylvania a 12-meter diameter disc descended near two 12-year-old children and directed beams of light to the ground. An adult saw the UFO leave. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1787",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP case investigation files, NICAP UFO Investigator, June 1967, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/1/1967",
  "desc" : "At 7:15 that same evening a glowing red domed disc approached a car with five occupants in Hessel, California. The UFO hovered in front of the car and emitted a brilliant light; it then moved off at treetop level and sped away. A high-pitched whine was heard coming from the object.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1788",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP case investigation files, report dated July 29, 1967; NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1967, p. 3; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 334" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/1/1967",
  "desc" : "At eight o'clock in the city of New Westminster, British Columbia a fast moving, one-meter wide disc stopped and hovered at only 20 meters altitude near two young men for three minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1789",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science, Summer 1967, p. 9; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 831" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/1/1970",
  "desc" : "A hat-shaped UFO seen near a highway in Mar del Plata, Argentina by the driver after the engine of his car stalled. He took a photograph of the object. It rose into sky after a few minutes. No further car trouble was experienced after the sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1790",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 48" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/1/1970",
  "desc" : "At 8:50 p.m.motorist on the A3 highway near Surrey, England saw a triangular UFO at the same moment there was heavy static on his car radio. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1791",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 49" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/1/1974",
  "desc" : "A newspaper reporter in Mount Olive, North Carolina saw a domed, top-shaped UFO approach to within 300 feet of his car at only 75 feet altitude. He took three photographs. The UFO beamed a light ray directly at the witness in his car, and then took off at a tremendous speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1792",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, January 1975, p. 30" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/1/1975",
  "desc" : "A fireball was sighted near a farm south of La Flamengrie, France at 9:10 p.m. Rectangular marks were found in the ground near a mailbox. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1793",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, September 1975" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/1/1976",
  "desc" : "A 30-meter wide arrowhead shaped UFO hovered at a 30 degree angle in the sky southwest of the city of Heusca, Spain starting at 10:30 p.m. It was seen three times that night. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1794",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Inforespace, January 1977" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/1/1982",
  "desc" : "In North Washington, Pennsylvania a reddish triangular object with rounded apexes and a light in each corner was sighted by three witnesses at 7:15 p.m. It was surrounded by a glittering mist that seemed to come from the rear of the object. Two glowing spheres shot out from the craft, one shot off toward the north, the other toward the south. The witnesses reported suffering from headaches after their close encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1795",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Stan Gordon, MUFON UFO Journal, June 1982, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/1/1993",
  "desc" : "A silent triangular UFO was seen for 10-15 seconds in Cache Creek, British Columbia on this night. The next morning at Baca Rach, Colorado in Saguache County a dead cow was discovered in the place where orange lights had been spotted hovering the night before. The cows rear end, tongue, and udder had been removed by cutting, and the jaw was bleached white. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1796",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, UFO Research Manitoba, 1993 Canadian UFO Survey, case 423; Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 90" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/1/1999",
  "desc" : "At four o'clock in the morning two men, Jose Trajano and Milton Leite, were preparing their boat to go fishing and had just exited the boat storage garage in Santana do Ipanema, Alagoas, Brazil when they spotted a huge cylindrical object hovering just above their heads. The object was 15 meters in length and was reddish in color. The craft then shone a beam of white light towards the ground and a short figure materialized within the light on the ground. The witnesses watched from about 600 meters away as this short being went back and forth within the lighted area, then floated back up into the object and disappeared. The craft then became brighter and rose up quickly, disappearing from sight in the darkness. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1797",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, citing Thiago Luiz Ticchetti" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/2/1958",
  "desc" : "On the evening of this day in 1958 a cigar-shaped UFO maneuvered along the course of the Ohio River. It had a long row of portholes along its side, and flew downriver. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1798",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 137" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/2/1967",
  "desc" : "Late on this night in Medina, New York Miss Shane Kurz, who had been observing UFOs maneuvering in the skies for the past several nights, had gone to bed after seeing another one. She suddenly felt paralyzed, and then lost track of time. She remembers a bright light outside her window and a loud humming sound. Her next memory is waking up with her foot covered with mud, her eyes swollen shut, and a triangular shaped burn mark on her abdomen. Later under hypnosis, she remembered being somehow taken into an ovoid metallic gray craft with lights around a revolving rim. She found herself inside an octagon-shaped room with lights that seemed to emanate from all around her. She was then placed on a black slab like table and was unable to move. Later she saw a being with an oval-shaped face, very light skin, and large black almond shaped eyes. The being communicated with her, apparently by using telepathy, and told her she would not be harmed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1799",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, case # 1937, citing personal communication from the witness, Shane (Kurz) Sia" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/2/1971",
  "desc" : "In 1971, a middle-aged man in Greenhill, New South Wales, Australia was standing in his kitchen at around 10 p.m. when he noticed a small entity standing outside. The man, an Australian aborigine, next felt a sucking force that pulled him outside, smashing him through a glass window that had an iron bar across it with a clearance of less than a foot. His wife, hearing the pane of glass breaking, entered the kitchen in time to see her 5' 2\" husband disappearing horizontally through the lower pane, which was 4.5 feet from the floor. To jump through it would have been impossible, as it was only 32 inches wide and only 10 inches in height, and fronted upon the kitchen sink. The distance to the ground outside was seven feet. The man was terrified, yet he could not run from the strange being out of fear. Instead, he went towards it. He was discovered on the ground by a relative, cut and bruised, seven feet away from the smashed glass. This strange occurrence took place only hours after a number of people in nearby Kempsey had observed a strange bright light in the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1800",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, May-June 1971, p. 3; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-13, citing Miss Patricia Riggs" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/2/1972",
  "desc" : "In 1972 a UFO was seen over Greensburg, Pennsylvania at 9:30 p.m., swaying back and forth in the sky in a \"falling leaf\" motion. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1801",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Stan Gordon, Westmoreland County UFO Study Group" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/2/1976",
  "desc" : "Mr. Bazargani from Chalus, Iran was walking through a forest near his home on this day in 1976 when he had a UFO stop directly overhead. He realized he was paralyzed and could not move when he saw four beings emerge from the craft via a ladder. They took him aboard and brought him into a oval-shaped room. The UFO occupants were described as having big noses and thin lips. They took a strange looking instrument that emitted light and scanned it over his body from head to foot. His abduction lasted two days. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1802",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1466" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/2/1980",
  "desc" : "Another UFO abduction occurred on this day in 1980 in Pudasjarvi, Finland. Ms. Ivanoff, age 25, was driving her car across a bridge when her car entered a fog and her car headlights were deflected upwards. She saw a silver domed disc with portholes overhead. She next lost consciousness and experienced a two-hour period of time loss. She later recalled interacting with Grey aliens and encountering an environment in an otherworldly environment. They conducted a medical exam on her and returned her to her car. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1803",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, Volume 1, p. 100" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/2/1986",
  "desc" : "On this day in 1986, author Whitley Strieber's young son was abducted for what may have been the first time, from the family cabin in Orange County, New York. A huge black disc was involved with the abduction experience. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1804",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Whitley Streiber, Communion" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/2/1988",
  "desc" : "Two abductions occurred on this night in 1988, one in Massachusetts and another in Gulf Breeze, Florida. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1805",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joe Nyman and the UFO Newsclipping Service" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/2/1989",
  "desc" : "Another abduction occurred on this night in 1989, presumably connected with the UFO phenomenon. A woman in Tennessee noticed in the dark a thin humanoid outside her home. It had a bluish complexion. Five men appeared, four apparently human, wearing olive-drab uniforms. The fifth was a dark-haired humanoid that wore a khaki coat. She was taken away in a black van. On the same day a UFO appeared low over the Santa Fe de Bogotá airport in Colombia, causing air traffic controllers to divert several flights to land in other airports. The UFO was sighted by pilots, ATCs, and many other witnesses, and also appeared on radar. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1806",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case 1683, citing Karla Turner, Taken; Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1991, p. 221" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/2/1991",
  "desc" : "A large cylinder with many lights flew slowly over Faribault, Minnesota at 7:00 p.m. in 1991, and hovered for a short while. There were many witnesses, who also attested to the presence of many military aircraft in the sky at the same time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1807",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer catalogue of UFO reports, 1988-1994, case 1060, citing the UFO Newsclipping Service." ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/2/1994",
  "desc" : "At 12:20 a.m. in 1994, French soldiers in St. Joseph, Reunion Island watched a disc or ovoid-shaped object hover over the Indian Ocean for 85 minutes, emitting rays of light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1808",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 325" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/2/1995",
  "desc" : "One year later, at 11:00 p.m. in 1995, a metallic disc hovered for two minutes over Pujaut, France and directed a beam of light at the witness. A widespread power outage was experienced in the area at the same time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1809",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Banque O.V.N.I., p. 095" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/2/1996",
  "desc" : "In 1996 at 11 a.m. in Varginha, Brazil a silver disc flew in and stopped over a factory. A second disc also flew in and merged into the first disc. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1810",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone, p. 333" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/3/1948",
  "desc" : "At 6:35 a.m. in San Martino, Lombardy, Italy bus driver Guiseppe Langiano and railway stationmaster Sr. Bavota saw a luminous orange domed disc hovering about 10 meters above the ground at Fara Di Cigno which stopped 12 meters away from them. It was shaped like an inverted bowl, about 10-15 meters in diameter, and surmounted by a transparent looking dome or “upside-down cup.” It was also emitting a very bright beam of white light. A humanoid being floated down to the ground from the object. He wore a stiff, metallic looking one-piece garment with heavy metallic gauntlets. He looked like a \"big puppet\" about 1.5 meters (5 feet) in height. He had \"two round holes in place of eyes.” When Sr. Langiano approached, it re-entered the UFO, which then took off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1811",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Solas Boncompgni, UFO in Italia, p. 94; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1948-06 (A0145), citing Solas Boncompgni; Verga Maurizio, ITACAT: Italian UFO Catalogue" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/3/1949",
  "desc" : "In Dillon, Montana construction company owner Gosta Miller and three others watched an unidentified flying object shaped like two plates attached face-to-face at 11:55 a.m. The object had a matte bottom and a bright aluminum top. The dimensions of the object were estimated to be 20-feet in diameter by 4-5 feet thick. It rocked or rotated in six cycles, descended, rocked, flew, and rocked. All of these maneuvers happened very fast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1812",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. Volume 2: 1949, p. 60" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/3/1956",
  "desc" : "A flying humanoid, described as a \"silver-colored angel\" was sighted flying north over a coal and iron plant in Birmingham, Alabama on this night. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1813",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Alexander Mebane, Civilian Saucer Intelligence--New York Newsletter, May 1956, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/3/1962",
  "desc" : "In Wurtland, Kentucky on the Ohio River at 9:50 p.m. EDT witnesses G.R. Wells and J. Lewis, using a 117x telescope, watched a small stationary object in the sky change in brightness and give off smoke. It remained in the same position for six minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1814",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #7851; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 106." ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/3/1964",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. Mr. R. Wold, a graduate student in anthropology, his wife, and two others in their car saw four huge red lights in a rectangular formation near the ground in Monticello, Wisconsin. There was an intense white light above the four red lights, apparently attached to a large object that came to very near ground level, hovered, tilted, and flew off very fast as they were driving about two kilometers west of Monticello. The sighting lasted from three to four minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1815",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 51; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 594; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case 88; UNICAT database, case 384, citing Thomas Olsen and others" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/3/1965",
  "desc" : "Two traveling salesmen were driving toward Fortaleza, Ceara State, Brazil at 11:20 p.m. when they saw something in the sky that looked like a bright red infrared lamp. It shined a beam of light down on their car. The object then descended just above the car, and the car then began to vibrate and its lights went out. They then saw another ray of light come down from the UFO onto their vehicle, whereupon the driver lost driving control and the vehicle skidded sideways and came to a stop. The red globe-shaped object then landed in front of the car, and two humanoids that resembled robots came out from the UFO and began to approach. Both men got out; one had a rifle that he fired at the entities. Suddenly there was a terrific explosion and the two men were blinded and could hear nothing. Fifteen minutes later they could see again, but the object and the two entities had already gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1816",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next?, p. 219; Richard F Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 222" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/3/1968",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon at around 1:45 p.m. Mrs. Mabel Walch and her nephew, John were driving toward Newport by the shore of one of the Narrabeen Lakes in New South Wales, Australia. They saw a strange creature standing near the road in shallow water. The being was just over four feet tall and had a tough leathery dark gray skin, like an elephant. Its legs were round and thick. Its arms, or forelegs, were small, and as they watched it ambled out of the water with \"a strange shuffling walk, but quite fast.\" They only saw it briefly before it ran into the scrub. Mrs. Walch said \"it's head reminded me of an anteater's trunk.\" The chin or probiscus was rigid and squared off at the end, and \"stuck down and out at an angle.\" It had no ears nor a tail, but it had small eyes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1817",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-23, citing Keith Basterfield" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/3/1968",
  "desc" : "A schoolteacher named Mrs. Lietha was driving down the highway with her son in Cochrane, Wisconsin when a red-orange object flew over and hovered above her car, causing the engine and lights to fail as well as that of a second vehicle. The witnesses felt a sensation of weightlessness as well as heat from the object. Twenty minutes later a second vehicle interference case occurred in Waukesha, Wisconsin to a married couple named Blake. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1818",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Brad Sparks, Computer Catalog of Type 9 Cases, case 120; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 239; APRO Bulletin, September-October 1968, p. 8; UNICAT database, case 385, citing J. Allen Hynek; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 47; (2) Glenn McWane, The New UFO Sightings, p. 55" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/3/1968",
  "desc" : "Late that same night in Itabara, Brazil several teenage girls were walking home when they encountered a tall man dressed totally in black, who lept out of nowhere and flashed a beam of light at them. The figure then disappeared. Several days later two of the girls accosted by the stranger began to go into trances and speak in strange foreign tongues. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1819",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case #1059, citing Brad Steiger, Saga UFO Report, August 1976" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/3/1975",
  "desc" : "There were over 29 separate, independent UFO sightings and close encounters in Robeson, Hoke, Sampson, Bladen, Pitt, and Columbus counties in the early morning hours and again in the evening centered on Lumberton, North Carolina. The first sighting occurred in Lumberton at 1:45 a.m. on Highway 301 where a delta-shaped object the size of a car was sighted by police officers hovering over a water tower. It then shot off to the north. At 2:05 a.m. two sheriff deputies in Hoke County pursued a delta-shaped object flying northeast toward Sampson County. At 2:20 a.m. a silent object with a searchlight flew over Highway 55 in Roseboro, North Carolina at 200 feet altitude and lit up some pecan trees. At 3:30 a.m. a police officer on Highway 701 in Elizabethtown, North Carolina chased an object along Highway 701 before losing it into the cloud cover. That night at 10:30 p.m. a police officer named Godley in Grimesland, North Carolina sighted a disc-shaped object with red, blue and white lights that zigzagged through the sky. At 11:45 p.m. there were sightings north of Rowland in Robeson County and in Scotland County on Highway 71. At 11:47 p.m. a Sheriff's deputy named Lewis pursued a V-shaped craft flying to the northeast toward Red Springs. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1820",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dwight Connelly, Skylook, May 1975, p. 3; Jennie Zeidman, Lumberton Report: UFO Activity in Southern North Carolina, pp. 5-8; Raleigh News Observer, April 6, 1975" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/3/1982",
  "desc" : "At around three o'clock in the morning a woman schoolteacher in Bolingbrook, Illinois was awakened by a high pitched sound \"like a blender running in a box.\" She looked out at the cloudy, windy and cold weather conditions in her residential neighborhood and saw a bright blue domed disc-shaped object land next to some power lines. It lifted off and then landed a second time. The UFO had blue lights around the rim, and was only about 50 yards away. The blue light from the object illuminated the area as bright as day. A street light went out. The police received calls of power outages and blue flashes at the same time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1821",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Fred Merritt, International UFO Reporter, July 1982, p. 6; UNICAT database, case 25, citing Fred Merritt" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/3/1988",
  "desc" : "A mother and daughter were awakened by a throbbing sensation and the sound of a tree falling in Gulf Breeze, Florida at 2:45 a.m. They looked out and saw a flying object only 50 feet above the ground, with a circle of orange \"porthole-like\" lights around its middle. A beam of light struck the mother, who had a strong feeling of being watched. The entire encounter lasted over two hours. The mother is also employed as a schoolteacher (see the other schoolteacher reports in 1968 and 1982 for similarities). ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1822",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald M. Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1992, p. 18, citing field investigator V. Lyons" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/3/1992",
  "desc" : "At around two o'clock in the morning in Cicero, Illinois a woman was lying in bed next to her husband when she heard her bedroom window open, making a creaking sound. She then was unable to move. Moments later she saw three short humanoid creatures with chalky colored skin, big heads, and big eyes walking around her bed. They stood next to her. She was completely paralyzed and apparently her pet cat was also affected. She does not recall anything else, except that she awoke the next morning feeling empty. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1823",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, case # 2159, citing Unsolved UFO Sightings, Fall 1994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/3/1995",
  "desc" : "At around three o'clock in the morning the witness was alone in his room in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany when several short gray entities appeared. Although frightened, he experienced telepathic communication with them and managed to blurt out \"I love you, I love you!\" The entities disappeared and three minutes later he had an out-of-body experience in which he experienced himself sitting outside his body as it lay on the bed. Suddenly he perceived a stream of beautiful golden light pouring forth from the base of his spine. He believes that it was a \"soul\" the gray entities had injected into his body. After that he experienced a sensation of sublime happiness. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1824",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, case # 2936, citing Andrew Brough" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/3/1995",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon several children playing at an elementary school in La Vega, Orocovis, Puerto Rico noticed a four-foot tall creature standing next to a tree nearby their playing field. The creature was gray colored with a large oval head and huge dark eyes. It seemed to be distracted, looking intently at the passing vehicles on a nearby road. It was moving its head rapidly from side to side. The frightened children quickly left the area, and when they returned later the creature had gone. Later that same night a young man driving on State Route 155 on the outskirts of Orocovis, Puerto Rico was surprised to see a strange creature standing in the middle of the road. The creature was described as gray in color, about 4 feet tall, with a large oval shaped head and large black eyes. Momentarily stunned, he stepped on the gas in order to get away, but incredibly the short gray creature was able to run twice around the moving vehicle at terrific speed. Completely frightened, the witness sped up some more and drove away from the area. Thinking he had hit the creature with his car, he looked back and saw it still standing in the middle of the road. It then ran quickly into the woods and disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1825",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, cases # 2116 and # 2117, citing Jorge Martin, Evidencia OVNI, issue # 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/3/1998",
  "desc" : "Two men names Fisher and Schmidt took five photographs of a silent maneuvering silver ovoid or disc, that was oval on the top and flat on the bottom. The sighting occurred on a clear day on the Pecos River at Route 84 in De Baca County, New Mexico at 11:00 a.m. The UFO was rapidly vibrating up and down. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1826",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Nicholas Schmidt, MUFON UFO Journal, July 1999, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/3/2003",
  "desc" : "At 11:57 p.m. several tiny UFOs shaped like tubes with rotating spirals around them, appeared over Zawra Park in Baghdad, Iraq. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1827",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), June 2003, p. 31, citing Filers' Files, April 9, 2003" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/3/2003",
  "desc" : "A dark, flying cross-shaped object with panels of lights on the underside flew low over the river in Terrace, British Columbia at 10:55 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1828",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, Canadian UFO Survey 2003, case #134, citing HBCCUFO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/4/1949",
  "desc" : "William Parrott, former Air Force pilot and Major, sighted a round object with a curved bottom and dull coloring at 10:20 p.m. in Merced, California. The object gave off a clicking sound until overhead. Parrott's dog reacted by barking and running around while the UFO was in sight, about 35 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1829",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/4/1952",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. two radar operators of the 147th AC&W Squadron in Duncanville, Texas tracked a UFO for one minute by radar moving at an estimated speed of 2,160 mph. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1830",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/4/1956",
  "desc" : "At 3:15 p.m. retired US Army Captain Roy Hall, Charles Anderson and others in McKinney, Texas observed through telescopes a stationary oblong object. One telescope was a 6\" diameter model and the other was a 55-200x telescope. The fat, oblong object had two lines around its middle. It remained stationary for six hours. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1831",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/4/1965",
  "desc" : "Keesler AFB, Mississippi. At 4:05 a.m. USAF Airman Corum, a weather observer, sighted a 40 foot long back, oval-shaped object with four lights along the bottom (see sketch below). It flew in and out of a cloud bank for 15 seconds. It had four protruding lights evenly spaced on the bottom, and looked dark against the clouds. A college student named R. Pittman also sighted the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1832",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 9345; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/4/1965",
  "desc" : "On the same day at 10:15 a.m. in Valley Falls, New York a white egg-shaped or rectangular object (see sketch below) was observed directly in front of two jet fighters. The UFO ascended rapidly to avoid collision and moved rapidly away in the opposite direction. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1833",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 332" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/4/1966",
  "desc" : "A famous UFO close encounter case involving the bending of a car's headlights occurred on this night in Bourke's Flat, Victoria, Australia on the road between Bendigo and Saint Arnaud. Mr. R. Sullivan, age 38, was driving home when he encountered a heavy mist and a shining white, oval-shaped UFO that appeared above him with a cone of light descending from beneath it. Rainbow colored rays of light ran down the sides of the cone. His car's headlight beams were bent toward the object \"as if they were pieces of pipe.\" Mr. Sullivan overcompensated in his driving and nearly crashed, but was able to stop the car. He then saw brilliant lights flashing in a field, followed by the abrupt departure of the UFO. The car headlights were OK after the incident. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1834",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Victorian UFO Research Society, Flying Saucer Review, May-June 1966, p. 3; Phenomenes Spatiaux, June 1966; Coral E. Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 160; Jenny Randles, Time Storms: Amazing evidence for time warps, space rifts, and time travel, p. 29; Bill Chalker, The OZ Files, p. 114; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 29" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/4/1966",
  "desc" : "Two UFOs were seen over the Trenton, Ontario airport on this night, and one landed on runway 113. It was about 20 feet in diameter. Two small men were seen near it. When the service police approached, the beings got back in the craft and it took off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1835",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0706, citing NICAP; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1966" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/4/1977",
  "desc" : "Tucson, Arizona - A 52-year-old woman was watching jackrabbits by moonlight on the Veterans Administration Hospital grounds at 1:30 a.m. when she heard a whirring noise and looked up to see a luminous white UFO coming down for a landing. It was ellipsoidal in shape with fuzzy contours, and landed approximately 30 to 40 feet away. The top of the object was a soft luminous pink, and something like a horizontal periscope or boom protruded form the right side. The object was about 40 to 50 feet in diameter and about 20 feet high. The whirring ceased when it landed, but she saw no landing gear. Then a human like figure, well over six-foot tall with very broad shoulders, walked toward her from the UFO. She had not seen him emerge through a door in the craft. He wore a silvery one-piece uniform that was tight-fitting, like a frogman's wetsuit, and he had on mitten-like gloves. He spoke to her, saying \"I am Onleel, I want to talk with you, come with me.\" She saw only his eyes and no other facial features. The eyes were large and dark. The voice was probably telepathic and it seemed to come from his eyes. She felt compelled to obey. The next thing she remembers she is inside the ship, with no recollection of how she got onboard.<br/><br/> She followed Onleel through a main central room and through a doorway to a smaller room. In the room are three or four other beings, in general similar to Onleel but smaller in size, between four to five feet tall. They wore brown one-piece suits with boots. Two were seated at a control panel, while the third stood before a screen. They paid no attention to her. She had the impression that might have been female, but there was nothing about their shape to suggest this except their smaller size. The fittings and furniture were all of \"spun aluminum\" and there was a bright light that illuminated the interior that came from no visible source.<br/><br/> Continued: In the smaller adjacent room Onleel sat the witness down and offered her an aluminum cup with liquid resembling milk. She declined the drink. Then Onleel asked her a number of questions, some of which were of a highly personal nature, indicating that he must already know a great deal about her. He asked her what she would do in various hypothetical situations, and he discussed with her aspects of reincarnation. When asked how she would react to the prospect of facing death, she responded by saying she would accept it. He told her that she was \"one of the developing ones---there are many of you scattered all over the planet,\" and he said they \"would be coming back for her.\" The witness asked when and why, and he answered, \"it is not for you to know.\"<br/><br/> His voice came out in a metallic monotone, like it was computer generated. After the quiz, which lasted perhaps 20 to 30 minutes, she found herself outside the object with no recollection of how she got there, dazed and upset. She was on the street outside the VA Hospital grounds near her own apartment. She got home at about 2:30 a.m. There were many things about her experience she is unable to remember. She had been wearing a new pair of shoes, and that morning she noticed that they were covered with what looked like desert dust and burrs. In a way this confirmed for her the reality of her experience, that it had not been a dream. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1836",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-16, citing investigator Fred Dennis" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/4/1977",
  "desc" : "Gorham, Coos County, New Hampshire - Mrs. Susanne Fortier was walking on the lawn behind her house with her collie dog at 8:15 p.m. Whe heard a sound like a \"wind or whistle\" and she then observed a small object land in the vicinity of the children's playhouse. It was about five feet in diameter, with eight \"pods or legs\", windows or doors all around it, and an antenna on top. The interior was a bright red, and it contained six three-foot-tall occupants who had long slit-like eyes, ape like noses, and no hair. The skin of their faces seemed very wrinkled. They wore gloves. Mrs Fortier could hear \"a garble of voices\" talking, like a bunch of CB voices, and felt a great deal of heat come from the craft. She watched it for about 15 minutes, after which it rose straight up and flew off to the south. When she got back in the house she found her face and legs red from the heat. Her dog, which reacted noticeably to the object, would still not let her go near the area a month later. No traces were found at the landing site, which had been muddy. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1837",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-15, citing investigator Mrs. Lorraine Duchesne, MUFON" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/4/2003",
  "desc" : "At 11:38 p.m. in Coral Springs, Florida a man saw a dark figure outside his window, and at first thought it was a man. It slightly resembled a naked man standing in the middle of the road, but after about 30 seconds the figure walked away. As it went behind some trees the witness thought he would go out to see who it was, but then a triangular UFO appeared, encased in an eerie glow with three lights, one in each corner. The craft then zoomed up into the sky, leaving a trail of white fog behind. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1838",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2003, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/5/1935",
  "desc" : "In Aznalcazar, Spain a large brilliant, round object descended from the sky 450 meters away and hovered just above the ground in a field. Several small beings got out and walked around for ten minutes. The witness, Mr. Mora, thought he had seen an emanation from God. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1839",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Alfredo Moacyr Uchoa, Phenomenes Spatiaux, June 1971, p. 17; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case no. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/5/1943",
  "desc" : "A military pilot reported that over Long Beach, California at 9:50 a.m. a round, orange object flew alongside and then dove at an Army Air Force BT13A trainer aircraft. It subsequently shot away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1840",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 21; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/5/1948",
  "desc" : "At 2:00 in the afternoon at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico three base personnel reported having witnessed two silent disc-shaped objects, 35 meters in diameter, executing a series of violent turns and maneuvers. The discs made no noise during the 30 seconds they were in view, and were viewed through a theodolite. One of the discs shot up vertically. Project Blue Book listed this as an \"unidentified\" case. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1841",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, pp. 52-53; R. B. McLaughlin, True magazine, March 1950, p. 25; Richard Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 79" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/5/1952",
  "desc" : "At 10:40 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. L.G. Ryan, R.L. Stokes, and D. Schook of Phoenix, Arizona watched a large, dull gray disc-shaped object fly by, followed by two more objects. All three flew straight and level at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1842",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/5/1952",
  "desc" : "Miami, Florida. At 9:15 p.m. four dark circular objects with mostly fuzzy edges, crossed the face of the Moon. Each was half the apparent diameter of Moon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1843",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/5/1952",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. Lt. W. R. Holder and Lt. A.M. Jones, the flight crew of a USAF F-94 jet interceptor, saw a small luminous object approach Kadena AFB, Japan from the north. It flew straight and level at first at an estimated speed of 1,000 knots, but then began to maneuver and zigzag. Airborne radar tracked the target for 90 seconds. Control tower operators watched for 50-60 minutes while a dark shape with a light flew as fast as 330 knots (380 mph). It hovered, flew curves and performed a variety of maneuvers. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1844",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Haines, Advanced Aerial Devices Reported During the Korean War, p. 62; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/5/1956",
  "desc" : "A flying humanoid was seen in Birmingham, Alabama. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1845",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 398" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/5/1960",
  "desc" : "An orange disk landed in Beira, Mozambique with a hissing sound, then exploded, while four dwarfish figures ran off into the brush. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1846",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 501" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/5/1966",
  "desc" : "At 3:00 a.m. Lillian Louis sighted a vapor-like sphere hovering at a low altitude in Lycoming, New York. The object hovered low over the ground and was spinning, shooting its exhaust onto the ground below. The entire episode lasted about a minute. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1847",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/5/1966",
  "desc" : "In Alto, Tennessee at 11:55 p.m. witness W. Smith sighted an oval object with a dark top. The object appeared cone-shaped when moving. It made a high-frequency noise. The sighting lasted 2.5 hours. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1848",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/5/1967",
  "desc" : "At 5:15 p.m. on Highway 50 west of Sedalia, Missouri a truck driver reported that a silver disc hovered over the cab of his truck for more than a minute. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1849",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted Phillips, Skylook, February 1968, p. 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/5/1967",
  "desc" : "Ninety minutes later, at 7:45 p.m. EDT between Jonestown and South Lickdale, Pennsylvania on Highway 72 Justice of the Peace John H. Demler saw a ten-meter diameter blue disc making a humming sound like an electric motor. The object flew over his car emitting a chemical odor and sparks. The car's headlights and engine died, and the car was buffeted about as the object took off. The witness was very nervous and agitated after the close encounter, and the top layer of his skin peeled off the next few days. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1850",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, May 1967, p. 6; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 832" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/5/1967",
  "desc" : "At the same time as the Pennsylvania close encounter, the Dauncey family saw a small glowing sphere with a metallic band around the middle in Peterborough, Ontario. The object emitted two vapor trails and, making a humming noise, approached and paced the witnesses' car. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1851",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP files, citing newspaper clipping dated April 14, 1967; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 335" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/5/1969",
  "desc" : "The two witnesses were parked in a remote area of West Nyack, New York at 7:00 p.m. when they saw a light approach. They got out of the car and saw a large oval-shaped craft with lights around its edge and a beam of light shining from its center. A memory lapse occurred, with one witness vaguely recalling the object landing and shining a beam of light towards them. Later one of the witnesses remembered being inside a circular room lying on a white Formica table. He was surrounded by several humanoids described as being five-foot tall with pale gray skin, large round heads, and large black eyes. These beings were well built and wore tight fitting grayish green coveralls. One being appeared to be the examiner, and he wore a turtleneck garment and peered intently into the witness's face. At one point one of the witnesses remembered struggling and thought it felt that he had been ripped to pieces and then reassembled again. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1852",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1969, case # 489, citing Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions The Measure of A Mystery" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/5/1993",
  "desc" : "A Houston, Texas UFO abductee had gone to a professional hypnotist and was given a post-hypnotic suggestion instructing her to defend herself from alien abductors during any subsequent abduction attempts. On this night she was asleep in her bedroom when she awoke and saw two short Grey humanoids with large black, oval-shaped eyes come in through the wall. As one of the beings approached the bed the witness grabbed what seemed to be a black protective eye shield from the humanoid's eyes. His skin felt rough as she tore the eyepiece off. A moist liquid fell on the witness arm, described as a mucus-like substance. The beings then retreated through the wall and left. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1853",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 1696, citing Tricia McCannon, International UFO Library Magazine, June-July 1994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/5/2004",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 a.m. a witness in Newport, Tennessee spotted a bizarre flying creature resembling an arrowhead flying backwards, with what looked like a head or knob on the front. It didn't look mechanical, it was more like some kind of animal. It did not have extended wings like a bird but seemed to have some stubby wings which may have been part of the body, like some type of bat. They protruded out near the end and tapered back to a point at the rear. The creature appeared to be around three feet long and a little over two feet wide. It was moving very fast in a straight line, at an altitude of approximate 150 feet. The witness did not see any method of propulsion, such as wing movement. It just seemed to be gliding but at a high speed. It maintained a level flight path moving westward, where the witness eventually lost sight of it. It was light brown in color along the sides of the wings, with a dark body color, possibly dark brown or black. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1854",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2004, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/6/1950",
  "desc" : "A huge sparkling saucer shaped object moved across the sky heading west over Westfield, Massachusetts on this day. It made a roaring sound as it flew. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1855",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/6/1952",
  "desc" : "At 2:59 p.m. in Temple, Texas fifty to seventy-five gray-white discs continually changed position within a flight formation. The UFOs tilted in unison every 12-15 seconds during the 3.8 minute sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1856",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1099; Project Blue Book Report # 7, May 31, 1952; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/6/1952",
  "desc" : "A man named Poprocky wrote to report that at 8:15 p.m. he watched five lights in the evening sky over Sharon, Pennsylvania that looked like \"a sideview of someone blowing smoke rings.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1857",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Edward Sullivan, Civilian Saucer Intelligence/Los Angeles case files, letter dated April 22, 1952" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/6/1956",
  "desc" : "Two men saw a silvery, balloon-shaped craft about two meters in diameter land in a field 100 meters away from them, about eight kilometers east of McKinney, Texas. They stopped their car to investigate, but the object took off at fantastic speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1858",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, pp. 252-253" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/6/1966",
  "desc" : "At eleven o'clock in the morning in Clayton, Victoria, Australia numerous independent witnesses including dozens of schoolchildren and teachers from Westall High School watched a metallic disc-shaped UFO land in a nearby field, then take off again, while several Cessna-type aircraft and other silvery \"plane-like\" objects circled the area. Some of the witnesses found a perfect circle of flattened grass on the ground, while others encountered military or government personnel in the area who warned them to stay away. Some witnesses said they saw a cow in the paddock where the object came down. The animal was reportedly to have been in such a distressed state that it eventually had to be put down. One student who arrived before the others was found in a dazed, trance-like state. Other schoolchildren saw the UFO on the ground and a normal looking man in white coveralls walking around it, telling everyone to stay back. Another man appeared, this one wearing a dark uniform with an emblem on it. One of the men was seen entering the object, while the other vanished. The object emitted a loud humming sound and then took off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1859",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bill Chalker, The OZ Files; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1966, case # 3125" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/6/1967",
  "desc" : "In a series of nightly encounters that began March 28th, in Conifer, Colorado on this night at 12:30 a.m. two lights appeared that looked like flashlights on a hill over the Davis ranch. The sister, K. Davies, saw a man in dark clothes and wearing a hood on top of the big hill, and later saw a lighted object hovering at the level of the horizon for a long time, that later ascended. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1860",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0805, citing Oleta Havelock and David Saunders" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/6/1967",
  "desc" : "In the same state in Redvale, Colorado later that evening, a single witness saw an orange-colored UFO about 100 feet in diameter upon driving over a hill. The car's lights went out and the engine backfired but it did continue running. The witness felt increased heat, so turned the car around. However, the object started following the car. Eventually it left the car and hovered over a store by the road. A second witness saw this portion of this event. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1861",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 196, citing CUFOS" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/6/1967",
  "desc" : "At shortly after 9:00 p.m. a reddish-orange light paced a Canadian Pacific Western airliner flying near Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and then sped away. The UFO was tracked on radar for 20 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1862",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, March-April 1967, p. 11; Gene Duplantier, Flying Saucers, December 1967, p. 11; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 118, 243, 335" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/6/1972",
  "desc" : "A huge, dark cigar-shaped object flew toward the east slowly for 30 minutes over Vidauban, Var department, France at 2:30 a.m. It had lights on top and bottom, and flew without making a sound. It was confirmed that no planes were up flying at the time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1863",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 124" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/6/1973",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 a.m. a domed disc-shaped object with portholes and landing gear came down and landed in the woods four miles west of Ellsinore, Missouri. At the landing site were found three holes in the ground arranged in a triangle pattern, and some damaged foliage. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1864",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 541; BUFORA Journal, December 1973; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 263" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/6/1973",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. Mrs. Thompson of Charleston, Missouri saw egg-shaped object at treetop level after her TV set went off and on. She then saw a bright flash of light in her kitchen. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1865",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, Volume 5 (1974), case 200; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 340" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/6/1975",
  "desc" : "At 2:00 a.m. two 18-year-old youths, Rod Seagraves and Mike Lewandowski, were driving west on highway A from Wausau, Wisconsin toward Athens when their CB radio stopped working. Mike saw a UFO about 1500 feet north of the road. It was flat on the bottom and dome-shaped on top, and was on or just above the ground. It shone with a pulsating silvery-gray light. In another five minutes of driving they saw what looked like a seven-foot tall \"tree trunk\" near the road. It was about 100 feet away, and Mike saw it moving slowly. He then drove away toward the west. Reaching Wausau, they parked the car behind a restaurant and both fell asleep at around three a.m. When they awoke at 6:30 a.m. the car was in a different location in the parking lot, both were dirty, and a quarter of a tank of gasoline was gone, which suggested to them that they had driven back to the location of the UFO, but had no recollection of doing so. In subsequent months Mike reported having trouble with his thinking, and his memory was poorer than before the incident. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1866",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1975-19, citing Richard Heiden for CUFOS" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/6/1975",
  "desc" : "A sighting at sea occurred on this day by the crew of the Japanese ship Shinto Maru, sailing off Singapore. The white, domed disc-shaped UFO skimmed the water, then ascended. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1867",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 137" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/6/1975",
  "desc" : "At 5:15 p.m. five red lights in close formation came in over the Strickland farm one mile north of Pembroke, North Carolina at an estimated speed of 100 mph. They landed not far away, with smoke rising from the ground. At the landing site there were six burnt trees. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1868",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted Phillips, Skylook, December 1975, p. 16; Jennie Zeidman, The Lumberton Report: UFO Activity in southern North Carolina, p. 21" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/6/1975",
  "desc" : "On this night in San Juan, Puerto Rico Willie Lopez, a disc jockey, was working in the penthouse studio of WBMJ atop the Darlington Hotel when he heard three knocks on the window of the terrace behind his control panel. There was no way for anyone to get out there without going through the studio, and Lopez had seen no one come in. Curious, he went to the window and saw a \"glowing figure\" outside that ran and hid behind one of the columns atop the hotel structure. Nervous, he called the station manager Jose Manuel in the hotel. He then went back to the window and saw a luminous oval object 40 feet wide, no more than 4 feet from the hotel tower, performing a slight rocking motion in the air. He was so stunned that he pulled the curtains from the curtain rod. Going back to the controls, he cut into the music broadcast to describe to his listening audience what had just happened. About this time, Jose Manuel arrived at the studio. The disc jockey was in such a state of shock that he had to be taken to the hospital and sedated. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1869",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1975-15, citing Sebastian Robiou Lamarche" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/6/1977",
  "desc" : "The witness, a woman in her thirties living on Rue Cleroux, Ste. Dorothee, Quebec, Canada was in her kitchen at seven p.m. when she saw a strong light come in her back window. When she raised the blind she saw a disc-shaped object with a dazzling, pulsating white luminosity, about 35 feet in diameter. It was hovering several yards above a tree 35 feet tall. It bore a pulsating red luminous domed cupola on top without windows. Around its lower periphery revolved yellow, green, blue, and red blinking lights. She heard a buzzing sound like a huge swarm of bees.<br/><br/> After watching the UFO for perhaps 15 seconds, she ran to her bathroom and hid. Two minutes later the noise and the light ceased. She went out on the street in front of her house where she found a 13-year-old boy, Jos Madison, pointing a carbine at the sky. The now silent disc-shaped UFO was hovering 100 feet up in a tilted position. Jos did not fire his gun, but called to his friend Alair Narby, also 13 years old. Jos's two sisters also joined them and watched the UFO, which was now moving from place to place above the houses by jumps too rapid to observe. It then stopped in place for more than five minutes, during which Mrs. Madison came out and also observed it.<br/><br/> Now after sunset, the UFO moved off toward the Nadon River, where it again dashed back and forth. The two boys followed it to the Nadon field by the river, in which there was a temporary pond formed by melted snow. They saw the UFO approach the river, flying very low, and it skimmed over the pond producing a loud sizzle of boiling water. It then landed behind a slight rise. It then emitted a very strident sharp sound. After four or five minutes a humanoid being appeared, visible from the waist up because of the terrain. He had a helmeted head, shiny red and metallic shoulders, and was seen from the rear. He appeared in front of the object. Above his head was a red light, apparently floating in midair. He looked to the right and left, then bent down and was not seen again. Shortly afterward the disc rose, lit up, and at an altitude of about 65 feet resumed its erratic movements. Darkness had fallen and the boys returned home, finally running because it seemed to them the UFO was following them. They temporarily suffered partial deafness, perhaps from the UFO's noise. At least three families on the block experienced total interference with their TV reception during this time. At the landing site different tracks and what appeared to be footprints were found. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1870",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Marc Leduc, UFO Quebec, April 1977, issue # 10; HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-74, citing Marc Leduc" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/6/1980",
  "desc" : "Three bright spheres hovered low over a house in Lodz, Poland spreading a blinding light. Frightened, the couple living in the house locked themselves in and came out only the following morning, when the three spheres had gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1871",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "E. Russo, UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1980, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/6/1986",
  "desc" : "On this night at 8:45 p.m. a large disc-shaped ojbect was seen over San Francisco, California. It split into two discs, then a third disc joined the pair, making a V formation that flew off rapidly to the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1872",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, case 1064" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/6/1994",
  "desc" : "Early in the night at one o'clock in the morning a 60-foot diameter disc was sighted hovering briefly over a road in Welcombe, Devonshire, England. It then shot off to the west and out to sea. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1873",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, August 1994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/6/2000",
  "desc" : "At 8:35 p.m. two bright green objects were seen shooting through the sky over Arlington, Texas with an orange object circling around the lead object. There were two other reports from Texas on this afternoon and evening as well. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1874",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/6/2003",
  "desc" : "At 4:50 p.m. a high altitude object was seen flying over Phoenix, Arizona. It stopped, started, made 90 degree turns, and reflected sunlight. It had no exterior lights. An airliner was seen passing below the UFO. Fifteen minutes later a spherical UFO came from the south, stopped, made some sharp turns, and flew off toward the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1875",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), June 2003, p. 30, citing Filer's Files April 9, 2003" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/6/2005",
  "desc" : "In Oakdale, California a glowing orange-colored spherical object zigzagged across the sky at a high rate of speed at 8:40 p.m. It was completely silent.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1876",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "4/7/1948",
  "desc" : "Three men in dark drab flight suits were seen flying through the air at 250 feet altitude over Longview, Washington in the middle of the afternoon. They circled the city as fast as a freight train. They had apparatus on their sides that looked like they may have been wearing guns in holsters. They were seen briefly by three witnesses with the last names of Johnson and Pittman. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1877",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Longview (WA) News, April 8, 1948; John Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 207;  APRO Bulletin, June 1980, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/7/1950",
  "desc" : "Two ferrymen in Saint Ignace, Michigan watched a flying saucer race all over the sky over the Strait. It gave off a plasma glow. On the same day two railroad workers saw a flying saucer the size of a large airplane 3,000 feet over their train. Two silver discs were seen flying over Jericho and Ramallah in Israel and Palestine. At eleven o'clock in the morning a silver, rotating disc flew over a pen factory in Fort Madison, Iowa. It left a shower of sparks behind it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1878",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "newspaper clippings, April 11 & 8, 1950; Loren Gross, UFOs: A History - 1950: April-July, pp. 10 & 12; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 211" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/7/1957",
  "desc" : "An ovoid shaped UFO hovered over a beach in Tahunanui, New Zealand at 3:30 p.m. It had sharply defined edges, and was five times the apparent size of the moon. It suddenly shot away to the north-northwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1879",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History - 1957: March 23-May 25, p. 27" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/7/1964",
  "desc" : "Three humanoids exited a landed UFO at one o'clock in the afternoon in Pocinhos, Brazil. They collected rock and plant specimens. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1880",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next? p. 264" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/7/1966",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 a.m. in Warminster, England two Army officers witnessed a top-shaped UFO fly from the east to the west at a high rate of speed. The UFO turned and rose, leaving a trail in the sky. It made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1881",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 6166; Arthur Shuttlewood,The Warminister Mystery: Astounding UFO Sightings, p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/7/1966",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. in Daniels Park near Denver, Colorado six 17-year-old young men and women were in a shelter in the park when they heard footsteps on the roof. Two boys went out to investigate and heard a buzzing noise that seemed to surround them. In the field they saw two red lights each about a foot in diameter. Meanwhile those left behind in the shelter witnessed a very tall man dressed in black standing outside. They left and started back to their car. When the buzzing started again they saw two blue lights low in the sky, which were joined by a very bright white light. Watching from the car, they continued to hear the sound, and saw \"four things like footballs with domes on them.\" They drove away---with difficulty, for the engine kept stalling---and were followed by a \"huge light\" which did not reflect in the rearview mirror. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1882",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek, case investigation files; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0707, citing Herb Roth for NICAP; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 754; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1966" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/7/1966",
  "desc" : "That same evening several luminous objects with bright red lights were seen hovering at a low altitude in Lincoln, Nebraska. They sped away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1883",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 320" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/7/1967",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. three men in Balmoral, Victoria, Australia witnessed a small, silent ovoid-shaped UFO and shone a spotlight on it. The UFO buzzed the witnessed in response. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1884",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/7/1974",
  "desc" : "A multicolored cone-shaped UFO hovered over a car between Olympia and Lacey, Washington for several minutes on this night. It made a high pitched whining sound, then took off at a tremendous speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1885",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Center for UFO Studies files May 1974, citing newspaper clipping" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/7/1976",
  "desc" : "A couple driving their car in Kontich, Belgium at 9:15 p.m. saw a dirigible-shaped UFO cross the road at a fairly low altitude. It had red and white spotlights around its perimeter. At 11:40 p.m. in Laroque Timbaut, France a three meter tall pinkish, ovoid object, 1 meter in diameter, hung just above the ground. It then jumped at distance of 200 meters almost instantaneously. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1886",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Delaire, UFO Register, Volume 7 (1976), p. 31; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 11691" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/7/1977",
  "desc" : "Mr. Cyril John, age 64, a former local political leader, was up early for an early start to London at 5:00 a.m. in Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, Wales when he noticed a light shining in his bedroom window. Looking out he observed two objects. The first was a silvery-gray egg-shaped object with a bright orange-red light on top of it. It was about four feet across and was rocking gently in the air about 60 meters away. The second was a seven to eight foot tall humanoid figure, who floated in the air with arms out and legs bent back, like a \"free fall parachutist.\" There was only about 35 feet between the man and the observer. No features could be seen on the figure's face, and it wore a uniformly silver-gray \"boiler suit.\" It remained motionless in the air for more than 25 minutes. Then both the being and the ovoid object began slowly moving off, gradually disappearing from view in the distance. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1887",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-17 [A1719], citing Randall Jones Pugh, British UFO Research Association" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/7/1979",
  "desc" : "Several cars experienced electrical system failures on highway 33 in Bigand, Argentina at eight o'clock in the morning. Mr. Celotto, a farmer, saw an eight meter wide disc land, and circular ground traces were found later in a soybean field. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1888",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, November 1979, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/7/1982",
  "desc" : "A mushroom cap shaped flying disc paced two people in a car in Fort Wayne, Indiana. It had hazy lights and made odd maneuvers, not jerky but always smoothly executed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1889",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing APRO Bulletin, June 1982" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/7/1994",
  "desc" : "The witnesses were out in an isolated area of Victoria, Argentina at 9:30 p.m. when they spotted a large white object apparently on the ground about 200 meters away. The object suddenly became brighter illuminating the nearby trees. A white line was now visible on the object, and they now saw 3 small lights moving within the object. The object grew in size, resembling a translucent bubble. Inside they could see eight to ten figures standing in a group. Seconds later a thick white fog enveloped the area. The object dimmed and shot straight up at high speed. Ground traces were found. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1890",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1994, case 3181, citing Silvia P. Simondini" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/7/2002",
  "desc" : "A triangular formation of white lights was seen by a police woman at 3:16 a.m. in Hellifield, near Skipton, England. The lights travelled slowly through the sky in perfect unison, and then made a banking maneuver before disappearing from view. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1891",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (UK), July 2003, p. 11" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/8/1897",
  "desc" : "A dark bulk with a narrow, rectangular shape and illuminated windows flew over a dairy farm in the western part of Iowa after midnight. It was 30 to 35 feet long and 6 or 7 feet wide. Over the rectagular shaped was a cigar-shaped bag, about the same length but 10 feet thicker in width. The two horses of a carriage being driven by a dairy farmer spooked at the sight of the craft and bolted, throwing the man into a ditch. The object rose vertically on its departure. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1892",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Philip Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/8/1950",
  "desc" : "At 2:00 a.m. Mr. Earl Baker, a metal worker in Kokomo, Indiana was awakened by his dog and observed an object outside his bedroom window only 60 meters away hovering at a low altitude. It was a gray metallic disc, five meters in diameter and 15-feet thick. It was shaped like a top with a kind of \"conning tower\" turret on top. It had three ports on the rim giving off a blue light. It was oscillating, spinning slowly, and had three portholes shining with a blue-white light. It hovered for about 2 minutes and then left toward the north at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1893",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #706; Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 166; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/8/1950",
  "desc" : "Later that day shortly before noon near Amarillo, Texas, David Lightfoot, age 12, and his brother Charles saw a disc land behind a hill. They were able to walk up to it and touch it. It was the size of a car tire, about 30 cm high, with a rounded top that rotated. It had a pivot between the base and the top. It took off very fast. The faces and arms of the boys later became red with welts. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1894",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 194" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/8/1950",
  "desc" : "On the same day two disc-shaped objects buzzed a house in San Francisco, California. They stopped in mid-flight, then went up and around like playing a game of tag. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1895",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/8/1952",
  "desc" : "A CBS-TV staff engineer named Smith saw a copper red disc with sharply defined edges fly \"unbelievably fast\" between Pear Blossom and Big Pine, California. It made no sound as it flew and left no contrail. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1896",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Edward Sullivan, Civilian Saucer Intelligence--Los Angeles files, letter dated April 9, 1952" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/8/1953",
  "desc" : "At 7:55 p.m. Lt. D. J. Pichon, pilot of a USAF F-94B jet interceptor, watched a bright blue light descend, accelerate, and then fly parallel to his F-94 over Fukuoka, Japan. The object increased its speed and blinked out after 45 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1897",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/8/1954",
  "desc" : "In Chicago, Illinois Lelah Stoker sighted a white, domed disc with a humanoid suspended beneath it over Lake Michigan at 4:30 p.m. It skimmed above the surface of the lake in all directions. She called in another tenant of the building, Mr. Boruszak, who also saw the object. She called the Coast Guard to report it. The object diminished in size till it was no bigger than a piece of newspaper, as it descended and landed. The human figure, now on the ground, was short and wore a tight-fitting, green, one-piece suit that covered even the head. He walked up and down the lakefront until the Coast Guard search boat had passed. Then the UFO enlarged and rose up again; the suspended \"pilot\" entered it, and it took off very, very fast with no sound. The sighting lasted 30 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1898",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-06; citing Project Blue Book" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/8/1956",
  "desc" : "At 11:45 p.m. near Exauroux, France two brothers, ages 18 and 20, saw a red ball of light come down to their left and hover at tree height. It then left at fantastic speed. Three additional witnesses reported it independently. The object was a disc about 7.5 meters in diameter, with a red dome, and rotating fins under it. It emitted a yellow-orange glow. It moved away extremely quickly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1899",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 253 (case 380)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/8/1966",
  "desc" : "At 11:40 p.m. at Daniels Park near Denver, Colorado six teenagers heard footsteps on the roof of a park shelter where they were sitting and talking. They next saw a big humanoid figure pass in front of a landed light in a nearby field. Four domed football shaped objects maneuvered around in the sky, making a pulsating sound. When they tried to flee the area in their car the car's engine wouldn't start. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1900",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Green Beckley, Flying Saucers, March 1967, p. 24" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/8/1967",
  "desc" : "Four college students saw a greenish fluorescent glow on the ground 180 feet away from their car while driving in the morning eight miles outside of Banner Elk, North Carolina. Their radio experienced interference and their car's engine quit. The glow came from an object, apparently on the ground, which flew up and passed nearby and then flew away. Three imprints in the shape of an equilateral triangle were found in the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1901",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 269; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 33; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, March 1972, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/8/1968",
  "desc" : "At a hospital in Magill, South Australia the hospital staff saw a circular craft in the sky that was flashing red, white, and green lights. The hospital's ship-to-shore radio was effected during the sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1902",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 181" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/8/1972",
  "desc" : "In Talavera la Real, Badajoz, Spain at 12:30 a.m. four people watched an orange ball of light in a 1.5 meter column of white smoke. A Ferris wheel of fireworks rose up, then flew off fast towards the northwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1903",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 154" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/8/1977",
  "desc" : "A domed disc-shaped object flew around two witnesses in Cedar Springs, Michigan at two o'clock in the morning, hovering and flashing over some nearby trees. Ring ground marks were found on the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1904",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "CUFOS files, report dated April 10, 1977" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/8/1978",
  "desc" : "A low flying oval-shaped object with an estimated diameter of 3.5 meters hovered over a garage at around 6:00 a.m. for 15-20 seconds in Saint-Laurent, France at a distance of 500 meters from the witness and an altitude of 50 meters. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1905",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Pierre Delval, Ouranos, issue number 24 (1978), p. 31" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/8/1981",
  "desc" : "The complete failure of an aircraft's electronics, including the transponder, DME, navigation equipment, and two-way radios, occurred when a bullet-shaped UFO passed within 500 feet of an airplane being flown by Mr. Dennis, a flight instructor, while flying over San Luis Reservoir, Merced County, California at 3:00 a.m. The electronics recovered after the UFO had gone. The object was described as 35-50 in length, with a pulsating orange front end, and having a blue ring perpendicular to the craft. The object was said to be whirling, and made an instantaneous 90 degree turn. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1906",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J.Allen Hynek, International UFO Reporter, January 1982, p. 6; UNICAT database, citing Tom Page, case 34; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 43" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/8/1982",
  "desc" : "An 80-foot wide boomerang shaped object, with a convex curved rear end, paced a car being driven by two teenagers west of Escanaba, Michigan at 11:45 p.m. The UFO followed as close as 30 feet altitude, and the two girls feared capture. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1907",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Fred Merritt, International UFO Reporter, September 1982, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/8/1993",
  "desc" : "Prison guards and police in Lebanon, Ohio sighted a nocturnal flying object with small lights around it at 2:20 a.m. There were four calls to the Ohio Highway Patrol of UFO sightings at around 2:30 a.m. as well. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1908",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1993" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/8/1993",
  "desc" : "A cloud of dust was seen in the desert near Interstate 15 in Sloan, Nevada by police at 10:40 a.m. Then a huge silver disc rose from the ground and flew off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1909",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 16021" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/8/1994",
  "desc" : "On an overcast dawn at 6:10 a.m. a saucer-shaped object rose from the ground of a farm in Melbourne, Florida, then temporarily hovered at 30-50 feet before flying off. It had twelve white lights and six red lights on it, which had the appearance of headlights, except that these soft lights did not cast beams. There was one red light between every white light. The object was five times larger than a car. Its distance from the two witnesses, a man and a woman in their seventies, was estimated to be 1200 feet. the UFO made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1910",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Melvin H. Tennis, MUFON field investigation database, case 950403E" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/8/1994",
  "desc" : "A silent, dull metallic saucer-shaped UFO with diamond-shaped windows and big red lights crossed Route 20 in Quiet Dell, West Virginia at 11:40 p.m. Cheryl, the witness, said her car made a screeching sound while the engine faltered, the lights dimmed, and the car's digital clock had its setting erased. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1911",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Teets, West Virginia UFOs: Close Encounters in the Mountain State, p. 160" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/8/1996",
  "desc" : "A 39-year-old man in Thomasville, North Carolina had a close encounter with a disc-shaped object on a partly cloudy night at 9:15 p.m. The object had a bluish-green, cone-shaped beam projecting from it. The beam was narrow at the top, but had a three foot diameter at the bottom towards the ground, although it did not seem to be illuminating the ground. The bottom of the disc had an inner circle of many red lights. Inside were four rocket-like cones, giving off a red glow. The UFO came within 10 feet of the witness. The UFO made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1912",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Hair, MUFON field investigation database, case 970408E" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/8/1996",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. local time a high altitude UFO zigzagged through the sky at very high speeds over Americana, Brazil. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1913",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Boletim CEPEX, issue number 27" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/8/1999",
  "desc" : "A brilliant sphere some three meters in diameter flew over Hartford, Connecticut at 5:30 a.m. It had glowing lights that illuminated the low clouds overhead, as it flew at a low altitude, hugging the terrain as it went. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1914",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George Filer, Filer's Files Internet news list, volume 9, number 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/8/2000",
  "desc" : "A yellowish orange cigar shaped UFO approached Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, India at 11:55 p.m. It flew at a high altitude, halted over a cargo terminal, hovered, descended, wobbled, then vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1915",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), July 2000, p. 25" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/8/2004",
  "desc" : "There were multiple reports from Rochester, Indiana on this night to the National UFO Reporting Center. One report was of a very large disc-shaped object with six lights that went on and off in 20 second intervals. The other report was of an independent sighting of yellowish orange lights in the southern sky. The object in question may have been around 200 feet in width. At about the same time, at 10:00 p.m. in Leiters Ford, Indiana another report came in of a UFO with yellowish beams of light. The beams were peculiar because the never seemed to touch the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1916",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Washington, April 2004 webpage archive" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/9/1949",
  "desc" : "At 4:30 p.m. an orange colored UFO was seen over some telephone lines by J. Bova at the Davis Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona. The object suddenly moved from right to left, then moved again passing behind the telephone pole. It then returned to its original position, finally engaging in some erratic movements and ascending into a cloud. It changed color as it did so, from orange to white. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1917",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Edward Sullivan, CSI Los Angeles case files, citing letter from J. Bova in 1952; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 155" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/9/1950",
  "desc" : "A bright red pencil-shaped UFO, about six meters in length, moved through the sky over Hapeville, Georgia, flying to the south. It flickered like a neon light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1918",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "M. Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon 1947-1987, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/9/1952",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 p.m. a USAF C-54 transport plane flying near Shreveport, Louisiana was buzzed by a disc-shaped UFO estimated to be 35 feet in diameter. Air Force jets were scrambled from Barksdale AFB and chased the UFO for 55 miles as it headed off to the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1919",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book Report #6; Project Grudge and Project Blue Book Special Reports 1-12, report dated April 30, 1952" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/9/1952",
  "desc" : "On the same night a round, red colored UFO moved silently above a drive-in movie screen in Asheville, North Carolina at a high rate of speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1920",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Edward Sullivan, CSI Los Angeles case files, citing letter from F. Branch dated April 16, 1952" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/9/1956",
  "desc" : "A round UFO surrounded by a \"circle of red, blue and green lights\" traveled at a high speed from the northeast to the southwest over Northampton, New York as \"rays of penetrating light shot from it.\" There were three witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1921",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Alexander Mebane, CSI-NY Newsletter, May 1956; Amsterdam Record, April 12, 1956" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/9/1958",
  "desc" : "On this date in 1958 the CIA Robertson Panel report was released. At 3:30 a.m. a UFO was seen over Keta, Ghana swinging in a falling leaf motion. That same night a row of nine yellow discs flew over Cleveland, Ohio and split up into two groups of four and five. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1922",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald H. Menzel, The World of Flying Saucers, p. 143; FSR, September-October 1970, p. 28; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 137" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/9/1959",
  "desc" : "At 6:50 p.m. a UFO was seen against the mountains by the Sideia Mission Brothers in Boianai, Papua New Guinea. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1923",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Charles Bowen, UFOs in Two Worlds: FSR Special Edition No. 4, p. 34" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/9/1962",
  "desc" : "At around 11:00 p.m. a 15-meter wide metallic disc came down and landed in a meadow in Rivoli, Italy. Two beings exited the craft and then reboarded. The UFO rose vertically on takeoff. There were traces of burnt grass at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1924",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Maurizio Verga, ITACAT: Italian UFO Catalogue; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2066" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/9/1965",
  "desc" : "At 7:20 p.m. an Air France aircrew in France saw a metallic disc-shaped object while flying at 15km altitude near Marignane Airport. It suddenly vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1925",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 42" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/9/1967",
  "desc" : "A conical-shaped UFO was photographed over Sofiya, the capital city of Bulgaria. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1926",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 193" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/9/1967",
  "desc" : "Five witnesses at the intersection of Highway 30 and Highway 281 saw a UFO near the Cornhusker Ordnance Plant in Grand Island, Nebraska at dusk. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1927",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Norma Short, Skylook, August 1972, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/9/1970",
  "desc" : "A small sphere 40 cm in diameter, with spokes inside, was seen rotating close to the ground in Aufhofen, Germany. The UFO drew water from a pool on the roadway, and then shot away vertically into the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1928",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, July-August 1972, p. 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/9/1971",
  "desc" : "A well known UFO photograph was taken on this day by a geographical survey plane in Costa Rica. The survey plane was taking a series of aerial photographs at 10,000 feet when at 8:25 a.m. it captured an image of a conical, disc-shaped UFO emerging from a lake called Lago de Cote. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1929",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, December 1981, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/9/1974",
  "desc" : "At 6:15 a.m. two people driving in a taxi watched a large luminous cigar as it flew southeast toward Mount Dol in Saint Malo, France under a heavry cloud cover. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1930",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 141" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/9/1975",
  "desc" : "A delta-shaped UFO hovered over a house three miles south of Lumberton, North Carolina at 2:30 a.m., and all the lights in the house went out. The lights came back on when the UFO moved away toward the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1931",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Center for UFO Studies case files, report dated May 4, 1975; Jennie Zeidman, Lumberton Report: UFO Activity in southern North Carolina, p. 35; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 19" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/9/1984",
  "desc" : "Several intercontinental airline pilots reported sighting a mushroom-shaped cloud, similar to what forms in the atmosphere after a nuclear explosion, over the western part of the Pacific Ocean. The cloud was slightly luminous, about 200 miles in diameter, and at a height of 65,000 feet. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1932",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "William Corliss and Jerome Clark, UFO Calendar 1999" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/9/1988",
  "desc" : "A triangular UFO hovered for three minutes over Stode, Sweden at 1:00 p.m. It vanished in a cloud of smoke. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1933",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "AFU Sweden" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/9/1992",
  "desc" : "A nocturnal light followed five people into the town of Russas, Ceara State, Brazil at around 9 p.m. It hovered nearby as the terrified witnesses attempted to hide from the light source in a large tree. The object left a few minutes later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1934",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UBPDV, Causistica Brasileira de 1992, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/9/1994",
  "desc" : "A brilliant Kelly green sphere flew near a woman's home in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. It flew off to the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1935",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/9/2000",
  "desc" : "A motorist driving in Hot Springs, Arkansas at 4:30 a.m. saw an enormous, pinkish metallic cigar-shaped UFO 100 feet above the road. It stopped in front of the car. He blacked out. When he came to he smelled an odor of something burning. He recalls a high-pitched buzzing sound, and has recollections of an exam table. His back is bruised. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1936",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), July 2000, p. 24" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/10/1954",
  "desc" : "On this night near Caracas, Venezuela Sr. Emelino Martinez was walking back from hunting in the hills outside of the city when there was a sudden movement in the nearby bushes. Martinez stopped and stood motionless, shotgun at the ready, when the thrashing noise happened again. He waited briefly before resuming his walk toward his parked automobile. He next heard a blood curling guttural noise. Terrified, he dropped his day's catch and ran for his car. An unintelligible shout behind him indicated that whatever creature it was, it was close to him. He stopped for an instant to glance back toward his pursuer. He then saw two bizarre creatures running after him. They were short, and looked like a half man, half monkey. They were covered with dark hair. Martinez reached the car fumbling with his pockets for the keys. He dropped the keys and picked them up and attempted to open the car. He was then suddenly grabbed from behind. He fell together with his assailant into a ditch besides the road. He dropped his shotgun as two powerful arms closed over his throat. He managed to break free and scrambled towards the car. The creature jumped on top of him, screaming, growling, and biting like a mad animal. He could not reach his shotgun, so he grabbed a large rock and repeatedly smashed his attacker on the head. Screams of pain slashed through the dark night.<br/><br/> Martinez saw his attacker move backward, blood spurting from his head wounds. He then dashed to his car. He snapped the door locked as the two creatures lunged against the car, pounding their hairy fists against the windows in frustrated rage. He managed to start the car and drove away at very high speed directly to the police station. The next day, Martinez and some friends returned to the site and recovered his shotgun they also found some blood stained leaves. They questioned locals and were told that strange disc shaped objects had been seen in the area and that; cattle, sheep, pigs, dogs, and two young farmhands had disappeared on the mountain. The farmers have also seen black, bristly haired dwarfs that hid in caves and kidnapped both livestock and humans. Martinez never returned to the area to hunt again. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1937",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 2992, citing Warren Smith, Triangle of The Lost" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/10/1968",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. two groups of three bright lights flew in a triangular formation over Ipswich, Massachusetts. They swung in a pendulum motion and changed colors from red to blue to green to white. They made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1938",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler Raymond, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 351, case 68-15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/10/1969",
  "desc" : "At ten o’clock in the evening, in the midst of a flurry of UFO sightings in various regions of Brazil, student Marco Antonio von Kruger in Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais state, Brazil noticed interference on his TV. He looked out his window and saw a “vague shape in movement” and also heard garbage cans being overturned. The next day he found that someone or some creature had been rummaging through the garbage cans. At about the same time that Marco reported his observation, a worker returning home not far from Marco’s home observed an enormous round UFO hovering near the ground from which came “strange measured, muffled sounds.” ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1939",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-30, citing FSR Case Histories # 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/10/1973",
  "desc" : "A woman driving along US highway 1 in southern Rhode Island saw a reddish-orange object move toward her car, then pass directly overhead. He car lights dimmed and the engine faltered. The object was estimated to be 42 feet in diameter, and was surrounded by a green haze. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1940",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald R. Todd, APRO Bulletin, May-June 1973, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/10/1974",
  "desc" : "The witness, Mr. Smith, had just left work shortly after midnight and was driving toward Waterville, Ohio on Rte. 64 when his motor and lights died near the town of Whitehouse, Ohio. He got out of the car and noticed a car behind him stop. The driver, normally dressed and with gray hair, approached and offered the witness \"proof\" of his extraordinary powers by dematerializing a rock with a small, hand held device. He then told the witness to he should save his marriage, and promised subsequent \"contacts.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1941",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted Bloecher, 1975 MUFON UFO Symposium Proceedings, p. 56; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-15, citing Earl Neff & Larry Moyes" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/10/1978",
  "desc" : "A police officer at a stakeout for animal mutilators sighted a silent, 12 foot long red-glowing cylinder at 5:20 a.m. in Goochland, Virginia float away from a pasture. It flew sideways at 20 feet altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1942",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, April 1988; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 12615, citing MUFON" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/10/1980",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. a hovering red disc-shaped object searched the ground in Lincolnton, North Carolina with a beam of light, then took off at a 45 degree angle, making an intense humming sound. A red sphere was seen later south of town at treetop level. There were three witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1943",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1980; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 25" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/10/1989",
  "desc" : "On this night in Dibich, Bulgaria the witness of a previous UFO close encounter was visited at home by an undescribed \"evil\" being who was accompanied by a fireball-like object and a huge hairy humanoid. The visitor allegedly wanted to \"take possession\" of the witness's soul. She resisted but was visited several more times after this date by the same beings. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1944",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case # 719, citing Richard F. Haines, Joint USA-CIS Aerial Anomaly Federation Report" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/10/1998",
  "desc" : "At 9:07 p.m. a triangular-shaped UFO was seen in the southwestern sky in Pueblo, Colorado. It zigzagged in flight, and then scanned the area with a beam of light. It circled passenger jet, then changed shape, dividing into different colors. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1945",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Curt Sutherly, UFO Mysteries: A Reporter Seeks the Truth, p. 203, citing the Pueblo Chieftain, April 19, 1998" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/11/1897",
  "desc" : "On this night a farmer in Lock Mills, Indiana claimed he was visited by a man in an airship who projected pictures onto the side of his barn. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1946",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Philip Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/11/1897",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. an airship hovered near Milwaukee, Wisconsin and was witnessed by a man named Mayer. He reported that their was an occupant visible inside the craft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1947",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 19" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/11/1897",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. another airship sighting with occupants aboard was made in Minnetonka, Minnesota by a man named MacKroth. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1948",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0013, citing the Minneapolis Tribune" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/11/1952",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon six silent disc-shaped objects flew over Temiscaming, Quebec leaving vapor trails. They flew in an up-and-down motion, and were definitely \"not planes.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1949",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 921, citing the North Bay (Ontario) Nugget" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/11/1952",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. a silent green ovoid object flew to the north in Hammond, British Columbia, turned red, and made a ninety-degree turn. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1950",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "newspaper clipping dated April 30, 1952" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/11/1957",
  "desc" : "At 7:00 p.m. fighter jets were observed chasing a golden colored disc through the sky in Cohasset, Massachusetts. The disc made fast, sharp turns, and shot away from the jets. The jets were seen circling the area for the next hour. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1951",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: March 23-May 25, p. 33" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/11/1962",
  "desc" : "A disc-shaped object directed a strong beam of light over two cars on a highway between Saronno and Legnano, Italy on this night. It made no noise while it jumped up and up three times and flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1952",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, September-October 1962, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/11/1964",
  "desc" : "In Homer, New York at 6:30 p.m. physiotherapist W.B. Ochsner and his wife observed two cloud-like objects darken in the sky. One shot away and returned during some 30-45 minutes later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1953",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek case files; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/11/1966",
  "desc" : "A police officer in New Hampshire stopped his patrol car to check on a building at 2:30 a.m. He glanced up and saw a glowing, white elliptical object hovering overhead. He took a Polaroid photograph of the UFO and when pulling the film through the camera the UFO moved off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1954",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler case files, report dated April 16, 1966" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/11/1967",
  "desc" : "On this day a cigar-shaped object with bright red and white lights was sighted at Chemong Lake, Ontario. It made a humming noise. At 6:45 p.m. in Orange, Massachusetts three witnesses saw a bright glowing object shaped like a \"squashed egg.\" It hovered 100 feet over a pond, and then shot off. It had a rotating red light on the bottom. Five minutes later, at 6:50 p.m. a mass of very bright lights descended and hovered in Royalston, Massachusetts before moving out of sight on an upward course. The lights were brighter than the Moon, which was visible during the sighting. At 9:33 p.m. Carol Watts had his second close encounter with UFO entities. An egg-shaped object stalled his truck as he was driving in Loco, Texas. Four beings, under five feet tall and with wrap around eyes, slit mouths, and white coveralls emerged and invited him aboard. He was given some kind of exam onboard the craft by a machine. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1955",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science, Autumn 1967, p. 15; (2) Raymond E. Fowler case files, report dated April 30, 1967; (3) Raymond E. Fowler case files, report dated May 26, 1967; (4) Hartford Courant, February 25, 1968" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/11/1970",
  "desc" : "At 12:15 a.m. a large glowing disc hovered over West Howe, England. A smaller saucer-shaped object flew in and joined it, touching the larger object. The UFOs then shot off to the northwest in sequence, first one, then the other. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1956",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "newspaper clipping, May 11, 1970" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/11/1974",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 a.m. Virginia Varela was awakened by a sound in her home near Santa Clara de Olimar, Argentina. When she looked out the window she saw \"an indefinite figure which seemed to be covered by a light colored garment.\" It immediately disappeared. It left footprints of feet wearing boots. Later on she noticed a light and heard more noises. She next saw two shining points of light moving together across the sky. On the following two nights there were again indications that someone had been around the house, and the hum of a motor was heard. Her cows panicked, and one was found dead. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1957",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-72, citing Prof. Wellington Perrone" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/11/1991",
  "desc" : "At 5:00 p.m. a luminous ovoid object hovered over a prison in Brasilia, Brazil. It had a vertical orientation, and vanished and then reappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1958",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next? p. 285" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/11/1998",
  "desc" : "A UFO that looked like an irregular triangle with rounded corners was seen in the sky in Corralitos, California at 9:15 p.m. It had three white lights along the bottom. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1959",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/12/1897",
  "desc" : "A few days before the crescendo in a wave of \"airship\" sightings across the United States and Canada, there were 65 reports of \"airships\" on this day, including 25 in Illinois alone. Below are summarized two of the more interesting close encounter cases.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1960",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "4/12/1897",
  "desc" : "Nilwood, Illinois - At 2:30 p.m. on the property of Z. Thacker, 19 kilometers north of Carlinville, an unknown object landed. Before Edward Teeples, William Street and Franklin Metcalf could reach it, the craft, which was shaped like a cigar with a dome, rose slowly and left toward the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1961",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 182; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomena, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/12/1897",
  "desc" : "At 6 p.m. a large crowd of miners in Girard, near Green Ridge, Illinois saw an unknown object land three kilometers north of Green Ridge and 4 km south of Girard. The night operator of the Chicago and Alton Railroad, Paul McCramer, stated that he came close enough to the craft to see a man emerge from it to repair the machinery. Traces were found over a large area. The object was elongated like a ship, with a roof and a double canopy. It left toward the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1962",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 182, citing the Chicago Times-Herald, April 14, 1897" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/12/1952",
  "desc" : "North Bay, Ontario, Canada. At 9:30 p.m. Royal Canadian Air Force Warrant Officer E. H. Rossell and Flight Sgt. R. McRae sighted a round amber object that flew fast, stopped, reversed direction, and climbed away at a 30-degree angle during the two-minute observation. They said it with terrific speed, twice the speed of an F-86. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1963",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1108; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 87; UNICAT, case # 810" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/12/1953",
  "desc" : "At 10:31 local time an unidentified target appeared on the radar scope at Torbat Airport, Newfoundland, Canada. It was on a magnetic course of approximately 270 degrees. One of the radar operators looked outside and saw what he thought was a B-29 aircraft, but when the object disappeared, he returned to the radar set and observed the object make a 180 degree turn 8 miles west of the airport. If fade from the radar scope 30 miles away in a northeast direction. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1964",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "www.nicap.org/waves/1953fullrep.htm citing Dan Wilson" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/12/1953",
  "desc" : "At 3:10 p.m., while flying over Sweetwater, Nevada in a USAF C-47 transport 80 miles southwest of Reno, USAF Major Padelford, Lt. White and Lt. Cripe, the pilot, co-pilot, and navigator, sighted 9-10 flat, darkish metallic discs flying against the terrain. They were flying enroute from Long Beach to Stead AFB, NV at an altitude of 10,500 feet. They described the discs as having fuzzy edges, as they flashed beneath their aircraft descending. The co-pilot took control of the C-47, and turned to the right in a tight 300 degree turn for a better view of the objects. The objects were then picked up unassisted by two more members of the crew. The objects were observed in a right turn of greater radius than that of the C-47, and at a lower altitude. The object were observed for approximately 120 degrees of their turn, and disappeared on a heading of 300 degrees. The observers were unable to estimate the speed of the objects because of the distance and the objects'' large radius of turn. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1965",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: March-July, p. 32; UNICAT, case # 762; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, April 1988, p. 19; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 183; Project Blue Book files; James McDonald files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/12/1953",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. miners in Coniston, Ontario, Canada watched as a glowing cigar-shaped object hovered over their smelter in a light wind. Over the next several minutes in began to shrink and it changed color. The duration of the sighting was 20 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1966",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, November 1953" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/12/1957",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 a.m. an odd cone-shaped UFO descended to the side of highway N562 in Figanieres, Var, France, causing the engine of the witness's car to stall. Vegetation at the site was later found to be dead. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1967",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, August 1972" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/12/1958",
  "desc" : "On this night university professor Dr. Garron and his wife were in Tabladitas, Jujuy Province, Argentina when they watched a 30 meter luminous object descend to ground level. It had a halo; it turned and flew off to the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1968",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Uriondo Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, December 1973, p. 17; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1958: March-April, p. 70" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/12/1960",
  "desc" : "LaCamp, Louisiana. At 9:00 p.m. Monroe Arnold, a physical scientist, saw a fiery-red disc that made a rumbling sound and exploded four or five times while flying through the sky for two to three seconds.  It plowed through trees, struck the ground, bounced nine times, and resulted in explosions and flames. It left behind nine ground scars. An analysis of paint samples from the explosion proved inconclusive. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1969",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 6711; NICAP UFO Investigator, May 1960, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/12/1966",
  "desc" : "At 7:45 p.m. EST witnesses in Dorchester, Massachusetts reported a low-flying oval object with a dome on top and colored lights around its perimeter, circling over a schoolhouse and bobbing up and down. There was a coincident power failure (EM effects) in nearby Roxbury. At 10:00 p.m. EST an elongated elliptical (or cigar-like) object with a bright red-orange light at each end was seen hovering off Route 24 in Brockton, Massachusetts. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1970",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 337; Boston Record American, April 13, 1966, quoted in Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1966 (volume 12, #4), pp. iii-iv" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/12/1967",
  "desc" : "In Toronto, Ontario, Canada at 8:15 p.m. four lens-shaped discs with flashing lights on their rims circled a group of about 20 witnesses. Two of the object shot away on approach of an airplane. There were also sightings in Rice Lake, and Scarborough, Ontario and a close encounter in Richmond Hill, Ontario. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1971",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP files, report dated April 17, 1967; Gene Duplantier, Flying Saucers, December 1967, p. 11; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 335, 372" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/12/1967",
  "desc" : "In North Granby, Connecticut at 8:30 p.m. three witnesses saw a glowing, red-orange, bowl-shaped object emitting a \"painfully\" bright light. It made rapid motions for five minutes, and a rod extended from object. It shot away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1972",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP files; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 335" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/12/1967",
  "desc" : "Also at 8:30 p.m. six members of a team doing underwater film work for ABC News saw five bright white lights in formation while near the Coastal Keys Highway off of Key Largo, Florida. The lights pulsated bright-and-dim on a half-second cycle, and maneuvered around each other as they passed overhead at about 200 feet altitude. The witnesses, in two 16-foot boats in windy weather with choppy waves, included a former aircraft carrier pilot, two former submarine sailors, and a boat captain guide. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1973",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Letter to Herb Roth, May 5, 1967, NICAP files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/12/1967",
  "desc" : "At 8:59 p.m. in Phoenix, Arizona a close encounter occurred when a bell-shaped object buzzed a car with three witnesses; it banked, turned, and then flew away. The engine of the car was affected. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1974",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files; Mark Rodeghier, UFOs Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 34" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/12/1967",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. in Vienna, West Virginia two blobs of light maneuvered over the TV towers of WTAP-TV; a truncated cone of light searched the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1975",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 11" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/12/1967",
  "desc" : "At 10:10 p.m. in Hackettstown, New Jersey near a fish hatchery, five witnesses including a police officer had a UFO encounter lasting over an hour that involved an animal reaction. They watched a revolving object with a red light in the middle, green lights on both ends, and white lights on the bottom. The object left a white trail, and it started and stopped many times, becoming all white when not moving. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1976",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Berthold E. Schwarz, FSR, March 1971, p. 5 & January 1972, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/12/1968",
  "desc" : "A cluster of multicolored lights hovered, blinking red to orange to blue, in Hamilton, Massachusetts at 10:15 p.m. They shot upward out of sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1977",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 352" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/12/1969",
  "desc" : "At noon several Swedish Air Force personnel sighted seven balloon or disc-shaped UFOs; the objects hovered over Rissala AFB, Sweden and there was reported to be radar confirmation of the sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1978",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 37; UFO Information Sweden, February 1971; MUFON UFO Journal, issue no. 152" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/12/1969",
  "desc" : "A former-schoolmistress was exercising her dog in some fields between Bridgeworth and Shrewsbury, England at about 6:30 p.m. when she observed a top-shaped object on the far side of a hedge, It stood about three meters high and was resting on gray colored legs. Around the object she saw three beings about the size of 11-year-old children. They had pear shaped heads and appeared to be lacking hands. They wore black outfits with white belts. Despite their apparent lack of hands they were collecting samples from the ground that they placed on the side of the object. The specimens seemed to disappear into the solid craft. The woman's dog fled the scene at the outset of her encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1979",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-25, citing Roger Stanway & Anthony Pace" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/12/1973",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. An orange ball of light was observed from a Cessna 150 by physicist Harvy Rutledge and one other witness at 2500 feet flying southeast of Piedmont, Missouri. The orange ball of light appeared on the slope of Clark's Mountain, and disappeared when the aircraft turned toward it. A simultaneously identical light appeared to their right. When the aircraft banked again, the object turned and then shot straight up. The acceleration was estimated at 330 G's. Also, a glowing ball or disc-shaped object was chased by two experienced pilots in a Piper Cherokee over Farmington, Missouri, the same night and at the same time as the Piedmont incident. The object gave off heat waves, and made no noise. it outdistanced the plane with a tremendous burst of speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1980",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Charles J. Oswald, St. Louis Globe Dispatch, July 11, 1981; NICAP UFO Investigator, June 1973, p. 2; Harvey Rutledge, Project Identification, p. 15-18; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 38" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/12/1974",
  "desc" : "In the early afternoon a bright object ascended vertically from the ground next to the road between Maintenon and Hanches in Eure-et-Loir, France, hovered for five minutes, and then flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1981",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 137" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/12/1974",
  "desc" : "At 11:45 p.m. nurses in a hospital in Tarbes, Hautes-Pyrénées, France saw a red glowing disc, 0.2 m in diameter, vanish and then reappear near the 4th floor of the hospital's cobalt clinic. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1982",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 142" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/12/1977",
  "desc" : "Shortly before 11:00 a.m. a woman in the city of Oxelosund, Sweden heard a shrill whistling sound. A brown, four-meter diameter disc hovered 100m over a water tower. It had an antenna with a sphere on top. It hovered in place for four seconds. When the UFO departed a strong noise was heard causing windows to vibrate. It left toward the southeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1983",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Information Sweden, May 1977, p. 17; Bertil Soderquist, MUFON UFO Journal, January 1978, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/12/1977",
  "desc" : "On this night in Herbrandston, Dyfed, Wales there was a red glow in the sky when an 11-year-old boy reported seeing a figure 50 meters away dressed in a silver diver suit, wearing a large helmet and with a square, featureless face. The being drifted through a closed gate on a country lane. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1984",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Hugh Turnbull, FSR, June 1977, p. 6, citing Western Telegraph, April 28, 1977" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/12/1977",
  "desc" : "At 3:30 p.m. two young girls walking under a highway overpass by a canal in Tucson, Arizona and were following a path up a small hill when they saw a UFO hovering above some nearby brush. The craft was dark gray, metallic, and shaped like a drum. It had four to six long spider like legs hanging from its bottom. The UFO rose slowly and disappeared towards the southeast following a curved path. From out of some bushes beneath where the object had been hovering, a thin, human-like figure emerged. It had long brown hair and was wearing a blue top and dark pants, but it also wore strange looking boots. Behind the thin figure five other shorter figures appeared. The group walked briskly away in single file, towards the desert and into the distance where they could no longer be seen. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1985",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, case # 1810, citing Virgilio Sanchez Ocejo, Destino, Vol. 27 # 3, quoting APRO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/12/1977",
  "desc" : "at 11 p.m. in Henschen, Indiana a couple were driving to their trailer home and had to make a stop to change their baby's diaper. As the husband looked for a diaper in the car he glanced out a window and saw a twelve foot tall hairy creature with fierce glowing red eyes. The creature uttered some guttural sounds and made an apparent aggressive move towards the car. They drove off quickly, but the creature chased their vehicle as they attempted to flee. It pounded angrily on their car and dented it, flinging its arms up and down. The following night the couple saw a similar creature perched near a tree that was overlooking their mobile home. The creature took several steps towards the house and was shot at by the husband several times, at which point it seemed to jump up and disappeared in plain sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1986",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, case # 1710, citing Jim Barnett, UFOs and Alien Encounters # 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/12/1981",
  "desc" : "In a remote farm area of Goodhue, Minnesota a civil engineer and his wife encountered a two-foot diameter aluminum-like disc as they drove by just 40 feet away. In the early afternoon R. E. Schenk, age 56, and his wife were driving south on Highway 58. At about 1:30 p.m. they saw the small disc, shaped like two saucers, one inverted on top of the other. The object was hovering just a few feet off the road about 40 feet away, with sunlight reflecting off its surface. Surprised by what he had seen, the former Navy pilot turned and drove back. He and his wife then saw the object at an estimated 2,000-4,000 feet altitude. It climbed rapidly through the sky, and disappeared in the distance, headed in the direction of Minneapolis. The weather was clear, and visibility unlimited. It was a bright, sunny day. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1987",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 26, 155, 165; MUFON UFO Journal, October 1981" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/12/1986",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. a single witness in Delmont, Pennsylvania sighted a 6-meter glowing circle of light only 5 cm from the ground in a residential area. It extended some legs and was completely silent. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1988",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, December 1986" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/12/1989",
  "desc" : "At 12:25 a.m. a woman in Perth, Western Australia was awake in bed next to her sleeping husband when she became aware of a high-pitched sound. On the right side of the bed a short figure suddenly appeared. She described it as semi-transparent, and it wore a bright green neon belt and a green ring. The entity was examining a box when the witness made a sudden move, and the being then touched its belt and vanished in plain sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1989",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case # 1318, citing Keith Basterfield" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/12/1989",
  "desc" : "An 11-year-old boy in Webster, Massachusetts saw a cigar-shaped object rise out of a lake. It was brownish-black and 15' long. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1990",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Gribble, Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case # 253" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/12/1992",
  "desc" : "Driving in the desert on US Highway 180 near Deming, New Mexico a man was listening to his CB radio when the radio suddenly sent silent. He next noticed a patch of white light shining on a rise over the left side of the road. He then heard a voice in his head that told him to \"watch out for the smoke.\" Thinking it had been the CB radio, he tried to reply but got no answer. Next, he saw what looked like a huge luminous cloud which created what looked like a curtain across the highway. He drove into the grayish-white mist for about an hour. He stopped his vehicle and walked across the road and to a ditch, but he was still unable to see anything. Suddenly, he became paralyzed, and saw the approach of two beings about 5 feet tall. Each being got on either side of him and place a firm grip on his forearms. The beings had long bony fingers. They then led him to a shiny metallic craft, shaped like a flattened arch with rounded ends. A rectangular opening appeared in the side of the craft. He experienced amnesia about what happened next. The next thing he remembers is sitting back in a chair inside the craft, feeling dizzy and numb. He was briefly left alone before two beings entered the room. One was a male with a round, oval face and oval black eyes. The second being was a female, similar in appearance to the male being. The witness was then led to a dimly lit room, and place in a reclining position on a chair. He felt a buzzing sensation on his face, and felt as if a small object was being inserted into his nose. He was then released and led outside, and floated horizontally to his vehicle. He resumed his drive and the vapor-like fog quickly dissipated. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1991",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 2002 Humanoid Contact Sighting Reports, case # citing Richard J. Boylan and Les K. Boylan, Close Extraterrestrial Encounters" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/12/1994",
  "desc" : "Farm animals in Granville, Tennessee were reported to be unusually calm after a rectangular object passed at a low altitude. It had a white light at two corners, and trees hid the other two corners. The object was dark, but the space between the two lights blocked the stars; it was bigger than a house, and made a low rumble. The altitude was estimated to be 100 feet and the distance 500 feet. It moved very slowly. When the object vanished from sight, there was a sudden flash of white light and the rumbling sound ceased. The animals' calmness persisted afterward.  Animals involved were 5 goats, 4 dogs, 9 geese, 40 chickens, at least one cow and a horse. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1992",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "LaVere M. Pisut, MUFON investigation files, case # 941214S; Francis L. Ridge and Joan Woodward, http://www.nicap.org/waves/1994fullrep.htm" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/12/1996",
  "desc" : "At 11:50 p.m. an intense fireball paced an airliner while flying over Philipsburg, Pennsylvania, then suddenly moved 20 miles in a few seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1993",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Domique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 48" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/12/1998",
  "desc" : "In Farmers Branch, Texas three witnesses saw a black round object that flew overhead at 1440 mph. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1994",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 18034; Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 3, number 16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/12/2003",
  "desc" : "A couple in Gisborne, New Zealand saw a multi-colored UFO hovering for 15 minutes. Laurence Fleming reported that at around 11:50 p.m. he and his wife were outside when they spotted the object. It displayed a red to green to yellow color pattern, alternating frequently to blue as well. The viewed it through binoculars. It vanished, and then suddenly reappeared further away in less than a second. Eventually it was lost from view because of the cloud cover. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1995",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twitchell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 49-50" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/12/2004",
  "desc" : "In Citrusdal, Western Cape, South Africa two witnesses were walking home at 9:30 p.m. when they saw a flying triangle craft moving very slowly through the sky. It had a yellow light at each of the three points, and in the middle of the craft was a blue and red light that went on and off and circled each other. \"My grandmother an I stood there for about 4 minutes watching the craft, and then I went home.\" The witness told her father about it, and he became a third witness, but he could only make out a faint light in the sky. The grandmother had seen a similar craft several nights before. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1996",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twitchell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 114, citing Brian Vike, HBCCUFO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/12/2005",
  "desc" : "A blue oval-shaped object was seen in the afternoon sky in Dorion, Quebec. Looking somewhat like a blimp, it was not moving at first when first sighted at 3:33 p.m.; it vanished after crossing behind some trees. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1997",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2005 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 416, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/12/2008",
  "desc" : "In Sonora, California a man saw what he descibed as a \"Grey translucent being\" studying the flowers in his garden. He had arrived back home from work after parking the car in the garage and had walked to his front door, when he was amazed to see what looked like \"a typical grey alien being in my garden.\" It was translucent and not completely solid, and about five feet tall. It seemed incredibly thin and had a very pointed chin. It appeared to be studying the plants, and from this point on he has no certain recollection of the events that followed. It didn't appear to be interested in him. He had two memories of walking into his house. One is where he walked in and went straight to bed; the other is where he alerted the dogs and made them check outside, which they didn't want to do. His wife had been working until 7 a.m. and was in bed asleep when he arrived. The next day he had no recollection of any of this. It wasn't until some 20 hours later that he remembered what he had seen. He told his wife as soon as he saw her, and she thought he was insane...fornot mentioning it sooner! The other strange thing was that he didn't feel afraid at all to go out in the dark garage or garden. He did not see any UFO or craft on this night, but had seen many previously. The following evening he did see a large white light sweep across the sky while walking the dogs. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1998",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, April 2008 webpage, report dated April 23, 2008" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/12/2008",
  "desc" : "Several members from the UFO group “Ovni Merida” were conducting a “night vigil” in an isolated field at about 350 meters from the road in Baca, Merida, Mexico. It was a cloudy night with little moon. At around midnight one of the men saw what appeared to be a pair of red eyes at about 100 meters away in a field. The eyes were shiny and the men immediately thought it was a dog, but it did not bark, move, or approach them, and it suddenly disappeared. Two of the men walked over to the site, but failed to locate any tracks or ground traces. As they looked around, the same pair of red shiny eyes appeared again, about 100 meters away in another field. The eyes vanished and then would appear again another 100 meters away in another field; this went on for several minutes. The men again failed to find any footprints or traces. Soon, they rejoined the others, and heard a loud galloping sound like that of a horse; immediately after that they heard the sound of huge wings flapping overhead, and this caused one of the men to scream in fright. One of them managed to see a large pair of dark wings disappear into some nearby brushes. Two of the men went to investigate, one armed with a powerful flashlight and the other with a canister of tear gas. They approached the bushes but they failed to find anything. Later, when the group was again together, one of them who had gone to investigate reported that he had seen a shadowy, two-foot tall figure walking in the brush. The figure, whatever it was, seemed to be walking hunched over. Terrified, he asked the other man to return to camp. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_1999",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 2008 Humanoid Contact Sighting Reports, citing Emilio Cetz, Grupo Ovni Merida, Mexico" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/13/1897",
  "desc" : "A telegraph operator between Girard, Illinois and Carlinville got a message from Carlinville, Illinois that an airship was headed his way. He went out and saw a 100 foot long object that landed near the railroad track. It had what looked like a large \"M\" on its side, and several occupants in the cupola. The craft rose vertically, and then flew off quickly toward the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2000",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 13, citing Official UFO, July 1976, p. 37" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/13/1897",
  "desc" : "At 11:15 p.m. two men, Chamberlain and Jones, saw a very large figure walking around in a clearing looking for something near Lake Elmo, Minnesota. Nearby was a grayish white cylindrical object with two rows of lights, red and green. It took off with a rushing sound. Fourteen giant footprints, two feet long by six inches wide, were found at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2001",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 42, Dennis Stacy, Field Guide to UFOs, p. 84; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0017; St. Paul Pioneer-Press, April 15, 1897" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/13/1952",
  "desc" : "In Torpo, Norway at 10:35 p.m. a fireball came down in some nearby woods. It lit up the area, hovered, maneuvered, then shot away to the south at great speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2002",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "newspaper clipping, June 7, 1952; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 38" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/13/1952",
  "desc" : "At 4:45 p.m. a disc-shaped object with an erratic flight path moved very fast through the sky east of Moriarty, New Mexico. It tilted and vanished, then reappeared. There were four military witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2003",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP Projects Grudge and Blue Book Report, p. 109; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 41" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/13/1967",
  "desc" : "Two young boys saw a dark gray object overhead at sunset in Sjaellands, Denmark. One ran home while the other hid in a ditch. The UFO descended and put out three legs as if to land, but then retraced them and moved out over the Kattegat. As it passed over the shore it threw out some \"boxes.\" Hovering low over the water, the object lowered a box on an arm-thick cable, and eight small humanoid figures emerged from the large object and descended on the cable. They were the same size as the boy and all but one wore striped suits and had scuba like packs on their backs. The eighth UFOnaut wore a blue uniform and had no pack. They all had on striped caps and lights on their shoulders, and carried objects that looked like binoculars or cameras. They waved to the boy before the object disappeared. A lump of strange material was later found on the shore. When it was analyzed it was found to be an unprecedented mixture of substances. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2004",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Flying Saucer Review, September-October 1967; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-35" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/13/1998",
  "desc" : "Minot, North Dakota. Thirty-nine-year old Antonio McCoy found himself inside a round, whitish-blue room, lying down on some kind of table. A figure wearing a bluish shiny suit approached him. The being was carrying something resembling a \"tine tuning fork\" and was attempting to place it over the witness torso. The witness attempted to resist but some invisible force or paralysis kept him still. He experienced severe headaches after the incident and reported seeing strange black helicopters flying around his neighborhood. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2005",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case #3831, citing UFO Abduction Raw Data Page, UFO Watch" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/14/1897",
  "desc" : "This was the day before the peak date in a wave of \"airship\" sightings around the United States and Canada. There were 48 reports of \"airships\" on this day, including 13 in Michigan alone. Below are summarized two of the more interesting cases involving occupants.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2006",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "4/14/1897",
  "desc" : "At three o'clock in the afternoon in Gas City, Indiana an object landed two kilometers south of Gas City on the property of John Roush, terrifying the farmers and causing the horses and cattle to stampede. Six occupants of the ship came out and seemed to make some repairs. Before the crowd could approach the object, it rose rapidly and flew toward the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2007",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 182, citing Chicago Chronicle, April 15, 1897" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/14/1897",
  "desc" : "Joseph Singler, captain of the \"Sea Wing\", was fishing on Lake Erie near Cleveland, Ohio with S. H. Davis, of Detroit, Michigan when they saw what they thought was a ship, about 13 meters long, with a canopy. A man, looking to be about 25 years old, wearing a hunting jacket and a cap, was fishing from the deck of the object. Near him were a woman and a 10-year-old child. When the \"Sea Wing\" came close to the craft, a large, colored \"balloon\" rose from the object, which flew up with it to an altitude of about 150 meters and circled \"like a hawk\" before flying away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2008",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 182, citing the Chicago Tribune, April 16, 1897" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/14/1967",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. a motorist driving near Melville, New York saw a glowing object overhead. Suddenly his car engine stalled and a smaller circular metallic object landed besides the road. His car radio, which had been turned off, began broadcasting in a strange language. A tiny metallic robot-like figure appeared in the doorway of the object. It came out and dug up some dirt and then placed it inside the craft. The doorway then closed and the object turned a bright red color as it rose into the sky, emitting a whirring sound. It appeared to join the large glowing craft overhead. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2009",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/14/1971",
  "desc" : "At around 8:00 p.m. Marion L. and Dennis D., an engaged couple, were driving near Evans City, Pennsylvania when they saw a yellow white light drop behind a nearby hill. They drove to the location on a dirt road and found a luminous object hovering just above the ground over a ploughed field, 80 yards away. It was 25-30 feet in diameter and shaped like a large bowl inverted over a smaller one. It had a series of rectangular, vertical windows in the upper half and round portholes below the rim. There was a red flickering glow from one of the upper windows, and Miss L. perceived two human like figures silhouetted in them. The figures appeared to be very tall, perhaps about 10 feet in height. Frightened, they drove away quickly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2010",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-14, citing Robert A Schmidt & D. Hillman for UFORI" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/15/1897",
  "desc" : "This was the peak date in a wave of \"airship\" sightings around the United States and Canada. There were over fifty reports of \"airships\" on this day, including 18 in Michigan alone. There were six humanoid reports, two in Iowa and one each in Texas, Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan. Two of these reports invovled communication with quite human-looking people.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2011",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "4/15/1897",
  "desc" : "A large object was seen in Linn Grove, Iowa in the morning hours of this day in 1897 flying slowly toward the north. It seemed ready to land and five men--F. G. Ellis, James Evans, David Evans, Joe Croaskey, Benjamin Buland--drove toward it in a buckboard wagon. About seven kilometers north of Linn Grove they found the craft on the ground. They came within 700 meters of it but it \"spread its four giant wings and rose towards the North\". Two figures with shoulder-length hair were seen aboard the craft and made efforts to conceal themselves. Most residents of Linn Grove saw the craft in flight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2012",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 183, citing Chicago Times-Herald, April 16, 1897" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/15/1897",
  "desc" : "Two farm workers, Adolph Winkle and John Hulle, saw a strange craft in a field near the city of Springfield, Illinois around midday. They had a discussion with its occupants, a woman and two men, and were told the ship had flown from Quincy to Springfield in 30 minutes and that the crew was making electrical repairs. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2013",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 183, citing Flying Saucer Review, January 1965" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/15/1897",
  "desc" : "At nightfall the same day a flying object followed a train traveling from Howard to Artesian, South Dakota in Miner County. It came closer and closer to the ground as it did, reported the engineer, Joe Wright. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2014",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 183, citing Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1966" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/15/1897",
  "desc" : "At around 9:00 p.m. a passenger train on the Wabash line heading toward Quincy, Illinois had just passed Perry Springs, Missouri when a low-flying object started following it. All the passengers saw the craft, which followed the train for fifteen minutes. It had one red and one white light. It flew ahead of the train and disappeared quickly, although the train was then moving at 65 mph. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2015",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Chicago Times-Herald, April 15, 1897" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/15/1897",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. a cigar-shaped airship without wings and with yellow lights at the bow and stern flew to the north over Hudson, Michigan. It flew at an estimated altitude of 500 feet, and was clearly visible in the bright moonlight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2016",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lucius Farish newspaper clipping files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/15/1930",
  "desc" : "A farmer in Largentiere, France saw a bright orange glowing, cone-shaped object on the ground at 5:30 a.m. The object took off slowly and flew away. The grass was flattened where the object had been. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2017",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century, p. 14, citing Dominique Weinstein" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/15/1952",
  "desc" : "At Frenchman Flat, Nevada at 9:30 a.m. four to six flying discs passed through the mushroom cloud created after an Atomic bomb test blast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2018",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 2082" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/15/1952",
  "desc" : "That evening in Gardena, California a set of unidentified nocturnal lights flew silently to the north slowly, pulsating at regular intervals. The bright white light had a red glow preceeding it and one behind. When the white light went off the red glows seemed to merge to form a semi-elliptical red glow. It abruptly changed direction in a zigzag maneuver. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2019",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Edward Sullivan, Civilian Saucer Intelligence-Los Angeles, letter dated April 26, 1952" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/15/1958",
  "desc" : "On or about this date in the mountains near Tabladitas, Argentina about 14 kilometers from Abra Pampa, a luminous object 30 meters in diameter came down to ground level. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2020",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 465" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/15/1958",
  "desc" : "A cigar shaped object with smaller satellite objects was sighted at 12:30 a.m. over Broager, Denmark. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2021",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Nachtrichten, June 1958; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1958: March-April, p. 78" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/15/1959",
  "desc" : "On this evening Ove Christensen was coming home after work on his bicycle along the road between Svendborg and Nyborg, Denmark when he was stopped by a disc-shaped object spinning at ground level. After five minutes it began chasing him, flying six meters above him for five minutes. The UFO was luminous and seemed to be made of a glasslike material. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2022",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 486; Flying Saucer Review, May-June 1959" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/15/1966",
  "desc" : "While flying near Santa Catalina Island, California a professional Hollywood movie cameraman named Hansen shot a motion picture film of a disc-shaped object while shooting an action film from a helicopter. The television show NOVA claimed the film shows what probably was a light aircraft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2023",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, December 1974, p. 1; Xenolog, September 1978, p. 11; CUFOS case files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/15/1967",
  "desc" : "Two young boys sawa dark gray UFO hovering over the eastern coast of Denmark in the early afternoon. An elevator descended from the bottom, with eight occupants sliding down a thick cable. They wore masks and breathing apparatus boxes on their backs, and one of them wore a blue colored uniform. They waved at the witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2024",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dennis Stamey, Flying Saucers, June 1970, p. 36; Charles Bowen, FSR, September-October 1967, p. 32, citing UFONYT" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/15/1968",
  "desc" : "A three-foot in diameter reddish orange disc was seen on the ground by several soldiers near a canal north of the Gobi Desert in Xinjiang province, China on this evening. It shot straight up as the soldiers approached. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2025",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Wendelle C. Stevens & Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, p. 49" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/15/1969",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. two people driving on the highway near Pichidangui, Chile in Coquimbo province were paralyzed and their truck engine died when they encountered a disc-shaped object ahead on the road. The object lit up the road and flew away, but came back two minutes later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2026",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #118" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/15/1970",
  "desc" : "Kalle Tiihonen, age 39, a locally well known and respected retired athlete, had just come from the sauna and was drinking coffee in his kitchen in Kursu, Salla, Finland at around 5 p.m. when he and his family heard a sound resembling a swarm of bees. He then had the feeling that someone was staring at him from the doorway behind him. He turned around and saw a small creature about 1.2 meters in height, clad in a tight fitting shiny green suit and helmet. The creature had very dark, large eyes, with a human look. Tiihonen believed that the creature had not come in through the door since he would have heard some noise. For several moments they stared at each other, and then Tiihonen asked the creature where he was from. \"From the space,\" was the answer. Tiihonen was unsure if he in fact heard the answer or if it was a mental message. In an effort to make conversation Tiihonen asked the alien if the Apollo 13 astronauts, then stranded in space, would get back home safely. \"Yes they will\", was the answer. Tiihonen spoke with the being of other subjects for some time, but could not recall later what they spoke about, other than the creature promised to return. It took a step backwards and disappeared in an instant. Tiihonen again heard the noise resembling a swarm of bees. Tiihonen's eight-year-old son was sitting in another room during the encounter and heard his father talking to someone, but the dividing wall kept him from seeing the humanoid. However, he did see a bright object land on the grass outside, and also saw it lift off. Tiihonen ran to the sauna where his wife was and told her about his encounter. After the incident, Tiihonen was unable to sleep for three nights in a row, and experienced a sort of malaise for over a week. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2027",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "K. Gosta Rehn, UFOs Here and Now, p. 136; UFO Information Sweden, March 1971; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 9601; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1970, citing Mervi Virtanen, Finland" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/15/1970",
  "desc" : "At 1:38 p.m. local time in Mar del Plata, Argentina a luminous disc-shaped object glowed as bright as the sun, yet vanished while still in view. A man by the name of Galan took a photograph of it before it disappeared. Richard Hall gives the photographer a high rating for reliability and the photograph a strong rating for genuineness. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2028",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "CUFOS files; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 15 & 287; Dwight Connelly, Skylook, November 1975, p. 10; Spacelink, April 1970" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/15/1971",
  "desc" : "Two forestry workers, Morel and Hay, were driving through the forest west of Taupo, New Zealand on a cloudy evening around 9 p.m. when they encountered a large cone-shaped object with rotating lights on its rim. It followed their car for over three minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2029",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, September-October 1971, p. 6; Data-Net Report, September 1971" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/15/1972",
  "desc" : "At 6:30 p.m. three women watched a large dark shiny disc-shaped object with two triangular windows on top and a rotating bottom. It approached their house in Driffield, Humberside, England to within 200 meters. It hovered there for a minute, then backed away very slowly. It curved away to the north-northwest, and then went behind some woods. The sighting lasted for over six minutes, and they were able to view the UFO through binoculars. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2030",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "BUFORA Journal, April 1973, p. 19" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/15/1973",
  "desc" : "During the late afternoon on the road between Manor and Penn, Pennsylvania twelve witnesses saw a disc-shaped object, between 35-60 feet in diameter, that came within 70 meters of a car, causing the car's headlights to dim. During the night of April 15-16 more than a dozen witnesses reported observations of UFOs in the area of Penn and Manor, Pennsylvania, near the larger town of Jeanette. Among these was the report of a single witness who was driving near the Manor, Pennsylvania Power plant at 10:55 p.m. when he observed a large glowing object over the nearby railroad tracks. It was just above the trees, and the light from the object illuminated the immediate area with an intense white color. The witness pulled over to the side of the road and got out for a better look. The object, no more than a hundred yards away, was about 400 yards west of the power plant and approximately 10 feet above the trees. The object itself was completely illuminated but apparently solid in construction and about three car lengths in size. It had a dome like structure on top, which was the same bright color as the rest of the object. Around the main section were 2 or 3 rows of multi-colored lights, or square windows. One was whitish, the next red, and the third a blue or green hue. From the left side of the UFO a line or cord extended some 30 yards, and at the end of the cord floated a human form some eight to ten feet tall, similar to the \"Apollo astronauts walking in space\". It was of a purple or orange color. The witness did not see the humanoid form retracted into the UFO; rather it disappeared like \"a string of lights.\" The witness had left his lights on and engine running when he got out of his vehicle, and he noticed that the headlights had dimmed to the strength of a weak flashlight. When the object departed, the headlights came back on as bright as before. The object made a high-pitched sound \"like a spinning top\" when it departed. \"You could hear the trees blowing\" as it went over them. The encounter lasted three to four minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2031",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Irwin Standard-Observer, July 1973, p. 27; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 56, citing the UFO Register, (volume 5, 1974), (2) Stan Gordon, Skylook, June 1973, p. 6; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-08 (A1199), citing Stan Gordon; David F. Webb, 1973 - Year of the Humanoids, case 73-07" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/15/1974",
  "desc" : "At 8:15 p.m. a 20-year-old woman named Saudron, who was driving between Gipey and Cosne, Allier department, France, sighted a red glowing hemispherical object on the ground near some woods in the Foret de Dreuille. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2032",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 483" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/15/1974",
  "desc" : "Fifteen minutes after the UFO landing in France, all passengers aboard a ferry off the coast of Algeciras, Cadiz, Spain saw a round, intense torch-like light rise from the ocean at 8:30 p.m. It emerged out of ocean near a huge rock, traveled at a low altitude, then dropped into the water. It then rose from the ocean a second time, flew a good distance, then dove back into the water again. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2033",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 137; Richard Hall, UFO Reports from the Files of the CIA, p. 188; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 346" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/15/1975",
  "desc" : "A science teacher and six others in San Jose, California viewed an orange glowing domed disc through binoculars as it approached them at 9:23 p.m. The object made a right angle turn toward the witnesses, then stopped over their street and front yard. It was estimated to be 90 feet in diameter, with a ten foot wide cabin structure. Although it made no sound, it emitted a white beam, an orange glow, and red sparks that dropped from underneath it. It oscillated, then shot straight up into space. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2034",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Slava Mach, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1978, p. 14; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 19, 154, & 162" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/15/1981",
  "desc" : "A huge metallic triangular object with several red lights on the sides and very bright white light on the leading edge flew over Mount Sunapee, New Hampshire at 7:35 p.m. It flew very low to the ground, and passed over a car flying off to the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2035",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Philip J. Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 24" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/15/1990",
  "desc" : "A night security guard observed three humanoids while on patrol in Miami, Florida at 4:30 a.m. He described the beings as seven-foot tall aliens with cat eyes, who he watched walk across a parking lot. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2036",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case 995, citing UFO Bureau" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/15/1992",
  "desc" : "A bright blue, domed disc-shaped UFO emerged out of the clouds and approached a 20-year-old witness in his yard in Aloha, Washington at 10:55 p.m. It stopped briefly, changed color from bright blue to bright red, then accelerated rapidly away toward the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2037",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1992, p. 19, citing MUFON field investigator J. Kirby, case file 921504W" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/15/1994",
  "desc" : "Three 12-year-old boys including Diego Percebal were walking near an old crumbled shrine to the Virgen De Ciguela in Torralba de Ribota, Zaragoza, Spain at around 8:00 p.m. when they saw a strange-looking dwarfish figure moving close to the building. The figure was dark in color, about 1.30 meters in height, and somewhat deformed with a huge oval-shaped cranium and a dark featureless face. It moved on two short, thick legs. The dwarf was heavy set and wore a shiny black suit, and was seen to enter the abandoned shrine. The boys saw the strange humanoid hide behind some debris and broken boards. Terrified, the boys ran to get adult witnesses, several of whom responded and went inside the shrine to investigate. The adult witnesses saw the strange figure moving behind a partially collapsed brick-wall and ran from the area. There were other encounters with the humanoid later in the same area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2038",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1994, citing Iker Jimenez, Encuentros: La Historia de Los OVNI en Espana" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/15/1996",
  "desc" : "Two police officers were conducting their nightly rounds late at night driving on the outskirts of Gerona, Spain when a powerful light crossed in front of them on the highway. One man felt mesmerized by the brilliant outburst of light, while his partner tried to keep hold of the patrol car's steering wheel. When the light extinguished the mesmerized officer told his companion that he felt a very odd sensation of being pulled upward at the same time that he saw two pairs of moist, black oval shaped eyes staring down at him from large, pear-shaped heads. The police officer had not even been able to comprehend the uncanny experience when the bizarre light staged a return. According to the officers, nine lights identical to the first appeared out of nowhere, and were then joined by three more that came from across the Portuguese border. The twelve lights were elongated and had an intense yellow glow. The lights remained suspended some 100 feet above the highway, prompting the police officers to flee the scene in terror. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2039",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case # 2674, citing Scott Corrales, Uncensored UFO Reports # 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/15/1997",
  "desc" : "A woman reported seeing red and white lights flashing outside her home in Bridgeton, New Jersey late at night. She next remembered seeing a hundred white lights moving in unison like a swarm of bees, each carrying its own light in formation. She then experienced three hours of missing time. She can recall seeing a man inside a plastic looking column filled with liquid, with blue electricity flowing through it. She woke up violently ill, and with a scar on her face. While this was occurring her next door neighbor also woke up with facial burns, but he had no recollection of anything unusual happening. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2040",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, case # 3131, citing New Jersey MUFON" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/15/1999",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 a.m. a man in Mexico City, Mexico woke up in a sweat, feeling dehydrated. He got up and drank a glass of water, and felt the need to open the window curtains. When he did so he saw a bright spherical object that was circling overhead. He took out his video camera and began to tape the object. The UFO began making symmetrical maneuvers, drawing lines and numbers in the sky. The witness felt mental communication then the video camera shut down. After about 10 minutes of circling around the object left. The witness felt what he described as a strange electrical sensation in his left lung soon afterwards. Upon viewing the videotape he reportedly saw three humanoid figures, including a female figure. Whereabouts of the film is unknown. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2041",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, April 1999 archived webpage; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1999, case # 3627, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/15/2004",
  "desc" : "A woman awoke at around 6:00 a.m. and walked to her screened bedroom window in Orlando, Florida.  She saw a small, oval, slightly glowing object hovering just above the ground, low outside the window.  The object was about 12 inches in diameter or less. A cat noticed the object and attempted to stalk it, whereupon it made a quick zig-zag maneuver and suddenly streaked away in a nearly instantaneous acceleration. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2042",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, April 2004 webpage archive; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 18198, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/16/1897",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m. in Bay City, Michigan a large object was sighted high in the sky. It gradually descended and was estimated to be around 50 to 70 feet in length. It had a red light at each end, that gave the conical shaped craft a dull red glow. It moved at a rapid pace, then slowed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2043",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lucius Farish newspaper files; Saginaw (MI) Courrier Herald, April 16, 1897" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/16/1897",
  "desc" : "Shortly before 3:00 a.m. police heard a drumming noise in Saginaw, Michigan and then spotted a 30-foot long cigar-shaped airship with something hanging down ten feet below it. It flew at a speed of 25 miles per hour to the south, and carried red and yellow body lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2044",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lucius Farish newspaper files; Saginaw (MI) Evening News, April 17, 1897; Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/16/1897",
  "desc" : "While working in his field in Downs Township, Illinois farmer Haney Savidge saw an aerial craft land near him. Six people emerged from it and spoke to him for a few minutes before leaving. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2045",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 22, citing Chicago Times-Herald, April 17, 1897" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/16/1897",
  "desc" : "On that night there was a sudden flash in the sky over Logan, Ohio and then a 40-foot long dark shape flew over the town slowly. Witnesses thought they could hear voices coming from the object. Some followed it three miles south of town in a buggy. The craft descended to about 50 feet altitude, then rose swiftly and flew out of sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2046",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/16/1897",
  "desc" : "On the same night a man named Williams in Greenville, Texas came upon a landed airship. He described it as an \"immense cigar-shaped vessel\" with large wings, and having a \"sidewheel like a steamboat\" in front, with a fish tail at the rear. He claimed it was 75 feet long and 30 feet wide, and he encountered three men performing repairs on the craft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2047",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 39, citing the Dallas Morning News, April 19, 1897" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/16/1952",
  "desc" : "At 10:26 p.m. a U.S. Air Force captain and his neighbor in Shreveport, Louisiana saw a bright white object make a fast approach, reverse direction, then change shape from a flat circular object to a thin lens. It also changed color from pink to red. Its speed was estimated at 1285 mph, and showed a red exhaust tail after making its turn. It was ten times brighter than the brightest star. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2048",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. H. Tessier, UNICAT computer database case #812, citing Blue Book; Project Blue Book Report # 6, April 30, 1952" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/16/1953",
  "desc" : "The crew of a Maritime Central DC-4 flying near Chatham Royal Canadian AFB, New Brunswick sights an eight meter in diameter metallic disc at 3:34 p.m. that is heading toward their aircraft. The UFO passed underneath at 300 knots, just under the nose of the aircraft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2049",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Ledger, Maritime UFO Files, p. 37; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 21" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/16/1956",
  "desc" : "On U.S. Route 1 in Henderson, North Carolina just before dawn, two government employees saw for a few seconds a large, top-shaped object passing over their car. It was as large as the road and made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2050",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 253" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/16/1956",
  "desc" : "Two police officers, Perkins and Williams, in Lexington, Kentucky sighted a small, pale-red light in the western sky at 11:55 p.m. They drove closer to get a better look. After 5 minutes the object disappeared; it left a glow in the sky for a few seconds. The object appeared to change shape, from round to ellipse, and then back to a circle again. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2051",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lexington Herald, April 17, 1956; Alexander Mebane, CSI-NY News, June 1956, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/16/1960",
  "desc" : "A brilliant vertical cylinder or pole-shaped object rose slowly over the shore of Napier, New Zealand at 5:50 p.m. It turned horizontal and then darkened. It finally flew to the northeast and out to sea. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2052",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, July 1960" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/16/1966",
  "desc" : "At 7:55 p.m. an elongated elliptical object hovered over Highway 16 in Sherborn, Massachusetts. It had bright red lights affixed to each end, and blue lights along its length. At 10:44 p.m. in Weston, Massachusetts police were called to investigate two reports of an object resembling a dirigible or blimp-shaped UFO carrying bright lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2053",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 337" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/16/1967",
  "desc" : "A fast moving, glowing ovoid UFO stopped and landed in Boraure, Venezuela on this day. It took off and flew away when approached. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2054",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jim and Coral Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p. 60; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 835" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/16/1968",
  "desc" : "At 12:10 p.m. Henry Ford II sighted a very large UFO while flying onboard the Ford Motor Company Jet Star near Austin, Texas. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2055",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., UFOs: A New Look, p. 1; Donald E. Keyhoe, Aliens from Space…The Real Story of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 177" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/16/1972",
  "desc" : "In Trujillo, La Libertad, Peru a man had his eyesight impaired, and others reported that headaches were caused by the close approach of a saucer-shaped UFO. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2056",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, FSR, July 1972, p. 24, citing Cronica, April 16, 1972" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/16/1974",
  "desc" : "A metallic ovoid UFO approached a car on a highway in Mitcham, South Australia at 6:00 p.m. It revolved slowly, and had four lights on its dome. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2057",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, July 1974" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/16/1974",
  "desc" : "At around 12:50 a.m. a classic Italian CE-III case that has defied explanation occurred in Santa Maria del Tempio, Casale Monferrato, Piemonte district, Italy. Mauro Bellingeri and his wife had just arrived home when a luminous disc-shaped object came out of the sky at them, and then stopped over their house 40 feet up. The craft had a central ring of revolving red, green, and yellow lights that revolved around the cabin. The object made no sound as it hovered there. The couple could see a round, clear, dome-shaped cabin on the upper portion of the object that was 30 feet wide and six feet high. Inside the cabin there were three seated beings who were visible, wearing fishbowl or globe-shaped helmets. After several minutes of just hanging silently in the sky, 4-5 jets of flame were emitted from the underside of the craft, and the outer rim began to turn more rapidly. The object started making a whistling sound. With a strong blast of air that nearly knocked the witnesses down, the object then took off and flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2058",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Renzo Cabassi, FSR, February 1977, p. 23; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher: HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1974-17 (A1317); Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, A Catalogue of 200 Type-1 UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case # 187; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 18, 373, 460, 489; UNICAT, case 51; John Wallace Spencer, World Atlas of UFOs, p. 106" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/16/1977",
  "desc" : "An object consisting of two spherical lights that flickered back and forth between orange and deep red appeared to hover over Bushey, Watford, England. It approached and then suddenly vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2059",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "D. N. Mansell, Awareness, October 1977, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/16/1979",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. in Bedarrides, Vaucluse, France a red sphere, the size of a car, descended fast and then landed. Flashes white and red lights. It left behind ground traces at the landing site. There were at least two witnesses, and the incident lasted five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2060",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1979; Jean-Luc Rivera, UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1979, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/16/1990",
  "desc" : "A young man drove his wife to work in South Chicago, Illinois and then saw a silver, oval-shaped craft in the sky at around 7:30 a.m. The silver, domed oval object was hovering near an intersection in the city; it was motionless, and made a whooshing sound. He felt odd, developed a headache, nausea and neck pain. There was no missing time associated with this close encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2061",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Frances Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 133" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/16/1992",
  "desc" : "On this evening the Current Affair TV film crew filmed a red UFO as it hovered over the Gulf Breeze, Florida Three Mile Bridge. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2062",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ed Walters, UFOs are Real: Here's the Proof, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/16/1993",
  "desc" : "In Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire, England a witness reported that a one-foot in diameter, glowing ovoid object was just outside the window of the house at 2:30 a.m. It was very bright, and some psychic effects resulted from the close encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2063",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/16/1993",
  "desc" : "At 9:20 p.m. a deputy sheriff and others observed a 200-300 foot wide flying boomerang or V-shaped UFO in Bayport, Florida. The UFO was pulsing as it hovered, then \"hauled ass.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2064",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Leonard Sturm, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1996, p. 20; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 80" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/16/1995",
  "desc" : "In Tacoma, Washington at 10:10 p.m. two white or light gray discs moved quickly from south to north over the clouds in a steady trajectory. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2065",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/16/1996",
  "desc" : "In Tonto Hills, Arizona, a couple that had observed a large diamond-shaped craft land previously in the same area back in February observed a similar large craft landing nearby them. It was white, diamond shaped, and had green and red lights around it. Three humanoid entities (not described) were seen walking around it as if searching for something. Their sighting lasted for 15 minutes. Note: There is a Tonto Basin in central Arizona, but there is no town or locality named \"Tonto Hills\". ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2066",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1996 Humanoid Contact Report Database, case # 2812, citing Jim Ossipov & Myron K. Olson" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/16/1997",
  "desc" : "On a farm in Zagorje, Slovenia a 15 meter black sphere with a halo and portholes hovered near the ground at 6:45 p.m. Footprints were later found at the site, about size 9 in shoe size. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2067",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 2, number 16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/16/2003",
  "desc" : "Two orange lights flew in a corkscrew pattern together from south to north over Victoria, British Columbia at 2:40 a.m., and then went west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2068",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2003 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 148, citing UFOBC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/16/2004",
  "desc" : "There was no sound coming from a triangle-like craft seen near Fort Benning, Georgia by a mother and daughter. At 10:20 p.m. a 47-year-old woman was driving home from Columbus with her 16-year-old daughter when they thought they saw a military helicopter from the Fort. Upon getting closer the mother thought it resembled more of a Stealth Bomber with a triangle shape. They slowed down and rolled down their car windows, which revealed there was no sound coming from the craft. Near Ellerslie, in Harris County, Georgia, they then observed the dark triangle hovering at a relatively low altitude. It had blinking red and green lights at the rear, and it was projecting a spotlight beam with an adjacent blue light under each wing. The daughter became a little concerned and said they needed to get out of there, get home, and tell her dad. The mother reported to the MUFON investigator that she had observed a similar triangular craft before, along with her older daughter, but had never reported it ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2069",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 95, citing field investigator Dan Worsham and Tom Sheets" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/16/2007",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. a gray triangle object outlined with many lights flew silently overhead New Westminster, British Columbia. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2070",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 200, citing HBCCUFO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/16/2008",
  "desc" : "A close encounter with a large Moon-sized, spherical object near the witness' car was reported in Ontario, Canada (city not given); it scared the witness, then vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2071",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2008 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 212" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/16/2009",
  "desc" : "A large, metallic, cylindrical object was seen over Saint Augustine Beach, Florida at 5:00 p.m.; it hovered for about a minute and then disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2072",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, April 2009 webpage archive, report uploaded May 12, 2009" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/17/1897",
  "desc" : "At least a dozen farmers in Williamston, Michigan saw an object maneuver in the morning sky for an hour before it landed. A strange man nearly 3 meters (10 feet) tall, almost naked and suffering from the heat, was the pilot of the craft. \"His talk, while musical, seemed to be a repetition of bellowings\". One farmer went near him and received a blow that broke his hip. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2073",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 184, citing Lansing State Republican, April 18, 1897" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/17/1950",
  "desc" : "Three flat, metallic flying objects were sighted east of the Los Alamos AEC nuclear facility in New Mexico by 15 University of California scientists at 1:30 p.m. The sighting lasted for 20 minutes and the UFO was viewed through a telescope. They estimated the size of the objects as approximately nine feet in diameter, and they flew faster than conventional aircraft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2074",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, FSR, volume 25, number 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/17/1950",
  "desc" : "At 8:15 p.m. EDT two teenagers were driving in a car in Springfield, Massachusetts when their vehicle was bussed by two glowing saucers. The objects then hopped about in the sky, ascend very fast and are gone from sight in about a minute. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2075",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 26" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/17/1952",
  "desc" : "At 3:15 p.m. two military weather observers from the 9575 TSU at the Yuma Test Station in Yuma, Arizona watched a circular, flat-white craft with a short trail shoot across the sky from zenith to the horizon in 7 seconds (traveling at 13 degrees a second). It traveled so fast it could not be tracked with a theodolite. There was a similar sighting at the same place the next day. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2076",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UNICAT, case 813, citing Loren Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 47; NICAP UFO Investigator, volume 3, number 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/17/1952",
  "desc" : "Two engineers watched several silent noctunal lights make erratic maneuvers and ninety-degree turns in the sky over Longmeadow, Massachusetts at 8:30 p.m. The sighting lasted for 400 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2077",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren Gross, UFOs a History, 1952: January-May, p. 48" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/17/1952",
  "desc" : "Thirty minutes later two men in Westmont, Illinois, Mr. Harvey and Mr. Hall, tracked an object traveling at a high rate of speed from the east to the north, vanishing just under the Ursa Minor constellation. No tail or exhaust were visible, nor were any signs of propulsion visible. They watched the object through a pair of binoculars. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2078",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Edward Sullivan, CSI--Los Angeles letter files, April 17, 1952" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/17/1958",
  "desc" : "Three hovering discs were observed all night long in Boa del Tigre, Argentina by several witnesses in the area. Mr. Cavalheiro, a railroad employee, and his station chief, J. Machado, wired the Tupancireta police and all saw the UFOs come to ground level about one kilometer away. At times the discs appeared to exchange signals. One of the them flew over the station itself, leaving a luminous trail and considerable heat. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2079",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 466" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/17/1964",
  "desc" : "At 7:22 a.m. local time, Airman Edward Lowe, a radar operator at the Fallon Air Force Station, Nevada picked up on his ground radar unit two blips flying in stacked formation making rapid changes in altitude. They were first detected at 122 degrees, 60,000 feet, and at a range of 145 miles. Their motion was up and down. The length of the observation was 1 hour and 21 minutes, at which point the blips disappeared to the southeast. The official Air Force explanation was a mirage. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2080",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dan Wilson, www.nicap.org; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; J. Allen Hynek case files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/17/1966",
  "desc" : "Beginning at around 5:00 a.m., Portage County Deputy Sheriffs Dale Spaur and Wilbur Neff and two other officers chased a 40-foot diameter glowing disc or football shaped object from Ravenna, Ohio to Atwater, Pennsylvania in the pre-dawn hours of this morning. It rose up out of the woods and stopped overhead. The UFO played cat-and-mouse with them in the pursuit: approaching, waiting for them to catch up, then moving away. It beamed an intense light onto the road. They chased it for 90 minutes. It was last seen shooting straight up into the sky and out of sight. At about the same time and in roughly the same vicinity, a man named George Buchert took a photograph of a double-saucer shaped object in Mantua, Ohio. Dale Spaur's psychological condition and professional career deteriorated in the months following his close encounter. This famous case was the basis for the dramatic UFO chase in Steven Spielberg's movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2081",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek, UNICAT, case # 383; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 100; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 44, 172 & 320; NICAP UFO Investigator, March-April 1966, p. 1; Columbus Dispatch, April 19, 1966; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Here and Now, p. 56" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/17/1966",
  "desc" : "At 7:15 p.m. in Danvers, Massachusetts three witnesses watched an elongated oval-shaped object with rotating white lights. It was estimated to be the same size as a passenger train car. It circled slowly in the sky before entering a localized cloud. At 7:30 p.m. in nearby Peabody, Massachusetts four witnesses reported seeing a bright red glowing object flying in circular and zigzag patterns. It suddenly darted away at an incredible speed, faster than any aircraft. In Wakefield, Massachusetts at 8:30 p.m. a multicolored disc-shaped object shot off beams of white, then blue, and finally red light. It moved rapidly up-and-down and made a humming sound. It descended to just 50 feet above Lake Quanapowitt. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2082",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, pp.  337-338" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/17/1967",
  "desc" : "At 2:20 a.m. military witness Robert Harkinson in Vo Tanh, near Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam saw five lluminated white ovals that passed behind small scattered clouds. The formation fluctuated slightly, and then moved at five times the speed of a jet. Five minutes later, several jets at high altitude were seen pursuing the same course as the UFOs. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2083",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 252; UNICAT, case # 371; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 88" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/17/1967",
  "desc" : "At 2:15 a.m. Mr. & Mrs. Moseley of Worthing, West Sussex, England heard a loud humming noise, then saw a glowing oval like an \"upturned saucer\" (domed disc) that flew across the sky and behind a hill. Later, the sound was heard again and the UFO was again seen, moving sideways. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2084",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Charles Bowen, Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1967, p. 30; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 336" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/17/1967",
  "desc" : "A huge elliptical object with portholes was seen at 8:45 p.m. in New Haven, West Virginia. It had two light beams that were directed downward. Dogs howled and barked and a pony reacted to the beams of light, and there was also severe TV interference. There were five independent reports of the close encounter, which lasted several minutes.  ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2085",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, May-June 1967, p. 6; MUFON UFO Journal, April 1992, p. 18; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p.  33; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 199, 280, 336" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/17/1967",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. over Jefferson City, Missouri an Ozark Airlines airliner coming in for a landing had a dramatic encounter with a domed disc that was shaped like a World War I helmet, and was over 300 feet in diameter. Captain Metz exclaimed, \"below me, it's huge!\" It gave off an intense, bluish-white, cold light from the underside of the object. It was accompanied by two small objects the size of a DC-3 aircraft, that dropped down and made very fast maneuvers in various directions. The objects shot off to the north and also to the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2086",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 96; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 175; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, April 1992, p. 18; UNICAT, case # 380; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 35; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 118" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/17/1968",
  "desc" : "At 7:45 p.m. EDT a dull silver-gray, domed disc-shaped object hovered just over the road near the US Air Force radio telescope installation at Sagamore Hill, Highway 1A, Hamilton, Massachusetts. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2087",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 352; Raymond Fowler investigator files, case dated April 26, 1968" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/17/1976",
  "desc" : "Two girls, the Melling sisters aged 12 and 9, saw a Mothman-like \"bird-man\" hovering in the sky over a church in Mawman, Cornwall, England. They drew a sketch of a man with wings, big pointed ears, and a large triangle in place of the nose and mouth. It so frightened the entire family that they ended their vacation. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2088",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Doc Shiels, Fortean Times, June 1976, p. 19" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/17/1977",
  "desc" : "On a clear night at 4:30 a.m. a rectangular craft with windows was sighted by a 36-year-old man in North Haven, Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia. It made no sound as it flew. It speed was under 100 mph as it traveled to the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2089",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Kel Blackman, ACOS Bulletin, December 1977, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/17/1977",
  "desc" : "At around 4:00 p.m. a 67-year-old woman in La Louviere, Belgium sighted a solid, dark, flat cylinder-shaped object with faceted sides. It oscillated as it flew from southwest to northeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2090",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, August 1977, p. 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/17/1987",
  "desc" : "At around 11:00 p.m. seven people witnessed a disc-shaped object hovering over a lake in Soderbarke, Kopparberg, Sweden. The bottom of the object was glowing, until a dark cloud engulfed the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2091",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/17/1990",
  "desc" : "Two women driving in a wooded area of Upper Burrel Township, Pennsylvania at 10:30 p.m. first saw three bright lights ahead. They heard a \"click\" and then saw a sphere over a tree. Then a 40-foot long \"bus\" or cigar-shaped object with windows came over the tree. The women drove home and the object followed them, then it passed by, glowing yellow and surrounded by mist. A U.S. defense plant is located nearby. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2092",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dan Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, February 1991, p. 12; MUFON field investigation files, field investigator Keith Bastianini, case # 901210" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/17/1993",
  "desc" : "In Birmingham, England Peter Gregory had gotten out of bed at 2:30 a.m. to go to the bathroom when he noticed a light outside his landing window. He peered out and saw a glowing ball the size of a football. After five seconds it flew silently past the window and out of sight. He fell back into a deep sleep and had a dream or vision. He saw himself in what appeared to be a control room inside an enormous object. He felt motion and heard a humming sound. The room was illuminated with an intense blue light that seemed to pulse with a hypnotic rhythm. He felt an inner state of euphoria. Without warning he suddenly then found himself inside an oval room with a console with lights in the center. On the left of the console was a cubicle about six feet high. Three humanoid figures were standing there and staring at a viewing screen, watching a transmission. The beings did not notice Gregory. He described them as human sized, with piercing deep blue eyes, reddish brown hair, and heads circled by a broad silver band. He moved closer and noticed on a display screen something that read \"Year 3600.\" He felt the message on the screen meant the destruction of human civilization. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2093",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 2748, citing Marcus Day, Aliens: Encounters with The Unexplained" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/17/1993",
  "desc" : "At 9:45 p.m. in the suburbs of Indianapolis, Indiana a 29-year-old man sighted a white \"wishbone\" object in the sky at a moderate distance. His sketch shows a V-shape with one long side extending below as if forming a cocked Y. The entire figure glowed white. The distance was estimated to be 600 feet, with an altitude higher than 300 feet. The speed of the object was slow, estimated to be around 30+ mph. There was a bright light on front when last seen. It was in view for about a minute and a half. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2094",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "T. David Spencer, MUFON UFO Journal, January 1995, p. 16; MUFON field investigation files, field investigator Will Ott, case # 941210S" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/17/1994",
  "desc" : "On this night in Kapowsin, Pierce County, Washington State the first thing that happened was that a teenager's pick-up truck engine died. He next saw a creature with bat wings on the road. When it flew away he was able to restart the truck. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2095",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 16364, citing West Virginia UFO Newsletter, number 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/17/1996",
  "desc" : "At around 1:00 a.m. Alfredo de Oliveira Mendes, age 27, a parishioner at a local Catholic Church in Belem, Para State, Brazil, witnessed a UFO land in the churchyard of the mission. He next experienced a period of missing time. Under hypnosis he later recalled being abducted by eight beings. He described them as silver in color with elongated eyes and what looked like a fin on their foreheads. The beings wore silver coverall type outfits with an emblem containing a pyramid and a wing. A burnt circle was found on the ground at the landing site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2096",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case # 2739, citing Brazilian UFO Report" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/17/2000",
  "desc" : "On this night, a police officer walking home along the Plazoleta Alfonso de la Vega in Frias, Argentina noticed a short humanoid figure that he first mistook for a child. When he approached the figure, intending to reprimand it for being out late, he received a menacing look from the creature's fiery red eyes. The shocked policeman realized it was something other than a human child, and he quickly walked away from the area. Other local residents also reported seeing the same or a similar being. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2097",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case # 3402, citing Fabio Picasso, Argentina" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/17/2002",
  "desc" : "A yellow-orange ball made bizarre sharp turns while flying from southwest to northeast near the end of the Brisbane, Queensland, Australia airport runway at 9:30 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2098",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Sheryl Gottschall, UFO Research Queensland" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/17/2002",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m. a black oval or football-shaped object rocked from side to side as it flew behind a cloud in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2099",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2002 Canadian UFO Survey Report, case # 144, citing HBCCUFO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/17/2007",
  "desc" : "A circular craft with blue lights was seen by a 55-year-old man with an engineering background. At around 9:55 p.m. PST, the witness went out onto his front yard in Irvine, California for a smoke before bed. Normally he can see planes approaching Orange County Airport from the NNE and go past to the left to land approximately 8-9 miles away, but this night was overcast so he could hear some, but not see them as they broke cloud cover once they had passed his house. While standing on the driveway, he saw some blue light aloft to the North moving back and forth, almost flittering like a moth. He first thought it was a police helicopter. What was unusual was that it was moving more in a quick, back-and-forth movement instead of what is usually a slow circle. Also, he could not see a strong searchlight or hear any engine sound. It appeared that the object was 1-2 miles away. He thought this was odd, so he retrieved a pair of quality 20x binoculars from inside the house. What he next saw raised the hair on the back of his neck, because the lights seemed to consist of a row of individual blue lights that first were traveling to the left. As the object reversed direction, the object appeared to be first an ellipse and then a full circle; it had maybe 24-30 individual blue lights around the perimeter. It then traveled to the right and reversed the process, again forming a circle at the end of its travel when reversing direction. It traveled in each direction for 3-5 seconds. There were definitely no red/green port/starboard lights, only the blue perimeter lights and no strobe lights. He watched this object for 2-3 minutes. It finally disappeared into the cloud cover. The man used to fly small aircraft, so he was experienced with the shapes and types of various small aircraft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2100",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, April 2007 webpage, report uploaded April 27, 2007" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/17/2010",
  "desc" : "A classic domed disc-shaped object with horizontal slits showing inexplicable lights was sighted while driving on U.S. Highway 101 S. near Nipomo, California in San Luis Obispo County at 10:10 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2101",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, April 2010 archived webpage, case uploaded May 12, 2010" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/18/1897",
  "desc" : "A cigar-shaped UFO hovered over the town of Sisterville, West Virginia at 8:30 p.m.. It directed brilliant searchlights down toward the ground. It appeared to have large fins or wings, and flashing red, white and green lights on the sides and on each end. Several witnesses estimated the length of the object to be 180 feet long. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2102",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon I.R. Lore, Jr. and Harold Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 21" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/18/1945",
  "desc" : "There were two radar-visual UFO reports on this day from the Far East near Iwo Jima. At three o'clock in the morning ground control radar made radar contact with an unknown radar target over the Pacific Ocean at a distance of 18 to 8 miles from the island. The gunner in a P-61B \"Black Widow\" aircraft attached to the 549th NFS squadron saw a yellow, star-like light approach and lose altitude. Radar contact was then lost. The gunner saw a second light, but no radar contact was made with it. At 4:15 a.m. Ground control again made radar contact with a target. The gunner of a P-61B plane saw a reddish, round light. Contact on the radar screen showed two blips engaging in evasive action, which soon outdistanced the P-61, one of the fastest propeller driven aircraft of its time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2103",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 website" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/18/1950",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 a.m. three observers in Pullman, Washington saw two dark delta-shaped objects fly to the north; they joined a saucer-shaped object and circled a hill. The saucer then flew off to the north, while the \"kites\" flew off to the south. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2104",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1691; newspaper clipping dated April 21, 1950" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/18/1950",
  "desc" : "CAA observers in Clarendon, Texas saw an unidentified object to the southeast, while observers in Childress, Texas about 50 miles to the SE saw the object to the northwest, and triangulated the stationary object about midway between, near Memphis, Texas. The sighting began around 9 a.m. and the object was on radar for four hours. This radar-visual case involved the crew of an F-61C as it was flying over Memphis around 11:00 a.m. as well as separate ground radars. A silver sphere that tilted was seen, and it did not move significantly despite winds aloft. Northrop engineering test pilot Max Stanley and observers Lloyd Balsam and Sam F. West were asked to intercept the object when they took off in their F-61C (AF 8357) from Amarillo on an MX-775 test of a Navaho missile celestial guidance test. A B-36 was also scrambled and took off from Fort Worth to intercept. On the same day at 10:50 a.m. two military wives in Sherman, Texas saw 18-20 flat silent silver discs race to the north, then maneuver for 4-5 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2105",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, pp. 26-27; Jan Aldrich" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/18/1952",
  "desc" : "50 miles northwest of Kyushu, Japan (129.85 E, 34.32 N). Radar tracked an unidentified target for one minute flying at 2,700 mph. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2106",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/18/1952",
  "desc" : "At 4:00 a.m. in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada Mr. C. Hamilton, a janitor, saw a yellow-gold colored spherical object make a sharp turn in the sky. It left a short, dark trail for one minute. Eighteen hours later at 10:10 p.m. a newspaper reporter, Chic Shave, sighted the same round, yellow-gold object as it flew to the south and then returned. His sighting lasted 90 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2107",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph, April 19, 1952; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/18/1952",
  "desc" : "In Bethesda, Maryland at 11:30 a.m. Mr. R. Poerstal and three other men sighted seven to nine circular, orange-yellow lights in a 40-degree V or U-formation as they flew overhead silently for eight seconds at a high speed, from south to north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2108",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1128; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/18/1952",
  "desc" : "On this day in Yuma, Arizona two Army weather observation students sighted a flat-white circular object flying in a very erratic manner. The sighting lasted approximately 10 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2109",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/18/1953",
  "desc" : "A huge cigar-shaped UFO flew over Wilmington, Delaware at 11:15 a.m. and was sighted by a Ground Observer Corps observer. It was flashing as it passed over the city, heading northwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2110",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Wilmington News, July 9, 1954; Donald Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 186" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/18/1960",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. Mr. Arnold saw a round, fiery red flying object approach at high speed from the south in Lacamp, Louisiana. It touched the ground about 300 meters away with a loud explosion heard by many people, and a flame. It bounced in an easterly direction for about 300 meters, then rose again, turned west and disappeared. The ground was scarred in nine places, and a substance resembling metallic paint was found. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2111",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 503" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/18/1961",
  "desc" : "Mr. Paul Simonton, a Chicken farmer in Eagle River, Wisconsin saw a disc-shaped carft land vertically on his farm. A hatch opened, and when he approached he saw three human-looking men inside. They asked him for some water. They appeared to be cooking pancakes on a griddle, and in exchange for the water they gave him four of the pancakes from griddle. The men were described as five feet tall with dark hair. They wore blue knit outfits and helmets. The newspapers had a field day with this report, but private UFO investigators who interviewed Mr. Simonton found him to be sincere and his story uncomplicated. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2112",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allen Utke case files, case 6; Milwaukee Journal, April 23, 1961; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, May 1963, p. 34; NICAP UFO Investigator, May 1961, p. 8; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 23" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/18/1962",
  "desc" : "According to Lt. Colonel Herbert Rolph, on this evening at 7:20 p.m. NORAD tracked a UFO across the entire continental United States. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2113",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 6174" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/18/1966",
  "desc" : "On this evening there were four good UFO reports made in the northeastern United States in Massachusetts, New York, and Ohio. At 7:15 p.m. an elongated oval-shaped UFO with reddish green flashing lights on each end hovered over Peabody, Massachusetts, zipped around, and maneuvered to the horizon and back three times. The perimeter of the object glowed blue. A dense light was seen hovering only three feet above a roadway in Albany, New York. A blinding bright object with intense red lights landed on a road in Lancaster, Ohio and then flew off through a corn field. The witness, Mr. P. Friend, had sore and bloodshot eyes after his sighting from looking at the object. At 9:45 p.m. a UFO responded to a searchlight directed at it in Cohasset, Massachusetts by zigzagging, turning off its lights, and shooting straight up into the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2114",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 338; Richard Bonenfant, Proceedings of the 1976 CUFOS Conference, p. 48, citing the Albany Knickerbocker; NICAP UFO Investigator, June 1966, p. 7; Walter N. Webb case investigation files, case 60" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/18/1967",
  "desc" : "At 8:05 p.m. in Athens, Ohio a college professor and four others watched an unidentified light source that alternated between yellow and pink as it moved over a wide arc of sky at moderate speed. Their sighting lasted 10 minutes. At 8:30 p.m. the wife of the Ohio University director of the center for social science education saw a dull white oval for ten seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2115",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP report forms, www.nicap.org" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/18/1967",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. in Point Pleasant, West Virginia a pilot and ground observers saw an anomalous \"light bearing object\" in the sky. The pilot attempted to close with the object and flashed his landing lights to get its attention, but there was no response and the object disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2116",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "West Virginia Register, April 1967; NICAP files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/18/1972",
  "desc" : "In the afternoon two British tourists in Pokhara, Nepal took a photograph of a swarm of white dots that merged into discs, and then made fantastic maneuvers, flying off to the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2117",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, July 1973, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/18/1975",
  "desc" : "A luminous disc came out from behind a house in Piano Chiesa, Italy at 7:50 p.m. and shot up into the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2118",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Maurizio Verga, ITACAT: Italian UFO Catalogue" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/18/1976",
  "desc" : "On this night in 1976 Ms. Larson was abducted out of her bedroom in Fargo, North Dakota to a UFO some distance away from her house. Inside the UFO she was put on a slab and hooked up to a complex of wires. She was levitated back to her house at dawn. She saw a small metallic cube zigzag and land on her lawn on the return trip. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2119",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1467, citing Jerome Clark" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/18/1977",
  "desc" : "At 1:20 a.m. a Mr. O'Connor reported seeing occupants inside a UFO from the Veterans Administration Hospital in Tucson, Arizona. Mr. Thrupp and Mr. Mancor, two weathermen in Vancouver, British Columbia watched an orange and blue cigar-shaped UFO with black portholes pass over the city in the predawn sky. It flashed as it went from south to north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2120",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Center for UFO Studies case files, June 1977, International UFO Reporter, August 1977, p. 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/18/1984",
  "desc" : "A rectangular UFO hovered only 100 feet above the side of a road near the RAF Lakenheath Air Base in England. It had red, green and white lights, and was silent. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2121",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, March 1986, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/18/1989",
  "desc" : "On this night a terminally ill patient staying in the cardiology ward of the Kirv hospital located in the Crimea, Russia suddenly felt a strong wind penetrate her room, even though the doors were closed. A dazzling white light and a man dressed in white then appeared. The man's eyes radiated a brilliant light. The witness asked where he was from and she was told \"the tenth dimension.\" She was then told that she would soon be able to walk. After that the man and the light disappeared. The next day other witnesses saw strange white and red lights moving slowly along the body of the terminally ill patient, who then heard a loud clear voice telling her to \"get up and leave.\" She was able to do so and was apparently cured, but there is no report on the current health of the woman. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2122",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case 121, citing Sergei Bulantsev, UFO Universe, October-November 1991" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/18/1990",
  "desc" : "A man driving in Milton, Florida at 11:00 p.m. saw a spherical UFO approximately 1,000 feet away. The object, about 20-45 feet in diameter, first hovered, then appeared to pace his automobile. It appeared to change shape. It was last seen descending below the Escambia Bay Bridge. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2123",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON field investigation files, case 900818" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/18/1993",
  "desc" : "A UFO hovered in the broad daylight on this afternoon in New Port Ritchie, Florida. It then rose up into the sky until it was gone from view. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2124",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, case 1511" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/18/1997",
  "desc" : "Sitting on their porch at 12:45 a.m. in La Grange, California the witnesses first thought they saw a flock of birds, but soon it became apparent they were looking at a UFO that was slowly flying over the Kroger store on Commerce Avenue. It then came toward them. When directly overhead the object \"sped up and rapidly disappeared.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2125",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON field investigation files, case 970418E" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/18/1998",
  "desc" : "At seven p.m. a group of witnesses in Kamloops, British Columbia observed a silver disc hovering nearby. A second object appeared and circled the first one, then both UFOs shot straight up into the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2126",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Research Manitoba, 1998 Canadian UFO Survey, case 19" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/18/2003",
  "desc" : "A man was returning home from work at 1:00 a.m. in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and as he came out of an alley he saw a dwarfish figure run across the street between two cars. It was about four feet tall, humanoid shaped, and running on two legs. When the figure disappeared the witness ran to the place where it had last been seen, and had the feeling he was being watched. The witness could only describe the figure as having brown legs, and as it ran it seemed to be hunched over like it was trying not to be seen. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2127",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2003, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/18/2003",
  "desc" : "Kaliningrad, Russia - At 6:17 p.m. the entire Russian Baltic Fleet and a large number of local residents watched in awe as a flying wing shaped UFO flew rapidly over Kaliningrad Harbor and plunged into the water. The event was captured on video by a local RTR Russian State Television news crew, who happened to be present on the huge naval base filming a documentary. The UFO had two elongated dome-like protrusions on top, and three similar structures underneath. It passed directly over the Baltic Fleet, which lay at anchor in Kaliningrad Harbor. According to a Russian Naval Commander, who wished to remain anonymous, the craft was apparently caught within the sweep patterns of ship-borne radars, which automatically tracked its progress. This may have caused some a malfunction on board the craft that resulted in the crash. \"It was traveling at a tremendous rate of speed\" he said to the reporters on the scene. \"It was very low, not more than 1500 meters above the surface of the water. When the radars came on, it simply winged over and dove into the water, as if had lost either power or control.\"<br/><br/> The light gray craft had no apparent seams or rivet patterns and was estimated to be about the size of a small airliner. It was estimated to be traveling at speeds in excess of Mach 2 and was absolutely silent as it flew. However, it made a tremendous noise when it hit the water, causing a geyser of steam and water. ,It appeared to one civilian observer that whoever was in control of the craft made a deliberate effort to steer it away from the naval ships and the shoreline before it went into the harbor. One Sovremini Class Destroyer was slightly damaged by flying debris, but no injuries were reported. Radiation levels at the site were \"higher than normal.\" Debris recovered was small, less than a meter in diameter. Most debris recovered appeared to be \"skin material\" of an unknown alloy, and interior bracing and piping composed of a very high grade aluminum. The Navy cordoned off the area. In spite of the high speed at which the craft and it's very low altitude there was no sonic boom heard. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2128",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2003, citing UFO Casebook Forum, Russian Newspaper Sources" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/18/2006",
  "desc" : "Two couples observed a disc-shaped object skimming over a lake in Christiana Lake, Ontario, Canada at 10:45 p.m. The object was increasing and lowering its altitude, and seemed to be internally lit. It also had a line of bright blue lights in a marquee pattern. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2129",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2006 Canadian UFO Survey Report, case # 143, citing www.ufoinfo.com" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/19/1897",
  "desc" : "Mr. Sisson, a postmaster, was walking in the woods on this afternoon in Greenfield, Illinois when he saw an airship in the sky, estimated to be only 150 feet up in the air. He could see a woman on the deck of the object catching pigeons with a net. That same day a man nine miles away found a letter with \"Airship Co., Oakland, California\" letterhead. The note read, \"Having delightful time…Mollie…catching [pigeons] with a net,\" and went on to describe 200 mph jaunts to St. Louis, Chicago, and Kansas City.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2130",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0039, citing the St. Louis (MO) Star, April 20, 1897; Carrollton (IL) Patriot, April 23, 1897; Philip Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/19/1950",
  "desc" : "A silver, cigar-shaped object was sighted by a pilot in the morning sky over Clarendon, Texas. It flew slowly and vertically. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2131",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, page 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/19/1952",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 p.m. a silvery cigar-shaped object flew over Brooklyn, New York. It had a light orange streak two-thirds of the way to the top of the object for its entire length. It flew into a cloud, causing a sparkling light to emanate from the cloud, and did not emerge. That night in Chestertown, Maryland a yellow-orange disc-shaped UFO that was self-luminous moved through the sky in a zigzag motion. It passed over the eastern horizon in two minutes, leaving a trail. At 10:30 p.m. 50 or more pale orange lights in a V formation were seen flying in the sky over Toronto, Ontario. They crossed 30 degrees of sky in seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2132",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Edward Sullivan, CSI-Los Angeles case files, letter dated April 25, 1952" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/19/1953",
  "desc" : "A white, rounded delta-shaped UFO, seven feet in estimated diameter, flew 100 feet above the ground at 60-80 mph in a vibrating motion over enemy territory northeast of Pammunjon, Korea at 1:00 p.m. It was witnessed by three U.S. soldiers named Morgan, Rymus, and Myers. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2133",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, July 1953" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/19/1966",
  "desc" : "There were five UFO reports this day from Massachusetts and one from neighboring Connecticut. At 12:15 a.m. in Sharon, Massachusetts an oval-shaped UFO has a glowing rim that looked like they might be lighted windows. It had a steady red light on each end and was the size of a car. At 8:00 p.m. an object described as a high-flying, bright purple light flew over Stoughton, Massachusetts giving off a loud, piercing humming sound. At 8:11 p.m. two oval-shaped UFOs with red and green lights hovered directly over the veterans' home and hospital in Hartford, Connecticut. At 10:00 p.m. an elongated oval-shaped craft with bright red lights on each end was seen descending into a wooded area in Bellingham, Massachusetts. Five aircraft and a helicopter flew over the area after the UFO landed remotely, and two aircraft seemed to be circling the area. At 11:45 p.m. a large disc flew over Quincy, Massachusetts accompanied by two smaller discs. They flashed red and white lights, hovered, and swung in the sky in a pendulum motion. At midnight a UFO about the size of a car was seen by two witnesses in a field in Peabody, Massachusetts. It had red, green and white lights, moved with an up-and-down motion, and appeared to land. When the witnesses approached they saw the lights rise from the ground and fly away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2134",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler investigation files, reports dated April 20-May 14, 1967; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 761" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/19/1967",
  "desc" : "A cream colored UFO with a dome, a little larger than a large car, hovered over Tully, Massachusetts at 7:30 p.m. It flashed bright white lights, then red lights. It made some sharp turns, then moved off slowly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2135",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler investigation files, report dated April 29, 1967" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/19/1968",
  "desc" : "A woman in Malden, Massachusetts awoke at 2:30 a.m. to a sound \"like two steel knives being struck together\" and glanced outside. She saw a red glowing object with a point on top that was hovering with a fluttering motion. It flew off over a nearby cemetery. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2136",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler investigation files, report dated April 24, 1968" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/19/1975",
  "desc" : "Mr. Martindale was walking home from mailing letters in Bay City, Michigan at 11:30 p.m. when he saw a humanoid being standing in his front yard. It looked like a man but it was totally black. He received a mental message to go inside the house and not fear anything. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2137",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1401" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/19/1977",
  "desc" : "Little Haven, Pembrokeshire, Wales. At two o'clock in the morning the radio of hotel owner Rosa Gremville suddenly went dead. Moments later she heard a loud humming noise outside and looking out she was dazzled by a \"huge moon lighting up the area, moving about like a seesaw.\" It descended and landed in a field 100 yards behind the hotel. \"It was round, with flames coming from the top of a dome. There was a light on it, like a pulsating star.\" Two creatures 8 or 9-feet tall emerged from the dome through the flames. They wore cream or silvery colored jumpsuits. She could see no facial features nor any hair on these creatures, eventhough see tried to discern what they looked like through a pair of binoculars. They looked as though they had hands, but she saw no fingers. \"I though their feet were webbed.\" The figures walked around near the object for about 15 minutes. Mrs. Gremville wanted to scream, but she had lost her voice. She went in search of another witness and when they returned the UFO and humanoid figures had gone. Burn marks were found on the ground at the site the next day. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2138",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-18; Randall Jones Pugh, FSR, August 1977, p. 6 for BUFORA" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/19/1977",
  "desc" : "At 5:00 a.m. in Rocha, Uruguay a small UFO landed on a dairy farm. The witness to the event fainted and his hair was singed by a close encounter with the UFO. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2139",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, January 1978, p. 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/19/1978",
  "desc" : "On this night four children were playing in the basement of a home in South Middleton, Massachusetts when one of the girl's, a suspected UFO abductee, happened to glance at the window. A foot away from the window a white face was staring back at her, just inches above the ground level. it was oval shaped with vertical nose slits and a narrow mouth, the eyes were large slanted and gold in color. A transparent helmet possibly covered the head. She yelled at her companions but when she turned back again to look the entity was gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2140",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb, MUFON UFO Journal, issue #143; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1936; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case #260" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/19/1979",
  "desc" : "At shortly after 11:00 p.m. two witnesses to a UFO in Croy, England ran from their car when the brightly lit object passed low overhead. They reported an abnormal silence, as they could no longer hear the car engine or the door slam when they fled. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2141",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, August 1979, p. 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/19/1984",
  "desc" : "At 8:05 p.m. five people in Llano, Texas witnessed a huge dome-shaped UFO fly over their house at only 200 feet altitude. It made a loud humming noise and had lights on the rim. A jet aircraft was seen in pursuit of the UFO. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2142",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, May-June 1984, p. 16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/19/1984",
  "desc" : "At 16.00 GMT air traffic controllers at an eastern airport in England witnessed a glowing sphere that looked like \"masses of silver paper crinkled up\" touch down on a cross runway, then rocket skyward in a maneuver they judged impossible for aircraft. It climbed 3000 feet in under a second. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2143",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, March-April 1986, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/19/1989",
  "desc" : "On this evening in Fayette County, Pennsylvania a 10-year-old girl saw two short white glowing figures, whom she called angels, near a large glowing UFO. An adult witness saw the UFO shot straight up into the sky when it departed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2144",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case 925, citing Stan Gordon, PASU Data Exchange, August 1989" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/19/1993",
  "desc" : "At 8:45 p.m. in Black Heath near Salisbury, England a dark charcoal colored cylindrical object was spotted on the ground. The object was 60 feet in length and had four landing legs, two of them appeared to be damaged. Two short, 3.5 foot tall beings with slanted eyes were seen on board. According to the witnesses, a large US Air Force helicopter flew into the area and carried the craft away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2145",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case 2356, citing Jonathon Dillon, UFO Magazine (UK), November-December 1994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/19/1993",
  "desc" : "Brian Canfield was driving his truck along a road in the foothills of Mount Rainier, Washington State, when he suddenly experienced total engine failure and his headlights went out at 9:30 p.m. He next saw a nine foot tall, broad-shouldered winged creature land about 30 feet away from him. The being had a large mouth with sharp teeth, yellow eyes, a wolf-like face and was covered with a dark bluish fur. After a few minutes the creature turned its head, looked at him, and started flapping its wings. The creature then took off towards Mount Rainier. Brian was then able to restart his truck and drive away. A later search of the area failed to locate any physical evidence. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2146",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case #1961, citing Strange Magazine, issue # 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/19/1994",
  "desc" : "At 9:40 p.m. in Nykobing Falster, Denmark 21 nocturnal lights flying in an X-formation followed a witness in his car home. The lights rotated around a center point at 12 rpm. He took photographs of the lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2147",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Scandinavian UFO Information Newsletter, issue 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/19/1995",
  "desc" : "At 9:45 p.m. in Richmond, Virginia a family and a group of twelve atheletes watched a huge black, domed disc at very close range. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2148",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/20/1897",
  "desc" : "Capt. James Hooton was hunting in the vicinity of Homan, Arkansas when he heard the noise of a steam engine and found an object in a clearing. It looked like a cylinder with pointed ends, lateral wheels, and had a horizontal blade overhead. Hooton spoke with a man who wore dark glasses and walked behind the craft. There were three or four occupants in total. The witness was told this was indeed \"The Airship\" and that it used compressed air for propulsion. Capt. Hooton saw the wheels spin when the craft rose and flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2149",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 184; Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1966" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/20/1945",
  "desc" : "A priest gathering mushrooms near Reneve, France around 6 p.m. saw a 17 cm tall midget with gray hair and a gray beard. It popped up less than a foot away and ran off into the forest. The tiny being wore dark-red coveralls with a pointed helmet. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2150",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Henry-Jean Besset, Phenomenes Spatiaux, September 1975, p. 21" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/20/1950",
  "desc" : "Mr. Robertson was driving about 13 km west of Lufkin, Texas when he saw a round object about three meters in diameter hovering about 7 meters above him. It had a dull red glow. It took off with a \"swooshing roar\" as sparks flew from a slot under it. Minutes later the witness felt a burning sensation on his face. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2151",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Flying Saucers, July 1959; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 195" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/20/1952",
  "desc" : "A dark cylinder was sighted over London, England at 10 o'clock in the morning, flying at 40,000 feet altitude. It was moving from north to south at a speed in excess of 1,500 mph. Jet interceptors couldn't reach or catch it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2152",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Toronto (Ontario) Globe & Mail, April 21, 1952" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/20/1952",
  "desc" : "At 9:15 p.m. several people at a drive-in theatre in Flint, Michigan saw several groups of UFOs fly over. There were two to nine objects in a group, and a total of 20 groups. The UFOs were shaped like \"oat kernels\" and made changes in direction like conventional aircraft at a high rate of speed, but a red glow surrounded each object. The weather was clear at the time, and the sighting was reported to the Air Force by a Naval Aviation student. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2153",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1958, p. 24; Project Grudge/Blue Book Special Reports 1-12, May 1955; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 121, citing UNICAT" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/20/1952",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. a commercial pilot named J. Fidelli, on the ground at McClellan Air Field in Sacramento, California saw eight luminous objects moving in a undulating motion at a high rate of speed. They appeared to be following an aircraft during a landing approach. The formation of objects passed thru 20 degrees of arc in 6-8 seconds. They made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2154",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "letter to Civilian Saucer Intelligence from witness dated April 10, 1952; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 51" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/20/1964",
  "desc" : "Flying over Ross Island near McMurdo Sound Naval Air Station in Antarctica in the early morning hours, six members of the crew of a U.S. Coast Guard C-130 spotted nine bright white flying objects in a \"V\" formation. The UFOs came from above and paced along the left side of their transport plane. The aircraft entered a strange haze at 12,000 m altitude, and it experienced a total failure of the radar, radio, and engine. However, during this temporary engine failure the plane did not loose altitude.  The entire encounter lasted about 45 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2155",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, March 1981, p. 1; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 141" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/20/1967",
  "desc" : "At 3:30 a.m., near Estacion Casalegno in Santa Fe, Argentina the conductor of a train, Enrique R. Galimberti and another crew member saw what appeared to be bright multi-colored lights about 120 meters away from the tracks. Thinking it was a fire, Galimberti stopped the train and both men attempted to approach the scene, armed with fire extinguishers. When they got close to the area they saw the multicolored lights moving around in a circular motion, and then both observed a square metallic object over three meters in width behind the lights. It had several lighted windows around its edge. At the front the UFO had what appeared to be a \"rotating wheel\" that emitted multicolored light flashes. Several short humanoid beings were seen walking around the object. They wore silvery gray shiny uniforms, appeared to be bareheaded, and carried what resembled \"rifles\" or weapons on their shoulders. The witnesses used the train horn to check for a reaction from the creatures but there was none. Another railway employee, Salvador Pomidoro, reported seeing the same square metallic object on the ground about 15 minutes earlier. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2156",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, citing S. von Wurmb, Hoy newspaper, Asuncion, Paraguay" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/20/1967",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. two dark objects with two bright flashing red lights and two dimmer white lights flew over a lake in Georgetown, Massachusetts. They made no noise. At 9:40 p.m. a mushroom shaped object with a frosted white light on top and a red light on bottom hovered over Bolton, Massachusetts. It had turquioise colored lights fore and aft, and eight yellow lights on its perimeter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2157",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 347" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/20/1969",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. at a farm on Harwood Island, New South Wales, Australia a 25-foot diameter hat-shaped disc flew low over the sugar cane crop. It emitted a strong beam of light that swept the ground for 360 degrees. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2158",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 125" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/20/1969",
  "desc" : "On this evening in Itaucu, Goias state, Brazil, 25-year-old Adelino Roque was on his way to the local Serradinho ranch on his horse when a bright beam of light struck him from above. He soon found himself inside some kind of dark, drum-like object that was totally silent. The object was moving through the sky at a very high speed. He blanked out and could not remember anything after that. He awoke lying on top of a rock next to the Paranaiba River, miles from his original location. Meanwhile, his horse had been found tied up at another ranch, apparently unharmed. Sr. Roque also appeared to be unharmed except for a strange bruise on his side. He did not remember seeing any entities or hearing anyone talk to him during the time he was missing. Soon after his experience he began neglecting his work and drinking heavily. He also reportedly fell in love with his 17-year-old niece. A month later Roque again was reported missing, this time along with his niece. On June 12, both Roque and his niece were found dead under unusual circumstances. Some said they had been poisoned. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2159",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon Creighton, FSR, September-October 1970, p. 13; Dr. Walter Buhler, FSR Case Histories, August 1971, p. 12; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1969, case 66, citing Willy Silva, Revista Brasileira OVNI" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/20/1969",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. Mr. & Mrs. Phillips were driving on Highway 11 one mile west of Browntown, Wisconsin when a UFO came directly over their car, then hovered just 100 feet away off to the right. Its color changed from orange to yellow-orange to red as it moved. It was kettle-drum shaped, and had lights streaming from the bottom in a cone shape. The UFO followed their car home, for a total of five minutes. The UFO made a \"tweeting\" sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2160",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, May-June 1969, p. 8; Jay Rath, The W-Files: True Reports of Wisconsin's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 64" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/20/1972",
  "desc" : "At 2:45 a.m. neighborhood dogs in Scituate, Massachusetts began barking. A policeman on patrol noticed a light beam on the ground, and when he glanced up he saw a perfectly round, white glowing disc-shaped object move overhead. It descended into a marshy area behind some trees. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2161",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 358" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/20/1977",
  "desc" : "Mark Marston, age 11, was looking for bird's nests in a hedge in Herbrandston, Pembrokeshire, Wales when \"a red glow appeared in the sky 50 yards away.\" A few moments later a figure appeared and drifted through a closed gate at the other end of the field. It was dressed in a silver suit, like a diver, with a large helmet and a square, featureless face. It approached Mark rapidly, who turned and fled for home, screaming. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2162",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977, citing Randall Jones Pugh for BUFORA" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/20/1980",
  "desc" : "Barrio Aguerre, Ciudad Treinta Y Tres, Uruguay. At 12:40 a.m. 19-year-old Luis Vital Carneiro was returning home after visiting friends during a powerful electrical storm in the region. After entering a field through a gate he noticed a strange light cavorting over the field. Then, about 50 meters away near a barbwire fence, he noticed two short humanoid figures. Curious, he jumped the fence and approached the figures. At a distance of ten meters from the humanoids he noticed that they were projecting lights from the top of their heads down toward the ground. These lights suddenly turned red, and the two figures disappeared to re-appear 30 meters from the road. As Carneiro attempted to jump the barbwire fence again, a beam of light struck him that knocked him senseless. When he regained his composure Carneiro ran to his aunt's house nearby and told her what had happened.<br/><br/> Mrs. Orialis De Los Santos, his aunt, went out into her garden where she saw in the nearby field a group of four humanoids that seemed to quickly glide back and forth above the ground. Accompanied by Vital, they then counted a total of thirteen humanoids that \"glided\" about in different directions, within an area of about 100 square meters. For almost an hour the witnesses watched the strange humanoids cavort about as if playing. Vital Carneiro again attempted to approach one of the humanoids but again was knocked down by a beam of red light that seemed to come from the creature's head. He fell to the ground feeling as he had been struck by lighting. Concerned for his safety, Mrs De Los Santos ran to her stricken nephew and dragged him inside the house.<br/><br/> From inside the house they could still see the short humanoids gliding about, plus at about 500 meters distance, behind some trees, a large bright silvery light appeared on the ground that began slowly rising up and down. The witnesses described the humanoids as 60 cm in height, with very large heads, triangular faces, large pointed ears, and rounded eyes. Their bodies were small and \"rectangular\" in shape. They wore a kind of gray uniform and a rounded cap from where the beams of light originated. They seemed to communicate among themselves in quick bursts of \"buzzing sounds.\" They glided quickly across the ground and according to Mrs. De Los Santos they stood on small rounded platforms. However, Carneiro does not recall seeing the platforms. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2163",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, June 1980, p. 12; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1980, case 62, citing Shoney Santana, Bettina Allen & Fabio Zerpa" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/20/1980",
  "desc" : "At 5:30 a.m. in San Mateo, California two witnesses in a car on I-280 watched five bright metallic Saturn-shaped objects silently travel the length of the San Andreas Reservoir. They flew straight and fast to the southeast. They reflected sunlight, and were seen against the background of hills and the overcast sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2164",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, CUFOS News Bulletin, September 1980, p. 3; MUFON UFO Journal, September 1980; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 25 & 155" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/20/1980",
  "desc" : "In the suburbs of Palatine, Illinois at 8:20 p.m. a father and son viewed a grayish-black, crescent-shaped UFO with white lights at the ends of each curve. The white lights flashed every 3-5 seconds. The craft made abrupt changes in direction as it flew. They viewed it through binoculars for most of their seven minute sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2165",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John Timmerman, CUFOS News Bulletin, September 1980, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/20/1981",
  "desc" : "Walter and Judy Austin, a 42-year-old married couple, were flying in a Cessna 210 at 1,600 feet over Cannon Airport in Reno, Nevada at 10:30 a.m. when they sighted a domed disc-shaped UFO. The UFO was seen below their horizon at a distance of only 300 feet. They described it as a solid object, shiny like chrome, which tilted and fluttered as it flew. It was small, onlly 3-5 feet in diameter.  It tilted, accelerated rapidly, then sped away toward the cloud shrouded mountains. It did not appear on radar. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2166",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, October 1981, p. 6; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 26 & 125" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/20/1981",
  "desc" : "Sr. J. De Souza Ramos was driving on Highway 101 near Linhares, Brazil in Sao Paulo state at 6:30 p.m. when a bright light overtook and blinded him. He recovered consciousness five days later. When he awoke he was in a remote part of Brazil, over 1000 kilometers away to the northwest, and without his car. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2167",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 251, citing FSR, August 1981, p. 19; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 13682; Jenny Randles, Time Storms: Amazing Evidence for Time Warps, Space Rifts, and Time Travel, p. 79" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/20/1982",
  "desc" : "Sometime after three a.m. a man in County Tyrone, Ireland awoke trying to scream and immediately became aware of two unusual humanoid figures standing by his bed. One was short and the other tall and lumpy, and the second being somehow had its head inside the witness's mouth. The beings were communicating in a language that resembled the ringing of bells. The witness could not move or yell because he was paralyzed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2168",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1982, case # 1508, citing Steve Gerrard, Northern UFO News # 101" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/20/1984",
  "desc" : "Four people in a car in Beaverton, Oregon reported watching an aerial \"dogfight\" between a blue UFO and a yellow UFO at 10:04 p.m. The blue UFO zapped the yellow fireball with a red beam, apparently causing it to disintegrate because its light went out. The blue object then shot straight up. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2169",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Gribble, International UFO Reporter, May 1984, p. 16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/20/1986",
  "desc" : "At 7 p.m. three people were in a boat on a reservoir near Pacajus, Ceara State, Brazil when a gray colored UFO, the size of a car, swooped down silently out of sky and approached the boat, then flew back up and away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2170",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next? p. 232" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/20/1986",
  "desc" : "On the same night a group of police officers in Kremmling, Colorado saw a mysterious flying triangle with lights. It hovered over the southern shore of Green Mountain Reservoir, then took off to the southwest. A jet aircraft flying in the sky at the time was observed taking evasive action and veered to avoid a collision with the UFO. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2171",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Philip Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 27" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/20/1989",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. a couple driving in a car in Westchester County, New York saw huge lights on what they described as an object four times the size of a Boeing 747. Three other witnesses in a different location also reported seeing it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2172",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15341, citing Bob Gribble" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/20/1992",
  "desc" : "On this night a guard on duty at the Oderzo Army barracks in Oderzo, Italy suddenly found himself paralyzed and observed two humanoid figures wearing what appeared to be cloaks. The figures walked by him and then disappeared from sight. Around the same time other military personnel saw an object shaped like a cigar descend towards the ground from the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2173",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, citing CISU website" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/20/1998",
  "desc" : "In Oakley, Michigan a stationary bell-shaped object was videotaped for 58 seconds by three women. It had three lights, red, white, and blue in color, that pulsated in sequence. It was lost from view at 10:15 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2174",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dan R. Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, July 1999, p. 16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/20/1999",
  "desc" : "On this evening Michael Hawkins, a Lockheed Martin aircraft mechanic, and his wife Lia Simmons sighted a disc-shaped UFO from their home in Rialto, San Bernardino County, California as it hovered overhead. The craft darted back and forth over Ontario Airport. When two commercial jetliners approached it emitted a shower of red sparks and instantly shot out of sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2175",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Preston Dennett, UFOs over California: A True History of Extraterrestrial Encounters in the Golden State, p. 211" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/21/1952",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 a.m. eight crescent-shaped objects flew over Walla Walla, Washington. A dull gray disc with a hump in the middle, looking something like a fin, was seen at 2:30 in the afternoon by the Gmyrek family in Browerville, Minnesota. The disc made no sound at first but as it was fading away behind some trees \"we heard a very low hum.\" It left no vapor trail, and flew at an estimated speed of 300 mph. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2176",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Project Blue Book Report # 7, reported dated May 31, 1952; Edward Sullivan, CSI - Los Angeles, citing letter from R. Gmyrek dated June 2, 1952" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/21/1952",
  "desc" : "A flying disc was sighted in Tuxedo, Manitoba at 8:26 p.m. Four minutes later several discs and cylindrical UFOs were sighted in Molson, Manitoba. The UFOs were changing colors quickly, and one object stopped in flight, reversed direction, and backtracked by shooting off toward the north. At 10:15 p.m. there were two separate sightings of nocturnal lights glowing green and white in Winnipeg, Manitoba. One of the lights made a ninety-degree turn and turned back in flight toward the south. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2177",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Winnipeg Free Press, April 23, 1952; Desmond Leslie, Flying Saucers Have Landed, p. 60; Toronto Daily Star, April 23, 1952" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/21/1965",
  "desc" : "A dark amorphous shaped UFO moved erratically up and down through the sky over Pakenham East, Victoria, Australia on this day. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2178",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 118" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/21/1967",
  "desc" : "Driving near a dam 10 miles south of Ephrata, Washington two couples had a close encounter with a UFO on the road at 1:30 a.m. They braked to avoid collision with the object and stopped 10 feet away. When the UFO took off, it went behind their car, and paced them for five minutes. The engine of the car missed when it was passed on left by the oncoming white and yellow-orange blinking lights of the craft. The witnesses were badly shaken by the incident. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2179",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 115; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers: Here and Now, p. 239; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 455" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/21/1967",
  "desc" : "At six o'clock in the morning a sun-like orange disc or globe was seen flying toward the town of Milolii, Hawaii. It made a \"swishing\" sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2180",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/21/1967",
  "desc" : "At 4:00 p.m. EDT a domed, disc-shaped UFO was seen hovering to the west of Cocoa Beach, Florida. It tilted as a small plane passed beneath it. The airplane then reversed course in an apparent effort to take a closer look at the UFO. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2181",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 336" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/21/1967",
  "desc" : "At 7:45 p.m. EDT a UFO was sighted in Georgetown, Massachusetts. The object was viewed through binoculars and appeared to have four rectangular windows. A white light flashed in sequence from the windows. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2182",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler case investigation files, report dated April 23, 1967; Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 332, 347" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/21/1967",
  "desc" : "A pewter colored object shaped like a storage tank landed in South Hill, Virginia at 9:00 p.m. It stood 4.9 meters high including the legs, which were an estimated 1.1 meters long. A white burst of flame came from the object, which shot up into the sky. There were four imprints on the asphalt road forming a rectangle with sides from 3.35 to 3.66 meters in length. There was also a burnt spot in the center measuring 0.9 meters in diameter. There were two male witnesses named Crowder and Martin. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2183",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP investigation files; NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1967, p. 1; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers: Here and Now, p. 237; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 263; UNICAT case # 715" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/21/1967",
  "desc" : "While driving home from work in Rapid City, Michigan at 9:00 p.m. Charles D. Scott saw a large round, bluish white lighted object descend to land in a wooded area. When he got home he notified the sheriff's office, then drove back to the site with his wife and children and accompanied by a deputy sheriff. While Mrs. Scott and the children waited in the car, Mr. Scott and the officer searched the wooded area and became separated. The deputy found nothing, but the witness came upon the craft resting on small legs in a marshy area. Standing next to it was a medium sized man. He called out \"hello\" but got no response; he then repeated the greeting and this time received a mental warning, \"Get away from here!\" He turned and fled to his car, badly frightened and in an agitated state. When he returned home he told his wife about his encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2184",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-36, citing Richard Hall, NICAP" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/21/1967",
  "desc" : "At 9:55 p.m. a yellow dome-shaped object, flat on bottom, was seen by two women in Tucson, Arizona. A light beam was directed upward from the object, as it descended tipping and swaying in a falling leaf motion, apparently attempting to land. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2185",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 7; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, p. 336" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/21/1969",
  "desc" : "Mr. and Mrs. Sanchez were driving through the countryside between Penaranda and Macotera in Salamanca, Spain when they noticed some lights ahead, perhaps a kilometer away. As they got closer they noticed a UFO low over the roadway. It had a red rotating central light that was flashing and intense, and two smaller green lights separated by 20 meters. They approached to within 70 meters, when the UFO suddenly took off. It was raining hard at time, and their close encounter lasted less than a minute. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2186",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos,  Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, p. 24 (case 109); Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, OVNIs: El Fenomeno Aterrizaje, p. 95; UNICAT case # 464" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/21/1969",
  "desc" : "Three extremely bright discs were seen spinning over a major intersection at a low altitude in Guanabara, a city in Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. There were many witnesses.  ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2187",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Walter Buhler, FSR Case Histories, August 1971, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/21/1972",
  "desc" : "EM effect: a car stalled while driving through a forested area in the Charente-Maritime department of France near the village of Ste.-Soulle at 10.00 p.m. A 16 meter diameter domed disc-shaped object descended and landed on four legs, then a one-meter tall dwarf exited from the craft. The witness was frozen with paralysis during the event, which lasted 45 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2188",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, July 1976; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1147" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/21/1974",
  "desc" : "At 12:20 a.m. in Gosselies, Hainaut, Belgium a 10-meter diameter glowing metallic ovoid object halted at 100 meters altitude, made a loud noise, then zig-zagged away. There were two witnesses named Vanderclausen. Four minutes later a loud wailing sound was heard in Jumet, Belgium and a green, 11-meter orb was seen hovering by three witnesses. It shot away to the south. It was back again at 12:30 a.m., then it moved off quickly to the southeast. At 12:30 in Loverval a domed disc-shaped object emitted a sound like American police sirens as it had a close encounter with four witnesses; it flew off to the east. At the same time in Marcinelle, Belgium 11 witnesses, including a 16-year old teenager who was the main witness, watched as a small gray disc with a 40 cm thick base and a three meter high dome oscillated slightly at a distance of only 30 meters. The craft had ten equally spaced windows, which alternated yellow-green and red in color. Half of the dome was illuminated. It too emitted a siren sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2189",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michel Abrassart, Inforespace, June 1975, pp. 33-36; Jacques Bonabot, Catalog of Belgian Cases, cases 372-374; UNICAT case # 172" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/21/1976",
  "desc" : "In Harbor City, Los Angeles County, California while driving on the San Diego Freeway at 11:00 a.m. two witnesses reported sighting a large white metallic domed disc. It was estimated to be between 200 and 300 feet in diameter, and was flying at 3,000 feet altitude. It moved slowly at 5-10 mph, with a titled orientation of 45 degrees to its direction of flight. The craft had a window on its dome. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2190",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "CUFOS News Bulletin, September 1976, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/21/1976",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. a 23-year-old woman stopped her pickup truck on a bridge three miles east of Stacy, Minnesota on Highway 19 in Chisago County when she noticed a green pulsating light off the road. It passed overhead at an estimated 300-400 feet altitude. She estimated the orb was 12-15 feet in diameter. RF interference consisted of CB radio static during the close encounter. After 45 seconds of even flight it shot straight up when it departed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2191",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 68" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/21/1977",
  "desc" : "Bill Bartlett, age 17, was driving on Farm Street in Dover, Massachusetts with two friends at 11:30 at night when he saw a creature on the top of a stone wall, about 20 feet away. It was between 3.5 and 4 feet tall and had a small, slender body with a very large melon-shaped head, showing no features except two large round orange glowing eyes. Its skin was gray, \"like the color of a shark,\" and it had large hands and feet with digits that appeared to wrap around whatever supported them. It turned its head slowly to stare at them. Bill drove away quickly, but his companions had not seen it. An artist, he made a drawing later for investigators, now widely reproduced in many sources. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2192",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-20, citing Loren Coleman, Joseph Nyman, & Walter Webb" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/21/1979",
  "desc" : "On this night two Grey aliens materialized briefly in abductee B. Herrmann's home in North Charleston, South Carolina. They appeared in a blue-green haze, and left behind a metal bar with peculiar markings, which they said was a gift of \"understanding and respect\". ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2193",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Columbia (SC) State, June 28, 1981; UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1981, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/21/1989",
  "desc" : "At 9:15 p.m. in Crestview, Florida a man's dog barked as a 90-foot diameter disc-shaped object hovered nearby. The man aimed a .22 rifle at the hovering disc, which had a brilliant white light on the underside and made a humming sound. A light beam engulfed him, his rifle misfired, and the object sped away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2194",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allen Reynolds and Dan Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1989, p. 18; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 149; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 31, 282, & 384" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/21/1992",
  "desc" : "In Adelaide, South Australia at 8:30 p.m. witnesses watched red and white triangular lights that hovered over the beach for five minutes. At the same time a semi-transparent man was reportedly seen on the beach. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2195",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15712" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/21/1995",
  "desc" : "In Oregon, Illinois a young man and his friend witnessed a domed disc-shaped object pass overhead at 11:49 p.m. It had two lights on each side: a red light in front, and a strobe light behind the red. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2196",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/21/1996",
  "desc" : "On this evening Teresinha Galo, age 67, reported seeing a strange short humanoid creature with bulging red eyes, brown skin, and a large head with three oval protrusions, near the grounds of the local Jardim Zoologico in Varginha, Brazil in Minas Gerais State. The creature hid behind some bushes. It reportedly wore a golden helmet. Five animals were found dead in the zoo. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2197",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #340; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case # 2446, citing Brazilian UFO Report, issue #6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/21/1998",
  "desc" : "The witness heard something like a police siren as the teardrop-shaped UFO flew by in Broomfield, Colorado at 10:30 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2198",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 1998 archived webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/21/2003",
  "desc" : "An employee of a local manufacturing plant in Concord, North Carolina had just finished his shift at 8:00 p.m. and had stepped out onto a dock behind a large stack of pallets to have a smoke. He then had the feeling of being watched, and he whirled around expecting to see a co-worker. Instead he saw a large purple light emanating from a teardrop-shaped craft with a round bottom, hovering nearby. The craft had a concave windshield, and behind the windshield he could see two glowing lights or eyes. They moved independently from one another. Terrified, the witness ran but was unable to scream, so he pointed out the object to a forklift operator. Next a beam of white light shot out of the UFO and struck the forklift. Immediately the electrical system of the vehicle shut down and the operator began screaming. The witness's next memory was of sitting in the plant manager's office. Someone was giving him oxygen and wiping his forehead with a cool cloth. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2199",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2003, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/21/2004",
  "desc" : "An irregular shaped UFO was seen hovering over a pond in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada at 2:30 a.m.by a single witness. There was a tube extending from the object that was sucking up water from the pond. Ground marks were reportedly found nearby. At 3:00 a.m. two orange oval-shaped objects flew at great speeds and made hairpin turns while moving about the sky during a thunderstorm in Kemptville near Ottawa, Ontario. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2200",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, UFO Research Manitoba, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, cases # 237 & 238, citing HBCCUFO and NUFORC respectively" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/21/2005",
  "desc" : "A buzzing sound interupted a witness's piano playing and singing in Piscataway, New Jersey at 10:50 p.m. Looking out the window, only 20-30 feet up in the air and a short distance from the house, was a half lit lighted object with green slats; the object having white and red lights on other side. The close encounter lasted three minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2201",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, report uploaded May 11, 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/21/2007",
  "desc" : "A red cigar-shaped object with glowing ends, banded, flew at high speed over Sudbury, Ontario at 2:22 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2202",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 217" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/1897",
  "desc" : "John M. Barclay of Rockland, Texas was intrigued when his dog started barking furiously at 11:30 p.m. and he heard a high-pitched noise. He went outside and saw a flying object circling five meters above the ground. It was elongated with protrusions and blinding lights. It went dark when it landed. A man who told him his purpose was peaceful met Barclay and requested some common hardware items to repair the craft. He paid with a ten-dollar bill. The craft took off \"like a bullet out of a gun.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2203",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Houston Post, April 22, 1897" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/1897",
  "desc" : "On or about this same night Frank Nichols, who lived two miles east of Josserand, Texas and was one of its most respected citizens, was awakened around midnight by the noise from a machine. Looking outside, he saw a heavy, illuminated object land in his wheat field. He walked toward it but was stopped by two men who asked permission to draw water from his well. He then had a discussion with a half-dozen men who were the crew of the strange craft. He said they told how it worked but he could not follow the explanation. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2204",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Houston Post, April 26, 1897; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 184-185" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/1950",
  "desc" : "On this morning in Princeton, Missouri several farmers, including one named Kincaid, saw a flying disc speed by, leaving a trail of white smoke. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2205",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs, A History: 1950: April-July, p. 31" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/1952",
  "desc" : "Six military witnesses saw a white elliptical object, three feet in diameter and blinking regularly fly over Naha Air Force Base in Okinawa, Japan at 9:00 p.m. Two more similar looking discs then followed the first, then two more in a procession passed over flying east to west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2206",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1144; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 54; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 181; UNICAT, case # 814" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/1952",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 p.m. MDT, three hours after an atomic bomb test explosion, Mrs. M. Kennedy saw a propeller shaped object moving at high speed and high altitude across the sky from Temple Bar on the Colorado River, Nevada. It took only a few seconds to come into view and then go completely across the sky, heading toward the southeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2207",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Edward Sullivan, Civilian Saucer Intelligence--Los Angeles files, letter dated June 5, 1952" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/1952",
  "desc" : "At 12:15 p.m. PDT three disc-shaped objects were sighted flying toward the east in a V formation north of Condon, Oregon. They were bottom on the bottom and had silver tops. The larger disc turned and led the formation. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2208",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 52" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/1954",
  "desc" : "American military personnel saw a cigar-shaped object of a gray color come down to the ground on San Nicholas Island on the California coast. Smoke was seen to rise from where it landed, but a search yielded no results. At 11:00 p.m. in Hot Springs, Arkansas a ten-foot diameter sphere chased men on foot and in their car. It dodged a beam of light that was directed at it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2209",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 206; APRO Bulletin, September-October 1954" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/1955",
  "desc" : "At 7:45 a.m. a ten-meter diameter Saturn-shaped sphere flew slowly over a road in Tintinara, South Australia, then made a ninety-degree turn. It then sped away to the northeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2210",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Australian Centre for UFO Studies, case SA55001; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume 1), p. 135" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/1957",
  "desc" : "A 10:00 p.m. four silent, odd-colored ovoid objects giving off smoke zigzagged across the sky for four minutes in Daegu, Korea. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2211",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Flying Saucer Review, volume 3, number 4; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 4865" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/1957",
  "desc" : "A flaming cone or disc-shaped object, five-meters in diameter, hovered over a vineyard in Palada, France. It was witnessed by Mr. & Mrs. Firmin Bason. The vines thrashed about as the object spun wildly, and the object then rose rapidly with a loud roar and shot away toward the northeast. The low level whirlwind produced by the object created magnetic effects. The encounter lasted five minutes, and was followed by a police investigation. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2212",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, computerized catalogue, case #2320; UNICAT database, case 806, citing Jimmy Guieu, Ouranos; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 391; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: March 23-May 25, p. 46" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/1960",
  "desc" : "A cigar-shaped UFO flew by a train station at 9:00 p.m. in Estremoz, Portugal. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2213",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos case investigation files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/1964",
  "desc" : "Marie Morrow and two other people were driving west on a highway at 9:00 o'clock in the evening. When they were 20 kilometers east of Lordsburg, New Mexico the entire area became illuminated as bright as day by a bluish light. Then a disc-shaped object buzzed their car, coming to within three meters of their roof. It made a whining sound, then flew north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2214",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, May 1964, p. 10; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 297" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/1966",
  "desc" : "Edward Vojtko, a music teacher, and his wife saw a red light in the sky at 12:15 a.m. while driving home from a late night teachers meeting in Alliance, Ohio. They were near the golf course traveling north, about five miles west of the town, when the object silently moved towards them, revealing itself to be a large disc with a dome on top. It was dark with a white light on top, 45 feet in diameter, and with a row of rotating red lights. It came closer and hovered only 40 feet away. Frightened, they drove off at high speed and it pursued them. After two minutes it broke off and went behind some trees. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2215",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., UFOs: A New Look, p. 8; Francis Ridge, Regional Encounters, pp. 22-23" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/1966",
  "desc" : "At 2:00 a.m. Dr. Eula Page, a psychologist, was driving home from Texas with her two children and a friend when she noticed a luminous object as big as the moon darting back-and-forth across the highway. She had just crossed the Red River bridge into Oklahoma near Thackerville when she noticed she had driven directly underneath it so she stopped the car. It descended and hovered close to the car. The UFO was luminous and lens-shaped, more than twice the length of her station wagon. It was surrounded by a spherical framework that was revolving around it. On one side of the disc was a long window through which four human-looking occupants could clearly be seen. They had slanted, \"Oriental\" shaped eyes and were wearing tight fitting, silverly gray uniforms. Her daughter said that one was a woman. Standing outside the car, Dr. Page watched the UFO for about 20 minutes. A \"force field\" around the craft made it difficult for her to breathe, and a hot wind blew from the sphere that smelt \"electrical.\" Finally another car approached, and the UFO quickly moved away toward the river.They felt a hot wind from the UFO as well. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2216",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0708, citing Dr. R. Cedric Leonard and Walt Andrus for MUFON, Hayden Hewes; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1966).<br/><br/> Thirty minutes later near Randlett, Oklahoma two teenagers saw a large disc-shaped craft swinging back and forth over I-35. Four human-looking occupants are clearly observed inside through a transparent opening. The area around the witnesses was brightly illuminated and there was a smell of ozone in the air. (Sources: Larry Hatch, U computer database; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1966" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/1966",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. two witnesses reported a 10-meter long, cigar-shaped object hovering vertically over Chauvigny, Vienne, France. They saw two solid, coherent light beams retract inside the object. Finally, it shot away fast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2217",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 241; NICAP files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/1966",
  "desc" : "An orange sphere was seen flying over the coast at Figueira da Foz, Portugal at nine p.m. local time. At 3:30 p.m. CDT--within an hour of the sighting in Portugal--a flying saucer flew down the main street of Bagley, Minnesota at a low altitude, jumped over a school bus and landed on the outskirts of town. Four beings of small stature got out of the UFO, seemed to do some work on it, got back in and then took off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2218",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos case investigation files; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-18; Ray Palmer, Flying Saucers, March 1967, p. 24; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1966; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 762" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/1966",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. EDT a plate-shaped UFO flashing multi-colored lights was observed low over a school in Beverly, Massachusetts for 30 minutes by ten youths. The UFO made a humming sound and created television interference. It hovered just thirty feet over the Beverly High School building. There were intense, flashing blue, green, and red lights racing around the perimeter of the object, as well as a soft white light. Estimated to be about the size of a car, it tilted and flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2219",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, case investigation files, report dated April 24, 1966; Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 340; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 93; UNICAT database, case 377, citing Raymond Fowler" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/1966",
  "desc" : "Thirty minutes later, at 9:30 p.m. Gordon College students and a maintenance man in Wenham, Massachusetts saw an orange, circular object approach to within 600 feet at an altitude of only 100. It made a 90 degree turn, and went behind some trees. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2220",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, case investigation files, report dated June 29, 1966; Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, pp. 136 & 340" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/1967",
  "desc" : "An elongated UFO with a red light on one end and a green light on the other; with a large pulsating red light in the middle, hovered 20-30 feet above a pasture in Elizabeth, Illinois before dawn. Cattle in the area were extremely agitated. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2221",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP case investigation files, file dated April 26, 1967; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 280, 336" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/1967",
  "desc" : "A fifty-foot diameter red ellipse-shaped object was seen on the ground in the evening in Lapoint, Utah. Dogs were barking at the time. When the driver turned off his car's headlights the UFO rose and flew away quickly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2222",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Frank Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, Appendix case 47" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/1969",
  "desc" : "A man, his wife, and their teenage son in Hammond, Ontario observed a 30-foot wide saucer standing in a field while driving at 10:30 p.m. The object had two spotlights, portholes, and made a humming sound. Their dog was frightened. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2223",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, May 1969, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/1972",
  "desc" : "A close encounter occurred in Thuro By, Fyn, Denmark at 8:30 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2224",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Will Wegner, UFO-Landinger I Danmark, p. 118" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/1972",
  "desc" : "At 8:15 p.m. several reports were made of fireballs and a disc seen for 15 minutes in the skies over East Greensburg, Lloydsville, Youngstown and Kiska Valley, Pennsylvania. It dropped debris, and metallic fragments were found. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2225",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Latrobe (PA) News Edition, May 10, 1972; Stan Gordon, Skylook, July 1972, p. 12; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, December 1972, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/1973",
  "desc" : "In Cazalla de Sierra, Spain at 10 o'clock in the evening, several nocturnal lights crossed a road in unison as if attached together. The witness's car stalled. Two yellow burn marks were found on the pavement. Three hours later in Grafton, West Virginia at 7 p.m. EDT rotating red and green lights put on a display over a dam for two hours. A female witness miscarried her pregnancy the next day, and she has had psychic, paranormal experiences ever since the event. Later, at 8 p.m. near Papeete, French Polynesia a disc hovered over the ship Philippine Bear, then shot straight up into space. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2226",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Phenomenes Spatiaux, September 1973, p. 22; (2) Bob Teets, West Virginia UFOs: Close Encounters in the Mountain State, p. 98; (3) Lumieres dans la Nuit, November 1973" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/1975",
  "desc" : "On this day Professor Hernandez met a woman named \"Lya\" who claimed to be an extraterrestrial near Querataro, Mexico. They drove together in a car to an isolated area where he had had previous close encounters. They parked and walked about 100 meters on foot to a saucer-shaped craft about three meters in diameter. Lya took out a small, handheld device, and an opening on the craft became visible. They got inside and embarked on a journey. Hernandez soon realized that he is orbiting the Earth, and he was able to see several satellites in outer space. There conversation was mostly about ecological concerns and the coming climatic changes. They talked about changes to the ozone layer, deserts, forests, etc. Lya told him that the aliens insisted that all nuclear tests must come to a complete halt. Hernandez was later brought back to his vehicle. He was then told that their group of aliens was leaving Earth, and was going to be replaced with a more aggressive extraterrestrial race, who would be mostly responsible to forced human abductions and animal mutilations. Professor Hernandez mysteriously disappeared on February 2, 1984 and has never been heard from again. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2227",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1975, citing Montiel and Stevens, UFO Contact from Andromeda" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/1976",
  "desc" : "At 11:10 p.m. in Elmwood, Wisconsin police officer George Wheeler encountered a huge, 250-foot wide, silvery lens-shaped UFO hovering only 100 feet above the ground and just 500 feet away from his car. It had an orange-white light on top and six blue windows, landing gear. He could see movement of figures moving around inside the craft. When the UFO flashed a blue color his car's headlights, motor, and two-way radio failed. He was stunned by the flash and experienced a lapse of consciousness. He didn't remember anything else until someone stopped and asked him if he need help. He was hospitalized from April 23 to April 27. Another independent witness, Frederickson, saw a UFO land that night in Elmwood. There was also TV interference reported in the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2228",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Eau Claire (WI) Leader-Telegram, May 14, 1976; Jack M. Bostrack, MUFON UFO Journal, June 1976, p. 4; APRO Bulletin, April 1976, p. 1; John F. Schuessler, UFO-Related Human Physiological Effects, p. 69; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 256, 269" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/1977",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m. John Baxter, age 15, was walking home from his girlfriend's house along a road off Farm Street, 1.2 miles from the previous night's humanoid sighting, when he saw a short, ape-like creature with a very large \"figure-8\" shaped head on Miller Road in Dover, Massachusetts. Its eyes looked like two lighter circles in the center of its head. A sketch of the creature matched the one made the night before by a 17-year-old man who saw the creature on top of a stone fence next to Farm Street. There was a third sighting of the creature the following night by two teenage girls driving down a road in Dover. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2229",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, cases A1722-A1724, citing Loren Coleman; Jerome Clark, Fate, March 1978, p. 50" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/1977",
  "desc" : "Four hours after the humanoid encounter in Massachusetts, at 3:10 a.m. CDT in Washburn, Wisconsin three witnesses chased a fuzzy appearing disc in their car at speeds of up to 90 mph around curves. The object maintained a distance 30 feet overhead of them, in front of theiur car. After a few minutes it climbed, and shot off to the southwest. The sighting lasted a total of 5 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2230",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, June 1977, p. 3; UNICAT, case # 210" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/1977",
  "desc" : "Five hours later, in Yatala Vale, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia a solid-looking UFO with light beams caused a 19-year-old woman's motor vehicle's engine to stall at 11:45 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2231",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Keith Basterfield case investigation files, case S050" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/1984",
  "desc" : "Four witnesses near the shore at Saltfleet, Lincolnshire, England reported seeing a domed disc with a transparent dome that made several wide loops over the coast. It shone spotlights on a trailer park, buzzed the witnesses, and then rose vertically. It hovered at a 45 degree angle for two minutes. Their dogs were afraid. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2232",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jenny Randles, International UFO Reporter, March 1986, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/1986",
  "desc" : "A 60 foot x 40 foot x 20 foot rectangular object was sighted over Salt Lake City, Utah at 12:30 a.m. It flew slowly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2233",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, case # 1072" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/1986",
  "desc" : "In Farmington, Missouri at 9:45 p.m. a single witness reported seeing ring of bright lights rotating while it passed him by. It was also seen in the surrounding area by others.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2234",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, case # 1075" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/1989",
  "desc" : "At 9:22 p.m. two witnesses on a balcony in St. Louis, Missouri witnessed an orange BOL (ball of light) in the east. Then, the object appeared in front of the witnesses, between buildings, only 150 feet away. It was described in the report as disc-shaped, without tapered edges, with an orange dome on top, an orange stripe around the mid-section, and a black bottom with many blue lights underneath (see sketch below, credit Francis L. Ridge). The witnesses ran into the street and watched the object fade away westward. The total observation was from 20-30 seconds. It made a \"whoosh\" sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2235",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Francis Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 121, field investigator B. Becker; http://www.nicap.org/images/4L.jpg; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14867" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/1990",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m in Cuincy, Nord, France two observers witnessed three colored lights in the shape of a triangle. Three more lights joined the first three to form a hexagon; a metallic structure was suggested. The object flew from the southwest to the northeast (toward Belgium). ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2236",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 302; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15154" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/1990",
  "desc" : "On April 22, 1990 seven reports of flying triangles were submitted to SOBEPS, along with a more unusual report by two factory workers in Basecles, southwest of Brussels, Hainaut, Belgium. They were in their factory courtyard shortly before midnight, when suddenly they saw two enormous spotlights illuminate them and their surroundings. A huge trapezoid platform moved very slowly and silently above the chimney, and covered the courtyard (100m x 60m). It was grayish in color and had a total of six lights, and structures on bottom that looked like \"an aircraft carrier turned upside down.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2237",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Leslie Kean, UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record, p. 31, citing SOBEPS archives" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/1991",
  "desc" : "In Ahwahnee, Madera County, California a 53-year-old man spotted nocturnal lights in a precise formation suggesting a domed disc with portholes and rim at 8:30 p.m. The object ascended from behind a mountain, then hovered over the top of the mountain before descending across the face of mountain. It was gone when the witness returned after fetching his camera. It probably descended into a canyon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2238",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "T. David Spencer, MUFON UFO Journal, April 1996, p. 19; Randall Littlejohn, MUFON field investigation 912204W; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15431, citing MUFON UFO Journal, issue no. 336" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/1994",
  "desc" : "On the outskirts of Edmonton, Alberta a large shining ball of light descended in the afternoon and landed nearby. It transformed itself into a tall entity that ran off into the woods. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2239",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1994, case 3217; Frank Ducks, Canadian UFO Survey 1994, case # 33, citing Alberta UFO Study Group" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/1995",
  "desc" : "A manta ray-shaped UFO paced a car for several miles near Kairi, Queensland, Australia at 5:10 a.m. It had a cockpit and window, and illuminated the ground as it flew off toward the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2240",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 16832" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/1995",
  "desc" : "Similar to the reports from 1990, at 11:10 p.m. several witnesses took a video of a very large, silent triangle that flew slowly over a factory in Grande-Synth, Nord, France toward the northeast. There were many independent witnesses and the sighting lasted for four minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2241",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 336; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #  17218" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/1996",
  "desc" : "On this night at 10:30 p.m. a nocturnal light hovered between two mountains over the highway D89 southwest of Boreon, Alpes-Maritime, France, aiming beam of light apparently randomly at the slopes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2242",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, June 1997; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #  17336" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/1997",
  "desc" : "At around 8:45 p.m. in Wallsend, New South Wales, Australia a large black triangular object flew overhead at 90 km/hour, at an estimated altitude of 800 meters. It was followed by three smaller nocturnal lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2243",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17915, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/1999",
  "desc" : "On this night an anonymous caller to the National UFO Reporting Center from Amersfoort, The Netherlands said that he had had contact with aliens at 2:15 a.m. They took him into their ship, and when he returned allegedly no time had passed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2244",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, April 1999 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/2000",
  "desc" : "A witness reported seeing a cigar-shaped object while driving eastbound on I-44 near Sullivan, Missouri at 5:15 p.m. It was seen moving slowly against higher broken clouds. The sighting of the object lasted an estimated two minutes, and then it disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2245",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, April 2000 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/2003",
  "desc" : "At 4 p.m. Fire Chief Ezequiel Alvarez reported seeing a tall hairy humanoid, about 1.80 meters in height, in Rosario De La Frontera, Argentina. It moved very quickly and emitted loud inhuman screams. The creature apparently killed three dogs using its clawed hands. A local teacher reported finding a strange hairy cadaver on the side of the road, somewhat resembling the hairy humanoid but much smaller, and he noticed that it had testicles resembling those of a human being. He did not stop to pick up the body but drove on. Sightings of the tall hairy creature have repeatedly been made around the local dump. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2246",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2003, citing Radio 10, Buenos Aires in Planeta Listas" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/2007",
  "desc" : "At 12:14 a.m. a red, cigar-shaped object with glowing ends, banded, traveled at high speed over Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. That night at 10:00 p.m. a triangular formation of red lights was sighted moving fast across the sky in Orangeville, Ontario. Both cases are listed as high quality unknowns. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2247",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, cases 224 & 227" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/22/2007",
  "desc" : "A disc-shaped object with rotating lights was seen in Kirkland, Washington at 7:15 p.m. About the same time (10:20 p.m. EDT) in Westville, Florida a triangular object was seen briefly. The craft had four greenish-blue, dim lights on the bottom: one light in the middle towards the rear and one in each corner. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2248",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, reports uploaded April 27, 2007" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/23/1897",
  "desc" : "Judge Lawrence A. Byrne of Texarkana, Arkansas was surveying a tract of land when he saw a peculiar object anchored on the ground. \"It was manned by three men who spoke a foreign language, but judging from their looks one would take them to be Japs.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2249",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 185" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/23/1897",
  "desc" : "According to the Houston Post, two men reported that they had discovered a landed airship near the town of Kountze, Texas. It was cigar shaped, 50 feet long and 20 feet wide. They talked to the two human occupants of the airship, named Jackson and Wilson, who were allegedly repairing a punctured \"air compartment.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2250",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Houston Post, April 25, 1897; Donald B. Hanlon, Flying Saucer Review, January-February 1967, p. 25; Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 49" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/23/1954",
  "desc" : "On this evening a three meter wide glowing ball of light circled a house in Pearcy, Arkansas slowly, stopping at irregular intervals. It then dove at a man walking in the yard. When he tried to put a spotlight on it, it would dodge the beam every time. There were six male witnesses, and the encounter lasted 20 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2251",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP files, newspaper clipping dated April 24, 1954; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 339, Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 165, citing AP report" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/23/1959",
  "desc" : "At 12:10 a.m. a luminous disc flew over a pasture in Bradenton, Florida and stopped two kilometers away from the witnesses. It emitted a beam of light that searched the ground for a couple of minutes, then it flew away toward the south. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2252",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: April-June, p. 16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/23/1964",
  "desc" : "A nine-foot in diameter lens-shaped UFO with a dome hovered six feet above the ground in Rivesville, West Virginia at 7:30 a.m. making a humming sound. It extended a three-foot wide cylinder to ground, and a black figure, three to four feet tall, with painted ears and a tail emerged, collecting grass and dirt samples. The creature got back in the craft and it took off vertically. The witness was a woman named Ms. Frederick. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2253",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 681; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0585, citing Gray Barker; Gray Barker, Saga UFO Report, December 1976, p. 33; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 644 (Vallee mistakenly listed the date as 1965)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/23/1966",
  "desc" : "At around 2:00 a.m. a 60-foot long cigar-shaped object with multiple legs for landing gear and a light beam, making a roaring noise, landed on the Johnson farm in Clarinda, Iowa. It illuminated the area surrounding it with a red color, and cattle on the farm bolted and ran in response to the object's presence. It left behind a smell like ozone and deep impressions in the ground, with 20 imprints. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2254",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, pp. 22 & 70; NICAP case investigation files; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 198, 263, 279 & 320; Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, p. 41; Gordon Creighton, FSR, January-February 1971, p. 28" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/23/1966",
  "desc" : "At 2:15 in the afternoon in Bingham, Maine Miss Kim Baker, a 6-year-old girl, saw a shiny metallic, lens-shaped object, 18 feet wide, descend and land a few yards from her in a field. It had red lights on each side, a flashing green light on top, and a rectangular window through which she saw a man's face. He winked and smiled at her, and said something she could not hear. He had a \"bubble\" on his head that he took off before speaking. He then stood up, and she could see that he was wearing \"shiny white\" clothing with numerous black buttons on his chest. Then the object took off again. At the site her parents found a circular area of crushed pussy willow bushes, about 15 feet in diameter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2255",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-20, citing Richard Bonenfant; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1966" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/23/1971",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 a.m. Mrs. French, a school teacher in the mountains of Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia sighted a fiery orangish-red ball of light that showed white and trailed behind it a very long cigar-shaped object, flying from the east to the southwest. As the same time, to the northwest of Kempsey in Collambatti Rail, New South Wales three 13-year-old boys with the last names of Fuller and Donnelly saw a silvery ovoid UFO with four legs or landing gear fly overhead. The legs had what looked like landing pads at the ends of them, and the object gave off flames and exhaust. It may have landed remotely. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2256",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, May-June 1971, p. 4; Eileen Buckle, FSR Case Histories, December 1971, pp. 1-2, citing the Macleay Argus, April 24, 1971" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/23/1974",
  "desc" : "A UFO with green, red and white lights engaging in complex maneuvers over Warden Hill was sighted by 64 students in Luton, Essex County, England on this night. A second object had three blinding white lights, and appeared to land. At the suspected landing site large scorched areas and marks were found in the grass, with lumps of a black clayish material also found lying around. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2257",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted R. Phillips, MUFON Conference Proceedings: 1975, p. 105; Ted R. Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, p. 99, citing the Luton Evening Post, April 23, 1974; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, December 1974, p. 38" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/23/1976",
  "desc" : "A man was reportedly abducted for four hours by a UFO that landed in a pasture in Quixada, Ceara State, Brazil at 5:00 a.m. Soon after the abduction experience his mental and physical health quickly deteriorated, and now he is described as completely mindless by his fellow villagers. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2258",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact, p. 136; Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next?, p. 153; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 270" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/23/1976",
  "desc" : "At 11:15 p.m., while half the town of Matapozuelos, Spain was watching a reddish oval shaped craft maneuvering overhead, 14-year-old Fidel Hernandez Rolla was playing with some friends in a field outside of town, when they saw the reddish spheres slowly descend and land on a nearby field. All of Fidel's friends fled in panic, so he was left behind alone. With a mixture of fear and curiosity, Fidel approached the object and then crouched behind a stonewall to watch the enigmatic craft. Suddenly a row of lights became visible inside an opening in the craft. Fidel was able to see numerous multi-colored lights, monitors and other unidentified apparatus inside the craft. The craft was topped by a crystal dome and inside the dome several very tall, human-like figures could be seen moving about. He then saw three tall man-like figures appear from behind the object, not very far from his location. The humanoids were over two meters tall and wore tight-fitting white uniforms with belts and boots. They all had light blond, shoulder-length hair. Their faces were human-like but with large almond-shaped eyes. In single file the three tall beings walked to a potato field where several pounds of potatoes were stacked high in a pyramid. After looking at the potatoes for a few seconds, the beings then stared at the witness. At this point Fidel heard unintelligible words inside his head, as if the humanoids were attempting to communicate with him telepathically. A few seconds later the beings suddenly vanished in plain sight. At the same time, the object rose up from the ground emitting a steady buzzing sound. As the object disappeared into the distance, several additional towns people arrived to see the object disappear into space. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2259",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1976, citing Iker Jimenez, Enigmas Sin Resolver" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/23/1977",
  "desc" : "At around 1:00 a.m. Mrs. Pauline Coombs, age 31, and her husband Billy, age 36, were watching television at their Ripperston farm near Little Haven, Dyfed, Wales when they saw a silver-suited figure outside their window. Pauline had seen it first, but she said nothing about it to her husband until he himself saw it. \"It must have been over seven-foot tall, because we could not see its face.\" It was described as three feet wide, surrounded by a luminous glow. Its box shaped helmet framed a dark square area in which no face was visible. They called the BUFORA investigator Randall Jones Pugh, and the police immediately, but the figure had gone before they arrived. Mrs Coombs and her family had been involved in two other UFO incidents prior to this encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2260",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Hugh Turnbull, FSR, June 1977, p. 6, citing Western Telegraph, April 28, 1977; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-23, citing Randall Jones Pugh, for BUFORA" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/23/1977",
  "desc" : "In Dover, Massachusetts shortly before midnight Will Taintor, age 18, was driving Miss Abby Brabham, age 15, home. At a point 1.2 miles east-northeast of the Baxter sighting the previous night, they saw a small figure crouching on all fours, facing their car, in the lefthand lane of the road. It looked like a hairless, beige-colored small ape, but with a very large, oblong-shaped head. It had two large round eyes in the center of its head, which glowed green in the car's headlights. No nose, ears, or tail could be seen. They drove past within eight feet of the creature, which Abby observed closely for about five seconds. Her companion, occupied with driving the car, only glimpsed it briefly. Neither of them knew of the other earlier sightings at the time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2261",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-22 (A1724), citing Loren Coleman, Joseph Nyman & Walter Webb; Jerome Clark, Fate, March 1978, p. 50" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/23/1978",
  "desc" : "Mrs. Castro was driving on Highway 101 in Goleta, Santa Barbara County, California at 7:30 p.m. when her car engine lost power, and her car radio went off. A bright light in the sky made a \"zinging\" sound, then dimmed to reveal four revolving green and blue lights on the UFO, estimated to be about 10 meters in diameter. The close encounter lasted three minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2262",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 72" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/23/1980",
  "desc" : "At 7:40 p.m. on this evening Sr. N. Sayago was driving his car on the outskirts of the city of Santa Rosa, La Pampa province, Argentina when he noticed something falling from the sky near some high-tension power lines. His vehicle suddenly stopped and could not be re-started again. He next felt a chilling breeze at this heet. He looked up and saw a very tall being gesturing at him. He was approached by two of these seven foot tall creatures, who he described as seven feet tall, with webbed hands, long pointed ears, protruding mouths, and almost no hair. They both wore shiny, almost luminous black diver suits. Their faces resembled very gaunt skulls, with hollow eyes and no visible noses. The beings moved their lips but did not speak. One of them took his hand with both of his cold hands, and Sr. Sayago beganto feel weak and dizzy. He then passed out. When he awoke he and the car were ten blocks away from where the encounter had taken place. He was hospitalized for a nervous breakdown. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2263",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newspaper Clipping Service, June 1980, p. 9, citing the Buenos Aires Herald, April 24, 1980; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, HC# 243, citing Fabio Picasso, Strange Magazine, #8 (listing the date as April 22nd)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/23/1993",
  "desc" : "On this day, during a heavy concentration of UFO sighting reports in the State of Fortaleza, Brazil, a man named Jose Ernani claimed to have encountered a being of light during prayer at a local grotto in Vila Peri. He described the being as female, about 19-years old, with finely chiseled features, a pink complexion, a heart shaped mouth, and long brown wavy hair. Her eyes were of a \"penetrating\" blue color. She wore a silky dress with a short sash about four inches wide. On the sash he could see two ingrained faces. Ernani interpreted the being as an apparition of the Virgin Mary. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2264",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, HC# 2701, citing Reginaldo de Athyayde, FSR" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/23/1995",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon Sr. Reynaldo Ortega, a resident of Naranjito, Puerto Rico saw a gigantic bird-like creature standing on the roof of his house. Sr. Ortega had gone to look for a small goat on his property, because an epidemic of unexplained animal deaths and mutilations was ongoing. He described the winged creature as between three and four feet tall, with the body and dark plumage of an eagle, a thick neck, and piercing red eyes. The nightmarish raptor had an even more peculiar characteristic: instead of a beak it had what looked like the muzzle of a wolf. The creature ignored Ortega and flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2265",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, citing Scott Corrales, Chupacabra and Other Mysteries" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/23/2000",
  "desc" : "At 6:40 p.m. a mathematician flying on a commercial airliner from Denver, Colorado to San Jose, California saw a \"circular silvery object with a rounded top\" speed by several thousand feet below him somewhere over northern Nevada. He was able to calculate that the domed disc-shaped craft would have had a diameter of 55 feet, and a speed of about 3,000 mph. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2266",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, April 2000 archived webpage; Lynn Picknett, Mammoth Book of UFOs, p. 182; UFO Magazine (USA), September 2000, p. 28" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/23/2001",
  "desc" : "A man in Salmon Arm, British Columbia awoke to a noise outside his door late at night and saw a blue glow enter his bedroom. He next heard a loud buzzing sound, and then his entire body went completely tingly and numb and he was overcome by an intense sensation of fear. He found himself unable to move or speak. At this point he noticed two short shadowy figures that had appeared, almost dancing around his bed, while he was attempting to move. He managed to blurt out \"get out\" and the figures and the light vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2267",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, Canadian UFO Survey 2001, case 105; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2001, citing UFOBC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/23/2001",
  "desc" : "At 4:10 p.m. in Caronno Pertusella, Piedmont, Italy two residents saw a luminous domed disc fly over the city off to the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2268",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 18166, citing Rivista Info Ufologia, issue # 23" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/24/1897",
  "desc" : "A man in Louisville, Kentucky heard a buzzing noise, looked up, and saw a cigar-shaped craft 200 feet up. He could see the form of a man standing at the stern. \"He looked at me, and I waved my hat. Two other men were sitting in the helm.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2269",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Louisville Courier Journal, April 25, 1897" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/24/1909",
  "desc" : "At 9:20 in the morning a white ovoid shaped flying object was seen in the skies over Florence, Italy. Two men dressed in white suits were seen inside. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2270",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 254" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/24/1949",
  "desc" : "A high speed, maneuvering object was tracked with a theodolite by five government contractors from General Mills as it sped through the sky. They were at a missile range near Arrey, New Mexico at 10:20 a.m. It looked like a featureless, whitish featureless ellipse, and its length was 2.5 times its width. After 60 seconds it disappeared in a sharp vertical climb. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2271",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 238" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/24/1950",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m. three men watched a crescent-shaped object maneuver through the sky over Ansonia, Connecticut. The object looked like a half-moon with a squared off end, and was sighted by two policemen and a restaurant proprietor. It moved unevenly thru the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2272",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 33" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/24/1950",
  "desc" : "Later, at 10 p.m. in Abbiate Guazzone, Italy, Sr. Bruno Facchini heard and saw sparks coming from a dark, hovering object. Nearby stood a man dressed in tight fitting clothes and wearing a helmet who seemed to be making repairs. Three other men were seen near the craft. When the work was finished, a trapdoor through which light had been shining was closed and the thing took off. The witness time to note many details about the craft and its occupants. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2273",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Antonio Giudici, Flying Saucer Review, April-May 1975, p. 30; Solas Boncompagni, UFO in Italia, Volume I, (Periodo 1907-1953), p. 120; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 195" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/24/1964",
  "desc" : "Dairy farmer Gary T. Wilcox saw a shiny, egg-shaped object, about eight meters long and six meters wide, in his pasture in Tioga City, New York at around ten o'clock in the morning. He spoke in English to two short male occupants, 1.2 meters tall, wearing seamless clothing and hoods, and carrying trays. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2274",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 195" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/24/1964",
  "desc" : "Police officer Lonnie Zamora was parked watching for speeders on the main highway south of Socorro, New Mexico at 5:45 in the afternoon when he saw an whitish metallic ovoid object land in the desert behind a rise. He drove his police cruiser over the rise and saw an ovoid object with four legs resting in a gully. Two four-foot tall beings in white spacesuits stood next to the landed UFO. They turned in his direction and then went inside the UFO. A loud roar was heard during a vertical takeoff as the object emitted a flame from the bottom. The foliage in the area was scorched black, and there were four holes in the ground surrounding the burned area. The case was personally investigated by Dr. J. Allen Hynek for Project Blue Book. Everyone, except UFO debunker Phillip Klass who visited Socorro four years later, regards the testimony of Mr. Zamora as highly credible. A married couple saw the object north of the city at 5:30 p.m. before it landed, and seven other witnesses saw it flying south of Socorro shortly before 6:00 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2275",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book, case 8766; Thomas M. Olsen, Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, pp. 92-97; Ray Stanford, Socorro Saucer in a Pentagon Pantry, Austin, Texas: Blueapple Books, 1976" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/24/1966",
  "desc" : "At 3:30 a.m. Mr. Tom M. Lasseter, an architect, was camping near the Pedernales River in Texas when he was awakened by a fluttering sound and observed a glowing white disc that was at treetop level 60 meters away. It was seven meters in diameter and had a row of lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2276",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 764" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/24/1966",
  "desc" : "Thirty minutes later, at 5:00 a.m. Eastern time, Mrs. Kalnicki saw a multicolored domed disc with blinking red lights on its rim move between two apartment buildings in Dorchester, Massachusetts. It had a yellow light on top, and emitted a humming noise.There were a total of five witnesses, and the sighting lasted 12 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2277",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Walter Webb, case files report #63; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 46; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 320; Raymond E. Fowler, Casebook of a UFO Investigator, p. 173" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/24/1966",
  "desc" : "At 6:10 p.m. two men in Ashby, Massachusetts saw an object dive within 30 meters of their car. It was silent, had a bright blue light on top, suddenly accelerated, and was lost to sight toward Mt. Watatic. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2278",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 763" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/24/1969",
  "desc" : "On this night there were several reports of an 18-foot-tall phantom either walking or floating along at 20 mph in Nova Scotia. The tall shadowy figure consisted of a very dark humanoid form. A large numbers of cars had assembled at Berwick, Nova Scotia to observe the monster. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2279",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-31, citing an unnamed newspaper source" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/24/1970",
  "desc" : "A Soviet supersonic bomber allegedly disappeared without a trace in the area of Olekminsk, Russia on April 24, provoking a widescale search involving 150 aircraft. Many of the pilots reported seeing large unidentified craft hanging high in the sky, far out of missile range. Soviet reconnaissance planes were sent up, scouring and photographing every square kilometer of the terrain in a fruitless search for the bomber's wreckage. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2280",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1970, citing Branton's War in Heaven File" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/24/1971",
  "desc" : "Mrs. F, a woman from Greenacre, New South Wales, Australia and her 13-year-old daughter were going home by taxi at 7:30 p.m. On passing Roberts Park they saw an object hovering over the lighted field where youths were playing football. The field lights formed a king of \"ceiling\" over the field and is unlikely that had they looked up, the players could have seen anything. The object was \"football shaped,\" the interior light being \"the brightest blue imaginable.\" The top portion of the UFO was transparent and the bottom was a greenish metallic \"like gun metal\" color with three large transparent portholes. The object was tilted downward at an angle revealing three tall humanoid figures, over six feet tall, in the transparent upper half of the UFO. One of the occupants pointed down at the witness and then turned toward a rectangular, lighted area. Mrs F. asked the cabbie, a Greek immigrant, to stop the taxi, but he accelerated away and drove them straight to her home without stopping. He left in a frightened state without collecting his fare. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2281",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-15, citing Keith Basterfield" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/24/1972",
  "desc" : "At two o'clock in the morning Mrs. Taylor, an elderly woman suffering from insomnia, was up late in her apartment in Manchester, England when she saw out her window, above a tall factory chimney, a glowing yellowish white ball-shaped UFO. A figure wearing boots emerged from the sphere. The object eventually seemed to dissolve \"within itself.\" She watched the humanoid for a period of two hours, and it gave her the impression of an \"astronaut landing on the moon.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2282",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1972-08, citing Roy Dutton, Joan Nesltrop for BUFORA; Peter Rogerson" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/24/1977",
  "desc" : "At around one o'clock in the morning Mrs. Pauline Coombs, age 31, and her husband Billy, age 36, were watching television at their Ripperston farm near Dale, Pembrokeshire, Wales when they saw a silver suited figure at their window. Pauline saw it first, but said nothing to her husband until he saw it himself. \"It must have been over seven feet tall,\" because it was too tall to see its face.\" It was quite wide--about three feet--and surrounded by a luminous glow. It was wearing a box-shaped helmet that framed a dark squarish area in which no face was visible. They called Randall Jones Pugh, the BUFORA investigator, and the police immediately, but the figure had gone before either arrived. Mrs. Coombs and her family had been involved in several other close encounter incidents prior and after this encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2283",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-23, citing Randall Jones Pugh, BUFORA" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/24/1980",
  "desc" : "Two roofers working in the late evening at 9:00 p.m. sighted a bright yellow disc-shaped UFO rise vertically from Lake Norman Reservoir, not far from a nuclear power plant in Rutherford County, North Carolina. It made a loop in the sky and flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2284",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George D. Fawcett, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1980; UFO Magazine (USA), June 1990, p. 33" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/24/1984",
  "desc" : "Radar visual confirmation. At 7:10 p.m. a 1000 foot long cigar-shaped object followed a KC-135 USAF tanker aircraft through a U-turn over the mountains of Chimayo, New Mexico while separate nocturnal lights cavorted about in the sky. Radar blips were tracked at the time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2285",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, November 1984" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/24/1989",
  "desc" : "At 10:45 p.m. several witnesses, including 53-year-old A. D. Golovatskaya, watched a fiery green elongated craft fly low over the rooftops of Kharovsk, Russia. It had a blunt nose and a fish-shaped tail. The craft was silent and appeared to be made of crystal. Four figures wearing silvery, tight-fitting uniforms were seen inside the object, two in the rear and two at the front apparently operating some controls. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2286",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case # 668, citing V.D. Musinskiy, FSR, Volume 35, No. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/25/1897",
  "desc" : "People returning from church in Merkel, Texas observed a heavy object being dragged along the ground by a rope attached to a flying craft. The rope got caught in a railroad track. The craft was too high for its structure to be visible but protrusions and a light could be distinguished. After about ten minutes a man came down along the rope and cut the end free. He climbed back aboard the craft, which flew away toward the northeast. The man was small and dressed in a light blue uniform. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2287",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Houston Daily Post, April 28, 1897; Donald B. Hanlon, Flying Saucer Review, January-February 1967, p. 24; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 185" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/25/1898",
  "desc" : "Astronomer Michailovitch at the Belgrade Observatory in Serbia, Yugoslavia sighted a fireball at 9:32 p.m. that stopped still in the sky and hovered in one spot for six minutes before continuing on. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2288",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 17; Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 196" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/25/1950",
  "desc" : "A series of unknown lights and UFOs where seen near the Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah. A \"flying icebox,\" surrounded by an aura of spears was seen over the Ammunition Storage Area near Dougway Mountain at 3:00 a.m. A 24-hour search of the area ensued. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2289",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 34" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/25/1950",
  "desc" : "At 4:00 p.m. a 200 foot long cone-shaped device flew over the Vancouver, British Columbia airport at 15,000 feet altitude, and there were many calls to the police and news media. A white substance hung about the tail of the object but it left no condensation trail. The sighting lasted one minute. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2290",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "The Oregonian, April 26, 1950; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 35" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/25/1952",
  "desc" : "At three a.m. a shining white metallic disc with legs, a ladder, a tube, and a transparent dome landed in the Serchio River in Liguria, Italy. It shot red beams of light at the witnesses, who were able to avoid being hit by them by jumping into a ditch. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2291",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Marco Marianti, FSR, June 1977, p. 31" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/25/1954",
  "desc" : "Three trained weather observers at Kadena Air Force Base in Kadena, Japan sighted bluish-white circular objects overhead at 11:30 p.m. The USAF specialists named Spillem, Duracher, and Conner watched the UFOs make two circles,  then zigzag to the south. They made another circle, and then went off to the southeast. Circular, bluish-white in color. No sound, no radar tracks, no balloons aloft.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2292",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "4/25/1959",
  "desc" : "Luis Da Silva saw a \"red hot\" colored disc in the sky on the evening of April 23rd in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Around midnight of April 23-24 he awoke and felt the need to go outside to the garden. There he found a noted that told him to return the following night at 1:30 a.m. When he did so, a circular UFO appeared in the air 300 feet above the ground, and he felt himself paralyzed. A man descended from the UFO in a slow spiral, but when he reached the ground he stopped above it and his feet did not quite touch the ground. He wore a helmet and some form of plastic clothing, and gloves looking like they were made of a transparent, glass material. He told Da Silva to return on Thursday at 2:05 a.m., and then re-ascended in a spiral into the craft. On Thursday the same sequence of events occurred, but the next time three entities descended in sequence. The last one of these men asked Da Silva for a piece of paper, and inscribed upon it a message of some kind, written in indescipherable markings. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2293",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1959-07, citing Dr. Walter Buhler; Flying Saucer Review, May-June 1967, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/25/1960",
  "desc" : "Mrs. M. Clark of Shelby, Montana saw five circular or round objects fly in a trail formation, hover, accelerate, and make sharp turns. A strong white light beam shone down from the balls of light (BOL), which had a red glow. They flew at a low altitude, and made sharp turns. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2294",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 6727; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns; Lloyd Mallan, Official Guide to UFOs, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/25/1966",
  "desc" : "On this night at around 8:15 p.m. two motorists in Towanda, Pennsylvania felt heat and had their car engine and headlights fail when they encountered a UFO with four portholes hovering about 350 feet away, with flames shooting off of it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2295",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Green Beckley, Flying Saucers, December 1969, p. 21; Berthold E. Schwarz, Beyond Condon: FSR Special Edition No. 2, p. 46; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 29" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/25/1966",
  "desc" : "At 8:52 p.m. EDT the governor of Florida's plane was paced by two UFOs over Ocala, Florida. The crew and passengers of the Convair aircraft carrying Florida Governor Haydon Burns sighted two apparently connected bright yellow or yellow-orange globe-shaped objects that paced the plane for about 40 miles. Witnesses included newsmen and state officials. When Burns ordered his pilot to turn toward the UFOs, they climbed steeply and disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2296",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Palm Beach Post, April 28, 1966; NICAP UFO Investigator, May-June 1966. p. 3; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers Here and Now, p. 59; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 117" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/25/1968",
  "desc" : "A \"saucer nest\" crop circle was found in sugar cane near West Cairns, Queensland, Australia. It was oval in shape, 70 feet by 36 feet. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2297",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Stan Seers, FSR, May-June 1969, p. 4; Ted R. Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 321" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/25/1969",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. a ten-meter diameter disc-shaped object was seen hovering over a park in Greenacre, New South Wales, Australia by three witnesses. A Greenacre woman, Mrs. Froml, and her 13-year old daughter were going home by taxi. When they passed Roberts Park they saw the object hovering over a playing field lit by floodlights, where some youths were playing football. The floodlights formed a kind of ceiling over the field and it was unlikely that had any of the players looked up, they would have seen anything. The object was football shaped, the top was transparent, and the bottom was a greenish metallic color, like gun metal. It had an interior light that was \"the brightest blue imaginable,\" and the bottom portion had three large transparent holes. The object was tilted downward, and inside the object could be seen three tall humanoid figures, over six feet tall. in the transparent upper half of the UFO. One pointed down at the witnesses and then turned toward a rectangular, lighted area, apparently working some controls. Mrs Froml asked the cabbie, a Greek immigrant, to stop the taxi, but instead he accelerated away from the park and drove straight to her home. After he dropped her and her daughter off, he left in a frightened state, without collecting his fare. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2298",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 126; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1112, citing Keith Basterfield and investigator David Reneke" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/25/1971",
  "desc" : "About 9:00 p.m. a woman near Pottstown, Pennsylvania spotted a luminous object over a farmer's field while driving on a rural road. It was a very bright, pulsating light. It would move and stop, move and stop, in a jerking manner. She first thought the object was something conventional like an aircraft light, but its strange motion seemed to belie that explanation. The woman stopped the car next to the field and just studied the object. The object was about as high as the light on a radio tower. She rolled down her window see if there was any engine noise, but there was none. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2299",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, May 1971, page 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/25/1974",
  "desc" : "A domed disc-shaped object hovered nearby an apartment building in Marcinelle, Belgium at 10:30 p.m. It inclined toward the witness, a single woman named Bouchez who was inside the building, and then shot three beams of light over the apartment building. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2300",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michel Abrassart, Inforespace, June 1975, p. 41" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/25/1975",
  "desc" : "Three events occurred in Rugles, Eure, France during this remarkable experience that lasted over an hour, beginning at 9:30 p.m. First, a meteor was seen shooting through the sky. Next, a 40 meter diameter dome with a  smaller disc was seen. Finally, a small glowing dome appeared inside a room. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2301",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "GEPA Phenomenes Spatiaux, September 1975" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/25/1976",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. a 12 meter in diameter UFO crossed the road in front of a car being driven by a Mr. Y. Vandenbroek in Tervuren, Belgium, at an altitude of 100 meters. Suddenly four searchlights were turned on inside the object, and directed at the ground. The object moved silently, tilted at an angle after five minutes, and moved away slowly. There were eight witnesses from four separate families. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2302",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Rudy de Groote, UFO Register, volume 7 (1976), p. 31, citing the Gazzette Antwerpen" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/25/1977",
  "desc" : "At 3:50 a.m. eight soldiers on a military patrol on the Pampa Lluscuma, Chile suddenly saw a bright light nearby. The soldiers' dog and horses remained still while the lights hovered nearby. The leader of the group, Corporal Armando Valdes, ordered the other soldiers to put out their campfire. The two large lights were about 800 meters away, and hovering close to the ground. Cpl. Valdes approached the lights, ordering them to identify themselves. At this point a bright light enveloped Valdes and he vanished in plain view of the others. The others began frantically searching for him but they were unable to find him. At around 4:15 a.m. Valdes suddenly reappeared. He had a strange look on his face and he emitted a sinister laugh, asking several times where his mother was. Then he said, again in a very sinister sounding voice, \"you will never know who we are and where we come from.\"<br/><br/> The others noticed that he appeared to have a week's growth of beard, whereas he had been clean-shaven just an hour ago, and his digital watch indicated the impossible date of April 30. He was almost in hysterics and one of the soldiers had to slap him, at which point he fainted. One of the other soldiers, Raul Salinas, who had been standing a few meters back of the others, noticed a strange humanoid creature behind some nearby rocks. He described it as half animal and half human; no facial features were visible, but it seemed to be wearing a helmet and was carrying a red light. Salinas was stunned to see the creature appear at several places simultaneously, he thought that maybe it could have been several humanoids. He did not mention this to the others at the time, since they were already scared, but the others did not see the humanoid or humanoids. When Valdes woke up he could not remember where he had been. It is assumed the Chilean military conducted various medical tests on Valdes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2303",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, case # 3062, citing Diego Contreras & Raul Nunez" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/25/1978",
  "desc" : "At 2:15 a.m. a UFO with an inside occupant was sighted by a Mr. Hake while driving along Highway 83 in Baltimore, Maryland. The close encounter lasted several minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2304",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "CUFOS files, report received in 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/25/1978",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 in the afternoon the witness was in her kitchen in Villamare Di Sapri, Italy when she noticed a large luminous sphere; clear in color descend to the ground nearby. The witness went to fetch a camera. At this point the sphere seemed to shrink in size and a short being wearing a bright orange coverall type suit stepped out. The being walked around looking in all directions. Its face appeared brighter than the rest of the body and it had human like features. On its head it wore a cone-shaped device or cap. It moved in short steps and bounds. This apparently frightened the witness who yelled for her husband. The being glanced at the witness and then ran behind a nearby tree stump. A thick fog then began forming in the area and simultaneously the luminous sphere shrank in size and dissolved into nothing. The being apparently disappeared also. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2305",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 207 (July 1981); Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 1536; Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Italian UFO Catalogue" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/25/1978",
  "desc" : "At 7:00 p.m.a witness on the shore in Vittorio, Sicily, Italy observed through binoculars a glowing \"boat\"  5 kilometers offshore. It then ascends, and hovers in the sky for 45 minutes. It had two antennas at the ends of the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2306",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, July 1981" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/25/1978",
  "desc" : "Later that same day UFO investigator Pat De La Franier was in his office in Stratford, Ontario going over some UFO reports when there was a sudden knock at the door. Where his office is located he could ordinarily hear everyone coming through the main door when admitted through the security door, and then hear their footsteps walking down the hall. But this knock came abruptly, and when he opened the door there was a very odd-looking man standing there. He was dressed entirely in black. He was about five and a half feet tall, extremely thin, with a somewhat unusually large head. His hair looked like it had been completely shaved and the hair was just growing back. His skin had an unusual olive hue. His lips were very thin and his cheeks were sunken in. His eyes were dark and so elongated that they literally wrapped around his temples. La Franier had never seen eyes like that, \"They just bored into me\". The stranger just stood there staring at him. La Franier was fixated by his eyes and he felt somehow intruded upon on a mental level. After a full minute the man spoke. \"Would you like a photograph of your family?\" It was a strange question, and his voice was very strange, too. It was low and hesitant as if this man had absolutely a poor conception of how to put a sentence together. The English was flawless, but he struggle to get through the sentence. La Franier said no, he did not need any more pictures. And with that the stranger stepped back, turned and just disappeared. The man was completely gone. Later La Franier discovered that many of his papers were missing. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2307",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, citing Susan Michaels, Sightings: UFOs" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/25/1981",
  "desc" : "In Beijing, China at 7:00 a.m. a bullet-shaped ellipsoid, with the middle of the object white and the bottom green, glowed and hung in the sky in a vertical position. It moved slowly, then stopped, and finally shot away fast. The sighting lasted 25 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2308",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, p. 216" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/25/1981",
  "desc" : "At 3:54 a.m. a dog barked excitedly at the same time a married couple saw a bright light hovering over some nearby woods in Ottoville, Ohio. The object repeatedly moved up-and-down as it remained in one part of the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2309",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1981, p. 3, citing the Putnam County Sentinel, April 29, 1981" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/25/1982",
  "desc" : "Three people in a car in Clare, South Australia noticed a red glow in the sky at 8:30 p.m. It approached and followed their car for three kilometers. It was described as a ball of fire with white streaks through it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2310",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Keith Basterfield case files, citing The Advertiser, April 27, 1982" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/25/1984",
  "desc" : "At 5:30 p.m. a silver colored, 150 foot long, bulbous-shaped object with a long tail hung in the sky, rocking back and forth 80 feet above the ground over a garden in Blairgowrie, The Orkney Islands, Scotland. Mrs. Freeman's dog cowered, and she was temporarily blinded by a ball of light from the object that struck her and entered her body, and she felt the warmth emitted by it but at the same time felt a sensation of calm. A beam of light flowed upward from the object. After a few minutes the object vanished in a pink flash. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2311",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland's UFO Phenomenon, p. 125; Jenny Randles, International UFO Reporter, March 1986, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/25/1984",
  "desc" : "Structural details of a UFO were observed by three witnesses in a car as the UFO passed over them at 100 feet while they were driving down American Canyon Road in Napa, California. The UFO was first seen at 9:55 p.m., and described as delta shaped and over 300 feet wide. It flew away up the canyon, and was in sight for five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2312",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Gribble, International UFO Reporter, May 1984, p. 16; MUFON UFO Journal, May 1984" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/25/1993",
  "desc" : "A six meter diameter white glowing disc was seen revolving clockwise over the road in Petit Palais, Gironde, France by two witnesses at 11:40 p.m. It followed their car for 50 kilometers. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2313",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 16030, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 341" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/25/1994",
  "desc" : "A large disc-shaped craft landed in a field 25 miles from Great Falls, Montana at 10:30 p.m. It was seen by several witnesses. It was described as being the size of a jeep, with flashing red and blue lights. When witnesses flashed car headlights at it, it flashed a brilliant white light, and then shot straight up and away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2314",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, pp. 87 & 157, citing B. Knell" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/25/1995",
  "desc" : "A very bright ball of light entered a bedroom in Portland, Oregon at 12:30 a.m. making a loud humming sound. The male witness could feel heat coming from the object, and felt paralyzed. The incident lasted 75 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2315",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 17219; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/25/1997",
  "desc" : "A man took a photograph of a mountain in St. Barnabe, Alpes-Maritime, France in the early afternoon. After being developed the photograph clearly showed a gray saucer-shaped object that was not witnessed at the time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2316",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 17921, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, June 1997" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/25/1998",
  "desc" : "Three friends in Manito, Illinois saw a light, which broke into two disks, and then into three. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2317",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jay Rath, The I-Files: True Reports of Unexplained Phenomena in Illinois, p. 76, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center., April 1998 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/25/2001",
  "desc" : "At 6:10 p.m. a small silver cone-shaped object was seen in the sky over Ajax, Ontario during daylight hours. It had no wings, and flew from the southwest to northwest for 15 to 20 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2318",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2001 Canadian UFO Survey, case 107, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/25/2001",
  "desc" : "On this evening a very strange object was reported by civilians and law enforcement officers in Waynesville, Ohio. From their home a husband and wife were the first to report a circular lighted object hovering silently in the southern sky. The big light on the UFO, pulsating and changing in both color and brightness, was encased within a structure that resembled gridwork. The couple called the Lebanon City Police Department around 10:15 p.m. and the Warren County Communications Center dispatched a Waynesville police officer to the location. Upon arrival at the scene the officer confirmed the presence of the object and also reported that a second UFO was also in the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2319",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "www.nicap.org 2001 UFO Chronology, citing Kenny Young" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/25/2001",
  "desc" : "In the evening a huge ball of light forty feet above the ground was seen by residents in Scartaglin, Ireland. It moved away giving off blue, yellow and green flashes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2320",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dermot Butler, Conspiracy of Silence: UFOs in Ireland, p. 103, citing People, April 29, 2001" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/25/2001",
  "desc" : "In San Felipe, Baja California, Mexico a bright light was witnessed following a cylindrical nose near the ground at 7:00 p.m. It moving linearly southward without making a noise or leaving a trail. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2321",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, April 2001 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/25/2001",
  "desc" : "At 10:50 p.m. a dark triangle-shaped object with four lights was sighted by a single witness in Powell River, British Columbia travelling from west to east at high speed. The sighting lasted five seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2322",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2001 Canadian UFO Survey, case 106, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/25/2004",
  "desc" : "At 1:20 a.m. a V-shaped object flew past the witness' window in Kelowna, British Columbia so low that it was illuminated by streetlights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2323",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case 245, citing HBCCUFO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/25/2005",
  "desc" : "There were two reports of a diamond shaped UFO with four main lights, along with a bunch of small white lines on the underneath part, from Lompoc, California to the National UFO Reporting Center. The sightings occurred at 2:50 a.m. The UFO made a horribly loud, high pitched humming sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2324",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, April 2005 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/25/2006",
  "desc" : "Between 2:30 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. a teardrop shaped, silver/chrome metallic flying object, 3-4 feet wide by 8 feet to 10 feet long, flew just 50 feet above the witnesses' car while they were driving on east bound I-70, about 50 miles west of Green River, Utah. The buzzing by the object was brief, and lasted only 2-3 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2325",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, April 2006 webpage, reported June 24, 2006" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/25/2007",
  "desc" : "In Northern India (exact location not given), the witness was returning home from work at 2:00 a.m. when suddenly the road in front of him ‘disappeared’ because there was a huge bus-like object with no wheels hovering over the road, blocking it. He then flashed on the car high beams to get a better look, and when he did this the object split in two and there was a very bright flash of light, lighting up everything briefly like daytime. A creature descended from the object and looked at the witness. Terrified, he turned the car’s headlights off, but kept the engine running so he could escape in the event of an attack. However, the being seemed to ignore him. It looked humanoid but was about 7-8 feet tall and quite bulky and hairy like a bear. The head was slightly bigger than that of an average man. It was carrying an instrument that looked like a crystal cube with a handle. It raised the instrument and waved it around briefly, and then took out a box and put the instrument in it. It then approached the witness’s car and as it approached the witness felt heat and a ‘force of high magnitude’. When it was about a meter away from him the man fainted due to the intense pressure he was feeling, like a G-force caused by high speed acceleration. He regained consciousness after 10 minutes, and the creature and the object were gone. There was a depression in the road about one foot in depth and 10-12 feet in diameter, where the UFO had been hovering. The witness rushed home but was unable to sleep. The next day, while going to the office, he stopped at the same spot and noticed that somehow the road had been repaired. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2326",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, April 2007 webpage, report uploaded June 12, 2007; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2007, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/26/1897",
  "desc" : "A lawyer was surprise to see a lighted object fly over as he was driving his carriage three miles north of Aquila, Texas. His horse shied and nearly toppled the carriage. When the main light was turned off, a number of smaller lights became visible ont he underside of the dark object, which supported an elongated carriage. The airship went down toward a hill to the south, five kilometers from Aquila, Texas. When the witness was on his way back, one hour later, he saw the object ascending. It reached the altitude of the cloud ceiling and flew to the northeast at a fantastic speed with periodic flashes of light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2327",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 30; Dallas Morning News, April 28, 1897" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/26/1897",
  "desc" : "At 5:15 a.m. in Barring Cross, Arkansas a photograph of a structured flying object was taken. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2328",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jerome Clark, Flying Saucer Review, July 1967, p. 22" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/26/1897",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. in Sidnaw, Michigan several people saw a green ball of light fly overhead. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2329",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Marquette (MI) Mining Journal, May 1, 1897" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/26/1948",
  "desc" : "A flying humanoid was spotted on this morning in St. Louis, Missouri and reported to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper by a Mrs. Dolezal. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2330",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "St. Louis Post Dispatch, April 26, 1948; Kansas City Star, April 29, 1948" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/26/1954",
  "desc" : "What first appeared to be a flaming ring made sharp turns in the sky over a school in Newburyport, Massachusetts at around 3:30 p.m. It resolved into a solid silver, disc-shaped object with a dark center and protruding top. It made an intense roaring sound that lasted five seconds. It left a bright white tail in descent, and flew off rapidly to the southeast. At 8:35 p.m. 15 balls of light in a V-formation buzzed a University of Georgia professor of aeronautics and four other witnesses in Athens, Georgia. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2331",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume 1), p. 66; UNICAT database, case 773, citing Project Blue Book; (2) Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 2983; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 59; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: January-May, p. 79" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/26/1958",
  "desc" : "At 9:05 p.m. a red hot coal-like object streaked across the sky over Adelaide, South Australia. It made a hissing noise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2332",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 164" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/26/1959",
  "desc" : "Luis Da Silva had seen a red colored disc in the sky before he went to bed in Sao Paulo, Brazil and when he awoke at midnight he felt a compulsion to go out into his garden, where he found a note telling him to return the next night at 1:30 a.m. He did so, and a circular UFO appeared at a low altitude, perhaps 100 meters. He felt paralyzed and unable to move. In a spiral a man descended from the UFO but did not quite touch the ground. He wore a helmet and was clad in plastic looking clothing, with gloves that looked transparent like glass. He told Da Silva to return again on Thursday at 2:05 a.m. and then re-ascended in a spiral to his craft. On Thursday the same sequence of events occurred, but this time three entities descended, one at a time. The last of these beings asked Da Silva for a sheet of paper, and he inscribed upon it a message consisting of undecipherable markings. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2333",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Flying Saucer Review, May-June 1967, p. 7; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1959-07, citing Dr. Walter Buhler, SBEDV" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/26/1964",
  "desc" : "An interesting photograph was taken this day in Burgh le Marsh, Cumbria, England. A Mr. Templeton took a photograph of a little girl holding a nosegay of flowers in the early afternoon. Not seen at the time was what appears to be the image of a man standing behind her, dressed in a white spacesuit. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2334",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Flying Saucer Review, November-December 1964, p. 11; Gordon Creighton, FSR, September-October 1970, p. 29" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/26/1964",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 p.m. Orlando Gallegos observed a bright, metallic, egg-shaped object about 70 meters away, on the ground, north of La Madera, New Mexico. Blue flames appeared to circle the base of the machine, which was silent and about the length of a telephone pole. Scorch marks and four imprints were found, according to Police Capt. Martin Vigil. Also on the same day, a thirty-foot wide silver, inverted bathtup-shaped UFO was sighted near Truth of Consequences, New Mexico by a Mr. Mitropolis. It was seen a quarter of a mile to the east, flew up over a mountain, then down out of sight near the Caballo Reservoir. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2335",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 598; NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1964, p. 5; (2) Flying Saucers, June 1965, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/26/1965",
  "desc" : "At 5:00 p.m. Gary W., age 9, in New London, Minnesota saw an object which came down silently and hovered at ground level, 60 meters away. A sort of periscope emerged from the craft, and a strange noise, which was also heard by the boy's father, was noted. After a couple of minutes the \"periscope\" disappeared, the object rose, and then dashed up into the sky at unbelievable speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2336",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Saucer News, Fall 1965, p. 26; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 645; Bob Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, April 1990, p. 20" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/26/1966",
  "desc" : "A young man was driving his car in Follansbee, West Virginia at 11:30 p.m. when he saw a silent UFO shaped like two bowls glued together. It flew at 30 meters altitude, ahead of his car. He estimated the diameter of the object at 10 meters. He drove away as quickly as he could without looking back. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2337",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee: Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 766, citing US Air Force ATIC; http://www.nicap.org/waves/1966fullrep.htm" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/26/1967",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. a Miss Roberts of St. Catherines, Ontario saw a blindingly red object ascend into the sky, then turn a green color. It next shot beams of light at a dog on the ground, and made an exit with erratic maneuvers. In nearby Waterloo, Ontario at 9:00 p.m. a Mr. Dorscht saw an oil-drum shaped cylinder descend from the sky, extend six legs, and then land on his farm. The 1.5 meter tall object left behind six landing imprints in the ground after it departed. At 9:30 p.m. EDT a witness in Kitchener, Ontario saw a small cylinder, estimated to be 3 feet in diameter and 5 feet tall, with flashing lights. The object landed, deploying six legs when it was about four feet from the ground. A whirring sound during landing stopped once the object was at rest. Ground impressions (physical traces) were found at the landing site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2338",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) NICAP UFO Investigator, June 1967, p. 3; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 337; (2) Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 837, Ted R. Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 272; (3) NICAP report form and unidentified newspaper clipping dated September 8, 1967 in NICAP files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/26/1967",
  "desc" : "On this night in Mount St. Helens, Washington two teenagers saw a saucer-shaped object with a dome. It had a swept back wing, and red body lights. As it pursued the witnesses' car and illuminated it with a light beam, a whistling sound could be heard. The object then turned away and started to follow a truck that passed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2339",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Unidentified newspaper clipping, NICAP files; http://www.nicap.org/waves/1967fullrep.htm" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/26/1969",
  "desc" : "At 5:26 p.m. in the suburbs outsie of Melnik, Sofia, Bulgaria a shiny delta-shaped object remained in place in the sky for two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2340",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 197" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/26/1969",
  "desc" : "On this evening David Arychuk was out walking his dog in Calgary, Alberta when he saw a circular object with three pulsating red lights around the top, 200 yards away from him. The UFO was about 30 feet in diameter and 20 feet high, and cream-colored with a pitted surface. He smelled a rather nauseating odor of \"sweet bitterness\" that was in the air. One hundred yards away stood two humanoid beings, \"taller than normal,\" wearing dark clothing. David yelled out \"Hey you!\" and they walked around behind the UFO. His dog refused to go on and was shivering from fright. By the time David came back to the site with his stepfather the UFO was gone, but the odor was still present the next day. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2341",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-44, citing investigator William K. Allan; John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants and Critters, p. 49" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/26/1969",
  "desc" : "Sr. Robler's watch stopped when he drove his car under a luminous red, cone-shaped UFO on a highway between Ibiuna and Sao Paulo, Brazil in Sao Paulo State at 4:30 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2342",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Hans Bemelmens, FSR, January-February 1970, p. 17; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 52" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/26/1974",
  "desc" : "Forty-one year old Oscar Patero failed to return from a short business trip that he embarked upon on this day. Five or six days later he was found rain soaked and covered with ticks on a thousand foot mountain near Colatina in the state of Espiritu Santo, Brazil, which was over 900 kilometers from his home. He said that a light appeared at around 11:30 p.m. just before he crossed a bridge while driving between Catanduva and Julio de Mesquita, Sao Paulo, Brazil. In fact, his car was found there. Under hypnosis he revealed that he had been taken aboard a UFO and been given a physical exam, but he resisted giving any further details except to say that a tall, fair-haired and blue-eyed young man was one of the aliens. The man was described as about 5 feet 8 inches tall with a small nose and small ears. He revealed that this was actually his second UFO encounter, because he had given a ride to this same individual previously on the night of his first encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2343",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon Creighton, FSR, November 1975, p. 15, citing O Dia, May 29, 1974; Jenny Randles, Time Storms: Amazing Evidence for Time Warps, Space Rifts, and Time Travel, p. 81; Irene Granchi, UFO Abductions and Reports from Brazil, p. 171; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1320, citing Walter Buhler; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 186B" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/26/1975",
  "desc" : "A UFO dove at spectators who had stopped to watch it along the side of a highway in Gerena, Sevilla, Spain, causing the witnesses to panic. The six witnesses got back into their cars and drove away, but were chased for two miles. The red, elongated or ovoid object came so close that the drivers were dazzled by the light. When they pulled into a filling station for santuary the light finally shot off rapidly to the east. The incident lasted approximately eight minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2344",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Charles Bowen, Saga UFO Report, December 1976, p. 80, citing I. Darnaude; Lumieres dans la Nuit, April 1976" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/26/1976",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 a.m. a disc-shaped object maneuvered for more than two minutes in the sky between Carson and Long Beach, California. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2345",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ann Druffel, Skynet, April 1976, p. 24" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/26/1977",
  "desc" : "Two witnesses, including a 31-year-old woman named Coombes, reported that a 7-8-foot tall luminous silver figure, three feet wide, looked in a window for an hour in Milford Haven, England on this night. The humanoid form, whose face was black with no features, vanished when a neighbor drove up. An orb chased the car. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2346",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, August 1977, p. 2, citing a newspaper clipping" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/26/1978",
  "desc" : "A close encounter of the first kind happened in Eden Prairie, Minnesota to a witness named Stoddard. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2347",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Eden Prairie (MN) News, May 4, 1978; Jay Rath, The M-Files: True Reports of Minnesota's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 40" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/26/1980",
  "desc" : "A disabled man and a woman neighbor in Holton, Indiana watched a luminous, golden-colored triangle, that appeared and passed in front of the full moon at around 11:00 p.m. It hovered for awhile, then shot straight up, and finally zigzagged before vanishing at a 45 degrees angle above the horizon in the northwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2348",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, CUFOS News, September 1980, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/26/1984",
  "desc" : "At around 11:00 a.m. a humanoid wearing an odd helmet was seen in the woods west of Macomer, Sardinia, Italy by two children. There was an odd silence that permeated the encounter, which lasted only a couple of minutes. A disc-shaped object rose from the forest floor, then flew off to the east-northeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2349",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 14138, citing CISU" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/26/1984",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. a multicolor disc fired fireballs at the ground and maneuvered in the sky over Stanmore, London, England. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2350",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, p. 114" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/26/1984",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. in Screven, Georgia several witnesses including police watched a W-shaped object with lights that flew at a low altitude and at a speed of 160 km/hour. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2351",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon 1947-1987, p. 82" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/26/1985",
  "desc" : "A shiny sphere was sighted over a farm near Gomoab, Namibia, Africa at around 8 p.m. The next morning a 15-meter deep well was found dry. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2352",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Cynthia Hind, UFO Afri News, July 1991" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/26/1992",
  "desc" : "At 1:30 a.m. a green glowing disc-shaped object, ringed with portholes and estimated to be 100 meters in diameter, was sighted flying over the residential area of Macae, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. It made a sonic boom as it flew off toward the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2353",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, cse 15714, citing Causistica Brasileira de 1992, issue # 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/26/1994",
  "desc" : "At 1:10 p.m. a distant white, disc-shaped UFO hovered over Santa Rosa Sound as witnessed from Gulf Breeze, Florida. It created a churning swirl of water, that looked like a waterspout below the UFO. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2354",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ed Walters, UFOs are Real: Here's the Proof, p. 56" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/26/2000",
  "desc" : "At around 2:00 a.m. several residents living on the slopes of a hill in Tocopilla, Antofagasta Province, Chile saw a strange looking entity climb rapidly up the side of a steep hill. It moved up a practically vertical cliff using reptilian like movements, and seemed to expand as if it possessed dark wing-like membranes on its back, which may have helped propell it up the cliff. Once it reached the summit witnesses began hearing strange growling and screeching sounds coming from the top. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2355",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case HC # 3644, citing Paranigma Chile" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/26/2001",
  "desc" : "In Mount Gambier, South Australia at 7:00 p.m. there was a procession of orange/red fireballs that passed from west to east. The second followed the first at a 5 minute interval, then 20 minutes passed before the third object, and then five minutes again until the fourth one passed. They all travelled beneath the cloud line. One went out completely, while the others faded in the distance. At 7:45 p.m. there was another procession of objects. Another object was seen in the sky, then another one 5-6 minutes later, then a third one came from the northwest direction, which moved east toward Victoria. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2356",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Doug Moffett, Australasian Ufologist, April 2002, p. 37" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/26/2001",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. a huge V-shaped UFO with white lights on the leading edge defining the boomerang outline, flew directly overhead in Salt Ash, New South Wales, Australia. A minute later, single lights began arcing in one direction, then the other. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2357",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twitchell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 105" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/26/2004",
  "desc" : "A very fast, low flying cigar-shaped object with four diamond shapes on the bottom was seen flying over Longmont, Colorado at 9:00 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2358",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, April 2004 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/26/2004",
  "desc" : "A glowing flying triangle was spotted by a couple in Kelowna, British Columbia. It was white in color. No lights were seen on the craft, flying at an estimated 20,000 ft, with no aura nor trail. It went on a straight line toward the northwest. Later a helicopter was seen flying at a low level. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2359",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 246, citing HBCCUFO; George A. Filer & David E. Twitchell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 113" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/27/1899",
  "desc" : "At four o'clock in the afternoon a 10 meter in diameter red ball crossed highway N51 near the town of Baye, Marne department, France on a steady trajectory. It illuminated the surrounding area a red color, and went off to the southwest. There were many witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2360",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 129" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/27/1950",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 a.m. a U.S. Air Force F-86 Sabre jet had an encounter with a flat oval-shaped object near Plymouth, Massachusetts. The object was light brown in color, climbed away from the jet, and at 28,000 feet turned and flew away. At 8:25 p.m. a huge reddish-orange disc passed a TWA DC-3 airliner being flown over South Bend, Indiana by the crew named Adickes, Manning, and Hinshaw. The UFO approached the plane from below and behind, overtaking the aircraft, then moved rapidly away when the pilot attempted a closer approach. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2361",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 12; (2) True Magazine, August 1950; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 145; Kenneth Arnold & Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 150" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/27/1952",
  "desc" : "At 4:15 p.m. H. A. Freytag and three male relatives, including a minister, sighted a silver oval-shaped UFO that rolled across the sky in Roseville, Michigan. The UFO descended and stopped. Two silver cigar-shaped objects appeared, one departing to the east and one to the west. A third silver cigar-shaped object flew by at high speed. These sightings lasted for 45 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2362",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #1160; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 61; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/27/1952",
  "desc" : "A Ground Observer Corps member (GOC) in Waskish, Minnesota sighted a silent aluminum colored cigar-shaped object that flew over 30 miles to the north in less than one minute. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2363",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book Report #6, report dated April 30, 1952; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 60" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/27/1952",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. Master Sgt. G. S. Porter, an off-duty control tower operator, and his wife observed two bright red or flame-colored discs that appeared in the sky over Yuma, Arizona. They were said to be as large as fighter planes. They had seven sightings of one disc, and two objects that they saw flying in formation. They watched the UFOs for a total of two hours. All were seen below an 11,000-foot overcast sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2364",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1163; UNICAT database, case # 818; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 59; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/27/1956",
  "desc" : "Five silent cigar-shaped objects flew south over Vuyyuru, Andra Pradesh State, India in a delta formation at 8:30 p.m. They left behind a light contrail. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2365",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, monthly report April 1956; UFO Nachtrichten, February 1957; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4964, citing Flying Saucer Review, volume 2, number 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/27/1960",
  "desc" : "Mr. N. N., a painter, was driving from Slagelse to Naestved, Denmark at around 3:00 a.m. when his car engine and lights died. His car stopped twenty feet from a green glowing thirty-foot wide domed disc. The object was shaped like two bowls edge-to-edge, had a shining stripe of light around its center, three portholes, three legs for landing gear, and a central column. It also made a humming sound. Four three-foot tall entities in luminous green costumes emerged. Their uniforms had three dark vertical marks on the chest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2366",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Willy Wegner, UFO-Landinger I Danmark, p. 36; Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0492" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/27/1961",
  "desc" : "On this morning a bluish green oval object, the size of a jetliner, landed on Lake Onega in Karelia, Russia and broke through the ice. It was heading toward the east when it came down and created a trench 50 feet long and 10 feet deep in the lake bed. There was a great deal of disturbed mud, and odd fragments were also found at the site. The sample residue was analyzed and showed the presence of the elements magnesium, aluminum, calcium, barium, and titanium. There were at least 25 witnesses to the crash landing. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2367",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 137, citing Felix Zigel; APRO Bulletin, June 1976, p. 5; Xenolog, August 1976, p. 11; Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 61" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/27/1964",
  "desc" : "A 12-year-old boy and seven friends saw a UFO hovering above their school grounds in El Paso, Texas on this afternoon. \"It seemed to be floating in the air, and was covered with something like a sheet. It was 6 foot 5 inches tall and sort of egg-shaped.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2368",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ray Palmer, Flying Saucers, June 1965, p. 10, citing the El Paso Herald-Post, April 28, 1964" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/27/1967",
  "desc" : "At 4:34 p.m. MDT two men in Bloomfield, New Mexico, one a Federal Aviation Administration electronic technician, saw a huge, polished, metallic-appearing ball that hovered, started to descend, and then disappeared when an aircraft approached. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2369",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Letter received 11 /28/67, NICAP files; http://www.nicap.org/waves/1967fullrep.htm" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/27/1967",
  "desc" : "A dark object chased a car down a highway through rangeland in Mangum, Greer County, Oklahoma at 8:30 p.m. The UFO directed beams of light toward the ground. It was absolutely silent, and there were several independent witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2370",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Condon Committee Colorado UFO Study, case N1250, citing NICAP; NICAP files, citing newspaper clipping dated April 29, 1967" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/27/1967",
  "desc" : "In Kingston, New Hampshire at 10:10 p.m. EDT an elliptical object with a dome on top and two visible legs skimmed over the trees and paced a car being driven by witnesses Keiran, Tobin and Lowe for two minutes. It had red lights in a circular pattern, 2-3 more flashing lights, and made a shrill beeping sound. The object tilted before moving away and flying off to the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2371",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP case files, John J. Reynolds field investigator; NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1967, p. 3; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 337 & 452" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/27/1967",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. CDT four boys with binoculars in Green Lake, Wisconsin observed an object come lower with oscillating motions, illuminating the woods one kilometer away. It was cone-shaped, with a blue underside, and a top that changed from red to orange to white. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2372",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 838" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/27/1969",
  "desc" : "At shortly after 1 p.m. Mr. Garfinkel, an airline passenger on an Eastern Airlines flight flying over Connecticut saw a shiny, disc-shaped object that was joined by two more daylight discs. They slowly matched speed, moving along w a rapid, rocking motion before accelerating upwards at angle at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2373",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/27/1972",
  "desc" : "A large silver ovoid with a halo vanished in Brasschaat, Antwerp, Belgium at 2:10 a.m. A bright green ball of light (BOL) sped up, flew away fast to the northeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2374",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 130" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/27/1973",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. five witnesses saw a UFO that hung over a smelting and refining plant in Glover, Missouri for 10 minutes. It was triangle shaped with two red and one green lights, and made no sound. The green light reduced in size, then all three started blinking. The object flew off to the west over Highway 21. It was described as being as big as two cars. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2375",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ironton (MO) Mountain Echo, May 3, 1973" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/27/1974",
  "desc" : "On this day a girl in Vallentuna, Sweden drew a sketch of a flying saucer, for no apparent reason. She then went to the window and saw a flying disc up so close that it filled the view from the window. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2376",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 11306, citing John Wallace Spencer, UFO Encyclopedia, p. 204" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/27/1974",
  "desc" : "Dogs barked furiously in Neuf-Mesnil, Nord department, France at 10:30 p.m. when a saucer flew by to the east. It rose at a 45 degree angle and leveled off, then rose at a 45 degree again and continued to the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2377",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, February 1977; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 11307, citing LDLN, issue 163" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/27/1979",
  "desc" : "At seven o'clock in the morning a four meter in diameter, intense reddish-orange colored sphere with \"stiff waving arms\" or appendages was seen over a farm in St. Jacques de Nehou, Manche department, France. It flew off silently to the northeast slowly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2378",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, February 1980" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/27/1986",
  "desc" : "Dr. J. Allen Hynek, scientific consultant to the Air Force Project Blue Book for many years, and founder of the Center for UFO Studies, died at his home in Scottsdale, Arizona on this day. He had been suffering from an inoperable brain tumor. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2379",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael David Hall, UFOs: A Century of Sightings, p. 325" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/27/1986",
  "desc" : "A large, silent metallic object was seen at treetop level by a motorist in La Follette, Tennessee at 11:10 p.m. It sped off when the witness stopped to investigate. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2380",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Gribble, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, case 1081" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/27/1994",
  "desc" : "At 3:30 p.m. a witness in Dianavanget, Denmark had a close encounter with a blue ovoid object with square windows. It shone a bright light at the observer from 100 meters away, and then flew off to the northeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2381",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 16371, citing SUFOI News, issue # 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/27/1996",
  "desc" : "At 1:45 a.m. two witnesses driving on Highway D22 north of Molsheim, Bas-Rhin, France saw a large triangle that flew to the northeast at a low altitude toward Strasbourg, France. It made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2382",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17344, citing Phenomena, issue # 32" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/27/1997",
  "desc" : "In Norman Park, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia at 7:30 p.m. a disc was seen hovering over a house for 10 minutes. It wobbled as it rotated slowly. Two more UFOs rose from the city park. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2383",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 17922, citing website" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/27/1997",
  "desc" : "First there was a flash in the sky at 2:30 p.m. in Paradise Valley, Arizona; then a white metallic disc dropped tumbling objects. It vanished when a plane approached. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2384",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 2, number 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/27/1998",
  "desc" : "At 8 o'clock in the evening Ursulina, the main witness, and her husband were in bed sleeping at their home in Aurora, Ceara State, Brazil when they heard a noise that sounded like someone trying to open the rear door to their house. Their cat was also acting very agitated. Her husband, Francisco, went to investigate while Ursulina remained behind in bed praying. Soon she heard a sound resembling a radio being tuned and then a bright blue light invaded the bedroom. Looking towards the door of the bedroom she saw a strange creature standing there. She described the entity as being about 1.5 meters in height, with a huge head not in proportion to the rest of the body, wide shoulders, a very thin waist, and long dangling arms. It was hairless, had huge black eyes, a small lipless mouth, and little \"bumps\" where the nose should have been. She described the clothing as a brown tight-fitting coverall, with belts and boots. The entity stared intently at Ursulina. Despite her terror she managed to ask the entity what it wanted. She heard an unintelligible reply and then screamed for her husband. At that same instant the creature ran out the door and disappeared down the corridor. Her husband apparently was able to see the figure run from the bedroom. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2385",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case 20, citing Painel OVNI" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/27/2006",
  "desc" : "A large rectangular object with red blinking lights that formed an arch was reported over Santa Maria, California at 4:30 p.m. It made erratic flight movements, flew low over the area for a minute, then suddenly disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2386",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, April 2006 archived webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/27/2008",
  "desc" : "At about 2:00 a.m. a quite large, red rectangular object was sighted in the northeastern sky in London, Ontario, Canada. It moved away at a very rapid speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2387",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, April 2008 archived webpage, report uploaded June 12, 2008" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/28/1949",
  "desc" : "Six silver discs flew in a wide circle over Homer, Michigan toward the west at 40 mph and at an estimated 500 feet altitude. At 5:45 p.m. a 700 foot long metallic cigar-shaped object flew over Tucson, Arizona at an estimated altitude of five miles. It rolled and soared off toward the southwest at an estimated speed of 500 mph. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2388",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, April 1949, case 361; Larry Hatch, U computer database, cases # 1392 & 1393" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/28/1953",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 a.m. a brown, cigar-shaped UFO flew near the Laredo Air Force Base in Texas at an estimated altitude of 60,000 feet, moving at an estimated speed of 1200 miles per hour. It was sighted by a pilot in a T-33 military aircraft. At 8:00 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time a USAF T-6 pilot flying over Fontana, California spotted two amber colored, circular UFOs that were joined by two more such objects, which then flew away in formation. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2389",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 21; NICAP reprint of Project Gurdge and Blue Book Special Reports 1-12, May 1953, p. 31" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/28/1954",
  "desc" : "A huge blue disc buzzed two men, Smith and Beacon, 45 miles west of Geelong, Victoria, Australia at 6:30 a.m. It then shot straight up into the sky until gone from view. At noon a cigar-shaped UFO flew over Sare, France heading south towards Spain. It flew at an estimated 2,000 meters altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2390",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 3343, citing Larry Fawcett and Barry Greenwood, Clear Intent: The Government Cover-up of the UFO Experience, p. 133" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/28/1964",
  "desc" : "Sometime after midnight Mr. Adams was driving on highway 66 near Moriarty, New Mexico when a 25-30 foot wide UFO, luminous light green in color, came down and hovered 100 feet above his pickup truck. The truck stalled when it passed underneath the UFO. Mr. D. Adams then fired a .22 calibre pistol at it and heard a metallic ping as if the bullet bounced off the object. As the UFO moved away he fired six more shots with apparently no effect. His dogs barked incessantly during the close encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2391",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Los Angeles Herald Examiner, April 28, 1964; Flying Saucers, June 1965, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/28/1964",
  "desc" : "That night on Interstate highway 10 south of Las Cruces, New Mexico a luminous UFO flew over a car being driven by Mr. P. Arteche. It flew with a jerky motion and frequently changed direction. A private pilot made a report of a similar object at the same time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2392",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Flying Saucers, June 1965, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/28/1967",
  "desc" : "A metallic elliptical object with a belt of alternate red and green lights was seen flying over Toronto, Ontario at 9 p.m. It hovered and then descended. The witness became frightened and fled the scene when the UFO got too close for comfort. On the same night a silent disc-shaped UFO followed a car closely in Monroe, North Carolina. It responded to signals made by the driver using the car headlights. There were independent witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2393",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1967, p. 6; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence,Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 337; APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/28/1969",
  "desc" : "On this evening in Farnworth, England a teenage couple, Hodgkinson and Rushton, reported hearing a buzzing sound while their dogs barked in a terrified manner. They saw a gray UFO fly close by. It had three red lights and a green flashing light on top. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2394",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, January-February 1972, p. 27, citing Bolton Evening News, April 29, 1969" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/28/1974",
  "desc" : "In Greenland, New Hampshire near Pease Air Force Base at 1:10 a.m. a low flying, orange colored UFO was seen by a single male witness, who reported it to the Portsmouth police. It was described as looking like a hockey puck. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2395",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John Oswald and David F. Webb case investigation files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/28/1983",
  "desc" : "A UFO came along and flew over a soccer match in progress in Huepul, Chile at only 5 meters above the field. It stopped the game as the 200 people present stared at the incredible sight before them. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2396",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, December 1983, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/28/1988",
  "desc" : "A single witness driving on US highway 98 east of Gulf Breeze, Florida had a disc-shaped UFO pace his van. The UFO stayed just ahead of the van and beamed a blue beam down onto the road. At the same time planes were seen circling the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2397",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON field investigation files, case #880501; Donald M. Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, August 1988, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/28/1992",
  "desc" : "A jet aircraft tentatively identified as a U.S. Air Force F-14 Tomcat was seen pursuing a domed disc-shaped UFO in Lajas, Puerto Rico. The UFO would make multiple stops, and as the jet closed in the saucer split in half. The top half flew off toward the southwest and the other half flew off to the east. The F-14 jet remained circling in the area, and then flew off to the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2398",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, Alien Update, p. 30" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/28/1994",
  "desc" : "A round craft passed in front of a car in Pensacola, Florida at 10:40 p.m. It passed to within 50 feet of the front of the automobile. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2399",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, November 1994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/28/1997",
  "desc" : "The witness was driving on a business trip when he had a flat tire at 10 p.m. near Longview, Texas. A truck driver stopped to assist him when they both became aware of a UFO about 100 yards away. There looked to be humanoid figures dressed in white clothing moving around inside the craft. The object was circular and emitted an occasional flash of light. The truck driver walked closer to the object in order to get a better look. He suddenly ran back in fear yelling that they had to leave quick. Both men got into the truck and began speeding away. Shortly after the UFO silently passed over the truck and quickly flew out of sight. At the same time in Houston, Texas two witnesses reported seeing 10-13 amber-colored lights fly over in a V-shaped formation. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2400",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997; case #3121, citing Mark Harman, UFO Times, issue #1; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/28/2003",
  "desc" : "While driving home from work at 8:00 p.m. Mr. Marcus Warner saw a blue flashing light in his rear view mirror. He pulled to the side of the road in Pontypool, Gwent, Wales and stopped his car's engine. He was then approached by some men in black suits resembling businessmen or government agents. At this point his memory began to fail, but he recalls one of the men leading him to an open area near the local \"Burtons Biscuit Factory.\" He then had a feeling of weightlessness and an intense feeling of calm. He remembered seeing a formation of figures, arranged into a ten pin bowling formation. He has a recurring image of a needle piercing his left eye. He has no recollection of driving the rest of the way home, but arrived there somehow. He has not, to date, undergone hypnosis in an attempt to recover the events that occurred during his amnesia. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2401",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2003, citing \"I was abducted.com, abduction stories\"" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/29/1947",
  "desc" : "On this day two women, Mrs. Olavick and Mrs. Down of Tucson, Arizona watched nine white discs and another object behind a steamy cloud in a completely clear sky, arranged in a V-shaped formation. The ten objects moved up and down in an erratic manner, and in and out of the unnatural cloud for 5-6 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2402",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case 9; George Kocher, Rand Corporation: UFO's: What to Do?, p. 15; Kenneth Larson, Flying Saucers, October 1968, p. 40; UNICAT database, case 819, citing James E. McDonald" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/29/1952",
  "desc" : "While flying over Goodland, Kansas at one o'clock in the afternoon, B-29 bombardier Lt. R. H. Bauer sighted a white fan-shaped light that pulsed 8 times per second for four seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2403",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1167; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/29/1952",
  "desc" : "At 3:30 p.m. on this same day in Marshall, Texas private pilot R. R. Weidman sighted a round, white object that flew straight and low but with a side-to-side oscillation for 1.5 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2404",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1167; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/29/1957",
  "desc" : "Two men, Lerdahl and Ellison, reported that three dozen UFOs flew over Virginia, Minnesota in groups of 6-8 for 40 minutes beginning at 10:15 p.m. The UFOs were greenish, disc-shaped objects flying in crescent formations, and were viewed through binoculars. They went from east to west, and each group flew from horizon to horizon in eight seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2405",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1960, p. 7; Jay Rath, The M-Files: True Reports of Minnesota's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 50" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/29/1959",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. Rod Lightfoot and another man in Blackwood Park, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia took a photograph of a saucer-shaped object. The main body of the UFO appeared to be rotating on its vertical axis, but the row of lights remained steady. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2406",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Adelaide Advertiser, April 30, 1959; Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 165; J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register (Volume 7), p. 49; Keith Basterfield, UFO Research South Australia, case # SA59001" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/29/1961",
  "desc" : "Mr. Gallagher was at Bailey's Beach, Newport County, Rhode Island at around four o'clock in the afternoon when he noticed a red ball floating about 600 feet offshore. It then ascended to 60 feet altitude, and flew away to the south at 100 mph. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2407",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, July-August 1961, p. 4; Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 40, citing Flying Saucer Review" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/29/1962",
  "desc" : "Between Mud Lake, Nevada and Edwards AFB in California two disc-shaped craft are filmed passing a USAF X-15 rocket plane being commanded by test pilot Walker during a record flight to 200,000 feet altitude. Note: most civilian sources list this case as occurring on April 30, but the Air Force lists the flight as occurring on this date. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2408",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious Business, p. 121; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 75; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 6179" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/29/1964",
  "desc" : "Several adults saw an elongated glowing object fly over Canyon Ferry, Montana, and two children saw a lighted craft land and take off. Four rectangular indentations were found at the landing site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2409",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1964, p. 5; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, October 1966, p. 30" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/29/1966",
  "desc" : "At 3:55 p.m. a disc-shaped object with portholes and exhaust pipes circled a Beechcraft Bonanza aircraft flown by a single private pilot at 10,000 feet altitude. According to the witness, who was flying between Asuncion, Paraguay to Posadas, Argentina, the UFO moved extremely fast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2410",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 34" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/29/1977",
  "desc" : "A car being driven by a 47-year-old woman and accompained by another female passenger was paced by a white glowing objectin Oxford, Ohio for three minutes. The description of the shape differed, but one of the women described it as a disc-shaped object. The incident occurred near a Nike missile base. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2411",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, June 1977, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/29/1979",
  "desc" : "An airline stewardess was at the shore in Makapu'u, Hawaii at 10:45 p.m. when she sighted a huge triangular UFO with many lights. It moved at an estimated 100 mph and made a humming sound. It maneuvered in the sky and flew away out to sea. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2412",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 13689, citing APRO Bulletin, May 1979" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/29/1982",
  "desc" : "A woman named Mary E. Boule saw a silent dome-shaped object near Plattsburgh Air Force Base, New York at 11:40 p.m. The object had a turquoise blue light on top and portholes. It flew low at 400-500 feet altitude, and definitely entered the air base's restricted air space. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2413",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "CUFOS files, letter from witness" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/29/1993",
  "desc" : "A sonar-like ping sound was heard, then a silent triangle UFO was seen hovering above Lasgraisses, Tarn, France. It had white \"running lights.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2414",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 318" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/29/1995",
  "desc" : "On this night two witnesses in Spokane, Washington reported seeing bright lights apparently on the ground near the river. A strange undescribed \"creature\" or humanoid was seen standing near the lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2415",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle; UFO Intelligence Newsletter, October 1995" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/30/1944",
  "desc" : "On this night at 9:00 p.m. a reddish orange glowing light followed an RAF Beaufighter from the 600th Squadron flying over Anzio, Italy during World War II. The two members of the crew reported that the light appeared to be doing evasive maneuvers. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2416",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, case 7, citing Jan Aldrich, Project 1947" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/30/1948",
  "desc" : "At 10:15 a.m. at the Anacostia Naval Air Station on the Potomac River in Washington, D. C. a yellow sphere was spotted moving from the south to north at a constant altitude, 1000 feet below an aircraft. It flew in the opposite direction of the wind, and crossed over the no-fly zone over the nation's Capitol. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2417",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jan Aldrich Jan, Project 1947 website, citing USAF Office of Defense Intelligence 1948" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/30/1950",
  "desc" : "At around 8:00 p.m. police and five other independent witnesses in Savannah, Georgia reported seeing an upside-down, hat-shaped disc with small fins. It was an estimated 15 meters in diameter. It hovered for a few seconds, then shot off toward the southeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2418",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "newspaper clipping, May 1, 1950; Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon 1947-1987, p. 11" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/30/1952",
  "desc" : "At 6:00 p.m. two whitish-silver disc-shaped objects rumbled high in the sky over a valley in Korea at the front lines of the Korean War, according to military witnesses Webb, Jones, and Smith. Later two anomalous holes, 25 feet apart and two feet wide by 7.5 feet wide, were found in the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2419",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard F. Haines, Advanced Aerial Devices Reported During the Korean War, p. 63" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/30/1955",
  "desc" : "In Travis County, Texas USAF Intelligence Officer Major L. J. Pagozalski sighted four black objects at 7:30 a.m. flying in a cluster. They made a whooshing sound like a zephyr. The sighting was very brief and lasted for only 2-3 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2420",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #3517; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/30/1958",
  "desc" : "A craft 10 meters in diameter came to rest on a hillside in El Padul, Spain at dusk. It was sighted by two witnesses named Leyva and Sanchez. A short time later the UFO flew away towards Baza, leaving a yellow trail. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2421",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, FSR, July 1971, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/30/1962",
  "desc" : "On this night Eugenio Siragusa, age 43, claimed to have met two men of normal height on Mount Mangre on the island of Sicily in Italy. They were clad in diver's suits, and had belts emitting an intermittent yellowish-green and blue light. They delivered to him a message of peace in Italian. The voice he heard had a metallic tone. A dazzling, 15 meter in diameter saucer-shaped craft was seen on the ground nearby. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2422",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Roberto Pinotti, Flying Saucers, January-February 1966, p. 57; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0526; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 531, citing Flying Saucer Review, January 1963" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/30/1964",
  "desc" : "Gloria Biggs, her husband, and her mother observed a brown, dome-shaped object on a hilltop about 17 kilometers west of Baker, California on U. S. Highway 91. They lost sight of it for a moment, could not see it again, and found only a depression in the ground at the supposed landing site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2423",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, Case 600" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/30/1964",
  "desc" : "An Air Force RB-57 bomber flying over the Stallion Missile Test Site in New Mexico radioed that they saw a white ovoid object land. Photo reconnaisance was ordered. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2424",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 224" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/30/1964",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. several adults saw an elongated glowing object in Canyon Ferry, Utah. Two children saw the lighted craft land, then take off. Four rectangular indentations were found at the landing site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2425",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p. 104" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/30/1966",
  "desc" : "At 3:15 a.m. Anita Miller saw a light moving around in the sky for 2.5 hours over Sacramento, California. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2426",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/30/1968",
  "desc" : "In Ipswich, Massachusetts a round gray object reflecting a flashing red light on its underside hovered low over some trees. It dropped behind the trees, then shot straight up, hovered, and streaked away at great speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2427",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 353; Raymond E. Fowler case files, report dated May 1, 1968" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/30/1971",
  "desc" : "At 7:45 p.m. Mr. Abrahamsson and his family saw a 10 meter wide domed disc with a transparent dome fly slowly toward the northwest at 60 kph in Asenhoga, Sweden. It had small portholes along the side, and a green light. In Huskvarna, Sweden two married couples also saw a large cigar-shaped object at the same time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2428",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) GICOFF Sweden, May 1971, p. 16; Sven-Olof Fredrickson, FSR, September-October 1971, p. 9; (2) GICOFF Sweden, September 1971, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/30/1973",
  "desc" : "Four teenagers driving between Kinchela and Gladstone, New South Wales, Australia saw a bright yellow domed disc or domed-ovoid craft dive quickly toward the ground. They saw a glow from a field a mile from road that they presumed was the landing site. However, when they drove towards it, their vehicle's headlights blacked out. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2429",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Eileen Buckle, FSR, April 1976, p. 4; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 56" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/30/1974",
  "desc" : "At shortly before 10:00 p.m. in Altamont, New York a young girl looked out a window of the nursing home where her mother worked and saw what looked like a car parked on a hillside. She told her mother who also looked out. They thought it might have been a car accident at first since they saw red lights. There appeared to be a golden glow coming from the object. The two left the building to get a closer look. Neighborhood dogs were barking and horses in a field were also making noise. As they got closer they could see a huge oval-shaped object resting on a road. It had a rounded window on top that emanated a golden glow, and the red lights were coming from the front and rear of the craft. They then noticed an indistinct \"egg-shaped\" figure moving around inside the craft. Another employee of the nursing home and the woman's husband also witnessed the object when he came to pick them up. The UFO rose up into the sky and disappeared quickly into the dark sky. There was a large burned area 60 feet in diameter at the landing site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2430",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted Bloecher, NICAP UFO Investigator, November 1974, p. 1; Ted Bloecher, 1975 MUFON UFO Symposium Proceedings, p. 56; Margaret Sachs, Celestial Passengers" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/30/1989",
  "desc" : "On this night a family of nine was spending a night at an abandoned cemetery near Moscow, Russia by the river's shore, when a strong light suddenly woke them in the middle of the night. They watched as a large sphere landed on the riverbank. Two figures then appeared in front of the sphere. The lower part of their bodies were black and the upper parts were yellow in color. The sphere and the humanoids suddenly vanished in plain sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2431",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case # 717, citing Richard F Haines, Joint USA-CIS Aerial Anomaly Federation Report" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/30/1993",
  "desc" : "At 2:05 a.m. a 30-year-old man went outside in Millville, Massachusetts and saw lights approach to a distance of 3,000 feet. The object was shaped like a triangular and had several red lights on it. He waved his arm and saw a white light at the rear move to the center and beam directly into his eyes for a few seconds. The object continued in flight until it moved out of sight, at an estimated speed of 200 mph. It made no sound as it flew. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2432",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, November 1993, p. 17, field investigator Morton Schafer; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 81" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/30/2001",
  "desc" : "At around 3:00 a.m. a night watchman in Caronno Pertusella, Italy saw a domed disc-shaped UFO become a cigar shaped object, then zigzag away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2433",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #17837, citing CISU" ]
},
{
  "date" : "4/30/2002",
  "desc" : "A silent boomerang-shaped object with no lights was sighted at 9:45 p.m. in Kelowna, British Columbia. It looked like a hang glider in the night sky, considerably after sunset. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2434",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, UFO Research Manitoba, 2002 Canadian UFO Survey, case 154, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/1/1897",
  "desc" : "On this evening a mystery airship flew over Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It followed the river to the east, then made a sharp turn over a hospital. Also on the same night a well-lighted flying object with a clear outline flew over Shiloh, Ohio and was reported by a Mr. Chamberlain. It was supported by a narrow, 70 foot long cylindrical vessel that looked to be inflated. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2435",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 206, citing UFO Roundup; Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 46, citing the Ashland Press, May 13, 1897" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/1/1952",
  "desc" : "At 5:32 a.m. two men who worked for the Atomic Energy Commission, Eggan and Shipley, sighted a silver, wingless object at Moses Lake, Washington for 90 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2436",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1174; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 261" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/1/1952",
  "desc" : "At 10:50 a.m. several Air Force officers and enlisted men at George AFB in San Bernardino County, California watched five flat, white discs make a sudden 90 degree turn, then disappear. The sighting lasted half a minute. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2437",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1176; J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 107; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 108; UNICAT database, case 263, citing J. Allen Hynek, Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 261; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 401" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/1/1957",
  "desc" : "On or about this day a motorcyclist was traveling down a road near the Pajas Blancas Airport in Cordoba province, Argentina shortly after 7 a.m. when his motorcycle stalled. The driver then saw a disc-shaped object 20 meters in diameter, hovering 15 meters above the ground. An elevator descended from the base, and a human-like being of average height, around five foot eight inches tall, was seen in the elevator. The witness was offered the choice of whether he wanted to enter the craft or not, and he decided to go inside the craft. Inside there were another five or six men dressed in something similar to diving suits working some instrument panels. He was taken for a 30 minute ride. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2438",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 393, citing The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 35; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: March 23-May 25, p. 63; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0417, citing The Humanoids" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/1/1966",
  "desc" : "A low-flying oval-shaped object with bright rotating red, green and white lights flew over the Watertown Arsenal in Middlesex County, Massachusetts at 10:00 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2439",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, case investigation, report dated May 6, 1966; Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 341" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/1/1967",
  "desc" : "At 10 p.m. nine witnesses in Simoca, Tucuman province, Argentina, returning from a hunting expedition, were riding on a trailer being pulled by a tractor when they observed a very bright object in the sky that they first thought was the moon. The object emitted an intense orange-reddish light and approached rapidly at high speed. It briefly moved away, but returned when one of the men signaled at it with a flashlight. It then hovered over the tractor, swinging back and forth like a pendulum. It was a domed disc, shaped like to plates put together with a crystal-like dome on top. Around its edge they could see several square window-like openings, from which a bluish light emanated. They also saw the figure of a man come out of one of the windows, who then moved up to the dome and then climbed back down to the window and entered. Finally the UFO moved away, gaining altitude and disappearing at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2440",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, citing Proyecto CATENT, Argentina" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/1/1971",
  "desc" : "Motion picture film was shot of a blazing saucer-shaped object over Mar del Plata, Argentina between 8:00 and 9:00 p.m. Many witnesses of this seaside city watched as the object hovered for several minutes, maneuvered in the sky, and then arched away to the west. The photographer's name was Lenzi. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2441",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Phenomenes Spatiaux, June 1971; FSR, July 1973, p. 31" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/1/1974",
  "desc" : "Samuel Faria, age 27, was returning home from the center of Vila Velha, Espirito Santo, Brazil at 11:30 p.m. when he saw on the street corner a little manno more than a meter tall, clad in clothing like an \"astronaut.\" Faria approached to within 30 feet of him, whereupon the little man pointed a flashlight kind of instrument at him and him in the eyes with a beam of light, temporarily blinding him. Sr. Faria ran for his uncle's house, only 20 meters away, and succeeded in reaching it. The little man wore no helmet, and had muscular arms. In February 1973 Faria had seen a luminous, ring shaped UFO hovering low over his uncle's garden, and on March 11 of that same year had been seized by a creature while returning from the bathhouse in the garden, and encounter that left claw markson his upper arms. These marks remained for eight months. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2442",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-84 (A1672), citing Marcos Alexandre Fundao of SBEDV; FSR, February 1978, p. 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/1/1975",
  "desc" : "A bright yellow-orange ball of light was seen at low altitude over the village of Lezay, Deux Sevres, France at 11:10 p.m. It hovered 3-4 meters from the ground and made a flapping sound. It was estimated to be 3.1 meters in diameter, and played cat-and-mouse with the police through the trees for 35 minutes. It's possible that the object made a brief landing. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2443",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 552; UNICAT database, case 219" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/1/1979",
  "desc" : "At around 4:00 a.m. some goats in Las Vizcacheras, Mendoza, Argentina fled their pen in panic. The noise from the goats woke the three witnesses, a group of petroleum engineers and technicians. A rectangular UFO was then seen hovering 20 meters above the ground, just 70 meters from the witnesses. It gave off colored streams of light as it took off. There was a circle found at the landing site of hardened ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2444",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UNICAT database, case 602, citing Victorio Corradi; Jane Thomas, UFO News Clipping Service, August 1979, p. 11, citing Radiolandia, May 25, 1979; MUFON UFO Journal, September 1979, p. 6; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 265" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/1/1981",
  "desc" : "A 26-year-old woman reported a large white glowing disc-shaped object just 150 feet from her home in Clark County, Washington at around 4:00 a.m. It made a humming sound and flew off to the south toward Oregon. The incident lasted slightly less than a minute. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2445",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Greg Long, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1981, p. 16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/1/1988",
  "desc" : "Ed Walters reported another abduction experience that began at 1:20 a.m. in Gulf Breeze, Florida. He found himself walking along a dirt path in a dark wooded area near his hom. He soon saw a hovering lighted object overhead and attempted to photograph it, but was soon surrounded by several figures that grabbed him from behind. The beings seemed to move in short bursts of speed. He remembers falling down and then being surrounded by at least 20 of the creatures. Each one was equipped with a silver rod and covered in a box like suit. He was then unable to move. They picked him up and carried him, and it was then that he noticed that their hands felt rough. He experienced a burning pain that twisted down his spinal cord like an electrical shock, and he was able to move again. The creatures then scattered about him. He felt a voice in his head that constantly talked to him, calling him by the name of \"Zehaas.\" He rolled on the sand and tried to grab the nearest being but missed. He then rushed the creatures, who had now formed a circle around him. One of the creatures rushed forward and touched him on the shoulder with one of the silver rods, causing a white flash. He was then hit repeatedly with the silver rods, at times causing pain. He continued to struggle and fell backwards on top of one of the creatures. He noticed at this point that the creature wore a helmet. The being began to struggle and a sour smell, like mildew filled Walters nostrils. Finally the struggle ended when Walters became unconscious. Upon recovering consciousness he found himself in a hazy pie-shaped hazy room, where he presumes he was given a medical examination. The missing time experience lasted 75 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2446",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ed Walters, UFO Abductions in Gulf Breeze; Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 216" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/1/1989",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 a.m., in Metcalf, Illinois the mother of the principal witness had gotten up to go to the bathroom when she noticed that the electricity was off. She then saw a strange being with large eyes peering at her through the window and screamed. At this point her adult son, a repeat UFO abductee, got up and fired a gun four times at the being through the window. Four other tall humanoids with dangling arms were observed standing near a power pole. The electrical power came back on. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2447",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters: the Filter Center Files, p. 115" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/1/1989",
  "desc" : "At 5:00 a.m a woman in Hollywood, California was on her way to work when she experienced a long period of missing time. Later she was able to recall that she had been taken onboard a craft and had been greeted by a man in a blue coverall. She was then taken to a room with a large screen. She could see outside the object through the screen. She was told they were going to visit a planet called “Erra.” She was then taken to a place with numerous forests and trails and very rich in oxygen. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2448",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case HC # 754, citing Jim Brandt, Far Out, Summer 1993" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/1/1992",
  "desc" : "Two men, Lycett and Hazelgrove, were driving down the A22 Highway in Polegate, East Sussex, England at 10:20 p.m. when they sighted a silent flying object with red flashing lights. They thought its outline looked like a DC-9 airplane about to crash, but the nose of the object pulled up and turned toward the witnesses' car, who then thought it was going to crash into them. They sped up, and when they looked behind the object was gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2449",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, Alien Update, p. 266; UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1992, citing the Eastbourne Gazzette, May 13, 1992" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/1/2001",
  "desc" : "A bizarre hairy creature was sighted in the village of Anand Vihar, India on this night. Hundreds of villagers armed with farm tools as weapons searched for hours in an attempt to hunt it down and kill it, but the search failed to find anything. On the same night three workers claimed they were woken up and attacked by a\"masked man\", who reportedly threatened to kill them in the Bhojpuri language. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2450",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 2001 Humanoid Contact Database, citing Mystery Magazine.com" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/1/2003",
  "desc" : "A married couple driving in West Seattle, Washington sighted a silent triangular object moving across the sky at 10:00 p.m. It had a dim orange light at each apex, and the lights seemed striped rather than solid. It flew off to the northwest. When they got home they noticed that their dog was trembling, and acting very lethargic. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2451",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2003 archived webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/2/1949",
  "desc" : "At 10:20 a.m. north of Elko, Nevada three metallic discs with an estimated diameter of 10 meters flew over the desert to the southwest at 400 kph and an altitude of 4200 meters. They were silent, and all three veered to the south with the same precise tilt. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2452",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1394; citing Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949 (Volume 3), p. 64" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/2/1958",
  "desc" : "Eight people working in a forest near Santa Fe de Bogota, Colombia saw a green creature with scaly skin and very long arms. The pointed nails of its long fingers nearly touched the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2453",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 467, citing L. Bulgarini; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0460" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/2/1967",
  "desc" : "A scientist and his wife sighted a white cigar-shaped object flying east of Tranmere, South Australia. It had a globe-shaped light at the front and it left a luminescent trail. They watched it for five minutes as it went over the horizon. There were two more sightings that evening over Mount Whaleback in Western Australia, one at 8:30 p.m. and another at 11:50 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2454",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 179; L. J. Locke, Flying Saucers, October 1969, p. 11, citing Australian Flying Saucer Review" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/2/1967",
  "desc" : "A misty gray oval with four blinking red lights and a steady white light on top was seen in Montezuma, Iowa by a nineteen-year-old named Latcham at 8:25 p.m. It hovered, rose straight up, and then angled off to the west, climbing rapidly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2455",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 8; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 338" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/2/1968",
  "desc" : "On this morning the witness was out collecting bark for firewood in a spot near her lake on Keats Island, British Columbia when the same two strange men she had met on January 29 approached her. Both wore dark \"neat\" coveralls, as if they were brand new. One of the men was about 20 years old, and he seemed to hide behind the other man as the witness approached them. The younger man stared intently at the woman during the conversation she had with the older man, and only spoke once. She continued to be mystified about how they were coming and going from her remote island location. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2456",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Guttilla, Saga UFO Report, Summer 1974, citing John Magor, Our UFO Visitors" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/2/1971",
  "desc" : "Bobby Ford was outside his home in Jonesville, Arkansas on this night when he was grabbed by a huge hairy creature with claws, and pulled to the ground. After a brief struggle he escaped from his assailant. He was treated at a Texarkana hospital for scratches and shock. Footprints were discovered on Ford's property. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2457",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1971, case #2960, citing Ron Schaffner" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/2/1972",
  "desc" : "William G. Lestin and his wife were driving to a motel near Salisbury, Maryland at around 11 p.m. when they saw a luminous disc settle to the ground 100 yards away. Mr. Lestin got out of the car and walked to within 50 feet of the object. He described seeing a round object sitting on tripod landing gear. Moving about underneath it were two four-foot humanoids, resembling human beings but with long arms that dangled to the ground. They were \"apparently covered with a glazed coat of grayish material\" and wore helmets. As he watched, a door opened and a ramp descended; the two humanoids re-boarded and the object rose up into the air with a blinding red light. The entire incident had lasted more than five minutes. Mr. Lestin was terrified by his experience and had to be sedated when he arrived at his destination. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2458",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1972-10, citing Richard LaPorte, Argosy UFO Annual 1975" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/2/1978",
  "desc" : "A witness noticed two white uniformed Grey humanoid figures standing on the grounds of an abductee's property in South Middleton, Massachusetts. They stood motionless and held their arms close to their bodies. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2459",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 844, citing David F. Webb, FSR, Vol. 27 # 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/2/1978",
  "desc" : "On the same day in Escazu, Costa Rica Eduardo Enrique Lacayo, age 10, was out playing in the front yard of his uncle's house at 6:30 p.m. when he saw a cat. He decided to chase it as it ran towards a large empty lot across the street. As he ran towards the field he suddenly noticed a hovering silvery disc-shaped object that emitted a strong yellow light. The UFO resembled two soup plates placed together and was about 15 meters in diameter, and it was hovering at about 200 meters above the ground with a slight wobbling motion. A gray cloud-like mist emerged from the object and descended towards the ground. Stunned, Enrique watched as the mist-like vapor assumed the shape of a human-like figure that remained suspended above the ground. The figure wore a kind of \"cape\" or long tunic that did not reach its feet, since the witness was able to observe gold-colored laceless shoes on the figure's feet. The figure was about 170 meters tall. The cat also apparently observed the spectacle, since the animal's fur stood on end and it quickly scurried from the scene. Eduardo did not notice any facial features on the figure except what appeared to be thin lips. The figure extended its arms at him, as if beckoning him to approach, and it appeared to open its mouth. At this point the boy became afraid, and ran away quickly away. Looking back he did not see the figure again, and the UFO rose up into the sky at very high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2460",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing Carlos Vilchez" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/2/2001",
  "desc" : "In Rosario, Argentina a woman, \"M\" found herself being lifted into a whirlwind at two o'clock in the morning, presumably from her bedroom, but she doesn't know how she got outdoors. She was oriented vertically as she floated upwards, and was able to move her arms and look around as she did so.<br/><br/> She approached a powerful light that seemed to emanate from a hole in the sky. She then noticed three humanoids floating next to her, who accompany her through the orifice. Looking down, she could see the roof of her house, then watched as the house became smaller, and then the city of Rosario itself faded into the distance. As she continued to ascend into the sky she fell asleep, but an intense cold wave woke her up and she heard what sounded like a metallic hatch closing.<br/><br/> She noticed she had a dark room through a hexagonal opening. As her eyesight adjusted noticed that she was in an immense room with about 20 floating cots, each with a human figure on them. To her right she noticed her 45-year-old sister asleep on one of the cots. She also recalled seeing a black skinned man lying about 4 cots away. In the background she could hear a low steady snoring sound. She began to hear what appeared to be low \"voices\" that spoke very quickly among themselves. Almost at the same time three humanoids approached her. They were about 1.60 meters tall, very thin, with elongated hairless heads, two small holes for noses, and cat-like eyes that glowed a bluish-gray color. Their hands had three large fingers connected by a membrane and a separate finger or thumb. Their bodies were of a beige-pale color and appeared very flexible, almost gelatinous. They possessed small mouths and what appeared to be a small protuberance on top of their heads.<br/><br/> She sensed there were both females and males present but could not see any sexual features. At this point she sensed desperation from the beings as if their time was short because their species was unable to reproduce. One of the beings seemed to measure her cranium with a thin tube about 30 cm in length that emitted a beam of light from the tip. As the tube or bar was passed over her head she felt a slight sensation of warmth. She also sensed that the aliens had chosen Earth for a reproduction staging area, acquiring the necessary materials, which were human genetic materials from both genders.<br/><br/> She could hear other thoughts or speech in her mind and felt that the beings talked about her and about her knowledge. At this point another one of the beings seemed to measure her face from ear to ear at the same time telling her via telepathy that everything was going to be fine. The witness felt that the aliens needed human bodies as some kind of breeding \"container\" for their own survival purposes.<br/><br/> She became terrified as the three humanoids approached her to touch her. She asked them if they are spiritual beings and they answer yes, but she felt it was only an attempt to manipulate her mind. One of the humanoids attempted to touch her breasts but she pushed his arm aside and noticed that it had a gummy texture with no apparent bone structure. On her descent back to her home she remembered seeing images of famous persons flash around her, including John F. Kennedy, Adolph Hitler, and Judy Garland. She woke up in her bed with her concerned husband attempting to calm her down. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2461",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 2001 Humanoid Contact Database, citing Horacio Roberto, Nuevos Tiempos, Argentina" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/2/2003",
  "desc" : "Three young women returning from a bonfire in the Illinois countryside and had just finished putting away equipment and chairs into a shed. As they got back into their van, at around 3:30 a.m., one of them saw a figure standing a short distance off the driveway by a house. She pointed it out to the other two. Somewhat spooked, they drove back toward town. They described the figure as man-like, wearing light colored or white clothing. They headed over to the site of the bonfire, the embers of which were still glowing. Suddenly, in the glare of their van's headlights they all saw two separate rows of creatures, with perhaps 15 standing in each row. They were about three or four feet tall and were standing only 15 feet away from them, directly in front of the van. One of the women wrote that they had \"Christmas light heads\" that were connected to their body, but she couldn't see how. Their arms were up in the air, but she couldn't see any hands. They appeared to be stick-like, and dark gray or brown in color. They did not move but stood perfectly still. The two girls riding as passengers began to scream for the driver to leave the area immediately. Terrified, they drove away and continued to drive around for the next two hours before they had enough courage to return to their homes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2462",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2003, citing Peter Davenport, NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/3/1945",
  "desc" : "In the predawn hours a US Army Air Force B-24 bomber flying over Fala Island in the Truk Atoll, the Pacific Ocean encountered two objects with red circles of light, changing color from cherry-red to orange to white lights, and then back to cherry again; they followed aircraft for over an hour while the bomber performed evasive maneuvers; there were no airborne radar returns picked up from the objects. On this evening five orange spheres flying in a triangular formation were sighted by a 415th NFS fighter pilot east of Pfalzerwald, Germany. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2463",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 8; (2) Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 25: Keith Chester, Strange Company: Military Encounters with UFOs in World War II, p. 163" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/3/1950",
  "desc" : "At 3:00 p.m. several girls in Savoyeux-Haute, Haute-Saone department, France saw a large cylindrical object fly rapidly from the south to the north shooting silvery rays. At 4:30 p.m. four discs were sighted by numerous observers in Neuville-sur-Sarthe, Sarthe department, France flying at a low altitude slowly toward the the horizon. They left a trail of smoke. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2464",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 211" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/3/1952",
  "desc" : "At dawn in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia at least 13 witnesses, including pilots and the RAAF, witnessed a huge \"flying submarine\" with flashing lights. It was reported to be huge, three times larger than an airliner. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2465",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 45; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 68; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 2147" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/3/1952",
  "desc" : "On this day two bright discs played tag in the sky over Warragul, Victoria, Australia. They then joined together, merged into one object, then vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2466",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 69; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 2146" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/3/1952",
  "desc" : "On this evening three men in Chestertown, Maryland heard a strange whooshing noise. Looking up, they saw a black speck, high in the sky, moving back and forth. It went straight up out of sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2467",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Edward Sullivan, Civilian Saucer Intelligence/Los Angeles investigation files, letter from E. Mifflin dated May 5, 1952" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/3/1956",
  "desc" : "At 7:32 a.m. several observers including a Ground Observer Corp member, watched two saucers circle in the sky over Pueblo, Colorado and then \"wink out\". ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2468",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files, report dated May 3, 1956; Alexander Mebane, CSI-New York News, June 1956, p. 8; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: May-July, p. 2; MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 277" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/3/1961",
  "desc" : "On or about this date a hemispherical craft with portholes was sighted resting on a road in Union Mills, Indiana. The time was ten o'clock in the evening. It took off when a car came close to it. Its estimated diameter was four meters, height 2.5 meters, and it bore \"fluorescent lights.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2469",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 518; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 147" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/3/1965",
  "desc" : "On this day in Monte Grande, Entre Rios, Argentina a 37-year-old man named F. Martinez claimed to have had a visitation by and communication with two small alien beings, about three feet tall. The witness was transformed intellectually, with subsequent psychic contact, and two cases of healing. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2470",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon Creighton, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 40; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0628, citing Charles Bowen, The Humanoids, p. 112" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/3/1967",
  "desc" : "At 6:30 a.m. EDT in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania a gray metallic-appearing disc paced ahead of a car being driven by a Mrs. Smyth on the Schuylkill Expressway near Roxborough. The top section of the craft was revolving and a row of windows was visible around the center. A vapor stream was produced, which changed to red sparks. The object shot up into the overcast, and when it did so the witness experienced jaw pain at that moment. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2471",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 12; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 268, 338" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/3/1968",
  "desc" : "During the evening hours of the night of May 2nd-3rd Miss Shane Kurz, a 19-year-old woman, had watched a luminous cigar-shaped object in the sky for two hours from her home in Westmoreland, New York. It moved in her direction, stopped, then shot straight upward into the sky, turning red in color as it did so. At four o'clock in the morning her mother came into her room and found her lying on top of her bedsheets with her robe and slippers on; both were covered with dried mud, as were her legs. Earlier in the night her mother had found her missing from her bedroom and the door open.<br/><br/> Ms. Kurz stayed out of school for the next two days because of depression and recurrent nightmares. Her eyes were causing her pain, and two reddish ring-shaped marks appeared on her lower abdomen. Her menstrual cycle stopped after this incident and did not return again for a year. Later under hypnosis she remembered that she went outdoors in response to hearing her name called, and saw a saucer with windows and a revolving rim hovering close to the ground. It approached her and lifted her inside with a beam of light, after which she found herself in a bare white room. A man shorter than her, with no nose, wearing what looked like a dark \"motorcycle jacket\" and another being, a \"doctor\" in a long coat, forced her onto an exam table. He inserted a long needle into her navel. A third being, the \"leader,\" next entered the room. The UFOnauts all had very \"penetrating\" eyes with no pupils. They said to her, \"We've watched you. You're the one. We want you as a mate.\" He also said that they came \"from very, very far.\" The others went out and the leader proceeded to undress her and then rape her. He told her she would not remember. She was floated down to the ground again by a light beam. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2472",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-26, citing Hans Holzer, The Ufonauts" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/3/1969",
  "desc" : "On this day in the city of Osasco, Sao Paulo, Brazil a man photographed a saucer-shaped object. It made rapid maneuvers in all directions; a door on the craft opened and a strong beam of light came out. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2473",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 8834, citing FSR Case Histories, issue # 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/3/1971",
  "desc" : "At 10:10 p.m. in Stara Cervka, Slovenia an eight-meter long egg-shaped object landed on three legs for five minutes. It spiraled upward on takeoff. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2474",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 9805, citing FSR, volume 30, number 3 and FSR, v24, #3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/3/1973",
  "desc" : "Many observers in the towns of Pitten and Wingene, West Flanders, Belgium witnessed a large red globe at 4:30 p.m. accompanied by tornado like winds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2475",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, volume 5 (1974), case # 236, citing J. Bonabot" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/3/1973",
  "desc" : "On this night at 9:45 p.m. Mrs. Sigrid Karlsson and her son Robert saw an object illuminated by a red light hovering over their neighbor's house in Mantorp, Ostergotland, Sweden. It looked like two saucer plates, separated by a row of broad windows, and it made a loud hissing sound. Robert thought he could see two men inside. As it got closer, its light became yellow-white. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2476",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Information Sweden, May 1973, p. 2; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1973-91 (A1202), citing Canadian UFO Report, #20, 1975; John Magor, Our UFO Visitors, p. P16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/3/1975",
  "desc" : "At 1:30 a.m. a witness in Ashton, Adelaide, South Australia had a close encounter with a blue-green cone-shaped UFO that was making a humming sound. It had light beams and flew off to the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2477",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Keith Basterfield, UFO Research South Australia, case # SA75008" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/3/1975",
  "desc" : "While flying over Lake Tequesquitengo at 1:34 p.m. near Mexico City, Mexico Antonio Santos Montiel, the pilot of a Monteil Piper PA-24, felt a strange vibration, and saw a domed disc three meters in diameter pacing him to his right. There was another identical looking craft on his left. A third disc approached his airplane head on, and he felt a jolt, as if his plane was being lifted. The Mexico City Air Trafffic Control radar showed the UFOs making sharp turns. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2478",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard F. Haines, case investigation, report dated August 3, 1975; FSR, February 1976, p. 32; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 50; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 121, 243).<br/><br/> 1975  - At 9:15 p.m. Alois Olenick, 48, was driving westward on Mogford Road to a nearby store in southern San Antonio, Texas when he saw an amber-colored object rise up from a grove of trees 900 yards away. It then approached his 1959 Chevrolet pickup truck, dropping in altitude, and the main light on the front of the object changed from amber to a blindingly bright, cherry-red light. When it was directly over him it beamed a spotlight on him, and at the same time his truck's lights and engine died, and his truck was nearly buffeted off the road by a strong wind. \"When the craft got directly over the top of my pickup,\" Olenick said, \"my lights went completely out and my engine was dead.\"<br/><br/> He got out and saw a globular craft with two conical protrusions on either side that could have been a central ring (making an overall Saturn shape). The bottom was of \"highly polished metal\" with a reddish glow. When the UFO tipped at a 37-40 degree angle toward him, he could see that the top half was transparent and that it contained two humanoid occupants, visible by a reddish internal light. They were 5-feet tall or less, with bald heads, large pointed ears, long noses, and slit-like eyes. Their skin appeared smooth and grayish in complexion. They seemed to be handling controls. He said, \"They appeared to be just as interested in me as I was in them. One of the occupants, the one farthest away from me, appeared to be the pilot and had his hands on what looked like controls. He was looking up and away from me. The other occupant looked directly at me...and appeared to be observing me. I got a good look at both of them. They weren't human beings like we see here.\"<br/><br/> There was no sound of a motor coming from the object, but there was a shriek of wind like a cyclone below the craft. Then the UFO turned its lights off and took off staight up, with a gust of wind that buffeted his pickup, and vanished almost instantly. There was an odor \"like burning copper or electrical wiring\" (he was a sheet metal worker) that persisted inside the truck for some time. His eyes were affected, and he had to wear dark glasses after the effect for some while as a result. (Sources: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1975-23 (A1404), citing Gary Graber, Skylook, February 1976, p. 3; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 382, 461-462, 490" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/3/1975",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. on the highway N165 west of Quimper, Finistere, France a 6-meter diameter sphere with portholes followed a car west at 200 meters altitude. It hid when the car approached towns but came back. It tracked the car for 20 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2479",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 11249, citing Jean-F. Boedec, Les OVNI en Bretagne: Anatomie d'un Phenomene, p. 55" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/3/1977",
  "desc" : "At 3:55 a.m. police in Hainault Forest, England took an emergency telephone call. The caller said that some strange UFO was over the forest near the small lake. Two policemen were directed to the scene. Arriving, they proceeded along the lake road and noticed a \"large bright red light\" across on the eastern shore. They stopped, exited their vehicle, and then observed a \"bell tent\" shaped thing, about 300 yards distant. This object pulsated continuously from dull to very bright red for the next 2 to 3 minutes. The UFO seemed to be hovering silently. Then, as they watched apprehensively, the object appeared to \"dissolve on the spot\". Because the thing was no longer visible, the officers somewhat reluctantly decided to go across the lake and investigate the spot. As they were doing this, one of them looked up and briefly saw a thin, large, white crescent shape hanging in the sky. This \"apparition\" also dissolved on the spot. Reaching the location of ground zero, as best they could tell, they found nothing at all, except a strong smell of burning. No cause could be determined. A report was immediately made to the local UFO investigator [The Essex Hotline], and field investigator Barry King came out and interviewed the officer that very night. In daylight, one large bush was found to have damage: it was flattened in the center and slightly burned. The gorse bush appeared to have had a very heavy weight set on top of it, and the result was to break almost all of the limbs, including snapping off the central branch. The pattern of breakage was to displace the branches into an outward radiating splay. No radiation nor magnetic anomalies were found. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2480",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Barry M. King, FSR, August 1977, p. 8; Gary Heseltine, UFO Magazine (UK), July 2003, p. 7; Mke Swords, www.nicap.org/waves/1975fullreport.htm" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/3/1977",
  "desc" : "At 9:20 p.m. on a clear night a 29-year-old woman in Wilcox, Elk County, Pennsylvania sighted a large silver sphere near a power plant that had many lights in the middle and was not revolving. It directed a spotlight down, and after 10 minutes shot straight up. There was some kind of animal reaction. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2481",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, June 1977, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/3/1979",
  "desc" : "A 65-year-old woman named Karlsson had a close encounter with an oval-shaped object in Undenas, Karlsborg Municipality, Vastra Gotaland County, Sweden at 9:00 p.m. It was first seen weaving in and out silently between the trees. It hovered as the witness ran back toward her house, and then shot straight up at very high speed, making two dull explosions like sonic booms. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2482",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Acke Svensson, FSR, December 1983, p. 5, citing UFO-Sverige" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/3/1986",
  "desc" : "Two witnesses in Bellingham, Washington reported seeing five V-shaped objects that flew in formation, from north to south, and crossed the sky from horizon to horizon in 10 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2483",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, case # 1084" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/3/1990",
  "desc" : "On this night the public in Chester, England reported seeing strange lights in the sky to police. At 1:00 a.m. two police officers in Backford, near Chester, saw a multicolored (green, red and blue) UFO wobbling in sky, and they watched in amazement. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2484",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gary Heseltine, Police Reports of UFOs, case 147, citing Chester Tonight, May 3, 1990" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/3/1992",
  "desc" : "At around midnight three witnesses, members of the Boggs family, in Fordland, Missouri had a close encounter with a dark flying object (estimated to be 8 feet wide by 20 feet long in size) with square windows. At first, 14-year-old Robbie saw a line of bright lights that hung over a slight rise in the pasture, less than 100 yards from their farm house, and maybe ten feet above the ground. Both ends of the line appeared to curve away, giving the impression that the lights were attached to an oval structure of some sort. It flew slowly but directly over their heads at no more than 25 feet. Although they could see the outline of the lights, the object itself was invisible. The UFO then moved on away from the house, passing between two trees with only a few feet to spare. The trees were undisturbed by the proximity of the object. A pole light on the far side of the driveway went out as the UFO approached, the photoelectric switch apparently triggered by the brightness of the object's lights. The object was just beyond this yard light when all of its own colored lights went dark, to be replaced by a single white light shining from the rear. At this same moment the sound that had been coming the the UFO ceased. Surprisingly, the family did not stay outside to watch the UFO depart. They expressed surprise themselves at that fact, that when the colored lights went out they only could recall turning away and going back into the house. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2485",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Francis Ridge, www.nicap.org/920503fordlanddir.htm, citing Amateur UFOlogy News, volume 4,  number 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/3/1995",
  "desc" : "At 4:05 a.m. a trucker driving on Interstate 90 near Amsterdam, New York sighted a domed disc while driving. It had a very bright, white light, so he could clearly see both the lower disc portion and the dome. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2486",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, 1995 report" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/3/1996",
  "desc" : "Police in Nayarit, Mexico reportedly fired a hail of bullets at a creature on this night. Apparently unharmed, it turned about to glare at them with \"fiery red eyes\" set in a humanoid face. The entity then jumped over a meter high fence and got away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2487",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1996 Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, case # 3532, citing Virgilio Sanchez-Ocejo" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/3/1997",
  "desc" : "A couple returning from work at 1:30 a.m. in Meilleraye de Bretagne, Loire-Atlantique, France saw a point more luminous than stars. It approached at high speed and the witnesses could see that its shape was round; it passed just above them and then flew away to the south. Air displacement was heard. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2488",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "GEIPAN, case 251" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/3/2000",
  "desc" : "At 2:54 a.m. Rene Ruiz, a 55-year-old man from Orlando, Florida, found himself inside a huge craft surrounded by blinding lights and looking at something resembling an X-ray machine. He also encountered several 6-foot tall humanoids, who had large oval-shaped heads and skin that was grayish in color. However, there was one being who was different; Rene described him as short with a huge head and light blue in color. After lossing recollection of what happened next, Mr. Ruiz found himself back in his home. Subsequently, his body turned a sickly yellow jaundiced color, and he suffered from constant nausea with frequent vomiting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2489",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 2000 Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, case # 3828, citing UFO Abduction Raw Data Page, UFO Watch" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/3/2002",
  "desc" : "In Alvear, La Pampa Province, Argentina several young men were walking home at midnight along a deserted road when out of nowhere a female figure with long black hair appeared in front of them, wearing a light flowing gown. The strange figure was very pale and appeared elderly. It repeatedly asked for assistance from the men in an urgent tone. Terrified, the men ran from the area and later returned with other witnesses, but could find no trace of the strange apparition. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2490",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 2002 Humanoid Contact Database, citing Fabio Picasso" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/3/2003",
  "desc" : "At 3:30 a.m. a man was sitting on his back porch in North Richland Hills, Texas looking out at the horse pasture behind his home. The pasture held several horses but he could not see them because they were at the other end of the field. He heard what sounded like the horses kicking a metal sheet and squealing loudly. He also heard dogs barking in the distance. Just as he strained to look over to the horse shed everything became completely quiet. The witness started to feel scared by the eerie silence, and as he stepped off his porch he started to hear a low whirring sound. He next saw a light beam flash on the ground in the middle of the pasture. The source was a black craft, hovering about 100 feet above the ground. It was shooting flashes of light at the ground from a pod on the right end of the craft. The craft had a multicolored mist or hot looking gas on the bottom of it, on the left side was what looked like a red rectangular window. Inside he could see movement, but at that moment he began to feel sick. The craft appeared to be about 50 feet long with a dull blue light on the top. After five minutes the whirring sound faded and the craft hovered silently for another two seconds before it zipped straight up and out of sight without a sound. He then noticed that the electrical power seemed to be off in the neighborhood. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2491",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 2003 Humanoid Contact Database, citing Peter Davenport, NUFORC; Joan Woodford, www.nicap.org NSID04 cases, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/3/2004",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. a witness and son in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France saw for the second time several yellow and green balls moving in the sky. The BOLs were ten times larger than a star, and were coming together fast. The sighting had a 15 minute duration.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2492",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "GEIPAN, case 391" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/3/2006",
  "desc" : "At 10:35 p.m. a woman coming home from work on rural roads in Franklin, Indiana sighted a triangle shaped object with three lights, one on each apex, and one in the middle, hovering over the Union Elementary School in Union Township. She stopped the car and got out to observe. It was estimated to be 1500 feet in the air, and made absolutely no sound as it hovered. It appeared to be a deep black in color, darker than the night sky, and almost seemed to absorb any light; the lights did not appear to illuminate anything under it. It was near the restricted military airspace for Camp Atterbury, located 20 miles south. She watched until the craft slowly moved off to the northwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2493",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, NUFORC, May 2006 webpage, reported May 4, 2006 and uploaded May 15, 2006" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/3/2006",
  "desc" : "In Chilliwack, Fraser Valley, British Columbia a very large, silent, dark pyramid-shaped object was sighted at 10:45 p.m. by six witnesses. It was slow moving. The sighting lasted two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2494",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2006 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 192" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/3/2007",
  "desc" : "At 4:23 a.m. a metallic object descended at odd angle and landed in a wooded area in Biglerville, Adams County, Pennsylvania. It stayed there for about 20 minutes before disappearing quickly. No further details. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2495",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2007 webpage, report uploaded June 12, 2007" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/3/2007",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. a triangular craft was seen hovering over Abingdon, Harford County, Maryland, moving very slowly and silently over a residential neighborhood. It had one row of 3-4 lights lit up on one side of the craft.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2496",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2007 webpage, report uploaded June 12, 2007" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/3/2010",
  "desc" : "A witness walking on the South campus of the University of Nebraska in Omaha, Nebraska reported being chased by a diamond-shaped UFO at 9:17 p.m. The witness reported being frightened, and sheltering by running into the South campus building. \"It was a beautiful looking ship but really horrible when they were approaching towards me,\" the witness wrote. The event lasted four minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2497",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2010 webpage, reported May 3, 2010 and uploaded May 12, 2010" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/4/1897",
  "desc" : "The whole town of Jenny Lind, Arkansas watched an airship fly over from the northeast to the southwest at 7:30 p.m. It landed, and a human looking occupant got out. He spoke English, and told them he was out to \"catch birds.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2498",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "St. Louis Post Dispatch, May 5, 1897; Jerome Clark, The Unidentified: Notes Toward Solving the UFO Mystery, p. 147; Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 24" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/4/1932",
  "desc" : "During a time of personal crises, the witness, now a retired pastor, found himself in a city of 16,000 located 150 miles west of Toronto, Ontario. On this particular night he was standing on a street lit up by a brilliant white light from above. Looking up, he saw the light came from a round cloud with a scalloped edge, about 200 yards overhead. From the cloud-like object streamed down a light like a laser beam. He next saw a young man with golden hair standing beside him, dressed in a suit of a similar color. The man had radiant blue eyes, and was about 5.5 feet tall. He smiled at the witness and told him that his work would be in that city, and reminded him that “the cottages in the rear of the mansion are as important as those who dwell in the mansion.” He told him the witness would reside there for six years and would then work his way to the west coast. According to the man’s account, the prophecies were fulfilled. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2499",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1932-01 (A0103), citing John Musgrave & Ted Bloecher" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/4/1950",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. in Birmingham, Alabama a ghostly object grew and changed shape; it flashes; then suddenly shoots up and is gone. There were two witnesses together and an additional independent observer, and the event lasted 10 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2500",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1722; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 41" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/4/1953",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon at 1:50 p.m. a military witness at Harmon AFB, Newfoundland, Canada watched a flying football fly by at low altitude and high speed, heading south. It made a tinny sound. The sighting had a 3 second duration. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2501",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: March-July, p. 47" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/4/1954",
  "desc" : "On the night of May 4th, 1954, three police officers in Canfield, Ohio watched a reddish orange, glowing disc fly out of sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2502",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 144" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/4/1955",
  "desc" : "One year later, at 1:38 p.m. at the Keflavik Air Force Base in Iceland, two USAF officers, USAF Lt. Col. E. J. Stealy and 1st Lt. J. W. Burt, spotted 10 white oval-shaped objects, some 60-70 feet in diameter, moving \"rapidly and jerkily.\" One of them left a brief smoke trail. The UFOs moved at a tremendous rate of speed, and were gone from sight in five seconds. This case was listed as an \"unknown\" by Project Blue Book. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2503",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book case files counted in official statistics, case #3523; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 61" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/4/1960",
  "desc" : "A yellow, cigar-shaped or elliptical object with four evenly spaced windows was observed at ground level by an architect in Sarasota, Florida at 9:15 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2504",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 504; NICAP Special Bulletin, May 1960, p. 4; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 138; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, December 1967, p. 24 & September 1970, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/4/1960",
  "desc" : "In 1960 a giant cigar-shaped object crossed the skies over the town of Botocatu, Brazil during the daytime. It moved at a tremendous speed and was gone from sight in 30 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2505",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Coral E. Lorenzen, UFOs:The Whole Story, p. 221" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/4/1966",
  "desc" : "At 3:40 a.m. an FAA air traffic controller in Charleston, West Virginia tracked an unidentified, non-transponding target about five miles to the 11 o'clock position from Braniff Airline Flight 42 headed east at 33,000 feet, which the crew saw high above them as a bluish-white object giving off a brilliant flaming light of alternating white-green-red colors. Radar showed the object veering away to 8-10 miles away at the 10 o'clock position, then come at the Braniff airliner to within three miles distance, then made a 180° left turn to the NW again within a diameter of 5 miles at 1,000 mph [5 G's]. The Braniff crew confirmed the object descending from 20° elevation above horizon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2506",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p.  73; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 34; UNICAT, case # 319; Gordon D. Thayer, in Edward Condon, Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 163" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/4/1966",
  "desc" : "Later that evening at 10 p.m. a white disc flew up to a farm in Cardington, Ohio and hovered low over a farmyard for 30 minutes. It took off fast when an airplane came into view. Two more sighting reports were made that day to Project Blue Book from nearby Columbus, Ohio. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2507",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #7237; APRO Bulletin, May-June 1966; Project Blue Book files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/4/1969",
  "desc" : "An abduction occurred in 1969 to a soldier while fishing on the banks of the Rio das Velhas near the city of Bebedouro in the state of Espirito Santo, Brazil. Jose Antonio da Silva had left his home in Belo Horizonte and taken a bus to Bebedouro to go fishing the evening before. At about midnight he reached the banks of a small lagoon and set up his tent and fished for a while without success. The next day, at about 3 p.m. he became aware of figures moving around behind him. He heard a deep sound like a groan, then was struck in the legs by a \"burst of fire\" coming from a form partly hidden in the bushes. Seized with a cramp and feeling a numbness in his legs, he knelt down. A beam of light, greenish in the middle and reddish on the edges, had hit him. In a matter of seconds he was seized under the armpits by masked two four-foot-tall humanoid beings, who wore shining light-colored garments and aluminum colored helmets with facemasks. Tubes ran from the masks to small containers on their backs.<br/><br/> They blindfolded him and brought him before a little man with long red hair and a big nose. They dragged him to a craft that was shaped like a vertical cylinder terminated by wider saucer shaped top and bottom; rods from the base of the cylinder supported the upper disc. It was only bout six feet high and nine feet wide. Inside was a cubical room, brilliantly lit but from no visible source. Here they fitted on him a helmet like their own, then tied him down to a seat.<br/><br/> He felt a sensation of taking off. During the flight, which he felt lasted for hours, they talked among themselves in an incomprehensible language with many \"R\" sounds. At one point in the journey the craft seemed to turn on its side for awhile. When they landed he was blindfolded and dragged into a large room, where a little man without a spacesuit confronted him; he had long reddish hair and a beard that flowed to his waist. He was strongly built, and his skin was pallid in color. He had large round, green eyes and a big nose, and his mouth appeared toothless, \"like a fish.\" To the side of the witness were laid 4 human cadavers, one a Negro's. A dozen more little men, all much resembling the leader, were in the room. They examined his fishing tackle and other possessions. Several carried weapons. The leader then addressed him in his incomprehensible language, simultaneously making sketches on a whiteboard beside him.<br/><br/> He was given a stone cup and drank a bitter green liquid that restored his energy and made him better able to comprehend what the alien was trying to say. The leader conveyed to Da Silva the idea that he was expected to help them land on Earth, a proposition that the soldier rejected, fingering his rosary. The leader became irritated, snatched the rosary away, and showed it to the others. At this point a kind of vision appeared to Da Silva of a Christ-like man with long fair hair and beard, dressed like a monk, who spoke to him in Portuguese, giving him a message, which he was sworn to keep secret. After this vision had vanished, Da Silva was again blindfolded, dragged back to the spacecraft, and returned to Earth in the same manner as he had been taken away. He was released during the night. When morning came he found that he was near Vitoria, more than 200 miles from Bebedouro, and that four and a half days had passed since his abduction. He suffered various physical ailments later. Jose Antonio has repeatedly refused to reveal the content of this message. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2508",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Hulvio Brant Aleixo and Dr. Walter Buhler, FSR, November-December 1973, p. 6; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-32" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/4/1975",
  "desc" : "A UFO was seen near the ground in Cupey, Puerto Rico at 4:20 a.m. in 1975. The object had an intense yellow pulsating light, and a row of eight rectangular lights. Ground marks were found at the site including a burnt area 25 feet in diameter. There were also large three-toed footprints, fourteen inches long and spaced 50\" apart. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2509",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lamarche Sebastian Robiou, FSR, April 1977, p. 8; Stendek, December 1975; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1405" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/4/1975",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. two gendarmes observed an orange ball of light (BOL) the apparent size of the full moon in Lezay, Deux-Sevres, France. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2510",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Coudert, Ouranos, 1978, issue 24, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/4/1976",
  "desc" : "Several witnesses reported seeing a narrow, bright red trail that climbed steeply into the sky from sea level south of Robben Island in Three Anchor Bay, South Africa. A loud explosion followed it. The object turned in flight. Ninety minutes later the main witness heard a second explosion. That witness was Brigadier General C. Smith. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2511",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Saga UFO Report, December 1976, p. 80" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/4/1976",
  "desc" : "Also in 1976, a 74-year-old grandmother and two of her grandchildren saw a domed disc slowly flying by in the sky over Wilrijk, Belgium at 10:45 p.m. local time. It had small lights around the rim of the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2512",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Bernard Delaire, UFO Register Volume 7, p 32" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/4/1976",
  "desc" : "A cattle mutilation was discovered this day on a ranch south of Glenwood Springs, in Garfield County, Colorado. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2513",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Fate magazine, September 1976, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/4/1976",
  "desc" : "About five hours after the Belgium UFO encounter a farmer driving through one of his fields in Orfordville, Wisconsin at dusk noticed a hovering object 150 feet above him. It had two bright headlights and two rotating red lights. An hour later his son saw the same lights; they did a U-turn in the sky and flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2514",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek, Center for UFO Studies, case file dated August 24, 1976; CUFOS News Bulletin, September 1976, p. 5; John Wallace Spencer, UFO Yearbook, p. 78" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/4/1977",
  "desc" : "A 23-year-old man, Sr. Ferreira, disappeared in front of his fellow factory employees in Atuba, Para state, Brazil fulfilling a prediction made on May 4, 1976 that UFOnauts would come back for him. He turned up the next day, 40 miles away, and said he had been in the company of extraterrestrials, but feared revealing the details of his encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2515",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1729, citing O Estado Parana, May 5, 1977" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/4/1978",
  "desc" : "Soon after a blinding blue light caused a road accident near Villa Mercedes, San Luis province, Argentina about 100 city residents saw 50 greenish-blue UFOs flying over the city. In the midst of a dazzling light, they perfectly executed a series of maneuvers: they broke into two formations and then rejoined, and then they disappeared from view. Shortly after that some people reported that they had witnessed the landing of a saucer-shaped craft nearby. A being dressed in a green uniform emerged from the craft for a short while. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2516",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Buenos Aires Herald, May 8, 1978; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing Tasmanian UFO Report 1983, quoting Le Soir (Belgium), March 30, 1982" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/4/1981",
  "desc" : "At 10:40 p.m. a bright disc landed on the ground in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais state, Brazil and then vanished. A witness felt pulled toward the spot. Burnt grass was found at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2517",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next? p. 229" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/4/1983",
  "desc" : "At 3:50 a.m. a silent yellowish orange ball of light was seen by a Mr. J. Philips hovering 350 feet over a power line pole in Lawrence, Kansas. It flew away toward the northeast slowly at 35 mph. The sighting lasted three minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2518",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Professor E. J. Zeller, International UFO Reporter, September 1983, p. 14; UNICAT, case # 006, citing IUR" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/4/1989",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 in Easton, Connecticut an object shaped like a flying wing with red, yellow, and blue lights in back and a blinking red light on right side flew over tree line behind a house. Just before 10:00 p.m. an engineer and two others watched a boomerang or V-shaped object as big as a football field near a golf course in Trumbull, Connecticut. It made a faint humming sound and had many colored lights. The engineer was driving home when he first saw the object, which had red and white lights turned on at first, then turned off; with the light turned off it looked like a blue boomerang. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2519",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Philip J. Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 32" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/4/1990",
  "desc" : "In El Carmen, Argentina a luminous sphere hovered over a soccer field, emitting beams of light. The beams of light turned the grass an intense blue-green color. Four hours later, at 10:20 p.m. in St. Georges, Belgium, a dog howled when a silent disc-shaped object hovered in the yard, just one meter above the ground. The lights on the object lit the ground and area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2520",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Inforespace, issue no. 83; FSR, December 1990" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/4/1990",
  "desc" : "At about the time of the first Belgium report, at 10:30 p.m. a woman in Le Chatelet en Brie, Seine-Marne department, France observed a quiet triangular object with powerful headlights which stopped for a few moments before setting out again very quickly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2521",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "GEIPAN, case # 56" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/4/1990",
  "desc" : "In Antwerp, Belgium at 11:20 p.m. two observers reported sighting a silent orange disc-shaped object accompanied by a small white orb at 180 feet altitude. It had two legs on the bottom and what appeared to be a row of windows. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2522",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 303" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/4/1996",
  "desc" : "In 1996 a witness in Moffat, Colorado reported that a \"monstrous red light\" flew over the San Luis Valley at a high altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2523",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Christopher O'Brien, Enter the Valley, p. 307" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/4/1999",
  "desc" : "A 45-year-old man went missing after he left his parents' home in Bariloche, Rio Negro province, Argentina on this night. He was found 8 days later by bloodhounds in an isolated canyon, dehydrated and suffering from hypothermia. He claimed he had been abducted by \"extraterrestrials\"; two men dressed in white and an attractive woman that picked him up and apparently wanted to operate on him. He had no other memories about what occurred to him. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2524",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1999 Humanoid Sighting Reports, case # 3861, citing CE UFO Argentina" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/4/2001",
  "desc" : "\"We saw a silver, shiny object shooting through the sky on a summer afternoon,\" reported a witness from Fairfield, Connecticut. The object was disc shaped and the sighting was brief. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2525",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2001 webpage, report uploaded July 16, 2003" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/4/2002",
  "desc" : "At 3:45 p.m., two separate witnesses in towns nearby to Farmingdale, New York observed an egg-shaped UFO move at low speed and altitude in a clear blue sky. The object seemed \"transparent rather than solid, more like a ring\" and it left a white contrail-like wake much like a boat in the water would do. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2526",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), August 2002, p. 19" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/4/2003",
  "desc" : "A pulsating light \"danced\" across the sky at 10:15 p.m. in Holland, Pennsylvania. The sighting lasted from two to three minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2527",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2003 archive webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/4/2006",
  "desc" : "A security officer on patrol in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada observed four lights in the sky at 11:45 p.m. Three seemed to be hovering, while the fourth circled the others at one point. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2528",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2006 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 194, citing HBCCUFO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/4/2007",
  "desc" : "In Timmins, Ontario, Canada a light was seen in the northwestern sky at 11:30 p.m., zig-zagging and dancing \"across the sky\". ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2529",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Report, case # 250" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/4/2009",
  "desc" : "The witness climbed into his sleeping bag around 11:00 p.m. in his tent while camping in the Lake District, England. At 1:30 a.m. he was awakened by a deep humming sound that seemed to vibrate through him. The inside of his tent was also lit up by a dim glow. What was most puzzling and disturbing was that from that time onward he could remember nothing until dawn on Wednesday morning, when he woke up outside his tent, stark naked and very cold. His tent and clothes had a very strong 'ozone' smell. His only recollection was being laid face down on something hard, and having something hard pushed into his rectum, which was very sore at the time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2530",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert Rosales, 2009 Humanoid Sighting Reports, citing http://iwasabducted.com/forum" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/4/2009",
  "desc" : "At 3:33 a.m. in South St. Louis, Missouri a loud noise was heard. Looking out, an oval-shaped object was seen hovering just 100 foot off the ground. It had red, white, blue, yellow and oranges lights. It only illuminated itself, not the surroundings.A saucer shaped object with a changing colored light was observed from New Richmond, Wisconsin at 11:00 p.m. It remained in one position in the sky for over an hour. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2531",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2009 archived webpage, reports uploaded May 12, 2009" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/4/2010",
  "desc" : "In Davie, Florida a silent, translucent Y-shaped object was sighted just above the tree level at 10:30 p.m. It flew on a steady course with a slow climb, at approximately 10 mph.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2532",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2010 archived webpage, reports uploaded May 12, 2010" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/5/1952",
  "desc" : "On this day two silver discs were sighted by over a dozen witnesses near the Vanadium Corporation's uranium processing plant in Durango, Colorado. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2533",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 72" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/5/1952",
  "desc" : "At 10:50 p.m. six to seven translucent cream-colored objects were sighted over Tenafly, New Jersey. One object circled the area, while another flew away and then came back. This case is listed as a Project Blue Book \"unknown.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2534",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #1183; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 261" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/5/1953",
  "desc" : "One mile north of the Yuma, Arizona USAF fighter base, Wells A. Webb noticed a strange object in the clear blue sky at 9:45 a.m. The UFO initially seemed to be a cloud, but it made a sharp 90 degree turn, and he then saw the cloud resolve into a silver disc-shaped object. Through polaroid glasses Mr. Webb could see dark concentric rings around the craft, possibly due to a force field around the disc. With the glasses off the rings disappeared. He continued to watch for 15 minutes while the UFO receded into the distance. No sound was reported. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2535",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 52; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 52; John Fuller, Aliens in the Skies, p. 134; UNICAT, case #363, citing Bruce Maccabee paper, 1984" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/5/1954",
  "desc" : "Over the Woomera Missile Test Range in South Australia a disc-shaped object was viewed throuth binoculars flying to the west. It then turned and shot off to the south and out of sight at a speed estimated to be 5,800 kph. The object was estimated to be 10 feet in diameter, and the sighting reportedly lasted five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2536",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 85" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/5/1954",
  "desc" : "The young boy was sitting with his goat on a small hill near the village of Fregim Amarante, Portugal when he heard a whistling sound at around four o'clock in the afternoon. He ran in the direction of the sound, which came from a nearby hollow. Once there he saw one dome-shaped object leaving the area headed towards a nearby river, but an identical object still rested on the ground. It was a metallic colored, dome shaped, and had a metal ring on the bottom and a transparent section on top. It also had a conical protrusion, brown in color, on the top. As the object left the boy felt a wave of heat. Inside this second object he could see two beings with large heads and large eyes that were wide apart; both appeared to have antennae on top of their heads, and their mouths appeared like round holes. They wore metallic blue outfits, and appeared seated with one of them operating levers while the other looked out at the witness. Ground traces were later found at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2537",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case HC # 104, citing Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos & Fernandez Peri, Enciclopedia de Los Encuentros Cercanos con Ovnis" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/5/1958",
  "desc" : "On this day at 3:40 p.m. a brilliant top-shaped UFO (that was symmetrical above and below the middle), suddenly approached an aircraft being flown by 40-year-old Carlos Alejo Rodriguez near the airfield in Pan de Azucar near the city of San Carlos, Maldonado province, Uruguay. The object, estimated to be three times the size of the Piper aircraft, or 15-20 meters in diameter, passed within 500 meters, and the pilot felt a wave of heat. The UFO stopped and hovered for three seconds, rocked twice in a balancing motion, then shot away toward the sea leaving a vapor trail. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2538",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon I. R. Lore, Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 16; Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 246; UNICAT, case #477, citing Thomas M Olsen, The Reference to Outstanding UFO Reports, p. 3-57" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/5/1964",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 in the morning a farmer, Alfred Ernst, saw an object rise from a field in Comstock, Minnesota and fly rapidly into a cloud bank. It was described as oval in shape, and it left a depression and four rectangular imprints in the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2539",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 601" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/5/1965",
  "desc" : "A US Naval vessel sailing in the Philippine Sea had a radar-visual encounter with four UFOs at 9:10 a.m. There were 12 military witnesses, and the sighting lasted for eight minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2540",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UNICAT database, case #81, citing J. Allen Hynek; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p 187" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/5/1966",
  "desc" : "One year later, at 5:45 p.m. four UFOs were sighted at 20 degrees elevation by the navigating officer and several other crewmen aboard the HMAS ANZAC while sailing south of the Santa Cruz Islands. They were closely grouped, and the lead object glowed red. The trailing three objects were green, and formed an equilateral triangle. They left trails of color six times the size of the objects. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2541",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Debbie Payne, Australasian Ufologist, October 2004, p. 34" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/5/1968",
  "desc" : "Jerome Clark and three other young men had driven to visit a rural site on a highway between Fargo and Kindred, North Dakota where a \"ghost light\" had been recently reported. They spotted a nocturnal light and had been chasing it, more or less fruitlessly, in their car. When it re-appeared at 1:45 a.m. it loomed up in front of them, and against its reddish orange light they could see the silhouette of a huge figure gliding toward them. They took off in fear in their automobile, but when they looked again from a side road the silhouetted figure was still visible and still moving towards them. This time they drove several miles before stopping. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2542",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-25, citing Jerome Clark, FSR, November-December 1969" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/5/1968",
  "desc" : "At 8:35 p.m. a cylindrical UFO was seen flying north to south on this night and the next over the river in Tirgu Ocna, Romania by several witnesses including the principal witness, a Mr. Dumila. It had a pointed read end, and antennae on the sides. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2543",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ion Hobana and Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 162" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/5/1969",
  "desc" : "A deaf mute named Antonio Rodrigues, age 60, of the Fazenda Constantino was fishing during the day on the Rio Das Velhas near Jaboticatubas, Minas Gerais, Brazil when he was confronted by the same type of beings that Jose Antonio Da Silva encountered the day before in Bebedouro, 20 kilometers to the east. When they made signs for him to approach he fled in terror, and they pursued him and knocked him to the ground by the force from an energy weapon one of the short humanoids drew from his belt. They gathered around Rodrigues, felt his arm, and conversed amongst themselves in an unintelligible language. Finally, they shook their heads and departed in a UFO parked nearby that ascended vertically. The witness identified the beings from various drawings, including Da Silva's that were shown to him by the investigators. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2544",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-33, citing Hulvio Aleixo & Dr. Walter Buhler, FSR, November-December 1973" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/5/1972",
  "desc" : "Aarno Heinonen was at home in Imjarvi, Finland at 10:15 p.m. when he heard a strange noise, and then a female voice that told him to go alone to a certain crossroads. He did so, and encountered a 4 foot, 8 inch tall young woman with blond hair, wearing a yellow pantsuit that seemed to glow, and silver colored shoes. She carried a silvery ball by a handle, and it had three antennae like projections on it. She told him that her people had come from \"the other side of the Milky Way\" and that three different kinds of humanoids, ranging from very small to very tall, had visited Imjarvi. She also told him that she was 180 years old, and instructed him not to mention the contact to anyone else. Heinonen previously had a dramatic close encounter with a friend while out cross-country skiing in January 1970. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2545",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1972-11, citing UFO Research Center of Finland & Joe Brill" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/5/1974",
  "desc" : "At around 7 p.m. Ms. Becky Ingram was driving alone on a country road on Pisgah Ridge, Tennessee when she heard her nickname called (\"Tomboy\") and was telepathically directed to a nearby field. There she saw a 100-foot long, football-shaped UFO on the ground. In an open doorway, with a ramp extending to the ground, stood two beings named \"Alton\" and \"Tombo\" that she had met on a previous encounter, who invited her onboard. She greeted them with a handshake and entered. Inside she saw five or six more humanoid beings seated around a table, eating. She declined an invitation to join them. They spoke in an incomprehensible language. She declined an invitation for another ride, explaining that her family was expecting her. She noticed that this time both Alton and Tombo walked without bending their knees. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2546",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-85, citing Stanley Ingram & Don Worley" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/5/1974",
  "desc" : "At around 11:50 p.m. on the beach in Paraipaba, Ceara state, Brazil an odd looking \"jeep\" was seen being driven with three men with ropes aboard. The jeep ran up the beach five times, then drove into the sea and vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2547",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next? p. 265" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/5/1975",
  "desc" : "At 9:20 p.m. a domed disc-shaped object was seen on the ground in Pleasanton, Texas with two figures inside the dome. The witness, who was in a truck, was hit by a blinding light, and his hands went numb. The encounter lasted for two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2548",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John Schuessler, Physiological Effects from UFOs, p. 64" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/5/1977",
  "desc" : "At 9:15 a.m. a 22-year-old Cessna 150 pilot trainee, Sr. Lopez Ojeda, had a close encounter with a white object that looked like an inverted plate while flying over Tabio, Cundinamarca province, Colombia. There was a brilliant flash of light that temporarily impaired his vision, and the airplane's control would not respond for a short while during which his surroundings seemed strangely altered. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2549",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 291; MUFON UFO Journal, June 1977; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 50; CUFOS files, citing newspaper clipping dated May 6, 1977" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/5/1977",
  "desc" : "At midnight the witness, a truck driver, had made a rest stop at a truck stop on the major highway near Ragusa, Italy when he saw a yellow light illuminate the cab. The light originated from a gray metallic, oval-shaped object that was hovering near the truck and close to the ground. It had a rotating ring around its middle and two circular openings, one on the top and one on the bottom. A figure wearing a dark gray coverall and a helmet could be seen inside one of the openings. It seemed to be controlling and directing the yellow beam of light. It made some hand gestures towards him as if greeting him. A flattened area was found in the grassy field. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2550",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Maurizio Verga, ITACAT: Italian UFO catalogue, case 93; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, case # 1522, citing ITACAT" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/5/1979",
  "desc" : "Clear photographs were taken of a metallic, hat-shaped disc over a dam in Calamuchita, Cordoba, Argentina. The photographs were taken in the middle of the afternoon by a 34-year-old man named L. Ferreyra. The UFO had three portholes, and made no sound. It shot straight up when it left. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2551",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, November 1979, p. 9, citing Clarin, May 5, 1979" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/5/1979",
  "desc" : "On this night an object with portholes landed in a field in Pampulhas, Minas Gerais, Brazil for 90 seconds. The witnesses were two police officers, who reported that the encounter caused EM effects on their vehicle. The ground was lit brightly, and figures could be seen looking out through portholes in the craft. It took off vertically at great speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2552",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1979, p. 14; MUFON UFO Journal, November 1979, p. 11, citing Cronica May 5, 1979; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 258" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/5/1980",
  "desc" : "In San Jose de Mayo, Uruguay construction workers and truck drivers at a meat packing plant that was under construction saw a red and green luminous ball hovering overhead. It emitted a dull noise, and its presence interrupted electrical light power and also caused battery-operated radios to go dead. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2553",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1980, p. 9, citing La Razon, May 16, 1980" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/5/1982",
  "desc" : "In Youngstown Ridge, Pennsylvania a single witness observed a 15-foot diameter top-shaped UFO with a dome at 8:00 p.m. There was a red pulsating light contained within the dome. It was described as the size of Piper Cub aircraft, and it flew slowly to the east at an estimated altitude of 1000 feet, then reversed direction toward Greensburg. At 11:17 in in Pleasant Hills, Pennsylvania hundreds of residents witnessed many unidentified nocturnal lights. Police watched a semi-transparent delta-shaped object fly from the northwest to the southwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2554",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Stan Gordon, MUFON UFO Journal, July 1982, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/5/1984",
  "desc" : "At 2:55 a.m. a loud pulsing sound preceded the presence of a metallic ovoid or football-shaped UFO flying overhead at 200 feet altitude in Piedmont, South Carolina. The dogs in the neighborhood all howled and went crazy. There were two witnesses, and the encounter lasted two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2555",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Gribble, International UFO Reporter, May 1984, p. 16; MUFON UFO Journal, May 1984" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/5/1984",
  "desc" : "At 1400 hours GMT a Defense Support Program (DSP) spy satellite detected the entry of an unknown object that passes 15 miles in front of it, and then flew below it over the Indian Ocean. The unknown object changed course, and flew back out into outer space. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2556",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael D. Hall, UFOs: A Century of Sightings, p. 324" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/5/1990",
  "desc" : "At 3:45 a.m. the windows of a home in Widnes, Cheshire, England shook repeatedly from the vibrations caused by a huge, white glowing ball of light (BOL) over the road. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2557",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 121" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/5/1992",
  "desc" : "Two orange BOLs flew silently over a reservoir in Waranga Basin, Victoria, Australia at 8:00 p.m. They disappear when a camera flashes. At 11:15 p.m. a cigar-shaped object with windows on the bottom hovered silently in High Point, North Carolina, emitting very bright beams of light. It vanished when jets appeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2558",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, cases # 15726 & 15728, citing UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1992 & February 1993" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/5/1992",
  "desc" : "A around two o'clock in the morning in an undisclosed location in Georgia, a man woke up to see a 4.5 foot tall entity at the corner of his baby son's crib. The dwarf wore a black cape with a peaked hood connected to the cape. No facial features could be discerned. The entity next moved from left to right and then disappeared through the wall of the house. This experienced was followed by an unsettling dream about the baby, and later by another frightening incident. A few months later other family members again saw a shadow like figure with claws move out of the hallway and touch the chest of one of the older children in the house. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2559",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, case # 2624, citing John C. Thompson" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/5/1993",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 a.m. in Geneva, Ashtabula County, Ohio an enormous cigar-shaped craft with no wings and no windows flew over Lake Erie making no sound and at an incredible rate of speed. It was being chased by a helicopter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2560",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 1993 webpage, report uploaded August 16, 2002" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/5/1993",
  "desc" : "In Lincolnton, North Carolina at 9:00 p.m. two witnesses spotted a glowing orange-white disc-shaped object that flew overhead and then into the clouds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2561",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 16041, citing UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1994; George D. Fawcett" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/5/1996",
  "desc" : "At 9:50 p.m. over the town of St. Genis-Laval, Rhone, France a silent black triangular object followed a helicopter north at low altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2562",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17346, citing Phenomena magazine, issue 32" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/5/1996",
  "desc" : "Late at night on Sunday May 5, 1996 Elaine woke up in her bedroom in Cornwall, England to see a four-foot tall creature with pale shiny porcelain colored skin standing next to her bed. It had a very large head and large black oval-shaped eyes standing next to her bed. She does not report what happened next, but she does mention that at around the same time she began having lucid dreams where she found herself traveling to other planets and meeting aliens. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2563",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case # 3249" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/5/1997",
  "desc" : "A woman in Hazelwood Park, Adelaide, South Australia reported sighting an object travelling from the northwest to the south, where it hovered for 5-6 seconds before it moved off and was lost from view at 8:30 p.m.  It looked like two shallow saucers, lip to lip.  The body of the object was like the tail of a comet in its consistency. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2564",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Keith Basterfield, UFO Research South Australia" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/5/1997",
  "desc" : "At 12:15 p.m. a metallic ovoid object flew across the sky in West Chester, Pennsylvania. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2565",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 1997 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/5/1998",
  "desc" : "Three witnesses in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada observed a dark black triangular silouette that floated silently nearby at 10:05 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2566",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 1998 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 1998-21, citing UFOBC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/5/1999",
  "desc" : "At midnight in the Hautes Pyrenees, France many people observed a semicircular form, luminous and translucent, that some compared to smoke. After 15 minutes the witnesses noted a presence to the left of the luminous form (some spoke of a triangular form) that suddenly rocketed away fast to the south. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2567",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "GEIPAN, case # 308" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/5/2001",
  "desc" : "On this evening in Southampton, Hampshire, England a police helicopter flew around a UFO twice before the object faded out and disappeared. There was a lengthy investigation into the incident. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2568",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gary Heseltine, Police UFO Reports, case # 172" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/5/2002",
  "desc" : "A disc-shaped object hovered at a low altitude near the town of Bingham, Nottinghamshire, England at three o'clock in the morning. It had erratic flashing multi-colored lights. It spun, and rocked slowly back-and-forth. Two small white lights moved outward from it, and remained separate for almost an hour. The UFO departed toward the south. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2569",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), August 2002, p. 19, citing Filer's Files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/5/2002",
  "desc" : "Smithtown, Suffolk County, New York - At 3:15 p.m. two independent witnesses in nearby towns observed an ovoid UFO moving at a slow speed and low altitude in the clear blue sky. It flew from west to east. It seemed more \"transparent rather than solid, more like a ring.\" and it left behind a white contrail or wake like \"a boat in water.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2570",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), August 2002, p. 19, citing Filer's Files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/5/2005",
  "desc" : "At nine o'clock in the evening a triangular object appeared over a small lake in Louisville, Kentucky with beams entering the water. After 15 minutes it then ascended into sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2571",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 2005 archived webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/5/2010",
  "desc" : "A luminous rectangular UFO, with no body lights nor sound, moved at tremendous speed over Canal Winchester, Ohio. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2572",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 2010 archived webpage, report uploaded June 3, 2010" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/6/1897",
  "desc" : "Two policemen, Sumpter and McLenore, were riding northwest of Hot Springs, Arkansas when they saw a bright light in the sky. About seven km farther they saw the light again coming down to the ground. One km farther the horses refused to walk. Two men were seen carrying lights. The lawmen took their rifles, called the strangers, and were told that they crossed the country with a flying craft. The profile of the 20-meter long machine could be seen in the clearing. There was a woman with an parasol or umbrella nearby. It was raining, and the younger man was filling a large container with water. The elder man had a beard and suggested to the policemen that they fly with them \"to a place where it does not rain.\" The same witness went back to the same spot 40 minutes later but found nothing there. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2573",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 186, citing Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1966" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/6/1949",
  "desc" : "On this day, a decorated Soviet test pilot named Apraksin was flying over the Volga River in Russia, 40 kilometers north of the city of Saratov, when his aircraft's electrical system was knocked out of operation by a cone of light from a cucumber-shaped UFO after he attempted to approach it. He was blinded by the light, but managed to land the crippled aircraft despite his incapacitation in an abrupt emergency landing. He then lost consciousness and was confined to hospital to recuperate. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2574",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Felix Zigel, unpublished manuscript, pp. 124-126; Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 138, citing Felix Zigel; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 4; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 11" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/6/1949",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 a.m. EDT witnesses Stump, Herman and Quinn in Sidney, Ohio saw a bright object about half a mile to the west moving south at high speed. It left no trail and made no sound. One of the witnesses said it was too bright to tell what shape it had, but the others said it had a flat, circular shape. It was in sight for two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2575",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files; Jan Aldrich, Project 1947" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/6/1949",
  "desc" : "At 9:35 a.m. a witness named C. G. Green reported to the U.S. Air Force that two shiny disc-shaped objects circled each other and banked over a field in Livermore, California. One of the objects shot straight up with a gray trail. The sighting lasted five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2576",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 379; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1397; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/6/1949",
  "desc" : "At Killeen Base, Camp Hood, Texas a UFO observation network set up two days earlier, employing Army artillery observers, tracked their first object. They sighted and triangulated on a brilliant light 4000 yards in the distance. It moved very slowly, dropping from an altitude of 1200 feet to 440 feet. It was the apparent size of a half dollar at arm's length. Its color was pinkish to green, and was in sight for 50 minutes. The main witness was Lt. Mardell E. Ward. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2577",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jan Aldrich, FOIA, http://www.nicap.org/hood490506dir.htm" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/6/1950",
  "desc" : "Crowds of observers in Rome, Italy watched two flashing saucer-shaped object one mile over the Piazza Colonna at 4:30 p.m. They were spinning and moved slowly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2578",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Solas Boncompagni, UFO in Italia, Volume I, (Periodo 1907-1953), p. 126; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 42" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/6/1950",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. a squadron of discs flew in circles for 20 minutes above the city of Abington, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. There were many witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2579",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Riverside Daily Press, May 8, 1950; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 42" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/6/1954",
  "desc" : "At noon, three linemen working in Heppner, Oregon watched three - 36m domed discs cross the sky in a V-formation, traveling at 2200 kph. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2580",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 144; NICAP files, newspaper clipping dated July 1, 1954; APRO Bulletin, volume 3, number 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/6/1960",
  "desc" : "Shortly before 9:00 p.m. a rocket-shaped UFO crossed over the town of Vila Ezio, Sao Paulo State, Brazil moving at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2581",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Nachtrichten, August 1961, citing Olavo T. Fontes: Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 221" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/6/1965",
  "desc" : "At 9:10 a.m. local time the crew of a US Navy ship heading west at 265° at 15 knots in the Philippine Sea sighted approaching aircraft at bearing 0°. At 9:14 a.m. the radar detected four targets at ranges up to 22 miles for the next 6 minutes flying at extremely high speed (3,500 mph) and performing various maneuvers. The craft were viewed through binoculars and appeared as 3 lighted objects. Next, the UFOs hovered directly over the ship for 3 minutes as confirmed visually and on radar by the Commanding Officer, bridge crew and others on deck.  The objects departed to the SE at extremely high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2582",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 81, sighting Blue Book files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/6/1966",
  "desc" : "At 2:05 a.m. EDT. in Collier County, southwest Florida, near Carnestown in the vicinity of Naples, a shaken motorist made a statement to Naples police about his car being approached from behind by a \"large white light\" that came within about 100-150 feet of his car, changing color to blue-green. He tried to flee, but the UFO zoomed past him making a \"whooshing\" noise, and circled around to the left and disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2583",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Miami Herald, May 7, 1966; NICAP notes, police statement in Donald E. Keyhoe Archives; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers: Here and Now, p. 59" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/6/1967",
  "desc" : "A 24-year-old man named Campeadore was driving on the main highway 17 miles west of St. George, Utah at 12:43 a.m. when he heard a loud humming sound and stopped his car to investigate. He got out of his vehicle and saw a 40-foot wide, amber colored domed disc hovering only 20-30 feet over his head. He took out his pistol and fired a complete clip of bullets at the object. He reported that he heard the bullets ricochet off. He also suffered some physiological after effects as the result of his close encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2584",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP case files; NICAP UFO Investigator, June 1967, p. 6; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 338; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 120; APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/6/1967",
  "desc" : "On this morning a man in Black River Falls, Wisconsin had a 10 minute sighting of a disc flying in the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2585",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Sherman Larsen case files, report dated October 13, 1969" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/6/1967",
  "desc" : "A mechanical engineer and his daughter were driving between Durango and Mazatlan, Mexico around 11:00 a.m. when they sighted a disc-shaped object on the ground off to the side of the highway. The engineer took three photographs while the UFO took off. Two parts of the landing gear are shown in first photo, while the second showed no legs and presumably had been retracted. The third photo missed the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2586",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jim and Coral Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p. 65; Scott Corrales, Fate, May 2002, p. 19; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 839" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/6/1967",
  "desc" : "Raymond Schirrmann, his wife, and two children of Schirmeck, Bas-Rhine department, France first sighted seven or eight black, lenticular objects at 7:00 p.m. over a grove of trees at an estimated distance of two kilometers. They were aligned in a straight, diagonal line in the sky, and each was surrounded by a halo of smoke. At 9:00 p.m. a large lens-shaped object, 15-20 meters in diameter, was seen close to the ground near their chalet only 25 meters away. A coherent beam of light snaked away from the object, ending in midair. It detached, then retracted into the object. Following this some landing legs appeared. The event lasted three hours, and the UFOs were tracked by radar at a nearby military base. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2587",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michel Figuet Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 271; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 91, citing UNICAT; UNICAT database, case 403, citing Figuet & Ruchon; Phenomenes Spatiaux, December 1967" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/6/1973",
  "desc" : "At 10:32 p.m. six witnesses in Gladston, Queensland, Australia, including a woman named Korn, sighted a UFO traveling slowly at 30,000 feet that changed course to the south. It was flashing at irregular intervals. Suddenly it dropped a small light, which shot north. The main light made an abrupt turn, then zig-zagged to the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2588",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gladstone Observer, May 9, 1973" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/6/1975",
  "desc" : "A ground ring was discovered this day in a pasture in Doughboy, New South Wales, Australia. It was an almost perfect circle of dead grass, with an inside diameter of 3.3m and an outside diameter of 4.6m. The circle deteriorated, leaving behind bare earth. A cowpad in the circle was completely flattened. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2589",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bill Chalker, Australasian Ufologist, April 1993, p. 23, citing Daily Examiner, May 14, 1975" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/6/1975",
  "desc" : "Two large silver disc-shaped objects bracketed a USAF jet aircraft testing equipment for an hour flying from Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio. The witness experienced a lapse of time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2590",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Leonard H. Stringfield, Situation Red: The UFO Siege, p. 174" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/6/1975",
  "desc" : "On this evening in Cameron, West Virginia a man, his daughter, and his daughter's friend where at the local high school basketball court. A green-blue blob (BOL) approached, passing 25 feet above the school. They got in his car to leave, but when the UFO hovered near the car the car's ignition system cut out. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2591",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Cameron (WV) News, May 13, 1975" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/6/1975",
  "desc" : "Several separate observers driving between Sedona and Oak Creek, Arizona observed a dome shaped, glowing cloud maneuvering between 7:10 p.m. and 9:10 p.m. There were also nocturnal lights and searchlights reported. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2592",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond Jordan, APRO Bulletin, May-June 1976, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/6/1977",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 a.m. a man in Challans, Vendee department, France had a close encounter by a railway bridge with a two-meter sphere surrounded by a blue halo. It followed the witness as he walked home. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2593",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/6/1977",
  "desc" : "In Encinitas, California a large domed disc-shaped object descended into canyon. A school teacher and fifteen students witnessed the descent, and said that they could see figures inside the craft. It was seen again one hour later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2594",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 12693" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/6/1978",
  "desc" : "At 5:40 a.m. a group of several witnesses, including police, observed 25-30 luminous UFOs make a turn over the city of Catamarca, Argentina. They shot off to the west at great speed. It was seen by several members of the guard from the province's police headquarters. On the same day a strange flying object fell to earth in a mountainous zone near Baritu in northern part of Salta province. A widespread aerial and ground search was conducted, in an area \"practically inaccessible\" due to the terrain. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2595",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, June 1978, p. 14, citing Cronica, May 12, 1978; FSR, November 1978, p. 23" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/6/1979",
  "desc" : "While driving on the southwestern part of Bribie Island, Queensland, Australia at 12:30 a.m. four witnesses had a close encounter with orange lights when their car's electrical system failed. The car looked a different color in the light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2596",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 13695, citing Australian Centre for UFO Studies" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/6/1984",
  "desc" : "A 13-year-old boy working at a kennel in Williston, Florida heard a humming noise, and noticed that the dogs were attempting to hide in their pens and whining. As he went out to investigate the area turned red with illumination, and a bright red disc-shaped object hovered only 20 feet over his head. He felt heat coming from the object. When he returned to the dog pens, the dogs barked at him and would not let him inside. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2597",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Gribble, International UFO Reporter, May 1984, p. 16; MUFON UFO Journal, May 1984, p. 11" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/6/1989",
  "desc" : "Five girls observed two multicolored lights in Ferndale, Washington at 10:00 p.m. One approached at tree top level, just 15 feet from the ground. It was oblong and wide, and may have landed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2598",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case 261, citing Bob Gribble" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/6/1992",
  "desc" : "A cone-shaped UFO that had orange and pale blue lights was seen hovering in Cooma, New South Wales, Australia. It was not a helicopter according to the witness. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2599",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, Alien Update, p. 266" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/6/1993",
  "desc" : "A video of a silver domed disc-shaped object, with 6 seconds of footage, was filmed by a 42-year-old woman near Highway 150 in Cherryville, North Carolina at 6:30 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2600",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO News Clipping Service, November 1993" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/6/1995",
  "desc" : "At 3:30 a.m. a couple traveling in a car in Dammartin en Geole, Seine-Marne, France saw the passage of a hexagon shaped UFO with white, red and blue lights at the angles. It made no noise, and traveled at a slow speed and low altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2601",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "GEIPAN, case # 202" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/6/1996",
  "desc" : "Near Mata do Buraquinho, Minas Gerais State, Brazil at 9:00 p.m. Marcelo Barbosa and his wife Vaudeline were fixing windows in their house when they saw some bright multicolored lights--white, yellow, and blue--coming from some woods about 50 meters away. Sr. Barbosa decided to go out to investigate, and he saw a large white cloud descend slowly into the woods. From within the cloud a luminous, disc-shaped object emerged. It was about 8 meters in diameter, and had a revolving light on top that resembled that on a police car. It also had two or three bright lit windows. Inside one of these he was able to see several figures moving around. The object descended and landed briefly, becoming dark, and then bright again. Before it landed both witnesses saw an L-shaped ramp that had come out from the bottom of the object. At the object became bright again, it quickly took off a high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2602",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1996 Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, case # 3813, citing Paraiba UFO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/6/1999",
  "desc" : "At 4:45 a.m. a man in Elizabeth, South Australia sighted a bright light the size of a large strawberry at arm's length, moving from side to side and up-and-down.  It then disappeared.  It was seen in the northwestern sky at 30 degrees elevation. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2603",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Frola, Australasian Ufologist, January 2001, p. 46" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/6/2000",
  "desc" : "A triangle shaped object was seen hovering 100 feet above the ground in Kamloops, British Columbia at 9:18 p.m. It suddenly lit up in a white light, and then disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2604",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, Canadian UFO Survey 2000, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/6/2001",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. several shiny orange dots were seen above the mountains in the sunset in Sussex, New Jersey; some were spots, but some were disk shaped. All sank below the horizon or just vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2605",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 1; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2001 webpage, report uploaded August 5, 2001" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/6/2001",
  "desc" : "At 11:15 p.m. a security guard and a friend in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina sighted a dark, unlit triangle craft escorted by four helicopters. Seen by security officer and friend for 5 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2606",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 73" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/6/2002",
  "desc" : "A saucer that glowed like the moon and was the apparent size of the moon cruised over the town of Kirkwood, St. Louis County, Missouri at about 25 miles per hour from East to West. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2607",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2002 webpage, report uploaded May 14, 2002" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/6/2005",
  "desc" : "A black daylight disc was photographed, high in the sky, in Donacona, Quebec, Canada at 3:06 p.m. According to the local OVNI UFO group, the photo appears to be genuine. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2608",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2005 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 32" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/6/2007",
  "desc" : "At 12:35 p.m. a slightly conical black UFO hovered over Kalamazoo, Michigan for roughly 2 minutes. The witness ran to get his parents, who watched the object leave. That afternoon, at 4:45 p.m., another group of witnesses in Flint, Michigan reported seeing a \"disguised\" UFO that made several stops in mid air. After a few minutes it accelerated at an extreme speed into the southern sky and shot almost straight up as it went out of sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2609",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2007 webpage, reports uploaded June 12, 2007" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/7/1843",
  "desc" : "An object with the \"resemblance of a ship\" sailed through the air over Quebec City, Quebec, Canada and cast a shadow on the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2610",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John R. Colombo, UFOs over Canada: Personal accounts of sightings and close encounters, p. 209" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/7/1945",
  "desc" : "Several observers on a morning flight on a B-17 between Port Lyauttey, Mauritania and Dakar, Senegal sighted a shiny metallic saucer seen several times; it hovered. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2611",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Harley D. Rutledge, Project Identification, p. 250" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/7/1948",
  "desc" : "At 3:45 p.m. several witnesses including Kaiser and Bray in Memphis, Tennessee saw 50 or more lights make sharp turns in the sky for three hours. They flew from east to west. Not meteors, according to astronomer. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2612",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Memphis Commercial Advertiser, May 8, 1948; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1309, citing MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 241, citing FBI" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/7/1950",
  "desc" : "A couple and their grandson were returning from a picnic at 6:45 p.m. when they saw a silvery white object at treetop level. They were about nine miles south of Ely, Nevada at the time. It hovered for ten minutes, then oscillated \"as if attempting to rise\" and suddenly flew out of sight at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2613",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 721; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 79" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/7/1952",
  "desc" : "Five very clear photographs were taken on this day at 4:30 p.m. in Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. They show a disc-shaped object with a double protuberance on top. Its estimated size was 300 feet in diameter. An apparent discrepancy with some shadows was explained by the Brazilian UFO investigator, Dr. Olavo T. Fontes, as having been due to some broken leaves. The witnesses were named Keffel and Martins. The Brazilian Air Force conclusion on the photos is that the \"object is several kilometers from the camera.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2614",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Irene Granchi, APRO Bulletin, July 1973, p. 1; UNICAT, case # 402, citing Stendek; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, photo plate 2; William K. Hartmann, in Edward Condon (ed.), Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 415" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/7/1963",
  "desc" : "On this evening in Kirkby, Merseyside, England Margaret McCutcheon and her 13-year-old son reported to the police that, after the lights blacked out in their home while watching television, they saw an object about six meters in diameter near the house. It had two aerials and a red flashing light, and it was emitting a low buzzing sound. After a minute, it flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2615",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1963; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 569" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/7/1965",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. a light seen by a witness named Marshall over Oxford, Michigan split into two parts, one of which was copper colored. Then two more lights joined up with the first two. One of the objects may have been tumbling. A Project Blue Book \"unknown.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2616",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 9389; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 52" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/7/1966",
  "desc" : "A short, cylindrical object with pointed ends was sighted over Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas at 9:55 p.m. by Airman 3rd class W. L. Whitehead. It had a yellow light at one end, a blue light at the other, and flew straight and level for 35 seconds. A Project Blue Book \"unknown.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2617",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 10535; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 53" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/7/1967",
  "desc" : "At around one o'clock in the morning in Necochea, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina a close encounter involving four UFOs happened that lasted three hours. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2618",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 187; UNICAT, case # 554" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/7/1967",
  "desc" : "A domed disc-shaped object hovered at 200 feet altitude over a cemetery in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada at around 2:00 a.m. It was seen by five teenagers, including a 14-year-old named Ricky Banyard and another named Glenn Coates. A muffled whistling sound was heard coming from the object, and the object directed a vertical light beam to the ground. They looked at it through binoculars. A series of bangs and a \"screaming\" noise like a jet were heard when the object took off. Charring of stones and other physical traces were found at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2619",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Edmonton Journal, May 8, 1967; APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 7; NICAP UFO Investigator, June 1967, p. 3; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 840; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty-Year Report, p. 338" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/7/1967",
  "desc" : "Later that evening a nocturnal light followed a car with the Luck family of three through the rural countryside of Arnett, Oklahoma back home. It then shot off to the west at high speed. It looked solid in appearance, according to the witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2620",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 6; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 47" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/7/1968",
  "desc" : "On this evening town marshal Felix Gallegos and others saw three balls of light take off from a neighbors field near Sanford, Colorado. No evidence was found on the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2621",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, July-August 1968, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/7/1970",
  "desc" : "Over 400 people including school students in Maraenui, New Zealand watched a metallic looking, oval-shaped object hover in the sky near the sun for ten minutes starting at 2:03 p.m. The center of the object had a \"transparent-like sheen\" and it was the apparent size of a basketball held at arm's length. It moved away to the northeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2622",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, May-June 1970, p. 1; Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, August 1971, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/7/1974",
  "desc" : "At 6:15 a.m. a yellowish-orange ball of light, one meter in diameter, landed on two legs between two highway tunnels on Highway N518 near Petits Goulets, Drome department, France and was seen by a single male witness named Tardy, who was driving nearby when the incident occurred. The landing spot was on a geologic faultline. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2623",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michel Figuet and Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 485" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/7/1974",
  "desc" : "Mrs. Margaret K. Roffe, a nurse's aide at the local Veterans Administration Hospital in Coatesville, Pennsylvania was walking from one hospital building to another at around 9 p.m. when she heard a swishing sound and saw a disc-shaped object descend and land on the roof of Building #1. Four silver-colored legs emerged from the object just before the object landed, and a ramp came down out of the bottom of the craft. Three gray-skinned humanoid occupants emerged from the craft by climbing down the ramp backwards. They were all less than five feet tall and had long, large bald heads and arms with clawed hands; their legs were short. They spoke an unintelligible language among themselves in high, squeaky voices. She was able to see their features well because the area was well lit by an illuminated dome on the roof of the building. When the beings noticed her they re-entered the object. The object then took off slowly, making a swishing sound, and passed over some nearby trees, which were shaken violently when the craft flew over. The legs withdrew into the object as it took off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2624",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted Bloecher, 1975 MUFON Symposium Proceedings, p. 56; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, December 1974, p. 38; George D. Fawcett, FSR, January 1975, p. 31; George D. Fawcett, Saga UFO Report, April 1975, p. 50; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-19 (A1323), citing George Fawcett" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/7/1975",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. four witnesses--two couples--in a car followed a dark ovoid flying object in the mountains west of Tucson, Arizona; the UFO follows the car back, making a humming sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2625",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, May-June 1975, p. 1; Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs Over the Americas, p. 114" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/7/1977",
  "desc" : "A powerful spotlight from a silent, delta-shaped object lit the forest in Undersaker, Jamtland, Sweden on this night. A very large second object, also triangle shaped and with three large windows rose in the beam of light. Both objects hovered over the trees, then changed shape from triangular to rectangular. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2626",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, November 1977, p. 8; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 191; UNICAT, case 195, citing Allan Hendry" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/7/1980",
  "desc" : "At 5:20 p.m. an object described as an \"upside down soup bowl\" with a dome on top came out of cloud cover directly ahead of the witness's car driving on I-40 near Valdese, North Carolina. It was estimated to be 40 feet in diameter and had a red rectangular area on the bottom. It made a U-turn, then banked away. The car's radio experienced interference during the close encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2627",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, September 1980; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 25, 452, citing Tarheel UFO Newsletter, June 1980" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/7/1980",
  "desc" : "At 9:05 p.m. a woman with the last name of Riley was driving her car in Redding, California accompanied by her two teenage daughters (15 and 14 years old) and by another 13-year-old girl, when they were frightened by the sudden appearance of a patch of smoke or fog that suddenly enveloped their van. All normal noises ceased, while the women seemed to \"float\" inside a \"cloud\". Very worried, as soon as they were able to leave the \"cloud\" they drove to a friend's house, where they discovered that they could not account for 30 minutes of time. During the hours that followed they suffered from various physiological reactions and the following day, marks resembling strange punctures appeared on the skin of two of the girls. Soon afterwards they experienced strange dreams in which \"men\" were pointing strange weapons or objects at their heads. The witnesses reported the strange event to the police who advised them to contact a private UFO organization. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2628",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Confrontations, p. 79; APRO Bulletin, June 1980, p. 1; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 22, citing APRO Bulletin, June 1980, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/7/1986",
  "desc" : "Thirty objects engaged in zigzag maneuvers over Greensburg, Pennsylvania for eight minutes starting at around 8:30 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2629",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14345; MUFON UFO Journal, December 1986" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/7/1988",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. a blue sphere was seen at 600 meters altitude over the city of Sakharnaya, in Vladivostok, Russian Far East; it was completely silent. Sections of it pulsed light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2630",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14695; Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 123" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/7/1989",
  "desc" : "A South African Mirage FIIG AF allegedly jet shot down a UFO that flew in from the ocean over the Kalahari Desert, 80 miles north of the South African border in Botswana. It had been tracked by radar by the Frigate SA Trafalberg, and the Naval headquarters in Cape Town. They retrieved a silver disc-shaped craft, and two Grey aliens were captured alive. They had three fingers/toes on each limb, and no sex organs. The object was reported to have been lens-shaped, 18 meters in diameter with three landing gear. There were three aliens onboard; two alive but one died soon afterwards. The alive alien was eventually moved to the S-4 facility. NORAD apparently tracked the object as it fell to earth. An experimental SDI weapon was reportedly used to expedite the downing of the craft, which apparently had already experienced some technical problems. South African and American military personnel crossed the Botswana border without permission in order to retrieve the craft. The bodies and materials were transported to the US in a C-5A cargo plane from South Africa. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2631",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Tony Dodd, Alien Investigator: The Case Files of Britain's Leading UFO Detective, p. 33; Albert S. Rosales, 1989 Humanoid Sighting Reports, case # 2846, citing Tony Dodd, Bill Knell, and Anton Anfalov" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/7/1990",
  "desc" : "At 12:50 a.m. several hundred observers in Perm, Russia watched an unidentified flying object direct a bright fan of light down on the slopes of Mount Kamenoi. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2632",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15168; Richard F. Haines, JUSA-CISAAF Translations, p. 402" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/7/1990",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 delta-shaped objects were seen during a meteor shower in North Delta, British Columbia, Canada. An abduction occurred later that night. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2633",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15169, citing UFO Newsclipping Service, August 1994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/7/1992",
  "desc" : "At 1:00 a.m. a huge, 500 meter or larger disc-shaped object with bright lights crossed the sky over the beach in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2634",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Cynthia Hind, UFO Afri News, July 1992" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/7/1994",
  "desc" : "At 7:40 p.m. a domed, disc-shaped object bobbed and wove through the sky over Corby, Northamptonshire, England. A witness filmed a four-minute videotape of the encounter before the object shot away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2635",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, September 1994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/7/1995",
  "desc" : "At 1:00 a.m. a couple driving on the A52 highway near Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England had a close encounter with a large dome-shaped craft that was only 30 feet off the ground. It vanished, and then reappeared near their car. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2636",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17222; UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1995" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/7/1995",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 a.m. a lady driving near Beaverton, Oregon reported seeing a \"pink sky\", and then a triangular-shaped UFO hovering over a field behind her house. The craft was gray, with lights in the corners and a tile-like surface on the exterior. Two of the lights were orange and the third was an orange-red color. A beam of light that followed the contour of the craft connected all three lights. Later on, many more trangular craft were seen over the same field. Large white, box-shaped objects and \"people\" were observed on the ground and appeared to be working in the field. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2637",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1995 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing The Western Bigfoot Society Newsletter" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/7/1995",
  "desc" : "That same night near Glasgow, Scotland Igor Terzic was driving his vehicle when a UFO began hovering over it. He next recalls finding himself parked in the middle of the road, where a truck almost hit him. Later under hypnosis he recalled being abducted and taken inside the object. There he saw two kinds of humanoids of both genders. One type of tall with (upside down) pear-shaped heads, huge eyes, and no discernable mouths. The others were similar but shorter and smaller. He heard a voice in his head tell him he was going to be alright. He thinks he was experimented upon, but the only thing he recalled was drilling a hole in his head at one point. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2638",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1995 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 2843, citing Scottish UFO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/7/1995",
  "desc" : "At 12:20 p.m. a red disc-shaped object flew over the road ahead of a car with two witnesses in Massillon, Ohio. EM effects: the engine quit, and the radio was affected. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2639",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 1995 webpage; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17225, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/7/1996",
  "desc" : "While on her lunch break at 1:30 p.m. at West Point Lake, near the McGhee Bridge in La Grange, Georgia, a 35-year-old woman witnessed a gray colored, domed disc-shaped object just above the lake. After some five to ten minutes, the object shot straight up \"at least as fast as lightning.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2640",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John C. Thompson, MUFON UFO Field Investigations Database, case 970107E" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/7/1998",
  "desc" : "On this night a 10-year-old girl and her 8-year-old brother spotted a large UFO hovering above their house in Mullica Hill, New Jersey. The children claimed the craft was lighted and bigger than their house. They also saw an alien figure floating next to the object, the entity apparently stared at the children who became scared and ran into the house yelling for their dad. They ran back out to see the object float away. They did not see the entity again. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2641",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case #3148, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Vol. 3 # 20" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/7/2001",
  "desc" : "A man in Peterborough, Ontario reported seeing a huge black triangular shaped craft fly overhead at 10:10 p.m. He reportedly heard a \"message\" in his head. He also reported that he experienced some \"missing time.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2642",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/7/2003",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. three green colored, cigar-shaped UFOs were sighted by four young women over Northridge, California. They were moving slowly at first over, but they then separated and one flew off to the east. It was joined seconds later by the other two, and together they increased speed and went into the clouds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2643",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle; Preston Dennett, UFOs over California: A True History of Extraterrestrial Encounters in the Golden State, p. 213, citing the MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 423" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/7/2004",
  "desc" : "In North Lauderdale, Florida at approximately 10:25 p.m. an oval-shaped object was in sight for 10 minutes. It had a row of blinking lights, and the lights were alternating blue and red, while the object made a humming sound.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2644",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, www.nuforc.org, May 2004 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/7/2006",
  "desc" : "A huge boomerang-shaped UFO with a single front bright light and many tiny bright lights in sequence on the edges was seen flying over Twenty-Nine Palms USMC military base in California at 9:00 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2645",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2006 webpage, report uploaded July 16, 2006" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/7/2007",
  "desc" : "At 6:30 p.m. four balls of yellow light were seen dancing over a mountain in Riverdale, Yukon, Canada. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2646",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 258" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/7/2009",
  "desc" : "A low flying disc with multicolored flashing lights was seen over Avon, Colorado at 8:00 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2647",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2009 webpage, citing MUFON Colorado" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/8/1880",
  "desc" : "A farmer named Ju Tan in Song-Zi Xian Couny, China came upon a misty white light in some bushes around 8:00 p.m. He then felt a tingling paralysis, and heard a humming or rushing noise. He was levitated upwards and lost consciousness. His next recollection was finding himself, in a dazed state, in Guizhou province, which was 300 miles away from his home. The time was two weeks later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2648",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jenny Randles, Time Storms: Amazing Evidence for Time Warps, Space Rifts, and Time Travel, p. 25" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/8/1952",
  "desc" : "Pan American Airlines flight 203 was flying 600 miles east of Jacksonville, Florida over the Atlantic Ocean at 2:27 a.m. when the pilot and co-pilot encountered three round, white lights in a line that buzzed their aircraft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2649",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 177; UNICAT database, case #345, citing Ruppelt; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume 1), p. 132; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 77" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/8/1956",
  "desc" : "At 9:48 a.m. (EST), a flight of seven objects, silver in color, appearing the size of a baseball held at arm's were observed moving south over Aliquippa, Pennsylvania at an altitude of 5,000 to 15,000 feet at an estimated speed of 36 mph. An F-86D fighter was scrambled, but there were negative sightings. The sighting was visual and electronic by TPS 1D radar. Length of observation was 10 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2650",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "McDonald list, Brad Sparks, Dan Wilson, http://www.nicap.org/waves/1956fullrep.htm" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/8/1956",
  "desc" : "On this evening a large \"mothership\" hovered for three hours over Vista, California in San Diego County. Several small objects with square windows were seen orbiting it. They all flew off to the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2651",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: May-July, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/8/1964",
  "desc" : "On this night a 23-year-old truck driver named Kalbermatter, while driving in Colonia Castelli in Chaco province, Argentina saw a creature more than nine feet tall on road in front of his truck. before him. The creature had long black hair, and gave a powerful and terrifying cry. He nearly ran the creature down. A few days previous to this humanoid encounter a large luminous object had been spotted at the same spot. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2652",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dr. P. M. H. Edwards, FSR, March 1970, p. 23; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0589, citing Beyond Condon: FSR Special Edition No. 2, p. 25" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/8/1966",
  "desc" : "A 16-year-old named Bruce Pollock took three photographs of three hexagonal flying objects at 5:30 a.m. in New Plymouth, New Zealand. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2653",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Charles Bowen, Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1966, p. 32; J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, Volume 7 (1976), page 60" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/8/1966",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon a 75-foot long diamond-shaped object was photographed north of Ipamari, Goias State, Brazil as it flew to the south over the rainforest on the other side of the river. It made a 90 degree turn making a low-pitched whining sound, and sped off inland to the west. The color photograph appeared in LIFE magazine. The photographer's name was Pfeiffer. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2654",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, July 1977, p. 4; James Moseley, Saucer News, March 1967, p. 35; Inforespace, June 1976" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/8/1966",
  "desc" : "John Beers and a female friend were driving south on County Road G in Beaver Dam, Dodge County, Wisconsin when they noticed some blinking white and green lights pacing their car. The lights were first seen above the roadside telephone poles, and they followed his car to Highway 151, and then to Columbus, Wisconsin. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2655",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jay Rath, The W-Files: True Reports of Wisconsin's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 62" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/8/1967",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. Ms. L. Geisler in Chester Heights, Pennsylvania saw a round object with four red lights in a curving row, and a very bright white center light that flashed on and off. The object hovered, moved up and down, and from side to side. It darted away, reappeared, and hovered again before moving away for good. The sighting lasted 15 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2656",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP files, citing Ritter report July 28, 1967; Gilbert Bernier, UFO-INFO, July 1, 1967" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/8/1969",
  "desc" : "A married coupled reported seeing a silver dome shaped object over Brentwood, South Australia at around 10:00 a.m. It had a dark protrusion on the leading edge, and flew overhead west to east in the morning sky before vanishing in mid-air. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2657",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 183" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/8/1971",
  "desc" : "The witness, a resident of Houston, Texas who lives not far from the NASA Space Flight Center, and a lady member of the UFO investigators group APRO, went to her window at 3:30 a.m. and saw three short figures about five feet tall walking by in single file. All wore tight fitting, light blue sports shirts and dark trousers, and had \"pale complexions and mousy hair.\" They appeared to be \"intently engrossed.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2658",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, May-June 1971, p. 4; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-16, citing APRO Bulletin" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/8/1972",
  "desc" : "At 12:15 a.m. a reddish-orange dome-shaped object with portholes flew to the east over Eucla, Western Australia and then vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2659",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Research South Australia, case # SA72023; Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 109" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/8/1977",
  "desc" : "Two men, were parked in a marshy, densely wooded area of the Hainault Forest, a park in London, England near Cabin Hill. They had been walking their dog in a light rain at around 7 p.m. when they heard a rustling sound in the bushes. They then observed a huge figure, about eight feet tall and four feet wide, that crossed their path about 25 feet away and disappeared into the woods. It was dark blue in color and brighter than its surroundings. It had no distinct arms or legs that could be discerned. A UFO landing had been reported in the area a few days earlier---the reason for the investigator being at the site at the time when he encountered the startled witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2660",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-25, citing Barry King, FSR, Vol. 23, # 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/8/1977",
  "desc" : "Shortly after 2:00 p.m. two couples driving in separate cars, westbound on Interstate 80 near Joliet, Illinois saw a silver object, described as a sphere with Saturn rings or looking like a \"straw hat\" as big as the moon, swooped silently over their cars, moving rapidly. It headed off to the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2661",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, June 1977, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/8/1992",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. a domed disc-shaped object, described as a bright, stationary inverted plate with a hump on top, was observed above the tree line by a woman driving on Bruce Highway along the Sunshine Coast to Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It then moved upward and disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2662",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, Alien Update, pp. 266-269, citing UFO Research Queensland" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/8/1994",
  "desc" : "A low whistle was heard at around 11:00 a.m., then a dark one meter-wide object was seen wavering under some power lines in Saaderup, Denmark close to ground. It flew off to the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2663",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 16377, citing SUFOI News, issue #14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/8/2000",
  "desc" : "At 9:05 p.m. a triangular object hovered over the mountains outside of Juniper and Kamloops, British Columbia. It split into four smaller triangles, and changed color. Some powerful strobe lights hit the mountain, then the pieces reformed to make one object, which shot up vertically. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2664",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), September 2000, p. 28; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/8/2003",
  "desc" : "A female hospital worker, driving home from work at 12:45 a.m., saw a low hovering metallic looking UFO that was as big as a house along Highway 13 south of Highway 2 in Clinton, Missouri. Its bottom perimeter looked octagonal, and it had four small yellow lights with a large red light in the middle. It directed a beam of light down to ground, the UFO swayed, and then blinked out. It made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2665",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 2003 archived webpage, citing MUFON Missouri" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/8/2003",
  "desc" : "Walking home from the train station in Brooklyn, New York at 6:43 p.m., the witness looked up to the southeast and saw a silver disc/saucer at about 10,000 feet altitude. It had a leading edge pointed slightly upwards and it was moving east. He states, \"The saucer/disk seemed to be wobbling and it had what seemed to be notches that were evenly spaced around its middle as it wobbled and rotated. I had my 35 mm camera with me the the sighting was so quick that it was gone before I could get my camera out.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2666",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/8/2004",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 a.m. in the surroundings of ExpoCuba, a fairground located in the Havana, Cuba municipality of Boyeros, several people witnessed the presence of a small silver oval-shaped UFO. Residents saw the small oval-shaped vessel, silver-colored with a metallic tail, as it descended and landed in an open field encircled by trees on the El Pedregal farm. It made no noise nor smoke. It was about the size of a pickup truck tire. Raul Beltran, 17, states, \"I was tidying the shelves when a bright light came through the window that was like a glowing ball with a tail in its lower section. I showed it to my mother and quickly ran outside to see where it would fall and watched at the site until the UFO took off once more.\" It lifted off perpendicularly, and then left through the palm trees. According to the witnesses, the grass and small plants at the site where the UFO landed were somewhat burned. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2667",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 39-40, citing Prensa Latina, May 19, 2004" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/8/2004",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. a black delta-shaped wing and sphere were seen moving in the sky over Cranbrook, British Columbia. There were four witnesses and the sighting was quite brief. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2668",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 268, citing UFOBC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/8/2005",
  "desc" : "At around 11:00 a.m. a small sphere, moving very fast to the west, flew directly under a private aircraft flying at 3,500 feet near Phoenix, Arizona. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2669",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 2005 archived webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/8/2007",
  "desc" : "A huge \"beige\" triangular object maneuvered around the sky with a multicoloured flashing light over Oshawa, Ontario at 10:00 p.m. There were two witnesses and the sighting lasted 10 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2670",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 260, citing HBCCUFO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/8/2011",
  "desc" : "An object like a \"black vampire cape\" with a \"glowing lantern\" flew over Ste. Anne, Manitoba at 9:00 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2671",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Chris Rutkowski, 2011 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 310, citing www.ufoinfo.com" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/9/1909",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. a Mr. Cole sighted a large ovoid object over the city park in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England. It flashed its searchlight nine times, and then flew off quickly toward Peterborough. At 11:20 p.m. a witness named Boville in Shoeburyness, Essex, England said a torpedo-shaped airship flew silently to the west toward Southend-on-Sea. It hovered for four minutes, and emitted two strong beams. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2672",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Carl Grove, FSR, November-December 1970, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/9/1949",
  "desc" : "Sgt. Putnam sighted two flat 25-foot diameter silver discs in the sky over Tucson, Arizona at 2:30 p.m. They flew at a speed in excess of 750 mph in a smooth and steady banked trajectory. A Project Blue Book \"unknown.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2673",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 384" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/9/1952",
  "desc" : "At 12:10 a.m. a ghostly domed saucer circled the powerplant in Mishawaka, Indiana. It flew off quickly toward St. Joseph Airport. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2674",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 2154, citing Project Blue Book; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: August, p. 16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/9/1952",
  "desc" : "Two F-86 pilots saw a round, silver object flying north from George AFB, California at 10:20 a.m. A Project Blue Book \"unknown.\" At 12:30 two more UFOs were seen moving with the current or breeze at a slow speed. They were silver metallic in color, with a dark spot in the center, and at certain angles gave off a glare. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2675",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1194A & 1194B; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns; Michael Hall, Captain Edward J. Ruppelt: Summer of the Saucers -- 1952, p. 100" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/9/1954",
  "desc" : "At 1:10 a.m. five observers with binoculars north-northwest of Linden, Michigan spotted a glowing ovoid flying to the northwest. It was glowing with distinct colored bands, none on the rim. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2676",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing APRO Bulletin, July 1954" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/9/1955",
  "desc" : "At 12:05 p.m. four witnesses in Arroyo Seco Canyon, California watched many 2-foot white silver saucers circle and flip over near Mount Wilson. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2677",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1955: January-June, p. 60" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/9/1956",
  "desc" : "A small disc flew in and out of a larger disc at a low altitude in Jacksonville, Florida shortly after 11:00 p.m. They made no noise. Two girls, Joan Frost and Gertie Wynn, while waiting for a bus, saw two pulsating lights flying horizontally and disappearing. Fifteen minutes later the lights were seen again, stopping at the zenith, merging, and diving to an altitude of only 50 meters. It seemed that the disc-shaped objects had separated and the girls were in fear of being abducted when the bus arrived, and they ran to the vehicle in terror. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2678",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Leonard Stringfield, CRIFO Newsletter, July 1956, p. 3; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 382, citing APRO Bulletin, March 1959; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 86" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/9/1958",
  "desc" : "At 1:05 p.m. an airline pilot for Philippines Airline saw a bright, shiny metallic object fall and spin through the sky for 90 seconds while flying over Bohol Island, The Philippines. A Project Blue Book \"unidentified\" case. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2679",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 5800; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 30" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/9/1961",
  "desc" : "At 7:45 a.m. several observers watched a shiny saucer-shaped object hover over Bains Kloof Mountain Pass near Wellington, Western Cape, South Africa. It hovered for a minute of two, then wobbled, and then shot off toward the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2680",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing FSR, volume 7, number 4; newspaper clipping dated May 9, 1961" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/9/1962",
  "desc" : "At 3:30 a.m. several motorists on Highway 35 near Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina had a close encounter with three low level UFOs that pursued them for at least eight minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2681",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Uriondo Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, December 1972, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/9/1964",
  "desc" : "At eleven o'clock in the morning three children, John Owens, Cheryl Glunt, and Bernie Montello, saw a silvery dome-shaped object arrive from the south and land in a field next to a reservoir, 150 meters away in the farming town of Mogadore, Ohio. The object's estimated diameter was 3 meters. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2682",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 603; Ray Palmer, Flying Saucers, June 1965, p. 17" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/9/1964",
  "desc" : "At 10:20 p.m. Mr. J. R. Betz, a U.S. District Court reporter, sighted three light green crescent-shaped objects, half the apparent size of the moon, as they flew quickly in tight formation over Chicago, Illiniois from east to west. They were oscillating in size and color. A Project Blue Book \"unknown.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2683",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 8788; Don Berliner, Australasian UFOlogist, April 1999, p. 51; Jay Rath, The I-Files: True Reports of Unexplained Phenomena in Illinois, p. 89" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/9/1967",
  "desc" : "In a field that belonged to Mr. Maillotte, the mayor of Marliens, France, a depression was discovered and blue powder was found in small trenches radiating from the area. A formidable weight seemed to have rested at the spot. No radioactivity was found at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2684",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 841, citing France Soir, May 12, 1967; M. Roger Perrinjaquet, Flying Saucer Review, September-October 1967, p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/9/1967",
  "desc" : "On this evening two witnesses in Champaign, Illinois saw a white-lit object that changed color to red as it flew rapidly from north to south. The object circled the airport, turned on a bright light, made turns, and hovered. It then moved south, passing over the witnesses, who followed it at speeds over 90 mph. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2685",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP files, letter from witness" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/9/1967",
  "desc" : "In Beloit, Wisconsin at 9:05 p.m., which is about 200 miles north-northeast of Champaign, a woman named Vance heard a hissing sound, then saw an object with flashing blue, red, green, and yellow lights. The object \"swayed, jumped\" and shot out of sight ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2686",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP files, citing The Daily News, May 10, 1967" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/9/1968",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. there was a radar-visual confirmation case from Ste. Assise, Seine-Marne, France. A nocturnal light curved all over the sky near a military radio center. Radar trace records were kept. The object left to the southwest after 45 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2687",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, December 1968" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/9/1971",
  "desc" : "A black cone-shaped object was photographed over the Vermillion River Observatory in Illinois at 11:15 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2688",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Sherman Larsen case investigation files, report dated January 17, 1972; Skylook, March 1972, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/9/1972",
  "desc" : "Police and a separate witness in the Mojave Desert near Arvin, California sighted a bright yellow disc that flew to the east shortly before dawn. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2689",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, December 1972, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/9/1974",
  "desc" : "The main witness and six others were returning home late at night on Highway 57 near Mount Vernon, Indiana when they all spotted a large object hovering close to the ground. The object approached and hovered over their vehicle giving off heat. All the passengers inside except for the principal witness became sick and passed out. He then felt as if he was being drawn upwards and also passed out. He next became aware of a bright white light around him and several figures looking down at him. The beings called him by his name, and then he passed out again. The aliens were described as five feet tall, with light skin, huge almond shaped eyes, and a small lower jaw. They were also apparently very strong. The man believes that his aging process had slowed down subsequent to the abduction. On the same night in nearby Evansville, Indiana a Mr. Oscar Jordan had a close encounter of the first kind with a UFO. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2690",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1974, case # 1844, citing Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters; (2) Oscar A. Jordan, Saga UFO Report, October 1974, p. 78" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/9/1976",
  "desc" : "A 22-year-old couple saw a rectangular object in the northwestern part of the sky over the town of Braine-le-Comte, Belgium at 10:30 p.m. In the middle portion of the object protruded something like a funnel. It flew off to the north, describing a large circle in the sky as it did so. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2691",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Rudy de Groote, UFO Register (Volume 8), 1977, p. 32, citing the Gazzette Antwerpen" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/9/1979",
  "desc" : "A power failure occurred in the predawn hours in Choconta, north of Bogota, Colombia. Ten to fifteen discs were sighted by numerous observers for 15 minutes. Eight of them buzzed the telecom satellite station. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2692",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, August 1979, p. 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/9/1980",
  "desc" : "At 7:00 a.m. a Peruvian Air Force Sukhoi-22 warplane was scrambled to intercept a UFO flying near the Mariano Melgar AFB, near La Joya, Arequipa Province, Peru. It fired on the round object, but the UFO zipped off unharmed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2693",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, p. 324; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 43" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/9/1980",
  "desc" : "Red balls of light the size of lemons climbed up, across, and down telephone lines in Bargersville, Indiana then went up another pole on a clear evening at 9 p.m. A dog whined and barked as more red balls of light moved across a woman's back and the hair on her head. The balls of light made no noise ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2694",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John Timmerman, CUFOS News Bulletin, October 1980, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/9/1982",
  "desc" : "A hat-like UFO was photographed near Taisetsuzan National Park, east-southeast of Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan. There is a mountain backdrop in the photograph. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2695",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jenny Randles, Flying Saucers and How to See Them, p. 74" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/9/1983",
  "desc" : "At 3:00 a.m. Robert and Janine Lorent in Sambreville, Belgium sighted a three meter diameter metallic inverted dish-shaped object with a rotating lower part. It was silent when first noticed, then a white beam of light turned on. There was a red light also on the lower part, and small white lights below row portholes, when it began making a purring turbine noise. Their close encounter lasted six minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2696",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UNICAT, case # 624, citing Michel van Der Elst, Inforespace, June 1985, p. 19" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/9/1985",
  "desc" : "At 4:30 a.m. a man had stopped his motorcycle by the side of the road in Lowton, England to have a smoke. He became aware of a humming sound coming from the adjacent field. When he walked closer to the field, he saw a silvery glow coming from a depression in the field. Two figures suddenly appeared, and when he started to flee he heard a voice say, \"Do not be afraid.\" The beings were both human looking, and of similar appearance. They both had blond, shoulder length hair parted in the middle, and were wearing what looked like blue ski suits. The female was about five feet tall, and the male somewhat shorter. Each had an egg-shaped implement attached to a belt around their waist. The woman did all the talking, and she explained that they were from \"the third solar system.\" She also said they use the Earth's magnetic field and gravity for propulsion. After the conversation was finished, both beings walked to the silvery glow in the field. Moments later the humming sound increased and the glow brightened. Then a craft shaped like a football and the size of two large buses lifted off from the hollow in the field. It hovered for a few seconds, then silently shot away at incredible speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2697",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jenny Randles, Alien Contacts and Abductions, p. 150; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14120; Albert S. Rosales, 1985 Humanoid Sightings Report Database, case # 1587, citing Peter Hough & Jenny Randles, Mysteries of the Mercy Valley" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/9/1986",
  "desc" : "A witness from Danville, Pennsylvania called the UFO Reporting Center in Seattle to report a missing time episode involving three family members associated with an unexplained power failure that occurred at 9:30 p.m. An injury the witness had suffered was also reportedly healed miraculously. Multiple abduction experiences were suspected. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2698",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, case # 1086" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/9/1988",
  "desc" : "At 3:00 a.m. a 34-year-old woman driving in Waltham, Massachusetts had a close encounter with a red ball of light (BOL) larger than 3 car lengths. Initially she saw it through the windshield. The intensity of the light dimmed and brightened considerably about every 5 seconds. There was a whooshing sound. The encounter lasted about half a minute. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2699",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joe Nyman, MUFON field investigation files, case # 881011" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/9/1990",
  "desc" : "In Dneprodzerzhinzk, Ukraine three-meter diameter red discs were seen flying on top of a local mountain at 11:00 p.m. A saucer came down and landed in a fuel-dump; the same thing happened again on the next day. There were traces and EM effects. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2700",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15172, citing Richard F. Haines, JUSA-CISAAF Translations, p. 306" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/9/1990",
  "desc" : "At 4:30 a.m. a woman in Gulf Breeze, Florida saw an intense blinking light over the Santa Rosa Bay from her window. She observed a total of six UFOs over the next hour. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2701",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case 907, citing UFO Newsclipping Service" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/9/1995",
  "desc" : "At 9:10 p.m. in Vista, San Diego County, California an elliptical disc-shaped object, half the apparent diameter of the Moon, moved very slowly to the west in the sky, then stopped and vanished in place. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2702",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 16809, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/9/1999",
  "desc" : "A 10:30 p.m. a huge silent V-shaped or delta-shaped object passed over three scared teenagers driving on Highway 99 in White Rock, British Columbia. It had \"headlights\". ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2703",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 1999 Canadian UFO Survey, case 70; Curt Sutherly, UFO Mysteries: A Reporter Seeks the Truth, p. 207" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/9/2003",
  "desc" : "Observers watching the waves in Ocean Beach, San Diego County, California noticed a low flying, silent triangular craft one mile south of Cliff House at 1:30 a.m. A witness said, \"We first thought it was a Stealth F-117, but I've seen them before and they are quite loud.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2704",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 63" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/9/2004",
  "desc" : "Mary E. Spitz, a former Army Captain, reports she was driving to her mother's house in Pennsylvania on Mother's Day at 10:10 p.m. when she saw a triangular UFO with three blinking white lights and one flashing red light in the center. It flew in very low, and started following her car. \"I was alone and very scared after I sighted it in the the town of Martin's Corner,\" she stated. It was only 100 yards above her car, and followed on Highway 340 and then some country roads to her mother's house in Wagontown, Pennsylvania. It then hovered low over a field for 10 minutes, before flying off to the east. It was about 50 feet on each of the three sides.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2705",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 103, citing John Schuessler, MUFON" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/9/2005",
  "desc" : "A 48-year-old witness in Carlisle, Pennsylvania reported that his dog became fearful of a glowing chevron-shaped UFO. He was sitting on his front porch at 3:00 a.m., not able to sleep, and his dog was with me. Suddenly, the dog became very agitated and seemed to want back in to the house. The witness next saw the silent V-shaped object in the partly cloudy sky. He also felt a tingling feeling on his head and hair. The incident lasted three minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2706",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2005 webpage, report uploaded May 24, 2005; Joan Woodward, NICAP NISD04 database of animal reaction cases, www.nicap.org" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/9/2005",
  "desc" : "At 11:25 p.m. a gray disc-shaped object with lights around its rim was seen for 20 minutes by two witnesses in northern Quebec. It was slowly flying northeast past the town of Kuujjuaq, Quebec, Canada. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2707",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2005 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 33, citing HBCCUFO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/9/2008",
  "desc" : "At 9:35 p.m. a square craft passed right over a couple's car at about tree top height from them. They were driving on Interstate 75 about half an hour away from Naples, Florida in a stretch of road with no exits nor lights on a clear night. The craft appeared in front of them and came right over the car at tree top level. The object was square in shape and had four lights, one on each corner of the craft. It made no sound as it moved past them. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2708",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2008 webpage, report made May 13, 2008 and uploaded on June 12, 2008" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/9/2008",
  "desc" : "At 10:05 MDT in Gun Barrel, Boulder County, Colorado a dark, disc-shaped object with no markings flew over. At 10:30 p.m. PDT a triangular object with red lights on the corners moved slowly from northwest to southeast over the Walmart parking lot in canyon country, Santa Clarita, California. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2709",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2008 webpage, reports uploaded June 12, 2008" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/9/2011",
  "desc" : "A mile-long dark object with a V formation of lights was sighted in Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada at 2:10 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2710",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Chris Rutkowski, 2011 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 318" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/10/1952",
  "desc" : "At 11:40 p.m. four yellow disc-shaped objects approached the Savannah River AEC nuclear facility near Ellenton, South Carolina from the south at a very low altitude. They flew straight and level for a short period of time, but they had to rise to pass over tall tanks on the ground. They made no sound, and weaved left to right as they flew. Four DuPont workers were the witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2711",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book Report #7, May 31, 1952; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1198; George D. Fawcett, Rense.com, citing Look, June 24, 1952; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 262" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/10/1953",
  "desc" : "A white dome shaped UFO circled a DC-3 flying south of MacKay, Queensland, Australia at 6:10 p.m. at speeds between 200 and 700 mph. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2712",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 21" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/10/1954",
  "desc" : "RAF squadron leader Donald Higgin, flying in the second of two Navy F3D-2 jet fighters over Elsinore, California at 12:40 p.m. sighted a delta winged UFO as it passed the first Navy jet at a speed in excess of 240 knots. The UFO was half the length of the F3D-s (which is 22 feet long), had a wing span about equal to it (20 feet), and had a third fin on its upper half. It was the color of gun metal. A Project Blue Book \"unknown.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2713",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 2994; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 23; UNICAT database, case 309, citing Project Blue Book" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/10/1957",
  "desc" : "An abductee named McBride reported being abducted by aliens while driving along the highway in Lake Isabella, California at dusk. The witness first spotted a white bubble-shaped object floating above the trees. It descended to just 10 feet above the ground. Thin, bony looking humanoids, seven to eight feet tall, emerged from the object wearing transparent clothing. They communicated using telepathy. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2714",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ann Drufel, MUFON UFO Journal, August 1978, p. 16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/10/1957",
  "desc" : "At 10:45 p.m. a 29-year-old man named Fekete was bicyling home along a road in Beaucourt-sur-Ancre, France when he was temporarily blinded by a light from above. Together with three of this neighbors, he saw a pulsating object on the ground with the silhouettes of three short men (4-5 feet tall) with large heads and a torrering gait. The light rose into sky when a car passed. A circular ground mark was found at the landing site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2715",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 211, Ouranos, issue #21" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/10/1966",
  "desc" : "In Marisela, an area of Caracas, Venezuela a man observed the landing of an oval-shaped object and two beings at 4:52 p.m. The beings emerged from the object through a system of light beams. The creings used strange instruments to examine a number of objects, especially some plants. They were two meters tall, had oversized heads, and appeared bright and \"transparent.\" Their eyes were slanted and they had very broad shoulders. They wore no apparent weapons, but their belts were very wide and emitted light rays. They did not touch anything without first illuminating it with these beams. They went back aboard their craft \"as if carried by the light.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2716",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee: Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 768" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/10/1966",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. on or about this date, a crowd of people in Atafona Campos, Brazil were watching an outdoor movie when an unknown aerial object crashed and exploded. They panicked, thinking at the time it was perhaps related to an earthquake. According to the police, a sulphurous odor and a hole in the ground 25 cm deep and 35 cm wide were noted at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2717",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee: Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 767" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/10/1967",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. southeast of the town of Combs-la-Ville, France a 1.5 meter pyramid shaped UFO landed on a road by the railroad tracks, and then illuminated the surrounding area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2718",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Phenomenes Spatiaux, December 1967" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/10/1968",
  "desc" : "On this night in Galesburg, Illinois Grant Callison and his wife noticed three winged beings flying at an estimated altitude of 500 feet. The beings appeared to be covered with feathers or metallic scales which acquired an odd fluorescence as they reflected light from the local street lamps. The strange trio lacked necks of any sort and had short, conical tails. There were other sightings of the same creatures in the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2719",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, # 2106, citing Scott Corrales, Unsolved UFO Sightings, Fall 1995" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/10/1977",
  "desc" : "A three and a half year old girl, Maria do Socorro, had accompanied her grandmother while she did laundry in Serra Branca, Paraiba state, Brazil and then vanished suddenly at around 11:00 a.m. She was missing for 22 hours. She mysteriously turned up at the doorsteps of her family's garden. She said she had seen a beautiful woman with a white scarf on her head and was irresistibly attracted to a strong beam of light which the lady ran behind. The lady spoke to the child but she \"did not open her mouth to talk.\" Friends and neighbors spent an entire day searching the area where she had last been seen, without finding a trace. It was assumed by all involved that the phenomenon had an apparently extraterrestrial cause, but no UFO was seen. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2720",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-26, citing Noticias Populares, a Brazilian newspaper" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/10/1978",
  "desc" : "A UFO abduction occurred in a forest in Emilcin, Lublin, Poland sometime after 7:00 a.m. The abductee, a 71-year-old man named J. Wolski, encountered a UFO shaped like a bus, making a humming sound. The humanoid had a greenish color and wore a black helmet. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2721",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dennis Stacy, Field Guide to UFOs, p. 100, citing Fate, September 1994; UNICAT database, case 002, citing International UFO Reporter, November 1983, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/10/1978",
  "desc" : "At 10:50 p.m. the witness was walking home alone in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil when he observed a very bright object in the sky that began to descend at a high speed. The object came low over a nearby fenced field, and he could now see that it was a shiny circular metallic craft within a fiery ball of flames. The craft continued to descend, and projected two bright beams of white light to the ground and extended four metallic legs. The area around the witness seemed to darken, and he felt compelled to walk towards the fence. He was quickly grabbed by two short humanoids who wore shiny white tight fitting suits. Their heads were enclosed in helmets with closed visors and with two small antennas protruding from the top. The beings spoke to the witness, then took him inside the craft.<br/><br/> Once inside he started having difficulty breathing and noticed that the air seemed warmer and dense. The room was illuminated by a bright light. It was at this point that he noticed two more beings seated at a strange looking console. The beings walked over to him and he was surprised to see that they were female dressed in shiny white suits, with attractive capes made of the same material. These also wore helmets with antennas. They were a little taller than the other humanoids and had hair down to their shoulders. One had black hair and the other was blond. The black haired female approached the witness and told him that he was going to be taken to their planet. The witness declined the invitation and begged to be released. At this point the blond woman walked over and ordered the others to let him go. He was then allowed to walk out and down a stairway to the ground. He stood on the ground and watched while the object ascended at high speed and vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2722",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, # 1621 citing Casellato, Da Silva and Stevens, UFO Abduction at Botucato" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/10/1989",
  "desc" : "At just after midnight a 38-year-old male and a 16 year-old female driving in Farmington, Michigan were pursued by a silvery disc with a greenish tinge. Electromagnetic interference effects were reported. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2723",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, citing Robert Gribble, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/10/1989",
  "desc" : "La Venta del Astillero, Zapopan, Mexico - Apolonio Perez was awakened at 2:15 a.m. while sleeping in his camper by an extremely bright white light that illuminated the surrounding area. Worried about possible intruders, he searched the camper but found nothing. He returned to his bed, but a few seconds later a pencil-thin beam of white light lit the left side of his face. He heard a sound resembling a welder's torch and felt facial pain. Frightened, it occurred to him that he could be having another encounter with the occupants of a UFO he had seen years before. As he lay there he next felt a jolt of electricity in his body. Upset and in pain, Perez cursed at whoever was responsible for his pain, and moments later he received a third powerful electrical jolt. He stood up and managed to open the door of his camper just as the white light seemed to dim and vanish. The next day he experienced severe headaches and the left side of his face became swollen and began to bleed. For the next two weeks he had a severe rash on his face that eventually left permanent scaring. He would experience further encounters. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2724",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, citing Luis Ramirez Reyes, Contacto: Mexico" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/10/1989",
  "desc" : "Later that evening, at around 7:45 p.m., an elderly motorist was driving in an isolated area of Bautista Canyon, California when she saw a luminous 30-foot wide mushroom-shaped craft descend and hover just above some nearby power lines. She stopped her car and observed six to eight beings emerge from the craft and begin to work repairing the outside of the object. After 10 minutes they re-entered the object, which departed at high speed emitting a loud humming sound and a burst of blue flame. They were reports of electrical outages in the area at the time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2725",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, citing a newspaper clipping; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, citing Debbie Steinberg, in Timothy Good (ed.) The UFO Report 1991, p. 225" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/10/1993",
  "desc" : "In the pre-dawn hours of the night six witnesses on a road west of Fortaleza, Ceara State, Brazil recorded three hours of videotape of a nocturnal object which had several satellite objects exit from it and then merge back into it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2726",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next? p. 291" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/10/1994",
  "desc" : "Two cows were found dead and mutilated at the Hronich Ranch near Eagle Nest, New Mexico. Dr. Altshuler, a veterinarian from Denver, Colorado involved in cattle mutilation investigations, arrived at the site within 10 hours, and his forensic analysis revealed that the two animals had cooked hemoglobin and cauterized incisions. Both animals also had had pneumonia. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2727",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 239" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/10/1994",
  "desc" : "At around 11:00 p.m. three villagers in Sagrado Corazon, Cosolapa, Mexico watched a large white light come from some nearby hills and land a few meters away. A short humanoid creature exited from the object. The humanoid was dressed all in white and had a shiny belt and helmet that constantly changed colors. When one of the villagers attempted to approach, the humanoid climbed back into the object. Minutes later a boy threw a rock at the object, which promptly dimmed and took off, flying back towards the hills at a high speed and quickly disappearing from sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2728",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1994, case # 2040, citing Dr. R. A. Lara, Samizdat, Vol. 2 # 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/10/1999",
  "desc" : "A man was awakened at 3:00 a.m. by a barking dog and a strange humming sound outside his home in Oak Ridge, North Carolina. He and another witness discovered an object, sitting in the sky just above the tree line. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2729",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 1999 web archive" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/10/1999",
  "desc" : "On this evening Manuel Jimenez was driving on Route N-3333 on his way back to Los Arenales, Spain when he noticed a bright spherical light flying low over the area. Thinking it was a plane, he continued driving. Five minutes later he saw a bright spherical object resting on the ground in a nearby field, about 200 meters away. Two short figures wearing shiny metallic outfits stood next to it. Sr. Jimenez stopped his truck and watched the incredible scenario for awhile. Apparently the little men noticed the witness, because they quickly entered the lighted sphere, which then shot up into the sky at an incredible speed leaving a luminous trail behind. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2730",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1999, case # 3458, citing Jose Manuel Garcia Bautista" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/10/1999",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. an object flew back and forth through the sky over Grantsville, West Virginia before emitting a giant ray of light like a huge spotlight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2731",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 1999 web archive" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/10/2003",
  "desc" : "Two yellow lights were seen moving very quickly over Leamington Spa, England and changing direction very abruptly at 1:00 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2732",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 2003 web archive" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/11/1949",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 a.m. four gray discs flew over Houston, Alaska heading north. According to witness George Mertz, they had thicker tops, and flew with a \"decided list to the port side\" at a speed in excess of 1000 mph. Their diameter was estimated to be from 80-100 feet. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2733",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Edward Sullivan, letter from witness in 1952 to the Civilian Saucer Intelligence office, Los Angeles" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/11/1950",
  "desc" : "Two famous UFO photographs were taken on this evening by Mr. Paul Trent in McMinnville, Oregon. The UFO was also witnessed by his wife. The images show a dark metallic, asymmetric hat-shaped disc. The upper structure was described as like a \"parachute canopy\", with slightly off-center triangular post or antenna. It hovered, rocking slowly like a rowboat riding at anchor, and made no sound. The photos were published in Life Magazine. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2734",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "McMinnville (OR) Telephone Register, June 8, 1950; Thomas M. Olsen, Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case 6; Edward U. Condon, Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 396" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/11/1954",
  "desc" : "On this day in 1954 a lone witness in Lawton, Oklahoma watched a disc-shaped object hovering ten feet above the ground. Below the object stood a four-foot tall figure. The humanoid disappeared in a flash of light after seeing the witness, then the object shot away at high speed towards the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2735",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 1412, citing Kevin D. Randle, The October Scenario" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/11/1966",
  "desc" : "During a night test firing of the NASA Saturn-V-B second stage rocket at the Stennis NASA Test Facility in Pearl River, Hancock County, Mississippi, a 200 foot diameter disc-shaped UFO approached at high speed, then hovered directly over the exhaust blast coming from the rocket for 90 seconds. According to the principal reporting witness, a retired Boeing engineer named Allen, there where 30 witnesses, including a group of 19 who were on the roof of a nearby building and a 35-mm motion picture film crew who filmed the entire episode. The following day the NASA facility employees were debriefed and informed that what they had witnessed was an unmanned Air Force weather balloon. The film from the test firing has never been released by the government. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2736",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald A. Johnson and Don Olson case investigation files, MUFON files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/11/1967",
  "desc" : "At 2:05 a.m. four police officers in Wareham, Massachusetts in Plymouth County sighted two inverted dish-shaped objects with revolving red and white lights around the rim. One descended behind some trees into a cranberry bog. It moved up-and-down like a yo-yo, and sped away when the police tried to shine a spotlight on it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2737",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, pp. 333 & 348; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 339" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/11/1967",
  "desc" : "At 2:00 a.m. Michael Campeadore, age 25, a hospital employee in St. George, Utah in route to Salt Lake City when he heard a noise similar to that of a truck. However, he saw nothing. Then a yellow light became visible to his left, and thinking that it was a jet plane about to crash, he stopped the truck and got out. He saw it stop 30 meters away at an altitude of 30 meters. It was shaped like an inverted bowl with a dome on top and looked metallic. He became frightened and emptied his .25 calibre Beretta in the direction of the craft. He heard the bullets hit metal and the object took off at a great speed. When he told his story at a nearby service station, the attendant replied that about 20 reports had been made of UFOs in the Saint George area recently. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2738",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 5; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 842; National Enquirer, August 27, 1967" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/11/1967",
  "desc" : "In Holbaek, Denmark in Vestsjaellan province a domed disc was sighted on this night hovering over a field at a farm. A silhouette of a humanoid figure was seen moving behind a window in the craft. Angel hair residue was found at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2739",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 7763, citing Brad Steiger & Joan Whritenour, The Allende Letters, p. 46" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/11/1969",
  "desc" : "Three witnesses sighted a red ball of light at 3:00 a.m. at Santa Catalina de Somoza, Leon, Spain. The luminous red spherical UFO had a horn-like extention on one side. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2740",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 111, citing D. Lopez" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/11/1969",
  "desc" : "At two o'clock in the morning a UFO was spotted near the ground in the yard of a home in Demers Center, Quebec, Canada. A barking dog woke the witnesses, Mr. & Mrs. Chaput, and a bright light was shining from the craft into their bedroom. The UFO made a purring sound. The incident lasted about five minutes. Ring ground marks were found in the yard. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2741",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, July 1969, p. 2; UNICAT database, case 323; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry, p. 133" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/11/1969",
  "desc" : "At 1:45 a.m. Mike Luczkowich, age 20, a student at Manakin, Virginia was returning home after a date with his girlfriend. He had just driven past the Rockville General Store when he noticed something about 50 yards ahead of his car. At first he thought it might be a couple of deer, but he soon realized that he was looking at two humanoid figures about three and a half to four feet tall. The creatures were wearing spherical helmets that looked as large as basketballs. Circling each helmet was a pale green band that reflected the headlights of the vehicle. The beings stood motionless at first, but they soon scurried off by running up an embankment to the left. The first two had barely disappeared when a third small being appeared from the right side of the road and quickly joined the others by climbing over the embankment. Luczkowich reported that the little men were dressed in light-brown coveralls that were somewhat baggy in the legs but tight-fitting at the ankles. He did not see any arms, and he could not detect features behind the oversized helmets.<br/><br/> The student was shaken by his experience, and he did not tell anyone of the encounter until Sunday. On Monday Luczkowich and three other men returned to the site. They were able to locate a fresh trail through the poison ivy and honeysuckle growing on the embankment the three beings had scaled. Beyond the embankment they found a barley field with a path through it, such as the three humanoids might have made. After walking in a few feet they noticed two flattened areas, where small entities might have thrown themselves down in the field. According to Luczkowich, the crushed barley at one flattened area showed the imprint of two small bodies, while the other impression outlined one other small body. About a half mile west of the area and two hours earlier 18-year-old Debbie Payne had reported seeing an oval-shaped luminous object over her house when she arrived home from a date. The UFO appeared rather bright, then dimmed and became bright two times before she and her date reached the door to her house. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2742",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1969, citing Ted Bloecher, \"Occupant Case Detailed,\" Skylook, November 1974" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/11/1974",
  "desc" : "At around 8:45 p.m. Barry King and Ian Vinten in Chingford, Essex, England observed a figure in the distance resembling a woman with long white hair, a featureless face, who was wearing a long black dress . They took out some binoculars and watched her stand perfectly still for 10 minutes as a second black-gowned figure moved among some nearby trees. The woman figure, then the second figure, vanished from view. Next, the first figure re-appeared 50 yards away from its original position and stood motionless again for 10 minutes before vanishing once again from sight. Upon returning to the site at 9:35 p.m., King and Vinten again saw through binoculars two more figures, this time dressed in white. One was motionless, the other was \"darting about making very quick movements,\" but showing no leg movements, as if gliding rather than running. At this point a red lighted UFO was seen rising slowly over the treetops in the same direction. After five minutes it moved off, passing almost directly over the witnesses, making a \"weird throbbing, similar to a ship's sonar.\" It had a central white light and two blinking lights near the edge, as well as a vertically revolving bluish light around the center. It displayed a central red light and two blinking white lights as it moved off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2743",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-21, citing Barry King for BUFORA" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/11/1976",
  "desc" : "A silver suited figure stood next to silver sphere on the ground in Leigh, Greater Manchester, England. It was sighted by a Mrs. Kent at 6:15 a.m. as she passed by. Both were gone 20 minutes later when she passed by the site again. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2744",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Bernard Delair, Northern Network News, June 1976, vol. 25, p. 8; Jenny Randles, FSR, October 1976, p. 27" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/11/1977",
  "desc" : "A housewife reported sighting a green glowing ball with a dark equator hovering near her home in Clearfield, Pennsylvania at three o'clock in the morning. It shot straight up into the sky and was gone in less than a second. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2745",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, June 1977, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/11/1977",
  "desc" : "At 9:45 p.m. in Bonner Springs, Kansas a silent disc-shaped object with white windows hovered for 75 seconds, then flew away slowly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2746",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, June 1977, p. 36" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/11/1986",
  "desc" : "Cessna 172 pilot Robert Henderson and his wife Nann had an aerial encounter with a \"modified half-sphere, with the flat side down\" while flying over Sedona, Arizona at 4:00 p.m. It approached their plane head on and shot quickly to left, passing below the airplane. Its speed was estimated at 1,200 mph. Their sighting lasted less than a minute, and they detected no sound coming from the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2747",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 316; UNICAT database, case 660, citing Willard D. Nelson, MUFON UFO Journal, October 1986, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/11/1986",
  "desc" : "At 9:45 p.m. a three-foot diameter disc with lights buzzed a car with three witnesses traveling on Highway 26 in Deridder, Louisiana at only six feet altitude. There were no electromagnetic effects noticed. The object next shot straight up into the sky and disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2748",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Gribble, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, case 1087" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/11/1988",
  "desc" : "On the shore of Pensacola Bay, a couple in their sixties videotaped several UFOs over Gulf Breeze, Florida at 8:00 p.m. for 8 minutes. Initially there was one yellowish-orange object, which was joined by others. The lights brightened and pulsed, hovered, then descended; and faded in and out of view. They made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2749",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald M. Ware, MUFON field investigations database, case 901113" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/11/1994",
  "desc" : "In an undisclosed location in Switzerland, a man was in his bed sleeping late at night when a strong, pulsating blue light suddenly awakened him. He hid under his blanket, but had the sensation that he was floating before he passed out. The next thing he recalls he was lying on a table in a dark room. The wall, floor, and ceiling were very smooth. Below his feet and to his right side was something resembling a marble column. Suddenly a slim, small pallid humanoid being jumped on top of him. The being was female with large dark eyes and with no hair on her head. She somehow made the witness fell sexually excited; the whole episode was repeated by a second similar being. Then a third female with more human features appeared and apparently the same thing happened one last time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2750",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1994, case # 2692, citing Dr. Johannes Feibag" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/11/2003",
  "desc" : "A California Highway Patrol officer saw a metallic disc in the morning sky over the freeway in Goleta, California at 9:20 a.m. It was circular in appearance and tumbling \"end over end.\" At about the same time a shiny, thin metallic disc was seen moving over the beach at Laguna Niguel, California toward the southwest. It soared, drfited slowly, then swooped down like a bird in a thermal air current. It had \"turbine blades\" on the underside. It moved off to the northwest in the general direction of Vandenberg AFB. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2751",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 2003 webpage archive" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/12/1909",
  "desc" : "A cigar-shaped airship with a searchlight was seen flying over Terrington Marsh, Norfolk, England at 9:45 p.m. It made a rattling motor sound and flew off to the north. It was back again at 10:30 p.m.  ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2752",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Carl Grove, FSR, November-December 1970, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/12/1948",
  "desc" : "A private pilot flying over Westfield, Indiana reporting seeing a small \"Graf-Zeppelin\" that zoomed away at jet speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2753",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 129; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/12/1952",
  "desc" : "A restricted military document shows that a UFO was sighted at 2145 hours UST 40 miles west of Roswell, New Mexico. The object was blue-green in color and its estimated altitude was 30,000-40,000 feet. The object traveled three times over approximately the same triangular course. The rate of speed could not be estimated precisely, but was faster than a jet aircraft. The intensity of its color brightness varied with the object's altitude ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2754",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Fran Ridge, http://www.nicap.org/waves/1952fullrep.htm, citing AF Form 112" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/12/1954",
  "desc" : "In 1954 a UFO shaped like a red dinner plate hung in the sky on edge for 15 minutes over Dayton, Ohio at around 7 p.m. It tipped, changed shaped, and then sped off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2755",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Newsletter, June 1954, p. 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/12/1956",
  "desc" : "At 3:30 a.m. in Lakewood, Los Angeles County, California several witnesses had a close encounter with a silent, brilliant saucer-shaped object with wires around its edge. It made four turns, then shot away extremely fast. There were at least two independent witnesses, and there were physiological effects reported. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2756",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: May-July, p. 26" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/12/1962",
  "desc" : "At 4:10 a.m. V. and G. Tomasini and H. Zenobi, while driving on Route 35 at Kilometer 72 near La Pampa, La Pampa province, Argentina saw a rectangular object shaped like an illuminated railroad boxcar. As they came close to it, the object took off, crossed the road at low altitude, rose with a flame, and separated into two sections that flew away in different directions. It made a humming sound and was seen on the ground for one minute. The grass on the ground was burnt in a 60m radius circle at the landing site, insects were carbonized, and the ground was \"petrified.\" Sample analysis was done by the Puerto Belgrano Naval Base. At 4:30 p.m. another close encounter occurred northwest of Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires province, Argentina that involved several witnesses and reportedly had lasting physiological effects. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2757",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "La Nacion, May 24, 1962 Oscar A. Uriondo; FSR Case Histories, December 1973, p. 17;  NICAP UFO Investigator, September 1962, p. 7; APRO Bulletin, July 1963, p. 2, 4; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 533" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/12/1967",
  "desc" : "At 11:10 p.m. a glowing yellow elliptical object with three round spots on the underside passed below the clouds and was observed through binoculars in Putney, England. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2758",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Flying Saucer Review, September-October 1967, p. 31" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/12/1967",
  "desc" : "Miss N. Parshall, a sixteen-year-old girl in California, reported sighting a cigar-shaped object with a dull aluminum finish\"shoot around in sky\" at around four o'clock in the afternoon. It came to within 60 feet of the aircraft and then veered away. It seemed ready to ram the plane from behind, but instead shot away very fast. The sighting lasted an estimated 90 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2759",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP case files, report dated July 26, 1967; Condon University of Colorado UFO Study, case N1378" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/12/1967",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. a silver ellipse-shaped UFO rapidly approached two people driving in a vehicle, five miles south of Neola, Utah. It slowed its speed and descended level with the road. It then tilted and flew over the crest of a nearby hill and was gone from sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2760",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Frank Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, p. 69 and appendix case A48; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 339" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/12/1967",
  "desc" : "That same night a disc-shaped object swooped down to just 25 feet above the ground in Galion, Ohio. It projected a circle of light down around a paperboy with the last name Prim, who found himself unable to move and with a gap in his memory of what happened next. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2761",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, The UFO Handbook, p. 46" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/12/1969",
  "desc" : "At 9:45 p.m. a brilliant circular object hovered at a low altitude near some railroad tracks in Casino, New South Wales, Australia. A married couple, Mr. and Mrs. Hinitt, watched beams of light pulse upwards from the ground toward the UFO. Burnt patches of vegetation were found at the sight in a heavy rainstorm. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2762",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, p. 64; ACOS Bulletin, March 1977, p. 12 and June 1977, p. 20" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/12/1969",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. CDT a helmet-shaped disc estimated to be 15 meters in diameter was seen widely over the Lake Zurich suburbs in Illinois. It was reportedly seen over a two hour period. It made a buzzing sound, and dogs reacted to its presence by barking. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2763",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Chicago Tribune, May 25, 1969; FSR, September-October 1971, p. 27" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/12/1971",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. a 25 foot long ovoid UFO was seen near a house in Elizabeth, New Jersey for two minutes. It made no sound. It made a weaving motion through the sky as it flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2764",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 9276" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/12/1973",
  "desc" : "A UFO gyrated in the sky over the harbor of Lourenco Marques, Mozambique for more than an hour in the pre-dawn hours. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2765",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Rand (South Africa) Daily Mail, May 15, 1973" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/12/1973",
  "desc" : "At 9:20 p.m. a man driving west on Route 76, near Kent, Ohio observed a group of flashing lights overhead almost directly above his car. They moved with him until he stopped out of curiosity, and so did the lights. Looking up through the windshield he could see a football shaped object that flashed from red to blue to white in a repeating cycle. He then saw a human figure materialize 10 feet below the object. The figure was clad all in silver, and descended rapidly to the roadway directly in front of the car. When it reached the pavement the figure stood looking to the right, then to look directly at the witness. After a half a minute the figure ascended rapidly, \"like a helium balloon,\" towards the object. It vanished before reaching it.<br/><br/> The figure was entirely silver in color and seemed to lack hair and ears. A narrow mouth with a small pointed chin were also observed. He was uncertain whether the silvery body was a close fitting garment or the actual skin color, because he saw what appeared to be the faint outline of a vein running down the inside of one of the arms. The feet were clad with boots or shoes, with a heavy, distinct line between the sole and the boot itself. The height of the figure was not much more than 2.5 feet. When it descended it was approximately ten feet in front of the car. The UFO shot up in a rapid vertical ascent, rocking the car \"as if a semi was passing.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2766",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-010, citing Larry Moyers and Marc Candusso" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/12/1974",
  "desc" : "A UFO covered with over 30 orange and white lights that were each as bright as a welder's torch flew over Maxton, North Carolina. It hovered over a mobile home park shortly after midnight. It was pursued by two men, a police officer and a farmer, in their cars. The UFO made a remote landing but no traces were found on the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2767",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George D. Fawcett, FSR, January 1975, p. 31" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/12/1975",
  "desc" : "At 4:10 p.m. a solid looking flying object, trailing exhaust, flew northeast through the sky over Howrah, Tasmania. The UFO changed shape and then made a ninety-degree turn. It then executed a 180 degree turn, and then swooped down and away. A movie film was made of the UFO. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2768",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, Skylook, December 1975, p. 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/12/1975",
  "desc" : "That same night at 11:30 p.m. a green light was seen hovering over an area two miles east of Peesane, Saskatchewan for 12 minutes. It then flew away to the east. A perfect circle was found in the grass at the site, two days later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2769",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted R. Phillips, Skylook, December 1975, p. 16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/12/1979",
  "desc" : "At 1:30 p.m. three observers in Atwater, Los Angeles County, California watched a 3' x 7' disc hovering over power line poles. It made a humming sound that seemed to attract birds that followed it as it flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2770",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 13697, citing UFO Newsclipping Service, issue 119" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/12/1980",
  "desc" : "A brilliant blue disc hovered at a low altitude for ten minutes over Bulawayo, Zimbabwe at six p.m. It shot straight up, stopped, then shot up again and was gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2771",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Cynthia Hind, UFO Afri News, July 1990" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/12/1981",
  "desc" : "A man and a woman, a truck driver and a cashier, were driving near Clatskanie, Oregon at around five o'clock in the morning. A large delta-shaped UFO surrounded by a turbulent fog or mist \"like smoke from a chimney\" followed their truck for 15 miles. It had a white light and two orange lights. As it directed a beam of light at their vehicle the truck lost power, and they smelled an odor like antifreeze. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2772",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, January 1982, p. 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/12/1982",
  "desc" : "A large, disc-shaped UFO was seen by the roadside in Turis, Spain. It perimeter was revolving and it appeared to be searching the area with beams of light. It rose up and flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2773",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 13877, citing APRO Bulletin" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/12/1989",
  "desc" : "A huge disc-shaped UFO was seen in Hubei Province, China. It illuminated the surrounding landscape a red color, and hung silently low in the sky for 20 minutes. It then rose to an estimated 100 meters and shot off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2774",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1991, p. 128" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/12/1991",
  "desc" : "Two students in Kuala Tarengganu, Malaysia reported seeing several tiny humanoid figures wearing red clothing standing near a drain in a school compound in the middle of the afternoon. Teachers searched the area but failed to find anything. The next day several six-inch tall beings were seen again in the same area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2775",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ahmad Jamaludin, Centre for Malaysian UFO Studies internet website; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1991, case #1492, citing Nexus New Times, Vol. 2 # 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/12/1991",
  "desc" : "Three elongated silver UFOs appeared in the daylight sky during a UFO conference being held in Huejutla, Mexico. At 7:00 p.m. a fiery ball of light levitated a man off the ground twice north of Camp Redondo, Brazil in the state of Rio Grande do Norte. He felt heat and cold and suffered an eye injury. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2776",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lucius Farish, UFO Newsclipping Service, October 1993; Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone, p. 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/12/1992",
  "desc" : "A boy in Connersville, Indiana reported being paralyzed in his bed in the early morning hours by a strange looking, elderly humanoid visitor. The boy had apparently reported UFO abduction experiences on several occasions. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2777",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, case 1970; Francis Ridge, UFO Intelligence Newsletter, January 1995, citing Don Worley" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/12/1993",
  "desc" : "Several witnesses from San Marcos, Tula, Mexico including Maria de Lourdes Uribe, age 34, heard bizarre noises and saw mysterious lights coming from a nearby field at around one o'clock in the morning. A local youth approached the field and saw a huge glowing object hovering low over the ground. Five humanoid figures descended from the object and stood around it as if standing guard. They soon went back inside. Large circular ground traces and what appeared to be dug out trenches were found at the site. A dog belonging to one of the witnesses reportedly went missing soon after the incident. Several days before this incident a huge dark object that nearly covered the moon's disc was seen hovering over the area, and two days before an engineer saw a huge object suspended just above a roadway near the town of Tepeji, Mexico. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2778",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, citing Luis Ruiz Noguez, Oscar Garcia, Hector Escobar & Hector Chavarria" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/12/1995",
  "desc" : "At 10:50 p.m. a young woman in Duarte, Los Angles County, California reported observing a triangular ship suspended in the southeastern sky for three minutes. There were three smaller lights below larger object. All four of the objects flew off together. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2779",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "National UFO Reporting Center, May 1995 webpage; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17232" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/12/1997",
  "desc" : "At 4:15 p.m. a saucer-shaped object flew overhead in Ginkunai, Lithuania. It passed within 10 meters of five observers, making rhythmic pulses and flashes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2780",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17928, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 2, number 24" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/12/1998",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. a husband and wife in Chebanse, Illinois each observed flying discs. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2781",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jay Rath, The I Files: True Reports of Unexplained Phenomena in Illinois, p. 56, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/12/2001",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. a long, silver, shiny cylindrical object without wings was sighted at 45 degrees elevation in Cleveland, Ohio. It was moving horizontally just above the power lines. It left no vapor trail, and moved much faster than the Goodyear Blimp, which is often seen in the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2782",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 119" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/12/2002",
  "desc" : "A security guard atop a parking garage in Orlando, Florida saw three dark triangular craft approach in formation from the north. The UFOs began to move in lazy turns, banking and doubling back. Each craft had six white lights on the front and a blunt rear section. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2783",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), August 2002, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/12/2002",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. a large, soundless, glowing orange dumbbell shaped thing, that looked like two halves hooked together with a metallic cylinder, was observed in Clarkston, rural Asotin County, Washington. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2784",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2002 webpage, report uploaded April 27, 2007" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/12/2004",
  "desc" : "A man and a woman were walking their dog at around 11:00 p.m. in Sequin, Texas when they spotted a huge, disc-shaped craft coming down from the sky. The woman became agitated and began yelling that there was a loud ringing in her head and she believeed she could hear voices trying to talk to her. The dog also became disturbed and ran off. Two more discs appeared in the sky, and the man began to cry. He later described the UFOs as charcoal gray in color, and ringed with black lights. All three of the craft appeared to have strange writing or symbols on their hulls, which the witnesses thought resembled ancient writing. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2785",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, citing National UFO Reporting Center, May 2004 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/12/2010",
  "desc" : "At 1:24 a.m. in Bedlington, Northumberland, England a 40-foot across black boomerang shaped object with five green lights underneath flew overhead at approximately 50 feet. It was a very close and terrifying encounter, according to the witness. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2786",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "National UFO Reporting Center, May 2010 webpage, report uploaded May 12, 2010" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/12/2010",
  "desc" : "During the middle of the day a bright, star-like object was observed roaming back and forth over the Livermore, California hills at 12:00 hours. Peter Davenport believes the witness is a highly credible, good observer. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2787",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "National UFO Reporting Center, May 2010 webpage, report uploaded May 12, 2010" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/13/1909",
  "desc" : "There were several independent witnesses of a brightly illuminated, 80 to 100 foot long, dark airship, flying over King's Lynn, Norfolk, England at 9:45 p.m. Two men were visible in some sort of carriage underneath the object. The object travelled fast, made a whirring sound, and had a searchlight that lit up the road below it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2788",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/13/1949",
  "desc" : "In 1949 on this day at 11:05 a.m. a U.S. Air Force Airman Smith, driving along Highway 20 west of Boise, Idaho spotted first one disc, then five more silver discs flying in a V formation. The objects spiralled down, then shot out and away to the southwest at an estimated 700 kilometers per hour. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2789",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. Volume 2: 1949, p. 85" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/13/1952",
  "desc" : "On this morning a cigar-shaped object flew back and forth in the sky several times over the town of Alcobaca, Portugal before \"blowing up.\" Over the town of Santarem, Portugal a dazzingly brilliant sphere that left a vapor trail was observed for several minutes. Later that evening at 7:20 p.m. two orange balls of light were sighted over the shoreline of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. One of the object hovered while the second object darted out and back. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2790",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 78; (2) Edward Sullivan, letter from Garcia-Mendez dated May 14, 1952 to Civilian Saucer Intelligence, Los Angeles" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/13/1952",
  "desc" : "At 3:15 a.m PST an F9F pilot taking off from El Centro Naval Air Station, California saw what appeared to be a shooting star diving at an angle of 60 degrees. At around the same time the El Centro's Sheriff's Office received reports of five \"flying saucers\" as large as B-36's with a light underneath. They disappeared to the southwest at terrific speed. All together there were four separate reports of UFOs in the El Centro area on this date. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2791",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book Report #7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/13/1952",
  "desc" : "At 10:33 p.m. EST in Greenville, South Carolina James Richardson and three other amateur astronomers set up telescopes in a dark area of Furman University, when they saw a box or diamond formation of four oval dull glowing, reddish object nearly overhead. They were the apparent size of a half dollar at arms length, one-quarter turned and wobbling in flight. They disappeared after 3 seconds after moving through 12 degrees of arc. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2792",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book Report #8; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 148; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 181, UNICAT, case 705" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/13/1954",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. Navy Commander H. R. Penrose was driving homeward from Derby to Burton in Derbyshire, England when a bright light appeared ahead of his car, heading towards him. When it reached him he experienced a crash and was thrown forward against the windshield. The car then seemed to be lifted from the ground, and he was moved through the air while the bright light stayed above him. The car came to rest atop some metal railings, and he was lifted from it by a man in a one piece uniform, who effortlessly carried him through an entrance on the underside of a large round object that was hovering overhead, giving out a bright light. He was taken inside to a room, which had some controls that were being operated by men and women with short hair in coveralls. They questioned him telepathically about his naval experiences and his work with radar. Then a woman injected some green fluid into his arm, after which he had no more conscious memories of the experience. He was found, suffering from concussion, in his car atop some iron railings it had knocked down, and was taken to hospital. After his recovery he revisited the spot and succeeded in finding a railway signalman who said he had seen a car, with an extremely bright light above it, go past his signal box. Hypnotic regression was planned at the time of the report in 1978. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2793",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Margaret & Geoffrey Westwood, FSR, January 1978, p. 23; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-11, citing Westwood" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/13/1959",
  "desc" : "At 7:00 p.m. a domed disc was seen over the city of Colon, Uruguay. The circular bottom of the object rotated clockwise. The object itself was self-luminous, and the dome of the craft flashed. The UFO flew off to the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2794",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Roberto Enrique Banchs; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: April-June, p. 28" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/13/1959",
  "desc" : "Military witnesses at Offutt AFB, Nebraska, a civilian ATC, and all onboard a Braniff airliner witnessed a fireball fly across the sky toward the SW for 15 seconds. It was sighted on a clear night at 9:21 p.m. and was estimated to be traveling at the same speed as the plane. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2795",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, July 1959" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/13/1960",
  "desc" : "There were over 20 UFO sightings including two close encounters in Brazil recorded for this evening in 1960 between 6:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. by Dr. Olavo T. Fontes for the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2796",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "5/13/1960",
  "desc" : "Brazil: At shortly before 18:30 a huge cigar-shaped object came from the west at high speed and passed over Campos Sales, Brazil. It two ends were opaque and smoky, but it had a bright light at the center. It was seen by many residents. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2797",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dr. Olavo T. Fontes for the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, between 6-8pm" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/13/1960",
  "desc" : "At 18:30 off the coast at Paracuru, Brazil at the location marked as (2) on the map, three fisherman were frightened when a luminous disc hovered 300 feet over their fishing boat in a clear sky for three minutes. It emitted a strong blue glow but made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2798",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dr. Olavo T. Fontes for the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, between 6-8pm" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/13/1960",
  "desc" : "At the same time a huge round gray object followed a donkey herd between the towns of Taboleiro and Nazare, Brazil at the location marked as (3). The UFO had a light on its top, and flew low and silently. It rose vertically as it flew off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2799",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dr. Olavo T. Fontes for the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, between 6-8pm" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/13/1960",
  "desc" : "A 60-foot wide oval-shaped disc, almost circular, with a strong bluish light on top, flew noiseless and then hovered in a tilted position over Paracuru, Ceara State, Brazil (4) at 19:00. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2800",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dr. Olavo T. Fontes for the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, between 6-8pm" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/13/1960",
  "desc" : "At 19:45 p.m. a military jet tried to intercept at the location marked as (5) over Fortaleza, Brazil. The UFO made an evasive maneuver, and was gone in a few seconds at supersonic speeds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2801",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Olavo T. Fontes, APRO Bulletin, July 1960, pp. 3-5; Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing FSR, May 1961; Correio Ceara, May 16, 1960; O Globo, May 25, 1960" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/13/1960",
  "desc" : "At 4:00 a.m. the next day (May 14, 1960) Raimondo dos Santos saw two craft land on a hill near a farm called Capin Acu, near the ocean in Paracuru, Ceara State, Brazil. He went near them and saw several small beings, pale-looking, making friendly gestures. He ran away. The creatures wore blue uniforms and white helmets. The previous day at 7:00 p.m., over 100 witnesses observed a dark-gray, circular craft, 20 meters in diameter with a powerful light, maneuvering and hovering in the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2802",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 505, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 58" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/13/1962",
  "desc" : "Two years later it was Argentina's turn to be inundated with UFO reports. In the early morning hours between 4:00 a.m. and dawn there were 11 sightings including seven close encounters from six provinces in Argentina: Buenos Aires, La Rioja, Neuquen, La Pampa, Cordoba, and Mendoza. In Mercedes, located in Buenos Aires province, Argentina an Air Force man named Giashischa and his family encountered a mist at 4:15 a.m. while driving in their car. In a field they saw a 20-meter wide luminous mass spinning near the ground. It stood approximately 3 meters tall.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2803",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "5/13/1962",
  "desc" : "In Rio Cuarto, Cordoba, Argentina a flight of 20 multi-colored UFOs was sighted by many at 4:45 a.m. One object--a fiery ball of light 30 meters in diameter--came down to within 300 meters of a car full of witnesses. From one side of the object four small red orbs flew out, lined up behind the larger ball, then flew away in formation. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2804",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, June 1973, p. 10; (2) Gordon W. Creighton, FSR, July 1964, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/13/1964",
  "desc" : "At 10:15 p.m. a woman in Rio Vista, Solano County, California saw two disc-shaped objects glowing in the sky. One of them landed in a field. It was round and luminous. Also, there were other reports of cigar-shaped objects in the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2805",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, July-August 1964, p. 6; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 604; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious Business, p. 32" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/13/1967",
  "desc" : "At 5:45 a.m. a close encounter occurred in Lavister, near Wrexham, Wales. A 15-meter diameter metallic disc glowed blue. It shot up, stopped, and then darkened. It glowed again on exit. The witness, Mr. Williams, viewed the object for 5 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2806",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, March-April 1969, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/13/1967",
  "desc" : "At the Colorado Springs, Colorado airport an unidentified flying object was picked up on radar at 4:40 a.m. MDT. During this time a Braniff flight was coming in for a landing, and the track of the object behaved like a ghost echo, perhaps a ground return being reflected off the Braniff aircraft. The radar blip appeared at about twice the range of the Braniff blip. When Braniff touched down, however, the situation changed radically. The UFO pulled to the east (right) and passed over the airport at an indicated height of 200 feet. The object passed within 1.5 miles of the control tower, but was not visible even through binoculars by personnel in the control tower. This case was written up in the Condon report, and it was stated there: This must remain as one of the most puzzling radar cases on record, and no conclusion is possible at this time. It seems inconceivable that an anomalous propagation echo would behave in the manner described, particularly with respect to the reported altitude changes, even if AP had been likely at the time. In view of the meteorological situation, it would seem that AP was rather unlikely. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2807",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon Thayer, in Edward U. Condon, Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, pp. 170, 310" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/13/1967",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. CDT a University of South Dakota faculty member in Vermillion, South Dakota and five others saw a lens-shaped object (disc) that passed under the clouds, turned over, and changed directions. It first moved north to south, then northeast to southwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2808",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP files, witness report dated July 18, 1967; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty-Year Report, p. 339" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/13/1972",
  "desc" : "In Canterbury, New Hampshire at 9:50 p.m. a six-sided object with four legs with landing pads, descended from 150 feet altitude with a falling leaf motion, passed over witnesses, and landed remotely. It had a light beam and made a jet-like noise or buzzing sound. As an animal reaction, a cat owned by one of the witnesses ran away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2809",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 358; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 37; MUFON UFO Journal, May 1992, p. 20; NICAP UFO Investigator, July 1972" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/13/1975",
  "desc" : "Nautical UFO. At 5:20 a.m. a bright red sphere descended into a lake in Mosciano Sant' Angelo, Abruzzi, Italy. It moved underwater, then emerged. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2810",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 11258, citing ITACAT" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/13/1976",
  "desc" : "On this day several observers in USAF F-4 Phantom jets reported seeing two silver objects pacing a KC-135 tanker flying over William AFB, Candler, California. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2811",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 40; Rufus Drake, Saga UFO Report, July 1977, p. 37" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/13/1978",
  "desc" : "At 3:32 a.m. police office Manuel Amparano was on the outskirts of Kerman, California when he saw a reddish glow ahead. He drove up to investigate. Getting closer, he observed an oval-shaped object, smaller than the apparent size of the full Moon, handing in the sky. It was a very bright crimson red. Suddenly, a blue beam was directed toward him. The object then receded and was gone. Amparano felt a tingling sensation in his body as he drove to the police station. However, six people at the station noted that he looked sunburned \"as red as a lobster.\" His skin stayed that way for four hours before returning to normal. His skin was reddened even through his uniform. Althought the redness went away rapidly, there were areas where the skin was actually burned, on his arms, face, and neck. These burns were visible for two days, and the day following his skin blistered on his face and in places on his arms. He had the discomfort for a week. Doctors told him he could have been exposed to microwave radiation. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2812",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, September 1978, pp. 10-11; Fresno (CA) Bee, May 19, 1978; APRO Bulletin, August 1978, p. 4; UNICAT, case # 153" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/13/1981",
  "desc" : "In Grays, South Carolina several independent observers reported seeing a disc-shaped object drop down from the sky to tree-top level around 9 p.m. It was silent with red glowing lights; it hovered briefly, spinning, and then went away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2813",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1981, p. 2; citing Hampton (SC) Guardian, May 20, 1981" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/13/1988",
  "desc" : "At 4:40 a.m. a man photographed a flying saucer and jets south of Hormigueros, Puerto Rico. He then experienced three hours of missing time. When he recovers consciousness, he is south of Betances. During hypnotic regression he recalled humanoid beings. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2814",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14698, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 311" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/13/1988",
  "desc" : "At 1:30 p.m. a silent metallic disc wobbled over the road near two witnesses in Enkoping, Sweden. It rose up vertically until it was gone from view. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2815",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Andre Liljegren, AFU Sweden, issue 34; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14699" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/13/1988",
  "desc" : "On this night painter Maria Adilia Germana Hohagen reported seeing numerous \"extraterrestrial\" craft flying over her area of Sao Paulo, Brazil. She heard a voice in her head tell her to return to her home. She did, and from the balcony observed an object with multicolored lights that emitted several metallic sphere. During a hypnotic regression session, she remembered being abducted and medically examined by several human looking, two-meter tall humanoids. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2816",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1988 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing Pablo Villarrubia & Mario Rangel" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/13/1989",
  "desc" : "On this night in Kodal, Norway a strong light swooped up to a biker twice; it vanished as a car approaches. The biker experienced 20 minutes of missing time. There were separate observers to the close encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2817",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing Inforespace, issue 83" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/13/1993",
  "desc" : "During a restless, sleepless night in Kadima, Israel Danny Rotem felt compelled to get in his car and drive. At around two a.m. he drove to the nearby forest and saw a large egg-shaped object on the ground. He left his car and then a tiny being, perhaps a meter and a half tall, appeared. The being told Danny, \"We were waiting for you.\" The humanoid floated in front of him as he walked toward the craft. He does not remember how he got inside, but realized that the object's inside dimensions seemed larger, by far, that they could be judging from its outside dimensions. In the middle of the room was a pillar with an enormous pedestal. There were 13 aliens in the room. Two of them led Danny to a side chamber where he was put on a very comfortable sofa. He was told, telepathically, not to worry, \"that he was on a mission; you'll know what it is in time.\" They then made an incision on his left wrist. His next memory was of being in his car again traveling home. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2818",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, citing Leading Edge: UFOs in Israel, Past & Present" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/13/1998",
  "desc" : "A day after several witnesses reported seeing a triangular-shaped craft hovering over the Gulf of Mexico, just offshore, south of Fort Walton Beach, Florida the same witnesses reported seeing men in frogmen suits in the water, in the same area where the lights from the object had been shining down. There was also unusual military aircraft activity in the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2819",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case 3805, citing CAUS" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/13/2003",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. Mrs. Lenura Azizova in Simferopol', Crimea, Ukraine saw a cigar-shaped object hovering north of the city. It had a bright, yellowish light in front that outlined the cylindrical shape of the craft. When it switched off the light, it was gone in the darkness. Its length was estimated to be 50-60 meters. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2820",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 127" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/13/2003",
  "desc" : "At noon in Anaheim, California cars suddenly stopped because of EM ignition interference. The main witness was driving home from his job when his new car suddenly stopped, as did the cars following him. The witness said, \"Some of the people behind me got out of their cars and asked me if I knew what was going on. I said, 'I have no idea. This car is new, so I'm kind of mad.\" Then he heard a humming sound, so he looked around and he saw two cylinder shapes just sitting there above them. They then landed, then took off into the air, and vanished. When gone, his car and the other cars could be restarted. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2821",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 118, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/13/2003",
  "desc" : "At 8:15 p.m. a witness was sitting in his window seat in Georgetown, Ontario, Canada when she saw a light outside that caught her attention. \"As I looked up, I saw a beautiful display of rotating lights that slowly hovered, moving no more than 5 km/hour,\" she said. It was no more than 100 feet from her roof top. She rushed outside to gave at the UFO, almost paralyzed with fear. She got a very good look at the craft. It was not as big as she thought, and it was very quiet. The outer ends were rotating with a wondrous arrangement of lights, which sped off in an instant. At 11:35 p.m. in Terrace, British Columbia a ring of colored lights with a dark round object in the center was also seen. It moved slowly to the south. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2822",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 137, citing NUFORC; Geoff Dittman, 2003 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 195, citing HBCCUFO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/14/1909",
  "desc" : "On this night a witness named Egenes reported that a cigar-shaped object directed five beams of light at a ship's bridge off the coast of Blyth, Northumberland, England. It then shot away a mile to another ship, and did the same thing again. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2823",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Carl Grove, FSR, November 1970, p. 17" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/14/1955",
  "desc" : "At 12:15 a.m. in Dinan, Cotes-Nord, France Mr. M. Droguet sighted a large domed disc hovering five feet above the courtyard outside his house. Two short humanoids in Michelin Man spacesuits exited the craft. Both wore boxes on their chests. Mr. Droguet was paralyzed in place and could not move during the encounter, and he was temporarily blinded by a blue-green light. The men walked with an ackward gait. The UFO left silently by making a vertical ascent. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2824",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Cresson, FSR Case Histories, October 1970, p. 13; Alain Gamard, UFO Register, Volume 7, p. 44; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0365" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/14/1960",
  "desc" : "At around four a.m. Raimondo dos Santos saw two craft land on hill near a farm called Capin Acu in Paracuru, Brazil. He went near them and saw several small pallid beings, who were making friendly gestures at him. He ran away. The creatures wore blue uniforms with white helmets. The previous day at 7 p.m., over a hundred witnesses had observed a dark-gray, circular craft, 20 meters in diameter with a powerful light, maneuvering and hovering in the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2825",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 505; Olavo T. Fontes, APRO Bulletin, September 1960, p. 5; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 200" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/14/1960",
  "desc" : "A red light 10 feet in diameter paced the Lewis family in their car in Casterton near Mount Gambier, South Australia at 6:50 p.m. It stayed in front of their car for 15 miles. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2826",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 170" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/14/1961",
  "desc" : "At around 11:00 o'clock in the morning a 21-year-old man saw a golden disc-shaped object floating on the surface of the water while crossing the Mississippi River near Vicksburg, Mississippi. He got out of his car and watched it through binoculars. The water surface was disturbed as the object ascended, making a swishing sound. The sighting lasted about two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2827",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "James A. Scarborough, MUFON field investigations database, case 900315" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/14/1965",
  "desc" : "Two witnesses sighted a domed UFO over a golf course in Bradford, Massachusetts at 3:30 p.m. It hovered, shot away, then moments later came back on the same path, hovered again, and finally moved away at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2828",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 332" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/14/1967",
  "desc" : "While driving near Alamosa, Colorado at 11:15 p.m. an Adams State College student named Hardwick stopped his car and tried to approach a cigar-shaped UFO that was in a pasture pulsating with a red glow 100 meters away. It changed color from blue to red to orange to blue. Both rear tires of his car went flat for no apparent reason, and the object shot away making no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2829",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP files, citing Alamosa Valley Courier, May 17, 1967; Jim and Coral Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p. 163; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 40; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 339" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/14/1968",
  "desc" : "At six o'clock in the evening the witness, Mrs. Valentina Flores, heard noises coming from her sheep pen located between the towns of Uyini and Otoco, Bolivia and went to investigate. She found the sheep pen covered with some form of plastic net, and inside was a short being 3.5 feet tall, who was killing the sheep with a tube with a hook on the end. The witness threw stones at the creature, and she was injured when she was thrown to the ground. The tube like instrument absorbed the net, and the entity rose straight up into the air with a strange noise. Thirty four of the sheep had been killed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2830",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Oscar A. Galindez, FSR, July-August 1970, p. 15; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0906, citing FSR" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/14/1969",
  "desc" : "Three law students were on the campus of their Law School in Piedade, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil at 10:50 p.m. when they sighted a one-meter in diamter ring-shaped object with yellow-green lights in the sky maneuvering over and behind the faculty building. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2831",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Irene Granchi, UFO Abductions and Reports from Brazil, p. 84" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/14/1973",
  "desc" : "Sr. Eduardo Ignacio Calle was driving on the higway in his Fiat 1500 in Oriente, Buenos Aires province, Argentina at 10:30 p.m. when his car experience a total electrical failure. A disc-shaped UFO was sweeping the area with a beam of light, and did so three times. Ground marks were found nearby at a landing site. There were three similar rings six to eight meters in diameter, with three V marks at the external circle. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2832",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Oscar A. Uriondo & Roberto Banchs, UNICAT database, case 466; Inforespace, April 1975, citing Oscar Galindez" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/14/1976",
  "desc" : "Mr. Urruti, age 47, was driving his truck in Olavarria, Argentina when he encountered an unusual fog while crossing over a bridge. An oyster shaped UFO emitted a blinding light beam, and both he and his truck were somehow picked up and abducted. Inside the craft he saw a luminous horseshoe-shaped instrument panel 3-4 meters long. A cask-like device with many cables attached to it was placed on his head, and he received messages from it that he would not reveal. He had sharp pain in his neck and wrists following the experience. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2833",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, October 1976, p. 31, citing La Razon, May 22, 1976; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 77; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 92, citing FSR; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1472, citing La Razon" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/14/1978",
  "desc" : "At 10:20 p.m. 12 men witnessed a UFO with multicolored lights at the Pinecastle Tracking Station, near Ocala Forest, Florida. It hovered over trees and an old Civil Defense tower, then made a hairpin turn. It flew at only 50 to 100 feet altitude as confirmed by radar, and had red, green and white lights flashing in sequence. The Captain of the \"Lisa C\" on the Apalachicola River also witnessed it at 10:30 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2834",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, June 1978, p. 4; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 22, 244; Xenolog, June 1978, p. 9; NICAP UFO Investigator, September 1978, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/14/1978",
  "desc" : "Also in 1978, in Lowestoft, Norfolk county, England at 8:00 p.m. a disc hovered over some trees, then descended and faded away. Four figures, two large and two small, were seen nearby where the object came down. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2835",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 12647" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/14/1980",
  "desc" : "Simpson County, Mississippi - A glowing disc high in the sky cast a light beam on the roadway at 3:30 a.m. When a car with witnesses Mr. & Mrs. Pickrel drove through the light beam the \"car lights went on and off about 7-8 times\". The headlights and console lights later functioned normally. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2836",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 307, citing the Biloxi Daily Herald, May 14, 1980; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 25, 258; MUFON UFO Journal, July 1980" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/14/1980",
  "desc" : "On a rainy night shortly after 9:00 p.m. while driving through a forested area in Mars Hill, Aroostook County, Maine 33-year-old Mr. Ray reported that three dark discs flew silently over his car. They then stopped and hovered ahead of him in close formation, at 500 feet altitude. They suddenly took off at an incredible speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2837",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, CUFOS Newsletter, November 1980, p. 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/14/1991",
  "desc" : "Two teens playing in an isolated field on this afternoon in Mini Mini, Puerto Rico encountered a small landed silver circular craft on the ground. It was very shiny and had a small dome-like sphere on top. The boys approached the object and began touching it. when a small hatch opened from the bottom of the craft and a long thin green arm came out and grabbed one boy by the leg. As the boy struggled to get away a second arm emerged and grabbed him by his arm. The boy grabbed a piece of wood and struck back at one of the creature's arms. He managed to cut off one of the creature's fingers and the creature let go. The finger fell to the ground oozing a green liquid. The witnesses attempted to retrieve the severed finger, but dropped it during their panic and fled. They later returned to find both the object and the severed finger gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2838",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1991, case # 1202, citing Jorge Martin, Enigma, issue # 42" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/14/1991",
  "desc" : "Lancaster, California - At 11:00 o'clock at night the witness was suddenly awakened by three 4.5 foot tall Grey humanoids, with large black slanted eyes, who began lifting her from her bed. She began to struggle with the beings, when she noticed a tall human in the living room dressed entirely in black and holding a device resembling a small TV set. She broke loose from the Greys and yelled for her husband to wake up. He did, and they now both ran to the kitchen after hearing their dog barking in the backyard. They then saw a man wearing a blue Air Force blue uniform lying prone on a projecting part of their roof near a ladder. A K-9 sentry dog that appeared ready to attack their dog, was also now on the ground below, accompanied by the three Grey humanoid beings. Overhead a number or red lights were hovering. The witness yelled, \"Do not kill my dog!\" Her next recollection was standing alone in her yard next to the generator shack. A large craft with revolving red lights hovered above her and a thick fog was coming out of some ports around the object. She next remembered waking up and sitting up in her bed at 3:50 a.m. She was later hypnotically regressed, and recalled being taken to an underground facility, but would not elaborate about the details. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2839",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-1994; William Hamilton, MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 286; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1991, case # 739, citing MUFON" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/14/1993",
  "desc" : "At 4:00 o'clock in the morning a four-meter long white glowing ovoid UFO flew over Mildura, Victoria, Australia heading northeast. It then made a 90 degree turn and followed a car. The lights and radio of the car both temporarily died. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2840",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #16046" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/14/1993",
  "desc" : "A domed disc flew over homes in Ashbourne, England at a low altitude, making no sound at 2:15 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2841",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1993" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/14/1997",
  "desc" : "Matias Pakula was looking out his bedroom window in Bethelem, Pennsylvania at three o'clock in the morning when he spotted a cigar-shaped object hovering 300 feet in the air and a short distance away. Through windows he saw what he described as \"beautiful beings\" inside. After about five minutes the object shot away at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2842",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, citing UFO Sightings in New Mexico and the World" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/14/1999",
  "desc" : "A hexagon shaped set of bright blue light maneuvered over Hot Springs, Arkansas at 12:15 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2843",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 1999 archived webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/14/2000",
  "desc" : "A triangle shaped object with red and green lights flew low over the Garden State Parkway in Tuckeron, New Jersey at 9:25 p.m. The UFO flew silently toward another unknown red circular object in the distance. The red object flew off to the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2844",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), September 2000, p. 29" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/14/2004",
  "desc" : "A massive triangular shaped object crossed the sky from south to north at 2:30 a.m. in Scappoose, Oregon. It was dark without lights but blocked the backdrop of stars as it flew over. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2845",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 2004 archived webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/14/2005",
  "desc" : "A large black triangular UFO flew over Grand View, Idaho at a slow speed at 10:38 p.m., flying at a high altitude and moving from the northwest to the southeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2846",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 2005 archived webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/15/1879",
  "desc" : "Witnesses aboard the ship \"Vultur\" in the Persian Gulf saw two very large \"wheels\" spinning in the air at 9:40 p.m. They watched them slowly descend to the surface of the ocean. Their estimated diameter was 40 meters, with a distance between the objects of 150 meters. They moved at an estimated speed of 80 kmph. The sighting lasted 35 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2847",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 180, case 4; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomena, p. 12; Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 111" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/15/1909",
  "desc" : "Shortly after 1:00 a.m. two witnesses watched as a cigar-shaped object hovered still over Casnewydd, Wales. Two lights from the object scanned the Newport Bridge for 10 minutes, then it flew away. At 11:30 p.m. an observer on the shore in Lowestoft, Norfolk, England heard a motor sound, then watched a bottle-shaped object fly overhead. There was a pilot sitting in the front. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2848",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Carl Grove, FSR, November 1970, p. 17; Brinsley Le Poer Trench, Mysterious Visitors, p. 99; (2) Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 265, citing FSR, January 1971" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/15/1952",
  "desc" : "An U.S.A.F. F-51 aircraft flying over North Korea watched an unidentified object following a jet interceptor at 6:35 p.m. The object was subsequently in front of the F-51, with a positive radar lock-on. At 6,000 yards distance the object pulled away with an acceleration of 20 G's. At 8:00 p.m. a silvery oval object was seen below two F-86E jets flying south of Changson-Ni, North Korea at 8,000-10,000 altitude. The object was estimated to be 20 miles away, and travelled at a speed of 1,200 -1,500 mph in a \"rolling maneuver.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2849",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard F. Haines, Advanced Aerial Devices Reported During the Korean War, p. 39" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/15/1956",
  "desc" : "Two police watched four 30 meter diameter discs exit from a 150 meter cigar-shaped mother craft over Johot Baharu, Malaysia at 9:15 p.m. The discs then flew to the south in a V formation. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2850",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4981, citing Flying Saucer Review, volume 3, number 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/15/1963",
  "desc" : "Mr. and Mrs. D. of Carignan, France saw an object on the ground to the left side of the road as they were driving between Bergerac and Bordeaux, beyond the Yvrac intersection, 2.5 km from Maille, Gironde department. They stopped to observe it, and the object then followed them for part of their trip. The sighting lasted 10 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2851",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 570, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 71" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/15/1964",
  "desc" : "At noon two school children in Wheatfield, Indiana saw two small humanoids on the top floor of a church. At 2:30 p.m. a 10-year-old girl saw a little man, three feet tall, reclining under a shrub pine tree. He had white hair, a small goatee, long arms, a reddish-blue complexion, and wore greenish clothing. He looked injured and appeared to be bleeding. He had more fingers on his hands than a normal human. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2852",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, cases A0591 & A0592, citing Orvil R. Hartle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/15/1964",
  "desc" : "Two UFOs were tracked on radar from the Stallion Missile Site on the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico beginning at 11:30 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2853",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Coral E. Lorenzen, Fate, October 1964, p. 45; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 225" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/15/1964",
  "desc" : "A circular UFO with very bright headlights flew in \"an extremely wavy motion--like a float bobbing on the water\" north of Lewistown, Montana at 10:28 p.m. It was witnessed by five people from two families. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2854",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1964, p. 7; Jacques Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 36" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/15/1966",
  "desc" : "A dark donut or tyre-shaped object with a hole in the center hovered and wobbled over Itaguai, Rio Janeiro State, Brazil at 5:30 p.m. It appeared to be about the size of an airliner. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2855",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Irene Granchi, UFO Abductions and Reports from Brazil, p. 43" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/15/1967",
  "desc" : "After attending an amateur astronomy club meeting, Benito Hamburgo Valenzuela returned to his home in La Paz, Baja California, Mexico at around 11:00 p.m. where he encountered a giant, nine foot tall man. The man had large blue eyes, red hair, and very large ears. He wore a tight fitting red coverall like garment with short sleeves, boots, and bracelets on both arms. On his chest he wore an insignia of white dots, and he wore a white cap on his head that looked nickel-plated. He also wore a wide belt, from which hung a small box with a small antenna. The collosus pulled up a large piece of wood and sat down on it. He greeted Hamburgo in slightly accented Spanish, and introduced himself as \"Wirkle, Chief of the Guard.\" He answered Benito's questions, anticipating them before the witness actually spoke them. He said he was from a very distant \"region\" and that they were an advanced race, concerned about the misuse of atomic energy. When he left he refused to shake hands, explaining that contact with him would aggravate Benito's cardiac condition. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2856",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-39 (A0812), citing Mike Culbert & Paul Cerny; Daily Gazette, July 24, 1968" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/15/1967",
  "desc" : "A pilot and police along with several other witnesses in northeast Indianapolis, Indiana sighted a fat, multi-colored cigar-shaped UFO with a brilliant light in front at 11:15 p.m. There were no blimps flying at the time. It shot straight up (or at a very steep angle) very rapidly. The object was confirmed on radar. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2857",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers - Here and Now! p. 246" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/15/1971",
  "desc" : "Fifteen-year-old Michael D. of Passapatanzy, West Virginia was on his way home with his dog after camping out the previous day with two other boys. He was crossing a grassy field at 10:00 p.m. when he saw a bright object slowly approach at a low altitude, passing over some high-tension wires that crossed the field. He crouched down in some tall grass as the object landed with a bounce, about 100 feet away. The silvery UFO was higher than it was wide and had a \"walkway\" that ran around its circumference. It had red and white revolving lights on top and made a humming noise. A door \"came down\" out of which emerged a \"huge\" figure who was hunched over and walked in a \"stiff legged, bouncing\" fashion. The humanoid being had long arms and wore shiny, light reflecting clothing. In one hand it held a glowing box. The humanoid giant appeared to be approaching the tall grassy area where Michael was hiding, so the teenage ordered his dog to attack the figure. The being then turned and re-boarded the craft, and within a couple of minutes it took off. His companions from the camping expedition came and found Michael a short time later still in the grass, moaning and very frightened. The next day seven holes where found in the ground at the site. They were 2.5 inches wide at the top and a foot deep into the soil. Two days later, Michael and several other family members saw a bright disc-shaped object, which had been pursuing his sisters as they drove in a car up the long driveway to their house. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2858",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John Carlson, NICAP UFO Investigor, May 1972 p. 1; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-17, citing John Carlson and Bruce Maccabee for NICAP" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/15/1973",
  "desc" : "At 3:10 a.m. northwest of Tosny, Eure Department, France a car experience radio interference in the presence of a UFO. The disc-shaped object then arced up into sky, changed shape into a rocket, and vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2859",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 141" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/15/1973",
  "desc" : "At around 4:00 p.m. Fay, a 7-year-old girl, was with a boy about her own age on the golf course in Sandown, Isle of Wight, England when they heard a wailing siren at around 4 p.m. They followed it through a hedge into a swampy meadow, where the noise ceased. As they were crossing a brook by a footbridge a strange figure came out from under the bridge. This person fumbled with a book, dropped it in the water, retrieved it, and then went with \"a strange hopping motion, with knees raised high\" to a metallic \"hut\" with no windows.<br/><br/> The being was nearly 7-foot tall and neckless. He wore a yellow, pointed, hood with a black knob on top with \"wooden\" antennae or horns on the sides, and a green tunic with a red collar. \"His face had triangular markings for eyes, a brown square of a nose and motionless yellow lips.\" Other round markings were on his paper-white cheeks, and a fringe of red hair fell onto his forehead. \"Wooden slats\" protruded from his sleeves and from below his white trousers. There were only three fingers on each blue-gloved hand and 3 toes on his bare, white feet. The being took from the hut a black knobbed microphone, into which he spoke to the children, now 50 meters away, saying \"Hello, are you still there?\"<br/><br/> Since his tone sounded friendly, they approached him. He then wrote in a \"notebook\", in a large hand, \"Hello and I am all colors, Sam.\" Talking without the aid of a microphone, his lips did not move, and his speech was unclear. They asked about his clothes, which were all ripped, and \"asked if he was really a man.\" \"No\", he replied, with a chuckle. When they asked if he was a ghost, he answered \"Well, not really, but I am in an odd sort of way.\" \"What are you then?\" they asked, but he replied, \"You know.\" He also said that he had no name, and \"confided that he was frightened of people.\"<br/><br/> At his invitation, the children crawled through a flap into his hut, which he told them he had \"just made.\" It contained two levels. The lower, which \"had plenty of headroom\", was \"wall papered\" in blue green and covered with a pattern of dials; there was an electric heater and simple wooden furniture. The upper level, less spacious, had a metal floor. He told the children that he fed on berries, and drank the river water after cleaning it. He said he had a camp on the mainland. Inside the hut he removed his hat to reveal round, white ears and sparse brown hair. Before eating a berry, he performed an \"odd trick\" with it; he placed the berry in his ear, where it disappeared and reappeared at one of his triangular eyes.\"repeating the process, the berry traveled to his mouth.\" The children talked to this being for at least half an hour, then rushed across the golf links to tell the firs man they had seen a ghost. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2860",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-092 (A1201), citing BUFORA Journal, Vol. 6, No. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/15/1973",
  "desc" : "At 9:45 p.m. a one-meter diameter, violet disc-shaped object paced a car for 11 kilometers from Gerena to Sevilla in Spain. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2861",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 165" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/15/1973",
  "desc" : "There were several reports from England late on this evening. At 11:00 p.m. several saw a silvery disc-shaped object in the sky over Fenham, West Moor, and Spennymoor, Durham. At 11:15 p.m. an ovoid UFO being watched by two on the road between Routh and Wawne, Humberside, England abruptly vanished. At 11:30 p.m. a sole observer in Cottingham, Humberside watched an object that was first round in shape, but later assumed a cigar-like configuration. Finally, there were several reports from independent witnesses and photographs of a silvery disc-shaped object from Rothbury, Northumberland. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2862",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, volume 5 (1974), cases 258-260" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/15/1974",
  "desc" : "On this day a businessman and a teacher had a UFO pace their car as they drove on the road in Pedroche, Spain. The object was described as round object and the size of table. When it intercepted their course they turned the car around and fled. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2863",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 346" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/15/1974",
  "desc" : "At 1:00 p.m. a dull gray, banana-shaped object was sighted hovering 60 meters over an electronics plant in Arroyo Grande, San Luis Obispo County, California; it made no noise, and the sighting lasted four minutes. There were independent witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2864",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 11321, citing NICAP UFO Investigator, July 1974" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/15/1977",
  "desc" : "Two twin sisters had gone into Middle Cliff field, at St. Brides, Pembrokeshire, Wales not farm from their home at Ripperston Farm, to play games. It was just after three o'clock when they saw a silver-suited figure walking away from them, about 60 to 70 feet away. The being went up to a hedge and seemed to walk through the barbed-wire fence adjacent to it. It then disappeared. On the other side of the field a silvery-white disc-shaped object with a red light landed. A a ramp-like stairway came out and a red \"box\" was ejected down the stairway to the ground. The stairs were then retracted, and the door in the object closed and the UFO took off. The girls ran home for their mother, but when they returned to the field there was no sign of the object or the being. The UFO was seen again that day, flying seaward, and large footprints were found in the grass at the landing site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2865",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, July 1978, p. 1; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-27, citing Randall Jones Pugh for BUFORA" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/15/1978",
  "desc" : "At 1:00 a.m. the 24-year-old river pilot of the 'Lisa C' and another crewmember on the Apalachicola River, five miles south of Wewahitchka, Florida had a four minute close encounter with a 30-50 wide domed disc-shaped object coming out of the water. It had 8-10 illuminated windows, and each window was estimated to be 4-foot square, and was a frosty pink color. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2866",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, July 1978, pp. 2-3; UNICAT, case # 161" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/15/1978",
  "desc" : "A cattle mutilation was discovered this day on a farm in Gilroy, California. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2867",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact, p. 90" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/15/1978",
  "desc" : "On this cloudy evening Ignacio Sanchez Munoz, age 19, was walking along the road between Caujimolpa and Obregon, Mexico after finishing work at a nearby restaurant. He observed a hovering multi-colored, luminous cube-shaped object that was making a buzzing sound and emitting a yellow beam. He then received telepathic thoughts telling him that the cube was not occupied, but soon human-like beings would arrive on Earth. After conversing with the voice for an hour he was told, \"soon we shall return to chat with you.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2868",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, July 1978, p. 1; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1940, citing IUR" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/15/1980",
  "desc" : "At 12:40 a.m. a Mr. Hughes, driving on the M53 Motorway in Wirral, Merseyside, England sighted an object shaped like two curved artillery shells side-by-side close to the ground. Two shielded beams of light were projected downward from the object onto the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2869",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Alan Bell, FSR, August 1981, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/15/1986",
  "desc" : "On this night a 70-year-old farmer named Joaquim, who lived near Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil watched a lighted object hovering about 50 paces away and approximately 15 meters above the ground for about 30 minutes. The object flashed a beam of light around the terrain, and it occasionally struck the witness as he stood in his doorway. Because of the brilliance of the light, he shielded his face with his left arm, but at one point the light struck his right eye. Joaquim said he heard voices, but couldn't understand the language. As the object glided away it hit some electric wires and broke one of them. He reportedly lost about 80% of the vision in his right eye, and he had a sunburn-like burn on his left arm. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2870",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, August 1987; Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 317" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/15/1991",
  "desc" : "At 10:35 a.m.  in West Middlesex, Pennsylvania a man and a kid observed a dull gray blimp-like object with two appendages in the sky. It was surrounded by mist, while the center of the object glowed multicolors. It moved slowly at first, moved and dipped repeatedly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2871",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald M. Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, August 1991, p. 14, citing Stan Gordon, case # 910701E" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/15/1991",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon a short green humanoid with red oval-shaped eyes and huge pointed ears was spotted on the grounds of the local elementary school in Mini Mini, Puerto Rico. It apparently tried to communicate with one of the children from the kindergarten class. It spoke to the child in a \"chatter\" type of language, but ran off quickly into the bushes when some other children approached. Later that afternoon, two boys were playing in the area close to the earlier encounter when they heard a noise and saw the same or similar strange being emerge from the woods. They described him as short and bright green in color. He had an oval head with large almond-shaped eyes and huge pointed ears. He was thin with very long arms, and hands with only three digits on them. The being stood looking at the boys, emitting a strange \"chatter\" like noise. The boys threw fruit at it and then chased it, but it ran quickly and disappeared down an aqueduct. At one point the creature caused one of the boys to fall down by grabbing him by the foot. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2872",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1991, citing Jorge Martin, Enigma, issue #42" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/15/1994",
  "desc" : "At 11:45 p.m. prison surveillance cameras caught a two-foot wide UFO scanning the huge mesh perimeter fence of the Glenochil Prison in Alloa, Scotland. The object was a \"bright white light with a big hole in the middle, like a giant polo mint\" or donut. It was observed by two prison guards on the security video cameras, but was not visible to the naked eye. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2873",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1994; Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland's UFO Phenomenon, p. 176" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/15/1995",
  "desc" : "On this evening Sr. Dolores Torres had gone out in his backyard in Barranquitas, Guayama, Puerto Rico to cut down some banana plants when everything around him became illuminated by multicolored lights of blue, yellow, red, and white. He looked up and saw a small transparent cylindrical object, only 14 inches long and 3 inches wide, suspended in the air. It appeared to be held in place by a dark cable coming down from above. At the same time he could hear a loud buzzing sound. Moments later Sr. Torres saw a large dark \"form\" that floated or flew down towards him. He could see that it was a humanoid figure enclosed in a dark \"wing-shaped\" outfit hovering over him. The being had a human-like face, was gray in color and had huge eyes that appeared to be closed. It wore a tight-fitting helmet or cap. The figure attempted to approach the witness, and he began swinging at it with his machete. Finally, the being and the multicolored cylinder glided away. Mr. Torres had a nervous collapse and had to be hospitalized. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2874",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, citing Jorge Martin, Evidencia OVNI, issue #6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/15/2000",
  "desc" : "At 11:45 p.m. a married couple living north of Pine Gap near Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia responded by going outside when their dogs started barking and noticed a large dark object with lights that flew over from north to south, making no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2875",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Keith Douglas, Victoria UFO Research Society, website" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/15/2003",
  "desc" : "Two daylight disks were seen hovering over a mountainous ridge at the extreme southwestern point of the Crimean peninsula, Ukraine between 2:00 p.m. and 2:20 p.m. The disks were metallic, 10-12 meters in diameter, six meters high with central domes, and smaller, smooth protruding undersides. They approached the Black Sea and were in view for 20 minutes. A white-yellowish light was seen over the city of South Simferopol' that evening, changing brightness and pulsating, moving directly to the east. It appeared every other night from May 13 to May 21. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2876",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 35, 44, citing Anton A. Anfalov, Ukrainian UFO Research Association, an@crimea.com" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/15/2004",
  "desc" : "A woman reported seeing several objects hovering above her townhouse in Towson, Maryland at 12:30 a.m. She also reported that a Grey humanoid came into her home, and feeling a strange giddiness at the time unlike anything else she had ever experienced. She had a missing time experience, lasting at least 35 minutes. She has requested a complete investigation by MUFON. During the encounter the being made telepathic contact with her, and she experienced feelings of peacefulness, describing the entity as an \"old friend\". She felt that the entity seemed to express concern for her. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2877",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 2004 Humanoid Contact database, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2004 webpage, quoting MUFON as the source" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/15/2004",
  "desc" : "A UFO allegedly crashed in the early morning hours in a remote jungle region close to Guri Dam in southeastern Venezuela. The hydroelectric station at Guri Dam is at the north end of the man-made lake, Lago de Guri. The dam is on the Rio Caroni, 100 km south of the Orinoco River at Ciudad Bolivar. The incident was witnessed by workers at the dam and took place northwest of their location. Soldiers of Venezuela's Guardia Nacional reportedly proceeded to cordon off the area, and undertook stringent security measures further north. In Puerto Ordaz residents saw low-flying, black helicopters cross the overcast sky, heading south towards the dam. The presence of U.S. military personnel was also reported, although relations between the governments of Venezuela and the United States are not cordial. The seismology unit at the University of Caracas reported movement at the time of the crash. Access to the crash site was difficult due to the torrential rains at the site during this time of the year. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2878",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 2004 Humanoid Contact database, citing UFO Roundup, May 25, 2004, quoting Proyecto Orion, Scott Corrales, Christian Quintero of Planeta UFO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/15/2005",
  "desc" : "At 12:16 a.m., when the witness saw a glow coming from behind a hill near the airport in Carolina, Puerto Rico, it turned out to be a luminous triangular object, making a buzzing sound. The witness's car would not start. A photograph taken of the UFO shows a glowing structure with dark corners at the apexes.Animal reaction: dogs barking, birds frantic. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2879",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Scott Corales, ufoinfo.com" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/15/2008",
  "desc" : "At 11:43 in Coquitlam, British Columbia a witness sighted two orange, circular objects that were flying side-by-side very fast. They did a circle around each other and then vanished. They were making a humming sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2880",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2008 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 258; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2008 webpage, report uploaded June 12, 2008" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/15/2009",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. while driving up Highway 37 in Belleville, Ontario passengers in a vehicle spotted an orange disc-shaped UFO that they believed tried to communicate with them.  It was flashing a huge grid of lights at them for a three minute period; which was \"not like anything we've ever seen before for.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2881",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2009 web page, report uploaded June 9, 2009" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/16/1909",
  "desc" : "At 1:00 a.m. five people driving in the mountains from Monmouth to Treginach, Gwent, Wales spotted a cigar-shaped object in the sky that maneuvered up and down and with turns. It seemed under perfect control, and had lights on the ends. At 7:45 p.m. a government inspector named Hervey in Broome, Suffolk, England reported that a cigar-shaped airship flew into a strong wind to the north-northeast toward Lowestoft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2882",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Carl Grove, FSR, November-December 1970, p. 17" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/16/1952",
  "desc" : "On this night a luminous object like a \"glass lit from the inside\" moved silently across the sky in Malung, Kopparberg, Sweden. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2883",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 78" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/16/1953",
  "desc" : "In Bouffioulx, Hainaut, Belgium at 5:30 p.m. a disc-shaped UFO and occupant were seen briefly by a single witness named Chermanne before disintegrating, leaving behind a black smoke. Two photographs were taken of the disc enveloped in some form of \"radiation.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2884",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: March-July, p. 57; J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, Volume 6 (1975), p. 39; Jacques Bonabot, Catalog of Belgian Cases, case 27" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/16/1954",
  "desc" : "At least six observers in a 65 square kilometer area around Roma, Queensland, Australia sighted a yellow, V-shaped object flying to the east. It was estimated to be four meters wide. It turned over a house, and was absolutely silent as it flew. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2885",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 3371, citing APRO Bulletin, September 1954" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/16/1956",
  "desc" : "At 10:15 p.m. in Woodstown, Salem County, New Jersey Mr. Locuson, a building contractor, watched an orange-red light zig-zag across the sky near the Delaware River and Delaware Bay. It went north, veered to the west, shot off to the south, and then zig-zagged away. It was very fast and bright. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2886",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Salem Sunbeam, May 22, 1956; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: May-July, p. 27; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 4983" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/16/1966",
  "desc" : "Manuel Hernandez was coming back from the fields near Cordoba, Spain when he saw a disc-shaped object land 100 meters away. Small beings resembling \"green birds\" came out for a few instants, then took off again. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2887",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee: Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 769; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 42, citing the Paris Journal, May 18, 1966" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/16/1966",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 p.m. a newspaper editor and officer manager in Temple City, California were called out to the parking lot to see an unusual object in the sky. A grayish-green object, changing shape from rectangular to roughly diamond-shaped, to a domed disc, was reflecting sunlight and apparently metallic. It was visible high in the northern sky.  Hazy heat waves surrounded it. For 15 minutes the object moved around lazily, then it suddenly sped off to the northeast and disappeared. The editor compared the speed to that of a jet. At 1:10 p.m. a school principal saw children on the school's playground staring at a dark, disc-shaped object with a dome on top moving high overhead toward the east. At about the same time Charles Hardman was walking on Alessandra Street in Temple City when he noticed something that he first thought was a kite or balloon in the north-northwest sky moving slowly northeast. Through binoculars he saw that the object's surface was glossy, gray or black, yet light reflective. At times the top was obscured by hazelike smoke. Without the binoculars Hardman could see that this was due to different angles of vision as the object tumbled over in its path. It was shaped like a diamond with concave sides.<br/><br/> About 1:30 p.m. Mrs. Beverly Harding of Temple City, California was driving about a mile south of the center of town when she saw an aerial object paralleling the path of her car, but traveling a little faster than she was. It looked like \"a big bowl of jelly, plastic-like and shiny...\" The object was roundish, but irregularly shaped. Finally, at 3:25 p.m. Mrs. Janice Oyler of San Gabriel, California was driving through Temple City when she saw a \"black and silver cone-shaped object\" in the sky. She stopped her car to watch, and saw the object bobbing around and circling slowly in one small area of the sky for about three minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2888",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Los Angeles NICAP subcommittee; Ann Druffel, Skynet, May 1966, p. 27; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty-Year Report, p. 321" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/16/1966",
  "desc" : "Manuel Hernandez was coming back from the fields during this afternoon near Cordoba, Spain when he saw a disc-shaped object land 100 m away. Small beings resembling \"green birds\" came out for a few instants, before the object took off again. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2889",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 769, citing Paris Jour, May 18, 1966; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, FSR, May 1973, p. 19" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/16/1966",
  "desc" : "At 3:30 p.m. a driver in a car in Cheshire, Connecticut had a close encounter with a 20-foot cylindrical UFO just four feet over the ground. It was hovering with no supports touching the ground. It had a metallic coral surface, and moved slowly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2890",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing UFO Newsclipping Service, issue 302" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/16/1967",
  "desc" : "Roman and Jose Arribas observed an object land in a pine forest north of Nieva-Segovia, Cordoba, Spain. They saw \"people\" enter the ash-colored craft, which took off straight up, at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2891",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 843, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit; issue 89" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/16/1967",
  "desc" : "Half Moon Bay, San Mateo County, California. At 1:30 a.m. PDT a family saw a triangular object with a row of red lights and a white light on one end. The object hovered over the ground near a pond, made a roaring sound, then took off, soaring over their house. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2892",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Redwood City Times, Calif., May 16, 1967, copy in NICAP files." ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/16/1967",
  "desc" : "Four members of the crew of the SS Point Sur in the Gulf of Mexico at 10:10 p.m. had radar-visual confirmation with a UFO that was observed for 50 minutes, shape undetermined. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2893",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 237" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/16/1971",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. four witnesses of the Whitlock family in Anderson, Indiana observed an unidentified aerial object after the power failed in their house. It was a Saturn-shaped UFO, making a high frequency sound. The object was the size of a house. The body of the object was a silver ball illuminated by brilliant red, green, blue and white lights around its rim. It moved at tractor speed, and then hovered over the hog farmyard, setting off pandemonium of howling, squacking, and squealing by the dogs, chickens, pigs, and a parrot. The witnesses suffered vibration, numbness, and fear. They fled back into their house which had been rendered powerless. The entire incident lasted 20 minutes. A tree died at the site of the UFO's closest approach. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2894",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted R. Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case # 473" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/16/1973",
  "desc" : "In the mid-afternoon an anonymous man \"who enjoys an excellent reputation in Bahia\" was walking through his property by the river in Parafuso, Bahia, Brazil carrying his shotgun, when he heard a soft humming. Then a man about 5 feet 3 inches tall appeared in front of him. He wore a brownish gray, tight-fitting coverall, with metallic colored boots and a wide belt with a very large blue buckle. His face and his hands, which had long fingers, were pallid white, his ears were small and pointed, and his head \"larger than ours.\" This man, speaking in Portuguese, told the witness not to be afraid and to put away his gun, saying that he was \"not of this world-I come from a planet that you people call a satellite.\" He also said that his ship was hovering a few yards above them, invisible to the eye. Then he said, \"Good bye, brother, I must go\" and pushed a white button on his belt buckle. At this a beam of light shone on him \"and then drew away, carrying the man with it\", he disappeared a few yards above the man's head. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2895",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-093 (A1205), citing Alberto Romero, ONIFE" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/16/1976",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon around 4 p.m. a 49-year-old woman waiting at a bus stop in St. Louis, Missouri saw a strange looking man. He was normally dressed, but had pallid facial features and wore goggles. He had a long sharp nose, a pointed chin, and a small mouth. She watched him for 15 minutes before taking the bus. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2896",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case (A1473)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/16/1979",
  "desc" : "Arlindo Gabriel dos Santos was hunting with two friends in a forest near Baependi, Minas Gerais State, Brazil around 10:30 a.m. when he became separated from the others. Sr. dos Santos next saw an object descend towards the ground in a clearing. He approached to within 180 meters, and saw that the object was shaped like a \"telephone booth\" about 1 meter in height. He had been carrying his Kodak camera with him, and was able to take a snapshot of the object before it abruptly disappeared in plain sight. He walked to where the craft had been, and then saw another object swiftly descend. This next object was shaped like a toy top, and a little larger than the previous object. It had a small propeller like apparatus on top and a long pointy protrusion on the bottom. As he tried to photograph this second object he heard a whooshing sound and the craft was quickly enveloped in smoke. He got closer to the smoke, and then he noticed yet a third craft descending overhead. This one was barrel shaped and about one meter tall. It balanced above the ground before landing. It too had a large propeller at one end, and was covered with red stripes. This object too suddenly vanished when he tried to approach.<br/><br/> He finally saw a huge white, egg-shaped object descend to the ground. The ovoid craft had a pointy top, and a fin-like protrusions on each side. Next to the fins Arlindo could see several windows. While it descended it produced a horrific noise like a choking motor, and as it neared the ground it put out four, leg like landing pods. Arlindo approached and tried to take another photograph, but there was a sudden flash that temporarily blinded him and left his eyes irritated. Frightened, he dropped the camera and ran, but was only able to get about 10 meters before he became frozen in place, unable to move. He said it felt like someone had grabbed him from behind. Behind him he noticed two men wearing helmets with visors and gloves. Behind their transparent visors he could see human faces. They grabbed him, each taking one arm. He begged them to let him go in the name of God, but he received the answer, \"In the name of God, we are all brothers, we don't harm anybody.\" The voice seemed to originate from a box like apparatus on their backs. He was taken towards the landed object. As he got near it he could feel an intense cold surrounding it. Another helmeted figure stood by a ladder extending from the craft, looking from side to side. The man asked Arlindo if he had seen something, which sounded to him like a \"Zurca.\" Arlindo thought he could have been referring to one of the previous smaller aerial craft. That man then extended a gloved hand and pulled Arlindo inside the craft through a square shaped doorway. The atmosphere inside the craft was pleasant and cool, and there was a smell like \"baby powder\" in the air. There were other men sitting around on seats in the room. He described them as human like, wearing dark tight-fitting outfits. The men had large slanted eyes, thin noses, and large mouths and they seemed to operating some type of unknown machinery. The men stood up and began conversing among themselves in an unknown language. Suddenly from another room a heavyset woman emerged. She wore a white uniform, gloves, but no helmet. The witness described her as good looking, tanned, with long light fine hair. The woman and one of the men then took him into a corridor. He then entered a room where he saw a square shaped object in the middle. The man pushed a button on the wall and the object rose up. The object resembled a large piece of marble. The woman then took out a long wand like object and pointed it at the object. On the object the witness then saw an image of the planet Earth and other planets. At this point the man the removed his helmet and the witness could see that he had very short, light colored hair. When Arlindo left the craft he was told to cover his eyes and not to look as the object left. He followed these instructions and did not see the object depart. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2897",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, citing Dr. Libirajara Franco Rodriguez & Maria Jose Pereira" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/16/1979",
  "desc" : "On the same day as Arlindo dos Santos's close encounter of the third kind in Brazil a mechanic in Charleston, South Carolina felt compelled to return to a spot where he had previously seen a UFO. A disc-shaped craft landed, and he was given a metal bar as a gift, along with the message that the occupants will return again. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2898",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 13700; Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 294" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/16/1981",
  "desc" : "A couple named Winsome were driving in the desert near Cocklebiddy, Western Australia when they noticed a red glowing dome low on the side of the road. It vanished as the car approached, but a glowing light flew off to the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2899",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Australian CUFOS Bulletin, August 1981" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/16/1986",
  "desc" : "A private pilot flying from Brasilia, Brazil was followed 460 miles by several small luminous objects, type unknown. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2900",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14351. citing George C. Andrews, Extra-Terrestrials Among Us, p. 316" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/16/1987",
  "desc" : "On this day an airline crew tracked a UFO on their weather radar. A Canadian Air International Boeing 737 was en route from Toronto, Ontario to Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Capt. Rick Olsen was flying at 31,000 feet (9,000 meters) when he and his first officer observed an unidentified object on their weather radar. The radar track indicated an object \"about the size of an aircraft carrier\" about 50 miles away at approximately their altitude, and traveling on roughly the same course at 5,400 mph (8,600 km/hr). The radar target lasted about four minutes. Weather was hazy at the time, and the aircraft was not close enough to make visual contact. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2901",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty-Year Report, p. 246; John Robert Colombo, UFOs over Canada: Personal Accounts of Sightings and Close Encounters, p. 215" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/16/1990",
  "desc" : "At eight o'clock in the evening two children playing outside in Tecumseh, Oklahoma called their mother to come see a UFO. The object was gray/lead in color and surrounded by mist. One of the witnesses saw windows illuminated in yellow. Others saw a yellow flame behind the object. The object accelerated out of view. The entire event lasted two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2902",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jean Waller-Seifried, MUFON field investigation case files, case # 900602" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/16/1993",
  "desc" : "At shortly after midnight a married couple driving with their daughter on the highway in Cormery, Indre-Loire, France had their vehicle paced by a bluish UFO. The form of the object was lit under a bluish light, and positioned itself in front of their vehicle at the height of the car's headlights. It maintained this position in front of the vehicle for the next four kilometers. The vehicle was traveling at approximately 100 km/h. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2903",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "GEIPAN, case # 123" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/16/1996",
  "desc" : "Several witnesses reported seeing a large blue, spherical object hovering low over a field in San Pedro Toxin, Jalisco State, Mexico at 11:30 p.m. Seven dwarfish figures about 80 cm tall, who emitted a luminous green glow, were seen moving very quickly on the ground near the object. They also seemed to have bright lights on their heads. The entire scene suddenly vanished in plain sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2904",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, citing Contacto OVNI" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/16/1998",
  "desc" : "A very large, dark disc-shaped UFO hovered over a giant hydroelectric dam and lake, Lago de Colbun in southern Chile, causing EM effects. It was so large it covered the valley. The UFO was witnessed by over 30 people, who described it as a a gigantic disc, \"dark (not black), with a big orange light on the bottom (middle) and small lights that moved around on the outer part (rim) of the object.\" It flew off to the east. Lago de Colbun is Chile's biggest hydroelectric dam and one of the largest in South America. It is located 200 kilometers south of Santiago de Chile. The UFO reportedly hovered at 1,000 meters above the ground and remained in view for 20 minutes, before flying across the lake and into the Andes Mountains. Witnesses described the object as \"so big that it seemed to cover the whole valley.\"<br/><br/> According to ufologist Luis Sanchez Perry, \"They call the UFOs robones (thieves) because that they say they steal electricity. Before they had the high-tech plant, they didn't have many blackouts (one or two in a month), but now they have three in a week.\" \"UFOs have been seen coming out of Lake Colbun near the high tension wires,\" he reported, 'absorbing electricity, absorbing water, and some of them have gone at high speed through the valley towards the hydroelectric plant,\" coming within a few hundred meters of the dam before disappearing. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2905",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 18037; Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 3, number 26" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/16/2003",
  "desc" : "At 1:30 a.m. four triangular UFOs were sighted over Yosemite National Park in California; one of the crafts was very large and transparent. Camping up on Yosemite at about 7,000 feet elevation, the night was clear and cool when the witnesses were just about to turn in for the night and they saw a bright blue flash south of their campsite. Next, they saw one very large triangular craft appear after the flash. This was followed by two more flashs, not blue, northwest of the campsite and two smaller craft appeared, and then a fourth craft appeared southwest. This last one was the largest and almost transperent; we could see the stars through the craft. \"At this point we were very frightened,\" the main witness reported. There was no noise from the craft, and the animals around the campsite and your normal forest sounds had gone silent. The four witnesses went into their truck and armed themselves, and decided to leave when they saw a very bright red flash and looked out the truck windows and the objects were gone. They packed their camping gear and headed home very frightened and confused.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2906",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2003 webpage, report dated April 10, 2004" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/16/2003",
  "desc" : "A witness was driving his sister to the bus stop in Rancho Santa Margarita, California at 11:00 a.m. when they looked up into the clear sky and observed a shiny disc or sphere that was hovering in one place for a minute while spinning. It glistened at certain spots when it was hit by the sunlight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2907",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2003 webpage, report dated May 17, 2003" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/16/2005",
  "desc" : "Two triangular-shaped craft were sighted in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma at 7:15 p.m. When they were first seen they were hovering, then they began following each other at a high rate of speed. They had three extremely bright lights: two white and one red.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2908",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2005 webpage, report dated June 20, 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/16/2007",
  "desc" : "A large triangle craft with more lights than normal lights was sighted over Ypsilanti, Michigan at 1:00 a.m. by a witness driving home. It was turning at right angles, first quickly and then slowly. It had three lights, portholes, or circles that were white on all three leading edges (sides and middle); on the bottom there were four more circles--3 white ones at each corner of the triangle and a larger red light in the middle of it. It was larger than a plane.It flew overhead slowly, where it stopped 150 yards from the witness for about 40 seconds, then turned 120 degrees and went around in circles around the freeway, then it headed out over the city where it disappeared out of view. The sighting lasted five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2909",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2007 webpage, report uploaded June 12, 2007" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/16/2007",
  "desc" : "A cylindrical UFO was sighted in Columbus, Missouri at around 1:00 p.m. The witness reports, \"While sitting outside of my business, visiting with a customer, we all looked up and saw a cylindrically shaped object traveling west above Highway 70. We all watched the object until it went out of sight. It was silver in color and did not have wings or a tail.\" They were not able to discern its true size or the distance of object, although it seemed to be flying quite low. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2910",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2007 webpage, report dated May 26, 2007, citing Barbara Becker, Missouri Investigators Group" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/16/2010",
  "desc" : "At 9:40 a.m. in South Kingston, Rhode Island a stationary gray cylinder slowly accelerated, turned white, then opaque, and disappeared in 30 seconds. In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at around 9:35 p.m. EDT the main witness was in his backyard smoking a cigarette on a very clear night, watching some kids play basketball in the courts. He looked up and noticed three disc-shaped objects skimming just under the cloud line. They were not balloons, helicopters or airplanes. They made no sound and were very precise in their movment. He called his sister to come out back to see what he was witnessing while they flew away. He did see all three objects very clearly, and the underneath of all three, but he did not have enough time to grab a camera. They were very disc-shaped objects with a white glow, and underneath of all three he noticed they all had this same faded black zone where he guessed the engine would be. At 9:30 p.m. CDT in Hugo, Minnesota two bright lights, pentagonal in shape and red in color, moved across the northern sky, hovered, then flew off quickly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2911",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2010 webpage, report uploaded June 3, 2010" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/16/2010",
  "desc" : "At 7:00 p.m. two friends in Jeffersonville, Indiana were walking to a gas station on a golf course near their home when they spotted a small circular white object in the sky. It was not moving, just stationary in the sky. Then the light from the object became brighter and brighter, and it turned into different colors: green, pink or red, and then blue. It got so bright that you could no longer see its original shape. Then the light shrank back to the white color, and within an instant it was gone, almost as if it shot out of the universe in a matter of seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2912",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2010 webpage, report uploaded September 8, 2011" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/17/1909",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. many witnesses in Belfast, Northern Ireland observed a silent cigar-shaped flying object with a light that flashed several times. It rose higher and shot away to the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2913",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Carl Grove, FSR, November-December 1970, p. 17" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/17/1947",
  "desc" : "Between 8:30 and 9:00 p.m. Field Engineer Savage in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma saw a frosty white, round and flat object, with a diameter to thickness ratio of 10:1. It was estimated to be the size of a B-29 (140 feet wingspan) traveling north at a 350° heading at between 10,000 to 18,000 feet moving at three times the speed of a jet, making a slight swishing sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2914",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Oklahoma City Times, June 26, 1947; NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1978, p. 3; APRO Bulletin, December 1977, p. 8; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, May 1992, p. 19" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/17/1950",
  "desc" : "At three o'clock in the morning four oil men in Hay Creek, Wyoming watched two saucers over an oil field for two hours. The object had lights and flames around its rim. It made dives and maneuvers.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2915",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 45" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/17/1950",
  "desc" : "On this night a military witness reported that a saucer-shaped object landed at the Amarillo, Texas airport for five minutes. Its touchdown set the grass on fire. It took off and flew to the west. There was an OSI investigation. On the same night a dark, \"absolutely solid smoke ring\" sped through the clouds of Timperley, Cheshire, England. It was the size of a plane. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2916",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, pp. 44 & 47" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/17/1955",
  "desc" : "At McDill Air Force Base, Florida a disc appeared at 7:00 p.m. as a large, square glowing object. It was at an estimated 30,000 feet altitude. It made 90 degree turns for 3 minutes, and then left by shooting straight up. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2917",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1955: January-June" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/17/1956",
  "desc" : "At 6:30 p.m. several people in South Bay, New York including witnesses named Winchell, Green and Harris observed a metallic saucer-shaped craft with a rim hovering over nearby East Mountain from the eastern shore of Lake George. It was silent. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2918",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Alexander Mebane, Civilian Saucer Intelligence New York Newsletter, June 1956, p. 9, citing Glens Falls Post Statesman, May 18, 1956; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: May-July, p. 28" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/17/1956",
  "desc" : "A man by the name of Meyer reported a formation of twenty silvery gray discs flying in close formation at a low altitude over Ada, Oklahoma at 10:22 p.m. The sighting lasted less than three minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2919",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, letter dated May 24, 1956; Flying Saucer Review, July 1956, p. 27; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 185" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/17/1956",
  "desc" : "On the same day a Sasquatch was sighted by a man named Hunt along Highway 1 in Flood, British Columbia, Canada. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2920",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 21, citing the Toronto Globe, July 6, 1957" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/17/1957",
  "desc" : "At 7:45 a.m. two observers in Roswell, New Mexico saw a shiny white disc in the sky fly to the east against the wind; it made a 90 degree turn to the north tilted on a slant. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2921",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, September 1957" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/17/1958",
  "desc" : "At 11:45 p.m. two men in a boat in Fort Lauderdale, Florida watched as an orange fireball flared up and sped away when a spotlight was shone at it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2922",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 12, 121; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1958: May-July, p. 28" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/17/1959",
  "desc" : "Three crocodile hunters saw a huge football-shaped object 100 meters away from them while hunting in Cooktown, Queensland, Australia at 4:30 a.m. The object spewed forth a 50 meter wide band of vapor. Two of the hunters stood up to get a better look. One of the two later died, and the other suffered some severe physiological aftereffects from the encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2923",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 101; Keith Basterfield, UFO Research Australia, March 1982, p. 24" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/17/1960",
  "desc" : "At 6:30 p.m. two men herding donkeys in Taboleiro de Nazare, Ceara State, Brazil were chased by a huge round object at low altitude for about 20 minutes. It pursued them for 18 kilometers, keeping same distance. Finally, after it flew away by climbing very quickly out of sight. Ten minutes later a luminous green ball of light was spotted along the coastline in Acarau, Ceara State, Brazil. It stopped offshore, then followed the coastline to the southeast. Another light followed along after it a short time later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2924",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Peter Rogerson, World-Wide Catalog of Type 1 Reports, case 939, citing APRO Bulletin, September 1960; (2) Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 5923, citing Flying Saucer Review" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/17/1964",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. a fiery object, maneuvering at low altitude, was seen from Massillon, Ohio. It was sighted from Wooster and Smithville, Ohio at 9:10 p.m., then from Lawrence and Burbank at 9:25 and 9:30 p.m. It flew erratically with a whirring sound and changes of color, apparently interfering with police radio. It went down toward the northwest, appearing ready to land. Abnormal radioactivity was allegedly found at the landing site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2925",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case # 605, citing Akron UFO Research Society" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/17/1965",
  "desc" : "On this evening a luminous UFO zigzagged over Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2926",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 154" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/17/1966",
  "desc" : "At 3:10 a.m. an aircraft design engineer in Mentor, Ohio saw a bluish-white object pickup 10 smaller objects in groups, brightening each time a pick-up was made, then dimming. The parent object then turned to the west and accelerated away. At 4:00 a.m. on US Highway 26 near Warm Springs, Ohio seven small nocturnal lights circled a large UFO; 4 entered, 3 left, returned and then entered again.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2927",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, May 1991, p.16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/17/1966",
  "desc" : "At 6:40 p.m. a Boeing engineer in Arabi, near New Orleans, Louisiana was among the witnesses who saw two discs flying off each wingtip of an airliner. The outer discs lagged briefly during a turn by the airliner. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2928",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP report form; Colorado UFO Study files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/17/1967",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. a stream of lights seen in the sky in Kamyshin, Volgograd, Russia were actually windows on a huge cigar-shaped UFO that flew from the northeast to southwest, and was lost from view as it ascended up into space. Major Y. B. Popov, of Novosibirsk, together with Junior Lieutenant A. S. Nikitenko and several local residents saw a cascade of lights rushing across the night sky from the northeast in even rows. The lights were located on the surface of a very large cigar-shaped object; the impression was that of an ocean-going vessel. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2929",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 189" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/17/1967",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. in Rural Hall, North Carolina witness Red Ledford observed a round, orange-colored object, similar in size to a small aircraft, which zigzagged back-and-forth for five minutes over a jet that was heading northeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2930",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 54;  Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty-Year Report, p. 339, UNICAT, case # 716" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/17/1968",
  "desc" : "At 8:45 p.m. Jose Da Silva, the driver of a VW minibus, and three passengers were listening to the radio under a light rain while driving between Florianopolis and Lagune, Santa Catalina State, Brazil when they suddenly heard a whirring sound and noticed a diffused light over the road. Suddenly the van rose up in the air about 50 centimeters and stayed there for a moment before coming down and again rising up in the air before it was set down on the road again, this time more slowly. The four men then noticed an intensely luminous circular object hovering overhead at about 100 meters altitude. Frightened, they watched from the van while the UFO hovered above them. They described the object as only about two meters in diameter with several porthole-like windows on its lower part. Through the portholes shadows or sillouhetted figures were visible moving about inside. A reddish light emanated from the top of the object. The UFO remained motionless for a few minutes, and then tilted at an angle and disappeared towards the ocean. After the incident all four men suffered from nausea and vomiting. One of the men also lost all the hair from his eyebrows. Da Silva, who before the incident had had an abundant head of hair, became bald in less than a year. A circular burnt area was found on the roof of the minibus. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2931",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Inforespace, February 1976; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, citing Cuarta Dimension # 20" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/17/1968",
  "desc" : "At 7:00 p.m. many onboard a ferryboat in Canal de Chacao, Chile watched a luminous object slow, stop, and make curves in its flight to the north until gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2932",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 117" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/17/1968",
  "desc" : "Three photographs of luminous UFOs were taken by Dr. Gabriel Alvial at the University of Chile's El Inferniello Observatory, in the Andes Mountains, Chile. The scientific research facility involved with this photographic case has been set up in the high Andes primarily as a Cosmic Ray measuring installation. The operators of the observatory apparently began observing a \"series of luminous phenomena\" months before. The objects were mobile but also stopped and hovered. One of the images can be viewed at http://www.nicap.org/images/680517andes.pdf ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2933",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Prof. Gabriel Alvial. \"Unusual Photograph from 14,000 Feet Andean Observatory\", Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1969; \"From a Laboratory in the Cordilleras Comes Documented Cases\", INFO Journal, 1 (4), Spring 1969; APRO Bulletin, May-June 1968, p. 8; J. Antonio Huneeus. \" A Historical Survey of UFO cases in Chile\", MUFON 1978 Symposium" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/17/1969",
  "desc" : "On this night a married couple in Graz, Austria viewed a white disc-shaped object through binoculars. It hovered and zoomed up and around for three hours. Dogs barked. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2934",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ernst Berger, MUFON UFO Journal, July 1976, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/17/1977",
  "desc" : "In Tranent and seven surrounding towns in Lothian, Scotland, shortly after nine p.m., a domed disc-shaped object and other objects were seen in the skies on a clear evening. One of the witnesses was a 13-year-old boy named McKenzie. The UFOs generally flew off to the east. The sightings lasted at least 20 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2935",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, November 1978, pp. 30-31" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/17/1977",
  "desc" : "In the village of Icoaraci, near Belem do Para, Para State, Brazil two fiery balls of light were seen in the sky at 9:30 p.m. One was green, and the other was red, and they came from opposite directions and collided causing a tremendous flash and a sound like thunder. The sky filled with a pink smoke, which slowly dissipated after 20 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2936",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Otto Raymundo, MUFON UFO Journal, July 1977, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/17/1977",
  "desc" : "A SWAT team witnessed a \"flying Xmas tree\" soar over the city of Memphis, Tennessee at 3:30 a.m. It was silent, and seen just 35 feet over twin electrical power towers. It was the length of a football field, and 50-75 yards wide. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2937",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Pratt, MUFON UFO Journal, issue 289; UNICAT, case # 549" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/17/1978",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 a.m. at a farmhouse in Emilcin, Poland just eight-tenths of a kilometer from the scene of Jan Wolski's humanoid encounter the day before, a mother was preparing breakfast while her two children, Adas and Agnieska, played outside. She heard a sound like thunder which seemed to be coming from the ground. A short time later her son Adas came inside to tell her that he had seen a box-shaped aircraft, like \"a little house,\" fly low over their barn. It then vanished by shooting up vertically with a sound like thunder. Adas said that the object was flying with its smallest wall forward, and there was a square window in this side with rounded corners through which he could see a pilot. On the edges of the side, he said, were moving, swaying black rods, like the feelers on a snail. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2938",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Xenolog, December 1978, p. 2; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing Timothy Good, Alien Base" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/17/1979",
  "desc" : "At 12:25 a.m. William Herrman saw a UFO from his home in Summerville, South Carolina and felt the urge to get in his car and follow it to a remote location. Everything became silent, and the object descended from the sky, and pulled him inside the craft by means of a blue beam of light. He then lost consciousness. When he woke up he was on a exam table. He was medically examined by short, light skinned beings, with large heads and oval-shaped eyes. They wore red, tight-fitting coveralls and pullover boots, and their leader had an emblem like a winged serpent on his chest. They conversely extensively. He was then taken on a journey and allowed to view a larger vessel in flight and people on the surface looking up at the craft. He was eventually returned to the same field as his first abduction experience. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2939",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions:  The Measure of a Mystery.  Volume 2: Catalogue of Cases, case # 191B, citing Wendell Stevens; Columbia (SC) State, June 28, 1981; Albert S. Rosales, 1979 Humanoid Sighting Reports, case # 2258" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/17/1989",
  "desc" : "Two women in their twenties driving in a car in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at 2:57 a.m. had a close encounter with a white ovoid object with red beacons flashing on the sides. It made no sound, and vanished in sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2940",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dan Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1989, p. 5, MUFON case file # 890719" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/17/1991",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. a near collision occurred between a Boeing 707 airliner and a disc-shaped object over Ji Yong, 260 miles from Chengdu, Sichuan province, China. The airliner dropped in altitude and extinguished its lights to avoid a further encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2941",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 57; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 46" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/17/1994",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. a huge bright light with lots of little lights, chased by second smaller light, was sighted in Monte Vista, Colorado. As the smaller object closed in on larger one, the larger one turned from white to red, and then made a 45 degree turn to the west. It made a pinging bullet sound as it flew. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2942",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 240, citing the Valley Courier" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/17/1998",
  "desc" : "At 1:30 p.m. at La Veta Pass, Colorado on US Highway 160 a silver colored, cigar-shaped object was observed over the Sangres de Cristo Mountains during a thunderstorm. The UFO flew in and out of the clouds for several minutes before becoming obscured by the storm. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2943",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Christopher O'Brien case files, case 548" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/17/2000",
  "desc" : "In the pre-dawn hours, in a dream-like state a local woman in Independence, Missouri remembered seeing a bright light overhead through her bedroom skylight window. She next remembered lying down on a table and a figure was at her head on the right side over her shoulder; another figure was at her feet on her right side. They seemed to be pulling or tugging at something that felt like a rope going through her body from her right shoulder to her right hip area. She felt very uncomfortable and her chest hurt. She woke up in her bed, and noticed a bright light shining in the skylight, and what appeared to be a plane at first that was traveling south to North. The object had a tail with a red flashing light and two wings with red and green lights on the ends. The wings were very thin, and right next to the tail, unlike a normal airplane. The body of the object was long with a squared off nose. The strange craft had two very bright large white lights underneath it at the front, shining directly towards the ground. No noise was heard. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2944",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 2000 Humanoid Sighting Reports, case # 3785, citing Missouri MUFON" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/17/2001",
  "desc" : "At 9:45 p.m. a Ph.D., his wife and their three children in Ames, Iowa witnessed a huge, silent triangular craft with bright, blinking, strobing and pulsing white lights. The craft took three minutes to cross the sky. Using binoculars, they checked details on the huge, nearby object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2945",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 75, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/17/2004",
  "desc" : "A woman was cleaning house in Culloden, West Virginia on this evening when she spotted a black figure run past her window. She looked outside and could not see anyone. She resumed her cleaning, but again saw another figure run by the window, this one not as dark as the first. Ten minutes later she was in the kitchen when she was blinded by a bright flash of light that came in through both of her back windows. She then closed her curtains. The next day her dogs were acting strangely and there was a local power outage in the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2946",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2004 archived webpage, citing Donnie Blessing, MUFON Ohio" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/17/2008",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m. a V-shaped object flew low over the city of Chilliwack, Fraser Valley, British Columbia. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2947",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2008 Canadian UFO Survey, case 259, citing UFOBC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/17/2008",
  "desc" : "At noon a metallic cigar-shaped object was sighted over Carrollton, Texas traveling north at an incredible rate of speed for 20 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2948",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2008 archived webpage, report uploaded June 12, 2008" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/18/1909",
  "desc" : "Mr. Lethbridge was walking along a road around 11 p.m. near the mountains in Caerphilly, Wales when he saw on the grass a large tube-shaped machine. Aboard the craft were two men wearing furs and talking excitedly in a language the witness could not understand. There was a depression in the grass at the site after the object had flown off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2949",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 187; Jacques Vallee, Challenge to Science, the UFO Enigma, p. 99" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/18/1954",
  "desc" : "Two people witnessed the landing of a lens-shaped object, the size of a house, at Cannon AFB, New Mexico. It came to the ground near the railroad tracks, kicking up a small sandstorm in the desert. One witness started to approach it, then ran away in fear. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2950",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Otto Binder, What We Really Know about Flying Saucers; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 206" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/18/1959",
  "desc" : "A truck driver in Girard, Kansas reported that at 2:00 a.m. an orange disc-shaped object landed on the highway and covered both lanes. It rose up vertically after a short while and flew away. A separate witness was not identified. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2951",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross: The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: April-June, p. 30" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/18/1960",
  "desc" : "One year later a cigar-shaped object w portholes was seen over Wellington, New Zealand. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2952",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, May-June 1959; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 138" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/18/1963",
  "desc" : "A 15-year-old student was out camping at 10:30 p.m. near New Plymouth, New Zealand when he heard a wild animal on a nearby hill wailing. He next saw a crescent or semi-disc shaped UFO flying in the sky, looking like a stingray. It changed color from red to dark blue as it changed speed and direction. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2953",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 8360; Lloyd Mallan, Official Guide to UFOs, p. 20, Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 118" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/18/1964",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 a.m. a ten-year-old boy in Hubbard, Oregon saw a silver colored, square object 1.2 meters high resting on four shiny legs in a wheat field. With a soft beeping noise, it rose slowly to a height of a telephone pole, then \"shot up like a rocket.\" Ground marks were found at the site: three imprints forming a 90 cm equilateral triangle, with the wheat flattened from the center about 1.2 meters in diameter. There was also the odor of gas fumes. At 5:15 p.m. in Mount Vernon, Virginia a man named Meyers watched a small glowing white oval split apart twice after moving from the right side of the Moon to the left. At 10:15 p.m. an Army pilot at the Lawrence, Massachusetts airport sighted a yellowish white light in the sky traveling through the sky. It made a 360 degree turn, then sped off at an estimated 1,000 mph without making a sonic boom. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2954",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Fred Merritt, A Preliminary Classification of Some Reports of Unidentified Flying Objects Based on Shape and Dimensions of Imprint Patterns, Proceedings of the 1976 CUFOS Conference, p. 187; (2) Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 8811; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 51; (3) Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 329" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/18/1969",
  "desc" : "At around 10:00 p.m. an extremely bright white disc-shaped UFO stopped over a tractor on a farm east of Denilquin, New South Wales, Australia. It then shot up vertically into the clouds at high speed. There were nine witnesses, and the encounter lasted six minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2955",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "newspaper clipping dated May 20, 1969; FSR, November-December 1969, p. 32" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/18/1973",
  "desc" : "Behencourt, Somme, France. At 10:30 p.m. a 20-meter wide domed disc glowed, hovered, and revolved only 30 meters above the ground, but made no noise. Animals stared dumbfounded at the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2956",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1974" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/18/1975",
  "desc" : "A triangle of lights was sighted over some woods in Rainhill, Merseyside, England at around 10:00 p.m. Some huge footprints were found in the area later, along with some other ground marks. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2957",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Bernard Delair, Northern Network News, August 1975, p. 5; BUFORA Journal, September 1975, p. 6; Jenny Randles, FSR, April 1978, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/18/1976",
  "desc" : "At 10:45 a.m. in St. Job-in-'T Goor, Antwerp province, Belgium, two young women, a 19-year-old and a 21-year-old, saw an aluminum colored UFO disappear behind some trees at 10:45 a.m. At 10:30 p.m. a man and his family observed a large, house-sized object hovering close to a nearby hill in Sant'Onofrio, Abruzzi, Italy. The object approached the witnesses' home and from its top section a strong yellow light was directed over the area. The UFO had a large round opening from which a red light shone. From inside the porthole a dark, shadowy, man-like figure could be seen looking out at the witnesses for a brief period. It then moved away. A second object resembling a gray sphere with a ring around it was seen hovering above an abandoned house at the same time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2958",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Rudy de Groote, UFO Register, volume 7, p. 32, citing Gazette Antwerpen; (2) Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Italian catalogue, case 85" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/18/1977",
  "desc" : "At 6:30 p.m. two 10-year-old girls, named McLennan and Morrison, heard a strange whirring sound while playing in a field near their house in New Elgin, Morayshire, Scotland. It appeared to come from a nearby woods. When they approached and saw a domed cylindrical object near the ground about 300 meters away. It had a steady red light on top of the small dome. The object was metallic in color and about 30 feet long, and it had a red band encircling the lower section. The girls believed the object was hovering two feet above the ground---the same height as a fence situated between them and the object. They could not see any landing gear. To the right of the object was a very tall, thin \"man,\" partially hidden by some bushes. He stood at least six-foot tall, and his arms were disproportionately short. He wore a silver coverall uniform. When he started to move toward them, the girls became frightened and fled. When they reached a safer distance, they turned around and saw that the man had disappeared. The object then began to ascend, moving off in three jerky \"stepped up\" maneuvers, and finally ascending vertically at a terrific speed. They hurried home and told their parents, who said they had heard the humming sound. The police were notified, and a circular area of scorch marks was found at the site, with minor damage over an area of about 100 yards including singed trees and underbrush. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2959",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jenny Randles, FSR, January 1978, p. 7; Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland's UFO phenomenon, p. 120; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-28 (A1733)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/18/1990",
  "desc" : "In Kairma, near Frunze, Kirghizia (in what was then the USSR) Dima, age 10, came running home at 9:40 p.m. yelling that \"space creatures\" were outside. His mother looked out and saw several one-meter tall helmeted figures wearing glowing suits with stripes on their sleeves and pants legs. The beings had hands with three claw-like fingers. Dima reported that when they noticed him, they pulled out a box-like device from behind and aerial appendages appeared on their heads. When a car appeared the beings jumped into a nearby ditch and stayed there until the car had passed. While in the field the aliens appeared to clean their suits, and then perform what appeared to be somersaults on the wet grass. A powerful vibrating sound permeated the air during the encounter. Later, during a local power outage, several witnessed a huge red disc-shaped object hovering over the area. That same night humanoids also visited the home of one of Dima's teachers. They appeared inside her house and invited her to go with them, but she refused and the aliens left. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2960",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, UFO Report 1992, p. 66" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/18/1991",
  "desc" : "At 11:40 p.m. just offshore of St. Osyth, Essex, England three fishermen saw a saucer-shaped object on edge, hovering low over the water. The object had six windows along its rim and several man-like figures could be seen moving about inside and looking out. The UFO vanished in the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2961",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, UFO Report 1992, p. 151" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/18/1993",
  "desc" : "On this night 31-year-old Astrid Ramos reported seeing a hovering circular object near Lisbon, Portugal from which descended several small humanoids. The humanoids then took her onboard the UFO. She was paralyzed while the humanoids performed several medical tests on her. They inserted a long thin tube into her nose, which caused her to feel a strong pressure inside her head. She was eventually released and soon began suffering from severe headaches. A Dr. Borja examined her and reportedly located an implant deep within her brain case. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2962",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, citing Fabio Picasso" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/18/1994",
  "desc" : "At 8:40 p.m. a silent, yellow-colored onion-shaped UFO flew east to west over the Ouse River in York, England at the speed of a jet. It maneuvered about as it flew. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2963",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/18/1997",
  "desc" : "In a hilly area known as Ponte a Mensola, east of Florence, Italy a local merchant watched a tall human-like figure descend slowly from the sky into a nearby field at 10:30 a.m. The figure was about 1.60 meters tall, and totally covered in a black, tight-fitting diver's suit. He wore a red belt around his waist and a black helmet with wide dark goggles. He landed in a vertical position among the high grass. A few minutes later he rose back up into the sky vertically, and disappeared from sight. Others in the area reported seeing bright red lights flying in a zigzag pattern over the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2964",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, citing Federico Rosati, CUN" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/18/1997",
  "desc" : "At 11:10 p.m. Mr. Tosti and two other men saw several bright objects over a power plant in Bloomington, Indiana. In response to a flashlight signal, two of the objects descended. Their car engine stalled as the objects approached. The objects were small domed discs with square windows and a blue glow. Through the windows some silhoetted figures with large heads could be seen. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2965",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 2, number 22 (1997)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/18/2006",
  "desc" : "Some men at the Greenwater Lake Provincial Park in Saskatchewan, Canada first observed a disc-shaped object hovering over the lake at around 1:00 a.m. Later they observed some camoflauged beings in the water and on the land nearby. The sighting lasted five hours. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2966",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2006 Canadian UFO Survey, case 213" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/19/1909",
  "desc" : "At 1:15 a.m. several witnesses on the docks in Cardiff, Wales observed a cigar-shaped airship that curved up and down the coast, making a whirring sound. It was described at fast, with two lights. At 9:30 p.m. several observers in Pontypool, Wales saw a graceful cigar with a quivering light make a 90 degree turn to the north.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2967",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Carl Grove, FSR, November 1970, pp. 18, 21" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/19/1909",
  "desc" : "In Wroxham, Norfolk county, England a searchlight from a white globe of light traveling overhead in a straight trajectory caused the headlamp on a motorcycle to fail at 11:30 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2968",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "East Anglican Daily Times, May 21, 1909; Carl Grove, FSR, November 1970, p. 19; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/19/1947",
  "desc" : "At 12:15 p.m. seven railroad workers in Manitou Springs, Colorado watched a silver saucer do acrobatics for 20 minutes. The object flew away quickly to the west-northwest into the wind. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2969",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Denver Post, June 28, 1947; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers Are Real, p. 66; NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1978, p. 3; APRO Bulletin, December 1977, p. 8; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, May 1992, p. 19" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/19/1949",
  "desc" : "A 20-foot diameter disc flew over New Orleans, Louisiana going north at 4:15 p.m., again on this date. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2970",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bruce S. Maccabee, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1978, p. 11" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/19/1954",
  "desc" : "A Ms. Heffer in the hamlet of Shobley, in the New Forest, Hampshire, England saw an intense glare in the sky at around 11 p.m. A 50-foot orb descended to the treetops; it then glided down road toward Bruton, Somerset where a close encounter occurred at 2 a.m. the next morning. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2971",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Charles Bowen, The Humanoids, p. 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/19/1954",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. a fisherman in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi watched three reddish-yellow objects that hung in the sky for 45 minuts. They bobbed up and down, and glided away fast to the northeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2972",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: January-May, p. 100" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/19/1955",
  "desc" : "At 7:15 p.m. three silver disc-shaped UFOs played tag over Mount Wilson for 50 minutes. They were seen by several thousand from Pasadena, Tujunga, and Montrose, California. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2973",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, August 1955, p. 5; Lenoard H. Stringfield, CRIFO News, June 1955, p. 5; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 115" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/19/1960",
  "desc" : "On this night Salvatore Cianci, a jeweler, and his wife, were driving near the Sicilian town of Siracusa, Italy when a creature about one meter tall suddenly appeared in the headlights. It wore a shiny coverall uniform and a diving helmet, and had two short wings. Mrs. Cianci suffered from shock. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2974",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Flying Saucer Review, April 1964; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 506; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case  A0498" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/19/1960",
  "desc" : "At 3:50 p.m. twelve UFOs were seen over Long Beach, California swinging in the sky in a pendulum motion. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2975",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1961, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/19/1963",
  "desc" : "A 17-year-old teen named Bushbridge encountered an ovoid object by the side of road as he was driving near Mount Gambier, South Australia. When he got to within six meters of it a bright light dazzled him. The five-meter long object rose vertically, then moved across the road over his car, making a roaring noise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2976",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Keith Basterfield, UFO Research Australia, March 1982, p. 24; Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 172" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/19/1967",
  "desc" : "In Grove City, Ohio between 4:00 and 4:30 a.m. EDT four men, including the main witness named Schmidhammer, saw a cigar-shaped object for 20 minutes that maneuvered in the sky and descended to within 150 feet of the ground. It then made a 90-degree turn and flew off to the west. The object made an odd noise \"that made your ears ring.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2977",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Grove City Record, May 25, 1967; NICAP files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/19/1969",
  "desc" : "At 3:10 a.m. a bright glowing ovoid object chased a car down a road southeast of St. John, New Brunswick, Canada. The car's radio and lights were effected by the UFO during the pursuit. The UFO flew off to the south over some woods, according to the report filed with the RCMP. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2978",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Ledger, Maritime UFO Files, p. 70" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/19/1969",
  "desc" : "On this evening at 7:30 p.m. two women, Dona Aurora and Clair Mefessoli, were walking to a neighbor's house in Fernandes, Santa Catarina, Brazil to borrow some milk when they saw an elongated yellowish luminous object descend behind them, not quite touching the ground. Two little three-foot tall beings, with features like humans, got out of the UFO. The terrified women fled the scene. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2979",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-36, citing FSR, July-August 1969" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/19/1969",
  "desc" : "Two hours later, at 7:30 p.m. CDT in Rising Sun, Indiana George Kaiser noticed a strange figure 25 feet away. The being was the size of a man and covered with black fur. The head sat directly on its shoulders and the face was black, with close-set eyes and a very low forehead. When Kaiser made a move to get into his car, the creature grunted, jumped over a ditch, and ran down the road at high speed. Footprints were found that showed only four toes. On the following night a UFO was observed over the same area by neighbors. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2980",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-37, citing Jerome Clark and Loren Coleman" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/19/1971",
  "desc" : "On this morning in Mangere, New Zealand Mr. R. Gray sighted an elongated metallic object, quite bright like metal reflecting sun, that appeared in the sky over Penrose; it moved away and down slowly for 5 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2981",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Auckland (New Zealand) Truth, June 15, 1971" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/19/1973",
  "desc" : "A blue cylindrical shaped UFO made a low silent pass over Springfield, Missouri at around 9 p.m. It was seen again that same night after midnight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2982",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Springfield (MO) News Leader, June 15, 1971; Data-Net Report, November 1971, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/19/1974",
  "desc" : "Between Pantano and Tuejar, Valencia, Spain flashes were seen at around 10 p.m. by two witnesses. A red object was next seen resting on a mountain; it went up the mountainside. A red 12 meter saucer was on another mountain. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2983",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case # 190" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/19/1974",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. a mother, daughter and son watched a bright object in the sky that was a quarter of a mile away from them in Hillsborough, New Hampshire. It hovered for awhile, then moved into a nearby forest. No evidence of a landing was found. Three hours later and 38 miles to the southwest an occupant report and UFO landing was made at Hampton Beach, New Hampshire. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2984",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb, Skylook, August 14, 1975" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/19/1978",
  "desc" : "Cars stopped on US highway 29 in Greenville, South Carolina to watch a huge, silver colored cigar hovering in the sky around 4 p.m. It caused a two mile long traffic backup, and there were over 75 witnesses to the event, which lasted over two hours. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2985",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "D. N. Mansell, Awareness, July 1978, p. 12; Greer (South Carolina) Citizen, May 31, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/19/1979",
  "desc" : "In Bukit Mertajam on the island of Pinang, Malaysia six school children reported sighting a landed object and four tiny humanoid figures near it in the middle of the afternoon. The creatures were only about 4 inches tall. One of the students attempted to catch one of the creatures but was shot in the hand. The creature then shot at a brick, breaking it into pieces. Afterwards the creatures ran back into their tiny craft. Another student reportedly grabbed the small object and was shocked by an electric current. The object then took off, and an adult witness watched the object taking off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2986",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Admad Jamaludin, A Summary of UFO and Related Events in Malaysia, p. 81" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/19/1984",
  "desc" : "In rural Williams, Indiana at 11:50 p.m. the witness was working on equipment outside behind his house on a warm, clear Saturday night. His wife was sleeping inside, and two of this neighbors had just left after stopping by to visit him. Suddenly, everything around him became brightly lit, and the witness felt a tingling sensation. He looked up to see that the light source was a brilliant orange light, low in the northwest sky. It was totally silent and he could only see the light, no craft could be seen. He went inside to call his two neighbors to come back and see the strange light, but he did not wake his wife who is a sound sleeper. He went back outside and the UFO was there as before. After 10-15 minutes had passed, the object began to drift away to the northwest where he lost sight of it. Shortly after this his neighbors arrived. They had not seen the UFO and teased him and seeing things. The object was reportedly 400-500 feet away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2987",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 81, citing Palmiter, MUFON Indiana" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/19/1986",
  "desc" : "Starting at 9:10 p.m. multiple radar-visual trackings by civilian and military pilots occurred in Sao Jose dos Campos, Sao Paulo, Brazil and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. For nearly three hours, air traffic control and military radar tracked up to 21 unidentified objects, and jet interceptors pursued them, making visual contact in some cases. The night was clear with good visibility. The objects appeared to be red-orange balls of light (BOL), but changed frequently to white or green. Col. Ospires Silva, oil company president and former president of EMBRAER Airlines, with his pilot, Commander Alcir Pereira da Silva, was descending through 2,000 feet (600 meters) on their landing approach to Sao Jose de Campos, near Sao Paulo, at 9:10 p.m. Sao Paulo radar notified them that an unknown object was in the area, so they broke off the pattern and turned to follow a bright red-orange light that seemed to dance around in the sky. Meanwhile, radar at Brasilia confirmed the presence of an unknown ojbect. As they pursued the object in the twin-engine Xingu aircraft, the light blinked off every 10-15 seconds, only to reappear in a new location, as if jumping from point to point. Their low performance airplane could not gain on the object, which they estimated was traveling at 1,500 km/hour (900 mph), so they abandoned the chase after about 30 minutes.<br/><br/> By that time the Brazilian Defense Center, which operates an integrated civil-military radar ATC system, was on full alert due to numberous UFOs cluttering their radar screens in the vicinity of Sao Jose dos Campos and nearby Sao Paulo. All civilian air traffic was put on hold, as jet interceptors were scrambled from Santa Cruz AFB, Sao Paulo State, and Anapolis AFB, near Brasilia. Three F-5E jets were scrambled from Santa Cruz AFB, followed by three Mirage III jets from Anapolis AFB. The first visual contact was made about 10:550 p.m. Lt. Kleber Caldas Marinho, age 25, an F-5E pilot, was vectored toward a target indicated by radar to be 35 miles (56 km) distant, but he was unable to catch up. At one point ground radar showed the UFO rapidly approaching his jet, but he saw nothing at that time. Later, he did see a very intense reddish light that changed color to white, then to green, then to red again. Another F-5E pilot, Capt. Marcio Jordao, age 29, managed to close in to within 12 miles and saw a very strong, intensely bright light, continuously changing color from white to green. When the object moved off shore and out to sea he broke off contact and returned to base.<br/><br/> Ten to thirteen white and green UFOs (BOLs) were chased by the three Mirage III fighters. Only one of the jets was able to make visual contact. The jets closed to within two miles, then the UFOs outflew the jets and climbed vertically up to 33,000 feet. The radar controller at Anapolis AFB testified that there were several targets behind one of the Mirage jets, six to one side and seven to the other. Radar had tracked the UFOs at speeds of up to 800 knots (920 mph). At time the objects made 80 degree turns. \"No plane I know can make turns like that at 1,000 km/h,\" Capt. Viriato de Freitas said. The unexplained nature of the UFOs was openly acknowledged by the authorities. The decision to release the news to the public was made personally by the president of Brazil, and carried out by the Air Force Minister, Brig. Gen. Octavio Moreira Lima. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2988",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 110-111; Willy Smith, International UFO Reporter, July 1986, p. 4; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 40; Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, pp. 317-318; Peter Brookesmith, UFO: The Complete Sightings, p. 131, UNICAT, case 535" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/19/1990",
  "desc" : "Driving to work in Warrior, Alabama at 4:35 a.m. a man saw a boomerang-shaped object with a fan tail approach from the front, hesitate, and then pass 15-20 feet over his truck at a leisurely speed. It had six big lights in front. He watched it until it was lost from view amid the rooflines in the vicinity. The UFO apparently overflew a shale strip mine in the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2989",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Todd Pierce, field investigator, MUFON field investigations database, case 900708; Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 121, citing the MUFON UFO Journal" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/19/1993",
  "desc" : "At 10:20 p.m. on a misty night in Kenyon, Rhode Island a woman was abducted into a 50 foot wide saucer-shaped object and kept there for five hours. Inside she was met by two three foot tall humanoids. She reported that she was later transported back to her house via a blue beam of coherent light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2990",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 2389, citing UFO Newsclipping Service, issue # 268" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/19/1996",
  "desc" : "The witness was cooking in her kitchen in Rutland, Vermont at 10:30 p.m. when she noticed a strong glare of light streaming through the kitchen window. She stepped out onto the back porch and noticed a disc-shaped object hovering over her house. As the started walking back into the house to call additional witnesses, she was confronted by a strange humanoid being with huge round eyes. She apparently suffered a loss of consciousness and does not know what happened for two hours. She vaguely recalls being in some type of an otherworldly environment. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2991",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1996 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case 2453, citing UFO Sightings in New Mexico and the World" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/19/1997",
  "desc" : "At 12:15 a.m. local UFO investigator John Tosti and two other men in Bloomington, Indiana saw several bright objects hovering over a local power plant. Mr. Tosti decided to drive to Snoddy Road at an isolated location to signal to the objects with a flashlight. Two of the UFOs descended to his location. When one object approached his vehicle, the engine and electrical system sputtered. Tosti was able to discern a metallic, disc-shaped object, with a small round dome and an even smaller dome on top. A blue glow emanated from the bottom of the craft. Around the middle of the object was a row of square windows, showing a yellow to amber colored light within. Inside the craft he could see the silhouettes of several individuals with large heads. He attempted to communicate with them by waving his arms, but he was apparently ignored. Two smaller bright spherical objects emerged from the disc, which then shot up at very high speed, joining the other objects in the sky. After a short while, the UFOs left the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2992",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1997 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 2630, sighting Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 2, number 22" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/19/1999",
  "desc" : "Chilean TV showed a video of a UFO seen hovering over the capital city of Santiago, Chile in the late evening. Another UFO was filmed the night before. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2993",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), September 1999, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/19/2000",
  "desc" : "A video of a hovering UFO was made in Southampton, England by police. A police helicopter flew around the UFO several times before the object faded and disappeared. There was a lengthy official investigation. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2994",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gary Heseltine, Police Reports of UFOs, case # 171" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/19/2001",
  "desc" : "At 2:17 p.m. on a Saturday, two people in Palatine, Illinois saw a metallic, cigar-shaped object that was extremely high above scattered clouds. \"It flew directly over us and gleamed in the sun, as it was moving at a very high speed,\" reported the witness. It was an elongated oval, looking somewhat like a missile. The sighting lasted from 2-3 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2995",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 120, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/19/2003",
  "desc" : "A huge boomerang, surrounded by a cloud or mist, flew inland over Tiruvanmiyur, India at 9:50 p.m. local time. It then flew silently back out to sea heading east. There were no lights on the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2996",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 18192, citing a newspaper clipping" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/19/2003",
  "desc" : "Following a series of early UFO sightings on May 17, at 9:50 p.m. on this evening a bright shining nocturnal light was observed by local residents in Simferopol', Crimea, Ukraine. The UFO looked like a white star, as bright as Sirius. It was moving 2-3 times faster than a satellite. Mr. Viktor Zdorov, while waking his dog, saw a satellite passing near the UFO in the very same part of the sky. The satellite was dimmer and moving much slower. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2997",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 44" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/19/2003",
  "desc" : "At 12:10 a.m. a totally silent craft bearing three bright white lights was observed crossing I-5 near Fresno, California. A boomerang-shaped UFO was spotted over Albany, California at 9:30 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2998",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 2003 archived webpage of reports" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/19/2004",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. EDT a saucer-shaped object, flickering green and blue lights and only about 30 feet in the air was reported by a witness in Vicksburg, Michigan. There was a big bright flash that blinded the witness for 30 seconds, and when his sight recovered the UFO was gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_2999",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 2004 archived webpage, report" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/19/2004",
  "desc" : "At 9:52 p.m. PDT a V-shaped object with lights was seen hovering low, close to the ground, in Trail, British Columbia, Canada. There were three lights on each wing of the V, rotating rapidly in circles. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3000",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 311, citing HBCCUFO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/19/2008",
  "desc" : "A disc-shaped UFO was spotted over the Surry, Virginia nuclear power station at 12:20 p.m. The object was hovering or drifting slowly, and made a very leisurely circuit of the power plant. It moved against the wind, and very slowly rocked up and down.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3001",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "5/19/2011",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. Restoule, Parry Sound, Ontario a red light moved from southwest to northwest, stopped, flew down and then away. At 11:10 p.m. dark objects on a \"crooked triangle\" of red lights passed near witnesses in Dryden, Ontario. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3002",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Chris Rutkowski, 2011 Canadian UFO Survey, cases # 329 & 331" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/20/1953",
  "desc" : "Two miners in Brush Creek, California, John Q. Black, age 48, and John Van Allen, reported that they saw a silvery object land on a sand bar 50 m away from them. It was 2.5 meters in diameter with tripod landing gear. An occupant described as a broad-shouldered dwarf, wearing clothing that covered the head and body was also seen. His arms and legs were covered with tweed-like cloth fastened at the wrists and ankle. The UFO occupant filled a shiny pail with water and handed it to someone inside the craft. He then appeared to notice Mr. Black and jumped into the craft, which made a hissing sound when it departed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3003",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 202" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/20/1954",
  "desc" : "Mr. Nigel Frapple was cycling home from a dance in Wincanton, England. At Redlynch crossroads he saw an orange glow in a field and stopped to observe it from a hedge. The glow came from a huge object on the other side of the hedge only 35 meters away, hovering less than seven meters above the ground. It made a throbbing sound. After a minute it moved toward away the northwest, accelerating and climbing into the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3004",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 206-207" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/20/1959",
  "desc" : "At 5:30 p.m. two hunters named Sanchez and Fogliani observed a landed silvery metallic disc in Tres Lomas, La Pampa, Argentina. Grass at the landing site was flattened. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3005",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "La Razon, May 24, 1959; Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, December 1972, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/20/1963",
  "desc" : "On this evening a 17-year-old witness named Bushbridge, driving his car between Glencoe and Mount Gambier, South Australia saw what he at first thought was a bulldozer by the side of the road. He came within 20 meters of it, and then was blinded by a strong light as his car suddenly stopped. The object crossed the road and flew away. The light was as intense as a welder's torch. The witness's father later testified that his son came home white and visibly terrified. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3006",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, November 1963, p. 6; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 571; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 20" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/20/1965",
  "desc" : "At 7:00 p.m., six members of the McDonald family in Leroy Township, Ohio saw a silvery-white disc with a row of  portholes that were about one-foot in diameter.  The disc skimmed over the rooftop of their house making a low buzzing or purring sound, and was estimated to be the size of a car.  At the time of the object’s passage, neighbors noted unusual TV and radio interference, and a horse and dog reacted strongly. The dog ran and hid, while the horse ran back and forth on its tether with its ears back and eyes wild. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3007",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, June-July 1965, p. 5; Saucer News, December 1965, p. 17; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. & Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 153; Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/20/1967",
  "desc" : "Polish-born Steve Michalac, age 52, an industrial mechanic and prospector, saw two red-glowing objects flying at high speed while prospecting at Falcon Lake, Manitoba, Canada. One of them landed nearby, and blew up vegetation as it landed. It was surrounded by a glow, and he watched it for 30 minutes before a door opened, revealing a purple glow inside. A high-pitched humming sound and an odor resembling a burning electrical circuit were noted. Seeing no further activity Mr. Michalac approached the landed craft, but he then heard voices, and when he touched the craft he burned his rubber-coated glove, and he was blown backwards by a hot blast of air. The object then started spinning. The witness felt dizzy, suffered minor face burns, and second and third degree burns on his chest. He vomited frequently for the next four days, and was hospitalized, losing over 10 kilograms. The landed craft was estimated to be 11 meters in diameter and three meters tall, with a one meter high superstructure. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3008",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 1; Edward U. Condon (ed.), Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, New York: Bantam (1969), p. 316; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 844" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/20/1969",
  "desc" : "Jose Pereira Sacramento was awakened by a noise outside his home in Vila Operaria, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Going outside through his back door at 1:00 a.m., he saw \"the white face of an animal\" and a light in the sky which came down toward him. He was paralyzed and could not move to re-enter the house or call out. An \"enormous object\" landed beside him, and he was \"pulled through an opening\" into the ship, finding himself inside a small elevator, which went up into a brightly lit circular compartment with a curved ceiling, about 45 feet in diameter. In this room were six small humanoid beings only 31 inches tall. They had big heads and they wore tight-fitting, plastic like outfits, entirely covering their bodies and heads, light cream in color, having openings only for their eyes and ears. Their eyes were slanted. Each entity stood inside a cylinder three feet in diameter and 15\" high, and above its head was a curved plate with a lever. They spoke among themselves in a language of short shrilly sounds, \"like pigs grunting.\" After four or five minutes one of the beings moved a control and the illumination increased in brightness to such a point that Pereira lost consciousness. At 6:00 a.m. he woke up in his bed, not knowing how he got there. He had an inflammation of the eyes lasted a month, and a year after the event he still felt light-headed and had difficulty concentrating. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3009",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-35, citing CICOANI" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/20/1974",
  "desc" : "A young man of 20 was swimming at 12:30 a.m. at Hampton Beach, New Hampshire when he saw a domed disc-shaped object approach from the ocean. It landed on the beach about 80 yards away. It had a domed bulge above and below the central rim, and was about 50 feet in diameter. It stood on four legs and had several lights on the main body of the object. It also gave off heat and emitted a humming or pulsating sound. A hatch folded down and a ramp slid out, and a motor like noise was now also audible. A six-foot tall occupant emerged down the ramp, dressed in a head-to-foot light-colored coverall. Two hoses ran from the chin area to behind the head, with one hose running down the back. The figure stepped out briefly onto the sand and then re-entered the object, which ascended and moved off out to sea. The man searched the landing site and found a \"deep, rose colored paste and thick liquid\" in the four, deep landing marks. He also found a spot of red where the hatch had opened. Traces had been obliterated by the tide the following morning, before the investigator could gather samples. The landing site is not far from an outflow vent that would later be built for the Seabrook nuclear reactor. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3010",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-22, citing field investigator John Oswald" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/20/1974",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. two children in Haisnes-lez-la Bassee, France, age 10, witnessed an ovoid or football-shaped object that descended with an oscillating movement. Ground traces were later found were the UFO came down. At 11:00 p.m. an enormous luminous ball of light approached Haisnes-lez-la Bassee, France and then flew off to the northwest in the direction of Auchy-les-Mines. The estimated diameter of the object was 42 meters. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3011",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 487" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/20/1982",
  "desc" : "A couple driving near a golf course in Caboolture, Queensland, Australia saw a bright light descend. They noted that it was a saucer-shaped object with portholes around the lower part. It emitted blue beam of light at front of car. They had a period of missing time, but do recall witnessing a two meter tall silver-suited being. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3012",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1982, case 2670, citing UFO Research Queensland" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/21/1949",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon a silvery disc was spotted hovering over the Hanford Atomic Energy Commission radar station outside of Moses Lake, Washington by a US Air Force F-82 pilot flying over the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3013",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 141" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/21/1950",
  "desc" : "A huge round object hung in the sky over Montrose, Colorado. It was joined by a second large object. Both started heading to the north, but turned and flew off to the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3014",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 48, citing UPI release, May 22, 1950" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/21/1953",
  "desc" : "According to a letter by Fritz A. Werner to J. Allen Hynek dated May 15, 1973, 16 AEC engineers were taken by the U.S. Air Force on this day into the desert outside Kingman, Arizona aboard a bus with its windows blackened out to view a crashed disc. The object was oval shaped, 30 feet in diameter, and with a surface that looked like a highly polished brushed metal. In a nearby tent was a dead body, 4 feet tall. The body was clothed in a silvery metallic suit with a skull cap. The dead pilots body had brown skin, with the other unusual feature being a small mouth. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3015",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Center for UFO Studies files; Raymond E. Fowler, Official UFO, April 24, 1976; Richard H. Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, May 1978, p. 10; Leonard H. Stringfield, Situation Red: The UFO Siege, p. 209" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/21/1957",
  "desc" : "At 4:40 p.m. a metallic ovoid flew overhead to the northwest near Knoxville, Tennessee making a noise. It then hovered in silence, and may have made a possible landing behind some trees. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3016",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Civilian Saucer Intelligence--New York case files; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: March 23-May 25, p. 88" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/21/1959",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon around 1:00 p.m. a huge yellow glowing cigar flew toward the northwest and circled the town of Brindisi, Italy before continuing on toward the northeast and out to sea. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3017",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: April-June, p. 32" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/21/1966",
  "desc" : "At 3:15 p.m. an experienced pilot flying in a light plane on a clear day encountered a domed disc that made sharp turns and passed beneath the wing of his aircraft while flying near Willow Grove Naval Air Station, Pennsylvania. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3018",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1967, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/21/1968",
  "desc" : "At 8:50 a.m. at Union High School in Roosevelt, Utah a silver oval or disc-shaped object, quite large, changed speed, hovered, maneuvered, and dropped nearly to the ground. Twenty-two students and teachers watched the display for 6-7 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3019",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Frank B. Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, pp. 95 and Appendix case 67" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/21/1969",
  "desc" : "Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil - At midnight Jose Antonio Da Silva had a sudden impulse to get out of bed and go into his garden. He stepped out his door and saw three of the same short entities he had a frightening encounter with earlier that month at Bebedouro, Minas Gerais, Brazil dressed in the same flightsuits. They stood motionless, looking at him. He quickly stepped back inside and bolted the door, without saying a word or hearing a sound from them. He then explained to investigators that they wanted him to \"work against my own people\" and expressed his great fear that our world was in great danger, without knowing from where the danger would come. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3020",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-38, citing Hulvio Brant Aleixo, FSR, November-December 1973, & Dr. Walter Buhler" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/21/1971",
  "desc" : "A man was driving home near West Leisenring, Pennsylvania at 1:10 a.m. and he had just rounded a bend in the rural road when he noticed an unusual object hovering 20 feet above the ground. The craft was disc shaped with a dome on top and an antenna like protrusion. It had a door like opening to the left of its center; the opening emitted an reddish orange glow from inside. It also emitted a faint humming sound. He stopped his car to watch, and after two minutes he saw a figure walk back and forth within the doorway of the object. The humanoid being was dressed in a grayish white metallic suit with a hood and stood about six feet tall. The craft itself was dull gray in color and appeared to have burnt areas along the bottom. The witness, sitting behind the wheel of his vehicle, turned his head to his left and saw a similarly garbed figure only three feet way from the driver's door. He then heard a click and two seconds later a blast threw him against the vehicle's console. A loud explosion moved the car forward and the witness drove away as fast as he could. He then drove to the emergency room of a local hospital where he was treated with what looked like pellet wounds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3021",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1971, case # 247, citing Stan Gordon, MUFON UFO Journal, issue #189" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/21/1973",
  "desc" : "In a wooded area near the town of Kristianstad, Sweden a group of men reported seeing an incredibly huge, black bird-like creature that passed within one hundred feet of them. One witness had a camera with a telephoto lens and attempted to take a picture, but his film jammed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3022",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, citing John A. Keel, The Mothman Prophecies" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/21/1976",
  "desc" : "A luminous UFO shaped like coolie hat paced a car in the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico containing three occupants. One of the passengers, a 28-year-old woman named Bryant, experienced five hours of missing time and later related an abduction experience. She reported being taken aboard the UFO where she was given intensive medical examinations and had several body samples taken. Among other procedures they scraped her skin, and drew fluid from one of her eyes. The occupants were short, about four feet tall, and had large hairless heads with large dark almond-shaped eyes. They also wore uniforms that resembled police uniforms. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3023",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 093, citing the San Antonio (Texas) Light, March 20, 1983; John F. Schuessler, Physiological Effects from UFOs, p. 70" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/21/1977",
  "desc" : "At 12:24 a.m. a taxi driver and his passenger saw a white football-shaped object in the sky in Leicester, England. At one point it looked like five balls joined together in a circle. It or they hovered silently, then moved off and disappeared from sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3024",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "D. N. Mansell, Awareness, October 1977, p. 19" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/21/1977",
  "desc" : "Two close encounters involving UFOs with coherent light beams occurred on this night in Dorset county, England. At 10:55 p.m. Mr. Morse, age 26, witnessed a large silver disc-shaped object that hovered over a field in Canford Heath, Poole, England. A green cone of light extended from the object as a coherent beam of light. It flew off to the west. Fifteen minutes later a car with two 30-year-old women was followed by another disc between Longham and Wimborne in the Dorset countryside. It had a solid beam that cut through the terrain. The energy beam had a definite, abrupt end to it. The disc dropped to the ground, but the women did not stay around to investigate. There were six other sightings reported that night in the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3025",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Leslie Harris, FSR, January 1978, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/21/1988",
  "desc" : "Townshend, Vermont - Jack and May Weiner recalled an abduction experience while at their mountain home. This was Jack's second abduction experience, the first occurring while on a camping trip with three other men in the Allagash Wilderness area of Maine. Jack's dog wanted to go out and when he let the dog outside, late on this evening, he noticed a blue light shining through the kitchen window. He went outside and saw a glowing object hovering over a nearby field. He recalled walking back inside the house. Under hypnosis he recalled that several short beings with large heads and eyes entered his bedroom. The beings lifted Jack and his wife and floated them towards a bright light. They were taken in front of the large hovering object that glowed a bright blue from its bottom. It hovered silently and there was a strong smell of ozone in the air. They were both taken inside the object and given medical exams by the beings. A lump was allegedly discovered and the cyst removed. Later they were both floated across the lawn, into their house and back inside through the unopened front door. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3026",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, MUFON UFO Journal, April 1993" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/21/1990",
  "desc" : "On this evening a disc flying from the southwest to the northeast was involved with a near collision with a KC-135 tanker aircraft over Lancaster, California. The passage of the UFO appeared on radar and rocked the wings of the plane as it shot past. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3027",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, November 1990" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/21/1990",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. four witnesses in Trenton, New York saw a large delta-shaped object fly overhead, making a faint humming sound. It flew in a slow glide and then made sudden jumps. It had lights on its three corners. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3028",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Keith Conroy, field investigator, MUFON investigation files database, case 930506E" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/21/1996",
  "desc" : "Four youths camping in Charleston, Illinois saw a large white light in the sky at 11:58 p.m., then a huge triangular UFO with two red lights on one side. It lit their campsite with a \"spotlight\" beam but made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3029",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "James Easton, internet list of triangular UFO reports, citing the National UFO Reporting Center; Jay Rath, The I-Files: True Reports of Unexplained Phenomena in Illinois, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/21/1999",
  "desc" : "A witness reported to the National UFO Reporting Center that a UFO positioned itself directly over his car in Harrison, Ohio. It hovered silently in the air and shone two white beams of light down on him. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3030",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 2004 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/22/1951",
  "desc" : "A bluish-white object circled around and paced an American Airlines flight 100 miles southwest of Dodge City, Kansas at 3:20 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3031",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/22/1961",
  "desc" : "Over 20 high qualified witnesses including several doctors watched a 30 meter long metallic ovoid object maneuver at low altitude in Ocumare del Tuy, Venezuela and then land at 10:30 a.m. A total of three objects were seen, manuevering silently in and out of the nearby hills and dodging trees and a low speed. Flattened grass was found at the landing site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3032",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, September 1961; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 185; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #5930" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/22/1961",
  "desc" : "That same afternoon in Texas a stationary silver disc hung in the air over Tyndall Air Force Base. It was seen by two married women, Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Davis, at 4:30 p.m. The object appeared to be revolving as it hovered. After 15 minutes it finally rose higher and higher into the air and disappeared. A Project Blue Book \"unknown.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3033",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 7417; Lloyd Mallan, Science & Mechanics, December 1966, p. 36; Lloyd Mallan, The Official Guide to UFOs, p. 22; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 95" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/22/1962",
  "desc" : "Several luminous discs were seen four times in 35 minutes during an Argentine Navy aircraft flight from Espora Naval Air Base in Buenos Aires province, Argentina. The plane's radio failed completely during the close encounters. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3034",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Enrique Banchs, Las Evidencias del Fenomeno OVNI, citing Antonio Ribera; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 33" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/22/1963",
  "desc" : "Four pink wheels spun in the sky while flying from the east to the west very fast in succession. They were witnessed by a civilian named Jackson in Pequannock, New Jersey at 10:50 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3035",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 8363; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns, p. 31" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/22/1964",
  "desc" : "(1) High School cafeteria employees watched the landing and take-off of a round UFO from the school grounds in Hopkinsville, Kentucky at nine o'clock in the morning. The object emitted four beams of light. The grass had been flattened at the landing site. (2) On that same day a UFO was tracked by radar at the White Sands Stallion Missile Range in New Mexico. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3036",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, June 1965, p. 27 and October 1966, p. 30, citing NICAP; Coral E. Lorenzen, Fate magazine, October 1964, p. 45; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 150" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/22/1965",
  "desc" : "A silent gray object that looked like a blimp or dirigible hovered low over the New England Power Plant in Salem, Massachusetts at 5:00 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3037",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, case file investigation, report dated July 13, 1965; Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 332" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/22/1967",
  "desc" : "On this evening Mr. Tyrode, a 45-year-old school teacher, saw a glow and then an object shaped like an inverted plate emitting a greenish-blue light in Evillers, France. It flew less than 20 meters above his car at at estimated speed of 40 km/hour. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3038",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 845" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/22/1968",
  "desc" : "Sr. T. Banescu of La Florida, Argentina was walking home early in the morning around 3:00 a.m. when he observed a luminous sphere coming down rapidly from the sky. It landed about 300 meters away. Shortly after that he heard footsteps behind him but noticed nothing strange about then. When he got to the house he encountered a creature no more than 39\" tall, with big ears and luminous green in color. He had his arms crossed and was rocking his body slightly back and forth. Mr. Banescu became frightened and attempted desperately to unlock the door of his house to get away, and when he looked back again the little man had disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3039",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-27, citing Carlos Banchs" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/22/1973",
  "desc" : "Sr. Onilson Patero, a 40-year-old salesman, was driving home to Catanduva in Sao Paolo, Brazil during a rainstorm. He had given a lift to a young hitchhiker and had dropped him off at Itajobi. At around 3:00 a.m., about seven miles from Catanduva on Highway 321, his car began to lose power and his car's radio filled with static interference. He noticed a circle of light moving about inside his car and he pulled over to the side of the road, thinking a truck was about to pass. He then saw a hovering object about 50 feet ahead and 40 feet above the road, and at the same time the interior of his car began to heat up. Patero felt a lack of air so he opened the door and stepped out. A \"curtain of light\" began to form around the object, and the heat and lack of air diminished. He could now see that the object was not a helicopter. He next saw a \"tube of light\" hit the car and, as it did, the car became transparent. He fainted. About an hour later two young men found Sr. Patero laying in the mud and rain. He recovered consciousness, crying out \"they were trying to get me!\" He was taken to a hospital in Catanduva and later released. Over the next several days he suffered physical ailments of an unknown cause. Eleven months later Patero became the principal experiencer in an abduction event in which he vanished for five days, turning up again in Colatina 700 km away. Under regressive hypnosis he described one of his abductors as the same individual he had given a ride to in this case. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3040",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-12, citing Dr. Walter Buhler, Dr. Max Berezovsky, APRO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/22/1973",
  "desc" : "At eight a.m. Manuel Angle Gonzalez was driving a six-ton truck loaded with asbestos sheeting, cement, and steel, and he was in the vicinity of the town of Cintalapa in the State of Veracruz, Mexico when he noticed five little figures standing in the road ahead of him. They had their arms raised in the air, and they seemed to have appeared from nowhere. He slammed on the truck's brakes and came to a stop only a short distance away from them. At first he thought they might be children, but close up he could see that they were perfectly proportioned adults but only two feet tall. They had light brown skin and black hair, but he couldn't recall any details about what clothing they were wearing. As he got out of his truck the little figures began to scatter to the sides of the road, disappearing into the underbrush along the highway. When he turned to go back to his truck he saw it suddenly engulfed in blue flame, and in a matter of 30 minutes the truck and its normally non-flammable contents were reduced to ashes and fused metal. Two other motorists stopped to witness the conflagration. According to the witness, two days after the fire metal fragments that had been collected from the site spontaneously burst into blue flames and were likewise reduced to ashes. The witness compared the appearance of the little beings to stories of little people from Mexican folklore, called the Chaneques. Investigators later learned that two more trucks were similarly destroyed and that in one case, UFOs were seen. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3041",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-13, citing Ramon A Pantoja and Robert Freeman Bound, Fate" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/22/1996",
  "desc" : "Ipswich, Queensland, Australia - At 2:00 a.m. a woman was walking her dog when she noticed two short glowing beings with no apparent clothing, and dark eyes. The beings seemed to reassure her mentally, then faded from view. Possible missing time involved. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3042",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case #2608, citing Keith Basterfield" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/23/1953",
  "desc" : "A cigar-shaped object darted into a high altitude cloud over Melbourne, Victoria, Australia at noon on this day. It then flew back out again. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3043",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 91; APRO Bulletin, November 1953" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/23/1957",
  "desc" : "At 8:15 in the morning over Kansas City, Kansas four discs were sighted flying in a box formation. Two of the objects turned and flew to the northwest, while two shot ahead to the north, joining another pair also going to the northwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3044",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: March 23-May 25, p. 94; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 110" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/23/1961",
  "desc" : "A round, silver bowl-shaped object flew slowly to the south over Napier, New Zealand in Hawke's Bay at a few minutes after 3:15 p.m. It was witnessed by a Mrs. Church for two minutes. It reached a position over the local aerodrome and then vanished in place. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3045",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, July-August 1961, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/23/1962",
  "desc" : "In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania a domed disc with portholes flew over the city for an estimated 40 minutes, playing a game of cat and mouse with jets at an estimated altitude of 750 meters. The Air Force explanation lists this case as caused by a reflection. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3046",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, May 1962; APRO Bulletin, May 1962" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/23/1965",
  "desc" : "A school teacher in Kailua, Hawaii watched a small white disc, perhaps one meter in diameter, fly by very fast from northeast to southwest at an estimated altitude of only 100 feet. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3047",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, January-February 1966" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/23/1969",
  "desc" : "At midnight in Kalamunda, Western Australia nocturnal lights zigzagged through the sky and were picked up as blips on radar as they maneuvered to the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3048",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 67" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/23/1971",
  "desc" : "Twelve photographs were taken of a silverly metallic disc in St. Lorenzen, Austria at 12:30 p.m. The disc was estimated to be 12 to 15 meters in diameter and was seen moving in and out of clouds. It jumped from location to location, and appeared to be spinning when hovering. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3049",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Nachrichten (Germany), September 1971" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/23/1973",
  "desc" : "A round spinning UFO with red, green, blue and purple lights buzzed a car with three teenagers in Mount Gambier, South Australia at 7 p.m., terrigying them. In an undulating course the UFO first hovered, then came straight at their car. It flew up and over them, and passed low over the other side and away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3050",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Border Watch, May 1973, p. 24" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/23/1975",
  "desc" : "A dog and cat reacted with panic when a bottle-shaped silver UFO flew near a mountainside at 9 p.m. in Sedona, Arizona. There were separate witnesses to the nocturnal fly by. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3051",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, May-June 1976, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/23/1977",
  "desc" : "A fiery looking torus-shaped object hovered and tilted over Santiago, Chile at six o'clock in the morning. A beam extended from the object, and swung back and forth like a pendulum. At ball of light was at the end of the beam. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3052",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/23/1982",
  "desc" : "At 3:30 a.m. a nocturnal light paced a car in Bowna, New South Wales, Australia only 3 meters above the ground. It hovered when the car stopped. A diamond shaped object was seen hovering over the car's destination. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3053",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Australian Center for UFO Studies files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/23/1983",
  "desc" : "A disc-shaped object with a black top, blue sides, square windows, and a reddish golden metallic bottom maneuvered over trees in McHenry, Illinois at 7:30 p.m. It was witnessed by an art teacher as it then rocked violently, levelled out, and flew off following the contour of the land. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3054",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek, International UFO Reporter, January-February 1985, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/23/1988",
  "desc" : "A black cylindrical object hovered in the northern sky for 30 minutes, as seen from Fredericia, Denmark at 4 p.m. It then appeared to vanish. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3055",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Scandinavian UFO Newsletter, issue #12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/23/1999",
  "desc" : "In Mambau, Malaysia at 4:30 a.m. 17-year-old Fahmi Mohd was awaken by the sound of wind blowing. He noticed some bright lights outside his house. When he went out the back door he was surprised to see an object hovering low over some nearby bushes. It was about 20-30 feet away and gave off a very bright blue light. He could not tell its shape because of the light's brilliance. He watched in amazement, forgetting to wake his parents. Next he saw a small being, about half a meter tall, come out from the bottom of the hovering craft. Again, because of the bright blue light he could not distinguish many features, but he could see that it had drooping ears and a slightly pointed head with very long arms. Frightened, he went back inside his house. He looked out again to see the object shoot up at an angle and disappear into the sky. He did hear a mechanical sound right before the object shot up. Several small footprints were found at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3056",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1999, case #3428, citing Ahmad Jamaludin, Malaysian Centre for UFO Studies" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/23/1999",
  "desc" : "A wedge-shaped object with blue and red flashing lights, described as \"something weird,\" flew over Surrey, British Columbia at 10:15 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3057",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Ditman, Canadian UFO Survey 1999, case # 87" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/23/2003",
  "desc" : "Three very big disc-shaped objects, bobbing up and down, were seen over Melbourne, Victoria, Australia at 8 p.m. They flashing different colors in a blue to white to red sequence, and were estimated to be 30 feet in diameter. A man and wife and their 23-year-old son drove under a dark, slow moving triangular shaped object on Highway 17 north of Webster, Iowa at 9:30 p.m. The UFO had bright orange lights at each apex which did not light up the entire craft. It also had a light gray circle in the center and stripes extending out to the corners. Later that night at 11:35 p.m. MDT in Havre, Montana three white lights arranged in a triangle formation moved through the sky perfectly spaced, suggesting they belonged to one craft. The UFO made no sound and had no blinking or colored lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3058",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/24/1949",
  "desc" : "A metallic disc with a tail fin was viewed through binoculars as it moved on a horizontal flight course in Rogue River, Oregon at 5:00 p.m. It gradually increased its speed until it reached that of a jet aircraft. No propulsion method was apparent. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3059",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue files counted in official statistics, May 1949" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/24/1954",
  "desc" : "At 12:25 p.m. a B-17 on a photo mapping mission over Richmond, Indiana and flying at an altitude of 18,500 feet, suddenly noticed a UFO below and to the right of the plane, moving on a different heading. Leo Brubaker, one of the crewmembers, took a photograph of the object, directed downward toward the clouds, which shows an overexposed bright round blob of light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3060",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, report form dated May 24, 1954; UNICAT database, case 604, citing David R. Saunders, UFOs? Yes! Where the Condon Committee went wrong, p. 69" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/24/1954",
  "desc" : "A classic disc-shaped, luminous UFO hovered only a meter above the ground along Highway 3, 15 kilometers outside of Colonel Brandsen, Argentina at 11:50 p.m. Two human-like shadows were seen moving around inside the object. There were two witnesses named Atencio and Garcia and the sighting lasted for about a minute. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3061",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Roberto Enrique Banchs, Phenomenes Spatiaux, September 1976, p. 25; UNICAT datbase, case 541, citing Roberto Banchs, OVNIS y sus Ocupantes, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/24/1962",
  "desc" : "A robot-like being was sighted on a ranch in La Pampa, Argentina on this day by a rancher and his wife. Later an 18 foot in diameter burnt circle was found in the grass. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3062",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 152; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, May 1963, p. 36; Ted R. Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 153" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/24/1964",
  "desc" : "Two witnesses in Millinocket, Maine saw a fiery orange object which followed their car at 9:00 p.m. When this object, which was now seen to be spherical, approached to within 2-3 meters, the engine died and could not be restarted. The sphere was a fuzzy \"ball of fire,\" only 75 centimeters in diameter. After five minutes, it flew away and the car could be started. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3063",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 607; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 22" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/24/1965",
  "desc" : "At 12:05 a.m. a metallic domed saucer, jet black on top, with three triangular legs and a bank of floodlights around the main body was seen hovering and on the ground in Eton Ridge, Queensland, Australia by three men named Tilse, Burgess, and Juden. The object was 20-30 feet in diameter, 15 feet in height, and was at a minimum distance of 300 meters away. It made a buzzing or hissing sound, and made several maneuvers before it sped away. A circle 20 feet in diameter, consisting of a 3 foot 2 inch wide ring of flattened grass, was found at the landing site the next morning. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3064",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Keith Basterfield, citing UFO Research Queensland; Judith Magee, Flying Saucer Review, September-October 1965, p. 13; UNICAT database, citing Judith Magee and FSR" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/24/1965",
  "desc" : "At 1:30 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. French of Geraldton, Western Australia observed an object in a field at 4 m altitude. It had blinding white lights, caused radio interference, and made a high-pitched sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3065",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 647; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence: A Thirty Year Report, p. 262" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/24/1965",
  "desc" : "At 6:40 p.m. hunters in Paso de las Carretas, Argentina saw through binoculars an object resembling an upside-down plate, very luminous, with a red light on top, flying in circles and landing on a hilltop. The Lujan police sent a patrol, under Comm. Osvaldo Pagella, which found a large, metallic object resting on the hill, but because of the difficult terrain they could not get near the object before it took off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3066",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 648; Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, December 1972, p. 11, citing La Tribuna, May 26, 1965" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/24/1967",
  "desc" : "Remy Deneuville and his family saw a white light to the side of the road in Arbonne, France at eleven p.m., but it was turned off when they drove to within 150 meters of its location. Minutes later, they saw a luminous spherical object fly away for several minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3067",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Phenomenes Spatiaux, December 1967; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 841" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/24/1967",
  "desc" : "At 3:00 p.m. Mr. & Mrs. De Carvalho were putting a new tile roof on a shed in Parque en Grande, Brazil when they noticed a 15 foot long ovoid object with four legs. It was light grey in color. A short occupant wearing a helmet leaned out of the craft to observe them; it then took off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3068",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, March-April 1971, p 30, citing Ultima Hora, May 30, 1967; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0816, citing FSR" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/24/1971",
  "desc" : "In Mendoza, Argentina an incandescent orange Saturn-shaped object descended, discharged a dense cloud, then darted sideways at 12:10 p.m. It rocked back-forth in the sky while hovering, and then shot upward at an angle. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3069",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, July-August 1971, p. 1; Antonio Baragiola, FSR, March 1972, p. 7; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/24/1973",
  "desc" : "On this night physicist Harley D. Rutledge had his second sighting of a maneuvering delta-shaped object over the Farmington, Missouri airport at 10:00 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3070",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Harley D. Rutledge, Project Identification, p. 34" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/24/1974",
  "desc" : "In San Clemente, Cuenca, Spain a four meter long ovoid object with four legs was seen on the ground by 53-year-old Demetrio Carrascosa at 11:30 a.m. It had six windows. Rocks scattered on takeoff. The sighting lasted 15-20 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3071",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 191, citing E. Villagrasa, Stendek, September 1974, p. 25; Ted R. Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 806; UNICAT database, case 570, citing Stendek" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/24/1978",
  "desc" : "Driving in the city of Tuscaloosa, Alabama at 9:15 p.m. a 21-year-old college student saw a metallic object nearby. His car radio experienced a burst of static as he sighted the object, which was glowing yellow-white with blue, orange, green, and yellow lights rotating on its bottom. The driver continued to drive past the object and did not see how it departed or when. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3072",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 72, citing CUFOS" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/24/1986",
  "desc" : "A cigar-shaped object landed in Encounter Bay, Victor Harbour, South Australia at 12:10 p.m. and then submerged. It was described as having fins and a propeller. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3073",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Gribble, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/24/1990",
  "desc" : "At 11 p.m. a woman walking her dog in North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania saw a UFO approach and hover momentarily within 150 feet of some power lines. It then accelerated out of sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3074",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Wayne Willis, MUFON field investigation files, case 900704" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/24/1999",
  "desc" : "Sereban, Malaysia - A Malaysian boy named Mohd Fami awoke at 4:30 a.m. to the sound of his family's tin roof being blown by a strong wind. He saw a blindingly bright craft hovering nearby. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3075",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/24/2001",
  "desc" : "A silver cigar shaped object landed on a rural road in Ionia, Michigan at 4:30 a.m. It ascended and hit in some trees when a car approached, then flew off at 70 mph to the west, crossing the road. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3076",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 18168" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/24/2003",
  "desc" : "Mr. Martin Tate, an aerospace engineer, sighted a cluster of 5 to 6 silver spheres in a triangular formation over Waltham Abbey, England at 12:30 p.m. One object hovered in place while the rest flew away toward the west. He watched then for 30 seconds before they were lost from view behind some clouds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3077",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Martin Tate, UFO Magazine (UK), July 2003, p. 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/24/2003",
  "desc" : "At 7:20 p.m. a silver, oval-shaped object, high in the sky, moved smoothly through the sky over Edbaston Reservoir, Birmingham, England and made no sound at all as it turned. It left no smoke or contrail. It was in view for three minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3078",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 2003 archived webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/25/1948",
  "desc" : "Jumping from a coal train at night in post-war Wesserbillig, Luxemborg 45-year-old Mr. Klotzbach suffered severe leg injuries and experienced a lot of bleeding. He fainted, but surprisingly when he woke up he found himself inside a UFO. The UFO occupants spoke to him in German. They shared with him some undisclosed messages, and he next experienced a further loss of time. He awoke again four days later in Luxemborg, legs fully healed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3079",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 59; Gordon Creighton, FSR, September-October 1969, p. 20; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0148" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/25/1949",
  "desc" : "A flat, metallic object flew ove a farm in Loudon, Tennessee on this day, making a \"flapping noise.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3080",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing Larry Fawcett, UFO Coverup, p. 172" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/25/1952",
  "desc" : "A glowing disc-shaped object dropped from the sky, darted about, flipped over, and then vanished in place over the New Jersey shore at nine o'clock in the morning. It was sighted by a group of fishermen. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3081",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History, 1952: January-May, p. 84" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/25/1955",
  "desc" : "Mr. Robert Hunnicutt was driving down a road in Branch Hill, Ohio at 3:30 a.m. when he saw three 3.5 foot tall hunchbacked gray entities by the side of the road. They had forehead folds, slit mouths, and lopsided chests. They were standing by the roadside as his car passed. Mr. Hunnicutt reported an odor like alfalfa and almonds. No UFO was seen. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3082",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Isabel Davis, Close Encounter at Kelly and Others of 1955, p. 138; Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 60; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0366; Leonard H. Stringfield, Situation Red: The UFO Siege, p. 115" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/25/1957",
  "desc" : "At around 6:00 a.m. a seven meter in diameter bowl-shaped object was sighted low over the ground in Milford, Pennsylvania by a 62-year-old woman named Stichler. It hovered only five meters above the ground, and then tilted. A human-looking occupant inside the craft, with bronze-colored skin and wearing a silver-colored uniform and helmet, studied the witness for a short while. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3083",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: May 24-July 31, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/25/1960",
  "desc" : "Vera Bowden, age 35, and a man named Foster saw a gray, elliptical object hovering at tree height over Broadwater Lake in Chinthurst Hill, England for 18 minutes. It then flew off towards the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3084",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 507" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/25/1962",
  "desc" : "What looked like a flaming airplane making a loud roaring noise plunged into Lake Meridian in Kent, Washington at 10:30 p.m. An explosion was heard. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3085",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p 226" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/25/1965",
  "desc" : "On this evening a blue light emanating from a red object, through green, wavered in the sky over the village of Sehulea, Papua New Guinea. Its light illuminated the beach. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3086",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 154" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/25/1967",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. in Castro Valley, California Mr. & Mrs. Ofinowicz saw a metallic domed disc descend and hover at an estimated 5000 feet altitude. It emitted a bright red flame from an aperture underneath as it hovered. The flame withdrew and the object zig-zagged away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3087",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP case files; NICAP UFO Investigator, December 1967, p. 3; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 339" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/25/1971",
  "desc" : "At 10:50 p.m. Mrs. Rose was driving down a road in Belchar's Bar, England when her car headlights dimmed, the engine lost power, and a transistor radio died. An amber colored, disc-shaped object was close to the highway only 30 meters away, and it approached slowly and bathed her car in light as it passed over. When 110 meters away from the object her car's power came back fully. No other vehicles were in the area at the time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3088",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoffrey Coxon, FSR Case Histories, August 1972, p. 9; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 253" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/25/1974",
  "desc" : "Beams of light entered a farm house in Graye et Charnay, Jura department, France at around 2:00 a.m., and lights in the sky were seen from an object that changed color. Landing traces were later found in an oval pattern. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3089",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1976, p. 19; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 138, October 1974; Michel Figuet & Jean-Loius Rucho, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 488" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/25/1979",
  "desc" : "At 1:10 a.m. a silver colored, heel-shaped or bullet-shaped object hovered between fifty and five hundred feet above some trees near the Sacramento River in Colusa, California for three minutes. It had a row of red and blue-green lights along its leading edge between two headlights. It also had a smooth metallic surface. It made a sound like an electric motor as it moved very slowly toward the two witnesses, Ruben and Carlos Genera. Many animals reacted to its presence. The close encounter lasted seven minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3090",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul C. Cerny, MUFON UFO Journal, May 1984, p. 3; UNICAT database, case 235, citing Paul Cerny" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/25/1979",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. a nocturnal light came down and landed behind a store in the town of Charleston, Missouri. A neon sign was effected and a clock in the vicinity was later found to be 18 minutes slow. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3091",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Harley D. Rutledge, Project Identification, p. 208" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/25/1992",
  "desc" : "Two robed figures were seen gliding over a field in Marshfield, Missouri. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3092",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 15738" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/25/1995",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. a huge cigar-shaped object, 300 to 400 feet in length, was tracked by NORAD radar and sighted from an American West airline flight emerging from a thunder cloud near Bovina, Texas. Another airline crew flying near Pueblo, Colorado that same night saw a large, extremely bright object zigzagging through the sky at an estimated speed of Mach 4. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3093",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) MUFON UFO Journal, April 1996; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 34; (2) Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 1995 webpage archive" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/25/2005",
  "desc" : "In Oriental, North Carolina an eerie purple and greenish glow came from a craft that was estimated to be about 24 feet diameter. It hovered next to some tree limbs, and was partly concealed by them. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3094",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 2005 archived webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/26/1952",
  "desc" : "At 3:20 a.m. a brilliant white object was seen overhead by a US Air Force F-94C fighter jet flying in Grid Area CT 4856 in Korea during the Korean War. The UFO was picked up by both ground and airborne radar. It shot away with tremendous acceleration. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3095",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/26/1956",
  "desc" : "At 2:40 p.m. hundreds of witnesses at a military airshow in Flutag outside of Bern, Switzerland watched a white triangle-shaped craft hover at three kilometers altitude. The center of the craft was spinning. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3096",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Nachrichten, October 1956" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/26/1957",
  "desc" : "Starting at around 5:00 a.m. a yellow cigar-shaped object maneuvered in the sky in all directions for 45 minutes over Ben Lomond, Strathclyde, Scotland. It ascended, descended, then sped away toward the northwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3097",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/26/1962",
  "desc" : "At 11:45 p.m. a group of seven teenagers in Westfield, Massachusetts saw a red diamond-shaped object that gave off sparks like sparklers. The object slowly descended in a gentle S-curve. It landed remotely on a nearby mountain. Shortly after landing it reappeared in the sky, and stayed there until after the observers had left the scene. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3098",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 7930, Lloyd Mallan, The Official Guide to UFOs, p. 20; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 155" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/26/1964",
  "desc" : "At 3:43 p.m. on a cloudy afternoon, a thin, white ellipsoid or cigar-shaped object that was estimated to be three and a half times longer than it was high flew on a straight and level flight path over Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mr. Wankowicz, a civilian witness, reported the sighting to the U.S. Air Force. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3099",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 8836; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference to Outstanding UFO Reports, p. 152; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 51" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/26/1964",
  "desc" : "In Palmerton, Pennsylvania a small disc orbited around a large domed object at ten o'clock in the evening. The two merge into one and fly off quickly to the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3100",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1964, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/26/1964",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. a yellow-orange light shaped like the bottom of a ball (hemispherical) was spotted in a field and chased for two miles down a road in Pleasantview, Pennsylvania. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3101",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 8839; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 51" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/26/1967",
  "desc" : "At 10:15 p.m. a strange white light chased a car with three teenagers in Albuquerque, New Mexico then hovered directly overhead while the car was still moving. After a few moments, the engine and headlights of the car ceased operating. When the car had come to a complete stop the light sped away and the car couId then be restarted. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3102",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, May-June, 1967, p. 6; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 204" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/26/1970",
  "desc" : "Multiple radars picked up a UFO a MacDill AFB in Tampa, Florida on this day. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3103",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, March 1971, p. 29" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/26/1974",
  "desc" : "Joseph Susedik was asleep in his camper with his wife and two small children in the pre-dawn hours near Mitchell Caverns, California when he was awakened by a humming sound and a pulsating light that reflected on the inside of the camper wall. He tried to call out to his wife and children but was immobilized. He saw \"pinwheels of odd-shaped colored lights,\" that were red, orange, yellow and blue-green in color but could not recall any further conscious details. He awoke two hours later than usual that morning with bloodshot eyes and body aches. He had vague impressions of having been inside a craft but could not recall any specific. He remembered that he had observed a UFO earlier that evening with other family members.<br/><br/> Later under hypnosis the witness recalled being inside a UFO and described a row of gyroscopes along an inner wall. \"Pinwheels\" of light energized the gyroscopes to form an \"artificial gravity field.\" He described a crew of eight men, seven of whom wore maroon \"foil type uniforms\" and one wore a pale blue uniform. One of his examiners looked at his eyes through a magnifying glass. He also saw a \"nebulae in various colors showing concentrations of metals and minerals, a color image close up of Saturn displayed on a coil edged screen, and three black reclining style high backed chairs at a control panel. After this incident he claims to have become a prolific inventor. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3104",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1328, citing investigators Idabel Epperson & William McCall" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/26/1974",
  "desc" : "At 10 pm. Mr. A. Rias, a stonemason, was listening to his radio in his small cabin in the middle of a field in Les Nourradons, Var, France when static suddenly erupted on the radio. Alarmed, he armed himself with a gun and went outside. He next caught sight of a being running through the field and a bright beam of light was shone upon him. He re-entered the cabin and closed the door. Then he heard knocks on the door and the cabin shook. His dog started trembling, terrified. Re-emeging from the cabin, he saw an object resembling a racecar prototype moving low over the field with two beings inside. Five other humanoids were walking nearby, moving with heavy steps. The beings wore khaki uniforms with large belts and a kind of mask over their faces. One being pointed a glass tube at the witness and a luminous beam of light struck him, paralyzing both him and his dog. The beings and the strange craft soon left towards a forested area and disappeared. The next day he saw red lights in the field that flew away when he approached. Mr. Rias suffered from shock and stayed in bed for the following two days. His dog also appeared to suffer some discomfort for several days. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3105",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1974, citing Herve Laronde, \"ET's or Time Travelers,\" ADEPS, issue # 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/26/1977",
  "desc" : "An ovoid object followed an airliner for 30 seconds over Dowagiac, Michigan at 4:10 p.m. according to one of the passengers aboard. The witness, a radio announcer, reported that the object was larger than the airliner and flew away toward the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3106",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, July 1977, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/26/1979",
  "desc" : "A disc with three legs for landing gear hovered just a half a meter above the ground in Kulim, Malaysia at 8:30 a.m. The witness was temporarily blinded by beams of light from the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3107",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ahmad Jamaludin, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1979, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/26/1979",
  "desc" : "In Manila, the Philippines that same night a UFO with two antennae was sighted over the city. With the aid of binoculars figures could reportedly be seen inside the craft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3108",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, August 1979, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/26/1993",
  "desc" : "A very fast moving disc-shaped object stopped and hovered over the Barnhill schoolyard in Hayes, England at 10:45 p.m. It then vanished in place. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3109",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1993" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/26/2000",
  "desc" : "The pilot of a DC-9 airliner sighted a domed disc flying at 9,500 feet altitude at 6:40 p.m. The object was flying to the east of Mexico City, Mexico. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3110",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Carlos Alberto Guzman Rojas, Los OVNIs y la Aviacion Mexicana, p. 271" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/27/1943",
  "desc" : "USAAF bomber crews flying over Essen, Germany encountered a giant, cigarrette shaped UFO. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3111",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century, p. 21" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/27/1949",
  "desc" : "Joseph Shell, flying over Hart Mountain, Oregon at 2:25 p.m., witnessed 5-8 metallic, oval-shaped objects flying in single file. They were each 20 feet long and 10 feet wide, and followed the contour of the terrain. Their estimated speed was 230 mph, and they were observed to change course. This case is listed as a Project Blue Book \"unknown\" case. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3112",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 404; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 11; UNICAT database, case 625, citing Loren E. Gross; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949, p. 78; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 179; APRO Bulletin, April 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/27/1955",
  "desc" : "A perfectly circular chrome disc flew over Ecclesfield, England at 1:00 p.m. at high speed. The disc reflected sunlight and went off toward the northwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3113",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4354" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/27/1958",
  "desc" : "Remo dell'Armellina was driving a truck toward Santa Fe, Argentina when he saw a giant figure, three meters tall, blocking the road near the town of Boa del Tigre. He went towards it with an iron bar but could not get close because of the stench and a blinding phosphorescent light that emanated from the creature. It had very long arms, a scaly body, and wore a flightsuit coverall. The witness fainted; when he regained consciousness the being was gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3114",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 468; APRO Bulletin, January-February 1959" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/27/1962",
  "desc" : "Numerous witnesses in Palmer, Alaska watched two triangular UFOs dive and climb through the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3115",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 7931; Richard H. Hall, UFO Evidence, p. 108" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/27/1965",
  "desc" : "A flat, reddish orange, ten foot wide disc, hovered at a low altitude 100 yards away from the witness in Acacia Ridge, Northern Territory, Australia on this evening. It illuminated its surroundings. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3116",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 154" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/27/1967",
  "desc" : "At one o'clock in the morning a disc landed in a field in St.-Andre-Treize-Voies, Vendee department, France. When it took off it made a noise like a vacuum cleaner. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3117",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 276" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/27/1967",
  "desc" : "Two luminous trails were found over the ground in Sermerieu, France. Four dead cows were found together with an area of 400 meter wide area of burned crops. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3118",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 93" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/27/1968",
  "desc" : "Mr. Pan Chen Hsiang, who was inside his house at 6:00 a.m. in the city of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, heard his son shouting for him to come out onto the patio. He ran outside and following his son's instructions could see a strange, dark disc-shaped object in horizontal flight. It flew directly over them in complete silence. Its size was large and estimated to be 10 meters in diameter. Its color was flat gray and it appeared to have a dull metallic finish. It displayed regular flashes from its dome. Mr. Hsiang took six photographs of the object, which show an object with a darkened dome in a clear sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3119",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, September-October 1968, p. 36; Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, pp. 309-311" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/27/1968",
  "desc" : "Both the headlights and the engine of a car failed near Punt Gorda, Florida at 9:45 p.m. The motorist got out to investigate, then saw a light at tree-top height, slowly settling to the ground. As the light came nearer, the witness saw that it was attached to a metallic body, shaped like a pilgrim's hat , with a green glow and bluish outline around the edges. A few minutes after landing, the object reappeared, then moved off at high speed to the northwest. The headlights of the car came on immediately, and the motor could be started with difficulty. The driver's watch was found to have stopped working. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3120",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 41, citing CUFOS files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/27/1971",
  "desc" : "A greenish domed disc was seen at dusk in Itaperuna, Brazil. When the witness approached the object to investigate he ran into an invisible barrier ten meters away from it, that knocked him down and caused him to lose consciousness. The landing site had burnt grass. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3121",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon Creighton, FSR, March-April 1972, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/27/1973",
  "desc" : "At 2:00 a.m. a dark, slow moving, silent cylindrical object blocked out stars as it moved across the sky in Feignies, France. There were two long windows on the craft, which flew off to the southeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3122",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, March 1975" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/27/1973",
  "desc" : "Sao Jose Do Rio Preto, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Geni Lisboa was busily baking wedding cakes early in the morning at 2:00 a.m., when her attention was drawn outdoors by the squawking of her pet parakeet. When she looked out she saw a luminous flying object approaching her property. The object circled her garden and hovered above the wall. Ms. Lisboa, only a few meters distant, could see three identical looking figures of small stature through the transparent upper portion. They were behind a kind of \"parapet\" which hid them from the waist down. Each one was directly a beam of light down as if searching for something. Then their beams simultaneously converged on the witness, immediately paralyzing her. Feeling some pain and dizziness, she was nevertheless able to call out for help to her neighbor, but the object departed before she was able to respond.<br/><br/> When her neighbor arrived, she found Ms. Lisboa's face swollen and her eyes bloodshot. Her body was painful, particularly in the joints and especially in the knees, but she continued working until the pain returned and she was forced to call her neighbor again. Her physiological symptoms worsened and she was hospitalized for what the doctors labelled a prolapsed uterus. She had had a gynecological test six months before and had been healthy. In addition to this, her eyesight worsened after the experience to the point where she was forced to wear corrective lenses for the first time in her life. Also, her previous medical condition of hypertension seemed to have made an improvement to the degree where she was able to drop all previous anti-hypertensive medication. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3123",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-94 (A1840), citing Dr. Walter Buhler & Jose Wilson Ribeiro, SBEDV" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/27/1976",
  "desc" : "A cattle mutilation was reported to have occurred in Hocking County, Ohio on this day. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3124",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 705, citing Ed Sanders" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/27/1985",
  "desc" : "In St. James City, Florida a dark elliptical UFO was sighted over the ocean at 9:45 p.m. It had lights around the perimeter, mostly white lights but there seemed to be sparkling colors at times scintillating around the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3125",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON database of filed investigation files, Shirley C. Fox investigator, case 931205E" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/27/1989",
  "desc" : "A car experienced brief electrical system failure, then recovered when a very strange looking UFO was sighted at around 11:00 p.m. in Charovsk, Russia. The object was mushroom shaped on one side, but looked crablike on the other side. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3126",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard F. Haines, JUSA-CISAAF Translations, p. 213" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/27/1994",
  "desc" : "A black and silver cylindrical UFO approached a fisherman in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia at 2:10 a.m. He lost track of time for the next 90 minutes; later he found cuts on his chest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3127",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 16391" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/27/1995",
  "desc" : "A lampshade-shaped object hovered over Hialeah, Florida at two o'clock in the morning. It was very bright with small windows, and had lights rotating around its perimeter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3128",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 1995 web page archive" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/27/1998",
  "desc" : "Two brothers saw a triangular UFO over their home in East Kilbride, England at 12:30 a.m. It had white lights at the front of the object, and was completely silent as it flew. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3129",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Curt Sutherly, UFO Mysteries: A Reporter Seeks the Truth, p. 203" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/27/2003",
  "desc" : "A cigar-shaped UFO hovered low near a mountain near Phoenix, Arizona at 10:10 p.m. It had pinpoint lights along its side that flickered sometimes. It had a large red light at each end, and was soundless. It suddenly took off so fast vertically that it seemed like it almost disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3130",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 2003 web page archive" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/28/1956",
  "desc" : "A blue glowing disc flying on edge pursued a car in Kwekwe, Zimbabwe in what was then Rhodesia. It made instantaneous maneuvers, and illuminated a farm as it flew over. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3131",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Cynthia Hind, UFO Afri News, January 1996" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/28/1961",
  "desc" : "A luminous disc was seen by airmen circling below at sea level northeast of Florianopolis, Brazil on this night. It climbed to the altitude of the DC-3 and circled the plane, then paced the aircraft as it flew to the northeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3132",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, November 1961" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/28/1965",
  "desc" : "The crew of an Ansett-ANA DC-6B airliner flying over the Bougainville Reef between Brisbane, Queensland, Australia enroute to Port Moresby, New Guinea called Townsville Air Traffic Control at 3:25 a.m., and said they were being paced by a UFO. They took several photographs of the spherical, slightly oblate object, which was flat on the top and bottom. The aerial encounter lasted 10-15 minutes, resulting in several photographs. The film was conficated by the Australian military and never returned. The audio tapes of the conversation with air traffic controllers were also confiscated and the operator on duty, William Orr, was told to \"shut his mouth\" about the incident or face dismissal. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3133",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., UFOs: A New Look, p. 6; UNICAT, case 693; Australian FSR, December 1972, p. 3; Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 251; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 283, citing Detective John Meskell, Criminal Investigation Branch, Townsville" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/28/1967",
  "desc" : "A glowing object flew over Murray Bridge, South Australia at two o'clock in the morning. It flew to the west at a speed under 100 mph. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3134",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Research South Australia, report # SA67005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/28/1967",
  "desc" : "A bright reddish orange domed ovoid objecty swooped over the town of Mankato, Minnesota at 12:30 a.m. It made a roaring \"swoosh\" sound as it did. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3135",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP files, report dated May 30, 1967" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/28/1967",
  "desc" : "At 12:01 p.m. a cigar-shaped object with windows and protrusions flew over Wallingford, Connecticut. With clouds as a reference in the background, it was estimated to be about 3000 feet distant, and moved at an estimated speed of 500 mph as in went behind some clouds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3136",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP files, report dated June 5, 1967" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/28/1968",
  "desc" : "At 10:15 three objects were spotted suddenly descending over Roxbury, Massachusetts making an intermittent roaring sound. The closest object was oval shaped with a blue glowing square on its underside. A buzzing sound vibrated the witness's eardrums and was felt in the stomach. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3137",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler case files, report dated June 14, 1968" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/28/1969",
  "desc" : "At two a.m. farmers in Caltowie, South Australia watched as a bluish white object followed two young men home. It started to revolve making a whining noise, then a high-pitched beeping. Four legs protruded from the bottom of the object. A second orange UFO appeared. Ground traces of a landing were found in a nearby field, and some soil appeared to have been taken. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3138",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 184" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/28/1974",
  "desc" : "A 50-75 foot diameter UFO landed on a nearby hill on this night in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The witnesses were too afraid to approach it. After awhile it lifted off, rotated on its central axis, and moved away rapidly. A grayish residue was found at the landing site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3139",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies case files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/28/1977",
  "desc" : "At 3:10 a.m. a large dark box-shaped object shot up from the ground near a utility pole in St. Roch, France lighting up the area. Traces were found at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3140",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/28/1993",
  "desc" : "Near Victoria, Entre Rios province, Argentina four witnesses noticed a bright light floating very close to the ground at 10:20 p.m. within a wooded area. It rose above the treetops and illuminated the ground with a powerful beam of light. Its movements were erratic and sometimes slow, and it soon disappeared from sight. After ten minutes another four witnesses arrived and the craft returned, this time closer to their position. It seemed to float about five meters above the ground. Using binoculars they were able to see several very tall human-like silhouettes, about 2.7 meters in height, moving around on the ground in front of the light. A similar object was seen the next day in the same woods. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3141",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, citing Raul Oscar Fantini" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/28/1999",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 in the morning a metallic triangular shaped craft was videotaped flying at a high speed only six feet above the rolling hills near Wessenden Reservoir in England. It disappeared over the crest of a hill. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3142",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George Filer, MUFON UFO Journal, July 1999, p. 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/28/2003",
  "desc" : "A fast moving \"shimmering shadow\" with orange triangular leading edges moved through the sky over Boise, Idaho at 11:00 p.m. It shimmered as if emitting a great deal of heat. It flew in a straight line and crossed the sky in 8 to 10 seconds without making a sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3143",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/29/1950",
  "desc" : "At 9:15 p.m. an American Airlines DC-6 flying at 8000' altitude, climbing from Washington, D.C. and approximately over Rappahannock, Virginia encountered a spindle-shaped UFO. The object changed course to parallel the plane, then circled the aircraft, and reversed direction before it went out of sight very fast. It had a blue light on its front end. The sighting lasted approximately one minute, and the object was not detected on radar. There were three witnesses among the crew: Sperry, Bates, and Arnholt. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3144",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 39; UNICAT, case # 719, citing Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July; True Magazine, August 1950" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/29/1951",
  "desc" : "At 3:41 p.m. there was a procession of a large number of glowing objects--at least 30--over Downey, California. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3145",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "H. B. Darrach, Life Magazine, April 7, 1952; Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO News, July 1954; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1951, p. 27; Richard F Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 180; Jacques Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 212" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/29/1952",
  "desc" : "Gulf of Mexico near the Florida Keys -- At approximately 1700 hours two eliptically shaped objects, larger than a fighter aircraft, were observed from the USN aircraft carrier Oriskany CV-34. One observer watched the objects through a telescope, while the radar officer viewed the objects on the radar scope. The objects had a bubble dome on the top. Each object flew at an estimated altitude of between 10,000 and 15,000 feet at a supersonic speed and left a white vapor trail. The objects' course paralleled that of the carrier. The duration of the sighting was from 15 to 20 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3146",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Francis Ridge, Nuclear Connection Project, OSI report, NARA Project Blue Book Roll 90, NARA-PBB90-1166" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/29/1955",
  "desc" : "Five rhomboid-shaped objects circled the airport at Pisco, Peru at 11:00 p.m. They flew at one kilometer altitude, and were viewed through a theodolite. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3147",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, August 1955; Richard F Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 122" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/29/1967",
  "desc" : "A \"glowing red scallop\" shaped object rocked slowly in the sky over Saugus, Massachusetts ay 2:45 a.m., and then shot straight up out of sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3148",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 333" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/29/1967",
  "desc" : "At one o'clock in the afternoon a small UFO, three feet in diameter, traveled across Trout Brook Lake in New Brunswick, Canada. It moved in a \"spinning fashion, spraying water seven to eight feet high, noisy, zipped into bushes. It came back and submerged.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3149",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "report form in NICAP files from a military witness named Nason" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/29/1968",
  "desc" : "A blindingly bright circular UFO hovered at a low altitude over Mosinee, Wisconsin at 10:00 p.m. while dogs in the town barked furiously. There were electromagnetic effects during this close encounter, and one of the six witnesses felt pressure on his eardrums. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3150",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 239" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/29/1971",
  "desc" : "At 4:00 a.m. four men out fishing on Buffumville Reservoir in Oxford, Massachusetts were approached twice by a dark, domed disc-shaped object that had a lighted rectangular window. It flipped on edge to reveal a row of glowing ports around its peimeter. The object moved up-and-down and back and forth in a pendulum motion. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3151",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Spencer (Massachusetts) Leader, June 3, 1971; Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 357" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/29/1974",
  "desc" : "Turis, Valencia, Spain - At 11:00 a.m. Sr. Palmero Camanez, a 70-year-old farmer, was working in his fields on a sunny, hot day when he heard what sounded like a police siren. He then saw a metallic disc-shaped object with a cupola, only 150 meters away from him. He estimated it was 2.5 meters in diameter and two meters in height. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3152",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, OVNIS y la Ciencia, p. 43; UNICAT, case # 497" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/29/1975",
  "desc" : "Two metallic hat-shaped discs flew southeast to northwest very quickly over Montlucon, France at 7:00 p.m. They banked to one side but continued on in a straight line, emitting beams of light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3153",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, March 1976" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/29/1979",
  "desc" : "There were two high quality reports of aircraft encounters with UFOs on this day. The first occurred at five minutes after midnight over Hailey, Idaho when a Braniff Airlines crew, as well as private pilots flying in the area, independently reported sighting five orange objects in a line, moving to the left of the airliner. The objects performed up and down and other maneuvers. The plane's engines ran rough, and the compass and ADF system temporarily malfunctioned. The second occurred around noon local time and was tracked by ground radar at Cerro Moreno Air Force Base in Chile, who were in radio contact with airborne military personnel, who had a visual sighting of a black triangular object with two small tails. The object made a turn, then moved in the opposite direction from the aircraft.  ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3154",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Richard H. Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, February 1984, p. 14; (2) Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, August 1979, p. 12, citing La Prensa, May 29, 1979; MUFON UFO Journal, November 1979, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/29/1986",
  "desc" : "On this night Sr. Flores was lying in his bedroom at home near the city center of Santa Rosa, Argentina when he heard a loud buzzing sound coming from outside. Simultaneously a powerful light came shining through his window, while dogs in the neighborhood began barking. As he looked outside he saw an object hovering above the treetops near his house. He was confronted by two eight-foot tall beings who were blocking his door. These creatures seemed to lack mouths, noses, and ears; but they had dark eyes and long thin hands with only three fingers, the middle one being the longest. The beings wore silvery, tight fitting overalls with a wide belt having some kind of tools or accessories hanging from them. He could also see that each wore a necklace with a medallion on it. The beings were busy making quick gestures, when they suddenly vanished. Sr. Flores could then step outdoors and witnessed a ball shaped object moving at high speed towards the south. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3155",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Patrick Huyghe, A Field Guide to Extraterrestrials, p. 58;  Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1986, citing Fabio Picasso, Strange Magazine # 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/29/1990",
  "desc" : "A disc-shaped object landed by a garage in Frunze in the Asian republic of Kyrgistan at 8:45 a.m. A three meter tall giant and six short humanoids exited the craft via a ladder, and gathered samples of oil and soil. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3156",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 67" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/29/1990",
  "desc" : "At 9:45 p.m. a \"stingray\" shaped craft flew over Evansille, Indiana at a slow steady pace and low altitude. Its multicolored lights were yellow, green, and red, and there were at least 15. It flew over a populated area at only 200 feet from west to east on a curved flight, and made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3157",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 134" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/29/1994",
  "desc" : "At two o'clock in the morning on Funen Island, Denmark a dog whined as a UFO with a row of windows went slowly by to the west. An orange, crescent-shaped object was seen in another town at the same time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3158",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 16392, citing SUFOI News, issue #14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/29/1998",
  "desc" : "A close encounter occurred in North Bend, Ohio in Hamilton County at 1:30 a.m. A triangular shaped object was seen moving slowly from the northeast to the southwest, crossing the Ohio River at 50 meters altitude. It was making a humming sound, similar to the sound of static from high tension wires. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3159",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Washington, May 1998 archived webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/29/2003",
  "desc" : "An early-morning  jogger saw a cross-shaped object with three big lights that was hovering at a low altitude over Watertown Square in Watertown, Massachusetts. It was estimated to be no more than 30 stories above the ground when it was seen at 4:45 a.m. It emitted beams of light that filtered through the fog and mist. It changed direction, and then silently lifted away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3160",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Washington, May 2003 archived webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/29/2007",
  "desc" : "At 11:45 a large triangular shaped object was seen flying at about 100 feet altitude between Pontrobert and Meiford in Wales, United Kingdom. It had bright green and blue lights. A second object with pink pulsating lights was also sighted. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3161",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "British Ministry of Defence" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/30/1940",
  "desc" : "During the morning in Toledo, Ohio a dark ellipsoid object flew toward the northeast making a sizzling sound, then made a 90 degree turn. Its flame-like color changed from red to orange and then to yellow. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3162",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall: From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/30/1953",
  "desc" : "On this day a small bright blue UFO made irregular motions in the sky over Palmerston North, New Zealand. \"Angel hair\" fell to the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3163",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Leonard Stringfield, Situation Red: The UFO Siege, p. 49" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/30/1954",
  "desc" : "Five men and a woman on the doorstep of a house in East Malvern, Victoria, Australia watched an orange, oval-shaped UFO appear in the sky at close range at 12:25 a.m. The UFO maneuvered in a downward curve and then pulled up. A cloud of yellow smoke and flame was seen at the rear. Three of the witnesses saw shapes that looked like human-shaped shadows inside the craft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3164",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Melbourne Argus, May 31, 1954; Melbourne Daily Telegram, May 31, 1964; James Holledge, Flying Saucers Over Australia, p. 53; Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/30/1958",
  "desc" : "At 9:20 p.m. a science writer in Ural'sk, Kazakstan, USSR watched as a red light made the start of a pattern to land at the south edge of an airfield, but then stopped, stood motionless for a few moments, made a 90 degree turn, stopped again, and after several minutes got smaller. A second red light joined the first, then they separated and silently flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3165",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lloyd Mallan, Official Guide to UFOs, p. 28, citing the US Air Force; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1958: May-July, p. 34" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/30/1965",
  "desc" : "While sunbathing on the roof of her lake cottage on Lake Mason, Wisconsin at around 2 p.m., Ms. Gorzelle, age 45, witnessed a shiny disc-shaped object approach in a straight line from over the lake. She described it as metallic, about 40 feet wide, and with a row of windows and a dome on top. The domed disc hovered over her cottage property less than 200 feet away, then landed on tripod landing gear that emerged from the underside of the craft. From her roof she was looking down on the landed object. In one of the windows she was able to see an occupant. When the occupant saw her on the roof, he beckoned to another figure that appeared at a second window. Both of them seemed to be rather short--under four feet tall--with large, baldheads, slits for mouths and small noses. They stared at her for what seemed to be a long time. The next thing she recalled was watching the object depart rapidly in the direction of the setting sun. There was a time lapse of at least four hours in her memory. Under self hypnosis, the witness was able to recall walking up to the UFO and being led up a stairway into the vehicle by the two occupants. One of them held a small box that he opened, and inside the box was a dark-colored crystal that gave off a vapor or smoke. He held it in front of her face and the witness jumped back, but when he again passed it close to her face she discovered that the fumes were odorless. The next thing she remembers was being back on her roof watching the object depart. She had headaches following the incident. She would have another UFO encounter three months later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3166",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Fred Merritt case file investigations; David F. Webb, 1976 CUFOS Conference Proceedings, p. 268; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1965-19 (A0629), citing Fred Merritt" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/30/1967",
  "desc" : "Shortly before 8:00 p.m. an orange glowing mushroom-shaped UFO zig-zagged over Highway 57, southwest of Palmerston North, New Zealand. It was humming and making a swishing sound. There were two witnesses to the close encounter, and the entire event lasted 12 minutes. The same or a similar object was seen at Ohakea Air Force Base by two more witnesses a short time later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3167",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/30/1967",
  "desc" : "At around 3:00 a.m. a five meter long cigar-shaped object was seen at very low altitude over a farm in Ribeirao Pires, Sao Paulo State, Brazil. It had 4 legs for landing gear. A short humanoid was seen leaning against a small window in the craft, which shot away at an extremely fast speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3168",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 7790, citing FSR, March-April 1971" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/30/1969",
  "desc" : "The witnesses were staying in a \"caravan\" camper on Cradle Hill in Warminster, Wiltshire, England and were out looking for any mysterious lights that might appear in the night sky. At 11:30 p.m. they spotted a crimson red, oval-shaped light flying over the area. It was completely silent. A short time later one of the witnesses noticed a luminous, cloud-like humanoid figure standing by a nearby gate. It appeared to be covered entirely by tiny pinpricks of white light. No facial features could be seen. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3169",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1969, case 901, citing Arthur Shuttlewood, UFOs: Visions of a New Age" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/30/1971",
  "desc" : "A woman was cutting grass for her rabbits in Dannes, Pas-de-Calais, France at 2:05 p.m. when she sighted a dark UFO in a large chalk quarry about half a mile away. The object was shaped like an overturned basin and was hovering near the ground. Beside it a small being with a large head was moving about, and it looked like he might have been collecting chalk samples. After approximately ten minutes he was \"sucked up\" into the object, which took off at once. No ground traces were found. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3170",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-41 (A1115), citing Rene Bazin, Lumieres dans la Nuit, March 1972; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 359" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/30/1974",
  "desc" : "On this day a 200 foot long cigar-shaped object making a humming sound passed within 500 feet of a farmhouse in Regent, North Dakota. It caused static electricity and radio interference. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3171",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 11337, citing MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 253" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/30/1990",
  "desc" : "A mother and her two young sons were resting at home in Calumet City, Illinois at 10:15 p.m. when they noticed a gray domed disc-shaped object hovering over a house across the street. The object was described as about 30 feet in diameter with bright white windows around its circumference. The windows were wider at the bottom than at the top, and a dark line seemed to rotate inside the windows. The object emitted a fuzzy white glow from its flat bottom. It then drifted slowly away toward the southwest. That same night the younger boy had a strange dream-like experience. He found himself at the nearby schoolyard where he saw several landed gray domed discs. A short gray-skinned being befriended the boy, then accompanied him back home. The boy remembers being told several \"things\" that he could not remember. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3172",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 127" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/30/1993",
  "desc" : "Bourgata, Israel - Hannah Somech awoke at three o'clock in the morning when she heard her dog barking. She got up and went downstairs to her kitchen and looked out to the garden through a glass door when she saw her dog literally fly through the air and slam against a wall. Shocked and terrified, she bravely opened the door but was confronted by an invisible wall: she could literally go no further. She next saw an eight-foot tall giant in bright coveralls. She thought it might be a robber when she heard a voice inside her head that said, \"You think I am a thief?\"<br/><br/> \"What did you do with my dog!\", she asked furiously. \"He disturbed me, as you do now,\" the giant spoke telepathically, without moving its lips. \"I could crush you, but I don't want to. Just leave me alone, I am busy.\" The woman ran back to her bedroom to wake up her husband, but when they both came downstairs the giant had disappeared. In the garden, they found huge footprints, 16 inches in length. After the encounter Hannah suffered from fatigue, headaches and muscle pain. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3173",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, citing Michael Hesemann, UFOs: The Secret History" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/31/1947",
  "desc" : "A former military photographer claimed that a UFO, 30-40 feet in diameter and about 15 feet in height, crashed near the area of Socorro, New Mexico and was recovered on this day. One occupant of the craft was killed in the crash, while three others allegedly emerged alive. When they were found by the U.S. military, the survivors reportedly made crying-like sounds and clutched box-like devices to their chests. One of them appeared to be injured. The occupants were of small height and had copper based blood. This object was reportedly eventually sent to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, and ended up at the \"Hangar 18\" facility. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3174",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Phillip L Rife, It Didn't Start With Roswell; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1947" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/31/1948",
  "desc" : "In 1948 at 1:20 in the afternoon, a cigar-shaped object moved through the sky at terrific speed over Wilmington, North Carolina. Mrs. H. D. Alspach reported that the object emitted smoke, appeared about three feet long, veered, slowed down, and then speed away toward the east at a high altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3175",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Wilmington, North Carolina Morning Star, June 1, 1948; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 129" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/31/1951",
  "desc" : "Niagara Falls, New York - A luminous disc with arc-shaped wings rose into the sky at a very fast speed. It was seen by several military witnesses for 35 seconds at 11:20 p.m. This case is a Project Blue Book \"unknown.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3176",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #928" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/31/1952",
  "desc" : "South of Chorwon, Korea - At 4:20 a.m. pilot Hufberry turned his F-94 jet to descend and intercept a round, bluish white UFO. The F-94's radar locked onto the object, whereupon the UFO made a left turn climb, silhouetting the F-94 against the dawn sky. The UFO accelerated away after the fighter jet made two unsuccessful attempts to pass the UFO. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3177",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard F. Haines, Advanced Aerial Devices During the Korean War, p. 47" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/31/1955",
  "desc" : "At 11 o'clock in the morning on the farm of Messr. Coulange, in Puy St. Gulmier, France a 1.1 meter (5 feet) in diameter luminous white disc hovered vertically only a few meters away from the 74-year-old farmer, and only three meters from the ground. Many multi-colored filaments of light radiated from the UFO. The object rose up, went over the old man's head, and flew out of sight behind some nearby woods. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3178",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jimmy Guieu, Flying Saucers Come from Another World, p. 253" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/31/1957",
  "desc" : "At 7:17 a.m. a British Airways airliner flying over Kent, England experienced radio and radar failure when a UFO was sighted. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3179",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 12, citing Flying Saucer Review; Leonard G. Cramp, Piece for a Jig-Saw, p. 148; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 49, citing Geoffrey Falla" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/31/1959",
  "desc" : "A man named Priest sighted a reddish orange object with a tapering tail fly over Port Elliot, South Australia at 6:13 a.m. It moved from west to east at 25 degrees elevation in southern sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3180",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 166" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/31/1961",
  "desc" : "At noon on this day over Toompang, New South Wales, Australia five men watched a large object hover in the sky while four delta-shaped objects exited and maneuvered around it for over an hour. They finally rejoined it and the large craft flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3181",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 151; FSR, March 1979, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/31/1967",
  "desc" : "On the 31st of May in 1967 a farm woman living outside of Beausejour, Manitoba, Canada (about 45 miles from Winnipeg) was sitting on her front porch at 11:30 p.m. waiting for her husband to return home. She saw a brilliant red light with a smaller blue light beside it come towards her from the south. The light lit up the ground and appeared to land. She became frightened and ran inside her house. The next morning she and her husband went out to investigate where the object had landed. They found a 30 by 50 yard semi-circular area that was still in flames. The strange fact about this case is that on June 15th the area was still smoldering, despite considerable rain having fallen in the area. Radioactive soil was found at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3182",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "James Thompson, \"Second Landing in Canada\", APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 2; Winnipeg Free Press, June 21, 1967; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 263, 340; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/31/1969",
  "desc" : "On this night a large sphere flew erratically in the sky over Sao Paulo, Brazil. It released a smaller sphere which flew away. Several witnesses reported that their cars failed during the sighting, including both the lights and motor. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3183",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 273, citing Contact (UK)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/31/1971",
  "desc" : "In 1971 at 1:10 in the afternoon, two witnesses In Newmarket, New Hampshire sighted a grayish white ovoid object, hovering in an upright orientation a few feet above the ground. It had dark portholes around its perimeter, and was in plain view in front of some trees for a few minutes before shooting straight up and out of sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3184",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs Interplanetary Visitors. Jericho, New York: Exposition Press, 1974, p. 357" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/31/1972",
  "desc" : "Mr. Reeve, a man in his fifties, was driving in the fog in Mannum, South Australia at 6:35 a.m. when he came across a dark oval-shaped object with a red light on one side, a white light on theother, hanging just above the ground. He stopped his car, and the object rose into the fog with a \"swish\" sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3185",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Keith Basterfield, UFO Research South Australia, case SA72002" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/31/1974",
  "desc" : "In 1974 the strange events began early in the morning for a young married couple traveling from Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) to South Africa via Fort Victoria and Beit Bridge. Peter and Frances saw what they thought was a policeman holding a walkie-talkie radio about 10 kilometers south of Umvuma. This is what he seemed to be to Peter, who was driving his Peugeot 404 well in excess of the posted speed limit. As the road was noted for speed traps, he slowed down. The pair of them began to think in more detail about the policeman. The metallic-looking suit seemed queer for a policeman, as they normally wore khaki. The UFO appeared at 2:30 a.m. on the passenger side of the car (left hand side). It appeared fairly close and seemed to keep pace with the car. For a brief while they wondered if it might be a helicopter. It had a bluish tinge, and was flashing bright and steady for 5 seconds, then off for 2 seconds.<br/><br/> The car headlights began to fade next, and there was an immense light around the car. As they drove along it suddenly became very cold in the car. They estimated the drop in temperature to have been between 20 and 30 degrees Fahrenheit, down to less than 50º F. Peter took his foot off the accelerator but the car continued to move forward at an accelerated speed! He tried to apply the brakes but it had no effect, and his steering had no effect on the direction of the car as well.<br/><br/> When they were some 10 km from Fort Victoria the UFO shot off like a shooting star, but it reappeared again about 10 kilometers outside of the city, but this time they also saw a second UFO move into position above the car. Frances fell asleep around 6:15 a.m. just before she feel asleep they lost all sound from the radio. Peter lost all track of time and he remembered nothing from about three minutes after Frances fell asleep. He felt at the time he must have been mesmerized by the road.<br/><br/> At the Customs post at the South African border showed 8:30 a.m. although their watches indicated it was only 7:30 a.m. Peter was also surprised when reading the car's trip odometer. He had reset it to zero at Fort Victoria, but found that it had recorded only 17 km, yet the distance by road was 288 km. He had also filled the gas tank in Fort Victoria and expected to need a full tank when he reached the border, but when he tried to fill the tank it would take only 22 cents worth, which at the time was less than a half gallon. Under hypnosis Frances had no other experiences revealed than those she remembered consciously. Peter, however recalled seeing the inside of the \"spacecraft\" which had three levels, and interacting with physical beings that he believed could take on any appearance that he wanted them to look like. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3186",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Carl van Vlierden, \"Escorted by UFOs from Umvuma to Beit Bridge\", FSR, August 1975, pp. 3-10; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 367, citing FSR; Skylook, March 1975, p. 3; Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 276" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/31/1975",
  "desc" : "At around 9 p.m. an octagonal flying object with an illuminated cross-member, moved very slowly through the sky city sky above London, England. It then vanished while still in view. It was reported by a married couple named Fry. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3187",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jenny Randles, FSR, November 1976, p. 30" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/31/1976",
  "desc" : "A 17-year-old man named T. White saw a 5 foot, 6 inch tall humanoid in his backyard in Daw Park, South Australia at around 2:00 a.m. The being wore a silver coverall suit with white boots, a black visor helmet, and had a box strapped to its chest. It flew into a white ellipsoid UFO that made no sound as it left. The household wiring was effected. Unintelligible language was heard as well. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3188",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Keith Basterfield, UFO Research South Australia, case SA 76001; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1474, citing Horrie Aspinall & Keith Basterfield" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/31/1984",
  "desc" : "A V-shaped formation of ten to fifteen red lights flew over the Hudson Valley on this night and was seen from several locations. At 8:15 p.m. a V-Shaped formation of 15 lights, estimated to be the size of a Boeing 747 airliner if all connected to one object, passed directly over the home of an IBM engineer in Hawthorne, Westchester County, New York. It made no sound as it passed overhead except a faint humming. All lights simultaneously turned blue, and then made a tight 180-degree turn and flew off to the north. At 8:30 p.m. the same or a similar object was seen from Route 117 in Pleasantville, New York. It was reported to be larger than a football field, and it followed a car being driven on the Taconic Parkway. At 8:45 p.m. the lights were seen by Mr. D. Boyd in Yorktown, New York. An engineer and private pilot, he watched them turn and fly away toward the west. V-shaped or triangular UFOs were also sighted later that night in Fishkill and south Putnam County. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3189",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Philip Imbrogno, International UFO Reporter, September 1984, p. 5-7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/31/1994",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 a.m. Mr. Oringdulph of Alamosa, Colorado - the witness of a nocturnal light in the sky earlier that evening - was awakened by a large helicopter hovering directly over his house. As he ran outside it flew away, but a second helicopter hovered low over the end of his street for several minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3190",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 243" ]
},
{
  "date" : "5/31/2003",
  "desc" : "An ovoid craft was seen in the sky near a shopping center in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia at 8:04 p.m. It shrank and then glowed brightly, and changed color from orange to red It became smaller, then brighter again, then disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3191",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, May 2003 webpage archive" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/1/1951",
  "desc" : "At Niagara Falls, New York at 4:20 a.m. three enlisted men watched a glowing yellow-orange, saucer-shaped object with arc-shaped wings, shoot straight up into the sky. It was seen for 30-40 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3192",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/1/1951",
  "desc" : "A Wright-Patterson AFB base official saw a disc-shaped object turn sharply southeast of Dayton, Ohio at 10:00 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3193",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 23; Richard Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 400" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/1/1952",
  "desc" : "On this morning the Hughes Aircraft radar facility in Los Angeles, California tracked a UFO that climbed to 35,000 feet, dove and then pulled out of the dive, heading off to the southeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3194",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ruppelt Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 190" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/1/1952",
  "desc" : "Walla Walla, Washington. At 1:00 p.m. ex-military pilot Major W. C. Vollendorf sighted an oval-shaped object with a \"definite airfoil\" performed a fast climb for 7 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3195",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/1/1952",
  "desc" : "Soap Lake, Washington. Sometime after three o'clock in the afternoon Ray Lottman sighted three glimmering objects that flew straight and level for 10 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3196",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/1/1952",
  "desc" : "At six o'clock in the evening Airman Beatty and two civilians in Rapid City, South Dakota watched at least five long silver objects flew in a neat box formation with a leader for 15-20 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3197",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #1243; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 263; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/1/1954",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. the crew of a USAF B-47 jet bomber was flying at 34,000' altitude located 400 miles south of Minneapolis, Minnesota when they spotted an unknown craft with running lights that flew at 24,000-44,000' altitude for one hour. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3198",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #3029; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Jay Rath, The M-Files: True Reports of Minnesota's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 45" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/1/1958",
  "desc" : "At 11:15 a.m. on Sunday, June 1st, a silent \"unknown aircraft\" with no identifying markers crashed into the Alta fjord, Norway. At the impact site, 70 meters deep, a column of water rose up. The aircraft resembled a twin-engine delta-winged jet. The witnesses were Bjorn Taraldsen, Nils M. Turi, Kate Julsen, and Rasmus Hykkerud. When others arrived half an hour later all they found were a number of dead fish. The frigate KNM Arendal and the submarine KNM Sarpen, along with divers, searched for the aircraft fruitlessly for over a week. The Arendal, however, did get a sonar reading of a mobile object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3199",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ole Jonny Braenne, International UFO Reporter, January-February 1995, pp. 12-13 & 17" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/1/1966",
  "desc" : "On or around this day two Ontario residents had a chance encounter with a disc-like UFO hovering close to the dark waters of Lake Ontario. The object, which had rows of lights flashing around its perimeter, took off rapidly as the witnesses approached it in a motor boat. The incident was reported to NICAP by Richard Plewman. Plewman, a former RCAF Flight Lieutenant and pilot instructor, was cruising with a friend, Jack Grant about 2-1/2 miles offshore of Clarkson at about 10:30 p.m. While proceeding in a NE direction, the men noticed some lights like headlights on the water ahead. They continued talking, and approaching the lights at a moderate speed, not suspecting anything unusual. When they got to an estimated distance of 3/4 to 1 mile, the lights slowly rose with a \"swish,\" emitting a low \"pulsating hum.\" Plewman and Grant could now see a disc with a bubble-type dome on top and a flat bottom, casting an oval reflection on the lake surface. A row of bright yellow lights encircled the dome, blue-green lights around the lower perimeter. After hovering briefly, the UFO took off at high speed disappearing \"Like a light bulb turned out.\" Plewman said the perimeter lights clearly outlined the dark object, the colors changing from dull white to fluorescent tones as the UFO started to rise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3200",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, August-September 1966, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/1/1967",
  "desc" : "A yellow-orange disc-shaped object with three legs and windows allegedly landed in Santa Monica near Madrid, Spain at 11 p.m. Ground traces included three holes in the ground and burnt grass at the landing site. The holes were rectangular in shape and 15 cm x 30 cm in size. An aluminum colored powder and some mysterious tubes were also discovered. An object, said to be lens-shaped, was photographed 30 minutes earlier in San Jose de Valderas, Spain. The photo shows an \"H\" insignia on the bottom of the craft. The photograph, however, is regarded by many UFO investigators as a hoax. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3201",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Antonio Ribera, FSR, September-October 1969, p. 4; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 263" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/1/1967",
  "desc" : "John Norton, age 7, of Richmond, Virginia had to be taken to a hospital after observing a disc-shaped, buzzing object, the size of a Volkswagen, with green and red lights, which landed in a clearing at 11:30 p.m. and took off \"like lightning.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3202",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, June 1967, pp. 2, 7; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case #847" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/1/1970",
  "desc" : "A teacher on the beach on Padre Island, Texas sighted a cloud cigar, that is, a cigar-shaped flying object surrounded by an artificial cloud, low overhead at about 1:00 p.m. It had a pulsing glow, and made a sudden hissing sound. It shot off in a vertical ascent. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3203",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator,  August 1970, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/1/1972",
  "desc" : "The principal witness, along with her mother and two friends, were driving to the village of Collage near Molong, New South Wales, Australia at around 8:00 a.m. As she sat in the back seat she looked out the window to her right and noticed a large bright shiny object. It was saucer shaped with a dome on top, and along side of it on the left was a very tall person dressed in an outfit that glowed the same as the ship. Another similar figure was walking towards the road (the craft was about 30 meters away from a fence line, which was 5 meters from the road). A third figure was standing on the right side of the object near a dead tree. All three had on the same clothing with helmets with black visors. She described the aliens as being very tall, approximate eight feet in height. As the car drove she noticed that they seemed to be collecting items from the ground. She also noticed that the one walking towards the road seemed to have turned his helmet and look at their vehicle as it drove off. The witness never told anyone else in the car what she had seen. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3204",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, June 1972 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/1/1975",
  "desc" : "At about 1:30 a.m. a woman was walking around a corner of a major highway on the outskirts of the town of Villarrasa, Huelva province, Spain when she encountered a large object with red, green, and white lights in the middle of the road. Standing next to the object were three very tall human looking beings, who wore bright white uniforms and square helmets. They seemed to be moving their arms around. The witness became frightened and ran home. Around the same time another witness in a different part of town sawa large domed disc with green and red lights, or or near the ground only 15 meters away. Next to the round object stood three very tall men wearing helmets. Each helmet had a green light on it. The men were next seen walking around the object. This witness also became afraid and left. When he looked back, he saw the UFO lifting off from the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3205",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1975 Humanoid Contact Database, case # 91, citing Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos & Fernandez Peri, Enciclopedia De Encuentros Cercanos con Ovnis" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/1/1978",
  "desc" : "Teachers commuting to schools in La Bajada, Catamarca province, Argentina saw three UFOs with pale green luminescence and a metallic appearance at around 7:30 a.m. The objects zig-zagged from southeast to east, next performed a parabolic turn, and then flew off to the southwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3206",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1978, p. 15, citing Chronica, June 7, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/1/1981",
  "desc" : "In Cavan, South Australia a former radio booster station saw a huge whitish-blue ball of light, the size of a house, on the right of it at 5:45 a.m. The ball of light rolled across in front of a car beign driven by a witness named Watson, and the car drove through it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3207",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Cashman, Project 1947 website; Australian IUR, August 1981, p. 16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/1/1993",
  "desc" : "At around one o'clock in the afternoon a dull, metallic, cigar-shaped object traveled from one cloud formation to another in Rogers, Arkansas then back to the first cloud formation on the exact reverse path. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3208",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, June 1993 webpage, report posted September 9, 2004" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/1/1996",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 a.m. a dark, matt black triangular UFO with lights on each corner hovered over a transformer near Fort Meade, Maryland. It made no sound. Three hours later another triangular UFO was sighted flying over Beltsville, Maryland. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3209",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, June 1996 archived webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/1/1998",
  "desc" : "A red ball of light shot over the lake in Gmunden, Austria at 9:30 p.m. It dropped in altitude, then shot up vertically. There was television interference in the town for 20 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3210",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Volume 3, number 23" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/1/1999",
  "desc" : "Three silver round objects with powerful flashing lights lined up in the sky eight kilometers wide over the city of Puebla, Mexico in the early afternoon. It was videotaped by a Mexican TV crew. One object disappeared, the other two shot off to the southwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3211",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (US), September 1999, p 19; George Filer, Filer's Files, volume 9, number 22" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/1/2000",
  "desc" : "A videotape by Sr. Logro Avila shows a UFO flying at high speed at 6 p.m. over Tlalnepantla, Mexico, with a military jet traveling in same direction. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3212",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Carlos Alberto Guzman Rojas, Los OVNIs y la Aviacion Mexicana: 50 anos de encuentros con OVNIs en el espacio aereo Mexicano, p. 271" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/1/2002",
  "desc" : "At 3:00 p.m. four brown, connected spheres with several spikes poking out of them were sighted traveling at 300 feet altitude over Brighton, Michigan on a steady course, and completely silent. The sighting was reported to have lasted five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3213",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, June 2002 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/1/2008",
  "desc" : "Two white glowing metallic, teardrop-shaped objects flew over Thunder Bay, Ontario at 11:15 p.m. heading east. The second one followed the same parallel path about 40 meters difference, approached and passed over the two witnesses. Duration was two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3214",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2008 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 2008-317, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/1/2009",
  "desc" : "A dark gray, giant boomerang-shaped UFO with 8 dim lights was spotted briefly at Berryville pond, Berryville, Arkansas at two o'clock in the morning. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3215",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, June 2009 webpage, report uploaded June 9, 2009" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/1/2013",
  "desc" : "At about 10:05 p.m. on Saturday evening a women and her 3-year-old child had just pulled out of a convenience store on U.S. Route 30 in North Huntindon Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and turned left toward Greensburg. As she drove along she noticed a large object hovering over the highway. She said out loud, \"What in the world is that?\" Her youngster in the backseat responded, \"Look mommy, a flying iPad in the sky!\" She looked around and noticed there were no other cars on the road. She was quite concerned and stopped, about 150 feet away from the hovering craft. The object was completely silent and hovered approximately 60 feet above the roadway. She described it as looking \"mostly rectangular...like the gondola of a blimp without the blimp.\" It extended over the east and westbound lanes, and was estimated to be about 55 feet long, and 35-40 feet tall.<br/><br/> The witness described the object as two-tiered. The top section had five sets of green lights. There were three individual lights in each set, and the five sets were all evenly spaced and not blinking. The green color was brighter than the green of a traffic light. The bottom section was smaller; it contained two long solid red lights ther were placed side by side. These lights were steady and gave the impression of looking like brake lights, but they were huge. The woman called her mother on her bluetooth cell phone. She asked her mother if she had any explanation of what she was looking at, but as she drove under it the digital dashboard display, her cell phone signal, and her FM radio all blacked out. The witness attempted to take a photo with her iPhone, but the camera function wouldn't load.<br/><br/> She accelerated down the highway to get away from the object. About half a mile away she looked back and could no longer see the object. The digital displays all returned to normal, her radio came back on, and she was able to make cell phone contact again with her mother as she approached the Adamsburg exit. When she got home she discussed what had happened with her family, and they urged her to draw a sketch of the object while the even was still fresh in her memory. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3216",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert Rosales, Humanoid and other strange encounters Facebook group, citing Stan Gordon, Stan Gordon's UFO Anomalies Zone" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/2/1919",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 a.m. a nine-year-old boy in Otter Tail, Minnesota saw a black object emerge from a quick descent, forming an unusual cloud. Windows rattled and the house he was in creaked as the object pealed off, made 6-7 barrel rolls, and left contrails in its wake. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3217",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Frontiers of Science, January 1982, p. 14; UNICAT, case # 39" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/2/1947",
  "desc" : "Pilot Wenyon reported that a silver, \"mayo-jar\" shaped UFO crossed in front of his light plane while flying at between 10,000 and 12,000 feet near Lewes, Delaware on this day. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3218",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted Bloecher investigation files, clipping dated July 8, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, p. 6; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/2/1947",
  "desc" : "At 1:30 p.m. an inverted saucer-shaped disc of brilliant metal was sighted by John Laube and Fred Platte in Waverly, Iowa. It flew just above the top of a 180-foot grain elevator at Waverly Sugar Manufacturing Plant. They had it in sight for five minutes before it was obscured by trees as it flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3219",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 Research Notes, Bordentown, New Jersey, April 16, 2005, citing Waterloo Courier, July 10, 1947" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/2/1949",
  "desc" : "A silver disc-shaped object flew toward the northwest into Little Tujunga Canyon near Glendale, California at around noon. It traveled very fast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3220",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #1409, citing Ann Druffel" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/2/1952",
  "desc" : "In Bayview, Washington eight witnesses watched an irregular bluish-white or silver sphere hover in the sky. They viewed it through a theodolite. An intercept was attempted with a C-47 but abandoned when the transport place couldn't close with the UFO. At 5:02 p.m. Larry McWade observed a purple object for an unknown length of time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3221",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1249; Kevin Randall, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 263; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/2/1952",
  "desc" : "Fulda, West Germany. On this night Lt. John Hendry, the photo-navigator on a RB-26C reconnaissance bomber, sighted a porcelain-white object that flew very fast for an unknown length of time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3222",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1249; Kevin Randall, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 263; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/2/1955",
  "desc" : "A huge luminous sphere hovered at ten meters over the beach at Catia La Mar, Venezuela and then flew along the beach. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3223",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, August 1955" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/2/1959",
  "desc" : "Mrs. Henry X. Buller reported that she and her husband saw two cigar-shaped objects fly northeast of Windom, Minnesota while driving between Windom and Mountain Lake at 9:15 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3224",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Fate magazine, October 1959; Jay Rath, The M-Files, p. 50" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/2/1961",
  "desc" : "On Miyako Jima, Japan at 10:17 p.m. Lt. R. N. Monahan and Hazeltine Electric Co. technical representative D. W. Mattison, sighted a blue-white light that flew an erratic course at varying speeds, in an arc-like path for five minutes. A radar contact with visual confirmation of the UFO occurred on the same day in Tampa, Florida. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3225",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 7437; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/2/1964",
  "desc" : "At 5:30 p.m. in Gateshead, England a teenager and nine children saw six dwarfs on Leam Lane. They were about 31 inches tall, were dressed in bright green clothes, and had luminous hands. They seemed to be searching for something. Later, another child reported seeing a silver disc the size of an automobile take off from the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3226",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ray Palmer, Flying Saucers, December 1964, p. 12; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 609; Jerome Clark & Loren Coleman, The Unidentified: Notes Toward Solving the UFO Mystery, p. 24" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/2/1964",
  "desc" : "A fiery disc swooped down low over Hobbs, New Mexico at around 4 p.m., leaving behind some sooty trace remnants and burning a child. Surprisingly, the child reported that the burns did not cause any pain despite the fact that his eyes had swollen shut and he had black sooty deposits on his face, neck, and shirt. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3227",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 226; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 608; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 191" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/2/1964",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. a dark disc-shaped object with a very bright rectangular plate hovered over some new housing construction in Sunnyvale, California. It flew off rapidly toward the southeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3228",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1964, p. 8; Thomas M. Olsen, Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case 153" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/2/1965",
  "desc" : "A silent sphere with flashing lights descended onto a hillside in Kuranda, Queensland, Australia at 8:00 p.m. Mr. D. Armstrong, a former airman, was called outside by his sons and saw the spherical object with flashing lights that appeared to land silently on a hillside situated on a Mr. Watson's property. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3229",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 649" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/2/1966",
  "desc" : "A luminous cigar-shaped object stopped in mid-air, then discharged three smaller objects that flew off in different directions over Massillon, Ohio. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3230",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 414" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/2/1969",
  "desc" : "In Tusnad Baile, Romania at 2:30 a.m. a silent, cone-shaped UFO grew larger in the sky, as if approaching. It then flew off toward the west-northwest toward Odorheiu, trailing a tail. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3231",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 254" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/2/1969",
  "desc" : "Near Segovia, Spain a witness travelling in a car experienced a strange effect, like a curtain coming down, at 9:30 p.m. He then heard a message to \"be calm\" while he watched a cube descend. He then lost track of what happened during the next 30 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3232",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #8875" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/2/1970",
  "desc" : "Lulu Luebben reported that the horses on her ranch in Apache Junction, Arizona reacted as if to the presence of a predator at around two a.m. A low flying hovering object, with its top an intense blue, and the bottom a neon yellow was near the paddock. It had three bar appendages on the bottom. It was also seen by three security guards at nearby Falcon Field across the highway. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3233",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, September-October 1970, p. 7; Apache (AZ) Sentinel, June 10, 1970; Skylook, August 1970; Joan Woodward, www.nicap.org, Catgory 04 - Animal Effects Cases" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/2/1972",
  "desc" : "A luminous ovoid object hovered over La Deschaux, Jura department, France at 11:30 p.m., then moved toward the south slowly at a low altitude. It directed a beam of light upwards, with 90 degree rotation. The sighting lasted an hour, and there were four witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3234",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Henry-JeanBesset, Phenomenes Spatiaux, June 1972, p. 26" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/2/1975",
  "desc" : "A series of close encounters began in central Connecticut at 8:45 p.m. On Lent Road in Hamden, Connecticut a witness sighted a disc-shaped UFO with an onboard occupant. Thirty minutes later two witnesses, one on Putnam Avenue in Hamden, Connecticut and another in Wallingford, Connecticut both reported close encounter experiences involving disc-shaped UFOs and lapses of time where they couldn't remember what happened next. At 9:45 p.m. more than 40 people including police saw the same or similar disc in Hamden. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3235",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "CUFOS case investigation files, James Barrett field investigator" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/2/1991",
  "desc" : "Many observers witnessed 15 delta-shaped objects in the sky over Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico. Photographs and a videotape were taken, and there was national TV coverage of the event. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3236",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, October 1993" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/2/1992",
  "desc" : "At 2:15 a.m. in Pittsford, New York two charcoal black, Saturn-shaped UFOs were seen hovering at 200 feet altitude. There were four prongs on each with lights on the ends. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3237",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald M. Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, October 1992, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/2/2001",
  "desc" : "At 6 p.m. a flat, black V-shaped object, with no lights or sound, was suspended in the sky over Wayne, New Jersey. It slowly rotated in place. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3238",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, webpage posted August 5, 2001" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/2/2003",
  "desc" : "At three o'clock in the morning the witness awoke in West Chester, Ohio to a beeping sound coming from a UPS (universal power supply) because the power had gone out. There was a smell of ozone and no sound at all. The witness then saw an oval-shaped craft with two strobing oval-shaped lights. The bottom of the craft was a deep blue color. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3239",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/2/2006",
  "desc" : "Three orange lights in a triangular formation were sighted over Aylmer, Quebec, Canada at 10:45 p.m. One by one they left formation, rapidly increasing in altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3240",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2006 Canadian UFO Survey Report, case # 250" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/3/1920",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 a.m. a small metallic blue, vertical cylinder, shaped like a \"milk-can,\" landed only 15 feet away from the witness, sat on the ground for 15 minutes northeast of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, then took off and flew away to the west. It made no noise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3241",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON on-site investigation, report dated September 1, 1973; Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/3/1959",
  "desc" : "On this day in Bloomington, Indiana a torpedo-shaped object first hovered, then dove out of sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3242",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 137" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/3/1961",
  "desc" : "In the sea off the town of Savona, Italy four people who were taking a ride in a small motorboat were suddenly rocked by growing waves. They stood up and noticed the sea swell up like an enormous bubble a kilometer away, with large waves widening into a circle. A few seconds later an object emerged and hovered at 10 meters altitude above the waves for a brief time. Its lower part was similar to an upside down plate and the upper part was shaped like a cone. As it was emerging from the water the object seemed to push it as if there was an air pillow. After it had emerged completely, the object stopped for a few seconds in the air at about 10 meters above the surface. After a few sways, a mark around the base formed and the object rapidly departed following a trajectory oblique to the sea surface and disappeared towards the northeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3243",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 519; Marco Bianchini, USOCAT: Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU), www.cisu.org; Thomas M. Olsen, Reference to Outstanding UFO Reports, case 122, citing Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1963, p. 11" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/3/1962",
  "desc" : "A doctor and his wife, Sr. & Sra. Gazua were driving to Parana, Entre Rios province, Argentina and were near the town of Crespo at 1:15 a.m. when they saw a luminous truncated cone, 3-4 meters high, on the ground 100 meters away. Through a doorway in the object they saw a being of normal height, wearing a diver suit with a hood. Inside was seated a second man. They drove on. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3244",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0529, citing Cordoba newspaper, July 20, 1962" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/3/1964",
  "desc" : "At 8:45 p.m. three people at the Coppermine trading post, south-southwest of Page, Arizona saw an ovoid object fly in the southern sky for 15 minutes. It had a red misty glow. A second ovoid flew off to the northwest. There were a total of 10 separate observers. At 10:00 a luminous blue blimp-shaped object hovered low over New River, Arizona. It ascended and flew off to the south-southwest when it was illuminated by car headlights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3245",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 236, Flying Saucers magazine, June 1965, p. 29; (2) APRO Bulletin, July-August 1965" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/3/1965",
  "desc" : "A vertical cigar-shaped object hovered for 20 minutes over Heytesbury, Wiltshire, England starting at 8:30 p.m. It then turned and vanished. There were many independent witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3246",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Arthur Shuttlewood, The Warminister Mystery: Astounding UFO Sightings, p. 41; BUFORA Journal, June 1965, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/3/1965",
  "desc" : "On this night a large luminous object encased in a bright green glow hovered low over a field in Monte Negro, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Through an opening two humanoids wearing brown suits and with dark round eyes were seen looking out. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3247",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1965, citing Antonio Faleiro" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/3/1966",
  "desc" : "Cape Canaveral, Florida - Three boys were playing behind their apartment about 7:30 p.m. when they saw a \"rocket or jet\" zip across the sky and disappear behind the building, apparently dropping into the water. They ran to the beach and saw, about 30 yards ahead, two men, talking, with their backs to them. The boys said the two men wore \"glass helmets and gray suits with something that looked like scuba tanks on their backs.\" One of the youngsters was so surprised that he made a sound, startling the men. They scrambled quickly aboard a \"round white thing\" which sped to a strange floating device about 300 feet offshore. There were windows in the floating object, they said, and they could see people moving inside. On one side, there was a gray star with some type of identifying letters. The boys ran back at the same time the men raced for the object, and when they paused to look back, they were expecting the craft to take to the air. Instead, it submerged and vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3248",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lucius Farish & Dale Titler, Official UFO magazine, May 1977, p. 54; Tom Longhurst, Orlando Sentinel, June 5, 1966; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0717" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/3/1966",
  "desc" : "Two witnesses in West Point City, Pennsylvania observed a stationary object three meters above the ground at 9:45 p.m. It had a diameter of seven meters, with lights on top and bottom and smaller lights on the rim. It flew away very fast to the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3249",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee: Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 770" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/3/1967",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m. a secretary in Moorestown, New Jersey saw two disc-shaped UFOs, one with a bright white light, the second with white, red and green lights. The UFOs hovered over a huge radar antenna. The second disc \"pulsed\" first. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3250",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP case file, investigation report dated July 5, 1967" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/3/1967",
  "desc" : "Shortly after 10 p.m., on Lake Nipissing, Ontario a buoy tender named Arcand observed green and white lights between two small islands. Thinking another boatman might be in trouble, the buoy tender headed toward the lights. He was about 100 feet away when the lights rose from the water \"with a whoosh\" and sped off into the night. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3251",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1968, p. 5; Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 228" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/3/1969",
  "desc" : "Four observers driving in a truck in Vicuna, Chile at 5:05 a.m. saw an orange oval-shaped object that flew fast, stopped, reversed its direction of flight, did some general maneuvering, and then made an abrupt change in elevation. They saw two luminous figures hide from view. A beam of energy paralyzed the exposed arms of two of the witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3252",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "CICA Boletin, December 1969; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 118" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/3/1969",
  "desc" : "Starting at around 6:00 p.m. many townspeople watched three disc-shaped UFOs maneuver over the town of Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil for hours. Two of the objects flew off very fast to the south toward the sea, while one stayed behind and continued to play around in sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3253",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Walter Buhler, FSR Case Histories, October 1971, p. 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/3/1973",
  "desc" : "A circular indentation five meters across was found as a possible UFO landing site in Old Junee, New South Wales, Australia. Close by were six pod marks about 1 meter in diameter, spaced at a regular distance apart. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3254",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bill Chalker, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 21" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/3/1974",
  "desc" : "Maubeuge, Nord department, France. A domed disc with a thin base and blinkers, blinked in response to flashlight signals, but flew away when a car attempted to approach it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3255",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #141" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/3/1975",
  "desc" : "A ten-meter diameter disc-shaped object zig-zagged across a road on Palmer Island, New South Wales, Australia. It is possible there had been a landing because the object had been so close to the ground, and animals were upset. There were 5 witnesses, and the sighting lasted two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3256",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 207" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/3/1976",
  "desc" : "Two people saw a disc-shaped object the color of silver or chrome moving nearby in the sky over Troy, Michigan at 9:55 p.m. They followed it in their car for some time as it changed directions and moved erratically about. They also heard unusual static on the car radio during the sighting. Eventually the object suddenly left very quickly and they could not keep pace with it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3257",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 398, citing personal investigation; CUFOS News Bulletin, September 1976, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/3/1977",
  "desc" : "At eight o'clock in the evening two people driving in a car in Hanover, Northern Cape province, South Africa experienced radio static on their car radio as a three meter wide nocturnal light paced their car. The color of the object was blinding white, but they were unable to determine its shape. Their close encounter lasted 20 minutes in total. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3258",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Cynthia Hind, UFOs--African Encounters, p. 157" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/3/1982",
  "desc" : "At around 4:00 a.m. a young woman in Brooklyn, New York was awakened by a voice slowly calling her name. When she got up from bed she saw a large glowing object outside her window. She saw two man-like figures staring at her from inside the craft, and a small table inside the object. The two men began moving back and forth very quickly. The UFO then changed into a bright fiery flame and disappeared. The woman received a telepathic message before it departed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3259",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1982, case # 1085, citing Brad & Shirley Hansen Steiger, Starborn" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/3/1986",
  "desc" : "On this night Paulo Pereira Campos was returning to his home accompanied by his two daughters in a rural part of Nego, Minas Gerais state, Brazil. He noticed a luminous yellow, oval-shaped object approaching them. They all ran and hid in a bamboo grove, where they watched the object land about 200 meters away. Two short figures emerged from the UFO and walked around the area for 15 minutes. They then entered the craft and it took off and left. Footprints were found at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3260",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1986, citing Antonio Faleiro" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/3/1989",
  "desc" : "At 10:46 p.m. a couple driving in Long Beach, Washington observed four glowing footballs, which they estimated were twenty to thirty feet long and at an altitude of 700 feet above them. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3261",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Gribble, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/3/1992",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. a witness driving on highway D28 west of Melesse, France sighted a seven-foot long transparent ovoid object over a pasture. It approached and the witness was able to see a tall, thin humanoid behind a control panel inside the object. A nearby tree was scorched, apparently by heat coming from thce UFO. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3262",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 334; SOS-OVNI France, Phenomena, issue # 11; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, case # 2392, citing LDLN, issue # 334" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/3/1995",
  "desc" : "A white cigar-shaped object zig-zagged through the sky at araound 8:00 p.m. on Harwood Island, New South Wales, Australia. Then a huge ovoid object rose from the ground, leaving behind traces. A dog became sick. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3263",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bill Chalker, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 26; Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 204" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/3/2000",
  "desc" : "In Manzanita, Oregon there were two independent reports of orange colored lights coming from the northwest, traveling in a line at a fast speed. The most seen at any one time were three. The first report was at 9:45 p.m. and the second at 10:00 p.m. The first report commented that the three bright orange/yellow lights appeared to meet up over the ocean, and then travel inland. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3264",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, webpages posted June 21, 2000" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/3/2006",
  "desc" : "Numerous white objects appeared over Maidstone, Kent, England in the clear blue skys at 5:05 p.m. There was a large round, white object in the middle with smaller round white objects randomly scattered about, surrounding it. The objects started to fade after 15 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3265",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "British Ministry of Defence; National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/4/1943",
  "desc" : "On this day in 1943, 12 brilliant star-like lights were seen maneuvering in all directions over Chauny, France. They flew at a high altitude, and were absolutely silent. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3266",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, Vol. 338" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/4/1952",
  "desc" : "In 1952 at 6:45 p.m., two small and one very large disc were sighted flying at 15,000 feet altitude in Chartres, France. The three discs hovered, and then shot straight up and away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3267",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, computerized catalogue, case #655; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: June-July 20th, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/4/1955",
  "desc" : "Over the Melville Sound in the Northwest Territories of Canada, a National Security Agency RB-47 jet bomber, newly re-fitted for aerial electronic surveillance, made radar and visual contact with a disc-shaped UFO for 9 minutes. This encounter occurred in 1955 near the north magnetic pole. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3268",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #4362; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 408" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/4/1956",
  "desc" : "There was a reported landing of a UFO near Hicksville, New York on Long Island at just after midnight in 1956. The unconfirmed report said there were landing traces, but the report couldn't be followed up. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3269",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Civilian Saucer Intelligence of New York Newsletter, June 1956, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/4/1963",
  "desc" : "In 1963 a multicolored UFO, the size of a light truck, was reported to have landed in the vicinity of Lyle, Minnesota at 3:10 a.m. The multicolored object was seen ascending into the sky from a nearby town. Police searched the area for 3 miles on both sides of the Iowa-Minnesota border but found nothing. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3270",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, January-February 1964, p.1; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 572" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/4/1965",
  "desc" : "The Gemini-4 mission with astronauts McDivitt and White sighted a \"weird object\" with \"arms\" while in orbit over the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii. Motion picture film was shot. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3271",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, July-August 1965, p. 3; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious Business, p. 208; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 412" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/4/1968",
  "desc" : "Artist Benjamin Solari Parravicini was walking home after midnight in Buenos Aires province, Argentina when he was confronted by a fair skinned man with eyes \"so light in color that he looked as if blind.\" The man addressed him in an unintelligible guttural language. Looking upward, the witness saw only 50 meters away a hovering aerial craft with no lights. He became dizzy, and when he recovered, he found himself inside the machine, with three other people. One of these, a very handsome man, was questioning Parravicini in an alien language, which he was able to understand telepathically. The being told him that they would take him once around Earth, and he observed Japan, France, and Chile before being returned to the same street corner. Since this experience the alien beings have allegedly contacted Parravicini several times. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3272",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-31, citing Gordon Creighton, FSR, September-October 1968" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/4/1969",
  "desc" : "In 1969 numerous red lights were seen hovering in the sky over Penwortham, South Australia at 6:30 p.m. In Eden Valley five minutes later a UFO with two rows of red lights, connected by a white beam, buzzed a motorist. Afterwards three circular burn marks were found on the hood of his car. At 7:30 p.m. a man driving between Brinkworth and Clare saw red lights flying parallel to his car, heading to the east. At 8 p.m. at Porter's Lagoon, 15 miles east of Clare, South Australia a red light pulsated is it hung stationary over the lagoon. At about the same time a red light came down the valley from Camel Hump Ridge in Gum Creek, while a blue UFO hovered over the range and later went behind a mountain. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3273",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 184-5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/4/1969",
  "desc" : "On that same night in 1969 a fifteen-foot in diameter silver ovoid object flew 500 meters over the town of Sao Jose do Rio Preto, Brazil. It emitted blue and orange beams of light. At 8 p.m. a doctor took a photograph of a 50-meter wide red-orange UFO while it hovered just off the ground and 150 meters away in Lavras, Brazil. Earlier that morning at dawn in Brasilia, a silent, dish-shaped UFO maneuvered up and down, to-and-fro, and shot up multi-colored beams of light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3274",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "O Dia, June 6, 1969; FSR Case Histories, October 1971, p. 15; Larry Hatch, U computer database, cases #8878 and #8879" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/4/1970",
  "desc" : "In Evillers, Doubs department, France in 1970, six children reported seeing four three-and-a-half-foot tall humanoid beings. The bulky humanoids wore red tops with black straps, and carried large sacks on their belts. They also saw a strange gray \"dog\" creature that jumped a distance of 40 feet. At around 2:45 p.m. Marie, age 10, was standing on the road opposite a house that was being used as a storehouse and stable, when she saw a figure at a windowpane-less second floor window. The being was the size of a child, but had a big protruding stomach. She told other children and several of them, led by Noel, age 12, entered the building. Noel saw a small person about 3.5 feet tall in a red sweater with a black shoulder strap across it, which he chased down the stairs and outdoors to the pasture.<br/><br/> That evening at 6:30 p.m. Bertrand, age 10, was near the building when he noticed a \"boy\" about 3.5 feet tall standing beside it. He had a big belly and was wearing a red sweater crossed by a wide black strap. This \"boy\" ran around behind the building. A short time later Noel, Simon, and Barthelemy all saw a long gray animal, which they called a \"dog\", make a giant leap from the second floor window (about 12 feet high), and landed on the ground some 40 feet from the house. It left footprints \"like a calf's.\" Then a small person like those seen earlier came out of the barn and called the \"dog\" to him with a snap of his fingers. He then passed a thick leash around its neck. Then three more such beings appeared, all alike except that one lacked a large stomach. They wore black hats with a peak behind. All four, with the \"dog\", then began to run very rapidly down the road away from the village. Two trucks passed and as they did the little men and their \"dog\" nimbly jumped off the road and hid. They ran out of sight. The next day the \"dog's\" paw prints were found. Six days later, the building mysteriously caught fire and burned to the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3275",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1970-21 (A1082); Fernand LaGarde, Mysterieuses Soucoupes Volantes, p. 185" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/4/1972",
  "desc" : "In 1972 at dawn, a farmer watched a disc-shaped UFO hover on its edge near Riverina, New South Wales. The object veered about in all directions in the sky for fifteen minutes, then shot straight up and away. Later that same day shortly after 6:00 p.m. in Bents Basin, New South Wales, Australia a three-meter tall (ten foot!) robot mysteriously vanished, while a 25-foot diameter disc hovered very low to the ground. The six witnesses reported having headaches as aftereffects of their encounter, and there were burn marks on one of their automobiles. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3276",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) APRO Bulletin, May-June 1972, p. 1; (2) Bill Chalker investigation files, case 2037; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 60" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/4/1974",
  "desc" : "A dark disc with a tail appendage hovered over New York City for five minutes around 6:30 p.m. in 1974. It was sharply outlined in the sky, and at an estimated altitude of 900 meters. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3277",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, December 1974." ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/4/1978",
  "desc" : "Four years later a UFO again appeared over New York City. In the afternoon, at a medical center on the Eastside of the city near the FDR parkway, a medical student took a photograph of a three-foot tall egg-in-cup saucer. The episode had many independent witnesses with accompanying television coverage and newspaper reports. Approximately five hours earlier that day a private pilot and his passenger reported a near collision with a hovering saucer-shaped UFO over Pasadena, California. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3278",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, September 1978, p. 1; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 41" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/4/1980",
  "desc" : "In 1980 two brothers commuting to work in Abasto, Argentina saw a strange luminous object in the pre-dawn sky at around 5:30 a.m. It made no noise, was 12 meters in diameter, and emitted white and reddish flashes of light. The UFO flew over fast, halted above the two men, then shot off to the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3279",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1980, p. 9, citing La Razon, June 5, 1980" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/4/1984",
  "desc" : "In 1984 a very luminous object shone a bright light into the window of a mobile home in Staunton, Virginia. The UFO was football-shaped, about the size of a car, and made a faint buzzing noise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3280",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, February 1985, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/4/1989",
  "desc" : "In 1989, according to a report in the MUFON UFO Journal, a security guard and an air traffic controller at Air Force Facility 42 in Palmdale, California witnessed a silver flying object and three orb-shaped UFOs at 7:45 p.m. during testing of the B1-B bomber. There was also a rumor of an abduction occurring on this date at the same facility. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3281",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, November 1990" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/4/1989",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. a disc-shaped object that emitted beams of light was observed from directly underneath in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3282",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, report posted on website April 16, 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/4/1992",
  "desc" : "In 1992 a 28-year-old man in Londonderry, New Hampshire was watching star-like lights move around outside his window, and was hoping to get a good photograph of what was going on when a structured unidentified craft came flying over the trees and flew slowly down his street, twice. Strangely, he made no attempt during this close encounter to take a photograph. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3283",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ken Foster, MUFON investigation files # 930406Eb; MUFON UFO Journal, June 1993" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/4/1996",
  "desc" : "Several people were staying at a country home in rural Apache County, Arizona. They were sitting around the kitchen table at 10:30 p.m. when two of them saw a bright UFO streak by, apparently crashing in the distance. They all lept into a jeep and raced off in search for the crashed object. They crossed State Highway 61, drove along an old cattle trail, and soon came upon an elderly couple standing next to their parked van on the road side; both were staring off into the countryside. They asked them if they had seen a UFO crash, and were told by them that they were also trying to find it. The elderly couple had been driving west on Highway 61 toward Show Low when they saw the object streak by and appear to crash. They all then drove on to the apparent crash site. This area had only a few trees, scattered cedar and junipers, and a lot of rocks and canyons. After driving for about an hour they came to a very deep canyon and could drive no further. Deep in the canyon was the crashed UFO. It was an oblong, egg shaped object, about the size of a barn. Its color was strange--it was described as the color of skin with a fading tan, and it faintly glowed. The glow was sufficiently bright enough to illuminate the bottom of the canyon. There were two \"pillars\" at the front of the object. These pillars may have been posted on either side of a door, although a doorway was not visible. The witnesses also claimed they saw a helicopter at the scene, and a black pick-up truck. They were baffled as to how the truck could have gotten down into the remote canyon so quickly, unless there was some road they did not know about. They watched the scene for awhile, then left. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3284",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, archived webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/4/1997",
  "desc" : "In 1997 three people witnessed a fluorescent flying object as it flew over White Plains, New York. It made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3285",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, June 1997 web page" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/4/1999",
  "desc" : "A somewhat round but irregularly shaped object, with a surface texture \"like a sponge\", flew near a mountain in Trail, British Columbia at 10:30 p.m. in 1999. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3286",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, June 1999 web page" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/4/2002",
  "desc" : "At 1:03 a.m. on this night in 2002, lights were seen moving toward the east in a zigzagging flight path in Montreal, Quebec. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3287",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Research Manitoba website, 2002 Canadian UFO Survey, case #201" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/4/2004",
  "desc" : "Around 7:00 p.m. a rounded \"A\"-shaped object was seen moving irregularly in the sky over Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada for 15 minutes, then it flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3288",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Canadian UFO Survey 2004, case # 348" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/4/2006",
  "desc" : "An extremely bright object that was highly maneuverable and shooting sparks was seen over Houston, British Columbia at 4:20 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3289",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Canadian UFO Survey 2006, citing ufoinfo.com" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/5/1949",
  "desc" : "On this night in 1949 a huge fireball zigzagged 800 miles toward the northeast from the southern tip of Florida to Georgia. There were several reports along the west coast of Florida as it flew across the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3290",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1410." ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/5/1952",
  "desc" : "On this evening in 1952 three cases occurred that were listed by the Air Force Project Blue Book as \"unknowns.\" At 6:15 p.m. in Albuquerque, New Mexico a shiny disc was reported moving through the sky by a military witness. Its speed was estimated as 5-6 times faster than a F-86 jet and was seen for six seconds. At Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska three security guards saw a large red nocturnal light hover 1000 feet over the main gate to the Strategic Air Command's major airbase at 11:00 p.m. At the same time, eight star-like objects were seen flying over Lubbock, Texas. The first two lights flew over in a trailing formation and the others followed singly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3291",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, cases 1255, 1256, and 1257" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/5/1954",
  "desc" : "In East Dandenong, Victoria at 6:23 p.m. on this evening in 1954, a sixteen-year-old girl and her best friend were terrified by a 10 meter long cylinder that hovered only 20 meters above them. A wristwatch stopped working and their flashlight's battery was reportedly drained. The craft had a window on top and a bluish light on each end, and made a drumming noise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3292",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP case investigation files." ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/5/1955",
  "desc" : "In 1955 a British fishing trawler crew spotted a silver daylight disc flying over the North Sea off the coast of Holland at 7:30 p.m. It flew at an estimated 3000 meters altitude, and crossed the sky in five minutes. It was definitely \"not a plane,\" according to the witnesses. At the same time, a sequence of three photographs were taken in St. Marc, Belgium showing a convex, lens-shaped disc object in front of some clouds. The object had a bright bottom and dark, shadowed top. Motion is implied by the different angles in the photos. The UFO was seen low nearby the witness's car. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3293",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4364; Jacques Bonabot, Catalogue of Belgian UFO Cases, case #77" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/5/1957",
  "desc" : "In Uriman, Venezuela on this night in 1957, members of a local Indian tribe saw a luminous object land and several little men emerge from the object. When they tried to capture one of these dwarf-like creatures, it slashed at them with some kind of knife, and gave one of them a deep arm cut. On the same night another close encounter occurred near Warrensburg, Missouri. At 10:30 p.m. on highway 13 north of town, three people driving together in a car had an orange ball of light approach and follow their car. Several small blue lights exited the larger object and flew off in every direction. A watch stopped working and there was interference on their car radio during the encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3294",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted Bloecher files; J. Allen Hynek investigation files, case P44" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/5/1964",
  "desc" : "While driving near the Pajas Blancas airport in Cordoba province, Argentina a doctor and his wife had the engine of their car fail at four o'clock in the morning. They then found a huge object on the road ahead of them. Its bright light went out, leaving only a violet colored light. After 20 minutes of no activity, a man approached the car and suggested that they try the car again. The engine started up. After telling the couple not to be afraid and that he was on a mission, the humanoid joined two others and all three entered the object. It then rose rapidly into the sky, leaving a violet-colored trail. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3295",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, citing Charles Bowen, The Humanoids; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 610" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/5/1964",
  "desc" : "At about the same time, 3:00 a.m. E.D.T. on the morning of June 5th, 1964 a 10-foot diameter glowing ball was seen ascending slowly in the sky from a low altitude in Cleveland, Ohio. The ball of light ascended at a 45-degree angle, and was followed by 10 small lights. It also emitted blue light beams. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3296",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, November 1964" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/5/1965",
  "desc" : "A year later in Lynn, Massachusetts there were several reports of a cigar-shaped object being seen over the local GE facility. This was in the same 24-hour period that James McDivitt took a photo of an unknown light source from the Gemini 4 spacecraft, while in orbit in Outer Space over Hawaii. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3297",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, January-February 1966; NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1958, p. 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/5/1967",
  "desc" : "In 1967 a school principal, several teachers, and students saw three UFOs, one of them low near some power lines during a daytime power outage at Shamokin Dam, Pennsylvania. When the UFOs left the electricity in the school came back on. Damage was reported on two generators at the dam power plant. There were power failures reported at 10:16 a.m. in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware according to the Federal Power Commission. Later that evening at 8 p.m. on State Route 2 outside of Point Pleasant, West Virginia an unidentified flying object extended some kind of robotic tentacles and attempted to abduct a bloodmobile. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3298",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP investigation files dated August 7, 1967; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 93" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/5/1968",
  "desc" : "An orange balloon-shaped object with antennas made complex maneuvers over the city of Niteroi, Brazil at 10:10 p.m. The object also reportedly ejected some strips of foil. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3299",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 8308" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/5/1969",
  "desc" : "In 1969 at 6:00 a.m. in Uba, Brazil an orange UFO paced and circled a car. The engine and car radio died. Later that day the Canadian Parliament Building was buzzed by a mysterious red light in Ottawa, Ontario during the evening hours. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3300",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing the Brazilian O Dia newspaper; John Colombo, UFOs over Canada: Personal Accounts of Sightings and Close Encounters, p. 213" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/5/1971",
  "desc" : "In 1971 an airliner crew reported sighting four metallic cigar-shaped objects, each about 6 meters in length, flying rapidly toward the west. The objects passed only 90 meters away from the aircraft, and left no contrails. Ground radar confirmed their presence. At 10:30 p.m. a man saw three lights-red, white and blue-land among some trees two miles from Norwood, Tasmania. They then took off in a flash the color of a skyrocket. Landing traces were found at the sight, including a 10-foot wide irregularly shaped flattened area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3301",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 8308; Launceston Tasmania Examiner, June 5, 1971" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/5/1975",
  "desc" : "In 1975 a couple driving from Appleton to Madison, Wisconsin spotted three UFOs. The second object had a long trail. It came down, split apart like booster rocket, arched through the sky traveling rapidly toward the southwest. On that same night two poor quality photographs were taken of a Saturn-shaped UFO seen above some trees in Colpo, France. The object had antennas and emitted beams of light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3302",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jay Rath, The W-files: True Reports of Wisconsin's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 64; Lumieres dans la Nuit, December 1975" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/5/1976",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. in 1976 a glowing cigar-shaped object hovered at a 40-degree angle over highway 140 in Merced, California. It appeared to have windows. It then made erratic maneuvers in the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3303",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, July 1976" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/5/1980",
  "desc" : "In 1980 a series of strange UFO-related events occurred in both Malaysia and the San Luis Valley of Colorado. At dusk in Moffat, Colorado a mustard yellow, old-fashioned \"whirlybird\" copter was seen rising from a pasture. The next morning a prize-winning bull was found dead. No nearby airport had ever seen such a craft. At 2:20 a.m. in Port Klang, Malaysia a spinning, luminous bluish-red ball hovered just 30 feet over a large oil installation. It emitted beam of light that struck a house near the petroleum tanks, and the house caught fire. Nearby airport radar confirmed the presence of a UFO. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3304",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Chris O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 42; Ahmad Jamaludin, Summary of Unidentified Flying Objects and Related Events in Malaysia, p. 96" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/5/1983",
  "desc" : "In Varzi, Italy at 5:00 a.m. in 1983 dogs began barking when a cigar-shaped UFO approached the ground. The object emitted a foggy vapor at ground level, rose up and hovered in the air. It extended a rotating dome and orange light, and then flew away toward the south-southwest. In Vidor, Texas six people watched a star-shaped object with three rounded protrusions hover in the sky for 2 hours. It left when aircraft arrived on the scene. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3305",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, November-December 1984, p. 4; APRO Bulletin, May 1984, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/5/1991",
  "desc" : "An orange fireball with a pale halo flew east to west along the waterfront in Clacton-on-Sea, England at ten minutes past midnight on this date. When it shot up into a cloud the cloud became luminescent. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3306",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 152" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/5/1992",
  "desc" : "In 1992 strange lights were seen and videotaped at 10:50 p.m. near Wanaque Reservoir in New Jersey. The lights maneuvered about the sky, and faded in and out. Wanaque Reservoir has been the scene of many repeated UFO sightings, especially in the 1960s. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3307",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1988-1994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/5/1994",
  "desc" : "In 1994 scientists videotaped a new aircraft over a mountain in Col de Vence, France at 4:30 in the afternoon. A diamond-shaped object, not seen at the time, appears in the replay of the videotape. A lens-flare was ruled out as the cause. . At 2:30 a.m. a rapidly blinking strobe-light flying object paced a car on US highway 285 near Saguache, Colorado. It flew off to the west, going at treetop level. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3308",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 327; Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 244" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/5/1995",
  "desc" : "In 1995 a 100-meter diameter sphere followed a car for two minutes at 700 meters altitude near Pamiers, France at 12:10 a.m. The occupants of the car reported being in a state of shock after the encounter.At 4:00 a.m. a large white ovoid object hovered over Poligny, France. Six smaller orbs exited the larger object, flew around, then returned. At 3:10 p.m. EDT a black disc was sighted moving toward the northeast over Pensacola, Florida. It flew slowly at 15 mph, across the wind, at 100 feet altitude, and made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3309",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Banque O.V.N.I., case 95; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 333; UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1995" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/5/1997",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 a.m. Nathalie, a young French woman, was sitting in her car with a companion in La Houssaye-en-Brie, France when both saw an object in the sky that resembled a wheel; it was made of 12 projecting lights revolving counterclockwise. The observation lasted almost two hours, during which they were unable to move. After the sighting they both went to sleep. Later, under hypnotic regression, Nathalie remembered being lifted through a conical light beam into the hovering craft. Aboard the craft she was submitted to various medical tests, and apparently given an implant. She witnessed another woman also being subjected to the same treatment. She described her abductors as being \"very tall\", about two meters in height, and assisted by a smaller \"woman.\" Some of her abductors looked human, and some did not. In another room, she saw four beings sitting in chairs in front of glass panels. Some of these beings were courteous to her, and others looked to be rather irritated at her, for whatever reason. The beings appeared to be well built, with huge strong shoulders. Their heads were larger than humans and oval in shape, with large black slit-like eyes. Another very curious detail was that they had what appeared to be a lock of hair, tied up tight like a ponytail, that suck up straight from the tops of their bald heads. They wore tight fitting, two piece gray colored outfits with belts. In the room she saw windows in front of a corridor, the floor was luminous, and apparently made out of glass. She also saw a lozenge shaped table, black in color in the middle of the room. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3310",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit & GEIPIS" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/5/1997",
  "desc" : "In 1997 a hat-shaped UFO reportedly landed in Hayward, California at 9:30 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3311",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, June 1997 web page" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/5/1997",
  "desc" : "On this night a Mr. Hassan, near Redmond, Washington saw a low level, hovering saucer-shaped object about half a mile away that was glowing white. He had the headlights of his car on it, so combined with the glow from the UFO he could clearly see that it was abducting cattle. The cows appeared to be stunned, still in an upright position, as they floated up into the object. He also noticed \"little monsters\" on the ground. They were 50-60 pound humanoids with large heads, grayish white skin, and dark black eyes. The witness became frightened and drove off. No one else appeared to be around at the time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3312",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, citing Western Bigfoot Society Newsletter, issue # 68" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/5/1998",
  "desc" : "In 1998 in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada two people witnessed two UFOs at 11:49 p.m. EDT, a large, bright object accompanied by a smaller orange light trailing behind it. The smaller light merged with the main light. Neither object made any sound. At 10:05 p.m. PDT a couple in Vancouver, British Columbia observed a stationary, 40-foot tall, vertically aligned tube in the sky. They said it was ejecting flames from the underneath end. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3313",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Research Manitoba, 1998 Canadian UFO Survey, cases 32 & 33" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/5/1999",
  "desc" : "In Ollioules, France at 11:30 p.m. local time, nine delta-shaped objects were seen flying in a V-shaped formation. They moved toward the west, then rearranged into a linear echelon formation. On that same night in Huntsville, Alabama a row of 5 or 6 blinking lights were seen flying in the sky. The sighting had occurred at 11:45 CDT, and the witness had been awakened by noise coming from the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3314",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, September 1999, p. 10; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, June 1999 web page" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/5/2002",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon at least 45 students said they saw a UFO land in the field behind Fatma Primary School in the Santral district of Antalya, Turkey. Several students, including Murat Esici, 11, saw an \"alien being\" emerge from the landed craft, emitting red rays from its eyes. It had a very big head, was about 1.80 meters tall, and had hands and feet that looked metallic. Miss Esici temporarily lost her voice immediately after the sighting. Students Zeynep Cpnar and Nalan Donmez also claimed they saw an unusual craft with the alien beside it. \"His eyes and hands were red and a red light was emitting from his eyes.\" The children were overcome with shock after the incident. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3315",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2002, citing Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center International" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/6/1947",
  "desc" : "On this evening around 9 p.m. a dazzling fireball was seen over Bombay, India. Then a round blue ball of light appeared, surrounded by smaller objects orbiting it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3316",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 652, citing Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1947 (2nd edition), p. 36" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/6/1952",
  "desc" : "At 8:42 a.m. local time a UFO traveled at 300 mph in a straight line while revolving. It stopped over airfield K-14 at Kimpo, Korea. Next it rose straight up for ten seconds, disappearing from sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3317",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1958, p. 24; Richard F. Haines, Advanced Aerial Devices Reported During the Korean War, p. 48; Project Blue Book Special Report #14, p. 83" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/6/1956",
  "desc" : "Banning, California - At 5:30 a.m. PDT Mr. Bierman watched a thin disc with a small dome on top, shimmering silver, hover about 30 yards up and 100 yards away for 8-10 seconds. It crossed the road slowly, turned, and crossed the road again behind his car. It then suddenly shot straight up. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3318",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 4127; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 253" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/6/1957",
  "desc" : "At five o'clock in the afternoon a silver disc was seen hovering over Dixons Corners, Ontario at an estimated altitude of 8,000 meters. That night a fireball descended over San Felipe, Venezuela but stopped in midair. It came down between two hills, then rose up and flew away. Also that evening, around 10 p.m. two friends out stargazing saw seven perfectly circular objects fly over Hicksville, New York. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3319",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Flying Saucers magazine, February 1958, p. 64; (1 & 2) Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History,1957: May 24-July 31, pp. 16-17; (3) National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, update to website posted April 16, 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/6/1959",
  "desc" : "Several members of a safari in the Australian outback near Nourlange, Northern Territory watched a red disc descend fast, then stop and hover for 30 seconds. It shot straight up into the clouds and illuminated the clouds a reddish color. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3320",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History, 1959: April-June, p. 46" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/6/1964",
  "desc" : "A reddish orange rectangular object with a lower appendage was seen low over a road in Rio Choromoro, Argentina at 9:30 p.m. It had black stripes and two vanes rotating in a clockwise direction. It was also surrounded by smoke or vapor. It absorbed a smaller object a few meters above the road. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3321",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR Case Histories, December 1973, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/6/1965",
  "desc" : "Private aircraft pilot Mr. C. Adams, and a television cameraman Mr. Les Hendy, reported seeing four or five “mysterious objects” floating in the sea 3 miles east of Fraser Island, 150 miles north of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia at about 11.30 a.m. Mr. Adams first noticed two of the objects from a distance of about 8 miles while flying over Fraser Island. The weather was clear and the objects appeared to resemble two big dark-coloured logs. They were narrow and up to 100 feet long. As he steered toward them two or three similar but smaller objects appeared near the other two. They did not appear to move, but seemed to “sort of submerge\" when the plane was about one mile away from them. From the air they appeared to be lying just below the surface and when “submerging” from sight seemed to do so without disturbing the surface. Mr. Adams was certain that the objects were too big to be fish or sharks, and the wrong shape to be whales. Mr. Hendy regretted that they were too far away from him to film them. Several experts got their heads together and decided that the objects sighted were migrating whales. However, their explanation was soon squashed when part-owner of the Seabrae Hotel--Mr. G. Sampson--and Mrs. V. Grady reported that they had sighted a similar object on the very same day, half-a-mile out between Redcliffe Pier and Redcliffe Point. They watched it for 10 minutes. It was long and black and there appeared to be a black balloon suspended over it. A Fisheries Dept. spokesman commented that it was unlikely to be a whale, because they very seldom come into Morton Bay. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3322",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "H. J. Hinfelaar, “Submarine Craft in Australian Waters”, Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1966, p. 29" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/6/1966",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. in Spooner, Wisconsin Ms. Dorothy Gray sighted two domed discs with sparkling upper surfaces and square windows on their tops hovered revolved above a lake, causing a strange turbulence on the surface of the lake. The sighting lasted 25 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3323",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 10626; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/6/1967",
  "desc" : "At 1:30 a.m. a strange object buzzed a car near Itajuba, Brazil and the car's motor and headlights then failed. The object was mushroom-shaped. The witness also saw the faces of humanoids through the transparent front of the UFO. It flew away and the car could be restarted. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3324",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 205, citing FSR, Vol. 14, No. 6; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, p. 251" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/6/1967",
  "desc" : "At 11:55 p.m. a silver disc flew twice as fast as the fastest jet over Pine Grove, Pennsylvania. It was in sight for three seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3325",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP files, case dated July 12, 1967" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/6/1969",
  "desc" : "A bluish white oval shaped object hovered over Eden, South Australia then rose upward and passed overhead heading toward the southeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3326",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 185" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/6/1972",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon in Dayton, Iowa an ovoid object w landing gear was seen to touch down and humanoids were seen on board the craft. At 9:00 p.m. in Rouen, France a white metallic domed disc shot four beams of red light, rose in three small jumps, then shot straight up. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3327",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Kevin Randle, APRO Bulletin, May-June 1974, p. 1; Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1973" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/6/1973",
  "desc" : "At four o'clock in the morning a 12-year-old girl saw a UFO land in her backyard in Chevy Chase, Maryland. A diamond-shaped UFO was observed at a low altitude over Woodley, England at 10:05 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3328",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1973, p. 3; newspaper clipping dated June 7, 1973; J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, volume 5, 1974, case 289" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/6/1974",
  "desc" : "The witness to an earlier report of humanoids in Warneton, Belgium from January 7, 1974 saw the same two entities again. At 8:40 p.m. his car engine sputtered and the cassette player stopped working. He felt an electric shock, then heard a sound, and the beings vanished. At 9:30 EDT, less than seven hours later in Southampton, Massachusetts four men and women saw a domed object with multicolored lights and a bobbing motion, descend near a road. The witnesses fled in fear. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3329",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted Bloecher, 1975 MUFON Symposium Proceedings, p. 58; FSR, March 1975, p. 9; CUFOS files, report dated July 15, 1974; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 202" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/6/1975",
  "desc" : "At 1:30 a.m. a car driving between Marcenat and Moulet, France encountered a 30-meter wide ball of light hovering only 15 meters above the ground. It gave off an unpleasant odor, and the witness's car radio stopped working. One half hour later a white luminous ovoid-shaped object was spotted near a farm six kilometers west of Meymans, France. A burglar alarm went off at around the same time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3330",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michel Figuet and Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, pp. 554 & 556" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/6/1975",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. that evening in Revigny-sur-Ornain, France a policeman took photographs of two luminous ovoid-shaped objects flying over some nearby trees. The UFOs made an S-curve maneuver, then ascended into the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3331",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1975" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/6/1977",
  "desc" : "A disc with red, orange, and green colored lights hovered for 20 minutes over the Wangara Valley, New Zealand. It had a white band across the middle, and vanished after several seconds.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3332",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "6/6/1977",
  "desc" : "Later than same night near Barnard Castle in England both a car and a motorcycle lost power in the presence of at least two purplish ovoid UFOs. A 16-year-old motorcyclist saw two purple objects for 30 seconds along the side of the road. A pinkish-purple object, shaped like an oval meat dish, suddenly appeared over his cycle and an approaching car. The engines of both vehicles began to lose power. Both vehicles were dragged twenty-five feet along the highway not under their own power. The motorcyclist also felt increased heat and the motorcycle's metal body became hot to the touch. The object then suddenly disappeared. The next day, the brakes on the cycle were found to be abnormally worn. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3333",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, February 1978, p. 6; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 411, citing FSR" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/6/1979",
  "desc" : "An alleged abduction experience by aliens occurred this afternoon near Dubois, Wyoming. While camping in a wilderness area the witness looked up towards a clear spot in the clouds and then lost trackof time. He found himself in a large room while a being surrounded by light stood at his side. He remembers looking back at his body and seemingly walking on air toward a network of wires. At that point someone placed a helmet on his head and he had a sensation of expanded consciousness and a rushing in of information. He could look down and see the ground from his viewpoint in the air. A being nexted touched a small device to different points on his arm. He conversed with the beings about the nature of happiness and helping others. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3334",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, volume I: A comparative study of abductions, case 211, citing Dr. Leo R. Sprinkle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/6/1981",
  "desc" : "At one o'clock in the morning two teenagers in Little Rock, Arkansas saw a small, four-foot long rectangular UFO and a small disc cavorting over a backyard garage and shed in Little Rock, Arkansas. They came very close and the leaves on some trees were withered. At 10 p.m. several sentries in the Uigher Region of China watched a white, cigar-shaped object hover, then land in the Gobi Desert. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3335",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, June 1982, p. 6; Wendelle Stevens and Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, p. 220" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/6/1984",
  "desc" : "UFO investigators went to a Jewish cemetery in the UFO hotspot of Pine Bush, New York. A close encounter with a landed, delta-shaped UFO scared them away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3336",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ellen Crystal, The Silent Invasion, p. 73" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/6/1988",
  "desc" : "On this morning in West Point, Florida a UFO was seen ascending straight up into the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3337",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, case 369" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/6/1989",
  "desc" : "On this day several school children near the river in Konantsevo, Vologda, Russia watched a bright sphere descend and land. It rolled a short distance and then split in half. A headless humanoid in a dark uniform, with long arms emerged. Three more objects repeated the descent and landing. The children experience an episode of missing time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3338",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 127; Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 11; Michael Hall, UFOs: A Century of Sightings, p. 330" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/6/1991",
  "desc" : "Two circular depressions of grass were found in a field in Troy, Illinois. No one could provide an explanation for how they occurred. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3339",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, case 1096" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/6/1994",
  "desc" : "A dog growled but geese remained quiet when two glowing domed objects landed on the ground only 100 feet away in Caille, France at 1:30 a.m. The objects may have had portholes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3340",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 327" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/6/1996",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. a videotape was made of a crescent, half-moon shaped light with a platform on the bottom. It curved away through the night sky over Marson, France toward the east, and then split into four parts. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3341",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 338" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/6/1997",
  "desc" : "A silent orange object hovered in the sky over Sunderland, England then ascended, changed color to silver, and shot off. That same night at 9:45 PDT a large orange object flew across the sky over Bothell, Washington. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3342",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, June 1997 web page" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/6/1998",
  "desc" : "At five o'clock in the afternoon over Edinburgh, Scotland two objects hovered for less than a minute, then executed a 90-degree turn and flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3343",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, June 1998 web page" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/6/1998",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. in Chateauguay, Quebec three white lights arranged in a triangle were seen flying through some clouds. The lights moved from the edges to the center of the triangle. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3344",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Research Manitoba, 1998 Canadian UFO Survey, case 38" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/6/2004",
  "desc" : "At four o'clock in the morning a yellowish orange dome-shaped object was sighted moving slowly from south to north in Rockne, Texas before blinking out. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3345",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, June 2004 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/6/2006",
  "desc" : "At eight o'clock in the morning a large black triangle-shaped craft was seen in the sky north of Boise, Idaho. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3346",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, June 2006 webpage, posted July 17, 2006" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/7/1952",
  "desc" : "On this day in 1952, at 4:00 a.m., security guards watched a light hover at 1,000 feet over the 5th Air Force Base near Seoul, South Korea. The light bobbed in the sky, then rose rapidly to the east, changing colors as it went. Several hours later, at 11:18 a.m. in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a rectangular-shaped, aluminum colored object followed a B-25 bomber during its flight. Both of these reports were listed by Project Blue Book as \"unidentified\" cases. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3347",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, cases #1259 and #1260; (2) Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/7/1954",
  "desc" : "On this day in 1954, while driving between Indio and Brawley, California on US highway 99, a witness spotted a 12-meter diameter metallic disc hovering one mile above Mount Superstition for more than 15 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3348",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 339" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/7/1958",
  "desc" : "A red glow appeared over the mountains in Mount Egmont, New Zealand at 9:30 p.m. A white ovoid object shot up, stopped, then shot off horizontally to the northwest passing over the heads of the witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3349",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren Gross, The fifth horseman of the apocalypse: UFOs: A history. 1958: May-July, p. 39" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/7/1965",
  "desc" : "In Scoriton, England on this day in 1965 three glowing beings allegedly appeared to a witness named Bryant one day after the flying saucer contactee George Adamski died. One of the beings calls himself \"Yamski.\" The witness was left with headaches, messages, and a metallic object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3350",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "BUFORA Journal, June 1965, p. 10; Eileen Buckle, The Scoriton Mystery" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/7/1967",
  "desc" : "At 1:30 a.m. a disc-shaped object with a rectangular protuberance on its underside flew close to an ambulance being driven by Geraldo Baqueiro in Itajuba, Minas Gerais state, Brazil and caused the complete failure of its electrical system. Through a brightly illuminated transparent surface of the object the faces of strange beings, resembling bipedal cat-like creatures with cat-like eyes, stared intently at the stunned witness. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3351",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-47, citing H. B. Aleixo, FSR, Vol. 14 # 6; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case 848" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/7/1970",
  "desc" : "Shortly after 12:30 a.m., three kilometers northwest of Curico, Chile a Mr. Valenzuela observed an oval-shaped object land and was shocked by the appearance of the two entities who were inside. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3352",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1970-09, citing Mark Rodeghier & Bernard Delair" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/7/1970",
  "desc" : "Driving around a sharp curve on the road next to the Towarie Reservoir south of Ouray, Utah, E. Manning saw a triangular UFO with rounded corners coming across the lake that nearly collided with the car. It veered sharply away. It had many colors, mostly green. It moved with the apex of the triangle in front, with two exhaust jets in back. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3353",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Frank Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, Appendix case 74" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/7/1973",
  "desc" : "At ten o'clock in the evening three people in a car near Sousas, Brazil saw a \"fireball\" which came toward them and stopped 50 meters away. It was 15 feet in diameter and gave off a yellow light. The engine of the car failed when it was nearby and the witnesses felt \"prickly.\" They also had intense headaches later. The object eventually left and the car could be restarted. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3354",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 341, citing FSR Case Histories, SuppIement No. 17" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/7/1974",
  "desc" : "A red luminous sphere was seen over Lake George in Goulbourn, New South Wales, Australia at 11:00 p.m. At 3:00 a.m. the next morning dogs began barking and a witness saw a landed UFO and approached to within 300 meters of it. He saw 3-4 very tall (8 feet) beings, who wore glowing silver suits and floated to the ground. They had no facial features. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3355",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Keith Basterfield, case investigation files at J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies, dated January 1975" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/7/1976",
  "desc" : "At 10:40 p.m. in Cincinnati, Ohio two men witnessed a circular object with revolving white lights while dogs howled in reaction to its presence. The men took 17 photographs. The object disappeared once, then after it reappeared it circled to the west, next to the east, and left the area after ten minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3356",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "CUFOS News Bulletin, September 1976, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/7/1978",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. two flashing yellow lights flew above Amapa, Brazil at an altitude above 35,000 feet. The lights flew parallel to one another, about 100 meters apart, and flew from the south to the northwest at a medium speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3357",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Pratt, Operacao Prato, www.theblackvault.com" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/7/1990",
  "desc" : "At 11:45 p.m. in the farm community of Haymart, Pennsylvania a woman saw a bright light in the sky while driving home. When she reached her home and watched from outside, the ovoid UFO with multicolored lights approached to a close range and directed two white beams at her from the bottom of the object. Meanwhile, her dog barked continuously during the encounter. Her neighbor chased the object away in her truck. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3358",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Stan Gordon, MUFON case file investigation, case # 900705; Joan Woodward, www.nicap.org NSID Animal Effects Catalogue, page 9, case 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/7/1993",
  "desc" : "A silent, nearly transparent, rectangular UFO glided over homes in Sheldon, Vermont at 9:15 p.m. It had two bright lights on one side. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3359",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, February 1994).<br/><br/> 1994 An RCMP report stated that at 3:30 a.m. in farm country northwest of Gimli, Manitoba, Canada a 300 foot wide, donut or torus shaped object flew over the area to the east at 1500 feet altitude. It had nine to twelve flashing lights around its circumference. (Source: Frank Ducks, 1994 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 58, citing NRC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/7/1996",
  "desc" : "An object described as a silver, on-end goose egg, hovered over the river in Franklin, Georgia on an overcast evening around 7:45 p.m. It was about 50 above the water, and the water below the object did not appear to be disturbed. It was estimated to be about the size of VW Beetle. It moved away slowly as a speed of around 10-15 mph. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3360",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John C. Thompson, MUFON file investigation database, case # 970501E" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/7/1997",
  "desc" : "On this night there was a near collision over Hertfordshire, England between an Aer Lingus BAe-146 airliner and a unidentified flying object with red, blue and white lights. The object passed close by the aircraft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3361",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 48" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/7/2000",
  "desc" : "North of Pine Gap, near Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia at 8:30 p.m. a married couple's dogs barked madly as a disc-shaped object with orange around the edge hovered close by. It lit up the area and was described as looking like \"trees were on fire.\" It hovered, then moved out of sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3362",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Keith Douglas, Victorian UFO Research Society website" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/7/2000",
  "desc" : "On the same day a daylight disc sighting occurred in Marlette, Michigan when an oval object was sighted for about 15 seconds at around 1:00 p.m. The craft was described as a very shiny silver color with vertical and horizontal dividers, making square compartments all around.  ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3363",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, June 2000 archived webpage, this report posted March 6, 2001" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/7/2002",
  "desc" : "Another daylight disc sighting occurred at 11:45 a.m. in Chatsworth, Los Angeles County, California. It was a large, round domed disc that was seen briefly. It was also described as very shiny with little black jets, and had a small dome on top. The object  was rotating at the time, and made no sound at all.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3364",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, June 2002 archived webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/7/2008",
  "desc" : "On this night in Antioch Community, South Carolina a married couple with many years of aviation experience were returning from some friends' house where they had been watching movies. They were discussing one of the movies when the wife said, \"Look at that, what in the world is that?\" They saw a black triangular craft in the air with lights and several windows. There was a purple beacon in the center of the bottom, but no position lights or anti-collision lights anywhere on the object. They thought for a moment that it might be a B-2 bomber, but it made no noise at all and after \"zooming\" up to them it stopped right over their vehicle. About this time they turned onto their private road and made it up to their house. This was around 11:20 p.m. The next thing that either of them remembers was being in the car at 2:24 a.m. in the morning. The car was running but the wife was in the driver’s seat and the husband in the passenger's. Since he is 6’5” and she is 5’7” this meant that his knees were forced into the dashboard.Neither remembers anything whatsoever after parking the car. They do not remember what happened during the lost time, why they were in different positions in the car, or why they were still sitting outside their house with all of the car windows still down and the moon roof open. The husband woke up with a headache the next morning, and his wife felt ill enough to stay in bed for most of the next day. There were other good reports of flying triangles that same night in Brooklyn, Michigan and Mountain View, California. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3365",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, webpage report posted July 5, 2008" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/8/1920",
  "desc" : "At 6 p.m. a cylindrical object flying at only 75 feet altitude, passing over Rushville, Missouri, was seen by two hundred people. It made a 90-degree turn to the east, and disappeared into a cloud. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3366",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Skylook, October 1973, p. 16; Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 12; Jay David, The Flying Saucer Reader, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/8/1952",
  "desc" : "In Albuquerque, New Mexico at 10:50 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Markland sighted four shiny objects flying straight and level in a diamond formation. They made no sound, and were silver white in color. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3367",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #1263; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 264; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/8/1954",
  "desc" : "Sometime after one o'clock in the morning and before 2:30 a.m. Mr. L. T. Prewitt, an employee of the Red River Arsenal, sighted a golden yellow light fly over his house in Texarkana, Texas for two minutes, making a \"shhhh\" or buzzing sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3368",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #3037; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/8/1964",
  "desc" : "In 1964 Mrs. Helen Reed of Lawrenceville, Illinois observed a 15-foot-wide, domed, spinning object around 10:30 p.m. It was moving five meters above the ground and less than 20 meters away. It made sharp, 90 degree turns, and had colored lights emanating from the dome (blue turning to red), and bands of yellow light. The object went out of sight behind some trees to the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3369",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1964, p. 8; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., UFOs: A New Look, p. 14; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 300 (case 611)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/8/1964",
  "desc" : "Also on the same night five witnesses, including Sheriff L. C. Brinkerhoff of the Big Horn County, Wyoming sheriff's department had a close encounter with a blue-green UFO that hovered over the badlands near Burlington, Wyoming. It reacted to the sheriff's spotlight by beaming a ray of light into the patrol car. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3370",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1964, p. 6; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, October 1966, p. 30; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 170" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/8/1966",
  "desc" : "Two ice cream truck drivers, Armstrong and Polomka, watched a domed craft maneuvering in the sky for 20 minutes between Kingston and Naracoorte, South Australia. A white light made up the body of the craft, while a red light looked like a dome on top; the white light was interlaced with smaller colored lights. It moved at fantastic speeds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3371",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 176; Keith Basterfield, Keith Basterfield investigation files, case S017" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/8/1966",
  "desc" : "Max Baker, age 43, was driving west on Sandusky Road between Kansas, Ohio and Toledo at 6:45 a.m. when a bright silver, metallic cigar-shaped object appeared out of nowhere and buzzed his car. The UFO was completely silent, and passed within 30 meters of his car, flying low to the northeast. The close encounter lasted one minute. His report to the Air Force remains a Project Blue Book unexplained case. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3372",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 10629; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 15; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 331; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; UNICAT, case # 185" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/8/1966",
  "desc" : "Also on that same evening, three young Canadians were driving south of Castlegar Airport in British Columbia when they were chased by an oval shaped object, about six feet in diameter. It gave off a bluish glow and stayed parallel with the car as they drove along the highway at about 45 m.p.h. It had beams of light pointing upward and downward coming from it, as it flew about 10 feet above the power lines. It made no noise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3373",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Charles Bowen, World Round-up, FSR, November 1966, p. 33" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/8/1968",
  "desc" : "Between 4:30 and 5:00 p.m. a university professor named Richalda and a woman accompanying him witnessed a 0.5 meter, hat-shaped UFO that flew to the southwest while driving near a hydro-electric dam in Capataneni, Bacau, Romania. The sighting lasted two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3374",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 172" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/8/1974",
  "desc" : "At Lake George near Goulbourne, New South Wales, Australia a Mr. L, an elderly farmer, noticed an elongated luminous object in the sky at around 11 p.m. on the night of June 7-8, 1974. It ejected a \"falling star\" that approached to within two miles of him, hovering about a half a mile up in the sky. It appeared as a red luminous sphere. Later that night this sphere appeared to land behind some trees several miles away. At around three o'clock in the morning he went out with his dog to investigate, and walked toward the landing site. He heard a number of other dogs barking, and a voice that yelled, \"shut up!\", which caused him to stop. He sat down where he was and waited until around 6:00 a.m., and then went on to the site and found \"an area of burnt vegetation for a distance of 200 yards.\" When the witness was subsequently hospitalized and diagnozed with paranoid schizophrenia, he was able to recall futher details. He remembered that he had approached to withing 300 yards of the landed object, and observed it through binoculars. Three or four men over eight feet tall came from behind the landed craft and \"floated\" to the ground. They were wearing glowing silver colored suits that covered their bodies up to their necks. He could discern no facial features on the beings. Later, a chute emerged from the object, and down it came a number of cylindrical metal \"packing cases.\" After that, about 40 head of black cattle came down the chute, and were driven away by normal looking men, accompanied by dogs. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3375",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1974-27 (A1331), citing Bill Chalker & Keith Basterfield" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/8/1986",
  "desc" : "A 40-foot long, cigar-shaped UFO was seen in a red mist in Metcalf, Illinois at 8:30 p.m. It was seen for 30 seconds, less than half a mile away, and was completely silent. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3376",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, case # 1119" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/8/1990",
  "desc" : "In 1990, the Bridges family of Navarre Beach, Florida observed a cluster of 20-30 lights at 11:30 p.m. that appeared to be low over the Gulf of Mexico about ten miles away from their home. These lights would join together in a circular orbit and then shoot out in many directions. Some of the paths were jagged with sharp turns and abrupt stops, while others were smooth stops. The UFOs would then regroup and repeat the process randomly. Another group of about 20 people, who were visiting in rental units, also saw the display. The entire event lasted about 30 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3377",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Rex Salisberry, Gulf Breeze Sentinel, Gulf Breeze, FL, June 14, 1990" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/8/1991",
  "desc" : "Civil radar tracked UFOs over Concepcion, Paraguay. Pilots encountered and radar tracked a reddish oval-shaped object that paced a small aircraft and then hovered above the airport; electro-magnetic effects were reported on the plane. At around 6:00 p.m. an intense bluish-white oval-shaped object buzzed a Japanese airliner, then paced a Cessna for 25 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3378",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 127, 245, 384; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 46, citing MUFON UFO Journal, February 1994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/8/1994",
  "desc" : "In a farming area outside of Padova (Padua), Italy at around midnight a robot-like entity with lights approached the witness. It used telepathy to communicate with the witness, warning him that it meant no harm and there were 14 others just like him, hiding in the nearby woods. It then lifted off vertically, and flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3379",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #329; Albert S. Rosales, 1994 Humanoid Sighting Reports, case # 2366" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/8/1998",
  "desc" : "During the predawn hours of this morning in Puerto Rico the witness, Belen, found herself seated on a stainless steel table that floated in mid-air. To her left stood two short gray beings wearing white coveralls. They just stood there looking at her, seemingly waiting for something. At her feet stood a tall, human like figure, with black hair, large eyes, fine chiseled facial features and very thick eyebrows. She felt relaxed and unafraid. She asked the human figure what were they doing, and his answer was, \"We are preparing you.\" She asked him not to leave any marks on her body this time, but she was told that it was necessary, and that next time no scars or marks will be left behind. She then lay back on the table and saw two \"tubes\" descend from the ceiling. The tubes were also metallic and emitted beams of light towards her stomach area. At this point she lost consciousness. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3380",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, citing Lucy Guzman" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/8/2002",
  "desc" : "Dr. Joyce Pugh, a MUFON consultant, reported that on Saturday, June 8, 2002 at about 10:30 p.m. she and her husband were driving on Highway 319 toward Ocilla, Georgia when they sighted unusual lights low in the overcast sky above the trees off to the left near Tifton, Georgia. They were shaped like an elongated triangle with a white light in each corner, and a red light in the bottom center. The lights appeared to be on one object, which slowly moved across the road. They turned off the highway to pursue it. They later sighted two more craft with indistinct lights. They could hear the sound of roaring jet engines apparently coming from the lights/craft, as they seemed to fly along slowly. They went back to the area where they observed the first object and once again observed hovering lights. The lights crossed the road again and then disappeared as Dr. Pugh continued to negotiate traffic. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3381",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 87-88, citing John Bodin & Tom Sheets" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/9/1951",
  "desc" : "At 8:10 p.m. in Mikkeli, Finland two witnesses watched a 25 meter diameter disc-shaped object flying at 300 meters altitude. It was absolutely silent and continued to fly slowly at a low altitude toward Leningrad, Russia. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3382",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Larry Hatch, U computer database" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/9/1954",
  "desc" : "Janet Brown, age 16, and a 13-year-old friend of East Dandenong, Victoria heard a loud noise at 6:20 p.m. and saw a large, dark object that \"burst into light\" hovering 20 meters away at the height of a factory gate. It was cylindrical, 10 meters long, 5 meters high, with a canopy on top. It flew away and was lost to sight behind some trees. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3383",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 216; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 207" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/9/1957",
  "desc" : "On this night a flat glowing object passed near a LAV DC-3 airliner flying between Puerto Cabello and Valencia, Venezuela. It flew by at an incredible speed and was seen by several onboard. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3384",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, June 1992, p. 18; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 28" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/9/1958",
  "desc" : "At 10:17 a.m. a pilot named Scharf flying an F-102 fighter aircraft over Puget Sound, Washington State and many others sighted a white cylinder-shaped UFO with a slight orange tint, which oscillated and maneuvered for four minutes. The Air Force attempted to explain this sighting as a weather balloon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3385",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, report form dated June 11, 1958; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 30" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/9/1967",
  "desc" : "Four Spanish Air Force pilots, in a T-33 and an F-86, were chasing a UFO over Extremadura, Jaen, Spain when their communication radios failed. The UFO played cat-and-mouse with the T-33 aircraft when the pilot attempted pursuit. After several minutes the object shot straight up and disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3386",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos files; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 40; FSR, May-June 1968, p. 26; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 50" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/9/1967",
  "desc" : "Six-year-old Leland Wlazlak was in the bathroom in Seattle, Washington at 9 p.m. when a red ball came in through the window and struck him in the forehead. It then \"went up through the ceiling.\" He looked outside and saw bright blue, red, and black lights, and a strange being who had short horns, slanting eyes, and a lipless mouth. The stranger asked the boy what the garden soil was, and told him to \"watch the rocket ship--he'd be back.\" Then he flew up on the roof with the aide of two tanks on his back shooting out white smoke. The boy said, \"He didn't have a body.\" Two more strange beings were visible in the ship. Then the first being came back, asked Leland what a tree in the backyard was, and pointed a device that looked like a gun at him. The boy screamed and ran out of the bathroom. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3387",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-48, citing Richard Hall for NICAP; letter to NICAP June 17, 1967" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/9/1971",
  "desc" : "Shortly before midnight a man his driving car at the highest point on the highway north of Dunedin, New Zealand had his car's interior illuminated by a big, low flying, circular UFO. It was green in color, and was trailing a long sparkly tail of red and green particles. It came from the direction of the sea off Waikouaiti, and flew off to the southwest toward Taieri. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3388",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mataoru Ensign, June 11, 1971" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/9/1971",
  "desc" : "Mr. & Mrs. Alvarez reported that a seven meter in diameter dome-shaped object illuminated an area 250 meters wide as it flew silently and very close to the ground in Aznalcazar, Sevilla, Spain while they were driving in the area at 9:30 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3389",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 142, citing Manuel Osuna Llorente" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/9/1971",
  "desc" : "At 8:50 p.m. Miss Esther Clappison or Rosedale, Alberta noticed a light outside her home and went to the window. She saw what looked like a rectangular window that she judged was about 200 feet away, illuminated from within by a white light. It was on a darkened object whose shaped she could not make out, but she believed was resting on the ground. In the window was a man less that five feet tall dressed in olive green coveralls. The outfit completely covered him, even his face. He seemed to be aware of the witness and he used his body and arm to conceal some sort of instrument panel. He seemed to be trying to attract the attention of another humanoid figure outside the object, visible in the light from the window, who was stooped over and picking up rocks from the ground. She wanted to get closer to get a better look, but her dog would not let her. Trembling and cowering, the dog forced his mistress back inside the house. After the object left the grass at the landing site was charred black over an area 20 feet in diameter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3390",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John Major, FSR Case Histories, August 1973, p. 6; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-18, citing investigator William K. Allan for APRO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/9/1971",
  "desc" : "An oblong shaped UFO was seen in the sky over the shore at Morgans' Point, Texas at 11:30 p.m. by a man named Churchill. It \"glowed brilliantly pink and then faded\" 4 or 5 times as it flew. It was visible for 90 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3391",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Austin American-Statesman, June 12, 1971" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/9/1972",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. a young man in Algodonales, Cadiz, Spain observed a very bright light which temporarily blinded him. The engine of his car failed but the headlights remained on. Ahead of his car, in the middle of the road, was a yellow oval shaped source of throbbing light about two meters in length. Blue protuberances came from the light. It suddenly disappeared, then reappeared over a ditch and finally moved away silently at treetop height. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3392",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, A Catalogue of 200 Type I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 155, citing Manuel Osuna Llorente; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 317, citing Ballester Olmos; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 16, 253" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/9/1976",
  "desc" : "Mr. Lusignan, a patent examiner, lost while hiking in the mountains near Echo Lake, Clear Creek County, Colorado saw two rectangular objects descend from the sky and land by a creek at about 10 p.m. He watched as 15-20 people emerged from the two craft. They were \"dressed in Indian or gypsy clothing\" and talked in low whispers as they set up a camp for the night. They talked in an unintelligible language. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3393",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Clear Creek Courant, June 18, 1976; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1475, citing Leonard H. Stringfield and the Front Range Journal, June 17, 1976" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/9/1977",
  "desc" : "A yellow \"TV screen\" hovered just over the roadway in El Garrobo, Sevilla, Spain at 11:30 p.m. It turned blue and flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3394",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, June 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/9/1979",
  "desc" : "A private pilot flying southeast of Clearlake, California sighted six bright \"doughnut\" shaped objects flying at great speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3395",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 42, citing MUFON UFO Journal, August 1983" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/9/1992",
  "desc" : "At four o'clock in the morning a man suddenly awoke in his bedroom in Malibu, California and found himself unable to move. He then saw standing next to his bed three small figures. They had pale white skin, frail looking bodies, large triangular-shaped heads, and huge luminous black eyes. The figures stood motionless staring at the witness emanating a feeling of curiosity. The figures then receded backwards and with an apparent look of bewilderment vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3396",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, case # 1119, citing Jefferson R Weekly, UFO Magazine (USA), Volume 8 # 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/9/1996",
  "desc" : "At 6:00 p.m. a black sphere shot at an Air France airliner from the Mediterranean Sea, then flew 30 meters above the aircraft. The plane requested and made an emergency landing at Ben Gurion airport in Israel. No Israeli military launches where in the area at the time of the report. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3397",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA) November 1996, p. 24; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 48" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/9/1998",
  "desc" : "At 6:20 a.m. several witnesses in a vehicle in Lynch Mountain, Kentucky watched a tall glowing figure, without a neck and with a large head that was large on top and small at the bottom. It glided through a guardrail towards their vehicle. As it passed by the vehicle shook very hard. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3398",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case #3569, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/9/1999",
  "desc" : "White filamentous threads like \"angel hair\" fell for five hours from the sky, leaving a sheen on paddocks, hedges, and trees over a 90 km area around Esperance, Western Australia. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3399",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George Filer, MUFON UFO Journal, July 1999, p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/9/2002",
  "desc" : "The National UFO Reporting Center in Seattle, Washington had two reports listed of a UFO landing with short humanoids near Polanuruwa, Sri Lanka on this evening. Two witnesses went to bathe in the nearby river when a UFO appeared overhead making a thundering sound. When it landed two two-foot tall humanoids came out of the craft. Reportedly, \"very soon it disappeared.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3400",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2002 webpage archive" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/9/2004",
  "desc" : "At 6:00 p.m. local time a teardrop-shaped UFO and other UFOs was seen in Ruby Bay, Nelson, New Zealand. The witness was standing on the beach having a smoke when he saw the object, which had spinning red lights and was beaming light down into the water. He ran and got his friend to see it as well. Other residents of the campground also saw it. It moved closer towards the beach sending beams of light across the bay, and made an electrical humming noise and a thundering sound that could easily be heard. The craft moved at a phenomenal speed and disappeared and reappeared in different places, moving up into the sky. At about 8:00 p.m. and over the next hour another 6 craft appeared in the sky. The objects in the sky looked like giant orbs of amber light and over the rest of the night the objects moved around the Nelson Harbour and the hills around Ruby Bay. The objects came in close and shot off randomly for the rest of the night until morning. Flat batteries in cars reportedly occurred throughout the McKees Domain, and dead fish washed up on the beach in Ruby Bay later that day. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3401",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, June 2004 archive webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/10/1931",
  "desc" : "About the middle of the afternoon Sir F. Chichester spotted a dull grayish-white airship while flying over the Tasman Sea, off the coast of Australia. The object reflected light off its front surface. It appeared to draw closer, but then dimished in size, seemed to become transparent, and disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3402",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "James E. McDonald investigation files, case 004" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/10/1946",
  "desc" : "Mystery \"ghost rockets\" were seen over Tampere and Helsinki, Finland. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3403",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "H. Edward Hill" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/10/1947",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. in Agua Prieta, Mexico a glowing sphere was seen as it rose from the ground and flew up into the night sky. At the same time in Douglas, Arizona Coral Lorenzen, the co-founder of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization in 1952 and future author of seven books on the UFO phenomenon, witnessed an unidentified light land remotely, take on a definite spherical shape, then shoot up rapidly from the ground and vanish in less than ten seconds among the stars. According to the Air Force files there were more than fifty reports of UFOs seen during the daytime over Budapest, Hungary. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3404",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 16; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of the Phenomenon, p. 50; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 191" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/10/1949",
  "desc" : "A team of Navy engineers and technicians under the command of Robert B. McLaughlin watched two white discs pace a V-2 rocket during its test launch from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. One of the discs passed through the rocket's exhaust and then shot straight up. The event was witnessed by at least five U.S. Navy rocket scientists and engineers. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3405",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 112; Donald E. Keyhoe, True Magazine, March 1950, p. 25; Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 238" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/10/1955",
  "desc" : "In Petare, Venezuela five ovoid objects descended on a hillside. They emitted smoke or fog and beams of light. Figures could be seen moving around inside the haze. The objects took off flying to the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3406",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, August 1955" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/10/1960",
  "desc" : "Half a dozen \"men\" could be seen standing around a landed disc-shaped UFO in Algoz, Portugal at 3:30 a.m. The boarded the craft and the UFO took off vertically. When the witness started to run the object lit up the ground with an intense beam of light. His dog ran away in fear. Later that same night the headlights of a car driving fifteen miles east of Globe, Arizona illuminated a small figure standing 300 feet away. The being turned and ran. It was described as having broad shoulders, long arms, a dark body, no ears or nose, and a large pumpkin-shaped head with two orange glowing eyes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3407",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, p. 7 (case 30); Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, pp. 128-129" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/10/1967",
  "desc" : "A daytime photograph of a disc-shaped object was taken in East Woonsocket, Rhode Island by UFO contactee Harold Trudel. The photograph shows a slightly asymmetric hubcap shaped object with a small dome and aerial extending from the bottom. To even the untrained eye it looks like a fake, more than likely produced by suspending a model from a string. Trudel believed he was in mental contact with space people, who sent him telepathic messages as to where and when they would appear. Oddly enough, two more cases of photographs being taken of UFOs occurred on this day in Austria. Two people, one named Tutter, took a photograph of a UFO in Vienna (Wien), Austria at 9:55 p.m., and two more people, one named Brettschneider, took a photo in Ganserndorf, Austria at 11:35 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3408",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Green Beckley, Flying Saucers, December 1970, pg. 26; UFO Nachtrichten, August 1967" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/10/1968",
  "desc" : "In Los Cigarrales, Argentina Jorge Yaru, a member of the Argentine Navy, was on his way to bed at 3:15 a.m. when he heard a very loud engine noise and stepped out of his home to investigate. He saw nothing and returned inside. He heard the noise again and went back outside. Looking towards a nearby empty field he saw a hovering disc-shaped UFO, with a dome on top and bottom. Around the bottom part of the object were yellow, red, and orange lights. He estimated the craft to be about 1.5 meters in thickness and six meters in diameter, and the craft was rotating in a counter-clockwise direction. He watched the object for 40 minutes while it remained motionless, then the craft shot away at a ninety-degree angle towards some nearby wooded hills. It remained stationary there for 40 minutes and then made an abrupt jump, hovered again, and shot off at a high rate of speed. Sr. Yaru then felt a strange urge to bathe in a nearby brook, which he did despite the very low outdoor temperatures at the time. He felt a strange need to \"cleanse\" himself. At the same time a neighbor, Adela Garcia, heard the same noise and noticed in the same empty field a strange triangular shaped cloud. A giant man-like figure, over two meters tall, with long blond hair, descended to the ground from the cloud. The strange being, which Garcia likened to Jesus Christ, approached her and she knelt before him. Averting her eyes from the being briefly, she looked up and both the being and the cloud were gone. A large are of scorched grass was found in the field. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3409",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Oscar A. Uriondo, Preliminary Catalogue of Type I cases in Argentina, FSR Case Histories, August 1973, p. 10; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, citing Revista Enigmas, Argentina" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/10/1969",
  "desc" : "Two people were sleeping outside in their backyard on this summer night in Portland, Oregon when they saw an object approaching them at 1:00 a.m. When first spotted the UFO was at about 500 feet altitude and a ¼ mile away. Soon they could see that it was a single file formation of disc-shaped objects, which dropped down to about 30 feet and turned north. The UFOs were about 30 feet in diameter. As they flew over a nearby field the witnesses could see a bluish green light under each object. They could also see small-lighted windows in the objects and in each window a figure was seen looking out. The last object shot up at a 30-degree angle and vanished within seconds, leaving a luminous short trail of light behind. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3410",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1969, citing National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/10/1970",
  "desc" : "A single witness saw a domed disc-shaped craft land in San Vicente de Toqua, Chile at 11:00 o'clock at night. Two humanoids were reported to have been seen inside the craft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3411",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Chilean UFO Bulletin, Vol. 8, 1970; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1970-10, citing Mark Rodeghier and Bernard Delair" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/10/1978",
  "desc" : "A dark, silent wedge-shaped object with a square formation of white lights in the back and a triangular formation of red and white lights in the front paced the car of two students, ages 21 and 19, as they drove eastbound on Route 299 in New Paltz, New York. The UFO turned south toward them and passed over their car. The male student got out of the car and ran underneath it, and said it was as large as his outstretched hand at arm's length. It shot off toward the southwest horizon in a few seconds time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3412",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, August 1978, p. 4." ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/10/1992",
  "desc" : "Coatesville, Pennsylvania. Several workers at the Lukens Steel Company plant saw a disc-shaped UFO land on the factory grounds around quitting time (4:30 p.m.). The security guard said that the object touched down briefly and then took off in the direction of the old Coatesville Hospital. The company, a defense contractor, refused to let UFO investigators talk with any of the witnesses or answer further questions about what they saw. Attempts to set up interviews outside of the plant were also unsuccessful. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3413",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Thomas Carey, MUFON; West Chester Daily Local News, June 12, 1992." ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/10/1998",
  "desc" : "At 10:15 p.m. a woman awoke to a noise outside her bedroom in Deception Bay, Queensland, Australia. She thought she heard the TV set on and could also see some kind of soft, flashing light in the corridor that she went to investigate. At the end of the corridor she was surprised to see a very tall man standing in the hallway. He wore a long beige jacket and had long arms. His face could not be seen because he was backlit by the light coming from behind him. She attempted to scream but could not. The next thing she remembered was finding herself standing in a different place in the room. She heard a voice say \"come on, time to go to bed now,\" which she did. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3414",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case #3155, citing Robert Frola & Diane Harrison, UFO Information Centre Queensland" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/11/1881",
  "desc" : "At sea at 4:00 a.m. between Melbourne and Sydney, Australia, the two sons of the Prince of Wales, one of them the future king of England, were cruising aboard \"La Bacchante\" when a flying object resembling a fully lighted ship was seen, \"a phantom vessel all aglow.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3415",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 180, citing Charles Fort, The Books of Charles Fort, p. 637" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/11/1954",
  "desc" : "While flying from Charleston, West Virginia to Atlanta on this morning, British astronomer H. Percy Wilkins observed two brilliant, oval shaped objects above the clouds 2 miles away. \"Sharp edged,\" bright gold in color, they \"looked exactly like polished metal plates reflecting the sunlight,\" he wrote. They moved in slow motion northwards as the clouds drifted south. He also noticed a third UFO, this one gray in color. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3416",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers --Serious Business, pg. 47." ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/11/1956",
  "desc" : "Nueces River, Texas - Dan Martin claimed he was taken aboard a large landed UFO, where he spent seven hours being lectured by the master of the ship. He wrote a book about his experience, entitled 7 Hours Aboard a Space Ship. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3417",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Hollywood Citizen-News, July 20, 1956" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/11/1961",
  "desc" : "Jose Darnaude, age 28, of Villanueva del Rio y Minas, Spain felt a strange prickling sensation all over his body but especially on his head when he next saw a spinning luminous object approach rapidly from the northeast. The disc-shaped UFO dropped down at a 90-degree angle, and stopped to hover at 20-30 meters altitude, 250 meters away. It changed color from white to orange to red to purple to white again. Over a dozen other people witnessed it for several minutes before it rose vertically at great speed and flew towards the southwest. Horses in the area went crazy with fear, sheep broke loose, and dogs cowered in silence. Mr. Darnaude has degrees in law, economics, and business management, and at the time was the manager of his family's agricultural and cattle breeding business, on whose estate the incident occurred. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3418",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente Juan Ballester Olmos, A Catalogue of 200 Type I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, pp. 7-8." ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/11/1966",
  "desc" : "A man in Westport, Massachusetts who was going fishing early in the morning (3:45 a.m.) saw an object dive toward his car and hover at treetop level. He stopped his car and observed it for two minutes. It was shaped like two plates glued together, and had a smaller oval dome on top. It took a 45-degree inclination, rose, made a right-angle turn, and changed color from white to yellow to blue to green as it accelerated. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3419",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pg. 331" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/11/1967",
  "desc" : "Da Nang, Vietnam - In the early evening two silver cylindrical UFOs were seen by several U.S. military personnel on the ground near the military base for several minutes. The UFOs were chased off by two F-102 U.S. Air Force interceptors. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3420",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, May 1969, p. 1; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 10, 77, 118; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 35" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/11/1967",
  "desc" : "In the middle of the afternoon Carroll Watts saw a large cigar-shaped object land on a farm near Loco, Texas. A short being exited the craft and began walking around it. The being was wearing a white, tight-fitting uniform, had a baldhead, slit-like ears and somewhat larger eyes than humans. Watts attempted to take a picture of the being, who quickly ran back into the object which took off and flew to the north out of sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3421",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, case # 3348, citing Timothy Good, Alien Base" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/11/1967",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. two children in Price Hill, Ohio saw a disc-shaped object one meter in diameter and 25 cm thick, making a metallic noise as it hovered 10 meters above them. They took a series of photos but they showed only a blurry light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3422",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pg. 346 (case 849), citing the Cincinnati Enquirer, June 12, 1967" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/11/1968",
  "desc" : "On this evening in Lavras de Mangabeira, Brazil a UFO shaped like a flattened oval was seen in a field by a witness. Next to the object stood a short, baldheaded humanoid who sported a black beard and had dark round eyes. He wore a red, tight-fitting coverall and green boots. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3423",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, citing GEPUC Brazil & Antonio Faleiro" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/11/1969",
  "desc" : "A doctor X was returning home from a funeral late this night near Segovia, Spain when he found his vehicle suddenly blocked by a dense curtain formed by hundreds of small luminous white cylinders hovering in a vertical position in front of his vehicle. Next Dr. X suddenly heard a voice in his head that told him to relax that everything would be alright. At the same time he noticed on the front passenger seat an opaque cube-shaped form that appeared out of nowhere. His next recollection was of again driving his vehicle around a curve and then arriving home, feeling very tired and haggard having no recollection of what occurred during approximately one-hour period of missing time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3424",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1969, citing Fabio Zerpa, Los Hombres de Negro Y los OVNIS" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/11/1970",
  "desc" : "Atlantic Ocean -- Thor Heyerdahl and navigator Norman Baker, aboard their boat the Ra II, radioed in that they had watched a UFO move across the horizon for several minutes during the early morning hours. It disappeared in a \"bright orange flash.\" The sighting was not connected with any space launches, but may have been related to a U.S. Navy Polaris missile launch. Heyerdahl and his crew were attempting to prove that ancient Egyptians could have crossed the Atlantic in papyrus boats centuries before Columbus. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3425",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, July-August 1970, pg. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/11/1971",
  "desc" : "At 10 a.m. a five-meter in diameter, silver lenticular disc-shaped object landed beside the highway in Cuesta de las Vacas, San Juan, Argentina. It was seen on the ground by a policeman and two others for about a minute. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3426",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, February 1973, p. 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/11/1976",
  "desc" : "Pizancon, France - Driving home at 1 a.m., Helene Giuliana, age 20, found that the engine of her car had stopped and the headlights went out. Then she noticed above the Martinet bridge, 75 feet ahead of her, a bright reddish-orange dome-shaped light. She put her hands over her eyes and when she looked again it had disappeared. She was able to restart her car and drove home. When she arrived home at 4 a.m. she realized it had taken her two hours longer than it should have. Under hypnosis she recalled being taken aboard the UFO by two short beings with large eyes, wearing black coveralls. She was fastened onto an operating table, where they ran \"a kind of box\" over her. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3427",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jean Bastide, MUFON UFO Journal, July 1976, pg. 6." ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/11/1985",
  "desc" : "Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China -- A Chinese Civil Aviation Administration Boeing 747 encountered a UFO on the Peking to Paris flight that almost forced the captain to make an emergency landing. Flight CA 933 was over Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu Province, at 2240 hours when Captain Wang Shuting and his crew first observed the object.. The UFO flew across the path of the airliner at its altitude of 33,000 feet at a very high speed. The object illuminated an area of twenty-five to thirty square miles and was huge, with an apparent diameter of six miles. It was elliptical in shape and had an extremely bright spot in the center, with three horizontal rows of bluish-white lights on the perimeter. The sighting lasted for two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3428",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, pg. 212" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/11/1989",
  "desc" : "At seven o'clock in the morning a Canadian Airlines International crew watched a dark grey or black ovoid object, estimated to be about 2 meters in length, make complex maneuvers in the sky not far from St. John's, Newfoundland for three minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3429",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Chris Rutkowski, International UFO Reporter, July 1990, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/11/1995",
  "desc" : "On this night several golfers in Cleburne, Texas watched a metallic cigar-shaped object hover over the golf course for several minutes. A five-minute long videotape was made of the UFO by a professional photographer. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3430",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/12/1929",
  "desc" : "Levis Brosseau, age 20, was riding home in Fermeneuve, Quebec on horseback at 11:00 p.m. when he saw a dark object with a yellow light landed on the ground. His horse became very nervous. The object was estimated to be 15 meters in diameter and 5 meters high, and he witnessed four or five dwarfish figures running back and forth within 6 meters of the object. He heard their sharp, childlike voices. The dark object then took off with a machine-like sound and rush of air. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3431",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, pg. 189" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/12/1947",
  "desc" : "A bright metallic ovoid object was seen from the highway in Weiser, Idaho by a Mrs. Erickson and her daughter at 6:15 p.m. The UFO zigzagged to the southwest. It and a second object were in view for three minutes before vanishing. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3432",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers Are Real, p. 24" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/12/1952",
  "desc" : "At 4:00 p.m. several disc-shaped UFOs followed an airliner over Mill Valley in Marin County, California for five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3433",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/12/1952",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. A U.S. Army Major and a Lt. Colonel, using binoculars, watched an orange ball with a tail fly with a low angular velocity in Fort Smith, Arkansas. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3434",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #1269; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 264" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/12/1952",
  "desc" : "At 11:26 a.m. at a U.S. Air Force radar facility in Marakesch, Morocco Sgt. H. D. Adams, operating an SCR-584 radar set, tracked an unidentified radar blip moving at 650 knots (750 mph) and at an altitude greater than 60,000 feet. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3435",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #1270; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/12/1957",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. in Milano, Italy Mr. G. U. Donadio, a translator for export-import firm, sighted a UFO as \"big as a hen's egg\" that flew very fast, zigzagged, hovered and revolved, then shot straight up and away after 17 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3436",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/12/1958",
  "desc" : "near Le Brusc, France - Three fishermen had gone to sea on the Mediterranean Sea at night to set their nets. It was a very clear, starry night, and the sea was calm. A big orange-colored ball of light descended very quickly towards the sea, and soon it became a great big globe lying on the surface of the water. \"Just lightly touching the waves it remained there for several minutes, but we had the impression that it was revolving, like a wheel turning round and round on the same place.\" It caused a strong air disturbance for they could see the water being whipped up around it. The ball came rolling toward the fishermen's boat, and they were terrified that it would collide with them. It didn't in fact go over them but passed very close by, making such big waves that they nearly capsized. They felt a powerful blast of heat and a strong blast of air. As it went by it made a faint humming noise. Comparing it to their boat, it seemed to be about 4 meters in diameter. Moving along by leaps, half-disappearing among the waves, it made a right-hand turn and disappeared on the horizon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3437",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR Case Histories, April 1973, pp. 13-14; Lumieres dans la Nuit (Contact Lecteurs), Series 3, No. 5, January 1971" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/12/1961",
  "desc" : "A smoke ring was seen in the presence of a UFO at 6:30 p.m. in Waynesville, Ohio. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3438",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, July-August 1961, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/12/1964",
  "desc" : "A domed disc-shaped UFO hovered near the main power station in Hallam, Victoria, Australia at 5:55 p.m. It then flew away to the northwest toward Melbourne. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3439",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 100" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/12/1964",
  "desc" : "Police Chief Richard Crawford of Elmore, Ohio spotted a bright, motionless blinking object emitting multi-colored lights near the intersection of Route 51 and Nissen Road at 10:15 p.m. Some kind of halo surrounded it. After about 20 minutes a spotlight was aimed at the object, and it went away. It was again seen at the local school half an hour before midnight, at an altitude of about 1000 feet, flying at a good speed to the northwest, toward the town of Genoa. It made the sound of a bullet flying by one's ear. Crawford radioed another policeman and asked him to meet him at a certain point. The other officer arrived there first, and witnessed the object giving off bursts of light once per second. It took off again when Crawford arrived, changed course at high speed, and was lost to sight in a few seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3440",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, pg. 37" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/12/1974",
  "desc" : "On this day a UFO with bouncing movements, or \"a bobbing up and down\" hovered over tree tops near Grantham, North Carolina for 20 minutes. The craft had windows and a row of lights estimated to be about 15 feet long. It also made a whirring noise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3441",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, December 1974, p. 39; Frank Harrison, Skylook, July 1974, p. 20" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/12/1975",
  "desc" : "A diamond shaped object landed on a gravel road in a mountainous area of Big Chimney, West Virginia shortly before 10:00 p.m. It was witnessed by four members of the Crichfield family. Four landing gear imprints were found at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3442",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Center for UFO Studies case files, letter dated August 3, 1975; Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing Alan Landsburg, In Search of Extraterrestrials, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/12/1977",
  "desc" : "In Bardney, England this afternoon a group of boarding school boys, concealed on the opposite side of a hedge, saw a black \"stick man\" with a round, featureless head, \"jolting\" along about 150 meters away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3443",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1736" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/12/1977",
  "desc" : "A man would had just been laid off work was attending a meeting of his colleagues in Crystal Lake, Illinois to discuss the matter. During the course of the meeting he'd had half a dozen beers. About 11 p.m. he left the hotel for some fresh air. Outside he immediately saw approaching him three small figures emerging from an alley adjacent to the hotel. His first thought was that they were coming for him, but he noticed a fourth being lying directly in front of him on the ground, only a few yards away. It was doubled up, with its back toward him, as if injured. He also noticed a strange absence of sound, in that he was unable to hear any traffic sounds coming from the street. The beings were about 4 feet 10 inches tall, with small, slender bodies and large baldheads. They were wearing glass fish bowl-type helmets, with a metallic band attached from the helmets to their uniforms. The uniforms were tight one-piece suits of a dark green color, with a metallic luster. The only facial feature he could see through the helmet were two large, round, luminous eyes. They lifted the prone colleague and carried him off toward the alley. Throughout the encounter he felt no fear--he had the feeling, in fact, that they had somehow informed him they would not harm him. He made a report to the police, and he told his friends but was laughed at. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3444",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Center for UFO Studies files, report by Douwe Goaga dated February 8, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/12/1979",
  "desc" : "Pine Ridge, South Carolina. Members of a rock band practicing in a barn stepped outside to watch an unusual form hovering low over the containment building and smokestack of the Carolina Power & Light nuclear power plant one half mile away to their northeast. An ovoid shaped object, seen primarily by its lights in the clear dusk sky, had two huge bright yellowish-white beams of light. After hovering motionless for 2-5 minutes all the lights faded except a blue light. The UFO moved off and was gone in \"three blinks of the eye.\" After about five minutes, a second sighting took place. It hovered to the right of the nuclear power plant and directed a beam of light at it while hovering for another 2-5 minutes. The second object flew off toward the northwest. No one at the power plant reported seeing anything unusual to the chief of security. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3445",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, July 1979, p. 21" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/12/1981",
  "desc" : "Robert Gomez, a vacuum truck driver, was headed west on highway FR 665 toward Alice, Texas after finishing a job. His vehicle had about 165 gallons of water in the tank and no pressure. At 2:10 p.m. he saw a bright object in the sky that he first thought was an airplane. It increased in brightness and stopped in midair. The object was domed disc-shaped, brilliant white in color and with a dark ring around the rim and another dark ring around its center. Gomez felt the truck slowing down and tried to accelerate. The truck's exhaust stacks were blowing smoke, but the truck had apparently been lifted a foot off the ground. Although his AM radio quit working, his CB radio was still working, so he reported what was happening to his dispatcher. Shortly later the UFO disappeared into the clouds. Smoke was discovered coming out of the water tank valve, which now showed 55 pounds of pressure on the gauge. He opened the valve to drain the remaining water, but only steam came out. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3446",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, pp. 313-314; MUFON UFO Journal, January 1982; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 276" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/12/1986",
  "desc" : "Two persons observed three deep blue colored objects flying in a triangular formation. When they over flew Lake Trasimeno they descended vertically into the lake. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3447",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Marco Bianchini, USOCAT by IItalian Center for UFO Studies (CISU). http://www.cisu.org/" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/12/1994",
  "desc" : "A hexagon-shaped object circled by lights had four square portholes on its bottom, was seen at 8:40 p.m. in St. Usuges, France. It flew away toward the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3448",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 326" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/12/1995",
  "desc" : "In Wichita, Kansas a lone witness reported encountering several strange humanoids to the National UFO Reporting Center in Seattle, Washington. There was no UFO associated with the report. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3449",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, case #2170, citing Francis Ridge, UFO Intelligence Newsletter, February 1996; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/12/1999",
  "desc" : "In Alton Barnes, England a crop formation 700 feet in length, with a design consisting of boxes, keys, and a Celtic cross was found on this day. In the afternoon of this day in Goias, Brazil a UFO the size of a football field landed in the city. Jet interceptor aircraft were scrambled from Anapolis AFB in response to the reports, but did not arrive in time. At 10:30 a.m. in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts a silver, metallic object was seen hovering at approximately a mile to a mile and a half altitude, from Route 20 eastbound. At noon a gray object with a black dot in the center was seen moving very slowly across the sky in Melbourne, Victoria. In Adelaide, South Australia four men sitting outside saw a bright blue light appear from nowhere. It was long and large, and moved level for 15 seconds toward the east, with a flame visible from the tail section. It vanished from view. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3450",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, July 1999, p. 15; UFO Magazine (USA), September 1999, p. 19; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, June 1999 web page; Australasian Ufologist, January 2001, p. 36" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/12/2004",
  "desc" : "In Torrance, California at 3:03 p.m. a high altitude metallic disc-shaped object was watched from seven minutes. It reflected sunlight at times as it moved first west, then to the northwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3451",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, June 2004 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/13/1889",
  "desc" : "On this night in 1889, in Leicester, England a fireball zigzagged across the sky under the cloud cover. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3452",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. B. Delaire, UFO Register, volume 7, 1976" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/13/1947",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. west of Fleure, France a six-meter long, glowing orange cigar-shaped object surrounded by a bright halo landed in a storm. It stayed on the ground for five minutes, ascended quickly and shot away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3453",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #198" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/13/1952",
  "desc" : "In Middletown, Pennsylvania at 8:45 p.m. Mr.R. S. Thomas, an Olmstead AFB employee and former control tower operator, sighted a round, orange flying object traveling south. It stopped for one second, turned east, stopped a second time for one second, and then went down below the tree line. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3454",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1273; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/13/1954",
  "desc" : "A sphere was observed hovering over Boston, Massachusetts at 8:00 p.m. Two lights exited from the sphere and returned to it. The object then vanished, but shortly reappeared, then shrank in size and brightness. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3455",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren Gross, UFOs: A History. June-August 1954, p. 20" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/13/1961",
  "desc" : "At 3:35 p.m. a 25 cm wide disc flew just above some telephone lines at a railroad station in Bethunga, New South Wales, Australia. It made a whistling noise. The telephone became entangled by its passage. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3456",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Luis Schoenherr, computerized catalogue, case #1451" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/13/1963",
  "desc" : "A North Scituate, Massachusetts woman spotted a yellow-white light that looked to be plunging into the ocean, but suddenly reversed direction, doubling back on its original course. A friend with her also saw it. \"It suddenly stopped and moved erratically for a few seconds, reversed direction, and went back from east to west,\" she reported. She watched the maneuvering light for at least 10-15 minutes. When it stopped moving and hovered in one place for a while she stopped watching it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3457",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, November 1963, pg. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/13/1964",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. Karen Fahle of Penberville, Ohio saw a bright object coming to the ground about 200 meters away. While approaching, its lights blinked and turned to dark red. Five minutes later it flew away slowly. At 9:15 pm. B. L. English, a radio announcer at WTOD Radio in Toledo, Ohio saw three glowing white spheres, glowing red on their sides, move slowly through the sky, hover, and then move in fast circles. They made a low, rumbling sound as they flew. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3458",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 612; (2) Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 8870" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/13/1965",
  "desc" : "Modbury, South Australia. A dark, disc-shaped object hovered and circled for 15 minutes at an estimated 3,000 feet altitude. A photo of the same or a similar object was taken in Adelaide on the same day. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3459",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. B. Delaire, UFO Register, Volume 7 (1976), p. 55" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/13/1966",
  "desc" : "A policeman who had observed an UFO over Milan, Michigan on March 17 of this year saw an unidentified machine on the ground at a street intersection on this day. As he drove towards it, with his headlights illuminating the object, it took off like an airplane and flew away toward the southeast in the direction of Selfridge AFB. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3460",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 332, case 773" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/13/1967",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 a.m. Carmen Cuneo, a night shift worker at a factory in Caledonia, Ontario saw two objects near the factory's scrap heap and dump area: a large cigar-shaped object on the ground, 35 feet long by 15 feet thick, and a hovering disc-shaped object about 15 feet in diameter. The smaller object, tilted up at a 45-degree angle, had a row of orange-lighted windows around its periphery. In the larger object were four square windows emitting a pulsating orange light, and from one end of it projected upward at a 45 degree angle a rod 15 feet long, bearing a large red light at the end. Beneath this light moved three small humanoid figures about three feet tall, wearing miner's hats with small lights on them. They were picking up and examining small objects on the ground with quick, jerky movements. After watching for 10 minutes, Cuneo called co-worker Marvin Hannigan to see it, but by the time Hannigan arrived the humanoids were gone. The two craft started very slowly to rise straight up into the air. After they reached a height of 50 feet they departed at about 40-45 mph without making a sound. At the landing site branches were broken and the brush charred, and an oily liquid was found on the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3461",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-49, citing field investigators James J. Ferrito & Jeffrey J. Gow for NICAP; APRO Bulletin, November-December 1967, pg. 4; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 849" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/13/1971",
  "desc" : "On this day in 1971, Dr. James E. McDonald, noted atmospheric physicist and UFO researcher, was found dead from a gunshot wound to the head, an apparent suicide. Later that evening a disc with a circular opening in the bottom hovered over Courbevoie, France at 8:50 p.m. It tilted as it hovered, revealing beams of light directed upward into the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3462",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Tucson Arizona Daily Star, June 15, 1971; Phenomenes Spatiaux, June 1971" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/13/1973",
  "desc" : "In 1973 a 40-foot-long blimp-like object with fins hovered over Penns Wood, Pennsylvania at 500 feet altitude for several minutes before ascending vertically into the clouds. A search revealed there were no blimps scheduled in the area for that time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3463",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "newspaper clipping, June 15, 1973" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/13/1974",
  "desc" : "Off Itajai, Santa Catarina, Brazil at 3:30 p.m. several independent observers watched a saucer shaped object come in from the north and land on sea. It floated for five minutes before submerging. At 11 p.m. a UFO that changed colors from silver-white to red, green and orange, then back to silver-white every five minutes, placed a car for several minutes in Gladstone, Tasmania. Approximately an hour and 45 minutes later a domed disc with blinking lights descended over a military installation in Ventorro, Spain. It was spinning and seemed to be vibrating in place, and flew away to the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3464",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Inforespace, Issue # 25, February 1976 and Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 10826; (2) FSR, November 1975, p. 48; (3) Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 10827" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/13/1975",
  "desc" : "An electrical engineer with binoculars watched a UFO fly south over Manhattan's tall buildings in New York, New York this night. It had lighted slits on the bottom and a sharp outline, and was estimated to be 750 feet in diameter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3465",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1975" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/13/1976",
  "desc" : "In Dulce, New Mexico on this night in 1976, a dead cow, mutilated and with body parts missing was found in a field next to triangular pod marks. A flying disc was seen that same evening. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3466",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 11740" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/13/1981",
  "desc" : "At twenty minutes after midnight a spinning transparent cone, 3 meters in length, touched down on the ground in Chia-Li, Taiwan. It expelled a mist, then took off and shot away to the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3467",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Dong and Wendelle Stevens, UFOs over Modern China, p. 272" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/13/1986",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 p.m. a shiny, silver torpedo hovered for three minutes over St. Joseph, Missouri then shot away to the northeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3468",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Gribble, National UFO Reporting Center, case 1122" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/13/1989",
  "desc" : "Ms. Somerby, a 36-year-old woman, saw a massive rectangular shaped flying object while driving in her car at 11:30 p.m. in Frantfort, Kentucky. The UFO had a pipe structure clearly visible on the bottom. The witness experience an episode of missing time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3469",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughilli, Computer Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, case #265" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/13/2000",
  "desc" : "A round fiery ball was seen in the western sky in Springfield, Queensland, Australia traveling in an upward direction. A roaring sound like a jet engine was heard one minute later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3470",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Research Queensland website" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/14/1947",
  "desc" : "At noon in Bakersfield, California a man saw 10 flying saucers fly over in a triangular formation. Their speed was estimated to be 900 kilometers per hour. The report was one of the early cases investigated by the FBI. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3471",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1978, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/14/1954",
  "desc" : "Jets were scrambled but could not reach a hovering craft at high altitude in the sky between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3472",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Dolan, UFOs and the National Security State: A chronology of a cover-up 1941-1973, p. 407" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/14/1958",
  "desc" : "At 10:46 a.m. airport weather observer O. R. Foster in Pueblo, Colorado using a theodolite, sighted a domed disc-shaped object. It was silver in color but gave off no metallic luster. It flew overhead for five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3473",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 5852; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/14/1964",
  "desc" : "Charles Englebrecht, age 18, went outside at 9:30 p.m. in Dale, Indiana when his TV and all house lights suddenly failed. He saw a glowing blue-white object, about 30-cm in diameter, land about 18 meters away in a field. He felt a mild electric shock when he tried to approach it and was unable to move forward toward the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3474",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 300 (case 613)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/14/1964",
  "desc" : "That same evening at 9:30 p.m. three prominent citizens of Salta, Argentina--a lawyer, an engineer, and a businessman--were driving along highway 9 when a rectangular shaped UFO, reddish-orange in color, dove down several times in front of them. The first time the UFO caused such tremendous condensation on all their windows that they had to stop and wipe the windows. When the thing reappeared they saw that it was about 16 feet high, 20 feet wide, and had what appeared to be two big blades revolving clockwise as it flew along silently above the road. Some distance ahead there was a stationary rectangular dark red light about 50 cm square. To their amazement they saw the larger object scoop up this light and vanish at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3475",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon Creighton, \"Argentina 1963/64--Part IV\", FSR, May 1966, p. 25" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/14/1965",
  "desc" : "On this night a domed disc shaped object, yellow-orange in color, was sighted by Bob Young and four others in Dry Fork, Utah. It flew overhead for five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3476",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Frank Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, Appendix case no. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/14/1967",
  "desc" : "A man sitting in his yard in Eastern Henrico County, Virginia saw a bright UFO overhead that dropped a substance that struck his arm. He received burns on his arm and the left side of his face. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3477",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Flying Saucers, April 1968, p. 29" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/14/1968",
  "desc" : "At 45 minutes after midnight Mr. Pedro Pretzel, a 36-year-old hotel proprietor in the resort town of Villa Carlos Paz, Cordoba, Argentina sighted a UFO with two very intense beams of red light while walking home. A short while later his 19-year-old daughter Maria, who had been working as the hotel receptionist, encountered a six and a half foot tall blond man dressed in a sky blue diver suit, holding a sky blue sphere in his left hand. On his right hand was a huge ring, like a gauntlet covering half his hand. The ends of his fingers and toes emitted light, and whenever he pointed his hand at her she felt faint and began to lose consciousness. He smiled and spoke to her in an unintelligible language for some minutes before leaving. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3478",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Charles Bowen, FSR, September-October 1968, p. 11; Jane Thomas, FSR, November-December 1972, p. 24; Oscar A Galindez, FSR, January 1981, p. 8; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-32, citing FSR" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/14/1968",
  "desc" : "A few hours later in Cabanas, Cuba a soldier fired 48 rounds from his machine gun at a landed UFO. Shortly after midnight several bursts of machine gun fire were heard coming from a location in the vicinity where militia member Isidro Puentes Ventura was on guard duty. At dawn, Puentes was found unconscious by an Army patrol and taken to a hospital in Pinar Del Rio, where he remained in shock and unable to speak for six days. Removed to the neurological ward at the Naval Hospital in Havana, Puentes was diagnosed to be suffering from emotional trauma, remaining in shock for another week. At the site where Puentes had been posted, Cuban and Soviet intelligence investigators found forty-eight spent cartridges and fourteen bullets apparently flattened by impact, as well as equally spaced indentations in the ground, indicating that a heavy device had landed. At the landing site three indentations were found suggesting tripod landing gear, inscribing a circle about four meters in diameter. Tests revealed that the soil had been exposed to a high degree of heat.<br/><br/> When Puentes recovered consciousness he reported that he had come to within 150 feet of a brilliant disc-shaped object on the ground, with a dome and several antennas on top. Convinced that the device was an American helicopter, Puentes fired at it. The craft turned orange and emitted a loud whistling sound, Puentes last recollection before losing consciousness. Soviet intelligence specialists subjected Puentes to a fifty-hour interrogation after which he was examined by a team of psychiatrists and put through fifteen hypnosis sessions. No contradictions were found in his story. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3479",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 82; Timothy Good, Beyond Top Secret, citing Jacques Vallee" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/14/1968",
  "desc" : "At 6 p.m., or about the same time that the widely publicized asteroid \"Icarus\" passed close to Earth, strange events were reported in the northern Italian province of Abruzzi. A semi-hysterical woman phoned the Celano, Italy police station reporting that three huge, disc-shaped UFOs were hovering outside of town. The objects glowed a pale red. Lt. Germonde took the call. Minutes later other witnesses reported seeing \"spinning discs\" the size of houses slowly descend to the ground in a wooded area near the town. But soon it got much weirder. Lt. Germonde received a call from a bar-restaurant owner reporting \"huge birds with tiny wings and with faces like humans.\" According to the witness there were four or five huge birds or flying humanoids flying towards Celano. The strange creatures were described as three-feet in height and flying upright, as if they were men being propelled above the ground by some unknown force. No wings were visible, only a blur above their shoulders like the fast-moving wings of a hummingbird. Whatever kept them flying was small and moving very fast. The creatures reportedly flew at a height of only a few feet above the ground. They appeared to have trouble moving in heavily wooded areas. Their faces were reported to have been human like, but contained blank looks. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3480",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, citing Richardo Salvador, The Ohio Sky Watcher & Roger Veillith" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/14/1968",
  "desc" : "Late on this same night in La Armonia, Argentina a man was in his bed resting when two very tall human looking figures appeared in his room. They were thin and wore tight-fitting green shiny coveralls. The men sat on the edge of the witness's bed and one of them raised his hand making the witness feel dizzy, he then lowered it and the witness felt better, they then left. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3481",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case #1324, citing Hector P. Anganuzzi, Historia De Los Platos Voladores en Argentina" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/14/1969",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 a.m. in Tucson, Arizona four people saw a glowing red light in the northwest sky. It flew from 30 degrees elevation and passed near zenith overhead. One witness viewed the object through binoculars, and he described a point source coming out of the light, orbiting, and then re-entering. Someone shot some motion picture film of the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3482",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, July-August 1968, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/14/1974",
  "desc" : "A maneuvering disc-shaped object was seen by independent witnesses in Nashua, New Hampshire at 12:35 a.m., 12:50 a.m., and 2:00 a.m. over Nashua. It was described as a large metallic object, dark on the lower half, with red lights around the rim. The same or similar object was seen zigzagging over Nashua airport. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3483",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Center for UFO Studies case investigation files, received July 17, 1974" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/14/1974",
  "desc" : "Earlier that same day, Santiago Pulido Romero, age 46, was driving to his father's farm in Medellin, Spain at 4:30 a.m. when he saw a bright light, then a \"pot-shaped\" object flying rapidly towards him at a low altitude. The object paced his car at a distance of some 70 meters to the right. When his headlights were turned on the UFO would approach. When he turned them off the UFO moved away. The object hovered over the farmhouse he entered, illuminating the area \"like daytime\". It rotated as it hovered, with a slight back-and forth, pendulum motion. No sound was heard. The UFO had a conical turret on top, which emitted a brilliant yellow light. Inside the turret he could see three beings more than two meters tall, moving stiffly, with something like helmets on their heads. The object was in view for more than 90 minutes and was seen by others. It departed as the sun rose. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3484",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Eileen Buckle, Spanish UFO Fiesta, FSR, December 1974, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/14/1974",
  "desc" : "At 10:15 p.m. in Wallers, France a dark object and some nocturnal lights were sighted low behind some trees. Two lights flew all over the place, while a huge ball of light was seen to land. Ground traces were reportedly found at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3485",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, December 1976" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/14/1978",
  "desc" : "At 10:40 p.m. a 60-foot diameter disc directed beams of light at two boys in Williamson, West Virginia. The boys found they were paralyzed and couldn't move. They reported an episode of missing time. Others heard an odd noise while this was taking place. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3486",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, June 1988" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/14/1980",
  "desc" : "There were over 30 reports of luminous ring-shaped UFOs from Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay and Brazil this evening.  At around 7 p.m. twenty kilometers west of Junin, Argentina a circular object approached a car with five people inside from behind, forcing the driver to pull over. The object was dark in the center with luminous white points around the rim. It descended by the highway with a vertical motion and hung about 1.5 meters above the ground. It left a trail of white smoke. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3487",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1980, p. 12, citing La Razon, June 18, 1980, translated by Jane Thomas" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/14/1980",
  "desc" : "At the same time pilots, crew, and passengers of some commercial airplanes were forced to delay their takeoffs while a UFO flew toward the Ezeiza, Argentina runway. It nearly crashed into a building, but gained altitude and flew away. It was tracked on radar at the Jorge Newbery airport in Ezeiza. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3488",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1980, p. 11, citing Cronica, June 17, 1980, translated by Jane Thomas" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/14/1980",
  "desc" : "At 7:05 two reporters for the La Capital newspaper in Rosario, Argentina said that a \"fleet of flying saucers\" was seen by several witnesses and themselves from Independencia Park. One was shaped like a \"teething ring\", the second was smaller and white in color, and the third object was like a dot with a halo around it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3489",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1980, p. 9, citing Cronica, June 15 & 16, 1980, translated by Jane Thomas; Alan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, September 1980, pp. 15-16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/14/1984",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. guards at the Indian Point nuclear power plant on the Hudson River, New York sighted a dark disc-shaped object with lights, 30 feet in diameter, that stayed over the nuclear reactor for 15 minutes. It finally flew away toward the northeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3490",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek & Philip Imbrognio, Night Siege, p. 143" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/14/1992",
  "desc" : "Topanga Canyon, California -- According to the Lost Hills/Malibu sheriff's office, a badly shaken man reported that an unidentified bright light followed him and his girlfriend sometime after midnight in Topanga Canyon. \"Suddenly it was over us, we lost control of the car and it lifted us up in the sky--lifted us over the ground.\" What happened next was vague, according to the driver, who reckons they both lost memory for \"maybe a couple of minutes, and then we were put down. Suddenly it wasn't there anymore.\" Shortly afterwards another call was received by the Sheriff's office from another witness, who together with his girlfriend saw three flying disks high up in the Canyon. \"They were following us above the car, and we stopped and got out…we watched them and within maybe three seconds, they were gone--straight up into the air.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3491",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, Alien Update, pp. 271-272; Preston Dennett, UFOs over Topanga Canyon, p. 271" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/14/1992",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 that same evening in Topanga Canyon, California in the area called Saddlepeak over 200 glowing spheres and oval shaped object were seen rising from behind a ridge, one-by-one. The objects darted across the sky in different directions, sometimes making right angle turns. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3492",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Preston Dennett, UFOs over Topanga Canyon, p. 271" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/14/1995",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 a.m. a flat topped silver disc flew slowy toward the east over Holley, Florida making no sound. It shot away at high speed. Two jets were next seen, apparently following it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3493",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #334" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/14/2005",
  "desc" : "The main witness, June Mark M. Sepe, and some friends were camping near some woods in a small clearing next to Lake Nice Francisco in Cagayan de Oro, Misamis Oriental, The Philippines. After dinner they sat around the campfire planning their next day activities. At around 9:20 p.m. they were surprised to see a car headlight like light glowing behind some trees. They went closer to investigate and came upon a landed cone-cylindrical shaped craft, with no visible doors or windows. It stood about 8-10 feet high and was resting on top of what appeared to be tripod landing gear. No sound came from the craft, but they heard some rustling of grass and leaves, which came from three human looking beings making repairs on the craft. They were wearing metallic silver jumpsuits and black “bonnet-like helmets.” The men hid in the bushes and observed the scene for about 15-20 minutes when they heard a voice call out from within the craft. They could not understand the language, but the quality of the voice was soft and metallic like. After awhile the three beings went back into the craft, entering through the bottom of the craft, and they appeared to quickly float upwards (just like being sucked up by a vacuum cleaner). There was a high-pitched swooshing and humming noise, and then the craft lifted off and shot out of the forest, and at the same time the witnesses felt a gust of cool wind. One of the witnesses attempted to photograph the object with his mobile phone, but the picture was totally blurry. The five other witnesses were Rodel Rulona, William Gomez, John Rabuyo, Jude Igar, and Rolly de Gracia. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3494",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2005, citing www.ufoevidence.org/sightings" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/15/1951",
  "desc" : "A metallic disc-shaped object, looking like aluminum, appeared to stand motionless in the sky when it was sighted by two military pilots flying between Orange and Aspres Buech, France at 10:37 a.m. in a French Air Force Vampire jet. It then accelerated away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3495",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/15/1955",
  "desc" : "A cigar-shaped craft zoomed over the town of Anita, Iowa at an altitude under 1000 feet at 9:47 p.m. It was luminous with a white and blue glow, and red exhaust. It made a hissing sound. The file on the case is missing from the US Air Force records. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3496",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, June 1955; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 103" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/15/1964",
  "desc" : "A miner, R. A. Donoso, driving a car 20 kilometers from Arica, Chile saw a strange machine land. It was 10 feet long and 3.5 feet wide. Two fair-skinned men emerged from the craft. They spoke in a mixture of Spanish and English, and asked for water. Donoso took some water from his car radiator for them and they left. The UFO left by ascending vertically into the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3497",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon Creighton, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 39; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 614" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/15/1964",
  "desc" : "At 11:10 p.m. a 25 foot in diameter domed disc with a red light on the bottom hovered 20 feet away and at only 20 feet above the ground of a 20-year-old man name Angelos in Lynn, Massachusetts. It gave off a vapor and made a whining noise. The man was temporarily paralyzed during the encounter, which lasted over a minute. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3498",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1964, p. 8; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., UFOs: A New Look, p. 14; Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 329" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/15/1965",
  "desc" : "On this evening a bluish 40-foot disc-shaped object with illuminated portholes was seen in Smithfield, Queensland, Australia. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3499",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 154" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/15/1967",
  "desc" : "On this evening a couple in Lexington, Michigan who reported seeing strange lights on Lake Huron told the Sheriff Department that they spotted an object resembling a \"submarine with what appeared to be a Russian insignia\" as well as what seemed to be figures of men dressed in frogman's suits. The woman shone a light towards in the direction of the craft and it submerged. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3500",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, citing Shadow Research Inc." ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/15/1971",
  "desc" : "Tony Wilkens, a young military Vietnam veteran, told Alton, Illinois police that at 8:55 this evening a 50-foot \"velvet silver\" UFO with radiating green lights hovered outside his second story back porch. Two humanoid occupants of the craft \"made contact\" with him by mental telepathy, and they reportedly gave him a formula that would provide \"the universe at his fingerprints,\" which he wrote out for the police. The UFOnauts also invited him to take a ride in the UFO, but he refused. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3501",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-19, citing Neal C. Butler for APRO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/15/1973",
  "desc" : "A man and his daughter were driving near West Bend, Wisconsin when they sighted a low hovering disc-shaped object with several transparent windows. Humanoid figures could be seen behind the windows. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3502",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1973, case #847, citing Richard Heiden, FSR, Vol. 27 # 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/15/1981",
  "desc" : "A physicist watched an uneven line of six orange UFOs fly silently by the town of Fuzhou, Fujian Province, China at 7:00 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3503",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Wendelle Stevens & Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, p. 221" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/15/1982",
  "desc" : "At around 9:30 p.m. a fireball with an odd shape flew rapidly toward the power plant in Romeoville, Illinois. It stopped and hovered, then flew away fast toward the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3504",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #14404, citing MUFON UFO Journal, issue #177" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/15/1984",
  "desc" : "On a partially cloudy day, at 4:12 p.m., 20 nautical miles east of the Straits of Gibraltar in the Mediteranean Sea the crew of the tanker Gori watched a disc-shaped object maneuver and pace their ship. The 25 meter in diameter disc had a rotating red dome, and a rosy neon glow from what looked like a cylindrical \"tailpipe\". The UFO was gleaming with a grayish metallic shine. The lower portion of the craft had a precise round shape, its diameter no more than twenty meters. Around the lower portion of it they also observed \"waves\" of protuberances on the outside plating.<br/><br/> The base of the object's body consisted of two semi-discs, the smaller being on top; they slowly revolved in opposing directions. At the circumference of the lower disc Globa saw numerous shining, bright bead-like lights. The seaman's attention was centered on the bottom portion of the UFO. It looked as if it was completely even and smooth, its color yellow like that of an egg yolk, with three pie-shaped spots, and in the middle of it they discerned a round, nucleus-like stain. At the edge of the UFO's bottom, which was easily visible, was something that looked like a pipe. It glowed with an unnaturally bright rosy color, like a neon lamp. The top of the middle disc was crowned by a triangular-shaped something. It seemed that it moved in the same direction as the lower disc, but at a much slower pace. Suddenly the UFO jumped up several times, as if moved by an invisible wave. Many lights illuminated its bottom portion. The crew of GORI tried to attract the object's attention using a signal projector. By this time Captain Sokolovky was on the deck with his men. He and his Second-in-Command watched the object intensely. However, the UFO appeared to be distracted by another ship, approaching at the port side. It was an Arab dry cargo ship, on its way to Greece. The Arabs confirmed that the object hovered over their ship. A minute and a half later the object changed its flight's trajectory, listed to the right, gained speed and ascended rapidly. The Soviet seamen observed that when it rose through the clouds, appearing and disappearing again, it would occasional shine in the sun's rays. The craft then flared up, like a spark, and was gone instantly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3505",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Sergey Romanov, International UFO Reporter, May 1993, p. 17; Dennis Stacy, Field Guide to UFOs, p. 50; Paul Stonehill, The Soviet UFO Files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/15/1991",
  "desc" : "At around 6 p.m. the two witnesses had gone into the woods outside the Gainesville Job Corps Center in Gainesville, Florida. As they were walking towards a campsite, one of the men stopped and claimed to have seen two \"werewolf\" like beings float by. The other witness did not see this. They continued walking until they spotted a saucer-shaped object on the ground. They advanced towards the object slowly when it suddenly disappeared. An uncontrollable fear then took hold of them and they began running away from the area. One of the men looked over his shoulder to see a tall, dark, large-headed being wearing a dark robe with its hand folded in front of it. The men did not stop and did not return to the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3506",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1991, case # 3189, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/15/1993",
  "desc" : "An orange nocturnal light paralleled a car into Colborne, Ontario at 8:30 a.m. Two small lights were accompanying the orange light. They made no sound as they flew. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3507",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, August 1993" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/15/1994",
  "desc" : "At 5:30 p.m. Karen Manning was busy cooking in her second floor apartment in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and had kept the window opened in order to keep an eye on her children playing outside. Suddenly everything went very quiet and the children were nowhere in sight. Dashing downstairs, she found the four children huddled together inside the apartment entrance. They told her they had seen a large disc-shaped craft flying low over the nearby highway. It was shiny-gold in color and emitted a whistling sound. The object had windows, through which they could see two blond haired females looking out. These two women had panicky expressions on their faces and appeared to have tape covering their mouths. The children also saw a humanoid figure standing at a door-like entrance to the object. He was described as greenish in color with long pointed ears. He also had a third eye in the middle of the forehead that emitted a blue light. A beam of light descended from the craft and chased one of the girls, lifting her six inches from the ground. She also heard a voice inside her head. The craft then moved away in a northwesterly direction. The children felt extremely hungry after the incident. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3508",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1994, case # 2752, citing UFOBC Canada" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/16/1909",
  "desc" : "An elongated object flew toward the east over the town of Donghoi at 4:10 a.m. in Vietnam. It gave off a strong light and was seen by two fishermen to plunge into the sea six kilometers away from the coast after a steady flight lasting about nine minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3509",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 21; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 187" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/16/1948",
  "desc" : "A banana or cucumber-shaped object with beams of light was tracked on radar when it descended across the course of Russian test pilot Aprasksin flying over the Kapustin Yar test flight facility in Astrakhan, Soviet Union. The experimental aircraft he was flying experienced a total electrical failure when it was hit by a cone of light, with the engine and controls failing. Although temporarily blinded, he was able to glide the plane to a landing. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3510",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Felix Zigel, unpublished manuscript, p. 124; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project, p. 004; Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 137" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/16/1952",
  "desc" : "A Staff Sergeant saw five gray discs in a arc formation shoot to the east over Walker Field, Roswell, New Mexico at 8:30 p.m. They flew at an estimated speed of 550 mph. A Project Blue Book \"unknown\" report. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3511",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #1285; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 265; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/16/1965",
  "desc" : "On this night a bright light seen in the sky over Townsville, Queensland, Australia gradually accelerated, next zig-zagged, and then stopped and started moving three times before disappearing out of sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3512",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 154" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/16/1966",
  "desc" : "Russian oil and gas scientists watched a high flying silent disc-shaped object spiral through the sky east of Elista, Kalmuk, Russia at 9:50 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3513",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #7772, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #204" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/16/1967",
  "desc" : "On this night Mrs. Wallace and her family watched a cone-shaped UFO with rotating green and red flashing lights for one hour over Port McNeill, British Columbia, Canada. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3514",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science, Autumn 1967, p. 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/16/1972",
  "desc" : "A man, Mr. Meerton, leaving his house in Merricks, Victoria, Australia at 8:30 p.m. was confronted by a dull metallic object with 30 orange lights that had just landed in his field. Cows in the pasture panicked. The whole area was illuminated by the UFO, and a strong wind blew that bent the trees over. The UFO also made a high pitched sound like that of an electric mixer. The encounter lasted 90 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3515",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Victorian UFO Research Society, Australian FSR, December 1972, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/16/1974",
  "desc" : "At about 5:00 a.m. a 46-year-old farm laborer was driving near Caceres, Spain when a bright object illuminated the highway. He saw three tall helmeted figures standing inside the craft. When the witness turned off his headlights the UFO moved away; when he turned them back on the UFO approached, and followed him home. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3516",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, UFO Reports from the Files of the CIA, p. 188; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 346; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #147; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 193" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/16/1977",
  "desc" : "Middelburg, Eastern Cape, South Africa - At 5:15 a.m. a glowing object engulfed a van being driven by a single witness, a Mr. Gouws, in a brilliant light. The man experienced amnesia when exposed to the intense light source and may have possibly been abducted, as he has an hour of time unaccounted for. There was a buzzing sound accompanying the light and the van's engine and lights died. Later the engine restarted spontaneously by itself. Mr. Gouws was so fearful after the incident that he was shaking like a leaf. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3517",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, citing MUFON UFO Journal, September 1977; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 256" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/16/1978",
  "desc" : "A man had been hitchhiking home after midnight when he spotted a soft glowing object in a nearby field near Borisoglebsk, Voronezh, Russia and walked towards it. As he approached he could see that the object had a transparent dome on top and inside he could see three short humanoids. The dwarf beings had large egg-like heads and very long fingers. They seemed to be working around a central console. When he got to within 25 yards of the object he was stopped by some kind of a force field and blacked out. When he came to he noticed that the briefcase he had been carrying looked old and frayed. The force field was gone, so he again began to walk toward the object but was knocked down by a blast of wind. The craft began to glow and rose off the ground and shot away quickly at high speed. He learned later that he had lost track of 45 minutes of time. Under hypnosis he recalled being gently led into the craft and examined. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3518",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 420, citing Fortean Times, issue # 33, quoting Felix Zigel; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 13211, citing FSR, Vol. 29, No. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/16/1978",
  "desc" : "Oulton, England - At 11:15 p.m. a 16-year-old man was returning from his girlfriend's house in a heavy rainstorm when he started hearing a very loud voice \"talking nonsensically\" all around him. The voice was so loud that he thought it might wake everyone in the village and he compared it to the voice of a radio announcer. The volume rose and fell as though the voice was being blown on the wind. He could not distinguish the words, however, and it faded away after about five seconds. He walked another 50 meters further on when he noticed, through a wooded gate to his right, a cylindrical column of white light. This vertical beam appeared to be on the grounds of a convent and was 200 meters away. It looked to be 3 1/2 meters high and 2 meters in diameter, and it appeared solid and sharply defined. The witness then had the impression that something or someone was in the beam, and he became scared and ran home, having watched the beam for about 5 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3519",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing Martin Keatman, BUFORA Journal, Vol. 9, No. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/16/1987",
  "desc" : "Two amateur astronomers, after having heard a strong hiss, saw on the mirrored water of the Adriatic Sea off the shore of Riccione, Italy a luminescent object of ovoid shape. During the few minutes of the sighting, the object changed coloration several times. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3520",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Marco Bianchini, USOCAT by Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU). http://www.cisu.org/ citing La Gazzetta, June 17, 1987" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/16/1989",
  "desc" : "Two brothers were engaged in opal mining in an isolated area of Queensland, Australia on this night, with the nearest community being Yowah. They sighted a large disc-shaped craft accompanied by six smaller objects hovering over the area. A twenty-minute time lapse was reported. Hynoptic regression at a later date revealed an abduction scenario that involved small Grey type entities and tall human-looking beings with long blond hair. There seemed to the brothers that a struggle ensued between the two different groups of beings. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3521",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case #1821, citing Keith Basterfield" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/16/1995",
  "desc" : "A silent bell-shaped disc flashed and maneuvered over the shore of Puget Sound northeast of Shelton, Washington. It emitted a bright red beam of light. After 10 minutes it flew off towards the northeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3522",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "West Virginia UFO Newsletter, issue #8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/16/2004",
  "desc" : "A chrome colored sphere was sighted over Milan, Tennessee at 12:30 p.m. It flew into a small cloud and didn't emerge again. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3523",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, June 2004 webpage archive" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/17/1947",
  "desc" : "On this day in 1947 three platter-shaped discs were seen hovering in the sky for a period of three hours over Bremerton, Washington from late in the afternoon until evening. The objects wavered as they flew, and shot off at extreme speeds toward the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3524",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 26, 1947" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/17/1950",
  "desc" : "Oskar Linke and his 11-year-old daughter saw two little men in silver suits in a forest outside of Hasselbach, Germany in 1950. His motorcycle had gotten a flat tire and they were pushing it toward the village around 2:30 a.m. when his daughter Gabriele pointed to what she thought was a young deer about 150 yards away. He approached and realized that what she had seen were apparently human figures, wearing shimmering metallic clothing. They stood about 1.5 meters (4 feet) in height, and one of them wore a light on its chest that flashed at regular intervals. He stealthily approached to about 30 feet from them, peering over a small ridge. Next to them was a pan-shaped disc, approximately 40-50 feet (15-20 meters) in diameter. The object was metallic and had two rows of holes along the sides each about a foot in diameter, spaced 1.5 feet apart. Out of the top rose a ten-foot high black, cylindrical \"conning tower.\"<br/><br/> When his daughter called to him it apparently alarmed the two figures, for they rushed back to the object, clambering up the side of the conning tower and disappearing inside. The outer rim of the disc in which the holes were sunk began to glow a blue-green color, and a humming sound started. As the glow and sound increased, the tower was retracted into the center of the object, and the whole object rose from the ground. From the swirling effect he got the impression the object was spinning like a top. The color of the disc turned to red as it took off. A two-meter circular depression of compressed ground, freshly made, was found at the landing site, with ground indentations. At the time Mr. Linke lived in communist controlled East Germany. He told his story to a judge and U.S. Military intelligence when he was able to cross into West Germany two years later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3525",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, pp. 8-9, citing Leonard Cramp, Piece for a Jig-Saw, p. 158. This case is often erroneously cited as occurring in 1952" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/17/1952",
  "desc" : "Two cases from Project Blue Book's list of unexplained reports occurred on this day in 1952. On Cape Cod, Massachusetts, a bright light crossed the sky in front of a USAF F-94 fighter plane at 1:28 a.m. local time. The light was observed for 15 seconds. Later that evening at McChord AFB outside of Tacoma, Washington many military observers tracked 5-6 discs with a theodolite as USAF F-94 jets pursued them. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3526",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book, cases #1299 and #1298" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/17/1955",
  "desc" : "In 1955 a silver, oblong object hovered over Adelaide, South Australia at 2:15 p.m. The object was viewed through binoculars, and was seen to hide in some clouds when a plane approached. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3527",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume I, p. 135" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/17/1956",
  "desc" : "In 1956 a bright blob of light zoomed away when approached by a Royal New Zealand Air Force Vampire jet interceptor, near Ohakea AFB, New Zealand. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3528",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 28). In Abingdon, England on this night in 1966, an astronomer, a second scientist, and five others watched a domed disc w headlights maneuver in the sky for 90 minutes, beginning at 8:50 p.m. (Source: Flying Saucer Review, September-October 1966, p. 27). Four pinkish-white football-shaped objects, flying in a rectangular formation, paced a private plane flying between Ladd and Peru, Illinois in the early morning hours of this day in 1969. (Source: Data-Net Report, April 1971). In 1971 at 9:40 p.m. a domed disc with flashing red and green lights repeatedly buzzed the Smith family farmhouse in Gorae West, Victoria, Australia. Watched through binoculars, the Smiths could see that a silver flash emanated from the object when it swooped low over the farmyard. It moved back and forth at high speed for 55 minutes. (Source: Portland (Victoria) Observer, June 21, 1971). In 1972 a 350-meter wide bright orange object descended near George Air Force Base in California at 11:50 p.m. More than thirty base personnel witnessed it. (Source: APRO Bulletin, May 1972" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/17/1977",
  "desc" : "In 1977 a 29-year-old man returned home in Austin, Texas at about 2:00 a.m. He saw a light in the distance he thought was an airplane but heard no engine sound. The object, a yellow-orange disc, flew along the shoreline of the lake, passing in front of the witness at his lake front home, and flew from view into the distance. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3529",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON Investigation files, case #890709). That same day in Portugal near the Castelo de Bode dam, a Portuguese Air Force Dornier 27 aircraft encountered a dark daylight object about 13-15 meters in diameter as it flew out of some clouds. The magnetic compass onboard the plane malfunctioned during this close encounter. (Source: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 50" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/18/1944",
  "desc" : "A man by the name of Langer gave a dramatic account of his encounter with seven belligerent dwarves, 4.5 feet tall, who came from a spherical UFO that had landed on the beach in Oahu near Kaneohe, Hawaii in the morning around 9 a.m. They wore green coveralls. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3530",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0120, citing Donald Worley" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/18/1953",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 a.m. Howard Phillips, Hilda Walker and Judy Meyers were in a garden on 118 East Third Street in Houston, Texas when they noticed a strange \"shadow\" on the lawn that resembled a \"flying man.\" They watched him take off and fly away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3531",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 261; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 202" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/18/1965",
  "desc" : "The Chilean military base in Antarctica sighted a large, lens-shaped UFO at 4:00 p.m. A photograph was taken and electromagnetic effects were reported. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3532",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, September-October 1965, p. 2; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 235; Brad Steiger, Strangers From the Skies, p. 123; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious Business, p. 283; UNICAT, case # 112" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/18/1966",
  "desc" : "Leon Barbier, the mayor of Bar-sur-Loup, France saw a large, round object with yellow and green lights on a hilltop at 3:45 a.m. At 4:00 a.m. a truck driver, Mr. Dugelay, saw a disc-shaped object over Le Rouret, France. It remained motionless for five minutes, then disappeared. Its lights were alternately red and bluish-green. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3533",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, cases 774 & 775" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/18/1966",
  "desc" : "Just before midnight four campers at Mount Mitchell, North Carolina saw an object with three flashing red lights land on the ground 200 meters away. It remained there all night, rose at dawn, was then was observed through binoculars as a red-colored, bell-shaped craft. Broken trees and other traces were found. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3534",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 776" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/18/1968",
  "desc" : "On this night near Catamarca, Argentina four people in a car saw a bright, stationary object only five meters above the ground. At this point, their engine failed. The object rose, flashing a light, then quickly moved away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3535",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, citing FSR Case Histories, Supplement 16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/18/1971",
  "desc" : "At 12:55 a.m. four witnesses in a rural area of Ben Lomond, California observed the house lights flicker, then static electricity and sparking everywhere before the electrical power failed. They next observed a huge ball of light during a widespread California power blackout that lasted one hour. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3536",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Josephine Clark, FSR, November-December 1971, p. 21" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/18/1974",
  "desc" : "At 3:30 p.m. on a sunny afternoon a strange metallic flying object flew around over the sea off the State of Santa Catarina, Brazil. It was at a distance of some thousand metres or so from the shore at Navegantes. After hovering for some six minutes above the sea, it veered at a 90 degree angle towards the beach and then dropped into the sea. Fisherman Avelino Severiano Generosa, age 46, his parents, his wife, and his nine children were all on the beach when they saw the silent, bright shiny object flying very low along the shore. It remaining stationary for six minutes, then it dropped into the sea. He at once put out in his motor-launch to the area, but found only foam on the sea where the object had disappeared. There were twenty other people on the beach who also saw the object, but none of the others had the courage to go out in the boat to see what was happening. Days later Celso Lemkuni, a diver, tried to make a dive to locate the object, but had no success owing to the strong winds lashing the coast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3537",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon Creighton, \"Alleged Kidnappings and Other Matters\", FSR, March-April 1975, pp. 21-22, citing O Dia, July 12, 1974" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/18/1979",
  "desc" : "Sr. A. Ferreira was returning home from his job as a security guard in Mirassol, Sao Paolo State, Brazil at 3:00 a.m. when a metallic oval-shaped craft landed on three legs near his home. Three humanoids came out of the craft and paralyzed him with red beams of light, from boxes that they carried on their chests. These humanoid beings also carried boxes on their backs and had an insignia on their chests. He was floated onboard the craft alongside and once inside he believed he passed out. However, under hypnosis he remembered traveling to a larger craft where he found himself in a dark room with small lights and what looked like star maps. Ten to twelve humanoids were in the room with him. They were of two different types. Some had skin with a greenish tinge, with black smooth hair, thin lips, thin noses, pointed ears, and large eyes. The others were similar in appearance except that they had brown skin, kinky hair, dark eyes, and thick lips. All were between four and five feet tall and wore white uniforms and gloves. He was taken to another room and laid on a couch, a naked woman the entered the room. She was human like with black almond-shaped eyes, brown skin, a large head, red kinky hair, and very foul smelling breath. He resisted her sexual advances but was forcibly restrained. They spread an oily substance on his body, and forced him to have sexual intercourse with the female. The beings spoke in an unknown language among themselves but by telepathy with him. He was given the impression that they were conducting genetic experiments and were interested in reproduction. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3538",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 131, citing APRO Bulletin, November 1983, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/18/1980",
  "desc" : "A schoolgirl saw what looked like a big monkey-like creature shrink to something only a few inches tall outside her house in Lumut, Perak State, Malaysia at 7:00 a.m. She screamed and then fainted. At 10:30 a.m. that morning two more schoolgirls went to the local school and saw two minature figures less than 7 feet away from them. One was dressed in a white spacesuit, the other in black. They were very hairy and only about two inches tall. Both carried backpacks and some sort of weapons. Their feet did not touch the ground. That evening at around 8 p.m. two teachers and several students searched a field and saw three more of the tiny entities, dressed in white. They also found a U-shaped mark on the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3539",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ahmad Jamaludin, Summary of Unidentified Flying Objects and Related Events in Malaysia, cases 97, 98, & 99" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/18/1982",
  "desc" : "Five Chinese Air Force jet pilots flying over Heilongjiang Province, China at 9:57 p.m. encountered a huge odd looking aerial object.  for two hours. Their gyro-compass gave a wrong directional reading, 30 degrees on right, and they experienced radio jamming during their three hour encounter. The yellowish-green UFO was stationary at first, then climbed rapidly and increased speed. At about the same time at the Bishui Forestry Center, also inHeilongjiang Province, China a beam shot up from behind a hill, 300 meters away, that turned into a creamy-yellow spiral. At the top of this beam was a white disc, 30-40 cm in diameter, that was dazzling and revolved counter-clockwise. It made a buzzing sound, then shot up straight up and away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3540",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Timothy Green, Above Top Secret, p. 217; MUFON UFO Journal, February 1984, p. 3; (2) Wendelle Stevens & Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, p. 247" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/18/1992",
  "desc" : "In California a woman named Connie awoke to discover a scab in her navel and a 2\" x 6\" bruise on her leg. During a later hypnosis session she recalled being on an exam table in an abduction experience during this night. Her abductors used telepathy to communicate with her. There was also a deer screen memory, in which she was led to believe at first that she was looking at deer, and not humanoids. This has been commonly reported in other alien abduction experiences. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3541",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard J. Boylan, Close Extraterrestrial Encounters, p. 104" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/18/1993",
  "desc" : "A man working at a prison in Auckland, New Zealand looked out a window at 10:35 p.m. to see a bright light land on a nearby hill. Soon three humanoid figures became visible next to the light; they didnot appear to be human in nature. No further details are given. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3542",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, citing Mysterious Reality" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/18/1993",
  "desc" : "Multiple objects were seen in the sky at 8:45 p.m., and a time loss of 30 minutes occurred to a witness on Block Island, off the coast of Rhode Island. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3543",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, report uploaded February 18, 2001" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/18/1996",
  "desc" : "At 6:30 a.m. 40 witnesses in Constanta, Romania watched as a brilliant cigar-shaped object curved slowly and silently through the sky, then suddenly sped up and flew away rapidly to the northwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3544",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 340" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/18/1996",
  "desc" : "At 11:33 p.m. a barking dog and a booming sound alerted the witness to two bright lights floating in the sky over Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, which then \"zoomed past.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3545",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 1996 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 117, citing NOUFORS" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/18/1997",
  "desc" : "In the pre-dawn hours a disc-shaped object with a second object hovering above it was seen from Norman's Law, Scotland. RAF Leuchars said there were not any of their planes in the area at that time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3546",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland's UFO Phenomenon, p. 146" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/18/2000",
  "desc" : "Beginning at 11:45 p.m. a triangular-shaped object was seen hovering above train tracks in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada for 18 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3547",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, report uploaded December 2, 2000" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/19/1951",
  "desc" : "In Sonderborg, Denmark Joseph Matiszewski, a mechanic, heard a whistling sound and saw an object land in a meadow. Approaching within 50 meters, he found himself paralyzed and observed that birds had stopped singing and cows seemed to be similarly unable to move. From the object emerged four handsome men who had brown skin and wore black shiny suits and translucent helmets. Eight objects also emerged from the craft and hovered above it. Other men inside the craft and on its deck appeared to be making repairs, then the objects flew to about 100 m altitude and climbed rapidly out of sight. Only then did the paralysis subside. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3548",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 195, citing UFO Nachrichten, May 1959" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/19/1968",
  "desc" : "On this night Romulo Velazquez, age 25, a miner, saw a UFO land in Poopo, Oruro, Bolivia. From the landed craft emerged a tall thin being, to whom the witness felt drawn \"as if by a magnet.\" When the witness got closer the humanoid took hold of his right wrist and he then felt paralyzed and lost consciousness. Neighbors, including police officers, saw the UFO maneuvering for some minutes over Poopo at a low altitude, illuminating the village like daylight. Emitting blue rays, it rose and disappeared. Velazquez was found paralyzed on one side by a stroke, caused by a cerebral hemorrhage. At the landing site there was a wide area of burnt grass. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3549",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-33, citing FSR, September-October 1968; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/20/1952",
  "desc" : "Central Korea. At 3:03 p.m. four Marine Corps Captains and pilots of F4U-4B Corsair fighter planes of the 7302nd Squadron sighted a 10-20 foot diameter white to silver oval object for 60 seconds. The daylight UFO made a left-hand orbit of the target area, and then shot away to the east outdistancing pursuit aircraft at a terrific speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3550",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #1313; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/20/1953",
  "desc" : "Brush Creek, California. John Q. Black, one of two miners who witnessed a landing and humanoid at Brush Creek on May 20th of this year, witnessed a complete repetition of the scene, including the \"little man\" with the pail of water. The little man was dressed in a suit like a parka, and he descended from a 8-foot wide landed lens-shaped silver craft with tripod landing gear. The \"midget\" scooped up a pail of water, saw that he was being watched, then scurried back to the craft and zoomed away. His partner Mr. John Van Allen only saw the tripod landing gear marks, which were about 30 cm wide and resembled \"elephant tracks.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3551",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "The Humanoids, p. 53; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 202; Leonard H. Stringfield, Situation Red, The UFO Siege!, pp. 49-51" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/20/1958",
  "desc" : "At 11:05 p.m. Fort Bragg, North Carolina Battalion Communication Chief SFC A. Parsley observed a silver, circular object, its lower portion seen through a green haze, hover, then oscillate slightly, and then move away at great speed. He watched it for 10 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3552",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 5857; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/20/1967",
  "desc" : "Farmer Arvi Juntunen in Suomussalmi, Finland heard a loud humming sound at noon and saw a round, shiny gray object 50 cm above ground, 6 meters away. It had a domed top with a fin and measured 75 cm in diameter. As he was about to seize it, the object rose with a blast, circled and flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3553",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon Creighton, FSR, May-June 1968, p. 25; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 851" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/20/1968",
  "desc" : "Eustaqui Zogorwski, age 63, a Polish immigrant, claimed that on this date he was drugged by a man who drove up to his house in Avellaneda, Buenos Aires, Argentina in a black car. When he recovered consciousness he found himself in an otherworldly environment, where giant beings were dwelling in an aerial city.Two of these beings, over two meters tall, conducted Mr. Zogorwski to a tower in the center of the city, seemingly suspended in space. He was seated at a table around which sat 12 similar giants. They took his arms and he began to \"trace signs automatically.\" He believed that they had \"brainwashed\" him. He was finally released between the towns of Brinkmann and Cotagaita, in Cordoba province, where the mysterious man in the black car picked him up and drove him to his home. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3554",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-35 (A0936), citing La Nacion, August 7, 1968" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/20/1968",
  "desc" : "Peasants in Bulnes Nuble, Chile saw a five-foot tall being with a white head and torso, from whose arms wings extended. It was sighted several times in the vicinity of the village. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3555",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1094, citing El Comercio, June 25, 1968" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/20/1969",
  "desc" : "On this evening numerous witnesses in and around the Michigan City, Indiana area, bordering Lake Michigan, saw a series of multi-colored, maneuvering lights for a period of at least two hours. Among the witnesses were policemen, Coast Guardsmen, a harbor patrolman, a local newspaper photographer, and an electronics engineer. The first report was at 9:35 p.m. \"The objects appeared solid and yet were a source of their own light,\" US Coast Guardsman Vernon Kleman stated. \"They appeared as if from nowhere and could brighten up to a size much larger than when originally seen. They moved at a variety of speeds, some fast, some slow and at times they were stationary for a minute or more...The objects were colored white, green or orange and they changed colors at will.\" A roughly oval-shaped UFO appeared to have a rotating rim with red, green and yellow lights around its center. Increasing in intensity, the object was in view for about a minute before it \"quickly diminished in size and brilliance\" and disappeared. \"Once a smaller object seemed to enter the water,\" Kleman continued. \"It was submerged for 4-6 seconds. Then it traveled straight upward at an excessive speed.\"",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3556",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "6/20/1969",
  "desc" : "At 10:25 members of the Michigan City Police Department and Port Authority began seeing the UFOs. Robert G. Howington, harbor policeman, said the objects he saw disappeared to the \"northwest with terrific speed.\" Officer Ted Stantz saw lights that erratically \"went back and forth across the sky.\" Policeman James R. Coughlin and others saw the objects at the same time. \"We saw about 9 or 10 such objects over a span of about two hours,\" Police Sgt. Lance M. Hilberg stated in his report to NICAP. \"One seemed to approach very close. The others were quite high and very distant. All objects appeared very bright and solid. The closest one was extremely bright [and] faded away at tremendous speed--much faster than any aircraft...\"<br/><br/> Officer Tony C. Ragle said he was cruising in his squad car when he got a call to assist personnel at the Port Authority. Looking through his windshield, he saw the large bright object that \"hovered over Lake Michigan for approximately 90 seconds, then went up and darted toward Chicago.” Bill Allen, a photographer-reporter for The Michigan City News-Dispatch, saw an object over the lakefront at 11:30 p.m. It looked like an upside down saucer with a pulsating red light around the bottom. The top was an orange-yellow color. The objects were also viewed over Gary, Indiana and Chicago, Illinois. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3557",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bill Laas, NICAP UFO Investigator, September-October 1969, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/20/1974",
  "desc" : "Several hundred witnesses including 15 police saw a luminous cigar-shaped object fly back and forth over the city of Sao Bernardo da Campo, Sao Paulo state, Brazil at 7:30 p.m. It reportedly responded to light signals. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3558",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Inforespace, October 1975" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/20/1975",
  "desc" : "A luminous globe, described also like a large incandescent ball, was seen to fall into the sea some miles off the coast of the port of Genova, Italy. The report arrived from a geophysicist of the university that was completing normal surveys and that had immediately signaled the fact to the National Fire Departments. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3559",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Marco Bianchini, USOCAT by Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU), citing Liberta, June 22, 1975 and La Stampa, June 21, 1975" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/20/1976",
  "desc" : "The alien abduction of a 19-year-old married couple and their infant occurred at around one o'clock in the morning, from their car while driving on I-70 five miles west of Colby, Kansas. The Delduca family reported they had encountered a UFO that was a 150-foot wide saucer-shaped craft that stood 40 feet tall. They initially had several hours of missing time, but were able to recall their experience through the aid of hypnotic regression. They recalled that there were three 5.0 to 5.5 foot tall humanoids, matching the description of short Grey humanoids, wearing helmets. They were given physical exams and communicated with via telepathy. They had body marks and rashes subsequent to their encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3560",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Sigismonde, CUFOS field investigation report dated July 12, 1976; UNICAT database, case # 197, citing Richard Sigismonde; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1477; International UFO Reporter, December 1976, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/20/1977",
  "desc" : "A year later another abduction occurred, this time from a bedroom in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Gayle Bever recalled under hypnosis that during a two hour period of missing time she had been taken from her bedroom shortly before midnight by human-looking beings wearing coveralls. She was also given a physical exam. She has a small circular scar, 1 cm in diameter, on her shoulder in the shape of a wheel with spokes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3561",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, November 1977, p. 1; R. Leo Sprinkle, MUFON Conference Proceedings: 1980, p. 57; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 142, citing APRO Bulletin" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/20/1986",
  "desc" : "At 4 a.m. Cesar Locatelli was driving through a brushy isolated area in Mentrux-en-Joux, Jura, France searching for a swarm of wild bees he believed was nearby when he made a turn under some trees and came upon a large transparent, brightly illuminated bluish disc-shaped object partly resting on top of a large boulder. The disc was about 9 meters in diameter. Inside the object he could clearly see six human-like figures of short to average height, perhaps 5 feet tall. These figures were wearing white hooded tunics with cowls like the kind worn by monks. These covered their heads and obscured their faces. They all were standing around an oval table, apparently bent over it. He attempted to drive away but his car engine stalled. At the same time he could hear a high-pitched humming sound. He was finally able to restart the car and drove away. When he returned to the site several months later he was surprised to see that the large boulder was gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3562",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joel Mesnard & Michael Morel Seythoux, Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 305; FSR, Vol. 37, No. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/20/1989",
  "desc" : "At noon two girls in Lesozavodsk, Siberia, Russia encountered a strange being that floated above the ground towards them. It left a silvery trail behind him that faded slowly. The creature was described as humanoid but robot-like in appearance, and it had silvery gray hair. As it passed the girls it emitted a strange squeaking sound and a bright light in their direction which caused one of them a headache. A number of bus passengers also saw the humanoid. As it passed in front of a car it turned a strange silvery color. It continued on and disappeared towards a nearby bridge. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3563",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case # 670, citing Yaroslavl Investigations, FSR, Volume 35, No. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/20/2002",
  "desc" : "Another missing time experience was reported in Landover, Maryland to the National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3564",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, June 2002 webpage archive" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/21/1947",
  "desc" : "Harold A. Dahl, his son, and others on board a boat allegedly saw six donut-shaped objects, 30 meters in diameter, metallic with dark openings, over a bay next to Maury Island on Puget Sound, Washington. One of the UFOs exploded, showered the witnesses with a slag-like metal. This case has been widely regarded as a hoax because of some deliberate deception of UFO investigator Kenneth Arnold by a shadowy con man named Chrisman who claimed to have been involved, but there are still unexplained elements to this case. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3565",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact, p. 47" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/21/1947",
  "desc" : "Eight disc-shaped objects the size of a house were seen flying at 1,000 kph at 11:55 a.m. in Spokane, Washington. A woman stated that the objects fell with a falling leaf motion and landed before ten witnesses on the shore of the Saint Joe River, in Idaho. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3566",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, The Truth About Flying Saucers, p. 16; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 191" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/21/1952",
  "desc" : "Near Kelly AFB, Texas. At 12:30 p.m. Sgt. Howard Davis, the flight engineer of a B-29 bomber flying at 8,000' altitude, witnessed a flat object with a sharply pointed front and rounded rear. It was white with a dark blue center and red rim. It trailed sparks as it dove past the B-29 at a distance of 500 feet for a very brief time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3567",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1319; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 16; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: June-July 20th, p. 20" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/21/1952",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. that night at the Oak Ridge, Tennessee nuclear facility a radar target was picked up and later sighted as a featureless nocturnal light over the AEC site by a member of the Ground Observer Corps. The light eluded an F-47 fighter sent to investigate it, flying at 8,000 feet altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3568",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Edward J. Ruppelt, The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 43" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/21/1954",
  "desc" : "Mr. and Mrs. Guy Baker saw a hovering, domed disc-shaped object in Ridgeway, Ontario. It was about 14 meters in diameter (40 feet) and had several rotating, flashing lights around the rim. They drove their car to get a closer look. The object crossed the road in front of the car and landed in a field. The car stalled and they had to push it because it would not re-start, although it had never given them trouble before the incident or since. They watched as the lights moved around in the area. They found a large, brown, circular spot in the pasture where the disk had been resting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3569",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gregory Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Report, p. 6; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 2, case 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/21/1956",
  "desc" : "At 10:35 p.m. a group of boy scouts and their scoutmaster sighted several silvery discs in the southeastern sky near Homestead, Pennsylvania maneuvering at high speed among the clouds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3570",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Alexander Mebane, Civilian Saucer Intelligence Newsletter, September 1956, p. 3; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 186" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/21/1958",
  "desc" : "A two meter in diameter orange ball of fire was sighted by many at 7:15 a.m. over Chenxi County, Hunan Province, China. It was spinning out a cloud of smoke. It made a 120 degree turn near a school, and left behind a smell of ozone in the air. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3571",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Wendelle Stevens and Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, p. 37" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/21/1962",
  "desc" : "At 4:00 a.m. Lt. Col. H. King and his tail gunner M/Sgt. Roberts, aboard a B-52 heavy jet bomber flying over Indianapolis, Indiana sighted three bright, star-like flying nocturnal lights. The first was seen, and then ten seconds later two more were spotted. The total sighting lasted three minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3572",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 7957; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/21/1962",
  "desc" : "Many residents of La Plata, Argentina phoned the police and the newspapers on this night to report a red cigar-shaped UFO over the city, flying around in circles at great speed. The object would disappear and reappear, giving off red flashes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3573",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon Creighton, Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1964, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/21/1965",
  "desc" : "An unidentified submarine object (USO) was sighted by a pilot flying east of Fraser Island, off Maryborough, Queensland, Australia at 11:30 a.m. It was long, thin, and metallic looking and just under the surface of the ocean. It submerged out of sight when the plane flew over. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3574",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, January-February 1966, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/21/1965",
  "desc" : "A disc with a blinking red light was seen for 20 minutes in Chesaning, Michigan starting at 9:30 p.m. It appeared to land remotely. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3575",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, January-February 1968" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/21/1967",
  "desc" : "Cordoba, Argentina - Four days prior of a massive wave of UFO sightings in the region, a man dressed in black showed up at the newsroom of Cordoba's Los Principios daily newspaper, where he dropped off a letter addressed to the editor stating that before the week was out the Southern Cone would experience a massive flyover involving hundreds of extraterrestrial craft. The day before the sightings began, the newspaper received a phone call stating, \"Attention, it will begin at any moment...\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3576",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, case # 3186, citing Dr. Rafael Lara" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/21/1967",
  "desc" : "Mr. and Mrs. Larsen recalled being abducted on this night by aliens while driving on a New Mexico highway. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3577",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "R. Leo Sprinkle, investigator, in David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2081" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/21/1968",
  "desc" : "A man riding his bicycle in Miramar, Argentina encountered a large object moving only 50 centimeters above the ground. At 1:30 a.m. the domed, disc-shaped object flew extremely low, nearly hugging the ground, and traveled from north to south while illuminating the ground with a vertical beam of red light. The top of the object appeared to be spinning. It suddenly increased in speed and left. Calcination traces were found by police. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3578",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 911, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 95; Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, August 1973, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/21/1968",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 a.m. a 12 meter long ovoid object was seen taking off from a farm in Brazey en Morvan, France. Dead sheep and slugs were found in a 25 meter wide indentation area left by the UFO. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3579",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michel Figuet & Jean-Luis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 292; UNICAT database, case 498, citing Figuet & Ruchon" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/21/1968",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. in Revere, Massachusetts the witness's cat ran off and the dog howled. An orange ball of fire slowly descended toward a maple tree. It wobbled, gave off white trail of vapor, accelerated away, then broke into many sparks.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3580",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 353" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/21/1970",
  "desc" : "Paul Foster, in the St. Helliers section of Auckland, New Zealand, saw a figure about 20 yards away from him while working on a car. It was facing in the opposite direction. Viewed from the rear, the humanoid was about 5'9\" tall and wore a one-piece blue coverall, the legs of which were tucked into mud covered boots. The man carried a leather case on his left hip attached to a strap over his right shoulder, and was holding a box-like object to his face with a periscope like extender sticking out and up to the right side. This periscope device was pointed away from the observer to the north, toward the sun. The figure was blond with short-cropped hair. He walked dragging his feet, as if fatigued. Foster glanced away thinking it was perhaps a mailman, but when he realized it was Sunday, he knew this could not be. When he again looked up the figure had gone. Foster rushed out in search of him but could find no trace. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3581",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1970-1, citing Vic Harris for the New Zealand Scientific Space Research Group, Auckland" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/21/1971",
  "desc" : "A 50-foot diameter disc was seen hovering overhead on this night in Pinehurst, Idaho. It directed a beam of light down upon two witnesses, who experienced over two hours of missing time and subsequently recalled an abduction experience. They also had unexplained body marks on their limbs. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3582",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 9308 citing Paranet" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/21/1976",
  "desc" : "At 12:40 a.m. a kite-shaped UFO shone a beam of light at a police car in Ringsted, Denmark causing some electrical malfunctions. It lit the road, then flew off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3583",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 11750" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/21/1976",
  "desc" : "At 9:15 a domed disc shaped UFO was seen at treetop level in Rome, Italy. It had a transparent cupola bubble on the bottom. It moved out of sight behind some buildings. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3584",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Maurizio Verga, Italian UFO Catalogue" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/21/1976",
  "desc" : "An hour and a half later two 5 meter wide discs were seen hovering silently in Le Conquet, France. They moved away and then came back extremely quickly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3585",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jean-F. Boedec, Les OVNI en Bretagne: Anatomie d'un Phenomene, p. 79" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/21/1977",
  "desc" : "On this day a 10 meter long silver cigar shaped object followed two people riding on a motorcycle between Salford and Bury, England. It replicated all of their turns and was completely silent. It finally flew off behind a house. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3586",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, August 1978, p 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/21/1980",
  "desc" : "In Assumption, Illinois at 1:30 a.m. Ms. McLeod reported that two low flying, slow orange colored domed discs circled and hovered for five minutes while directing a beam of light toward the ground. There was an unnatural quiet and the witness's dog never barked during the sighting. Two minutes after the UFO left natural sounds returned to the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3587",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, August 1980, p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/21/1983",
  "desc" : "A wingless cigar-shaped object circled a strategic nuclear facility at Dubno, Ukraine for 18 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3588",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 13365, citing FSR, volume 37, no. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/21/1984",
  "desc" : "A large, slow V-shaped craft passed low over a radio tower in Hyde Park, New York at 8:00 p.m. It had headlights and made a faint humming sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3589",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, October 1984" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/21/1986",
  "desc" : "Two years later another series of sightings occurred on this evening in the Hudson Valley area. This time delta shaped objects and lights were reported in Westchester County, New York. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3590",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek, Philip Imbrogno, and Bob Pratt, Night Siege: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, p. 201" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/21/1996",
  "desc" : "On this night Cesar Miglioranza, age 64, was driving his car home from work outside of Flexeiras, Brazil when he noticed a strong light in a nearby field. He stopped his car and got out to investigate. As he approached he saw a large object on the ground next to some trees. Suddenly he became paralyzed and unable to move. Beside the object were two short beings with large heads and long arms. They wore helmets and tight fitting silvery uniforms. The two humanoids appeared to be collecting soil samples from the ground. After a few moments, they conversed among themselves in an unknown language, then boarded the object, which quickly took off at high speed. Cesar was unable to move for the next five minutes. Afterwards he felt very tired and sleepy for 2 to 3 days. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3591",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case # 3545, citing Victor Lourenco" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/21/1998",
  "desc" : "At around midnight a man named Augustin was walking his dogs in Ulldemolins, Terragona, Spain alongside an isolated field when he noticed a bright light to his left. A bright white rotating light approached and disappeared towards the nearby road, apparently coming down to land. The witness heard a moderate humming sound. Suddenly the light went dark and two humanoids became visible. They were both walking on the road toward him. The beings wore fluorescent helmets and boots and tight-fitting silvery outfits, but no other details were visible. His dogs began barking in an agitated manner. Terrified, the witness and his dogs ran in the opposite direction, not looking back at the humanoids. The night before this close encounter another local witness had seen a white light hovering over a house. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3592",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case #3340, citing Josep Guijarro, Karma-7 #295" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/21/1999",
  "desc" : "Three separate witnesses reported a black triangular craft with red and yellow flashing lights flying over Nicholasville, Kentucky at 12:15 a.m. A bright light was also seen passing in front of the moon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3593",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/21/2004",
  "desc" : "A saucer shaped object with bright red lights was seen in Richmond Hill, New York at 9:30 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3594",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/22/1944",
  "desc" : "An object was allegedly shot down by the U.S. military as it attempted to depart from the island of Oahu, Hawaii near Kaneohe. One female occupant was captured and flown to Washington, DC. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3595",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0122" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/22/1947",
  "desc" : "In 1947 during the beginning days of the great UFO wave of 1947, a rapidly moving, round, silvery-white object was seen at 11:30 a.m. in the town of Greenfield, Massachusetts. It was one of the early cases secretly investigated by the FBI. Later that same day, at 1 o'clock in the afternoon, Mr. Hammond and his son were vacationing in Radium Springs, New Mexico and saw a \"flying pie-plate\" disc while swimming. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3596",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bruce S. Maccabee, UFO Related Information from the FBI File, APRO Bulletin, December 1977, pg. 8; Baker, Oregon Democrat Herald, June 27, 1947" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/22/1949",
  "desc" : "In Oak Ridge, Tennessee on this evening in 1949, a teacher, a scientist, and one other watched two delta-shaped UFOs and a disc fly over the US government nuclear research facility around 7 p.m.. The objects appeared to be metallic, and flew slowly toward the northwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3597",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1415" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/22/1952",
  "desc" : "Near the Korean front in 1952, two sergeants sighted an orange disc four feet in diameter just above an airstrip. It dove vertically, emitting a red flame 2-5 feet long as it did so, and stopped momentarily 100 feet over the end of the runway. The object then flew to the west, circled back taking about 45 to 60 seconds to execute the 180-degree turn, flashed, the flew on to the east. A second bright flash was seen followed by complete darkness: the disc had vanished. No sound was heard coming from the object. The case was unexplained by Project Blue Book. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3598",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 82" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/22/1953",
  "desc" : "At 2:10 a.m. the pilot and radar operator of a USAF F-94 jet interceptor flying from Goose AFB, Labrador, Canada sighted a red light flying at an estimated 1,000 knots (1,100 mph). The object eluded the pursuing F-94 after five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3599",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/22/1954",
  "desc" : "At around 9 p.m. U.S. Marine Corps Major E. Buchser and Major J. V. Wilkins In Miami Beach, Florida witnessed a meteor-like object descend, stop, and become extremely bright. Sighting lasted 7 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3600",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/22/1954",
  "desc" : "Also in 1954 an eighty-foot long blimp-shaped UFO drifted over Cleveland, Ohio at 300 feet altitude. The object veered up sharply and shot away after about 5-10 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3601",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/22/1957",
  "desc" : "Two patrolmen at Rye, New York watched a large object with two white lights and one red light plunge into Long Island Sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3602",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 39" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/22/1960",
  "desc" : "A strange flying object struck Clan Lake, which is located some 30 miles north of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada at around 6 p.m. About 20-25 minutes after a airplane had dropped off witness C. T. Wright, he heard a noise that sounded like a large plane in the distance. The noise got louder but he could not see anything in the sky. He then heard something strike the water behind him and saw an object with arms or spokes rotating in the water. It was rotating very rapidly and throwing water, but gradually it began to spin less and finally stopped. It was about 1700 feet away from him. When his partner arrived they took a canoe and went over to the shallow spot in the lake where the object hit the water. There was grass about 18 inches high were the object hit and it appeared to be burnt and cut up over an area of 20 feet by 60 feet. They felt around in the water with their paddles where the floor of the lake was very much disturbed and muddy, and one to three feet deeper than the surrounding lake proper. The object looked to be about 4-6 feet wide. Mr. Wright did not see any steam when the object hit the water. He and his partner went back to the location on two more occasions but could find nothing. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3603",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Carl Feindt, www.waterufo.net, citing RCMP report courtesy of Chris Styles" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/22/1969",
  "desc" : "Ms. Terry Ennshyman reportedly encountered a \"robot\" type humanoid in Dunedin, New Zealand who conducted her onboard a landed disc-shaped UFO. He or it then had sex with her several times. The robot had cold extremities and a cold penis, but does not lack \"warmth\" and sweetness despite his constant guttural sounds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3604",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1969, citing Annuaire CIGU 1988, quoting Dunedin Telegraph, in Denys Breysse Project Becassine" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/22/1976",
  "desc" : "Guia de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands (Spain) - Three men in a taxi observed a gray-colored, perfect sphere at 9:30 p.m. which hovered a few meters above the ground. The taxi's radio stopped working and the witnesses felt very cold. Inside the sphere, which was transparent, they saw two humanoids about three meters tall, wearing reddish, tight-fitting clothing. The driver switched on a spotlight and pointed it at the object, which rose up about 30 feet and emitted a bluish gas. It then grew as large as a 20-story building, though the two humanoids and their control panels remained their original size. After a few minutes, the huge object flew away, giving off a whistling sound. People in a nearby house reported that their TV had stopped working during the sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3605",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 412, citing FSR, Vol. 23, No. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/22/1976",
  "desc" : "In the town of Galdar on the island of Las Palmas also in the Canary Islands, at 10:30 p.m., an electric-blue semi-transparent sphere with two tall entities inside was seen hovering for 20 minutes. The object then changed size enormously, growing in size to the equivalent of a twenty-story building. On that same night a photograph of another UFO was taken near Maspalomas on the neighboring island of Tenerife. A close encounter with a UFO emitting beams of light also occurred earlier in Bothwell, Tasmania around 7:30 p.m. local time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3606",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, November 1976, p. 33; FSR, October 1977, p. 7; ACOS Bulletin, December 1976, p.24; ABC, June 27, 1976" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/22/1979",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon offshore of Gorgona, Italy in the Ligurian Sea during a beautiful summer day, the yacht Rainbow II was heading for Corsica, after leaving Viareggio at 3:45 p.m. On board was the owner of the boat, who was a businessman in Milano, his wife and children and a crew of 11 people. At about 6:30 p.m. the beautiful and tranquil day was interrupted by a bewildering and disturbing event. About three miles ahead of the prow of the boat they saw a black cylindrical shape. This object was coming out from the surface of the sea like a tower and rose 30 meters into the air. The yacht approached and they noticed the dimensions and shape of the object. When they were within 1.5 miles from the object, it disappeared below the surface with a loud rumble in less than three seconds. This sighting was also observed from the harbormaster's office on Livorno. The harbor captain remained in continuous radio contact with the crew and in particular with its wireless operator, Mr. Guzzi. But this phenomenon did not end with the disappearance of the object. Although the compass showed the yacht as headed in the right direction, the yacht instead drifted about 12 miles south and ended up in Bastia. This change of course was unexplainable because the sea was calm, there were no currents, and the compass was working perfectly. Another strange occurrence was that the dog on board started barking and appeared scared and terrified. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3607",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Marco Bianchini, USOCAT by Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU), www.cisu.org; Carl Feindt, www. waterufo.net" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/22/1981",
  "desc" : "In 1981 at 10:35 a.m. the fire lookout at the Satus Peak fire tower on the Yakima Indian Reservation in central Washington State saw a slow moving light descend in the sky, moving toward the northwest. The light entered a long, thin cloud, and never exited. At about the same time a large orange glow filled the windshield of a motorist and family in Forreston, South Australia pulsing on and off once a second. They drove under the source of the light and then it vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3608",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Greg Long, Examining the Earthlight Theory: The Yakima UFO Microcosm, p. 133; UFO Research Australia Newsletter, May 1982, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/22/1984",
  "desc" : "In 1984, an object shaped like the rounded-off \"tail fin\" of an airplane with a very short fuselage came straight down over a woman's car in her driveway in Adelanto, California at 11 o'clock in the morning. She watched it hover 125 yards away as it wobbled and made a \"fluttering\" motion. On the same night a videotape showing six lights in a crucifix formation was made in Montrose, New York just eight miles south-southeast of West Point. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3609",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, December 1984, p. 8; J. Allen Hynek and Philip J. Imbrogno, Night Seige: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, p. 200" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/22/2000",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. in 2000 near Providence, Rhode Island a westbound commercial airliner flying at 8,000 feet altitude observed an egg-shaped object standing on end. The top and bottom of the object was spiked with three points each. Air traffic control confirmed the presence of a radar target one mile from the aircraft. It drifted toward the east until it was lost from radar. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3610",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine, December 2000, p. 32" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/22/2003",
  "desc" : "A shiny object, not well defined, fell into the sea between Martinsicuro and San Benedetto del Tronto in the Adriatic Sea just before 9:00 p.m. Many telephone calls came into the fire department of Teramo, the Port Authority of San Benedetto, Italy and to the Maritime Offices of Giulianova, Italy. Some spoke of a possible meteorite, judging from the form and color of the object, which dove into the ocean at some distance from shore. Immediately the alarm was sounded and the military police from Alba got involved. A motorboat was sent from San Benedetto, which reached the location where the object plunged into the sea but they were not able to find anything. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3611",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Marco Bianchini, USOCAT by Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU), www.cisu.org; Carl Feindt, www.waterufo.net" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/23/1947",
  "desc" : "A large shiny silver ball hovered for several minutes over a mountain in Clayton, Georgia and then zoomed away. There were two witnesses named Cantrell and Pepper. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3612",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon 1947-1987, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/23/1952",
  "desc" : "Grid area CV 4, Korea. Information came via Japan H.Q. \"CV 4359\". At 6:08 a.m. a USAF pilot of the 18th Fighter-Bomber Group sighted a black coin-shaped object about seven times wider than it was thick, with an estimated diameter of 15-20 feet, that made an irregular descent. It flew at a fixed altitude for 6-7 seconds, approached the pilot's plane, then disappeared into a cloud. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3613",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Richard F. Haines, Advanced Aerial Devices Reported During the Korean War, p. 50" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/23/1952",
  "desc" : "Oak Ridge, Tennessee. At 3:30 a.m. Martha Milligan, a secretary, saw a bullet-shaped object with burnt-orange exhaust fly straight and level for 30-60 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3614",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1334; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 266" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/23/1952",
  "desc" : "In Owensboro, Kentucky at 10:00 a.m. National Guard Lt. Col. O. L. Depp and another man heard a sound like an airplane and witnessed two objects looking like \"giant soap bubbles\", reflecting yellow and lavender colors. They flew one behind the other for five seconds, then vanished from view. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3615",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1335; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 267" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/23/1952",
  "desc" : "Airport weather observer Rex Thompson in Spokane, Washington sighted a round disc with a metallic shine at 4:05 pm. It flashed and fluttered like a flipped coin for 5-7 minutes. Many others saw a fiery light that might have been a meteor. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3616",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1331; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/23/1952",
  "desc" : "McChord AFB, Washington. At around 9 p.m. Lt. K. Thompson watched a very large light that flew straight and level for 10 minutes. Four miles west of the Air Base several yellow-whitish nocturnal lights in a V formation made precise maneuvers in sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3617",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1332; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: June-July 20th, p. 23; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 266" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/23/1964",
  "desc" : "Fifteen or more flying discs paced a car on Highway 60 in Vero Beach, Florida. The object tipped back and forth as they did so. They first formed a V-formation, then reformed into a circular formation, then split the formation and flew on either side of a grove of trees. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3618",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1964, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/23/1966",
  "desc" : "Four adults in Menindee, New South Wales, Australia heard a splash at noon from a nearby lake. No object was visible on the lake surface, but a UFO was seen climbing from the lake diagonally, then \"disappeared in seconds.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3619",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 228, citing Broken Hill, (N.S.W.) Barrier Truth, June 23, 1966" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/23/1966",
  "desc" : "One of the earliest reported cases of \"missing time\" began on this day in a bedroom in West Chelmsford, Massachusetts. The incident took place in the pre-dawn hours, beginning at around 3:15 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3620",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David Webb, Analysis of Humanoid/Abduction Reports, Proceedings of the 1976 CUFOS Conference, pg. 267" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/23/1966",
  "desc" : "At 3:42 a.m. an Apollo Space Project engineer, Julian Sandoval, saw a fast moving 300 foot long tetrahedron shaped UFO with four blue-green tail lights maneuvering in the sky while driving on Highway 85 in Corrales, New Mexico. His sighting was confirmed by Police Patrolman Gallegos and Dorothy Lovato of Bernalillo. The sighting lasted a total of 51 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3621",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Christian Science Monitor, July 11, 1966; NICAP UFO Investigator, August 3, 1966; UNICAT database, case 690, citing James E. McDonald, Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers Here and Now, p. 179" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/23/1966",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. a 61-year-old woman was at home reading in Hamburg, New York when an intense red light illuminated the ground near her house. She went outside and saw a lighted object 20 meters away, just one meter in diameter, which backed up and flew away \"like a bullet.\" Three other people saw it from the next house. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3622",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 777" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/23/1968",
  "desc" : "At five minutes past midnight in Monte Banderas de Bilbao, in the Basque region of Spain, a four-meter wide circular-shaped flying object landed on a hilltop, 300 meters away from the three witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3623",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I Events in Spain and Portugal, case 59" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/23/1968",
  "desc" : "The witness was driving from Las Vegas, Nevada at around 8 p.m. when he saw a round, saucer-shaped object land on a dirt road not to far away from the road. The witness drove up the dirt road to the craft, which had landed on three leg-like protrusions. Soon three bearded men, very human in appearance, disembarked from the craft. They approached the witness who had by now left his vehicle. They expressed curiosity as to his long hair. He explained that he just wanted to wear it that way and was not into drugs or anything. They seemed to appreciate that. They then told him that they came from a world with no cities where its inhabitants were born in the wilderness. They told him that cities were a danger to society. They called themselves \"Dodonians.\" The witness shook hands with the men and they boarded the craft, which quickly left the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3624",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, citing National UFO Reporting Center" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/23/1969",
  "desc" : "At 1:36 a.m. a couple named Werth and one of their children had a close encounter with a cone shaped object that maneuvered only 60 meters from the porch of their farmhouse, located 15 miles south of Hays, Kansas. The object was over 100 feet in length, made no sound, and flew about at a low altitude, then flew away to the northeast. Their sighting lasted 15 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3625",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1969, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/23/1972",
  "desc" : "At 3:00 a.m. police and a light plane chased an elusive zigzagging nocturnal light through the skies over Menominee County, Wisconsin. It made a high pitched sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3626",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 9546, citing NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1972" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/23/1973",
  "desc" : "At midnight Roberta T. sighted from her Phoenix, Arizona patio what first appeared to be a star. It descended from the sky until it came much closer and appeared to be a large, illuminated spherical object, hovering in a spot just above some trees beyond her patio. As it hovered, a square opening appeared on the side facing her, like a \"garage doors opening.\" Illuminated brightly from within, she observed a human-like figure approach the opening from one side, cross over, and then bend down to do something. When she uttered an exclamation he abruptly looked up and out at her and peered directly at her, leaning out of the opening. He was visible from the knees up and wore a tight-fitting garment. When he dropped his head down to look at her she could see that he was tall, with a large head and with hands that appeared to be busy working instruments. She next heard a humming sound, and saw a second, smaller object approaching to her left. It passed a post on the patio and abruptly disappeared. She then looked back toward the first object and found it too had vanished. She then fell asleep and when she came to later, found herself lying in a different position.<br/><br/> Under hypnotic regression, she described seeing the same figure appear before her on the patio. She then describes in vague uncertain terms how she was told not to be afraid, and then \"taken somewhere\" by being floated upwards. She recalled seeing a dog that had been constantly barking also floating in the air. She was in some dark \"enclosed\" place where she couldn't see and an instrument of some sort was placed on her head, which made her uncomfortable. There were others around her but she \"felt\" them rather than saw them. She had the impression they were \"talking\" to each other in a language she could not understand. She also had the impression there were two people present. When she awoke on the patio, it was some 4 or 5 hours later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3627",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of the Humanoids, case 73-08D; David F. Webb, Proceedings of the CUFOS Conference: 1976, p. 270; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-16, citing Lester Seward for Ground Saucer Watch" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/23/1973",
  "desc" : "From a cabin on the Rothwell Ranch in Piedmont, Missouri two men watched as a bright light that had a ring around it rose from low on the ESE horizon, moved up-down, then left-right, for a distance of 15 degrees over a 30 minute period beginning at 10:30 p.m. The object silently radiated lines of concentric circles like heat waves. At one point a small light joined the first object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3628",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON database of field investigations, case file dated July 9, 1973, field investigator Dan A. Rothwell" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/23/1976",
  "desc" : "An abduction experience occurred this night in Sao Paulo, Brazil. A bright nocturnal light approached a man causing him to become frozen in place with paralysis. It stopped some 20 to 25 feet away and the light went out. A short, bald-headed being with a big head, large eyes, and pointed ears, no eyebrows, and wearing a bluish-gray coverall bearing an emblem on the chest approached. The man was levitated aboard a cigar-shaped UFO. He reported having telepathic communication with the Ufonaut. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3629",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1507" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/23/1977",
  "desc" : "A driver of a newspaper delivery van driving between Noupoort and Middelburg, South Africa saw a dull glow at a quarry beside the road at 5:15 a.m. A glowing phosporescent UFO then came out of the quarry and hovered in front of the delivery van, causing the van's engine and headlights to fail. After a few moments the UFO departed, making a buzzing sound when it left. The engine of the van started by itself, then stopped, then started again when the driver pressed the pedal. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3630",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 71, case 413, citing MUFON UFO Journal, September 1977" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/23/1990",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m. an orange disc-shaped object with portholes on the bottom portion, very bright, followed the course of a creek in Williams Lake, British Columbia at a low altitude. The witness's arm became numb during this close encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3631",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 123" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/23/1992",
  "desc" : "Three silent disc-shaped objects were sighted from US Highway 22 in Washington County, Pennsylvania near the West Virginia State border at around 11 p.m. The discs were at treetop level and blinked in unison. They formed a triangle in the sky, then vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3632",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1993" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/23/1994",
  "desc" : "A woman in Miami, Florida was unable to sleep and got up at 4 o'clock in the morning to sit at her kitchen table. She saw out her kitchen window, by a large fruit tree, a tall, dark winged man-like figure. It stepped from behind the tree and glided toward the side of her house. She believed she had seen a demon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3633",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case 1701" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/23/2003",
  "desc" : "A shiny metallic cigar-shaped object was seen in the daylight sky at 1:00 p.m. over Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. It was stationary at first, then moved slowly into some clouds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3634",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2003 Canadian UFO Survey, case 232, citing National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/24/1947",
  "desc" : "On this morning a prospector named Johnson in the Hood River region of the Cascade Mountains of Oregon sighted five or six discs flying silently overhead, heading toward the southeast. He noticed that his compass began spinning when the discs passed over. His watch also stopped running. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3635",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Phoenix Arizona Republic, June 26, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, p. 30; Thomas M. Olsen, Reference to Outstanding UFO Reports, case 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/24/1947",
  "desc" : "At 2:58 p.m. Kenneth Arnold, flying his private plane near Mount Rainier, Washington was attracted by reflected sunlight from nine distant metallic flying objects. He watched as they flashed across the sky, one behind the other, \"skipping as saucers upon water.\" They tilted back and forth as they flew. One object was definitely crescent shaped, the others may have been disc shaped or crescent shaped with a 10 to 1 width to thickness ratio. He clocked them as they flew past Mount Adams, and calculated that they were flying at a speed of 1,500 miles per hour and at an altitude of 9,500 feet. When he landed in Pendleton, Oregon he was interviewed at the local radio station where the term \"flying saucer\" was first coined, despite the fact that the objects he sighted may not have been discs. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3636",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Kenneth Arnold & Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 9; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 9; The Oregonian, June 26, 1947; Kevin Randle, Spaceships of the Visitors, p. 87; UNICAT database, case 354, citing Bruce Maccabee" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/24/1953",
  "desc" : "A woman in Hampton Bay, New York saw something like \"a large aircraft\" about 30 meters wide flying very slowly and low at 6:30 p.m. It had a lighted red band around the middle and was coming straight toward her house with an oscillating motion. She still thought it was an aircraft of some new design when it stopped near her, only 25 meters above the ground. Then it flew backward over the water and hovered, making the same noise as a swarm of bees. The top section supported a series of red lights and a cabin with four portholes through which a control panel was visible. No occupants were seen. The cabin section rose above the object, rotated, then glided back. The object tilted toward the west and rose toward the southeast, disappearing within three seconds at an 80-degree angle of climb after the three minute long sighting. Two days later a yellowish moss was observed at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3637",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, June 1953, case 22; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 203 (case 112)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/24/1964",
  "desc" : "Fifteen or more disc-shaped objects paced a truck driver and his wife in Vero Beach, Florida in the predawn hours. The discs flew along, tipping back and forth. They formed a V formation, then a circular formation; finally the objects split the formation and passed on either side of a group of trees. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3638",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1964, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/24/1965",
  "desc" : "A saucer-shaped object with a conical top, and rows of lights across the front and along the side flew over Nebo, Queensland, Australia. It glowed bluish-white and had a red tail. At 10:00 p.m. in Mundilla, South Australia a round object with red, green, and white lights flew away over the horizon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3639",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 155; (2) APRO Bulletin, January-February 1966" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/24/1966",
  "desc" : "Police officer William L. Stevens had a close encounter with a dirigible-shaped object 100 feet long and 30 feet thick at 3:30 a.m. He was driving on the Henrico Turnpike in Richmond, Virginia when the UFO approached. It had alternating white and greenish-yellow lights around its perimeter, and it was surrounded by a mist. It began to play a game of cat and mouse with his police cruiser. \"It seemed to be playing with me,\" he said. It moved away when the officer turned on its flashing lights, maintaining a distance of a few hundred feet. After several minutes it departed, accelerating suddenly and making a high speed vertical climb. (Sources: Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 261; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., UFOs: A New Look, p. 9; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 164; MUFON UFO Journal, June 1991, p. 12; UNICAT database, case 654, citing James E. McDonald). 1967, Trenton, Maine - Two people sighted a silver-gray, hat-shaped object hovering about 500 feet from the shoreline in Trenton, Maine at around 10 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time. It emitted a vapor at its base. The object ascended into a fog bank and descended again at a greater distance before moving away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3640",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs Interplanetary Visitors, pg. 349" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/24/1967",
  "desc" : "A man walking alone at night along a bridal path in Bovington, England came upon a strange figure bent down by the side of the path. The figure was short and was wearing what looked like a black, one-piece leather suit. He had a trowel in his hand and appeared to be digging in the earth. When he noticed the witness approaching the figure made a strange, high-pitched sound and was lost from sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3641",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-51 (A1559), citing Jenny Randles, Awareness, Winter 1977" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/24/1968",
  "desc" : "A young woman named Torres was awakened at 1:10 a.m. in Laguna Raiva, Santa Fe, Argentina by an intense humming sound. She then noticed an oval-shaped light in the corner of her bedroom and inside the light stood two strangely dressed beings. They both wore metallic diving suits and helmets with visors. One was taller than the other and luminous white beams of light emanated from the tips of the fingers of both entities and from their visors and lower abdomens. Both beings vanished suddenly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3642",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case #822, citing Dr. Oscar A. Galindez, FSR, Vol. 27 # 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/24/1971",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. in Mulhouse, Haut-Rhine, France a disc-shaped object was seen tilting in the sky at 15 meters altitude above a residential neighborhood. It leveled off, then lights were seen upon the ground. At the site a depressed circle and ground marks were found. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3643",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted R. Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 481, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 117" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/24/1977",
  "desc" : "At one o'clock in the morning a UFO was sighted hovering over the sea from the coastal town of La Caleta, in the Dominican Republic. Sr. Cruz watched as the object extended a tube from its bottom, and then sucked up water. Two occupants could be seen inside the object, viewed through windows in the craft. Sr. Cruz's car engine failed, and he felt a numbing sensation in his arms and legs. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3644",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Leonte Objio, APRO Bulletin, January 1982, p. 6; Stendek, September 1978, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/24/1995",
  "desc" : "A small disc-shaped object hovered over a truck in Farmingdale, New York at 11:30 p.m. at night. The driver could tell the UFO was close because it hovered below the low, overcast sky, so he got out of his vehicle and attempted to chase the UFO on foot, to no avail. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3645",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, 1995 archive" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/24/2002",
  "desc" : "A luminous white saucer-shaped object zigzagged around the Moon for several minutes in Deerfield Beach, Florida at 11:10 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3646",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, June 2002 webpage archive" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/25/1943",
  "desc" : "The USAAF First Air Division was flying over the Elbe Estuary in Germany on this day when they saw twelve flat objects, approximately six-feet square, fall like dead leaves. No \"flack\" or other explosions were noted at the time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3647",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 website" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/25/1952",
  "desc" : "At 20:23 p.m. over Suwon, Korea a silver coin-shaped object was seen spinning in a counterclockwise direction. The edges of the disc were dark blue, with its diameter seven times larger than its thickness. It changed course, paused, then rose vertically straight up. A bright yellow-white egg-shaped light flew at a slightly higher elevation than the planet Venus over Chicago, Illinois. Occasionally had a red tail light visible. It made a large continuous circle in the night sky at a slow speed. Project Blue Book \"unidentified\" case. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3648",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1344" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/25/1954",
  "desc" : "A 40-foot diameter disc with a cone-shaped top was sighted by a private pilot over Indian Lake, Ohio at 4:05 p.m. Jets were seen pursuing the object. Ground radar returns confirmed the presence of the UFO. Project Blue Book \"unidentified\" case. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3649",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 3072" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/25/1957",
  "desc" : "Baltimore, Maryland: \"Car radio stopped playing and street lights went out as formation of seven white discs with red rims passed overhead.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3650",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 42, citing Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/25/1962",
  "desc" : "In Kurrajong, New South Wales, Australia a glowing red object of great size and speed was seen as it flew over. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3651",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 87" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/25/1964",
  "desc" : "In Spring Valley, Nevada a spinning top-shaped UFO w pyramidal sides and a two-foot long pedestal was seen resting on the ground. It was about the size of a Jeep and was a \"shiny plastic\" color. It rose ten feet off the ground, then landed again. Took off and flew in a horizontal direction. A UFO very similar in appearance was sighted in South Carolina on June 30, 1964. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3652",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "newspaper clipping, July 1, 1964; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/25/1967",
  "desc" : "Dogs howled when a UFO flew ten to twenty feet off the ground, making a low-pitched, droning noise, three miles north of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. As police approached the object the light went out and the dogs stopped barking. The two principal witnesses could hear voices coming from the UFO, talking in a high-pitched, incomprehensible \"gibberish\" at 2:05 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3653",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-50; George Cook, NICAP investigation files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/25/1967",
  "desc" : "On this night in Bethel, Connecticut six teenagers were sleeping out in the backyard of a home when they saw a bright light. They drove to Sunset Hill to get a better view and saw it was a domed disc with red and green flashing lights around the dome. Their car radio experienced interference when the object was in view. Several weeks later, some members of the group found an area of grass matted down where the object had hovered close to the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3654",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 206, citing Ted R. Phillips, PhysicaI Traces Associated with UFO Sightings" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/25/1967",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. Robert Luca was driving from Durham, Connecticut to Hamnonassett Beach when he saw two large, cigar-shaped objects in the sky. From one of them came two smaller objects; one flew to the east, the other to the west. One of the discs came towards him, descending in falling leaf motion behind some trees about 1/4 mile away. It was dull metallic in color. The next thing he remembered was arriving at the beach shortly before two a.m., with no memory of the intervening three hours. Under hypnosis in 1977, Luca remembered being nude in a room with a white floor, lighted by indirect blue white light. In a later session, he remembered being on a table in this room, with two \"persons\" at his head and feet. The entities had large baldheads, no noses and \"tapered\" faces. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3655",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-52; David Webb & Richard Nycz case investigation files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/25/1971",
  "desc" : "A brilliant flash of light followed by a gust of wind were seen and felt in Stewart, Minnesota at 12:30 a.m. Ducks in the area were frantic. Two 8-meter wide crop circles were discovered in a cornfield. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3656",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Coral E. Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 20" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/25/1972",
  "desc" : "At 12:50 p.m. small dark object ascended from the ground and joined a large, delta-shaped object overhead in Melville, Western Australia. Later that day a group of meteorology professors saw a wingless cigar-shaped UFO fly toward the east over Verona, Italy for 20 minutes beginning at 6:00 p.m. A 25-meter circular hole in the ground was found later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3657",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, July-August 1972, p. 8; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 121" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/25/1974",
  "desc" : "A dog began barking at 1:15 a.m. when a domed disc-shaped UFO with red and white lights on top and an orange-lit rim with oval white lights landed in St-Cyrille-de-Wendover, Quebec. Three rings were found at the site, 19 feet in diameter with a 2-foot width. The grass inside the rings did not appear to be disturbed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3658",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Center for UFO Studies investigation files, on-site investigation; Wido Hoville, Skylook, November 1974, p. 10; APRO Bulletin, December 1974, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/25/1976",
  "desc" : "A woman and two teenage girls were driving on interstate highway I-680 in Pleasanton, California when they saw an eighty-foot long, 40-foot wide ellipsoidal object. It had a revoling bottom section with red and white panels of light. It was self-luminous, and kept pace with the car, flew over, then flew away over some houses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3659",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON case investigation files; MUFON UFO Journal, March 1977, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/25/1978",
  "desc" : "At an evening baseball game in Medway, Massachusetts around 8 p.m. a silvery-gray domed disc came down low over the field and hovered, bobbed, wobbled, and moved behind some trees. It re-emerged, wobbled and hovered again for about a minute. Its distance was about 200-300 feet from the by-standers. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3660",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1978, pg. 16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/25/1984",
  "desc" : "A bright circle trailing a red tail and flashing a beam of light from its circumference was seen hovering over Blairgowrie in the Orkney Islands, Scotland. A V-shaped object was seen to leave and return to the circular object several times. After awhile both objects faded away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3661",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The secret history of Scotland's UFO phenomenon, p. 141" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/25/1993",
  "desc" : "At 8:50 p.m. a private pilot at his home in Rognes, France sighted a black disc-shaped object flying quickly from the north to south at 3,000 feet altitude. He reported it to the police and Air Traffic Control. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3662",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Phenomena magazine, issue no. 16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/25/1995",
  "desc" : "A very shiny silvery egg-shaped object was seen in the northern sky from Batesburg, South Carolina at 7:00 p.m. The witness claimed to be very familiar with military aircraft and this was not that. At 7:30 p.m. a dark object flew over Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. It had flailing appendages, and moved slowly. It may have paced the witness. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3663",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, June 1995 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/25/1998",
  "desc" : "A yellow glowing trail was captured on videotape at 10:30 p.m. on Mikonos Island, Greece. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3664",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, June 1998 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/26/1947",
  "desc" : "In the afternoon on this day, nine shiny discs with fins flew over La Grande, Oregon, weaving in-and-out of formation. There were also four separate daylight disc sightings in Utah between 7:00 and 8:00 p.m. in the following locations: Cedar City, Logan, and Diamond Fork Canyon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3665",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database: Salt Lake City Tribune, June 28, 1947; Salt Lake City Deseret News, June 30, 1947; Salt Lake City Tribune, July 6, 1947" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/26/1952",
  "desc" : "In Celina, Ohio at 1:30 a.m. a married couple saw a glowing but dark colored disc fly over the town slowly toward the south, at a low altitude. It flew with a slight tilt, and made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3666",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 2259" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/26/1952",
  "desc" : "Later that day in Pottstown, Pennsylvania a procession of discs flew by. At 11:50 p.m. two objects flew side-by-side in tandem-one had steady lights and the other had flashing lights. Fifteen minutes later two more passed over in the same configuration. After another fifteen minutes a single object flew over. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3667",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1351" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/26/1959",
  "desc" : "At 6:45 p.m. at Boianai Mission on Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea an Anglican missionary named Father Gill and 37 others watched four luminous figures on top of a low, hovering, disc-shaped UFO. It was circular with a wide base and a narrower upper deck, and had four tapering legs, two at each end, on the bottom. A shaft of blue light that shone upwards at a 45 degree angle was witnessed part of the time. The four figures on top of the craft were surrounded at a little distance by an aura of luminescence. \"If wearing clothes, they were very tight-fitting,\" reported Father Gill. One of the beings waved back in an apparent response to hand waves from the witnesses. The UFO also wobbled in response to flashlight signals. Thirty minutes later an oval-shaped craft with portholes was seen maneuvering over Giwa, Papua New Guinea. The UFO made a series of moves and stops, and made a \"whoomp whoomp\" noise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3668",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Charles Bowen, UFOs in the Two Worlds, FSR Special Edition No. 4, pp. 35 & 21" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/26/1959",
  "desc" : "Earlier that same day Mr. Taylor, a 22-year-old man living in Whitefield, Greater Manchester, England observed two tall men walking down Alexander Avenue. They were dressed like motorcyclists, stood over six-feet tall, wore tight fitting trousers and heavy boots, and had long blond hair. They turned a corner and when Taylor quickly followed, the men had already vanished into thin air. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3669",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Rogerson, World-Wide Catalog of Type-I Reports, case 892, published in the Merseyside UFO Bulletin (MUFOB), which later was re-named Magonia magazine; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1959, case # 345, citing Janet & Colin Bord, Modern Mysteries of Britain" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/26/1962",
  "desc" : "Verona, Italy -- After observing a flying disc earlier that night, Luisa Peregozzo awoke to an intense cold feeling and saw out her bedroom window a semi-transparent being with an enormous baldhead, surrounded by a green light. It was extending huge hands in her direction. The air in the room remained cold throughout the entire episode. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3670",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Flying Saucers, January 1966, p. 58" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/26/1963",
  "desc" : "Two UFO reports occurred at close to the same time in Massachusetts on this night. At one o'clock in the morning in East Weymouth (Norfolk County) a married couple saw a thirty-foot diameter object shaped like two bowls rim-to-rim hovering over some power lines, approximately 300 feet away from them. The UFO made a buzzing or humming sound as they watched it hover there for three minutes. At about the same time three people in Rockland, Massachusetts in nearby Plymouth County saw and photographed a disc-shaped object zigzagging away toward the northwest, or in the direction of Norfolk County. The time-lapsed photo shows a light making ninety-degree turns, and was published in the local newspaper. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3671",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Walter N. Webb investigation files & Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs Interplanetary Visitors, p. 329; APRO Bulletin, November 1963, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/26/1968",
  "desc" : "Multiple reports of close encounters involving three strangely dressed humanoids came from towns located on the Atacama Salt Beds in Antofagasta Province in northern Chile. Residents of the towns of Reine, Socaine, Toconas and Chiloporo saw the same UFO manned by these three beings. The UFO was reported to have landed and on at least three occasions the humanoids entered the same house, taking small items with them. This behavior spread fear and panic among the local inhabitants. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3672",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-36/A0937, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, April 1972, p. 5, citing UFO Chile" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/26/1970",
  "desc" : "At 1:00 a.m. in Sharon, Massachusetts a UFO landed remotely. A brilliant yellow aura surrounded the object as it descended slowly behind some trees during a rainstorm. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3673",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, case files report dated September 15, 1970" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/26/1971",
  "desc" : "At 3:00 a.m. Mrs. D. Hancock heard a loud whirring sound and looked out the window of her house in Tauranga, New Zealand on the Bay of Plenty. She saw a large bright white ball of light above her neighbor's house that lit up the entire area. She watched it for a while, but eventually went back to bed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3674",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Waikato (New Zealand) Times, June 28, 1971" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/26/1971",
  "desc" : "That same day a married couple from Birmingham, on holiday in Guernsey in the Channel Isles, England watched four spinning, silver daylight discs over the coastline. The discs hovered for more than a minute, climbed higher in the sky, changed formation, then shot off toward the north at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3675",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Glasgow (Scotland) Herald, June 28, 1971" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/26/1971",
  "desc" : "That night at 11:00 p.m. in Chauchina, Spain a man and a woman watched a large luminous reddish-yellow light hover for fifteen just 2 meters over the ground in a nearby pasture. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3676",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I Events in Spain and Portugal, case 143" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/26/1972",
  "desc" : "At 8 o'clock in the morning some native farm laborers came running to farmer Bennie Smith, the owner of the Braeside farm, near Fort Beaufort, South Africa. They thought they saw a fire in the thick bush land. Thinking it might be poachers on his land, Mr. Smith went to the spot with his .303 rifle. Hovering partially behind some brush 200 yards away was a glowing egg-shaped UFO. He went and called the police, and at 9:00 a.m. Sergeant P. Kitching and Warrant Officer P. van Rensburg arrived at the site. The color of the object was a gun metal blue but after they watched it for a while it started to glow red all over. They were sure it was under some form of intelligent control because when the farm laborers shouted from the bush the object moved down out of sight of the witnesses.<br/><br/> They decided to shoot at it with the rifle. Fifteen rounds were fired. They heard a thud from the seventh shot. The UFO changed color from a red glow to a green glow and then to yellow, and rocked from side to side. They watched it for another hour before the police had to leave the area. Mr. Smith stayed to see it leave a short while later. It turned on end and climbed rapidly into the sky, making a humming sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3677",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ivan Clark, The Fort Beaufort police officers: An interview, FSR, September-October 1972, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/26/1973",
  "desc" : "A procession of unidentified flying objects was witnessed twice in the night skies over Switzerland, in Fribourg at 10:15 p.m. and again at Brent-sur-Montreux. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3678",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gillieron, UFO-DOC, cases E007 and Q108" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/26/1977",
  "desc" : "A 16-year-old in Tehran, Iran took three photographs of three lights moving in a triangular formation at 4:00 a.m. Another neighborhood family also witnessed the flying lights. A missing time experience occurred to a 13-year-old boy in Treinta y Tres, Uruguay on this night, or close to this date. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3679",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, January 1981, p. 15; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery. Volume 2: Catalogue of Cases, case 46" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/26/1978",
  "desc" : "A UFO landed for several minutes on the patio of a residence in Ayacucho, Argentina. Mr. and Mrs. Belloq--the couple who lived there--awoke to a humming noise, looked out and saw that only a few meters over the treetops was the flying disc. It had no lights and no windows, and ascended after hovering a few more minutes and flew off slowly in the direction of the city of Tandil. A Bigfoot sighting also occurred on this night in South Crossett, Arkansas. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3680",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, September 1978, p. 13; George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 380, citing the Crossett (Arkansas) News-Observer, June 29, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/26/1979",
  "desc" : "A dog started barking at 3 a.m. when a six-foot diameter balloon-shaped object glowed and hovered over the yard of a home in Wheeling, Illinois. The object flew toward the southwest. A second object of the same description appeared and flew to the northwest, disappearing behind some trees. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3681",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, August 1979, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/26/1979",
  "desc" : "At 3:15 p.m. that afternoon eight security guards in downtown Philadelphia, Pennsylvania watched a domed disc-shaped UFO maneuver in the daytime sky. The underside of the object turned extremely bright, then it made a ninety-degree turn and flew off toward the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3682",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, August 1979, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/26/1979",
  "desc" : "That same day some debris that fell from the sky, dubbed the \"Mississauga Blob\", landed on a picnic table in the backyard of a home in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3683",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John Colombo, UFOs over Canada: Personal accounts of sightings and close encounters, p. 215" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/26/1986",
  "desc" : "Two objects flew parallel to each other over Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at 9:49 p.m. After a minute of flight they began rotating around an imaginary center, stopped with one ahead of the other, and moved off. One of the objects brightened for several seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3684",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, November 1986, p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/26/1990",
  "desc" : "In Tapah, Malaysia on this day a witness encountered a tiny, 6-inch tall being with shiny red eyes. Later that night at 11 p.m. local time an orange ovoid object hovered over the roadside of highway D11 west of Montady, France. It had a halo that glowed. The UFO shot off toward the west-northwest, darkening three times as it flew. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3685",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ahmad Jamaludin, Centre for Malaysian UFO Studies Internet website; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 336" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/26/1993",
  "desc" : "Several balls of light hovered over the town of Burgess Hill, England this night. According to the witness, they seemed to \"want to be seen.\" A red fireball maneuvered in the sky over Derby, England at 11:45 p.m. In Gridley, California at 4:32 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time a six-minute long videotape was made of a round UFO with windows on the top. It had reportedly been maneuvering in the sky for several hours. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3686",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, September-November 1993 issues" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/26/1994",
  "desc" : "At 1:20 a.m. rays of light were seen emanating from a cloud, and then a diamond-shaped array of lights pursued a car for 15 kilometers south of Abancourt, France. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3687",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 329" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/26/1997",
  "desc" : "In Dunkinsville, Ohio a woman was watching television when she heard her dogs barking outside at one o'clock in the morning. That drew her attention outside, and when she turned the porch light on, she saw a strange creature alongside the pond in her front yard only 30 feet away. It was hairy and gray, stood about three or four feet tall, and had large dark eyes. It made gurgling sounds, and walked on its knuckles. Her dogs gave chase and it ran away, but she called her dogs back. The creature was last seen moving along a barbwire fence. Shortly later she heard a screeching sound coming from that direction. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3688",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, case # 2796, citing Ron Schaffner" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/26/1997",
  "desc" : "An hour later a woman awoke to a nosebleed in Puerto Rico. She had a sudden recall of her missing time experience. She recalled having been on a stainless steel exam table with three thin little men in the room. They wore white coveralls and had some type of red-star insignia on their uniforms. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3689",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997 website" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/27/1947",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 a.m. a shiny disc-shaped object streaked by Capitan, New Mexico and landed on a nearby hill. At 10:30 a.m. John A. Petsche, an electrical worker, and another person independently witnessed a disc-shaped object, which seemed to land near Tintown, Arizona. The disc had a mirror-like surface. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3690",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Albuquerque Journal, July 2, 1947; (2) Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 17; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 191" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/27/1949",
  "desc" : "A brass domed-disc with a transparent clear dome was seen at only 10 meters altitude in Albera Ligure, Italy at 8:20 p.m. It emitted a gaseous cloud of vapor, then flew away over a hill. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3691",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1416" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/27/1952",
  "desc" : "A military pilot named Kelly saw a UFO hover at 6:50 p.m. and pulsate a brilliant red over Topeka, Kansas. The shape of the object varied from circular to oval in the vertical dimension as the object pulsated. A Project Blue Book \"unknown.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3692",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1355; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: June-July 20th, p. 27; Kevin Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 267" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/27/1956",
  "desc" : "Two ball-shaped objects were seen hovering over Mahonoy City, Pennsylvania at 8:15 p.m. They glistened brilliantly at the height of normal aircraft height, when suddenly they shot straight up vertically, leaving behind short vapor trail in their wakes. One of the witnesses was a newspaper reporter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3693",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: May-July, p. 60; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 186" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/27/1959",
  "desc" : "Twenty-four hours after their previous sighting, a UFO re-appeared in the same position in the sky over the Boianai Mission on Milne Bay, New Guinea, only a little further off. Four men were again seen occupied with some activity on top of it. Father William Gill waved, and one of the men on the UFO did the same; then all the observers waved, and all four UFO occupants appeared to wave back. Flashlight signals were answered by movements of the object, which oscillated and then came somewhat closer. After this there was no further response. After about 90 minutes of visibility some low clouds obscured the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3694",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Rev. Norman E. G. Crutwell, UFOs in the Two Worlds, FSR Special Edition No. 4., p. 35; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1959-10, citing FSR Special Issue #4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/27/1966",
  "desc" : "Cistella, Spain - Three Spanish witnesses named Masso, Crous, and Arajil watched two clearly defined, hexagonal cylinders rise into the air, approximately 1,800 feet apart from each other. A disc-shaped UFO flew into view and positioned itself between the cylinders as if to link them. Dense smoke arose, drying the mouths and noses of the witnesses the whole day, and one witness felt a wave of heat. The strange, three-part structure was visible for several minutes before departing at blinding speed. Over an area some ten meters across in a potato field all the leaves were brittle and yellowish. A branch of a nearby pear tree was newly broken off, thrown some distance, and twisted around. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3695",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Antonio Ribera, FSR, November 1966, pp. 3-4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/27/1968",
  "desc" : "Three children, Hugo Cesar Messina, Oscar Crespo, and a third boy were bicycling in Cerro de las Rosas, Cordoba, Argentina at 5:30 p.m. when they were surprised by the appearance of a silvery colored object. The UFO had on its lower part a kind of helix, where lights of white and sky-blue were revolving. It hovered about 20 meters up and 50 meters away from the boys. On the upper part of the object appeared a couple, a man and a woman, who floated in the air. They were of enormous stature with long white hair, and they wore luminous close fitting garments. Holding hands, they began to descend slowly, disappearing into the object without any door opening. The luminous helix began to rotate at greater speed, and the UFO went away at great speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3696",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-37, citing Carlos Banchs" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/27/1970",
  "desc" : "At 1:30 a.m. a bright orange disc-shaped object dropped down from the sky near some power lines in Galston, Strathclyde, Scotland. It emitted a bright beam of light, then flew off to the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3697",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon McKinnon, FSR Case Histories, December 1970, p. 16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/27/1970",
  "desc" : "At 11:40 a.m. Mr. And Mrs. Aristeu Machado, their five daughters, and Mr. Joao Aguiar of Leblon, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil watched a grayish metallic object 12-18 feet wide land on the ocean 700-1000 yards away, throwing spray up on all sides. It floated 100 yards closer to shore and they could see that it had a transparent cupola, outside of which were two short, thickset figures wearing dark gray metallic coveralls and helmets. After 30-40 minutes the object took off nearly horizontally. Underneath it showed red, green, and yellow lights. It left behind it a white, floating hoop shaped object and a yellow ball, both of which were lost from view as they floated toward the shore. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3698",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Walter Buhler, \"UFO on the sea near Rio\", FSR, May-June 1971, pp. 3-7; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1970-11, citing Irene Granchi and Dr. Walter Buhler; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 482" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/27/1975",
  "desc" : "A 25 meter in diameter metallic disc hovered just 15 meters above a gasoline service station in Pont-a-Mousson, France at 3:30 a.m. It illuminated the ground as bright as day. That night at 11:20 p.m. a vertical cylinder hung in the sky at only 10 meters altitude in Bouillancourt-la-Bataille, Somme, France. It had two antennae. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3699",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, March 1976" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/27/1982",
  "desc" : "A mechanical engineer on an airliner flying northwest of Launceston, Tasmania watched a metallic sphere pace the Boeing 737 aircraft for two minutes, then ascend, flying off toward the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3700",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Australian Center UFO Studies Catalogue of Reports 1978-1982, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/27/1992",
  "desc" : "Two witnesses in a mobile home in Raeford, North Carolina were rattled and shaken up when a disc-shaped object landed in a field nearby. The grass was crushed down where the object had touched down. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3701",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, October 1992" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/27/1994",
  "desc" : "Around four o'clock in the morning at least five witnesses heard a loud hissing sound in Arad, Romania, and a nearby wheat field became lit up by a very bright light. Traian Crisan, a 48-year-old shepherd, approached the site and saw a light gliding towards the field. He ran to his hut and watched from inside, but then the walls and roof of his house began to shake. He then ran outside and encountered a strong wind. He next noticed a round hovering object, and through a small opening he could see two short men who appeared to be holding a tube. Both men had beards--one a long white beard--and both had slanted eyes. They also wore headphone-like devices on their heads, and held instruments in their hands. The nearby sheep panicked and ran when blue flames shot from out of the bottom of the craft as it accelerated straight up and disappeared. Later that day a flattened circular area of wheat was found at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3702",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1994, case 2282, citing Michael Hesemann, The Cosmic Connection" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/27/1994",
  "desc" : "An \"airplane\" landed on a jagged peak in Parc de la Mouliere, Alpes-Maritime, France in the early afternoon. It was joined by two ovoid flying objects. When a witness attempted to videotape the event, his camcorder failed to work. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3703",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 327" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/27/1994",
  "desc" : "A large dark triangular shaped craft with no lights flew over Moffat, Colorado at 11:00 p.m. It flew slowly from the east to the west at an estimated 1,000 feet altitude. One witness stated, \"It was so big, it blotted out the stars!\" A smaller craft soon followed the first one. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3704",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 246" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/27/1998",
  "desc" : "On this night teenager Marisa Pearsall from Cassopolis, Michigan found herself on a metal table. She was not afraid and she was surrounded by bright lights. She saw three short humanoids around her. They were about four feet tall and gave off a white light, but no additional features could be discerned. One of the humanoids approached her and held out two fingers forming a \"V\" or peace sign. Marisa reported later finding several anomalous scars on her body. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3705",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case #3835, citing UFO Abduction Raw Data Page, UFO Watch" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/28/1947",
  "desc" : "At 1:30 a.m. a shiny disc-shaped object descended into the backyard of a Mr. Johnston in Waterloo, Iowa and hovered less than 25 feet away from him. He experienced a number of physical complaints as the result of his close encounter, including numbness, chest pain, and difficulty breathing. The UFO made a swishing sound as it flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3706",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Waterloo (Iowa) Courier, July 6, 1947" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/28/1947",
  "desc" : "At around 2 p.m. a formation of 5-6 white circular objects approached an F-51 aircraft being piloted by an airman named Armstrong while he was flying thirty miles northwest of Lake Mead, Nevada. This case was also investigated by the FBI at the time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3707",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, p. 95; NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1978, p. 3; APRO Bulletin, December 1977, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/28/1947",
  "desc" : "Four US Air Force officers saw a fast moving, bright, zigzagging light in the sky over Maxwell AFB, Alabama as 9:20 p.m. The light made quick accelerations and 90 degree turns, and flew off toward the south. Their sighting lasted at least five minutes, and was investigated by the FBI. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3708",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, p. 102; NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1978, p. 3; APRO Bulletin, December 1977, p. 8; Richard M. Dolan, UFOs and the National Security State, p. 396" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/28/1952",
  "desc" : "Kirtland AFB, New Mexico - Two round silver disks were sighted by two men aboard a Carco Air Service cargo plane flying south of Kirtland AFB at 1:20 p.m. The craft initially moved slowly and silently to the south, but picked up speed instantly speed and climbed vertically. After climbing one object veered to the east and the second continued on in a south-southeasterly direction. They made no detectable sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3709",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry, p. 60; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 181" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/28/1952",
  "desc" : "At 6 o'clock in the evening a silvery white sphere was observed flying over Lake Koshkonong, Wisconsin. It made a 180 degree turn and assumed an elliptical shape during the turn, then returned to a spherical appearance as it flew on. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3710",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: June-July 20th, p. 28; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 268" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/28/1952",
  "desc" : "A flashing disc shaped object hovered vertically in the air by some woods near Lake Caluso in the Piemonte region of Italy around nine o'clock in the evening. It rotated 90 degrees into a horizontal position, and left behind an odor of ozone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3711",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Solas Boncompagni, UFO in Italia, Volume I, (Periodo 1907-1953), p. 136" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/28/1963",
  "desc" : "Driving around a corner in the road at 9:30 p.m. a man came to within three meters of red disc-shaped object blocking the road in Sandy Creek near Adelaide, South Australia. The disc was eight meters in diameter and had a concave top. It ascended vertically to 100 meters, tipped to one side, and shot away leaving behind a vapor trail. It also changed to a reddish yellow color as it gathered speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3712",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Sylvia Sutton, Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1964, p. 29; James Holledge, Flying Saucers over Australia, p. 88; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 573" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/28/1968",
  "desc" : "A UFO flew over Bucharest, Romania at around 2 o'clock in the afternoon, stopped and hovered for several seconds, and then continued on its way. In Cluj, Romania a disc hung motionless in the sky for 45 minutes that same afternoon, then vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3713",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ion Hobana and Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from behind the Iron Curtain, p. 240" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/28/1971",
  "desc" : "At 9 p.m. a 23-year-old man stood on his porch in Bellingham, Massachusetts and watched a bright yellow-orange light approach from the distance, leaving a gray contrail. The object then zig-zagged, descended, slowed, and passed by silently at an estimated altitude of 200 feet before flying out of sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3714",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Morton Schafer, MUFON Field Investigator Case Files, case # 890204" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/28/1971",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. a bright light floated slowly along to a point over the sea in Brunswick, Maine. Its lights went out, leaving a glow, then the UFO veered to the SW and shot off at a great speed. It made no discernable sound. The UFO was also reported by a resident of nearby Cook's Corner near the Brunswick Naval Air Station. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3715",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Brunswick (Maine) Times Record, June 30, 1971" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/28/1973",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m. James and Vanea James saw two silvery-white light beams only 50 feet away from their mobile home in Columbia, Missouri. As they watched the beams faded away revealing a 15-foot long oval object, brilliantly illuminated with orange and blue bands. There was a thrashing sound and a large limb snapped off a nearby tree. During the incident, which lasted 55 minutes, their dogs were strangely quiet. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3716",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Columbia (Missouri) Tribune, June 28, 1973; Skylook, September 1973; CUFOS case investigation by Ted Phillips; Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 269; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 264 and 281" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/28/1973",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. Mr. & Mrs. Sanders saw a cone-shaped UFO with multicolored lights at treetop level while driving on Route 51 in Sandoval, Illinois. The UFO made two circles over the highway, then headed off toward the south making a roaring sound. Their eyes were \"foggy\" for two days following their close encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3717",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John F. Schuessler, Physiological Effects from UFOs, case investigation report dated July 22, 1973" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/28/1975",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon in Pontevedra, Spain two witnesses watched as a disc-shaped object came in at a low altitude over the sea and landed on the beach. It landed on tripod landing gear and some humanoids exited the craft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3718",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/28/1977",
  "desc" : "On this night a man with a flat tire was stopped on the highway between Abadan and Ahvaz, Iran when he suddenly felt heat from a \"huge, bright object\" that was very close to him. Mr. Shojacei reported that the UFO changed color from red to green to purple, then its lights went off. For 45 minutes the lights stayed nearby, surrounded by fog. When he turned off his car headlights, the UFO would extinguish its lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3719",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, January 1981, p. 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/28/1981",
  "desc" : "Kennebunk, Maine - Carol Palmero was sitting in her backyard at about 2 p.m. when she saw a UFO pass overhead. The object was shaped somewhat like a football with rounded ends, made no noise and flew at a steady rate of speed from northeast to west. The following day (June 29), at about 9 p.m., Fire Chief Ramon Nolette was standing in front of the dispatch station when he saw a green and white light go 1,000 to 1,500 feet into the air. Twenty minutes later he saw another one. After Nolette called the Coast Guard he received calls from more than fifteen people asking what the lights over the water were. Other calls to the Coast Guard came from Portland, Cape Elizabeth, Wells, Ogunquit and Old Orchard Beach. A boat was sent out at 9:20 p.m. to look for the source, but the lights were not seen again. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3720",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joe Graziano, Press Reports, APRO Bulletin, November 1981, pg. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/28/1995",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m. some very bright nocturnal lights snaked by a car on a road near Goudhurst, Kent, England in a zigzag pattern at an estimated altitude of only 100 feet.. The driver reported radio interference at the time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3721",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, September 1995" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/28/2001",
  "desc" : "Power went out in Bucharest, Romania at 4:10 a.m. when lights flew over the city. An eleven meter long ovoid object was seen emitting a cold, white light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3722",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #18173, citing Filers' Files, Vol. 1, No. 28" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/29/1947",
  "desc" : "A 1:15 p.m. four rocket experts saw a silver saucer in the sky over Organ, New Mexico. It flew off to the north at 9,000 feet altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3723",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, p. 109" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/29/1947",
  "desc" : "About 45 minutes later nine white saucers flying in V-formation flew over Medford, Oregon at a speed of 120 mph. They flew in a spiral over the airport, and appeared to make a cloud. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3724",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 729" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/29/1947",
  "desc" : "Between 13 and 18 white oval and disc-shaped objects flew over Clarion, Iowa at 4:45 p.m. They made a noise like that of a dynamo. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3725",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 178" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/29/1952",
  "desc" : "On this night three military policemen in Park Ridge, Illinois near O'Hare Airport sighted a thirty foot in diameter disc with a blue glow hovering over two civilian radio towers. It jumped about in the sky for 45 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3726",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1364." ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/29/1952",
  "desc" : "At 9:05 p.m. EDT a BOAC airliner with 22 witnesses aboard tracked a group of at least seven objects for 18 minutes over Canada, first encountering the objects around Sept-Iles in Quebec. The objects were seen flying in and out of broken cloud cover. There were six small ovals and a larger dark object, which was continually changing shape. It was described as changing shape \"like a swarm of bees might do.\" The six smaller orbs were \"strung out in a line.\" The explanation provided by the US Air Force, that they were witnessing Mars, was impossible at the time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3727",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Brinsley LePoer Trench, The Flying Saucer Story, p. 33; Gordon D. Thayer, in Edward Condon (ed.), Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 139; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p.23" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/29/1964",
  "desc" : "Lavonia, Georgia - Driving near the Georgia-South Carolina border late in the evening, Beauford Parham experienced a close encounter with a huge, amber colored, spinning top-shaped UFO. It made a hissing sound \"like a million snakes\". The witness felt a burning sensation in his body while the UFO hovered just in front of car for more than a minute as he travelled along at 65 mph. The UFO went up over the car, leaving a strong odor like \"embalming fluid\" and a gaseous vapor covered his car. The UFO came straight at his car again and the engine of his car began to miss. He stopped the car, and the object \"spun like crazy\" and then took off, disappearing in a split second. Parham's hands continued to burn even after he washed them. An oily substance on the car persisted after several washings, and the car's hood was warped with bubbled up paint. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3728",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, pg. 248" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/29/1967",
  "desc" : "A man and a woman driving at 1:30 a.m. sighted an oyster-shaped UFO near Scotch Plains, New Jersey. It was very large, perhaps 200 feet wide, and 25-30 feet thick. It had three red lights and a row of blue lights. The UFO followed their car for 500 feet, then veered off to the south and took off. A Project Blue Book \"unknown.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3729",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 11831; J. Allen Hynek case files; Don Berliner, Australasian UFOlogist, April 1999, p. 55" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/29/1968",
  "desc" : "On this evening in San Luis de Palmar, Corrientes, Argentina on Highway 5 a circular flattened disc-shaped object was sighted by three men in their thirties, Senors Sanchez, Pastor, and Vega. It emitted a vivid orange light. When it passed close to their car it shook the car violently and the car's gears went into reverse, causing the car to drive backwards. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3730",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, February 1974, p. 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/29/1970",
  "desc" : "At 9:32 p.m. a 20 foot in diameter glowing green, oval-shaped object with a small blue inner ring descended at a 45-degree angle toward four people in a car in Apopka, Florida. It came down 1000 feet away and to the right of the car and pursued the car closely. It had a hazy edge and a convex bottom. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3731",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Hollifield, APRO Bulletin, July-August 1970, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/29/1972",
  "desc" : "In 1972 a circular orange UFO hovered at 250 meters altitude around 9 p.m. for two minutes along the shore of Calais, France. It dropped some kind of a liquid, then flew to the northwest out to sea. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3732",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 123" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/29/1974",
  "desc" : "At one o'clock in the morning in Lille, Nord, France a lenticular-shaped disc that emitted a strong orange light was seen by several witnesses travelling in a cars. The car batteries were drained of power. At 2:25 a.m. a reddish orange luminous cylinder was seen over Hellemes, Nord, France. It hung vertically in the sky and had an intensely bright center section. A second and third set of witnesses saw an orange light but did not see the structure of the object. A fourth set of witnesses saw a violent red light. The cylinder was over the zinc roof of a house, and reportedly in generated smoke from the roof as the zinc roofing partially melted. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3733",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 495; (2) Michel Figuet and Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 493; Lumieres dans la Nuit, December 1974" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/29/1974",
  "desc" : "At Bogue Inlet, Washington, North Carolina at 9:30 p.m. a businessman was on his boat on the lake when he spotted a cone-shaped UFO hovering over one spot in the lake for ten minutes. It stayed there until a plane flew over, when it then shot up vertically at high speed, giving off an orange, jet-like flame. It was definitely not a Marine military aircraft, according to the witness. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3734",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, December 1974, p. 39; FSR, January 1975, p. 31" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/29/1975",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. a reddish orange ovoid object with a halo of light flew toward the northwest and maneuvered up into the sky. It was watched for 45 minutes over the town of Puilly, Meuse, France. It was completely silent. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3735",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, December 1975" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/29/1989",
  "desc" : "Several villagers in Chrysopetra, Macedonia, Greece had previously seen strange flashes of light in the sky earlier in the day. At 2:30 p.m. an elderly woman was doing some household chores when she heard a loud bang from outside. She ran out and found her granddaughter in a state of shock. The girl told her that she had seen a large white cloud in the garden, and then the figure of a giant almost eight meters tall appeared. He seemed to be totally encased in mist and was slightly deformed. He disappeared suddenly disappeared in plain sight emitting a loud banging sound. Large footprints were found later at the site of the encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3736",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case # 574, citing Thanassis Vembos, Strange Magazine, issue # 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/29/1989",
  "desc" : "The witness was sleeping on a couch that night in Bradford, Ontario when she woke up at 3:39 a.m. feeling very apprehensive. She had a strong buzzing sensation in her head and became completely paralyzed. The next thing she knew it was five o'clock in the morning. She was later able to recall that several 3 to 4 foot tall humanoids with very thin arms and small heads had appeared in her room and had somehow taken her up through the roof. They pointed at a large dark boomerang-shaped object overhead and told her that it was a \"light portal.\" She was then taken onboard. Inside the ship she saw an enormous ziggurat-shaped ship, ringed with white running lights on each level. She was told that it was a \"light ship\" that traveled inter-dimensionally on light particles. The beings also talked about human being's perception of dying and the existence of many other dimensions. A few nights prior to this incident the same witness recalled also having had several small beings in her room and she had gone immediately to sleep. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3737",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case # 1339, citing John Robert Colombo, UFOs Over Canada" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/29/1994",
  "desc" : "A round craft so large that it obscurred an entire water tower was seen from Pensacola Beach, Florida at 11:55 p.m. by six witnesses. It made no discernable sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3738",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "C. Joseph Barron, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/30/1908",
  "desc" : "On this morning at 7:17 a.m. the Tunguska, Russia explosion occurred in a remote region of the Siberian taiga, which brightened the pre-dawn sky as far away as London and had the equivalent energy of a 15 to 40-megaton nuclear explosion. Detailed scientific analysis shows that the object that caused the devastation exploded above an altitude of three miles and left an area of destruction for more than 850 square miles, in a heart-shaped pattern. It is widely thought to have been either an asteroid or comet impact, but it has sometimes been interpreted as the crash or mid-air explosion of an alien spaceship. Several anomalies still remain to be explained if the explosion was caused by a celestial body entering Earth's atmosphere. For example, why was radioactive Cesium 137 found in 1908 tree rings from the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3739",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "William R. Corliss, Remarkable Luminous Phenomena in Nature, p. 281; Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 63" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/30/1947",
  "desc" : "A Navy Lieutenant named McGinty was flying in a P-80 fighter aircraft near Williams Field, Arizona at 9000 meters altitude when toward the south when he saw two circular objects diving at an \"unconceivable\" speed. They were gray, about three meters in diameter, and appeared to land 40 kilometers south of the Grand Canyon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3740",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #78; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 191; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, p. 11" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/30/1954",
  "desc" : "At 6:50 p.m. a silvery metallic fuselage-shaped UFO with stubby wings was tracked on radar and also observed from the tower by two air traffic controllers at Brookley Air Force Base in Mobile, Alabama. The object came from the south and circled the city. There was no sound detected from the craft as it flew in what was described as a highly maneuverable manner and at a high speed, shooting off to the northeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3741",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 176; Leonard H. Stringfield, Inside Saucer Post...3-0 Blue, p. 23; UNICAT case # 447, citing Robert D. Boyd, A Comparative Unit, p. 58; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 134" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/30/1955",
  "desc" : "A tanker crew in a vessel near Pantelleria Island off the coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea, at around ten o'clock in the morning, sighted a cigar-shaped object at 7,000 feet altitude, emitting strong beams of light. The crew watched it for more than 16 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3742",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1955: January-June, p. 86" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/30/1956",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 p.m. three glowing cigar-shaped objects sped over the city of Wellington, New Zealand. At 5:54 p.m. several orange discs were later seen for several minutes over Nelson, New Zealand. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3743",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO News, August 1956, p. 4; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: May-July, p. 64; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 186" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/30/1957",
  "desc" : "Starting at 6:30 p.m. a bright red-orange disc maneuvered around a Real Aerovias DC-3 airliner flying from Belo Horizonte to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and subsequently paced the aircraft for 40 minutes. It made several passes, crossing above or under the airliner, and then in front and behind it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3744",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 120, citing El Diaro Popular, July 7, 1957; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 28, citing Richard Hall" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/30/1959",
  "desc" : "A U.S. Navy Commander and a female companion at the Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Lexington Park, Maryland sighted a metallic gold, oblate object at 8:23 p.m. EDT. He spotted it to the north; the UFO traveled in a straight and level flight path.A Project Blue Book \"unknown.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3745",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lloyd Mallan, Official Guide to UFOs, p. 179; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 77" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/30/1962",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 a.m. a 13-year-old reported seeing a red, circular object with some white lights in Richmond, Virginia. He observed it for ten minutes as the object climbed and banked. A Project Blue Book \"unknown.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3746",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paris Flammonde, UFO Exist!, p. 367" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/30/1964",
  "desc" : "In Wellford, South Carolina a disc-shaped object with an antenna followed a car for many miles beginning at one o'clock in the morning. It departed when the car's driver turned the car headlights off. The duration of the close encounter was 50 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3747",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious Business, p. 69" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/30/1967",
  "desc" : "At two o'clock in the morning in Rapid City, South Dakota three police officers named Eisnach, Ferguson, and Sinner  had a close encounter with a huge multi-colored object with three windows and red, green, and white flashing lights. They witnessed it as it took off from the ground, hovered just above some nearby trees, made some jerky movements, and then landed again. It took off once again and went over hill. As it did so the white light on the object intensified. The entire incident lasted two and a half hours. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3748",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP files, citing Rapid City Journal, July 2, 1967; Brad Steiger, Strangers from the Skies, p. 48" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/30/1967",
  "desc" : "Mrs. Lemarquandsa was walking through her house around six o'clock in the evening in Thompson, Manitoba when she heard an odd beeping sound. It was repeated at regular intervals about once a second, and she wondered what was causing it. She looked out her kitchen window, and saw dirt and loose pieces of paper flying in a large circle around her house. Outside, she found her husband, who had just come home, and five children staring up into the sky. A young boy was holding her eight-year-old daughter down on the ground. Up in the sky a box-shaped or rectangular object hung in the air, slowly rotating counter-clockwise and showing alternating silver metallic and black sides. It was black on its lower surface, and made no noise. The object began moving off at an angle, stopped and hovered, and then continued towards the southeast. Until this time the circle of dirt and dust had persisted, but it now died down. The whirlwind was confined to the area immediately around their house and did not affect any other houses on the street. When the object moved away, the dirt fell to the ground. Going to the children, the woman found they were calming down except her daughter, who seemed dazed. The boy explained that the five of them had been playing in the yard when the object first appeared overhead. As they watched, her daughter had been levitated into the air, and this levitation was apparently caused by the UFO in the sky. By the time the other children had come to her aid, she was about one meter off the ground and her clothes had edged up her body. Her daughter said she did not remember anything from the time she felt the wind until the time she recovered after being dragged back to the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3749",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science, September 1967, p. 15; Joseph M. Brill, Skylook, January 1976, p. 15; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, citing Chris Rutkowski, Unnatural History, True Manitoba Mysteries" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/30/1968",
  "desc" : "At 1:15 a.m. Jose Paulino Nunez, a distillery worker, encountered two people on the beach in Lujan, Mendoza, Argentina that he first mistook to be guards. Their dress and actions were like normal people, but they showed him a spherical device some 30 cm in which he could see images of people walking about. Speaking in a strange, metallic voice, one of them asked him, \"Do you know these people? They were like you. Many more will be like them. Many people in the world will see the same thing you have seen. We will talk about this again. If you speak of this, be sure it is with responsible people.\" At that point the witness experienced a lapse of memory, for the next thing he recalls was being back in the laboratory, where it took him an hour to compose himself. The people he saw in the images were all tall and human like, with pale complexions, and long, light colored hair, who appeared to be walking about in a trance. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3750",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-38, citing Richard Heiden, & Jader Pereira; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 110" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/30/1972",
  "desc" : "In the afternoon at 4:30 p.m. a disc-shaped object with a tailfin like an airplane hovered over Marcq-en-Baroeul, Nord department, France. Many black dot-like objects could be seen orbiting around the larger craft. There were two witnesses, and the sighting lasted two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3751",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, March 1975" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/30/1983",
  "desc" : "At their home in the suburbs near Indianapolis, Indiana a mother, \"Kathy Davis\" and her daughter separately witnessed a large light appear over their pool house after 10:45 p.m. They then had two hours of missing time. Under hypnosis, both remembered that an egg-shaped object landed in the yard and burned the grass. An abduction by Grey aliens followed, involving a medical exam on board the craft. They were left with a mental warning not to remember the details of their abduction experience. The next day both felt nauseous. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3752",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Budd Hopkins, Intruders; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case # 195, citing MUFON 1984 UFO Conference Proceedings, p. 168; Peter Brookesmith, UFO: The Complete Sightings, p. 127; Francis Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 79" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/30/1990",
  "desc" : "Three office workers in Wilmington, Delaware saw a four-sided pyramid (tetrahedron) at around 7:00 p.m. that was flat yellow in color with orange-red edges. It was slowly spinning and ascending, and made no sound. There was a black cylinder protruding from its base. They watched it for 20 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3753",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald M. Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, April 1993, p. 17" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/30/1990",
  "desc" : "Thirty minutes earlier, at 11:30 p.m. in Maubeuge, Nord department, France a large black triangular object with lights in the three corners and the center, moved slowly and silently from north to south over the city. There were four witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3754",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 302" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/30/1994",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. a car-sized disc was seen in Champagnole, Jura department, France at only 100 feet altitude. It moved slowly and silently, and stopped in place for 5 minutes, then shot away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3755",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 329" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/30/1995",
  "desc" : "At around three o'clock in the morning a security guard in the town of Chalons-sur-Marne, Marne department, France saw a crescent-shaped flying object, the apparent size of the Moon, that appeared to have portholes. He experienced radio communication interference during his UFO sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3756",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 333" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/30/2000",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. in Paso Robles, California a formation of three small, satellite-like lights, performed figure-8 movements around one another in the night sky over Lake Nacimiento for three minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3757",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, archived June 2000 webpage, report posted November 20, 2001" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/30/2003",
  "desc" : "At around 9:00 p.m. in New Brighton, Pennsylvania a black triangular-shaped object surrounded by silver spheres was sighted moving to the south toward Pittsburgh. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3758",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, archived June 2003 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "6/30/2008",
  "desc" : "A close encounter occurred between Cardiff and Atlantic City, New Jersey on the Atlantic City Expressway at 10:25 p.m. A 25-foot wide triangular craft was seen hovering or moving very slowly, just 40 feet directly above the expressway, very close to and in front of the witnesses. Its speed appeared to be quite slow, moving at an estimated ten miles per hour, and it passed directly over their vehicle as they drove under it. They saw it again, twice in the next five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3759",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, archived June 2008 webpage, report posted July 5, 2008" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/1/1947",
  "desc" : "Radar operators at Chitose Army Air Base on Hokkaido, Japan picked up an unidentified target 16 miles north of the base on course of 180 degrees and a speed in excess of 500 mph. The target reversed course, broke up into two responses, then merged back together again into one large response. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3760",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 Research Notes from Bordentown, New Jersey talk, April 16, 2005, p. 27" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/1/1947",
  "desc" : "At 11:45 a.m. three discs were spotted over Portland, Oregon, then another 10-12 discs showed up, silently tipping from side to side as they followed the river to the west-northwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3761",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Oregon Journal, July 2, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 135; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1947, p. 22" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/1/1947",
  "desc" : "At noon Mrs. Hunt saw saw six discs maneuvering in the sky over Madras, Oregon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3762",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "The Oregonian, July 3, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 136" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/1/1947",
  "desc" : "At 12:45 p.m. over Fort Stevens Annex, Oregon an extremely bright disc-shaped object maneuvered for 15 minutes. It then flew north toward the Columbia River. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3763",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ashland Budget, July 1, 1947; Oregon Journal, July 2, 1947; Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 70" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/1/1947",
  "desc" : "At 3:00 p.m. a woman in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada saw a small silver colored, disc-shaped object three feet in diameter. It flew off toward the southeast with a wavering motion. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3764",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Edmonton Journal, July 2, 1947; Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 70" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/1/1947",
  "desc" : "In mid-afternoon in Pendleton, Oregon six to nine shiny platter-shaped objects whizzed overhead heading quickly toward the south. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3765",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Oregon Journal, July 3, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 139" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/1/1947",
  "desc" : "Dr. G. Oliver Doctor saw a 'flying disc' zip over the city of El Paso, Texas on this day. It was shaped like two pie pans rim-to-rim, and was estimated to be 30 feet in diameter. It hurtled over Mount Franklin and then flew off towards Mexico. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3766",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 Research Notes from Bordentown, New Jersey talk, April 16, 2005, p. 4, citing the Norman (OK) Transcript, July 2, 1947" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/1/1947",
  "desc" : "At 9:58 p.m a red disc-shaped object flew north to south at an extremely fast speed over Charleston, South Carolina. It had been seen earlier at Wilmington, North Carolina at 9:30 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3767",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Charleston (SC) News Courier, July 6, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 147" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/1/1947",
  "desc" : "Late in the evening at around 11:00 p.m. thirteen silver disc-shaped objects flew over Albuquerque, New Mexico. They flew first toward the south, then turned to the east, and finally flew off to the west. A blue disc was also seen zig-zagging in the northwestern sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3768",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albuquerque Journal, July 2, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 152; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 157" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/1/1952",
  "desc" : "Lynn, Massachusetts - At about 7:25 in the morning two F-94's were scrambled to intercept a UFO that a Ground Observer Corps spotter reported was travelling southwest across Boston. Radar couldn't pick it up so the jets were vectored into the general area. At 7:30 a.m. a man and his wife in Lynn noticed the two vapor trails from the F-94 interceptors and looked around the sky to see if they could spot what the jets were after. They saw a bright silver cigar-shaped object \"about six times as long as it was wide\" moving southwest. As they watched they saw an identical UFO was following the first one some distance back. Both were moving just a little faster than the two jets. The UFOs appeared to be at a very high altitude, and the couple watched as the two F-94's searched back and forth far below the UFOs. The Air Force lists the explanation of the objects as probable balloons. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3769",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Edward J. Ruppelt, The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1956, pg. 150" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/1/1953",
  "desc" : "On this day or the next, at around 11:00 a.m. in Villares del Saz, Cuenca, Spain an illiterate cowherd, 14-year-old Maximo Munos-Olivares Hernaiz, heard an intermittent whistling soung behind him. When he turned around he saw a \"big balloon\" on the ground. It was shaped like a water jug and was metallic in appearance. Through an opening came three dwarfs 60 cm tall, with yellow faces, narrow eyes, and oriental features. They spoke in a language he could not understand. They were dressed in blue, had a sort of flat hat with a visor in front, and a metal sheet on their arms. One of them smacked the boy's face, then they re-entered the machine, which glowed very brightly, made a soft whistling sound and went off \"like a rocket.\" There were footprints left behind at the site and four holes 5 cm deep forming a perfect square, 36 cm on each side, that were found by the police. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3770",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Antonio Ribera, in Charles Bowen (editor), The Humanoids, p. 29; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 113; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1953-07 (A0215); UNICAT, case # 438, citing The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 77" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/1/1965",
  "desc" : "A domed disc-shapec object flew over Beijing, China at 10:00 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3771",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 218" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/1/1965",
  "desc" : "One of the most famous landing and humanoid reports occurred on this day in Valensole, Alpes-Haut-Provence department, France. At around five o'clock in the morning farmer Maurice Masse, age 41, heard a strange noise and saw an egg-shaped object 30 meters away in a field of lavender. The craft was set on a central pivot with six legs, was about five meters long, and had a door showing two seats back to back. Nearby it were two dwarfs the size of eight-year-old children, with bald heads, normal human eyes, and fine hands with five fingers. They seemed surprised when the witness approached them, and stopped their examination of a plant to aim a small device at him, causing him to become temporarily paralyzed and unable to move. They spoke among themselves in shrill sounds similar to a gargle. The craft took off and \"vanished\" into the air. Ground traces were found in the field. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3772",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 113; Flying Saucer Review, May-June 1965, p. 36; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 377; UNICAT, case 481" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/1/1965",
  "desc" : "On this night many witnesses in Framingham, Massachusetts saw a silvery white round object, which made side-to-side pendulum swings, then flew away to the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3773",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, January-February 1966" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/1/1968",
  "desc" : "Returning home at four o'clock in the morning after a dance, 17-year-old Raul Salcedo encountered two very tall strange beings in Ricardone, Entre Rios, Argentina. They were nearly 10 feet tall. He \"felt himself drawn towards them by the powerful magnetism radiated by them,\" which temporarily immobilized him, but he was able to break free and fled home in terror. There was simultaneously a spate of UFO sightings locally and in nearby San Lorenzo. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3774",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 913; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-39, citing FSR, September-October 1968, p. 26" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/1/1968",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 p.m. three boys in Botucatu, Sao Paulo State, Brazil saw a disc-shaped object on the ground about eight meters wide and 350 meters away. It had a large tripod undercarriage and a ladder reaching down to the ground. These landing devices were retracted inside the object, and the object rose a few meters into the air, then flew off at high speed. Physical traces included the ground marks left behind by the tripod landing gear: imprints 7m x 6.8m x 5.45m apart, and marks left by the ladder. There was also a residual \"gunpowder\" smell, and the boys thought they heard a \"tingling\" sound during the encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3775",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 914, citing Nigel Rimes,  FSR, November-December 1968, p. 21; Walter Buhler, FSR Case Histories, December 1970, p. 11; Fred I. Merritt, Leg-Mark Catalog (N = 68), case 30" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/1/1968",
  "desc" : "A man, who lived in a third floor apartment along with his wife and young son, was watching television around midnight with his wife. It was a hot and humid summer night in Norwich, Connecticut. Suddenly the TV reception began to snow, and then they heard crying coming from the child's room. The man then caught a glimpse of someone in the room and ran to see who it was. When he got to the bedroom window he saw the figure fly away to a point about 200 feet up and several hundred feet south of the apartment building. It was headed towards a UFO that was ruby red in color. In seconds the figure was like a silver dot that had merged with the object along with 3 or 4 other dots. The object then rose to about 1000 feet and went southwest at high speed. The creature was described as about four-foot tall with large eyes and fang-like teeth. Its arms were disproportionately long, like an ape's arms. It wore a silvery colored suit and its feet did not appear to touch the ground. It seemed to float across the room and went out the open window. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3776",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case #3198, citing the National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/1/1969",
  "desc" : "At 6:15 a.m. Mr. Fred Yoos, age 62, heard a clattering sound that shook the building in Olds, Alberta, Canada. Looking out a window, he saw a 20 foot green oval-shaped object descend from a dense cloud in the northwest. It hovered just above the ground 50 feet away. By the light of the rising sun he could see the movement of two figures through a window-like opening. The object ascended vertically, leaving an imprint. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3777",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-47, citing Ted Phillips, CUFOS" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/1/1973",
  "desc" : "Jarmo Nykanen was staying at his lakeside summer cottage in Sounenjoki, Finland when he awoke to a buzzing sound in the early morning hours. The cottage was being bathed in a strong blue light. Going outside, Jarmo saw a blue light \"twice as big as a row boat\" approach from over the lake. It stopped and hovered offshore. The light seemed to radiate from a kind of \"jelly,\" glowing in an unusual manner. Jarmo thought he could see a strange being inside the light. The next thing he remembered he was lying on the porch of his cottage porch at about 6:00 a.m. He had lost track of four hours of time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3778",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, November 1979, Paul Deveraux, Earth Lights" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/1/1975",
  "desc" : "Hamden, Connecticut - At 9:20 p.m. two witnesses were sitting on their porch when they noticed a bright red oval shoot across the nearby tree tops. The object was moving at a height of 100 feet above the nearby trees, and covered the distance on three city blocks in approximately 15 seconds. During the sighting static interfered with television reception, and the family dog was upset for a few minutes immediately following the sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3779",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "\"From the Center for UFO Studies\", FSR, April 1976, p. 24" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/1/2001",
  "desc" : "On this evening a couple riding bikes in a wooded area of Palmerston, Ontario, Canada observed a group of tall humanoid beings covered with brown hair. They seemed to be holding or carrying unusual devices. The hairy beings fled into the woods when they noticed the witnesses. Around the same time there were numerous reports of low flying glowing orange disc-shaped UFOs over the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3780",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2001, citing Unknown Country & CAUS" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/1/2001",
  "desc" : "Odete Fortini was standing on the verandah of her house in Paracambi, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil on this night when she observed a ball of light approach and land about 200 meters away. When the light dimmed she could see that it was a disc-shaped object with a cupola on top and several small windows around its circumference. In the center of the object a door opened, and two one-meter tall humanoids stepped out. They appeared to be interested in the vegetation around the object. After a few minutes of investigation, they re-entered the object, which became bright again and took off at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3781",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2001, citing Thiago Luiz Ticchetti, EBE-ET" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/1/2001",
  "desc" : "On the same night eight-year-old Zeca Borba of Guaraja-Mirim, Para State, Brazil reported encountering and communicating with a short bluish-skinned humanoid with a large head and big eyes. The humanoid carried something that looked like a cane, and wore a silvery helmet. After 30 minutes the humanoid boarded a triangular shaped object, which quickly disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3782",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2001, citing Thiago Luiz Ticchetti, EBE-ET" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/2/1907",
  "desc" : "Burlington, Vermont. The Bishop John Michaud was standing on a Burlington street corner around 2 in the afternoon, engaged in a conversation with Ex-Governor Woodbury and Mr. A.A. Buell, when without warning they were startled by what sounded like a nearby explosion. Looking eastward along College Street they observed a torpedo-shaped object, some 300 feet away, hovering in the air about 50 feet over the tops of the buildings. It was estimated to be about 6 feet long and 8 inches in diameter. It was dark, with red flames being emitted from spots on the surface resembling unburnished copper. The object began to move slowly toward the south. As it moved the surface seemed to be rupturing in places, and through these ruptures came the intense red flames. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3783",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Charles Fort, The Complete Books of Charles Fort. New York: Dover, 1974, pg. 292." ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/2/1950",
  "desc" : "Steep Rock Lake, Ontario, Canada. A man and his wife saw a double saucer with portholes and a rotating antenna come to rest on the surface of the lake. Ten figures, four feet tall, dressed in shiny clothing, emerged and walked on deck like robots \"changing direction without turning their bodies.\" Their faces could not be seen. One of them wore a red cap, had darker arms and legs and seemed to be their leader. They immersed a hose in the lake, apparently extracted water, and then took off. Fishermen later reported a green moss formed on the lake. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3784",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 195" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/2/1956",
  "desc" : "A bright object crossed and re-crossed the sky over Conway, Massachusetts. The Greenfield Recorder-Gazette said that \"although traveling at what appeared to be a high rate of speed\" the object \"was able to reverse its course completely\". ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3785",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Arthur Constance, The Inexplicable Sky. New York: Citadel Press, 1956, pg. 280" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/2/1965",
  "desc" : "At 7:00 p.m. five scientists and meteorological observers at the English research base on Deception Island in Antarctica watched zig-zagging, maneuvering, color changing UFOs for 8-10 minutes, including a lens-shaped disc. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3786",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, pp. 234-235; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious Business, p. 284; UNICAT, case # 110; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 4, 150" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/2/1965",
  "desc" : "A woman named Brundage driving in Kent, Washington had a close encounter with a top-shaped UFO making a whistling sound at 11:00 p.m. It caused the car lights, radio, and engine to die. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3787",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "James Moseley, Saucer News, December 1965, p. 27; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 24; Brad Steiger & Joan Whritenour, Flying Saucers are Hostile, p. 41" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/2/1968",
  "desc" : "At 11:25 a.m. 15-year old Oscar Iriart was riding his horse in Sierra Chica, Buenos Aires, Argentina and encountered two strange men who beckoned to him. They were five and a half feet tall, with thin white hair and wore red clothing. The witness noticed that their legs were semi transparent. They told him, in Spanish, \"You are going to know the world. We will take you. But not now, as we have a big load.\" They directed his attention to an elliptical object six feet in diameter, standing on 20\" tripod legs in a drainage ditch. Then one of them handed the boy an envelope, telling him to dip it into a nearby puddle. He did so, and found that neither the envelope nor his hand were wetted. In the envelope, written in a crude hand like a small child's, was the message, \"You are going to know the world, F. Saucer.\" The two men then got into their machine through the top, and it took off vertically at great speed. Oscar found both his horse and dog paralyzed, and unable to move for some minutes. At the spot were found 3 holes 5\" deep, arranged in an isosceles triangle. 5 local skeptics visited the site at 2315 that night and were amazed to observed a luminous object zigzag above them at low altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3788",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-41, citing Raul Coronel, FSR, September-October 1968" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/2/1968",
  "desc" : "At 8:15 p.m. a boy named Sola saw a bright object hovering over a nearby mountain in Cofico, Salta province, Argentina. At the same time the boy beheld at only a few meters distance from him, a \"strange being about 2.10 meters in height, hanging suspended in air, his body emitting a strange luminosity.\" This being suddenly spun around like a top, then rose into the air and vanished above the mountain. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3789",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-40, citing FSR, Vol. 14, No. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/2/1968",
  "desc" : "A woman in St. Alexis de Montcalm, Quebec, Canada saw a green object shaped like a hat or mushroom at 9:14 p.m. which flew by at the height of her apartment window. She believed she saw up to 20 small men inside, all of green color with rather pointed noses, resembling sculptures in the African Pavilion at the Montreal Expo. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3790",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-85, citing Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/2/1968",
  "desc" : "Constable M. Michaud and another police officer in St. Thomas, Quebec, Canada reported that at 9:30 p.m. they saw two naked little men run through a drainage ditch and flee. Their report stated that they thought they had cornered the \"little men\" but they disappeared as they were about to be apprehended. They were estimated to be only two feet tall with shoulders the size of adults and disproportionately large heads. The appearance of a large meteor at the time was also noted. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3791",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-42, citing Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science, Fall 1968" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/2/1968",
  "desc" : "Several witnesses in Wooler, Ontario, Canada saw a bright object land on some nearby brush at 10:00 p.m.. Later several shadowy beings were seen entering nearby homes and reportedly they took several items. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3792",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case #2409, citing FSR" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/2/1969",
  "desc" : "An small flying object was reported to have landed next to the local primary school in Johore Baru, Johore province, Malaysia at 10:35 a.m. Several school children reported seeing five tiny men like figures wearing red colored outfits emerge from the object. The children rushed at the little men in an attempt to capture one but they jumped into a hole in the ground and hid. The UFO was described as silvery colored, and it also vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3793",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ahmad Jamaluddin, A Summary of UFO and Related events in Malaysia 1950-1980" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/2/1990",
  "desc" : "Kiev, Ukraine - Vitaly Rudenko and his brother were sleeping on the roof of their kitchen around midnight when they spotted a maneuvering light that changed color from a light silver to a brilliant yellow. As they watched an eerie silence surrounded them. Rudenko half jokingly yelled out, \"Come down and take us!\" Quite unexpectedly, the light descended rapidly and hovered very close to them. They described it as an enormous sphere that was slightly elongated. A dazzling beam of light shot out from the sphere and struck both men. At this point they lost all track of what happened next. Rudenko woke up later crawling through the vegetable garden with his clothing scorched. His brother was found unconscious with bruises on his forehead. No hypnotic regression has been attempted to date. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3794",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1990, citing UFOZone, Russia" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/2/2001",
  "desc" : "On this night Jose Da Silva in Canatuma, Amazonas State, Brazil saw a large disc-shaped object with several windows and a small doorway into which two two-meter tall humanoids were seen to enter. Immediately after boarding, the object began to spin very rapidly and rose slowly from the ground. It then emitted a sudden bright flash of light from the top section, and vanished in front of the witness. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3795",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2001, citing Thiago Luiz Ticchetti, EBE-ET" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/3/1947",
  "desc" : "There are 35 unexplained UFO, USO (unidentified submarine object), and humanoid reports for this day in UFOCAT, including the alleged discovery of the famous Roswell debris field by Mac Brazel on a ranch near Corona, New Mexico and the discovery of a crashed disc by Barney Barnett in an arroyo near Magdelena, New Mexico. A cluster of three reports came from around Cincinnati, Ohio between 10:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. A cluster of another three reports came from Prince Edward Island, Canada at 5:45 p.m. including the sighting of a black cigar-shaped object in Charlottetown. There was a third cluster of sightings from Sonoma County, California where a forest fire lookout in Fort Ross saw what looked like a burning ship sink slowly into the Pacific Ocean where no ship was reported missing. There was a fourth cluster of three sightings between Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, DC. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3796",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U Computer database, case 782; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT, case A2038; Cincinnati (OH) Post, July 3, 1947; Cincinnati (OH) Enquirer, July 9, 1947; Windsor (ON) Daily Star, July 5, 1947; Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 6); Baltimore Sun, July 6, 1947" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/3/1947",
  "desc" : "Harborside, Maine - John F. Cole, an astronomer, watched a series of objects that gave off a roaring noise at 2:30 in the afternoon from Harborside, south of Brooksville, Maine. The objects were in the north and were proceeding northwest at a high speed. He estimated their diameter at 100 feet. Calling the report an \"unusually well-supported incident,\" the Air Force had no explanation. However, years later the Air Materiel Command publicly explained the event as \"birds or insects\". This sighting was also one of the 1947 cases investigated by the FBI. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3797",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, pg. 51; Donald Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, pg. 89" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/3/1947",
  "desc" : "In the village of Mendon, Vermont at 9:00 p.m. Mrs. Spieski sighted a cylindrical UFO, shaped like a flashlight with a white head and green body. It flew at a moderate speed over a meadow at low altitude, heading toward the southwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3798",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted Bloecher; Rutland (VT) Herald, July 9, 1947" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/3/1949",
  "desc" : "A blue-green fireball was sighted at dawn north of Vaughn, Montana. It lit up the sky from horizon to horizon. At 10:40 a.m. 200 spectators watched three identical disc-shaped objects fly over an air show being held in Longview, Washington. Another disc-shaped flying object was sighted in Astoria, Oregon at 1:00 p.m. At 3:00 p.m. in Sterling State Park on the shore of Lake Erie in Michigan, Mr. D. Swarz was watching 2 AT6 airplanes when his attention was drawn to a metallic disc high above moving rapidly in opposite direction. The object went south over the western end of Lake Erie and was gone in 11 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3799",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Edward Sullivan, CSI-Los Angeles letters from witnesses; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, p. 86; newspaper clipping datelined Astoria, OR July 5, 1949." ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/3/1955",
  "desc" : "Mrs. Wesley Symmonds was driving near Stockton, Georgia when she saw four \"bug-eyed\" creatures near the road. They were small beings with thin arms, wide shoulders, large eyes, and pointed chins. Two were turned away from the witness; one was bending over with something like a stick in its hand; and the fourth one was facing her with its right arm raised. It had bulging eyes, a sort of cap, no visible mouth, a long pointed nose, a chin that came to a sharp point, and long thin arms with claws. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3800",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Leonard Stringfield, Inside Saucer Post...3-0 Blue, Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 249-250" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/3/1960",
  "desc" : "An Argentinean Air Force Captain photographed a cone-shaped UFO between Yacanto and Cordoba, Argentina at 4:30 p.m. There was a mystery fall of ice from the sky in Portage, Pennsylvania. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3801",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR Case Histories, December 1973, p. 17; George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 788" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/3/1961",
  "desc" : "An object resembling a hovercraft was seen at fifteen minutes after minute in Ryde, England. It had five windows through which a bright orange light was shining, and it hovered about 20 meters above the trees. It left suddenly at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3802",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 520" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/3/1965",
  "desc" : "At their base on Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica two Chilean scientists, Barrera and Perisse, witnessed, tracked with a theodolite, and photographed a bluish-green lighted object that zigzagged and caused strong radio frequency interference beginning at 7:14 p.m. Another electromagnetic effect was that the UFO registered on their magnetograph tapes and variometers. Photographs were taken. The blue-green lighted object was seen zig-zagging. There was a government coverup. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3803",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "La Razon, July 6, 1965; NICAP UFO Investigator, September 1965, p. 2; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious Business, p. 281; UNICAT, case 11; BUFORA Journal, May-June 1965, p. 18; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 315-316" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/3/1967",
  "desc" : "An 8-mm home movie was made at 1:00 a.m. in Buckhorn, Ontario when a family saw 15 lights darting about in the sky. Mr. Denniss shot a few feet of film in the direction of flight. On the film is a red, round luminous object, flattened slightly on the top. They next saw three lights traveling in a triangle formation. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3804",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Skylook, January 1968, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/3/1968",
  "desc" : "Around midnight a man driving in a car in Colle Orlando, Italy had a tall humanoid jump onto the roadway from an embankment in front of him. The being wore blue overalls, had long hair, and a bright light shone from his chest. The being easily jumped over the car, laughed, then jumped to a hill where a small red disc was hovering. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3805",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, 1968, case 99, citing ITACAT" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/3/1976",
  "desc" : "Two 14-year-old girls, Ms. Chapman and Ms. Perry, in Mawman, England heard a hissing sound around 10 o'clock at night. They then saw a flying humanoid as big as a man, with glowing red eyes. It looked like \"a big owl with pointed ears.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3806",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT, case A1641, citing Fortean Times, August 1976, p. 17" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/3/1999",
  "desc" : "A couple driving between Oostende and Bruges, Belgium saw a triangular object hovering seven meters above a field. It was silver and black with lights in each corner, and had a pulsating red light in the center. When one of them tried to photograph it the craft approached them. They panicked and drove off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3807",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), November 1999, p. 29" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/4/1947",
  "desc" : "There are 73 UFO reports from across the United States and one report from Canada recorded for this day in UFOCAT. The majority of the reports fall in a swath from the Pacific Northwest down through the Mississippi River Valley. Most of these sightings were of flyovers by daylight discs, although there was one humanoid report from Fort Worth, Texas.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3808",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "7/4/1947",
  "desc" : "The retrieval of UFO wreckage and bodies allegedly occurred on this day from a crash site near Corona, New Mexico. The bodies were taken later to Roswell AFB, New Mexico and then flown to Carswell AFB in Texas. According to the relatives of witnesses who shared details about the alien humanoid bodies, they had baldheads, small sunken eyes, small noses, no ears, long forearms, and only four long slender fingers on each hand. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3809",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Patrick Huyghe, Field Guide to Extraterrestrials: A complete overview of alien life forms based on actual accounts and sightings, p. 22" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/4/1947",
  "desc" : "At noon while flying between Tonopah and Austin, Nevada and cruising at an estimated 10,000 feet altitude, Mr. Harris and his passenger sighted five circular objects flying below his airplane. They were shiny and reflected sunlight. He tried to catch up to them but could not. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3810",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Nevada Daily Free Press, July 7, 1947" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/4/1947",
  "desc" : "A young woman driving in the afternoon on the outskirts of Fort Worth, Texas saw a 25-foot diameter flying disc. She got out of her car and waved. The object tipped and the human-appearing occupants waved back to her, and then the disc flew away in silence. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3811",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Brinsley Le Poer Trench, Mysterious Visitors, p. 91" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/4/1947",
  "desc" : "At 1:05 p.m. a police officer at police headquarters in Portland, Oregon saw five flying discs, two going south, three flying to the east at high speed. They were oscillating around a central vertical axis. Minutes later two police, both pilots, saw three more discs trailing one another. Then four patrolmen reported seeing 3-6 \"chrome hubcaps\" flying over the city. At about the same time a highway patrolman in Milwaukee, Oregon watched two or three shiny white saucers fly quickly toward the northwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3812",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Thomas Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, p. 2; Oregon Journal, July 5, 1947" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/4/1947",
  "desc" : "Also that day four silent discs passed the summit of Mount Jefferson in Oregon flying at a high rate of speed. In Troutdale, Oregon a V-shaped object flew toward the northeast over the Columbia River. It made dipping motions during its flight, and was observed through binoculars by three men. In Vancouver, Washington 20-30 round objects flew toward the west and south in straight-line formations. A low humming sound was heard. North of Craig, Montana a string of twelve plate-shaped objects flew over a couple while they were out fishing on a bridge at 3:00 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3813",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; The Oregonian, July 5 & 6, 1947; International UFO Reporter, Winter 1998; Wyoming State Tribune, July 6, 1947" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/4/1947",
  "desc" : "At 5:30 p.m. at the residential area of Greenwood Lake in north Seattle, Washington Mr. Larson sighted a round white object descend vertically, then make a ninety-degree turn and proceed horizontally flying toward the south. Two more people at the nearby University of Washington campus also saw the UFO, as did 21 more in the Lake City area of the city. One of the witnesses in the Lake City area took a photograph. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3814",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A preliminary report on the 1947 UFO sighting wave, p. 82; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, p. 257; Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 8, 1947" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/4/1947",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. an orange ball of light, \"as big around as a barrel,\" which resolved itself into a disc, frightened Ms. M. Voigt of Edgerton, Wisconsin. The UFO flew fast across the sky but was back again for ten minutes, when it then suddenly vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3815",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Madison Capital-Times, July 7, 1947" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/4/1957",
  "desc" : "A disc with brightly illuminated windows followed a REAL airliner flying between Campos and Victoria, Brazil. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3816",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, September 1957, p. 11" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/4/1959",
  "desc" : "The crew of a USAF RB-66 aircraft sighted a group of 16 cream colored oval-shaped objects flying at 36,000 feet altitude over the China Sea. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3817",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 31" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/4/1969",
  "desc" : "Ossipee, New Hampshire - The principal witness was fishing in a boat at about 7:00 in the morning when he heard a big splash behind him. He swung around and looked up to see a silver oval shaped object about 30 feet in diameter, 300 feet above him. The UFO made a humming sound as it rose to about 3000 feet and hovered. There was a second witness to the UFO. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3818",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs Interplanetary Visitors, pg. 356" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/4/1969",
  "desc" : "At eight o'clock in the evening Mauricio Gnecco saw a yellowish red light moving in the sky over Anolaima, Colombia. When he signaled to it with a flashlight it approached to within 150 feet of his house. It was a Saturn-shaped UFO, yellow-orange in color, and had two bent, blue and green legs. It appeared to land on a nearby hill. Arcesio Bermudez, an adult, went to the landing site and approached to within 20 feet of the craft. He saw a being inside the object whose upper body looked normal, but whose lower half--from the waist down--resembled a luminous letter \"A\". The object then \"blinked on,\" rose and disappeared. Two days later Sr. Bermudez became very ill, and within a few days he died of gastroenteritis. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3819",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-41, citing John Simhon for APRO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/4/1969",
  "desc" : "The witness and her father had gone to a local racetrack in Eau Claire, Wisconsin and at around 10:30 p.m. she was sitting by herself on the top bleachers when she had a feeling she was being watched. She looked to her right and saw a UFO hovering about 1,000 feet away. She described it as an oval-shaped craft, with a transparent rectangular section in the center. She saw inside this transparent part the silhouettes of several men staring at her. At one point she briefly looked away, and when she looked back the object had disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3820",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1969, case # 3174, citing Minnesota MUFON" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/4/1970",
  "desc" : "Sequoyah Trueblood was sitting by his pool at his townhouse in Laurel, Maryland, watching his children swimming with his wife sitting next to him. Without knowing why, he felt compelled to leave. He got up, went into the house, changed his clothes, packed a small bag, drove to the airport and took a plane to Oklahoma City. A friend then drove him to Norman, Oklahoma. He felt strange and wanted to lie down, so went to lie down in his friend's bedroom. He was lying down relaxing when he saw a vortex of swirling lights \"like a rainbow\" into which he was sucked. Mr. Trueblood then found himself standing in a beautiful garden surrounded by hedges. He felt wide awake. In front of him he saw a silvery saucer-shaped craft and a shimmering small silver being standing on steps that came down from the bottom of the craft. The being had a grayish complexion and had a large baldhead with large eyes. The witness sensed that the being was \"androgynous,\" neither male nor female. The being communicated telepathically and told him that he had been sent to take him because \"they\" wanted to talk to him. He agreed to go and walked up the steps. Once inside the craft he heard no sound, but through a small window he could see the moon, the sun, and \"millions of stars\" go by in an instant. Soon the craft was hovering over a beautiful white city in what he believed was another planet or universe. He next found himself down on the ground. The people in the city appeared to be both male and female, wore white robes, and were fair skinned with \"hair that was glowing like the color of sunlight.\" The small being then took him down a street lined with beautiful white buildings three stories tall to a clearing in the woods that seemed like a park. There were a number of people there, and a male said to him that if he would \"pay attention.\" The people told him that they did not need food, for the air they breathed was converted into what was needed to sustain life. A leader figure told him that he had been brought here to show him the potential of the human race. Soon he asked to be returned, and was taken back into the craft, through the vortex, and found himself back in bed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3821",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1970, citing John E Mack, M.D, Passport to the Cosmos" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/4/1975",
  "desc" : "At five minutes after midnight a 70-foot diameter domed disc was seen near Mountain Lakes, New Jersey sweeping the ground with a bright beam of light near highway 46. It then flew off toward the northeast. There was radio interference noted at the time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3822",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Skylook, September 1975, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/4/1975",
  "desc" : "Nine teenagers were at a campground in Kentucky on this night. Debbie and Nan Kitley, ages 16 and 17, had gone back out to their pickup truck to talk on the CB radio. The lights on the truck and the CB radio went dead when four bright lights descended over them. They both had a memory lapse about what happened next. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3823",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery. Volume 2: Catalogue of Cases, case 195, citing 1984 MUFON UFO Proceedings, p. 168" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/4/1976",
  "desc" : "On this morning in Mawman, England a young girl and her sister saw a man perched in a tree nearby who had legs \"bent backwards like a bird.\" It had red glowing eyes and a gray body. It saw them and rose straight up through the trees. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3824",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of humanoid reports, case A1642" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/4/1976",
  "desc" : "At 12:45 p.m. a huge disc-shaped object hovered for a long time over Bilbao, Spain. It flew back over the city and surrounding area several times, then made a ninety-degree turn and flew off toward the south. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3825",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 11764" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/4/1978",
  "desc" : "At 3:15 p.m. in Santa Paula, California a small domed disc-shaped object, about 3-4 feet in diameter with rotating parts on top, made a head-on pass at two witnesses in an airplane. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3826",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, August 1978, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/4/1978",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. at Mount Etna, Italy three red objects, one a domed disc ten meters in diameter, landed behind a mountain. Five or six \"Nordic\" looking beings with long blond hair emerged from the craft, wearing uniforms that looked like diving suits. The four witnesses were paralyzed and could not move during the event. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3827",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, August 1978, p. 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/4/1981",
  "desc" : "At 9:20 p.m. a star-like object flew in a sine-wave pattern across in sky in Shazhou County, China. Fire lookouts at the Sopelia Tower station on the Yakima Indian Reservation in Washington State reported seeing mysterious balls of light at 10:15 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3828",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Wendelle Stevens & Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, p. 223; Greg Long, Examining the Earthlight Theory: The Yakima UFO Microcosm, p. 134" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/4/1987",
  "desc" : "On this Fourth of July holiday two adult women in Pensacola, Florida were outside in the evening setting off sparklers when they spotted a light in the sky. It first appeared to be flying south but it then turned in their direction and approached, coming to within 30 feet of them. Both ran into their house screaming. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3829",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Rex Salisberry, MUFON case investigation files, case 890704" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/4/1989",
  "desc" : "An abduction attempt took place on this evening in a park near Kiev, Ukraine on the banks of the Dnieper River. Two women, Vera Prokofiyevna, a retired factory employee, and her friend Alexandra Stepanovna, an engineer, together with Alexandra's six-year-old daughter, were out strolling in the park. At twilight they approached the river and suddenly saw what they took to be a boat with three beings on board. The beings looked very pale and had identical faces, like identical twins. The had long blond hair, big eyes, and were wearing collarless silver shirts that looked like nightgowns. They bluntly told the women they were from another planet, so far away that your minds \"cannot fathom it.\" They went on to say that everyday they take a person from Earth to their world. \"We will take you. Our ship is nearby; we will show it to you.\" They spoke Russian with a strange accent that Prokofiyevna described as \"ancient\" rather than foreign. They then surrounded the three, preventing them from leaving. The women started begging them not to take them because they had children and families.<br/><br/> Behind some trees they saw the craft. It was silvery colored like their clothing and looked like a huge barrel with a circular antenna on top of it. The little girl began crying and the women reacted to this with deep anguish. They were then told, \"well, we won't take you, we will find others.\" They went inside the craft by using a ladder with three steps. The ladder withdrew inside, the door automatically closed once the beings were aboard, and the craft took off without making any noise or causing any disturbance of the air or the sand beneath it. Soon it was high in the sky and looked like a small star. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3830",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, pp. 37-39, citing investigation by Dr. Alexander F. Pugach" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/4/1994",
  "desc" : "At midnight at homes in Caille, France television sets and electric lights flickered and went out when a metallic, parasol-shaped UFO flew twisting maneuvers through the night sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3831",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 327" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/4/1998",
  "desc" : "At 10:23 a.m. an object in the sky over Waikiki, Hawaii made erratic maneuvers in the sky, moving in circles with up-and-down motions. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3832",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, July 1998 web page" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/4/2000",
  "desc" : "Several reports were received between 10:00 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. from various locales in King and Pierce Counties, Washington State reporting the sighting of at least one red UFO hovering above the clouds, for an average of ten to fifteen minutes at a time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3833",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, July 2000 web page" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/5/1933",
  "desc" : "A huge circular object dropped down into the center of a formation of RAF fighter aircraft over Sussex, England. Two of the planes suffered engine failure and were forced to make emergency landings. One pilot suffered burns to his face and hands after his airplane passed close by the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3834",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century, p. 16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/5/1947",
  "desc" : "There are 59 UFO reports from across the United States and one from Canada recorded for this day in UFOCAT. The geographical distribution of the UFO sightings is similar to the day before, but with many more reports from California and the Great Lakes. The majority of these reports were of flyovers by daylight discs.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3835",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "7/5/1947",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 a.m. two discs zoomed in from the west over Sacramento, California. One banked sharply and headed north. According to one witness, it \"seemed to stand on one edge as it turned.\" Both objects left vapor trails. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3836",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted Bloecher, citing the Sacramento Bee, July 7, 1947" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/5/1947",
  "desc" : "Albuquerque, New Mexico - Five discs flew toward the east over the city at 9 o'clock in the morning; one circled back over the city. In the afternoon five witnesses saw a sphere maneuver in-and-out of clouds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3837",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave; Albuquerque Journal, July 6, 1947" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/5/1947",
  "desc" : "In Augusta, Maine at 1:15 p.m. local time, two witnesses, including the program director of WRDO Radio, saw twelve discs flying rapidly in a straight line toward Bangor in a north-northeasterly direction. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3838",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Daily Kennebec Journal, July 7, 1947" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/5/1947",
  "desc" : "At 1:00 p.m. in 1947 a party of surveyors in Payette, Idaho saw four silvery discs that each had a dark line in the center fly toward the northwest at an estimated speed of 800 km per hour. They were lost in the clouds at an estimated altitude of 8,000 feet. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3839",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 862" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/5/1947",
  "desc" : "In clear sky at 3:00 p.m. in Anaconda, Montana a man saw six silvery objects fluttering as they flew toward the east. A woman, an independent witness, also saw the same three fluttering objects disappear over the horizon. Both witnesses called the police. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3840",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jan Aldrich, A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 80" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/5/1947",
  "desc" : "at 7:00 p.m. in daylight skies over Neapolis, Ohio a TWA flight crew saw a propeller-shaped object rotating slowly as it flew beneath the airliner. It was flying at an estimated speed of 200 mph. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3841",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted Bloecher, newspaper clipping dated July 6, 1947" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/5/1965",
  "desc" : "On this day at 6 o'clock in the morning a photograph was taken of a flying disc-shaped object coming out of the Russian River near Kenai, Alaska. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3842",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, November-December 1965" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/5/1967",
  "desc" : "One hundred people in Clifton, England claimed to have seen a silvery disc-shaped object, about ten meters meters long, land in the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3843",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case 852" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/5/1968",
  "desc" : "North Adams, Massachusetts - A green light larger than a star was seen moving slowly through the sky. Through binoculars it looked like a green ball with a reddish trail. When an airplane approached it, the object \"blinked out\" and then reappeared after the plane was gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3844",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs Interplanetary Visitors, pg. 353" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/5/1972",
  "desc" : "At 1:30 a.m. a landed UFO started a grass fire when it took off in King William's Town, South Africa. The object resembled a \"sailor's cap.\" Some witnesses in a car attempted to pursue the object but it accelerated out of sight. At 9 p.m. an orange fireball made a huge arc through the sky and then came to hover over some trucks at the Witput railway station in Kraankuil, South Africa. At 10:15 p.m. a huge flying sphere hovered only seven meters in front of a car in Vryburg, South Africa. It changed colors from red to green, gave off sparks, turned yellow, and was gone in a huge flash. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3845",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, November-December 1972, p. 15; newspaper clipping, July 7, 1972; Data-Net Report, August 1972, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/5/1976",
  "desc" : "At 9 o'clock in the morning two brothers, 8-year-old Andy and 6 year-old Joel Rygh were playing in Gitchie Manitou Park, Iowa when they heard \"strange noises followed by a grunting sound and then a whistle.\" When they looked in the direction of the noises they saw a seven-foot tall man standing behind a bush. He was wearing a shiny blue uniform. When the whistling sound became louder the boys ran to get their brothers Chris, age 11, and Tom, age 9. All four boys then saw a pulsating glowing domed object emerge from behind a large tree 50 yards away. The object was \"about the size and shape of a large haystack.\" It hovered with a humming sound for five seconds, and then sped away. Small oak trees that the craft hovered over were later found defoliated. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3846",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Pat Miller, Sioux Falls (SD) Argus-Leader, August 15, 1976" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/5/1978",
  "desc" : "On this night a bell-shaped UFO hovered just outside an apartment window in Forest Park, Georgia only five or six feet away. It was about 12 feet in diameter and made no noise as it moved silently over the next apartment complex. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3847",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Edward Walters, UFOs are real: Her's the proof, p. 126" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/5/1980",
  "desc" : "A large silent sphere dropped to the surface of Lake Navsjon north of Naveksvarn, Sweden at 11:50 p.m. It changed colors while on the surface of the lake. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3848",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "AFU Sweden" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/5/1984",
  "desc" : "A disc with an orange halo hovered over a park in Cape Girardeau, Missouri at 9:38 p.m. at an estimated altitude of 1,000 feet. It winked out after fifteen seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3849",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, February 1985, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/5/1991",
  "desc" : "A twenty-foot diameter crop circle was found in a wheat field in Medina, New York. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3850",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, case 1109" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/5/1996",
  "desc" : "Taking a break from work at 3:10 p.m., a 32-year-old woman in Mounds View, Minnesota stepped outside her workplace to do some bird watching when she saw a gray sphere high in the sky that traveled quickly across the sky for about two minutes. It was lost from view when still about 50 degrees above the northwest horizon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3851",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Greg C. Lang, MUFON case investigations file, case no. 961109bC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/5/1999",
  "desc" : "When the witness turned the light on outside her shed in Ross, Tasmania she noticed an orange glowing rectangular structure 200 meters away beyond some trees. It was about the size of a house and was surrounded by vapor. It rose, tilted at an angle, and then just faded from view. There were no traces at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3852",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Keith Roberts, Tasmania UFO Information Centre, November 1999 web page" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/5/2000",
  "desc" : "At around 4 p.m. Robert Taylor, age 22, remembers being abducted near McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey. He found himself inside a very misty room surrounded by a green aura. There were soft \"chairs\" and a long table in the center of the room. He met several aliens described as about six feet tall, with very long thin arms and legs. The humanoids emitted a strange humming sound. He suffered from bizarre physiological aftereffects soon after the incident. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3853",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, citing UFO Watch" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/6/1874",
  "desc" : "In Oaxaca, Mexico a 130-meter long spiral-shaped \"trumpet\" and a 60-meter diameter bell hovered and floated in the sky for five minutes and then vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3854",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Charles Fort, Book of the Damned, p. 275" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/6/1947",
  "desc" : "There are 127 UFO reports for this day recorded in the UFOCAT database. Cities with multiple reports include St. Louis, Missouri: Birmingham, Alabama; Tucson, Arizona; Patterson, New Jersey; Chicago, Illinois, Darlington, South Carolina; Boise, Idaho; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Portland, Oregon; and Mount Vernon, Washington.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3855",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "7/6/1947",
  "desc" : "At five o'clock in the morning, Mr. McLean and his son were driving through Pocatello, Idaho at dawn when they saw a three-foot wide disc with a bulge in the middle land on a city street. It rose up, made some jerky movements, and then shot straight up. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3856",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Pocatello Tribune, July 7, 1947; Seattle (WA) Post-Intelligencer, July 8, 1947" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/6/1947",
  "desc" : "Mr. Bates, an airline passenger in a plane flying southeast of Boise, Idaho watched a disc flash by his window at one o'clock in the afternoon. It was heading toward the southwest. A stewardess quickly rushed over to look. That evening over Boise, silver discs whirled and changed directions several times in several minutes, as if searching for something. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3857",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Edward Sullivan, letters received by Civilian Saucer Intelligence, Los Angeles, April 5, 1952; Boise Idaho Daily Statesman, July 7, 1947" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/6/1947",
  "desc" : "Three airmen flying aboard an Army Air Force B-25 near Clay Center, Kansas saw a silvery circular object, 10-15 meters in diameter, at 1:45 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3858",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 37" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/6/1947",
  "desc" : "A Phillips Petroleum aircraft with two men on board, flying near the Kansas-Colorado border, reported that nine metallic, revolving objects came flying at their airplane this afternoon, one-by-one, for 15 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3859",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/6/1947",
  "desc" : "On this day Mr. Miller, a farmer in Logansport, Indiana heard a whining roar that drew his attention to a gray, spinning saucer-shaped object in the sky. It descended and hovered for several seconds. It then rose up into the clouds and was gone from view. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3860",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Indianapolis News, July 1947" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/6/1947",
  "desc" : "At 4:00 p.m. in Savannah, Georgia a metallic ovoid object, then two more metallic ovoid craft flew in the direction of the ESE; descriptions of the UFO differed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3861",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomena 1947-1967, p. 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/6/1947",
  "desc" : "Three shiny discs in a delta formation flew high and fast toward the north across Lake Ponchartrain, Louisiana at 5:10 p.m. They entered a cloud and were gone from sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3862",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case 451" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/6/1947",
  "desc" : "At 5:15 p.m. in Sioux Falls, South Dakota a silver orb shot toward the southwest \"faster than any plane.\" It flew at an estimated altitude of ten thousand feet. It had what appeared to be a road stuck through the center of the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3863",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Sioux Falls (SD) Daily Argus-Leader, July 7, 1947" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/6/1947",
  "desc" : "At 5:30 p.m. a low flying shiny circular object, floated like dirigible near the ground over a wheat field in Emporia, Kansas. It veered slowly to pass over a hill and fly toward the southwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3864",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A preliminary report on the 1947 UFO sighting wave, p. 85" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/6/1947",
  "desc" : "At 6:00 p.m. Mrs. Stollmaier in Terrace Park, Ohio saw two \"shiny silver plates\" travel north to south at high rate of speed. They appeared to be gaining altitude as they flew. At the same time northwest of Richmond, Virginia twelve shiny metallic discs wavered and flipped across the sky, just below the clouds at an estimated altitude of 500 feet. At 7:00 p.m. a black disc flew across the sky in Portsmouth, Virginia. It flight was silent, \"as if towed.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3865",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Cincinnati Enquirer, July 7, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, cases 442 & 457" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/6/1947",
  "desc" : "At six o'clock in the evening in Norman, Oklahoma the University of Oklahoma Dean of Engineering and four others watched one, then two more UFOs shoot to the west at a very high speed. They were estimated to be flying at 20,000 feet altitude. A round object flew across the sky to the west \"awfully fast\" over Anadarko, Oklahoma at 6:30 p.m. That same evening a light colored 40-foot wide disc flew just below the clouds in Edgewood, Texas. It speed was judged to be faster than a plane, and it seemed to be gaining altitude as it flew toward the northwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3866",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Daily Oklahoman, July 8, 1947; Dallas Morning News, July 7, 1947" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/6/1947",
  "desc" : "At 7:00 p.m. three families in West Hartford, Connecticut including a physician, saw a reddish brown disc move at great speed in a straight line flying toward the northwest. At about the same time in New Hampshire two large discs flew over the town of Londonderry, making a whistling noise. That same night a disc with a Maltese cross inscribed on it flew on a straight, northerly course over East Providence, Rhode Island. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3867",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Hartford Times, July 7, 1947; Manchester Union-Leader, July 7, 1947; Providence Journal, July 7, 1947" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/6/1947",
  "desc" : "At 7:00 p.m. a silver disc dipped down out of the sky and climbed back up again south of St. Joseph, Missouri. It then shot to the northeast very fast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3868",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case 468" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/6/1947",
  "desc" : "A 9:45 p.m. a military witness sighted up to eleven discs and some 40 nocturnal lights over Birmingham, Alabama. The discs whirled through the sky and flew off toward the west. Both the Air Force and the FBI investigated the case. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3869",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1978, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/6/1947",
  "desc" : "Four luminous discs drifted to the west at the same altitude as the clouds at 10:30 p.m. over Woodlawn, Maryland. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3870",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Baltimore News-Post, July 7, 1947" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/6/1947",
  "desc" : "A \"rolling\" luminous disc was seen flying south of Omaha, Nebraska at 11:45 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3871",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Omaha World-Herald, July 7, 1947" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/6/1951",
  "desc" : "A UFO zigzagged over Lynchburg, Virginia at 8:25 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3872",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Edward Sullivan, letters received by Civilian Saucer Intelligence, Los Angeles, March 2, 1952" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/6/1952",
  "desc" : "Amateur photographer Neff was making time exposures at Governors Island, New York. He didn't see a UFO at the time, but an unidentified object appeared on the film when developed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3873",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1397" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/6/1959",
  "desc" : "At 12:50 a.m. a round oval-shaped UFO with a dark band encircling the object and four illuminated domed portholes under the dark band, was sighted by Orwin and Smith in Baniara, Papua New Guinea. That night at 8:40 p.m. a disc-shaped UFO did a loop over Dogura, Papua New Guinea. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3874",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Norman E G Cruttwell, UFOs in the two worlds: FSR Special Edition no. 4, pp. 21, 35" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/6/1960",
  "desc" : "A moon-like object was sighted by eight scientists over Teli, Russia at a 45-degree elevation above the horizon. The UFO flew to the north moving at 1.5 degrees of arc per minute. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3875",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Felix Zigel, unpublished manuscript, p. 79; Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 185" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/6/1965",
  "desc" : "The commander and night crew of the Norwegian tanker \"Jawesta\" observed a lighted object flying out of the sea from Puerto La Cruz, Portugal. First Officer Toronin Lien first saw the large, blue, intense flame behind the ship moving at high speed. He called the captain and tracked the object with binoculars as its altitude reached about 300 meters. Its was cigar shaped, with a row of lighted portholes showing a clear yellow glow, and it left a bluish trail. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3876",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 651" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/6/1965",
  "desc" : "Mrs. E. R. Hayner saw a flashing light, like a satellite, at 9:30 p.m. in Kiel, Wisconsin.  It was seen for less than one minute. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3877",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 9474; Don Berliner, Blue Book UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/6/1967",
  "desc" : "A very bright, white, star-like object rose slowly over Stoney Cross in the New Forest, England at 2:15 a.m. It stopped, flew \"half-way back\", then made numerous high-speed loops and dives at fantastic speeds. It then disappeared in a cloudy mist. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3878",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP investigation files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/6/1968",
  "desc" : "At 1:17 a.m. a married couple in La Habra, California noticed a hovering cigar-shaped object with two circular objects beneath it. These two lights rose and merged into the larger object, which then took off. The couple noted that their dog was agitated during the sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3879",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon I. R. Lore, Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 73" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/6/1969",
  "desc" : "An extremely bright blue-green, metallic disc was observed over the local radio transmitter in Goiania, Brazil at 5 o'clock in the morning. It flew away toward the south, flying in zigzags and moving up and down in the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3880",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dr. Walter Buhler, Brazilian cases in 1968 and 1969-part 6, FSR Case Histories no. 7, October 1971, p. 16, citing Cinco de Marco, July 16, 1969" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/6/1971",
  "desc" : "Two witnesses with binoculars in Ouhans, France heard a dull roaring sound at 2:30 a.m., and then saw a bell-shaped object jumping about in the sky like a moth. It shot away toward the northeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3881",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Nachrichten, October 1971" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/6/1972",
  "desc" : "A light over Cheox, Belgium at first appeared to be behaving like a satellite, traveling from the north-northwest to the south-southeast. It stopped in place for 15 seconds and suddenly shot off in the same south-southeasterly direction. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3882",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 9577" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/6/1973",
  "desc" : "A 51-year-old married couple in Fonda, Iowa sighted a bright yellow light in the southwestern sky. It moved slowly toward the west-northwest, changing colors from yellow to red to blue. It seemed to be round in shape. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3883",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Fort Dodge (IA) Messenger, July 9, 1973" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/6/1974",
  "desc" : "In Madison County, Nebraska a cattle mutilation was discovered here. A Bigfoot report occurred on the previous day in Burt County, three counties to the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3884",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Fate, November 1974, p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/6/1975",
  "desc" : "A mutilated cow was found dropped over the entrance to NORAD Headquarters located under Cheyenne Mountain, outside of Colorado Springs, Colorado. All reproductive organs were removed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3885",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Messengers of Deception, p. 192" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/6/1975",
  "desc" : "At five o'clock in the afternoon in Mount Pleasant, Ontario a shiny metallic domed disc was seen in a tobacco field. A thirty-foot diameter area of plants was flattened, the tobacco plants were wilted and burned, and an oily residue was found. At the same time a daylight disc made a turn and entered the base of a thunderhead cloud, thirty miles north-northwest of Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3886",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1975; Canadian UFO Report, Summer 1976, p. 1; Center for UFO Studies, on-site investigation, report dated September 13, 1975; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 122 & 264" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/6/1977",
  "desc" : "Steynsburg, South Africa - At 5:50 p.m. a spherical light--larger than the apparent size of Venus--moved, hovered for two minutes, and then shot away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3887",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Awareness, April 1979, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/6/1978",
  "desc" : "An \"apportation\" (an translocation in time or space) allegedly occurred near Mendoza, Argentina on this date in 1978. Francisco Nunez, age 66, and his son of the same name, age 24, both mechanics, were driving south of the city in their 1930 Chevy pickup when their vehicle was lifted from road. They experienced a total change in their environment and scenery and found themselves speeding through a city with tall buildings on a five-lane highway. The sky, which had been clear and starry, was now red.<br/><br/> They were nearly blinded by a brilliant red light and felt very cold. The vehicle's engine and the car stereo stopped running, and they noticed that all sounds had ceased. Finally their car \"landed\" back on the highway near Lujan de Cuyo, about 9 kilometers (5.5 miles) beyond the point where the incident had begun. Their pickup's engine restarted and they drove home. Both men felt a compulsive need to wash the car and take a bath. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3888",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, November 1978, p. 14, translating Cronica, August 30 & 31, 1978; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 554" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/6/1980",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 a.m. in Bear River, Nova Scotia a silent, fifteen-meter diameter round object hovered only 500 feet away. A dog hid in fear. A six-meter long indentation was discovered on the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3889",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Ledger, Maritime UFO Files, p. 134" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/6/1986",
  "desc" : "A nurse in Sonoma, California reported that a white glowing disc followed her car through several turns at 5:15 a.m. It flew away in the direction of Napa. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3890",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Gribble, National UFO Reporting Center, case 1177" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/6/1992",
  "desc" : "A 15-year-old girl in Taber, Alberta saw a large black disc outside her bedroom window at 3:20 a.m. She hid in the house. Circular traces were discovered were found in a field outside. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3891",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, June 1994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/6/1994",
  "desc" : "At 11:40 p.m. in Llanelli, Wales, UK a disc changed shape and color from a cigar to a delta over a 20-minute period. It had lights on its edge. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3892",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, October 1994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/6/1999",
  "desc" : "A triangular object was seen with a faint red light in each of its three corners in Kaukauna, Wisconsin. It flew overhead at 10:50 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3893",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, July 1999 web page" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/6/2002",
  "desc" : "A dark domed craft a with ramp hovered silently over a Canadian army base near Edmonton, Alberta at 1:30 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3894",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "2002 Canadian UFO Survey, case 252" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/6/2002",
  "desc" : "At 11:45 pm. several lights \"put on a show\" over a mountain in Middleton, Nova Scotia. Animal reaction: scared dog. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3895",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "2002 Canadian UFO Survey, case 251" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/7/1946",
  "desc" : "A cigar-shaped object flew over Gavle, Sweden from the east to the west at 28,000 feet altitude at 7:45 p.m. and was seen by several townspeople. It had a clearly distinguishable outline, and a very bright light at the rear. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3896",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, Mystery of the Ghost Rockets, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/7/1947",
  "desc" : "The radio announcer at Mexican radio station XEFI, a man named Duran, reported the he had sighted five disc-shaped objects over Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico and that two had been sighted over Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3897",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 86, citing Panama City Star, July 8, 1947" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/7/1947",
  "desc" : "At three o'clock in the afternoon in Amfreville-la-Mi-Voie, Seine-Maritime department, France a small disc-shaped UFO landed on the banks of the Seine River. Two short humanoids, about three feet tall, got out and shortly later reboarded the craft. The UFO lifted off silently, and flew off to the southeast.  ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3898",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1000, citing Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 50" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/7/1947",
  "desc" : "At 10:35 a.m. in San Carlos, San Mateo County, California 30 round silvery objects circled over one spot for two minutes at 2,000 feet altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3899",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Sacramento Bee, July 7, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 595" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/7/1947",
  "desc" : "During the afternoon in Tacoma, Washington three male witnesses reported that a disc-shaped object landed on their neighbor's roof. Several \"little people\" emerged, but disappeared when reporters approached. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3900",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Tacoma News Tribune, July 8, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 547" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/7/1947",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon at around 3:30 p.m. William Rhodes was working in his backyard in Phoenix, Arizona when he heard a whooshing sound and saw an unusual looking, gray flying craft in the sky. He grabbed his camera and took two photographs. The flying object was twenty to thirty feet long, crescent-shaped, and flying at an estimated 1,000 feet altitude. It circled in the east for about 30 seconds. The photograph quality was sharp and clear, although the reproduction below is from the newspaper that first published it and suffers from deterioration in quality due to age and print technique. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3901",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Arizona Republic, July 9, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 632; Edward U. Condon (editor), Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 508; APRO Bulletin, December 1977, p. 8; NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1978, p. 4; Kevin D. Randle & Russ Estes, Spaceships of the Visitors, p. 95" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/7/1954",
  "desc" : "A miner in Garson, Canada saw a landed object and a giant man with strange, burning eyes. He fainted. When he regained consciousness, the object and entity had vanished. This case was investigated by the Royal Canadian Air Force. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3902",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 184" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/7/1961",
  "desc" : "In Copemish, Michigan at 11 p.m. waitress Nannette Hilley saw a large flying ball of light slow down and split into four parts after 45 minutes. The four lights flew in close formation, descended and flew away toward the west. The sighting lasted a total of one hour. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3903",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/7/1967",
  "desc" : "At 3:00 a.m. an intense light coming from their patio had awakened the daughter of the Count de Ribas on the Mediterranean island of Palma de Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain. From her window she saw two small figures apparently speaking to each other. They had very large heads, possibly due to the presence of helmets, and huge eyes. The witness tried turning on the lights but they did not work. She then went to get candles and when she returned both beings and the light had vanished. Two small marks on the outside of the wall were found that could only be removed by scraping the wall; after it had been painted, the marks reappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3904",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Humanoid Sighting Reports, case 1967-56, citing Antonio Ribera" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/7/1967",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. Antonio Brambila and another man in Milan, Italy saw a glow coming from a domed disc-shaped UFO, 6.5 meters in diameter and 2.5 meters high. The UFO had four telescopic legs, which emitted a strange vibration. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3905",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 853, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 91" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/7/1971",
  "desc" : "At 6 p.m. in San Juan De Los Morros, Venezuela Dr. G. A. De La Motta and Dr. A. Arocha watched as two men clad in black suits with red ties and black berets got out of a car 500 yards from their house. The men proceeded to put on orange belts. A circular, bell-shaped shining object descended from the sky to within two feet of the ground. It was about 90 feet in diameter, and it changed rapidly in color from orange to blue to white. It put down a small staircase and the two men entered the object. It then took off and vanished into the sky \"at an impressive speed.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3906",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-20, case 1971-20; citing FSR Case Histories # 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/7/1977",
  "desc" : "Zhang Po, China - Three thousand residents of Zhang Po, China saw two huge, orange-colored UFOs descend from the sky during the showing of an outdoor movie. Eyewitnesses heard a humming sound and felt heat emanating from the objects, which maneuvered just above the crowd. The UFOs generated a panic and stampede in which two children were trampled to death and dozens of other bystanders were injured. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3907",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Anthony Lee, FSR, March 1983, p. 24" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/7/1982",
  "desc" : "A silent, bladeless helicopter-shaped UFO glowed as it hovered over a railway yard in Highclere, Tasmania, Australia at 7:30 p.m., causing the witness's car engine to malfunction. The close encounter lasted four minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3908",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14416, citing MUFON UFO Journal, February 1983" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/7/1989",
  "desc" : "At 7:00 p.m. a spherical object with a square  or diamond-shaped ring was videotaped in Kanazawa, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan by a Mr. & Mrs. Hamazaki. The image is similar in appearance to the  Lindstrom photographs from Maui, Hawaii taken on January 2, 1975.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3909",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "7/7/1991",
  "desc" : "A photograph of a glowing red UFO with lights was taken by a Puebla State judicial police officer on this evening, after they were called out on a call from residents of Atlixco, Mexico because of the presence of an unknown flying object in the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3910",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Francis L. Ridge, 1991 Chronology, www. nicap.org, case # 1991-024" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/7/1994",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. an amateur astronomer who is also a pilot witnessed a disc-shaped object with a blue strobe light over Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The UFO made 90-degree and 60 degree turns and other fast maneuvers, then shot away to the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3911",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Frank Ducks, Canadian UFO Survey 1994, case # 75; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 16440" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/7/1999",
  "desc" : "A camper in the desert south of McGrath Creek, Northern Territories, Australia saw a silent dark ovoid object in the sky at around five o'clock in the morning, whose presence blocked the light from the stars in the predawn sky, while a nocturnal light also maneuvered about in the sky. Both UFOs then vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3912",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 18100" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/7/1999",
  "desc" : "At midnight two UFOs were seen over the beach on Isla Bela, Sao Paulo State, Brazil by three witnesses. They were described as flat cigar-shaped objects, 20 meters in length, and were a metallic yellow color. They came in from over the ocean at 20-30 meters altitude, then hovered over beach, emitting a soft sound, and suddenly shot away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3913",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Thiago Luiz Ticchetti, www.ufoinfo.com; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 18099, citing a newspaper clipping" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/7/1999",
  "desc" : "At 11:39 p.m. a metallic ovoid object was seen flying toward the south with its narrow end forward over Peru, Indiana 20 miiles south of Grissom Air Force Base. It was shiny metallic in tone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3914",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, July 1999 archived webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/7/2000",
  "desc" : "A football field sized object with lights was sighted by an air safety officer and 24 other witnesses in Normanton, Queensland, Australia at 11:45 p.m. It travelled over the area making no noise, and left behind a trail. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3915",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Sheryl Gottschall, UFO Research Queensland website" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/7/2000",
  "desc" : "A gray object hovered over a house in Covina, California at 9:30 p.m. The observers became surrounded by a beam of light while a blue shape remained in the sky. At the same time in nearby Pacific Palisades, California a white glow was reportedly seen in a large plume of clouds. This white glow changed to blue, and then green. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3916",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, July 2000 archived webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/7/2000",
  "desc" : "At 9:21 p.m. in Red Rock Canyon, Nevada a luminous oval or disc-shaped object shone a bright white light beam down toward the ground. It radiated a fog from around its periphery. Its light snapped off, and the UFO vanished, and the canyon filled with a greenish-blue fog that lasted for ten minutes. A helicopter flew over the area later that same night. There was also another report of a white object shining through a green haze in Las Vegas, Nevada at 9:30 p.m., and at 10:10 p.m a witness in Winnemucca, Nevada reported that a beam of light came from a bright circular object, which left a green residue in the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3917",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), December 2000, p. 32, citing CAUS; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, July 2000 archived webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/7/2001",
  "desc" : "In Battle Creek, Michigan a spinning diamond-shaped object made a whizzing noise as it flew over at a high velocity at 1:08 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3918",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, July 2001 archived webpage, report uploaded on August 5, 2001" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/7/2001",
  "desc" : "At 10:15 p.m. in Missoula, Montana a set of flashing mulitcolored lights was seen on a hilltop. They dip behind hill and reappear as rectangular strobing craft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3919",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, July 2001 archived webpage, report uploaded on August 5, 2001" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/7/2002",
  "desc" : "A disc-shaped UFO appeared on a digital photo of some scenery taken at 11:45 a.m. on Cabin Lake Road, northeast of Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada. The photo is evaluated as not a hoax. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3920",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jasek Martin, UFOBC; Geoff Dittman, Canadian UFO Survey 2002, case # 352, citing UFOBC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/7/2004",
  "desc" : "A huge blue triangular craft was seen hovering over a nuclear plant in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada at 3:30 a.m. It zoomed away, but the witness was unable to account for 90 minutes of missing time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3921",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, Canadian UFO Survey 2004, case # 446, citing HBCCUFO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/7/2005",
  "desc" : "A cigar-shaped object with a reddish-orange glow underneath was sighted flying over Lexington, Kentucky at 11:00 p.m. It moved sideways, rather than with its pointed end forward, from the southwest to the northeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3922",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, July 2005 archived webpage, report uploaded on September 2, 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/8/1947",
  "desc" : "There are at least 74 UFO reports recorded for this day in the UFOCAT database. At ten o'clock in the morning an aluminum colored, pancake shaped object was sighted by a farmer as it flew over Corapeake, North Carolina. It flew at an estimated 800 mph at 2,000 feet altitude. He described it as having two windows and protruding pipe-like extensions, and emitting vapor and making a slight noise. At 11:45 a.m. Eastern Time an ovoid object was sighted over Norfolk, Virginia. It was seen rocking and spinning, and followed by smaller objects. An Air Force major observed a metallic object at Muroc Field (now Edwards AFB) in California at noon. The object reflected sunlight and oscillated up and down in the sky, going down to ground level then rising again. It was observed simultaneously by a captain in Rodgers Dry Lake Bed. At the same time a student pilot sighted at flying disc that looked like it had a hole in its center, flying at 500 feet altitude over Spokane, Washington. At 5:33 p.m. an object flew in a zigzag pattern over Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii. At 9:47 p.m. five teenagers camping out at a golf course in Madison, Wisconsin saw a flat, brilliant disc close to the horizon. It flew from the southeast to the northwest very quickly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3923",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Norfolk (NC) Pilot, July 9, 1947; (2) newspaper clipping dated July 9, 1947; (3) Edward J. Ruppelt, True Magazine, May 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 191; (4) Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 9; (5) Ted Bloecher, Report on the 1947 UFO Wave, case 769, citing newspaper clipping dated July 9, 1947; (6) APRO Bulletin, March-April 1971, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/8/1949",
  "desc" : "Eight metallic discs flew 300 meters over a boat in a lake at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming at seven o'clock in the morning. They were completely silent. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3924",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, July 1949 summary" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/8/1961",
  "desc" : "In Beulah, Michigan a bluish-white light with a faint rotating beacon inside was sighted at 11:00 p.m. It had three red and three white lights inside. It descended to tree top level, and then went behind the trees. Soon, a red light followed by a white object emerged from behind the trees; they flew low over the ground, and then the two lights merged together. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3925",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lloyd Mallan, Official Guide to UFOs, p. 29" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/8/1964",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 a.m. a man named Senac saw a three meter wide by 1.5 meter tall disc-shaped object hovering low over the roadside of the D-21 highway in Maraunats, Pyrenees-Atlantique department, France. Two short humanoids dressed in khaki were also seen walking by a hedge. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3926",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Fernand LaGarde, FSR, November-December 1969, p. 17; Alain Gamard, UFO Register, Volume 7, p. 44; UFO Nachtrichten, March 1970, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/8/1965",
  "desc" : "A police lieutenant named Haag and fellow police officer in Sunnyvale, California saw a hovering white object that undulated, darted back and forth, zig-zagged, and then climbed away at steep angle. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3927",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 7, 171, citing Paul Cerny" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/8/1968",
  "desc" : "Sr. Aldo Juan Santiago, with Miss Espinoza and her son and a young friend of the latter, were driving near Canota, Mendoza province, Argentina on a cold, moonlight night at around 3:00 a.m. when they saw a luminous object pass over and land near Villavicencio, about three kilometers away. The object was fluctuating in color between blue-green and yellow. They stopped and had a mid-night cookout, and toward the end of their stopover they witnessed a man approach, walking on the road to Villavicencio. He walked by making \"giant strides,\" and came up and then passed by them without speaking. He was wearing \"a sort of one piece Montgomery, fastened at the wrists & ankles.\" It was blue in color, with a hood over the head, and he seemed to be wearing spectacles. The area was far from any town and they had seen no one else, and no other car, on the road. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3928",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-87, citing Dr. Carlos Wittenstein, Cuarta Dimension, March 1976, p. 20; Oscar A. Uriondo" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/8/1968",
  "desc" : "A 20 foot long vertical metallic cylinder with yellow-orange body lights followed a Cessna 172 light airplane flying over Warren, Ohio at 10:20 p.m. It darted back-and-forth, then sped away to the east. The sighting lasted ten minutes and there were four witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3929",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1968, p. 6; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., UFOs: A New Look, p. 5; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 119; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 36" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/8/1971",
  "desc" : "A 12 meter long ovoid UFO with portholes around the edge was seen near the ground in Kervinio-en-Ploemeur, Morbihan department, France at 6:30 a.m. It turned, then shot away fast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3930",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, September 1975" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/8/1971",
  "desc" : "Alain G. was tent camping with three adolescent boys in a grotto about ten kilometers from Rocamadour, Lot department, France when he heard the sound of breaking branches outside his tent at around one o'clock in the morning. They were all concerned about possible prowlers, so he looked out from his tent window and saw a human-like figure, foggy white in color like a phantom, walking down a path toward the boy's tent. The farther away the figure went, the less distinct it became. Stunned, he got up and ran out of his tent and down the path toward the other tent, but the figure had disappeared. He got the boys up and they explored the surrounding area, but they found no one. They then got into his car and they drove for several kilometers in both directions but found nothing more unusual. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3931",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-43, citing Joel Mesnard & Jean Marie Bigorne" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/8/1974",
  "desc" : "A witness named Imolesi had a close encounter with a 15 meter wide disc-shaped object with a wing over a road in Barbiana, Italy at 10:10 p.m. A 25-foot wide circular trace mark was found on the nearby riverbed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3932",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted Phillips, Skylook, February 1975; Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Italian UFO Reports database, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/8/1974",
  "desc" : "At 12:50 a.m. a luminous disc-shaped object began following a car with two passengers in Chateauneuf-du-Pape, Vaucluse department, France. It eluded the car when the car attempted to approach it, then reapproached the car before it shot straight up vertically on departure. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3933",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, April 1975" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/8/1978",
  "desc" : "At midnight a motorist saw a sharp white gleam of light some 300 meters ahead on the road in Lempdes, Puy-de-Dome, France. As he came to the curve, he saw that the gleam came from a mass approximately 5 meters in height. He can not observe the base of the object, which is below the side of the road. The top was rounded in the form of a dome, surmounted by a white light. As he drove by he saw through a transparent wall in the UFO numerous human like figures wearing helmets and tight-fitting suits. He drove away but soon came back with his wife and her mother, who saw two zigzagging luminous points of reddish-orange and green lights. Ground traces were found at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3934",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 1721, citing Denys Breysse, Project Becassine, and Pierre Delval, Contacts of the 4th Type" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/8/1978",
  "desc" : "An 80 meter long ovoid object flew over Katta-Kurgan, Uzbekistan toward the southeast, then landed in a vineyard at 11:45 p.m. Ground marks were later found on the ground, and the vegetation (grape vines) were effected. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3935",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 14162, citing Illobrand von Luviger, UFOs - Zeugen and Zeichen, p. 363" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/8/1996",
  "desc" : "Police sergeant Marian Mancu and volunteer police officer Marcel Rusu were walking on patrol on the main road that passes in front of the police station in the village of Certesti, Romania at around midnight. Mancu lives in the area and told Rusu he was going to walk home to get something to eat. Between the road and the sidewalk was a deep ditch with small foot bridges across the culvert. When the sergeant passed the corner near his house he heard a whistling sound from the street and felt a rush of air. He turned around immediately and saw something on the road that \"was splashed with blue and red lights\" and made a \"voom-voom\" sound. Mancu first thought it was the district police car that was coming back from a routine patrol, but getting closer he realized the object was hovering half a meter above the paved road. There was also a small strange looking figure moving around it. He yelled for Rusu, who was now hiding behind the ditch and watching the strange spectacle from their.<br/><br/> Rusu reported that immediately after Mancu had left and gone behind a nearby apartment house, \"a fluttering from above appeared\". The neon lighting in the street seemed to change in intensity. The object descended slowly, without noise, and came down behind him. Rusu became frightened when he saw the object hovering above the ground, with three small human-like creatures were moving around it. Both witnesses agreed that the object had the form of a flat hut, five or six meters across and two or 2.5 meters high, and it was balancing about half a meter from the ground. Around the periphery of the object was a continuous girdle of light \"like a rainbow.\" The colors changed from red to blue and flared in intensity. On the bottom of the object was a bright white light. Neither of the witnesses saw any doors, portholes, or other similar features. After about two minutes, the UFO rose vertically. At the moment it moved up to an altitude of about 30 meters its lights became much brighter, and the neon streetlights went out. It then shot off to the east at high speed. Rusu reportedly had a better view of the humanoid creatures than Mancu, who only noticed one of them from behind. He estimated their height to have been around a meter or less. Rusu said he heard some noises made by the humanoids, sounding like \"rain in a drain pipe.\" Both described the creatures as ugly; they had large heads, very elongated behind and covered with bumps, with no hair, and large ears. Their faces were white and they had big eyes. Gray metallic shiny scales, resembling fish scales, covered their bodies. They also had large, limp protruding bellies. They also had thin spindly arms, and no noses or mouths were visible. The witnesses thought that the creatures floated just above the ground and moved around \"as if they were drunk.\" A huge sweet cherry tree nearby had around 15 % of its leaves shriveled as if by extreme heat. Other witnesses in nearby villages reported strange lights over the area the same night. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3936",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 340; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, citing Dan D. Farcas" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/8/2005",
  "desc" : "A bright silver cigar-shaped UFO was sighted coming out of a cloud near a military base in Killeen, Texas at 12:35 p.m. Within ten seconds it disappeared into another cloud but never reappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3937",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, July 2005 archived webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/9/1946",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 p.m. a UFO that looked like a silvery thermos bottle flew over Jarna, Sweden. There were six more reports of cigar-shaped objects and eleven reports of fireballs rocketing over Sweden at about this time.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3938",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "7/9/1946",
  "desc" : "At 3:35 p.m. a fast, bright red, cigar-shaped 'rocket' cast shadows as it flew over Turku, Finland from south to north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3939",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, Mystery of the Ghost Rockets, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/9/1947",
  "desc" : "There are 24 UFO reports recorded for this date in the UFOCAT database, all from North America. To view a map showing the distribution of these reports, click here.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3940",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "7/9/1947",
  "desc" : "At 5:40 a.m. a farmer out plowing his fields in Kincardine, Ontario, Canada saw five disc-shaped objects criss-cross the sky three times in different formations. The objects were silent and had no lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3941",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #  1094; Loren E. Gross, UFOs, A History. 1947, p. 44" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/9/1947",
  "desc" : "Two small saucers were seen over Albuquerque, New Mexico on this day. One hovered, the other shot up and than both shot away toward the south. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3942",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 27" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/9/1947",
  "desc" : "At 5:30 a.m. a shiny gray disc whizzed through the sky over Springfield, Illinois. Its estimated speed was 500 mph moving in a southerly direction. It dipped below the tree line and came back up again. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3943",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case 788" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/9/1947",
  "desc" : "At 12:15 p.m. a huge flat black disc over Boise, Idaho executed a series of staircase maneuvers for 45 seconds. Motion picture filming was attempted, but resulted in poor quality images. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3944",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Boise Idaho Daily Statesman, July 10, 1947, UNICAT, case # 721, Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case 794" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/9/1947",
  "desc" : "At eight o'clock in the evening a one-meter diameter disc flew over Llano, Texas heading toward the southwest. It appeared to be spinning, and it possibly landed remotely. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3945",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 98, citing Austin American" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/9/1951",
  "desc" : "At 1:40 p.m. a white, disc-shaped UFO, spinning clockwise, confronted an F-51 over Dearing, Georgia with head-on passes several times. Pilot Kinmon said he felt the air disturbance as the UFO barrel-rolled around the airplane for 10 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3946",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 239" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/9/1952",
  "desc" : "At 12:45 p.m. a luminous white airfoil without a trailing edge glided through the sky over Colorado Springs, Colorado for 12 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3947",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1405" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/9/1952",
  "desc" : "A large silver disc hovered over a tire factory in Miami, Oklahoma at 1 o'clock in the afternoon. It had a halo of smoke around its rim. It descended to a low, nearby spot, then rose up and shot away toward the south. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3948",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 2300" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/9/1952",
  "desc" : "An aluminum colored disc maneuvered with flips and up-and-down motion over Kutztown, Pennsylvania at 6:30 p.m. Observers took three poor-quality photographs of the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3949",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1409" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/9/1953",
  "desc" : "A disc swooped down over the Sheppard AFB hospital building in Texas. It was glowing and moved very fast. It headed off toward the south. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3950",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, investigation report dated July 12, 1953" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/9/1955",
  "desc" : "A perfectly round, gray-white disc paced a pleasure boat for six minutes nine miles west of Newport Beach, California at 1:32 p.m. It was surrounded by a \"haze of fumes.\" It suddenly rose upward in a zigzag motion and flew into a cloudbank. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3951",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Morris Jessup, The UFO Annual, p. 225" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/9/1959",
  "desc" : "An interesting parapsychological experiment closely tied to the UFO phenomenon was conducted on this day in Washington, DC by the Central Intelligence Agency and U.S. Naval Intelligence. It was held at an office in a government building at the corner of 5th and K Streets (quadrant of the city not given). According to Lt. Colonel Robert Friend, the officer in charge of Project Blue Book at the time and who was present at the session, telepathic communication was attempted through a psychic channeler who was also a military officer.<br/><br/> Colonel Friend was invited to attend a meeting with this officer, and was given the following background information. A Canadian woman, Mrs. Swan, had come to their attention through the Canadian government. The Canadians had conducted an extensive investigation into Mrs. Swan's claims of contact with the aliens. With two Naval Intelligence officers present, she went into a trance and they asked her scientific and technical questions to which a woman of her education could not possibly know the answers. Yet as questions were put to her, she was able to answer quickly and easily, apparently with telepathic help from purported extraterrestrials. According to the report, the aliens represented an organization called the \"Universal Association of Planets,\" and this group had a project monitoring Earth. The investigation took an unexpected turn when the woman informed one of the Naval officers that \"they\" were willing to answer questions directly through him, a Navy commander and intelligence officer--with no prior experience in telepathic communications. He took over, attempting to write down the answers to questions put to him by his associate Naval officer.<br/><br/> The word traveled back quickly to Washington officials and a very skeptical CIA. Nevertheless, there was no strong reason to totally disbelieve the report of this respected Navy commander and his partner.<br/><br/> A meeting was arranged to be held in the security portion of a Washington government building. When trance state contact was achieved, several questions were put to him, and answers came back quickly. \"Do you favor any government group or race?\" and \"Would there be a third world war?\" Both were answered \"No.\" The officials present then asked to see a spaceship. The commander, still in a trance, told the group to look out the window and they would have proof. They did promptly and a dark saucer-shaped object was seen hovering in the sky \"at approximately 1400 hours.\"<br/><br/> They hurriedly made calls to the Washington radar center to confirm the presence of the object. They were told by the radar operators that they were experiencing a strange type of technical difficulty with their equipment, and radar was blocked for that quadrant of the sky over Washington. During the question and answer exchange the answer to one question indicated that the UFOs acknowledged difficulty in slipping through our radar net undetected. A number of other questions were put to the psychic, including whether Catholics were the chosen people. They were told that they were not. A follow-up contact session was attempted that same day with only limited success. It was indicated by the few answers that the Commander received that \"this was not the right time\" [emphasis added]. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3952",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Elkins, Secrets of the UFOs, p. 34; Robert Emenegger, UFO's, Past, Present and Future, pp. 55-62" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/9/1962",
  "desc" : "A clear photograph of a gray cloud with three lights was taken at 11:10 p.m. by Dr. Taylor, an atmospheric scientist at the Cape Hallet Station in Antarctica. The cloud and lights moved toward the northeast at a low altitude. Other sightings of UFOs occurred that night at both the Chilean and Argentine Bases on the Palmer Archipelago in Antarctica. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3953",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Coral E. Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 234; Brad Steiger, Strangers from the Skies, p. 39" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/9/1965",
  "desc" : "Miss Zielonka, age 30, witnessed a three-meter long metallic object take off from the ground in Moyeuvre, Moselle, France at 12:30 in the afternoon. The object flew south toward Metz. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3954",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 652, citing the Paris Journal, July 12, 1965; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 257" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/9/1965",
  "desc" : "At 3:00 p.m. at Santa Maria Island Airport on the Azores, airport clocks stopped and compasses spun wildly when a white cylindrical UFO flew over, flying toward the northeast against the wind. Later in the evening at 9:10 p.m. EDT, six witnesses saw a white nocturnal light that maneuvered in the sky over the Beckford Power Plant north of Cincinnati, Ohio. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3955",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) BUFORA Journal, September-October 1965, p. 18; (2) APRO Bulletin, January-February 1966" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/9/1967",
  "desc" : "At 10:25 p.m. two boys shone a spotlight on a red and white UFO \"fluttering across\" the Susquehanna River near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It approached them with a sideways motion and beamed a white light at them. Making a humming sound, it backed up and disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3956",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP case investigation files, report dated July 12, 1967" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/9/1968",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. two girls met a \"man from another world\" who tried to talk to them in La Plata, Argentina. He was six feet tall, had red hair and blue eyes, and wore a one-piece coverall uniform and a green visor that emitted flashes of light. The girls fled inside their house. Marks of four fingers were found on the door to their house. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3957",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, January-February 1970, p. 30; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0948" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/9/1968",
  "desc" : "Three hours after the Argentine humanoid contact, at 9:35 p.m. PDT in Long Beach, California a diamond-shaped, grayish-white hazy mass was seen hovering under the full moon in the southeastern sky. At 10:05 p.m. it moved 55 degrees in a horizontal line due west. Ten minutes later it moved back to the first spot it had occupied. Five oval-shaped objects with clear edges maneuvered around it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3958",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ann Druffel, Proceedings of the Center for UFO Studies Conference: 1976, p. 65" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/9/1970",
  "desc" : "At 11:10 p.m. in Evillers, France a sphere, the apparent size of the full Moon, was observed hovering below a black cloud. It had a crescent-shaped object above it. The presence of the UFOs was accompanied by a power outage in the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3959",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, June 1972" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/9/1971",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. several people on the Williams farm in Marrawah, Tasmania, Australia viewed a 16-foot wide, white glowing object low over some pastures for ten minutes. It changed colors. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3960",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR Case Histories, October 1971, p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/9/1973",
  "desc" : "Senora Mabel Gorchs de Veron was crossing the central Plaza Colon at 6:30 p.m. in Mar del Plata, Argentina when she observed a bright green light that made her look up. One hundred meters above here was a circular object about 10 meters (33 feet) in diameter, emitting a blue glow. It had a dome on the upper past and a row of small windows around it, through which a dim light came from the inside. There were some \"strange figures\" looking out from these windows. The domed craft remained motionless for several seconds until a commercial aircraft flew by. The UFO followed it for a few moments before flying out over the sea. A newspaperman and a group of office employees of the Argentine National Airline also observed the UFO. Later that evening, at 7:15 p.m. Sr. Nahuel Villegas succeeded in seeing some shadows moving around inside the same or similar object while looking through his telescope at 200x magnification. The object was at a higher altitude, and remained in the sky for four hours, during which it was seen by hundreds of witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3961",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Fenomenologia, no. 21, citing personal communication from Sr. Daniel Veron; La Nacion, July 11, 1973; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-75 (A1593), citing Banchs and Veron" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/9/1974",
  "desc" : "At one o'clock in the morning an ellipse-shaped UFO with rows of lights along the side approached a police car on a road near Kingston, New York. It responded to the police spotlight by beaming a bright light into the car. It then sped away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3962",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies case files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/9/1974",
  "desc" : "A huge bullet-shaped object hovered over the port of East London, South Africa at 11:50 p.m. It had portholes along the sides of the craft. Electrical power fluctuated in the area at the time of the incident. At about the same time or approximately twenty minutes earlier, at 10:30 p.m. European Time, a dark disc blocked out the stars over Le Luc, France. It had very bright beams of light that were directed onto trees and a hill. It flew silently toward the south. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3963",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Cynthia Hind, UFO Afri News, January 1990; Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1977" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/9/1977",
  "desc" : "A dull silver saucer-shaped UFO hovered off to the left side of a road in Flat Rock, Michigan at 2:30 a.m. It was only about 200 feet above and the ground and 150 feet from the road. It had many red and green lights around its rim, and a beam of light illuminated the ground for two minutes. The object floated away over the treetops moving toward the southwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3964",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies case files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/9/1978",
  "desc" : "An object descended from the sky to within a few kilometers of the witness in General Alvear, Argentina. It moved away at a very low altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3965",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Stendek, December 1978, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/9/1978",
  "desc" : "Two young men were walking along the railroad tracks on the outskirts of Butler, Ohio when they heard a noise from the bushes ahead. The youths saw a huge seven foot tall figure with large red glowing eyes. One of the witnesses panicked and ran home, the second remained transfixed by the creature and was unable to move. The being was apparently beckoning to the young man to approach. The entity was described as having a huge round head, large red eyes and was making an unusual growling noise. The witness was finally able to flee the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3966",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 1829, citing Ron Schaffner, UFO Ohio Yearbook 1979" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/9/1981",
  "desc" : "First there was a whistling sound, and then a white sphere descended over a garden in Villemoirieu, Isere department, France at 12:50 a.m. The object shot off to the south-southwest very fast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3967",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 216" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/9/1993",
  "desc" : "A domed disc-shaped object, looking like a Mexican sombrero with light all the way around its rim, was seen by several witnesses in Bishopstone, England at 7:00 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3968",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, January 1994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/9/1995",
  "desc" : "At least a dozen witnesses saw a huge triangle-shaped object and four discs at low altitude in Gravois Mills, Missouri at 11:45 p.m. Bizarre looking humanoid figures were also seen on the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3969",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17304, citing Actaeon Advisor" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/9/1996",
  "desc" : "A triangular-shaped UFO landed in a field in Chillan, Chile. It left three circular indentations in the ground 1.7 meters apart and 10 cm across. That same day, while visiting the \"Julia Set\" crop formation opposite the Stonehenge megaliths in England, two friends of author Lucy Pringle became ill with nausea, fatigue, and memory problems. The symptoms persisted for three days following the visit. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3970",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Phenomena, issue no. 33; Lucy Pringle, Crop Circles: The greatest mystery of modern times, p. 37" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/9/1999",
  "desc" : "An unidentified flying object was seen over some trees in Mentor, Ohio at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The object was spinning and changing colors, and split into two spheres. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3971",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, July 1999 web page" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/9/2002",
  "desc" : "At 12:15 a.m. a strange noise coming from a hovering, triangular light bothered the dogs in the neighborhood in Brookhaven, Pennsylvania. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3972",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, July 2002 web page" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/10/1947",
  "desc" : "There are 19 UFO reports recorded for this day in the UFOCAT database: two from Europe, one from China, one from Newfoundland, and the remainder in the United States.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3973",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "7/10/1947",
  "desc" : "At 10 o'clock in the morning GMT a British Vickers Viking aircraft was flying over the Bay of Biscay in the Atlantic off the coast of France when the crew of three sighted a gray flying object, shaped like a tadpole. It was traveling at an estimated 600 mph and leaving a long vapor trail. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3974",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/10/1947",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 a.m. EDT in Valdosta, Georgia a one-meter diameter \"cake pan\" shaped object flew over at 600 meters altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3975",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon 1947-1987, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/10/1947",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. PDT (2:00 p.m. EDT) a man in Burien, Washington watched a three-foot diameter round shiny disc-shaped object fly slowly and silently toward the northwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3976",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 11, 1947" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/10/1947",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. European time (1:30 p.m. EDT) in Skotfoss, Norway a disc flew across the sky from the northwest to the southeast. It was estimated to be the size of a small plane and traveling at normal aircraft speeds, but made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3977",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 137" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/10/1947",
  "desc" : "At 4:47 p.m. astronomers Dr. Lincoln La Paz, Director of the Institute of Meteoritics and Department Head of the Astronomy Department at the University of New Mexico, and Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of the planet Pluto, and other family members watched a luminous 300-foot wide saucer ascend at 600 mph near Fort Sumner, New Mexico heading toward the north. In 1948 Dr. La Paz served as a voluntary consultant for the USAF in connection with the \"green fireball\" investigations. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3978",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case 819; Loren Gross, UFOs: A History. 1947, p. 58" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/10/1947",
  "desc" : "Sometime between 3 o'clock in the afternoon and 5:00 p.m., three ground crewman, including Mr. Leidy, a mechanic for Pan American Airways, took photographs of a C-54 sized translucent disc-or wheel-shaped UFO flying below the clouds over Ernest Harmon Air Field in Newfoundland, Canada. They watched briefly while the UFO flew very fast, leaving a dark blue trail. It then ascended and cut a path through the clouds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3979",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book; NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1978, p. 4; International UFO Reporter, December 1998; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/10/1947",
  "desc" : "At 5:30 p.m. EDT a \"flying tin lid\" shaped object flew over Smyrna, Georgia at an incredible speed. It reflected sunlight brilliantly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3980",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon 1947-1987, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/10/1947",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. CDT several airmen near Tulsa, Oklahoma saw a perfect ring of light in the sky that flew toward the northeast at a constant speed and altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3981",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 101" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/10/1955",
  "desc" : "About seven to nine miles west of Newport Beach, California at 2:32 in the afternoon, a perfectly round, grayish-white UFO paced a pleasure boat for six minutes. It was surrounded by a \"haze of fumes.\" It suddenly rose upward in a zigzag flight path and flew into a cloud bank. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3982",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 167" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/10/1959",
  "desc" : "At two a.m. two white glowing ovoid objects with sharp outlines were joined by a third over Norma, New Jersey and all three UFOs circled a dock for 10 minutes, then flew away slowly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3983",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: July-September, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/10/1967",
  "desc" : "In Lizelia, Mississippi at 5:50 p.m. CDT golf pro Harold Washington (retired Captain, USMC) sighted a domed disc when his car engine and radio died. The top was colored gunmetal blue and the bottom was the color of lead. It moved east, crossed a highway, tilted upward, moved to the right, accelerated and disappeared into the clouds after 3-5 seconds. The disc made a swishing sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3984",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case no. 11869; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 35" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/10/1967",
  "desc" : "About ten minutes later, at 8:00 p.m. local time, two people driving on a highway in Santa Clara del Mar, Brazil saw a huge cigar-shaped object on the ground, 400 meters away from the roadway. It had lit portholes. They watched it for two minutes as it took off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3985",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Oscar A Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, February 1973, p. 14; Phenomenes Spatiaux, June 1974" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/10/1972",
  "desc" : "Driving through the countryside three kilometers outside of Alcaracejo, Spain in Cordoba province, Senor Aranda encountered a yellow oval of throbbing light at 10:15 p.m. He was temporarily blinded by the light. The engine of his car failed but the headlights stayed on. He estimated the UFO was two meters in length and had blue protuberances. It disappeared, then reappeared over a ditch. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3986",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, p. 38, citing field investigator Enrique Campos; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 54; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 274" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/10/1973",
  "desc" : "At 8 p.m. a supervisor at the Goshen, Indiana rubber plant was called outside by one of his men who had been smoking a cigarette. The man pointed up and to his left, and they both saw an unidentified craft moving very slowly from the northwest to the southeast. There were a number of downward slanted windows in the craft and they could see several humanoid figures moving about inside. Some appeared to be peering down out of the windows. The background behind the figures was red, making the figures look like silhouettes. The unusual thing about the craft was that it made a bobbing motion as it moved.. They watched the UFO for about 10 minutes until it drifted out of sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3987",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1973, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/10/1977",
  "desc" : "At one o'clock in the morning a chicken farmer in Pinheiro, Brazil was walking to town to catch a bus. A bright greenish blue light appeared and swooped down from the sky to chase him. It circled back and came to hover above some nearby woods, and he could now make out a V-shaped craft. He shone his flashlight at it and was suddenly struck by a light beam from the craft that knocked him down, creating a tingling sensation before he lost consciousness. At one point he awoke briefly to see several men staring at him. They examined him in silence. He finally woke up several hours later, and felt terrible pains throughout his body that prevented him from working for two months. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3988",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next? and in Timothy Good (ed.), The UFO Report 1991" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/10/1978",
  "desc" : "A carload of residents were parked at the local railroad crossing near Bellville, Ohio around 10 p.m. when they noticed a huge dark figure with red glowing eyes that appeared to be in a slumped position standing over the tracks. The frightened witnesses fled the area and later notified the police. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3989",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 1830, citing Ron Schaffner, UFO Ohio Yearbook 1979" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/11/1948",
  "desc" : "Burlington, Vermont -- A fresh wave of UFO reports started Sunday, July 11, 1948 when Robert H. Streeten of West Bolton, Vermont notified authorities that he had sighted a \"flying saucer\" at 4:40 p.m. Three hours later Mrs. Ralph Holmes, wife of a University of Vermont physics professor, said she observed a fiery object whizzing through the sky. Miss Alice Giroux, a University of Vermont coed, and Miss Irene Audette of Hartford, Connecticut, a visiting skier, both reported seeing a flying saucer. One Vermonter, Dr. C. H. Vaughn of Burlington, said he saw a bluish-white flying saucer land in Massachusetts between Concord and Lexington. He was driving his car when he saw the object. Altogether, 20 people reported sighting flying saucers--round ones, square ones, and a few with handsome flue tails--in Chittenden and Franklin Counties. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3990",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch, July 14, 1948." ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/11/1961",
  "desc" : "In Springfield, Ohio at 7:45 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Scott and their neighbors sighted a round, bright light like shiny aluminum pass overhead. Their sighting lasted 20 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3991",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/11/1966",
  "desc" : "At 7:45 p.m. Carl Wood and Charles Hawthorne of Union, Pennsylvania observed a large, 100-foot wide bright red object with small windows and yellow lights. The UFO emitted a humming sound, seemingly from the outside, and a grinding noise that seemed to come from inside the craft. They watched it for an hour. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3992",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/11/1967",
  "desc" : "On this evening in Santa Clara del Mar, Argentina two persons saw a cigar-shaped object on the ground, 400 meters away from the road. It took off, rising rapidly. It had window-like openings emitting a bright light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3993",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 854" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/11/1970",
  "desc" : "Three women were driving near the airport in Trois Rivieres, Quebec, Canada at around 9 p.m. when they sighted a white smokey cloud above the roadway. Inside of it a thin, human-like figure could be seen. As the car drove through the cloud it vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3994",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1970, citing John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants and Critters" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/11/1978",
  "desc" : "Two young boys were playing in a tree in an empty field near the Can Fita farm in Can Cifre, Ibiza, Spain when they heard a loud noise coming from the nearby woods. Thinking it could be some kind of animal, they climbed down the tree and were confronted by a strange robot-like being. The humanoid had a bright metallic body that reflected the sunlight, two antenna-like projections from the top of its head, and large slit like eyes and mouth. To their horror it began moving towards them using incredibly long jumps. Both boys ran towards a nearby barbwire fence, but were astonished to see another bizarre figure standing just in front of some nearby trees. They describe the second figure as a man over two meters tall, bearded and with long black hair and wearing a long white cape that was flowing in the wind. Their fear increased when they realized both figures had apparently come from a huge landed UFO that was partially hidden behind some nearby electrical pylons. As they ran to town they were chased by a bright blue light most of the way. Strange tracks were later found at the site of the encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3995",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing Iker Jimenez, Encuentros: La Historia de Los OVNI en España" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/11/1978",
  "desc" : "A 44-year-old woman was watching television in Alto Da Mooca, Sao Paolo, Brazil as her 3 sons slept in their room. At around eleven o'clock her small dog began acting strangely by running around in circles, then running from the kitchen and to the door that led outside, apparently trying to get out. She walked towards the door and heard a loud \"mechanical\" sound. When she opened the door she was confronted by two short humanoids who hovered just above the ground. Both humanoids stood side by side. Behind the humanoids was an oval-shaped craft that had landed on three metallic leg. One being approached the now paralyzed witness, making gestures as if to calm her down, while the other humanoid floated around outside as if searching for something. The only movement she was able to make was to raise her arms to her chest. She could not utter a word.<br/><br/> The humanoid closest to her caressed her head while the other floated towards the UFO, situated in the middle of her yard. The being standing next to her then floated to a door in the UFO and removed from his belt an aluminum container. The container illuminated the yard in a bizarre yellow \"coherent\" light that appeared solid. The beam of light would enlarge, then decrease in size intermittently. The beam of light was directed towards the kitchen area, the yard and into the landed UFO. The humanoid aiming the beam of light then preceded to take a small cylinder from his belt which emitted a cloud of smoke, enveloping both humanoids. A few seconds later both beings boarded the object, but before entering they beckoned for her to come with them. When they got no response they waved at her and entered the object. Soon a plume of smoke emerged from the bottom and the object began to ascend. Two bright yellow lights became visible and the craft flew off into the distance. Before it left she thought she saw another figure through a porthole in the object.<br/><br/> Moments later the witness was again able to move. She ran to notify her family who said she appeared cold and very pale. She described the humanoids as 1.25 meters in height, wearing round silver metallic helmets on their heads. In the front of the helmet was a blue dimly lit area. Their faces inside the helmets appeared yellowish, and their eyes were round and dark, and lacked irises or eyelids. They had small flat noses and seemed to lack ears or mouths. Where the mouth should have been was a round metallic plate. Their one-piece suits were light gray in color and both had belts with numerous gadgets. Their bodies were very thin, and their heads were disproportionately large. One of the humanoids was somewhat heavier and appeared to be a female; this one had a metallic disc-shaped emblem or plate on the chest, about 15 cm in diameter with a small white light in the middle. The other humanoid's uniform lacked one. The object was metallic and oval in shape with several oval-shaped portholes. It had antennae and a multicolored sphere of light on the top. During the encounter there was a total lack of sound. There was also a strong smell resembling ammonia and she felt extremely cold. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3996",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing Revista Brasileira OVNI, UFO News Brazil" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/11/1998",
  "desc" : "Sometime after midnight a woman in an unspecified location in Puerto Rico heard a masculine voice that woke her up. She then began to float towards the ceiling. A tall human looking figure with black hair (previously encountered) accompanied her, holding her by the hand. Somehow they went up through the ceiling and she saw something resembling a \"cloud\" floating overhead. They entered this \"cloud\" and she found herself in a large room with windows and bench-like seats all around it. The room was dull silver in color and there wasn't anyone else present. The man then escorted her into a semi-dark room and told her to wait there. The room suddenly became hot and then cold in a matter of seconds. He then returned and they left the room together. She was able to look out a window and saw a view of snow covered mountains. She also saw an ocean that had something like a waterspout in the middle of it. She was then taken to a wall and a previously undetectable door appeared, she west through the door and found herself in another metallic room with a metallic \"table\" floating in mid-air. In the room where three short grey beings wearing white coveralls with a red star insignia on their chests. Another tall human was present; he wore a tight-fitting light blue metallic coverall with a silver belt. The belt had a buckle with what appeared to be a glistening quartz crystal. The human wore gloves, but his shoes were part of his one-piece metallic uniform. Only his face was visible. She remembered encountering the man before. He told her that they were going to remove a cyst from her body, and promised not to leave any scars. She then apparently fell asleep and woke up later on her bed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3997",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, citing Lucy Guzman" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/11/2000",
  "desc" : "Two taxi drivers, Walter Ortega and Luis Rodolfo Aguero were working the late shift at their station in Banda de Varela, Argentina. Around 3:30 a.m. Luis was sleeping when Walter went outside when he heard some noises. Armed with a metal bar, he searched around in the darkness. Suddenly, an unseen forced picked him up and threw him backwards about two meters, and he landed on the ground. At the same time he noticed a figure dressed in what looked like a long dark coat sitting on a nearby fence. He described the figure as short in stature, wearing a large black hat, with its face hidden in shadow. Terrified, he ran to wake up his partner and called the police, who searched the area but found nothing. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3998",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, citing Pablo Villarrubia, Ano Cero" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/12/1952",
  "desc" : "At 3:30 p.m. four elliptical-shaped objects, one-third the size of a transport plane, flew four abreast in formation at a high rate of speed over Annapolis, Maryland. They stopped in mid-air, executed a 90-degree turn, then accelerated and vanished in mid-air. At 9:00 p.m. an object the size of a B-36 bomber was picked up on radar flying over Kirksville Air Force Base, Missouri at a speed of 1,700 mph. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_3999",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #1431; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: June-July 20th, p. 51; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 269; (2) Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 57" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/12/1956",
  "desc" : "On the Pacific island of Levuka in the Fiji Islands, several people on a fishing boat saw a cigar-shaped UFO. It was close enough that the witnesses were able to describe square windows visible in the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4000",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, September 1956" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/12/1959",
  "desc" : "A military electronic technician named Guerrero saw a saucer-shaped object hover and maneuver over the desert in Ridgecrest, California. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4001",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 138" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/12/1964",
  "desc" : "At 5:25 p.m. a huge domed disc-shaped object paced an airliner flying from Leningrad to Moscow while over the city of Bologoye, Russia. It then shot away. One of the witnesses was a Russian scientist named Zaytsev. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4002",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ion Hobana and Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, pp. 284-286; NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1968, p. 6; J. Allen Hynek & Jacques Vallee, The Edge of Reality: A Progress Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 292" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/12/1965",
  "desc" : "A UFO was sighted off of Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea on this night in the same approximate location as the famous CE-III sightings by Father Gill in 1959. A red light changed to blue. It was extremely bright, and was seen swaying from side to side in a broad pendulum swing, at least a mile in each direction. The witnesses were several school children and their teacher. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4003",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Debbie Payne, Australasian Ufologist, October 2004, p. 29, citing the RAAF" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/12/1965",
  "desc" : "At 4:30 a.m. a group of newspaper boys sighted a silver, football-shaped object near Kolb Road in Tucson, Arizona. It hovered for 30 minutes, then shot off to the southeast at a very fast speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4004",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, January-February 1966" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/12/1965",
  "desc" : "Humberto Aranjo da Silva, a student driving in Bairio Paraiso dos Barbeiros, Brazil nearly hit a saucer-shaped craft, 6 meters in diameter, which had two V-shaped landing pads and a dome, and which had landed on the road. It made a whirring noise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4005",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 84; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 653, citing SBEDV, issues 51, 53" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/12/1969",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. a dark gray, metallic inverted bowl-shaped disc flew over a farm in Van Horne, Iowa during a rainstorm, spinning counter-clockwise. It had a reddish-orange band two-thirds of the way from its bottom to the top, and made a noise like a jet. The witnesses were three teenage girls. A 40-foot circle of wilted soybean plants was found, but the plants were not bent over or crushed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4006",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 129; UNICAT database, case 394, citing J. Allen Hynek" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/12/1971",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. Gaetan Paquin, a young man in his twenties, was just arriving home in Notre-Dame-Du-Nord, Quebec when a white object flew over the road. He next saw \"a completely white being of human form, with a pointed nose, slanted eyes, and a little puckered mouth\" standing near him. He saw the being in profile. \"His height did not exceed 4 feet. He had no hair, and nothing that resembled clothing. He was very, very visible in the darkness--there was no light, for the sky was overcast and the electricity was out that night.\" The being appeared to be transparent, and Gaetan had the impression that a stone thrown at him would have passed right through him. Although the apparition completely ignored the presence of the witness, Paquin became frightened and fled. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4007",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-44, citing Jean Ferguson, UFO Quebec, issue # 9; John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants and Critters, p. 50" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/12/1975",
  "desc" : "Four witnesses were walking up a footpath on Highdown Hill in Sussex, England when they saw a disc-shaped craft land nearby. A gray figure with a large lemon-shaped head then appeared. When the witnesses tried to approach the figure a shiny red beam of light hit one of them, and the man who had been struck screamed in pain and fell to the ground. He recovered quickly, and then all four of the witnesses fled the scene. Some glowing powder was allegedly found on the ground in the area later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4008",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1975 Humanoid Contact database, case # 768, citing Norman Oliver, Quest UFO Magazine (UK), Volume 11, # 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/12/1975",
  "desc" : "At 12:50 p.m. Richard W. and three friends, Pat S., Nancy T., and Ross K. were having lunch together at a coffee bar in Dunedin, New Zealand. The weather that was cold and damp and all of them were feeling a bit under the weather. They sat around a table located opposite the stairs and quietly ate their lunches. All of a sudden time seemed to stand still. The noisy and busy coffee bar, occupied by 80 people, became absolutely silent, when everything froze in place like a still frame from a motion picture. People were twisted in strange and unstable positions, frozen while performing movements, and their bodies looked comic. Richard remembered witnessing a cloud of steam suspended motionless in a dynamic configuration above the expreso machine. He also remembered seeing a waitress pulling out hot cakes from the oven, and sustaining their heat in her motionless hands. In the entire cafe only the four of them seemed to be unaffected, thus having the occasion to observe what was actually happening. At the top of the stairs leading down to the coffee bar from street level an unusual man appeared. He was about 1.75 meters tall and looked to be about 19 years old. He was dark, slim, thin, with olive skin and black wavy hair. His clothes looked normal, but displayed taste and elegance. Everything about him looked strikingly perfect. The man was surrounded by a beautiful white glow, especially around his head and chest. The light seemed to come not from him, but from the air that surrounded him. He glided down the stairs without moving his legs. He actually floated in the air slightly above the level of the stairs. Then he moved to the counter and stood first in the queue. As soon as he got there, everything started to happen normally again. People continued their actions from the point when they had been suspended in motion. Everything looked as though nothing had happened. The man bought a glass of fruit juice and sat at the last free chair available at a 12-person table. He acknowledged the witnesses attention with a smile. They wanted to talk to him and find out more about his unusual arrival, but there was no easy access to his chair. So they decided to leave the coffee bar and wait for him upstairs at the only way out. After five minutes of waiting and not seeing him pass, Richard went back down to discover that he had gone, yet there was no other exit from the coffee bar. The group was also quite surprised to find that their various ailments, which included the flu and a migraine headache, were gone. About six weeks later they spotted him again. He stood at the top of the stairs at the same coffee shop again, intent on entering the cafe. He moved his head in their direction as a kind of greeting. His clothes were the same, except that this time he was surrounded by a faint green glow. When he appeared nothing actually happened. He walked down as normal people do (his steps somehow lighter than normal humans) unnoticed by anyone but the witnesses. He again bought a glass of fruit juice and again sat in the same place. A few times he acknowledged their attention by a friendly look. This time they decided to interrupt him and find out who he was, so they wanted to stand up and get closer, but none of them could move. When finally they did manage to stand up, they directed themselves out of the coffee bar seemingly against their will. Pat tried desperately to turn back, but her efforts failed. After a short while Pat decided to return back inside the coffee bar, only to find that the mysterious stranger had already gone. They never saw him again. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4009",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1975 Humanoid Contact database, citing Jan Pajak" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/12/1975",
  "desc" : "On the same day as the two incidents above, a giant hairy biped was seen sitting in the window of a hog shed in Preble County, Ohio. watching the ten-year-old witness, who had had a previous UFO encounter. The boy ran to get his mother, but when they returned the creature had gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4010",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald Worley, Proceedings of the CUFOS Conference: 1976, p. 291" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/12/1976",
  "desc" : "On this evening in Savanna, Oklahoma three boys watched a white disc-shaped object with beams of light search through some woods at a low altitude. The air felt warm and they heard a \"Whoosh!\" sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4011",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "McAlester Democrat, July 15, 1976; APRO Bulletin, January-February 1977, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/12/1977",
  "desc" : "A domed disc passed over a hill in Roseto Degli Abruzzi, Italy at 1:50 a.m. Two kids playing with walkie-talkies experienced RFI radio interference. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4012",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Maurizio Verga, ITACAT: Italian UFO Catalogue" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/12/1977",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. Adrian De Olmos Ordones, age 42, was resting on the balcony of his house in Quebradillas, Puerto Rico when he saw a very small figure across the road. It was about 40 feet away, and it slipped under a farm's barbed wire fence and walked toward a lamp post only 20 feet away. The little man was only three and a half feet tall and wore a green garment that seemed to be inflated with air. He also wore a large metallic helmet with a glass face plate encasing the head that came to a slight point on top. The helmet was surmounted by a short extension with a luminous point on top. On the being's back was a box like a knapsack. Sr. De Olmos also observed that he had only four fingers, that his feet were webbed like a duck's, and that he had a short tail, not long enough to reach the ground. In his right hand he carried a small shiny object. The witness told his daughter bring him a pencil and paper so he could make a sketch, but by mistake she turned on the balcony light. When she did the being ran back to the fence, passed under it, and then stopped and put his hand on his belt. Two red and two blue lights appeared on the backpack with two downward jets of sparks came out, accompanied by a sound like an electric drill. The being ascended 10 feet into the air and flew horizontally to a grove of trees 150 yards away. Mr. Olmos, his family, and neighbors watched the lights of the figure as he moved about the trees for 10 minutes, in company with another light. During this period the cattle on the adjacent farm \"went crazy,\" running about and bellowing. The next day humanoid tracks were found and photographed at the site. A neighbor woman had seen a luminous object descend into the woods two days before. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4013",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Sebastian Robiou Lamarche, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1978, p. 3; FSR, April 1978, p. 9; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-36 (A1741), citing Sebastian Robiou Lamarche; Jorge Martin; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 232" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/12/1978",
  "desc" : "A watch stopped when an orange glowing domed disc-shaped UFO came out from under the clouds 13 kilometers from the mountain town of Wiener Neustadt, Austria at 10:15 p.m. The two witnesses reported that the object then simply vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4014",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ernst Berger, MUFON UFO Journal, June 1978, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/12/1978",
  "desc" : "At around 11:00 p.m. a reddish-orange disc-shaped object, making a whistling sound, was sighted by several witnesses five kilometers away from Estacio Rambion in San Juan, Argentina. At the railway station the telephone stopped working and there was a television blackout. The batteries of some road machinery equipment were also damaged. A dog howled during the incident, which lasted about 15 minutes, and it later lost its hair. Three horses were also reported missing and never found. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4015",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, March 1981; UNICAT database, case 595, citing Guillermo Roncoroni" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/12/1981",
  "desc" : "At 12:50 a.m. five observers driving in a vehicle, including a college professor and a social worker, in South Canterbury, New Zealand saw a brightly lit domed disc-shaped craft with gold, red and green lights. It paced their car along a back road, making no sound. The object had several brightly lit windows and slot like indentations on its surface. A heavyset squat figure was seen at one of the windows. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4016",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, May 1982, p. 3; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 26, citing the Timaru Herald, July 31, 1981; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1981, case # 2438, citing the MUFON UFO Journal, November 1981, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/12/1981",
  "desc" : "A nocturnal light hung stationary in the sky over the Dee Estuary in Cheshire, England on this night, and then shot off at high speed. It was sighted by an air crew that corroborated the ground level sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4017",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John Wallace Spencer, UFO Encyclopedia, p. 89" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/12/1984",
  "desc" : "On this night hundreds of witnesses in the Hudson Valley, Westchester County, New York saw a number of small round lights which hovered, made abrupt right angle turns, disappeared and reappeared. The objects changed colors, made a faint humming sound, and moved from one shaped-formation to another. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4018",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 71; Peter Brookesmith, UFO: The Complete Sightings, p. 128; Discover, November 1984" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/12/1989",
  "desc" : "On this night at least six witnesses in Southend, Essex, England reported that a cone-shaped UFO paced a car. Lights on object turned counter-clockwise. The object shot off when the car stopped. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4019",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1991, p. 228" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/12/1998",
  "desc" : "A female security guard in Lakeland, Florida spotted a strange \"alien\" entity standing on the corner of Dixie Highway and Lucern Road on this evening. The humanoid had pasty white skin, reddish blond hair, and black button eyes. His nose was small, his lips were very thin, and his eyes were black in color with almost no white area. He had neither eyelashes nor other facial nor body hair, his head was unusually large, while his ears were very small. He moved very slowly with short little steps and was wearing normal human clothing. The next evening the same or a similar entity appeared outside the security guard's workplace, over 12 miles away. When a second witness approached the entity mysteriously disappeared. The police were notified. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4020",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case # 3156, citing UFO Magazine (USA), Volume 14, No. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/12/2000",
  "desc" : "A 14-year-old boy had gone to bed late on this night at his summer cottage in Manooth, Ontario, Canada when he woke up to find his bedroom door open and someone walking in the living room. Soon an alien figure came to his bedroom door and entered, followed by two more. The beings were basically humanoid, gray in color, with large black oval-shaped eyes. One was taller than the others and he was holding a glowing blue rod, which apparently paralyzed the witness. He telepathically told the boy that they were going to cure an infection that was brought to Earth by another alien race. They inserted a long tube down the witness esophagus and through it injected a liquid. He was then able to move and was told to follow them. Outside he was taken aboard a landed disc-shaped object, where he was scanned and examined. Later he was brought back to his room. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4021",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case # 3614, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/12/2002",
  "desc" : "A scout troop with their scoutmaster saw 26 orange objects fly from south to north slowly, in single file, over Browns Plains, Queensland shortly after 10 p.m. The objects were described as balloon shaped, and glowed orange. There was no sound, and there were no navigation lights on the objects. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4022",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Sheryl Gottschall Sheryl, UFO Research Queensland website" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/12/2003",
  "desc" : "The witness and her mother were driving home down a road in Ashland, Kentucky at around 10:00 p.m. when they saw a moving light in the sky. They first assumed it was a plane, but then it started moving faster. It sped up to an unbelievable speed and shot back and forth between wo stars, and then stopped as if it had spotted them. At this point their car stopped running. The UFO had disappeared but they had a feeling it was still present, watching them. It reappeared, this time closer. They next saw 20 to 30 lights zooming across the sky. These all stopped at the same star in the sky as the first one, and they all vanished in a bright flash. They heard no sound during any of this. The daughter reports that she then fainted, but her mother continued to watch. She said the light got bigger and brighter, and in the midst of the light her mother claims to have seen dark figures carrying strange instruments. When the daughter woke up, the car was on the side of the road about 20 feet from where it had been. About half an hour had passed, but it seemed to have been much longer. Her mother was now passed out and outside of the car. She appeared unharmed, but she did have a scar on the back of her neck. The mother convinced herself that the mark was from the back of the car door when she \"fell\" out of the car. For subsequent nights the pair have seen strange lights in the sky at night, dashing across the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4023",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, July 2003 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/13/1860",
  "desc" : "In Wilmington, Delaware at 9:45 p.m. a pale blue light illuminated a 200-foot long cloud-like object in the sky that moved slowly and silently through the sky. At regular distances behind the cloud followed three \"very red and glowing balls.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4024",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon I.R. Lore, Jr. and Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 65" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/13/1947",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. four or five bright white, one-meter wide discs flew over New Cumberland, West Virginia one after the other at 15-minute intervals. They flew away to the south. At 10:30 in Topeka, Kansas a disc-shaped object flew in from the northwest, stopped in midair, and circled. Two more discs, one each from the southwest and southeast fly in and join the first one. All three fly away silently toward the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4025",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, cases 1163 & 1164" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/13/1950",
  "desc" : "USAF weather reconnaissance sighted four groups of round, metallic silvery objects flying over Fort Peck, Montana at 11:51 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4026",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book, July 1950 report" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/13/1950",
  "desc" : "At 1:45 p.m. a CAA flight engineer, flying over Cincinnati, Ohio sighted a metallic cigar-shaped UFO maneuvering silently in the sky. It ascended to 17,000 feet and stopped in midair, hovering in place for ten seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4027",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1766" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/13/1950",
  "desc" : "Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. At 5:00 p.m. two skilled Arsenal employees, witnessed a bowtie-shaped object flying in the sky, appearing like it was made of polished aluminum. It flew straight and level, then one triangle rotated one-quarter of a turn in the opposite direction and returned to its original position. The object then made a ninety-degree turn and accelerated away after at least 30 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4028",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 758; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/13/1952",
  "desc" : "A National Airlines flight flying some sixty miles southwest of Washington, D.C. over Virginia reported that a bluish-white light approached their plane, hovered, and then moved away. The UFO was tracked on radar by Washington National radar operators. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4029",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/13/1959",
  "desc" : "Walking to her cow shed on her farm in Blenheim, New Zealand at 5:40 a.m. Mrs. Frederick Moreland saw a round object with two intense green lights come down out of the clouds and hover at rooftop level. Around its rim were two counter-rotating rows of jets giving off orange flames and heat. A transparent glass-like cowling covered the top, and through this she could see two men wearing diver's helmets. One of them stood up and leaned forward. Both wore tight-fitting silvery suits. As it departed the UFO made a high-pitched whining noise, and left behind an odor \"like pepper.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4030",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1959-11, citing Harold Fulton, APRO Bulletin, September 1959; SATCU, Xenolog, November 1975, p. 13; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 491" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/13/1959",
  "desc" : "At midnight in Suchs, Spain a Mr. Domingo watched a 80 cm sphere hover only 15 meters above the ground. It illuminated the countryside \"like daylight.\" The witness panicked and ran when he heard the sound of an explosion. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4031",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/13/1966",
  "desc" : "Camillo Faieta, age 35, a lineman for the local utility company, was on duty at 2:20 a.m. when a brilliant light dazzled him. He determined that the light came from an object on a small island in the Emissario Canal near Pontedera, Italy. Two little men were seen briefly on the ground before the object took off. There were four other witnesses to the sighting in addition to Sr. Faieta. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4032",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 86; Flying Saucer Review, January-February 1967; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 333" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/13/1969",
  "desc" : "A disc was sighted over a farm south of Garrison, Iowa shortly after 10 p.m. A 40-foot wide circle of burnt soybean plants was found in a field on the farm. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4033",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, July-August 1969, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/13/1972",
  "desc" : "A dead dog was found with all of its hair missing in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. Forty feet away from the carcass was a six-foot wide circle of swirled grass. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4034",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case #529" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/13/1990",
  "desc" : "Manchester, New Hampshire. At 7:00 p.m. a teenage girl saw a brilliant light from her bedroom window rise from and hover over a swamp across the road and a few hundred feet away. She realized that this was the forward light of a tapered cylindrical object. It rotated to reveal its length. There were square lights or windows equally spaced along the midsection of its dark gray metallic surface. At one end was a horizontal cable, at the end of which was a red light. The object glided along laterally until she lost sight of it behind a line of trees. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4035",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dan Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, February 1991, p. 11" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/13/1993",
  "desc" : "At 9:15 p.m. in Syracuse, Indiana a man on his porch heard a dynamo humming sound. He went to his backyard and saw a multi-colored cigar-shaped object drift slowly toward the west, rise up 50-70 feet, and then drift to the north. It passed in front of trees, and then behind some more trees and was gone from view. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4036",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON investigation files, case 931243J" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/13/1993",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. in Ligonier, Indiana two teenagers driving south on Sparta Lake Road saw several red lights moving at a low altitude and making a humming sound. They stopped and got out of their car to watch as the lights maneuvered over farm buildings and then go behind some trees. At the same time or five minutes later in Cromwell, Indiana three people traveling south on Rte. 3 saw a number of lights that appeared to be a multi-colored oval-shaped UFO. It made a whining noise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4037",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON investigations files, cases 931244J and 931245J" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/13/1994",
  "desc" : "A luminous, diamond-shaped UFO dropped down over a road in Avezzano, Italy. It turned, leveled off, and flew off toward the north-northeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4038",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 16443" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/13/1995",
  "desc" : "Two strange looking, short humanoids stood at the foot of a woman's bed in Winnipeg, Manitoba at one o'clock in the morning. She was almost completely unable to move, but managed to touch one of the beings before they disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4039",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case 2371" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/13/1996",
  "desc" : "SAS troops on an ambush patrol in South Armagh, Northern Ireland saw four small Grey humanoids walk up from behind a hill and cross their path. Minutes later the special services soldiers saw a flash of light in the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4040",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case 2627" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/13/2000",
  "desc" : "At 1:30 a.m. a woman and a professor friend of hers had just left a Lions Club dinner and were driving south of Puerto Cuatro, Chile when they spotted two strange yellow lights ahead on the roadway. The driver flashed her high beams at the two intense lights and she began to slow down her car because they remained stationary. They then saw a figure standing about three feet away from the front bumper. The figure was described as large, lacking ears, and covered with extremely long gray hair, particularly around the neck. It had two immense, slanted yellow eyes. The driver and the creature exchanged stares for about ten seconds, after which the car drove along the left lane. The creature followed the vehicle's departure with its head, and its neck was apparently able to make 180-degree turns. Terrified, the two drove away. They saw the yellow light again as it lit up the entire road before disappearing. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4041",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case # 3784, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Vol. 5, No. 31" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/13/2002",
  "desc" : "Three lights maneuvered, pulsed, and then faded out on a clear night in Paramus, New Jersey at 11:10 p.m. Two of the objects moved slowly toward the northeast at a high altitude. The third object appeared in the northeast sky and flew between the first two, then changed direction and flew toward the north. All objects pulsed brightly and then faded. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4042",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (US), October 2002, p. 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/14/1925",
  "desc" : "A married couple, Mr. & Mrs. Slagle, witnessed a 200 foot long \"comet\" with illuminated windows on side make a hissing sound as it flew over Akron, Ohio at 9:45 p.m. It then shot up vertically into the sky at an incredible speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4043",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Flying Saucers magazine, January 1962, p. 13; Jerome Clark, Saga UFO Report, October 1975, p. 48; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 362, citing UFO Register, volume 9 (1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/14/1934",
  "desc" : "On a clear evening a perfectly circular, vividly white disc-shaped object hovered directly over a French tourist in the New Forest, north-northeast of Ringwood, Dorset, England at 8:30 p.m. A blue halo formed around the object for one minute, and then the UFO changed color from white to yellow to orange to red, whereupon it took off at high speed with a rushing sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4044",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Faiveley, Phenomenes Spatiaux, June 1972, p. 22; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 416; Jean-Claude Bourret, The Crack in the Universe, p. 61; Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), citing Jerome Clark" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/14/1947",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 a.m. in Syracuse, New York a 13-year-old boy saw a long, featureless cigar-shaped object hovering over an orchard only 100 meters away. At 1:00 p.m. in Wilkesboro, North Carolina a buzzing noise was heard and then a disc shot through the sky fast at an altitude of 1500 meters. At 7:20 p.m. a small disc flew over a farm south of Idaho Falls, Idaho flying on an irregular course, low and slow. It tilted, then flew away to the southwest making an odd sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4045",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1167, citing the National UFO Reporting Center; (2) Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1947 (Volume 5), p. 25; Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 107" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/14/1951",
  "desc" : "At the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico on this morning an oval-shaped object flying near a B-29 was viewed from the ground through a telescope during a rocket launch, and then tracked on airborne radar by two jets. The radar confirmed the visual sighting of a fast-moving UFO. Motion picture footage was allegedly obtained, but subsequently lost. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4046",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald Keyhoe, True Magazine, December 1952; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 48; Richard Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a cover-up 1941-1973, p. 400" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/14/1952",
  "desc" : "At 7:40 p.m. a group of three engineers in Hillandale, Alabama watched a round glowing object descend to the north, then make an instant reversal in direction and head south. At 8:00 p.m. a famous sighting occurred over Chesapeake Bay near Norfolk, Virginia by two pilots named Nash and Fortenberry. The men were flying a DC-4 aircraft for Pan American Airways when they sighted six luminous reddish-orange disc-shaped objects that were joined by two brighter discs. They were each estimated to be 100 feet in diameter, and they suddenly flipped on edge, revealing a flat, coin-like shape. They made a sharp turn, blinked off and on in unison, and then flew off in formation as the disappeared in the distance. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4047",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952 (Volume 8), p. 71; (2) Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1444; Dennis Stacy, Field Guide to UFOs, p. 40; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 67" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/14/1959",
  "desc" : "A group of Aboriginal hunters reported the landing of a red glowing object on a hill on Prince of Wales Island, Queensland, Australia. Other hunters saw a similar object near Karumba Lodge. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4048",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 492, citing Australian Flying Saucer Review, January 1960; Peter Rogerson, World-Wide Catalog of Type 1 Reports, citing Flying Saucer Review, September-October 1962, p. 24" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/14/1959",
  "desc" : "A light followed a Brazilian Air Force B-26 bomber plane for one hour as it flew from Pampulha to Belo Horizonte, Brazil. All the time it was changing colors. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4049",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 32; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 120; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, p. 256" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/14/1963",
  "desc" : "A 200-foot-long torpedo-shaped craft flew over Parkstone, Dorset, England at 300 feet. It made a whistling sound and shot off to the west at a tremendous speed. The sighting lasted three minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4050",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Orbit, 1963, Volume 4, p. 17; Ray Palmer, Flying Saucers magazine, August 1964, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/14/1964",
  "desc" : "A close encounter occurred on this evening in Tallulah Falls, Georgia. Miss P. Upton came running home nearly hysterical. While riding bicycles, she and a friend saw a low-flying object that terrified them. A strong unpleasant smell also was reported. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4051",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Fate magazine, November 1964, p. 66; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 616" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/14/1965",
  "desc" : "A bright silver disc-shaped object was seen for two minutes over Brisbane, Queensland, Australia at 10:00 p.m. It moved slowly from east to west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4052",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 155" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/14/1971",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. an ovoid UFO flew overhead in Gulf Breeze, Florida heading west. A nocturnal light exited and returned. It briefly stopped over a \"ship\" that was offshore in the Gulf of Mexico that subsequently submerged. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4053",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, September-October 1971, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/14/1972",
  "desc" : "At 6:45 p.m. nocturnal lights were seen maneuvering in the sky over Chartres, France by three airmen. One flew off to the east; another was a neon-colored disc. Radio interference was experienced for 30 minutes. The event was not reported to authorities. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4054",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1973" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/14/1972",
  "desc" : "At around 11:00 p.m. a silent UFO hovered over a house for 15 minutes in Corvallis, Oregon. It was watched by three women in their twenties. It shot straight up at a terrific speed when it left. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4055",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Glenn McWane, The New UFO Sightings, p. 44" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/14/1977",
  "desc" : "A daylight disc was observed flying over West Springfield, Massachusetts by a woman at around 11:00 o'clock in the morning. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4056",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Center for UFO Studies files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/14/1982",
  "desc" : "In Easley, South Carolina what looked like a \"water tank\" in a nearby field flew away when the witness's car headlights hit it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4057",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, January 1983" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/14/1999",
  "desc" : "Three men were walking home from a local pizza parlor in Virgilio, Sicily, Italy at 11:45 p.m. when they spotted a bright red spherical object descend slowly from the sky at a 60 degree angle. It had a weak yellow light on its upper section. It was about 200 meters away above a nearby rooftop when first spotted. The object halted six meters above the ground and hovered. Through an opening on top of the craft a vaguely human-shaped figure was visible. Suddenly, the craft shot up and disappeared over the rooftops. Five days later, at around 2:30 in the afternoon, the main witness was returning home when he saw a white vehicle parked in front of his house, occupied by two men. Soon after entering his home the two men knocked on his door. They proceeded to ask the witness several questions about the UFO he had seen, and basically harassed him with threatening remarks. He described them as very tall, about 40 years old, wearing white shirts and gray pants. They appeared to have nametags on the shirts, which they quickly covered. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4058",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1999 Humanoid Sightings Report Database, citing CUN Italy" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/14/1999",
  "desc" : "At 11:15 p.m. a taxi driver in Mastic, Suffolk County, New York was driving some passengers through town when they witnessed a metallic domed disc that was hovering at 150 m altitude. After he dropped off his passengers he noticed that the UFO was still there, hovering in the same spot, when the taxi made the return trip. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4059",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 18102, citing Filer's Files, volume 9, number 31" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/14/2000",
  "desc" : "On this night a woman had just returned to her house in Rennes, France when she saw a disc-shaped object surrounded by bright lights descend overhead and land in her garden. Two figures came out of the object. They had oval-shaped heads, bulging eyes, and large \"cauliflower-like\" ears that stuck out the side of their heads. The humanoids were wearing red colored combination suits. They spoke to the witness and she fell to the ground and went into a deep sleep. When she awoke the beings and the object were gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4060",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, citing GREPI" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/14/2000",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. an orange, dome shaped object flew over Thibodaux, Louisiana at tree level. Although orange in color, it occasionally turned white as it flew by. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4061",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, July 2000 archived webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/14/2003",
  "desc" : "An animal reaction case was reported from Orting, Washington on this night. All dogs in the area whined loudly at around 1:30 a.m. Two strange lights were sighted in the sky. One was round and gray, and traveled in a circular pattern; the other was a white triangular object, which bobbed up and down. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4062",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, July 2003 archived webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/14/2008",
  "desc" : "A double set of pinpoint reddish orange steady lights was viewed at 200 feet distance in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at 10:00 p.m. for a minute and a half. It was definitely a craft, according to the witness. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4063",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, report uploaded August 12, 2008" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/15/1947",
  "desc" : "At 12:15 p.m. Colonel Frank A. Flynn, who was flying over over Concord, California, reported that at least a dozen oval-shaped UFOs in three groups that hung in the sky, swinging back and forth in a pendulum motion. They were white on top, grey and black for the rest, and about 15 feet wide. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4064",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "San Francisco News, July 18, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 841" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/15/1948",
  "desc" : "An Army Major and a second witness reported seeing a large, silent, glowing metallic cigar-shaped object that flew from west to east over Alajarvi, Finland. The craft had no wings. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4065",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1322, citing Awareness, 1976" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/15/1952",
  "desc" : "At 1:20 a.m. a misty, glowing red UFO zig-zagged over the city of Pasco, Washington. There was a mist surrounding the UFO as it went quickly toward the southeast and away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4066",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 2342, citing Loren E. Gross" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/15/1952",
  "desc" : "At 10:10 a.m. a gray object, slightly yellow, and looking like \"a flattened out donut without the hole\", approached West Palm Beach, Florida very rapidly. It then hovered in place for 90 seconds. Finally, it picked up speed and disappeared out of sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4067",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1451; Kevin Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 269; UFOs: A History. 1952: June-July 20th, p. 58" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/15/1954",
  "desc" : "A woman recalled in 1986, that as an eleven year old girl collecting mushrooms in Poland she had a close encounter and missing time experience with UFOnauts. While walking alone near a cliff in Wegierska Gorka, Cracow, Poland she saw a glowing, oval-shaped UFO. She felt drawn to it, and was met by five entities, who had the height, skin and hands of humans. They wore tight fitting clothes, and had small mouthes and no noses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4068",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/15/1959",
  "desc" : "On this evening seven children in Mount Laurel, New Jersey witnessed a low level, glowing ovoid UFO fly south over the New Jersey Turnpike. It was silent in flight, the apparent size of the Moon, and gave off \"pulses.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4069",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: July-September, p. 17" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/15/1965",
  "desc" : "At 10:50 a.m. eight witnesses including air traffic controllers at Canberra Airport, Australian Capital Territory watched a white sphere hovering for 40 minutes. In Melbourne, Victoria, Australia at 6:20 p.m. a disc-shaped object descended slowly at anangle, then hovered while wobbling over a school. After two minutes it shot off to the northeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4070",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database; Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 88" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/15/1965",
  "desc" : "At eight o'clock in the evening in the Loretani Valley, Cordoba province, Argentina, Mr. and Mrs. Bosquets and their family observed a luminous object, its color changing from blue to orange. It was about twelve meters in diameter, and showed several portholes. It left behind ground traces at the landing site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4071",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, June 1973, p. 11; Gordon Creighton, FSR, November 1970, p. 27; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Langings, case # 654, citing CODOVNI 1965" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/15/1967",
  "desc" : "At 7:00 p.m. near Sedalia, Missouri a domed disc-shaped object was seen emerging from an isolated cloud. It re-entered the cloud, and then re-emerged again. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4072",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Norma Short, Skylook, December 1970, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/15/1968",
  "desc" : "At three o'clock in the morning a domed disc-shaped object was seen low to the ground in Columbus, Indiana. It directed a searchlight toward the ground, and it also emitted a narrower red beam or ray. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4073",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., UFOs: A New Look, p. 44" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/15/1968",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. Juan Gilabert and his wife Anastasia were at their home in Mar del Plata, Argentina when Anastasia suddenly heard a loud whistling sound and felt extreme heat. Juan was in another room. At the same time a bright light seemed to descend from the ceiling. The light began to dim and she felt partially paralyzed. In a corner of the room she saw a short humanoid figure wearing a silvery suit. Frightened, she managed to grab hold of her young daughter and ran outside screaming. Several neighbors, among them Rogelio Gianomini, came to her aid and found a strange white substance on the floor and a strong sulphur-like odor in the area. Small footprints were also found. Mrs. Gilabert suffered from nervous shock after the incident. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4074",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Oscar A. Uriondo, p. 31, citing a newspaper source; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, citing Carlos Daniel Ferguson, Gaceta OVNI" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/15/1976",
  "desc" : "At around 5:30 a.m. Margarita Caginas, age 28, and Miguel Ruiz Sampeiro were on their way to work in Escalante, Santander, Spain when they saw from behind a flying or levitating humanoid being “over 3 meters tall.” It was dressed in a brightly shining, dark brown outfit, and wore a silver disc on its head. It also floated along without its feet touching the ground. It paid no attention to the witnesses until it disappeared around a bend. There were other independent witnesses, including the local mayor who saw it from his window. He described it as a tall entity wearing a dark outfit that emitted luminous flashes from the chest area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4075",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1976-57, citing ABC Madrid, July 18, 1976; FSR, Volume 22, Number 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/15/1977",
  "desc" : "Mrs. Fern Frey had a close encounter with a disc-shaped UFO in Bellevue, Kentucky at 10:45 p.m. She watched as a green beam retracted into the 30-foot wide craft like \"liquid being sucked up through a straw\". The UFO then lifted off and disappeared into a wooded area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4076",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Leonard H. Stringfield, MUFON UFO Journal, January 1978, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/15/1977",
  "desc" : "At 11:45 p.m. PDT five people in a boat on a lake in Blythe, Riverside County, California watched an ovoid object, three to four times the size of the Moon, as it darted about in all directions for the next two hours. Its illuminated surface reflected on the surface of the water. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4077",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, September 1977, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/15/1979",
  "desc" : "At 4:00 a.m. a man was sleeping at his home in Nimes, France when his car alarm went off and woke him up. He then went outside to investigate, and saw a glowing object hovering just two meters above the ground. It had multicolored lights and was shooting flashes of light up into the sky. An opening became visible at one end of the object, and a short squat figure with thick arms and legs and a round body appeared. It began moving slowly towards the witness, who ran back inside his house. There were three other witnesses who saw the lights from the craft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4078",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2211; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case # 1725, citing Denys Breysse, Project Becassine" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/15/1979",
  "desc" : "On the same night a couple in San Antonio, Texas sighted three large glowing balls of light hovering outside their home. They watched as five strange humanoid creatures floated down from the balls of light. The beings were described as thin, with grayish skin, large heads, and large dark oval-shaped eyes. The man ran to get his gun, but suddenly both he and his wife were overcome with a profound drowsiness and lost consciousness. Their next memory they had was waking up in the morning to find the man's shotgun totally dismantled and placed on the kitchen table. Later a frightening abduction was recalled under hypnosis. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4079",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Preston Dennett, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1993" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/15/1981",
  "desc" : "A missing time incident occurred in Uppington, England on this night, and an abduction experience was subsequently revealed through hypnosis. Three women, Ms. Walters, Ms. Hawkins, and Ms. Hayward, were driving home from a nightclub at 2:10 a.m. on the A5 expressway when they all suddenly experienced a strange mood change. They all sat quietly, going into some form of limbo. Then across an open field four white and two red lights appeared that seemed to be attached to a dark object. The object was round and began pacing their vehicle. At this point the vehicle seem to lose power and would not accelerate. All the women panicked and became more confused when the UFO and lights suddenly vanished. There was a time lapse, of perhaps 25 minutes, noted when they reached their destination.<br/><br/> Later under hypnosis, one of the women recalled the car being floated up into the sky and entering the bottom of the object through two large double doors. She was held down on a reclining chair and medically examined by several four-foot tall figures, who were hairless and had deep set dark eyes, very thin arms, and strange noses. They wore green cloaks. The second woman recalled being in a large room when several four-foot tall robot like entities with round heads, no facial features and wheel-like feet rolled in; she was not examined. The third woman remembers being hit by a beam of light. She felt pain and was floated into a room, there she encountered two six-foot tall humanoids, one male and the other female, both wearing green cloaks. They both had dark, shoulder-length hair, vivid blue eyes and extremely white skin. They seemed very friendly and appeared intrigued with her clothing. The third woman was also given a medical exam. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4080",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Norman Oliver, BUFORA Journal, April 2003, p. 3; John Wallace Spencer, UFO Encyclopedia, p. 119, citing the Shropshire Star, July 17, 1981; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1981, case # 526, citing Jenny Randles, Abduction" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/15/1981",
  "desc" : "Several people were fishing on a lake in Newberry, South Carolina at 10:30 p.m. when at least one witnessed a thirty-foot long cigar-shaped object that  maneuvered over the lake, then floats in place for 3 minutes. He also saw steam or mist rising from the water. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4081",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, December 1982" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/15/1984",
  "desc" : "A low flying cigar-shaped UFO was seen at Greens Beach, Tasmania, Australia at 11:45 a.m. It created a smoke cloud which kept enveloping it as it moved. The object maneuvered back and forth at low altitude, then flew off to the south. Duration: 10 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4082",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Doris Graziano, APRO Bulletin, February 1985, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/15/1984",
  "desc" : "northwest of Detroit, Maine - Carol Cloukey and Robert White were driving on their way to Pittsfield, Maine for dinner. At 9:05 p.m., after traveling about a mile they rounded a bend and Carol, who was driving, was the first to see a bright yellowish-orange light. Suddenly the light made a perfect vertical drop in mid-air. They sped up to get ahead of the object, but the light dropped lower again, and was now dead center above the car windshield. Carol stopped and slammed the car into reverse. After backing up about 50 feet they saw that the object was alongside of them on the left side of the car and about 150 off the ground. The glow had subsided, and in the evening twilight it appeared grayish in color, triangular shaped, and larger than a 747 aircraft. It had 4 red lights and 1 or 2 brighter white lights. It made no sound. Robert opened his door to see if it was possible to make a 180-degree turn, and he told her to back into the driveway of a farmhouse. The object was now almost directly above them at an approximate altitude of 100 feet. He observed that when they stopped the UFO stopped, and when they moved the UFO moved! It became apparent that \"it\" did not want to let them go. Robert got out of the car and started to run toward the farmhouse. Carol called to him that another car was coming down the road. The UFO now began to move away slightly, traveling in a northeasterly direction for a distance of a few hundred feet when it suddenly vanished right before their eyes. Robert later expressed wonderment that such a large object could suddenly disappear in such an inexplicable manner. They estimated that the total incident took about two minutes to transpire. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4083",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Leland Bechtel, MUFON UFO Journal, October 1984, pp. 14-15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/15/1985",
  "desc" : "A 25-year-old CAD draftsman was in his bedroom in Cobbtown, Georgia at around two a.m. when he had a close encounter with two 70-foot diameter discs which had lights around their rims. They made a high pitched sound and he fell into a trance, but when he spoke the word \"Jesus\" they seemed to disappear. All electrical appliances in the house were damaged from electromagnetic effects, and three dogs who lived with him never returned. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4084",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald M. Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1992, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/15/1995",
  "desc" : "On this day in Calder Valley, West Yorkshire, England two married couples were enjoying a garden picnic when some very strange events began to unfold. It involved a strange mist or fog, time dislocation, and the \"Oz\" effect, where time seems to stop and all normal environmental noises cease. They felt heavy pressure, like a static charge in the air. Plates and glasses started to move about on the picnic table. A dark gray mass and fog then enveloped the garden. This was followed by many hours of missing time. The witnesses recovered feeling sick, with naseau and tingling sensations. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4085",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jenny Randles, Time Storms: Amazing Evidence for Time Warps, Space Rifts, and Time Travel, p. 73, citing BUFORA" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/15/1995",
  "desc" : "A couple returning from a fishing trip at 2:45 p.m. sighted a huge, metallic, domed disc-shaped object with a dark band of windows In West Harwinton, Connecticut. They were able to get out of their minivan and watch the craft for an additional 10-15 seconds. Detailed analysis revealed that the estimated size of the craft was 553 feet in diameter, and it was at a distance of 2,400 feet. It travelled at a relatively slow 70-75 mph at a low altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4086",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Cashman, International UFO Reporter, Summer 2000, p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/15/1999",
  "desc" : "First the car radio cut out, reported the male witness driving in Nangwarry, South Australia at 2:15 a.m.  Then he saw three lights in a triangular formation with a black shape inside to the left of the highway, shining onto the top of some pine trees. The UFO then rose and entered a cloud that lit up. Finally, his car radio came back on. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4087",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Keith Basterfield, AUFORN" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/15/2000",
  "desc" : "Gimli, Manitoba, Canada. Three witnesses reported seeing a shiny round pink object at around 7:00 p.m., about a block away, with smoke billowing out of a straight horizontal pipe coming from the top of the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4088",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2000 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 107" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/15/2001",
  "desc" : "Independent witnesses reported a large flying triangle in Carteret and Sayerville, New Jersey. A first witness at 12:15 a.m. reported V-shaped formations of lights hovering, and then fading out one by one. Another witness saw a large flying triangle heading for Carteret. Other witnesses, further south along the New Jersey Turnpike, saw airline flights heading to Newark Airport apparently being diverted because of the presence of UFOs in the early morning hours between 12:25 and 12:55 a.m. Unconfirmed reports indicate that radars in the New York area picked up a series of anomalous targets at same time. These targets roughly matched the ground witnesses' testimony of seeing lights over the New Jersey Turnpike. Dozens of cars came to a stop on the NJ Turnpike to watch the lights as they passed overhead. The Carteret case is significant because it occurred the day after a successful US antimissile test in the Pacific. Carteret is only ten miles from New York City, and numerous police and firefighters took video of the event which was shown on many television broadcasts. New York radar operators indicated that dozens of anomalous targets were racing around the area. According to MUFON field investigator and pilot Bob Durant, \"In the short time the lights were displayed on screen, it was obvious that they were moving right to left at a slow but deliberate angular velocity. There was no relative movement among the lights. The top of a house or building, and possibly a chimney on a house, is visible in the video scene. There were a total of 10 lights arranged in three groups. Beginning from the left on the screen, this corresponds with the foremost lights. We see five lights, then a space, then four lights, a much longer space and a single light, which brings up the rear of the moving set. There is no obvious symmetry to either the group of five or group of four lights, or to the entire group of lights. The lights depicted in the video are large, steady, and white, though there is some slight but perceivable variation in diameter among them. One of the lights, momentarily, nearly 'goes out', diminishing to a tiny point and then resuming its original size.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4089",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worlwide Reports of UFO Sightings, pp. 78-79; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, report uploaded August 5, 2001" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/15/2005",
  "desc" : "In Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada eight witnesses reported seeing a shiny, metallic triangular object \"with black waves\" on the surface of the object and a white glow around it at 10:15 p.m. It was flying east at a low altitude, close enough to see it clearly. Triangle-shaped objects were also sighted later that night in Virginia and Pennsylvania. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4090",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2005 Canadian UFO Survey, case 59; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, report uploaded September 2, 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/15/2010",
  "desc" : "At around 3 a.m. two campers at a campsite on Berry Creek, Butte County, California viewed one cigar-shaped craft fly over, then hold position as a second craft emerged from the first and perform impossible manuevers for 15 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4091",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, report uploaded July 19, 2010" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/16/1952",
  "desc" : "A U.S. Coast Guardsman, Shell R. Alpert, took a famous photograph of four oval globs of light in a V-formation moving over parked cars near a power plant in Salem, Massachusetts at 9:35 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4092",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #1501; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol; Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 91" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/16/1952",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. EDT aeronautical engineer Paul R. Hill along with his wife Frances saw two amber lights in the sky make a U-turn over Hampton, Virginia and then revolve around each other. They were joined by two more amber lights, then all four sped off toward the south at an estimated speed of 500 mph. They moved jerkily when flying slowly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4093",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 208; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: Report on Multiple UFO, p. 115, citing the Newport News Press" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/16/1963",
  "desc" : "At 7:45 a.m. a large featureless metallic disc flew to the east near the airport in Ontario, California at 300 meters altitude. It made no sound and was estimated to be over 50 feet in diameter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4094",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, May-June 1964" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/16/1964",
  "desc" : "A dome shaped object, as shiny as chromium, was seen in a field alongside a road by five boys at 12:30 p.m. in Conklin, Broome County, New York. A three-foot tall humanoid was seen in a tree. He was dressed in a black uniform with a black helmet, and wore two antenna wires and a visor. The being floated stiffly in a backwards motion out of the tree. The craft departed making a whistling sound. Three ground marks were found at the landing site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4095",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Binghamton Press, July 17, 1964; Walter N. Webb, case investigation file; NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1964, p. 6; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 183" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/16/1964",
  "desc" : "At 11:15 p.m. four white lights in an echelon formation were joined by two more such craft. They closed in on an aircraft being flown by a Mr. Jannereth as he was flying 15 miles south of Houghton Lake, Michigan. They slowed rapidly, then paced his airplane for five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4096",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Thomas M. Olsen, Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case 155; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 117; Don Berliner, Australasian UFOlogist, April 1999, p. 51, citing Project Blue Book case # 8924; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: Report on Multiple UFO, p. 143, citing Thomas M. Olsen" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/16/1965",
  "desc" : "An airline pilot saw two red UFOs from the ground in rural Sherborn, Massachusetts at 2:00 a.m. He saw yellow, green, and red lights rotating around their circumferences. They also moved with a distinct up-and-down motion and made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4097",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 332" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/16/1968",
  "desc" : "At 12:15 a.m. five police, members of the National Gendarmerie, were driving in a jeep in the mountains in Andacollo, Neuquen Province, Argentina when a disc-shaped UFO flew close to ground, emitting a pale blue light. The object was described as flat and about two meters in diameter. Their jeep's engine lost power during the five minute duration of their encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4098",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, February 1974, p. 16; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 41" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/16/1970",
  "desc" : "Five people driving in a car in Brindisi, Italy stopped when a domed, luminous UFO descended below some nearby treetops. An intense silence seemed to fall over the area, as if all sounds had been masked. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4099",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing CISU" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/16/1971",
  "desc" : "In the early evening three people were driving down a road in Grossweier, Germany when a large, bright red disc flew overhead and followed them down the road for a brief while. It then turned and followed a railroad track. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4100",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Eberhard Schneider, FSR Case Histories, August 1973, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/16/1972",
  "desc" : "In Odendaalsrus, Orange Free State, South Africa a flat rotating disc was sighted high up in the sky by more than eight witnesses, giving off a bright yellow light. It was estimated to be about one meter in diameter. It descended suddenly and hovered just above a police cruiser. The entire incident lasted 15 minutes. In Malmesbury, Western Cape, South Africa an object that changed color moved up and down at great speed south of the town at 8:30 p.m. There were 10 witnesses and the event lasted 15 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4101",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Charles Bowen, FSR, November-December 1972, p. 16; Cape Times, July 17, 1972" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/16/1977",
  "desc" : "Multiple UFO abductee Betty Andreasson had her sixth close encounter experience on this night in Wakefield, Massachusetts. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4102",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, Casebook of a UFO Investigator, p. 137" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/16/1978",
  "desc" : "A Lufthansa airliner flying over the northern part of Iran encountered a glowing UFO floating in the sky. The presence of the object caused electrical interference with the aircraft's instruments. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4103",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, September 1978, p. 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/16/1978",
  "desc" : "At nine p.m. in Farningham, England a metallic gray cigar-shaped object descended over a highway, causing a car on the highway to stop. The witness reported that the car was then levitated inside a beam and brought up inside the craft through an opening. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4104",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Harry Hatch, U computer database, case 12725" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/16/1978",
  "desc" : "On this night J. R. B. and his family observed a dome-shaped metallic object land in a field in Iracauba, Brazil. A short humanoid with greenish skin and large oval-shaped eyes emerged briefly from the craft. It then re-entered the object, which took off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4105",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing GEPUC Brazil" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/16/1979",
  "desc" : "A flat metallic disc with rivets visible was seen by two men fishing on Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territory, Canada at around 11:00 a.m. They were able to take 12 photographs of the object as it passed over their boat. Reportedly a wristwatch being worn by one of the men malfunctioned. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4106",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Coral E. Lorenzen, APRO Bulletin, May 1981, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/16/1980",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 a.m. a Civil Air Patrol cadet along with several other witnesses observed a dull metallic, circular object maneuvering near Pecos, New Mexico. The cadet got closer to the object after it landed in a nearby clearing and took some photographs. He then observed a human looking figure dressed in a metallic suit emerge from the object and walk a few feet away from it. Moments later the figure returned to the object and it quickly took off and flew towards the northwest. The cadet was later approached by a mysterious man who wanted him to turn over the photographs to him. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4107",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, Above Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Cover-Up, p. 407" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/16/1989",
  "desc" : "Sudden light appeared over New Harmony, Indiana at 8:15 p.m. and a silent disc-shaped object, six feet in diameter, appeared less than 100 feet overhead. It had rods or beams of light of different colors and lengths protruding from it. The witness was a 61-year-old woman, and the encounter lasted two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4108",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Francis L. Ridge, MUFON field investigation file database, case 890802; MUFON UFO Journal, December 1989" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/16/1994",
  "desc" : "In the city of Dusseldorf, Germany six police officers saw a multicolored disc-shaped UFO the size of an airliner at 10:15 a.m. The craft had some sort of protrusion, and red and green blinking lights. It was viewed through binoculars. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4109",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 16447" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/16/1994",
  "desc" : "A large black disc, making a beeping sound, flew over a police radio tower in La Chapelle-la-Reine, France at 11:40 p.m. It flew away toward the west. Ten minutes later a bright illumination was seen ahead of two witnesses driving on Route D16 south of La Vaudoue, France. A domed disc-shaped object was the source, and it flew away toward the southeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4110",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #327" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/16/1994",
  "desc" : "A silent triangular craft flew over De Bary, Florida at 9:15 p.m. The two witnesses saw the low flying craft with lights drop a ball of light into some nearby woods. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4111",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case 1792, citing MUFON Florida" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/16/1996",
  "desc" : "A 66-year-old retired farmer named Dionisio was walking through a field around noon in Los Villares, Jaen, Spain. He had just sat down on a rock next to a tree to rest when he noticed a very strong and pungent odor in the air and heard a low humming sound. He next noticed an object hovering near the ground next to some nearby power lines. The craft was shaped like a dome and was a shiny metallic color. It had several black glassy oval shaped windows. It was about three meters in length and a meter and a half in height. On one side he noticed some inscriptions, part of which resembled \"IOIO.\" From the top of the object there were also some cables that were apparently connected to the nearby power lines.<br/><br/> Dionisio also noticed a curious fact. If he moved back about three meters he could no longer see the object, but when he moved forward again he was again able to see it. Suddenly he saw three figures standing next to the object. Two were men and one was a woman, and they stood about six feet tall. They were wearing tight fitting, one-piece silvery outfits. Their faces were Asian in appearance, with high cheekbones, very pale skin, and slanted eyes. They had large hands with five long, well defined fingers and their mouths were slit-like. They also wore silvery boots. Suddenly he felt something strike his chest, and glancing up he noticed that the woman was signaling him, and one of the men was kneeling down next to the craft. He began hearing voices in his head. Frightened, he tried to hide behind some rocks, and then heard the humming sound and smelled the pungent odor again. When he emerged from behind the rocks he noticed that the humanoids and the object were gone. Investigators found ground traces at the site. A mysterious looking rock was also found at the site. During the same time others in the region saw low flying lights and objects. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4112",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case # 3040, citing Lorenzo Fernandez Bueno & Iker Jimenez Elizari" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/16/1998",
  "desc" : "Several local residents of Valentin Letelier, Chile reported encountering a strange little creature about 50 centimeters tall on this night. The being had a full head of hair and was spotted walking around the local plaza for several hours that night. Two of the witnesses have reported talking to the dwarf, who spoke in a gruff voice and told one of the witnesses that he was hungry. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4113",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case # 3637, citing Paranigma Chile" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/16/2000",
  "desc" : "The 17-year-old witness reported encountering a large glowing sphere in a field in Columbus, Nebraska at 11:40 p.m.. The object had small protrusions on the bottom. Stunned and unable to move, he stood watching the object when a five-feet tall Grey humanoid with huge pitch-black eyes approached him. The being stared at him intensely and seemed to analyze him. It had small holes for ears, no nose, and a small slit for a mouth that never changed position. After about five minutes the figure and the object disappeared. The witness remained paralyzed for an additional 10 to 15 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4114",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case # 3795, citing UFO Abductions Raw Data Page & UFO Watch" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/16/2003",
  "desc" : "At around 8:30 p.m. two teachers in their fifties had gone for a short evening walk across the fields of Barnoldswick, Lancashire, England and were almost back home when they looked up and saw the figure of a man in the sky. He was dressed in what looked like black overalls, and he was descending as if by parachute. He came down about 50 yards away behind the last house in the row, so they thought he was going to land in the meadow beyond. But when he was only about 15 feet from the ground he leveled off and began to slowly accelerate, climbing gently and heading off in a northerly direction. They watched as he crossed the valley and disappeared into the distance. They did not see any means of propulsion on the man. Nothing visible was attached to his back and he made no sound, at least nothing they could detect. Visibility was excellent that evening. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4115",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2003, case # 3637, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/17/1948",
  "desc" : "At 4:50 p.m. two Kirtland Air Force Base Sergeants on a fishing trip with their families to San Acacia Dam, New Mexico saw a group of seven aluminum circular, possibly spherical, objects approach from the south at 20,000 feet and pass overhead at 1,500 mph. They shifted from a V formation to an L formation, and then to a circular formation and finally to no regular formation, at which point a regular pulsating flashing light appeared amidst the group at 30° from zenith to the north. At this oblique angle the objects no longer appeared circular. They made no noise nor did they leave a trail. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4116",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 146; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, p. 90; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 53" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/17/1952",
  "desc" : "At ten minutes after midnight on State Route 33 in St. Paul, Minnesota four two-foot diameter discs flew through a lightning storm at only 200 feet altitude, making sharp turns. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4117",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: June-July 20th, p. 59" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/17/1952",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 a.m. an elliptical object was sighted from Lockbourne AFB, Ohio with a pinpoint of flame at the rear that would occasionally flare. The object had a resonant beat as it moved through the sky at high speed. A Project Blue Book \"unidentified\" case. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4118",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1476" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/17/1952",
  "desc" : "At the same time as the Lockbourne AFB sighting, a pilot for United Airlines flying over Lake Erie near Sandusky, Ohio saw a saucer-shaped object pacing his airliner. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4119",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 17" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/17/1952",
  "desc" : "At 2 o'clock in the afternoon two red glowing spheres followed a plane across the sky in Balliettsville, Pennsylvania. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4120",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 2360" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/17/1952",
  "desc" : "At 3:10 p.m. a woman saw two large flying discs over White Plains, New York flying on their edge and making a whirring sound. They were in sight for 5-6 seconds. A Project Blue Book \"unidentified\" case. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4121",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1502" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/17/1952",
  "desc" : "In the evening a Master Sergeant near Rapid City, South Dakota saw 12-14 glowing orange objects in the sky. They flew straight and level, and seemed to be going faster than jet aircraft. A Project Blue Book \"unidentified\" case. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4122",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1479" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/17/1955",
  "desc" : "Shortly before noon in Bexleyheath, England and while driving a country road with two passengers, Mr. Fry noticed a dark shadow hanging over the road. His car began to slow down, and stop and start intermittently. Above was an gray oval-shaped disc 100 to 150 feet in diameter. It was spinning and making a swishing or humming noise. The UFO flipped over and rose up into the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4123",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, November 1976, p. 30" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/17/1955",
  "desc" : "At dusk a man in Meopham, Kent County, England had taken his dog out for a walk through some local fields when he suddenly felt that he was being watched. Also, his dog was acting peculiar and the hairs on his dog's back were standing straight up. He looked up and saw a very large, hovering cigar-shaped object with large rounded windows, almost directly overhead. The windows were brightly lit and inside he could see several humanoid figures who appeared to be observing him. The object followed him without making any noise, as he ran with his dog across the fields and to his home. The witness hid inside his house, and he last saw the object hovering over some nearby buildings. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4124",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, case # 838, citing Mrs M. Fry, Contact, FSR, Volume. 27, # 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/17/1962",
  "desc" : "On this day X-15 pilot and future astronaut White was flying at 58 miles above the Earth from his desert takeoff point in California when he saw and took movie film of a grayish-white UFO. It paced the X-15 for five seconds, and then darted above and behind the plane. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4125",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, September 1962, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/17/1965",
  "desc" : "On this night in Samarai, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea a red glowing cylinder moved about in the sky, from left to right. During its oscillating behavior it emitted a sound like a diesel engine. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4126",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 155" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/17/1965",
  "desc" : "Colonia, Uruguay. A blindingly bright object, smaller than an airplane and having metallic legs, was seen on the bank of the Rio de la Plata River by two workers and four young men. White smoke emerged from the craft, which remained on the sand for two minutes, leaving X-shaped ground marks. It flew up to about 10 meters altitude, stopped, then went away. The craft showed a round central section with two oval ends and looked somewhat similar to an egg. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4127",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Belfast News, July 20, 1965; Brad Steiger, Strangers From the Skies, p. 40; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 655" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/17/1966",
  "desc" : "Rebouillon, France. Rene Pebre and two others were driving back from Draguignan at 3:45 a.m. when they saw a gray oval-shaped metallic object, about five meters long, hovering at a low altitude about 300 meters away from them. It emitted a beam of light. They also noticed that there were several window-like openings on the craft. All the dogs in the vicinity were barking. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4128",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 781, citing GEPA, September 1966" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/17/1967",
  "desc" : "While driving home at 1:00 a.m. in Newville, Pennsylvania Mr. Stanley L. noticed a light that he first thought was the moon, but it moved towards him and dropped into a position directly in front of his car. It paced him, keeping a distance of 15 to 20 yards, while he drove along at 55 mph. It was a rounded object, 10-15 in diameter, and was glowing brightly with an orange light. Stanley thought he could see the shadowy silhouette of a man inside the object working controls. When he slowed down the UFO rose above the telephone wires but continued to pace him the rest of the way home. At home he called out his sister Joanne, and her boyfriend Carl, and all three of them saw the object hovering over a field. When he drove away it followed his car again, and returned with him to the house where they could now make out the form of the occupant inside the object. The object made no sound. While they went inside the house the UFO disappeared. This encounter occurred during a continuing wave of UFO sighting reports in south central Pennsylvania. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4129",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-58 (A0830), citing Ivan Kerns, NICAP" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/17/1967",
  "desc" : "At 3:15 in the afternoon in Arc-sous-Cicon, Doubs department, France four children saw three dark humanoids with protruding stomachs who spoke an unintelligible language that sounded like musical tones. They were dressed in black suits. Broken vegetation, a circle of burnt grass four meters in diameter, and three small footprints were found at the site. Several hours later there were widespread reports of fireballs seen by hundreds of people throughout Europe. Some believed these sightings were the result of a satellite re-entry or possibly a spectacular meteor. According to investigator Eric Zurcher, \"We now know that the beings in question were already in the area three days earlier, since they were seen on the 14th and 15th by an agricultural worker.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4130",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "France Soir, July 20, 1967; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 95; Ted R. Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 285 citing Spacelink magazine; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, cases 1967-59 & 1967-61, citing Eric Zurcher and Joel Mesnard for GEPA; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 855" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/17/1967",
  "desc" : "Mr. E. Browne of Belfast, Northern Ireland was walking in the woods near his home on this evening when he came upon a \"dish-like\" object hovering eight feet above the ground. It was a dull blue-gray color with a rough and pitted outer surface, and about the size of a car. An opening appeared in the center of the underside and two silver suited, human-like figures dropped slowly to the ground and then walked away into the woods. Several minutes later they came back and drifted back into the craft, which rose silently into the air and vanished from sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4131",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-60, citing Flying Saucer Review, November-December 1967; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 856; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 473" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/17/1967",
  "desc" : "At 11:25 p.m. Mrs. Emma Funk was driving down Route 22 north of Millertown, New York when a shiny black object about the size of a baseball flew into the car's headlights. It came right up to her car, seemed to brush against the windscreen, then veered off to the left. When it made contact the car lit up \"like a giant electric light bulb.\" The engine and headlights failed and she lost consciousness. When she recovered the car was pointing in the opposite direction and there was a cracked area the size of a man's fist in the windshield. In September she underwent hypnotic regression in which she spoke of the radio being filled with static and unspecified beings, which turned the car around and struck her across the chest with a rod. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4132",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Fawcett, APRO; Peter Rogerson, Worldwide Catalogue of Type I Reports, citing William Donovan, A.I.R." ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/17/1968",
  "desc" : "Near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at around eleven p.m. a civil servant named Pedro Dema Filho heard a loud humming noise and was blinded by a powerful beam of light accompanied by two green lamps. These vanished, and from a door in a UFO emerged four short greenish entities not much over 20 inches tall, wearing something like headphones. They quickly approached and paralyzed him, and he was unable to run away. They next seized him and dragged him into their craft, the interior of which “looked like a laboratory”. There they questioned him, apparently using telepathy, at length about human customs. They didn't seem to have mouths. After that, they undressed him and conducted a detailed physical examination. They put a luminous wire device into his mouth that made his body appear transparent. During this procedure his limbs felt cold, his head felt like it was spinning, and his tongue felt like it had “turned to stone.” They finally released him, and he watched the craft fly off leaving a luminous trail. He felt no subsequent ill effects. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4133",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon Creighton, FSR, September-October 1969, p. 32, citing Gazeta Noticia, July 21, 1968; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1968-46, citing FSR" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/17/1969",
  "desc" : "At 10:50 a.m. in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia a poor quality photograph of a gray domed disc was taken. The object was estimated to be 20 feet in diameter. It moved through the sky from the southwest to the northeast at moderate speed, flying at an estimated 2000 feet altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4134",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joseph Erhardt, UFO Chronolog, June 1970, case # 422" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/17/1969",
  "desc" : "At 8:25 p.m. near the airport in West Beach, Adelaide, South Australia a pinkish object flying at high altitude first stopped in mid-air, then rocked to-and-fro, and next moved off a short distance to the northeast. It subsequently doubled back, and finally shot straight up and was gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4135",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 185; Joseph Erhardt, UFO Chronolog, June 1970, case # 424" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/17/1969",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. a man and a woman suffered physiological effects from a close encounter with a triangular UFO at a farm in Hartford, Vermont. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4136",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, September-October 1969, p. 6; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 53" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/17/1971",
  "desc" : "At 2:00 a.m. a saucer-shaped UFO was seen over a road northwest of Abidjan, Ivory Coast. A car stalled in the presence of the disc, and the witnesses felt a sensation of heat. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4137",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Isabelle de Joux, Phenomenes Spatiaux, December 1972, p. 21" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/17/1973",
  "desc" : "In the Ramapo Mountains northwest of Oakland, New Jersey at 11:23 p.m. a UFO hovered, then zigzagged slowly about for ten minutes before disappearing into the clouds. There were six calls to the police reporting the object. A balloon-shaped object was sighted in Pompton Lakes, New Jersey at about the same time as sightings over the Ramapo Mountains area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4138",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ridgewood Herald News, July 19, 1973" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/17/1973",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. on this night three witnesses in the northern Mojave Desert, California observed the descent of a torpedo-shaped UFO over an isolated area, close to a ranch owned by one of them. As the UFO hovered near the ground, three \"animate objects\" dropped from it to the ground and \"ambled\" off in different directions. One witness described two glowing reddish lights in what would be the approximate placement of eyes in their heads. The next day tracks similar to those attributed to Bigfoot were made in the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4139",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1973-18 (A1213), citing Peter Gutilla, Saga UFO Report, November 1976" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/17/1974",
  "desc" : "Mrs. Jackie Booth of Avon Lake, Ohio--mother of three--had had several UFO sightings earlier in this year in March and April, and at the end of June a strange and totally unexplained condition affected her eyes when light emanated from them for a two hour period. In early July ground marks that could have come from a landed UFO were found on her lawn. On this night she awoke and went to the front door where she found two strange figures standing. They were about five feet tall and had large heads that were flat on top, glowing eyes set wide apart, slit-like mouths, and grayish-colored skin. Their arms were long, but she could not recall any details below the waist. They entered the house and appeared interested in Mrs. Booth's electric organ. She tried to talk to them, but they communicated with her telepathically, and she could \"feel my thoughts leave my head.\" They wanted her to play the organ, so she sat down and played scales, and when she looked up they had vanished. She went back to bed and tried to convince herself it had been a dream. Later, under hypnosis, she recalled additional details. None of her family had awakened during the incident. Other strange incidents subsequently occurred. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4140",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1974-37 (A1343), citing Allen Benz for APRO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/17/1977",
  "desc" : "At five o'clock in the morning a glowing sphere landed on the Nova Melia Ranch near Barra do Corda, Maranhao State, Brazil only 200 meters from the ranch owner. After the brightness abated, the ranch owner, Joao Batista Souza, could see that the object was a domed disc-shaped craft, resembling a straw hat. The man hid behind a mound and watched as a door in the craft opened, and a short being about one meter in height got out. The hairy humanoid was carrying some sort of torch emitting a red light in his left hand, and some other type of \"tool\" in his right hand. The being's face could not be seen because it was wearing a full helmet with \"antennae,\" but the rest of its body was completely covered in hair. At this point the rancher apparently lost consciousness, because members of his family later found him lying where he had hid and carried him into the ranch house, where he remained in bed for several days, too weak to get up. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4141",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, case # 2510, citing Daniel Rebisso Geise, FSR, Volume 39, Number 3; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 12248; citing FSR" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/17/1977",
  "desc" : "On this day a police dog handler saw a white cigar-shaped UFO above the village of Arkesden, Essex, England. A woman also reported seeing the same object at the same time, from 20 miles away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4142",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gary Heseltine, Catalogue of Police Reports of UFOs, case 63, citing The Daily Mail, July 18, 1977" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/17/1978",
  "desc" : "A one-meter diameter sphere was seen spinning 1.5 meters above the ground in Castanheira de Pera, Portugal at 5:30 in the morning. At the site witnesses found scorched earth and burnt rocks. Later that evening, at 7:15 p.m., several witnesses saw a circular UFO in the sky above Chacabuco, Argentina. It varied in color between red and yellow. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4143",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Victor Lourenco, PORTUCAT: Portugal UFO computer database, case 221; Stendek, December 1978, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/17/1983",
  "desc" : "On this night an abduction occurred in Sommerecourt, France. At ten o'clock in the evening a luminous globe paralyzed a 45-year-old man, Mr. S. Gasparovic, and then levitated him into the air. He lost consciousness at this point and experienced an episode of missing time. He regained consciousness in the hospital. He was told that he was found wandering \"like a robot\" and he recalled that he had spoken to small beings with pointed ears. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4144",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 317" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/17/1986",
  "desc" : "A UFO zigzagged over Westwood, Massachusetts at 12:26 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4145",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, case 757" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/17/1989",
  "desc" : "A mystery animal death and cattle mutilation occurred in Maple Valley, Washington. The tongue, sexual organs, rectum, and part of the jaw had been removed. The scene appeared to be unusually bloodless. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4146",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, Alien Contact, p. 154" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/17/1991",
  "desc" : "A large crop formation was discovered in a wheatfield near Barbury Castle, England. It consisted of large concentric circles in the center surrounded by a triangle with circles at each of the three apexes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4147",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lucy Pringle, Crop Circles: The Greatest Mystery of Modern Times, p. 52" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/17/1992",
  "desc" : "At 6:30 p.m. a bright UFO was sighted hovering just above the ocean off the coast near Iguape, Brazil. It sucked up a wide column of water. At the same time an engineer from Cascavel, Brazil reported that a bright ball of light followed his car for a few minutes. A saucer-shaped object followed behind the sphere. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4148",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil-Where Next?, p. 231; Causistica Brasileira de 1992, case 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/17/1993",
  "desc" : "A peculiar looking robot-like humanoid was seen flying low over the terrain near Rome, Italy. It was viewed by a family with binoculars. While the witnesses was calling the airport the \"robot\" disappeared from sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4149",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case no. 1707, citing London UFO Studies, Skylink, issues # 6 & 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/17/1996",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 a.m. on I-64 southeast of Damiansville, Illinois a low-flying triangular UFO approached an interstate ramp and then hovered over some trees for 4-5 minutes. It appeared like \"polished steel\". It made not sound and vanished mysteriously. That evening a woman in Langruth, Manitoba saw a disc-shaped object moving slowly and quietly through her farmyard. The disc was about 3-4 meters in diameter, about half a meter tall, and had slit like lights along the edge. Three circular patches of green growth appeared in the area where the object was first seen. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4150",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Curt Sutherly, UFO Mysteries: A Reporter Seeks the Truth, p. 198; International UFO Reporter, July 1997, p. 32" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/17/1999",
  "desc" : "A couple visiting the Pyramids in Giza, Egypt saw multiple unexplained lights flying north toward Giza. The lights settled on the ground and then disappeared. At the site there were dark blue burnt areas, about the size of two football fields. In places the sand had been vitrified in 4-5 foot diameter circles. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4151",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), November 1999, p. 29" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/17/2002",
  "desc" : "A bright pulsating ovoid object flew over the river in Perm, Russia at 12:30 a.m. and became obscured by low clouds. Two searchlight beams descended from the sky and scanned the river and nearby homes. After two minutes the beams vanished and the object zoomed away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4152",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), October 2002, p. 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/17/2004",
  "desc" : "At 3:00 a.m. a triangular craft was seen hovering over I-70 in Lewisburg, Ohio. At 10:45 p.m. a white circular object came out of nowhere in Portsmouth, Ohio and dropped above a tree. It hovered at 50 feet altitude emitting four light beams, that were directed onto the street below. It made no sound. There were two witnesses and the close encounter lasted an hour. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4153",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, July 2004 archived webpage; Australasian Ufologist, October 2004, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/18/1946",
  "desc" : "Two fast, low-flying eight-foot long cylinders dove into Lake Mjosa, Norway. They had short wing flaps. There were four witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4154",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, Mystery of the Ghost Rockets, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/18/1947",
  "desc" : "In Joplin, Missouri a bright, shiny ovoid object, half a meter in length, flew over the railroad freight house at 11:30 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4155",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 109" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/18/1949",
  "desc" : "An unidentified nocturnal light flew over the city of Galveston, Texas this night. It stopped, and then shot continued on at a fantastic speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4156",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1426" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/18/1952",
  "desc" : "At 6:00 p.m. in Pouilly, Cote-d'Or department, France six witnesses spotted a 30 meter long vertical cloud-cigar with regularly spaced brief lights. It was emitting a thick white smoke. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4157",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques & Janine Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 66" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/18/1952",
  "desc" : "At 2:00 a.m. a procession of bright orange discs in single file veered over Washington, D.C. and disappeared in a regular sequence. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4158",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP case investigation files, report dated July 18, 1952, Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 160" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/18/1952",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 o'clock in the morning in Miami, Florida Mr. E. R. Raymer and his daughter spotted an opaque, silvery bubble for 10 seconds. The object flew very fast perpendicular to the wind direction. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4159",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1483; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/18/1952",
  "desc" : "At 8:50 p.m. a white sphere flew fast toward the southeast, stopped over Front Royal, Virginia and then zigzagged back toward the northwest at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4160",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 2374" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/18/1952",
  "desc" : "Technical Sgt. Mahone and Airman Third Class Jennings saw a UFO at 9:10 p.m. in Lockbourne, Ohio. It was amber colored, circular object, somewhat smaller than the average airplane. It had a small flame coming from the rear of the craft that periodically increased in brightness, and its rim gave off an orange and green glow. It moved very fast for 90 seconds, giving off a resonant beat sound. It appeared several times over a four-hour period. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4161",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1482; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/18/1952",
  "desc" : "At 9:45 p.m. EDT three USAF officers and four enlisted men watched a series of hovering and maneuvering amber to reddish-orange lights for over an hour in the sky over Patrick AFB, Florida. They were observed maneuvering in a variety of directions. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4162",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Grudge and Project Blue Book Special Reports 1-12, December 1952, p. 31; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/18/1954",
  "desc" : "At 8:40 p.m. Mr. A.T. Chamblin saw a greenish-white disc flying over Normandy, Missouri. The sighting lasted about 30 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4163",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 3116; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/18/1955",
  "desc" : "At 3 o'clock in the morning at Plessiel Airfield, near Abbeville, France Mr. Maupin and five other witnesses on the field were blinded by the light from a disc-shaped object 150 m away. The disc left an orange glowing trail. It was silent, flew slowly, and hovered near the Metro station close to the ground, but did not actually land. It left toward the northwest. A woodsman from Mareul Caubert, Mr. Rolle, saw the object half an hour earlier. It came from the direction of Amiens. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4164",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of UFO Landings, p. 250" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/18/1959",
  "desc" : "At 6:30 p.m. a flashing light streaked to the north over the Norman River in Corindie, Queensland, Australia. Twenty minutes later a red glowing object landed on a hill on Prince of Wales Island, Queensland. Around 8:00 p.m. a UFO was seen moving over the mountains at Didiwa, Papua New Guinea. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4165",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 5771; Norman Crutwell, UFOs in Two Worlds: FSR Special Edition No. 4, p. 35; APRO Bulletin, September 1959" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/18/1962",
  "desc" : "At 1:00 a.m. Doctor Gauza and his wife were traveling on their way back to Crespo, Entre Rios, Argentina when they noticed a large metallic, cone-shaped object on the ground very close to the road. A very tall human looking figure stood next to an open door in the craft. It was looking around at the terrain. There was also a second figure looking out from a large porthole. The men were described as having long blond hair, and wore white coveralls with visors. When the two beings saw the witnesses, they used hand signals in an apparent attempt to get them to come closer, but the couple panicked and left at high speed. Eight other persons later came forward stating that they had also seen the craft and its occupants. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4166",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon Creighton, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 37; Charles Bowen (editor), The Humanoids, p. 102; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1962, case # 989, citing Hector P. Anganuzzi, Historia de los Platos Voladores in La Argentina" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/18/1962",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. Ms. F. Cummins in Stanley, Wisconsin saw two silver dumbbell-shaped flying objects, with thick crossbars, fly off toward the southwest. At nearly the same time a doctor saw two huge humanoid beings near a saucer by the side of the road in Crespo, Argentina (11:00 p.m. local time). ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4167",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, May-June 1963, p. 4; Charles Bowen, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition no. 1, p. 37" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/18/1963",
  "desc" : "At two o'clock in the afternoon, four boys in Fern Creek, Kentucky saw a cigar-shaped object that became a disc, then vanished behind some trees. A small being, 3.5 to 4 feet tall, wearing a tight-fitting white suit, goggles and a helmet emerged from the trees. The boys threw dirt clods at the entity, and the dwarf fired back using what looked like a black tube, burning two of them. There were landing imprints and footprints at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4168",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb, Skylook, August 1975, p. 9, citing Terry William as field investigator" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/18/1965",
  "desc" : "A 70-foot diameter black disc flew by a satellite tracking station in Bedford, England on this day. None of the witnesses outdoors at the time could hear anything. A metallic disc hung stationary high in the sky at an altitude above 100,000 feet. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4169",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald E. Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, p. 112" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/18/1967",
  "desc" : "At 1:20 a.m. Rev. Anthony De Polo, an Assembly of God minister, was lying in bed in Boardman, Ohio when he heard a very loud whining sound that rose and fell in pitch. Then he received a distinct mental message telling him to go to the window. He did so, and saw a five foot tall figure wearing a luminous tight-fitting \"spacesuit.\" There was also a source of light coming from above the figure. At first he thought someone was playing a prank, but the apparition was well-defined and looked real. He stepped out onto his porch and mentally heard the words,\"You have nothing to fear.\"<br/><br/> He began to walk toward the being when the whining noise began again and he heard, \"Danger; I must go.\" Then the figure dissolved into a blurred glow of light. Before it completely disappeared De Polo received another message of a personal nature. On the same night and not far from De Polo's home, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dixon heard a loud noise outside, looked out, and saw an object hovering over their house. It moved off toward the south after about five minutes. De Polo has had a number of subsequent UFo sightings and \"contacts.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4170",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John A. Keel, FSR, January-February 1968, p. 26; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 857; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-62, citing John Keel, Virgil Tarleton, & Prof. Theodore Spickler for MUFON" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/18/1968",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 a.m. three schoolteachers encountered a reddish-orange, oval-shaped object a few meters above the ground while driving to work in Lavalle, Argentina. It was about 20 meters in diameter and gave off the smell of wet paper. One witness felt drowsy from the smell. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4171",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, February 1974, p. 16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/18/1969",
  "desc" : "At nine o'clock in the morning a photograph of a UFO was taken at Flippin Airport in Arkansas. That afternoon in Sobral, Ceara State, Brazil Mr. Neusa Rodgriques saw a shiny flying disc stop and remain stationary for 30 seconds near a cement plant. An occupant could be seen inside the object through a window. It looked like \"a little bluish colored man with eyes that gave off flashes.\" The UFO performed various maneuvers over the cement plant and drew the attention of many of its employees, who stopped work briefly to watch it. Lt. Pedro Edvaldo De Souza took statements from the eyewitnesses, on instructions from the Brazilian Air Force base at Fortaleza, Brazil. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4172",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Walter Buhler, FSR Case Histories, November 1971, p. 16; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-18, citing Lt. Pedro Edvaldo De Souza, Brazilian Air Force" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/18/1969",
  "desc" : "On this day a shining flying saucer stopped and remained stationary for half a minute near the cement plant in the town of Sobral, Ceara State, Brazil, opposite the house of Neusa Rodrigues. Through the window of the craft was seen “a little bluish colored man with eyes that gave off flashes.” The UFO performed various maneuvers over the cement plant, and drew the attention of many employees, who stopped work briefly to watch it. Lt. Pedro Edvaldo De Souza took statements from the eyewitnesses, on instructions from the Brazilian Air Force base at Fortaleza. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4173",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1969-18, citing Lt. Pedro Edvaldo De Souza, Brazilian Air Force" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/18/1973",
  "desc" : "Three color photographs of a UFO were taken by a nuclear engineer and amateur astronomer at 8:45 p.m. in Jeannette, Pennsylvania. The UFO looked like a bright BB in the dusk sky and reflected sunlight. It vanished after six minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4174",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Stan Gordon, on site investigation; FSR, September 1973, p. 33" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/18/1977",
  "desc" : "A red, round object hovered over some olive trees in Palomares, Spain at 2:10 a.m. It directed a beam of light to the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4175",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/18/1978",
  "desc" : "A red-orange object hovered over Lurate Caccivio, Italy. It resumed revolving and emitted a hissing sound as it departed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4176",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence: Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 349" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/18/1979",
  "desc" : "A metallic disc flew over the city of Belfort, France at 2:30 in the afternoon. It had a shiny top and dark bottom section. It sped up, and then shot straight up. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4177",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, September 1979" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/18/1980",
  "desc" : "Seven delta-shaped objects cavorted and landed at 10:15 p.m. in Pine Bush, New York. Ellen Crystal approached them in her car, and they in turn took off and paced her car. It was her impression that the UFOs wanted to be seen. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4178",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ellen Crystal: The Silent Invasion, p. 16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/18/1981",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon two students in Patras, Greece took a photograph of a silver, saucer-shaped object performing maneuvers over some nearby islands. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4179",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 13718" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/18/1990",
  "desc" : "A woman in New Hartford, Connecticut was lying awake in bed at 2:00 a.m. when she noticed bright flashing lights over her backyard. She went to the window and witnessed a small domed disc hovering 100 feet away and descending over the corner of the lawn. The object maneuvered a few seconds without actually touching down. She noted that it had flashing red, yellow, and white lights around its bottom rim. It then accelerated and was out of sight behind some trees in a second. Two days later a hired worker asked her about some strange material on the grass. She realized it was in the area of the sighting. After eliminating the lawn car company as responsible for an oily residue on the grass, she decided to report the incident. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4180",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Randy Miles, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1990, p. 19" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/18/1992",
  "desc" : "Chistopher O'Brien and his friend McIntyre saw a brilliant white lights that illuminated the Alamosa valley in Colorado. When they turned their car headlights off and left on the orange parking lights, the UFO changed color to orange, then back to white, then paced their car, and finally turned ruby red in color. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4181",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 24" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/18/1998",
  "desc" : "A triangular object maneuvered near an airport west of Longmont, Colorado at 8:07 a.m. It was about 60 feet in width and wobbled at only 15 meters altitude. In flew off toward the west. On the same evening a light was observed moving up and down behind some trees in Sudbury, Ontario for a long time. Eventually the one remaining witness, a boy, observed it turn blue and streak away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4182",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup website, issue 3.32" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/18/1999",
  "desc" : "The main witness was a UFO investigator, staying with a known abductee and her child in San Antonio, Texas, in order to offer them some protection and company. He had fallen asleep, when he woke up suddenly when he detected some kind of movement behind him. Thinking it was the woman he did not turn around. Then he felt a “body” next to him, and he next felt a pleasant touch on his upper back, and the sensation as an “arm” passed over his ribcage. Concerned, he tried to move but was unable to. When he was finally able to turn his head, he saw a round basketball shaped object under the covers. He jolted to his feet and heard a slight giggling sound at the same time that the object under the covers appeared to deflate. He went and tried to wake up his friend but was unable to. Two nights later he saw a small white, grayish figure standing just inches away from him that suddenly disappeared. Other strange occurrences were later reported. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4183",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1999, case # 3332, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/18/2003",
  "desc" : "In Vancouver, Washington a businessman and a retired Navy man observed three rectangular objects, the size of small planes, that appeared overhead as shadows in the sky at 10:40 p.m. They were slightly illuminated but not bright. The objects zig-zagged and criss-crossed into the distance.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4184",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, July 2003 archived webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/18/2007",
  "desc" : "A triangular shaped object with solid white lights and a solid amber light in the center was seen in Columbia, Missouri on this night at 11:00 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4185",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, July 2007 archived webpage, report uploaded October 8, 2007" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/18/2008",
  "desc" : "Exactly one year after a similar sighting in Columbia, Missouri and at the same hour, a black triangular object hung motionless in the sky in St. Charles, Missouri over the southside of Missouri Highway 370, just off of Discovery Bridge. It had three white and one red non-blinking lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4186",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, July 2008 archived webpage, report uploaded August 12, 2008" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/19/1916",
  "desc" : "A luminous blimp-shaped flying object flew over Huntington, West Virginia at eleven o'clock at night. It vanished and reappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4187",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Charles Fort, Book of the Damned, p. 278" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/19/1946",
  "desc" : "During the mystery ghost rocket wave of sightings over Scandinavia this year, at 11:55 a.m. a two-meter long cone-shaped object fell into Kolmjarv Lake, Sweden. An underwater search was attempted but nothing was found. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4188",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "AFU Sweden" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/19/1950",
  "desc" : "At Holloman AFB, New Mexico at 11:30 p.m. two softball-sized spheres hovered, changed colors, then rose vertically into the sky and vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4189",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren Gross, UFOs: A History: 1950: April-July, p. 78" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/19/1951",
  "desc" : "Several people witnessed a luminous disc buzz the city of Puerto Maldonaldo, Peru at 4:50 p.m. The object flew off toward the north, emitting fog or smoke. A short wave radio wouldn't work during the sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4190",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren Gross, UFOs: A History: 1951, p. 35" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/19/1952",
  "desc" : "A tobacco farmer sighted two cigar-shaped objects on this night in the southern United States (location undisclosed). The sighting occurred around midnight at the beginning of the new da y.One object hovered while the other one moved east and then came back, then both objects ascended vertically until gone from view. Both had some type of exhaust, and were illuminated from the inside. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4191",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Grudge and Project Blue Book Special Reports 1-12, May 1955" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/19/1952",
  "desc" : "An experienced civilian pilot reported that he observed an unidentified elliptical object with a lighted fringe at 2:55 a.m. while flying over Williston, North Dakota. The object made a fast descent, executed a 360° and then a 180° turn. He had the object in sight for five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4192",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1492; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/19/1952",
  "desc" : "At 10:50 p.m. seven round flat objects were seen at sea level from Bald Top, California. One object ascended while five followed it in spirals. One object stayed behind for twenty minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4193",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 2385" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/19/1953",
  "desc" : "Near the Oak Ridge Nuclear Research Facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee around the middle of the afternoon a silent black flying object was joined by two others. They displayed amazing acceleration. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4194",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a cover-up 1941-1973, p. 405" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/19/1956",
  "desc" : "At four o'clock in the morning at the Hutchinson Naval Air Station in Hutchinson, Kansas a teardrop-shaped UFO was tracked on radar and visually observed by State Police as it erratically moved about the sky. That afternoon in Panorama City, California three independent witnesses claimed to have seen three beings emerge from a sphere. They were two meters (6.6 feet) tall, had long blond hair, and wore tight-fitting green uniforms. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4195",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Topeka (KS) Daily Capital, July 19, 1956; Hollywood (CA) Citizen-News, July 20, 1956" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/19/1959",
  "desc" : "A father and daughter were driving south on Highway 77 to Lincoln, Nebraska. When they got two miles south of Ceresco, Nebraska at around 10:30 p.m. they saw a bright white light hovering in the south-southeastern sky. The light went out, revealing a dark, sixty-foot wide domed disc-shaped object with several one foot wide windows around the rim. The object dropped several small red lights, then made a sharp turn and flew off to the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4196",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, report dated July 24, 1959" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/19/1960",
  "desc" : "8:30 p.m. CDT. Witness T. L. Ochs of St. Louis, Missouri reported watching a round, bright red light that flew overhead, stopped and hovered, and then backed up. The sighting lasted 20 minutes. Note: Ochs reported similar sightings on three following nights. An hour later, another witness named Sokol reported seeing a round red ball or wheel-like object with a central nucleus; around it were revolving or orbiting lights or balls. They winked off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4197",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 6858; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/19/1962",
  "desc" : "At the same time in Bayhead, New Jersey (9:30 p.m. EDT) C. T. Loftus and H. Wilbert watched four or five lights dart about in the sky silently for 7-10 minutes. One zigzagged off toward the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4198",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 8020; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/19/1965",
  "desc" : "There were several sightings for this date. In Samarai, Papua New Guinea a red glowing cylinder moved across the sky from left to right. It flew with an oscillating motion, and made a sound like a diesel engine. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon in Antofagasta, Chile a cone-shaped object flew over the city at high speed, with the pointed end toward the rear, making loud explosive noises. At 5:30 p.m. in Vaucluse Beach, New South Wales, Australia a seven meter domed disc was seen resting on a sandy beach. When Mr. Crowe, the witness, approached to within 16 meters (53 feet) it rose with a rushing air noise like air being released from a balloon. There were ground marks left in the sand, and a check of radioactivity showed it was higher than the normal background level. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4199",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 155; Roberto Banchs, Las evidencias del fenomeno OVNI; Keith Basterfield; Gordon I. R. Lore, Strange Effects from UFOs, pp. 33 & 46; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp.150 & 279" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/19/1965",
  "desc" : "Ms. MacPherson, an airline stewardess, saw a slow moving silver colored UFO flying over Watertown, Massachusetts at four o'clock in the morning. She was on the ground at the time of her sighting. The UFO changed colors through the entire light spectrum several times. Also, later that evening five people witnessed a luminous circular object with four arm-like appendages hovering over Hingham, Massachusetts for 45 minutes. Each \"arm\" had three lights. The object left toward the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4200",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 332; APRO Bulletin, September-October 1965" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/19/1965",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. in Villas Rosas, Buenos Aires province, Argentina Maria Andres, a school teacher, Mr. Gomez, Mrs. Goicoecha, and others saw a small object leave a larger one, then land and burn a spot on the ground before going back to the main object. It emitted a blinding light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4201",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 656, citing Asi, Jul. 30, 1965" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/19/1967",
  "desc" : "A young girl saw a saucer-shaped object hovering above a cornfield in Sao Benedito Do Sul, Pernambuco, Brazil. Inside the object she could see a humanoid entity of small stature, and a second similar entity was observed outside. The second entity made gestures at the girl, who interpreted them to be an inquiry about the edibility of the corn. At some point a dog nearby began barking, and the second entity quickly boarded the vehicle, which ascended rapidly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4202",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-64, citing Enock Burgos, SBDEV" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/19/1967",
  "desc" : "While flying at 14,000 feet over Enderby, British Columbia at 10 p.m., Mr. H. Schindler, an airline pilot, saw a pink object zigzag through the clouds, hover, and then disappear. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4203",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP case investigation files, report dated July 25, 1967" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/19/1972",
  "desc" : "While driving in Kuraby, Queensland (near Brisbane, Australia) at 2:00 a.m. a man heard an odd noise and saw six grayish figures standing along the side of the road. One of them gestured to him. A silver UFO was nearby on the ground. The driver did not stop. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4204",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, January-February 1973, p. 3; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 483" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/19/1972",
  "desc" : "That same night in Faymonville, Belgium a group of four people sighted a red hat-shaped disc that flew by and stopped over a railroad station. They took three photographs of the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4205",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "SOBEPS, FSR Case Histories, August 1973, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/19/1972",
  "desc" : "At 10:42 p.m. CDT Mr. P. Reich, an aerospace writer, watched a nocturnal light make crazy, erratic maneuvers over Lake Michigan from Chicago, Illinois. It made instantaneous turns. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4206",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Chicago Today, July 20, 1972" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/19/1973",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. a bright red oblong-shaped object suddenly appeared out of nowhere in the northwest sky over a farm north of Brunsville, Iowa. The object abruptly vanished. There were at least three independent witnesses to the event. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4207",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "newspaper clipping dated July 20, 1973" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/19/1977",
  "desc" : "An abduction by aliens including a physical exam occurred around midnight on this night in the United States (location withheld). When the abductee awoke she found three pasty white short humanoids in her living room. They were 4.5 feet tall, hairless, and had watery, liquid appearing eyes. They took her onboard a UFO by levitating her with a light beam and conducted some type of physical exam after making her lie on a metallic, exam table. For the following ten days after her return the abductee felt ill and experienced vertigo. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4208",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, Volume I: Comparative Study of Abductions, case 111" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/19/1983",
  "desc" : "Two photographs were taken of two UFOs in Matapouri, New Zealand on this night. They were taken one minute apart and they show two objects moving slowly across the sky. Streetlights and the planet Venus serve as references in the photos to show their relative motion. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4209",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, May 1984, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/19/1984",
  "desc" : "A huge boomerang-shaped object with lights running along its leading edge was seen flying over Pound Ridge, New York at 8:20 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4210",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek, Philip Imbrogno & Bob Pratt, Night Siege: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, p. 106" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/19/1986",
  "desc" : "Several sightings of nocturnal lights and discs occurred on this night in Florida, Illinois, and Washington State. At 4:30 a.m. in Fort Lauderdale, Florida 50 silvery discs maneuvered in and out of the clouds and flew off in various formations toward the west. In Metcalf, Illinois at 8:10 p.m. a shiny object turned bright white as it flew silently below the clouds. The objects shape was not possible to determine. In Maple Valley, Washington two adults and a child watched a white star-like object move to-and-fro on a wiggly flight path, flying silently to the northeast. In Monroe, Washington a round green object moved very fast from west to east at a high altitude. It left a green trail in the sky. It was not a meteor, claimed the military witness. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4211",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Gribble, National UFO Reporting Center, cases 1116, 1124, 1127 and 1128" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/19/1988",
  "desc" : "An abduction occurred in Johannesburg, South Africa at 3:40 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4212",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Cynthia Hind, UFO Afri News, July 1993" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/19/1990",
  "desc" : "Fort Allen, Puerto Rico. According to an article in the French UFO magazine Lumieres dans la Nuit, at 12:10 a.m. all US servicemen who were outside were ordered to go inside and remain there when their military base was illuminated by a low flying, disc-shaped UFO. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4213",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 311" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/19/1992",
  "desc" : "A dark cone-shaped object zigzagged through the sky over West Vancouver, British Columbia at 3:10 a.m. A 16-year-old adolescent said that short humanoid beings entered his bedroom via a closed window, apparently passing through the glass without a problem. He experienced an episode of missing time and does not recall what happened next. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4214",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 318; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case 2391" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/19/1993",
  "desc" : "Two pulsating objects zigzag and orbit around a large craft at 4 o'clock in the morning over Wandsworth, England. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4215",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/19/1995",
  "desc" : "At 1:30 a.m. a square object with white lights was seen passing over houses in Sacramento, California. The houses reportedly shook from the vibration caused by the UFO. At around 6 p.m. a very big red nocturnal light was seen by police in Whyalla, South Australia to descend to close to the ground. It then took off and maneuvered around in the sky for the next four hours. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4216",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, 1995 report; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 16935" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/19/1999",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. a dark disc-shaped object flew from the west to the east slowly over Dicomano, north-northeast of Firenze in Tuscany, Italy, then accelerated quickly and made one up-and-down jump. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4217",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, July 1999 archived webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/19/2005",
  "desc" : "In Eastern Passage, Nova Scotia, Canada several gray circular objects darted and played about in the sky at 11:30 p.m., making a low humming sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4218",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2005 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 60, citing NUFORC, original report uploaded September 2, 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/20/1945",
  "desc" : "At 10:50 a.m. a fast moving, silent cigar-shaped object flew over Houdain, France. Its surface was glowing, it had flames shooting from its front, and it left no contrail. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4219",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, p. 156" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/20/1947",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 a.m. in Idaho Falls, Idaho Mr. Denton saw a UFO swing back and forth in a pendulum motion. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4220",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Idaho Daily Statesman, July 21, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case 842" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/20/1948",
  "desc" : "A cigar-shaped object with two rows of windows was seen four times in Arnhem, Holland around 1:30 in the afternoon. It moved through the sky very fast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4221",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, July 1948; Paris Flammonde, UFO Exist! p. 249" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/20/1950",
  "desc" : "In Porto Novo, Brazil Mr. Campello and several others driving together in a car saw two large, silvery objects by the side of the road, one on a hill, the other on flat ground. They were about 50 meters away from each other. They drove to within 600 meters of the objects, which flew away at \"an incredible speed,\" causing a rush of air that rocked the car. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4222",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 196 (case 81)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/20/1952",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m. in Dai-el-Aouagri, Morocco Mr. R. Petijean observed a 20-meter wide luminous object on the ground. It gave off bluish flashes as it took off, and left behind the smell of burning sulphur. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4223",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 199" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/20/1952",
  "desc" : "Seton Hall University chemistry professor Dr. A. B. Spooner of Lavalette, New Jersey reported to the Air Force that he sighted two large orange-yellow lights with some dull red coloring in trail at 12:20 a.m. The lights turned and circled for 5-6 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4224",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/20/1952",
  "desc" : "At 1:05 a.m. at Andrews AFB in Maryland five witnesses visually observed three red-orange objects moving erratically around the sky. During the evening USAF radar operators at the weather tower tracked ten UFOs for 15-20 minutes at Andrews AFB, Maryland. The objects approached the runway, scattered, and then made sharp turns and reversals in direction. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4225",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP case investigation files, report dated September 14, 1960" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/20/1952",
  "desc" : "At 4:30 a.m. additional unidentified radar targets were picked up and tracked on ARTC radar at National Airport in Arlington, Virginia. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4226",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, Radar-Visual UFO cases in 1952: The UFO sightings that shook the government, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/20/1952",
  "desc" : "An Army officer saw a red, cigar-shaped object hover for four minutes over Alexandria, Virginia at 9:30 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4227",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP case investigation files, report dated May 28, 1963" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/20/1954",
  "desc" : "Two men were chased by a UFO near Oslo, Norway when they had stopped their car to look at it. After the sighting a watch stopped working and the paint on their car changed color. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4228",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 207" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/20/1955",
  "desc" : "In the afternoon a farmhand in Edison, Georgia saw a four-foot tall, hairy little gray man without clothes emerge from some nearby woods and walk along a fence. The dwarf was visible for 25 minutes before he returned to woods. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4229",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Atlanta (GA) Constitution, July 26, 1955; Ted Bloecher" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/20/1956",
  "desc" : "At three o'clock in the morning a brilliant light was seen in the sky over Long Beach, California. It appeared to be a saucer-shaped craft with wires around the edges. The wires seemed to be rotating while the disc flew eastward. At 4:30 a.m a photo was taken of a light seen east of Wichita, Kansas. There were several reports from this area, but most of them appear to be misidentifications of either Mars or Venus. Three witnesses in Panorama City, California independently claimed to have observed a huge, ball-shaped object from which three beings emerged. They were nearly two meters (6.6 feet) tall, had long, blond hair, and wore tight, green suits. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4230",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren Gross, The fifth horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: May-July, p. 82; Civilian Saucer Intelligence-New York Newsletter, September 1956, p. 5; Project Blue Book files; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 253" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/20/1958",
  "desc" : "A pilot flying over Crystal Lake in Chicago, Illinois at 5:07 p.m. sighted a white disc-shaped object. The disc appeared to be the size of a basketball, and flew in a straight line. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4231",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 30" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/20/1959",
  "desc" : "A UFO was seen flying over a mountain in Papua New Guinea at around 6 p.m. At 10:15 p.m. a bright white cigar-shaped object flew south over the Woomera missile test range in South Australia. Many at the military base as well as in the town saw it, and the newspapers carried the report widely. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4232",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, September-October 1959" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/20/1961",
  "desc" : "While flying in a DC-3 over Houston, Texas at eight o'clock in the morning Trans-Texas Airlines Capt. A.V. Beather sighted two very bright white lights or objects. They flew in trail formation for 30 minutes. There is a vague report from ground radar that the UFOs were picked up on radar. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4233",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/20/1963",
  "desc" : "A huge top-shaped object hovered, shimmered and rotated in the sky west of Burnley, England for two minutes. It shot off toward the south, but stopped again. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4234",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Devereax, Earth Lights Revelation, p. 100" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/20/1964",
  "desc" : "Mr. J.J. Winkle in Littleton, Illinois reported to the Air Force that at 4:45 a.m. he observed a 60-foot diameter flying object with a round top and flat bottom. It had a long acetylene-colored flame shooting downward from underneath the object. It flew straight and level, made a half loop, then rose up in the sky. The duration of the sighting was about one minute. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4235",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 8942; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/20/1965",
  "desc" : "In Sydney, New South Wales, Australia a six meter in diameter blue glowing disc landed by a creek, making a swishing sound. It gave off an orange glow on takeoff. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4236",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1968, p. 5; Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 88" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/20/1965",
  "desc" : "At 3:00 a.m. Carlos Videla Zamudio, a hotel guest in Chanaral, Atacama province, Chile was awakened by a loud noise, looked out the window, and saw an intense red object about 10-12 meters in diameter land on the isolated beach. It was shaped like a mushroom or a top, was lighted from inside, rested on the ground silently, flew up to 30 meters, and disappeared at fantastic speed. After four or five minutes it took off with a \"violent noise\" and disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4237",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, January-February 1966; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 658; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 317" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/20/1965",
  "desc" : "At around eight o'clock in the morning R. Pereyra was driving near Monte de los Curas, Quilmes, Buenos Aires province, Argentina when he saw a parachute-like object land. Going near it, he observed a chromium-looking, egg-shaped craft standing on metal legs, with a transparent upper part. A blond pilot, wearing plastic coveralls and small boots, seemed to be studying a piece of paper. Inside the craft was another man seated before an instrument panel. Shortly thereafter the object took off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4238",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon Creighton, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition #1, p. 40; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 659" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/20/1965",
  "desc" : "At 9:48 p.m. two high school students, James Murphy and Kevin Fitzgerald, in East Hartford, Connecticut sighted a round, bluish white object that flew silently to the north. At 10:30 p.m. twenty residents of Wayland, Massachusetts observed a round silver-white object that traveled to the north, stopped and hovered for 20 minutes while wobbling, and then headed north again. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4239",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, September-October 1965, January-February 1966" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/20/1965",
  "desc" : "After 11:00 p.m. a motorist in Chesterville, Ontario, Canada encountered a domed UFO with antennae from the sides, hovering just above road. He treid to speed past it, but the object accelerated to keep up with the car for about a minute at speeds approaching 100 mph; it then climbed away out of sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4240",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Chesterville Record, July 22, 1965; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 452" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/20/1966",
  "desc" : "An elongated object carrying parallel points of horizontal lights passed over the Mount Monadnock Bible Conference Grounds in Jaffrey, New Hampshire at 10:30 p.m. EDT. The lights on the object changed from white to red to orange to yellow to green and back to white. It made no sound as it flew. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4241",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 341" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/20/1967",
  "desc" : "At midnight a sparkling cloud seen over Pyle, England revealed itself to be a metallic saucer-shaped object on closer approach. It was spinning and made a noise like a jet plane. It vanished while still in sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4242",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, November-December 1967, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/20/1967",
  "desc" : "Pedro Petrelli of Guernica, Argentina heard a loud noise like a burst of wind from a hurricane and saw a bright object pass over his house at night. It seemed to be about seven-meter in diameter, circular or disc shaped, and was observed to be spinning. Some twenty people in the vicinity saw it. It stopped and hovered over some nearby trees and threw off some metallic fragments. The next morning two trees showed cuts at a height of five meters, and a third tree at three meters. On the ground were found fragments of what seemed to be burnt wood, but the inside looked like fused glass. Chemical analysis of the fragments established the presence of sulphur, copper and silicon that had been subjected to a heat of more than 1600º Celsius. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4243",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, June 1973, p. 11, citing letter from Rev. P. Reyna of Buenos Aires dated May 5, 1969 to Phenomenes Spatiaux, issue no. 20, June 1969" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/20/1967",
  "desc" : "At 9:15 p.m. EDT Mrs. Elizabeth Douglas had tripped and fallen on her lawn in Titusville, Florida and was just getting up when she saw a UFO about 200 feet away about 60-70 feet above the ground. It was a sixty foot in diameter, gray bell-shaped object, with an intense light coming from five square windows. In the fourth window was a thin humanoid figure with an egg-shaped head and a featureless face. It had long arms that were raised. She viewed the entity for about two minutes. Mrs. Douglas's daughter Ingrid joined her, and also saw the UFO as it moved away, but did not see the occupant. Ninety minutes later at 10:45 p.m. EDT a round green light was seen hovering over the radio transmission tower of WHP Radio in Summerdale, Pennsylvania. The object turned red, descended to around 200 feet above the ground, and an intense white light came on. It flew away behind the treeline toward the northwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4244",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP case investigation files, reports dated July 30, 1967 and August 9, 1967; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-63, citing Clark McClelland for NICAP" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/20/1968",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m. three 14-year-old girls at a summer camp on Lake Kaarna, Estonia were sitting outside eating when they saw a bright light descend overhead and join up with a cigar-shaped craft that had just appeared. The objects soon disappeared. Moments later, after the witnesses had gone inside their cabin, they saw a bright orange bus-shaped object on the ground about 50 meters away. It was surrounded by dazzling beams of orange yellow light, which suddenly dimmed and the object began emitting a green blue light. It had a blue green stripe around it and seemed to shrink in size, and after a few minutes the witnesses heard a buzzing sound and the object disappeared behind some bushes. One of the witnesses ran to where the object had been and saw a small human-like figure that had feminine features; the figure was standing where the object had been, and she seemed to be wearing a shiny silvery ribbon across her chest. The being suddenly rose up into the air and vanished. The next day strange ground markings were found at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4245",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Juri Lina, FSR, June 1978, p. 3; Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing FSR" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/20/1968",
  "desc" : "A man on a hiking trip near Cluj-Napoca, Romania was scanning the field with his binoculars at eleven o'clock in the morning when he noticed four bizarre looking humanoids standing on a field. The humanoids were standing around apparently inspecting the area except for one that appeared to be lying prone on the ground. These human like figures appeared to be naked or topless as if sunning themselves in a beach. As he watched, five minutes later a large gray balloon shaped object appeared above some trees. It was flying in a west-east direction and appeared to be about 25 meters in diameter. At one point the object ejected a small sphere that descended in a vertical parabolic trajectory disappearing behind the trees. Soon 4 bell-parachute shaped objects appeared and descend over each of the humanoids covering them completely, each of the humanoids raised their arms as if waiting to be covered by the objects. The parachute like objects then disappeared along with the humanoids. The witness described the humanoids as about 1.40 meters in height, of a robust build with short muscular legs and over-developed calves. Their skin was dark reddish in color and their hair was dark and swarthy. Their heads and faces were peculiar since they had dog or canine-like characteristics. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4246",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, citing Calin Turcu, Romania" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/20/1969",
  "desc" : "On this night John Fairfax, a trans-Atlantic sailor sailing alone, saw two star-like objects, ten times brighter than Venus. Both rose in the sky, then separated, one flying off at a low altitude, the other climbing higher in the sky; both vanished suddenly. On the same night a discovery was made of five unmanned ships west of the Azores. Two of the ships had capsized but the other three were totally undamaged despite the disappearance of all passengers and crew. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4247",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, July-August 1969, p. 7; Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 126, citing Reuters" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/20/1972",
  "desc" : "An ovoid shaped object with a dome on top was seen over the coast at Tongaat, South Africa at 4:30 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4248",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, Volume 9 (1978)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/20/1972",
  "desc" : "In Pietermaritzburg, South Africa a pink cone-shaped UFO appeared directly in front of a car at eleven o'clock in the morning, then descended into a cemetery. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4249",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Charles Bowen, FSR, November-December 1972, p. 16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/20/1974",
  "desc" : "The fire lookout at Satus Peak in Yakima County, Washington recorded seeing an unexplained ball of light for twenty minutes beginning at 11:15 p.m. Records show that similar sightings occurred here on the same date in 1973 and again in 1981. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4250",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Greg Long, Examining the Earthlight Theory: The Yakima UFO Microcosm, pp. 127, 128, 134" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/20/1975",
  "desc" : "An orange-red metallic disc flew past a plane flying near Williams Air Force Base in Arizona. The plane was being flown by a man named Royce. It disappeared at great speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4251",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 39; Saga UFO Report, July 1977, p. 37" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/20/1975",
  "desc" : "On a cloudy evening at around 10:00 p.m. an enormous disc-shaped object shot huge beams of energy at four witnesses in Bay Village, Ohio. It was estimated to be at an altitude of one thousand feet and made no sound. It also reportedly had legs or landing gear. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4252",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Center for UFO Studies case files, report dated August 5, 1975; FSR, April 1976, p. 24" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/20/1982",
  "desc" : "In the middle of the afternoon a local cattleman in Vejer de la Frontera, Cadiz, Spain was on his motorcycle using a seldom traveled road when his motorcycle came to a stop and would not start. He then walked to what he thought was a tanker truck a hundred meters away, but when he got to about 30 meters away from it he saw two huge human-like figures standing in the middle of the road. They wore shiny metallic armored suits and fishbowl-like clear helmets. One stood near a wire fence and was looking at the cattle in the nearby field. The beings then walked back to the object as if in slow motion. They entered the object through an open hatch, which took off silently towards the north. Ground traces were reportedly found at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4253",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1982, case # 98, citing investigator Fernandez-Peri and Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Enciclopedia de Los Encuentros con OVNIs" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/20/1990",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. a retired Navy pilot and his wife saw a huge bluish-white glowing orb in the sky over Pensacola, Florida. It arced down and dove toward Pensacola Bay. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4254",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "C. Joseph Barron, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1990" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/20/1990",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. a red ball of light, half a meter in diameter, chased two witnesses in Soledade, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil for 20 minutes. They felt heat from the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4255",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next? p. 85" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/20/1995",
  "desc" : "A zigzagging object with flashing lights was seen over Puget Sound from Ballard, Washington at 1:00 a.m. It was seen again by a witness east of Port Orchard, Washington at 2:15 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4256",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/20/1999",
  "desc" : "At three o'clock in the morning an object was seen flying toward the witness in Minneapolis, Minnesota. As it got closer the witness could see that it was not a helicopter. Two human occupants were seen inside the craft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4257",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, July 1999 web page" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/21/1947",
  "desc" : "At 10:15 a.m. Mr. James E. Petteway of Boise, Idaho briefly sighted an oval object flying on a straight steady course to the north-northeast. It was bright, like polished silver, and flew at an estimated speed of 600 miles per hour, at 7000 feet altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4258",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 844, citing the Boise Idaho Daily Statesman, July 22, 1947" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/21/1952",
  "desc" : "At 6:30 p.m. two U.S. Air Force officers, Dougher and Strong, in separate locations at Wiesbaden Air Base in Hesse state, Germany watched two to four long, slender objects for 10-15 minutes. The UFOs were described as bright yellow lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4259",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted as official statistics, case 1514; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 271; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/21/1952",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 a.m. a UFO was tracked on radar at Dobbins AFB, Georgia at a speed of 1200 miles per hour and at an altitude of 50,000 feet. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4260",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP files, citing newspaper source; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952 (Volume 9), p. 3; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume 1), p. 160" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/21/1952",
  "desc" : "While flying ten miles northwest of Kermit, Texas a private pilot experienced total radio failure when he encountered a brilliant white light playing in the sky near a bank of high altitude clouds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4261",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 49, citing Jan Aldrich" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/21/1952",
  "desc" : "On the second day in a row more than 25 workers at the Northrup Aircraft Factory in Los Angeles, California watched as two flying saucers were sighted hovering and cutting capers over their aircraft plant for more than an hour. This occurred for a total of four evenings in a row, beginning at around 7:00 p.m. The objects were high in the sky and resembled pulsating stars, but they shot away as if controlled. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4262",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 Research Notes from Bordentown, New Jersey talk on April 16, 2005, p. 47, citing San Francisco Chronicle, July 24, 1952" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/21/1956",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 a.m. police in Escuintla, Guatemala sighted a luminous, cigarette-shaped object that zig-zagged silently through the sky. After that four disc-shaped objects whizzed by, low and fast, flying o the northwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4263",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4677; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: January-April, p. 87" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/21/1959",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. in St. Rose, St. Charles Parish, Louisiana a 0.6 meter in diameter sphere flew over at 30 km/hour heading south at an altitude of 700 meters. It made a slight buzzing sound. It changed colors, and then made a 180 degree turn traveling back to the northeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4264",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 5775, citing Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: July-September, p. 41" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/21/1960",
  "desc" : "On this evening a power failure occurred in Miami, Florida after a misty blue cloud with a bright center was seen. A crowd chased a \"spaceman\" wearing bubble headgear \"with gold in it\" down Collins Avenue, but lost him. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4265",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0501, citing newspaper clipping dated July 22, 1960" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/21/1965",
  "desc" : "In Macias, Entre Rios province, Argentina at eleven o'clock at night Felipe Martinez reportedly met with humanoid UFOnauts for the third time since they had first contacted him. He was told that the \"space people\" would soon show themselves to people everywhere on earth. They also told him that on December 3 that year they would return to take Martinez and his family, and then they would then burn up the entire earth as punishment for our disbelief in their existence. Obviously, none of these prophesized events subsequently occurred. Four of the crew he met with were little men less than three feet tall, while the fifth man was over six feet tall and blond. This last crew member wore metallic plates on his arms, which had numerous small lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4266",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1965-22 (A0634), citing FSR; Gordon Creighton, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 40" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/21/1965",
  "desc" : "The USAF Keweenaw Radar Site in Michigan had multiple radar contacts with seven or more unknown targets. This was tied to an inflight sighting of 7 UFOs over Duluth, Michigan. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4267",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Flying Saucers, March 1966, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/21/1966",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. a man saw a UFO land in the desert near his home in Van Horn, Texas. Approaching its reddish glow, he ran into three small creatures standing near a scrub tree. They spun around toward him, and one of them yelled something in a high-pitched, child like voice. The little beings then all ran back to the saucer-shaped UFO, which flashed away seconds later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4268",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-28, citing Kevin Randle & Ted Bloecher" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/21/1967",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m. a 40-year-old witness was out in his garden in Wissons, France when he noticed a greenish glow on the ground. The glow was in a nearby field next to a cemetery. Within the glow he could see two shiny silvery figures moving about, apparently floating just above the ground. The figures soon disappeared from sight. Later, two V-shaped depressions were found on the ground in the same area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4269",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 195, Denys Breysse, Project Becassine" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/21/1967",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 a.m. Barbara Fawcett, age 18, and her sister saw a yellow \"jagged\" object rise above a swamp near Jewfish Creek, Florida. A dog riding in their car became fearful of the low flying yellow light, which flew just 15 feet above the roadway in Pompano Beach. The UFO then veered off to the right and landed on a sand dune to the east of the road. Air Force investigators found a very large scorched area at the spot. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4270",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, July-August 1967, p. 7; NICAP UFO Investigator, October1967, p. 4; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 14; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 858, citing APRO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/21/1967",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon in Pamlico County, North Carolina 14-year-old Ronnie Hill was playing in the garden when he noticed a strange odor in the air, and his eyes began to tear. He then saw a spherical object about three meters in diameter descend from the sky and land in a nearby field. Thinking that nobody would believe him, he ran inside his home and obtained a small Kodak camera. Once back outside he saw a small figure emerge from behind the object. The figure was about 1.25 meters in height, wore a tight-fitting silvery suit and carried in its hand a black object that it inserted into the ground, The entity then returned to the object, which took off into the sky at high speed. The odor was described as resembling propane gas. Ronnie Hill also noticed a total lack of sound during the encounter. A controversial photograph of the humanoid and UFO was taken and subsequently publicized. The photograph is widely regarded as a hoax by UFO investigators, with an eggshell used to model the UFO. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4271",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John A. Keel, FSR, January-February 1969, p. 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/21/1967",
  "desc" : "At 10:15 p.m. a security guard, Sidney Zipkin, age 50, was driving through a large parking lot in Churchville, New York when he observed a 16-meter-long cigar-shaped object with green lights under it land on the parking lot pavement. He stopped his truck within 30 meters of the object with the truck headlights aimed on it, and was surprised to see two dwarfs dressed in shiny black uniforms rush by his vehicle and enter the craft, which took off straight up in a vertical ascent. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4272",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 860" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/21/1969",
  "desc" : "At 1:00 a.m. a bang was heard at the door and the dog began barking in Cannes, Alpes-Maritime Department, France. Looking out, two boys saw a small white sphere that was hovering over a rose bush outside. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4273",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 8911, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 152" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/21/1969",
  "desc" : "Waldo, Maine - Randolph Whitcomb had just pulled off Route 137 onto Birches Road at 1:45 a.m. when his car radio \"went haywire\", fading into static. Then he noticed that his car hood was reflecting a red glare. Looking up, he saw a large, glowing red object hovering low over his vehicle. Startled, Whitcomb raced the three miles home. The UFO paced him the entire distance and \"moved off fast\" as he turned into his driveway. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4274",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, September-October 1969, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/21/1970",
  "desc" : "In 1970 an unidentified flying object described as looking like a silver bowl inverted upon another silver bowl was sighted hovering in the sky over Lynn, Massachusetts at 7:45 a.m. It was tipped slightly at an angle. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4275",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond Fowler, UFOs Interplanetary Visitors, p. 356" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/21/1972",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. in Pinelands, Western Cape Province, South Africa a witness by the name of Alexander saw a bright red object only two or three meters from the ground. It turned orange and then a golden color. As it rose up it made a large circle in the sky and then shot off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4276",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Argus, July 22, 1972; FSR, November-December 1972, p. 16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/21/1973",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. two motorists on highway 139 in Gavignano, Corsica, France felt paralyzed at the same time as the lights, radio, and engine of their vehicle died. They also felt very cold, and while they were unable to move they witnessed a bright shining object rise from ground, and then shoot into the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4277",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, April 1978, p. 31; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 57" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/21/1975",
  "desc" : "A 40-year-old artist named Malichev, living in Solnechnogorsk, Russia not far from Moscow claimed he had communicated telepathically with three UFO occupants. Their leader, a woman, told him he had a stable psychological system, which was why they had contacted him. They arrived in the middle of the afternoon on this day in a disc-shaped craft with three antennae. He was taken on an otherworldly journey, apparently to a planet with three moons. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4278",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, The Soviet UFO Chronicle, p. 202" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/21/1977",
  "desc" : "At 4:15 a.m. Police Officer John W. Bruner, a deputy sheriff, was on duty In Porter, Texas and was the first person to observe the UFO. Officer Bruner and his partner Officer Coogler were parked west of the object, which appeared to be approximately hald a mile to a mile away. Bruner and Coogler got out of their vehicle and tried to observe the object better by shinning their light on it. The object moved toward the men and the officers turned off the light because they became nervous at seeing the object's response to their light. The object then moved back to its original location. They agreed that the object appeared to have six portholes surrounding a type of framework. The two officers observed the UFO for approximately 45 minutes. During that time period, the UFO appeared to stand still in mid air, pulsate, travel at incredible speeds, and fly erratically. The officers described the UFO's apparent size to be about that of a grapefruit at arm's length. Officer Bruner was convinced that the object he saw was neither a balloon nor a helicopter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4279",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1977, page 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/21/1982",
  "desc" : "In Whitley City, Kentucky at 2:00 a.m. a top-shaped object lit up a garden with a red beam of lightdirected downwards. The craft had 30 lights around its rim. It flew to the north, then circled back, and finally flew off by making a vertical ascent. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4280",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14419, citing APRO Bulletin, February 1982" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/21/1991",
  "desc" : "Two flying humanoids, a man and a woman, landed on the hood of a truck moving at 50 mph down a highway near La Tigra, Argentina, and remained seated there until they got to town. They were described as very tall and very pale in complexion, and had blond hair and wore tight-fitting white uniforms.The lone male truck driver said that the beings remained sitting on the hood until the truck approached the outskirts of town, where they suddenly disappeared. Tracks were said to have been found on the hood of the truck. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4281",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1991, addendum case # 2, citing Richard Heiden" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/21/1991",
  "desc" : "Three young girls (ages 10-12) had stayed up late to watch a TV program and had gone into the backyard to play on a trampoline in Springfield, Missouri at two o'clock in the morning. They noticed a white, oval-shaped light moving rapidly from the side of the house to a corner of the backyard, where a large tree stood. One of the girls then noticed a strange-looking humanoid figure standing near the trampoline. It was about 4½ feet tall and completely white in color, with thin long arms and a huge pear-shaped head that was completely bald. It had two large black almond-shaped eyes, and it was very skinny with long skinny fingers on its long arms. The girls next ran back into the house and attempted to tell an older cousin of the incident, but the cousin ignored them and went back to bed. The girls then went back into the den and resumed watching television. Moments later their cat began acting strangely and the television screen went blank. At this point all three then saw the same humanoid again, looking at them through a window. The humanoid moved its head in a jerky mechanical manner. The girls ran and hid in the basement, where they stayed for the remainder of the night. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4282",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A2306; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1991, case # 726; Duane & Susan Bedell, MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 282" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/21/1994",
  "desc" : "At two o'clock in the afternoon an oval-shaped object was observed hovering over Taharti Lake, British Columbia, Canada for three minutes. It was about the size of a car. All of the witnesses returned to their cabin, but that night all five witnesses are unable to account for the next 24 hours. Their UFO sighting and the missing time incident is reported to the RCMP. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4283",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Frank Ducks, 1994 Canadian UFO Survey Report, case # 85" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/21/1997",
  "desc" : "A craft flying at 15 meters altitude with three white fixed lights was seen in Cholet, Maine-Loire department, France. Its speed was slow, and the encounter lasted 10 minutes. A deafening buzz could be heard during the passage of this object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4284",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "GEIPAN, case # 257" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/21/2002",
  "desc" : "Argentine Policeman Guillermo Arias was on patrol in Chaj'n, Cordoba Province, Argentina at 11:00 p.m. when a radio call alerted him that police in neighboring Achiras had sighted lights heading toward them.  As he was driving his police patrol van he spotted a formation of seven lights, and followed them for 10 kilometers down a rural dirt road when his vehicle's engine died, his dashboard lights and interior lights began turning on and off, and his radio went haywire with the dial displaying random frequencies. The van also filled with an acrid odor like burnt wiring. Badly frightened, Arias ran from his van and in the process lost his mobile phone. At this point an immense light rose from an adjacent field, coming from a large, 200 meter long, triangular object. He described it as looking like a \"floating city\" with a long row of about 100 windows.<br/><br/> Sr. Arias then saw something moving behind him, which he described as \"non-human\" in appearance. Numerous beams of light came out of the giant triangle craft, directed at the ground for several seconds. The object suddenly rose and sped away, illuminating the area like daylight. Recovering from his fear, Arias returned to the van and notified his fellow officers of his experience. He was told that reinforcements were being sent out to meet him. Patrolman Barrios from Achiras talked to him over the radio, trying to keep him calm, while Sgt. Medina was the first backup officer to arrive on the scene. He was joined by Sgt. Cordoba, among other officers, who reached the rural location to lend their assistance to their comrade in distress. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4285",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George Filer & David E. Twitchell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, pp. 107-108, citing translation by Scott Corales from Circulo Ovnilogico Riocuartense" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/22/1952",
  "desc" : "In Sydney, New South Wales, Australia at 8:00 p.m. a railroad guard received electric shocks and his gun shook when he had a close encounter with an orange glowing, lantern-shaped UFO over some railroad tracks. The UFO flew away at an estimated 400 mph. Guard receives electrics shocks, gun shakes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4286",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "James Holledge, Flying Saucers over Australia, p. 32; John Schuessler, Physiological Effects from UFOs, p. 20" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/22/1952",
  "desc" : "At 10:50 a.m. Mr. D. Weins, the Los Alamos Airport control tower operator at the AEC Los Alamos nuclear research facility in New Mexico, and two others, saw eight round, aluminum-colored objects. They were described as large and very fast moving UFOs. They made several sudden turns and reversals, and were seen for 25 minutes. An unexplained Project Blue Book report. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4287",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #1538; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 272, case 4; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: July 21st-July 31st, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/22/1952",
  "desc" : "At 2:45 p.m. Mr. Epperly, a weather observer, sighted a 30-foot diameter silver disc-shaped object that flew 100 degrees through the sky over Uvalde, Texas in 48 seconds, between cloud banks. It seemed to climb, and moved at an estimated speed of 1,000 mph. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4288",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1536; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 272, case 3; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: July 21st-July 31st, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/22/1952",
  "desc" : "A triangular-shaped flying object, the size of C-47 transport plane, flew across the sky over Rockville, Indiana. It stopped to hover about half a minute, then resumed its flight, disappearing in the distance. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4289",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Kevin Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 272, case 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/22/1952",
  "desc" : "At 10:50 p.m. eight lights in a V formation crossed the sky at a drive-in movie theater in Portales, New Mexico and then reversed direction. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4290",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: July 21st-July 31st, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/22/1954",
  "desc" : "At 7:15 p.m. five metallic spheres or ovoid shaped objects flew toward the west in a V formation in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. They were in sight for 30 seconds, and they reportedly looked like \"Christmas tree ornaments.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4291",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: June-August, p. 57" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/22/1955",
  "desc" : "At eleven o'clock at night a formation of several bright silver balls was sighted that changed positions as they flew over Leicester, England. There were widely reported sightings of these objects as they flew off toward the northeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4292",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 38" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/22/1955",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 p.m. several witnesses including one name Estes saw a UFO land in the Atlantic Ocean. It was seen on the surface of the ocean near Santa Maria Island in the Azores. Project Blue Book's explanation of this sighting was that it might have been an aircraft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4293",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1968, p. 5; Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 38" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/22/1955",
  "desc" : "At 5:30 p.m. Mr. E. Mootz was gardening in his yard in Cincinnati, Ohio when he was pelted with a dark reddish colored liquid from a pear-shaped object flying slowly at 1,000 feet altitude. The liquid caused his bare skin to feel like someone had poured kerosine on a wound. When he washed the substance off he felt better. The next day his peach tree was dead. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4294",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Orbit, September 1955, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/22/1956",
  "desc" : "A married couple named McMullins driving between Bakersfield and Pixley, California reporeted seeing a bluish green light at 5:30 a.m. that appeared to be burning as it flew rapidly toward the west. It exploded in the air and fell in two pieces. At the same time a Mrs. Brown, driving near Highway City between Fresno and Pixley, California saw an egg-shaped object that flew south, emitting a green light like a flame from the back. It made no sound when it exploded in the air and crashed to the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4295",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Alexander Mebane, Civilian Saucer Intelligence of New York Newsletter, citing Californian, July 23, 1956; (2) Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Orbit, September 1956, p. 1; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 71" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/22/1959",
  "desc" : "At 7:45 p.m. in Porayebayebera, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea the son of a paramount chief sighted a domed disc-shaped object with a dark base and an illuminted dome on the top at a low altitude. It flew out to sea. The witness had been known to the author, Norman Cruttwell, for over eight years. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4296",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Norman E. G. Cruttwell, UFOs in Two Worlds: FSR Special Edition No. 4, p. 25" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/22/1960",
  "desc" : "At ten o'clock in the evening a disc-shaped object with a fin or rudder-like proturberance was seen hovering over Martin, Tennessee by a 13-year-old girl. After it left large oily circles were found on the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4297",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, March 1972, p. 27" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/22/1963",
  "desc" : "A 38-year-old man named Gray sighted a 300-foot long flying craft with lighted windows while driving between Northfield and Yatala, South Australia at 6:35 p.m. The UFO was seen below the clouds for five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4298",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Waveney Girvan, Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1964, p. 24" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/22/1963",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. three people watched a low flying bell-shaped object pass into a cloud in Parr, Merseyside, England. It failed to reappear. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4299",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, case 141, citing Flying Saucer Review, May-June 1964, p. 24; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 575" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/22/1968",
  "desc" : "At 1:20 a.m. in Mendoza, Argentina Ms. Adela Casalvieri, night nurse at the Neuropsychiatry Hospital, heard a loud penetrating humming noise outside in the hospital courtyard. Going out to see what it was, she observed a saucer-shaped landed object only 20 meters away. It was brightly luminous and sitting in the middle of the courtyard. A luminous red beam came from the object and struck her, and she found that her legs were paralyzed. Putting her hands up to her face for protection she now found she was completely unable to move. She remained immobilized for a number of minutes until the red beam was extinguished. At this time the object ascended vertically, then flew off rapidly to the south barely clearing the wall that surrounded the courtyard. Before it disappeared she was able to observe several human-looking figures through square portholes that encircled the craft. These beings moved back and forth, passing each other, and were visible from the waist up only. Landing gear imprints were found at the landing site and several small potted trees had been burned. Mrs Casalvieri had first-degree burns on her face and hands, and parts of her nurse's cap and clothing were singed. In addition, her watch, which had stopped at 1:30 a.m., was found to be radioactive, as was her ring. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4300",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-89, citing G. J. Gianza Paz & A. M. Baragiola" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/22/1968",
  "desc" : "In the evening six young girls, ages 7 to 13, reported they saw a figure they described as \"The Virgin Mary\" in St. Bruno, Quebec. The apparition appeared before them hovering in the air. Four of the girls just saw the figure, but two also heard a voice they described as \"soft and slow.\" It advised them to pray and promised to return on October 7. That same evening in St. Basile, Quebec a boy reported seeing a man like figure that was apparently airborne and \"seemed to be walking in the sky, without any visible means of propulsion.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4301",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John A. Keel, UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/22/1974",
  "desc" : "At 12:15 a.m. a circular-shaped UFO with an antenna \"like a church steeple on its top\" flashed blue lights and gave off a white vapor trail when it maneuvered over Lexington, Missouri. There were nine witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4302",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, December 1974, p. 39; FSR, January 1975, p. 31" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/22/1975",
  "desc" : "On Wyfla Hill in Machynlleth, Powys, Wales a young man saw a domed disc-shaped object that blended into its surroundings. It was estimated to be 40 feet in diameter with large round lights five feet in diameter around its base. It was near the ground only fifty feet away from him, and he could see inside the UFO that there were what looked like non-humanoid, jelly like entities. The light on top of the object and those inside the base began to glow and pulsate in a strange mixture of colors, that exactly matched the background scenery. The object went into the background like a chaleleon, and in a few moments was no longer visible. The witness suffered from psychosomatic blindness and other personality changes. Gelatinous ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4303",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Andrew Collins, FSR, January 1979, p. 14; Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland's UFO Phenomenon, p. 169; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1403, citing Andrew Collins" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/22/1976",
  "desc" : "In Germantown, Wisconsin a hexagonal object with a flat bottom hovered over the highway at 10:50 p.m. No color was noted, but it had 4-5 lights in front, with a green light on one end and a red on the other. It hovered for five minutes, and had a red flame coming from the bottom the entire time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4304",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "CUFOS News Bulletin, September 1976, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/22/1977",
  "desc" : "An 18 meter in diameter domed, bowl-shaped disc hovered 50 meters over a house in Croix-en-Plaine, France at 10:30 p.m. Rays from the UFO converged on the roof of the house. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4305",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, November 1979" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/22/1982",
  "desc" : "At around 11:00 p.m. three women were sitting outside talking by their apartment complex in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England when they noticed a bright light above an empty piece of property. The light moved to the north and became a little elongated, then became top shaped and reddish in color, and then finally disappeared above Winter Hill. Later a dog that was with them began barking, then ran inside. The women next heard a peculiar sucking or croaking noise that was repeated four times, then a figure appeared suddenly in the empty field. It was normal height and wore a one-piece uniform that had a round helmet with visor. There was also a hose-like protrusion that came out of the visor. In one hand it held a square box that seemed connected to the hose. The women became frightened and ran inside. The police were called and searched the area but failed to find anything. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4306",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1982, case # 690, citing DIGAP Report, Northern UFO News, issue # 100" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/22/1983",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. a huge silent, stationary, boomerang shaped UFO with two large orange lights and many smaller lights in the middle of the V was sighted hovering over the suburbs in Houston, Texas. It then moved away past many witnesses. There was a wind sound but no jet noise, and was lost from sight in the distance. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4307",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1982, p. 14, citing John Schuessler" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/22/1989",
  "desc" : "Trenton, Maine over Blue Hill Bay -- At 3:30 p.m. Randy Rhodes, a police dispatcher for the City of Ellsworth, and Bill Reiff, an attorney, took off in a Beechcraft Bonanza from the Bar Harbor-Trenton airport. At around 3:45 p.m. they spotted a huge metallic disc, shining like polished aluminum, at the 9 o'clock position. It was at the same altitude as their plane--approximately 5100-5200 feet. The object suddenly moved dead ahead to the 12 o'clock position and it took on a reddish or rose color. Not very enthusiastic about continuing on with this thing in front of them, they turned back for the Bar Harbor-Trenton airport. The Aerial Direction Finder was working at the time but the DME (Distance Measuring Equipment) was not receiving. It had never before given them a problem, and 3-4 minutes after the object disappeared the DME came back on. When they landed they discovered that there had been power surges and outages on the ground, and they recalled that when they last observed the object it was headed in the direction of the Maine Yankee Nuclear Power plant in Wiscasset. However, a spokesman for the Bangor HydroElectric Company later reported that three limbs falling over a transmission line when a resident cut down a tree caused the outage. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4308",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Leland Bechtel, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1989, p. 19" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/22/1996",
  "desc" : "In Vicenza, Italy at 10:30 p.m. two local youngsters reported that they first noticed a total lack of animal noises while camping outside on the grassy slopes of Monte Berici, then everything became abnormally quiet. Soon they heard a kind of modulated, scraping metallic sound. Next they heard the sound of something moving in the forest, and when they looked in the direction of the sound they noticed two dark gleaming eyes staring at them. The girl became frightened and covered herself with a blanket, while the boy saw what appeared to be a large form, like a white-silvery blanket approach from the nearby hill. It was a meter in height and approached to within half a meter of the girl, looking down on her with two big red metallic eyes. In an attempt to protect her, the boy jumped up in front of the girl. At that point the robot-like creature seemed to shrink in upon itself then vanished into the woods. Others in the area reported hearing loud noises resembling a helicopter coming from the woods. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4309",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, citing UFO CUN" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/22/1997",
  "desc" : "About an hour after midnight several local residents, including Tal Igur, a 23-year-old student, reported seeing a flying silvery figure in the sky over Arad, Israel. The figure appeared to have a frozen, silver face with torso and arms. Other witnesses saw an object that was emitting flashes of light towards the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4310",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, citing Barry Chamish, Return of the Giants" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/23/1947",
  "desc" : "A group of survey workers working northeast of Pitanga, Parana State, Brazil ran away when they heard a hissing noise and saw a disc-shaped object land only 50 meters away from them. Jose C. Higgins saw two figures through a window inside the craft. Later three beings in shiny clothes and translucent suits, with oversized baldheads, huge round eyes, no eyelashes or eyebrows, and a metal box on their back, emerged from the craft. They were over two meters (6.6 feet) tall. They drew a sketch of the solar system and pointed to Uranus as if to suggest that was their point of origin. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4311",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Flying Saucer Review, November-December 1961; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 191; Jader U. Pereira, Les Extra-Terrestres, citing O Cruzeiro, November 13, 1954" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/23/1947",
  "desc" : "On this day a private pilot named Jenssen, flying at 6000 feet over Morristown, New Jersey encountered a shaft of light from above. The aircraft's engine faltered, then died, but the plane maintained its altitude. He felt a prickling sensation and saw a metallic disc above and ahead of him. He was able to re-start the plane by putting the nose down when he got control back. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4312",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Harold T. Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 70; Leonard G. Cramp, Piece for a Jig-Saw, p. 318" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/23/1949",
  "desc" : "At 11:40 a.m. two people fishing in a flooded quarry north of Delphi, Indiana saw two 40-foot long metallic UFOs circle and maneuver at 1500 feet altitude for three hours. There was also a third witness. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4313",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book, July 1949; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1428; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949 (Volume 2), p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/23/1952",
  "desc" : "At two o'clock in the morning a witness in Springfield, Massachusetts reported a silent orange glowing ovoid object maneuvering in the sky in a T pattern for 40 minutes. At 2:15 a.m. a Ground Observer Corp volunteer in Nahant, Massachusetts named Armpriester sighting two disc-shaped objects that flew to the northwest at 1500 feet altitude, circled Bird Rock, then flew off to the southeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4314",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1 & 2) Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: July 21st-July 31st, p. 9; (2) Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1556; NICAP files, citing newspaper clipping dated July 23, 1952" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/23/1952",
  "desc" : "At three o'clock in the morning four fiery teardrop-shaped flames flew rapidly toward the east over Gordonsville, Virginia and then veered sharply upward. They then repeated this staircase maneuver. The sighting lasted two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4315",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 2434; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952 (Volume 9), p. 20" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/23/1952",
  "desc" : "At 3:50 a.m. an F-94 interceptor obtained a radar lock-on while chasing a blue-green light, which circled Braintree, Massachusetts at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4316",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 132; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 97" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/23/1952",
  "desc" : "At 8:20 p.m. local time a blue green ball of light approached an F-94 jet flying over the ocean east of Misawa AFB in Japan. The jet gave pursuit, but the UFO suddently shot straight up. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4317",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 17; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: July 21st-July 31st, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/23/1952",
  "desc" : "At 9:10 p.m. three prison guards in Norfolk, Virginia watched a silent, circular shadow overhead. It shot off at high speed in less than a minute. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4318",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: July 21st-July 31st, p. 16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/23/1952",
  "desc" : "At 9:15 p.m. a group of evening shift aircraft workers in Culver City, California watched a silvery elliptical object flying over their aircraft plant. It emitted two small discs, which later returned to the main object. The sighting lasted several minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4319",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 156; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: July 21st-July 31st, p. 60; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 182" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/23/1956",
  "desc" : "Springfield, Massachusetts - Ms. Virginia Maratea and her sister were sitting on the back porch of her sister's home in the evening, facing west, when suddenly a glowing red object came into view. The object was shaped like a barbell, with two bulbous spheres on each end connected by an amorphous bar. The ends scintillated and were a fiery red, while the part in the center was dimly visible. She estimated the size as that of a large bomber at high altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4320",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Thomas Olsen, Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, p. 48" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/23/1959",
  "desc" : "A silver metallic disc was seen flying in an elliptical orbit in the sky over Bellevue, Washington at noon. There was no wind at the time. It vanished in an instant. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4321",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 5779; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: July-September, p. 41" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/23/1966",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 a.m. four UFOs where seen near the Shilo Royal Canadian AF airbase in Manitoba. One was at so low an altitude that it seemed about to land. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4322",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Brad Steiger and Joan Whritenour, Flying Saucers are Hostile, p. 69" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/23/1968",
  "desc" : "In Bauru, Sao Paulo state, Brazil a night watchman named Oliveira was on duty at the Central Electric Power Station at 1:00 a.m. when he saw a helmeted figure. Suspecting it was a criminal intruder, he tried to strike him with a metal crowbar but the figure dodged the blows and was soon joined by two other accomplices. They quickly overpowered the guard. One of the men, who, unlike the others, was dressed in yellow coveralls, uttered some unintelligible words. The security guard called out for help, at which point the three men boarded a gray colored, unlighted vehicle the size of a Volkswagen station wagon, and flew off into the air. The men were about the same size as the witness, about five foot five inches in height. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4323",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, November-December 1968, p. 1; Jader U. Pereira, Les Extra-Terrestres, p. 208, citing SBEDV; Walter Buhler, FSR Case Histories, December 1970, p. 11; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-49 (A0953), citing APRO Bulletin" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/23/1968",
  "desc" : "At 5:40 p.m. a metallic object dove into the sea at Playa Penuelas, Chile. It trailed flames and smoke as it plunged downward. At 7:30 p.m. a brilliant blue object zigzagged through the sky over Palquebudis, Chile emitting orange sparks. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4324",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Roberto Enrique Banchs, Las Evidencias del Fenomeno OVNI; Larry Hatch, U computer database" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/23/1969",
  "desc" : "On this night a UFO stopped a truck and levitated a car with four occupants in Paulo Lopes, Santa Catarina state, Brazil. The car was set down a considerable distance far ahead in what seemed like an instant. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4325",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, July-August 1969; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 53" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/23/1971",
  "desc" : "In Manicouagan, Quebec an electrical power outage was connected to UFO sightings that evening. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4326",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Claude MacDuff, FSR Case Histories, December 1973, p. 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/23/1972",
  "desc" : "At 4:10 a.m. in Umkomaas, Kwa-Zulu Natal province, South Africa Mr. and Mrs. Marco took two photographs of a of luminous object in the night sky. They also viewed the object through field glasses. In one of the photographs the object seems to be shaped like a domed disc. The UFO flew out to sea fast, toward the southeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4327",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Phillipp J. Human, FSR, September-October 1972, p. 3; FSR, March 1973, p. 30" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/23/1972",
  "desc" : "A large cylindrical UFO with three smaller satellite discs was sighted in Gstaad, Switzerland on this night. All UFOs suddenly vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4328",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, volume 9 (1978)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/23/1977",
  "desc" : "At 12:45 a.m. a 26-year old woman and her 13-year-old niece looked out their bedroom window in Lindley, New York before retiring and saw 11 or 12 white lights in a \"dipper\" shaped formation that were moving about in the sky. One bright light appeared on a hill 300 yards away. They could hear a whooshing sound, then two lights rose in the air. Then next heard footsteps from the creek, about 100 yards away, and saw two small figures floating up and down in front of a tree by the creek. After this they saw several more figures, at various spots, carrying what seemed to be flashlights. They wore tight-fitting, \"skin diver\" suits with glowing green belts.<br/><br/> A luminous red rectangular object was seen by one of the witnesses. It approached the creek, and then backed away. At this point both witnesses developed severe headaches. They then saw a figure on a distant hill shining a light on a tombstone there, and the stone seemed to rise up into the air and move back and forth. A figure taller than the others, who were less than four feet tall, stood near the light on the hill and called out with an \"ooh, ooh\" signal. The others all approached him and, five minutes later, deployed back into adjacent fields. One of them approached the house. He came under the second story window and dropped to the ground, as if to conceal himself, he then approached the door and rattled the handle. By this time, 3:45 a.m., the older witness had called her mother, who notified the state police. All of the lights and figures disappeared just prior to the arrival of the police, the lights in the sky being indistinguishable from stars. Both witnesses believed only an hour had passed but actually over three hours had elapsed. They complained of burning eyes and headaches that lasted for two days. Footprints were found in the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4329",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, August 1977, p. 36; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-37 (A1742), citing Ted Phillips, Douglas Dains, & Dr Gary Truce for CUFOS" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/23/1982",
  "desc" : "At two a.m. four 16 year olds--with the last names Lebeau, Cousineau, and Labre--saw an intense beam of white light from a multi-colored UFO in a field in Ste-Dorothee, near Laval, Quebec. Shortly later they heard beeping, and when they shone a spotlight in the direction of the noise it revealed a five to six foot tall being with a large brown head and orange eyes. They all suffered from intense stomach pain. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4330",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard F. Haines, CE5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 210; FSR, November 28, 1982" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/23/1987",
  "desc" : "In the middle of the day six spheres made 90 degree turns in the sky in broad daylight over West Pensacola, Florida. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4331",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 198" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/23/1990",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. the witness had stepped out of his house in Rybnik, Poland and noticed that his dog had broken the chain that he had been tied up to. Looking up, he noticed a powerful beam of white light in the sky and a small red light moving underneath it. The white beam of light moved around erratically as if searching. The witness signaled the beam of light with his flashlight several times and it appeared to answer him by shining on the highway directly in front of him. He then became frightened and hid behind a light pole. The white beam of light approached and struck him in the leg. He ran to a nearby house but it was deserted and locked, so he then ran back to the road. The object had now come closer to the ground, and a red light and a ladder were now visible. On the ladder stood a humanoid figure, but no details could be seen because of the glare from a nearby streetlight. The being entered the object, which he described as cigar shaped. The ladder was drawn up and the red light went out. The object then left the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4332",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #309; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1990, case # 1652, citing Bronislaw Rzepecki, Australian UFO Bulletin" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/23/1992",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 a.m. Peter Khoury was in bed in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia as a result of a recent work injury and was on pain medication. Suddenly he was wide awake and sat up in bed, because there were two humanoid females sitting on the bed, both entirely naked. The two women looked very human in nearly every detail. They had well-proportioned adult bodies. One looked Asian, with straight dark shoulder length hair and dark eyes. The other looked perhaps Scandinavian, with light colored, possibly blue eyes and long blond hair that fell half way down her back. To Khoury, the hair looked very exotic. Their faces were somewhat odd--not unattractive, but too chiseled--with high cheekbones and eyes that were two or three times larger than normal. Khoury especially noticed the blonde-haired woman. Her face was long, very long. The blonde, who was in a kneeling position on his bed, seemed to be in charge. Khoury thought that she was communicating telepathically with the dark-haired woman, who was sitting with her legs partly folded under her. Their facial expressions were almost entirely blank.<br/><br/> Stunned by their surprise appearance, Peter was unable to react as the blond woman suddenly reached out with both her hands and cupped the back of his head, drawing his face toward her breasts. He resisted. Apparently very strong, she pulled harder. She pulled him forward and his mouth was placed on one of her nipples, and he bit it. A piece of her nipple came loose in his teeth, but the blond woman did not cry out. She seemed shocked or confused and looked at the Asian woman, then back at the witness. Involuntarily, Khoury swallowed the small fragment in his mouth. It caught in his throat and he went into a coughing fit. The two women suddenly simply disappeared. Feeling an urge to go to the bathroom, he realized his penis felt very painful. Pulling back the foreskin he found two thin blond strands of hair wrapped tightly around it. He kept the hair samples for genetic analysis. The DNA analysis showed that the hair was human, but the genome testing suggested that the closest match would be a cross breeding of someone from Iceland with someone from Japan, a rare occurrence. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4333",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, case # 3515, citing Bill Chalker, International UFO Reporter" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/23/1995",
  "desc" : "At eleven p.m. a black, silent, manta ray shaped flying object passed overhead in Snake River, Idaho. It had black wings that appeared to \"ripple.\" There was no mention of lights on the UFO in the report. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4334",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Curt Sutherly, UFO Mysteries: A Reporter Seeks the Truth, p. 195, citing the Idaho Statesman, February 25, 1996" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/23/1997",
  "desc" : "In Los Angeles, California a woman reported seeing a large metallic hat-shaped object with several portholes around the rim, hovering between two buildings at 1:30 p.m. She said it made no sound, and she also reported she received a telepathic message from it. Several nights later she remembered being in a round room with windows. She had a \"guide\" on board the craft, who was a handsome blond haired man with a bare chest. She remembered looking down on the San Bernardino Mountains, but that was all that she could recall of the possible abduction experience. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4335",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, July 1997 archive; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, case # 3585, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/23/1997",
  "desc" : "During this afternoon several locals of Vegas de Diuca, Chile including Jose and Nicolasa Estrada witnessed a small robotic figure that moved in quick jerky jumps on a nearby hill. It was reddish yellow in color. It would take quick short flights over the fields then fall down and land. It seemed to have a round head with an eye-like hole in the center. It had a tail like protrusion on its rear and two antennas like protrusions on top. Two of the witnesses, one armed with a shotgun, approached to within ten meters of the figure. Around the same time other locals reported seeing slow moving lights low over the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4336",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, case # 3903, citing UFOPR" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/23/1997",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. a large orange object with a tail fanning out from it was seen in Tooele, Utah. It just faded away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4337",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, July 1997 archive" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/23/1999",
  "desc" : "A craft that at first looked like a mobile home took off vertically from a field in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania at 11:30 p.m., and then executed a turn. It made a humming sound, shook, and then went straight up. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4338",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George Filer, Filers' Files, 1999, (volume 9, issue 34)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/23/2001",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. young mother was breastfeeding her baby in her fourth floor apartment in Amasya, Turkey when she turned her head and saw a strange looking humanoid standing in front of the balcony door and curtain. After a few seconds the humanoid disappeared. She described it as about 1.05 meters in height, with very big jet-black eyes, slanting up. His head was oval-shaped and bald. His color was gray like smoke. No other details were noted because of the witness state of panic and the short duration of the encounter. There were unconfirmed reports of UFO's seen in the area that night. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4339",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2001, citing TUVPO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/24/1909",
  "desc" : "At Kaka Point, southwest of Riwaka, New Zealand six boys on the beach sighted a house-sized luminous dirigible-shaped airship at around 9:00 p.m. It glided and maneuvered near some rocks on the coast, zigzagged, rose and fell, then shot away to the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4340",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 180; Xenolog, November 1975, p. 10; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 280, citing Bruce Cathie, Harmonic 33, p. 122" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/24/1948",
  "desc" : "At 2:45 a.m. the captain and co-pilot of an Eastern Airlines DC-3, Chiles and Whitted, while flying over Montgomery, Alabama reported seeing a torpedo-shaped UFO with two rows of lighted windows and a red exhaust. It buzzed them head on, veered to the right, and then shot straight up. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4341",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers -Serious Business, p. 90; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 44; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. and Harold Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 164" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/24/1949",
  "desc" : "A pilot flying a twin engine plane over Mountain Home, Idaho at 12:03 p.m. encountered seven dark delta-wing objects flying in a V formation at a speed of 600 mph and an altitude of 8500 feet. They executed a sharp turn without banking. His plane experienced engine difficulty with one engine. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4342",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 143; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 49; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 179; newspaper clipping dated July 25, 1949" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/24/1951",
  "desc" : "A 150-foot long cylinder with many black spots and fins at one end flew at 900 mph at an altitude of 1500 feet over Portsmouth, New Hampshire at 7:10 p.m. It was seen for 20 seconds by two military witnesses, Cobb and Fein. A Project Blue Book \"unknown.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4343",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 943" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/24/1952",
  "desc" : "At three o'clock in the afternoon many witnesses and television cameras outside the Democratic Convention in Columbus, Ohio equipped with telephoto lens followed a UFO across the sky being chased by a USAF jet interceptor. The report was carried by the Associated Press wire service. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4344",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: July 21st-July 31st, p. 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/24/1952",
  "desc" : "At Travis AFB, California a bright orange light witnessed by three military men--Mezo, Hanson, and Steen--looked like it was coming in for a landing, but then it stopped and hovered, made a slow turn to the west, and shot off at high speed. A Project Blue Book unexplained case. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4345",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1588; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 273" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/24/1952",
  "desc" : "At 3:40 p.m. near Carson Sink, Nevada three silver arrowhead-shaped or triangular UFOs flew in a V formation at an estimated speed 1000 mph, crossing the sky in front of a B-25 USAF bomber. The military witnesses onboard the bomber were named McGinn and Barton, and their sighting was brief, lasting less than 10 seconds. A Project Blue Book unexplained case. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4346",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1584; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 182; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 273" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/24/1952",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. in Arnheim, The Netherlands four discs passed over the city, followed by 50 Saturn-shaped objects flying in a V formation. They all suddenly shot straight up into the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4347",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, UFO Reports from the Files of the CIA, p. 26; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 129" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/24/1952",
  "desc" : "At 10:20 p.m. ground based air defense radar picked up a bogey over Alaska southeast of Talkeetna. A fighter jet was vectored into the location and also made radar contact but no visual sighting, and it couldn't catch up with the UFO moving at 550 knots. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4348",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: July 21st-July 31st, p. 17" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/24/1952",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. in Fayetteville, Arkansas two in car watched six 6- inch diameter discs overhead. One passed over the hood of their car, emitting smoke. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4349",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: July 21st-July 31st, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/24/1952",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. orange balls of light were seen flying in circular orbits over the ocean in Key West, Florida. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4350",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952 (Volume 9), p. 27" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/24/1960",
  "desc" : "Frank Porcello and two others saw two UFOs maneuver over Portville, New York at 8:45 p.m. The sighting lasted more than four minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4351",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 64; Thomas M. Olsen, Reference to Outstanding UFO Reports, case 113" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/24/1963",
  "desc" : "On this morning two ten year old boys with the last names Lee and Duffy were buzzed by a domed, disc-shaped object that descended from an overcast sky while they were playing outdoors in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England at 8:30 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4352",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Orbit, Tyneside, England, Volume 2 (1963), p. 23); Paris Flammonde, UFO Exist! p. 165; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 6371, citing Paris Flammonde" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/24/1964",
  "desc" : "Mr. Malone and two other men saw a UFO maneuvering in the sky over Binghamton, New York at 9:00 o'clock in the evening. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4353",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, September 1964, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/24/1967",
  "desc" : "At ten p.m. Daniel Bonifait and his family were driving between Mareuil and Ste-Hermine, France when they saw a red disc the size of a building, fall behind a hill 300 meters away from them. Dark forms were observed on the disc's surface, and the forest seemed to be ablaze as the witnesses drove away in fear. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4354",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 859" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/24/1968",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. a cigar shaped object with a bright light flew behind some trees in the community of Oldeboorn, The Netherlands. A smaller object flew between the houses close to the ground. Dogs barked, and the witness was terrified. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4355",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Nachtrichten, November 1968; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 73" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/24/1969",
  "desc" : "On this day in Tepic, Nayarit state, Mexico a five meter in diameter disc maneuvered silently at tree top level. It was tilted at an angle as it flew, and possibly landed nearby. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4356",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, July-August 1969, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/24/1970",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. a mushroom-shaped UFO maneuvered at treetop level three kilometers outside the town of Villalba del Alcores, Spain. It left behind burnt plants and leaves. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4357",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 128; Stendek, June 1971, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/24/1977",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. on Route 951 east of Cruis, France a couple, Mr. & Mrs. Gaizand, reported seeing a white luminous form shaped like a hemisphere sitting on the ground by the side of the road. The object was about 7-8 meters in diameter and about 2.50 meters in height, and was about 40 meters away from the road. It had three bright bluish-white lights. Next to the craft stood two human-like figures. The figures were about 1.65 meters in height and wore gray uniforms and helmets. Mrs. Gaizand was seized by a panic and begged her husband to drive away. Both suffered from conjunctivitis and insomnia after the encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4358",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, November 1980, issue # 195" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/24/1978",
  "desc" : "In Wheatley, Oxfordshire, England an object looking exactly like helicopter but making absolutely no sound was sighted at 11:45 p.m. It had a bright light in front, several large orange lights in the rear, and flew at a low altitude. No helicopters were known to be flying on this night. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4359",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "D. N. Mansell, Awareness, October 1978, p. 11, & December 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/24/1981",
  "desc" : "A huge silent disc-shaped UFO was seen for three to ten minutes by thousands over Ningsia, China. It flew at a very high altitude and left a spiral trail. It made no sound. About ten minutes later in Qinghai, China a huge lens-shaped disc with portholes was seen by thousands. It flew from the northeast to the southwest. Photographs of the object were taken, and several drawings were published. In Zigong, Henan Province, China at 11:00 p.m. thousands saw a domed disc-shaped UFO for up to two hours. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4360",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Wendell Stevens & Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, p. 226-227; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 235; John Wallace Spencer & Hilary Evans, Phenomenon: Forty Years of Flying Saucers, p. 62" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/24/1984",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. a very large boomerang-shaped UFO hovered only 300 feet over an active vent of the Indian Point Nuclear Plant cooling tower for 15 minutes on the Hudson River in Westchester County, New York. Several guards came forward to report the incident, reporting there were a total of eleven witnesses to the UFO at the plant that night, and that the security guards broke out shotguns. A big coverup by government officials was claimed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4361",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Doris Graziano, APRO Bulletin, June 1985, p. 8; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 14168, citing George C. Andrews, Extra-Terrestrials Among Us, p. 302; J. Allen Hynek & Philip J. Imbrogno, Night Seige: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, p. 148; Dennis Stacy, Field Guide to UFOs, p. 120; Peter Brookesmith, UFO: The Complete Sightings, p. 128" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/24/1984",
  "desc" : "At 10:20 a videotape was made by a Mr. Pozzouli of a ring of lights in the dark sky over Brewster, New York in the Hudson River Valley, suggesting a dark circular, ellipsoid, or disc-shaped object. Analysis of the videotape was done by Dr. Lew Allen of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4362",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek & Philip J. Imbrogno, Night Seige: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, p. 128; Philip J. Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/24/1987",
  "desc" : "An ovoid shaped object hovered over US Route 301 in Savannah River, Georgia not far from the Savannah River nuclear facility. It had green and orange bands of color alternating from the top and bottom. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4363",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon 1947-1987, p. 84" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/24/1988",
  "desc" : "At 2:40 a.m. on Lake Ojesjon in Kopparberg, Sweden three brilliant hat-shaped discs followed a boat for five kilometers. The four witnesses reported that there was an \"oppressive silence\" that surrounded the UFO. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4364",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Andre Liljegren, AFU Sweden Newsletter, issue # 34" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/24/1991",
  "desc" : "An aluminum colored domed disc, shaped like a baseball cap without the visor, was seen by a 49-year-old housewife in Port Crane, New York at 11:35 a.m. It reflected the sunlight, but then appeared to shrink to a horizontal line that disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4365",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1992, p. 17, citing R. Hamilton, field investigator, case 911101E" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/24/1993",
  "desc" : "In the early pre-dawn hours of this day a woman living in West Palm Beach, Florida awoke feeling very groggy and heard a peculiar low frequency buzzing sound. Two men came into her bedroom, carried her outside, and loaded her into a waiting, large \"military type\" truck. The witness felt semi-conscious and groggy during the truck ride. The truck drove into an underground chamber located in the side of a large hill, through a door that opened upwards. The interior was dimly lit. A three-foot-tall Grey humanoid with slanted eyes, who wore a black hooded cape, met her there. The being had a greenish gray complexion and seemed to hover just above the floor, sometimes poking her with an unseen instrument. She sensed hostility from the being, which kept circling her in an attempt to force her to lie down on a nearby metal table. The witness resisted and blacked out. She later she found herself back on her bed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4366",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 1665, citing Karla Turner, Ph.D., Taken" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/24/1993",
  "desc" : "On this day a long crop formation of circles and rings was found in a wheat field in East Kennett, Wiltshire, England. It was given the name \"the Lozenge\". ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4367",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lucy Pringle, Crop Circles: The Greatest Mystery of Modern Times, p. 38" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/24/1993",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. a man saw a spherical object low in the sky over Dundee, Scotland. It glowed with a strange intensity 100 feet above the ground, and then began to ascend. After several minutes it lost its blinding intensity, split into two, then split again into two groups of 3-4 lights, all white. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4368",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland's UFO Phenomenon, p. 143" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/24/1993",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. four metallic discs were sighted in the sky over Chaumes-en-Brie, France. Each object was encircled by a different color of lights. They hovered for 15 minutes, then flew off quickly to the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4369",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 320" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/24/1999",
  "desc" : "At 7:50 p.m. a lone cloud was seen in the sky east of Alamosa, Colorado on highway 60. Inside the cloud was a disc-shaped object hovering in place. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4370",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/25/1938",
  "desc" : "A lieutenant in the Spanish Army in Guadalajara, Spain saw a dark, lens-shaped UFO descend toward the ground at 11:30 p.m. The disc was eleven meters in diameter and the top and bottom secions spun in opposite directions. A transparent column from underneath the object came down slowly, and two figures could be seen moving around inside the column. A blue beam of light was projected at the witness by the UFO, and he felt a chilling cold sensation. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4371",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/25/1952",
  "desc" : "A man who was fishing in the pre-dawn hours in the Serchio River in the Tuscany region of Italy saw a disc hovering for ten minutes. From it hung a hose that plunged into the water. The object was 20 meters in diameter, with five propellers in the rear and a dome with something like blades on top. An orange glow could be seen through slits along the deck. A man wearing a diving helmet looked at the witness through a window, and he received a kind of electric shock as a \"green ray\" hit him. He looked up with difficulty, in time to see the object fly away toward the east. Six days later a stranger with a foreign accent contacted the witness and intimidated him. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4372",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Solas Boncompagni, UFO in Italia, Volume I, (Periodo 1907-1953), p. 137; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 181 (case 95); Peter Rogerson, A Worldwide Catalog of Type I Reports, p. 244" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/25/1954",
  "desc" : "Middle Sister Island, on U.S.-Canadian border in western Lake Erie. At 7:12 p.m. L.B. Tussing, an attorney, saw a black cylindrical object, 12 times longer as it was wide, moving fast across the surface of the lake. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4373",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 3483" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/25/1957",
  "desc" : "Russian coastal artillery batteries fired on high speed UFOs on this day along the Pacific Coast of the Soviet Union. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4374",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ion Hobana, UFOs from behind the Iron Curtain, p. 41" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/25/1957",
  "desc" : "At 12:45 p.m. a brilliant disc spun as it flew fast across the sky at a slight tilt in Oregon City, Oregon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4375",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/25/1957",
  "desc" : "Mr. Joao Guimaraes, who was a professor at the Catholic Faculty of Law in Santos, was sitting near the shore in Sao Sebastiao, Brazil at 7:10 p.m. when he saw a hat-shaped, luminous craft approach from the sea and land near him. From it came a metallic stairway. Two normal men with long, fair hair hanging to their shoulders, a youthful appearance and wearing one-piece suits, came down, gave no verbal answers to his questions, but invited him \"telepathically\" to come aboard the craft. Inside the illuminated compartment, he sat on a circular seat with the crew. The machine rose for a short flight. On his return, Guimaraes found that his watch no longer worked. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4376",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Charles Bowen, The Humanoids: FSR Special Issue #1, p. 36; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 256" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/25/1957",
  "desc" : "A UFO was seen zigzagging through the sky over North Havre, Montana at 11:30 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4377",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/25/1959",
  "desc" : "In Gaiawanaki, Papua New Guinea a beam of light shone down on men on the beach, lighting up the area like day. A domed disc came down to a low altitude. It had a dark, concave base, and illuminated dome, and traveled on its side in the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4378",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Norman Cruttwell, UFOs in Two Worlds: FSR Special Edition No. 4, p. 25" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/25/1959",
  "desc" : "On this day at about 1:30 p.m. in Irondequoit, New York W.D. Neva, a technical illustrator, saw a thin, crescent-shaped object with a small white dome in the center resembling a gun turret at 1:00 p.m. The object flew at an estimated 800 mph, banked, and disappeared from view behind some trees after 5-10 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4379",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 6446; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/25/1965",
  "desc" : "Two five-foot long cylinders connected by cross-bars landed in Trois Rivieres, Quebec, Canada at 4:30 p.m. A five foot tall being was seen outside. There were three witnesses, and the encounter lasted five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4380",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants and Critters, p. 44" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/25/1965",
  "desc" : "In Castalia, Ohio 16-year-old M. D. Harris, an amateur astronomer, was viewing the night sky at 9:15 p.m. when he saw what looked like a bright blue star move 90° across of the sky in 10-15 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4381",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 9550; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/25/1965",
  "desc" : "On this night Mr. Alva was awakened by a strange sound and saw an object on the ground near the Chosica Power Plant, Peru emitting flashes of green light. He woke up other employees, who had time to note that the object was about three meters in diameter, had small windows in its upper part, and a revolving telescopic appendage. The investigating commission found dark, triangular traces on the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4382",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 661" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/25/1966",
  "desc" : "College student James Clark was driving home after 1:00 a.m. between Greenville and Vanceboro, North Carolina when he saw a flying object that followed him even though he drove at high speeds attempting to elude it. He finally stopped to watch it, but became afraid when it flew within 100 meters of the car, only 15 meters above the ground. The lights on the object pulsated, and the color changed in sequence, orange to red to blue to green and then back to orange, and it also wobbled on its axis. It came within 30 meters, then suddenly left straight up. It flew up and out of sight in less than five seconds. The entire incident lasted an hour. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4383",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 10781; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 782" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/25/1968",
  "desc" : "At 2:05 a.m. in Olavarria, Buenos Aires, Argentina a corporal and several other soldiers went to a spot where a UFO, emitting multicolored flashes and making a droning sound, appeared about to land. It settled to the ground and three beings more than six feet tall, wearing silvery uniforms, emerged and advanced with slow, unsteady steps toward the soldiers. The corporal fired a burst of submachine gun fire at them, upon which the beings lifted up their hands to show a small luminous ball, whereupon all the witnesses were overcome by a strange lassitude and were incapable of using their guns. Only after the beings re-entered the UFO and it had taken off with a zigzag motion did the soldiers recover their faculties. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4384",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-50, citing newspaper source" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/25/1968",
  "desc" : "At 5:30 a.m. Oscar Augustin D'Onofrio was traveling on Route 3 in General Alvear, Buenos Aires, Argentina when he observed at the 37 km mark, 100 meters away from the road, a luminous spot that gradually increased in size. The engine of his car stopped working, and the witness remained paralyzed without being able to move. Moments later there emerged a \"spaceship,\" which shot out sparks. He saw two figures, but at that distance he could not make out their characteristics. The UFO rose up and disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4385",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-90, citing Carlos Banchs" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/25/1968",
  "desc" : "A family of three in Pastora, Argentina saw a silvery object about 25 feet in diameter. The engine of their car began to slow down, then die completely as the object came near. The object, which looked like a spinning top, hovered for five minutes only 10 meters from the road. Then it rose quickly and vanished — the engine came back on by itself. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4386",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 243, citing FSR Case Histories, Supplement No. 16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/25/1969",
  "desc" : "A two-meter diameter orange sphere flew to the southwest at only 12 meters over a path in Estival, France. It returned a short time later flying to the northwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4387",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Claude Poher, Etudes Statistiques Portant sur 1000 Temoignag, case 2785" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/25/1969",
  "desc" : "At around 8 p.m. a huge delta-shaped object stopped over a witness's car in North Augusta, Ontario and subsequently a one-hour episode of missing time occurred. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4388",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 8919" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/25/1970",
  "desc" : "In Jabreilles des Bordes, France at 5:30 p.m. in 1970 a disc landed on four legs. It had two antennas, one 45 cm long and one 1.5 meters long. There were physiological effects experienced by the witness. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4389",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "1972 MUFON Conference Proceedings, p. 50" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/25/1971",
  "desc" : "A silent domed disc flew west to east, then stopped near Perth, Ontario. When the witness raised a camera to take a photo it vanished in place! ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4390",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 9332" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/25/1972",
  "desc" : "The witness, a 37-year-old woman, saw a blue light from a saucer-shaped object nearby while driving in Frankston, Victoria, Australia on this evening. She tried to accelerate away from the object, but her car's engine died, although the headlights remained on. She felt as if she was \"under observation\" and heard a voice. Her engine then started by itself and the saucer left. The woman had seen the same object before on July 3. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4391",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 319, citing ACUFOS" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/25/1973",
  "desc" : "A sighting of a humanoid, with no UFO seen, was reported in Durham, Maine. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4392",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 999, citing Brunswick Times Record, July 27, 1973" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/25/1978",
  "desc" : "A large metallic cylindrical object hovered for 30 seconds between Roche-Posay and Chatelle, France at 9:15 p.m. It moved, then hovered again, then moved away toward the southwest making short stops. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4393",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Pierre Delval, Ouranos, vol. 24 (1978), p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/25/1979",
  "desc" : "At 2:00 a.m. in Canoga Park, California a large white light made several passed at a car. One hour later a diffuse white ball of light maneuvered in the sky for 30 minutes over the Chatsworth Reservoir. At 3:15 a housewife and cocktail waitress was abducted while driving home from work by a UFO she thought was a plane crashing. She experienced an episode of missing time and partial amnesia about other events, but did recall undergoing a physical exam while lying on her back. A probe was inserted into her leg, and her eyes were dabbed with a liquid. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4394",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, September 1980; Davd F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2212" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/25/1979",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 a.m. Federico Ibanez, a 54-year-old farmer, was out driving his car in his vineyards in Turis, Valencia, Spain when he sighted something white and shiny ahead of him. He thought at first it was his neighbor's car, but when he rounded a bend in the road the object blocking the road resembled a vertical half-egg that stood on legs, with the truncated end facing downwards. It was nine feet high and almost 3 feet wide. He then noticed two 3-foot-tall beings running toward the object. The wore white shiny outfits that covered their head and came down to their knees. They had small black legs that ended in little feet that looked like \"boxing gloves.\" Their faces were blank except for what appeared to be a black protruding face mask of some sort. Within seconds the beings entered the object, which then took off throwing up a cloud of dust. Sr. Ibanez got back in his car and drove off to inspect his vines. A subsequent investigation found four circular marks on the road forming a precise rectangle. The farmer, who knew nothing about UFOs, had a solid reputation among his friends and neighbors. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4395",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Patrick Huyghe, The Field Guide to Extraterrestrials, p. 46; Gordon Creighton, The Encounter at Turis, FSR, June 1982, pp. 17-18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/25/1981",
  "desc" : "At around 4:00 a.m. a bright silver disc with six round portholes was seen by the crew of an Iberia B-727 airliner as it flew between Valencia and Barcelona, Spain. It appeared to be reflecting sunlight in the dawn sky.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4396",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "7/25/1982",
  "desc" : "At 4:00 o'clock in the morning a bullfighter in Punta Umbria, Spain observed blinking re and yellow lights near the beach. He thought it was the scene of a car accident and approached. What he saw was a square-shaped craft and a 3-meter (10 foot) tall robot standing at the side of the UFO. It had no arms, and the head was covered with a metal mesh material. It made guttural sounds. Later that day several independent witnesses reported seeing a blunt gray, 300-foot long cigar-shaped object with windows fly over woods and the sewage treatment plant in Latrobe, Pennsylvania heading west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4397",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case 0640; MUFON UFO Journal, October 1983" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/25/1990",
  "desc" : "Two 14-year-old girls in Ferriere-La-Grande, France watched a white triangular object hover for 2 minutes, point up. The craft then shot straight up extremely fast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4398",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 302" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/25/1991",
  "desc" : "A white sphere hovered over a field on this night in Carleton, Quebec. Several times a much smaller red light emerged from the white object, descended to the ground, drifted for awhile, ascended, and then merged back into the large object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4399",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, Alien Update, p. 229" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/25/1992",
  "desc" : "On this day in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico a UFO abductee was allegedly visited by a man with human appearance and \"Hindu\" features. In a telepathic communication the abductee was informed that the Grey aliens were androids, and lived for only a few days before then were recycled. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4400",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case 0772" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/25/1992",
  "desc" : "Three young men were racing dirt bikes on a river bank in Tarasovka, Ukraine when they saw a luminous sphere land. A 1.6 meter (5.5 feet) tall man emerged from the object wearing white coveralls and a helmet. He walked in a peculiar manner. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4401",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case 3357" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/25/1993",
  "desc" : "At 3:40 a.m. a dome-shaped object 4 meters in diameter followed two witnesses home in Warsaw, Poland. They videotaped the object circling their house. The next day unexplained new marks on their skin suggested to them that they had been abducted. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4402",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 326" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/25/1995",
  "desc" : "At 9:35 a.m. two luminous objects maneuvered up-and-down in the daytime sky over Ocate, New Mexico. They darted to the horizon, and then appeared to buzz a military plane. Later that night in Sapello, New Mexico a light was seen dimming and brightening in the sky at 11:15 p.m. It rose vertically, then zigzagged erratically, then shot straight up. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4403",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, 1995 report" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/25/2000",
  "desc" : "At 7:00 p.m. Ignatiy Aleksandrovich Srartsev and two of his friends were out in a wooded field near Firsanovka, Moscow, Russia when they heard a strong whistling sound coming from behind the trees. They then noticed a round object ringed with portholes. The UFO hovered over them and emitted some kind of beam of energy. The ray hit one of the men, who seemed to disappear in plain sight of the other two men. Only his clothes remained. Three minutes later he reappeared, completely naked, in front of his stunned friends. He said that he had been abducted by \"leshies\" (Russian wood goblins), but the other two quickly pointed out to him that it had been a UFO. The men then quickly left the area. The man's memory of the event was completely gone. He could only vaguely remember that some strange gray-colored beings had been sticking needles into his body. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4404",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, citing Anton Anfalov, Ukraine" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/25/2000",
  "desc" : "Fisherman off the south coast of Viegues Island, Puerto Rico sighted a huge disc with a great many blinking lights surrounding it. On the bottom of the object was a big green light that beamed down to the ocean surface. The UFO hovered 100 feet over the ocean surface while a huge bolume of water rose and entered the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4405",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), December 2000, p. 33" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/26/1948",
  "desc" : "Six people in Chamblee, Georgia briefly saw a luminous football-shaped UFO that glowed, bobbed, weaved, and maneuvered over the town at 9:30 p.m. It flew off rapidly toward the south at an estimated 5,000 feet altitude. The Air Force explanation was that they saw a meteor. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4406",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #00165; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1948, p. 43" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/26/1949",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 a.m. in Redmond, Oregon a disc-shaped object described as looking like a \"flat aluminum sheet\" soared overhead at tremendous speed. It flashed brightly as it reflected the sunlight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4407",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Newspaper clipping, July 27, 1949; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949 (Volume 2), p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/26/1949",
  "desc" : "At 3:10 p.m. a doctor named Laubach sighted a seven meter diameter disc in Mitchell, Nebraska that whirled across the sky at 6,000 feet altitude, passing through some clouds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4408",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "newspaper clipping dated July 27, 1949; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949 (Volume 2), p. 13; Kenneth Arnold & Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 143" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/26/1952",
  "desc" : "At Andrews AFB, Maryland from midnight until dawn, there were more UFO reports that were a continuation of the extensive sightings and radar tracking reports reported throughout the Washington, D.C. area from the evening before. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4409",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/26/1952",
  "desc" : "At 12:15 a.m. USAF Capt. H. A. Stone and Air Traffic Controllers in the control towers at Fairfax Field and Municipal Airport, Kansas City, Missouri saw a green light with red-orange flashes descend in the northwestern sky for 1 hour. It moved from 40 elevation to 10 elevation. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4410",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/26/1952",
  "desc" : "At Kirtland AFB, New Mexico at 12:05 a.m. Airman 1st Class J. M. Donaldson observed eight to ten orange balls flying very fast for a 3-4 second duration traveling in a triangular or V formation. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4411",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/26/1952",
  "desc" : "In Washington, D.C. on this date, from 8:00 p.m. until after midnight, radar operators at several airports tracked many unidentified blips by radar all over the Washington area, at varying speeds. Airline pilots reported spotting unidentified lights during this period as well. Sharp UFO targets on the ARTC radar at National Airport at 9:08 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. Visual sightings were reported by civilians four times, near Herndon, Virginia and from Maryland. A National Airlines flight near Andrews AFB saw a UFO \"directly over the airliner.\"",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4412",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 69; Richard Hall, Radar-Visual UFO cases in 1952: The UFO Sightings that Shook the Government, p. 11" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/26/1962",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. near Darana, Argentina a 17-year-old motorcyclist saw a weird creature on the side of the road. His cycle would not steer correctly; instead, it drove right up to the creature and stopped. The creature was six feet tall, with a head like a melon and three eyes. It grabbed the youth's scarf, turned around and walked away like a robot, leaving deep tracks in the dirt. The youth saw a white light low in the sky in the direction the creature was walking. He then drove away quickly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4413",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 116, citing Saucer News, December 1962" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/26/1965",
  "desc" : "At 9:35 p.m. three atmospheric astronomers studying noctilucent clouds at the Ogra Observatory, Latvia sighted a bright light in the west. Through a telescope they saw it was a 325 foot in diameter disc-shape with three spheres orbiting it. The UFOs gradually receded, but were seen at an estimated altitude of 60 miles. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4414",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Felix Zigel, Flying Saucers, June 1968, p. 25; APRO Bulletin, November-December 1967,  p. 4; NICAP UFO Investigator, March-April 1968, p. 6; FSR, May-June 1968, p. 28; John Wallace Spencer, World Atlas of UFOs, p. 131; Paul Stonehill, The Soviet UFO Files, p. 111" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/26/1965",
  "desc" : "A teenager, Adilon Azevedo, and others in Carazinho, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil who fled the scene, saw two UFOs at ground level. They were about three meters in diameter, 1.5 meters high, and contained five occupants who wore luminous helmets and spoke among themselves in an unfamiliar language. One of the beings had a bright object in its hand. The witness experienced headaches for five days following the close encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4415",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 112; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 662" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/26/1967",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. a multi-colored elliptical object flew over Seacliff, South Australia making a humming noise. Eighteen hours later, at 11:15 p.m. in Rowley, Massachusetts, R. Ricker witnessed an orange UFO that made a whining sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4416",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/26/1968",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon around 3:00 p.m. two young boys riding their bicycles near the airport in Riviere Du Loup, Quebec stopped by the hangar and sighted a short three-foot tall, gray-skinned humanoid. The humanoid ran away and was joined by a second similar being. Both moved with stiff-legged motion. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4417",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case # 24, citing John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants and Critters" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/26/1972",
  "desc" : "In a continuing series of strange encounters at Cradle Hill in Wiltshire, England Robert Mason and Stephen Barnett had reached a field beyond the copse at 9:15 p.m. while it was still light out. A short while later they both looked back towards a barn and caught sight of a figure, resembling that of a small man or boy, in the clearing just in front of the barn. Upon being noticed the figure dodged out of sight behind the side of the barn. Stephen looked through binoculars to see if the being would pass the line of trees leading back down the road to the gate, but saw nothing. They searched the copse but found no one. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4418",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1972, citing Ken Rogers, The Warminster Triangle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/26/1993",
  "desc" : "On this night a witness in Plymouth, Scotland reported seeing a dark object hovering close to the ground. It had four bright lights on its top and multicolored lights below. It illuminated the ground with a red glow. Several figures were seen moving around, apparently in front of the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4419",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 1552, citing Vivienne Olbison, UFO Magazine (UK), Vol. 12, No. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/26/2001",
  "desc" : "At 9:50 p.m. two witnesses saw a luminous figure walking on the side of the road while driving on the road to Gerena, Sevilla, Spain. It seemed to move clumsily about in an attempt to enter the nearby field. The frightened witnesses accelerated away from the area. They described the figure as about two meters to 2.15 meters in height, strongly build, and robust looking. It emitted a bluish-white light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4420",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2001, citing Jose Manuel Garcia Bautista & Rafael Cabello Herrero" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/26/2004",
  "desc" : "During a power failure in Kerman, California that occurred at 1:20 a.m. Ms. E. B. was looking for a flashlight when the power came back on. Earlier that night around 12:30 a.m. she had seen an unusual light in the sky and now went out to look in the sky where she had seen it. What she saw was a glowing silvery man-like figure that was flying above the neighborhood at a height of 21 to 24 meters. The figure flew at a reasonably fast pace. The moment she saw it she screamed and ran back inside, locking the door behind her, but she continued to watch it through a window. The figure went behind some trees and when it emerged on the other side it shot off towards the north at the speed of a rocket. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4421",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Volume 31, No. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/27/1909",
  "desc" : "At around ten o'clock in the morning a flying object shaped like a boat flew overhead toward the mountains in Lambourne, New Zealand. It dipped, swerved in the sky, and turned back. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4422",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Xenolog, November 1975, p. 12; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 180" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/27/1948",
  "desc" : "At 8:35 a.m. a University of New Mexico scientist in Albuquerque, New Mexico saw a flat metallic disc-shaped object that hung motionless in the sky for ten minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4423",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 54" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/27/1949",
  "desc" : "A cropduster in Puyallup, Washington named Sagmiller saw a disc pass overhead at 9:40 a.m. It reflected the sunlight brilliantly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4424",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 28, 1949" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/27/1952",
  "desc" : "At 12:15 a.m. seven \"good, solid targets\" appeared on radar at National Airport near Washington, D.C. F-94 interceptors were sent from Deleware, but they made no visual contact as the UFOs were gone by the time they arrived. It was noted that there were only minor temperature inversions at the time, and these were not the likely cause of the radar blips. Five minutes later an F-94 pilot made vsual contact with a round UFO. Both the UFO and the F-94 jet were seen on radar flying at the same speed. But when the jet tried to overtake the UFO it disappeared visually and on radar. \"Incredible speed of the object,\" said the pilot. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4425",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, Radar-Visual UFO Cases in 1952: The UFO Sightings that Shook the Government, p. 11 cases 6 & 7; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 17" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/27/1952",
  "desc" : "In Nevada at four o'clock in the morning highway worker Truman Bethurum had finished working the night shift and decided to visit a nearby hilltop called Mormon Mesa because he heard it was a good place to look for seashell fossils. After he parked his truck he used a flashlight to hunt for seashells, but he had no luck finding any, and after searching for an hour or so he returned to the truck and napped awhile. A “mumbling around the truck” awakened him. The mumbling came from eight to ten olive-skinned beings speaking an unintelligible language. All were about 4 feet 8 inches to 5 feet tall. They were not dwarfs but fully developed men. The strange men made no effort to disturb him, although Bethurum said he was afraid to attempt a getaway.<br/><br/> He was still in the truck cab when one man spoke to him in a foreign tongue. Bethurum shook his head, indicating he could not understand. Then the small man said: “You name it.” It was perfect English, recalled Bethurum, who answered: “My God, you can speak English, too?” “We have no trouble with any language,” replied the man. Bethurum then climbed out of the truck and stopped, awestruck. He saw a flying saucer parked about 75 yards away from his truck. It looked like burnished stainless steel. Bethurum shook hands with all the “friendly” men and asked if their captain was around. The spokesman for the group volunteered to escort Bethurum to the captain, and led him toward the parked craft. Meanwhile, Bethurum looked around and saw that the short men were “Latin types,” with complexions “something like Italians.” All were neatly dressed in uniforms similar to those “worn by Greyhound bus drivers.” All had coal black hair and dark eyes. Their skin complexion was perfect and had no wrinkles or blemishes. The spokesman for the group took hold of Bethurum’s right elbow. While holding the arm the man seemed to “have me in his power completely. He gave the impression of great strength.” Soon the group arrived at the ship. Bethurum described it as being metallic. He learned that it measured 300 feet in diameter and was “six yards deep in the center.” A three-foot metal rim with beveled edges surrounded the saucer-shaped craft, and the rim was about two feet thick. The ship had no rudder or stacks. They entered the ship through a large door that Bethurum estimated was 4 ½ feet wide and about 10 to 12 feet long. It was located atop the ship close to the metal rim around the edge. Inside he met the woman captain, Aura Rhanes. He described her as having a “slender” Latin-type face. She wore a “radiant red skirt, black velvet short sleeved blouse and a black beret with red trim.” He went into her lounge and they talked. The woman captain said she was from the planet Clarion, which could not be seen from earth. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4426",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1952-07, citing Truman Bethurum, Aboard a Flying Saucer; John Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 237" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/27/1952",
  "desc" : "At 10:05 a.m. a procession of white saucer-shaped objects was sighted at Selfridge AFB, Michigan. They flew very fast and made no sound. Each passage of UFOs took 30 seconds. First two objects flew over, then one, then another, and then a last one. A Project Blue Book unidentified case. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4427",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1680; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 274" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/27/1952",
  "desc" : "A cigar-shaped object split into seven or eight smaller objects over Manhattan Beach, California at 6:25 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4428",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 68; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, p. 3-012" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/27/1952",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. a dark disc-shaped object moved slowly toward the northeast with an \"oscillating rolling motion\" seen from Andrews AFB, Maryland. Clouds at the time were moving toward the southeast, and the UFO entered the base of the clouds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4429",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 161; Richard Hall, Radar-Visual UFO Cases in 1952: The UFO Sightings that Shook the Government, p. 11 case 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/27/1952",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. in Wichita Falls, Texas two people witnessed two phosphorescent disc-shaped objects flying at 1,000 mph. They were seen for 15 seconds. A Project Blue Book \"unknown.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4430",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #1684; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 274" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/27/1952",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. at a drive-in movie theater in Spokane, Washington twelve UFOs were seen in the skies for 30 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4431",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: July 21st-July 31st, p. 34" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/27/1962",
  "desc" : "One hundred eighty school students and their teachers in Villa Tunuyuan, Mendoza province, Argentina saw three discs pass over their school at 7:45 a.m. heading from the north to the south. The UFOs gave off a bluish light. The teachers said they also emitted blinding silvery flashes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4432",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon Creighton, Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1964, p. 11, citing Antonio Ribera" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/27/1964",
  "desc" : "At 8:50 p.m. an engineer named Daubert saw an aluminum colored sphere with a luminous glowing ring that hovered for 4-5 minutes at 15 meters altitude over a farm in Sherburne, New York. A Project Blue Book unexplained case. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4433",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #8969; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, case 158; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume 2: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 2 & 150" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/27/1964",
  "desc" : "At 8:20 p.m. a witness named Borsa in Denver, Colorado sighted a white fireball, estimated to be the size of a car, that climbed slowly in the sky then sped up. The sighting lasted 2-3 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4434",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #8973; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 51" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/27/1967",
  "desc" : "An elongated oval-shaped UFO, carrying bright white lights fore and aft and a central red light, with a string of smaller white lights flashing in sequence along the side, was sighted by three amateur astronomers at 1:00 a.m. over Newton, New Hampshire. The UFO flashed in exact response to flashlight signals, and evaded a jet that flew over the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4435",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 349" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/27/1967",
  "desc" : "At around 1:00 a.m. a distress call came from a private pilot flying between Alexandria and Leesville, Louisiana that a UFO had approached the side and then the tail of his airplane, forcing the plane to crash. The pilot, badly injured, kept transmitting until he faded out. A Civil Aviation Board report was logged of a crash at Oak Grove, Louisiana earlier (2000 hrs). ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4436",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP files, citing newspaper report in the Shreveport Times, July 28, 1967" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/27/1971",
  "desc" : "The witness was at home in Valcourt, Quebec watching television at 8:30 p.m. when his attention was drawn to the sound of his cows bellowing in a nearby field. The witness and his wife went outside and saw the cows running from the field. They also saw a dark spherical object hovering above the field, with a reddish light shining out of what appeared to be an open door in the object. Three small men who glowed a pale green color were moving around the object. They seem to glide just above the ground in rapid, darting movements. At times the beings seemed to pick something up from the ground. The little men went back inside the object, closing the door behind them. The UFO then rose slowly and disappeared over some nearby trees. The next day a circular spiral was found on the ground, plus a silvery lump of unknown material that was later tested at Laval University. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4437",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1971, case # 1011, citing Francois Bourbeau, Spectra, Quebec" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/27/1973",
  "desc" : "In Lago D'Idro Brescia, Italy a 16-year-old boy found and photographed some strange traces he found in the area. He seemed to have experienced a period of missing time. Under hypnosis he recalled being approached and touched by a human looking figure. He then became confused and felt he had been sucked up inside a hovering object from below. He found himself in a round room where four beings stood. A woman entered the room and the beings began talking and touching the witness. He could not move the entire time. He was then sat in a chair next to a window, and watched as the object descended and landed. He was then released. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4438",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1973, case # 138, citing Paolo Fiorino, UFO Universe, October-November 1991" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/27/1978",
  "desc" : "Three people driving in Sheffield Village, Ohio observed a silver, banana-shaped object with red and blue flashing lights at 10:45 p.m. The engine and headlights of their car went out as the object came close to the ground about 600 feet away. It made a wavering, humming sound and moved up and down near the ground for about 15 minutes, then flew away. The car could not be restarted for an hour and a half after the sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4439",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 421; International UFO Reporter, September 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/27/1984",
  "desc" : "At 3:45 a.m. a spark-tailed fireball splashed down 1000 yards south of Lummi Island in Washington State. The impact sent a plume of water 100 feet into the air before the object sank and the water as the surface of the sea rolled and bubbled. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4440",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Doris Graziano, APRO Bulletin, February 1985, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/27/1993",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. a dozen witnesses at Calabona Beach, Sardinia, Italy sighted a strange object resembling a \"balloon\" flying over the beach. At first it resembled a round black object that hovered, then it changed to an oblong, irregular shape. The witnesses ran closer and saw the object enlarging as it flew away from the area. It now looked like a helicopter with a red pulsating light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4441",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Italian UFO Reporter, October 10, 1996" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/27/1994",
  "desc" : "A young boy ran into his mother's bedroom at 4:00 a.m. in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada and reported seeing a large object with blue lights hovering under the electrical wires outside his bedroom window. He also saw \"little people on the poles.\" He was told by his mother to go back to bed and sleep. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4442",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1994, case # 2754, citing Graham Conway" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/27/2001",
  "desc" : "On this night several witnesses at different locations in Acquappesa, Italy reported seeing a dog rise up into the air from near the ocean and enter a hovering, lighted spherical object. The object had a large lighted window and a tall man-like figure could be seen looking out. It then flew away. The dog was apparently taken. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4443",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2001, citing Leonard Da Vinci Research Group" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/27/2004",
  "desc" : "A truck driver driving south on Interstate 25 in New Mexico reported the night sky was pitch black with no moon nor even cloud cover visible. At 1:30 a.m., driving at 63 mph, he noticed a bright blue light about a half-mile ahead on the exit ramp for south-bound Exit 138. It appeared to be like a blue laser, similar to the light some people use on the hoods of their cars. When he got closer to the ramp he saw two figures approximately 3-4 feet tall. Each was either holding a blue light, or was wearing a blue head lamp. He couldn't tell for sure. The figures appeared to be looking to the north and south, and they looked at his truck as he drove by. They appeared to be wearing loose-fitting bright silver outfits, similar to HAZMAT suits. He couldn't tell if they were wearing helmets. The terrain was very flat and he did not see any vehicles in the area. He was sure that he would have seen any vehicle that they could have come from. He slowed to turn around but the nearest exit was another 30 miles down the highway so he decided not to go back. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4444",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/27/2004",
  "desc" : "While driving home from a dinner party at two o'clock in the morning a married couple in Asland, Massachusetts observed a round silver disc-shaped object about 30 feet in diameter that had landed in an open field off of Chestnut Street. They both got out of their car and approached the disc and when they got close enough they both touched the craft. It was very cold to the touch and it was glowing red to blue. They were able to see inside the craft through a small window and saw three small beings. All appeared to be sleeping or meditating, they did not respond to the witnesses voices. As the couple began to walk around the craft it began to rise up into the air and eventually flew off without making any sound at all. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4445",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/28/1947",
  "desc" : "At 12:10 p.m. a shiny silver disc was seen flying toward the west at a high altitude In Norwood, Manitoba. If left behind puffs of smoke at regular intervals. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4446",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1947 (Volume 5), p. 43" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/28/1947",
  "desc" : "United Airlines flight 105 flying between Mountain Home and Boise, Idaho had a near collision with a flying disc at 10:34 p.m. The cockpit crew members were named Gibian and Harvey. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4447",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Idaho Daily Statesman, July 29, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case 849; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/28/1952",
  "desc" : "There are 20 UFO reports recorded for this day in the UFOCAT computer database. Outside of the continental United States there were sightings in Hawaii, Cuba, and Germany. Four occurred at military air bases and two more involved aircraft encounters with UFOs.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4448",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "7/28/1952",
  "desc" : "At 10:15 p.m. a saucer-shaped object, light metallic in color, flew over Heidelberg, Germany. It gave off shafts of white light, flew slowly, made a 90-degree turn, and climbed away fast. It was in sight for 4.5 minutes. A Project Blue Book \"unknown.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4449",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1700; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: July 21st-July 31st, p. 24; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 274" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/28/1952",
  "desc" : "At around 11 p.m. over Washington, D.C. eight to twelve nocturnal lights flew in various formations making sharp maneuvers, darkening and then becoming brighter again. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4450",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 65; Richard F Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 99" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/28/1956",
  "desc" : "A green flash was seen in the sky over Brentwood, California and something crashed in an orchard there. When the unknown object passed over witnesses reported TV interference. The object gave off green sparks. Traces found in the orchard reportedly included a light metal and cardboard impregnated with \"unknown substances.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4451",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Alexander Mebane, Civilian Saucer Intelligence-New York Newsletter, September 1956, p. 6; Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO News, September 1956, p. 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/28/1962",
  "desc" : "A strange looking submarine-like object was seen at dawn off the coast of Avalon, California. It made no noise and left no wake as it passed by a boat on the surface, and was described as having a very strange structure. Five occupants were seen on board. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4452",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, May 1963, p. 2, citing Los Angeles Times, October 25, 1962" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/28/1964",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. a former Navy pilot named Lafferty and another man, both regarded as trustworthy, were at work in a field near Lake Chelan, Washington when they saw an intense light, cone-shaped, emitted from the ground. A similar light was observed in the sky when the one on the ground was turned off, then the reverse took place: the cone-shaped light in the sky emitted a burst which was responded to by one from the ground. A round, aluminium-looking object, about 10 meters in diameter, with one red and one white light, then appeared and descended to ground level with a strong whistling sound similar to a small jet.<br/><br/> High-pitched piercing voices, similar to those of children screaming while playing, were heard. After 40 minutes the craft took off. Before it did so, a jet aircraft flying at low altitude circled its position. On July 31st and August 1st, the densely wooded area where the light was seen was explored from a helicopter and on foot by Sheriff Nickell and a U. S. Air Force officer, but nothing was found. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4453",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 619, citing U.S. Air Force ATIC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/28/1966",
  "desc" : "A photographer, Mr. Lacoste, and his wife, saw a red lighted object cross the sky in Montsoreau, France and appear to touch the ground. It then rose, hovered, and disappeared. The next day a wheat field was found flattened over a three meter wide area and covered with an oily substance. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4454",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 783" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/28/1968",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. five young people, including Paul Sauve, age 20, and his sisters, Nicole, and Joanne, and Regent Leger and his brother Dennis Leger, saw two circular objects with brilliant red halos over St.-Stanislas-de-Kostka, Quebec, Canada. One of the objects was seen to land about 1,000 feet away. When they went out with a flashlight to investigate they encountered a being about four feet tall, 50 feet away from them, that terrified them so much that they ran back to the house. It had a big head 'imbedded in the shoulders\" without a neck, large round eyes, a flat nose, and a dark brown skin that was \"wrinkled, scabby, and with bumps.\" When caught in the flashlight beam, it lifted a hand, which was very large, black, and rough, \"like the skin of a toad.\" It opened and closed its mouth, then it backed off toward the barn. After they were back in the house, it came up to a window and knocked on the pane, making a mooing sound \"like a cow.\" Later they saw the object take off vertically. A 15-foot circle of crushed grain was found at the landing site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4455",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-51, citing Wido Hoville; Gordon Creighton, FSR, May-June 1969, p. 20" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/28/1968",
  "desc" : "Near midnight a family of four in Upton, Quebec, Canada was awakened by their dog's barking. The father went out to investigate and encountered a sparkling, rotating cloud-like object in the yard that flew over him and went toward a nearby field. The object was dark on the bottom and luminous on top. He then saw cows in the field being chased by four or five, three-foot tall entities with elongated heads. When the object flew over, the humanoids disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4456",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case # 23, citing John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants and Critters" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/28/1971",
  "desc" : "On this night in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada two amateur astronomers reported that a triangle shaped UFO with multicolored lights flew by fast at a high altitude. It then made a 180 degree turn. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4457",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1971, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/28/1975",
  "desc" : "At six o'clock in the morning a radar installation in the mountains of Sierra Aitana, Spain had a close encounter with a dark gray football-shaped UFO. The object was described as the size of a Sabre jet (about 12 meters in length) with well defined edges. It was metallic and appeared to have what looked like rivets. It was first seen at a distance of 150 meters, and moved horizontally toward the witnesses. It made a noise like an electric motor. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4458",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UNICAT database, case 588, citing Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Lanib, July 1986" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/28/1976",
  "desc" : "Fourteen boys and their camp counselor Mr. Leifer, from Camp Delaware, were hiking in the afternoon on Blueberry Mountain, three miles southwest of Winsted, Connecticut. At 3:45 p.m. the group was astonished to see a shiny, metallic domed disc hovering over their heads. It made a high-pitched whine like the feedback from a loudspeaker. They heard a second whine, accompanied by a high-speed vertical ascent, and within a few seconds the UFO had vanished by shooting straight up in the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4459",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, November 1976, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/28/1976",
  "desc" : "Two women school teachers in their forties were attending an educational conference when they looked out the window of their ninth floor hotel room at the Stouffers Waterfront Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri at 10:30 p.m. and saw a 100 foot in diameter disc-shaped craft fly right up to their window, stopping only about 50 feet away. It had a revolving rim of lights like windows around its perimeter. It shot off after a few seconds, making a rapid ascent. It made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4460",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald A. Johnson case files, report dated March 9, 1988" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/28/1978",
  "desc" : "A UFO traveling at 1200 mph was sighted over Two Rivers, Wisconsin at 11:57 p.m. What was described was the silhouette of either a cylinder or a sphere with a series of white, red, green, orange and blue colored lights, with one light at a time flashing from different positions. It flew to the northeast in an erratic flight path. At midnight the same or a similar object was seen and photographed over Two Rivers, Wisconsin and sightings continued in the next early morning hours over Lake Superior and Lake Michigan. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4461",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, August 1979, p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/28/1989",
  "desc" : "A domed disc-shaped object was seen over a high security rocket weapons depot in Kapustin Yar, Astrakhan, Russia at 11:20 p.m. by four military witnesses, including the two main witnesses named Voloshin and Tishchayev. The UFO glowed a phosphorescent green. It circled the depot three times, accelerated and then stopped abruptly. It shot away when a Soviet fighter jet appeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4462",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Stonehill, The Soviet UFO Files, p. 79; Don Berliner, Marie Galbraith, & Antonio Huneeus, (editors), Unidentified Flying Objects Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, p. 103; Dennis Stacy, Field Guide to UFOs, p. 58" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/28/1990",
  "desc" : "A domed disc-shaped object buzzed a car in Thornlands, Queensland, Australia at 9:20 p.m. The driver of the car later developed a case of conjunctivitis of eyes as a result of the encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4463",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Keith Basterfield, UFO Research Queensland; Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 125" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/28/1995",
  "desc" : "A very bright silver disc was seen hovering in the clear sky over Racine, Wisconsin at two o'clock in the afternoon. It was suddenly joined by two more similar looking objects. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4464",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle; Jay Rath, The W-Files: True Reports of Wisconsin's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 81" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/28/1995",
  "desc" : "A pear shaped UFO was seen zigzagging over Rome, Italy at 11:50 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4465",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "SOS-OVNI France, Phenomena magazine, issue #28" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/28/2002",
  "desc" : "Three girls in Tahmoor, Queensland, Australia had decided to visit their rooftop as they had done the prior evening to watch for satellites. It was around 5:30 p.m. and dusk and the girls had a good vantage point looking towards the east. They had a pair of binoculars and a pair of walkie-talkies with them. The girls first noticed that a large orange light appeared approximately 15 degrees above the eastern horizon. The light had fluctuating colors of orange, yellow, white and pale blue. At fist they thought it was an arriving airplane, but then a second light appeared approximately 50 degrees south of the first anomaly, and about 10 degrees above the horizon. This much smaller anomaly began to perform some unusual maneuvers. From a stationary position it accelerated within a second to 5 degrees closer to the ground. The first light then began to move slowly north. They lost sight of it as it moved behind a tree. Then a third anomaly appeared in a valley. This third object appeared to have landed on the ground. The object was viewed through the binoculars and was described as a gray saucer with interchanging colors of green, red/orange, blue/purple and white rotating around the rim.<br/><br/> They were suddenly distracted by someone on their walkie-talkie saying, \"Identify yourself.\" This was followed by some unusual voices communicating in an unknown language. Around 6:30 p.m. the girls were called down to have dinner, but at 8:30 p.m. they had gone back up on the roof after dinner. To their surprise, the third ground-based object was still there. Unexpectedly, a yellow beam of light ascended a few meters above the object and suddenly deviated its course towards the three girls. \"It was like an orange, yellowy bright light shining on us from far away.\" The light shone on them for a period of about half a minute. At this point, it was not clear how it happened, but one of the girls ended up on the ground. She became extremely hysterical and ran inside. The other two girls quickly followed her. That evening all three girls had stomach pains. One of them could not sleep and did not go to school the next day. Another one of the girls woke up the next morning with a nose bleed, and she mentioned that she had seen a strange small human like figure in her bedroom. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4466",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2002, citing The Australian UFO Research Network" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/28/2002",
  "desc" : "At 3:10 a.m. in a wooded area of Sedona, Arizona the witness saw what appeared to be a figure glowing all white, with black \"straight\" eyes, and with a black diagonal/diamond strip of \"clothing\" on top of its head. The man stood staring at the figure for 20 seconds and then left the area. Prior to seeing the figure, he had seen lights in a large oval shaped pattern in the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4467",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, July 2002 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/28/2003",
  "desc" : "In Wycliffe, British Columbia a silent, low flying, slow moving spherical object flew over the highway at 12:45 a.m. and it lit up the ground with a beam of light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4468",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, UFO Research Manitoba, 2003 Canadian UFO Survey datbase, case 317" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/29/1947",
  "desc" : "Hamilton Air Base, California At 2:50 p.m. PDT the Assistant Base Operations Officer, Capt. William Rhyerd, and Ward Steward, an ex-B-29 pilot, watched for unknown length of time while two round, shiny, white objects with estimated 15-25 foot diameters, flew 3-4 times the apparent speed of a P-80, also in sight. One object flew straight and level; the other weaved from side-to-side like an escort fighter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4469",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/29/1948",
  "desc" : "James Toney and Robert Huggins, both employees of a rug cleaning firm in Indianapolis, Indiana saw a shiny aluminum object, shaped something like an airplane's propeller, with 10-12 small cups protruding from either blade, at 9:38 a.m. Its estimated size was 6-8 feet long and 1.5-2 feet wide. The object glided across the road a few hundred feet in front of their vehicle and apparently came down in a wooded area. The sighting lasted a few seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4470",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case no. 185; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/29/1952",
  "desc" : "There are 39 unexplained UFO reports recorded in the UFOCAT database for this day. Most are lacking any detail and so fall into the category of \"insufficient information.\" All but five come from the United States.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4471",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "7/29/1952",
  "desc" : "At 1:30 a.m. radar operators on the ground in Osceola, Wisconsin witnessed several clusters of up to 10 small radar targets and one large target. The small targets moved from southwest to east at 50-60 knots (60-70 mph), following each other. The large object moved at 600 knots (700 mph). One hour total time. The pilot of a F-51 Mustang in flight confirmed a visual sighting of one of the targets. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4472",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Condon Committee investigation files; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/29/1952",
  "desc" : "Sidney Eubank went to the Enid, Oklahoma police station and told Sergeant Vern Bennell that an enormous disc had buzzed his car as he drove between Bison and Waukonis on Highway 81. The rush of air made the car leave the road while the object flew west very fast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4473",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP investigation files, reported dated July 30, 1952; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 134; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 199" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/29/1952",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 p.m. USAF personnel near Ennis, Montana were alerted that UFOs were coming from the direction of Seattle, Washington and headed toward their position. Twelve of them saw two to five flat disc-shaped objects fly over. One hovered for 3-4 minutes, while the others circled it. The sighting lasted 30 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4474",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case no. 1747; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/29/1952",
  "desc" : "Langley AFB, Virginia. At 2:30 p.m. USAF Captain D.G. Moore, of military air traffic control, sighted a UFO coming toward the air base that flew at an estimated speed of 2,600 mph below an altitude of 5,000 feet. It was in sight for two minutes. Twenty minutes later Captain Moore and electronics technician W. Y. Hope tracked a UFO on radar moving away. The object stopped for two minutes, then moved away again very, very fast. Total duration four minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4475",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Kevin Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol; p. 275; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/29/1952",
  "desc" : "At 3:44 Herbert Mitchell and his employee in Merced, California sighted a dark, discus-shaped object, trailed two lengths behind by a silvery light. It tipped on its side, dove, hesitated, and then circled very fast. They watched it for two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4476",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case no. 1738; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/29/1952",
  "desc" : "In Wichita, Kansas at 12:35 p.m. USAF shop employees Douglas and Hess saw a bright white circular craft with a flat bottom at the Municipal Airport. The object flew very fast, and then hovered 10-15 seconds over the Cessna Aircraft Co. plant. Their sighting lasted five minute sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4477",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case no. 1739; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/29/1955",
  "desc" : "In Columbus, Nebraska at 10:45 p.m.Morrice Raymond watched four orange flashing lights and one whIte flashing light move up and down like yo-yos for 5-6 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4478",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/29/1957",
  "desc" : "Flight CAL 841 over Cleveland, Ohio at 10:31 p.m. Capital Airlines Captain R. L. Stimley and First Officer F. J. Downing sighted a large, round, yellow-white object that dimmed once, and then crossed the bow of their airliner. They gave chase but were unable to catch it. Their sighting last eight minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4479",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case no. 4847; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/29/1957",
  "desc" : "In Oldsmar, Florida at 11:45 a.m. witness E. E. Henkins observed a pale yellow fireball glide into the water and explode. It was viewed for approximately one minute. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4480",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case no. 4848; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/29/1962",
  "desc" : "Mr. and Mrs. M.O. Barton of Ocean Springs, Mississippi saw a bright cherry-red, diamond-shaped object at 11:20 p.m. that flew slowly, hovered, and then made fast half-loops for ten minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4481",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/29/1965",
  "desc" : "At 4:20 a.m. a washtub-shaped object flew over North Weymouth, Massachusetts performing irregular maneuvers. It was watched through binoculars and glowed orange, red and silver. At one point during the sighting two smaller silver objects criss-crossed over top of it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4482",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 333" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/29/1965",
  "desc" : "Alain Bressol of Grouzies, France observed a large, disc-shaped object in a field near Monsempron-Libos. It flew away at high speed toward the south. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4483",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 78; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 311 case 663" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/29/1968",
  "desc" : "Four people driving in La Atalaya, Argentina at 3:15 at night saw an object that looked like an upside down washbasin. It was 30-40 feet wide and glowing on the underside. As it flew low over the road, the headlights and engine of the witnesses' car failed. After the object had landed about 250 meters from the car, the headlights came back on. The object remained on the ground for 45 minutes while the motorists watched. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4484",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 244, citing FSR Case Histories, Supplement No. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/29/1968",
  "desc" : "Two witnesses at 1:30 a.m. saw a snow-white glowing object apparently land near a deserted grass airport in Barnstable, Massachusetts on Cape Cod. When they drove past the area, a sound like a large swarm of locusts was heard emanating from the field. The airfield had closed at sunset. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4485",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 354" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/29/1970",
  "desc" : "At 3:00 a.m. an unknown craft emerged from the ocean along the coast of Alcocebre, Spain and loses itself in the sky. A cylinder that had been discovered on the ocean bottom the previous day had gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4486",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR Case Histories, August 1971, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/29/1970",
  "desc" : "In Old Forge, New York several people noticed an ovoid, metallic, and fairly large object which began following their car at 10:25 p.m. While it followed, the car radio was inoperative due to heavy static. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4487",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 292, citing UFOLOG, No. 83, 1971" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/29/1971",
  "desc" : "A green metallic object, self-luminous but also apparently reflecting sunlight, was seen in the sky over Nedlands near Perth, Western Australia at 9:50 a.m.. It left behind a trail. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4488",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Data-Net Report, January 1972" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/29/1972",
  "desc" : "A silent disc-shaped object rose from behind some trees at night in Tyler, Texas. It had red, green, and blue lights on the underside. It maneuvered at a low altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4489",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Glenn McWane, The New UFO Sightings, p 46" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/29/1973",
  "desc" : "Two witnesses were driving near Ottawa, Ontario at around 9 p.m. when they noticed a bright globe of light descend and pass near them. They could see three humanoid figures through three oblong shaped portholes. The object then flew over the car and left. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4490",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1973, case # 14, citing John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants and Critters" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/29/1978",
  "desc" : "At 12:25 a.m. the Green Bay, Wisconsin lighthouse keeper reported that he had seen a UFO heading westbound at high rate of speed. It had an irregularly flashing white light and red lights. At 2:40 a.m. a U.S. Coast Guard craft near Apostle Island, Wisconsin on Lake Superior saw a large, yellow-white oblong object. There were five separate sightings reported of the object. Witnesses also reportedly saw the Aurora Borealis and several meteors. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4491",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, August 1979, p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/29/1978",
  "desc" : "On this day in 1978 a 15-year-old boy and his grandfather spied an eight-foot tall hairy creature by the river in Little River, Texas. They were working in a nearby field when they saw the Bigfoot-like creature. It left footprints 14\" long and 9\" wide. A Sheriff measured the footprints left behind. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4492",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, September 1978, p. 17" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/29/1986",
  "desc" : "At 11:50 p.m. a very bright nocturnal light was reported over the lake at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. A larger object was seen hovering over the light, and a cloud. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4493",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Gribble, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, case 1179" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/29/1990",
  "desc" : "At two o'clock in the morning a man woke up in his bedroom in Columbus, Ohio to find a small humanoid standing in the bedroom. He could only recall having his tooth drilled and an \"implant\" possibly having been inserted. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4494",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1990, case # 1851, citing Francis J. Ridge, Regional Encounters: The Filter Center Files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/29/1990",
  "desc" : "At 4:30 a.m. in Ottawa, Ontario a woman--whose roommate had witnessed a large light maneuvering over the area on July 1--woke up in her 16th floor apartment to see a 4-foot tall being in the bedroom. A dim light illuminated the being, which the witness described as small in stature and dark gray in color. His head was bend down as if adjusting something on his chest. He had a child-like body. Behind his head was a fog-like mist. The being wore a smooth suit with a square buckle on the front of a larger belt-buckle. Shiny neon like light shone from the buckle, which changed color to blue, the inside to the buckle was black. The witness was not afraid and went back to sleep. Ten minutes later she saw the being again standing about 10 feet away from her. She then fell back to sleep again and did not see the being depart. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4495",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, July 1990 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/29/2001",
  "desc" : "At three a.m. an object larger than 10 meters in diameter was seen on the grounds of the local football field in Quedas do Iguacu, Parana, Brazil. The two witnesses including Rubem Bastos de Brito reported seeing several short bizarre creaturesmoving around the object. After about 20 minutes the object shot away into the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4496",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2001, citing Thiago Luiz Ticchetti, EBE-ET" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/30/1909",
  "desc" : "At 3:00 a.m. several farmers in Greendale, New Zealand heard a rumbling sound. Horses out to pasture were spooked by an airship that flew low overhead. It had lights in the front and rear. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4497",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, Issue 181" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/30/1909",
  "desc" : "At 5:00 a.m. in the Waikaia Valley north of Gore, New Zealand two men witnessed a shell-shaped domed disc descend through the mist with a wobbling motion. Two human appearing occupants could be seen inside the clear dome. It circled, it ascended upwards, and flew off toward Otakarama. It had a yellow glow. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4498",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Xenolog, December 1975, p. 12; Paul Norman, FSR, April 1977, p. 15; Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/30/1947",
  "desc" : "Mr. Ostrom, a 66-year-old man driving an Army truck on Route 95 one mile north of Tamarack, Idaho a 4:00 p.m. when he saw a silver sphere approach and hit the roof of his truck, and then bounce off. At the point of contact a small surface area of the metal roof, about the size of a silver dollar, had melted. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4499",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Kenneth Arnold & Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 168; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case 853" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/30/1950",
  "desc" : "USAF jets were scrambled to chase a disc-shaped UFO seen over the Hanford Atomic Energy Commission plant in Washington State. The object was tracked on radar. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4500",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald E. Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, p. 4; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a cover-up 1941-1973, p. 399" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/30/1950",
  "desc" : "A ten-foot long long glowing cylinder appeared to explode when it flew into the propeller of DC-3 over Williamsville, Illinois. There was no damage to the aircraft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4501",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 80" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/30/1952",
  "desc" : "At ten o'clock in the morning a white round object was seen flying slowly over San Antonio, Texas. After 20-30 minutes it sped away. A Project Blue Book unexplained case. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4502",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1758; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: July 21st-July 31st, p. 64; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 276" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/30/1957",
  "desc" : "In Galt, Ontario at 10:30 a.m. a young man named Galt witnessed a silvery disc-shaped object descend close to ground near a power transmission station. It made a humming sound, and flames came from underneath the object. Dogs reacted by barking furiously. At the landing site the ground and vegetation were burned and charred. Large claw-like impressions were also found. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4503",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 51" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/30/1962",
  "desc" : "On this day near Cruz Alta, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil on the road to Pasnembi two men, Sr. Lombero and Sr. Garoup, were driving down the road to Pasnembi when their car engine stalled. By the side of the road was a 40 meter long (130 foot) oval-shaped object, \"resembling a great bottle with two necks, one at each end.\" Two human-looking men stood at each end of the object, exchanging light signals. After ten minutes they got into the object and it took off at great speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4504",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0533, citing Flying Saucer Review, November-December 1962, p. 25; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 538; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 19" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/30/1965",
  "desc" : "At five o'clock in the afternoon the two McClintock children, attracted by the barking of a dog, saw a luminous disc-shaped object resting on tripod landing gear, and observed it for one hour. The landing occurred in Goonumbla, New South Wales, Australia eight kilometers away from the radio telescope located there. The disc had rods protruding from the top and bottom. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4505",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 665" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/30/1965",
  "desc" : "Hundreds of people from Puerto Monte, Chile in two separate locations observed an unidentified flying object that landed for five minutes. It emitted a blinding purple light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4506",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 666" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/30/1976",
  "desc" : "On a clear evening shortly after 9:00 p.m. two very large, brown cigar or \"sausage\" shaped UFOs were sighted from a British Airways Trident II airliner near the Portuguese Coast, 64 kilometers south of Lisbon, Portugal. The UFOs were seen by three crew members as well as picked up on radar. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4507",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John Wallace Spencer, World Atlas of UFOs, p. 106; Omar Fowler, FSR, November 1976, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/30/1978",
  "desc" : "In Norway on a farm between the towns of Hageltjern and Hageland in Hordaland province a small disc, described as a 0.4 meter in diameter extremely bright circular object, landed at 1:00 a.m. and scorched the earth and vegetation. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4508",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, February 1980" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/30/1982",
  "desc" : "At 10:10 p.m. a small glowing, transparent figure was seen among the branches of a tree on the property of a nearby house in Mendoza, Argentina. It was dressed in a robe, had a very small head and a triangular shaped body. There was a sizzling sound and the smell of smoke, and the being faded away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4509",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1982, case # 1167, citing Gray Barker" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/30/1984",
  "desc" : "In Leslie, South Carolina a 18 meter long silver cigar-shaped object followed a fence line in a pasture at around 9:00 p.m., making a light whirring noise. It had lights on the side. Traces were found on the ground in the pasture. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4510",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Doris Graziano, APRO Bulletin, February 1985, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/30/1986",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. two discs flew slowly overhead in Bangor, California making a soft high-pitched sound. They first flew north to south, then turned and sped off to the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4511",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14407; Bob Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, case # 1138" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/30/1990",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m.  a glowing ovoid landed in Ferrere, Piedmonte, Italy radiating four beams of energy, and left a large circular ring on the grass. The incident lasted 15 minutes, and there was an independent witness. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4512",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15223, citing CISU" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/30/1993",
  "desc" : "A truck driver in West Winfield, New York saw a cylindrical object hovering over a field at 3:00 a.m. Complex crop circles were found later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4513",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, October 1993" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/30/1998",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. a man driving in a car in Ernfold, Saskachewan, Canada saw a silver topped disc fly by heading fast to the south. It had a gray bottom and was silent. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4514",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 18059, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Volume 3, Number 32" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/30/2002",
  "desc" : "At 12:04 a.m. a cylindrical craft with faint lights on both ends zigzagged through the sky over York, Pennsylvania, speeding off and disappearing in about one minute. Beginning at 12:20 a.m. an unexplained triangular object was seen darting around and pinwheeling about in the night sky for two hours over Marstons Mills, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4515",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, July 2002 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/30/2008",
  "desc" : "A bright white light turned to red as it sped up, slowed down, and zigzagged across the sky in New London, Minnesota at 11:43 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4516",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, July 2008 webpage, report uploaded August 12, 2008" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/31/1909",
  "desc" : "In Greenvale, New Zealand a farmhand saw an \"airship\" about 150-feet long at dawn. It had a light at each end, and made a strange whirring noise that frightened the horses. A flying fuselage-shaped airship flew over Dunedin, New Zealand later that morning. A brilliant light shone from atop a mast antenna. That afternoon a dark, fat, cigar-shaped object flew over the hills around Fairfax, New Zealand. It had a box-shaped cabin on the bottom, center, and it flew on towards the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4517",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 7, citing Matsura Ensign, August 1, 1909; Xenolog, December 1975, p. 14; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 181" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/31/1948",
  "desc" : "In Indianapolis, Indiana at 8:25 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Swigert sighted a UFO shaped like a cymbal, or domed disc; about 20 feet in diameter and 6-8 feet thick. It was white without any shine. It flew straight and level from horizon to horizon in about 10 seconds, shimmering in the sun as if spinning. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4518",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1958, p. 24; UNICAT, case # 632, citing Project Blue Book Special Report # 14, p. 84; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/31/1948",
  "desc" : "On that evening a 30-foot in diameter disc-shaped object with a transparent center flew slowly and silently over Columbus, Ohio. There were separate, independent witnesses, including one named Geshorn. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4519",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 98" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/31/1953",
  "desc" : "A metallic object 30 meters in diameter was observed by five Polish and two German workers as it landed in a field close to a railway in Woolen, Poland. It was shaped like a sphere with a flat disk around it, showing numerous openings at the periphery. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4520",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 105; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 203, citing Intelligence Digest, November 1953" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/31/1954",
  "desc" : "On this day in Durban, Natal province, South Africa a good photograph was taken of a gray elliptical object that moved slowly back and forth over some trees. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4521",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, Volume 6, p. 41, citing Outspan, December 1954, p. 3; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: June-August, p. 61" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/31/1960",
  "desc" : "At 5:00 p.m.  in Nashville, Ohio a very bright cigar-shaped object passed by slowly. Its light was so intense it caused eye irritation for the two witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4522",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, July 1960; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers magazine, September 1962, p. 36" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/31/1965",
  "desc" : "A woman driving in a car near Belluco, Chile saw an object on the road. It took off, then landed again in Belluco where it was seen by several people. The object emitted a bright, purple light and a green beam. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4523",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 666" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/31/1965",
  "desc" : "In Wynnewood, Oklahoma a UFO was tracked on U.S. Air Force and Weather Bureau radar shortly after 1:00 a.m. There were numerous police sightings of a multicolored object flashing different colors for 45 minutes. It finally moved off to the south. It was picked up on radars at Tinker and Carswell Air Force Bases. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4524",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, January-February 1966; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space; p. 237; John G. Fuller, Incident at Exeter, p. 41; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence: Volume II. A Thirty-Year Report, p. 242" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/31/1965",
  "desc" : "In Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada two five-foot long cylinders connected by cross-bars landed at 4:30 p.m. A five foot tall humanoid being was seen outside the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4525",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A2070, citing John Brent Musgrave" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/31/1965",
  "desc" : "A glowing object was seen in the sky with three leg-like protrusions over Goonumbla, New South Wales, Australia. It scared farm dogs in the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4526",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 88" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/31/1966",
  "desc" : "At Presque Isle State Park near Erie, Pennsylvania at around 8:25 p.m. EDT Douglas Tibbetts, age 16, Betty Klem, 16, Anita Haifley, 22, and Gerald Labelle, 29 were enjoying the evening at the swimming beach on Lake Erie when they saw a square or hexagonal object with lit edges come tumbling down out of the sky from right to left. It stopped 5-10 feet above the beach, and then came down heavily onto the sand. It had a circle of spotlights at the top that were visible when it was on the ground. A strange being, 1.80 meters tall, was briefly seen. The sighting lasted five minutes. Ground marks were found in the sand. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4527",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case 784" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/31/1967",
  "desc" : "At 10:15 p.m. a guard, Sidney Zipkin, age 50, was driving through a large parking lot in Churchville, New York when his truck headlights fell upon a cigar-shaped object, 16 meters long, with green lights under it, landed on the pavement. He stopped his truck within 30 meters of the object with the truck's headlights aimed at it. The craft had a spherical central body with side extensions tipped with green lights, and he was surprised to see two 3-foot-tall dwarf beings dressed in shiny black uniforms rush by his vehicle and enter the craft, which took off straight up with a hissing sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4528",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP case files, report dated August 3, 1967; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 860; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume 2: A Thirty Year Report, p. 473" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/31/1968",
  "desc" : "Mr. Luce Fontaine, age 31, a farmer on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean, was picking some grass for his rabbits at around 9:00 a.m. when he saw an object 5 meters in diameter like two metallic saucers put face to face, standing on a \"glass foot\" like a goblet. It was only 25 meters away. On its top it bore another such \"foot.\" It was dark blue but had a large central window, through which could be seen two small individuals, only 3 feet tall, dressed from head to foot in bulky coveralls, something like the Michelin \"tire man.\" Both wore helmets that partially masked their faces. They turned their backs and there was a brilliant flash of light, and a sensation of heat with a blast of wind. A few seconds later nothing was to be seen. There was a local police investigation. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4529",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-52, citing FSR; Flying Saucer Review, January-February 1969, p. 8; Phenomenes Spatiaux, March 1969, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 917" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/31/1968",
  "desc" : "In Grafton, West Virginia at 10:15 p.m. a man and a woman saw a silver disc-shaped UFO that hovered for 60 minutes or more, making a beeping sound. It had dark spots on the side that looked like portholes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4530",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, April 1969, p. 23" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/31/1969",
  "desc" : "In Usovo, near Moscow, Russia all cars in the area stalled when two silver discs flew over them at around 8:00 p.m. It took two minutes before they could be restarted. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4531",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 47; MUFON UFO Journal, May 1978, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/31/1972",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. a power outage was experienced by thousands in Mage, Espirito Santo, Brazil during which battery powered radios would not work. Many discs and nocturnal lights were seen all over the sky for the next three minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4532",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "O Dia, August 1, 1972; Phenomenes Spatiaux, September 1972, p. 9; Gordon Creighton, FSR, September-October 1972, p. 26" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/31/1972",
  "desc" : "In Beloeil, Quebec, Canada four witnesses watched a cigar-shaped object move to the east at 9:50 p.m. EDT, then wobble overhead. A Saturn-shaped saucer appeared beneath it, and shot off to the south very fast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4533",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Wido Hoville case files, case # A17; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 126" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/31/1972",
  "desc" : "Less than an hour later, at 9:40 p.m. CDT four people in Belleville, Illinois observed a yellow discoid, 50-60 feet in diameter, at 300 feet altitude while driving. It had large square windows in the bottom of the craft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4534",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Belleville (IL) New Democrat, August 1, 1972; MUFON case files, report form dated August 15, 1972; Jay Rath, The I-Files: True Reports of Unexplained Phenomena in Illinois, p. 50" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/31/1973",
  "desc" : "A cigar-shaped object with three smaller satellite objects was sighted for four hours in Hogsby, Kalmar, Sweden starting at 10:30 p.m. There were four witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4535",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Swedish author BJT, p. 184" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/31/1975",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 a.m. in Loxton, Northern Cape, South Aftrica Mr. Van Graan saw an aluminum or silver colored oval-shaped object on the ground. Inside the craft were four beings. They were small, pale, fair haired, with slanted almond eyes and high cheekbones. They wore light coveralls with hoods. A light beam hit him in the face, causing eye trouble and a nose bleed. The UFO took off with a loud whine. Five equidistant leg marks were left in ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4536",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Cynthia Hind, UFOs--African Encounters, p. 1; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1406, citing Rapport; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume 2: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 490-493; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 11336, citing Cynthia Hind" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/31/1976",
  "desc" : "Debbie Focken was working at a convenience store and gas station sometime after 11:00 p.m. in Council Bluffs, Iowa when she had a close encounter with an oblong UFO that had lit windows, but no other features. Electromagnetic effects included damage of the CB radio and burglar alarm. The UFO hung in the air, 100 feet over the service station in an urban part of the city for several minutes, and illuminated the surrounding area. An adding machine, the cash register, and a vending machine were all damaged by some kind of field effect from the UFO.  ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4537",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ralph C. DeGraw, International UFO Reporter, December 1976, p. 13; UNICAT, case # 226" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/31/1977",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. a three-meter in diameter luminous disc-shaped object maneuvered over the city of Motta San Giovanni, Sicilia, Italy. The city experienced a power outage for five minutes, until it went away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4538",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Maurizio Verga, ITACAT" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/31/1980",
  "desc" : "A red light moved over a motorcycle in Ayamonte, Huelva province, Spain at 1:15 a.m. and when the UFO came to within 1.5 meters over top of the motorcycle the engine died and was impossible to restart. The object then moved over a concrete platform on the right side of the road, near the bank of a river, and then at last dove at the motorcyclist before leaving. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4539",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Luis R.Gonzalez Manso, UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1981, p. 14, Correo Andalusia, August 1, 1980" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/31/1981",
  "desc" : "At 8:40 p.m. a black object, covered by \"fog\", accompanied by two satellite lights which operated independently, flew over the stern of a boat on a lake near Cape Vaaraniemi, Lieksa, Finland and was watched by two witnesses. One man, age 35, felt paralyzed and couldn't move his body or his head, but could talk. Seven hours of missing time followed. After effects included intense nightmares and disruption of balance. Hypnosis was unsuccessful in revealing any additional details. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4540",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, December 1981, p. 10; APRO Bulletin, February 1982, p. 1; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions:  The Measure of a Mystery.  Volume 2: Catalogue of Cases, case 55; Jenny Randles, Time Storms: Amazing Evidence for Time Warps, Space Rifts, and Time Travel, p. 16; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume 2: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 271, 416" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/31/1982",
  "desc" : "In the middle of the day six unidentified spheres flew over Red Square, the center of power for the Soviet Union, in Moscow, Russia.  ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4541",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 201" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/31/1986",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. a huge bright light came at a lady in a pickup truck in her driveway in Richmond, Indiana. It zoomed in, and then stopped directly in front of the truck, staying there for several seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4542",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 96" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/31/1987",
  "desc" : "Two men riding motorcycles at 11:30 p.m. in Terre Haute, Indiana saw a flying pyramid-shaped object, and they followed it for awhile but then lost sight of it. However, they came to an automobile that was stopped by the side of the road, and the car's occupants were acting strangely. In a daze, all four occupants got out of their car and walked a mile from that point. The men strongly suspected that the UFO was responsible for their odd behavior. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4543",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 109" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/31/1992",
  "desc" : "Walking on a footpath in Port Pirie, South Australia at 3:10 a.m., a 51-year-old milkman turned around to see a blue-green cigar-shaped UFO behind him to the southeast at a height of only sixty to a hundred meters altitude. It was huge, with an angular size of 20 degrees. It had three amber lights on the left side and pulsating lights. There was no wind at the time, and full cloud cover. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4544",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Keith Basterfield, UFO Research South Australia case files, case # SA92029" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/31/1993",
  "desc" : "A man riding his motorcycle near Orihuela, Alicante, Spain around midnight noticed a tall dark human figure standing next to a light pole. The figure seemed to be staring at him. The witness rode away at high speed but then noticed that the figure was now running after him at very high speed also, still staring at him. The figure then disappeared and a bright white sphere appeared and followed the witness briefly before leaving. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4545",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 1240, citing Año Cero, January 1994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/31/1995",
  "desc" : "At 8:15 p.m. a Boeing 727 airliner narrowly missed a UFO that darted into its path, then flew along beside it as it made a landing approach to San Carlos de Bariloche airport, Rio Negro province, Argentina. The object was estimated to be the same size as the 727, and was shaped like an inverted flying saucer. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4546",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael D. Hall, UFOs: A Century of Sightings, p. 332; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 333; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 47" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/31/1995",
  "desc" : "At 11:45 p.m. in Morris Plains, New Jersey three cops and two civilian witnesses saw a very bright flying wing with colored \"bubbles\" on the exterior. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4547",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17341, citing National UFO Reporting Center" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/31/2000",
  "desc" : "In Bairoa, Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico a woman was awakened around 5:00 a.m. when she heard noises coming from her neighbor's backyard. The noise of something falling on the ground. Her dog began barking inceasantly. She decided to get up and look outside, and when she looked out the window she was startled to see a strange creature standing with its back to her, only 15 feet away. It was white in color with wrinkled skin and had an egg-shaped head with large elongated white eyes with black centers. It had elongated ears, arms, and legs. It appeared to be unclothed. Its hands were in a praying position and its body and head jerked around as if it had no control over them. After watching for a few minutes the witness made a sudden noise, causing the creature to turn around halfway and gaze at her. This caused her to involuntarily close her eyes and step back. She rubbed her eyes repeatedly and was finally able to open them again. Frightened, she called additional household members but by the time they arrived the creature was gone. Two days after later the witness noticed a green light illuminating her room. No one was able to identify the source of the light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4548",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 3480, citing Lucy Guzman, Inexplicata" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/31/2004",
  "desc" : "A witness named Deakin witnessed a black pipe-like object in the sky over Hollingworth, England at 5:30 p.m. It stayed in a vertical position, hovering or floating as if being blown gently by the wind. It was viewed through binoculars. Later, at 10:45 p.m. in Shepton Mallet, Somerset County, England three very strange looking, bright orange objects were reported in the sky to the British Ministry of Defense. They were described as quite large and going in an upward direction. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4549",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Australasian Ufologist, October 2004, p. 35; British Ministry of Defense, case 2004-57" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/31/2004",
  "desc" : "At 11:38 p.m. a large disc-shaped object emitting a bright light and a buzzing sound at intervals was sighted and photographed over Yamuna Nagar, Haryana State, India. Stationary at first, the UFO flew off to the south at high speed. It was witnessed by a man at a petrol service station along with five employees. He took one photo of it with a Nokia 6230 digital phone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4550",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 52" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/31/2007",
  "desc" : "A witness in Kars, Ottawa, Ontario reported being woken up by his dog barking at 12:52 a.m. He was going to shut him up, looked out window to see what he was barking at, and was shocked to see a large, well lit disc-shaped UFO hovering in the sky. Another disc-shaped UFO was sighted in Jamaica, Queens, New York at 2:45 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4551",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, report uploaded August 8, 2007" ]
},
{
  "date" : "7/31/2010",
  "desc" : "The night sky in Albuquerque, New Mexico turned white at 4:15 a.m. when a cigar-shaped object appeared in the sky in the middle of a circle of light. The sighting lasted 15 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4552",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, report uploaded August 24, 2010" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/1/1946",
  "desc" : "At 6:00 p.m. three military witnesses including the pilot named Puckett, flying in a twin engine C-47 transport 40 miles north of Tampa, Florida at 4,000 feet altitude, sighted a cylinder-shaped UFO with luminous portholes that flew in front of the plane. The cylinder was about twice the size of a B-29, and approached to within 1,000 yards. It covered 75 miles in three minutes and appeared on a collision course with the aircraft. The stream of fiery exhaust from the craft was about half the length of the unknown object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4553",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP files, report dated July 24, 1957; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, p. 102; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 23; UNICAT, case # 669" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/1/1947",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. three dark metallic domed discs flew over the mountains of Areches, Savoie, France heading east-northeast. They made no sound, and had rotating rims. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4554",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Phenomenes Spatiaux, June 1968" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/1/1948",
  "desc" : "On this morning everyone on a Air France airliner flying over the South China Sea from Hong Kong to Saigon, Vietnam saw a huge metallic cigar-shaped object flying south, and then make a 90-degree turn into the clouds. Later that day at Clark Field in the Philippines American military observers also sighted a wingless cigar-shaped object with a row of lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4555",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 54; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers are Real, p. 72" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/1/1949",
  "desc" : "In Tampico, Mexico in the State of Veracruz a torpedo-shaped UFO zipped over the countryside. It was described as looking like a \"4th of July sparkler.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4556",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. Volume 2: 1949, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/1/1951",
  "desc" : "Three witnesses including police from Beausoleil, France in the Alpes-Maritime viewed a transparent bubble in the sky at nine o'clock in the evening. Two human-looking occupants of the transparent sphere watched the street and the crowd below. The bubble flew off towards the north-northeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4557",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 175" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/1/1952",
  "desc" : "At 1:14 a.m. two brilliant red lights hovered together and maneuvered for five minutes over Lancaster, California. Witnesses included sheriff deputies. One light swung in a pendulum motion, the other shot off to the southeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4558",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #1771" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/1/1952",
  "desc" : "At ten o'clock in the morning in Afton, New York UFOs first appeared near the position of the Sun and then dispersed across the sky. Scattered disc-shaped objects were seen in the skies for the next two hours. At 10:10 a.m. a large group of UFOs described as looking like \"70 white ping pong balls\" passed across the sky in Sidney, New York flying from the southwest to the northeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4559",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Tiffany Thayer, Doubt, 1953, p. 206; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: August, p. 17; and UFOs: A History. 1952: November-December, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/1/1955",
  "desc" : "Joseph Whaley, age 20, was cutting the grass along Highway 118 in Bronwood, Georgia when he saw a six-foot “gorilla” come running towards him. It was covered with shaggy gray hair and had tusk like teeth, and it grunted like a pig. Whaley struck at it with his scythe and then ran to this jeep, but it pursued him and clawed at him, ripping his shirt and scratching his shoulder. It moved “in a lumbering and slow moving” manner. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4560",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Atlanta Constitution, August 3, 1955; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1955-14 (A0376)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/1/1955",
  "desc" : "Mr. Sheneman had just driven home from Willoughby, Ohio and was preparing to go into his house at around 9:00 p.m. He got out of his car and saw a circular object with a red light on it. The UFO came down fast, hovered, and emitted two beams of light. The witness fled toward his house while the object appeared to pursue him less than 70 meters above the ground. The domed disc was estimated to measure about 30 meters in diameter. His wife and their two children saw it fly away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4561",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 114; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 250" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/1/1955",
  "desc" : "On this night two tourists in a car in Salon, near Arles, France saw a lighted object dive toward them and hover 30 meters above the road. The disc-shaped object flew around the car and flew away without making a sound. The witnesses went straight to the Arles police. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4562",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 250" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/1/1962",
  "desc" : "A large metallic oval-shaped object surfaced 300 meters away from three fisherman in two boats off of Le Brusc, France in the Mediterranean Sea. They first believed it was a foreign submarine. About a dozen \"frogmen\" emerged from the water and climbed aboard. The fishermen called out but the figures ignored them, except the last three, who turned to look at the fishermen. The very last one waved. Then the craft rose out of water, and suspended itself effortlessly above the waves, as red and green lights came on and a white light beam like a searchlight played toward the witnesses. The beam was extinguished, the red and green lights went out, and the object, now glowing an orange color and clearly oval in shape, rose a further 20 meters into the air and began to rotate, its light becoming more intensely red. At last, it moved silently in a graceful arc above the fishermen, and disappeared rapidly into the night sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4563",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1971; FSR Case Histories, April 1973, p. 14; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1962-5 (A0537), citing LDLN Lecture Series III, number 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/1/1965",
  "desc" : "At around seven p.m. a 15-year-old boy named San Roman Nunez in Lima, Peru watched a saucer-shaped UFO descend and land nearby. A 3.5 foot tall being emerged from the object. It was \"greenish\" with hair covered with green lights, and \"looked like a toad.\" The boy fled. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4564",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon Creighton, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 41; John A. Keel, Strange Creatures From Time and Space, p. 150" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/1/1966",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m. EDT citizens and police in College Park, Lanham, Bowie, Seat Pleasant, and elsewhere around Prince Georges County, Maryland saw maneuvering, fast-moving lighted objects. When a police officer approached a hovering object that had pulsating red, green, and white lights, it began a series of maneuvers, descended almost to the ground, then sped away \"like a shot.\" Before it sped away, the object emitted a strange multi-colored light beam that moved rapidly to the ground, which was also observed by another police officer. Andrews AFB denied to a County police dispatcher that they had any unknown objects on radar, but the dispatcher said a control tower operator had acknowledged seeing a fast-moving lighted object, and he later learned that Andrews did indeed have a UFO on its radar but would not admit it officially. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4565",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, August-September 1966, p. 4." ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/1/1966",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m. CDT Kathy Palmer, age 14, looked out the window of her home in Springfield, Missouri before going to bed and saw a luminous object bearing red and blue lights on the lawn. It was about six feet long, ovoid shaped, and four feet wide by four feet high, and it made a \"rattling\" sound. From a square hatch two 5-foot tall slender occupants emerged, who either had \"large heads\" or wore helmets. They walked about for three minutes, apparently communicating with each other, and examined some bicycles. Then they returned to the craft and it took off. The total duration of the encounter was about 30 minutes in all. At the landing site the grass was matted down, and there was a white substance which proved to be calcium phosphate. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4566",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1966-31, citing Patricia Rudig for NICAP; Ted R. Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, p. 43, case # 685" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/1/1966",
  "desc" : "At 7:45 p.m. several young witnesses in Rushville, Indiana reported seeing an unidentified object at low altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4567",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case 785" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/1/1967",
  "desc" : "The wife and daughter of a pastor in Chester, Pennsylvania saw three red, metallic, saucer-shaped objects with domes and portholes at 9:00 p.m. Two were in the northern sky, and a third approached from the north, brightened and changed color to white as it neared. It then flew at tree-top level and hovered at low altitude close to the witnesses. Finally, it climbed fast and disappeared. The object was estimated to be about the size of a two-engine plane. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4568",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "WXUR News report, copy in NICAP files." ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/1/1968",
  "desc" : "At 1:57 a.m. a cigar-shaped UFO flew by Fribourg, Switzerland and a disc exited from a square doorway in the craft. It flew around and then re-entered the larger craft. Both a camera and a tape recorder experienced EM interference effects during the sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4569",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gillieron, UFODOC, case E004" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/1/1971",
  "desc" : "At 11:35 p.m. a married couple driving in a car between Gladstone and Rockhampton in Queensland, Australia witnessed a circle of lights near a river. What should normally have been a two hour trip took them only 40 minutes. They have amnesia about what happened after sighting the lights in the sky, and an unusual oily residue and marks were found on their car. A possible UFO abduction involving time loss, a probable translocation, and levitation are suspected. Hypnotic regression failed due to the main witness having a violent, shaking, fearful reaction to re-envisioning the event in memory. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4570",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery. Volume 2: Catalogue of Cases, case 241; MUFON UFO Journal, August 1980, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/1/1971",
  "desc" : "At ten p.m. local time a domed oval-shaped UFO, illuminated by lightning flashes during a nighttime thunderstorm west of Westminster, Maryland, was seen by a family of seven people maneuvering over the countryside for 20 minutes. It had a bubble-shaped, transparent dome on top. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4571",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, July-August 1971, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/1/1974",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 a.m. a four meter long, luminous ovoid object flew fast over the beach at Canet-Plage, France. It stopped and hovered in place for three hours. It had portholes through which figures could be seen inside the craft. It left by shooting off toward the west. It was witnessed by a married couple named Rassin. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4572",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1611, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 146" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/1/1974",
  "desc" : "On this evening in Albemarle, North Carolina a round, orange object, bigger and brighter than the full Moon, hovered for 15 minutes above the tree tops, and then sped away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4573",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George D. Fawcett, FSR, January 1975, p. 31; Saga UFO Report, April 1975, p. 50" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/1/1974",
  "desc" : "John E. Justice had just left his job at the Ohio Masonic Home for the aged in Springfield, Ohio and was driving home when he heard a voice tell him \"let go the steering wheel.\" Justice ignored this instruction and the order was repeated, calling him \"friend.\" Justice did so, and the car continued down the long drive of its own accord. The voice, somewhat guttural in tone, came from the passenger seat to his right, and Justice could see the seat was depressed, as though someone was sitting in it. He asked if he would be harmed, and was told, \"Friend, I would not harm a hair on your head.\" Justice then asked what he wanted and got no reply. He was told that the voice was that of a \"spaceman,\" and he had been in the UFO Justice and another witness had seen a few nights earlier. Justice was then told that he would be able to see him when he left the car, and was told to look above the power lines ahead. He then observed a figure suspended ten feet in the air in front of his car. It was perfectly human in appearance, a male figure of large build, about 6' 6\" tall, holding its arms outstretched in front. The being wore a tight fitting, silvery outfit with a belt, gloves, and short boots. He was very handsome, and illuminated by a strange light. Justice was told that he would be visited again. The figure passed from view and Justice took control of the steering wheel and continued home, very shaken by the experience. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4574",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1975-38 (A1851), citing Jack Rockel" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/1/1976",
  "desc" : "At 4:30 a.m. a 20-year-old woman heard a noise and looked out her bedroom window in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to see two beings of average height. She could not see any facial details. A white light went out from these beings toward the east. She heard a loud voice talking in an unintelligible language. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4575",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1976-29 (A1486), citing Richard Heiden, report dated June 22, 1977" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/1/1976",
  "desc" : "In New Haven, Connecticut around 6:00 p.m. a man told police he had been buzzed by a round silver, dish-shaped object, which froze his car as he was driving on Route 63 between Bethany and New Haven. When the UFO passed overhead the engine of his car died and the car came to a stop. When he tried to leave the vehicle, he said, the door wouldn’t budge and he began to feel “tingly”. Eventually he too became paralyzed. While this was going on, an object which he felt might have taken his picture, appeared below the low flying disk. Finally it flew off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4576",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1976, citing MUFON of Connecticut" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/1/1977",
  "desc" : "At around two o'clock in the morning, a man and a woman in Steuben, New York who had been involved in a previous UFO encounter a week earlier had another encounter with aliens. They watched six or seven humanoid beings with glowing green belts, similar to those they had seen the week before. Two of them had glowing gray belts, and one of the witnesses saw two normal sized human figures that glowed a silvery white instead of green. After observing them for an hour they woke a third witness, who saw only blue-green lights. When they shone a flashlight beam on one of the figures it disappeared, but re-appeared when the light beam was removed. It gradually became very foggy, so at 4:30 a.m. they went to bed, but the first two witnesses thought they could hear the sound of a woman screaming three times, and then a door slamming. They experienced headaches and ringing in their ears. The third witness, who heard a noise like someone chiseling rock and a high-pitched chirping sound, did not suffer from a headache. They saw no UFOs that night, but there were other reported sightings in the area on subsequent nights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4577",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, September 1977, p. 7; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-42 (A1747), citing field investigator Douglas Dains for CUFOS" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/1/1978",
  "desc" : "A 12-year-old son of a prominent local doctor encountered an unusual humanoid creature not far from a mine in an isolated area near Lewiston, California. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4578",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 917, citing Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/1/1978",
  "desc" : "A six-month-pregnant woman in Clarksville, Tennessee had been taking a nap around 10:00 p.m. when she woke up to see a large craft hovering outside the upstairs window, over a nearby wood shack. Her husband saw the object too. She fainted but then heard a voice in a thick Middle Eastern accent that told her to open her eyes. When she did eyes she was confronted by a tall creature resembling an insect, thin and white in color, wearing a dark outfit. It communicated with her by using telepathy. There were several other similar creatures wearing jumpsuits standing in the room. Their heads were large and rounded. The witness conducted a mental conversation with the leader, and asked it several questions about its origin. The witness suddenly panicked and screamed and began to faint, and some of the creatures began backing away. But moments later a long needle was painfully inserted into her belly. She then passed out, and awoke later to see the taller creature talking to the others. At one point the witness claimed she saw several helicopters flying around the hovering craft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4579",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 3201, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/1/1983",
  "desc" : "Two young men were driving a truck in Urbanopolis, Minas Gerais State, Brazil at eight o'clock in the evening when they felt a sensation of cold and increasing atmospheric pressure, heard buzzing, and saw a small reddish ellipsoidal light beam strike their truck from above. It dragged the truck back from accelerating when the driver attempted to drive faster. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4580",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Antonio Silva Faleiro, APRO Bulletin, December 1984, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/1/1986",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. two men in their thirties, Long and Jandura, were fishing from a boat on Banksons Lake, Michigan when they had a close encounter with a completely silent 300 foot long triangular object that was only 200 feet above the lake. The object had a brilliant steady white light and three blinking red lights, and there was some type of movement between the lights. The men felt heat coming from the object and became very shaky and scared. They also experienced some temporary physiological effects: eye damage, conjunctivitis, and a swelling and discoloration of the skin. The UFO flew off to the north-northwest after 15 minutes.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4581",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, October 1986, p. 7; Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 319; UNICAT, case # 659, citing Virginia Tilly" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/1/1995",
  "desc" : "On this night in Portslade, East Sussex, England a huge yellow cigar-shaped object hovered over the town for a minute, then simply vanished in place. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4582",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, October 1995" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/1/1999",
  "desc" : "In Calgary, Alberta, Canada two witnesses observed a formation of eight silver disc-shaped objects high in the sky for 10 minutes. They were originally motionless, but then began moving west except for one, which headed north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4583",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, Canadian UFO Survey 1999, case # 129, citing Alberta UFO Study Group" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/1/2001",
  "desc" : "At 6:00 a.m. EDT a farmer in Wayne, West Virginia encountered a square flying object, about the size of tire (3 feet wide), that was hovering inside his barn. It was black with gray markings, and floated for a few seconds before it flew out the barn door. A cow had been poked by a needle in one of its ears, and its eye had a broken blood vessel. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4584",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer, MUFON UFO Journal, October 2001, p. 11" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/1/2001",
  "desc" : "At 7:00 a.m. EDT a cigar-shaped object was seen moving slowly above the tree line in Hagerstown, Maryland for two minutes. It emitted a bright object  from one end that shot into the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4585",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2001 webpage, report uploaded August 12, 2001" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/1/2001",
  "desc" : "Five geography students camping oin a deserted beach in Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil, including Luis Carlos Prima, reported seeing a large disc-shaped object about 10 meters in diameter land on the beach at around two o'clock in the morning. The students had been sleeping when a very strong wind suddenly woke them up. The wind was so strong that it began to disconnect the ground ties of their tent from the sandy ground. Thinking it was a storm, they ran out and were confronted by the huge disc, which had numerous bright lights on its top and windows in the center. A small door quickly opened and two short humanoids came out. The UFO and the humanoids were about 200 meters away from the witnesses. The little men seemed to be collecting ground samples when they became aware of the presence of the students. They ignored them and after several minutes reboarded the craft, which took off at high speed. Deep ground traces were found at the landing site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4586",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2001, citing Thiago Luiz Ticchetti, EBE-ET" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/2/1909",
  "desc" : "In Oamaru, near Sumpter's Hill, Otago, New Zealand a large boat-shaped flying object with three lights was observed at 3:00 a.m., clearly illuminated by the moon. Two figures were visible inside the craft, and the object flew \"at a fast rate.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4587",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/2/1950",
  "desc" : "On this day in San Rafael, Marin County, California a strange cloud was seen over the city at 15,000 feet altitude for about an hour, moving against the wind. It radiated many different colors: green, blue, red, and orange. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4588",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gerald Heard, Is Another World Watching?, p. 150" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/2/1952",
  "desc" : "At 3:00 a.m. on this morning USAF First Lt. W.A. Theil and an enlisted man named Edwards watched a red ball with a blue flaming tail fly straight and level for 3-4 seconds over Lake Charles, Louisiana. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4589",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1783; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/2/1954",
  "desc" : "At 5:17 p.m. in Westlake, Ohio amateur astronomer Mr. N. E. Schroeder, an ex-Army Air Force B-17 gunner--who had flown on 19 combat missions--saw a thin, bright silver ovoid hovering in the sky for 5-8 seconds. It then dropped down 3,000 feet in three seconds and hovered again for ten seconds, and finally faded out after being in view a total of 20 seconds. It looked like it was made of highly polished metal, and was at a minimum distance of six miles from the observer. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4590",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 3149; UNICAT, case # 777; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: June-August, p. 62; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/2/1957",
  "desc" : "Widely separate observers, including more than 150 school children, watched a silent \"rocket\" make intricate maneuvers in the sky over Reefton, New Zealand in the early afternoon. It rose, then hovered at 900 meters altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4591",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, September 1957, p. 13; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: August-September, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/2/1959",
  "desc" : "A petroleum worker measuring levels in storage tanks at 1:00 a.m. in Cullen, Chile had a bright light fly over his head and follow him, which caused him to run away, leaving the tank hatchways open. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4592",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Rogerson, World-Wide Catalog of Type I Reports, case 902, citing Pablo Petrowitsch" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/2/1960",
  "desc" : "Mr. & Mrs. Hiot and a third witness encountered a purple light while driving between Difques and St. Omer, Pas-de-Calais department, France at 12:05 a.m. As it got closer it revealed itself to be a domed disc-shaped object, four meters wide, with a red luminous bottom that illuminated the road. the UFO paced their car for one kilometer, making no noise and flying just three meters above the ground. Mrs. Hiot saw a human-looking figure inside the saucer. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4593",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ouest France, August 5, 1960; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A1786; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 117" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/2/1962",
  "desc" : "Camba Punat Airport, Corrientes province, Argentina. Sr. Luis Harvey, airport manager, and his staff thought that an unannounced aircraft was about to land around midnight when they saw a luminous object circling overhead at high speed. It came down to hover about one meter above the runway for some four minutes. It was spherical, spinning, and emitted flashes of blue, green and orange. When approached by ground personnel it took off at very high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4594",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "La Razon, August 3, 1962; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 540, citing Flying Saucer Review, April 1964, p. 11; Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, June 1973, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/2/1965",
  "desc" : "There are 33 separate reports in the UFOCAT database for this date, including many UFO visual sightings with some confirmed by radar trackings at several Air Force Bases in the United States. The U.S. reports centered on the midwestern states, especially Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. There are reports from Latvia, Austria, Argentina, Peru, Mexico and seven reports from Brazil.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4595",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "8/2/1965",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon a medical student walking on the beach known as La Arenilla, and accompanied by a doctor, saw a strange dwarf on the beach in the city of La Punta, Peru located not far from Lima. However, the two refused to give the newspaper any more details about their encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4596",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1965-74" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/2/1965",
  "desc" : "Justin, Texas - Two deputy sheriffs of Tarrant County saw an object as bright as burning magnesium, which landed as they were on a patrol near Wagle Mountain Lake. Extensive investigation by the police led to negative results. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4597",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 667" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/2/1965",
  "desc" : "A famous color photograph was taken in Tulsa, Oklahoma by 14-year-old Alan Smith at 1:45 a.m. Unlike most photos of alleged UFOs taken by teenagers, this one had supporting witnesses. The photo shows a mosaic pattern of yellow, blue and white light in the shape of an ovoid with three tiny fingers. The object was described as about size of a basketball, which moved slowly and changed color, and also made a high pitched whining sound. Alan took his shot when the UFO was almost directly overhead. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4598",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Hayden C. Hewes, Flying Saucers magazine, June 1967, p. 8; October 1967, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/2/1965",
  "desc" : "Five children saw a brilliant, round object without wings, close to the ground, in the 600 block of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on Northwest Route 63. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4599",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 668" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/2/1965",
  "desc" : "In Lake Park, Minnesota an orange UFO, emitting a sound like a \"dynamo\", hovered just above ground. Animals reacted to its presence. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4600",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 69" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/2/1967",
  "desc" : "On this day in Arbroath, Tayside, Scotland a domed oval-shaped craft, 20-30 feet in length, moved slowly at 100 feet above a teenager riding on a bicycle. There was a red glow coming from the dome, which started to flash. The object was completely quiet. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4601",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Flying Saucer Review, November-December 1967, p. 29; Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland's UFO Phenomenon, p. 124" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/2/1967",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. in the Norweigan Sea four Russian crewman aboard the S. S. Izhevsk saw a white sphere in the dark sky as it sailed slowly south. A bright football-shaped light appeared several minutes later and rushed from west to east. It threw off sparks, increased in size, stopped, became an egg in appearance, and gave off a thick white mist that emerged as the object grew dim. The entire incident lasted for more than 25 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4602",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Norma Short, Skylook, February 1968, p. 7; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 139; Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 191" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/2/1968",
  "desc" : "In Los Rasos de Valdemanco, Ciudad Real, Spain two young girls saw a rectangular UFO on the ground at 6:00 p.m. It dimensions were 9 meters by 3 meters by 4 meters, with two windows, and it had two wheels in front for landing gear. The object rose up and was lost from sight in 30 seconds. At 11:44 p.m. a very bright red object was observed by several witnesses at treetop level over a mountain, Monte Gallicant, in Tarragona province, Spain swinging like a pendulum. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4603",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, cases 61 & 62" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/2/1971",
  "desc" : "In Ohrid, nine miles from the town of Rasanec, in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia a group of four had a close encounter with a silver-colored UFO. There were physiological effects when a beam of energy knocked the driver of their vehicle down, and the car radio ceased to work. The silver disc, 10-15 meters in diameter, first landed and then began glowing. Two \"wings\" came out of the sides as it landed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4604",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joseph M. Brill, Skylook, September 1972, p. 17;  Milos Krmelj, FSR Case Histories, December 1972, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/2/1974",
  "desc" : "At 2:15 p.m. three six-meter wide metallic discs with transparent domes landed in a pasture in Englefontaine, Nord department, France. They made a buzzing sound that was heard by the two children who witnessed it. the discs rose in tandem, then flew off to the west. Crop circles were found at the landing sites. At 10:30 p.m. a domed ovoid object with square windows was seen on the ground in a clearing in some woods in Auzay, Vendee department, France. The UFO jumped up from ground level, turned 120 degrees  and flew off into the woods. No traces were found at this second landing site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4605",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 141 & 228" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/2/1974",
  "desc" : "In Calvert, Texas a newspaper editor and his wife heard \"strange metallic noises\", then witnessed a deep red UFO that \"roared\" and pulsated, and chased their car for several miles on Highway 979. UFO shook all over, like it was about to fall apart. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4606",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers magazine, December 1974, p. 39" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/2/1976",
  "desc" : "At around four o'clock in the morning Michael Wood, age 26, was driving home when, as he reached Ten Mile Hill near Hobart, Tasmania, Australia he heard a sound like loud electronic music \"turned up too high.” The area in front of his car lit up like a \"yellow lighted picture screen\", on which he could see projected the profile of a figure, ten feet tall, wearing a tight-fitting black jacket and a pair of light trousers, which seemed to be turning to look at him. He braked his car but the car went through the “screen.” He could find no trace of it after stopping and going back to look for it again. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4607",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1976-60, citing TUFOIC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/2/1976",
  "desc" : "At 3:30 a.m. in St. Pierre-sur-Mer, Aude department, France a five-meter in diameter domed disc was encountered hovering at six meters altitude. The lights went out immediately on the object, then came back on gradually.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4608",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1977" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/2/1979",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 a.m. the two witnesses were driving through the town of Le Delus on the island of Ile D'Oleron, France when they noticed a green flash of light overhead followed by two bright descending spheres. One of the spheres shot towards the rear of their vehicle while the other descended close to the ground. A large rectangular shaped opening became visible in the second object and three humanoid figures were seen descending a ladder. The witnesses did not stay to see any more, but drove away quickly from the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4609",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case # 1734, citing Denys Breysse, Project Becassine; Lumieres dans la Nuit, November 1979" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/2/1982",
  "desc" : "On this night a shiny silvery man was seen standing on the side of the road at Hapuku Bridge in New Zealand. He had no distinguishable features, and the bottom half of the figure was dark. The motorist drove by and did not stop. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4610",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1982, case # 293, citing SBI Report" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/2/1985",
  "desc" : "At 9:45 p.m. in Black Earth, Wisconsin a white nocturnal light projected a beam of light that moved back and forth like a searchlight. The beam stopped, then the object descended slowly in a zig-zag pattern. There were no radar returns. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4611",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jay Rath, The W-Files: True Reports of Wisconsin's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 63" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/2/1987",
  "desc" : "Maria Marzoli was in Domodossola, Italy at 9:45 p.m. when she saw a bright white light encased in what appeared to be a cloud descend from a nearby mountain. When she approached the spot in order to get a better look she saw three floating human like figures approaching the light. The figures were about 1.80 meters in height, and glided just above the ground in a vertical position. All three wore light-colored tunics and pants and had long light-colored hair. The figures briefly turned to stare at the witness before disappearing into the bright spherical white light. The light then disappeared into the distance, changing color into a greenish tint. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4612",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1987, citing Archivio SUF, Tambellini" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/2/1994",
  "desc" : "The witness awoke shortly after midnight in her home in Cayey, Puerto Rico after hearing a bang resembling the sound of a firecracker exploding. It came from the entrance to her bedroom. She heard the sound again, but this time it was closer to her bed, and she next saw a short, thin gray-skinned humanoid with a large head and huge black eyes walk standing in front of her bed. The creature then entered her grandson's bedroom. She then apparently fell back to sleep, because she was woken up by her grandson who told her that that same short creature with large eyes had sat on his chest and had stared at him. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4613",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1994, case # 1778, citing Hank Worbetz" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/2/2000",
  "desc" : "At 6:45 p.m. the witness had gone outside her house in Capilla del Monte, Cordoba province, Argentina to empty the trash and was returning back to the house when she noticed something floating above the ground over some nearby laurel bushes. It appeared to be an amorphous transparent figure, with large bright yellowish almond-shaped eyes. The figure floated towards a nearby tree knocking itself against it, and a branch was seen to fall down. At the same time that it stared to vanish the witness heard a loud humming sound, and there seemed to be a kind of charged energy in the air. Frightened, the woman ran inside the house and summoned her husband, but the figure had already vanished. The following days she suffered from headaches and heard metallic voices calling her name. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4614",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, citing Proyecto CATENT, Buenos Aires" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/2/2001",
  "desc" : "In La Joya, Guanica, Puerto Rico at 3:00 a.m., the same night that Carmelo Sepulveda found one of his rabbits decapitated and another injured, one of his neighbors heard rabbits squealing and turned on an outside lightbulb that faced toward the animal cages. He then went outside to take a look, and saw something resembling a child standing next to one of the cages. However, the poor lighting was not sufficient to let him make out any details. The figure quickly took shelter among Sepulveda's cages and the rabbit's squeals stopped. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4615",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2001, citing Jose A Martinez Echevarria, PRRG" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/2/2001",
  "desc" : "At 5:30 a.m. well known local merchant was on his way south towards Antofagasta, Chile on a desolate road when he suddenly noticed a strange flying creature approaching his truck at very high speed from the direction of the sea. As he braced for a possible impact the creature suddenly shot up vertically and disappeared from sight. The creature was described as brown in color, bigger than a condor, with huge glowing red eyes and a long pointed snout. Its overall appearance was \"horrible.\" Others have reported seeing a similar creature in the region. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4616",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2001, citing the Chilean newspaper El Loa" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/2/2001",
  "desc" : "On this night Ms. M. of Rosario, Argentina felt herself summoned by aliens, and she felt herself traveling through a tunnel of \"water\" or something that felt like water. She soon found herself in a jungle that was very hot. Next she found herself in a mansion all white in color, and it gave her the impression of being in a hospital. Inside the building she saw numerous children of both sexes that apparently lived there. The children were barefoot and wore white, loose fitting outfits. She also saw human adults that identified themselves as the \"instructors\". The children looked human but with some alien traits, \"almost like hybrids.\" The aliens told her that soon they would be leaving the Earth due to the coming chaos and cataclysm. She saw an image of a huge explosion and many injured persons. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4617",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2001, citing Horacio Roberto, Nuevos Tiempos, Argentina" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/2/2001",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. a black rectangular object, quiet with no lights, flew right over a couple driving in Rowlett, Dallas County, Texas. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4618",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2001 archived webpage, report uploaded August 5, 2001" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/2/2004",
  "desc" : "A young man, Andrey Alexandrovich Zabava, was spending time at the seashore near Cape Plaka near Partenit, Crimea, Ukraine in the company of several tourists from Russia and Poland. Their main reason for being there was to hunt for UFOs, because they believed there was an underground alien base hidden inside Ayu-Dug (Bear) Mountain, just to the west of Partenit. Their first six nights were uneventful, but on this night they saw several dim spots of yellow light that appeared one after the other on the northeastern slope of the mountain where there are no known buildings. The lights were positioned in a triangle. At about 01:00 a.m. a strange object appeared from the west slowly floating above the Black Sea. The object made a slow right turn, drifting in total silence, and slowly descended towards Ayu-Dug. When the object got closer Andrey could discern an elongated rhomboid form, clearly outlined by rows of lights. There were four bright emerald green lights positioned at the four corners of the craft, and numerous red lights were running along its edges, constantly blinking in a clockwise direction. Bright yellow-green lights were located at the center of the bottom of the craft, while four blue lights were positioned around it in a cross shape. This magnificent craft also had several dimly lit yellowish windows along its top section. When the craft was at its closest, a stream of hot air could be felt emanating from it. When the UFO passed along the seashore, Andrey noticed that all electric lights along the seashore blinked out simultaneously as if from a power interruption. Finally, the craft approached Ayu-Dug at a low altitude and seemed to dissolve into thin air, but immediately following this a bright beam of light appeared from the seashore and began searching the sky and scanning the water. Apparently some border guards had become alerted to the presence of the strange craft. Andrey also noticed that his friend Vitya's wristwatch had stopped when the craft passed directly overhead.<br/><br/> At around 3:00 a.m. bright yellow flashes of light appeared at the top of the mountain, resembling fireworks. Over the next 15 minutes a total of eight clusters of objects zoomed out of the mountain, and flew off towards the southwest and eastwards towards Novorossiysk. At 5:00 a.m. Andrey and Vitya had begun their descent of Cape Plaka, when they heard a voice yelling at them from behind. \"Sons!\" it said in Russian. They stopped and turned around. A figure resembling an elderly woman stood on a rock. Her face could not be seen because it was still dark and she was not facing them. The height of the strange woman was about 1.5 meters and she was dressed in a long gray loose fitting garment that completely covered her legs and a hood that covered her head. In a soft female voice in pure Russian, she said, \"Sons! Don't tell anybody down there about what you have seen, they will not understand.\" The somewhat stunned young men did not began a conversation with her and did not pay much attention to her. Several seconds later Andrey turned around again and the woman had vanished. There was only a sharp rock outcrop and seemingly no place for her to hide. Increasingly agitated, the witnesses searched for the \"nun\" but could not find anyone.<br/><br/> They continued their descent from the rock, when Vitya screamed and pointed to the shoreline near one of the Partenit piers. There they saw another humanoid entity, very tall, about two or even three meters in height, and dressed in a tight-fitting, dark blue diver suit, which completely covered its body. It had on a helmet which was attached directly to the suit. A yellow rectangular \"window\" was positioned over the face area, but no facial features were visible. The entity was standing in the water up to its waist, and looking at the embankment and houses on the shore. Unexpectedly, after several seconds of observation the alien figure simply dissolved into thin air. The stunned witnesses finished their descent to the hamlet in a very shaken state. On the pier they spoke to an old sea captain named \"Jora\", who reported experiencing recent problems with his electronic equipment onboard his cutter on several occasions. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4619",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2004, citing Andrey A. Zabava & Anton Anfalov" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/3/1909",
  "desc" : "A dark silent cigar-shaped object flew slowly at a low altitude over Waihi, New Zealand at 8:30 p.m. It had windows on each side and an intense blue-green light in front. Later that same evening a man was thrown from his horse in Waipawa, New Zealand when a gray cigar or torpedo-shaped object hovered overhead and frightened the animal. Three human looking figures stood on deck, and one waved and shouted. The craft had lights at both ends. It rose to a higher altitude, circled, and then went behind hill. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4620",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Luminieres dans la Nuit, issue 181; Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century [1900-1946], p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/3/1946",
  "desc" : "A cigar-shaped object flew over central Norrland, Sweden this evening. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4621",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bjorn Overbye, FSR, May-June 1969, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/3/1948",
  "desc" : "At 8 a.m. a long metallic cylinder with no wings flew at a very high altitude and was seen in the skies 25 kilometers northwest of Moscow in Russia. It moved silently and very fast towards the northeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4622",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book, August 1948; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1338, citing Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1948, p. 48" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/3/1952",
  "desc" : "At 3:13 p.m. eight military witnesses and radar confirmed the presence of two silver colored discs in the sky over Hamilton AFB in Marin County, California. The discs appeared to be dogfighting. They were joined by six other discs and formed a diamond formation. They sped away as USAF F-86 fighter jets were scrambled. The sighting lasted 75 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4623",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 120; Otto Binder, What We Really Know About Flying Saucers, p. 35; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 183; Dolan Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a cover-up 1941-1973, p. 403" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/3/1953",
  "desc" : "At 12:04 p.m. over the Amarillo Airport, Texas a transparent disc stopped and hovered in the sky. A second, identical object was seen behind it. They were not balloons, according to the official Air Force investigation. A Project Blue Book \"unidentified\" case. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4624",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2663; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 183; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: August-December, p. 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/3/1965",
  "desc" : "On or about this date Dr. Antonin Kukla and Mrs. Audrey Lawrence saw an oval object dive toward them at 8:00 p.m. while driving in Carnarvon, Western Australia. They switched off the car's headlights and got out of the vehicle to observe the object, which hovered at ground level. Its color changed from orange to fluorescent green before it took off at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4625",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, September 1965, p. 4; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 670" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/3/1965",
  "desc" : "There were at least 15 reports recorded for this day from Australia, China, Sweden, Switzerland, Hawaii, and the midwestern and western United States. Among the more interesting reports, a young man saw an object rise from the lake at Lake Hefner, Oklahoma. Also on this day a famous set of UFO photographs was taken by Ray Heflin in Santa Ana, California. At 12:38 p.m. he took four photographs of a metallic hat-shaped UFO, estimated to be about 30 feet in diameter, with a Polaroid camera from his Orange County pickup truck. The U.S. Air Force claimed the object was a hubcap thrown in the air, but most UFO researchers regard the photos as genuine. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4626",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 671; (2) John R. Gray, FSR, March-April 1969, p. 24; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 24" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/3/1965",
  "desc" : "Two boys, Doug Knopka, age 9, and Tim Dietz, age 8, were vacationing at Doehler’s Beach in northeastern Pennsylvania with their families, and were walking along a wooded road at 10:30 a.m. when they saw a “dirty white” disc-shaped object. It had a transparent dome, was 15 feet in diameter, and was on or near the ground just 50 feet away from them. Next to the craft stood a small four and a half foot tall figure with yellow eyes, and inside the dome was another figure moving about. Frightened, the boys ran from the spot. As they ran they heard a “swishing” sound, and saw the round object rise over the treetops and disappear from sight as it flew out over the lake. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4627",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1965-28, citing Louis Spizarny for NICAP" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/3/1967",
  "desc" : "At 11:35 a.m. in the town of Perigueux, Dordogne, France a silent disc-shaped object made five falling leaf maneuvers in the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4628",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "GEPA Phenomenes Spatiaux, March 1974, p. 22" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/3/1967",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. J. Vieira, a lawyer, and his driver Amauri, were at kilometer 15 on the Miguel Peraira Highway when they saw two yellowish lights, then many others, about 500 meters away to the left. The lights would blink and fade. Similar lights were seen again at Conrado, Brazil. When the driver blinked the car's headlights the objects seemed to respond. A domed disc-shaped object that illuminated the whole area was next seen resting in some woods. Physiological after-effects included headaches, dizziness, and jaundiced facial skin. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4629",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Irene Granchi, APRO Bulletin, September-October 1967, p. 11; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 861" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/3/1967",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. a married couple named DeSoto in Caracas, Venezuela saw a luminous, disc-shaped whitish object, 10 meters in diameter. The entire yard was illuminated and a humming sound was heard. A door opened in the base of the craft and something like a light bulb lowered itself to the ground. This, too, had an opening from which stepped a small man about three feet tall, dressed in silvery luminous clothes. His head was surrounded by vapor. He was only about five meters away from the witnesses, and they watched him pick up stones, examine them, look up, and appear to communicate with the disc-shaped craft. He then dropped the stones and stepped into the \"bulb\" that reentered the craft, which took off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4630",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs Over the Americas, p. 43; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 862" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/3/1972",
  "desc" : "While driving in Pinnaroo, South Australia Mrs. Venning and two traveling companions saw a greyish-white oval object to her left in a paddock. It had lights on both sides, was 30 meters off the ground, and was silent. She drove past without stopping but said that her hair stood on end during the sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4631",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Keith Basterfield, UFO Research South Australia case files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/3/1973",
  "desc" : "A brightly lit football-shaped object ascended into the sky in staircase maneuvers over Villeneuve-sur-Lot, Lot-Garonne department, France. It made halts at the corners in its step-function climb. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4632",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 133" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/3/1975",
  "desc" : "Numerous townspeople watched as a multi-colored cigar-shaped object, predominantly orange in color, settled onto a nearby hill in Antofagasta, Chile. It gave off a chemical smell, which burned their noses, and the witnesses \"eyes filled with tears.\" The whole area was lit by a yellow-orange glow while the object was in the area. After several minutes the UFO shot away to the west toward the Pacific Ocean. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4633",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Charles Bowen, Saga UFO Report, December 1976, p. 10; FSR, July-August 1976, p. 33 citing La Razon, August 4, 1975" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/3/1977",
  "desc" : "In Thaxted, Essex, England a 24-year old man named Stevens was driving at around 3:30 a.m. when his car lost power from 50 mph to 35 mph despite applying full throttle. Two orange-red oval lights were seen hovering nearby at the time, at a distance of 300-400 yards. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4634",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Andrew Collins, FSR, January 1978, p. 25; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 21, 275" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/3/1977",
  "desc" : "On this day in Campos, Brazil a gray disc-shaped object was seen on the ground and three tall, thin, baldheaded figures were seen moving around the object performing various tasks. They wore gray coveralls with green belts. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4635",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, citing Antonio Faleiro" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/3/1977",
  "desc" : "Caferina Vargas Martin, age 20, of Escalada, Huelva, Spain left her home at 7:30 p.m. to walk to her grandmother's house in La Corte, about three kilometers distant. The pathway between the two villages winds along a creek at the foot of a mountain, with lush vegetation along the way. While walking along the footpath, at around 7:55 p.m., she was momentarily blinded by a bright reflection of light. About 20 meters further on, another flash of light again shone in her face. She believed it was a bicycle headlight, but she quickly felt her strength ebb away as the light source was replaced by two strange humanoid figures: a woman two meters tall and a slightly shorter man. The woman had long platinum hair that hung to the middle of her back, but the man's hair was shorter and slightly disheveled. Their facial features were \"repulsive\" to the witness because the woman had very large eyes, and only two holes where her nose should be, with a slit-like mouth that moved without opening. Both figures were dressed in tunics; the woman's was a dark green color, but shiny as if made up of many tiny points of light, with wide long sleeves that went to her hands. The tunic extended to the ground so her feet were unseen. The man's tunic was a light chestnut color, and also with brightly reflecting points of light. It came to his knees, below which was a narrow, darker tunic that extended to the ground. Their skin was citron yellow in color. While the woman gesticulated with her arms, both beings remained indifferent to the witness's presence. Feeling faint, Caferina sat down on a rock and then passed out. When she came to there was no one there and it was then dark. Frightened and upset, she ran back home. It was 8:50 p.m. when she got home, nearly an hour after her encounter began. She suffered from psychological shock and had nightmares for the next several nights, and was treated by doctors. Some personal belongings of hers also turned up missing. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4636",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-60 (A1751), citing Ignacio Darnaude, Joaquin Mateos, Manuel Filpo Jose Ignacio Alonso & Antonio Moya; Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/3/1997",
  "desc" : "On this night Edsom da Silva heard some shots coming from a nearby wooded area in Bocaiuva do Sul, Brazil and ran over to investigate. He saw something hiding behind a tree. He was carrying a bright lantern so he pointed the light at the nearby \"form\" on the ground. He saw it was a strange creature with two huge reddish eyes, which had a bizarre crest on its back. Frightened, he ran away from the area and did not see the creature again. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4637",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, citing Carlos Albert Machado" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/3/2000",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. in Uniontown, Pennsylvania a witness saw a five-foot-tall being with long slender extremities for about one minute. It carried a brown staff that was about five feet long, and the creature glided six inches above the ground. Another unusual feature of the encounter was that all normal background sounds were absent. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4638",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Stan Gordon, PASU website, citing Jim Brown; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case # 3469, citing PASU" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/3/2008",
  "desc" : "On this morning two witnesses were backpacking around near Glenorchy on South Island, New Zealand  when they encountered a landed UFO. The weather had cleared that day and they had decided to go for a tramp on the Mount Aspiring track, but before they reached it they spotted what looked like a landed disc-shaped UFO in a paddock. The craft was round and about five meters tall, with legs for landing gear and pulsing yellow white lights around its perimeter. The witnesses attempted to approach to take photos but several “men” in white suits confronted them, taking their cameras. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4639",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2008, citing http://www.psychics.co.uk/psychic-forum" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/4/1947",
  "desc" : "The pilot and co-pilot of an airliner flying over Everett, Massachusetts at 4:00 p.m. sighted a bright glowing orange cylindrical object, 15 feet long and shaped like a cigarette, flying at 150 mph. It had a glaring jet exhaust. At dusk two more pilots on a civilian cargo plane saw another UFO that looked like a fuselage without wings while flying over Bethel, Alaska. This second UFO outdistanced their airplane. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4640",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bruce Maccabee, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1977, p. 10; NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1978, p. 4; Bob Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, August 19, 1987" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/4/1950",
  "desc" : "In the Atlantic Ocean approximately 100 miles southeast of New York City (39.58 degrees N, 72.41 degrees W). At 10:00 a.m. EDT Master Nils Lewring, Chief Mate Jacob Koelwyn, and the Third Mate of the M/V Marcala sighted a ten-foot long cigar or ovoid object at 50-100 feet altitude, flying with a churning or rotary motion. The UFO was shaped like an egg cut lengthwise, and wobbled as it flew. It also \"sparkled in the sunlight.\" It accelerated away toward the end of their fifteen-second observation. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4641",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 773; UNICAT, case # 720; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/4/1952",
  "desc" : "At 2:20 a.m. in Phoenix, Arizona USAF Airman W. F. Vain sighted a yellow ball of light that lengthened and narrowed to the shape of a plate, then flew straight and level for five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4642",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1812; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 276" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/4/1952",
  "desc" : "A woman with two children in Mount Vernon, New York reported that they observed a white donut-shaped object for two hours, beginning at 11:37 a.m. It emitted black smoke from its top and made a 15-degree arc in the sky in 1.5 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4643",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1813; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 276" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/4/1959",
  "desc" : "At 7:00 p.m. a white spherical object was sighted hovering over Wakwapu, Papua New Guinea by Mr. R. Smith. It had coherent light beams. There were green rays of light emanating from the base of the object, one on either side at an angle of 15 degrees from the vertical, and one aimed straight up vertically. All beams receded into the UFO in a coherent fashion like retracting appendages. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4644",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Norman E. G. Cruttwell, UFOs in Two Worlds: FSR Special Edition No. 4, p. 27" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/4/1963",
  "desc" : "Ronnie Austin and Phyllis Bruce, age 18, were driving to Phyllis Bruce's home in Wayne City, Illiniois when they had a close encounter with a humming, yellowish orange ball of light on Highway 15 at 11:30 p.m. It paced the car to the woman's house, crossing and recrossing the highway, and then hovered over a nearby barn when they parked the car.While the UFO was hovering it changed its color to a dull orange. They continued to watched the object from her house with her family members for nearly an hour. When Ronnie left the object buzzed his car repeatedly. He felt a cooling effect and heard a loud whining sound on the car radio as the UFO made passes at the car. His engine also missed and the speedometer was effected. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4645",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Wayne County (IL) Press, August 5, 1963; APRO Bulletin, January 1964, p. 3; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, August 1988, p. 15; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 20; Francis L. Ridge, MUFON field investigation case files, case # 900825" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/4/1965",
  "desc" : "At 1:30 a.m. on Highway 15, truck driver Don Tenopir, age 44, had reached a point 25 miles from Abilene, Texas when his headlights blinked and failed, but his truck's diesel engine did not. A metallic, domed disc-shaped UFO swooped low from behind and dove towards his grain truck, then landed on the road 30 meters ahead causing a car coming from the opposite direction to leave the road in order to avoid it. The object had an orange glow and was five meters in diameter, 1.5 meters high, and had a \"black spot\" on its dome. It took off toward the west, then turned south. The UFO made a sound like wind blowing through trees, and gave off bluish sparks. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4646",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jerome Clark, Flying Saucer Review, January-February 1966, p. 29; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 671; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 454" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/4/1965",
  "desc" : "A bright, silvery object landed on a hill in Chena, Chile for 45 minutes. There were numerous witnesses, among them military men. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4647",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 672" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/4/1965",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. Joao Erondo dos Santos saw a disc 50 meters in diameter land near the Trapua River, Brazil with a distinct sound, although no traces were found afterward. The object illuminated a wide area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4648",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 674" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/4/1965",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. in Dallas, Texas 19-year-old J. A. Carter observed an unexplained red and blue light that flew fast, straight and level for 12 seconds. He thought at first it might have come from a police car, but then a huge, orange object flying at ground level passed him. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4649",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 52; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 673" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/4/1965",
  "desc" : "At 11:35 p.m. in Tinley Park, Illinois two 14-year-olds watched a light maneuver around the sky for 16-17 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4650",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 52" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/4/1967",
  "desc" : "A red domed disc-shaped object was sighted flying to the north over Kidsgrove, Stoke-on-Trent, England at 11:10 p.m. It was the size of two bungalows, and had 10 to 12 bright red lights arranged around its circumference on the lower part. It changed direction to approach the witnesses, and hovered a few seconds above the bungalows at the top of the road. The witnesses were two married couples, Mr. & Mrs. Brogan and Mr. & Mrs. Turner. The incident lasted about one minute. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4651",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Roger H. Stanway & Anthony Pace, UFOs: Unidentified, Undeniable, p. 6; UNICAT, case # 536" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/4/1967",
  "desc" : "Engineer Hugo S. Yepez was on a beach 25 km north of Arrecife in Venezuela when he saw the water violently disturbed near a fishing boat. A Saturn-shaped UFO, six meters in diameter, came out of the water. It was gray, looked metallic, and hovered for a few seconds just a meter above the surface. It then rose slowly to the east and flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4652",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1968, p. 5; Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 44; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 864, citing NICAP: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 11 & 200" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/4/1968",
  "desc" : "Three young men walking along a street in Montreal, Quebec at 5:00 a.m. noticed a three-foot tall, hairy, heavyset figure lurking in some nearby shadows. It had long curving arms and was hunched over; it suddenly made a tremendous leap and disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4653",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants and Critters" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/4/1968",
  "desc" : "On this evening in Cordoba, Argentina 11-year-old Graciela Lourdes Gimenez was playing outside her home when she experienced a bizarre event. \"I wanted to go back indoors and watch TV,\" she told reporters from the newspaper Cordoba, \"and then just as I was about to turn around...a white cloud, like mist, appeared on the front path. It gradually came towards where I was, and then I could no longer see the other houses, and I couldn't move or call out to Mummy...and after that...I don't know anything more...until I found myself on a square where there were lots of people and lots of little boys...\" She knocked at a nearby house, and the residents turned her over to the police. She had somehow traveled from her Cordoba suburb to the Plaza Espana in the heart of the city. After the incident, the child suffered fits of weeping and cold chills. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4654",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John A Keel, Our Haunted Planet" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/4/1972",
  "desc" : "At dusk a domed, disc-shaped object was viewed through binoculars, hovering over a mountain, by six witnesses in Baakline, Lebanon. It had windows around its rim, and made no sound. It flew off to the southeast after 15 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4655",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Walter Hamadi,  FSR Case Histories, June 1973, p. 12; APRO Bulletin, January-February 1973, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/4/1973",
  "desc" : "Three youths walking along Tallebudeera Creek Road, Queensland, Australia were reportedly attacked by a two-meter tall hairy humanoid with shiny eyes that stepped out of the bush in an isolated area. The three youths fled the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4656",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1973, case # 1823, citing Keith Basterfield" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/4/1973",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. a flying boxcar-shaped UFO buzzed a car with three male occupants east of Greenup, Illinois. It then hovered over a nearby cornfield, and then over a farmhouse. The encounter lasted 10 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4657",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Skylook, October 1973, p. 5; Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 42" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/4/1973",
  "desc" : "A week to ten days after observing a mysterious light maneuvering in the sky, the witness had to return to Phoenix and she asked her brother to go along with her for company. At around ten o'clock on this night, while driving up a hill somewhere in the vicinity of Indio, California she began to receive pictures in her mind and had a sense of presence. These \"images\" came in grays and browns, and she tried to counter them by thinking of bright colors. She found the gray images unpleasant, and had the sense of an interior, with gray green walls, which had three vague \"forms\" in it. Believing she was daydreaming and tired, she forced her concentration back to her driving when she noticed colors reflecting on the dashboard and asked her brother if there was something in the sky. Both of them briefly observed a light over the highway changing colors from blue, to green, to red, to yellow, and then to a brilliant white. Then it vanished. It was in view for less than a minute.<br/><br/> Her brother was very excited. The trip continued and seemed to be uneventful. However, later under hypnotic regression she was asked to examine her image of a gray interior more closely. She described the gray-green walls, with at least one black line, or slot, on the back wall. She was with three vague shapes or shadows. It didn't feel like a pleasant place, and she felt she had had another such experience at another time. She was asked to go back to that experience and she found herself in another room with a window looking out on an orange sky. There was a white bench in the room, and the room seemed very sterile. Then she found herself in a huge place with a domed ceiling, and she was standing beside a 20 foot high crystal, set at an angle so that it pointed towards the sky. It was green on the bottom half and it revolved. There were other similar crystals in this place, about five in all, and they were hooked up to a large piece of machinery that was similar to a generator. The crystal was connected to the machine by a rod. The whole room hummed. There were two other people with her; one dressed in gray, looking older with grayish hair. The younger man, wearing black, is taller. They pointed out a formula to her, which was on the wall. It was composed of script letters. She was brought out of the trance and given a post hypnotic suggestion that she will recall the formula and be able to reproduce it on a piece of drawing paper, which she does. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4658",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-123, citing case report by Dr. Alvin Lawson, John De Herrera & Dr. William Mc Call" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/4/1975",
  "desc" : "At four o'clock in the morning a man and a woman driving near Taltal, Antofagasta province, Chile had their van chased by a huge orange ball of light. It was 100 feet from the side of the road when it first started following them, and the driver was dazzled by the reflection of the object's brilliance in his rear view mirror. Both witnesses felt fear as the object pursued them for three minutes. Finally, the UFO rose up swiftly to a pinpoint of light in the sky, and then vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4659",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, April 1976; FSR, July 1976, p. 33; Carles Bowen, Saga UFO Report, December 1976, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/4/1976",
  "desc" : "A ten-year old boy, Lorenzo Alvarez Vazquez, in the Bilbao suburb of Bulla, Vizcaya province, Spain reported seeing two small “extraterrestrial beings\", about 1.20 or 1.30 meters high, on this evening. They had green eyes and noses and wore silvery clothing. They said nothing, but shone a light on the boy as they stood next to a motorcycle. He watched them for five minutes, and then went to get other local residents who, upon returning to the spot, saw nothing although the boy said he could still see one of the entities. One of the residents pointed a gun in the direction indicated by the boy, who then announced the “spaceman” had taken refuge behind a car. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4660",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1976-30 (A1644); Gordon Creighton,  FSR, April 1977, p. 28, citing a newspaper clipping" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/4/1979",
  "desc" : "At 10:35 p.m. a 60-year-old woman and her grandson watched a glowing object approach their location in Canoga Park, California from the west. It then hovered silently above a nearby apartment building. They described it as a domed metallic saucer with a transparent dome. Inside the clear dome two humanoid figures could be seen. They appeared to have oversized heads, but were human in shape. The object tilted to one side, levelled off, then tilted in the opposite direction and flew off behind some trees to the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4661",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Walt Greenewald, International UFO Reporter, September 1979, p. 11; Ann Druffel, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1981, p. 15; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 24 & 492" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/4/1980",
  "desc" : "At 4:50 in the afternoon Edith Sage was walking down an alley on her way to some nearby shops in Medway, Kent, England when she saw a ring of smoke and sparks coming from a spot nearby, and an unusual craft suddenly materialized. It resembled a small helicopter without any rotor blades, doors or engines. There was a large transparent dome at the front of the object, and it had green and tan camouflage markings on the side. She could see two men seated inside, who were of normal height and wore gray jumpsuits. They looked very much alike except one had long blond hair and the other had dark hair, and both had olive skinned complexions. All sounds area suddenly ceased and there was also a sweet odor in the vicinity. The men apparently communicated with her via mental telepathy, but we don't know the content of their communication. The craft then suddenly disappeared in plain sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4662",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jenny Randles, MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 234; Jenny Randles, Time Storms: Amazing Evidence for Time Warps, Space Rifts, and Time Travel, p. 74;  David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A2255; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1980, case # 354" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/4/1987",
  "desc" : "Many independent witnesses from Plymouth, Devon County, England watched a huge delta-shaped object with many lights cross over Exmouth at 10:00 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4663",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14530, citing Gordon Creighton, FSR, March 1988" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/4/1990",
  "desc" : "A disc-shaped UFO was seen over Witton Wood at 11:30 p.m., north of Walsham, Norfolk, England. The next day car batteries were found dead, and crop circles were found in a nearby field. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4664",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 127" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/4/1991",
  "desc" : "A couple in Flint, Michigan were stargazing in their backyard at 1:30 a.m. when a white ball of light came overhead. The man shot a flashlight beam at it, and it made a \"sideways loop\" before continuing on. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4665",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Shirley Coyne, MUFON case files, case # 930415Cb" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/4/2001",
  "desc" : "At 12:40 a.m. a large, circular object was seen in the sky surrounded by a number of small fragmentary objects, the size of 10p pieces over Ricksmanworth, Hertford, England. The large object was white and had a glow of red and blue, and was described as very bright. At the same time in Port Talbot, Wales two large shining white golf ball like objects were seen moving in and out of the clouds. An hour later another strange formation of lights flew overhead in Bushey, Hertford. At 2:30 a.m. over Glasgow, Scotland a small white light was seen moving toward and away from a larger white object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4666",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "British Ministry of Defense 2001 reports, cases # 134-137" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/4/2001",
  "desc" : "At the local \"Hospital del Torax\" in La Paz, Bolivia nurse Wilma Huanapaco was working the night shift in the intensive therapy wing on the first floor when she was suddenly seized by a strange stupor that paralyzed her body. She was unable to move her arms, legs, or even her eyelids. Using tremendous effort, she finally was able to turn around and was confronted by the figure of a tall man, who was enveloped in a green aura and apparently headless. The figure suddenly vanished in plain sight. Wilma remained in the stupor for several more minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4667",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2001, citing Abdel Padilla Vargas, La Prensa, Bolivia" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/4/2007",
  "desc" : "There were three more reports from England on this date. At 3:00 p.m. two white circular objects were sighted over Dorking, Surrey, moving at high altitude and speed. At 10:45 p.m. two strange objects were sighted over Sheffield, West York followed by three others. They were all bright and fiery colored, spinning and moving very fast across the sky. Finally, at 11:15 p.m. a circular light was seen zig-zagging across the sky over Worthing, West Sussex. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4668",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, report (1) uploaded August 14, 2007, report (3) on August 7, 2007; British Ministry of Defense 2007 reports, case # 40" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/5/1927",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 in the morning while climbing in the Humbolt Range of the Altai Mountains in Mongolia, explorer Nicholas Roerich and seven companions saw a huge, shiny, flying oval-shaped object that reflected the sunlight. It flew from north to south, then changed direction and flew off to the southeast. The UFO was in view for several minutes and was examined through binoculars. Witnesses of the daylight UFO included members of the mountaineering expedition, Mongols, and Buriat lamas. The lamas believed it was the \"Sign of Shambala.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4669",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 22; J. Allen Hynek, International UFO Reporter, January 1982, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/5/1950",
  "desc" : "On this day one of the most famous UFO movies of all time was shot in Great Falls, Montana. The 16mm film was shot by Nick Mariana and was witnessed by his secretary, Virginia Raunig. It shows aluminum colored discs, \"like two new dimes\", hovering in the sky at a distance of two miles. It was sent to the U.S. Air Force for analysis, but when it was returned Mr. Mariana claimed many frames from the first part of the film, those showing the best closeup images of the objects, had been deleted. The existing film consists of 280 frames of 16mm film. The UFOs first hovered, then moved smoothly at very high speed (400 mph) in an arch beind a water tower. The objects estimated diameter was 50 feet. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4670",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 138; UNICAT, case 310; Edward U. Condon, Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 407" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/5/1952",
  "desc" : "Another famous case, a radar-visual confirmation, occurred in Japan on this day. A UFO hovered over the Haneda U.S. Air Force base near Tokyo and had several ground military witnesses in addition to radar tracking. It looked like a dark shape with a light, and it flew at 330 knots, then hovered, then performed a variety of maneuvers. It was tracked by airborne radar for 90 seconds.The UFO moved off at extreme speed, and then divided into three parts. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4671",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book, case # 1827; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, pp. 21, 84; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 95; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, p. 160; Otto Binder, What We Really Know About Flying Saucers, p. 54; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 277" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/5/1952",
  "desc" : "At 5:10 a.m. an airline pilot named Quinn, flying a DC-3 for PAGA Airlines between Lima and Hueca, Peru, took a photograph of three saucer-shaped objects flying in V formation which maneuvered around his plane. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4672",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: August, p. 24; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/5/1955",
  "desc" : "Buzancy, Ardennes, France - At 2:30 p.m. Messrs. Coisin and Mahieu saw five brown, disc-shaped craft come down from the sky and fly back up again at a high rate of speed. One of them flew under the others. Two discs appeared to land 300 meters away near the German cemetery. The others flew away toward the south at tremendous speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4673",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 250" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/5/1955",
  "desc" : "A photograph of a spherical UFO was taken at a school in Anchorage, Alaska by a man named G. Henning. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4674",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Max Miller, Saucers, May 1956, p. 1; J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, Volume 6, 1975, p. 43" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/5/1955",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 p.m. Messrs. Coisin and Mahieu saw five brown, disc-shaped machines coming down in Buzancy, Ardennes, France. They maneuvered at great speed. One of them flew under the others, then two discs appeared to land 300 meters away near the German cemetery. The others flew away toward the south at tremendous speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4675",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 369" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/5/1962",
  "desc" : "On a highway between Las Armas and General Pirana, Argentina in Buenos Aires province at 1:45 a.m., Sr. P. Atilli had his truck's engine fail in the presence of a glowing orange, cigar-shaped UFO. The object was 25 meters long and 300 meters away, and gave off flashes of violet and green light. It shot off toward the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4676",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Uriondo Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, December 1972, p. 10; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 19" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/5/1963",
  "desc" : "Shortly after midnight in Wayne County, Illinois a car with several teenagers was followed for 10 miles between Wayne City and Mount Vernon by white light. The UFO made a humming sound as it followed them. The car radio went crazy and the engine stalled as the object passed over, and the witnesses felt a sensation of cold when the UFO passed within 100 feet. Multiple independent witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4677",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 179; Flying Saucer Review, November-December 1963, p. 24; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 26" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/5/1967",
  "desc" : "At two o'clock in the afternoon three teenagers in Porthmadog near Mount Snowdon, Wales witnessed a metallic, 10-foot long, beer keg-shaped object flying low and hugging the rough terrain in a silent flight up and down the mountains. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4678",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, February 1978, p. 30" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/5/1967",
  "desc" : "In Duhamel, Alberta, Canada four rings created by pressure from a heavy force or object were found in a pasture and were believed to have been caused by a landed UFO. The smallest measured 31.75 feet in diameter and the largest 36.25 feet. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4679",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science, Spring 1968, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/5/1967",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. two men, Ronald Sherven and Robert Bodine, saw a glowing, white flying object head from the west towards the east, north of Sawyer, North Dakota. The UFO was hidden from view by a hill, but suddenly appeared again over the cemetery, came down to ground level, and then sped away to the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4680",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1967, p. 3; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 864, citing NICAP" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/5/1969",
  "desc" : "On this day two cops among several civilians witness a UFO over Camarthen, Wales, U.K. It was spherical and silvery in color. The second officer saw it later than the first. It was confirmed not to be RAF aircraft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4681",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gary Hezeltine, Police Reports of UFOs, p. 35, from a newspaper clipping dated August 6, 1969" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/5/1969",
  "desc" : "(1) At 3:30 a.m. a U.S. Marine Corp Colonel named Brandmeyer driving on Route 161 had a close encounter with a small intense light over a wooded area near New Baden, Illiniois. The light made a sharp turn, approached, drew alongside, and then paced his car for a few minutes. (2) That night, at 10:15 p.m., a metallic UFO approached a car 15 miles northwest of Raleigh, North Carolina on Highway 50, being driven by a Mrs. McWhite with one passenger. The car headlights dimmed, and their was interference on the car radio. Both were okay and the lights and radio functioned properly againafter the UFO left, about 30 seconds later. (3) Two and a half hours later, at 10:45 p.m. Mountain Time, five woman driving fourteen miles west of Ponoka, Alberta, Canada had a similar UFO close encounter with electromagnetic effects; the driver was a 38-year-old woman named Scott, and the incident lasted much long, about an hour. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4682",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Jay Rath, The I-Files:  True Reports of Unexplained Phenomena in Illinois, p. 48, Skylook, August 1970, p. 4; (2) NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1969, p. 3; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. ; (2) John Brent Musgrave, field investigation case files, report dated September 19, 1969" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/5/1970",
  "desc" : "Around 4:30 a.m. between Plasencia and Bejar, Caceres, Spain a man was driving through a forest when he sighted a brightly lit, yard-wide sphere in the sky that stopped, descended vertically into a clearing in the forest, and then darkened. At 10:45 p.m. a UFO in Cazalla de la Sierra, Seville, Spain caused the furious barking of two dogs. What appeared before the four witnesses was a two-dimensional illuminated 2 m by 1 m rectangle, hovering in the sky only ten meters away, perpendicular to the ground, which blocked the view of the vegetation behind it. It vanished when a gun was pointed in its direction. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4683",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 131, citing Manuel Osuna Llorente, and (2) case 132; UNICAT, case # 472, citing Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, OVNIs: El Fenomeno Aterrizaje, p. 105; Stendek, December 1970, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/5/1970",
  "desc" : "A 17-year-old teenager named Sivaraman left home at 7 p.m. to attend an evening class in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He experienced missing time, and when he woke up 12 hours later, he was 140 miles away from his home. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4684",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ahmad Jamaludin, Summary of Unidentified Flying Objects and Related Events in Malaysia, p. 44" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/5/1972",
  "desc" : "Shortly after midnight five independent witnesses had a close encounter with a cone of light, two miles south of Evant, Texas. It was between 100 and 500 feet away, and the sighting lasted five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4685",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "newspaper clipping, August 24, 1972; DataNet, January 1973, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/5/1972",
  "desc" : "At 10:50 p.m. a driver in Yankallila, South Australia saw an object like a white cloud just above the telephone lines to the east. It was oblong shaped, with a hazy outline, and it was travelling at the same speed as the car, which was 80 km/h. It was lost from sight to the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4686",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Keith Basterfield, South Australia UFO Reports - Project 1947 Website, citing UFORSA" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/5/1974",
  "desc" : "At 8:20 p.m. nine witnesses northwest of Bully-les-Mines, Pas de Calais, France spotted a brilliant, lens-shaped disc hovering over an electric pylon. It rose, wobbled, and then vanished. The entire incident lasted five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4687",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 144" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/5/1974",
  "desc" : "An apparent abduction attempt that was thwarted by two other UFOs occurred shortly after dusk in Maracaibo, Venezuela. Two peasants in their twenties, named Sr. Chiaka and Sr. Monteil, were returning home when they were blinded by a round object in the sky that was \"flattened at the sides, and of a silvery color.\" They found themselves paralyzed and unable to move as the object landed. Two humanoid beings, who were more than two meters tall, emerged from the craft, wearing \"lead colored clothing like the skin of sardines.\" They also had on blue colored goggles and dark belts. They approached the witnesses slowly, making gestures, while a whistling sound came from their machine. What happened next was completely bewildering. Two other UFOs descended from the sky \"and took the first UFO and its occupants in tow.\" The witnesses were then able to move again, and made their escape. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4688",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "La Razon, August 6, 1974; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-39; FSR, April 1975, p. 33" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/5/1975",
  "desc" : "At 6:15 a.m. a 5 meter in diameter disc-shaped object was sighted in Brussels, Belgium. It tilted, then \"hid\" in clouds near the center of the city at low altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4689",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, April 1977" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/5/1976",
  "desc" : "Amidst a series of cattle mutilation incidents, at 4:00 a.m. two workers at the Sterling, Colorado feedlot saw three human-like figures glide over one of the feedlot fences. The ground had been muddy at the time but no footprints were found anywhere near the fence. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4690",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1488, citing Dorothy Aldridge, Colorado Springs Gazzette Telegraph" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/5/1976",
  "desc" : "At 9:15 a.m. PDT the firelook at Satus Peak on the Yakima Indian Reservation in Washington State again reported seeing mystery ghost lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4691",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Greg Long, Examining the Earthlight Theory: The Yakima UFO Microcosm, p. 130" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/5/1976",
  "desc" : "At ten o'clock in the morning the Chiasson family were driving in the Gaspesie Provincial Park in Quebec when they encountered a thick fog. The vehicle's lights and engine failed, and the car's interior began to feel very hot. A red light beam struck the road in front of car, and it was then that they saw a 40-foot wide, scallop-shell shaped object sitting on legs. The craft had windows, and through the windows they could see seven-foot tall entities inside that had big eyes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4692",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1634, citing Jean Ferguson" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/5/1977",
  "desc" : "A red disc-shaped object hovered at 30 meters altitude for about a minute on this night in Reguengo do Fetal, Leiria, Portugal, and then it took off fast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4693",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "PORTUCAT, case 182; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 12279" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/5/1978",
  "desc" : "(1) On an overcast day at 11:30 a.m. a group of witnesses on a boat on Lake Crescent, Tasmania encountered a 30-meter long, dark brown cigar-shaped object, half a meter wide and only a meter or two above the water. It moved away quickly. (2) That evening on Lake Sorell, Tasmania the area was illuminated by a flying object. A nocturnal light maneuvered back and forth for 30 minutes, then faded away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4694",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Xenolog, December 1978, p. 19; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 12755; (2) Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, August 1978, p. 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/5/1978",
  "desc" : "At one p.m. a large, dark cigar-shaped object with a white spot flew toward the northwest over Gatwick International Airport in England. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4695",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 12756, citing FSR" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/5/1978",
  "desc" : "At 11:15 p.m. a TV director and another 40-year-old man had a close encounter with a whirring, gray triangular object while driving two miles southeast of Laurie, Missouri on Highway 5. Their close encounter lasted three minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4696",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, September 1978, p. 8; UNICAT, case 572, citing IUR" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/5/1979",
  "desc" : "Waynesburg, Pennsylvania: two cops in a police helicopter reported that a two-foot wide disc-shaped object passed them at 4:05 p.m. It flew slowly at first, then sped up. Their helicopter could not catch up with it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4697",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, September 1979, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/5/1980",
  "desc" : "At around 1:00 a.m. a 130-meter in diameter disc-shaped object descended to the ground at the Oktyabriski oil field in Russia. It flew off to the north, but it left a big hole with vitified sand glass walls: 20 tons of sand were reportedly missing. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4698",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #  13506, citing FSR" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/5/1981",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 a.m. a shiny white round object shot straight up when chased by an Indian Air Force jet near Guwahati, India. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4699",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 44; MUFON UFO Journal, February 1984" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/5/1981",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. a cone of light maneuvered at 20 meters altitude, only 30 meters away from three young witnesses in Bruscarella, Italy. The UFO had orange beams of light, and cause an electrical power outage. The witnesses watched a large disc-shaped object with three bright lights land in a field. Another man reported seeing three human-like figures dressed in black exit the object and walk around. A scorched area on the ground was found where the object had landed.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4700",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Maurizio Verga, ITACAT, case 155; Albert S. Rosales, citing UFO Pavia" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/5/1983",
  "desc" : "In the mountains of Cerros Colorados, Argentina on Highway 74 on this night truck drivers encountered a gigantic disc-shaped UFO radiating flashing lights of various colors; it was seen at 400 meters for 3 minutes, then vanished as it sped away at a staggering speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4701",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, FSR, December 1983, p. 9, citing Tiempro Argentina, August 9, 1983" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/5/1986",
  "desc" : "Vibration caused a house to shake in St. Petersburg, Florida at 4:30 a.m. There was also radio interference and the house lights flickered. Outside a low flying disc-shaped UFO passed overhead, flying very fast to the southeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4702",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, case # 1146" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/5/1987",
  "desc" : "On this night in Gainesville, Florida a huge, silent circular disc-shaped object stopped 100 feet over an observer. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4703",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 198" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/5/1990",
  "desc" : "At 3:45 a.m. the Martens family of Owens Sound, Ontario awoke to see \"dancing lights\" that were apparently disturbing their cattle. The lights were yellowish-orange in color and looked like their were connected to something very large. The lights gradually changed to a deep \"crimson red\", and began revolving around each other. Some kind of green haze or fog formed, and the object suddenly vanished. That same night one son had a nightmare about a \"shining angel\", in the house, and the eldest daughter saw a brightly lit being in the house, who almost blinded her with light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4704",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1990 Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, addition # 2820, citing Barry Arnold" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/5/1992",
  "desc" : "At 1:45 p.m. a United Airlines Boeing 747 crew flying 50 miles northeast of George AFB in San Bernardino County, California sighted a 50 foot-long object looking like the fuselage of a Lockheed SR-71. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4705",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 47, citing Jan Aldrich" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/5/1993",
  "desc" : "In Dunajska Streda, Slovakia about 10 children saw two strange looking humanoids with large cucumber-like heads in a field at 10:30 p.m. They were wearing all silver clothing. They glided over the field and disappeared from sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4706",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, citing Dr. Milos Jesensk" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/5/1993",
  "desc" : "At sometime after two o'clock at night, the daughter of a UFO investigator watched two silent helicopter-shaped craft hover outside her bedroom window in the town of Baca in the San Luis Valley of Colorado. A beam of red light passed from one helicopter to the other. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4707",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 186" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/5/1995",
  "desc" : "On this day in Turin, Italy Mr. Rohner, a MUFON-CES member, saw a luminous triangle-shaped craft while on vacation in the city. At 10:55 p.m. a 35-year-old couple in Dortmund, Germany saw the sky brighten, and then sighted a huge 20-meter triangular object with 8-10 circular yellow-orange radiators. It sounded like a transformer, flew from north to south, made an abrupt turn to the southwest at 150-200 m altitude, and 10 minutes later was seen again. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4708",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 36" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/5/1997",
  "desc" : "Taxi driver Ramon Velazquez Luna had just dropped off a fare at 12:45 a.m. and was driving on the Villa de Reyes highway in San Luis Potosi, Mexico when he began to see whitish orange lights following him. The lights turned off and then appeared this time in front of his taxicab. The lights then disappeared into a nearby field. Approaching the village of Chirimoya, he noticed what appeared to be a \"power plant,\" well lighted, on the side of the road. Confused by their presence, he stopped his cab and noticed that the lights were oval shaped. Quickly a fog-like smoke approached the vehicle, causing him to get scared and drive away. As he drove away he saw a strange vehicle on the side of the road nearby, and it had several large headless dark humanoid figures milling around it. The figures seemed to be signaling Luna to stop his vehicle. When he arrived at his destination he noticed that he had almost three hours he could not account for. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4709",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, citing Ruben Manrique, Contacto OVNI" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/5/2002",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. a triangular shaped object, large and with exterior lights, was sighted near the water in West Vancouver, British Columbia. It rose vertically. Starting at around 11:15 p.m., many triangle crafts, with lights, were seen flying at tree top level and hovering between Martinsville and Mooresville, Indiana for 15 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4710",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2002 web archive" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/5/2006",
  "desc" : "At around 11:00 p.m., while night hunting for wild boar, three men in Bonaire, Georgia came upon a stand of oak trees alongside a field where they had just run their dogs, and saw some lights coming from the woods. They decided to investigate and walked into the woods approximately 60 yards before they heard a loud whooshing sound. Their dogs then tucked their tails and began whining. When the men tried to get a closer look the lights dimmed, and another whooshing sound was heard. The men then saw two small green “midgets” run from behind a tree toward what appeared to be a large “concrete mixer” with lights on it. Later on, after waiting awhile and drinking a beer, the men ran back up the hill with their dogs. The light and the object had gone, and there was an eerie silence throughout the woods, so that even the insects were completely quiet. The next day, the men returned to the spot and found nothing out of the ordinary. Later that next evening one of the men went to feed his dogs and found that “Judo,” his best hunting dog, was sick and would not eat anything. He claims the dog died later that week without any apparent reason. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4711",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2006, citing National UFO Reporting Center" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/5/2009",
  "desc" : "In Valrico, Florida a cigar-shaped object with no wings was sighted following a commercial jet airliner at 5:30 p.m. Two hours later a line of orange lights was observed appearing and disappearing in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4712",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, reports uploaded December 12, 2009 and August 27, 2009" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/1860",
  "desc" : "Red objects with a green tint were seen flying in formation over Norfolk, Virginia, moving erratically with an \"undulating motion, rising and subsiding.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4713",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Baltimore Sun, August 6, 1860; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. & Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 71" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/1947",
  "desc" : "In Media, Pennsylvania at 6:00 p.m. an ex-U.S. Air Force pilot and two others saw a hovering saucer-shaped object. It shot away at an estimated 725 km/h, emitting a slight hiss and flames. Many observers in nearby Philadelphia, Pennsylvania sighted a \"giant firecracker\" in the sky at 10:30 p.m. flying at several hundred mph. The FBI inverviewed many of these witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4714",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume I, p. 33; (2) Bruce S, Maccabee, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1977, p. 10; NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1978, p. 4, citing FBI files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/1947",
  "desc" : "In Robert Lee, Texas a disc maneuvered in the sky at 10:00 p.m, then flew away. It came back 15 minutes and maneuvered for another 30 minutes, changing its shape to the appearance of a cigar. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4715",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Kenneth Arnold & Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 137" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/1952",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 a.m. a dark circular object hovered for thirty minutes over the U.S. Haneda Air Force Base near Tokyo, Japan. It was tracked on radar as its blip hovered, then shot away at 300 knots, and in the process divided into three evenly spaced radar targets. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4716",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1827" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/1952",
  "desc" : "A U.S. Air Force radar installation in Port Austin, Michigan picked up several large flying objects that flew at speeds in excess of 1200 knots. The UFOs were in vicinity of Gore Bay, Ontario, Canada. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4717",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1845; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 277" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/1952",
  "desc" : "At around 9 p.m. an orange colored flying sphere struck the chimney of a house in West Lumberton, North Carolina, breaking it, and fell into the back yard. The object was eight feet long and stood six feet high. A little man only 30 inches tall was standing beside it. When the witness, Mr. J. Allen, asked him if he was hurt, he and the craft vanished with a loud noise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4718",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumberton (NC) Robesonian, August 7, 1952; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0196, citing Lumberton Robesonian" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/1953",
  "desc" : "At Barbers Point Naval Air Station near Pearl Harbor, Hawaii 75 radar blips on screen at various times around five p.m., hovering and maneuvering. Nocturnal lights and ovoid shaped objects were sighted, and possibly a figure was seen inside one of them. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4719",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 63" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/1954",
  "desc" : "In Santa Fe, New Mexico a brilliant white ball of light left a luminous trail as it flew over. There was TV and aircraft radio interference reported, but an amateur radio was not effected. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4720",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Harold T. Wilkins,  Flying Saucers Uncensored, pp. 226, 237" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/1954",
  "desc" : "Starting at 10 p.m. a DC-3 flying over the ocean at Baranagua Bay, Parana State, Brazil was continuously buzzed by an orange fireball for two hours. It would turn blue on acceleration. Jets were scrambled and gave chase, where upon it shot off to the southeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4721",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UNICAT, case # 559, citing Olavo T. Fontes" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/1955",
  "desc" : "A UFO witness watched an extremely brightly lit UFO over Cincinnati, Ohio for less than 10 seconds. He later suffered from red, irritated eyes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4722",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "CRIFO Orbit, September 1955, p. 2, Leonard Stringfield, Situation Red: The UFO Siege, p. 148; T. Scott Crain, Jr., Flying Saucers magazine, June-July 1971, p. 7, Otto Binder, What We Really Know About Flying Saucers, p. 85" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/1961",
  "desc" : "In Meekatharra, Western Australia beginning at 3:30 a.m. 12 white metallic disc-shaped objects flew over the countryside in pairs for six hours. They left an angel hair residue, a snowy-white mesh like material. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4723",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, 19620101; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case # 123; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 41" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/1963",
  "desc" : "In Caracas, Venezuela a huge brilliant disc hovered and maneuvered by a TV station and tower at 10:00 a.m.; it then shot away extremely fast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4724",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, March-April 1964, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/1963",
  "desc" : "On this evening in Sanford, Florida UFO investigator Orville Hartle saw a UFO with 13 other witnesses. The object appeared in the northeastern sky first as a red, then a white moving light. The UFO engaged in gyrations, pulsated, moved up-and-down, back-and-forth, and once emitted a flare of green-white light. The sighting lasted several minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4725",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume I, p. 141; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers magazine, September-October 1970, pp. 6-7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/1965",
  "desc" : "At 2:00 a.m. a UFO landed in the San Bernardino area of Caracas, Venezuela. It created a \"scorched area 10 meters wide\" in a cornfield. Three beings emerged from the craft, but when a farmer approached they \"whipped back into it\" and took off at once. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4726",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon Creighton, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 41, citing the London Evening News" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/1965",
  "desc" : "(1) Shortly after 11:00 p.m. cows in a pasture in Ambleside, Cumbria, England panicked when a fiery red cigar-shaped object with illuminated windows flew over, making a groaning noise. (2) That same evening at 10 p.m. EDT a maneuvering disc-shaped object caused an animal reaction in West Homestead, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4727",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Gordon Creighton, FSR, November 1970, p. 28; (2) Center for UFO Studies case files, report dated August 11, 1976" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/1966",
  "desc" : "At 2:20 a.m. in rural Bellingham, Massachusetts a couple heard a hissing sound for several minutes. One got out of bed, looked out, and saw a multicolored disc-shaped object hovering at 500 feet, then depart at high speed. The 35-year-old female witness reportedly heard a \"hum\", then the object \"came from behind the barn\", hovered over a tree near their home, and finally shot off to the northeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4728",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Morton Schafer, MUFON field investigation files, case # 881202" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/1966",
  "desc" : "At 2:00 p.m. a man and his family near Kelly Air Force Base in Cameron County, Texas observed a dark object hovering near their isolated house. It had a square \"door\" emitting a yellow light. Three children saw a dwarf through the opening. He was dressed in shiny black coveralls. The object left slowly with a soft humming sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4729",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 786; Jacques Vallee, Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact, p. 66" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/1967",
  "desc" : "Again in the San Bernardino area of Caracas, Venezuela (see report above from 1965), at 2:00 a.m. Pedro Riera was awakened by someone shaking his bed. When he focused his eyes he saw in front of him a small humanoid being with a disproportionately large head, wearing a \"rubber suit.\" He jumped out of bed and grabbed the little man, but the dwarf wriggled free and went out the second floor window. Riera looked out and saw a round, multicolored, luminous object so brilliant that he had to close his eyes. In the morning he found deposits of a rust-like substance, and small footprints in this \"rust\" on the pavement below his balcony. Several neighbors had also observed the UFO. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4730",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1967-72, citing Jose Schael Guillermo; APRO Bulletin, September-October 1967, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/1967",
  "desc" : "Antonio Neri Perez and several other people in Hidalgo, Mexico saw three glowing, red discs take off from a field near his house. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4731",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs Over the Americas, p. 65; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 865" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/1967",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon at 3:30 p.m. in Wyoming Flats, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania six men reporting witnessing a shiny, metallic disc only three feet in diameter. It made a buzzing sound and descended from above some power lines, and landed giving off a red glow. It shot back up into the sky after a short while, flying east. A five-foot wide circular burned area was found, but a local farmer said he had burned some brush there. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4732",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP case files, citing a newspaper clipping dated August 9, 1967" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/1967",
  "desc" : "Again in Mexico at 8:10 p.m. control tower operators at Mexico City's international airport, and thousands of other ground witnesses, watched 10 yellow-red-orange objects change formation, then pass over the airport. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4733",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/1968",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. four young men were outside near St. Gertrude, Quebec, Canada when they heard their dog barking furiously. They heard a creaking sound and saw a four foot tall luminous figure jump out of a hedge nearby. The figure had large shoulders and long arms that hung down. It vanished quickly in plain sight in front of the witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4734",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2094, citing Wido Hoville; John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants & Critters" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/1972",
  "desc" : "Two teenaged sisters at home at 10:00 p.m. in Christies Beach, South Australia heard a beep-beep noise, then saw a group of 3 or 4 white lights lighting up the ground in an empty lot next door. The lights flew off to the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4735",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Keith Basterfield, UFO Research South Australia, case # SA72033" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/1972",
  "desc" : "At 8:45 p.m. in Liverpool, England an iridescent object hung stationary in the sky for three minutes. It then veered rapidly to the west, and hovered again for another two minutes. It left a contrail when it moved, and red flames shot from the rear end of the object. If finally flew away at 11:03 p.m. towards the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4736",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, October 1972, p. 29" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/1972",
  "desc" : "On this night in a heavily wooded area near Beaver Lake, Alberta, Canada a man felt compelled to go to a campsite where he was convinced he would see a UFO. The main witness and two other men who accompanied him waited at the site for several hours before they saw a light travel across the lake and descend behind some nearby trees. Shortly later they heard heavy footsteps of someone approaching through the trees. Frightened, they ran to their car and began to drive away when a giant creature resembling an octopus with large tentacles appeared, apparently trying to grab them. The three men got out of the car and struggled with the creature, but soon got back into the car and drove away, stopping at a field outside the forest. They then went back, but the creature had disappeared by then. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4737",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 181, citing John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants and Critters, p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/1974",
  "desc" : "In Basella, Lerida, Spain a man and a woman watched a low-flying disc-shaped object, only 1.5 meters in diameter, follow the local river road at 6:40 p.m. It had running lights, and made a sound like an electric motor. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4738",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, p. 52 (case 197)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/1975",
  "desc" : "In Maubege, Nord, France a white sphere with portholes was seen by three independent witnesses at 9:10 p.m. It may have landed, leaving behind possible landing traces on the ground. It flew off to the south. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4739",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, December 1975" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/1976",
  "desc" : "At around ten o'clock in the morning Freddy Chiasson, age 52, his wife Claire, and their two sons Morris and Rony were driving across Gaspesian Park, Quebec, Canada in a thick fog, heading toward Matane. Suddenly, a beam of red light coming from the sky struck the road ahead of their car. Despite the thick fog, this beam had very sharp edges, and formed a circle 6 inches in diameter where it struck the road. It paced their car for several miles, always staying the same distance ahead, then broke up into several “sections” which shut up into one another, like a collapsible telescope, and rose back upwards in a coherent light fashion. They then saw a dazzling white light to their left, which the witness estimated to be a half mile away. This light approached them and stopped over the road some distance ahead of them. Mr. Chiasson stopped the car. They then felt a very strong sensation of heat, and the car’s headlights and radio went out. Next the car's motor died, and it could not be re-started. They could smell a peculiar “acid” odor that irritated their nasal passages.<br/><br/> They got out of their car and walked through the fog toward the fuzzy, intense light ahead. When they reached it, they found that it came from an oval, scallop shell-like object that was wider than the road and resting on legs. It was about 40 feet wide, 15 feet high, and made of a dull metal with four square circumferential windows three feet wide, out of which light was pouring. They could hear a dull sound, like wood rubbing on wood at regular intervals. Mrs. Chiasson approached the windows and let out a scream when she confronted a large face in the window with big round eyes. The sight made Mr. Chiasson feel like vomiting. All four family members ran back to their car, which still could not be started. After a few minutes the two youths again walked through the thinning fog toward the object, followed by their father. When they had got to within ten paces they could see that the light inside had gone out. Two beams of blue-green light appeared, coming from behind the UFO toward the witnesses. Mr. Chiasson felt sick, his eyes watered, and he vomited. Then the light rays went out, and they saw two beings standing or floating beside the object. They were about seven feet tall, bald, and looked very ugly to the witnesses because their appearance filled them with feelings of terror. They wore brown khaki uniforms, like a police officer's but closer fitting, and were holding tubes about a yard long. The beings were stocky with wide shoulders, which were “too high” and round bodies. Their square-chinned, straw yellow faces had big, round eyes without eyelids and thick red lips. Neither Mr. Chiasson nor his sons saw noses or ears, and they may not have had any. They stood still, but turned their heads as if examining the witnesses. After this confrontation which seemed to last for minutes, the three male witnesses fled back to the car, where Mr. Chiasson vomited again. After this there was a burst of light in front of them followed by another wave of unbearable heat that made them all crouch down in the car. This intensified for a short while, and then gradually passed. When they got up they could see that there was nothing ahead of them, and the fog had practically dissipated. The car could be started at this point. At the place where the UFO had been there was a slight luminous vapor. For about ten hours afterwards, all four of the Chiassons suffered from intense itching. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4740",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1976-92 (A1634), citing Jean Ferguson, Les Humanoides, p. 224" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/1978",
  "desc" : "Antonis Coulouris was driving his truck on a country road between Agia Marva and Lefkohori, Greece at night when he suddenly saw several \"giant humanoids\" caught by the truck's headlights. Terrified, he put the truck in reverse to get away and drove about 60 meters until the engine stopped functioning. The lights went out and it felt like something was shakinghis truck. For 15 seconds he tried to turn on the engine with no success, but after that the shaking stopped and the engine again functioned normally. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4741",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing Makis Nodaros" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/1978",
  "desc" : "Several reports were received by the police from the public in Billinghurst, England of a UFO in the sky, so a police cruiser was dispatched. On arrival at 9:35 p.m. Officer Page saw a triangular UFO hovering motionless in sky as clouds passed by. After a short while it flew away toward the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4742",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gary Heseltine, UFO Magazine, July 2003, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/1987",
  "desc" : "Late in the evening, on the road between Barcis and Cimolais, Italy a car with three occupants encountered a red beam of energy and the car's engine stalled. What happened next was even more inexplicable, because the car with the three witnesses aboard seemed to have been instantaneously transported several miles to San Daniele. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4743",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jenny Randles, From Out of the Blue, p. 95" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/1990",
  "desc" : "An object like a shiny dime shot straight up in the air in Evansville, Indiana at 1:40 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4744",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case #  961, citing Francis L. Ridge, MUFON Indiana" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/1993",
  "desc" : "Ed Walters took three photos of a silver tank or disc-shaped object moving low over the ocean in Pensacola, Florida. The object suddenly lurched forward, leaping several hundred feet into the air. A black spot could be seen making erratic movements, and a thumping noise was heard. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4745",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ed Walters, UFOs are Real: Here's the Proof, p. 33" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/1995",
  "desc" : "A motorist had a close encounter with a UFO in Michigan involving physiological effects when at 10:30 p.m. a huge disc-shaped object hovered over the road 15 miles southeast of Kalamazoo. The witness felt pain after the event, and the close encounter left him with marks on his skin. The incident reportedly lasted five minutes, but it is not known for certain if any missing time was involved. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4746",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17352; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/2001",
  "desc" : "Two stationary cone-shaped objects were observed over Berwick, Northumbria, England at 3:08 a.m. One was below the other, and they were extremely bright. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4747",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "British Ministry of Defense, 2001 reports, case 141" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/2002",
  "desc" : "A circular or disc-shaped craft was seen on Montour Ridge, Northumberland, Pennsylvania at 5:30 in the morning by a farmer and also three fisherman on the Susquehanna River. It was above the powerlines on top of the mountain; it was round and very still over the lines. Suddenly, it shot away and was gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4748",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2002 archived webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/2003",
  "desc" : "Photographs were taken of a stationary saucer or cigar-shaped object seen over North Bay, Ontario, Canada at 12:32 a.m. It made a humming sound, became \"wavy\" and disappeared. There were three witnesses and the incident lasted from five to six minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4749",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, Canadian UFO Survey 2003, case # 383" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/2004",
  "desc" : "Round object was seen changing shape and speed over Brampton, Ontario, Canada at 10:20 p.m. It made an S turn, then rapidly accelerated out of sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4750",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, Canadian UFO Survey 2004, case # 551" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/2005",
  "desc" : "At 1:30 p.m. a spherical object was sighted 100 feet over the ocean from a boat off Newport Beach, California. The came closer to the boat stopped and hovered for 10 minutes, then reversed and went back in the same direction and at the same speed it had come, and disappeared from sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4751",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2005 archived webpage, report uploaded September 2, 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/2006",
  "desc" : "A man was driving in a remote area of Tapiola, Michigan at 11:30 p.m. when a square metallic craft overtook and hovered above his vehicle. The witness sped up to 80 mph but his car kept slowing down. He came to a sharp curve and the craft was still over him, so he tried to drive faster after taking the turn, but the car continued to slow down until it finally came to a complete halt. He and his dog got out of the vehicle and ran into some bushes to hide. He next saw many lights shining through the brush that were maybe a thousand yards distant, and there were about 50 “figures” moving about among the lights. There was a \"cocoon\"-shaped object about 12 feet long, and there were body lights on this object. The activity reminded him of an ant colony. Apparently the creatures noticed him, because he saw three creatures coming toward him into the brush. These were somewhat human-like with normal sized heads, but had very long legs and very long arms and large torsos. He did not see the eyes, for they were back lit by the light coming from behind them. The man and his dog ran further from the area and hid again. The beings appeared to search for him but gave up. From his new location he saw two more cocoon-like crafts, with numerous creatures moving around them. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4752",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2006, citing National UFO Reporting Center" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/2007",
  "desc" : "Fifteen to twenty cigar-shaped objects with red and blue lights were sighted over Texarkana, Arkansas at 10:20 p.m. There were also numerous bright white lights appearing and disappearing. A second independent report was filed at 10:45 p.m. from ten miles south of the city, reporting inexplicable bright lights and moving objects. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4753",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2007 archived webpage, reports uploaded August 7 & 14, 2007" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/2008",
  "desc" : "In Val-des-Monts, Outaouais County, Quebec, Canada at 10:15 p.m. an object was sighted that first traveled in a straight line with no flashing lights, and then became very bright, next \"jumped\" up and came down, repeating this up and down motion for 45 seconds, and finally just faded away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4754",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, report uploaded August 12, 2008" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/2009",
  "desc" : "At 10:22 p.m. an extended family of 19 saw three orange-red lights flying in a triangle formation over Litchfield, South Carolina. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4755",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, report uploaded August 27, 2009" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/6/2013",
  "desc" : "A West Coast man was “freaked out” after coming face to face with a UFO that was parked on the road outside the entrance to Shantytown. Matthew Robert, a mechanic from Rutherglen, New Zealand reported that at 8:45 p.m. he and three other cars were confronted by a night-time visitor on Rutherglen Road, south of Greymouth.<br/><br/> When the car-shaped object suddenly lifted into the sky in a blinding light, he and the other drivers left in such a hurry they left skid marks on the road. \"I was changing a CD as I was driving and when I looked up, I saw what looked like a car without its lights on, stopped in the middle of the road outside Shantytown. I slammed on my brakes and my eyes were still trying to focus, when suddenly the thing just lit up and shot into the sky,\" Mr. Robert said. \"When I came to my senses I noticed that there were three other cars that had stopped on the other side of the road as well. It's weird that no one else has come forward because those people obviously would have seen the same thing I did.\" He reports that immediately following the incident he lost all cellphone reception, his vision was blurry, and his eyes were watery for about an hour afterwards.<br/><br/> Mr. Robert was driving into Greymouth at the time to pick up his partner, Charlotte Rose, from work at the hospital. He arrived there wide-eyed and agitated. Ms. Rose said he was visibly shaken. \"I just looked at him and I could tell something bad had happened, he was freaked out and his eyes were watery,\" Ms Rose said. Mr. Robert hoped the witnesses from the other cars would also come forward and confirm what he saw. One vehicle was a Mitsubishi Chariot, and another a Honda Accord. He did not have a description of the third vehicle. \"I know people are going to think that it's crazy, but I know what I saw.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4756",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Nikki-Leigh Wilson, Greymouth Star, New Zealand, August 7, 2013" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/7/1869",
  "desc" : "Around midday a luminous square body settled near the center of an empty lot in Adamstown, Pennsylvania in Lancaster county. It shot up a shiny column four feet high and two feet thick that glittered like burnished silver. It gradually faded away, and was gone in 10 minutes. It frightened the four witnesses, but left no traces. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4757",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Skylook, March 1972" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/7/1954",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. Gabriel Coupal, age 13, and another boy were out riding a horse when they saw a luminous, nine foot wide sphere land 150 feet away from them in Hemmingford, Quebec. After landing the sphere turned black. A door opened, and \"a big tall man with big round eyes\" got out. He was dressed in a skintight black rubber diver suit that covered his entire body except his head, and was carrying what looked like a \"machine gun.\" There was a \"buzz like a bee.\" The man approached and the boys galloped their horse for the house. The UFO rose, passed close by them, and landed again near the horse barn. It \"had a black cable with a square thing hanging\" from it. In the moonlight the landed UFO looked \"like a soap bubble,\" and three men were seen walking around it. Mrs. Coupal telephoned Hemmingford to get another witness, but when three more people arrived the object took off, glowing orange. It had been present for an hour or more. There was a circle of flattened grass 30 feet in diameter where the object had rested. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4758",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-42, citing Dr. Adolph Dittmar, Civilian Saucer Intelligence; newspaper clipping, August 17, 1954" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/7/1954",
  "desc" : "On the same evening at 11:28 p.m. the German military in Kaiserlautern, Rhineland-Palatine, Germany witnessed a UFO that changed shape from an ovoid object to a sphere, and then to a dome. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4759",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: June-August, p. 66" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/7/1961",
  "desc" : "On this day in Heaton Morr, England near Manchester a cigar-shaped cloud was seen to release 20 or more smaller objects as it passed overhead. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4760",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1965, p. 155" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/7/1962",
  "desc" : "At just before midnight a nocturnal light was sighted over a Titan nuclear missile silo near Oracle, Arizona in Pinal County. Air Force jets were scrambled to chase the object. The light flew away and came back, then rose vertically and was gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4761",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, September 1962, p. 1; Coral E. Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 235" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/7/1965",
  "desc" : "At four o'clock in the afternoon a medical doctor--a gynecologist--and two other witnesses saw a yellow luminous disc-shaped object, 50 feet in diameter, land in San Pedro de los Altos, Venezuela. A shaft of light came down from the object. Inside the beam descended two 7-8 feet tall men with long blond hair. They wore seamless metallic coveralls. They communicated telepathically with the witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4762",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Horacio Gonzalez Ganteaume, FSR, March-April 1969, p. 21" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/7/1967",
  "desc" : "At 2:00 a.m. Pedro Riera of San Bernardino, Caracas, Venezuela was awakened when his bed was suddenly shaken, and he saw in front of him a small being with an unusally large head wearing a \"rubber suit.\" Sr. Riera jumped out of bed and grabbed the little man, but he wriggled free and went out the second floor window of his bedroom. Riera looked out and saw a round, multicolored luminous object so brilliant that he had to close his eyes. In the morning he found deposits of a rust-like substance, and small footprints in this \"rust\" on the pavement below his balcony. Several neighbors had observed the UFO. Two teenagers and a child saw a saucer-shaped object on the ground on the same street as Riera lived. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4763",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jose Schael Guillermo, El Universal, August 8, 1967; APRO Bulletin, November-December 1973, p. 4; Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs Over the Americas, pp. 74-77; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-72, citing Jose Schael Guillermo and APRO Bulletin" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/7/1967",
  "desc" : "That afternoon in Caracas, Venezuela a physician, Dr. Sanchez Vegas, had a most unusual visit from a four foot tall alien in his office at the Caracas Hospital. The man wore a silver suit, spoke perfect Spanish, and moved strangely. The creature talked to the doctor and told him he wanted a physical exam. The being had no ear orifices, round shaped eyes, ten teeth, a higher than normal temperature, and a faster than normal heartbeat. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4764",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, September-October 1967, p. 12; Coral E. Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 75; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 866; newspaper clipping dated August 17, 1967" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/7/1967",
  "desc" : "That evening at 9:00 p.m. a motorcyclist named Alcazar in Igries, Huesca province, Spain saw a disc-shaped UFO object fly 150 meters above him and land. It was white in color and blinked three times as it landed. The witness panicked and fled, but others saw it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4765",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 49" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/7/1968",
  "desc" : "On this date a very important and well investigated abduction case occurred on the shores of Lake Champlain near Milton, Vermont. In the late afternoon at a private camp called Buff Ledge two teenage camp counselors, a man and a woman, had stayed behind from a campwide swimming meet and were relaxing by the dock on their day off. They saw a large, glowing cigar-shaped object swoop low over the lake in the distance. Three small round objects left the large \"mothership,\" which then departed. Two of the small objects also left, but the third, a domed disc-shaped craft, descended close to the witnesses. It had a transparent dome and a revolving rim. The craft approached the dock and hovered very close to the witnesses. Two beings could be seen inside the dome. They had large elongated heads, huge eyes, two nasal openings, and small mouths. The beings apparently communicated telepathically with the witnesses. They had no conscious recollection of what happened next, and the next thing they remembered it is getting dark and they heard the campers returning from their swim meet. They had lost track of at least an hour of time.<br/><br/> They never talked about the incident because the camp ended the next day and they went their separate ways. Years later the man contacted UFO investigator Walter Webb about his missing time experience. He remembered that the girl was planning to attend a college in the southeastern U.S. By knowing the name of the woman's college, Webb was able to track the second witness down by contacting her college's alumni department. He called her and asked her if she would like to come back to New England and talk about the incident. She agreed, and through hypnosis both witnesses independently recalled nearly identical accounts of their abduction experience.<br/><br/> They gave separate but nearly identical accounts of what happened to them. When the UFO moved over the dock they were bathed in light from the object, and both witnesses went into a trance state. They were taken onboard the craft, although they had no recollection of how they had gotten there. They were both given medical examinations on a table. They both gave independent accounts of recalling seeing nearly identical instrument panels and other instruments. There sketches of the aliens and the UFO craft were quite similar. When they awoke on the dock it was evening. An independent witness, a camper who had run down to the lake ahead of all the others, saw the lighted UFO as it departed the scene. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4766",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Walter N. Webb, Encounter at Buff Ledge, Chicago: Center for UFO Studies, 1994, 306 pages; Walter N. Webb, CUFOS case investigation files, report dated July 22, 1979; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 13; Richard Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 188; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1002, citing Walter Webb; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case # 349, citing Walter Webb, MUFON UFO Journal, issue #241" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/7/1970",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 a.m. in Saladare, Ethiopia a red glowing ball of fire swept through the village, destroying houses, uprooting trees, and melting asphalt. It seemed to hover in place and then back-tracked. It caused eight serious injuries and the death of a little girl. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4767",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek & Jacque Vallee, The Edge of Reality: A Progress Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 160" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/7/1976",
  "desc" : "At ten p.m. a father and son in Malone, Wisconsin saw an object the size of a small camper, with revolving multicolored lights, land in a hayfield. The son drove to the landing site and saw in his car headlights two green men, five foot seven inches tall. The beings put their hands over their eyes, and vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4768",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Fond du Lac Reporter, August 10, 1976; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1489, citing Mary Sondergard, FSR, April 1977, p. 33" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/8/1949",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon five luminous disc-shaped objects flew in V-formation over Medford, Oregon and were sighted by three witnesses in flight aboard a military aircraft. The discs were estimated to be 35 feet in diameter, and were flying to the east-southeast at 10,000 feet altitude at a speed of 150 mph. The pilot attempted to chase them, but they outflew his airplane. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4769",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 179; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. Volume 2: 1949, p. 22" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/8/1958",
  "desc" : "At 1:27 a.m. an official of the Argentine National Senate experienced a complete car failure, including his dashboard clock, when he saw a domed disc-shaped object 300 meters away while driving on the highway between Unsue and Bolivar, Buenos Aires province, Argentina. The object made a soft whistling sound. It approached the car, then climbed away rapidly, after which the car could be restarted. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4770",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, December 1973, p. 17" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/8/1961",
  "desc" : "The witness awoke at 3:30 a.m. in Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Canada to see two beings in her bedroom, one at each end of her bed. They were four feet tall and dressed in green tunics and trousers. They wore transparent helmets with the visors open. A neighbor saw a blue globe take off from the lawn with a swishing sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4771",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John Brent Musgrave, FSR, August 1977, p. 26; APRO Bulletin, April 1977, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/8/1965",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. Sylvia Hoialman, Becky Evanston, and Becky Aanstad, all 21 years old, were driving near the Lincoln Park Golf Course in Grand Forks, North Dakota when they saw a yellow luminous, disc-shaped flying object that they first took to be the moon. But it then “blinked black and white,” and the silhouettes of several little figures could be seen inside the craft. Three men in another nearby car also saw the object; a teenage boy reportedly ran toward it and the object disappeared with a bang. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4772",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Grand Forks Herald, August 10, 1965; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1965-31 (A0642); Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 676; Jerome Clark, Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1966, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/8/1967",
  "desc" : "Evangelical Pastor Estanislao Lugo Contreras was at the shore in Salina, Venezuela on this evening when he saw a disc-shaped object with a very bright orange glow and emitting a buzzing sound, rise out of the sea. It hovered a few seconds and then rose obliquely into the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4773",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, pp. 54-55; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 867" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/8/1968",
  "desc" : "At around two a.m. Miguel Bitschko of Canuelas, Argentina was woke up by a bright light coming from outside his home. Going outside he was astonished to see a huge disc-shaped object on the ground in a nearby field. The object had a dome with a revolving red light on top. As he stared at the object in disbelief a door opened on the craft, then a ladder descended to the ground. Soon a very tall man, over two meters tall, emerged from the craft. The figure wore a shiny metallic, tight fitting uniform. At the same time the object was emitting a loud humming sound. The giant started to walk towards the witness, who stood paralyzed with fear. The figure then suddenly stopped, walked back to the object, and got back in. The craft then climbed vertically up into the sky at high speed and disappeared from sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4774",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, citing Fabio Picasso" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/8/1969",
  "desc" : "Dollie Hansen of West Akron, Ohio was a UFO contactee who claimed to have been in touch with UFO occupants. She had been promised a trip in a spaceship on Thursday, August 7 that didn't happen. At 2:00 a.m. on Friday a knock came at her door, and outside was a superbly built young woman with deep chestnut hair but no features on her face. Nevertheless, Mrs. Hansen had no fear, and went with her to a black car containing two men, which was wrapped in a gray mist, and conveyed them to the spaceship. She was given the promised ride, but she gave no details beyond this, except to say that the spaceship was softly lit and contained no visible seams or welds. Around the same time a local handicapped boy also reported being taken onboard a UFO and given a ride; his encountered occurred at 2:30 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4775",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Daivd F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-43 (A1061); Brinsley Le Poer Trench, Mysterious Visitors, p. 114" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/8/1971",
  "desc" : "Mr. Boyce, age 51, was driving near a horse race track about five kilometers outside of Kadina, South Australia when his car engine stopped and lights died at the same time the car was illuminated by an orange glow that lit up the side of the road. Leaving his car, the witness saw an orange oval or disc-shaped object with two red and one green lights. The object was about 30 feet in diameter, and had 3-4 windows. It hovered at 50 meters altitude directly above his car for two to three minutes, and made a buzzing or purring sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4776",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Keith Basterfield, case investigation files, case S035; UFO Research Australia, March 1982, p. 25; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 51; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 253" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/8/1972",
  "desc" : "At around 3:00 a.m. Fernando Dedeu's car radio began to develop problems while driving in Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires province, Argentina. He stopped the car and gave a ride to a 6.5 foot tall man who was wearing a shallow helmet. The man had a long chin and a turned up collar. Then his car engine stalled, whereupon a UFO next landed in a nearby field and his passenger left the vehicle unseen. The car's door handle lay in the road, detached. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4777",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Alan Baker, p. 30" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/8/1975",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. two teenagers in Ostricourt, Nord department, France, both 17, were watching a luminous object circle in the sky, when it came down in a field a quarter of a mile away from them. Together with a third younger witness they went off to the landing site, located among some old mineshafts and slag piles. They found the object hovering motionless about five meters above the ground, in front of a stand of trees, some 300 meters to their left. It looked like a plate turned upside down with a dome on top, with alternating red and orange lights blinking around the rim. The dome was red and the underneath portion was yellow, and it made no sound. They next saw two humanoid figures standing 30 meters directly in front of them. The beings were about 1.50 metes tall, and they were moving slowly and stiffly in the direction of the young people. They held their arms as if they were \"glued to their bodies, and their legs were motionless as they glided smoothly along just above the rough terrain. Although they were brightly illuminated by a white light, they had no discernable features. After about a minute the young people, who had been petrified with fear, \"found their legs\" and beat a hasty retreat home. They told their parents what they had seen, but no one believed them. Next day the young people went back to the site. Although they could not find any footprints or other ground marks in the area covered by the beings, they did find the ground blackened and grass charred at the point over which the object had hovered. Two months later, when the investigators examined the site, the blackened area was still visible. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4778",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joel Mesnard & Jean Marie Bigorne, Lumieres dans la Nuit, December 1980; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1975-39 (A1852), citing Joel Mesnard & Jean Marie Bigorne" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/8/1978",
  "desc" : "At 9:40 p.m. in Belton, Missouri several military personnel witnessed the flyover of a UFO that was tracked on radar. The encounter lasted 45 minutes. A cattle mutilation had been discovered earlier that day in Elsberry, Missouri. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4779",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, September 1978, p. 3; UNICAT database, case 145; (2) Elsberry Democrat, August 10, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/8/1980",
  "desc" : "During the previous evening, around 9:30 p.m., author Ellen Crystal was out in an isolated field near Pine Bush, New York by herself when she noticed a large lighted object descend among some nearby trees. The object turned its lights off as it landed. She decided not to approach. However, after midnight she decided to investigate, drove near the site, and with a flashlight caught sight of a four-foot tall thin humanoid with a large head and huge yellow cat-like eyes. It was wearing a tight fitting, beige jumpsuit. The being stood there briefly and stared at the witness, who panicked and quickly drove away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4780",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ellen Crystal, The Silent Invasion, p. 41; Ellen Crystal, UFO Universe, Spring 1989" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/8/1981",
  "desc" : "A teardrop shaped UFO with a spinning ring paced an airplane off its left wing over San Jose, California on this day. Instruments onboard the plane experienced failures, but the effects ended when the object departed upwards. The aircraft briefly disappeared from FAA radar during the encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4781",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, February 1984, p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/8/1987",
  "desc" : "A security guard sighted a large circle of light over a pasture near Denver, Colorado. Two cows were found dead and mutilated the next day. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4782",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, Alien Contact, p. 59" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/8/1993",
  "desc" : "At around 1:00 a.m. near Narre Warren North, Victoria, Australia three carloads of people, including the principal witness 27-year-old Kelly Cahill, her husband and three children encountered a huge disc-shaped object hovering low above a field by the roadside. It had what appeared to be orange-lighted windows around the bottom. Humanoid figures were seen moving about inside. Their next conscious memory was seeing the object suddenly shoot away at high speed. Later, as they approached their home, they saw a tall dark figure standing on the side of the road. Later they were able to recall how they had stopped their vehicle and gotten out to approach the large UFO. To their surprise, they noticed another car stopped at the side of the road. As they walked down toward the craft, they saw a seven-foot tall black figure with huge fiery red eyes appear in the field. The figure began moving slowly towards them, apparently gliding. Kelly panicked and began yelling hysterically \"they have no souls!\" when suddenly dozens of similar beings appeared and began moving quickly towards the group of witnesses. The aliens were beneath the immense flying craft. They seemed to congregate in small groups; one group glided toward Kelly and her husband covering a hundred yards in a mere few seconds. Another group approached the other car, which sat motionless near the hovering craft. Kelly had a sense that the creatures were evil. She clung to her husband, fighting the feeling of blacking out, but at this point all of the witnesses blacked out. Their next conscious recall was being in their car watching the object shoot away. The occupants of the other vehicle would later come forward and tell almost exactly the same story: a story of abduction, mind control, and embarrassing medical procedures. Kelly recalled through dreams that one of the black aliens stooped over her naked body like he was kissing her navel. That night, when Kelly undressed for bed, she noticed a strange triangular mark on her navel, a mark she had never seen before. Kelly suffered from general malaise for the next two weeks, and was taken to the hospital on two occasions, one for severe stomach pains, and another for a uterine infection. The witnesses all had a two 2 hour time lapse. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4783",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 1865, citing Bill Chalker, International UFO Reporter, Volume 19, Number 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/8/1998",
  "desc" : "At 5:30 a.m. five witnesses in Claut, Pordenone, Italy spotted a UFO and a flying humanoid over a soccer field. Two farmers, the groundskeeper, and a pair of tourists watched the humanoid fly overhead and then rejoin the hovering object. The craft then shot straight up into the sky. One of the farmers, Angelo F., was having breakfast when he first saw the multicolored UFO. A second man named Angelo, the groundskeeper, saw the object when it flew by and hovered over the field. The witnesses described the humanoid as having a large head and a small body \"like a puppet.\" He was about four feet tall, and wore what appeared to be V-shaped body armor equipped with a luminous backpack. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4784",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case # 3132, citing Antonio Chiumento" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/8/1998",
  "desc" : "At 10:45 p.m. a large dark triangle that was viewed through binoculars flew over the shoreline at Kerlaviou, Finistere department, France at a low altitude, heading toward the east. It had lit corners and made a slight rumbling sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4785",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 18060" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/8/1999",
  "desc" : "A huge object with counter-rotating rings of light flew over Logan Village, Queensland, Australia at 9:20 p.m. It was lit up with lights like a Ferris wheel. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4786",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George Filer, Filers' Files, volume 9, number 34" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/9/1952",
  "desc" : "At 10:50 a.m. a military witness named Raley at Chennault Air Force Base, Louisiana saw a disc-shaped object that flew very fast for five minutes, and hovered for two seconds. A Project Blue Book \"unidentified\" case. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4787",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1870; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: August, p. 33" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/9/1952",
  "desc" : "At 8:57 p.m. local time a U.S. Marine Corps ground control radar in Grid Area K-3, Pohang, Korea made contact with a moving ball of fire with a stream of flame travelling at a high rate of speed: 1500 mph. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4788",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard F. Haines, Advanced Aerial Devices Reported During the Korean War, p. 51" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/9/1953",
  "desc" : "A 60-meter diameter luminous disc-shaped object accompanied by four nocturnal lights, flying near Moscow, Idaho at 9:20 p.m., shot up and away when three F-86 Sabre jets attempted to intercept them. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4789",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 30; Larry E. Towner, Fate magazine, May 1954, p. 32; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 21" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/9/1955",
  "desc" : "A bright object, the apparent size of the Moon, hovered low near the horizon near Moon Lake, Nebraska for two hours. Nocturnal lights exited from it and flew off to the north. There were several witnesses from three families. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4790",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, August 1955; Larry Hatch, U computer database" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/9/1959",
  "desc" : "Mr. Uribe, a petroleum engineer, and two other witnesses had to stop when they ran out of fuel at Sombrero, Magallanes, Chile. At 7:54 p.m. they observed a light swinging in the sky like a pendulum, and coming closer to the ground. It appeared to be a large, vertical, ovoid object that made a \"whooshing\" sound. Its closest approach was 120 meters. They estimated its dimensions at two meters in height and 1.5 meters in width. When Uribe aimed his rifle at the object it went out of sight within seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4791",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 493; Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/9/1963",
  "desc" : "Harry Bishop, the former major of Mount Vernon, Illinois, watched a large, bright red oval-shaped light making a \"whirring sound\" follow a car along Centralia road. When the car stopped, the UFO stopped; it hovered for awhile, then moved away at right angles to its original course. There were a number of other witnesses. Duration: 10 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4792",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jeffrey G. Liss, Fate magazine, November 1963, p. 26; APRO Bulletin, January 1964, p. 4; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 141; Francis Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/9/1965",
  "desc" : "At around 6:00 p.m. an astronomer and his family were driving in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York when a silvery disc-shaped object with a \"ring of bluish white lights\" moved overhead slowly to the south. The object then turned and accelerated to the east-northeast. He drove up to 80 mph in pursuit, but it dwindled in size until it resembled a star high in the sky. It moved up and down several times, then finally darted to the south out over the Atlantic Ocean. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4793",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 66" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/9/1965",
  "desc" : "An anonymous music teacher, a \"high level public employee\", was driving on the outskirts of Lima, Peru around 10:00 p.m. when his car's engine started to miss, and then stop. At that moment, a beam of light  enveloped the car from above, then levitated it from the road and carried it through the sky for an unknown distance, at such an altitude that the witness could see the coastline and a peninsula, La Punta, west of the city. He was paralyzed and unable to move during this process. The car was brought to the ground near the shore and he could hear waves breaking. Then, a voice spoke to him in perfect Spanish, and asked him to get out of the car. He did so and \"could barely make out\" little men with big ears. No UFO was seen, but there was a luminous screen nearby, on which was displayed, \"We are using calming rays on you to remove your fear.\" He then asked several questions, in response to which a spokesperson told him that they came from a place more distant than Mars, that they had visited Earth on various occasions in the past, and that they did not appear in public because that would cause panic. Asked if they knew about music, he heard they had \"something that might be considered as music, but that it had the power of raising the feelings to the highest exaltation.\" After that, his car was transported back through the air to the spot from which it had been picked up. He told his story to an uncle, an official in the Peruvian police, who informed reporters. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4794",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1965-27" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/9/1965",
  "desc" : "At around midnight the K. Denver family of three saw a UFO on the ground at South Myton Bench, Duchesne County, Utah that stood up like a rocket. The top was flat, with a row of windows below, and a room inside with bright lights. Rotating flashing lights on top, orange-red flames on bottom. It rose vertically without a sound, hovered, then shot up quickly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4795",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Frank B. Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, p. 17" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/9/1967",
  "desc" : "A disc-shaped object about the size of a rugby ball was sighted by a married couple in Grey Friars, Stattordshire, England at 2:30 a.m. It flashed blue lights all around its rim, and seemed to be spinning in time with sound coming from it. It caused their dog to begin barking. The witnesses reported that they were too frightened to sleep after their encounter. Later that evening another close encounter occurred in Weston-on-Trent, England. The witness reported a \"dull penetrating sound,\" then sighting a red light that moved up, down, and \"all over the place.\" This witness's dog also whimpered, barked, and scratched at the door in response to the UFO. The noise persisted throughout the night, even after the UFO had gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4796",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Roger H. Stanway & Anthony Pace, UFOs Unidentified Undeniable, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/9/1967",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. a bright, cage-like UFO shaped like an inverted bowl, with a row of yellow lights on its surface, flew over Grand Rapids, Michigan very fast at an estimated altitude of 5,000 feet. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4797",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Grand Rapids Press, August 11, 1967" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/9/1968",
  "desc" : "A beam of energy from a disc-shaped object caused the death of someone on a farm in Jaboticatubas, Minas Gerais State, Brazil at 8:10 p.m. On the same night a round flying object emitting blue and red lights was sighted in the suburbs of Cerro de la Gloria, Mendoza province, Argentina. Two dwarves wearing helmets with bright glowing antennae on their heads exited the landed craft. When a police office named A. Romero pointed his gun at them, a luminous ray immobilized him. He was later hospitalized. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4798",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next? p. 193; (2) David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1565, citing Roberto Enrique Banchs and Cronica, August 14, 1968" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/9/1971",
  "desc" : "Starting at around 9:00 a.m. a glowing orange disc-shaped UFO, shaped like two basins placed edge to edge, paced a plane flying from Belo Horizonte to Uberaba, Minas Gerais State, Brazil for 20 minutes, and then suddenly sped away. The private pilot was a 24-year-old man named Vicente Buono. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4799",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, November-December 1972, p. 2; NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1971, p. 1; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 15, 120" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/9/1972",
  "desc" : "A woman teacher was camping out in the yard of a friend's house in Saint Jean Du Gard, France and had gone out for a walk at 2:30 a.m. when she noticed a white spherical light that appeared to be in a nearby field. As she stood there watching, she heard footsteps behind her that sounded like someone walking on the dry grass. When she turned around, she was confronted by a five-foot tall, robot-like being that was completely black. Its head was egg-shaped and it had two round white discs for eyes. The witness felt an unbelievable level of fear and had the feeling that the being possessed extraordinary powers; it could in fact control \"nature itself.\" She blacked out and when she recovered found herself back in her tent with her husband. That same morning a truck driver named Marcilio was forced to stop his vehicle in the pre-dawn hours on the Amaral Peixoto Highway in Brazil when the road was blocked by a UFO sitting on the road with yellow and blue flashing lights. It took off rapidly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4800",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case # 1102, citing Jean-Claude Bourret, The Crack in the Universe; (2) Gordon Creighton, FSR, September 1972, p. 26, citing O Dia, August 9, 1972" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/9/1973",
  "desc" : "A father and his son were driving along the main highway in the Exeter, New Hampshire during the day when they saw a landed UFO along the side of the highway. A tall humanoid figure stood next to the object. The witnesses kept driving without stopping. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4801",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-19; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of the Humanoids" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/9/1977",
  "desc" : "At around 1:30 a.m. Police Constable David Swift was investigating an unusual fog in a nearby fog located in East Hull, Yorkshire, England. As he crossed the field, he saw three figures who seemed to be dancing around a non-existent Maypole. Each had an arm raised. \"One figure was a man in a sleveless jerkin and tight-fitting trousers...the other two were women in bonnets, shawls, and white colored dresses.\" Thinking they were drunks, he approached them. At about 50 feet away the entire scene vanished. \"No one was there.\" He drove about the area in his car, but found nothing more. He then reported the incident to his sergeant. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4802",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1977 Humanoid Reports; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1977-44, citing Robert J. Richard, Fortean Times, issue # 23" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/9/1979",
  "desc" : "Two white, 30-foot diameter lenticular discs were seen flying together below an aircraft being flown by the state police southeast of Hayfork, California at around ten o'clock in the morning. The discs were hugging the terrain, following the contour of the land and flying in and out of the canyons below, nearly grazing the ground. Their speed, when first sighted, was estimated to be 600 miles per hour, but they accelerated and sped away to the north at 1,500 mph. There were four witnesses who watched the craft for 20 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4803",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 191; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 42; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 24, 125; UNICAT database, case 47, citing Paul Cerny" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/9/1980",
  "desc" : "A few minutes after midnight a Sandia Security detail of three men, Ferenz, Rist, and Frazier, reported that a disc-shaped object landed behind the \"HQ CR 44\" nuclear storage building at Sandia Laboratories, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. One of the security guards drove his jeep into Coyote Canyon and approached on foot. He had a clear view of the round disc-shaped object at the Manzano Weapons Storage Area. His radio would not work when he tried to radio for backup. The UFO shot straight up and away at high speed at the end of the 30 minute encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4804",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lawrence Fawcett & Barry J. Greenwood, Clear Intent: The Government Cover-up of the UFO Experience, pp. 224-225; Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, p. 406; UNICAT database, case 373, citing Fawcett & Greenwood" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/9/1983",
  "desc" : "A 34-year-old man named Platner saw a UFO in Winifreda, La Pampa province, Argentina at 7:30 p.m. and followed it in his van. When he stepped out of his van he was paralyzed by a beam of light. Four small humanoids wearing diver suits with large round eyes, one of them a female, emerged from the craft and communicated with him using telepathy. He was taken aboard the craft, undressed, a blood sample was taken, and he subsequently became unconscious. When he came to again he was on top of his van. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4805",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, FSR, December 1983, p. 9, citing Diario Popular, August 12, 1983; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case # 104, citing FSR" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/9/1983",
  "desc" : "At 8:45 p.m. an extremely bright metallic dome-shaped object maneuvered over Interstate highway I-225 near Selma, Indiana, observed by 19-year-old Jennifer Irving for ten minutes. It had strange beams of light and made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4806",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 79" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/9/1993",
  "desc" : "At 5:00 p.m. a very large, fat cigar-shaped object, \"battleship gray\" in color, was observed from State Route 150 near Cherryville, North Carolina just over some trees. It crossed the highway close to the car without making a sound. Two cars were involved in the incident. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4807",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/9/1996",
  "desc" : "At 2:20 a.m. a silent white disc-shaped object with lights followed a car for 6 km near Tavaco, Corse-Sud, France. It then hovered for over an hour. At the same time there was the occurrence of anomalous radar echoes in the Central European surveillance area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4808",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 341; Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 109" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/9/1998",
  "desc" : "A couple on a terrace in Cintegabelle, Haute-Garonne, France witnessed the slow passage of a luminous sphere at around 10 p.m. There was also unusual behavior by animals, and the total silence of nature. The sphere silently zigzagged, and disappeared after 5 minutes Another witness in a distant city saw it, too. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4809",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "GEIPAN, case # 291" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/9/1999",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon at 5:07 p.m. a round white object shot past SwissAir flight 127 while flying over Long Island, New York at 23,000 feet altitude. It passed to within 400 feet above the airliner. Its speed was described as \"incredibly fast\". The USNTA said another aircraft in the area saw nothing. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4810",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lynn Picknett, Mammoth Book of UFOs, p. 173, citing the Toronto Sun" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/9/2001",
  "desc" : "A cigar-shaped object, approximately 100 feet long, with lights on each end that changed color, was seen in Calico Rock, Arkansas at 10 p.m. It also reportedly made the sound of three musical tones. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4811",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2001 webpage, report uploaded October 12, 2001" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/9/2004",
  "desc" : "\"Imagine a a 30-foot wide strand of silk in the shape of a perfect chevron, moving at a constant speed of 25 mph from North to South.\" That is what the witness reported seeing at 11:00 a.m. from Squamish, British Columbia. The sighting lasted 30 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4812",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 2004-564; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2004 webpage, report uploaded October 12, 2001" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/9/2005",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. a rotating disc-shaped object, wobbling, showing different lights, flickering, and \"spazzing\" was sighted in Westmount, Quebec. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4813",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2005 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 2005-074, citing HBCCUFO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/9/2007",
  "desc" : "A low flying object that looked like the Concorde (supersonic aircraft) was sighted in Riverview, New Brunswick, Canada at 7:55 p.m. It was the size of a 50-passenger plane, had no markings and no windows, and the strange thing is it was flying backwards. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4814",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 2007-487, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/10/1944",
  "desc" : "At a few minutes after midnight a bright reddish-orange, pulsing, maneuvering ball of light paced a U.S. Army Air Force B-29 bomber over the ocean between Palembang, Indonesia and Ceylon (Sri Lanka) at a location about 100 miles northwest of Palembang off the island of Sumatra. There were three witnesses on board the aircraft. The sighting lasted less than eight minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4815",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume 1), p. 23; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, p. 83; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 7; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 396" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/10/1947",
  "desc" : "An eight meter diameter domed metallic disc followed a car near Forrest Station, Manitoba, Canada on this day. It hovered over some power lines, then blinked out. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4816",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 113; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1947 (volume 6), p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/10/1954",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. 13-year-old Gabriel Coupal and his younger siblings said they saw a brightly lighted object follow them to their farm in Hemmingford, Quebec, Canada. It landed and a figure wearing a black diver suit and with round eyes exited, and appeared to engage in some repair activity. Mr. Coupal and his oldest son went to the field where the children had been playing and saw an orange object rise from the ground and speed off to the west. The grass was flattened down over a 15-meter area, with two tracks about five meters long. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4817",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 237; Huntingdon Gleaner, August 18, 1954; Fate, March 1955, p. 19; Albany (NY) Times-Union, November 27, 1955; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 135" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/10/1959",
  "desc" : "Two multi-colored spheres (of many dazzling colors) and a bronze disc flew over the shore of Baniara, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea at 3:50 a.m. local time. About twelve hours later that same night, at 1:28 a.m. Atlantic Daylight Time, a 30-year-old RCAF pilot saw a bright light fly from horizon to overhead at Goose Bay Air Force Base in Labrador, Canada. It crossed 53 degrees of sky in 25 minutes, then mysteriously vanished. Project Blue Book lists this case as an \"unknown.\" At 7:30 p.m. a disc flew over Wayne, Pennsylvania. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4818",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Norman E. G. Cruttwell, UFOs in Two Worlds, FSR Special Issue No. 4, p. 35; (2) Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 6462; Lloyd Mallan, Official Guide to UFOs, p. 34; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), pp. 79, 156; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; (3) Walter N. Webb, case investigation files, case no. 19" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/10/1964",
  "desc" : "On Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean west of Hawaii, an aircraft commander and his navigator (Lt. Cavender and Capt. Jones) were sitting in a parked C-124 transport plane at 5:15 a.m. when they sighted a red, blinking light approach the airfield runway. The light stopped and made several reverses over the next two minutes. Project Blue Book lists this case as an \"unknown.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4819",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 9031; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 52; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 2; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/10/1965",
  "desc" : "(1) At 3:40 a.m. an orange to crimson colored ball of light maneuvered, and then sped head-on toward a truck windscreen in Warminster, Wiltshire, England. The driver swerved in order to avoid a collision. Later than day a private pilot attorney saw two discs flying below the clouds near Nashville, Tennessee on this day. They accelerated and sped away. At 8 p.m. an aerospace engineer in Seattle, Washington watched as two silver discs hovered, then shot up out of sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4820",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Arthur Shuttlewood, The Warminister Mystery: Astounding UFO sightings, p. 59; Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The secret history of Scotland's UFO phenomenon, p. 14; (2) Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 117; (3) Richard H. Hall, ibid., p. 151" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/10/1966",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m. in Moultonborough, New Hampshire a three foot in diameter red-orange globe with a central black design skirted about the walls and ceiling inside a cabin. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4821",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Folwer, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 341" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/10/1970",
  "desc" : "On this evening Titus Lamson saw a rainbow colored UFO moving over the village of Hotaville, New Mexico. It had \"a dome, a round thing, and an aerial\" on top. It was lit up and became translucent, so that he could see a man inside the dome wearing a gray uniform. The UFO then disappeared over a ridge. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4822",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1970-13, citing George Fawcett" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/10/1973",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon four grade-school students and a police officer in Ibague, Colombia saw four small, human-like beings, dressed in white uniforms, beneath a bridge. The beings were only 20 centimeters tall and disappeared when the witnesses approached. Traces were left in the mud and later photographed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4823",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-20 (A1216), David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of the Humanoids, case 73-09A, citing CUFOS" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/10/1975",
  "desc" : "In Gilroy, Santa Clara County, California four witnesses, including a 19-year-old woman, saw a 40 foot long, hazy blue metallic ovoid with tripod landing gear hovering in the clear night sky shortly after 11:00 p.m. It made a humming sound.  The sighting lasted 10 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4824",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Cerny, Skylook, September 1975, p. 6; FSR, April 1976, p. 24; Paris Flammonde, UFO Exist! p. 373; Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact, p. 88" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/10/1976",
  "desc" : "Sr. Francisco Tejero, age 44, his wife Teresa Lacave, and their friends Jose Valles and wife Pilar Osborne Domecq were on holiday at the Hotel Da Balaia in Albufeira, Algarve, Portugal and had gone into the hotel bar for something to eat at around 5:00 p.m. They saw two men and a woman there who were engaged in a discussion, but at the same time seemed to be watching the witness’s party most intently. The two men were short in stature, “with European features but very dark.” They seemed to be between 40 and 50 years old, yet their hair was far too white in color for being middle aged. Suddenly two strange flashes of light came from the direction of this mysterious trio, like the flashbulbs of a camera, and although they observed no camera, the two Spanish couples had the strong impression that someone had just photographed them, perhaps with the aid of a minature, concealed camera. What's more, the two couples began to feel an indescribable malaise, so they quickly finished their drinks and left the bar to go have dinner. Later that night Teresa awoke with a start, and to her great astonishment she observed that on the curtains of the hotel window (which was open on this hot night) there was a very vivid luminous rectangle, “like a TV screen.” She immediately thought of the strange “spies” in the bar, and her next thought was that maybe they had entered the bedroom and were going to rob them or do them some kind of mischief. She turned and shook her husband vigorously. Her husband jumped out of bed and went to the window. In his account he said: “It was as though I was in some sort of trance, as if I had been hypnotized by someone. Outside, all was utterly, infinitely peaceful.” He was moving around like an automaton. He looked out the window and saw a rectangular thing, with six reddish lights on it, resting on another wing of the hotel which made an angle with the main face on which their window lay. All was dark underneath the “thing”, and nothing else was to be seen. He remained there motionless for awhile, gazing at the structure or “attic” with a sense of irritation because one of the lights was directed right into their bedroom. He then turned around and went back to sleep. In the morning they were astonished to find out that there was no other wing of the hotel running out at an angle. There was no building, or structure of any kind whatsoever. There was simply no “attic.” Their rooms were on the top floor of the hotel. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4825",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ignacio Darnaude Rojas-Marcos, FSR, October 1977, p. 20" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/10/1977",
  "desc" : "A man named Bogea was chased by a delta-shaped flying object through the forest in Pinheiro, Maranhao State, Brazil in the early morning hours. He reported being abducted and shown a strange city for hours. When he was returned in was located far from his original location. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4826",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 12283, citing Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next? p. 100" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/10/1978",
  "desc" : "A mushroom-shaped object was sighted at close range over a military base in General Belgrano, Santa Fe Province, Argentina on this night. The object was several meters in diameter, and had an array of flashing lights around its rim. It flew at a low altitude, and hovered for 10 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4827",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, October 1978, p. 14, citing Cronica, August 13, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/10/1980",
  "desc" : "A New Mexico State policeman saw a UFO land in the Manzano Mountains near Albuquerque, New Mexico, near the Sandia Nuclear Weapons Facility. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4828",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lawrence Fawcett & Barry J. Greenwood, Clear Intent: The Government Cover-up of the UFO Experience, p. 225" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/10/1981",
  "desc" : "Russell Matson and another man were driving down a road in Apple Valley, Minnesota at 3:30 a.m. when they sighted a hexagonal object nearly overhead, at perhaps a distance of 500 feet. It had two green, two red, and white lights on its corners. It was estimated to be between 60 and 90 feet across. The object pivoted, making a 90 degree turn while stationary, then descended and approached the witnesses. It made a soft \"whoosh\" sound as the object passed, like gas escaping from a propane tank. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4829",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Northfield News, August 20, 1981; J. Allen Hynek, International UFO Reporter, January 1982, p. 13; John F. Schuessler, MUFON UFO Journal, Novemer 1982, p. 3; UNICAT database, case 35, citing J. Allen Hynek" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/10/1982",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. a married couple and their son were driving home to Kent, Washington and were near Lake Sawyer when they noticed an illuminated object above the tree line, projecting a beam of light into the sky which moved back and forth like a searchlight. The object had four red body lights. When they stopped at a stop sign, they saw that the searchlight beam had disappeared and a new light beam had begun rotating in a downward direction. Moreoever, the UFO appeared to be moving in their direction. As they turned a corner, a bright beam of light shone down into their car \"bathing the driver in red light.\" The light and object then disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4830",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald A. Johnson, Puget Sound Aerial Phenomena Research Newsletter, Autumn 1982; MUFON UFO Journal, December 1982, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/10/1983",
  "desc" : "Two witnessed a domed disc-shaped object at low altitude around their mobile home and garage west of Flint, Michigan at 1:10 a.m. The object had two \"headlights.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4831",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, September 1983" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/10/1986",
  "desc" : "At 9:45 p.m. in Manteca, Contra Costa County, California a large disc-shaped object flew fast and silently from the southeast to the northwest. A second disc was seen at 11:15 p.m., which  made a 90-degree turn straight up into the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4832",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Gribble, National UFO Reporting Center, case # 1139" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/10/1989",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon in the Kirov region of Russia a large hairy humanoid with long arms and small feet “scared the daylights” out of the local veterinarian, P. Saitov, as he was out walking with his children and a friend. “It was making huge jumps--not at all like a human being”, he said. Saitov and his companions rushed back to their car and followed the creature for about a kilometer until it disappeared into some undergrowth. He described it as about two meters tall, with its body covered with dark brown hair, and it had shoulder length hair. Being a veterinary surgeon, he was able to determine that the creature was neither human nor an anthropoid ape. A local hunter discovered footprints and deduced the animal had a two meter pace ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4833",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mike Dash, Fortean Times, issue #53, citing Sotsialistichskaya Industria" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/10/1989",
  "desc" : "A terrified Milwaukee, Wisconsin couple doing some night fishing on Lake Michigan saw a silver, disc-shaped object fall from the sky and hover nearby at 3:30 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4834",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, May 1990" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/10/1989",
  "desc" : "Mrs. Rayna was alone at home in Sedona, Arizona and taking an afternoon nap when she heard a loud cracking sound that woke her. She felt paralyzed and a strong tingling sensation came over her entire body. She then noticed a small being standing at the head of her bed. The being was 3.5 feet tall, whitish-gray in color, and wore a form-fitting jumpsuit. It had a large head, and large dark eyes. The being communicated with a second, unseen entity, using an unintelligible language with a digital, musical quality. The being suddenly vanished and she was able to move again. Her muscles were sore and she felt nauseous afterwards. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4835",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard J. Boylan, Close Extraterrestrial Encounters, p. 120" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/10/1989",
  "desc" : "A Dutch psychologist vacationing in Spain videotaped an object that changed shaped and divided into two parts. Dr. William Heijster, a Dutch military psychologist, was vacationing in Spain with his family. At about 9:00 p.m. while driving southwest along the eastern coastal highway near Estepona, Spain, the family noticed an object northwest of them in the late evening sky. They stopped to watch, and Dr. Heijster filmed it on and off for a period of about one hour, using a handheld camcorder.<br/><br/> The object appeared to be rotating at high speed. The rotation was not visible on the film, however; instead, the object appeared to undergo a slow shape change, from looking like a \"coolie hat\" to circular. The upper surface was bright, while the lower surface was shadowed. The object hovered in one place. After about an hour the object split into two parts, which then separated and faded from view. Only part of the disappearance was recorded on the videotape. Palm fronds are visible in the foreground. There were reported to be several other witnesses.<br/><br/> Dr. Heijster contacted the Fund for UFO Research and made a copy of the film available for analysis. The UFO image measures about 3.3 cm on the film, and it appears for 3 minutes and 53 seconds. Calculations of the object's size at various distances are: at 300 meters the diameter would be 4 meters, at one mile it would be 21 meters, and at 9,000 meters it would have been 120 meters in diameter. Although one hypothesis is that the image is that of a research balloon, the size seems excessive for a high-altitude balloon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4836",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 298-299" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/10/1989",
  "desc" : "A man was walking near a housing project in Hartshead Moor, West Yorkshire, England at 9:15 p.m. when he suddenly had the impression that someone was watching him. In the dark he noticed a huge, eight-foot-tall figure with bright slanted eyes. The being appeared to be wearing a large pointed helmet and flared trousers with “something” pointing down between the legs. The creature’s eyes suddenly became red, frightening the witness. A second, green-colored entity now appeared and was asked by the tall entity “Shall we get him”? The second entity replied in the negative. The green colored entity had black slanting eyes, a peanut shaped, helmeted head, and wore brown colored clothing. The man ran from the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4837",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case # 1498, citing Steve Gerrard, Northern UFO News, issue # 182" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/10/1989",
  "desc" : "A 20-year-old woman in Gulf Breeze, Florida saw two rows of six to eight round white lights in the sky at 10:40 p.m., as bright as stadium lights, that formed a rectangle twice the size of a Boeing 747. The object moved very slowly from the west to the east, and descended to about an estimated 30 feet altitude before it disappeared. It made no sound, and the encounter lasted about half a minute. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4838",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Carol & Rex Salisberry, MUFON Field Investigation Database, case 891007b" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/10/1992",
  "desc" : "At 8:26 p.m. in Lansing, Michigan six observers, including the main witness who was a 25-year-old woman, sighted a black 30 foot in diameter disc-shaped object, with two orbs on top, looking something like a Mickey Mouse cap, over a parking lot. There was also CB radio interference experienced. The sighting lasted 18 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4839",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Rex Schrader, MUFON Field Investigation case files, case 930823C; Jerold R. Johnson, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1993, p. 16 and March 1994, p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/10/1993",
  "desc" : "In Norman, Oklahoma at 2:11 a.m. an animal reaction case occurred. Dogs barked as a huge, fat, battleship gray UFO passed near the four witness's car. The object had two square patches of blue-gray fluorescent light in formation off it's diagonal corners. A red dot of light with radial rays appeared between the square patches. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4840",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Seifried Richard D. Seifried,MUFON Field Investigation case files, case 930108C; Donald M. Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, April 1993, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/10/1993",
  "desc" : "On this evening Leah Haley was in the back room of an old house in Pensacola, Florida, talking with a male friend when suddenly a force lifted her up towards the ceiling. Her friend tried to grab her but could not reach her in time. The higher she went the dizzier she became. Through some sort of white mist she saw her friend moving about, as if in a trance. Moments later she was onboard a craft looking out a porthole. Her next memory found herself standing in a field, where a short stocky woman was apparently performing magic tricks in front of several other people. The witness was standing in the middle of the field, in front of a table that contained clothing. A female \"alien\" with short brown hair, wearing a red-gold black trimmed blouse, was standing next to her. Another similar female stood on her right side. She asked one of the females where they was from, and her reply was \"The Pleiades.\" She was told that they had bases on earth. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4841",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 2072, citing Leah A. Haley" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/10/1993",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. a multicolored disc-shaped object was seen hovering across the street in Frankfort, Herkimer County, New York. The sighting lasted 30 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4842",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, report dated September 29, 2004" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/10/1994",
  "desc" : "(1) At 12:30 a.m. a witness observed for a few seconds a small luminous sphere that moved very quickly in the sky over Castanet Tolosan, Haute-Garonne Department, France. It made no noise, and no trail accompanied it. (2) At 4:30 a.m. at Antibes, Alpes-Maritime Department, France three luminous balls stopped over the ocean, then vanished. Their apparent size was 1 cm at arms length. (3) There was also the co-occurrence of anomalous radar echoes in the Central European surveillance area, headquartered in Switzerland. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4843",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) GEIPAN, case # 1994-180; (2) Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 327; (3) Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 109" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/10/1994",
  "desc" : "(1) At three o'clock in the afternoon a black triangle spun out of a billowing line of smoke in the sky over Gull Lake, Alberta, Canada and stopped dead; it then took off at an incredible speed. At 10:45 p.m. over York, England at box-shaped object hovered over a satellite dish in a residential neighborhood, making a humming sound and causing interference on local TVs. It glided off down a road after three minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4844",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 1994 archived webpage, report dated May 9, 2003; (2) UFO Newsclipping Service, November 1994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/10/1996",
  "desc" : "A bright red disc was sighted moving low over a farm in Avellino, Campania, Italy. A circle of dried yellow grass was found in the vicinity. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4845",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17388, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 1, number 28" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/10/1997",
  "desc" : "A wave of domed discs flew over a river in the Solomon Islands, Pacific Ocean One of them, estimated to be four meters in diameter, dove under a waterfall and never emerged. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4846",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #  17964, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 1, number 27" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/10/1998",
  "desc" : "\"Cobwebs\" fell from the clear blue sky while silver spheres performed aerobactic maneuvers and made right angle turns over Quirindi, New South Wales, Australia on this afternoon. The \"angel hair\" appeaerd to be produced during the objects' accelerations. The substance was white in color, with the strength of cotton, and eventually dissolved. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4847",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Brian Boldman, International UFO Reporter, October 2001, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/10/1998",
  "desc" : "A triangular UFO with many lights was seen over at least 30 different towns in the Ardennes region of France. Over the town of Sedan a videotape shot at 11:30 p.m. showed the object seemingly attempting to dodge the camera. The video footage appeared on French TV. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4848",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 3, number 33" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/10/2000",
  "desc" : "At 12:10 a.m. Scott Jarvie was walking home in Falkirk, Scotland after visiting his girlfriend when he suddenly became drowsy and very sleepy. His next conscious memory was suddenly finding himself inside a very bright place, but someone \"dark\" at the same time; it was hard to describe. Inside the enclosure he briefly met a short humanoid, with sunken green eyes, sandy colored skin, and no mouth. It had short stubby fingers on one hand. A most unusual feature of the creature was that it had a hole where the neck area joined the spine. Jarvie has no other memories. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4849",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 2000 Humanoid Sighting Reports, case 3799, citing UFO Abduction Raw Data Page, UFO Watch" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/10/2001",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 a.m. two silver spheres passed under a C-130 Aircraft while flying over Salida, Colorado. The sighting was very brief. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4850",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, report uploaded February 8, 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/10/2003",
  "desc" : "At 2:22 p.m. a 10-meter long, silver sausage-shaped object, flew low over the roadside in Canyon Creek, near Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada. It then went under some guywires and flew off into the trees. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4851",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 18193; Geoff Dittman, 2003 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 391, citing UFOBC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/10/2004",
  "desc" : "A lighted object, circular in shape, was sighted at 2:26 a.m. in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. It shot straight up into the sky, and made the TV \"go haywire.\" The sighting lasted about 10 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4852",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, 2004 archived webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/10/2007",
  "desc" : "At noon an elongated cigar-shaped object, translucent or transparent, flew over Hancock, Maine in a controlled flight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4853",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, report uploaded October 8, 2007" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1897",
  "desc" : "At around 6:00 p.m. in Rossland, British Columbia, Canada a luminous red fireball hovered for 15 minutes over a nearby mountain. It flashed colors, circled, then shot off to the south. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4854",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 207, citing Loren E. Gross, Charles Fort, the Fortean Society, and UFOs, p. 19" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1946",
  "desc" : "On this evening a UFO crashed into the sea in a fjord on the western coast of Sweden. At 10:45 p.m. a procession of objects passed over the Mariestad area of Sweden, and a cylindrical object was sighted five minutes later in the sky over southern Norrland province. At Chatillon-sur-Seine, France whistling rockets with glowing contrails were seen on this night and subsequent nights until August 18. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4855",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "AFU Sweden, case G101; Loren E. Gross, Mystery of the Ghost Rockets, p. 52" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1948",
  "desc" : "Two boys were playing outside at noon in Hamel, Minnesota when a dull gray, round object 70 cm in diameter landed near them with a metallic noise. It spun, went up, hovered, maneuvered to avoid telephone lines and trees, and flew away to the northeast. An FBI man from St. Paul found an area 70 cm in diameter where the ground showed signs of extreme pressure. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4856",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 192; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, p. 90" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1954",
  "desc" : "Off Yoron Jima, near Okinawa at 8:55 p.m. P. L. Percharde, an electrical engineer and assistant manager of the Moeller Shipwrecker Co., and Kosei Nakamoto sighted a line of blue lights that flew over their ship at the site of the S.S. Docteur Angier shipwreck. When overhead the two men could see that underneath the lights was a blue ring with a black center. After passing over the ship it climbed vertically, illuminating and agitating the clouds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4857",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UNICAT, case 778, citing Project Blue Book report IR-4-54; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: January-May, p. 76; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1954",
  "desc" : "At three o'clock in the morning a compass started spinning wildly and other types of EM effects occurred in Remiremont, Vosges department, France and two other towns when at least one UFO briefly flew over. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4858",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Challenge to Science, the UFO Enigma, p. 129, citing Jimmy Guieu; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 262" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1954",
  "desc" : "At 1:30 p.m. a flaming object bashed a hole in the side of a house in Lawrence, Massachusetts. That evening, at 7:54 p.m., a disc-shaped object glowed and soared around the control tower at Maxwell Field in Alabama. It was seen by both ground and air observers, and confirmed on radar. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4859",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Leonard Stringfield, CRIFO Newsletter, February 1956, p. 3; Blue Book files counted in official statistics" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1955",
  "desc" : "Iceland. At 11:45 a.m. Lt. E. J. Marlow sighted twelve gray objects, from cigar to egg-shaped, flying in formation. The objects varied their formation from elliptical to wavy line to scattered to straight line to trail formation. Speeds varied from hovering to 1,000 mph. His sighting lasted 3-4 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4860",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Leonard Stringfield, CRIFO Newsletter, February 1956, p. 3; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1955",
  "desc" : "A very bright triangular object flew over Cairo, Illinois at 9:30 p.m. and rapidly flew off to the north-northwest low on the horizon. It was silent, and left no contrail. The sighting lasted for 20 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4861",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, August 1955" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1956",
  "desc" : "A photograph of a UFO shaped like a dome was taken on this evening in Mo, Norway. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4862",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, Volume 6 (1975), page 44, case # 115, citing Oslo Nation, September 21, 1956" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1956",
  "desc" : "A woman by the name of Stauffer reported to the local newspaper that at around 9:00 a.m. a bright steel-gray, saucer-shaped object hovered over the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for two hours, and then disappeared by flying off to the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4863",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Orbit, 19560903; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: August, p. 26" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1958",
  "desc" : "At 3:45 p.m. a gray \"amoeba\" shape flew by Orlean, New York in 15 seconds; there were silver dots inside dark \"eyes\" according to the separate witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4864",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: August, p. 37" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1958",
  "desc" : "A procession of four or five flying objects passed over Chautauqua Lake, New York beginning at around nine o'clock in the evening and continuing until 10:30 p.m. An engineering professor reported seeing a circle of nocturnal lights that seemed to be attached, plus other NLs. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4865",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, November 1958, p. 2; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 58; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 5460" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1960",
  "desc" : "An important close encounter case involving ignition interference with the engine of a tractor occurred on this day in Left Hand Canyon, Boulder County, Colorado at 3:10 in the afternoon. Mr. Robert Hawks was operating a tractor with a backhoe when his tractor stalled. Looking up he saw a disc-shaped object hovering in the sky above the canyon, making a humming noise, and he watched for the next 15 minutes, unable to re-start his tractor, while some apparent repair activity was performed on the hovering craft. A panel on the craft was rotated inside and replaced. Ater the repair was completed, the craft departed by shooting straight up in the sky. Mr. Hawks could then restart his tractor. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4866",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "B. V. Wilson, APRO Bulletin, September-October 1960, p. 1; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 182; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case # 114; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1963",
  "desc" : "Beginning at shortly after midnight, three witnesses in Saileralm, Austria watched 50 small glowing orbs fly in and out of caves in a mountain over the next four hours. The glowing balls of light then flew up into a large ovoid UFO. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4867",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon Creighton, FSR, April 1975, p. 27" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1963",
  "desc" : "In Warrenville, Illinois at ten o'clock in the evening R. M. Boersma saw a white light move around the sky for 20 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4868",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 8506; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 122; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1964",
  "desc" : "A domed disc-shaped UFO was seen spinning over a water tank at a car-manufacturing factory in Defiance, Ohio at 5:30 p.m. It made a hissing sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4869",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1965, p. 5; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p. 103" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1965",
  "desc" : "At 7:25 p.m. a 62-year-old woman named Clarkson reported observing two silver objects shaped like four-leaf clovers hovering over the suburb of Menands, Albany County, New York. She also reported the smell of smoke. At around midnight that same night Mr. & Mrs. De Turca of Brighton Township, Beaver County, Pennsylavania said that their dog \"went crazy\" barking at a hovering disc-shaped object that made a humming sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4870",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albany Knickerbocker News, March 30, 1966; Richard Bonenfant, Proceedings of the 1976 CUFOS Conference, p. 47; John G. Fuller, Incident at Exeter, p. 176; Jean Fuller, Flying Saucer Review, September-October 1967, p. 26" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1966",
  "desc" : "An abduction and forced sexual encounter allegedly occurred near Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on this evening. Marlene Travers, age 24, was visiting friends in the country and had taken a walk alone after dinner. She heard a sound like an airplane and saw a 50-foot diameter disc land in a field. A tall man dressed in a loose-fitting green tunic got out of the craft. She tried to run away but couldn't move. When he touched her she felt compelled to obey, and followed him aboard the craft past an instrumental panel into a \"wildly furnished\" room. She understood through telepathy that he intended to impregnate her.<br/><br/> After sexual intercourse he escorted her out of the ship, but when she tripped over some kind of a switch the resultant flash burned her ankles and she fainted. When she woke up she found herself lying in the field where the UFO had landed. Her friends had been searching for her for several hours. A doctor who examined her found burns on her legs and ankles. She brought her friends back to the spot where she claimed to have been inside the UFO, and a large indentation was found in the earth. She later was examined again by a medical doctor and found to be pregnant. There is no account of how the pregnancy turned out. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4871",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Hans Holzer, The UFOnauts, pp. 247-248; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Here and Now, p. 147; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions:  The Measure of a Mystery, case # 125" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1969",
  "desc" : "At around 1:00 a.m. an ovoid UFO with lights around its periphery flew low over Groomsport, North Down, Northern Ireland. It hit a house with light beams, causing reported physiological effects for the female witness. It followed the contours of the land as it flew to the northeast. The close encounter lasted for about an hour. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4872",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "James P. Tinney, FSR Case Histories, June 1971, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1969",
  "desc" : "Jean Migueres was driving an ambulance at around 6:00 a.m. from Perpignan to Rouen, France when he heard a voice in his head say: “Do not be afraid, nothing bad will happen to you, you will feel nothing.” Twenty minutes later he observed a nearly spherical cloud moving toward him. It then took the form of a cloudy nucleus surrounded by an incandescent white ring having at its base a dull black metallic platform, shaped like a domed disc, about 65 feet in diameter. At the same time, a “DS” car appeared, moving directly toward the ambulance. Migueres was unable to avoid it, and a head on collision took place 30 kilometers from Rouen. He estimated that the ambulance was speeding at 100 kph at the time. After the crash, a being “materialized” on the seat beside Migueres, and addressed him telepathically in French. “Be assured, you are only apparently injured…you will feel no physical pain…I am going to “regenerate” you by a procedure that is not yet known on your planet.” He then took from a pouch on his belt a disc about 1 inch in diameter, of an incandescent white luminosity, and applied it to the nape of Miguere’s neck. Migueres felt a prickling sensation all along his spinal column. The being said:”This accident was necessary for you; we will come back to see you.” Then he disappeared. Migueres had multiple injuries and broken bones but reported feeling no pain, then or later. He underwent several lengthy operations and was twice pronounced “clinically dead.” After an internal hemorrhage with bursting of the gall bladder, he received a telepathic message to “leave the hospital immediately,” which he obeyed, being transported to a hospital at Montpellier, near his home, where he was again pronounced “dead.” Nevertheless he survived. After three weeks in the Montpellier hospital he received a message: “You have succeeded in your mission thanks to our help…you can now go home, we will continue to protect you.”<br/><br/> He went home, but for three years his broken bones remained unhealed. “Then one day, all the bones re-knitted in record time,” and he was able to walk again, without even a limp. Migueres says that since his accident he has had the gift of healing. He remains in contact with the “extraterrestrials,” who have given him a “code which permits him to free the corresponding wavelength of his brain” to establish contact with them. The “extraterrestrial” seen at the time of the accident was of medium height, or less, with a very swarthy skin and a big head with a very high and wide forehead, eyes far apart, eyebrows “like scars,” and brown hair cut short. He was wearing a coverall or a pants and shirt combination resembling a military uniform, with no hat or helmet. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4873",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-59 (A1579), citing Guy Tarade & Jean Luc Rivera" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1969",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. 20 teenagers watched a domed disc-shaped object descend slowly for 20 minutes west of Bargemon, Var department, France. It came down low over the source of Doux River, then turned, and finally flew off to the northeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4874",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 8928, citing LDLN Lecteur Series" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1971",
  "desc" : "At around midnight a 30-year-old woman in the Gavea district of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil was sitting by an open window while her husband slept. It was cloudy, and she noticed an orange glow coming from behind a cloud, which she first thought was the moon. She watched a large, elliptical metallic object come out from behind the cloud that was larger than a Boeing jet plane. It hovered, trembling and shaking like a dry leaf, then it stopped entirely and hovered directly above the science building on the University campus. Two smaller objects, perfect replicas of the first, next came out from beneath it and started oscillating in their flight around the larger one. The larger UFO was silvery metallic in color but had a wide orange, phosphorescent band crossing it from side to side. Within this band the witness believed she saw oval-shaped portholes of a light hue, and three or four shapes moving behind them.<br/><br/> The larger UFO emitted a broad, bluish beam of light that fell directly into the room in which the witness was sitting, so it appeared to have been aimed at her. She compared the type of light to that of an oxyacetylene lamp. Every time it hit her it nearly blinded her. The light turned off briefly and then turned on again, at first gradually, then more brightly. She now felt irresistibly drawn to it and had to hold on to the back of the settee so as not to fly out the window. She felt that the light was having a hypnotizing effect on her, and she tried to call out to her husband but could not say a word. The beam of light turned off and on five times over a ten minute period until she finally managed to wake her husband who came over to see the larger metallic object fly away. It flew at an incredible speed in a northeasterly direction until it was lost to sight beyond the Sugar Loaf in the direction of Niteroi. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4875",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1971, citing Irene Granchi, UFOs and Abductions in Brazil" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1972",
  "desc" : "Shortly before midnight in Gavea, Rio de Janeiro Province, Brazil a metallic saucer-shaped object with two smaller objects orbiting it was seen in the skies. Figures were seen through portholes in the craft. The object emitted a hypnotizing beam of energy, which resulted in an episode of missing time for the two witnesses that lasted perhaps 10 minutes. The object departed to the northeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4876",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Irene Granchi, APRO Bulletin, September-October 1972, p. 1; Brad Sparks, Computer Catalog of Type 9 Cases (N=150), case 150; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 9641" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1972",
  "desc" : "Two separate groups of witnesses in Portland, Oregon watched an odd circular object as it circled some TV towers at 10:30 p.m., and then flew under a plane. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4877",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, September-October 1972; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 9640; Glenn McWane, The New UFO Sightings, p. 58" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1973",
  "desc" : "Air traffic controllers and others in Managua, Masaya, and Granada, Nicaragua witnessed a pseudo-aircraft silently make 90 degree turns in the air and fly off towards the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4878",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 9937, citing FSR, volume 19, number 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1974",
  "desc" : "At 7:00 p.m. in the town of Salles-la-Source, Averyon, France four witnesses watched as a silent, brilliant ovoid object flew slowly overhead at one kilometer altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4879",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 10905, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1974" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1974",
  "desc" : "Between Tilton and Concord, New Hampshire Mark E. Paine and Michael Alden of the Tilton Police Department witnessed three luminous objects in a triangle formation at 3:23 a.m. A fourth object rose from the trees, and flew overhead. A domed ellipse approached the police car, and then veered away. Other police and citizen sightings happened at the same time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4880",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 175; Paris Flammonde, UFO Exist!, p. 371" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1975",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. a luminous red ball followed four witnesses in a car east to Egreville on Highway D30 in La Brosse, Seine-Marne, France. The frightened observers filed a police report. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4881",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jean-Claude Bourret, La Nouveau Defi des OVNI, p. 158" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1976",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. two teenagers in La Linea Beach, Cadiz, Spain saw a nocturnal light at high altitude circle and enter a \"mothership\". A lighthouse then winked out. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4882",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, June 1977, p. 33" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1976",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. hundreds of observers in Quito, Ecuador witnessed more than 20 luminous cones illuminate the roads, etc; then fly off to the west. Police lines were flooded with UFO reports. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4883",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, April 1977, p. 31" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1977",
  "desc" : "In Nocera-Umbra, Umbria, Italy at 12:10 a.m. Sr. Bruno Vitali was driving home after work when his headlights picked up a shining triangular figure in front of him on the road. It was about five feet tall and not more than 30 inches wide, and was hopping in front of the car as if trying to fly away from being observed. Another man, Oscar Tega, stated he heard a very loud whistling noise at the same time just prior to the motorist's encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4884",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1977-45 (A1752), citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 170" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1977",
  "desc" : "At 4:00 a.m. three police in Casco Township, Michigan witnessed a large silent silver saucer fly overhead at 25 mph. It had two white spotlights directed down from the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4885",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 12284, citing MUFON UFO Journal, issue 232" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1977",
  "desc" : "In South Brunswick, New Jersey at 10:45 p.m. EDT a silent disc-shaped object came over the horizon and was seen by five witnesses, including police. There was something that looked like a \"radar mast\" on the object that was rotating. It rose up into the clouds and shot off toward the north-northeast after four minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4886",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, September 1977, p. 36; UNICAT, case # 199" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1977",
  "desc" : "A 24-year-old construction worker named White and his wife were driving on a mountain road in Hayden, Alabama at 10:45 p.m. CDT when a 65-foot diameter domed disc stopped in the air close by and extended its landing gear. A second disc approached and stopped in the air directly over the first one. The witnesses had an episode of missing time and could not recall everything that happened next. They do recall seeing a domed disc accelerate and speed quickly out of sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4887",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, September 1977, p. 36; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 410; UNICAT, case # 189" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1978",
  "desc" : "On the island of Corsica three witnesses in San Lucie, Tallano, France had a close encounter at 10:40 p.m. with a UFO that responded  to a spotlight shone in its direction. The UFO, viewed through binoculars, made quick jumps as it maneuvered. Two more objects followed the same path as the first. The sightings lasted 30 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4888",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 12765, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 239" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1978",
  "desc" : "At 10:55 EDT in Buffalo Shoals, North Carolina Mr. T. Mayo saw a domed disc that made a humming sound. The engine and headlight of his motorcycle died when he passed close by a domed disc hovering low by the ground. The object then shot straight up into the sky making a humming noise. At 11:59 p.m. EDT a deputy sheriff in Great Mills, Maryland used his police cruiser's spotlight to attempt to illuminate a cigar-shaped UFO he was viewing just over a nearby tree. It evaded his attempts to do so. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4889",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 23, 175, 182, 191; International UFO Reporter, September 1978, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1978",
  "desc" : "At 10:50 p.m. MDT in Roosevelt, Utah Mr. Murray also saw a silvery domed disc that made a purring sound. It had a green glow and hovered overhead, and then began circling. His dog whined and his household appliances quit working while the UFO was close by. It took off at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4890",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Maiden (NC) Times, August 16, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1978",
  "desc" : "A deputy sheriff in a police cruiser in Great Mills, St. Marys county, Maryland at 11:59 p.m. attempted to use a spotlight to illuminate a vaguely defined, silver blimp or cigar-shaped UFO that was just over the tree top level and some mobile homes. The object had a \"cloudy\" fog-enveloped underside, and it successfully hid from the five witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4891",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, September 1978, p. 9; UNICAT, case # 151; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 63" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1979",
  "desc" : "On this night in Lumut, Malaysia a group of vocational students sighted three hairy creatures between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. The entities were ten-feet tall, had red eyes, and typically disappeared mysteriously into thin air as approached. As a result of the publicity uproar following the events of this night the Technical Institute was temporarily closed and the students were sent home. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4892",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ahmad Jamaludin, Summary of Unidentified Flying Objects and Related Events in Malaysia, p. 94" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1979",
  "desc" : "Three pairs of white lights hovered and maneuvered over Highway 23 and a lake in Ann Arbor, Michigan at 9:41 p.m. The main witness was a 27-year-old scientist. The sighting lasted 30 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4893",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, September 1979, p. 11; UNICAT, case # 105" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1979",
  "desc" : "Radio interference was experienced over a wide area of Wheatridge, Colorado around 11:00 p.m. when a UFO was seen hovering in the sky for three minutes. The UFO dropped toward a mountainside and was lost from sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4894",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, October 1979, p. 12; UNICAT, case # 106" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1979",
  "desc" : "Two campers saw white beams of light shining down next to their tents while camping outside of Ashland, Oregon. Moments later several translucent humanoids entered their tents and studied the campers. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4895",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1995" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1982",
  "desc" : "At 6:00 p.m. Pat Clausing, driving on Washington State Route 18 from Maple Valley to Auburn, Washington witnessed a 100 foot long ovoid object flying at 150 feet altitude. The object paralleled the hilly terrain in a controlled flight, flying to the southwest near power lines. The sighting lasted two and a half minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4896",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald A. Johnson case files; MUFON UFO Journal, August 28, 1982" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1984",
  "desc" : "In Carleton, North Yorkshire, England three large NLs hovered over some trees at around 1:45 a.m. A silent 100-foot wide disc maneuvered in the sky, and then flew off to the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4897",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Devereaux, Earth Lights Revelation, p. 114" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1986",
  "desc" : "In Key Largo, Florida a silent wing-shaped object, 65 feet wide by 40 feet long, flew overhead at 400 feet altitude at 4:30 a.m. It had bright lights in the front. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4898",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, case 1142" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1986",
  "desc" : "At 6:00 p.m. a retired factory worker and his wife saw a large, roating, diamond-shaped object in Lima, Ohio. Its dimensions were estimated to be 40 feet by 20 feet. The object flew quite low, and passed behind several trees. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4899",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, International UFO Reporter, November 1986, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1987",
  "desc" : "A bus driver in Peterborough, South Australia reported that a bright green ball of light traveled parallel to his bus and effected the bus electrical system. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4900",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Keith Basterfield, UFO Research South Australia, citing report filed with RAAF" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1987",
  "desc" : "A shiny metallic oval-shaped object with lights hovered, brightened, and then took off like a \"shot out of a rifle\" on this night in Osbornville, New Jersey. It left a white trail as it did so. It stopped abruptly, maneuvered, and then shot straight up into space. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4901",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 30" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1990",
  "desc" : "An amateur astronomer reported that he witnessed a light maneuvering in all directions in the sky over a farm in Gweru, Zimbabwe at 7:10 p.m. It made many small, fast shifts in the sky for 30 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4902",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Cynthia Hind, UFO AfriNews, July 1991" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1990",
  "desc" : "Separate observers reported seeing five Grey humanoids walk down a  road in Palmarejo, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico at around two o'clock in the morning. They had three toes on each foot and three fingers on each hand; they jumped from a bridge into a lake. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4903",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15228" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1992",
  "desc" : "A large bright sphere hovered over a construction site next to a house in Dedestapolsanyban, Hungary on this night. It had numerous portholes and a beam of light came from a circular opening in the lower half of the object. Beings with featureless heads, long thin arms, and wearing robes were seen collecting samples from the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4904",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992 web page, case 2178, citing Kriston Endre, Hungary UFO, August 1993" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1992",
  "desc" : "On the same night as the Hungarian sighting, at 10 p.m., a 15-foot diameter sphere was seen hovering only a few feet above the ground in Cass County, Missouri. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4905",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case 1659" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1993",
  "desc" : "At 3:30 a.m. in Hayes, Moselle department, France a large orange ovoid object flew slowly toward the northeast for 20 minutes. There were five independent witnesses to the event. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4906",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 16137, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 320" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1993",
  "desc" : "At 10:45 p.m. three witnesses in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada saw several dark triangular objects and a batwing-shaped object speed overhead. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4907",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David Thacker, International UFO Reporter, May-June 1994, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1993",
  "desc" : "A man and a woman in Holland, Michigan witnessed a multicolored, silent disc-shaped object in the sky at 10:45 p.m. The duration of the sighting was 20 minutes. Each time it appeared as a row of alternating red and blue lights (the drawing shows two of each color close together). The lights were blinking and round. The first set spun clockwise and became blurred when moving forward. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4908",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald K. Ashley, Jr., MUFON field investigation database, case # 930817C" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1994",
  "desc" : "An elaborate spider web style crop formation was found in a field in Avebury, England on this day. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4909",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Fate, May 2002, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1995",
  "desc" : "Several cars stop along Interstate 80 highway near Sacramento, California at 8:40 a.m. to watch a silver ovoid UFO, reflecting sunlight for a couple of minutes; it streaks away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4910",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17360, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1995",
  "desc" : "On this night in Cutral-Co, Neuquen Province, Argentina a witness filmed a 500 meter in diameter saucer at low altitude. It descended to just 3 meters above the ground, causing a regional power outage and cars to experience EM ignition interference. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4911",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17359, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #333" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1995",
  "desc" : "A man named Brzinski was working the late night shift at a coat-hanger factory in Wallington, New Jersey. At 10:30 p.m. he was alone at the time in an aisle when he heard some peculiar sounds coming from behind some hanger racks. The sound resembled a fast, choppy, garbled speech. When he looked between the rows of hangers he saw three distinct creatures. When they realized that he saw them they seemed surprised. They then stopped talking. One was a few inches taller than the other two but all three were dressed identically. The shorter ones were about 4 feet tall. They wore something resembling a wet suit, a tight-fitting, flexible and elastic-like coverall that even covered their hands and fingers. They appeared to have some kind of face mask or facial covering also. The creatures had only three digits on each hand. One resembled a thumb and the other two were longer and located closer together, like fingers.<br/><br/> Mr. Brzinski said that the taller one seemed to be explaining to the other two something about the automated coat hanger making machine. They seemed very interested in it for some reason. It was very dark and it was difficult to make out any facial features, partially due to the covering they wore. When they realized they had been seen the shorter ones ran away very quickly in a peculiar shuffling manner, with apparent with difficulty. The factory windows and doors were all open that night. The taller humanoid remained behind. It opened its hand and emitted a strange, robotic sound. As it did, the uniform that covered its hand caught a bit of light from the factory lighting and seemed to give off a silver hue. When it opened its hand a small sphere appeared in the center of its palm that emitted an extremely bright light beam. The laser-like beam struck the witness in the eyes, knocking him backward with its force. It stung like needles and caused him pain, causing him to close his eyes. When he opened them the creature had disappeared. The entire incident lasted about a minute. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4912",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, case # 2371, citing Debra Kenna & Tom Briggs; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17361" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1996",
  "desc" : "A strange object was seen in the sky over Wallaroo, South Australia at 11:30 p.m. by a 17-year-old man. He described it as bullet shaped with a flame coming from it.  It zig-zagged all around the sky, and there were also unusual sounds coming from it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4913",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Keith Basterfield, UFO Research South Australia; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17390, citing Basterfield" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1996",
  "desc" : "In Przbylow, Poland a man saw some flashing lights in a field at 10:40 p.m. Because they were just above the ground, he first thought they were lights on a harvester. However, five more witnesses 600 meters away had a better view of the same lights. According to them the flashing lights were on a disc-shaped craft with a dome on the top which had several circling flashing lights. They also noticed a small, human-like creature standing in front of the object, but were unable to make out any details due to the bright light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4914",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Humanoid Contact Database 1996, citing Bronislaw Rzepecki" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1997",
  "desc" : "A UFO was sighted offshore of Lima, Peru at 11:15 p.m. It directed light beams up and down the coast. A number of videotapes were made of the incident. It ascends when police shine spotlights on it, and it leaves to the west over the Pacific Ocean. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4915",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17965, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 2, number 33" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1998",
  "desc" : "Six crop circles were found in a field of Durham wheat outside of Outlook, Saskatchewan. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4916",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Research Manitoba, 1998 Canadian UFO Survey, case 69" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1999",
  "desc" : "At 4:30 a.m. a witness in Montluel, Ain, France who was suffering from insomnia observed a very shiny luminous point in the sky that had two rays of light that were shining a tender green color. The light source seemed to dance in the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4917",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "GEIPAN, case # 311" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/1999",
  "desc" : "According to a caller to the National UFO Reporting Center, while traveling on Interstate 90 in South Dakota at 5:30 p.m. he spotted a huge, peculiar oval-shaped cloud in the sky. It produced the most amazing electrical show, shooting off lightning in short spikes around it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4918",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 1999 web page" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/2000",
  "desc" : "A man driving on a highway in Oklahoma had run out of gas at 4:45 a.m. and had started walking towards some nearby lights. As he was walking, a car drove around him, pulling ahead of him quite a distance, and then stopped. A man exited the vehicle and looked at him. He described the man as having glowing green eyes. Then he looked behind him and saw two more men. One had green glowing eyes, too, and the third had eyes that glowed like diamonds. The men did not say anything, but the witness felt they were telling him to trust them. He next felt an electrical current going through his body and was unable to move. His memory ends about this time. He was later found unconscious by a police officer in the middle of the road, apparently unharmed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4919",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2000 webpage, report uploaded September 17, 2000; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case # 3623, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/2002",
  "desc" : "A mother and daughter in Manalapan, New Jersey saw a shiny spot in the clear sky at 6:00 p.m. that was either silver or white in color. Suddenly more spots appeared in a formation; they had an aura or halo, like a little cloud. Crop circles had been found only a few miles west in Coltsneck. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4920",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 11" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/2002",
  "desc" : "At 10:55 p.m. a zig-zagging object with red, green and blue lights was seen moving around a farm near a power plant for two minutes in Two Creeks, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4921",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2002" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/2004",
  "desc" : "At 1:00 a.m. a disc-shaped object was seen in the sky to the south of the south-east corner of the Riding Mountain National Park, Manitoba, Canada. It was moving up-and-down and back-and-forth. It had blue lights around it with a red light on top. It was watched by witnesses for more than two hours.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4922",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 36; Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 567, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/2004",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. a triangular shaped object hovered over the road briefly in Guilderland, Albany County, New York. It had white lights at the points. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4923",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2004 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/2004",
  "desc" : "A dim light zig-zagging in the northern sky of Metlakatla, British Columbia, Canada responded to a spotlight shone at it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4924",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 574" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/11/2005",
  "desc" : "At 8:40 p.m. a man and his son saw a large triangular UFO with three lights fly over Edmonton, Kentucky, with the object flying with the broad part of the triangle facing forward. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4925",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2005 web page, report uploaded September 2, 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/12/1883",
  "desc" : "On this day at around 8:00 a.m. Astronomer Bonilla at the Zacatecas Observatory in Zacatecas, Mexico watched as 283 objects passed across the face of the sun. He took a photograph of one of them. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4926",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 19; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious Business, p. 36; Gordon I. R. Lore and Harold Denault, Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 55" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/12/1910",
  "desc" : "At around midnight in the South China Sea a bright spinning wheel was see in the ocean, close to surface by four members of the crew of the Dutch ship S. S. Valentijn. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4927",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p. 265; Flying Saucers magazine, June 1970, p. 8, citing National Fisherman, May 1967; Flying Saucer Review, September-October 1967, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/12/1942",
  "desc" : "At ten a.m. a large formation of as many as 150 aerial objects with no wings was seen from Tulagi Island in the Soloman Islands in the Pacific. They were flying in an equally spaced formation, ten across and fifteen deep, in a perfect square. They were definitely not Japanese planes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4928",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon I. R. Lore and Harold Denault, Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 126; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 55; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 396" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/12/1946",
  "desc" : "A spool-shaped \"rocket bomb\" was sighted flying rapidly to the north over the town of Sodertalje, Sweden at 9:00 p.m. It had a magnesium colored flare for an exhaust. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4929",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, Mystery of the Ghost Rockets, p. 39" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/12/1946",
  "desc" : "Over Grants Pass, Oregon an intense red and green object, flaring in intensity, swayed back and forth in a rocking motion between mountain tops for 30 minutes on this night. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4930",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, Charles Fort, the Fortean Society, and UFOs, p. 67" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/12/1950",
  "desc" : "More than eighty discs maneuvered in the sky over Campello, Ticino canton, Switzerland, leaving behind luminous wakes. They gyrated in the sky with a noise that was described as similar to \"organ music\". ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4931",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Desmond Leslie & George Adamski, Flying Saucers Have Landed,  p. 104" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/12/1950",
  "desc" : "In Yuma, Arizona a disc-shaped object with a glowing outer edge zoomed to a position directly over Main Street at 5:45 p.m., then shot straight up into the clouds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4932",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Kenneth Arnold, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 153; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: August-December, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/12/1952",
  "desc" : "In Toulouse, Haute-Garonne department, France more than a dozen witnesses saw a white disc-shaped object that stopped over the city in the middle of the afternoon. It was joined by two more similar looking objects, and then all three flew away fast together. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4933",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 129" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/12/1952",
  "desc" : "At 9:48 p.m. two military witnesses sighted two disc-shaped UFOs while in flight over Wink, Texas. The objects were described as aluminum colored, and shaped like pie-pans. They rose rapidly from a lower altitude and passed the plane. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4934",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 183; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: August, p. 37" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/12/1954",
  "desc" : "UFOs seemingly visited two U.S. military bases on the same night in the southern United States. At 2:30 a.m. EDT in Georgia, a disc-shaped object hovered to the west of the tower at Fort Benning. It flew away and then came back, but finally vanished when a helicopter approached. At Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama nearly an hour later, at 2:29 a.m. CDT, four military men on U.S. Army helicopters saw a glowing red disc soar around the base tower. There were both ground and air observers to this second sighting, as well as radar-visual confirmation. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4935",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon 1947-1987, p. 22; (2) Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, p. 284; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 24; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 407" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/12/1956",
  "desc" : "A Mrs. McCaffrey and her daughter saw an oval disc-shaped object blazing with white lights over Denver, Colorado at around three o'clock in the morning. The object moved to the east, then hovered several minutes, and finally flew off to the west. The edges of the object were clearly defined. The sighting lasted several minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4936",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Rocky Mountain News, August 13, 1956; Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Orbit, September 1956, p. 3; Alexander Mebane, Civilian Saucer Intelligence--New York Newsletter, September 1956, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/12/1958",
  "desc" : "A small ovoid object was sighted by an electrical engineer and his family as it flew to the south at a low altitude at 9:30 p.m. over Alamagordo, New Mexico. A sound of rushing air was heard. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4937",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, September 1958" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/12/1959",
  "desc" : "A 60-year-old farmer in Brion, La Coruna province, Spain saw an egg-shaped object come down at high speed and land in a pasture near a river. It then took off vertically and flew away toward Santiago. It left behind traces on the ground, and it made an engine noise that was not similar to helicopter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4938",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 494, citing Aime Michel" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/12/1961",
  "desc" : "In Kansas City, Kansas at 9:00 p.m. two 21-year-old witnesses saw a yellowish white oval-shaped UFO with an off-centered dome hovering only 50 feet above a road near Drake University. It stayed there for three to five minutes, then shot straight up, and climbed away sharply towards the east. It was gone from view in five seconds. A U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book \"unknown\" case. \" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4939",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 7579; Lloyd Mallan, Official Guide to UFOs, p. 18; Thomas M. Olsen, Reference to Outstanding UFO Reports, p. 124; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 98; UNICAT case # 640, citing James E. McDonald, A.A.S. 1968 Symposium Proceedings, p. 13; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 522" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/12/1963",
  "desc" : "Nocturnal lights exited and returned to a luminous pear-shaped UFO hovering over the Birchills Power Station in Staffordshire, England at 8:30 p.m. The sighting lasted ten minutes and included numerous witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4940",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 160; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 6386, citing Jacques Vallee" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/12/1967",
  "desc" : "In Ogema, Wisconsin Mr. And Mrs. Miedtke, awakened by the barking of their dog at 2:30 a.m., soon observed a large hemispherical object with a fluorescent glow and a short flash of light. Too terrified to go outside, they heard heavy footsteps around their trailer for the next two and a half hours. At dawn there was a sound like that of a generator, and seconds later the object was gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4941",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allen Utke, case investigation files; Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs Over the Americas, p. 27; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 868" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/12/1967",
  "desc" : "On this night in St Louis de Kent, New Brunswick, Canada a dozen teenagers reported that they saw a \"huge, black monster\" that descended from a lighted craft in a wooded area. They were returning home from a dance when they caught sight of the figure dressed in black, with a black face or face mask and goggles. They didn't approach \"the monster,\" who quickly disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4942",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-74, citing Moncton (NB) Times, August 17, 1967" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/12/1968",
  "desc" : "At 1:00 a.m. there was a reappearance of a bright white UFO, sometimes vivid orange in color, at the same nuclear missile sites in Pennington County, South Dakota as occurred two nights earlier on August 10, 1968. The UFO illuminated the ground behind a small hill. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4943",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, May-June 1969, p. 5; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Shadow of the Unknown, p. 166" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/12/1968",
  "desc" : "At 8:15 p.m. EDT a golden-white globe surrounded by a dark ring that looked like the planet Saturn flew over Gloucester, Massachusetts. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4944",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, case investigation report dated August 15, 1968; Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 354" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/12/1968",
  "desc" : "A woman staying by herself at a house on the outskirts of Mercedes, Argentina heard a buzzing sound and her dogs began barking at eight o'clock in the evening. Looking out she saw a brightly lit object that gave off bright flashes of light, sitting on the ground. Smaller lighted objects emerged from the object and hovered above the treetops. At one point one of the lighted objects silently approached the house. The witness then saw a second object on the ground from which the figure of a man wearing a brilliant silvery outfit was seen to emerge. Suddenly there was a brilliant reddish blue flash and the whole scene disappeared. The next day several ground traces were found in the same area where the objects were seen. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4945",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case #6, citing Richard Heiden, quoting R. Banchs" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/12/1969",
  "desc" : "At 10:50 p.m. two people witnessed three luminous triangular craft flying toward >E in a V formation over the mountains north of Espalion, France. They stopped, rotated in place, turned >SSE, and then flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4946",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U Computer Database, case 8929, citing LDLN Lecteurs" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/12/1971",
  "desc" : "Three women at a camp in Himbleton, near Droitwich, England heard a roaring sound and thought that it was a plane that was going to crash. Instead, they saw a cigar-shaped object with red and green lights, thirty to forty feet long, that came and hovered silently for an hour, then rose with a noise and disappeared over the trees. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4947",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "newspaper clipping, August 24, 1971; Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, January 1972, p. 14; APRO Bulletin, November-December 1971, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/12/1972",
  "desc" : "At 1:55 a.m. a huge elongated elliptical object with bright lights hovered near the ground in a forest near Taize, Saone-Loire department, France. It emitted light beams downward, and smaller satellite white disc-shaped objects emerged from it. The UFO reacted to a light flashed at it and caused some physiological effects. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4948",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Henry-Jean Besset, Phenomenes Spatiaux, March 1973, p. 11; FSR, July-August 1973, p. 16; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 16, 202, 269 & 381" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/12/1972",
  "desc" : "A disc-shaped object landed on top of a Quonset hut in Gem, Kansas at 2:00 a.m., making beeping sounds. Its light illuminated the surrounding field. On the same night two women watched as two very large round UFOs flashed beams of light at each other for 45 minutes in Gallatin, Missouri. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4949",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Glenn McWane, The New UFO Sightings, pp. 51 & 52" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/12/1973",
  "desc" : "Several in Broxburn, Lothian, Scotland watched as a star-like object passed overhead. A car's engine malfunctioned during the sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4950",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 58; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 65; J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, Volume 5 (1974), case # 422" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/12/1974",
  "desc" : "In Salles-de-Villefagnan, Charente, France a 15-meter in diameter disc-shaped object was encountered over highways D31 and D27 at 4:10 a.m. Birds in the area were frightened by the UFO, and the eyes of the witnesses hurt after the sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4951",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 144" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/12/1974",
  "desc" : "At around two o'clock in the morning police from four towns in central New Hampshire saw a domed, oval-shaped object, 40 feet in diameter. At one point it came to within 300 feet of a police cruiser on Interstate 93 in Sanbornton. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4952",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, September 1974; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers magazine, December 1974, p. 39; FSR, January-February 1975, p. 31" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/12/1975",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. J. P. Brassen watched an oval-shaped craft rise from the sea and land on the beach in Sanary, Var department, France. An oval door opened, and luminous orange beams of light shot out while at the same time he heard a loud hissing sound. Two short humanoids are seen moving around the craft on the ground. The humanoids reportedly had three legs, were very thin and were covered with what appeared to be a shell-like material. They moved around in small jumps and were only 70 cm in height. The witness fled the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4953",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1975, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 195 (April 1980), Denys Breysse, Project Becassine" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/12/1976",
  "desc" : "Calignaia, Tuscany, Italy was visited by a USO (unidentified submarine object) at 10:30 p.m. Dogs barked as a colored light maneuvered under the surface of the river. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4954",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #  11812, citing ITACAT" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/12/1978",
  "desc" : "Two 21-year-old college students were driving in Niceville, Florida near Eglin Air Force Base when suddenly an oval-shaped UFO rushed at their car. At close approach it had the appearance of an \"eye-like\" form, with a \"cornea\" of shiny black glass, and a \"body\" of metallic silver. The object also had two antennas. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4955",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, September 1978, p. 6; UNICAT, case # 152, citing IUR" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/12/1998",
  "desc" : "Five youths in Massape, Ceara State, Brazil reported seeing a huge object land near the Mondubim lagoon on this evening. Three humanoids resembling robots exited the object and proceeded to collect shrubs and rocks. The youths fled the area and notified some nearby military units, however they failed to find anything. Later one of the witnesses, Joao Lira, decided to return to the scene and saw the same object on the ground. When he approached it he suddenly felt dizzy and passed out. He was found three hours later next to the lagoon, shirtless, sweating, and with partial amnesia. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4956",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, citing Revista Brasileira de Ufologia" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/13/1909",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. a top-shaped object was observed through a night glass as it moved in a northerly direction over Glen Innes, New South Wales, Australia. Its lower portion was lighted while the upper portion was dark, and as the body of the object revolved a light kept turning on to the terrain beneath. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4957",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 8, citing Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 31" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/13/1917",
  "desc" : "A luminous globe was seen spinning through the clouds by over 18,000 witnesses who had assembled at Fatima, in the Cova da Iria, Portugal to see another monthly apparition of the \"Lady in Blue\", thought to be the Virgin Mary by Roman Catholic faithful. The sky turned rainbow colors including pink, yellow, and blue. There was a perceived lowering of the temperature, and angel hair residue. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4958",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, The Invisible College, p. 145" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/13/1942",
  "desc" : "Sixty-eight UFOs were seen over the Capitol in Washington, D.C. on this night around 11:00 p.m. Photographs were taken, and a big CAA investigation followed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4959",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 126" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/13/1947",
  "desc" : "Mr. A. C. Urie and his two sons were fishing in the Snake River Canyon near Twin Falls, Idaho at about one p.m. when they saw a sky blue, seven-meter wide inverted plate-shaped flying object 100 meters away and 25 meters above the ground. Treetops under it were spinning wildly, although the object itself did not appear to spin. It made a swishing sound. There was a red flame visible on one side of the top. According to the FBI investigative report of this case, at about 1:00 p.m. Mr. Urie \"sent his boys to the (Salmon) river to get some rope from his boat. When he thought they were overdue he went outside to his tool shed to look for them. He noticed them about 300 feet away looking in the sky and he glanced up to see what he called the flying disc. This strange object was flying at high speed along the canyon which is about 400 feet deep and 1,200 feet across at that point. It was about seventy-five feet above the floor of the canyon (and so more than 300 feet below the edge of the canyon) and moving up and down as it flew. It seemed to be following the contours of the hilly ground beneath it. Urie, who said he was at about the same level as the UFO, so that he had a side view, estimated it was about twenty feet long, ten feet wide and ten feet high, with what appeared to be exhaust ports on the sides. It was almost hat shaped with a flat bottom and a dome on top.<br/><br/> Its pale blue color made Urie think that it would be very difficult to see against the sky, although he had no trouble seeing it silhouetted against the opposite wall of the canyon. On each side there was a tubular shaped fiery glow, like some sort of exhaust. He said that when it went over trees they didn't sway back and forth, but rather the treetops twisted around, which suggests that the air under the object was being swirled into a vortex. He and his sons had an excellent view of the object for a few seconds before it disappeared over the trees about a mile away. He thought it was going 1,000 miles an hour. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4960",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1978, p. 4; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 192" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/13/1952",
  "desc" : "While flying over Tokyo, Japan at 9:45 p.m. USAF Marine Corps pilot Major D. McGough sighted an orange light that flew a left orbit at 8,000' and 230 mph. It then spiraled down to no more than 1,500 feet altitude, remained stationary for 2-3 minutes more, and went out. An attempted interception was unsuccessful. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4961",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Kevin Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 278" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/13/1956",
  "desc" : "At Bentwaters RAF Base in Suffolk, England radar returns at 9:20 p.m. showed a large unidentified craft moving in excess of 4,000 mph. The crew of a C-47 confirmed a visual sighting of a blur of light moving at high speeds. Both air and ground radars confirm fantastic maneuvers were performed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4962",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "James E. McDonald, FSR, March 1970, p. 10; John W. Spencer, World Atlas of UFOs, p. 86; Michael D. Hall, UFOs: A Century of Sightings, p. 242; Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/13/1959",
  "desc" : "Two women at a lake near Ogden Dunes, Indiana saw a glowing domed disc at six o'clock in the morning. The object was 20 meters in diameter, and hovered and maneuvered 15 meters over the lake for two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4963",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gary (IN) Post-Tribune, August 14, 1959; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: August-September, p. 29" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/13/1959",
  "desc" : "At around 4:00 p.m. a pilot flying a Cessna 170 between Hobbs and Albuquerque, New Mexico encountered three round, gray UFOs that circled his aircraft just southeast of Corona, New Mexico and caused his compass to spin. Compass deviation. The pilot reported the incident and was later interrogated by the U.S. Air Force.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4964",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1965, p. 5; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 23" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/13/1959",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. six woman travelling by car through a rural area near Freeport, Texas saw a bright UFO pass low in front of their car, causing the car's engine and headlights to die. The UFO landed in a wooded area. Dense underbrush prevented approaching landing site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4965",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, September 1959; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 75; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 277" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/13/1960",
  "desc" : "At 11:50 p.m. a red colored, cigar-shaped UFO in Tehama county, California twice approached a police car at close range. Police officers Scott and Carson were 18 miles north of Red Bluff and east of Corning, California on Hoag Road when they first encountered the UFO. It had red lights at both ends, and one of the red lights swept the ground like a searchlight. They experienced heavy static on their police radio, and the UFO swerved to avoid their spotlight. There were at least two other independent witnesses to the UFO that night. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4966",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "San Francisco Chronicle, August 16, 1960; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. & Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 162; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 61; APRO Bulletin, September 1960, p. 1; Mark Rodeghier, UFOs Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 18; Hynek J Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 92" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/13/1963",
  "desc" : "In St. Gallen, Switzerland at 8:04 p.m. A. F. Schelling watched a fireball become a dark object after four minutes of flight, and then a bigger glow a minute later, and finally explode. The same witness had another sighting (not described in the Project Blue Book file) on the next day.. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4967",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/13/1963",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. a family and their housekeeper saw an elliptical object on the ground near Molasses Pond, Ellsworth, Maine for almost an hour. The craft had body lights along its length, and there were rays that shone upward from each end occasionally. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4968",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Walter Webb case files, case # 38;Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 141" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/13/1963",
  "desc" : "A chemist in Honolulu, Hawaii at 11:30 p.m. saw a round red object pass overhead from the southwest to the northeast. The UFO \"traveled across the sky at great speed making two sharp turns at the same speed.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4969",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 141" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/13/1965",
  "desc" : "As he drove away after dropping off his two daughters Mr. Ryerson noticed two unusual \"persons\" walking along the side of the road next to a bean field. His two teenagers, Ellen Grace Ryerson, age 16, and Laura Jean Ryerson, 13, in Renton, Washington approached these two very unusual beings, while walking next to the bean field at seven o'clock in the morning. The little men were grey colored \"like stone\", had no hair, and had large bulging eyes. The first “person” was described as like a gnome and wrinkled. He wore a funny little hat. He was dancing and jumping around in front of the other being as they approached. He was making a cackling sound that the girls thought sounded like laughter. The other being was approximately 5 feet tall. He had a very unusual head. His face was gray but the back of his head had a bulbous extension with veins showing through it. It pulsated. On the rest of his cranium there were large pores and this part of his head was white. His eyes were described as like a frog’s eyes. In his mouth he had a little pipe, and he was blowing on it and making a shrill sound. The taller one wore shiny clothes, like satin. Both beings wore sleveless purple vests over white coveralls. Ellen feared that they were going to grab her, so she yelled at her sister to run. The girls fled, and when they looked back after running 50 feet the beings had completely vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4970",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jerome Clark, Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1966, p. 10; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1965-32 (A0643), citing Jerome Clark; Leneesa Garouttee, Alternate Perceptions (electronic version), February 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/13/1965",
  "desc" : "David G., age 14, and his father and sister were sitting in their yard at four o'clock in the afternoon in Waverly, Iowa when they heard a high-pitched whining sound and saw an aluminum object 15-20 feet in diameter, looking like “two saucers glued together,” descend slowly from the sky. It disappeared behind a hill a third of a mile away, and the young man walked over to the hill to investigate. When about 150 yards from the site, he saw a humanoid being 3.5 feet tall, with a baldhead, peeking out from behind a tree. He did not see the figure leave, but a minute or so later he saw a “blur” and heard a rush of air. At the landing site, in an old quarry, he found a 15-20 foot circle of burnt glass, within which were three indentations of 5” x 12” and an inch deep. The encounter lasted about a minute and occurred during a minor wave of reports from Iowa and elsewhere. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4971",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ralph DeGraw, APRO Bulletin, January-February 1975, p. 9; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1965-33 (A0644), citing Ralph DeGraw" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/13/1965",
  "desc" : "At 12:55 p.m. EDT two bakers saw a slow moving, red tinged white globe glide noiselessly over their bakery in Lynn, Massachusetts. The UFO then descended into an area of some electrical power line pylons, one mile away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4972",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 333" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/13/1967",
  "desc" : "At about four o'clock in the afternoon Inacio De Souza, age 41, and his wife Maria were approaching their home at Santa Maria, Brazil near the town of Crixas Pilar de Goias, when they saw three figures \"playing about\" on the landing strip of the owner of the Fazenda. The beings were as tall as young children, had no hair and were wearing skin-tight clothing of a pale yellow color. At the end of the landing strip was a landed UFO having the shape of an inverted washbasin. De Souza, carrying a .44 caliber carbine, fired a shot at the nearest being. Just then a beam of green light came from the UFO and struck De Souza on the head and shoulders, knocking him unconscious. The three entities entered the object, which then took off vertically at a high speed with a sound like buzzing bees. De Souza incurred a circular burned patch six inches in diameter, and he was also diagnosed with leukemia by a physician, from which he died less than two months later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4973",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, March-April 1969, p. 1; Coral E. Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 169; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-75, citing Dr. Olavo T. Fontes, Jader Pereira & F. Carrion; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 223" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/13/1970",
  "desc" : "At 11:50 p.m. a car being driven by a man named Maarup in Haderslev, Denmark was engulfed by a bluish-white cone of light from a metallic gray disc. His car's engine, lights, and two-way radio died. The light was so brilliant it hurt his eyes and felt heat coming from the UFO. He took three photographs before the object made a rapid upward departure. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4974",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 281; MUFON UFO Journal, September 1976" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/13/1972",
  "desc" : "At 1:00 a.m. in Yauco, Mayaguez Province, Puerto Rico 20 lights emerged from an oval-shaped cloud, and entered a closely similar cloud nearby. They failed to reappear. A photograph was taken of the phenomenon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4975",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Stendek, March 1973; Awareness, October 1977, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/13/1972",
  "desc" : "An officer reported that a cigar-shaped object was seen traveling in the sky at 3:00 p.m. near Gatwick Airport, England. It flew from the northeast to southwest with the rear end of the object enveloped in smoke. The smoke or mist eventually obscured the object. After 70 seconds the smoke cleared to reveal the object had vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4976",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, October 1972, p. 29" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/13/1975",
  "desc" : "Sgt. Charles L. Moody, age 32, was driving through the desert near Alamagordo, New Mexico at 1:20 a.m. when he encountered a metallic, disc-shaped UFO. He remembers a high-pitched sound coming from the object and that his car wouldn't start. He then experienced a lapse of time or memory loss of an hour and a half. He later was able to recall an abduction by two Grey aliens about 4 feet 8 inches tall, with large eyes and heads, slit mouths, and wearing tight-fitting coveralls. The abduction experience involved a medical exam on a table, telepathy, and a message. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4977",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Coral E. Lorenzen & Jim Lorenzen, Abducted! Confrontations with Beings from Outer Space, p. 38; David F. Webb, Proceedings of the CUFOS Conference: 1976, p. 267" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/13/1977",
  "desc" : "A 2.2 meter ovoid object landed in a field in Houetteville, Eure department, France at one o'clock in the morning. Ground traces werefound later during a large scale investigation. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4978",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/13/1978",
  "desc" : "Viewed thru binoculars. A silent metallic cylindrical object with a turbine wheel at the rear end was viewed through binoculars for two minutes over Villaverde del Rio, Sevilla province, Spain at 1:00 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4979",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1979" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/13/1982",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. cones maneuvered and joined a large cigar with a row of lights along the side, over the town of Abram in Greater Manchester, England. There were reported EM effects. There were many witnesses to this event, which lasted for 20 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4980",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jenny Randles, Science and the UFOs, p. 89" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/13/1982",
  "desc" : "At 10:45 a.m. a professional videographer filming the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, Washington noticed something zip by very fast. The videotape shows a dark, domed disc (similar to the McMinnville 1950 photographs) moving fast, and it extends and contracts in flight. Bruce Maccabee analyzed the images. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4981",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald A. Johnson, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1982, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/13/1986",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m. in Syracuse, Ohio an air traffic controller and two other witnesses observed red, green and white nocturnal lights flashing in the sky  for 45 minutes. The airport radar confirmed that there were numerous objects hovering and maneuvering in the vicinity. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4982",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Gribble, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, case # 1148" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/13/1986",
  "desc" : "At 7:50 p.m. in Indianapolis, Indiana a silent metallic hamburger-shaped domed disc was seen by three witnesses from the sixth floor of a hospital. It flew from north to south at a low altitude. Later, it flew above an airliner, seemingly evading detection by the occupants of the airliner. When it passed above the airliner, it tipped up on one edge and reflected sunlight. It had a pale green haze that was visible along one side. As a special note, a UFO abduction occurred near this location six weeks later on September 30, 1986. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4983",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, International UFO Reporter, November 1986, p. 13; Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 97, citing John Timmerman" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/13/1989",
  "desc" : "An 84-year-old man in Mansura, Louisiana went into his backyard at 10:30 a.m. and saw a small yellow oval or disc-shaped object close by at ground level. He called a second, female witness, who watched from the back door of the house. The 3-foot wide object hovered and moved about at ground level for approximately five minutes, 30 feet away, circled a tree, then flew off vertically and was quickly gone from sight. It made no sound as it flew, and left some ground traces on the lawn. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4984",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Hal Price, MUFON Field Investigations Database, case 890806; Dan Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1992" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/13/1991",
  "desc" : "At two a.m. in Maguayo, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico Mrs. Camacho encountered two four-foot-tall Grey entities in her garden. They had large skinny heads and narrow chins. They also apparently had no noses, no lips, and slit-like mouths. They took leaves from the plant Monsterosa deliciosa. They mumbled some form of unintelligible gibberish. The witness was unable to move during her encounter, which lasted about two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4985",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jorge Martin, in Timothy Good (editor), Alien Update, p. 23; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1991, case #659, citing Timothy Good & Jorge Martin" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/13/1991",
  "desc" : "Four men staying at a local guest house near Victoria, Entre Rios, Argentina were alerted to two maneuvering lights in the sky at 10 p.m. One was yellow and the other red, and they first moved up and down, then in a triangular pattern. One of the lights then descended onto the road near the guesthouse. Two dark human-like figures emerged from the landed object and appeared to float above the ground moving around back and forth. Although they were human-like, their heads were slightly larger than normal. Suddenly the light illuminating the object turned off, and a white bowl-shaped object could be discerned. A few of the witnesses were not able to see the figures completely, and only saw their arms and legs. Later that same evening a man reported that he had been abducted, and awakened in a nearby garden as a blue beam was being retracted into a departing UFO. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4986",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1991, case # 1466, citing Roberto Banchs, Cuadernos De Ufologia, Volume 15, Number 2, 1993; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 312" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/13/1992",
  "desc" : "On this morning at around 9 a.m. a woman was sitting at her dining room table in Salem, Oregon facing the living room with the kitchen to her left, when she caught sight of something outside her kitchen window. It was a short hairless greenish-gray figure that walked quickly into her kitchen. It stopped and stood briefly by a kitchen storage cabinet. She attempted to communicate with the creature telepathically, but it suddenly vanished. The figure had an elongated head and what appeared to be large \"eyelids\" drawn over the eyes. Her dog did not seem to react to the intruder. Twenty minutes later when she sat down again at the dining room table a greenish three-fingered hand touched her wrist quickly from behind her. The touch was very painful, almost like an \"electric shock\", and then the alien hand vanished. Two days later the witness noticed a round red mark on her wrist. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4987",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, case # 1355, citing Linda Moulton Howe, Glimpses of Other Realities, Volume I" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/13/1994",
  "desc" : "From Charron Island in Montreal, Quebec, Canada a white disc-shaped object \"moved in silence between 6,000 and 8,000 meters\" altitude at 10:30 p.m. It was seen by two witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4988",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Frank Ducks, 1994 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 90" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/13/1994",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. several witnesses including police in Salisbury, North Carolina watched nocturnal lights hover, orbit, and dance in the sky for two hours. A light in the distance was seen dropping red dots. They finally scattered in four directions. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4989",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, October 1994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/13/1995",
  "desc" : "At 12:45 a.m. a starlike object zig-zagged eight times during its descent over Rennes, Ile-Vilaine department, France. It seemed to enlarge as in descended. A dark mass was perceived at low altitude, but was lost from view behind some trees. On the same night there was an occurrence of anomalous radar echoes in the Central European surveillance area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4990",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 334; Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 109" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/13/1998",
  "desc" : "Several people in Surrey, British Columbia observed a bright white disc \"drop out of the sky\" and hover nearby for about 30 seconds. No sound was heard, and it disappeared at a high rate of speed. Many telephone reports were received by the RCMP. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4991",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 1998 Canadian UFO Survey, case #71" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/13/2000",
  "desc" : "A saucer-shaped object was observed moving erratically around a cloud in Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada at 8:15 p.m. Central Time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4992",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2000 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 136" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/13/2002",
  "desc" : "At one a.m. two silvery luminous objects flew silently over a RV park in Waterville, Nova Scotia, Canada. At 2:15 a.m. at Cow Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada a huge triangular-shaped object blocked out stars as it flew very slowly at 15 km/hour towards the northwest. Its flat side was forward as it flew, and it was absolutely silent. Electrical disturbances were also reported. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4993",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman Geoff, 2002 Canadian UFO Survey, cases # 344 & 345, citing Don Ledger" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/13/2003",
  "desc" : "A black boomerang-shaped object passed low and fast over Napoleonville in southern Louisiana at 7:25 p.m. It made no sound as it flew. The sighting was brief, lasting about six seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4994",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2002 archived webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/13/2005",
  "desc" : "The pilot of an Air France airliner reported sighting a UFO 10 miles west of Gatwick Airport, Sussex, England. The object was estimated to be 1-2 metres in length. It had a yellow color and was cylindrical in shape. It was definitely not shaped like a balloon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4995",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "British Ministry of Defense, case 2005-071" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/13/2006",
  "desc" : "At 1:35 a.m. in Chatham, Ontario multiple disk-like objects were seen shooting beams of white light back and forth to one another. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4996",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2006 archived webpage, report posted October 30, 2006; Geoff Dittman, 2006 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 504" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/14/1947",
  "desc" : "According to files released by the FBI through FOIA requests in the 1970s, at 10:40 a.m. at least two crescent-shaped objects zig-zagged past a military aircraft twice while the plane was flying near Guam over the Pacific Ocean. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4997",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, December 1977; NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1978, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/14/1947",
  "desc" : "At around nine o'clock in the morning R. L. Johannis of Raveo, Italy saw a 10 meter wide, red domed, disc-shaped object with an antenna on top, on the ground across an ice field. There were two dwarfs less than three feet tall near the craft, wearing dark blue coveralls with red collars and belts. They had oversized heads and greenish toned faces. Their eyes were huge, without eyelashes or eyebrows but surrounded by some kind of ring-like muscle. The beings had greenish hands with eight talon-like fingers. They wore something similar to crash helmets. When he waved his ice axe at them in a friendly gesture, one of the beings discharged a thin puff of smoke or \"vapor\" at him which knocked him down, and the witness started to suffocate, feeling at the same time a strong electrical discharge. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4998",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Solas Boncompagni, UFO in Italia, Volume I, (Periodo 1907-1953), p. 82; Gordon Creighton, Flying Saucer Review, January-February 1967, p. 3; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 192" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/14/1951",
  "desc" : "At around one o'clock in the afternoon, a six-meter in diameter, metallic saucer with legs landed on a farm in Voghenza, Italy. Six four-foot tall humanoids climbed down ladders, then gestured to each other. They later got back aboard and took off, flying off toward the northeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_4999",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1951, citing Maurizio Verga, ITACAT, CISU website" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/14/1952",
  "desc" : "At around noon, inflight over Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia an RAAF Vampire fighter pilot encountered a large circular light, from which 6-10 small lights emerged and surrounded the larger object. The sighting lasted five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5000",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 50; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 175; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/14/1955",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon in Dogtown, Indiana a woman swimming in the Ohio River, a Mrs. Johnson, had her left leg grabbed by a hairy creature with large claws. It pulled her under the water twice, and she was left with scratches and brushes. A shiny round object was seen in the sky across the river a few minutes later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5001",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Evansville Press, August 15, 1955; Isabel L. Davis & Ted Bloecher, Close Encounter at Kelly and Others of 1955, p. 181; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0377" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/14/1957",
  "desc" : "AT 8:55 p.m. a red domed disc-shaped object with a green dome buzzed a Varig Airlines C-47 flying near Joinville, Santa Catarina province, Brazil. It caused temporary disruption of the performance of the engines and the electrical system. The reception of the airplane's radio was suddenly interrupted when the red disc approached the plane, while the cabin lights also dimmed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5002",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, September 1959, p. 5; UNICAT, case # 553; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 153, citing Olavo T. Fontes; MUFON UFO Journal, August 1992" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/14/1957",
  "desc" : "In Preston, Waterloo county, Ontario at 10:30 p.m. a bright fiery, circular object followed two teenage girls. During the next five minutes it first moved away and then came back again. The women were reported to be suffering from conjunctivitis of the eyes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5003",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Galt (ON) Evening Reporter, August 15, 1957; John Magor, Canadian UFO Report, July 1969; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: August-September, p. 32" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/14/1965",
  "desc" : "On this day on the banks of the river in Cruzeiro, Santa Catarina province, Brazil, a little man only 28\" tall, introduced himself to a fisherman named Joao do Rio as a UFOnaut. He had large luminous eyes, and spoke perfect Portuguese. He gave Sr. do Rio an \"unearthly\" metal. The metal was given to the national railroad car factory for analysis. At 8:00 p.m. that same evening a motorist had a close encounter with a black, 90-meter-wide domed disc, which hovered silently over a highway southwest of Itabira, Minas Gerais province, Brazil. The craft hovered just 1.2 meters above the surface of the road, and it followed the contours of the terrain when it departed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5004",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Baltimore Sun, August 16, 1965; John Keel, Strange Creatures From Time and Space, p. 151; (2) Irene Granchi, UFO Abductions and Reports from Brazil, p. 39" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/14/1965",
  "desc" : "At around 10:00 p.m. two youngsters, Marc & Luc Lafreniere, were in their home in Ville Lemoyne, Quebec, Canada when a strong light attracted them to the window. Looking outside they saw a large oval-shaped craft floating just above the ground. A tall humanoid figure with long dangling arms, and wearing a silvery jumpsuit, stood in front of the craft. The being walked towards the house and touched the front door briefly, and then returned to the craft, while the terrified witnesses hid in their room. They did not dare look to see the craft or the alien depart. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5005",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1965 Humanoid Contact Database, citing Marc Leduc, CASUFO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/14/1965",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. five people driving in a car in Salto, Uruguay heard a loud hum and saw a UFO land directly in front of their car, causing the engine to stall. Its brilliant white luminescence changed colors from red to yellow and green. The object itself, a leaden metallic color, stood nine feet high and was as wide as the road. Three beings inside the craft, who looked human, were illuminated by an interior green light and could be seen moving around inside the craft. Finally, with a burst of orange flame, the object rose vertically into the sky and vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5006",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1965-35, citing Donald Hanlon, in Charles Bowen (editor), The Humanoids" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/14/1967",
  "desc" : "Two days after the St. Louis de Kent humanoid encounter in New Brunswick, Canada an unidentified woman from St. Charles, New Brunswick reported sighting a similar figure in the woods near the same road. The Richibucto RCMP searched the area. Although they located a man dressed in black, he had was no apparent connection with the encounters. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5007",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-76, citing Royal Canadian Mounted Police" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/14/1971",
  "desc" : "Rota, Cadiz province, Spain. At around eight o'clock in the evening six witnesses, including a 46-year-old woman, watched as a two-meter long cigar-shaped object descended to only 11 meters altitude near the shoreline, then divided into two parts. One part rose into the sky, while the other dropped down into the sea. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5008",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente Juan Ballester-Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case # 144, citing field investigator Jose Ruesga" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/14/1973",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon at 1:35 p.m. in Greensburg, Pennsylvania at the Greengate Mall two men taking a short-cut behind the Mall observed a huge, gorilla-like creature run across the railroad tracks. The creature was said to be about 40 feet away, and the presence of a strong odor at the same time was noted. A bloodhound team searched the area, but found nothing. A cigar-shaped UFO was seen in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that same night at 9:35 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5009",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Stan Gordon, on-site investigations, MUFON 1974 UFO Symposium Proceedings, p. 136; John Green, Sasquatch:  The Apes Among Us, p. 260" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/14/1974",
  "desc" : "A police officer named Noel with another man in a boat on Lake Winnepausaukee near Laconia, New Hampshire took a photograph of three UFOs that appeared to be at only 60 feet altitude above the lake. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5010",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Saga UFO Report, March 1975, p. 50; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers magazine, December 1974, p. 39; George D. Fawcett, FSR, January-February 1975, p. 31" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/14/1975",
  "desc" : "An Air National Guard helicopter pilot flying in the air at 9:35 p.m. and in communication with several air traffic controllers at Stockton Memorial Airport, San Joaquin County, California were all witnesses to a disc-shaped object emitting a bright orange light, which hovered and performed aerobatics, and later became dark red when the object climbed away at a high speed. The sighting lasted five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5011",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Cerny, Skylook, February 1976, p. 16; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 19, 122" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/14/1976",
  "desc" : "At around five o'clock in the afternoon, two boys with a dog on a farm in El Fundo, the Dominican Republic, saw a robot-like being dressed in black pants and a red sweater. The creature had scaly skin with a yellowish-green skin tone, curly blond hair, and walked stiffly. the dog barked furiously at the being. A black sphere rolled behind some underbrush and disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5012",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Leonte N. Objio, APRO Bulletin, January 1982, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/14/1983",
  "desc" : "Two women in a car driving on I-695 west of Baltimore, Maryland experienced an hour of missing time and were detoured from their usual route home. When they recovered  their awareness of events, they saw a domed saucer-shaped object with windows hovering at 50 feet altitude near their home. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5013",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 13912; APRO Bulletin, January 1984, p. 1; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions:  The Measure of a Mystery.  Volume 2: Catalogue of Cases, case # 28" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/14/1984",
  "desc" : "On this night in Tom Price, Western Australia a tourist saw a UFO with red, green, and blue flashing lights apparently land on a nearby hill. He got out of his car, walked up the hill, and saw two lights hovering in the air. When he turned around and walked back to his car, one of the lights followed him back to car. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5014",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Doris Graziano, APRO Bulletin, February 1985, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/14/1989",
  "desc" : "A domed, disc-shaped object was sighted over Gulf Breeze, Florida at 9:20 p.m. by a man and a woman. The upper portion of the object glowed white, while a ring of red and green lights on the bottom flashed sequentially. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5015",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON CD-ROM Database of Field Investigations, case # 900323, field investigator Arthur Hufford" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/14/1991",
  "desc" : "At two o'clock in the morning two gray humanoid beings were seen taking leaves from a plant on the balcony of a home in Maguayo, Puerto Rico. They made mumbling sounds, and then walked to a nearby lake. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5016",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15541" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/14/1992",
  "desc" : "While driving home on a clear night at around 10:15 p.m. on US Highway 22 in Homer City, near Blairsville, Pennsylvania several separate motorists saw lights flashing neaby in the sky. Next, a large silent silvery triangular object flew over the road at an altitude of only 150 feet above the cars. Fuses were blown on the car clock/radio of the main reporting witnesses' car, occupied by two 35-year-old women. The craft was described as sixty feet wide with a silvery beamed understructure. The entire close encounter event lasted more than 15 minutes. The craft made several sharp turns, and then shot out of sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5017",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON CD-ROM Database of Field Investigations, case # 921101E, field investigator Keith Bastianini; Donald M. Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1992, p. 18; Jeff Himler, in Timothy Good (editor), Alien Update, p. 279; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 33" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/14/1993",
  "desc" : "Thirty people at a barbecue near Bristol, Avon, England saw and photographed a wildly maneuvering set of nocturnal lights at 6:00 p.m. They were also seen at Hartcliffe. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5018",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 16088; UFO Newsclipping Service, December 1993" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/14/1993",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. three people in Saint Gaudens, Haute-Garrone, France sighted a red point of light of large size, which appeared ovoid through binoculars. It had reddish-orange flames or beams coming from its interior like three pencils of light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5019",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "GEIPAN, case # 143" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/14/1994",
  "desc" : "At 12:20 a.m. in Anmore, West Virginia a neon green, lens-shaped object trailed a red stream behind it as it passed overhead and landed remotely in the nearby hills. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5020",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Teets, West Virginia UFOs: Close Encounters in the Mountain State, p. 170" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/14/1994",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. several independent observers in a car and on a train near Kidlington, Oxfordshire, England saw some brilliant blue and white nocturnal lights in the sky. A crop circle was later found in the vicinity. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5021",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 16431; UFO Newsclipping Service, issue # 306, January 1995" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/14/1998",
  "desc" : "Around 9 p.m. a couple in Hastings, East Sussex, England spotted a UFO that was triangle shaped at first, but later changed to an oval shape. The object displayed lights that changed color and pattern. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5022",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Curt Sutherly, UFO Mysteries: A Reporter Seeks the Truth, p. 204" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/14/1999",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. Sr. Attilio B. of Bassano del Grappa, Italy had gone out to the field next to his home in order to relieve himself when he noticed some nearby multicolored lights coming from a field behind him. Investigating more closely, he saw a very large circular object hovering about two meters off the ground. The craft was somewhat turtle shaped, and was about 30 meters in diameter. The top part of the object was completely transparent, so much so that it appeared almost \"invisible\". The lower part consisted of a green platform that had a hollow central section, like a donut. He could not see any instruments inside the craft, but he could see five occupants inside a well-lit white dome. He described them as short in stature, about 80 cm tall, with large heads. According to the witness, their heads somewhat resembled those of donkeys, because they had extremely long faces and their heads were covered with short black, curly hair. They had large round black eyes about 5 cm in diameter that were very close together. Their noses were large and \"potato\" like. Their mouths were large and wide, resembling those of a monkey, with large meaty lips. On each side of their heads were two large pointy ears, like those of a wolf. Their skin was light brown in color and their hands had six digits. As the witness watched, one of the humanoids made a gesture, which he interpreted as a salute. The humanoids wore tight-fitting yellow outfits that went up to their short necks. Their footgear resembled pointy sandals, similar to those worn by \"Gondoliers.\" He continued his observation, feeling a sense of \"joy and tranquility.\" He believed that the humanoids were gentle and kind. One of the humanoids seemed to be counting some yellow paper-like objects resembling banknotes. The whole incident unfolded in complete silence. After about a minute and a half, the object lifted up vertically, disappearing from the area at very high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5023",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1999 Humanoid Reports database, citing Antonio Chiumiento" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/14/2001",
  "desc" : "Starting at 10:45 p.m. and for the next 15 minutes, twelve white objects were seen performing maneuvers over Strathroy, Ontario, Canada. They were first seen in a triangle, which then formed into a circle, and they performed aerial aerobatics for the next several minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5024",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2001 Canadian UFO Survey Report, case # 235, citing National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/14/2007",
  "desc" : "Orange \"V\" shaped lights flew overhead in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma without making a sound at around 1 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5025",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2007 webpage, report uploaded August 14, 2007" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/14/2009",
  "desc" : "A huge triangle-shaped object with spectacular lights was seen zooming from the horizon in Chebanse, Iroquis County, Illinois at around 10 p.m. According to the witness, it was at a low altitude,\"just about 12 feet above the ground,\" and came as close as 500 feet away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5026",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2009 webpage, report uploaded August 27, 2009" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/15/1663",
  "desc" : "At noon on this day a large ball of fire, 45 meters in diameter, descended toward Lake Robozero, Bieloziero, Russia. Two beams of light came from the object and was directed onto fisherman in a boat on the lake. The water in the lake was illuminated to a depth of 30 feet. The fisherman were burned by the heat from the beams, and the water became covered with a \"rust\" material. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5027",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, pp. 54-55; John W. Spencer, World Atlas of UFOs, p. 128 ; Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 135" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/15/1948",
  "desc" : "In the early afternoon many people in Phoenix, Arizona witnessed four silver disc-shaped objects that flew fast from east to west, then flipped in sequence. Three of the objects were seen again later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5028",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 208,  citing MUFON; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1341, citing Ronald D. Story, Encyclopedia of UFOs, p. 17" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/15/1951",
  "desc" : "Five witnesses including an engineer watched maneuvering disc-shaped UFOs in Grant County, New Mexico at around 10:45 a.m. They first saw two disc-shaped objects that swooped down at a 45 degree angle and entered a cloud, next hovered for a short while, and then three objects emerged from the cloud, leaving behind a vapor trail. They went from hovering to speeding off in excess of 500 mph instantaneously, and had portholes or orifices below the rim line. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5029",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "letter to Edward Sullivan, Civilian Saucer Intelligence--Los Angeles from one of the witnesses, dated March 2, 1952" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/15/1954",
  "desc" : "At 10:20 p.m. USAF Major W. J. Davis and Captain R. D. Sauers were flying a U.S. Air Force C-47 transport plane over San Marcos AFB, Texas when they sighted a dark blue oblong object that paced the C-47, veered away, then crossed in front of it. The incident lasted five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5030",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 24; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: June-August, p. 77" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/15/1957",
  "desc" : "In Atchison, Kansas around 9:00 p.m. three women watched four small discs, estimated to be only five centimeters thick, dart and maneuver around the sky for 30 minutes, then hide from an airplane that passed overhead. They were described as glowing, and flew off to the southeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5031",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Atkinson (KS) Globe, August 16, 1957; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: August-September, p. 32" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/15/1960",
  "desc" : "In Lisbon, Portugal at 10:00 p.m. a luminous yellow, cigar-shaped object flew by the city at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5032",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Victor Lourenco, PORTUCAT, case # 72, citing the newspaper O Seculo" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/15/1964",
  "desc" : "At 1:20 a.m. in New York City, New York Mr. S. F. D'Alessandro watched a 10' x 5' bullet-shaped object with wavy lines on the rounded front part and six pipes along the straight rear portion fly through the sky, making a \"whishhh\" sound. The witness's dog growled during the sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5033",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/15/1964",
  "desc" : "At 8:15 a.m. E. J. Haug of the San Francisco Orchestra and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and C. R. Bubb, a high school mathematics teacher, sighted three UFOs while vacationing at Yosemite National Park, California. The three bright silver, round objects flew in a stack formation at a high speed, changing positions within the formation. The sound of rushing air was heard during the 3-4 seconds that the sighting lasted. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5034",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/15/1965",
  "desc" : "At 5:00 p.m. two large orange spheres zig-zagged over a pasture in Pitlochry, Tayside, Scotland, causing the livestock to panic. There were several witnesses, and the sighting lasted for an hour. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5035",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 6880, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/15/1965",
  "desc" : "On a highway in Salto, Uruguay at 11:00 p.m. five people in a car heard a loud hum and then saw a UFO land directly in front of their car, stalling the car's engine. Its brilliant white luminescent glow changed to red, then to yellow, and then to green. The object itself, a leaden color, was nine feet in height and as wide as the road. Three human-looking figures could be seen moving inside the UFO, illuminated by a green light. Finally, with a burst of orange flame, the object rose vertically and vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5036",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 113; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1965-35 (A0646), citing Donald Hanlon, in Charles Bowen (editor), The Humanoids, p. 42" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/15/1965",
  "desc" : "An hour later, at 11:00 p.m. EDT, a domed disc hovered 100 feet over the lake in Salem, New Hampshire. The dome had a central mast and its rim glowed red and yellow, and it was making a humming sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5037",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 333" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/15/1966",
  "desc" : "At around 2:00 a.m. Mr. & Mrs. Palmer in Wood Green, outside of London, England had a ten minute close encounter with a disc-shaped object that caused lasting physiological effects and left ground traces on the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5038",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Antonio Ribera, Flying Saucer Review, November-December 1966, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/15/1967",
  "desc" : "A young boy on a farm near Port Perry, Durham county, Ontario, Canada heard a loud oscillating noise at 7:30 a.m., and went over a hill in the direction of the sound to investigate. On the other side he saw what appeared to be a landed disc-shaped craft with four metallic legs, but instead of resting on the landing gear it was actually hovering just above the ground. On a platform around its perimeter were seated eight to ten little men about three feet tall, who wore tight fitting brown uniforms. A circular depression 12 feet in diameter was later found on the ground at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5039",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A1562, citing John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants and Critters" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/15/1968",
  "desc" : "A married couple with a 5-year-old son were driving between Villaverde and Brenes, Sevilla province, Spain at 12:30 a.m. when they saw a landed UFO by the side of the road. They said it resembled a small bus with windows and luminous portholes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5040",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case # 63, citing ABC Andalusia, September 1, 1968" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/15/1968",
  "desc" : "In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil a six meter in diameter hat-shaped disc hovered five meters over a field at 4:00 a.m., 100 meters away. It had three rods or antennae that were pointing up, as well as portholes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5041",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Irene Granchi, UFO Abductions and Reports from Brazil, p. 64" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/15/1968",
  "desc" : "A silent, dazzling blood-red globe of light was seen hovering and pulsating at treetop level in Cambridge, Massachusetts at just after ten o'clock in the morning. It was described as the apparent size of a full moon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5042",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP files, on-site investigation by Walter N. Webb" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/15/1970",
  "desc" : "A man named Rodrigues had a 15 minute close encounter with a Saturn-shaped object at 9:00 p.m. in Marilia, Sao Paulo, Brazil. The object followed his car for several miles. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5043",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jose Arnaldo, Phenomenes Spatiaux, March 1971, p. 22" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/15/1970",
  "desc" : "The witness, who was staying at his parents home that night, felt a strange compulsion to go out and drive to nearby Lake Michigan in order to watch the sky. He had arrived at the shore near Good Hart, Michigan at around 10:30 p.m. when a very bright light caught his eye. It seemed to have a descending trajectory, and he discounted any mundane explanation for what he saw. Watching through a telescope, he realized that the craft had orange, yellow, green and blue indigo lights. He could now see a large disc-shaped outline that glided lower towards his position. He saw a very brightly lit, large cartouche-shaped window. Inside he caught a glimpse of some figures who seemed to be peering over a console or instrument panel. The craft descended silently behind a rise about 100 yards from the witness. It hovered for a moment, then settled down on the beach.<br/><br/> For 15-20 minutes he saw no movement around the object, and so, curious, he walked towards it. The air around the UFO felt warm. He stopped about 50 feet from the huge object and heard a metallic sound. By the faint light available he saw a ramp come snaking out of the side of the ship toward him. The ramp sloped up to the blank hull. There was no opening visible, just a long ramp like a tongue sticking out from the side and burying itself in the sand just ahead of the witness. Without giving it much thought he walked up the ramp, and as he approached the hull seemed to dissolve ahead of him. He walked through an opening that appeared in his path. The interior of the ship resembled terra-cotta stone, and there was a soft illumination that emanated from the walls. It was comfortably cool inside and the air smelled of sage and cinnamon. He was in a corridor that stretched ahead of him in both directions until it disappeared beyond inside walls. Various small openings with little handles and knobs were situated at what appeared to be random locations along the corridor. He walked to his left down the corridor, the aroma of sage and cinnamon pervasive and persisting. He soon found a door and realized that the passage behind him was closing itself off into a door as well.<br/><br/> He walked into what appeared to be a central core of the object. Moments later he came upon an improbably placed viewing plate in which he could see the south end of Lake Michigan and lights from the nearby Big Rock Nuclear Power Plant. As he spoke to himself, his voice echoed strangely through the confines of the ship. He noticed to his right a view plate. He caught a glance through the darkened glass of several creatures that seemed to be at the controls. He looked inside the control room and saw five figures all with their backs to him. The figures were humanoid in form with large heads. They seemed to be occupied with a series of procedures. The five were all dressed in a similar style. The outfits were form-fitted, and tended to give off a bluish glow. The middle figure turned slowly to face him. The eyes of the humanoid were much larger than a human's and spread farther around the sides of the head. No nose was visible, with flat cheekbones, lending a somewhat rotund appearance to the face .<br/><br/> At one point the witness saw himself in his own mind, apparently the way the creatures perceived him. The beings communicated via telepathy and he was escorted into another room where he was sat in a chair with knobs and controls in front of it. There he saw 3-D images flash through his mind at very high speed. At one point the aliens brought him a small cube-shaped container that contained a dark blue liquid, which he was told to drink. The aliens spoke among each other in a strange singsong language. He was told that, among other things, that the speed of light was \"imaginary.\" He received the impression that the craft was impossibly larger inside than what it looked like from the outside. The aliens told him that their main interest in coming to earth was water. He was eventually deposited back at the same spot on the beach where he was initially picked up. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5044",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1970, citing Michigan Ufology Central" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/15/1971",
  "desc" : "On a clear night beginning at 11:20 p.m. two men, a mathematics teacher and an engineer, watched a UFO maneuver over Tynemouth, Tyne & Wear, England for three hours through a telescope. Mr. Von Metz and Mr. O'Brady-Jones reported that the object was yellow at the center with red tips, and surrounded by a blue haze. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5045",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "M. W. Von Metz, FSR Case Histories, December 1971, p. 12; Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, January 1972, p. 15, citing the Sunday Express, August 22, 1971" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/15/1974",
  "desc" : "On this clear night a WBZ newscaster and several others saw a large, bluish-green cigar-shaped UFO hovering over Lake Winnipesaukee from Wolfeboro, Carroll County, New Hampshire. Their sighting lasted for 15-20 minutes. At 11:00 p.m. a large cigar-shaped UFO was also sighted by four witnesses in nearby Gilford, Belknap County, New Hampshire. The object was estimated to be about 300 feet long and the sighting lasted 40 minutes.  ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5046",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers magazine, December 1974, p. 39; George D. Fawcett, FSR, January 1975, p. 31; (2) Mr. Yale, CUFOS files, letter dated September 16, 1974" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/15/1975",
  "desc" : "During a rainstorm at 12:10 a.m. a domed disc with a ring of lights was seen at close range in Blackburn, Lancashireshire, England. It moved slowly and silently. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5047",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Bernard Delair, Northern Network News, July 1975, p. 10; Awareness, January 1976, p. 24" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/15/1976",
  "desc" : "Five witnesses, including a Mrs. Lucas, age 25, saw a domed oval-shaped UFO under some trees in a nearby creek bed in Connersville, Indiana at 10:55 p.m. It was a mostly dark object with a wide band of light. As it flew off to the northeast, and turned on green and red revolving lights around its middle. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5048",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 65" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/15/1978",
  "desc" : "In La Paz, Bolivia a buzzing sound woke the male witness up on this night. He looked out from his house and saw a nearly featureless, silver fuselage hovering in the sky, glowing a luminous green color. It reportedly had portholes. The sighting lasted for more than two hours. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5049",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 12769, citing UFO Roundup, Volume 2, number 35" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/15/1979",
  "desc" : "A short humanoid with long arms was seen on the roadside of Highway D134 in France at 11:00 p.m. A man driving near the village of Lussac in Charente-Maritime department, France suddenly saw the short humanoid standing on the roadway, completely illuminated by his vehicle's headlights. The being raised its long arms and at this point the car's engine stalled. It was wearing a tight fitting outfit with a transparent helmet. The being then quickly jumped into the bushes and disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5050",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1981; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case # 1733, citing Denys Breysse, Project Becassine" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/15/1981",
  "desc" : "Twenty farm laborers returning from work at 6:00 p.m. saw a fireball rolling across the grounds of the forestry station in La Rochelle, nine kilometers from Mutare, Zimbabwe. Three humanoid entities wearing shiny overalls were seen briefly before the light went out. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5051",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Cynthia Hind, UFO Afri-News, July 1988, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/15/1986",
  "desc" : "In Calalzo di Cadore, Bellino, Italy a witness saw a luminous blue, domed disc-shaped UFO land, then he blacked out and had a two hour memory lapse. When he regained consciousness the craft was gone, but the grass was bent and blackened in a 9-meter (30 foot) wide circle. After a period of troubling dreams his memory later returned of two tall, pallid humanoid beings wearing gray coveralls, and views inside the craft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5052",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, July-August 1989, p. 16; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 29, 508" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/15/1989",
  "desc" : "In Pensacola, Florida at around nine p.m. a pair of 52-year-old witnesses saw at least four red, slow-moving, silent V-shaped objects coming toward them very slowly (at 5-10 mph). The sighting reportedly lasted 10 minutes.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5053",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "C. Joseph Barron, MUFON Field Investigations CD-Rom case files database, case # 891010" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/15/1990",
  "desc" : "On this night on Iona Island, Scotland Edward Carlos, who had been involved in other previous close encounters, saw an inexplicable beam of light coming down through the clouds. Shortly after, the beam struck him and he experienced a missing time episode. Later, under hypnotic regression, he recalled being examined by several humanoid entities, including a reptilian-like humanoid, several small pallid skinned humanoids, and insect-like robotic creatures. He recalled having an anal probe examination to determine his health. The beings also examined his various vital organ systems, including his heart, and they then used a laser-like light to allegedly clear Carlos's arteries of plaque. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5054",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1990 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 2537, citing Preston Dennett, UFO Healings" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/15/1992",
  "desc" : "In Marshfield, Missouri a boomerang-shaped object was seen by two witnesses at 5:30 a.m. As the lights on the object passed over them, five vertical beams of light shot down, illuminating the vehicle and its interior with brilliant white light. The car's engine sputtered. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5055",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case # 1381" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/15/1992",
  "desc" : "In Salem, Oregon a large black, silent triangular shaped object, one and a half times the size of a house, was seen overhead by a 23-year-old man while in his car at 12:07 a.m. It rotated on its axis slowly over some trees, causing the branches to move. It moved off to the east-southeast making a slight humming sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5056",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Skip Schultz, MUFON Field Investigations CD-Rom case files database, case # 921508W; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1992, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/15/1995",
  "desc" : "A witness was lying in bed in his bedroom in Grand Haven, Michigan at 9:05 p.m. when he saw flashing lights that changed from blue to white. Four little creatures approximately 3-4 feet tall then appeared around his bed. Two were around his legs and the other two were up around his waist area. The creatures seemed to be doing some type of medical procedure on him. He then passed out and saw flashing lights again, and then the lights vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5057",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/15/1995",
  "desc" : "At around ten o'clock in the evening a huge bright light buzzed a car driving on U.S. Highway 160 ten miles east of Alamosa, Colorado. A gigantic dark shadow flew east, surrounded by many much smaller blinking lights. The kids in the car were badly frightened. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5058",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Christopher O'Brien, Enter the Valley, p. 316" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/15/1995",
  "desc" : "At 10:40 p.m. in the northern Sangre de Cristo Mountains, near Howard, Fremont County, Colorado a local Vietnam vet claimed to have seen a large boomerang-shaped object appear from the north and hover over his mountain property. He then had 40 minutes of missing time, during which his he claimed his mobile home and truck had been picked up and moved \"6 inches\", based on the altered location of the building and the truck's tracks. He reported he had a swollen welt, 4-inches in length, in his rectum after regaining consciousness. Over the next two weeks he lost 20 lbs., and a wild animal he had befriended, his \"pet black bear\", was now missing. He said that he had been having strange sightings occurring since the middle of June 1995, and that he had discovered \"piles of carcasses\" up the slope from his 9,000-foot elevation land. He claimed the carcasses had been in various stages of decay, and that they were comprised mostly of cattle, but also horses, fox, raccoon and other animals found in the area. He also said that two weeks before his apparent abduction experience, he found \"tiny 4-toed human tracks\" around the perimeter of his trailer site. He had also noted unusual military activity in the area as well. Often, after his UFO sightings, he would notice unusually heavy military flights over the area, which convinced him his government was somehow involved with the strange occurrences. For instance, after one sighting episode when he was able to photograph the strange craft, the next day while he was gone from his home somebody had ransacked his trailer, and had taken all of his film and camera equipment. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5059",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Christopher O'Brien, Enter the Valley, p. 371; Tim Edwards, Christopher O'Brien, San Luis Valley Event Log, case # 317; Albert S. Rosales, 1995 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing Christopher O'Brien" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/15/1995",
  "desc" : "At midnight another witness awoke in Buena Park, California to briefly see an extremely bright light out on the patio. It appeared to be hovering about 3-4 feet from the ground. Later that night he was still very shaken when he saw a humanoid figure with a very large head and standing about four feet tall. The figure had an amazingly smooth stride, almost like it was walking on air. It seemed to move above the ground in the patio area just outside the blinds. Everything vanished suddenly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5060",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, case # 3188, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/15/1997",
  "desc" : "In Ile Salazie on the island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean a luminous tortoise-shaped object with two headlights continually paced a bread delivery truck starting at around five o'clock in the morning. The delivery man then stopped his truck at his sister's house, and his sister, along with her husband and son, also observed it at it hovered nearby for the next 20 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5061",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "GEIPAN; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17966, citing a newspaper clipping report" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/15/1998",
  "desc" : "The witnesses were on a country road in Deshler, Ohio when they saw a silvery flash overhead and watched a huge metallic rectangular craft abruptly appear. It had several windows and inside several figures could be seen moving around. There was another flash and the craft disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5062",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case # 3591, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/15/2001",
  "desc" : "On this day a huge, dark silver-gray disc-shaped UFO was observed for 7-8 minutes over New Delhi, India. It looked like two saucers inverted over each other.  It flew low and slowly across the sky, over a residential neighborhood. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5063",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer, MUFON UFO Journal, November 2001, p. 14; George A. Filer & David E. Twitchell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 36" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/15/2001",
  "desc" : "At 11:05 a.m. a single witness was driving north on 82nd Street in the city of Lawton, Oklahoma when he saw four UFOs take off from ground level, one at a time. At 7:29 p.m.. a little disc-shaped object zoomed out of the bushes and right over the vehicle was driving in Prince George, British Columbia, Canada. At 10:00 p.m. an intense white light buzzed a car in Red Cloud, Nebraska, illuminating the cab of the car while driving out in the country. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5064",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2001 archived webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/15/2005",
  "desc" : "At 9:45 p.m. a circular disc-shaped object with flashing lights, whirring sounds, and flashes of multicolored lights was seen in Mount Olive, Hale County, Alabama. The sighting reportedly lasted 30 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5065",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2005 archived webpage, report uploaded September 15, 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/15/2005",
  "desc" : "Two triangular crafts, appearing about 20 minutes apart, were seen over Waterford, Michigan beginning at 11:00 p.m. They were fast moving, with one green light and two alternately strobing white lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5066",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2005 archived webpage, report uploaded October 11, 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/15/2008",
  "desc" : "At around one p.m. there was a daylight sighting of a metallic disc-shaped object in La Crosse, Wisconsin. The UFO moved away in a different direction from whence it had come, and was very fast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5067",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2008 archived webpage, report uploaded October 31, 2008" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/15/2008",
  "desc" : "The sky appeared to \"open up\" as a gray, cigar-shaped \"ship\" moved over the witness in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada for this close encounter at 9:35 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5068",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2008 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 600" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/16/1897",
  "desc" : "On this night at 12:40 a.m. a giant airship followed a train as it rounded a bend in the tracks around Heron Bay, Ontario, Canada and then flew off inland to the north >N inland. It had body lights and light beams. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5069",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 208, citing Brad Steiger" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/16/1947",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. a globe of purplish light was seen in Timmins, Ontario, causing a car to stall. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5070",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 116; Michael Persinger, Space-Time Transients and Unusual Events, p. 59" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/16/1953",
  "desc" : "Claude Pasquier saw two discs flying very low and quite slowly along a straight course in Tours, France at 8:30 p.m. They made a \"hard\" sound as they flew. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5071",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 65; Melbourne Age, July 10, 1963; Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 203" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/16/1955",
  "desc" : "Mr. Ernest Suddard, age 35, and his 13-year-old son were driving in a truck in Bradford, England at 4:00 in the morning when they saw what seemed to be a short human being about 1.20 meters (4 feet) tall, dressed in skin-tight black clothes. It held its arms close to its sides, its feet close together, and walked by a series of jumps. On its chest was a silver disc perforated with holes. It turned off suddenly into a passageway and was lost from view. The witnesses were too amazed to follow. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5072",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jack Ibson, Flying Saucer Review, September 1955, p. 4; Arthur Constance, The Inexplicable Sky, p. 222; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 250-251; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0378" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/16/1958",
  "desc" : "A dozen people were out on Leman Lake in Switzerland in perfect weather at five o'clock in the afternoon when they saw a bright light coming down toward the lake. They stopped their boat as it came to hover about 15 meters above them. It was saucer-shaped, 10 meters in diameter, and had a cabin with several windows showing on top. The outer disc below the cabin was spinning. As it came down toward the water, a noticeable current was created on the surface. No noise or occupants were noticed. After several leaps in mid-air, the craft flew off at \"unbelievable\" speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5073",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 469, citing Aime Michel" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/16/1960",
  "desc" : "Eight geophysicists working in the Kazakstan Mountains near the Barakhudzir River, 18 kilometers north of Koktal, Kazakstan, U.S.S.R. saw a bright orange lens-shaped UFO at 11:00 p.m. The strange luminous body suddenly appeared over the mountainns on the east slope of the valley, moved north to south while keeping a constant speed and altitude. It went behind the mountain top, then re-appeared, flying off to the southeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5074",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Felix Zigel, unpublished manuscript, p. 61; Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 185; Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 284" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/16/1960",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. in Corning, California pilots and many other witnesses observed two long red ovoids, followed by a V-shaped boomerang. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5075",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 170; Paris Flammonde, UFO Exist!, p. 366" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/16/1961",
  "desc" : "In Admiralty Bay, Antarctica four members of the crew of an icebreaker sighted an oval fireball that flew from the northeast to the southwest for 12 seconds at 6:15 p.m. The object split in two. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5076",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Phenomenes Spatiaux, June 1968, p.17; UNICAT, case # 142, citing James E. McDonald" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/16/1965",
  "desc" : "At midnight in Brough, Durham County, England three women reported that their sheep and cattle were agitated and noisy when a dark shape with two orange lights appeared in the sky. The close encounter lasted 75 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5077",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon Creighton, FSR, November-December 1970, p. 28" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/16/1965",
  "desc" : "A woman was driving home at 11:00 p.m. and was within a mile of her house in Sedalia, Missouri when she saw a light in a field with “smoke” around it. In a nearby ditch she noticed two large “birds,” one of which flew at her car. She arrived home at 12:25 a.m. unable to account for the lapse of time. Under hypnotic regression she recalled that the “birds” in the ditch where in fact two entities wearing spacesuits. One carried a sack on its back, into which the other was putting clumps of grass and soil samples. They were “bouncing up & down, their arms flopping at their sides” in a “stiff” manner suggestive of robots. One started to come out of the ditch, slipped back, then emerged and stood in front of her; its helmet beginning to glow brilliantly. She could now see that its head was wrapped up in tape like a mummy, with only the eyes visible. It stood slightly over five feet tall. At this point a football-shaped UFO landed on the road ahead of her car. Two beings with slightly pointed heads & “wrap around” eyes emerged from the object and opened her car door. They conducted her inside the craft, assuring her telepathically that she would not be hurt. The air inside the UFO was “heavy” and difficult to breathe. Once she was inside they flew the ship over a nearby field, which caused its interior lights to change from white to red. One of the entities, who did most of the communicating, appeared to be a scientist or doctor, and he wore an insignia of three rings on his chest. Another had a red lighting flash symbol on his uniform, and she took him to be the pilot. A third entity appeared to be a woman. All three stood 5’10” tall. The “doctor” put an object of some kind over her head, and she felt as if something were going into her brain. A round black object was then taken out of the wall, and with it “pictures” were taken of her; the object glowed blue when the pictures were taken. On a screen on the wall appeared a pattern: seven vertical lines with markings between them, which she thought must be some type of tabular representation of her brain and body. Two more figures, about a foot shorter than the other three, made their appearance. These beings resembled “gnomes,” and they aroused fear in the woman. They appeared old because their foreheads were wrinkled. She was told by the \"doctor\" that they and the “mummies” came from different planets. Finally she was led back to her car; the UFO ascended, and then vanished while still at low altitude.  ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5078",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1965-78, citing Ron Owen & Jerome Clark" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/16/1967",
  "desc" : "Pedro Jose Ramirez in Caracas, Venezuela reported seeing a four-foot-tall being with an oversized head and large eyes, abnormal teeth and mouth, and five fingers on his hands. The being was agile, lightweight, hoarse-voiced, and wore a shiny suit. He spoke Spanish. The entity told Ramirez that the Earth \"was cracking and they wished to save it.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5079",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1967-77 (A0851), citing Scheffer Vladimir Scheffer, letter to NICAP dated August 22, 1967" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/16/1967",
  "desc" : "On the same day, in Antimano, Federal District, Venezuela 10-year-old Jose Gregorio Bouaci was in his bedroom in the early afternoon when he encountered a \"little man\" who tried to talk to him. The being was short, white skinned, and had an over-sized head, with no arms. The boy left his room screaming, saying that he had seen a Martian. He was so frightened he threw up. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5080",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1967-78 (A0852), citing Richard Heiden" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/16/1968",
  "desc" : "At six o'clock in the morning a chicken farmer named Mateu saw a light hovering three feet above the ground in Sierra De Almos Tivissa, Terragona, Spain and he walked towards it. It was a very luminous hemispherical object. On the far side of it he saw about 100 yards away and hurrying toward it, two creatures resembling octopus, about 3 feet high, with \"4 or 5 legs,\" very light in color with a \"thoroughly disgusting\" appearance. The UFO left a large area of burnt grass, and \"watches stopped 3 times at the site.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5081",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 64; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-57, citing Julio Roca Muntanola, FSR Special Bulletin # 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/16/1968",
  "desc" : "For a three hour period beginning at around 11:00 p.m., numerous witnesses in Hamilton, Ohio watched as a domed disc-shaped object moved over a dam, stopped, flipped over, then emitted five light beams downward, focusing into a single beam that swept the area and reflected over Greenbriar Lake. The object reversed course, and finally flew away toward the south. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5082",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1968, p. 3, Gordon Lore, UFOs: A New Look, p. 43; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, p. 380; Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 35" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/16/1970",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m. the Hidalgo family of four, driving in a car between Aznalcazar and Pila, Sevilla province, Spain encountered a white foggy object hovering two meters over a field by the side of the road. The object flew away as they approached, and their car headlights became dim as it did so. The object repeated this retreat a few more times as the car kept approaching, then it rose into the sky and flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5083",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 133; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 49" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/16/1970",
  "desc" : "Thirty minutes later, a 22-year-old woman in Puente De Herrera, Valladolid province, Spain heard a loud whistling sound accompanied by TV interference at one o'clock in the morning. Opening the door to her house she saw a silvery Saturn-shaped object standing on legs. On top was a transparent cupola bearing a bluish-white rotating light; and around its perimeter were other multi-colored lights. A few feet away stood a tall man dressed in a dark blue or black tight-fitting uniform. It had a close fitting hood of the same color with shining white wrist bands, anklets, and a buckle. The man was examining a nearby field of alfalfa. He then turned and took long strides toward the UFO, which was approximately 30 meters from the witness. She closed her door, frightened about being discovered, but heard the intense whistling sound again as the object took off. Footprints were found in the area, and for several nights the site where the UFO had landed glowed at night. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5084",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Macias, FSR Case Histories, February 1974, p. 1; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, citing Enrique Bueno, Santiango Mella, & J. Macias of The Charles Fort Group; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, A Catalogue of 200 Type-1 Events in Spain and Portugal, case #134; UNICAT, case # 506, citing Stendek, 1972, vol. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/16/1970",
  "desc" : "At 4:45 p.m. a hemispherical metallic object landed near a car in Puits-d'Edme, Yonne, France. The car engine and lights both failed. The car operated normally again after the object flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5085",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 49" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/16/1971",
  "desc" : "Jan-Ove Sundberg was in the woods above Foyers Bay on Loch Ness, Scotland at around nine a.m. when he saw a grayish-black cigar-shaped object in a clearing in the woods. It was about 30 feet long with a curved standing portion at one end, so that it had the profile of a huge smoothing iron. Three grayish entities of normal human size then appeared out of some nearby bushes and stood together. They were dressed in what looked like diver's suits and helmets. They approached the object and entered it by a door in the upper part of the curved portion, the UFO then rose vertically to a height of 50 feet and then took off rapidly in a near-horizontal trajectory. Sundberg took a photograph as the last of the occupants was boarding. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5086",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, 1971-21, citing F. W. Holiday, FSR, Vol. 19 # 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/16/1971",
  "desc" : "At nearly the same time as the Loch Ness CE-3 encounter, three adults and four children were in an isolated area on a Mediterranean beach in Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain when they suddenly noticed a very tall figure that seemed to be trying to enter the water in a very clumsy manner. It was a very tall, well-built, and human like, but with very pale skin that seemed to lack any pores. It had a large hairless head with a high forehead and large gray colored eyes. It wore a pair of green shorts and it walked towards the shore very stiffly, almost like a robot. It walked past the witnesses maintaining a straight steady gaze on them. The witnesses turned their heads for a second and when they looked back the being had completely vanished. There was nowhere he could have gone and he was nowhere in sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5087",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 643, citing J. J. Benitez, La Quinta Columna" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/16/1971",
  "desc" : "At 6:45 p.m. John R. Renz had just been relieved from guard duty at Francis E. Warren Air Force base near Cheyenne, Wyoming and had stopped at the mess hall for a beer. On his way back to the barracks he came upon an unlit area of the base at the concrete reinforced bridge, which crossed over Cow Creek. For some reason everything was unnaturally quiet around him. As he began to cross the bridge and just before he got to the middle of it, a paralyzing sound resembling loud heart beats became evident. Simultaneously the area around the bridge lit up like midday. There was also a heavy breathing sound present, and the bridge began to sway in a wave-like motion and then settled down. Frightened, he began to run toward the other end of the bridge, but before he reached it he realized that he had dropped his tobacco pipe and went back to retrieve it. The bridge was still lit up and the loud sounds persisted. He found his pipe and stooped down to get it. When he looked up he was stunned to see a six to seven foot tall being standing there, only three feet away from him. The being had a medium build as far as the torso, but its head was much larger than normal and it had long arms. It appeared to be wearing a wet suit. The hood and body suit were one unit. The eyes were covered with a one-piece face mask that went across both eyes, as if it was some kind of blast shield, but the nasal area joined in with it. From the nose there was a silver gray tube that stretched at least a half a foot long and went straight into the chest area. The silver gray tube was ribbed and looked like a tracheal tube. The hands consisted of three long fingers that ended in claws. The feet were three toed and did not appear to have any heels. When Renz looked up to the being's face, he was almost in a full standing position. The being raised its right, three-fingered hand and motioned for him to come closer. Instead, Renz turned and ran. His next recollection was of coming up on a military jeep and being picked up by two soldiers, still on the base. There was a seven-hour period of missing time.<br/><br/> Years later, under hypnosis, Renz remembered being inside some kind of object in a cockpit along with the being. The being spoke to him telepathically. He remembered descending through clouds of vapor that had a reddish brown tinge. The craft then flew in between two huge mountains: there was no vegetation anywhere and it looked like a rocky desert. He next remembered following the being through a huge door into the side of a mountain tunnel and entering a small room. In this room there was a table that floated in mid-air. The walls and floor of the room were a silver-gray color. On the floating table there was the carcass of a creature. The creature on the table had a larger than normal head and a face resembling that of a wasp. The eyes were large, like wasp eyes, and had slits inside that looked like pupils. It had what looked like multi-lens eye coverings, and it had a small jaw and a slit-like nose. The creature was about four to five feet in length and looked to have an exoskeleton. Its color was tan to brown with a bluish gray tinge. The humanoid creature gave off an unbearably foul odor, resembling a rotten egg sulphur smell. It had three fingers on its hands and at the elbows there was a sharp concave shaped spike at least six inches long. The mouth was gaped open and the teeth were like small shark teeth. A clear liquid with a reddish substance was dripped on the table.<br/><br/> The tall being then told the witness to leave the room. Outside the room he saw a saucer-shaped craft with a wide front end and a round tapered tail. The whole craft sat on two pillars, rectangular in shape with at least 50 feet between them. The being told him to go inside and sit in the left seat. On what appeared to be a control panel Renz saw numerous strange symbols. There was a sound like a powerful electric motor and the craft took off. Later he recalled the craft attacking a large mountainous area resembling a beehive. He could see numerous creatures inside. They appeared to be scrambling back and forth. There were a couple of hundred of them and they appeared to be the same as the insectoid humanoid that was on the floating table. The craft landed in the destroyed complex where he remembered seeing a live creature with the face of a wasp that was wearing a dark cape or cloak. Within its cloak it was carrying three small insect creatures at least a foot long. Their heads were triangular in shape with large eyes. The tall humanoid shot and killed the creature and the little ones. Renz was then taken back to the Air Force base. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5088",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1971, citing Aliens-UFOs.com" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/16/1972",
  "desc" : "On a highway west of Arroyito, Cordoba province, Argentina, an odd light appeared above a car containing two college professors, Professors Brunelli and Porchietto, at 2:40 a.m. Their car was then levitated, and this was followed by 40 minutes of missing time, with 80 kilometers of their trip not accounted for. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5089",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Oscar A. Galindez, Phenomenes Spatiaux, March 1973, p. 23" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/16/1972",
  "desc" : "On this evening in Roosboom, Natal, South Africa Elias Khosa saw a \"monster\" when he was walking home. The creature had a square-shaped head, \"like a machine\", luminous buttons, and fiery eyes. \"The specter faced him, but he could not see its head, although he noticed small flames burning around its feet.\" The witness invited the \"visitor\" home for a drink, but it turned and sped off into the veldt at high speed, \"emitting flames and smoke.\" He later had headaches and pains in his legs. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5090",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Natal Mercury, August 23, 1972; Philipp J. Human, FSR, November 1972, p. 18; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, 1972-18 (A1161); J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, volume 9 (1978)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/16/1973",
  "desc" : "At four a.m. young Cinzia Giomi and 10 other people were returning from a show onboard a small passenger bus, when between Casalincontrada and Chieti, Italy they saw a bizarre figure almost six meters tall, leaning against a light pole. The being was human looking but very tall and thin. It wore a shiny white smock-like outfit and wore tall white boots. It had long white hair and a dark complexion. The witnesses were able to see the figure close up, at a distance of only two meters. The bus stopped in order for the witnesses to get a better look, but the figure quickly faded away, leaving behind a strong sulfur like odor and a consistent whistle-like sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5091",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1973, citing Fabio Picasso & Moreno Tambellini" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/16/1973",
  "desc" : "At 10:15 p.m. an abduction experience with missing time occurred in the city of Smalandsstenar, Jonkoping, Sweden to a man named Karlsson. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5092",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Information Sweden, November 1973, p. 20" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/16/1974",
  "desc" : "At 3:40 a.m. several observers saw a huge hovering cigar-shaped craft over Malesherbes, France. Next, two small domed disc-shaped objects were seen descending towards the ground. A short time later the witnesses reported seeing strange figures and hearing loud noises in the area near their location. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5093",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1974, case # 2413, citing Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/16/1974",
  "desc" : "Shortly after 7:30 p.m. three boys, ages 9 and 10, in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia saw a buzzing, multi-colored disc-shaped object land. It approached very suddenly from the sky and made an undulating motion as it came in to land. It landed with a blast of hot air, and gave off blue sparks during the process. An animal reaction was noted: their cat was frightened and ran away. The UFO had the outline of a door, and stood on three legs; it had a square at the top, and was 20 feet wide. Circular patches were found on the ground at the landing site. The entire close encounter lasted ten minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5094",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Alan Landsburg, In Search of Extraterrestrials, p. 6; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 34; UNICAT, case # 480, citing Graham Conway, MUFON UFO Journal, April 1986" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/16/1975",
  "desc" : "At 3:30 a.m. between Rochdale and Ramsbottom in Greater Manchester, England a nocturnal light followed a flying triangular shaped object to the east. The objects hovered, then flew off to the south. There were at least seven witnesses, including police. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5095",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Awareness, January 1976, p. 23; UNICAT, case # 93" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/16/1975",
  "desc" : "At 4:30 a.m. Mr. & Mrs. Paquet were walking on the outskirts of their village of Forrieres, Luxembourg Province, Belgium on their way to work when they noticed ahead of them on the road a dark 1.20 meter tall human-like figure with a well-proportioned body. It suddenly vanished in plain sight when the man, thinking it might be his son, attempted to approach it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5096",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, Case # A1623; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 152 (December 1975)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/16/1976",
  "desc" : "At around four o'clock in the morning Dean Anderson and Wayne Schutte were working on golf course maintenance when they both noticed an orange “craft” as it dropped down into a culvert on the golf course at Peninsula State Park in Egg Harbor, Door County, Wisconsin. Anderson, who was riding a lawn mower, saw by its powerful headlights a figure first standing, and then running on the golf course, so he pursued him on his riding mower. He saw that the man’s helmet lit up and his belt first start glowing reddish, but then glowed green, yellow, pink, and orange, while the antenna on his helmet flashed bright red. Anderson had now closed to within ten feet of him, and could see that he was about seven feet tall and had a long nose. Suddenly, an energy beam shot down in front of the mower, causing it to stop, and the figure next turned around and looked at Anderson. Within a few seconds a small “scout ship” descended and opened a 3 foot by 3 foot door, which had flashing panels of light inside. The tall figure floated up into this doorway, and “the craft glowed bright blue, red, and orange and then took off.” The footprints of the man were measured to be 20 inches long, 8 inches wide, and five feet apart where he had been running. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5097",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Keta Steebs, Sturgeon Bay Advocate, March 31, 1977; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, Case # 1976-63 (A1490); Jay Rath, The M-Files: True Reports of Minnesota's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 66; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1976, case # 0331, citing HUMCAT" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/16/1976",
  "desc" : "On this night on Denslow Hill, Hamden, Connecticut two 14-year-old teenagers, Grey and Barnett, saw two very short humanoid beings shuffling rapidly across the road. They wore purple-colored, luminous, one-piece suits and their waists were only 20-22 inches above the ground. When the boys followed them a bright white, lemon-shaped UFO blinked on and took off into the air, only 15 feet away from the boys. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5098",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFOCAT, James P. Barrett case investigation files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/16/1977",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m. in Fage, Lot department, France a one-meter tall, upright metallic ovoid object closely pursued a teenage driver at a very low altitude as he drove along a winding mountain road. The UFO caused EM effects on the car's engine and lights. It flew away toward to southeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5099",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, November 1980" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/16/1979",
  "desc" : "A 40-year-old farmer and four others in Providence, Kentucky reported observing a silver disc-shaped object with a bubble top tumbling and turning at an estimated 2,000 feet altitude at 4:30 p.m. If flew around for six minutes before going over some hills to the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5100",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, December 1979, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/16/1980",
  "desc" : "Frank Scott and another soldier were ordered to go by jeep, to a location outside of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia where a UFO had recently been seen. They arrived there at around two o'clock in the afternoon, and observed a long cylindrical craft hovering close to the ground. The object was at least 170 meters long, and broad as well, and it emitted a buzzing sound that made the air vibrate. The craft was also emitting a beam of light towards the ground, and within the beam they could see a small humanoid being descending to the ground. The humanoid descended to the ground alone. Both men remained in the jeep, armed with their side arms, and watching the spectacle. Their weapons suddenly became disabled, as if welded together. Then there was a terrible noise, and Scott lost consciousness. He awoke much later in his base infirmary, not knowing how he had gotten there. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5101",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1980, citing personal testimony by Frank Scott to Overmeire" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/16/1997",
  "desc" : "At 5:20 a.m. a luminous rectangular craft was seen by two witnesses near the shore in the town of Cullera, Valencia province, Spain. It had two sections, was coverd with lights, and hovered for 50 minutes. It flew off to the south-southeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5102",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 345, September 1997" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/16/1999",
  "desc" : "At 2:20 p.m. three independent witnesses in Berks County, Pennsylvania observed a silver, double convex saucer as it flew over toward the south. At 5:45 p.m. it was seen again, this time flying north in Butler County, Pennsylvania. A married couple described it as a dull-gray metallic disc, like two quarters on edge. It was first seen flying in the west at high altitude, and then made a sharp 90 degree turn to the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5103",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 4, number 18; UFO Magazine (USA), November 1999, p. 28" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/16/2001",
  "desc" : "Videotoape. A good-sized flying triangle with several white lights was sighted and videotaped at about 10:00 p.m. in Floriston, California. It had a bright red strobing light as well as the several white lights, and was the size of a Boeing 727. It flew over the mountain range to the northeast, stopped, turned off all lights for a few seconds, then lit up again and came straight back overhead without making a banking turn. It made no noise, even though it was close. The videotape is about 30 seconds long. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5104",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 81, citing anomalousnews@yahoo.com" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/16/2004",
  "desc" : "While out photographing a meteor shower at 1:30 a.m. two men, Mike and Lance, both 23, sighted three triangles flying in a circle over Palmdale, California, spinning at fantastic speeds, that then stopped and disappeared. During the sighting Mike called his girlfriend on his cell phone, and while talking the cell phone died. Then the digital camera they had, which had been fully charged, died and would not work, with the message \"battery dead\". Yet when they got home both the phone and the camera worked, and when the camera was placed in its charger the message \"full charge\" appeared. The triangle craft were estimated to be flying at 20,000 feet, and were the apparent size of a quarter at arm's length. The triangles had a semi-spherical shape to them, and both men saw high definition shapes in the crafts' bodies. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5105",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 100, citing Cosmic Connection, http://tvufo.tripod.com" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/16/2007",
  "desc" : "A single light was witnessed making 90 degree turns, starting and stopping instantly without acceleration, over Reading, California at 11:08 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5106",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2007 archived webpage, report uploaded on October 8, 2007" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/16/2010",
  "desc" : "A witness reported he saw a large, black, silent, southbound, flying triangle with lights with a friend while camping on Cumberland Island National Seashore in Camden County, Georgia at 11:00 p.m. The sighting lasted 15 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5107",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2010 webpage, report uploaded November 21, 2010" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/17/1952",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. on a road north of Pontijou, France two witnesses saw an orange ball of light hovering over highway N824. It made no sound. It flew off in a southerly direction, stopped, zigzagged, stoped again, then flew away toward the southwest. The duration of the sighting was nine minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5108",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 155" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/17/1953",
  "desc" : "In Ciudad Valles, Mexico at six o'clock in the evening Sr. S. Villanueva, age 37, had the engine of the vehicle he was driving fail. Two four-foot-tall beings approached, and he next saw a domed disc, 40 feet, making a humming sound. The beings entered the craft, and the UFO ascended vertically at high speed. The landing traces included crushed bushes and broken sticks in a circular area 40-45 feet wide. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5109",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon Creighton, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 32; P. M. H. Edwards, FSR, January-February 1970, p. 11; Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 100" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/17/1958",
  "desc" : "At 7:05 p.m. in Warren, Michigan Mr. A. D. Chisholm observed an extremely bright UFO shaped first like a bell and then like a saucer. When maneuvering it seemed shaped like a fried egg. It gave the impression of a huge size at extreme range. It was much brighter than Venus, at 70 degrees elevation. It hovered for five minutes, then flipped over and sped away to the west-southwest. The sighting lasted 6-10 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5110",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 5999; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Lloyd Mallan, Official Guide to UFOs, p. 32; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 71; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference to Outstanding UFO Reports, case 100" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/17/1961",
  "desc" : "On this night five people on a farm in Stillwater, Minnesota observed a group of UFOs arranged vertically in a V formation. The V formation of nocturnal lights, or a boomerang-shaped object with running lights, passed behind some trees flying at a low altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5111",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 139; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 6096" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/17/1962",
  "desc" : "On this evening two little men, three feet tall, were seen digging a hole near Sr. Mafra Da Silva's house in Duas Pontes, Minas Gerais State, Brazil. When he approached them they ran into the bushes. A few moments later a hat-shaped UFO surrounded by a red glow took off at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5112",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 231" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/17/1966",
  "desc" : "Late in the afternoon of this day two men named Pereira and Viana, alleged UFO contactees, were found dead with welders masks and strange papers on them in Niteroi Morro do Vintem, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Plants in their vicinity were burnt. A disc shaped UFO had been seen earlier. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5113",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/17/1971",
  "desc" : "John Hodges and Peter Rodriguez, both in their late twenties, had just gotten into John's car at two a.m. when they saw in the headlights things that looked like \"brains\" on the road about six feet away. Of a bluish color, a localized mist surrounded them. One was the size of a human torso, and had something red on it; the other was \"the size of an overgrown softball.\" Frightened, the young men took off for home. Under hypnosis five years later, John Hodges recalled that the larger brain had spoken to them telepathically, saying, \"Take the time to understand yourselves, the times draws near when you shall need to. You shall not remember this incident until we meet again.\"<br/><br/> He also recalled that when he had arrived home and was still sitting in his car, he had a \"dream\" or vision of being in a large room with the brain. There were control consoles all along the wall, and there were several 7-foot-tall Grey skinned, bald humanoids with 6 webbed fingers and toes and thin lipped mouths. On a TV-like screen were pinpoint of lights, which the brain told him were places on Earth where there was \"too much power.\" He was also shown 3-D pictures of atomic explosions, and of a planet destroyed by \"too much power.\" After feeling a \"buzzing\" sensation he found himself back in his car. He thinks the experience was a \"holographic projection,\" because he noticed that behind him all was black. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5114",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-45, citing Ann Druffel, MUFON; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 138" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/17/1973",
  "desc" : "A man driving near Route 30 in Kingston, Pennsylvania reported that his vehicle almost struck a huge gorilla like animal, with pointed ears and red glowing eyes. The creature ran away screaming like a man in pain. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5115",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1973, case # 1871, citing Paul G. Johnson & Joan L. Jeffers The Pennsylvania Bigfoot" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/17/1991",
  "desc" : "At 2:00 a.m. a disc-shaped object with a cone-shaped dome was sighted hovering next to a radar blimp for 30 minutes in Las Palmas, Bayamon, Puerto Rico. It made a humming sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5116",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 311" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/18/1947",
  "desc" : "Two silver round flat disc-shaped objects, described as looking like \"skeet targets\", passed beneath a United Airlines transport plane flying at 8,000 feet near Mountain Home Army Air Base, Idaho at around noon. The objects flew off to the south, at a speed estimated at 900 miles per hour. There were two witnesses on board the aircraft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5117",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Boise (Idaho) Statesman, August 20, 1947; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 10; Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 Research Notes from Bordentown, New Jersey talk, April 16, 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/18/1947",
  "desc" : "At 8:15 p.m. in Sorrento, Louisiana a photograph was taken by a Mr. Hofard of at least 78 torpedo-shaped UFOs, glowing brightly and moving silently low over the trees. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5118",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 73" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/18/1952",
  "desc" : "Three policemen in Fairfield, California sighted a UFO at 12:50 a.m. The object changed color and intensity like a diamond, and flew in different directions during the 30-minute sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5119",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book reports counted in official statistics, case # 1920; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: August, p. 42; Kevin Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 278; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/18/1953",
  "desc" : "In the early evening on or about this day Salvador Villanueva, a taxi cab driver, was trying to repair his broken down car out in the country near Ciudad Valles, Mexico when he was joined by two short, human looking men. They were only about four and a half feet tall, and they wore one-piece gray garments made out of corduroy that covered even their feet. They also had on wide, shiny black belts, metal collars, and small black shiny boxes connected to the collars on the back of their necks. Under their arms they carried football-style crash helmets. Because it was raining he invited them to shelter inside his taxi, where they had a conversation that lasted all night. They spoke Spanish with a strange accent. The spokesman eventually told him they were from another planet, which Villanueva scarcely believed, but he accompanied them to their craft. While walking there he noticed that the mud puddles did not get their feet wet, and that their belts glowed whenever the mud was repelled. The UFO was disc-shaped and looked like two soup plates joined at the rim, with a shallow dome on top with portholes. It rested on the ground on three spheres that acted like landing gear. He was invited inside, but declined to go. The two men climbed up some stairs to get aboard. Glowing white, the vessel zigzagged upwards, and then shot up vertically, making only a faint whistling sound. A 40-foot circle of broken bushes was left behind at the landing spot. It's possible the presence of the UFO may have caused his car to malfunction. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5120",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, citing APRO Bulletin, April 1955; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 116, citing Flying Saucer Review, March 1962" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/18/1954",
  "desc" : "A brilliant metallic sphere was witnessed at 6:30 p.m. by a witness while driving between the towns of Coire and Chur, Switzerland. The sphere maneuvered in the western sky toward Ilanz at three kilometers altitude, making sudden turns. It finally shot straight up into the sky and was gone. At 8:00 p.m. a reddish yellow disc seen over the town of Stein-Saeckingen, Switzerland for 12 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5121",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, cases # 3518 & 3519; unsourced newspaper clipping dated August 25, 1954" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/18/1957",
  "desc" : "In Shelbyville, Indiana at 9:00 p.m. a three-meter long ovoid rose up 30 meters over a cornfield. It had lights on its periphery, and made a clanking noise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5122",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gray Barker, Flying Saucers magazine, February 1958, p. 46; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: August-September, p. 34" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/18/1962",
  "desc" : "At 5:00 p.m. on the island of Bermuda radio station owner Mr. M. Sheppard, and chief announcer Mr. A. Seymour, sighted three dull-white, egg-shaped objects at 5:00 p.m. The objects wavered as they moved through the sky for 20 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5123",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 8364; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 113; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/18/1963",
  "desc" : "A silvery disc-shaped UFO was seen by two young boys in Fort Kent, Aroostook County, Maine at 12:30 p.m. The boys' parents agreed that they must have seen something unusual. The disc passed from north to south, emitting a hum intermittently. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5124",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "St. John Valley Times, August 29, 1963; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 141; APRO Bulletin, March-April 1964, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/18/1964",
  "desc" : "Major D.W. Thompson and First Pilot Lt. J. F. Jonke were flying a U.S. Air Force C-124 transport plane 200 miles over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Dover, Delaware. At 12:35 a.m. they sighted a round, blurry, reddish-white object that appeared to be on a collision course with their C-124 from ahead and below. The airplane evaded the object. The sighting lasted two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5125",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 33; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 52" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/18/1965",
  "desc" : "In Noblesville, Indiana at 10:50 p.m. the engine and radio of a car with two occupants inside died when a top-shaped object with a dome and body lights hovered over the car. The close encounter lasted for four minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5126",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, p. 249" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/18/1966",
  "desc" : "Three hunters, E. Beucomo, J. Zapata and J. Ramos, observed a strange glow in the forest near Barinas, Venezuela and discovered a very large, egg-shaped object, hovering stationary two meters above ground. It had large, circular openings emitting a multicolored light, and it made a whistling sound. The hunters ran away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5127",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 786" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/18/1968",
  "desc" : "At 13:23 p.m. in a forest 47 kilometers west-southwest of Cluj, Romania, three photographs were taken of a silvery hat-shaped object, 42-50 meters in diameter, with a structure similar to the Rex Heflin photographs from Santa Ana, California in 1965. The photographer was a 45-year-old man, along with his girlfriend, and there were two other  witnesses. It flew overhead at an estimated height of 600 meters, moving from northeast to southwest, and then reversed direction. The object finally accelerated and shot upward out of sight. The sighting lasted two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5128",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Florin Gheorghita, FSR, November 1969, p. 12; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, p. 287" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/18/1971",
  "desc" : "At 6:40 a.m. a glowing white cigar, the size of a railroad car and tapered at one end, flew over in Sutherlands, South Australia. It had no wings or protuberances, and flew to the east on an even course at an estimated speed of 200 mph. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5129",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "A. Jenke, Australian FSR, February 1972, p. 21" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/18/1972",
  "desc" : "Raimundo Alvarez and Pancho Torres, two masons, were working on a roof drain at around two o'clock in the afternoon in Istapalapa, Mexico when they heard a humming sound. Next they noticed that all ordinary daytime sounds had eerily ceased, creating a \"stifling\" silence. About 50 yards away from them Alvarez saw two strange, eight-foot tall figures, dressed in bright silvery clothing resembling fish scales. When they got closer the two men could see that the beings were unusually broad shouldered and slender. They had round heads that were bright silver in color, with two round bumps in place of eyes, small ears, no visible mouths or noses, hands with four digits, and large webbed feet like those of ducks. They \"seemed to float in air\" while walking. The beings started to approach the witnesses, but just then a woman carrying a milk can came around the corner of the house, and the two creatures \"flew\" toward her. A great deal of dust arose from the ground; the two entitiesvanished into it and were not seen again. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5130",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, November-December 1973, p. 5; FSR, November 1973, p. 30; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1972-19 (A1162), citing FSR, Volume 19, # 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/18/1975",
  "desc" : "Two men, Bernard Gregory, age 19, and Patrick Labonne, age 22, were camping in a clearing in Villeneuve Loubet, Alpes Maritimes Department, France. At around 2:30 a.m. Bernard suddenly felt uneasy, and saw four luminous \"forms\". He called Patrick, who also saw them. Both men felt they were being observed. Afraid, they woke the rest of their friends. Suddenly all six of them saw a huge light and then a red cloud that ascended into the sky and transformed into a black, compact cigar-shaped object. The being-like forms were described as about 1.75 m in height, each with two eyes in the upper part. The forms were white in color, and they moved very slowly, like on rollers. As the witnesses walked away they looked back, and saw two of the forms in a tree. At this point the witnesses attempted to approach the beings, but were prevented by an \"invisible\" barrier. After the gray compact cigar-shaped object left, the grass at the site was found to be desiccated, and matted down in a spiral fashion. A white, oval-shaped stain resembling chalk was also found, but disappeared with the morning daylight. During the incident the witnesses noticed there was an unusual silence in the area, but dogs were heard barking in the distance. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5131",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1977; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case #  A1624; Alain Gamard, UFO Register, volume 7 (1978), p. 44; Albert S. Rosales, 1975 Humanoid Contact Database, citing Eric Zurcher, \"Les apparitions d'humanoides\", Gesag 71, ADEPS Bulletin, issue 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/18/1975",
  "desc" : "At 6:50 a.m. in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin a silver domed-disc with a transparent cupola on top, hovered 10 feet over a farm, making a buzzing noise. The silhouette of an occupant was seen inside the transparent dome. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5132",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case #  A1410, citing Wisconsin Rapids Daily Telegram, August 19, 1975" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/18/1978",
  "desc" : "A large glowing disc-shaped UFO was seen in a forest near Gravigny, Eure department, France at 10:30 p.m. It flashes red, slowly ascended vertically slowly, and then made a quick 90-degree turn, finally shooting off to the south. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5133",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, March 1979" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/18/1978",
  "desc" : "A 60-foot in diameter domed disc, with an antenna with a red light on top of it, was seen in close vicinity in Port Crane, New York at 11:15 p.m. It had an arrow-like projection of light. It hovered for 30 seconds at 45 feet above the ground, causing TV interference and setting off the buzzing of a magnetic detector.  ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5134",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, December 1978, p. 13; UNICAT, case # 136, citing IUR" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/18/1980",
  "desc" : "A large double cube-shaped object was seen on the ground of a Baltic Island off Estonia in the early evening. It had a sweeping beam of light. It reportedly polymorphed into a domed saucer-shaped object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5135",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing Andre Liljegren, AFU Sweden, issue # 24" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/18/1981",
  "desc" : "Mrs. Schmidt and her three children saw a 25-foot octagon hover 100 feet over their driveway in Sandstone, Minnesota. It was silent, and had red and green flashing lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5136",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Pine City Courier, September 3, 1981; John F. Schuessler, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1982, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/18/1987",
  "desc" : "Many people witnessed a disc-shaped object in Corydon, Indiana at 11:45 p.m., including the main witness, a 36-year-old woman. The UFO was black with a bulging center, and it had a bottom section with multiple orange, red and blue lights. It was described as being very large, and estimated to be about 400 meters away at an altitude of 800 feet. Its speed was slow, except when it took off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5137",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "James Delehanty, field investigator, MUFONCD-Rom case file database, case # 881002" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/18/1993",
  "desc" : "A girl was riding her bicycle on this day in Odense, Denmark when she observed a large hovering object with four large windows on one level and another window on a second level. Behind the windows several figures could be seen moving around. As the object turned she saw three bright lights below. Nearby a normally placid pony behaved very uneasy during the encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5138",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 1608, citing Tony Dodd, UFO Magazine (UK), January 1994, quoting UFO-Nyt" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/18/1993",
  "desc" : "A glowing UFO hovered over Wood Lake, British Columbia at 9:00 p.m. It dropped sparks, moved, then stopped and hovered, and finally continued on after five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5139",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newspaper Clipping Service, November 1993" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/18/1993",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. a young Hispanic woman phoned her neighbors and asked them to come over to her house outside Dallas, Texas immediately, because there were something strange going on in the house. One of her neighbor's, Jill, grabbed her camera and headed for the house. When Jill arrived the entire family was in a state of terror and extreme agitation. Two of the young females in the household were cowering in a corner of the living room, holding on to each other. The friend who called her sat in a chair curled into a semi-fetal position, rocking back and forth. She then pointed to the backyard. Jill looked out through a sliding glass door that led to the backyard and saw a creature with glowing red eyes, only 15 feet from the door. The being seemed to be scanning the house from left to right and top to bottom. Jill began snapping photos through the sliding glass door. At the same time the Hispanic woman heard a long ringing sound in her ears. Eventually the being disappeared. Another family member reported seeing similar beings going through doors, windows and walls the same day and two days prior. An anomalous image did appear on the developed film. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5140",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 2742, citing Internet Sightings" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/18/1995",
  "desc" : "In Stockport, England a glistening triangular shaped object vanished at 1:30 a.m., then two orange nocturnal lights maneuvered all over the sky for the next 10 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5141",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, January 1996; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17374" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/18/1995",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. a triangle-shaped object with fireballs and various flashes was seen in Revin, Ardennes, France. Video was taken of the phenomena for seven minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5142",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17375, citing Banque OVNI, issue 95" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/18/1995",
  "desc" : "On this night a luminous 40-foot in diameter disc-shaped craft with a row of dark windows around the center rim, hovered near a radio tower in Barranquitas, Puerto Rico, causing a fluctuation in the radio station's power. Two children reportedly encountered a four-foot-tall being with red eyes and a spiny crest on its back in a nearby  park. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5143",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, case # 2184, citing Jorge Martin, UFO Magazine" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/18/1999",
  "desc" : "At 4:10 a.m. in Izmir, Turkey a man first observed a huge, oval-shaped craft, almost one kilometer in length, over the city; it suddenly vanished. Then a small gray egg-shaped object with small windows landed in his garden. Several small Grey humanoids exited the object and stared at the witness. One of them approached him and slowly took his hand; the being’s skin felt very soft. The humanoid then tried to pull the man's hand gently, in an attempt to escort him onboard the landed craft, but the witness refused to go. However, he reported that he felt at peace during the encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5144",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 1999 web page; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 3608, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/18/1999",
  "desc" : "At 10:05 p.m. in Nineveh, Pennsylvania two witnesses watched as two large 30-meter long triangular objects hovered at only 30 meters altitude, only 40 meters away from them. The craft had clearly lit windows, and flew silently. They went off to the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5145",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George Filer, Filer's Files, Volume 9, # 34, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/18/2006",
  "desc" : "At 1:18 a.m. in Black Point, Nova Scotia, Canada a witness first observed a simple blue nocturnal light in the sky. Several minutes later he observed a slow-moving disc-shaped object flying just over his neighbor's house, where it hovered for several minutes.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5146",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, Canadian UFO Survey 2006, case # 526, citing ufoinfo.com" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/18/2007",
  "desc" : "A brief entry of a landing and report of humanoids is contained in the British Ministry of Defence database of UFO reports for 2007. Case # 52 reports that an object or objects were seen near Streatham in London, England and that the object or objects then landed. \"A person was seen and then more people were seen. A lot of phenomena.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5147",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "British Ministry of Defence, case # 2007-052" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/18/2008",
  "desc" : "A wingless silver cigar-shaped object stopped in the air over the ocean off of Cape Breton near Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada at 7:50 p.m.; it then disappeared. There were three witnesses and the sighting lasted for four minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5148",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, Canadian UFO Survey 2008, case # 611" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/18/2009",
  "desc" : "Camped on the top of a ridge outside of Sedro Wooley, Washington at around 1:00 a.m., a man who had previously seen a multi-colored UFO many times in the area late at night took out his binoculars and sighted an oval-shaped disc with blinking red, blue, and green lights. It was making a low-pitched, humming sound, and was hovering over a small clearing on the ridge. Through the binoculars he saw what appeared to be a porthole, and through the porthole he could see a humanoid being wearing some sort of a helmet. Frightened, the man decided to climb down off the ridge and go home. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5149",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 2009 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2009 archived webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/18/2009",
  "desc" : "In Bagshot, Surrey, England a married couple reported that at 9:45 p.m. they observed an orange-colored,  diamond or mitre hat-shaped object moving across the sky, silently.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5150",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2009 webpage, report uploaded December 12, 2009" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/18/2010",
  "desc" : "At around 8:00 p.m. in Evansville, Indiana a witness reported to the UFO Reporting Center that he had a close encounter with an eight-inch wide flying disc, only 20 feet away from him, which floated across the ground and then rose up into the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5151",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2010 webpage, report uploaded November 21, 2010" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/19/1949",
  "desc" : "Two prospectors in Death Valley, California allegedly observed a disc-shaped object land. Two dwarfs emerged but were lost in the sand dunes when pursued. The object disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5152",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 116; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 193" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/19/1952",
  "desc" : "At 2:38 p.m. in Red Bluff, California Ground Observer Corps observer Albert Lathrop sighted two objects shaped like fat bullets that flew straight and level, very fast for 25 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5153",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/19/1952",
  "desc" : "On this evening Ronny Desvergers saw a large, round, dark object above him in a clearing in West Palm Beach, Florida. It had a turret on top. Red balls of light were emitted by the object and burned him. He also observed a \"hideous\" short creature aboard the craft. The roots of grass growing at the site were scorched. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5154",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Edward Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 199" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/19/1955",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. about 700 meters away from the site of another humanoid encounter only three days before in Bradford, England, Mr. Wood, a warehouseman, saw a bright, silvery, bullet-shaped object behind a hillock. It measured about four meters in height and 1.5 meters in diameter. It had a highly polished chrome-like surface and made a high-pitched buzzing sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5155",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Arthur Constance, The Inexplicable Sky, p. 222; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings , p. 251" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/19/1965",
  "desc" : "At 8:20 p.m. in Cherry Creek, New York Mrs. William Butcher, her son Harold, age 17, and other children saw a large elliptical object, with reddish vapor underneath, that came close to the ground, then shot straight up into the clouds a few seconds later. Their radio was drowned out by static, and a tractor engine stopped. When the object was on the ground, a steady beeping sound could be heard. Afterwards, a strange odor was noticed, and the next day, a purplish liquid, 2\"x2\" marks and patches of singed grass were found at the site. A bull bellowed and tried to break its bonds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5156",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/19/1966",
  "desc" : "At 4:50 p.m. in Donnybrook, North Dakota U.S. Border Patrolman Don Flickenger sighted a bright white, shiny thirty-foot diameter round disc made of a silvery or aluminum material. It was ten meters meters in diameter, five meters high, and floated down the side of a hill, wobbling from side to side about three meters above the ground. The object moved across the valley from the southeast, climbed to about 30 meters altitude, and hovered for one minute over a small reservoir where it assumed a horizontal position. A dome then became visible on top of the disc. It next appeared to almost land in a small field less than 80 meters away, but titled back on edge, then rose up vertically into the clouds at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5157",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/19/1969",
  "desc" : "Luis Renato Matos, a schoolteacher, was driving his sister in law and her two children from Ararauma to Campos, Brazil. At 2:50 a.m. near Macae, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil he saw a blue light which, when seen again some 200 meters ahead, now appeared as a bright blue inverted plate about 20 meters in diameter. It floated at an inclined angle 3 to 4 meters above the ground. His passengers were all sleeping at the time. As he came around a bend in the road, Sr. Renato saw five or six small human like figures less than a meter tall, all scurrying rapidly about. Each one carried an illuminated pear-shaped implement, held by a small rod; these glowed like red-hot irons. Renato sped up the car and just after he passed through Macae his headlights failed and the motor quit. He sat there for a long while not knowing what to do until, finally, he was again able to start the car and proceed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5158",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-40, citing Richard Heiden" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/19/1970",
  "desc" : "A ten year old student in Bukit Mertajam, Penang, Malaysia reported seeing about 25 landed small objects among the bushes just outside school grounds. From each of the objects emerged a three inch tall humanoid. As he approached the UFOs the school bell rang and he returned to class and did not see the objects depart. After school six school boys in the same village reported seeing a very small disc-shaped object, blue in color, land in some bushes near their school. Five little men described as merely three inches tall emerged from the object. One was dressed in a yellow suit and the other four wore blue uniforms. They were seen installing some type of aerial on a tree branch that apparently sent out signals. The boys became frightened and ran away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5159",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1970, case # 812, citing Ahmad Jamaluddin, FSR, Vol. 28, # 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/19/1970",
  "desc" : "On this same night Mr. And Mrs. Olaf Mohlinder were riding in a car near Narken, Sweden in a rainstorm with their friend, Assar Sandberg, who was driving. They saw in the headlights a little man on the roadway, no more than three feet tall, who raised both arms to cover his face as the car approached. There was a blinding flash and a sound like a gunshot. Sandberg slammed on the brakes. The little man was still there. They drove on by and had a brief glimpse of his apparel: he wore a grayish rain cape and a helmet like a western hat. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5160",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1970-15, citing Axel Franzen, FSR Case Histories # 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/19/1971",
  "desc" : "Security guard Pietro Bongiorni was standing guard at the local thermal baths in Bobbio, Italy at 7 p.m. when he saw an \"object\" descend from the sky. As the object approached he noticed that it was a man-shaped figure that rapidly changed direction and headed towards him. Concerned he called for other witnesses and noticed that the being flew in a crouched position resembling that of someone riding on an \"invisible\" motorcycle. He described the figure as human with rosy skin, long black hair, and a beard and was very tall. It hovered near the witness, staring at him with penetrating black eyes. As other witnesses approached the figure disappeared in the direction of a nearby river at a low altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5161",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1971, citing Archivio SUF" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/19/1973",
  "desc" : "At eight p.m. residents of Buffalo Mills, Pennsylvania spotted an eight-foot tall humanoid walking casually down Main Street. The humanoid had human features with a dark penetrating gaze and wore a shimmering shiny outfit cut in an odd way. He took extremely long strides and barely seemed to touch the pavement. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5162",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 2080, citing John A. Keel, The Eighth Tower" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/19/1979",
  "desc" : "On this evening a woman and her two children were picking wild flowers on the river bank in East Didsbury, England besides some open land when they noticed a flash of light with shades of pink, orange, and silver above a nearby golf course. Soon they saw a curious looking object descend towards the ground in an apparent crash landing. They ran up the embankment to get a better view of the object, which they described as resembling a gondola with a curved base and a girder-like structure, with a reddish glow on top. The witnesses felt attracted towards the object and began walking towards it. The next thing they knew they were running away, and the grass around them was swaying as if in a strong wind. The UFO could be seen flying silently away. After the incident the mother and daughter developed strange lesions on their legs, and her young son had nightmares. Under hypnosis the mother was able to recall several strange beings with elongated heads and \"puppet like\" faces. She remembered being examined on a table by some sort of light beam.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5163",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case # 1583, citing Peter Hough & Jenny Randles, Mysteries Of The Mersey Valley" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/20/1949",
  "desc" : "At 10:15 p.m. in Las Cruces, New Mexico Astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of the planet Pluto, reported sighting six to eight green, rectangular UFOs flying in a symmetrical formation. He had a second sighting 30 minutes later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5164",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 130, citing letter from Tombaugh dated August 7, 1957; UNICAT, case # 530, citing Dr. James E. McDonald" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/20/1950",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon in Nicosia, Cyprus at 1:30 p.m., three military officers sighted a small, round, bright white flying object. MATS liaison officer Lt. William Ghormley, Colonel W. V. Brown, and Lt. Colonel L.W. Brauer reported that the UFO flew fast, straight and level for 15-20 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5165",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 793; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/20/1952",
  "desc" : "At 3:10 a.m. Bill Ford and two others in Neffsville, Pennsylvania watched an unidentified object fly through the sky at 500 feet altitude for several minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5166",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1938; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 278" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/20/1952",
  "desc" : "Air Defense Command radar tracked a UFO 60 miles from the Congaree Air Force Base, South Carolina at speeds of 4,000 mph at around 10:00 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5167",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 132; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 96" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/20/1953",
  "desc" : "The crew of a TB-29 bomber/trainer aircraft flying near Castle AFB in California reported that at 9:05 p.m. PDT a gray oval object made four passes at their airplane (three times at 10-20 miles distance), then dived vertically as if two objects. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5168",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2686; Project Blue Book Report #12; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns, p. 21; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 21" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/20/1953",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. a large round black object stopped in the air over the radio tower in Burlington, Vermont for three minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5169",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 3114, citing APRO Bulletin, 1953" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/20/1954",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon two sisters in Norway met the pilot of a UFO. While picking blueberries in fields around Ceydalen, near Mosjoen, Norway 24-year-old Edith Jacobsen and her sister, Asta Solvang, were approached by a man with a tanned complexion and long hair who smiled and made friendly hand gestures. Curious, they decided not to run away. The stranger wore a greenish one-piece coverall, which covered him all the way up to his neck, and they could not see any buttons or seams. He also wore a very wide belt around his waist. But what really grabbed their attention was the man’s long, light brown hair. His eyes were light blue and somewhat slanted, and his skin was a bronze color. After waving back to the visitor, they asked who he was. The man extended his hand towards the women but instead of shaking hands he slightly brushed their palms, and then spoke in a \"sing song type manner” and in a language they could not comprehend, even though both women were fluent in English, German, and Russian and were knowledgeable in Spanish and French. “His hands were beautiful,” said one of the women, “with long well manicured fingers like that of an artist”. The stranger took something out of his coverall that resembled a pencil and what appeared to be a piece of paper, when he then proceeded to draw a central point surrounded by several circles, which seemed to represent the orbits of the planets within our solar system. After pointing out the Earth and the moon, the stranger pointed at a ‘planet’ which the women were unable to distinguish due to their state of excitement. Moments later he put both items back into his tunic through a seam that neither woman was able to see. At this point both women were starting to feel a little concerned, but the smiling man motioned for them to follow him. Both women obeyed and soon arrived in a small clearing in which rested a metallic lenticular-shaped object with a small dome on top. The object measured some 4 to 5 meters in diameter and was about 1.30 meters in height, and was grayish-blue in color. As they started to approach the craft the man motioned for them to step back. He then opened a hatch at the base of the object and climbed in, and then closed the hatch. The women then heard a slight whistling sound, and moments later the object began to rise up into air with a rotating motion. Once the craft had climbed to about 45 meters it stopped momentarily, and then it increased its rotation, quickly rising up into the sky in a diagonal trajectory and disappearing from sight. The women notified the police after the encounter and according to police officials both women were of sound mind and well respected in the community. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5170",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-44 (A0243), citing Oddvar J. Larsen; Jacques & Janine Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 129" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/20/1955",
  "desc" : "At 10:45 p.m. two men on a lake in Kenora, Ontario, Canada saw a saucer-shaped UFO come in front of them, hovering just 40 feet over the water. It was silver white in color, four or five feet across, and at a distance of less than 75 meters. It slid sideways, hovered again, tilted on its side, straightened out, then shot away. It was gone in three seconds, covering 40 degrees of arc in the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5171",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 97; UNICAT, case # 382" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/20/1957",
  "desc" : "In Venezuela at 10:30 a.m. ten small discs orbited one huge disc southwest of Carora, Lara province, and one landed. The rest engaged in zig-zag maneuvers. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5172",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: August-September, p. 36" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/20/1957",
  "desc" : "In the evening in Quilino, Cordoba, Argentina an Air Force man inside a tent heard a loud, shrill sound and then saw a disc that descended while grass and plants fluttered wildly underneath it. He found himself unable to draw his gun, which \"seemed to be glued in its holster.\" A voice came from inside the craft, telling him in Spanish that UFOs had a base in the Salta area and would soon show themselves to warn all people about the dangers of a nuclear catastrophe.  ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5173",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon Creighton, FSR Special Edition #1: The Humanoids, p. 36; John A. Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 197; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 398" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/20/1959",
  "desc" : "The witness and three young girls were sleeping in a station wagon at Lake Bonita, New Mexico. At around three a.m. they were awake to see a bright fireball descend and land on the side of the nearby mountain. Several figures carrying what looked like bright flashlights emerged from the object and approached their location, shining beams of light inside their car and illuminating the area like daylight. The figures then left the area and the witnesses ran from their vehicle and crawled to the relative safety of a nearby cabin. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5174",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1959, case # 3604, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/20/1962",
  "desc" : "Raimundo Mafra da Silva testified before the police that while working in a field in Duas Pontes, Minas Gerais State, Brazil he saw two spherical objects hovering just two meters above the ground, only a few meters from his house. One was black with an antenna-like protrusion and a small tail, and the other was black and white. Both emitted a humming sound and a flickering flame through an opening. The boy's father warned him to stay away as his father Rivalino walked toward the objects, praying. When he was two meters away, the two spheres merged into one, raising dust from the ground and spreading a yellow mist that enveloped the man. The boy ran after his father, noting that the cloud had \"an acrid smell.\" As it dissolved, everything had vanished including his father. The police investigation, headed by Lieutenant Lisboa, failed to reveal any clue. Many terrified neighbors left the area at the time because of this incident. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5175",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, September 1962, p. 1; Coral E Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 213; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious Business, p. 303; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 543; Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact, p. 126" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/20/1963",
  "desc" : "In a wooded area near Rome, Italy a man in a car observed at 9:32 p.m. an object resembling a plate turned upside down, with a central turret, flying low over his vehicle. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5176",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 579, citing Project Blue Book" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/20/1965",
  "desc" : "At 3:00 a.m. EDT Mrs. T. E. Schumaker of Mount Airy, North Carolina was awakened by a loud humming sound and found she could not speak or move for awhile. When she finally was able to reach her window and look out, she saw a vertical, cigar- shaped, luminous object. It moved right and left, then back and forth, etc. Ultimately it disappeared behind some trees. The next morning a circle of crushed grass, four meters in diameter, was found in her yard. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5177",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 682; Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1966" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/20/1965",
  "desc" : "At 5:20 a.m. EDT a former Navy aircraft spotter sighted a grayish-silver disc hovering over the city of Haverhill, Massachusetts as he approached in his car from the crest of a high hill. It made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5178",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 70" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/20/1965",
  "desc" : "At 11:50 a.m. several tourists in Cuzco, Peru, including Alberto Ugarte and Elwin Voter, observed a strange craft land near the Inca ruins that they were visiting. The object was a small silvery disc, only five feet in diameter, and it landed on a terrace of the Sacsahuaman Inca site. Two luminous dwarfish beings, “of strange shape and dazzling brightness,” briefly emerged from it. They were also described as having \"vertical mouths.\" They quickly got back inside into their craft, which then flew off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5179",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1965-38; APRO Bulletin, January-February 1966; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 683; FSR Special Issue #1: The Humanoids, p. 43" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/20/1965",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. local time Eduardo Lujan Yacobi and his wife, Teresa Ernestina Acuna, were returning to their home in Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires province, Argentina when they heard a loud humming sound and saw a reddish glowing, oval-shaped object pass overhead and land 200 meters away. The object, which was flashing and rotating, brushed the tops of nearby trees in its passage overhead and, after landing, the Yacobis could see luminous red or violet figures moving about and examining the craft, as if in some type of repair activity. After a short while these figures re-entered the machine, which took off and disappeared within a few seconds. Others in the neighborhood had seen the object’s passage overhead, and still others had heard the humming noise. Total duration of incident was 30 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5180",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1965-39; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 685; FSR Special Issue #1: The Humanoids, p. 42" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/20/1966",
  "desc" : "Early in the morning Otto Becker, his son, and daughter-in-law woke up to find their entire house in Heraldsburg, California bathed in bright light. They next observed a \"six-story\" tall object at treetop level sixty meters away. It gave off rainbow colors that appeared to pour off its edges \"like water\" in a fantastic display. A distinct engine noise was heard before it took off vertically. Domestic animals had been greatly disturbed, and the witness had inflamed eyes for several days. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5181",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 789, citing Bob Gribble, January 1967" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/20/1966",
  "desc" : "Later that day outside of Bozeman, Montana Dan Duggleby was up in the hills with a .22 caliber rifle when he heard a \"whooshing\" noise and looked up to see a large rocket-shaped object about 60 feet in diameter and 300 feet tall, which landed close by. An opening appeared in the side of the cylinder and a ramp slid out, and five robotic metal \"boxes\" with small wheels on the bottoms and four \"arms\" on the sides came down the ramp. One took ground samples, while three of the others took air, grass, and flower samples and the last one \"just stood there.\" When finished they rolled back up the ramp, the ramp slid in, and the ship took off straight up and vanished in the fog. The witness had seen disc-like UFOs on many previous occasions. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5182",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1966-33, citing Duggleby's letter to the FBI" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/20/1966",
  "desc" : "In Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil a woman called the police to report a luminous object rising and descending on top of a high hill. When policemen climbed to the site they found the bodies of two men, electronic technicians Pereira da Cruz and Viana. The bodies were wearing lead masks on the upper part of the face. An autopsy failed to disclose the cause of death, but the investigation disclosed several earlier incidents and a mysterious organization to which these men belonged. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5183",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 790, citing a personal investigation" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/20/1966",
  "desc" : "In Randlett, Utah at sunset a 12-year-old girl named Cuch spotted a glowing yellow-orange domed disc hovering in the sky. It glowed orange, approached, and then a red beam came out of the bottom. When children ran toward it, it flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5184",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Frank Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, Appendix A, case 10; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 380" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/20/1968",
  "desc" : "In Schitul Bunea, Romania two men saw a 30 meter cone-shaped object that hovered for 90 minutes, beginning at around 11:00 p.m. It emitted a beam of light upwards. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5185",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ion Hobanna & Julien Weberbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 243" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/20/1970",
  "desc" : "At 6:30 a.m. several young boys in Bukit Mertajam, Penang province, Malaysia encountered a round blue object on the ground, and several three inch tall ugly humanoids stood around the object. One of the humanoids took out an object resembling a gun and shot one of the boys on his hand when the boy attempted to grab him. The boys ran to get their teachers but upon returning to the site the object and the creatures were gone. Later that same day the same young witness from the previous day encountered a small UFO on the ground near the school compound. Five three-inch tall humanoids emerged from the object. One of them, who appeared to be the leader, wore a yellow uniform and had two horn-like protrusions on his head. The other four wore blue uniforms. The leader pointed a weapon at the witness and shot at him. The witness blacked out and was found later lying in the bushes. He regained consciousness later, and a small red dot appeared on his leg where he had been shot by the creature. Two other boys in the same village went out looking for the reported small UFO and spotted two tiny men among some bushes. One was on a rock and the other on a tree branch. Both figures were dressed in yellow suits, and one had only one arm and appeared to be holding a small gun. The boys attempted to capture the entities but they got away. That evening the young son of a local high-ranking police official was returning from school when he saw two tiny figures hiding in the bushes near the school compound. As he tried to capture them he was shot in the hand and received a small cut. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5186",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1970, case # 815, citing Ahmad Jamaluddin, FSR, Vol. 28 # 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/20/1971",
  "desc" : "A teenage couple in Cirencester, Gloucester, England were frozen with fear over the close approach of two orange lights, which hovered only 100 yards away from them. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5187",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mrs. K. Smith, The BUFORA Journal, January 1972, p. 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/20/1972",
  "desc" : "At 5:45 a.m. a hat-shaped disc flew toward the east with a loud whirring sound over Montagne-de-Rougemont, Rouville, Quebec. A fireball turned 90 degrees, and shot off to the west-northwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5188",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Wido Hoville case files; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 9663" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/20/1973",
  "desc" : "At 10:15 p.m. an 18 meter in diameter disc-shaped object flew over Vertheuil, Gironde department, France and tilted at a 45 degree angle. It had illuminated, square windows. It then leveled off and flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5189",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 10059; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issues # 135 & 309" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/20/1974",
  "desc" : "Driving on Route 43 near Derry, New Hampshire at 9:30 p.m. Joe Recupero saw an object through his windshield that was moving from east to west, approximately 300 yards distant, and as \"big as a house.\" It was white in color, fuzzy and bright as the sun, and was followed by several smaller objects. It moved into some trees along the highway between Exits 4 and 5, so he pulled off the road, got out, and began looking for it. After searching for several minutes, he suddenly spotted two small \"mummy like\" figures in the woods, some 40 yards distant. Alarmed, he got back into his car and drove off. The entire incident lasted one hour, although the mummy figures were only seen briefly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5190",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1974-40 (A1349), citing investigators John Oswald & Bill Haylock" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/20/1974",
  "desc" : "A series of UFO sightings with police reports and multiple radar confirmation occurred in Albany and Saratoga Counties, New York. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5191",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, July-August 1974, p. 3; Margaret Sachs & Ernest Jahn, Celestial Passengers, pp. 98-101; John Wallace Spencer, UFO Yearbook, p. 165" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/20/1978",
  "desc" : "A 64-year old man in Toledo, Ohio witnessed a dull silver silent fuselage at 7:30 p.m. that flew to the south on steady course and speed, at an estimated altitude of 2000 feet. It was twice the apparent size of the Moon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5192",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, December 1978, p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/20/1984",
  "desc" : "At around 9:00 p.m. a triangular-shaped object with an L-shaped tail hung in the sky over a pond in Mahopac Falls, Putnam County, New York, then followed after two witnesses in their car making sharp maneuvers. Next it moved over top of a neighbor's house, and hovered over their yard for three minutes. A second UFO was seen there an hour and a half later that was rectangular shaped. In Kingston, Ulster County, New York there were more Hudson Valley type sightings of delta-shaped objects with lights, including a possible abduction. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5193",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gerry Arena, APRO Bulletin, May 1985, p. 1; J. Allen Hynek & Philip Imbrogno, Night Siege: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, p. 204" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/20/1987",
  "desc" : "On this night in Pine Bush, Orange County, New York a nocturnal light was seen traveling at treetop level. It became a delta-shaped object with four headlights in front as it came closer. It maneuvered for awhile, and then flew off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5194",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ellen Crystal, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/20/1990",
  "desc" : "A dark box-shaped UFO landed in a swamp in Victoria, Entre Rios, Argentina. Lights were seen blinking above the object, then joined together, and finally shot off toward the south-southeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5195",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15234; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #312" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/20/1992",
  "desc" : "A sequence of multi-witness sightings occurred in Pittsford, Monroe County, New York that lasted for an hour and a half, beginning at 10:00 p.m. The first sighting was of a band of arcade-like rolling front lights and three distinctly large lights, with small red lights at the center rear. The object was estimated to be at 1,200 feet altitude, larger than a Boeing-747, and moving slowly at about 60 mph. Several witnesses called MUFON field investigator George Hoenig, who took photographs of a \"stack of dishes\" rotating and tumbling, with streaks of light darting about. Two women had a close encounter with two boomerang-shaped objects with a fat center. The objects stayed the same distance apart and had ten lights each. At first they moved at a steady, slow pace, but then they accelerated as they went over. They made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5196",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald M. Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1992, p. 18 and January 1993, p. 16; George K. Hoenig, MUFON case files CD-ROM, cases 921103EA, 921103EC, 921103EE, and 921103EF" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/20/1993",
  "desc" : "A woman in Baca Chalets, Saguache County in the San Luis Valley, Colorado had been watching late night television around one o'clock in the morning and had just turned off the light when she heard noises coming from the kitchen. She called out but got no response. Puzzled, she went to bed and turned off the light. Just as her eyes were getting accustomed to the dark, ten or twelve three and a half to four foot tall creatures glided into the room in a tight group, and came to stand less than three feet from where she lay. She sat up in amazement, staring at them. When they first came in she thought she could see right through them, but as they got into the room they became solid. The beings clustered around the foot of her bed, looking at her. She felt the entities, were \"cold, and completely indifferent, maybe a little curious.\" They were small and slight and had huge almond-shaped eyes. Sleeping next to her was her five-year old son. She suddenly thought of the boy and became afraid, thinking, \"they are here because of him!\" She then forcefully told them to leave. The beings then silently glided out the wall, they way they came in. That same night a neighbor reported feeling a presence and seeing peculiar shadows in his bedroom, about two hours earlier. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5197",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 189" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/20/1996",
  "desc" : "At 2:15 a.m. a teenage girl witnessed a metallic, disc-shaped object hovering above a group of nearby power lines in her backyard in West Manchester, Ohio. The round bottom of the craft appeared to be gold in color, and it had orange, green, and reddish-orange lights. A series of rectangular windows were around the middle portion of the craft. One window in the center appeared to be moved down by somebody inside the craft, while at the same time the girl had a strong feeling that she was being watched. After viewing the object for about five minutes, it zig-zagged and shot up into the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5198",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case # 3595, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/20/2001",
  "desc" : "At 11:15 p.m. in Toscane St. Apre, Dordogne, France a witness at a campsite observed the passage of a triangle delimited by three luminous points in the sky. It was quiet and its passage lasted a few minutes. The son of the witness tried in vain to film it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5199",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "GEIPAN, case # 346" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/20/2001",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. PDT another flying triangle was sighted from I-5 in Weed, California. While driving and looking out of the car's sunroof Mary C. and a passenger noticed three steady lights moving south in unison, positioned to make an uneven triangle. The space in between the lights was camouflaged against the night sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5200",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 81" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/20/2001",
  "desc" : "In Brewster, Massachusetts at 4:30 a.m. a small red light on a disc-shaped object, about three feet in diameter, quickly darted about in the witness's garden, whirring faintly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5201",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2001 archived webpage, report uploaded December 9, 2003" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/20/2004",
  "desc" : "Over Staten Island, New York four hazy white objects traveled in a circle at 10:00 p.m. and came together about a dozen times into a center, \"like they were playing a game.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5202",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2004 archived webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/20/2004",
  "desc" : "At Lake in the Hills, Illinois at 10:25 p.m. a flying triangle flew right over the heads of a computer network engineer of 20 years and his chemist wife at a low altitude. Its length was longer than any commercial airliner. The witness viewed the object through binoculars. It had three lights with one located at each apex. The UFO tilted to the west and levelled off. The object stayed in sight for 3 minutes, and then completely vanished right in front of them in the partly cloudy sky.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5203",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 98" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/20/2004",
  "desc" : "In Stonewall, Manitoba at 10:30 p.m. three orange, boomerang-shaped objects moved in formation, traveling very fast, and making no noise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5204",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey Report, case # 610, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/20/2006",
  "desc" : "There were unexplained UFO reports from Nova Scotia, Ontario and Alberta, Canada on this day. At 1:00 a.m. in Edmonton, Alberta rotating lights were seen on a white polygon UFO, which moved rapidly through the sky. In Windsor, Ontario at 2:00 a.m. there was a close encounter with a floating, silver, triangle-shaped object, moving side to side. It hovered for awhile, then moved away. The sighting lasted five minutes. At 8:00 p.m. in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario witnesses sighted a silvery round UFO reflecting sunlight. It hovered, then took off at a high rate of speed. Next, it stopped abruptly, moved back towards the witnesses, and finally moved away. At 11:30 p.m. in New Victoria, Nova Scotia multiple independent people observed large lights in the sky. They hovered and moved side to side. At one point, they seemed to follow some of the witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5205",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2006 Canadian UFO Survey, reports 236, 237, 241 & 243" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/21/1952",
  "desc" : "Dallas, Texas. Jack Rossen, an ex-artillery observer, saw three blue-white lights hover and then descend at 11:54 p.m. Ninety seconds later one of the lights descended further. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5206",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/21/1955",
  "desc" : "Hopkinsville, Kentucky. The Sutton family saw a light land near their farmhouse. Shortly after several goblin-like entities about one meter tall, with glowing silver clothing, oversized round heads, big eyes and huge pointed ears harassed them for several hours. They got out their hunting rifles and started shooting at them. At one point one of the entities was struck by gunfire and was knocked off their roof, but inside of falling normally it \"floated down\" Close to running out of ammunition, the Suttons fled their farmhouse and got the police, who observed a lighted object in the sky, flying away very fast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5207",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book; Isabel Davis, Close Encounter at Kelly and Others of 1955; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 173; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 251" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/21/1956",
  "desc" : "A reddish orange elongated object jerked up and down over Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley in California on this evening for several minutes around 9:30 p.m. A later report at 11:30 p.m. was made in El Monte, California. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5208",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Los Angeles Times, August 1956, p. 22; Alexander Mebane, Civilian Saucer Intelligence--New York Newsletter, November 1956, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/21/1965",
  "desc" : "On this day at a school outside of Mexico City, Mexico two groups of students had separate but identical meetings with aliens. The students were in two groups of three, and encountered a landed metallic disc 150 feet wide. The occupants were blond, blue-eyed human-looking beings who were seven feet tall and wore metallic coveralls. They were taken on a three hour long space journey and telepathic messages. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5209",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, cases A0653 and A0654, citing Terrance McGarry for UPI" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/21/1972",
  "desc" : "Mr. Faltersack, age 18, was driving along County Road JF in Waukesha County, Wisconsin at 2:30 a.m. when he saw an orange, circular object approximately 20 to 30 feet in diameter hovering at a low altitude and making a beeping sound. It moved over his car for a few seconds and his car engine and headlights died. The orange object moved off and hovered over some treetops, while his car radiator boiled over. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5210",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, November-December 1972, p. 7; NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1972, p. 3; Skylook, October 1972, p. 8; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 55; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 253" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/21/1973",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 a.m. a woman was alone in her bedroom in Derry, Pennsylvania and had her bedroom window open with the drapes closed. She awoke with the feeling that someone was watching her. She turned her head and was horrified to see a hideous face staring at her from the window. The creature was over nine feet tall and had dark oval eyes with no whites nor eyelashes. Apparently it had pushed the drapes aside to look inside. The creature moved back awkwardly as the witness moved. Her daughter also saw a huge shadow on the wall from a figure outside. A strong odor like rotten meat persisted after the creature had gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5211",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Stan Gordon, MUFON UFO Symposium Proceedings 1974, p. 136" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/21/1978",
  "desc" : "Evelyn Clayton's family and friends were out on the front porch of her home near Minerva, Ohio at 10:30 p.m. when they heard noises coming from the direction of an old chicken coop just to the right of the house. They then saw two pairs of yellow lights that seemed to be reflecting a porch light. Scott Patterson went to his car and turned the headlights on in hopes of getting a better look. They could now see that the lights were eyes on what appeared to be two cougar-like animals. Then the group saw what looked like a large hairy bipedal creature step in front of the large cats as if to protect them. This humanoid then lurched towards the Patterson's car. The witnesses fled inside the house and called the sheriff's office. The hairy bipedal creature appeared at the kitchen window while they were waiting for the deputy sheriffs to arrive. Patterson pointed a 22-caliber pistol at it, while Evelyn Clayton loaded a .22 caliber rifle. The creature stood outside the window for close to ten minutes. They decided they would not shoot it unless the creature made advances toward them. It left quickly without harming anyone. A strong stench resembling \"ammonia sulfur\" remained in the area long after the creature was gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5212",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 3061, citing Ron Schaffner" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/21/1998",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon on the outskirts of Citta Di Castello, Italy some city residents spotted a small humanoid in a field. It was crouched down like an old woman gathering weeds. When it failed to respond to shouts from the witnesses they approached to about 200 meters. Suddenly a silvery cylinder-shaped object appeared and hovered about two meters above the small figure. The small humanoid then levitated into the craft, which took off quickly, accelerating out of sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5213",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case # 3133, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, September 16, 1998" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/22/1909",
  "desc" : "The night after a similar sighting, a torpedo shaped object with searchlights was seen again at ten p.m. in Colebrook, Tasmania, Australia. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5214",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Keith Roberts, Australasian Ufologist, January 2001, p. 43" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/22/1949",
  "desc" : "In Alaska, a scientist on Tigvariak Island sighted six disc-shaped object flying in a circular formation, making a whining sound. A seventh disc then was seen weaving through the sky. They went from the northeast to the southwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5215",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949, p. 42" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/22/1953",
  "desc" : "On this day a silver cigar-shaped object descended from the clouds over East Bolton, Quebec, Canada. It stopped near the ground, making an odd noise, then shot up vertically. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5216",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 3116, citing APRO Bulletin, November 1953" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/22/1954",
  "desc" : "In East Chicago, Indiana on this day two refinery workers sighted a crescent-shaped object that darted all over the sky above the oil refinery were they worked for two minutes. It flew at an estimated altitude of 2,500 feet and left going south. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5217",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 155" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/22/1955",
  "desc" : "Casa Blanca, near Riverside, California. At two o'clock in the afternoon some children were playing in the garden of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas when they observed a hovering object that disappeared and reappeared as a spinning disc with curved lines radiating from it. Other objects, silvery and semitransparent, soon appeared and were seen by all of the children. They made musical sounds as they vanished and reappeared. One of them landed, and a creature the size of a four-year-old child, transparent and wearing a belt with a bright disc on it, was seen nearby. Another creature appeared and spoke to one of the boys. All the children experienced visions of the object and the creatures, as well as \"arms\" which appeared to beckon to them. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5218",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Flying Saucer Review, September-October 1967, p. 16; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia; A Century of Landings, p. 251, case 373" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/22/1955",
  "desc" : "One of the most famous humanoid reports ever, came to a conclusion on this date at the Sutton farm in Kelly, near Hopkinsville, Kentucky. After the police had searched the Sutton farm and found no creatures, they left and at two a.m. the little “men” returned, with at least one of them putting its “little clawed hands” up on the window screen. Again they were fired at with rifles without apparent effect. The last of the creatures was seen about half an hour before sunrise. No ground traces of the creatures' presence could be found anywhere during the search that occurred later that same day. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5219",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Isabel L. Davis & Ted Bloecher, Close Encounters at Kelly and Others of 1955; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1955-18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/22/1956",
  "desc" : "From the bedroom a witness in Turlock, California saw an orange-red ovoid UFO fluttering up behind the garage at 10:50 p.m. It went away quickly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5220",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, September 1956" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/22/1957",
  "desc" : "Cecil Naval Air Station, Florida. At 3:40 p.m. a black, bell-shaped object bearing two bright, white lights at the top and maeasuring 15 meters in diameter was chased by a civilian named Sheetz in his car until the car engine stalled. The object then started hovering just three meters away. The underside of the machine resembled a disc with fins. When a jet aircraft took off from the nearby U.S. Navy airfield, the object went out of sight almost instantaneously. The car battery was found to be completely dead.There was no helicopter in the area, although the two witnesses compared the noise made by the object to that of a helicopter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5221",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia; A Century of Landings, p. 257, case 399, citing Project Blue Book; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 239; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/22/1962",
  "desc" : "In Kingsford Heights, Indiana at 8:30 p.m. two families watched a hat-shaped domed disc that made a whirring noise. The seven witnesses viewed the UFO for almost an hour. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5222",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Orvil R. Hartle, A Carbon Experiment, p. 167; Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 11" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/22/1966",
  "desc" : "On this night the crew of a USAF F-102 witnessed a silver, dragon-shaped UFO that hovered over Ramstein Air Force Base, Germany. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5223",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "James Moseley, Saucer News, December 1966, p. 32, citing London Daily Telegraph, August 23, 1966" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/22/1966",
  "desc" : "A landing with ground marks occurred shortly after 6:00 p.m. in Leiters Ford, Fulton County, Indiana and was witnessed by two families, including the Brockleys. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5224",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Flying Saucers, September 1972, p. 36" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/22/1966",
  "desc" : "On this night in Malvern, Arkansas local residents reported seeing an eight-foot tall creature. The \"thing\" was humanoid in shaped, and changed color from red to orange to yellow. A witness named Mr. Niles reportedly snapped a picture of the \"thing\" from his window as it passed by his house. This humanoid encounter occurred six days after several UFOs had been seen in the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5225",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Malvern (AR) Daily Record, August 23, 1966; John A. Keel, UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse, p. 145; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1966, case # 2583, citing John Keel" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/22/1968",
  "desc" : "At 5:40 p.m. two men, Smith and Gardin, were flying in a Piper Navajo for Murchison Air 130 miles east of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia when they spotted a luminous white UFO. It emitted six smaller cigar-shaped \"satellite objects.\" When the pilot Capt. Gordon Smith reported their sighting to the Kalgourlie communication centre their radio stopped working, but it came back after the UFOs gathered together, and shot off at high speed.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5226",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, March 1979, p. 9; NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1969, p. 1; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 144; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 13,119" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/22/1969",
  "desc" : "After Mrs. Joyce Vellacca and her husband reported seeing a multicolored UFO maneuvering over South Akron, Ohio she decided to lie down on the sofa for a short nap. She had scarcely stretched out when a big gust of wind swept through a window and blew the curtains out. Mrs. Vellacca got up to close the window and became frozen in place, literally unable to move. Furthermore, standing on the other side of the window was a woman staring back at her. The woman was well proportioned with beautiful long dark chestnut hair. But the woman had no discernible features where her face would be. Oddly, when Mrs. Vellacca recovered from her frozen immobility, the visitor had vanished. She rushed outside and turned on all the floodlights to illuminate the area, but could see nothing unusual. Then there came a high-pitched whine similar to that of a motorcycle, except that when a motorcycle reaches its highest velocity there is a loud roar, and none was heard. Instead, the noise gained in shrill frequency until it was no longer heard. The dogs in the neighborhood were raising a great rumpus. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5227",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1969, citing Brinsley LePoer Trench, Mysterious Visitors: The UFO Story" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/22/1972",
  "desc" : "On this day or the day before, at 4:30 a.m. Mrs. Doris Muthwa and her 12-year-old daughter were drawing water from a river in Roosboom, Natal, South Africa when she looked up and saw what first looked like a man in a white suit, who appeared to be was smoking a cigarette, but then the smoke became a big fire. \"There was a bright light shining from his chest which went pink and blue,\" Mrs. Muthwa said. She estimated that the figure was more than 11 feet tall. She felt an electric shock in his presence, and added, \"He must have been emitting some kind of electricity, because it felt just like when I touch the [electric] iron and my body goes all jerky.\" Suddenly, the giant apparition shot into the sky and disappeared. The woman and her daughter ran from the spot, spilling the water in their flight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5228",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Philipp J. Human, FSR, November-December 1972, p. 17, citing the Natal Mercury, August 22, 1972; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1972-21" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/22/1974",
  "desc" : "A young woman, Kimberle Lenz, and her brother were abducted while driving on a road near Boulder, Colorado at about 1:30 a.m. The abduction experience lasted two hours, and involved missing time and physiological effects. R. Leo Sprinkle investigated the case and performed the hypnotic regression on the witnesses. Some kind of levitation force was used which pulled the witnesses in the car forward. Grey humanoid beings approached their stopped car from a field. They were made to touch a black box, which caused them to lose consciousness. Under hypnosis it emerged that the beings communicated with them using telepathy; they were curious about human emotions. When the abductees attempted to engage in resistance, they experienced pain. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5229",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "R. Leo Sprinkle, APRO Bulletin, May 1981, p. 8; R. Leo Sprinkle, MUFON Conference Proceedings: 1980, p. 59; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 86, citing the 1981 Rocky Mountain Conference, p. 62" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/22/1975",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. two young men were making a bulk newspaper delivery between Boulogne and Lille by motorbike when they were followed briefly by an unknown \"vehicle\" in the vicinity of St. Omer, Pas-de-Calais, France. A short distance further they saw a light in a field a few hundred meters from the road. They stopped to look, and they could see an ovoid object on the ground, lit from within by a yellowish white light. It was approximately 3-4 meters long, and to its right were two human forms about two meters tall that stood side by side. The figures were completely illuminated by the light from the object, so none of their features could be made out. The figures began walking very quickly toward the young men. Frightened, they took off on the motorbike and continued their journey. Several kilometers further on they saw the object ascend into the sky at an angle. Perhaps because of their astonishment and fear, they were unable to locate the exact site of their experience when they went back with investigators later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5230",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1975-40, citing Joel Mesnard & Jean Marie Bigorne" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/22/1975",
  "desc" : "At 11:45 p.m., while driving between Castronuno and Pollos in Valladolid province, Spain three men spotted a white transparent light that hovered over the road ahead of them. The car's engine died, but the headlights continued to work. When the ball of light, which was four meters in diameter, finally moved slowly off the road to the left, the engine could be restarted. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5231",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon Creighton, FSR, April 1977, p. 27" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/22/1978",
  "desc" : "Ten years to the day after the Kalgoorlie, Western Australia aerial encounter of 1968 another nearly identical incident transpired, again over Western Australia. Flying from Adelaide to Perth a Murchison Air Services airliner encountered a large cigar-shaped object that flew ahead of the airliner. An opening appeared in the object, and smaller UFOs emerged and maneuvered around it, then reentered, and the UFO finally shot off at tremendous speed. When the large object emitted the smaller satellite objects the aircraft's radio failed until the small objects had re-entered and the parent object had sped away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5232",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 23; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 23,124" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/22/1978",
  "desc" : "On this night at 9:30 p.m. three hunters near Coronel Dorrego, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina heard strange noises, then smelled a sulphur odor. They next saw a circular UFO with a black center and white edges, and giving off blue reflections, only 100 meters away from them. They jumped in their car to drive away, but suddenly found themselves 50 meters away, with the car facing the other way. This suggests that they experienced a period of missing time lasting at least several minutes, but from the account no one appears to have investigated this further. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5233",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, October 1978, p. 14, translating a newspaper article from Cronica, August 25, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/22/1978",
  "desc" : "On the same night as the hunters' close encounter experience in Argentina, several guests were having dinner outdoors at a resort on top of a cliff in Southampton, Bermuda. They saw what first appeared to them to be a helicopter approaching. When the UFO got closer it shone a blood red spotlight on the witnesses, and they now realized that what they were seeing was really a 30-foot in diameter disc-shaped object. The craft had brightly lit rectangular windows around its perimeter. The main witness and several of the other guests could now see several Grey figures that appeared to be waving at them; one of the beings stared directly at one of the witnesses. After about a minute the silent craft flew out over the ocean and disappeared. At this point, several military jets appeared and appeared to give pursuit to the object. Later that night, at around 5:00 a.m., the wife of the main witness woke up and was startled to see a short figure standing in their room. The figure raised one hand, waved, then lept right out the balcony window, a distance of about 10 feet, never touching the rail. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5234",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1978 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 3618, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/22/1980",
  "desc" : "In eastern Texas a UFO abduction occurred when a car was levitated inside of a hovering circular craft. Meagan Elliott was driving at 12:40 a.m. with her young daughter Renee in the early morning hours, on a desolate road near Lake Fork Reservoir, Wood County, Texas when her car radio became garbled and she heard a loud electrical noise, then her car headlights dimmed. The vehicle was suddenly lifted off the road, and they found themselves in a bright circular room, still inside the car, which sat on the flat metallic bottom of the hovering craft. A voice in her head told her to get out of the car, but she refused to move. Next, a small putty colored humanoid being with a large bard heald, his feet encased in mist, appeared and forced open the car door. He then forced Meagan and Renee to follow him. He was described as having huge oval eyes, no body hair, a broad flat nose, and a small slit for a mouth. Both of them were then clamped down on metallic tables, and their bodies were probed by two humanoids using different types of tools and a scanning device. Before being returned to the car and lowered to the ground, they said they were fed various colored pills. Under hypnosis, Meagan recalled extensive communication with the beings. They made the disturbing statement that the Earth \"was a fearful planet with a tendency for annihilation.\" She also recalled being shown seven characters, which represented the name of the place they came from, it sounded like \"Asterisk\", but she said she could not pronounce it correctly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5235",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 308; MUFON UFO Journal, January 1982, p. 3 & February 1984, p. 14; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 146; Albert S. Rosales, 1980 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 411, citing Richard H. Hall" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/22/1980",
  "desc" : "That night at the Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico three Sandia Facility guards saw a nocturnal light maneuvering at high speeds over the nuclear weapons facility. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5236",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lawrence Fawcett & Barry Greenwood, Clear Intent: The Government Cover-up of the UFO Experience, p. 225" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/22/1986",
  "desc" : "In Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England a lone witness reported encountering a 60 foot diameter ovoid object, beaming light at 50 feet altitude, at 10:45 p.m. There were lights on the sides of the UFO. Repeater witness. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5237",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Gribble, National UFO Reporting Center, case # 1617" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/22/1988",
  "desc" : "At around one o'clock in the morning an abduction experience occurred at a campsite near Athens, Maine. Two people were tent camping when a disc-shaped object landed nearby and emitted a white light. Next, a red ball exited the object and seemed to scout around their campsite. After that, a \"veil of lights\" entered their tent, and they experienced 45 minutes of missing time. Reportedly the event has caused a profound change in their philosophy of life. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5238",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald M. Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, May 1992, p. 15, citing Field Investigator DeSimone, case # 920305E; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14721, citing MUFON" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/22/1988",
  "desc" : "A red ball of light (BOL) with white lines and a light on one side circled the valley of the farming community of Monroe City, Indiana. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5239",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newspaper Clipping Service, December 1993" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/22/1990",
  "desc" : "A green cone-shaped object landed on a farm in Ebenezer, Prince Edwards Island, Canada at ten o'clock in the evening. It sat there and glowed for two hours, but vanished when witnesses attempted to approach. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5240",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15237, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 303" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/22/1992",
  "desc" : "A witness in Greenwood, Indiana reported one hour of missing time after witnessing several lights in the sky at 10:30 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5241",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, citing Francis L. Ridge" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/22/1999",
  "desc" : "At 4:30 a.m. an 87-year-old woman saw a large, delta-shaped object buzz over her home in Lake Charles, Louisiana. A blue beam came down, illuminated her yard. She then experienced a three minute period of missing time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5242",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer, Filer's Files, volume 9, issue 38" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/22/1999",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon Michelle and a friend were hiking on a remote trail called the Ice Age Trail near Lodi, Wisconsin when she became separated from her friend and went ahead. In a short while she saw a flash of motion ahead, perhaps some 50 feet away. It was a blue-gray figure moving along the trail toward her. His first impression was that it was someone dressed in a blue jacket, but abruptly the blue figure glided off the trail to her right, disappearing behind some trees. It did not seemed to be walking, but displayed a smooth gliding motion. Before it glided away the blue figure seemed to change directions. As it turned she noticed a long blue plume of something, waving from behind its head. Startled, she turned to her companion who had come up behind her, and told him what she had seen. They both walked ahead to investigate the point on the path where it had vanished into the bushes, but found nothing unusual. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5243",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1999 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing Weird Wisconsin" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/22/2004",
  "desc" : "Driving home at 1:00 p.m. from her birthday party in Woodbury, Connecticut a teenager with her mother saw a disc-shaped object with a slight dome on top hovering at a very high altitude; the sun gleamed off its metallic surface. Because her mother responded sarcastically to her statement that she had sighted a UFO, she turned to argue, and when she looked back it was gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5244",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twitchell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/23/1947",
  "desc" : "Two railway men, J. A. Martin and Kenneth Smith, working near Livingston, Montana saw disc-shaped machines traveling to the south in the sky just before sundown. Their speed was 40-60 mph; they glided smoothly and made no sound. They were plainly visible. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5245",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 Research Notes from Bordentown, NJ talk April 16, 2005, p. 25" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/23/1952",
  "desc" : "At 4:10 a.m. USAF Lt. H. K. Funseth, a ground radar observer, and two U.S. Navy men watched an unidentified pulsing amber light fly straight and level for seven minutes outside of Akron on US Highway 224 in Atwater, Ohio. The object was pulsating in intensity from very intense to normal. They reported observing a light only, and could not discern what the object looked like. It was described as amber-orange, round, the size of a car headlamp on dim, and traveling at a speed of 200 mph. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5246",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: August, p. 63; UNICAT, case # 740" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/23/1953",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m. in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada two witnesses experienced two hours of missing time after their car had stalled in the presence of a black, 14 meter in diameter circular object, which hovered overhead. During hypnosis it emerged that telepathy was used for communication. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5247",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Ledger, Maritime UFO Files, p. 38" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/23/1954",
  "desc" : "Outside of Vernon, near Paris, France a giant cigar-shaped object was observed standing on end at 1:00 a.m. It emitted a disc-shaped object, dropped in free fall, then slowed and swayed. The disc was surrounded by a red halo. Over the next 45 minutes it emitted four more discs. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5248",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 19; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 82; APRO Bulletin, January 1980, p. 5; UNICAT, case # 483" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/23/1954",
  "desc" : "On this day Elise Blanc approached an object that looked like an aluminum trailer in Lugrin, France. Standing close to it were two small beings dressed in silver uniforms. They made grunting sounds like pigs. The object took on a glowing, fiery color and flew away. [Note: the Airstream model of trailer, common for this period, is aluminum in color and somewhat ovoid shaped.] ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5249",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 129; Passport to Magonia, p. 208" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/23/1955",
  "desc" : "In Arlington, Virginia at 10:45 a.m. G.M. Park, using a 400x telescope, witnessed several orange lights moving singly and in groups, circling and stopping for 30 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5250",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/23/1956",
  "desc" : "The crew of an F-86 fighter jet flying at 36,000 feet over the Canadian Rockies, near Fort MacLeod, Alberta photographed in color \"an intensely brilliant, oval-shaped object\" that was emitting a plasma glow. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5251",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, May 1965, p. 6; John R. Colombo, UFOs over Canada: Personal Accounts of Sightings and Close Encounters, p. 211" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/23/1959",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. a student watched a bright, pulsating ellipsoid object hover in Midland, Michigan. It made a whirring sound, was sharply outlined, and about the size of a T-33 plane. It changed color from white to  bluish-white when it shot off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5252",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John M. Windover, UFO Research Center case files, report dated June 22, 1966" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/23/1960",
  "desc" : "C.A. Komiske, a Boeing aeronautical engineer, sighted a dull orange, round flying object at 3:24 a.m. in Wichita, Kansas. The object had three yellow lights that came from what looked like triangular windows at the bottom. The object flew in an arc for two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5253",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/23/1965",
  "desc" : "At one o'clock in the morning Casimiro Zuk was riding his bicycle near a railroad crossing in Apostoles, Argentina when he saw a luminous object above him that circled, then landed near the tracks. It was round, five meters in diameter, and 2.5 meters high. A door opened and a man dressed like a pilot emerged, walked around, and then re-entered the object, which flew off in a spiral. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5254",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 687" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/23/1966",
  "desc" : "Columbus, Ohio. - At seven o'clock in the evening two witnesses, Broomall and Gilpin, reported seeing a circular, luminous white object split into five objects. All five objects streaked away toward the west. The sighting lasted 15 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5255",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/23/1967",
  "desc" : "Joyceville, Ontario - While driving from his home in Toronto to Montreal at four o'clock in the morning Stanley Moxon, age 20, saw a green light in a field ahead of him, not far from the road. He turned off his headlights and swung onto a side road to get closer. Turning his lights on again, he saw a huge greenish colored lens-shaped craft, and two somewhat bulky human-like entities about four feet tall, wearing white uniforms and helmets. They \"seemed to be at work around the machine.\" When they were discovered, they quickly jumped into the craft, which took off silently at tremendous speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5256",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Toronto Telegram, August 23, 1967; Kingston Whig Standard, August 24, 1967; APRO Bulletin, September-October 1967, p. 14; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-81, citing APRO and police reports; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 869; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 264, 473" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/23/1967",
  "desc" : "Two young men, Ricardo Hurtado and Antonio Piedra, in Caracas, Santa Monica district, Venezuela heard a noise like \"horses galloping\" in their kitchen. They encountered two small beings who when discovered left hurriedly. There were no lights on in the room and their details could not be discerned very well, but they did not believe the visitors could have been children.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5257",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, September-October 1967, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/23/1967",
  "desc" : "In Kolmarden, Sodermanland, Sweden a 15-year-old boy and girl, Erik and Inga, were walking together in the evening when they saw a reddish glow descend into the woods at 8:00 p.m. When they reached an abandoned cabin they saw a conical light beam cast onto its wall, and the red light re-appeared. Alarmed by this, they walked to the home of the boy's sisters, where they found a round, brightly luminous object hovering about 13 feet in the air. Then they heard a whistling sound and footsteps, and finally a little being jumped out from behind some bushes, 35 feet away. The being was 4 feet 4 inches tall, and its face was at first completely in shadow. Then it jerkily raised its head and arms, holding a box from which a short tube protruded. Its head was very large, covered by hair or a helmet. It had large dark eyes, and a nose and mouth that together formed an \"X.\" It was bowlegged, and around each ankle was a brilliant, white glowing wire. The witnesses ran for home. The next day at the site the boy found some apples that had been broken apart, some of them with the marks of five fingernails or claws on the broken surface. Other apples were coated with a foul smelling slime. Also found outside the house were deep, odd footprints, 6 inches long and with three-toe marks. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5258",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-82, citing K. Gosta Rehn, APRO and Sven Schalin; Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 712; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 870, citing APRO Bulletin, September-October 1967" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/23/1967",
  "desc" : "At 10:15 p.m. a 19-year-old teenager riding on a motocycle two miles north of Lacombe, Alberta, Canada was chased by a red UFO with a vertical stripe down the middle.  It followed him two miles down a twisting country road. The motorcycle engine \"coughed\", but did not stall. He felt heat, and heard a loud whistle sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5259",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lacombe Globe, August 23, 1967; Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science, Autumn 1967, p. 10; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 36" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/23/1971",
  "desc" : "A yellow light approached a car being driven by a Sr. Rodriguez, age 34, in Nuez, Zamora province, Spain at 12:30 a.m. It was disc shaped and also had red and white lights, and was four meters in diameter. His car's electrical system failed when the object approached.The light vanished, then reappeared 15 meters away, then moved off behind some trees. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5260",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 145, citing Jose-Tomas Ramirez y Barbero, Stendek, December 1971, p. 16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/23/1971",
  "desc" : "At around 4 p.m. on highway D1 southeast of Verteillac, Dordogne, France a huge metallic disc-shaped UFO was spotted as it rose from behind some trees. It stopped in midair and dropped back down again. Nothing was found on the ground when the area was searched. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5261",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 123" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/23/1976",
  "desc" : "Dean Anderson was cutting grass on a golf course in Egg Harbor, Door County, Wisconsin at 4:15 a.m. when he saw a large orange craft drop down into a culvert behind the road. Anderson stopped his lawn mower. Two figures emerged from a door in the craft and floated down to the ground on a “band of light.” The craft then took off. Both figures carried flashlights 3 feet long. They came up to Mr. Anderson and one of the beings extended his hand, which the witness shook. He said, “We come in peace. I am Sunar from Jupiter. This is Treena; she comes from Saturn.” The witness shook Treena’s hand while Sunar allegedly explained that they were here on a scientific mission, gathering specimens. Treena took off her outer spacesuit, and appeared in a close fitting, light green one-piece suit; the top was of “some glistening metallic material,” but the pants were dull. She also wore slippers. Her skin was light tan, her eyes blueish gray, and she had shoulder length hair. She was 5’2” tall. Sunar did most of the talking; he had copper colored skin, and said he was over 200 years old. The witness was told that the man he had chased on a previous closer encounter was Muton, from Mars, and that Sunar had once met Baha’u”llah, the founder of the Baha’i religion. After about 20 minutes of conversation, Treena put her spacesuit back on, and gave Anderson an envelope made of yellow nylon cloth, which she asked him not to open for nine days. The craft returned, and the two UFOnauts ascended to it on a beam of light. The craft was estimated to be 30 feet wide at the bottom, and 60 feet high. As soon as daylight allowed, the witness photographed the footprints of Treena and Sunar in the dirt. Later, upon opening the envelope, the witness found a gold-colored, engraved amulet inside. There is no mention of what he did with it, or whether he still has it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5262",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1976-64; Keta Steebs, Sturgeon Bay Advocate, March 31, 1977; Jay Rath, The W-Files: True Reports of Wisconsin's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 66" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/23/1976",
  "desc" : "At 4:10 a.m. three diamond-shaped objects zig-zagged over a cement plant in Haney, British Columbia. They emitted red laser-like beams of light, and flew off rapidly to the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5263",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 11832, citing FSR" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/23/1978",
  "desc" : "A young motorist reportedly suffered a nervous breakdown as he encountered several tall humanoids with human features near Santiago, Chile. The beings were wearing helmets and standing on the roadway. Two other motorists also reported seeing similar beings. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5264",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1978 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 1017, citing Marcen Journal, Volume 2, number 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/23/1978",
  "desc" : "On this night on the highway between La Serena and Coquimbo, Chile a UFO was seen by two motorists. Inside the craft were two figures wearing a kind of helmet similar to those used by miners; the helmets were luminous. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5265",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A1956" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/23/1978",
  "desc" : "On this night in Penalva, Maranhao State, Brazil a witness saw three medium-sized humanoid figures in a field. They were wearing silvery, loose-fitting coveralls, and round translucent helmets with what appeared to be face coverings or \"plates\". The humanoids were encased in an eerie glow. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5266",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1978 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing Antonio Faleiro" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/23/1978",
  "desc" : "At 8:15 a.m. in the Baltic Sea 40 nautical miles off of Cape Hel a Polish vessel had radar malfunction and TV interference when it encountered a red ball of light in the sky. The crew reported a strange smell, one man's leg was paralyzed, he felt nauseous, and lost consciousness. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5267",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Cashman, Project 1947 website, EM effects" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/23/1980",
  "desc" : "At 4:08 a.m. two mining students camping in the mountains near Beijing, China saw an object emitting white light and traveling on an irregular course. It looked like a crescent-shaped portion of a disc of the Moon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5268",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Anthony Lee, FSR, March 1983, p. 24; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 218" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/23/1981",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m. four witnesses on a boat near Malibu Beach, California saw an arrowhead/fish-shaped object with white, red, and green lights. It illuminated the ocean and made a humming sound as it flew slowly overhead. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5269",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1982, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/23/1987",
  "desc" : "Fifteen witnesses in Corydon, Indiana, including five UFO field investigators, shot a video of an orange, flare-like light with a small red light flying in tandem at 9:30 p.m. The lights were also viewed through binoculars as they flew away to the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5270",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Francis Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 109" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/23/1988",
  "desc" : "At 4:30 a.m. a 30-year-old man was on his way to work, driving west on M-72 in Harrisville, Michigan when he noticed bright lights coming toward him. It turned out to be a multi-colored, domed disc-shaped object. When even driving in the same direction of the object it moved slowly to the east, then turned gently and moved off to the south. The sighting lasted several minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5271",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Shirley Coyne, MUFON case files, case # 890610C" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/23/1989",
  "desc" : "On this evening in Gulf Breeze, Florida a white or silver delta-shaped object, an estimated 70 feet on a side, passed low overhead. At 9:30 p.m. in Navaree Beach, Florida a 30-year-old couple in a condo on the beach, watching stars, saw lights over the Gulf of Mexico going slow, stopping, changing direction upward, and then finally slowly going out of view. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5272",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dan R. Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1989, p. 6, citing Rex & Carol Salisberry" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/23/1993",
  "desc" : "Near Titusville, Pennsylvania a plate-shaped UFO was observed near some pine trees for 20 minutes. Several observers watched it rise into a cloud formation. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5273",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 16153, citing UFO Newsclipping Service, October 1993" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/23/1995",
  "desc" : "While watching a carnival air display in Weymouth, Dorset, England at noon three police detectives spotted a motionless, metallic sphere hanging high in the sky. It appeared to reflect the sunlight, and was seen for several minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5274",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gary Heseltine, UFO Magazine (UK), July 2003, p. 11" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/23/1995",
  "desc" : "At 11:50 p.m. three witnesses driving on a highway in Louisville, Kentucky sighted a donut-shaped UFO by the highway. It was not clear if it was on the ground or just hovering above it. It was still there on their return drive-by 10 minutes later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5275",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17383, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/23/1996",
  "desc" : "In Chelsea, Victoria, Australia two glowing objects flew overhead next to each other; they exchanged blue beams of light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5276",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17397" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/23/1997",
  "desc" : "At 1:30 in the afternoon in Roseburg, Oregon a large silver disc-shaped object flew overhead. Seen for 30 minutes. Colors move on bottom of object. Makes small jumps, shoots away fast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5277",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 2, number 36" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/23/1999",
  "desc" : "At 2:20 p.m. in the city of Ozark, Missouri police reported that a 300 meter long disc hovered over a patrol car. Their police radio experienced interference at 155.65 Mhz. The disc went off toward the northwest and then up. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5278",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer, Filer's Files, volume 9, issue 38" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/23/2003",
  "desc" : "In Midland, Michigan two witnesses saw two metallic discs at a high altitude, actually chasing each other in the middle of the afternoon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5279",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2003 archived web page" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/23/2003",
  "desc" : "Three witnesses driving through farmland at 6:45 p.m. north-northwest of Winnipeg, Manitoba sighted a three-meter wide, gray or silver disc-shaped object with bulging black windows. It hovered, tilted, then shot past the cars on the highway. The center of the object was silver center, and it had darker colored chrome balls, disks, or windows around the middle of it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5280",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2003 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 426" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/23/2004",
  "desc" : "The witness was driving east on Interstate I-185 in Greenville, South Carolina at around 11:10 p.m. when he saw a transparent triangle-shaped object fly over. \"It was kind of fuzzy on the edges as the transparency did not go all the way to the edge. There was no sound and there was no emitted light.\" Shortly after a cousin who had missed the first sighting saw a smaller hovering triangle that appeared in the sky and headed southeast.  ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5281",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 96" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/24/1946",
  "desc" : "A big noise was heard at 4:30 a.m. Huge \"'projectiles\" like rockets made a whistling sound as several of them flew overhead in the town of Bourges, Cher Department, France. Many people were awakened by the noise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5282",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 151" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/24/1947",
  "desc" : "On this day three mountain climbers on Snoqualmie Pass, Washington saw a semi-transparent saucer-shaped object that made a buzzsaw sound. Very fast and near witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5283",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1250, citing Loren Gross, UFOs: A History 1947, p. 62" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/24/1952",
  "desc" : "A man driving through some woods at 6:00 a.m. in Frontenac, Kansas encountered a strange object and stopped to watch it. It looked like two turtle shells glued together and was about 25 meters long. There appeared to be a humanoid being in something like a control cabin in front. Windows on the object were lit by an intense blue light and a throbbing sound was also reported. The object was oscillating and suddenly flew straight up with a strong humming noise. The middle section supported what looked like propellers. The object hovered three meters above the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5284",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 199-200" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/24/1952",
  "desc" : "Hermanas, Mexico. 10:15 a.m. Georgia Air National Guard F-84G jet fighter pilot Col. G.W. Johnson. Two six-foot silver spheres in abreast formation, one turned grey rapidly, the other slowly. One changed to long grey shape during a turn. Sighting lasted about 10 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5285",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/24/1952",
  "desc" : "Tucson, Arizona. 5:40 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. George White. One large round, metallic, white light with a vague lower surface, flew slowly, then fast With a dancing, wavering motion, for about one minute. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5286",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/24/1952",
  "desc" : "Levelland, Texas. 9:30 p.m., 10:30 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Sharp. One object, shaped like a spinning top, changing color from red to yellow to blue, and with a fiery tail, hovered for 20 minutes, whistling, then flew away. It, or another like it, returned an hour later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5287",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/24/1954",
  "desc" : "Egilstadir, Iceland. At 8:30 p.m. a farmer saw a small cylindrical flying object, 2-2.5 feet long and 4-5 feet in diameter that made a loud whizzing sound. It flew straight, level and fast; then slowed down and fell into a sandbar. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5288",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/24/1966",
  "desc" : "At ten o'clock in the evening an airman at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota observed and reported by radio a multi-colored light high in the sky. A strike team was sent to his location and confirmed the presence of the unknown object. A second object, white in color, was seen to pass in front of the clouds. At the radar base an object was detected and tracked. The observations lasted nearly four hours and were confirmed by three different missile sites. Radio interference was noted by teams sent to locations where the object was sometimes described as hovering at ground level. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5289",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 791" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/24/1967",
  "desc" : "At 5:00 p.m. a motorcyclist named Ron Hyde was riding on the Sydney to Melbourne highway between New South Wales and Victoria, Australia when he was suddenly engulfed in a bluish-white light that so dazzling he had to stop, near Wodonga, Victoria. He then saw a metallic object on or near the ground 30 meters away. Its shape was like that of two lens-shaped saucers on top of each other, with a dome on top. It was silvery on top but  the lower half was dark gray, and it was about 10 meters in diameter. It also bore a black mark or insignia. Next to it appeared two human figures about 1.5 meters tall, wearing silvery coveralls and opaque helmets. A gesture from them scared the witness, who drove away but was subsequently followed by the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5290",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 871, citing FSR, March-April 1968; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 11, 473, 480" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/24/1970",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 a.m. a small object the size of a car tire landed in front of the school in Rawang Selangor, Malaysia. It was shaped like a turtle shell and had five small windows. Five three-inch- tall humanoids with two horn-like protrusions on their heads emerged from the craft. The humanoids rushed back into the object as a large crowd gathered to watch. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5291",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1970, case # 817, citing Ahmad Jamaluddin, FSR, Vol. 28 # 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/24/1970",
  "desc" : "At 6:35 a.m. three people had just arrived at a bus stop at Lindberg Boulevard and West Road in Olmstead Falls, Ohio when two strange figures approached. The two men were dressed in glowing orange suits from head to foot with only their faces uncovered. Their skin was yellowish. Their headgear was conical and they were carrying a disc-like object over their heads. They stood about five feet tall.<br/><br/> The beings got to within 50 feet of a house and then turned and walked away, side-by-side, to a nearby railroad crossing. They stood there for a few minutes, then walked a short distance towards the witnesses. As the witnesses boarded a bus, one of the beings extended his arm upward. At this point they were able to see that the figure was wearing a cape.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5292",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "8/24/1970",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 a.m. a nine-year-old girl saw an UFO shaped like a huge bubble come down from the sky and land near her house. Two figures appeared to have been waiting there. When the object landed they entered it. It then rose and quickly disappeared. One of the witnesses at the bus stop went back to the site that evening and found a spot where the high grass was matted and twisted. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5293",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1970, case # 2629, citing Rick Hilberg" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/24/1972",
  "desc" : "USAF jet interceptors were sent after a UFO tracked from Mexico over Texas; teenagers sighted a domed disc-shaped craft at the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport construction site at 9:50 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5294",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, July-August 1972, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/24/1973",
  "desc" : "A formation of 5-12 white, round or oval objects was seen and photographed near Toyama on the west coast of Japan. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5295",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Yusuke J. Matsumura, FSR Case Histories, December 1973, p. 5; Bougard Michel, Inforespace, February 1975, p. 20" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/24/1975",
  "desc" : "At 5:00 a.m. in Blaine, Minnesota a 100 foot in diameter gray domed disc-shaped craft was sighted, at an estimated distance of 5 miles. It flew to the south slowly, at an estimated altitude of 760 meters, making no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5296",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Flying Saucer Review, April 1976, p. 25; Jay Rath, The M-Files: True Reports of Minnesota's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 38" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/24/1978",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon six children from a local school in Hamburg, Germany saw a round silvery object slowly descend and land in an open field. The object had two round black dots on its side. A ladder descended from the craft, and two human-like figures emerged; they wore white helmets and dark uniforms. The witnesses ran to get some help, but upon returning both the object and the figures were gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5297",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1978 Humanoid Contact Database, case # 205, citing Ulrich Magin" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/24/1978",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. a red-orange object flew in front of a car being driven by a 54-year-old woman, ten miles south of Ottumwa, Iowa. Mist, fog, and condensation were noted. The car engine died and the windshield fogged up by the close presence of the UFO. The nocturnal light then flew behind some trees, after which the engine restarted by itself. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5298",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allen Hendry, International UFO Reporter, December 1978, p. 14; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, page 73; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 257" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/24/1978",
  "desc" : "At 11:40 p.m. in Ginghamsburg, Ohio two orange lights flew close to a car with two 19-year-old teenage girls as passengers, causing the engine to lose power as they drove past. The lights gave off a humming sound. One shone a light beam on the witnesses for about a second. When the witnesses looked back, the lights were gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5299",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allen Hendry, International UFO Reporter, December 1978, p. 14; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, page 73; UNICAT, case 141; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, p. 257" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/24/1978",
  "desc" : "On this night a luminous craft descended in La Serena, Chile. It was reportedly very big in size. Two beings of human shape (perhaps the same two seen in Germany earlier in the day), paralyzed the witness. He tried to run, but fainted in the roadway. On the same night eight military pilots reported they saw several UFOs maneuver in the area around their air base in Temuco, Chile. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5300",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "La Razon, August 27, 1978; Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, October 1978, p. 15; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1957" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/24/1982",
  "desc" : "On this day children encountered a large UFO on the ground in a fruit plantation in Sarikei, Malaysia. Several midget humanoids with large heads were seen moving near the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5301",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ahmad Jamaludin, Center for Malaysian UFO Studies; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14434, citing Flying Saucer Review" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/24/1987",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 a.m. a house near Vejle in Denmark was illuminated from above. Three metallic disc-shaped craft with windows were seen hovering only one meter over the roof. Photos were taken but the images came out blank. The incident lasted three minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5302",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "SUFOI News, issue 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/24/1990",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. lights hovered in the sky northeast of the city of Greifswald, Germany for three minutes. They accelerated rapidly forward. There were many (at least six) videos shot and eleven still photographs taken by separate witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5303",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 70" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/24/1993",
  "desc" : "A huge, silent, metallic domed disc hovered overhead in Kettering, England at 9:45 p.m. It had a row of windows in the dome. It flew over homes for a couple of minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5304",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #  16155" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/24/1998",
  "desc" : "Luis Cuesta Trinidad and a woman friend were camping near the shoreline on the beach in Mazagon, Extremadura, Spain. At 8:30 they were enjoying the view when they noticed a strange humanoid figure emerge from the water not far from them. The figure came out and began moving its arms in a strange fashion. At first it was standing with its back to them, but when it turned around it became aware of their presence by first noticing the flashlight being held by Luis. It took off running in a strange fashion, without bending its knees. They noticed that its head was hairless, but its body was covered with ample hair, and it had round, slightly Oriental-looking eyes that were orange in color. It was almost two meters tall, with long dangling arms and legs that looked deformed. It was very pale in color with its head was shaped like an inverted pear. It had no nose, and they could not see a mouth. It was totally silent. The witnesses felt nervous during the incident. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5305",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case # 3836, citing OVNIS En Extremadura, El Dragon Invisible" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/24/2001",
  "desc" : "On this evening there was a terrific meteor shower seen by many, but nothing to compare to the three black triangular UFOs seen at approximately 1:30 a.m. in Joshua Tree, California. The UFOs were seen zipping around rapidly and stopping dead in midair by a man, who reported it to a friend the next morning, who posted the report online.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5306",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer and David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 81" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/24/2002",
  "desc" : "A very bright white disc-shaped object traversed the sky in The Colony, Texas at four o'clock in the afternoon, about 500-700 feet up, heading toward the North at a fairly fast pace. It was viewed through binoculars by a counseling psychologist and his daughter. It seemed to rotate, and changed from a disk to another shape. It was maneuvering in the sky, and no sound was detected. It was descending to the ground at a 25-degree angle. The winds were out of the south at 5-10 mph on a sunny day. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5307",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer and David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/25/1950",
  "desc" : "250 miles southwest of Bermuda over the Atlantic Ocean (29.67º N, 67.47º W). At 8:00 p.m. radarman S/Sgt. William Shaffer, flying in a B-29, picked up an unidentified radar blip. The B-29 followed the unidentified target, then passed it at one-quarter-mile distance, whereupon the target followed them for the next five minutes. It passed the B-29 and sped away. A blue streak was seen in the sky three minutes later. Total time of tracking: 20 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5308",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/25/1951",
  "desc" : "At 9:10 p.m. four Texas Tech professors--Robinson, Oberg, Ducker, and George--in a backyard in Lubbock, Texas saw the \"Lubbock Lights\", a string of perhaps 50 beads of light in a semi-circle or wing shape, which passed over from north to south. They were seen again less than one hour later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5309",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Grudge Report #2, December 1951, p. 31; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume I, p. 131; Michael David Hall, Captain Edward J. Ruppelt: Summer of the Saucers--1952, p. 30" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/25/1951",
  "desc" : "In Albuquerque, New Mexico Sandia Base Security Guard Hugh Young and his wife sighted a huge flying wing-shaped craft pass over their heads at 9:58 p.m. at an estimated 800 to 1,000-feet altitude. The craft made no sound. Its size was estimated as 1.5 times the wingspan of a B-36 bomber, or 350 feet. It had dark, chordwise stripes on the underside, and 6-8 pairs of soft, glowing lights on the trailing edge of \"wing\". Its speed was estimated at 300-400 m.p.h., object seen for about 30 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5310",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; UNICAT, case # 479; Kevin D. Randall, The UFO Casebook, p. 56" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/25/1952",
  "desc" : "At Holloman AFB, New Mexico around 3:40 p.m., civilian supervisor Fred Lee and foreman L.A. Aquilar saw a round silver object fly south, turn and fly north, then make a 360-degree turn and shoot up vertically after 3-5 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5311",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns, UNICAT, case # 741" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/25/1952",
  "desc" : "In Pittsburg, Kansas at 5:35 a.m. radio station musician William Squyres saw a dull aluminum object, shaped like two meat platters, face to face. The object was hovering about 10 feet above the ground, 100 yards off the road, with a slight rocking motion. He estimated its size at 75-feet long, 45-feet wide, and 15-feet thick. The head and shoulders of a man could be seen through a window in the front section, through which a blue light shone. The midsection had numerous windows through which could be seen some type of regular movement. A series of small propellers were arranged along the outer edge of the object spaced close together, revolving at high speed. It ascended vertically with a sound like a large covey of quail starting to fly at the same time. Vegetation showed signs of having been disturbed under the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5312",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1958, p. 24; The Hynek UFO Report, p. 200; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; UNICAT, case # 292" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/25/1955",
  "desc" : "Four teenagers in a car in Greenhills, Ohio saw a creature with a luminous body, standing near a fireplug. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5313",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Leonard Stringfield, Inside Saucer Post...3-0 Blue, p. 64; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 252" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/25/1959",
  "desc" : "At around eleven o'clock in the morning near Hagen, Werdehl-Eveking, Germany Lutz Holtmann began walking toward a bright object he had seen in the forest, but he fainted when he got close to it. When he regained consciousness he saw it silently take off in a vertical ascent. He described the UFO as round with tripod landing gear and two rows of bright openings. It was about 30 meters in diameter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5314",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 496;Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1959, both citing UFO Nachrichten, October 1959" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/25/1960",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon an agriculture student named Nielsen was sucked up into a flying saucer in Halmstad, Sweden. He lost consciousness; when he came to he found himself on a bed in a room with light-emitting walls. A man wearing coveralls apologized to him in Swedish. He was then taken to an underground base. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5315",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Flying Saucer Review, April 1963, p. 10; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0503" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/25/1961",
  "desc" : "On or about this date five persons riding in a car near Toulouse, France observed a luminous, yellow sphere, 8 meters in diameter, that was flying about 10 meters above the road. It had horizontal and vertical bands of darker tone that gave the impression of windows. The UFO flew up and away very fast when the car reached town. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5316",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 523" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/25/1964",
  "desc" : "A silvery gray object with a dome on top, blinking red lights, a solid white light, and lights on the rim was sighted at close range by four boys in Littleton, Massachusetts at 9:30 p.m. It hovered with a fluttering motion near the ground, then finally shot off at high speed. The witnesses were able to approach to within 500 feet of the craft before it left. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5317",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, case investigation file, report dated August 29, 1964" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/25/1964",
  "desc" : "An hour later in Lynn, Massachusetts another witness, 17-year-old Richard Pratt, heard a whistling sound and sighted a second domed disc. It was described as a silvery oval twenty feet in diameter, with a soft white glow and a lighted rim. It descended to below the treetops, only 300 feet away from the witness. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5318",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, case investigation file, report dated August 31, 1964; NICAP UFO Investigator, September 1964; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 622).622 Aug. 25, 1964 Lynn (Massachusetts" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/25/1965",
  "desc" : "At three o'clock in the morning Zoilo Campos Aguilar, a night watchman, observed an object very close to the ground in Terreon, Mexico for 38 minutes. It was semi-oval shaped with a powerful yellow-orange light and left rapidly toward the south with a double trail. The apparent diameter was that of the full moon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5319",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 688, citing Otto Binder" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/25/1965",
  "desc" : "At 10:10 a.m. a red object shaped like a plate with two antennae on top and emittting fire and smoke through two openings in its lower section, shook a school building as it allegedly landed on the roof in Callao, Peru. Faculty and students at the Santa Leonor College observed the craft when it rose from the building, spinning and emitting red light beams as it flew off to the northeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5320",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Flying Saucer Review, November-December 1967; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 689" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/25/1966",
  "desc" : "On this day a domed, disc-shaped craft made complex, high speed maneuvers over Malibu, California. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5321",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 152" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/25/1967",
  "desc" : "At 4:00 p.m. in Eldon, Missouri an ovoid object flew slowly and silently to the southwest at 800 feet altitude. Two witnesses in a car attempted to follow it, but it tilted and vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5322",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted R. Phillips, FSR Case Histories, December 1971, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/25/1967",
  "desc" : "In Catia la Mar, Venezuela three large-sized disc-shaped objects were seen to emerge from the sea at five o'clock in the afternoon by Ruben Norato, after he observed a \"precipitous movement of the water.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5323",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 872, citing NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1968" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/25/1967",
  "desc" : "Shortly after 11:00 p.m. a round, hazy mass of orange-red light, about a quarter of a mile away, was sighted by two witnesses in Rising Brook, Staffordshire, England. It was estimated to be about 60 feet in diameter, and at a maximum height of 300-400 feet from the ground. It hovered, then moved slowly to the south, stopped, and then moved back again. It made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5324",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Roger H. Stanway & Anthony Pace, UFOs Unidentified Undeniable, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/25/1968",
  "desc" : "In Aldaya, Valencia, Spain Juan Gazcon del Toro, age 44, was riding his bicycle home from work at 8:00 p.m., and was crossing a cultivated field when, as he turned a bend, saw a silvery gray object on the ground resting on four legs. Next to the object stood two short beings; the witness bicycled closer to the object, stopped 40 meters away from it, and then looked at it more closely. The craft had a small dome with an antennae on top, and an open door from which a silvery ladder extended to the ground. Both beings wore helmets with visors from which a rubber hose like protrusion was apparently connected to their chest area. They also wore wide belts and small boots, and their outfits were white in color. The beings stood by the object ignoring the witness, so he pedalled his bicycle away from the site and did not watch the object depart. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5325",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos & Fernandez Peri, Enciclopedia De los Encuentros Cercanos con Ovnis, p. 83; Albert S. Rosales, 1968 Humanoid Contact Database, case # 95, citing Ballester Olmos Olmos & Fernandez Peri; UNICAT, case # 493" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/25/1971",
  "desc" : "Feeling a compulsion to go to a certain place, Paul de Brescia walked to an isolated wooded area near Grasse, France. In a clearing he encountered two very tall humanoids, about 1.85 meters in height with well-proportioned bodies and long blond hair. They wore tight-fitting bluish metallic coveralls with wide white belts and white gloves. The witness felt a sense of compassion and understanding emanating from the humanoids. The humanoids approached him and communicated in French, telling him that they had come from the star system of Vega. They were here on a mission to attempt to persuade humanity to change its ways. After more conversation one of the humanoids gave Paul something resembling a piece of chocolate, which he ate, he became drowsy and later woke up in his apartment, suffering a complete amnesia of the event. He was only able to recall the incident on a later date. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5326",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1971, citing Denys Breysse, Project Becassine" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/25/1972",
  "desc" : "Steve Cleveland, a carnival worker from Eau Claire, Wisconsin called radio station WLS in Chicago to report that as he had been sitting on his suitcase outside of Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin at around 2:00 a.m. hoping to hitch a ride to Eau Clare, when he had seen \"a huge ship\" come down in a nearby field, out of which came two beings about five feet tall. They took some samples of the vegetation and got back into the object, which then lifted off. He said he observed the phenomenon for 15 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5327",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1972-22, citing APRO Bulletin, November-December 1973" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/25/1976",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 a.m. a 10-year-old boy in Blissfield, Michigan got up to go to the bathroom. When he looked out the window he saw a deep orange luminous globe blinking on and off and slowly zigzagging in the sky. He watched it for 10-15 minutes, feeling a “pull” from it. Then when it blinked he suddenly found himself inside it, where two greenish beings sat with their arms over a table with little black knobs. They were busy manipulating the knobs while a third being stood in front of the boy. The third entity was about an inch taller than the boy. The beings appeared not to have any eyes, nose, mouth, or neck, and instead of fingers they had pincers like a crayfish. They had two small projections on the top of their heads. Their legs did not end in feet, and when they walked it sounded like \"a wooden legged pirate.” The skin on their cheeks and arms was bumpy and rough like an alligator, and there were scales on their bodies. They did not utter words, but “hummed like Morse code.” After what seemed like about five seconds the boy found himself back in his house, and ran upstairs. Later that same night, at about five a.m., his 11-year old sister awoke and saw a blue light outside her window. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5328",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dr. Ron Westrum, CUFOS case files, report dated November 12, 1976; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1976-65, citing Ron Westrum" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/25/1976",
  "desc" : "At shortly after 8:00 p.m. a silver disc-shaped object hovered over the Tappan Zee Bridge in South Nyack, New York for 10 minutes. It then ascended, and flew away to the east. There were several other sightings in Westchester County. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5329",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John Wallace Spencer,  UFO Yearbook, p. 91" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/25/1977",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 a.m. a driver described as a very reliable man was driving along a highway in Lluchmayor Palma de Mallorca, Baleares, Spain when he saw a very small (35 cm) object in the road directly ahead of him. It was too late to stop the car, and he knocked the \"bowling pin shaped\" thing down and ran it over, \"feeling an intense sensation that he had killed a living being.\" Investigation at the site disclosed a circular wet stain. About two weeks earlier, there had been a UFO sighting at Palma de Mallorca. No UFO was associated with this incident. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5330",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1977-46, citing Ignacio Darnaude & Antonio Moya Cerpa" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/25/1977",
  "desc" : "Many witnesses in Montjoly, Finistere, France watched a noctural light rise from the sea at 9:30 p.m. It was seen a second time at 11:02 p.m. It zigzagged to the west, and was completely silent. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5331",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 340" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/25/1978",
  "desc" : "A young couple in Villa Carlos Paz, Entre Rios, Argentina was pursued by a UFO that gave off a yellow light with violet flashes and left a brilliant trail. It made a high-pitched humming sound like jet turbines, and made two turns over their vicinity. To get away they hid in an abandoned house. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5332",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, November 1978, p. 16, citing Cronica, September 27, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/25/1979",
  "desc" : "In Villenueve-sur-Lot, Lot-et-Garonne department, France a 10-meter in diameter disc-shaped UFO paced a car at 11:20 a.m. for two minutes, and then stopped low over a field. No traces were found. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5333",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1979" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/25/1979",
  "desc" : "A 25-year-old administrator and two of his companions on Balsam Lake in Polk County, Wisconsin watch a shiny metallic disc oscillating in the sky in a falling leaf motion for seven minutes. It stopped, rose up, circled, and then went off towards the northeast. That night in Hudon, Wisconsin four more people, including a 40-year-old salesman, witnessed a disc-shaped UFO for five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5334",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, December 1979, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/25/1981",
  "desc" : "Two women, Chinigo and Gudaitis, driving in a car on a rural road in Killingly, Connecticut at 9:15 p.m. saw two bright lights, then a lopsided hexagonal shaped object that followed their car through several turns. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5335",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joe Graziano, APRO Bulletin, February 1982, p. 7; John F. Schuessler, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1982, p. 4, citing Norwich Bulletin, August 27, 1981" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/25/1988",
  "desc" : "In Dal'negorsk in the Far East of Russia a dull white hemisphere rose up from near the ground behind a house at 11:00 p.m. It was surrounded by a fog or mist. The object then was seen emitting a beam of light. It remained present for two hours. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5336",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 123" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/25/1989",
  "desc" : "Driving north on 9th Avenue in Pensacola, Florida close to Olive Road a 20-year-old woman reported sighting a white, rectangular object flying just above the trees about half a mile away. She turned left on another road to get a better view, but could not see because trees were blocking here view.  She went back to the point of her first view, but the object had gone. The sighting lasted 30 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5337",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Carol & Rex Salisberry, MUFON UFO CD-Rom Database of Reports, case # 891007d" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/25/1991",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. a 64-year-old farmer in Muriti, near the city of Paraipaba, Ceara State, Brazil saw a ball of light with two smaller BOLs to one side of it. All three objects moved slowly east to west. Three of the farmer's neighbors came outside to see the UFOs as well. The objects stopped, and then moved toward the four witnesses, then finally blinked out. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5338",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 52, citing Bob Pratt" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/25/1992",
  "desc" : "Beginning at 9:51 p.m. a group of four witnesses in Durant, Oklahoma watched a cone-shaped UFO with light beams that swung in the sky in a pendulum motion. The UFO was blue on top, yellow in the middle, and white on the bottom. The first witness, age 65, saw the light outside through a window through some trees. \"It moved fast from one position to another.\" The first witness called the others to come out, who viewed it for about 30 minutes until they got tired of watching. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5339",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dennis W. Stacy, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1993, p. 20" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/25/1993",
  "desc" : "In Moliets-et-Maa, Landes, France a 30 meter long, silent gray \"cloud\" rotated in the sky, then emitted 8 truncated coherent light beams through \"doors.\" It flew off to the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5340",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 322" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/25/1996",
  "desc" : "At a dam northeast of Wheatland, Wyoming a witness watched a huge disc-shaped UFO following an airliner to the northeast at 1:30 a.m. The UFO then came to hover and zig-zag over the dam. It had many white portholes along the rim of the object. The encounter lasted over two and a half hours. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5341",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, sighting R. Leo Sprinkle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/25/2000",
  "desc" : "Two witnesses watched a multi-colored triangular object as it hovered over Gunn, Alberta, Canada at 10:05 p.m. The colors of the UFO were green, blue, red, yellow, and orange; it later disappeared with a bright flash of light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5342",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George Filer, Filer's Files, September 2000, p. 18; Geoff Dittman, 2000 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 151" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/25/2001",
  "desc" : "At 3:27 p.m. two solid orange objects were seen moving slowly in the blue sky over Saint-Laurent, Chambly, Quebec. Photos were taken. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5343",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2001 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 271, citing Alberta UFO Study Group" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/25/2001",
  "desc" : "In Manning, Alberta, Canada at 12:30 a.m. two witnesses watched a blue light that dropped to the ground, then flashed intermittently for 45 minutes. It finally rose again into the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5344",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2001 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 272, citing Alberta UFO Study Group" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/25/2002",
  "desc" : "Peter O'Hanlon sighted four orange glowing triangular objects flying in formation over the outskirts of Waterford, Ireland at 10:05 p.m. The two in the rear moved about erratically, and all four followed a curved trajectory across the sky until out of sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5345",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dermot Butler, Conspiracy of Silence: UFOs in Ireland, p. 137" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/25/2003",
  "desc" : "Shortly after 6 p.m. three witnesses with the last names of Duffy and Myers, driving near Lispole, Ireland saw what looked like a light aircraft trailing flames and smoke, which appeared to crash near Lispole along the R559 route. No wreckage was ever found.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5346",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dermot Butler, Conspiracy of Silence: UFOs in Ireland, p. 105; The Star, August 26, 2003" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/25/2003",
  "desc" : "A shiny, silvery tumbling disc was seen moving slowly to the southeast from Lompoc, California. The sighting reportedly lasted five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5347",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2003 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/25/2004",
  "desc" : "Military maneuvers code-named \"Shield of the Fatherland-2004\" had begun in the forests of Belarus. A senior lieutenant named Dmitriy, commander of a reconnaissance diversion group (RDG), was performing rear guard operations and was engaged in destroying targets pre-positioned at Krepachi, Baranovichi area, Brest region. On the night of August 24 they made camp. Two men code-named \"Rainbow\" and \"Hedgehog\" were posted for night watch duty. The group had decided to make camp 375 meters away from the village of Krepachi in the Brest region. The location was mixed forest, in a clearing with two large old oak trees and a lake between them. The almost deserted village was not on any map, and the nearest really inhabited place was the hamlet of Gorodiszhe. At 3:08 a.m. they were awakened by a bright but plain spreading orange light. Their portable radio communications continued to work. Dmitriy asked Rainbow by radio if he had seen anything. Rainbow replied that he could see a plate-shaped craft about 27 meters from him, hovering over the ground at an altitude of about 2.5m. Dmitriy then gave the command to take defensive positions and prepare the grenade launcher. After confirming that all his men were ready, Dmitriy took another man, \"Barkhan\", and went on a reconnaissance patrol. The object was generally saucer-shaped with a truncated cone above. At close observation the object seemed metallic. The UFO emitted a beam of turquoise beam of light from its center. Unexpectedly, \"Hedgehog\" next reported that he could see four figures approaching him from the object, but he could not see them properly because of the tall grass concealing them. The soldiers then turned on their laser rangefinder to infrared mode. The humanoid figures seemed very tall, but the men still could not see them properly. Dmitriy noticed that the figures moved evenly as if robotic in nature. Seconds later the UFO quickly gained altitude, zooming out of sight beyond the clouds. According to the laser rangefinder the UFO's departing speed was 2600 kilometers per hour. The humanoid figures then walked in different directions. Dmitriy did not order his men to follow them, because that could lead to separating the group, which contradicted the defensive order. The figures seemed to walk through some high tension wires as if they were not there. Dmitriy could only hope that the humanoids and object would quickly leave and that his men would not be harmed.<br/><br/> After returning to their unit, some of the men informed senior officers of what had taken place. The officers ordered the men to keep silence, in order to prevent them from being discharged from the Army for \"psychological\" reasons. One officer suggested that the men had been hallucinating as a result of the rigorous training exercises. Later, intelligence personnel interviewed the men, and appeared to be relieved that the men had not used their weapons against the \"aliens\" for fear of retaliation. A female resident of the village told Army investigators that spherical and disk-shaped objects were often observed in the location. The villagers had been pasturing cows in the glade where the UFO had descended, and the soldiers had camped, and they reported that the cows' milk production had dropped dramatically. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5348",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 2004 Humanoid Contact Database, citing \"UFO at Military Maneuvers in Belarus\", Inoplanetyanin (Extraterrestrial) Newspaper, Ukraine, January 30, 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/25/2004",
  "desc" : "At 4:00 p.m. an elderly man and a young boy in Lagos, Nigeria reported seeing a circular craft crash at the shoreline. According to the man, he was cooling off at a beach resort when a circular-shaped object flew over him and crashed onto the waters off of the beach. He reported the case to the Aviation Authority, but they did not believe him. The young boy, who was peddling spring water around the beach resort, also corroborated the first witness's account, but was also brushed aside by authorities. as an infantile hallucination. The site where the craft was purported to have crashed was later searched by divers, and they claimed to have found nothing. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5349",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales,2004 Humanoid Contact Database, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2004 web page" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/26/1893",
  "desc" : "In Leslie, Kentucky thirty minutes after sunrise the sun took on a \"peculiar color\" and the sky became filled with thousands of discs, the size of wagon wheels, in motion. They would change shape into triangles, squares, and odd forms. They were various colors, including red, green, black, and red. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5350",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jerome Clark, International UFO Reporter, April 2003, p. 19, citing the Arizona Republic, August 27, 1893" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/26/1947",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m. ten kilometers southwest of Fkenberg, Sweden the pilot and co-pilot of a DC-3 Swedish postal plane saw a UFO that looked like a green parallelogram. They watched it for 8-10 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5351",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "K. Gosta Rehn, UFOs Here and Now, p. 62; Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 144" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/26/1947",
  "desc" : "Late in the day two private pilots flying over Mexico, Missouri sighted three gray discs flying rapidly toward the northwest. They tried to chase them in their plane, but were quickly outdistanced. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5352",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, citing the Mexico Weekly Ledger, August 28, 1947; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1256, citing Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1947 (Volume 6), p. 31." ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/26/1951",
  "desc" : "The driver of a transcontinental train in Australia, on the east/west line, saw a flying object at four o'clock in the morning that illuminated the countryside like a full moon. It flew very fast, came close to the train, appeared ready to land in the desert, then took off and disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5353",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 196" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/26/1951",
  "desc" : "At Ellington AFB, Texas a radar operator made a visual sighting of a nocturnal light at 1:18 a.m. The UFO zig-zagged many times, then shot up to a very high altitude, blinking at two second intervals. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5354",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Grudge Report #1, November 30, 1951" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/26/1952",
  "desc" : "At 12:10 a.m. USAF Captain D.A. Woods sighted a large, round, very bright object with a V-shaped contrail in Lathrop Wells, Nevada. It had a dark cone in the center. The object flew very fast, stopped and hovered, made an instantaneous 90-degree turn, and began a gentle climb followed by a final sudden acceleration. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5355",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1986; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 280" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/26/1952",
  "desc" : "At Watkins Glen, New York a \"flying saucer\" dove into a lake, splashing water eight to ten feet high. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5356",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 226, citing Buffalo Evening News, August 26, 1952" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/26/1954",
  "desc" : "Rev. W. L. Shelton saw two domed ellipses in Danville, Virginia at 6:15 a.m. They were 20-feet wide, 8-feet thick, and glowed silver and orange. The orange glow extended about ten feet. They hovered at first, then climbed vertically at a terrific speed side-by-side while getting brighter. He observed them for two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5357",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 3182; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: June-August, p. 93" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/26/1955",
  "desc" : "On this day many witnesses in Guarenas, Venezuela saw a silver orb zipping back-and-forth and hovering over the town, making a humming sound. The witnesses reported feeling a tickling sensation. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5358",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Morris K. Jessup, The UFO Annual, p. 355" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/26/1955",
  "desc" : "There were three reports of unusual humanoids in Ohio on this date, two from Hamilton County and one from Franklin County. A child with the last name Perry, in Camp Washington, Ohio was reported in hysterics after seeing a \"green man\" at the window in the evening. Several people in Mount Air, Ohio saw a dwarf creature that night. A man from Cheviot, Ohio called Donna Meiers to tell her that he had experienced a similar incident involving a \"little man\" about the same time as the Winton Woods encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5359",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, cases A0383, A0385, A0386; Cincinnati Times-Star, August 27, 1955; Leonard H. Stringfield, Inside Saucer Post...3-0 Blue, p. 63" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/26/1957",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. an ovoid object was seen flying in the southwestern sky in Monroe County, Pennsylvania over the Poconos Mountains. It was emitting green beams of light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5360",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: August-September, p. 53" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/26/1964",
  "desc" : "At 9:20 p.m. a red ellipsoid pulsated as it flew over Melrose, Massachusetts. It had an orange-red halo, as seen through a telescope. It made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5361",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 330" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/26/1965",
  "desc" : "At 1:30 a.m. Hector Crespo, a highway engineer, his son Urgenio, and Francisco Lopez were approaching Zhulleng, 11 miles from Cuenca, Ecuador when they saw two beams of bright light shining up into the sky. On going to investigate what they believed was a car wreck; they found a circular object 20 feet in diameter, with a transparent dome on top. A bright amber light kept flashing around the edge, and flickering red and blue beams were shining downwards. The three men approached to within 60 feet of the UFO, and could see through an open doorway instruments and lights inside it. Three human-like figures were seen outside the object, one apparently adjusting the light beam projector, and the other two handing him tools. They all moved very slowly, “as if under water.” They were dressed in metallic-looking, silvery white, close-fitting coveralls, with wide white belts, dark epaulets, and shiny helmets. At one point two of the “men” turned and looked directly at the spot where the witnesses were watching from, as though knowing the operation was being observed, but simply returned to the repairs. The object stood on telescopic legs with curved dish-like footpads, although they were uncertain as to whether there were three or four legs. Crespo’s son became so frightened that he became nauseated, so they went back to their car. After awhile they saw the object take off, and the light moving around the edge was now a brilliant red and the vertical white beams had been extinguished. Just before it “took off like lighting,” it became too bright to look at. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5362",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1965-43 (A0657), citing Wendelle C. Stevens, Saga UFO Report, Spring 1975" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/26/1966",
  "desc" : "In Gaylesville, Alabama at 8:50 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Funk and their three children witnessed a cluster of four small, glowing, orange-yellow lights in a triangular formation, moved from east to west for 4.5 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5363",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/26/1967",
  "desc" : "At 2:00 a.m. Marine Private Esteban D. Cova was just leaving the hangar at Maquetia Airport, Venezuela when he was accosted by a little man about three feet tall who was covered with wiry hair. The little man had a very large head, bulging eyes, and made a deep whistling sound that gave the witness a prickling sensation throughout his body. The little man then spoke in Spanish, asking Cova, \"Won't you come with us? We need one more.\" Cova passed out. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5364",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-85, citing APRO Bulletin, September-October 1967; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 873, citing Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p. 79" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/26/1967",
  "desc" : "Driving on the highway to Maturin, Venezuela on this morning Mr. Saki Macharechi saw what appeared to be a large bird flying overhead. When it landed near a bridge he took it to be a heron, but when he got closer he saw that it was a small human-like figure. He passed within ten feet of the creature. Frightened, he stepped on the gas and drove away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5365",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-84, citing APRO Bulletin, September-October 1967; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 873, citing Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p. 78" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/26/1968",
  "desc" : "Needham, Alabama. A bright ovoid object with three luminous bands was encountered on the road at 12:30 a.m. A scraped, burned area was found later at the landing point. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5366",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 264, citing NICAP files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/26/1968",
  "desc" : "Awakened by a flapping noise outside, hospital receptionist Maria Cintra in Lins, Sao Paulo State, Brazil opened the door to find a “foreign looking woman” wearing white light colored, shiny clothes, and a tight fitting hood, and holding an engraved glass bottle and a mug. Mrs. Cintra filled these for her from the drinking fountain. While she did so, the woman placed her hand on the witness shoulder and repeated several times the word “Rempaua.” Then the woman went out and entered a luminous, pear-shaped UFO craft, shaped with a flat bottom that was hovering 3 feet above the hospital’s lawn. Another person also saw the craft. It took off and climbed slowly in a spiral, with a repetition of the flapping sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5367",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, July-August 1968, p. 6; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 291; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1968-60, citing Dr. Max Berezowski for APRO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/26/1968",
  "desc" : "Two discs were spotted atop each other on a mountain peak in Gleeson, Arizona at 7:50 p.m. There were scorched plants and burned grass found at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5368",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 55; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 264, citing NICAP files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/26/1972",
  "desc" : "A man was driving down the highway in Rural, Illinois on this night when a bright light in the sky caught his attention. He followed it to where he saw a disc-shaped craft descend and hover close to the ground. A door opened in the craft, and an angled plank slid down from it from the doorway to the ground. Several slim humanoid figures wearing coveralls began to exit the craft. The witness crept up to it and suddenly the outer rim slid aside, following the curve of the craft, exposing transparent cylinders, which looked to be incubators with infants inside them. As the witness stared at them in disbelief, one of them opened its eyes and smiled at him, and he smiled back, then a look of distress came upon its face as if it appeared to be having trouble breathing. The man proceeded to pound on the glass, trying to break it open, and then picked up a rock intending to smash it open, but he abruptly felt himself being lifted up, from his two sides, away from the craft. He believes that the aliens knew he had been trying to help, and were glad that the noise he created alerted them to the apparent problem with the incubated hybrid. His memory ends at this point with an ensuing period of missing time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5369",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing UFO Watch" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/26/1974",
  "desc" : "In Feignies, Nord Department, France at 9:00 p.m. Mr. & Mrs. Moret watched a round black orb, outlined by a faint white luminous corona, split in two. The sphere was about 200 meters away and it slowly descended to hover 20 meters above the ground before it split vertically into two \"half moons\", one of which flew off to the south-southeast and was lost from sight. The other half remained in place, and figures in helmets were seen moving about inside. A sort of veil was drawn across it, and two \"cosmonauts\" clad from head to foot in a whitish-gray metallic material, and wearing large helmets, were then seen moving in it. The witnesses watched them for 40 minutes, during which time the UFO remained stationary. The diameter of the original ball was about 25 feet, and the UFOnauts' were estimated to be five-feet tall. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5370",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1976 (issue 151), pp. 10-11; Jean Marie Bigorne, FSR, May 1976, p. 25; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 511; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-36(A1351)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/26/1975",
  "desc" : "At 2:20 a.m. two witnesses in a truck on a highway in Sidi Embarek, Algeria watched a two-meter wide disc-shaped object illuminate the area for miles around. It flew at only 25 meters altitude at a speed of 200 kph, and made sudden stops. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5371",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 11389, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 316" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/26/1975",
  "desc" : "near Buffalo, North Dakota - Sandra Larson, age 32, and her daughter Jackie, age 15, were being driven from Fargo to Bismarck, North Dakota by Jackie's boyfriend when they heard a loud rumbling, thunder-like noise around 4:00 a.m. and saw eight glowing orange spheres descend from the sky. The objects stopped in mid-air, and three of the objects shot back upwards. Sandy had a peculiar feeling as though the car was motionless, and at the same time Jackie suddenly found herself in the back seat with no memory of how she got there. When they got to a gas station they discovered that an hour of time was unaccounted for. Later, under hypnosis, Sandra recalled having been \"floated\" from the car into a UFO, where a six-foot tall being (1.8 m) with a mummy-like head bandaged up in tape, with the eyes remaining visible, had performed some sort of surgical operation on her on a medical table. She had the sensation that even her brain had been briefly removed. This being had a luminosity around its head and shoulders, and it had long metallic-appearing, mechanical arms. Its body was like \"brown vinyl.\" No communication with the being was recalled. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5372",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jerome Clark, Saga UFO Report, August 1976, p. 21; Skylook, March 1976, p. 10; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1975-28, citing Jerome Clark and Dr. R. Leo Sprinkle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/26/1976",
  "desc" : "Enrique Mercado Orue of Cerro De La Estrella, Mexico City, Mexico was taken onboard a UFO after being instructed to go to an isolated area. He described everything he saw onboard the craft as very quaint and simple, not at all sophisticated looking. He also saw what appeared to be a star-map on a wall. Inside the craft he met human-like occupants of different statures. Some were over two meters tall, but others were much shorter than that. The women were generally shorter than the men; they were described as beautiful and well built, wearing form-fitting outfits, which seemed metallic in texture. He traveled onboard the “spacecraft” for what seemed like a short distance, and did not go to another planet. He was shown a guest room where he was allowed to sleep comfortably. Later, he was given four crackers to eat and a small glass of a substance resembling wine. He was told that what he ate would last for four days. Among many things the humanoids told him was that they believed “in a higher being.” ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5373",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1976 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing Fabio Picasso" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/26/1976",
  "desc" : "Four men--Weiner, Foltz, and Rak (including a set of twins)--had gone out night fishing in a canoe during a camping trip on East Lake in the Allagash Waterway, Maine when at around 9:00 p.m. one of them became aware of being watched. He turned around and saw a huge, bright, multicolored sphere of light rising from below the treeline. When one of the men shined a flashlight at the object, it began to approach their canoe slowly. A tube-shaped beam of light was emitted from the object and hit the water. The object and the beam of light began approaching the four men and all four of them began to paddle frantically toward shore, trying to get away. At this point they lost all conscious memory of what happened next. Later, under hypnosis all four remembered being levitated up from their canoe and into the hovering craft via a hollow tube-like beam of light. Inside the they encountered several short dark gray-colored humanoids with large oval-shaped heads and huge, black, almond-shaped eyes. They all wore metallic uniforms and were described as somewhat insect like. The men were made to undress and sit on a plastic like bench. The humanoids then looked into each of the men’s eyes and mouths with a pencil size rod with a light on its tip. Then each was made to lie on an exam table where each was examined with several handheld and large scanning machine like instruments. Samples of bodily fluids were taken from all four men. Later, after several hours, they were floated back down into their canoe. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5374",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, The Allagash Affair; Alan Baker, p. 17; Albert S. Rosales, 1976 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 1134, citing Raymond E Fowler, MUFON UFO Journal, issue 300" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/26/1977",
  "desc" : "The witness in Fontanigorda, Liguria, Italy was having difficulty sleeping and got up at 4:15 a.m. when he noticed through some partially opened blinds a very bright white light approach and stop a few meters away. Moments later two figures with gold-colored faces appeared in front of the light. The light then moved to the right side near the curtains, which were the only things separating the witness from the phenomenon. Next, one of the humanoid figure started to enter his bedroom through the curtains; it had an oval-shaped head with an upside-down, triangle-shaped light on the top part of its face. The witness yelled out, causing the figure to leave, leaving a faintly luminous handprint on the curtains. Soon after this, two more figures were heard walking by. Finally, the lights and the figures vanished. Investigators reportedly found ground traces. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5375",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact database, case # 1530, citing Maurizio Verga, ITACAT, case # 99; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 12310" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/26/1978",
  "desc" : "At ten o'clock in the evening two witnesses in a car in Hyannis, Massachusetts on Cape Cod watched an oval-shaped craft hovering low over the US Route 6 road. Within the craft several figures could be seen moving about behind several rectangular windows. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5376",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 2358, citing Raymond E. Fowler" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/26/1979",
  "desc" : "Two men in Sitio Dentro, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil were walking back home late at night when they saw a huge bright light appear above them, illuminating the area like daytime. They looked up and saw a huge object coming towards them. They could see two beings inside the craft through a transparent window. The beings could be seen from the waist up and looked nearly identical to each other. Both men ran behind a house and squatted by a wall, trying to hide from the UFO. It then passed over a nearby bar making a very loud noise. The next morning they discovered that the roof of the bar had been tore off and several rafters had been broken. One of the men felt sick for three days after the encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5377",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case # 2594, citing Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/26/1982",
  "desc" : "A deer hunter in a hammock in a tree at night, in the jungle in Cocalinho, Maranhao State, Brazil, waiting for deer, was zapped by a beam from a nocturnal ball of light at around 6 a.m. He became sick, laid down, and died shortly thereafter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5378",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact, pp. 187, 207" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/26/1984",
  "desc" : "At a lake near Danbury, Connecticut a witness encountered a UFO and lost 30 minutes of conscious memory; felt \"inspected-rejected.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5379",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek & Philip Imbrogno, Night Seige, p. 204" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/26/1993",
  "desc" : "At 9:45 p.m. a glowing UFO was sighted hovering just over the moor at Ivybridge in Plymouth, England. Figures were seen walking around underneath it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5380",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, September 1993" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/26/1995",
  "desc" : "On this night a man in Piracicaba, Sao Paulo State, Brazil encountered three 50 cm tall humanoids wearying white coveralls and helmets with antennas. One carried a pen-like instrument, which he pointed towards the witness who fled on his motorcycle. When he looked back he saw the humanoids walking towards a landed luminous round object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5381",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, citing GEPUC Brazil" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/26/1998",
  "desc" : "The crew of a DC-10 flying over France observed the fast passage of six luminous points of light in tight formation for 10 seconds at 12:32 a.m., with a single trail. The flight was horizontal, but described an arc of 90° in just 10 seconds, which was judged to be a supersonic speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5382",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "GEIPAN, case 1998-297" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/26/1999",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. in Monkton, Strathclyde, Scotland a bright blue flash was seen overhead, and the blue ball of light shot down to just feet above a couple's car, where it hovered for a number of seconds. The couple was frightened but unharmed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5383",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (UK), January 2000, p. 76" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/26/1999",
  "desc" : "At three a.m. a witness sighted three lights on a triangular object over Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada; it made sharp turns over CFB Suffield. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5384",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 1999 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 156, citing Alberta UFO Study Group" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/26/2004",
  "desc" : "A lone witness in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada saw two stationary lights in the sky for about an hour, beginning at 3:30 a.m., at which time a haze or fog filled the area and he lost consciousness. He woke up across his yard, with unusual marks on his body, and believing he had been abducted by aliens. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5385",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 624" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/27/1938",
  "desc" : "A 30-meter long fuselage-shaped object flew toward the west over Marle-sur-Serre, France at six o'clock in the evening. It turned toward the north at an estimated speed of 250 kilometers per hour. It had rectangular windows and made a whistling sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5386",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 169" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/27/1950",
  "desc" : "A shiny white 20-foot wide sphere sped into the wind over Brockton, Massachusetts. The Air Force explained it as a balloon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5387",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/27/1952",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m. in Lumberton, North Carolina a 30-foot wide saucer-shaped craft landed after hitting a chimney. A little man about 70 cm tall (2.3 feet) emerged. The witness asked if he was hurt but he did not answer. He re-entered the craft and it took off with a whistling sound. At 5 o'clock in the morning a disc circled in the sky over MacDonald, Manitoba. It was gone in one second after the airport tower beacon hit it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5388",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 268; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 99; NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1969, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/27/1953",
  "desc" : "In Greenville, Mississippi at 9:45 p.m. several ground witnesses including an Air Force pilot, Sergeant and others watched an unidentified meandering light for 50 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5389",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/27/1954",
  "desc" : "Seven large white teardrop-shaped objects flew in a single file over Dorchester, Massachusetts at two o'clock in the afternoon, EDT. They turned the color blue when they sped up. A Project Blue Book unexplained case. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5390",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 3185; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/27/1954",
  "desc" : "In Woodside, California a mystery explosion was followed by an asphalt fire at 4:15 p.m. A rectangular area 70' x 270' on Portola Road was engulfed in the blaze. Metal pellets were found. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5391",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Leonard Stringfield, CRIFO Newsletter, October 1954, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/27/1954",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. in Boston Creek, Ontario a wingless, circular UFO was seen by Bill Supa, an employee of the Caswell Construction Co. It landed about two kilometers away from him. He approached to within 300 meters before it took off and flew away. The grass had been flattened where it had rested. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5392",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 218" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/27/1956",
  "desc" : "In Juniata, Pennsylvania at 9:55 p.m. Mrs. R.S. Pope saw a bright disc-shaped object with a clear transparent dome. It flew vertically, and then went off toward the north. A very cold breeze originated from the object during the three-minute sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5393",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/27/1956",
  "desc" : "An hour later, at 10:55 p.m. a domed disc with a transparent dome twirled like a top only four feet above the ground over a backyard in Altoona, Pennsylvania. The witness, a married woman, felt a cold wind. The object ascended rapidly into the sky. No traces were found. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5394",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Civilian Saucer Intelligence-New York Newsletter, September 1956, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/27/1957",
  "desc" : "An unidentified flying object with a bright red to reddish-yellow pulsating light flew over the Dry Tortugas near Florida. The UFO was tracked on radar. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5395",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/27/1959",
  "desc" : "Two ship captains sailing in the Charlotte Islands off the coast of British Columbia saw a pillar of white light shoot up into the sky. A black disc-shaped object was ejected from the bottom. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5396",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/27/1966",
  "desc" : "There were multiple radar trackings and visual sightings of a silvery UFO over Stuttgart, Germany this night. The UFO changed shape as it flew. Two F-102 jets gave chase, but it ascended into outer space. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5397",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, July 1966, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/27/1968",
  "desc" : "Maria Josa Cintra, who worked at the Clemente Ferreira Sanatorium in Lins, Brazil was awakened by a noise early in the morning. At the front door was a \"foreign-looking\" woman of normal height, wearing light-colored clothes, and a headdress exposing only her face. She spoke in an unknown language, and handed Marie a mug and a glass bottle covered with beautiful engravings. Maria filled them. The woman said something like as \"Rempaua,\" and went out to a bright, pearl-like sphere, that took off with the sound of wings. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5398",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Max Berezowski, APRO Bulletin, July-August 1968, p. 6; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: a Century of Landings, case 918" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/27/1969",
  "desc" : "At 10:10 p.m. eleven people were watching for UFOs on Cradle Hill in Warminster, England when they saw something like a \"burning bush\" on the ground about 600 yards away, in a place called \"Kidnappers Hole.\" Christopher Trubridge and Robert Coates ran towards it. The light went out, but when they got near the spot Christopher saw a figure about seven feet tall in the moonlight, about 100 feet away. It was dressed in a tight-fitting shiny black suit, with a gold sash or \"bandoleer\" over one shoulder. It also had long, dark golden hair that fell to its shoulders and had bright eyes. The eye color was impossible to determine in the moonlight, but it had a “rather feminine” set of features and a not unattractive face. She was motionless, with one arm upraised. The witnesses could not approach any closer than about 30 yards, overcome by fear. Fear mixed with another impossible to describe emotional response caused both men be beat a hasty retreat. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5399",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-48, citing Arthur Shuttlewood and Ken Rogers The Warminster Triangle; Cosmos, December 1969" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/27/1973",
  "desc" : "On this night a woman in Greensburg, Pennsylvania reported seeing a large boomerang shaped craft hovering over a heavily wooded area in Beech Hill. When her husband went out to investigate he encountered a large hairy, biped creature with a wolf-like face. He shot at it with his gun with no apparent effect. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5400",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1973, case # 1872, citing Paul G. Johnson & Joan Jeffers, The Pennsylvania Bigfoot" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/27/1978",
  "desc" : "A private plane flying over Massachusetts Bay, 10 miles north-northwest of Provincetown, Massachusetts had a near collision with a 18-foot diameter silver disc at 1:40 in the afternoon. Ground radar confirmed the presence of the unknown craft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5401",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, MUFON UFO Journal, August 1978, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/27/1987",
  "desc" : "Three aeronautical engineers in Wuxi City, Jiangsu province, China watched a point of light spiral across the sky at 9 p.m. leaving a trail of light. At 10:15 p.m. in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China the airport tower personnel saw a small ball of light hover 300 meters from the end of the runway. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5402",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 139" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/27/1993",
  "desc" : "At 4:45 p.m. 30-foot long football-shaped object flew over a tree 100 meters away from the witness in McDonald County, Missouri making a humming sound. Farm animals were frightened by the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5403",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Francis Ridge, UFO Intelligence Newsletter; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 16161" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/1945",
  "desc" : "On this day Leonard H. Stringfield was flying to Iwo Jima island onboard a U.S. Army Air Force C-46 shortly after the end of the war with Japan. Three luminous lights began to follow his C-46 transport plane as they approached the island in the Pacific. The plane's engines faltered, its magnetic compass failed, and its engines temporarily stopped. There were thirteen military witnesses on board. Len Stringfield became a life long UFO investigator as a result of this encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5404",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Leonard H. Stringfield, Inside Saucer Post...3-0 Blue, p. 7; NICAP UFO Investigator, December 1965, p. 3; Leonard H. Stringfield, Situation Red: The UFO Siege, p. 9; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/1945",
  "desc" : "At five o'clock in the morning two women in Langelmayesi, Finland noticed a dark cylindrical object. Inside the prow of object stood a slender man in green coveralls, and another man who was apparently steering the craft inside a glass dome. Their Black Labrador dog reacted in terror. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5405",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 138" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/1947",
  "desc" : "In Fukuoka, Japan at the U.S. Air Force Mew Radar Station there was a target picked up (radar only) in orbit at a range of 26-30 nautical miles and a bearing of 20-30 degrees. The target changed to a heading of 23 degrees and was tracked to a range of 54 nautical miles where it faded. The UFO was climbing on an outbound course. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5406",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 Research Notes from Bordentown NJ talk April 16, 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/1952",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. USAF control tower operators at Chickasaw and Brookley AFB, Alabama, an officer from the USAF Office of Special Investigations, and others watched six UFOs hover and fly erratically for 75 minutes. They varied in color and intensity from fiery red to sparkling diamond white in appearance. They flew erratically up and down, and were tracked on radar. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5407",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2006; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; UNICAT, case # 442" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/1953",
  "desc" : "Fourteen oval flying objects were sighted by a Ground Observer Corps watcher in San Rafael, California at 2:25 a.m. They flew silently and were in view for three minutes. A report on the encounter was sent to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the CIA, and the NSA. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5408",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, August 1953, case 32; Project Blue Book Report #12, November 30, 1953; Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, p. 278" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/1954",
  "desc" : "Two boys in Quebec saw an unidentified craft land and two or three men were seen exiting the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5409",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Arthur Constance, The Inexplicable Sky, p. 277" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/1956",
  "desc" : "Mr. Corbett, age 57, was driving two miles south of Innerkip, Ontario, Canada on this night when he encountered a disc-shaped object overhead that shone a strong beam of light on his truck, then chased it for ten kilometers. Some EM effects were noted during the pursuit. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5410",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Fate Magazine, December 1956, p. 11; APRO Bulletin, January 1957; Ray Palmer, Flying Saucers, September 1962, p. 36; George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 893" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/1957",
  "desc" : "A teenage couple on the beach in Nazare, Portugal saw an ellipsoidal UFO low over the shore, just five meters from the ground, and 100 meters away. Its circular main body had a curved window and was surmounted by a small tower. The craft shot a greenish-yellow beam at the ground. Plants and stones vanished from a four-meter square area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5411",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 23" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/1957",
  "desc" : "A silent crescent-shaped object followed three people driving in a car in Glenelg, South Australia at 8:15 p.m. When the car stopped, the object hovered for 20 seconds, then shot away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5412",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Research South Australia, Australian Centre for UFO Studies (ACUFOS) case files, case SA57001" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/1962",
  "desc" : "On this night several people watched a luminous blue disc-shaped object hover over Upper Whiston, South Yorkshire, England. It had flat edges and small orbs around the rim. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5413",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, July-August 1963" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/1962",
  "desc" : "Three people, including a man named Bellantoni in Dolores, Buenos Aires province, Argentina encountered a bright object on the ground at night, 300 meters from National Highway 2. The object was 30 feet long, 15 feet high, and had \"human-like figures moving about inside the machine.\" Three witnesses in a car and two in a truck encountered a disc-shaped UFO between Metan and Salta, Argentina. The disc was 150 meters in diameter, and flew just 50 meters above the truck. The truck engine caught on fire. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5414",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) John Keel, Strange Creatures From Time and Space, p. 153; Paris Flammonde, UFO Exist! p. 160; (2) Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 6239; Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/1963",
  "desc" : "Two KC-135s mysteriously vanished 800 miles northeast of Miami in the Atlantic Ocean. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5415",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ivan Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 126, citing Vicent Gaddis, Invisible Horizons, p. 173" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/1963",
  "desc" : "A transparent illuminated sphere ten feet in diameter descended into a garden of the Gualberto family in Familia Sagrada, Minas Gerais State, Brazil at 7:15 p.m. There were four seated figures inside, who wore divers suits with transparent fishbowl helmets. One entity, a Cyclops being over eight-feet tall with a single eye, floated down to the ground on two vertical beams of light. He walked with a strange, swinging motion, then sat down. He wore high boots that left a triangular imprint, and carried a box emitting flashes. It spoke in an unintelligible language, and made a threatening gesture at the two boys, aged 9 and 11, and then flew up to the sphere, which left. The chlldren somehow became convinced that the being was \"good\" and would return. The encounter lasted ten minutes, with ground traces from the footprints left behind. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5416",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon Creighton, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 37; Gordon Creighton, UFO Percipients: FSR Special Edition No. 3, p. 28; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 580; John Wallace Spencer, UFO Encyclopedia, p. 106" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/1964",
  "desc" : "At 10:05 p.m. a ten-foot in diameter yellow ball of light crossed highway in front of a car being driven by Mr. P. Ellis in Littleton, Massachusetts. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5417",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 330; Raymond Fowler case investigation dated September 11, 1964" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/1965",
  "desc" : "At 6:40 p.m. three women in rural East Derry, New Hampshire sighted nine UFOs flying at treetop level over a field. The objects flew in three groups of three, and passed about 400 feet away from them. They appeared to be black domes with straight silver fuselages and an upright fin. They made a buzzing sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5418",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 333; Raymond Fowler case investigation dated September 9, 1965" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/1967",
  "desc" : "Joseph Purcell, age 19, sighted a cigar-shaped object over Dublin, Ireland. It was very bright at one end, and gave off an orange hue at the other. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5419",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Butler Dermot, Conspiracy of Silence: UFOs in Ireland, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/1967",
  "desc" : "An important close encounter with physiological effects happened at Rivers Canadian RAF Base in Manitoba on this date. There were two 20 year old military witnesses involved. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5420",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science, Summer 1968; Gene Duplantier, Flying Saucers, June 1968, p. 22" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/1968",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. Pedro Aylagas Galvez saw a lighted object in his field in Ucero, Soria, Spain that descended 500 meters away and emitted a beam of light directed upward. It then made a strange, abrupt maneuver, and then shone its light at him, hitting him in the face and blinding him and also making his hair stand on end. The object descended in a spinning motion, stabilized, and displayed four large windows on top with four smaller ones underneath. As he watched, he saw four “small dark objects” ejected from its central part, which landed on the ground. After about a minute these arose and re-entered the hovering UFO, which then ascended and disappeared in seconds. The entire incident lasted about seven minutes. Others independently reported seeing the object depart. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5421",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 66; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-61 (A0966), citing Felix Ares De Blas, Bernani Labro Begule & David S. Lopez; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 360 & 380" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/1969",
  "desc" : "In a rural area of Burscough, Lancashire, England a motocycle's engine suddenly stopped at 8:30 p.m. The driver then saw an yellowish-orange, fuzzy, strawberry-shaped thing hovering over a nearby field for 15 minutes.His motorcycle functioned normally after the UFO left. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5422",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 48" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/1969",
  "desc" : "At 6:20 a.m. a photograph of a disc-shaped object was taken near Fort Morgan, Colorado 70 miles east of Denver on Interstate 76 by a man named Vedaa. The photographic negative was submitted to quantitative, photometric analysis and judged to be genuine. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5423",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "William H. Spaulding, FSR, May 1976, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/1972",
  "desc" : "On this night, at least two witnesses, including a woman named Benger, had a close encounter with a solid rectangular object with a dome and landing gear while driving 40 miles north of Pimba, South Australia. The UFO seen at ground level and made no noise. Another close encounter with a metallic disc-shaped object occurred at 9:00 p.m. in Point Elliot, South Australia. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5424",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Research South Australia, Australian Centre for UFO Studies case files, cases # SA72009 and SA72034" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/1972",
  "desc" : "At around 3:00 a.m. Eduardo Dedeu was driving home between Medanos and Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires, Argentina when he stopped to pick up a very tall hitchhiker wearing a coat with the collar turned up. His chin was much longer than normal. To Dedeu's remarks the stranger made unintelligible replies. After several miles, his car's lights went out and Dedeu was obliged to stop. Ahead of him on the road was what he first took to be an overturned bus, with a large blue light in the middle and smaller white lights on the sides. When he got out of the car he was dazzled by a brilliant flash of white light, accompanied by intense heat; when he could look again he saw the object, with white lights in its windows, moving leftward. The hitchhiker was gone, and the passenger door handle was detached, laying on the floor of the car. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5425",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, FSR, November-December 1972, p. 23; Alfredo Serra, FSR Case Histories, April 1973, p. 17; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1972-23 (A1166), citing Abel Guibe, FSR, Vol. 23, No. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/1974",
  "desc" : "At 8:55 p.m. a domed disc with portholes, about three times the apparent size of the Moon, moved over Mont-sur-Marchienne, Belgium and flew on toward the north-northwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5426",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michel Abrassart, Inforespace, December 1975, p. 29" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/1974",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. three witnesses observed an inverted dish-shaped object that flew over the river in Delta, British Columbia, Canada and landed 150 feet away in a clearing. It made a buzzing sound on descent. It had a square dome on top, with red, green, and white lights, and an exhaust hole that burned two circles in the ground, 4'6\" and 5'6\" in diameter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5427",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted R. Phillips, MUFON UFO Conference Proceedings 1975, p. 105; Ted R. Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 750" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/1974",
  "desc" : "Another physical traces case occurred on this night at 20:30 p.m. in Niergnies, Nord, France when a saucer-shaped object with \"arms\" came in low over a beet field. Burnt beet plants were found at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5428",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 141; Ted R. Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 797" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/1975",
  "desc" : "In a scrub pine forest near Truro, Massachusetts on Cape Cod, Lloyd Costa saw two people near a round dome like \"tent\" in the early evening. The dome was 20 feet in diameter and only 35 feet away. A fluorescent blue light came from inside it. He walked away, but then heard a humming noise and looked back to see that the \"tent\" was encircled by multicolored rings. It began to rise and fall, and luminous portholes were now visible on the craft. A car stopped and Mr. Elfe, a friend, came through the woods calling for him. He also saw the UFO. The people near the object were described as resembling small \"puppets,\" and were surrounded by something gauzy. There was an almond smell in the air that made Mr. Costa sick. His friend helped him back to his car. The next day he returned to the spot and found a circle of approximately 20 6-inch holes. There were also some pieces of a white woven material, \"like spider web, but very strong.\" The witness recovered some and took it home. He also took home some of the trampled pine needles, which still had the almond-like scent. When he put these in a cardboard box next to some potted plants, the plants died three days later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5429",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1975-29, citing Budd Hopkins & Gerard Stoehrer" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/1977",
  "desc" : "A major UFO incident involving 17 police occurred in the Windermere area of the Cumbria Lake District, England at 12:10 a.m. A diamond or \"kite\"-shaped UFO was seen for 20 minutes; it had two extremely bright lights, and made a faint \"purring\" sound. There were multiple independent witnesses. The UFO eventually flew out to sea. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5430",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gary Heseltine, UFO Magazine (UK), July 2003, p. 8; Nick Redfern, A Covert Agenda, p. 131" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/1977",
  "desc" : "At 2:00 a.m. a close encounter occurred in Cogolludo, Guadalajara, Spain when the main witness, Jaine de Frias Redondo, age 17, and several of his friends saw a \"flattened walnut\" UFO. The inital sighting lasted just a short time, but then the UFO moved away and hovered over Mount Otero for the next two hours, turning its lights on and off, with a pulsating white halo. Traces were found: a two-meter wide circle, and several holes in the ground 8 cm diameter, and 5 cm deep. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5431",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UNICAT, case 444, citing Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Investigacion OVNI, p. 76" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/1977",
  "desc" : "Francis Lloyd, age 24, was driving a large truck from Haverfordwest, Wales; with him was John Dwyer, age 16. Two miles outside of Carmarthern, on the A48 Highway, they had descended the Nanticaws Hill grade at 2:30 a.m. and were about to begin to climb the next hill when, at the bottom of the dip, they saw two tall humanoid figures standing on the right hand verge near the highway. The figures were at least seven feet tall, and were reddish orange in color, as if wearing celluloid suits; they had huge heads that reminded the witnesses of Guardsmen's Busbies. The figures stood motionless, facing each other slightly, and appeared to be holding some sort of object between them. They had chrome or silver-colored antennae that appeared to come out of their chests and stood as high as the tops of their heads. The two men drove right on past without stopping, and although the figures were in view for no more than six of seven seconds, they were fully lit by the eight headlights of their large rig. No craft was seen by either man. Three months later, there was a fatal car accident at the same site, killing four men. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5432",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case #1977-61 (A1812), citing F. W. Holiday, FSR, Vol. 24, # 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/1977",
  "desc" : "A large, silent delta-shaped object with rounded points was seen at 12:38 a.m. hovering over a street in Hayward, California. It abruptly turned and followed the witness's car. The two women witnesses were able to evade the object by accelerating to 65 mph. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5433",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, October 1977, p. 3; UNICAT, case # 196" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/1977",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. a  family of three was driving home to Portoferraio from an outing in Marciano, Livorno, Italy in rainy weather when their headlights illuminated a strange figure walking by the side of the road. It looked robot like, had broad shoulders, and was wearing a golden, glittering, close-fitting coverall outfit and had a broad brimmed hat, with two antennas on its head. The face looked like paper mache. They notified the carabinieri, but the figure had gone before they arrived at the scene. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5434",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case #1977-47 (A1755), citing Francisco Izzo" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/1978",
  "desc" : "Two witnesses on the 5th floor of an apartment building in Livorno, Italy were awakened by a buzzing noise. They looked out, and saw a domed disc at only 30 meters altitude. It had a transparent dome. After a couple minutes it flew away, gaining altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5435",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 12789, citing ITACAT" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/1978",
  "desc" : "aT 12:43 P.M. Two small metallic spheres and an oval-shaped object followed a Boeing 727 airliner over Mattenheim, Germany. They ascended and flew off to the east in sequence. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5436",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 41; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 160" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/1978",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. a small, sombrero-shaped domed disc stopped near the town of Fontenet, Charente-Maritime, France for a brief while. It flew off to the northeast, changing colors with its acceleration. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5437",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1981" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/1980",
  "desc" : "At 1:15 p.m. a three foot long, football-shaped UFO was seen by two men, John F. Clark and Lloyd List, from a Cessna 172 over Red Bluff, California. It was solid, smooth, and metallic. It maintained its distance ahead of their plane for 5-6 seconds, then was overtaken. Its axis was parallel to the horizon, and it did not bobble in the plane's turbulence as would a balloon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5438",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UNICAT, case # 614" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/1981",
  "desc" : "At 9:10 p.m. a 12 meter long, lemon-shaped UFO was seen near the ground on a farm in Trevelin, Chabut Province, Argentina, hovering at 2 meters altitude. It had extended thin legs for landing gear, portholes, and a blindingly bright 1 meter wide searchlight. The close encounter lasted five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5439",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14264, citing FSR, volume 28, number 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/1991",
  "desc" : "At 4:42 a.m. a huge, dirigible-shaped object first attracted the attention of the military when it appeared on their radar screens over the Mangishlak Peninsula, Shaitan Mazar, Kyrgizstan. It was flying from west to east at 960 km per hour, and at an altitude of 6600 meters. Thinking that the object might have been launched from Kapustin Yar, Mangishlak military personnel contacted the Cosmodrome. Kapustin denied any knowledge of the object, although they confirmed its appearance on radar. The object failed to respond to attempts at communication on any frequency, and since it was flying near a restricted area, two MIG-29 fighter jets already on patrol were directed to intercept it. In addition, a third jet was scrambled from Air Station 7.<br/><br/> The MIG pilots were directed to intercept the object, to identify it if possible, to try to make contact with it, and to force it to land at the nearest Air station. If the object failed to cooperate, they were directed to shoot it down. The MIGs intercepted the object over the western shore of the Aral Sea at 5:12 a.m. The pilots observed the object both visually and on their radar screens, and they described it as dirigible-shaped, 600 meters long by 110 meters wide, with very little surface detail except for two round \"portholes\" near the front, and some sort of strange green markings near the rear. The object did not make any hostile moves or react in any way to the presence of the jets. When all attempts at contacting the object failed, the squadron leader proposed positioning the jets on either side of the object at a distance of about 800 meters, and gently but firmly directing it to the Air Station. If necessary the jets would fire warning shots to encourage the object to cooperate.<br/><br/> When the jets were in position around the object and within 800 meters of it the weapons systems of the MIGs shut down for no apparent reason. Worse yet, their engines began to malfunction. The object also began to make evasive zigzag maneuvers, and increased its speed from 960 km/hour to 6800 km/hour. These maneuvers were verified by radar at Baikonur, Alma-Alta, and Bishkek. The jets had no alternative but to back off, and the object proceeded east through Alma-Alta airspace at the slightly lower altitude of 4500 meters. Radar dispatchers in Alma-Alta, fearing a collision with conventional aircraft, issued a general alert for air traffic to avoid the area. At 5:27 a.m. the object disappeared from radar in the area of Lake Issyk-Kul near the border of Kazakhstan.<br/><br/> A month later reports began to trickle back to Bishkek that a huge UFO had been seen to crash into the Tien Shan Mountains, 100 kilometers east of Przhevalsk near a peak known as Pik Pobeda (Peak of Victory). The actual site lay in a gorge known as \"Shaitan Mazar\" or \"Grave of the Devil\", near the Saris Dzas River. A search party led by Michael Eltchin was dispatched, but were unable to reach the site due to heavy snowfall. In June 1992 a second expedition was mounted, consisting of three groups of volunteers with both scientific backgrounds and mountain climbing experience. The expedition arrived at the actual crash site on June 12, 1992, and set up a base camp 2.5 km away to the northwest. It was evident that the object had slid 1700 meters after hitting the ground. It then exploded from within its center, blasting it into almost two equal parts and bending its internal structure outwards from the center of the explosion. Decks and interior features were visible inside the object through a gap made by the blast. The expedition then noticed several unusual effects when they began to examine the object. They were unable to photograph the object because some sort of radiation exposed all their film and ruined all videotape. Whenever a member of the party got closer than 800 meters to the object, he began to feel unusual anxiety, depression, and exhaustion. Within 800 meters, the men's hair stood on end. Instruments showed an unusually high level of static electricity in the air, and compasses and magnetometers failed to function properly in the vicinity of the object. Measurement devices registered no magnetic fields at all within an elliptically shaped area centered on the object, and measuring 2230 meters long and 1700 meters wide. Even naturally occurring magnetic rocks displayed no magnetic field within this ellipse. All clocks and wristwatches stopped working at a distance of 600 meters from the object. Furthermore, anyone who approached within 500 meters of the object began to suffer from some sort of radiation burns. The expedition soon had to abandon the site, but planned to return at some indefinite time in the future. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5440",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1991 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing Nikolay Subbotin, RUFORS" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/1991",
  "desc" : "A close encounter of the second kind occurred at the Yeisk Military Aviation School in Russia at 5:31 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5441",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Stonehill, The Soviet UFO Files, p. 48" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/1992",
  "desc" : "At 1:00 a.m. a very large, fast gray box with a blinking light on top, flew to the north-northeast from Goize, Deux-Sevres, France on a sinuous flight trajectory. There were three witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5442",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 332" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/1993",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. in Biarritz, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France an ovoid phosphorescent shape was seen coming out of the sea from the shore, remaining stationary a few moments,and  then disappearing at once. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5443",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "GEIPAN, case # 1993-149" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/1993",
  "desc" : "In the evening police and other witnesses in Yuma, Arizona saw a triangular object zig-zagging thru the sky, and making no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5444",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1986-94, case 1734, citing MUFON Arizona" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/1994",
  "desc" : "From Del Norte, Rio Grande County, Colorado at  11:00 p.m. a triangular shaped object with a honeycomb-like structure was seen hovering for an hour. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5445",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, October 1994; Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 253" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/1994",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. a black rectangle, approximately 30 feet long with a bright head light and tail light, and red and green side lights, hovered (levitated) silently in Helsinki, Finland for 10 minutes. There was the occurrence of anomalous radar echoes in the Central European surveillance area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5446",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 1994 archived webpage, report uploaded January 11, 2002; Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases --Europe, p. 109" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/1995",
  "desc" : "At 1:00 p.m. three motorists driving on US Highway 285 on Poncha Pass, Chaffee County, Colorado witnessed a huge cylinder that hovered for two minutes, and then shot away at fantastic speed. A police report was filed over the incident. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5447",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, January 1996" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/2003",
  "desc" : "Shortly after midnight, at 12:05 a.m. Mrs. Gutierrez Lomas saw a strange light from downtown Caracas, Venezuela that split in two.The liight then moved toward the Ruperto Lugo sector of the city, where it made a sudden, inexplicable turn and finally made a line for Cerro El Avila mountain. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5448",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Scott Corales, UFO Updates, ufoinfo.com" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/2003",
  "desc" : "At 10:10 p.m. a UFO was sighted in Nastola, Hame, Finland. The object changed shape rapidly, and was surrounded by a bluish haze. It moved very fast, before it stopped for a few minutes, and finally took off.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5449",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2003 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/2003",
  "desc" : "Cigar-shaped object appeared in Milton, Florida at 10:30 p.m., hovered, pulsated, and blinked while it rotated for 30 to 40 seconds, and then disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5450",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2003 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/2008",
  "desc" : "In Allentown, Pennsylvania a slow moving, sometimes hovering disc-shaped object with a 4-pronged star-like shape on the bottom, was seen flying only 60 feet above tree top level at 9:30 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5451",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2008 webpage, report uploaded October 31, 2008" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/28/2009",
  "desc" : "In Apolda, Thuringen, Germany 12-year-old Natali was woke up by her little brother at around 3:00 a.m. because he wanted help going to the bathroom. After returning to her bedroom, she heard a cat meowing outdoors, so she went out onto her patio. She next heard a deep humming, vibrating sound, and looking up she saw through the transparent sky-roof window a large shiny circular flying object, which flew off towards some nearby woods and then came back to hover over her house. Scared, she ran to her bedroom and hid under some blankets. However, the craft then shone a bright beam of light into her room through her window. She saw a short Grey humanoid, with a huge hairless head and large almond-shaped eyes, peering in the window at her. The creature had no lips and only a small slit for a mouth, it also had a very thin neck. She estimated it to be the same height as her four-year-old brother. When the figure became aware that the girl had seen it, it quickly disappeared from view, and in the next few moments the circular craft disappeared over some nearby trees. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5452",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 2009 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing www.ufo-datenbank.de/europa/Deutschland/index.htm" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/29/1942",
  "desc" : "At around 7:00 p.m. two soldiers in the air traffic control tower at the Army Air Corps Flying School in Columbus, Mississippi observed the rapid descent of two red round glowing objects that demonstrated extreme maneuverability and then hovered over the woods at the end of the runway. They next experienced an episode of missing time as well as sensory dislocation: they found themselves out in a field with no memory of how they got there. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5453",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 396; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 129; Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 20; Jerome Clark, The Anomalist, April 2000, p. 20, citing NICAP" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/29/1948",
  "desc" : "At 5:03 a.m. a farmer in Maplewood, Ohio observed a silvery sphere of large dimension rise from a wooded area and hover above his farm. It dropped a silvery substance that disintegrated before touching the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5454",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #169; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 193" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/29/1952",
  "desc" : "Two U.S. Navy pilots flying a P4Y-2 patrol plane witnessed three white disc-shaped or spherical objects hovering west of Thule, Greenland (77.00º N, 75.25º W) at 10:50 a.m. They flew very fast in a triangular formation, and were in sight for 2-3 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5455",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer from Outer Space, p. 255; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; UNICAT, case # 743; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 281" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/29/1952",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. at least seven observers with a theodolite sighted a luminous  bar in the sky over the city of Villacoublay, Yvelines, France. The object flew to the northwest in jumps, and then shot up vertically. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5456",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, The Truth About Flying Saucers, p. 179-180; UNICAT, case # 200; GEPA Phenomenes Spatiaux, March 1968" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/29/1952",
  "desc" : "At 8:35 p.m. pilot C. A. Magruder, flying near Colorado Springs, Colorado saw three aluminum colored objects with yellowish-red exhaust, 50-feet in diameter and 10' high. They flew in a trail formation at estimated 1,500 m.p.h. for 4-5 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5457",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2013; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 281" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/29/1954",
  "desc" : "First Officer H.G. Gardner and engineer J. V. D. Whitisy, flying a Royal Dutch Airlines DC-4 (PH-DBZ) at 11:05 a.m. near Prince Christian, Greenland sighted three or four dark, lens-shaped objects that veered to the north and changed position in formation for ten minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5458",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 167; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; UNICAT, case # 779" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/29/1955",
  "desc" : "Eight children in Casa Blanca, Riverside County, California, from 4-15 years of age, saw a “semi transparent” round object of various colors in the sky at around three o'clock in the afternoon. It would appear and disappear with musical “pings.” Some adults were called to come see it, but they saw nothing. An object, “as large as 3 houses,” came down to hover three feet from the ground. Beside it appeared a transparent being 3.5 feet tall, with red eyes and mouth, and a brilliant disc on its belt. Other similar objects also landed, one on a housetop. One boy started walking toward one of the vessels and was forcibly restrained. Another saw a beckoning, disembodied arm in mid-air. A creature with four arms appeared, and told two of the boys to climb a tree to be “picked up.” They did so, and a UFO started to approach with little men riding on its rim. One boy climbed down after a garden hose was turned on him by the other children; the other “slid” onto a nearby roof and then walked off it, landing on his head, stunned but with no apparent serious injury. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5459",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Riverside Daily Press, August 30, 1955; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1955-21 (A0387), citing Bob Boden, Jean Rowlands & Mary Starbuck for BSRA, Uranus, February 1956" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/29/1960",
  "desc" : "At 4:05 p.m. in Crete, Illinois farmer Ed Schneeweis sighted a shiny, round, silver object that flew straight up very fast. It was in sight for 18 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5460",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/29/1967",
  "desc" : "In Cussac, Cantal department, France at 10:30 a.m. 13-year-old Francois Delpeuch and his younger sister, Anne Marie, age 9, were tending their family cows when they saw four dwarfish figures, 3.5 to four feet tall, on the other side of the road, dressed in black. Nearby was a six foot spherical object of dazzling brilliance that rested on the ground. On closer examination they saw that the beings were completely black---either naked, or wearing skin tight black coveralls. They had pointed heads or helmets, which were also black. One was picking something up from the ground, and another had a bright object, like a mirror. When the entities became aware of the children they rose up into the air vertically, one after the other, and plunged head first into the top of the sphere, which then rose in a spiral pattern with a whistling noise. It left behind a smell of sulphur. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5461",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-88 (A0862), citing Joel Mesnard & Claude Pavy for GEPA; UNICAT database, case 423; citing Michel Figuet; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 285; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 875, citing FSR, November-December 1968; Spacelink, September 1968; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 280" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/29/1967",
  "desc" : "In Warminster at Cradle Hill, England a cone-shaped UFO was seen by 25 witnesses watching for UFOs on this night. It landed 100 meters from a copse of trees on Cradle Hill. Arthur Shuttlewood went toward the landing sight, and at 300 meters distance he spoke to a being (there are no details describing the being). The UFO went dark, and as he walked back a creature of some sort flew overhead. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5462",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-87 (A0861), citing Arthur Shuttlewood" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/29/1968",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. six witnesses in San Sadurni de Osomort, Barcelona, Spain saw a UFO 200 meters away, hovering just two meters above the ground. It was a metallic sphere, which gave off a yellow light. At 9:40 p.m. several people in Castrejana, Vizcaya, Spain saw an object over the Mount Kobetas mountain peak for one minute. It was square, with a dome on top, and extremely bright. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5463",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, pp. 15-16, cases 67 & 68, citing Correo Espano, August 30, 1968" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/29/1968",
  "desc" : "Starting on this evening at 6:30 p.m., a group of children in Coleraine, Quebec, Canada on four consecutive evenings saw a strange being hanging onto a boulder overlooking a cemetery. He was a dwarfish humanoid about 4 feet tall, with a shaven or bald head, naked chest, heavy black beard, and with red and bumpy skin, “like that of a lizard.” This being would disappear into thin air unexpectedly. A roaring noise was also heard coming from an excavation at the foot of the boulder, and a kind of “flying saucer” was seen, about 30 feet wide and colored blue, white and red. It left a long trail of smoke, and each time it “looked as if it were trying to land behind the boulder.” The children were Denis Bogus, age 7, who first saw the object; his brothers Michael and Andre, and their uncle, George Bogus; other adults who subsequently observed the phenomena were Normand Daigle and Luc Cadorette. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5464",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-62, citing Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science, Fall 1968" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/29/1968",
  "desc" : "Larry Sorenson was driving from Ely to Delta, Utah on this night when he saw a stationary bright, white light close to the horizon. It turned a red color and became much brighter. Sorenson's truck engine suddenly failed as he continued to drive towards the light. He got out and watched the light travel overhead and disappear behind him. It was changing colors from red to green to white and back to red. After the light was gone, the truck could be restarted. Sorenson noticed another car had also been stopped on the road. When he got home, the trip had taken almost two hours longer to complete than expected, and he had to account for two hours of missing time with a possible UFO abduction experience. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5465",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 42; Frank B. Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/29/1970",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. 18 witnesses from six families watched an oblong or oval shaped object with a cupola during a close encounter near a lake in Enebacken, Sweden. The UFO changed color from red to orange to red as it moved about. The trees were illuminated by the close approach of the object, and it made a humming noise. The sighting lasted for two hours. Three round depressions were found in the grass were the object apparently landed. The depressions were 40 cm in diameter, 5-7 cm deep, and arranged in an equilateral triangle 3 meters apart. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5466",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Sven-Olof Fredrickson, FSR, October 1971, p. 13; Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, August 1971, p. 27; Fred Merritt, Leg-Mark Catalog, case # 46; citing FSR" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/29/1972",
  "desc" : "Three Reading, Pennsylvania police officers, including a sergeant, observed an oval-shaped object hovering several thousand feet in the sky above Mount Penn. They said the object changed color from white to red to bluish-green. After an unknown period of time, the UFO suddenly shot upward and out of sight, according to the officers. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5467",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1972, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/29/1975",
  "desc" : "At 10:45 p.m. Mr. R. Cyrus, a 48-year-old man driving on a clear night between Noe and Longages, France saw a three-meter diameter dark disc in a field that jumped at his car, then shot straight up. The driver lost consciousness for two minutes and suffered other physiological effects after the close encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5468",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 75; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume 2: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 19, 203, 269; Lumieres dans la Nuit, March 1976" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/29/1978",
  "desc" : "On this night in Guemes, Cordoba province, Argentina an ovoid object with reddish flashes moved at a low altitude in the proximity of the local observatory. Residents discarded the notion that it was a plane. At 11:00 p.m. two UFOs appeared in the skies over the city of Mendoza, Argentina. Their estimated speed was 6000 kph, altitude 30,000-40,000 meters, and they were photographed with \"special cameras and techniques.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5469",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, November 1978, p. 14, citing Cronica, August 29 & 31, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/29/1979",
  "desc" : "Two primary school students were walking home from school through Zachodni Park in Wroclaw, Poland around four p.m. As they were walking by one of the alleys they saw a strange disc-shaped object on the ground, with two silvery-garbed humanoids standing next to it. Another being was inside the transparent dome on the top of the object. The students ran to get additional witnesses, but when they returned to the landing site the object and its occupants were gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5470",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, citing Tymoteusz Tobala & Marcin Mioduszewski, CBUFOIZA, Poland" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/29/1979",
  "desc" : "A silvery cigar with an orange light and square windows approached, hovered, and then finally sped away over the horizon in Ernestowo, Bydgoszcz, Poland. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5471",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume 2: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 24; International UFO Reporter, May-June 1987, p. 24" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/29/1979",
  "desc" : "Mount Cameron, Tasmania, Australia - The witness had gone outside at 7:30 p.m. to investigate the reason her dog was barking when she noticed a bright light above a nearby mountain. It accelerated its downward approach and came towards her. The witness mentally told the object to retreat, which it then did. Subsequently the witness saw an apparition of a small humanoid (not described) that was in a seated position. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5472",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, citingMark Moravec, PSIUFO Phenomena" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/29/1979",
  "desc" : "The 47-year-old witness was at home in her Oak Lawn residence, southwest of Chicago, Illinois as she watched a huge blimp-like structure pass over her house at treetop level. Through the craft's luminous yellow hull, apparently transparent, four different types of three-foot-tall humanoids could be seen. The object made a loud humming and roaring sound as if left the area. No other witnesses were located. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5473",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case # 292, citing International UFO Reporter, January-February 1980" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/29/1984",
  "desc" : "In Ashbury Park, Monmouth County, New Jersey a round UFO with spinning yellow lights hovered over area at 2:30 a.m., making a loud noise that woke many from their sleep. Fort Monmouth tracked a 90-foot wide object on radar at the time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5474",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Doris Graziano, APRO Bulletin, May 1985, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/29/1991",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. 31-year-old night watchman Marcos Ibanez Ibarrola was driving his Renault 4 truck on his way to work in Torres de Elorz, near Pamploma, Navarra, Spain when he saw over a nearby water tower a flashing orange light approaching him. The object, a two meter wide disc-shaped object with a clear dome on top, approached quickly and struck his vehicle's hood, causing the truck to stop and completely disabling its electrical system. The object resembled a large truck tire encircled with several red and orange lights. It was making a loud revving sound. The witness quickly got out of his truck and ran to an embankment. He then saw a short, heavy set Grey humanoid within the glass canopy. It had a large head and glowing, slanted eyes. When another truck approached, the object rose vertically and quickly flew away in a zig-zagging flight path. Scratch marks and an oily thick and foul smelling liquid was found on the truck's hood. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5475",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 309; Albert S. Rosales, 1991 Humanoid Contact Reports Database, case # 2367, citing Iker Jimenez, Encuentros: La Historia de Los Ovni en España" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/29/1992",
  "desc" : "Three cylinders were seen in the sky at close range after a home burglar alarm system and lights were effected at 2:30 a.m. in Mount Seymour, British Columbia. The policeman witness was unable to wake his wife, but their baby reacted to the close encounter, and their dog became sick. The incident lasted 30 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5476",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lorne Goldfader, Alien Update, p. 280; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 318" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/29/1993",
  "desc" : "A motorist chased a domed disc-shaped object in his car for 12 minutes between Crouse and Cherryville, North Carolina at 4:30 a.m. A videotape of the domed object he made with his camcorder was evaluated by MUFON. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5477",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, November 1993" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/29/1998",
  "desc" : "A black triangle shaped UFO was seen in Calgary, Alberta, Canada at 1:30 a.m. The witness estimated the object to be \"several times larger than an airplane.\" It hovered, than zipped across the sky in two seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5478",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, Canadian UFO Survey Report, case 92" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/29/2001",
  "desc" : "A woman reported to the National UFO Reporting Center that her 12-year-old daughter came home from school in Grantville, Pennsylvania and said she had to tell her something, and she didn't think she would not believe her. At 7:47 p.m. she had seen two saucer-shaped craft in the sky that approached her; one had a \"sparkly light\" that came out of bottom of one of the ships in a tubular shape, that went towards the ground and stayed there for 15 seconds, then came back up into the ship. \"Then both ships left the area going away from our hours.\" He daughter is afraid that something will happen to her or her family. She could not sleep well for several days since the event. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5479",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 2; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2001 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/29/2001",
  "desc" : "At 6:00 p.m. a black, triangular-shaped object was observed over Omaha, Nebraska in daylight for 45 seconds.  At 9:20 p.m. two very similar looking black, triangular objects , moving low to the ground, were seen in Marietta, Ohio for about a minute. They were moving very quickly in a northeasterly direction. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5480",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2001 archived webpage, reports uploaded on October 12, 2001" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/29/2004",
  "desc" : "In Omemee, Ontario, Canada a low, dark, cloud-like object was spotted in the sky at 7:35 p.m. that moved from west to east, changed direction, then changed direction back again to west to east until it was out of view. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5481",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 628, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/29/2007",
  "desc" : "At 11:34 p.m. a man had just let his dogs out into his backyard in Stafford, Virginia when they starting acting very aggresively. The older female dog got out the door and immediately ran down a hill as if to attack something. When the witness walked out and followed behind the dog, he illuminated the area with his handheld spotlight and saw what appeared to be two small beings, about 4 feet tall. They looked to be made out of light, that was faint but only illuminated their heads and hands, as if their bodies were cloaked by clothing. Next these two figures retreated quickly about ten feet down the hill, and, incredibly, seemed to crawl up into an unseen opening or portal. It looked like they were going up into a completely darkened craft. The witness could only describe it as a portal or window like opening, which didn’t emanate any light. He could still see that there must have been some sort of craft present, because when it started to move away it caused an air turbulence and a moving shadow two feet off the ground. He tried to shine his light on it but it seemed to absorb all light. As it moved away it rose up into the sky and then he could begin to make out a shape. Before the small figures entered the craft they looked back at the witness, and their eyes glowed softly with a pale blue light, but he could not see any other facial features. His dog stopped barking when the object left. The witness described the shape of the object as arrow shaped, about 20 feet long, with the pointed and narrow end in front and wider at the rear. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5482",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2007, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2007 archived webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/30/1910",
  "desc" : "A long black object circled buildings in downtown Manhattan around Madison Square Park in New York City, New York making an engine sound at 8:45 p.m. There were hundreds of witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5483",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John Keel, FSR,  May 11, 1970; John Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 120; Ralph Blum, Beyond Earth: Man's Contact with UFOs, p. 60" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/30/1944",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. a big orange moon-shaped object flew overhead at low altitude in Gardouch, Haute-Garronne, France. Great heat was felt when the object turned white. It flew off to the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5484",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 165; Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 23" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/30/1950",
  "desc" : "At 1:30 p.m. three local employees of the Air Force Base at Sandy Point, Newfoundland, Canada including Kaeel and Alexander sighted a dark, barrel-shaped object with a pole extending down from it into the water. The object flew very slowly at 3-5 mph just 15-20-feet above the water for five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5485",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/30/1954",
  "desc" : "North Bay, Ontario. At 5:25 a.m. Sgt. Durdle of the R.C.A.F. saw a brilliant, circular object fly across Lake Nipissing toward the Royal Canadian Air Force base. An oblong canister was hung down from the central section, which supported a long cone with a spinning globe on top. When the object tilted he was able to see regulator-looking devices inside the machine through a vertical lighted slit. Six brilliant appendages that looked like necklaces hung from the craft. Sgt. Durdle woke up four other Air Force men, who observed the object spiraling away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5486",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 227; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 140" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/30/1957",
  "desc" : "At noon in San Rafael, Honduras a large cigar-shaped object was seen over the mountains, emitting flashes from one end. Earth tremors were felt at the time. The object spiraled out of sight.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5487",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: August-September, p. 56" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/30/1957",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 in the afternoon two engineers in a boat on the Atlantic Ocean near Sea Isle City, Cape May County, New Jersey watched a metallic cylinder hovering for three minutes with binoculars. It moved off to the southwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5488",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: August-September, p. 61" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/30/1957",
  "desc" : "At 10:10 p.m. the crew of two separate airliners flying over Chesapeake Bay near Norfolk, Virginia, a Capital Airlines flight and a Northwest Airlines DC-6, sighted a bright object that flew at great speed, then stopped abruptly. The UFO was confirmed on their airborne radars and ground radar. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5489",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon D. Thayer in Edward U. Condon (editor), Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 128; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 29" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/30/1962",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. three men walking down a street in Itapirito, Minas Gerais State, Brazil saw a domed disc-shaped object 150 feet away. It was aluminum colored and ten feet in diameter. A little man or robot was next seen walking toward them. He was one meter tall, had a small head and short arms, and looked like the \"Michelin\" tire man. His upper body was luminous. After the being had walked to with 30 feet it vanished before their eyes. Two of the witnesses ran, one stayed behind; the UFO took off but came back and the third witness suffered from temporay paralysis. He reportedly suffered from headaches for the next month. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5490",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0541, citing Walter Buhler, SBEDV Bulletin, 1975, issue no. 21" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/30/1964",
  "desc" : "At around 10 p.m. a man and a woman driving between Tipton and Bennett, Iowa sighted an eighty-foot long cigar-shaped object that hovered at 500 feet altitude. When it climbed, their car radio went blank, and the car's engine lost power. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5491",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, p. 22; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 22" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/30/1965",
  "desc" : "In La Blanquilla, Nueva Esparta, Venezuela a spinning, top-shaped object with openings through which an orange light was visible was observed taking off with a \"foggy\" trail. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5492",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, January-February 1966; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 690; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, October 1966, p. 30" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/30/1965",
  "desc" : "On this night two people driving on the Pan-American Highway near near Arequipa, Peru saw “a strange being, a Martian, who resembled a shrub,” who was only 31 inches tall, and had one golden colored eye in its head, but also had “other smaller eyes located along its body.” A few seconds later, they saw a flying saucer pass overhead. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5493",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon Creighton, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 43; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1965-44 (A0658) citing a newspaper source" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/30/1965",
  "desc" : "M. A. Lilly, N. Smith, and T. Nastoff of Urbana, Ohio sighted a low flying, small white ball of white at 10:30 p.m. while driving near the fairgrounds. The sphere was between 5 and 8 feet in diameter and trailed by a three-foot light. It hit the road 100 feet in front of the witnesses' car, bounced and flew away. The sighting lasted 3-4 seconds. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 9864; Lloyd Mallan, Science & Mechanics, December 1966, p. 30; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 152; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns).<br/><br/> 1967  - Two newspaper delivery cyclists, Jones and Hollander, had come to a bridge in Crewe, Cheshire, England at 8:30 a.m. when they saw a hovering domed disc-shaped UFO. It had a transparent dome with an antenna, an elliptical body, and an undercarriage with three dark circles and many wires or tubes that were evident. A very well documented report.At 8:55 p.m. two witnesses in a residential neighborhood at Shrewbridge Crescent in Nantwich, Cheshire, England viewed in the sky what they described as a yellow elongated rugby ball with a dome through binoculars. It was as bright as the full moon, and estimated to be half a mile away, at 25 degrees elevation. It flew in an arc, hovered, and then went in front of a dark cloud, behind another low cloud. It made a sound like a turbojet.  A shiny white cigar-shaped object was seen by five witnesses in Sandbach, Cheshire, England at 9:00 p.m. It was brighter than the moon and had blurry edges, but appeared to be solid. It flew from south to northwest low in the sky, and went in front of a black cloud. It was viewed for 30 seconds and made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5494",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Roger H. Stanway & Anthony Pace, UFOs Unidentified Undeniable, p. 8 & 28" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/30/1969",
  "desc" : "Between 7:00 and 7:30 p.m. a delta-shaped UFO rose from behind the North Railway Station In Bucharest, Romania and flew off behind some city buildings. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5495",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ion Hobana & Julien Weberbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 179" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/30/1970",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 a.m. a seven-year-old girl in Vincennes, Indiana saw a metallic disc in the east-northeastern sky hovering over Wheatland Road and reported it to her parents. Her father went outside and also saw the object. He re-entered the house to get his 7x50 binoculars, and when he emerged the object had moved closer. He described it as about a quarter of a mile away, looking like \"a garbage can lid with a piece of watermelon on top\" (more like a squared-off \"coning tower\") and about 30 feet in diameter. The man believes that others should have seen it, too, because it was so low. He, his wife, and daughter observed it for a minute and a half before it left in a swooping dive to the north-northeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5496",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Francis Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 39" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/30/1970",
  "desc" : "On this date at 9:30 p.m. a shooting incident occurred in Itatainia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil involving a patrol guard and a rectangular UFO, resulting in lasting physiological effects. The guard, 31-year-old Almiro de Freitas, was on guard duty at the Do Funil hydroelectric dam when he encountereda one meter long rectangular object with elliptical portholes at close range. Panicked, he shot several times at the UFO. He was blinded and paralyzed when struck by a beam of energy from the object. He was overcome by heat and a prickling sensation, and went blind. He did make a slow recovery. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5497",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "O Globo, September 16, 1970; FSR, September-October 1970, p. 23; APRO Bulletin, September-October 1970; Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case # 441; Irene Granchi, Phenomenes Spatiaux, December 1970, p. 23; UNICAT, case # 487, citing Ted Phillips, MUFON UFO Conference Proceedings 1985, p. 119" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/30/1971",
  "desc" : "In Southampton, England at 6:10 a.m. a man named R. Seaman sighted an object that first appeared as a halo, then narrowed into an ellipse. It tilted to the right, at which point the witness saw two bright points of light on its lower right edge. It sped away and was lost to view went it passed the morning Sun. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5498",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "BUFORA Journal, January 1972, p. 16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/30/1977",
  "desc" : "At midnight two college students, Rocco Cerullo and Michael Giovanelli, were walking from Sturno, Avelino, Italy to Frigento when they saw three red lights symmetrically arranged in the midst of some shrubbery overhanging the road. They also heard an intermittent \"beep-beep\" sound. Continuing on foot to a nearby quarry, they saw a figure over two meters tall, wearing a silvery tight fitting coverall and a helmet. Where the eyes should have been there were two blinking orange lights. The young men fled back to Sturno, where they found three other friends, and all of them drove back to the area in a car. When they got there, all five saw the strange being advancing and withdrawing, with mechanical movements, on a steep slope. Oddly, it seemed to stand at a slant, perpendicular to the slope. Frightened, they decided not to drive the car any further into the abandoned quarry, which appeared lit up as if by a halo. Instead, they sped back to Sturno, returning again with two more witnesses. The humanoid was still there, coming and going with emissions of intermittent light from its helmet. When one of the parties flashed a light on the figure, it emitted sounds like \"radio signals.\" It then approached the car and the sounds ceased. It came to about 15 feet away and beckoned, as though indicating for the witnesses to follow. Finally, at about 3:30 a.m., it emitted a blinding light from its helmet and disappeared. The outline of an object with portholes had been seen further down the slope. After the flash, the men fled back to the village. When they again returned both the humanoid and the object were gone. That next morning trampled bushes were foundin the quarry, along with three holes in the ground that were arranged in an isosceles triangle. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5499",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1977-48, citing Francesco Izzo" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/30/1977",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m a number of independent witnesses in Healdsburg, California watched a huge lighted object with multicolored lights maneuvering over the area. One of the lights appeared to detach itself from the larger craft, and then descended close to the witnesses' vehicle. The smaller object was described as having several lighted windows and two beams of light. One of the witnesses claimed to be able to see a humanoid figure with a frog-like head looking out from one of the windows. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5500",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 916, citing Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact, p. 71" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/30/1978",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. a 38-year-old couple driving in a pickup truck on Highway 38 in Nisula, Michigan had a close encounter with a cone-shaped object with body lights that flew low overhead. Their truck stalled for one minute when the UFO was overhead. It could be restarted by turning the ignition key. The cone-shaped UFO was silent, and had two red lights and one white light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5501",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, December 1978, p. 15; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 257; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 73; UNICAT, case # 144" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/30/1981",
  "desc" : "There were two dramatic abduction events which occurred in San Diego County, California on this evening separated by just a few minutes. At 10:30 p.m. Mr. Santoro, a reserve police officer was driving near the town of Alpine, California when he encountered a huge dark, disc-shaped object hovering 15 feet above the roadway. The witness's vehicle suddenly stopped on its own accord. There was a bright flash, then moments later two small Grey humanoid beings approached and took him from his vehicle. He found himself back in his vehicle 15 minutes later and saw the dark disc rising rapidly into the sky, shining a beam of white light towards the ground. The witness fired four shots at the object and then drove home at high speed. Magnetic cassette tapes in the witness's vehicle had been partially erased. In El Cajon, California a 27-year old computer engineer was abducted at 10:35 p.m. A luminous object illuminated the interior of his car. The luminous object then circled his car, and the witness fired a pistol at the object and attempted to flee the scene. He was badly frightened by the experience, and discovered that he had a memory loss and could not account for 30 minutes of his time. Red dots like puncture marks were found on his wrists, suggesting that he had been abducted as well. His digital watch was also damaged. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5502",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) San Diego Tribune, July 1,1987; Robert Gribble MUFON UFO Journal, August 1991, p. 19; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 695, citing Bob Gribble; (2) MUFON UFO Journal, November 1982, p. 13; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 56; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 27 & 155, citing investigator M. Podell" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/30/1982",
  "desc" : "At 11:55 p.m. a battleship gray, disc-shaped object estimated to be 200 feet in diameter chased a car in Derry, Pennsylvania with a single male occupant. It kept moving in front of the vehicle, pacing it at 40 feet altitude. The bottom of the object had a dark black door, and the UFO had amber lights around its perimeter. It made a high-pitched \"whoop-whoop\" sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5503",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Doris Graziano, APRO Bulletin, June 1984, p. 8; MUFON UFO Journal, October 1983" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/30/1991",
  "desc" : "Four children in Granum, Alberta, Canada at about 10 p.m. observed an oval object hovering over the town. Some of the time it moved very fast, and at other times it floated in place. It had blue, red, and green lights that flashed intermittently. Later a \"long black thing\" streaked across the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5504",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timorthy Good, Alien Update, p. 232" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/30/1991",
  "desc" : "On the same night as the Alberta sighting in Blairsville, Pennsylvania at 11:15 p.m. two women driving on Route 22 had an encounter with a triangular UFO hovering low to the ground along the roadside. It had solid white light beams along its outer structure and horizontal light beams inside the triangle; in between it appeared transparent. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5505",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Stan Gordon, PASU Data Exchange, January 1992; Timorthy Good, Alien Update, p. 232" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/30/1993",
  "desc" : "Outside of Mimet, Bouches-du-Rhone, France a 4.5 meter long ovoid object sitting on the highway rose and shot off rapidly to the south when a car approached. Nothing was seen on radar. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5506",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Phenomena, issue 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/30/1995",
  "desc" : "A thin silent cigar-shaped UFO passed over the witness's house in Rio Claro, San Paulo State, Brazil at five o'clock in the morning. It gave off multi-colored rays of lights in all directions and made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5507",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Boletim CEPEX, issue 25" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/30/2000",
  "desc" : "In Gull Lake, Ontario, Canada a sphere 40-70 feet in diameter was sighted at 11:05 p.m. It had 40 to 50 red lights and three blue lights, and flew at between 200 to 300 feet in altitude. It made no sound. There were reported blackouts in two nearby towns. The same or a similar report was made to the UFO Reporting Center from Minden, Ontario. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5508",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2000 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 158, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, case uploaded May 14, 2002" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/30/2001",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. in Calumet, Wisconsin witnesses saw three flashing lights flying in a row. The lights were flashing in sequence: first two flashes, then a pause, then three flashes, another pause, four flashes, pause, and then it repeated. The front light was amber, and the others were white. At first, it looked like the lights were all connected, but using binoculars it looked like only the front light was attached to the next segment, and the other segments were separate.The object was cigar-shaped and had some sort of windows in it. Suddenly the rear lights split apart, flying off in different directions. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5509",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George Filer, MUFON UFO Journal, October 2001, p. 11; George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 121" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/30/2002",
  "desc" : "At 9:05 p.m. a triangle-shaped aircraft with white lights was sighted hovering low in a field off Route 1 South in Dover, Delaware. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5510",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2002 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/30/2003",
  "desc" : "At 12:15 a.m. four elliptical, illuminated objects each surrounded by haze or a halo were sighted in Merrick, Nassau County, New York. They proceeded to individually dive, climb, and zigzag. The sighting lasted about 45 minutes. That night a very large, slow moving, wing-shaped craft flew over a campsite near McGregor in northern Minnesota with 10 witnesses gathered around a camp fire at 11:55 p.m. It was chased a few minutes later by three military F-15's. It reportedly had four white lights and four red lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5511",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2003 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/30/2008",
  "desc" : "At 10 p.m. a dark triangle object flew silently overhead in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada. It went towards the east, and made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5512",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2008 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 644, citing Para Research" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/30/2009",
  "desc" : "A married couple had gone camping at Unicoi State Park, Georgia on this night and had gotten up at around 4:00 a.m. to use the restrooms at a facility on the campsite. It was very dark out, except for the light from her lantern and the lights from the building. After the wife started to walk back to her tent, she stopped because she sensed that their was someone close behind her. She turned around and saw three Grey humanoid beings standing there. At first she thought they were other campers, but when one of them turned to look at her she realized that they were not human. For one thing, their arms were too long and their bodies were too thin. Their skin also had a pale, glossy look, and they had very large heads and lumps covering the tops of their scalps. They had huge black eyes that seemed to stare right through her. She estimated that they were about five feet tall. the one that saw her began to slowly approach, but she ran away, and got back to her tent and found her husband. When he asked her what was wrong, all she could say was, \"There's some [expletive deleted] aliens back there!\" After he had finally calmed her down, he told her to stay in the tent and he walked back to see, but he found nothing. Throughout the rest of the night they kept waking up and had a fitful night; the husband reported that he saw a shadowy figure moving about outside their tent, but he didn't hear any footsteps. He also looked up and saw the top cover of the tent move, and if someone had pulled it aside to look in at them from above. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5513",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 2009 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing MUFON's UFO reporting website, http://mufoncms.com" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/30/2010",
  "desc" : "At 6:30 a.m. a black, oval-shaped object with visible heat waves radiating from it was sighted over the I-5 freeway in Silverlake, Los Angeles County, California. At 11:00 a.m. a disc-shaped object with a pulsing outer band and a transparent center was sighted over Plant City, Florida. At 3:00 p.m. a shiny metallic, upside down cone-shaped object was seen over the Jersey Shore in Manahawkin, Ocean County, New Jersey. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5514",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2010 webpage, report uploaded November 21, 2010" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/31/1948",
  "desc" : "At 12:20 a.m. a large unknown object was sighted flying at 50,000 feet altitude over Mint Canyon, California. It trailed a column of flames. It was also reportedly seen at Muroc Field, now Edwards AFB. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5515",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1344, citing Charles Berlitz and William Moore, The Roswell Incident, p. 139" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/31/1953",
  "desc" : "A disc-shaped object flew toward the east in the sky over Vernon, France at 4:00 p.m. It shot up rapidly to a higher altitude, then stopped and circled. Two more discs engaged in wild maneuvers. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5516",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 65; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: August-December, p. 17" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/31/1954",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. an Australian Navy Hawker Sea Fury II was paced on either side by two dark, 50 meter long cigar-shaped objects flying near Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia. The UFOs were tracked on radar for 10 minutes before shooting off toward the northeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5517",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 24; Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 82" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/31/1954",
  "desc" : "At 12:25 a.m. in the town of Kirkland Lake, Ontario Police Constable Grabovski saw a shiny ovoid UFO sail slowly through the sky headed north. It vanished in sparks, which were followed by a blue rain. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5518",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Harold T. Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 219" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/31/1954",
  "desc" : "In Asnieres-le-Dijon, France a disc travelled through the sky at 12:50 p.m. from east to west at great speed without stopping. It changed color from red to orange tosilver. It was observed near military aircraft. In Orly, France at 7:30 p.m. two luminous orange objects at high altitude came from the west at high speed and crossed the sky rapidly flying toward the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5519",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 31, citing C. Garreau" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/31/1954",
  "desc" : "At 8:50 p.m. a reddish yellow sphere flew very slowly at an estimated 5 mph to the north in Stafford, England. At 8:55 p.m. a sombrero-shaped saucer was sighted at Stone, Staffordshire, England. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5520",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 3542, citing Gavin Gibbons, The Coming of the Space Ships, p. 58" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/31/1955",
  "desc" : "A large disc-shaped object with windows around the rim flew at a low altitude in Ponteland, Northumberland, England. It made a droning sound as it flew. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5521",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/31/1958",
  "desc" : "Over La Verde, Buenos Aires province, Argentina an airplane's engine increased revolutions when a UFO was sighted. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5522",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 75; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 49; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 21, citing Leonard Cramp, Piece for a Jigsaw, p. 214" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/31/1959",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. two police officers on a pistol range in Barstow, California saw four huge brilliant disc-shaped objects following a jet aircraft. One of the UFOs makes a 90 degree turn, then flies away in a separate direction. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5523",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, September 1959" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/31/1961",
  "desc" : "On this night two silver UFOs hovered over a railroad crossing in Usovo, Russia near Moscow. Several car engines stopped, and would only start up again when the UFOs took off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5524",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, April 1981" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/31/1968",
  "desc" : "In the early morning hours (3:42 a.m.) three witnesses in Mendoza, Argentina--among them two casino employees getting off work--stated that they observed five dwarfs with oversized heads, who emerged from a landed craft and traced undecipherable signs on the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5525",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 919, citing Le Figaro, September 2, 1968" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/31/1968",
  "desc" : "In Santiponce, Sevilla province, Spain at around eight p.m. four little girls, ages 4 to 8, saw a round object with green and white lights that \"arrived from the sky and landed between two trees.\" It came down about 50 meters away. It was round with two black wheels and two small windows. Then the girls saw a tall man in black trousers and a black and brown shirt appear near the object; there was nothing unusual about his appearance. Later at the landing site was found a circle of pressed down grass. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5526",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, FSR, May 1973, p. 19; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 70, ; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-63 (A0971), citing Manuel Llorente Osuna" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/31/1968",
  "desc" : "Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires, Argentina - Mrs. Emilia Larrude de Salazar was alone with her children at home this night when she heard very loud knocking at the front door at around eight p.m. Without opening the door, she pulled back a curtain and saw a very tall man-like figure over two meters (6.6 feet) in height, that appeared to have no hair or ears, and with a large mouth and teeth. The being wore a tight fitting dull black outfit and had very long dangling arms. The being's eyes also shone with a brilliant light. The stunned witness could not move and watched the strange figure move away backwards without taking his gaze off her. Emilia thought she could hear a muffled laugh coming from the figure. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5527",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case # 3449, citing Eduardo A. Tucci & Alberto Giordano" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/31/1972",
  "desc" : "At ten o'clock in the morning a metallic oval-shaped UFO with a central dome moved over Route 128, a major beltway in the Boston metropolitan area, in Beverly, Massachusetts. It made a loud humming sound when it crossed over a bridge, and flew with an up-and-down motion. Many cars slowed and pulled over to look. the UFO carried a reddish-green light on top. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5528",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, case investigation, report dated September 5, 1972; Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 358" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/31/1974",
  "desc" : "On this night at Navegantes Beach, Santa Catarina State, Brazil Antonio De Azevedo, an angler, was on the beach with his wife when they saw a discoid object with multicolored lights land close beside them. It was shaped like \"two plates with the rims stuck together.\" The vivid lights temporarily paralyzed the observers. From the object emerged three \"strange short beings wearing greenish spacesuits\". Their faces \"seemed to reflect the green color of their clothes.\" Conversing in a strange language, they quickly \"examined\" the angler and his wife, then seized his wife and abducted her, taking her into the object, which took off at incredible speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5529",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon Creighton, FSR, August 1975, p. 21, citing Diario Popular, September 3, 1974; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1974-43 (A1355), citing Gordon Creighton, FSR, March 1975, p. 22; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions:  The Measure of a Mystery, case 265" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/31/1977",
  "desc" : "At shortly after midnight two college students, Rocco Cerullo, and Michael Giovanelli, were walking from Sturno, Italy to Frigento when they saw three red lights symmetrically arranged in the midst of some bushes overlooking the road, They also heard an intermittent \"beep-beep\" sound. Continuing on, near a quarry a mile from Sturno, they saw a figure over two meters tall that was wearing a silver, tight-fitting suit and helmet. Where the man's eyes should be there were two blinking orange lights. The witnesses fled back to Sturno where they found three friends, and all five returned by car. The group saw the strange being advancing and retreating with mechanical movements on a steep slope. He appeared to stand at an angle perpendicular to the slope. Some rocks were disturbed and rolled down the slope. The abandoned quarry appeared to be illuminated as if by a halo, and they became frightened and went back to Sturno, returning this time with two more witnesses. The tall humanoid was still there with emissions of intermittent light from its helmet. When one of them flashed a light at the figure, it emitted radio-like sounds. When it approached the car and the sounds ceased. It came as close as 15 feet, and beckoned, as though wanting the witnesses to follow. Finally, at about 12:30 a.m. it emitted a blinding light from its helmet and disappeared. The outline of an object with portholes had been seen further down the slope. After the flash the group fled back to the village. They returned again later that morning, and everything was gone. Trampled bushes were in evidence, and what looked like landing gear imprints were found in the quarry with three holes arranged in an isosceles triangle. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5530",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-48 (A1756), citing Francesco Izzo; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 201; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 12315, citing ITACAT; Fred Merritt, Leg-Mark Catalog" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/31/1977",
  "desc" : "In Mediania Alta Loiza, Puerto Rico at 8 p.m. two witnesses were sitting and chatting at the steps of their home when they suddenly noticed a disc-shaped craft flying above a nearby palm grove. The craft stopped to hover. It had a large white light on the bottom and a green and a blue flashing light, plus several brightly lit windows could be seen on its side. The object then shut off its lights and vanished. Later that night a woman had gone out in his yard to empty some cooking waste when she saw four little men wearing silvery outfits standing by a water faucet. They seemed to have short antennae like protrusions from their heads, large pointy ears, and were bald headed. They had small mouths and their necks were long and thin. They all had their arms crossed in front of their chest. The woman screamed and ran back inside her house to alert the others, but the little men had already gone when they came out. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5531",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, case # 267, citing Robiou Lamarche, Manifesto OVNI en Puerto Rico Santo Domingo Y Cuba" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/31/1978",
  "desc" : "Two men, Srs. De Cesare and Martin, were driving in a truck at two o'clock at night between San Juan and San Luis on Highway 147 in Argentina when they were circled closely by a group of UFOs. Their truck's engine stopped and they got out, throwing themselves to the ground and hiding among the roadside vegetation. The truck battery was totally discharged and the truck could not be restarted. At dawn dead goats and birds were found at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5532",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, December 1978, p. 15, citing Cronica, October 1, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/31/1978",
  "desc" : "A unexplained cattle death and mutilation was discovered this morning five miles northeast of Mancos, Montezuma County, Colorado on the Bartel Ranch. A calf had been killed and mutilated. Its left eye, tongue, rectum, and sexual organs had been removed with surgical incisions. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5533",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, Zetetic Scholar, p. 50, case 42, citing the Durango Herald, September 1, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/31/1978",
  "desc" : "A woman was sitting in her office on the tenth floor of an office building in London, England on the south bank of the Thames River at 7:00 p.m. when she glanced out a window and noticed an object moving at rooftop level. It was bright silver in color and was shaped like an elongated parachute. At the bottom was a man protruding from its tip. The parachute or cone-shaped object moved horizontally, then stopped briefly above a building. It finally went behind the National Theater and was not seen again. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5534",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 999, citing P. Hardman, BUFORA Journal, Volume 8, No. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/31/1978",
  "desc" : "At 9:50 p.m. two small lights descended from a hovering \"silo-shaped\" craft in Necochea, Buenos Aires province, Argentina. Their luminosity increased and decreased. After the two small lights emerged from the larger object and reached at point in the sky over a shed containing cars and machinery, and they just hung in the air for awhile. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5535",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, October 1978, p. 15, citing Cronica, September 8, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/31/1980",
  "desc" : "A witness named Lister reported seeing a disc-shaped object making a humming noise between Ashbourne and Derby, England at 12:20 a.m. According to the report it maneuvered in the sky, and there were other independent witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5536",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1981, p. 12; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 13525, citing FSR" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/31/1985",
  "desc" : "A UFO, shape unknown, rose from the ground near US Highway 95 in Laughlin, Nevada at 10:00 p.m. It directed beams of light on cars and a house, and radio interference was reported. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5537",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, case 1028" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/31/1987",
  "desc" : "At 10:55 p.m. a dark, domed disc-shaped UFO with a mast or antenna on top came down quickly over the high security Bangor submarine base housing, home of the Trident nuclear ballistic submarine fleet in Bangor, Washington and hovered over a playground. Two boys who were sons of military personnel, ages 8 and 10, were sitting on the swings and saw an occupant with a big head, big pointed \"cat\" ears, wrinkled skin, and a greenish complexion in an open hatch. It had a thin, spindly body, long webbed fingers and toes, and tabs or suction cups on the ends of the fingers and toes. It also had a wrinkled mouth \"like an old grandma's.\" The boys estimated the being to be about six feet tall. It pointed a device that directed a beam of energy at the two boys on the swings, causing the levitation of the metal swings. The boys fled quickly into the home of one of them and got his mother, who saw a row of lights in the sky as the UFO took off and flew away. Mrs. Springsteen, the mother of one of the boys, then had the boys draw separate sketches of both the UFO and the alien, which were remarkably similar. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5538",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. case investigation, report dated September 3, 1987; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2266).<br/><br/> (Artist's composite sketch by Rebecca Helen Johnson Woodaman" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/31/1989",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. EDT a mushroom-shaped UFO with a light hovered over a field in Butler, Pennsylvania. Two smaller objects with red lights emerged from it. Finally, all UFOs shot away at high speed. U.S. Air Force jets arrived one hour later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5539",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 31" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/31/1990",
  "desc" : "At 2:00 a.m. Luis Javier Mango was on his way to his girlfriend's house in Barrio Supe, Berisso, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina riding on a friend's motorcycle, when he spotted about 100 yards ahead of him two short figures that quickly crossed from the road ahead of him. Both were about one meter tall, wearing what appeared to be black hooded smocks tight around the waist, and maybe an unseen belt. He could not make out any facial features, arms, or legs. One figure followed the other, and both quickly disappeared from sight. Further inquires revealed additional witnesses, and the possibility of four to five additional humanoids of similar appearance that floated just above the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5540",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1990 Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, citing Proyecto CATENT" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/31/1990",
  "desc" : "At 3:00 a.m. five small gray-colored humanoids, with large heads and huge bright eyes, walked in front of parked cars in Lake Cartagena, Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, and then down a road. They had large pointed ears, with three toes on each foot and three fingers on each hand. Ten carloads of witnesses reportedly observed the five humanoids walking down the dirt road, heading in the direction of the Laguna Cartagena. One of the witnesses, Miguel Figueroa, pursued the beings in his car, but as he approached them, their eyes 'lit up\", and he was somehow prevented from getting any closer. When the light dissipated, Figueroa again gave chase, and managed to get a better look. He described the figures as skinny and gray, varying between three and four feet in height, with pear-shaped heads, large slanted eyes, long pointed ears, long arms, with three fingers on each hand and three toes on their feet. The beings got away by running down a ravine. The following day, there were reports of discs flying out over the Laguna Cartagena. Small footprints were found in the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5541",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1990 Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, case # 878, citing Magdalena Del Amo Freixedo, FSR, Vol. 36 # 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/31/1990",
  "desc" : "In the Sukhaya Valley, Grodnensk region of Belarus a round UFO with a golden stripe around its circumference appeared in the sky on this night, and then landed in a field. Three humanoids wearing tight-fitting coveralls were briefly seen standing near the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5542",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1990 Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, citing \"NLO\", 1990, issue # 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/31/1994",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. six men around a campfire during a hunting trip in the woods near Mongo, Indiana saw a UFO behind some treetops. The domed disc-shaped object moved swiftly to a clearing, hovered for about 30 seconds, and quickly vanished from sight. They were able to take some photographs, which show an overexposure of a domed disc-shaped craft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5543",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Francis L. Ridge, MUFON field investigation files, case 960103C; Michael David Hall, UFOs: A Century of Sightings, p. 331" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/31/1995",
  "desc" : "A large green luminous sphere hovered over Neath, Wales and then sped off toward the northwest NW leaving a vapor trail. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5544",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, January 1996" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/31/2002",
  "desc" : "A couple, Sergey and Natasha, saw a light appear in window of their kitchen in Kearny, New Jersey at 11:30 p.m. The light came from a brightly lit, disc-shaped object that was flying in the sky. It came out from behind a tree and crossed the part of the sky visible from their window. It was estimated to be larger than apassenger jet, moving west or norhwest and was moving fast. They observed it for 10-15 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5545",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 21, citing Patrick Huyghe" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/31/2003",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. a white flying ball of light, too large to be a plane or satellite, flew in a zigzag pattern, disappeared and re-appeared in the sky over Ryan, Iowa. It made no sound, and was visible for about 5-10 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5546",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2002 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/31/2003",
  "desc" : "At 10:44 p.m. PDT a disc-shaped object was seen circling in the sky over one spot, flashing red and green lights. It made no sound, and was seen for several minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5547",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "8/31/2010",
  "desc" : "In Matawatchan, Ontario, Canada a cigar-shaped object was sighted at 7:20 p.m.; it flashed twice, separated into two spheres, joined as one ball of light, and then vanished! The entire event lasted 15 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5548",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2010 webpage, report updated November 21, 2010" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/1/1952",
  "desc" : "At a U.S. Air Force radar site in Yaak, Montana at 4:45 a.m. two Air Force enlisted men sighted lights in the sky at the same time radar tracked two blips on an AN/FPS-3 radar set monitored by three radar operators. The two small, multi-colored lights became black silhouettes at dawn and flew around erratically for an hour. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5549",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/1/1952",
  "desc" : "At 9:43 p.m. in Atlanta, Georgia Mrs. William Davis and nine other witnesses saw a light, similar to the evening star, move up and down for a long period of time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5550",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/1/1952",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. in nearby Marietta, Georgia an unidentified witness using binoculars viewed two large objects shaped like spinning tops and displaying red, blue and green colors. They flew side-by-side leaving a trail of sparks for 30 minutes. At the same time Mr. Bowman, an ex-artillery officer, and 24 others saw a red, white, and bluish-green object spinning and throwing off sparks for 15 minutes. Twenty minutes later an ex-AAF B-25 gunner saw two large white disc-shaped objects with green vapor trails flying in trail formation. They merged together and flew away very fast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5551",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/1/1958",
  "desc" : "At 12:15 a.m. A. M. Slaton, a Philco technical representative working as a government contractor, sighted a round, bluish-white object at Wheelus AFB, Libya. It was flying at varying speeds. His first sighting lasted two minutes and the second lasted 1.5 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5552",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/1/1958",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m., about 11 km before reaching Laval, France a businessman driving from Paris suddenly saw a motionless object, 10 meters above ground to the left of the road. It was about 150 meters away. It was shaped like two cones with a common base and had two rows of about ten openings in the middle section. It seemed about 20 meters wide, metallic, with a light similar to a red traffic light shining through the windows. The witness had time to stop and maneuver his car to get the object in his headlight beams. Throughout the observation a whistling sound such as that of a jet aircraft was heard. The object rose very slowly, and then flew off faster climbing out of sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5553",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 470" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/1/1962",
  "desc" : "Mr. R. Leeming, an engineer, stopped by a lake for a picnic while on a business trip around noon. He noticed a metallic UFO with windows hidden behind some trees, sitting on three telescopic legs and shaped like a top. It was 30 feet in diameter. He saw that it had a ladder and an open doorway, so he climbed the ladder and went inside. The interior had a control panel but no occupants, but when he turned around he was surprised to see that two human looking individuals, about 5.7 feet tall, wearing white suits with helmets, had returned. They looked surprised to see him and not sure what to do. He asked them, in French, why if they were obviously spacemen they looked like us. One of them replied, speaking in French, saying that the reason was we had a common ancestor. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5554",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Flying Saucers, June 1976, p. 19; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0547, citing Wido Hoville and UFO Quebec" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/1/1965",
  "desc" : "An oval-shaped object landed on an estate near the Huanaco, Peru airport at 5:00 a.m. A being with a big head emerged, gestured, and then re-entered the craft. The UFO shot straight up at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5555",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 691; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume 2: A Thirty Year Report, p. 472, citing Charles Bowen, The Humanoids, p. 120; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 114" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/1/1966",
  "desc" : "In Willsboro, New York at 2:45 p.m. T. H. Ridman sighted an oval object with lights that flashed red and white and occasionally blue, traveled west, and then disappeared downward. It returned several minutes later, at which time a loud noise was heard. The entire sighting lasted 30 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5556",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/1/1966",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. six men, including Mr. C. Murdock, sighted an orange-reddish domed disc with multicolored lights around the rim moving around the sky in Fort Duchesne, Utah. There were several occasions when it went slowly up in the sky and then came back down again.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5557",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "9/1/1968",
  "desc" : "In Mendoza, Argentina two casino workers, Juan Carlos Peccinetti and Fernando Jose Villegas, were driving home after work at 3:30 a.m. when the engine of their car quit and the lights went out. Peccinetti had just started getting out of the car when both men found themselves paralyzed. They were soon face to face with three strange, five-foot tall beings with unusually large bald heads, wearing coveralls. Behind them was a circular or oval UFO 12 feet across and five feet high that was hovering four feet above the ground and directing a bright beam of light downward. When the entities came closer the witnesses heard a foreign-sounding voice repeat, \"Do not fear.\" Then they were told, \"we have just made three journeys around the sun, studying customs and languages of the inhabitants of the system...mathematics is the universal language.\" Meanwhile, another one of the entities, using a tool that looked like a soldering iron, was making inscriptions on the doors, windshield, and running boards of their car. The witnesses next saw a circular TV-like screen, on which there appeared first a waterfall, then a mushroom cloud, and then the waterfall again, this time with no water. Finally the beings took hold of the witnesses' left hands and pricked their fingers three times, taking blood samples, after which they ascended to their machine along the light beam. There was an \"explosive effect\" and the object rose and disappeared. The men ran to a nearby military college to report their experience. They later retracted their story, but there are indications that they were coerced into doing so. In fact, authorities in Mendoza quickly made the \"spreading of UFO rumors\" a criminal offense to discourage widespread rumors on this and other cases that occurred about the same time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5558",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-64" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/1/1978",
  "desc" : "Shortly after 8:00 p.m. in Llanerchymedd, Anglesey, Wales several villagers including a man hunting rabbits watched a bright white light descend slowly behind a new housing estate. Other independent witnesses saw a large silvery sphere above a field, and watched the cows panic and neighborhood dogs start barking furiously. A woman and her young daughter looked out and saw three tall men in gray uniforms with caps or helmets attached to their suits walk across a field. She ran to the village to find some other witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5559",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume 2: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 281, 491; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1961; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 245" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/1/1993",
  "desc" : "A woman was at a cabin in the woods at Dorothy Lake, Manitoba, Canada awoke around 3:30 a.m. to go to the bathroom. Not wanting to disturb the other cabin occupants she left the bathroom door open. As she sat there she was looking down the hall towards a window, and she saw a face appear in the window as it went by. This shocked her because the cabin window is about eight feet above the ground. The face was a classic Grey alien, with an egg-shaped head with large almond-shaped eyes. She also saw a blue light flashing outside. The woman screamed and the face went away. No tracks were found outside. Investigators rated the reliability of the witness as high. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5560",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, UFO Research Manitoba, 1993 Canadian UFO Survey, case 269; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 2089, citing the 1993 Canadian UFO Survey" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/2/1905",
  "desc" : "An intensely dark object flew over Llangollen, Gwynedd, Wales at an altitude over two miles. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5561",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Desmond Leslie, Flying Saucers Have Landed, p. 34" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/2/1952",
  "desc" : "At three o'clock in the morning Mr. Turason, a radar operator working for ground control at Midway Airport in Chicago, Illinois picked up 40 targets flying in miscellaneous directions, up to 175 mph. Two of the blips seemed to fly in formation with a DC-6 airliner. The radar sightings lasted a total of eight hours. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5562",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 2025; UFOs: A History. 1952: September-October, p. 3; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/2/1952",
  "desc" : "At 5:50 p.m. two military observers at Davis-Monthan AFB in Arizona saw seven large saucer-shaped objects, identical in appearance, in changing formations. When they changed direction for the last time all of them vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5563",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. September-October 1952, p. 7; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 183; UNICAT, case 744" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/2/1953",
  "desc" : "At 9:14 p.m. at Sidi Slimane AFB, Morocco pilot Lt. Col. William Moore and co-pilot Lt. J. H. McInnis, flying in a C-47 transport plane at 140 mph at 6000 feet altitude on a training mission, encountered a very bright light that appeared on a collision course with their aircraft. At the last minute the UFO levelled out. It subsequently made a 90 degree and then it executed a 180 degree turn. It descended to 700 feet or less, slowed and seemed to hover. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5564",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 21; UNICAT, case #  767; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/2/1954",
  "desc" : "Twelve-year-old John Jacob Swain of Coldwater, Kansas had just finished driving a tractor at 10:00 p.m. when he saw a dark complexioned little man about the size of a five year old child crouching about 20 feet away. The man had pointed ears and a pointed nose, and wore shiny clothing. He also was carrying two two-foot long cylinders on his back. He ran or glided, apparently floating across the ground, to a 50 foot wide disc-shaped object hovering five feet above the ground. He jumped in and took off without tilting the saucer. Lights shone from windows or the craft as it flew off faster than a jet. At the site were found numerous pear-shaped footprints 2 inches wide x 4.5 inches in length, with very narrow heels. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5565",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Wichita Evening Eagle, September 8, 1954; Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 677; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-46, citing Sheriff Floyd Hadley & Rev. Albert Baller" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/2/1956",
  "desc" : "At 4:30 a.m. a six meter long ovoid UFO hovered 5 feet over a golf course in Dayton, Ohio. It illuminated an area 40 feet wide. The sighting lasted more than 30 minutes, but the UFO vanished when the 19-year-old witness shone a light on it. A Project Blue Book \"unknown.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5566",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 4379; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 135; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/2/1958",
  "desc" : "At nine o'clock several violent bluish-white flashes were seen at ground level in Docelles, France. The next day four deep rectangular imprints were found in the ground at the site. The imprints were five meters apart, and arranged in a square. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5567",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, September 1976" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/2/1960",
  "desc" : "In the middle of the night Mr. & Mrs. Palmes noticed a large dark gray object, covered with tiles and as large as a three-storey building, in a nearby field while driving down a highway north of Bunnell, Florida. The UFO then came and hovered over road, only 30-50 feet away. The car's lights and engine died. The wife recalls seeing short people in tight-fitting uniforms, and her husband being in a trance. There was an undisclosed period of missing time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5568",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0504, citing Norman Bean, Skylook, August 1975, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/2/1967",
  "desc" : "At 1:30 a.m. Ms. Barbara Ward, awakened by her baby, glanced out her window on the Bentilee Estate, Stoke-on-Trent, England and saw, a very bright yellow object with an orange light on top in the adjacent field. It was shaped like an inverted saucer. It appeared to be on the ground or just above it, and its light fluctuated in intensity. She could hear no sound, though she was behind a glass window. She reported to investigators Roger Stanway and Anthony Pace that she \"half imagined\" she could see shadowy figures moving back and forth in front of the bright light generated by the object. She could not be certain because the bright light caused her eyes to strain when looking at the object. After watching for half an hour she became tired and went back to bed. The UFO had not moved during her observation. Subsequent examination of the field failed to reveal any traces. This sighting occurred during a spate of several UFO incidents in the same area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5569",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Roger Stanway & Anthony Pace, UFOs Unidentified Undeniable, p. 11; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-87 (A0863), citing Roger Stanway & Anthony Pace; UNICAT, case # 567" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/2/1967",
  "desc" : "On this night Nelson Gutierrez, a salesman, encountered a landed UFO on the Plains Highway, near the Hato Viejo farm outside of Caracas, Venezuela. A being emerged from the object, and according to press acounts the witness claimed to have taken a photograph of the being. A copy of this photograph was not made available, and the photographer's intent was to sell it when he had it developed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5570",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 78; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-89, citing Jim & Carol Lorenzen, UFOs Over the Americas, p. 78; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 877" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/2/1968",
  "desc" : "A brilliant royal blue ball of light with a whitish-yellow outer ring hovered in the northwestern sky over Lockleys, South Australia for awhile, then dropped like a stone, veering to the left. It made no sound and left no smoke trail. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5571",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 182" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/2/1971",
  "desc" : "On this night a 17-year-old woman named James witnessed a UFO hanging motionless in the sky for more than 30 minutes over Great Barr, England. It changed shape and color, and disappeared at high speed. It had green L-shapes with red light at each end. It became oblong, then cigar shaped. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5572",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, January 17, 1972, citing Birmingham Evening Mail, September 3, 1971; Flying Saucers, March 1972, p. 13; FSR, January-February 1972, p. 31" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/2/1973",
  "desc" : "On this evening Miss Liewragwong and another young girl living in the Klong Toey neighborhood of Bangkok, Thailand had a close encounter sighting of a disc-shaped UFO. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5573",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Terry Colvin, FSR Case Histories, February 1974, p. 17, citing Bangkok Post, September 3, 1973" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/2/1973",
  "desc" : "On his way to work at 1:30 p.m. an older man driving south of Milroy, Indiana a man saw a green, domed disc-shaped object descend making a swishing sound, and he watched the object approach in his car's rearview mirror. The UFO scooped up his car like a forklift. The front and side windows were blacked out, and he could only see out through the rear window. He had 95 minutes of missing time during his abduction experience. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5574",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Nottingham, MUFON field investigation case file database, case 951112aC; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1220, citing Don Worley for MUFON" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/2/1973",
  "desc" : "Residents of Big Bear Lake, California reported a series of sightings starting at around 11:00 p.m. of unidentified objects with flashing lights. A hovering multi-colored object was observed, with a red color predominating. It was then revealed to be a red disc, which began moving in various directions, then accelerated and sped away toward the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5575",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Big Bear News, September 27, 1973" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/2/1975",
  "desc" : "A silent, dark disc-shaped object was seen at 12:30 a.m. pulsating on the roadside of a highway in Chesterland, Ohio. It then hovered at treetop level, and shot straight up very quickly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5576",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, April 1976, p. 25, citing CUFOS" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/2/1976",
  "desc" : "At 5:00 a.m. a UFO with multiple lights was involved in a close encounter in Jaca, Huesca, Spain. It moved toward the car of two of the witnesses, circled around it, and then moved over it. A truck driver was an independent witness. The UFO had a solid top, but indistinct bottom; it was 7-8 meters in diameter, and made a soft whistling sound. Physiological effects were reported. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5577",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UNICAT, case # 455, citing Stendek, December 1981, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/2/1978",
  "desc" : "A metallic-looking, cigar-shaped object was seen taking off from a field of maize at 8:10 a.m. in San Michele, Veneto, Italy. It made a hissing sound. An area of crushed and dehydrated plants was found at the landing site. It was 6.5 meters by 3 meters (20 feet x 10 feet). There were reportedly several witnesses, including the main witness, a 14-year-old named Pozzi. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5578",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, March 1979, p. 6; Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, October 1979, p. 14; UNICAT, case # 108, citing Toselli, FSR;Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 265, 349" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/2/1978",
  "desc" : "On this night Gene LeTourneau, a newspaper reporter, and his wife watched a box-shaped, noiseless object at Russell Pond in Maine. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5579",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Portland Press Herald, September 13, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/2/1979",
  "desc" : "The witness, a surveyor, was out picking mushrooms at five o'clock in the afternoon in a wooded part of Petushka, Russia when he came upon a large, shiny, metallic looking mushroom-shaped craft on the ground. The bottom half of the craft emitted a soft pink light, and the top domed section was encased in an orange mist. The craft appeared to be spinning and emitting luminous flashes from its edges. Two short men emerged from the object. They were strongly built with broad shoulders and strong chests. They wore black tight-fitting suits that covered their entire bodies. The suits had two small slits at eye level. They were talking among themselves in a language that sounded more like the twittering of birds than anything else. They appeared to inspect the craft, and then were somehow sucked up inside it. The UFO subsequently took off. On the spot where the object had been resting the soil was found to be totally sterile with all living organisms completely absent. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5580",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case # 835, citing Gordon Creighton, FSR, Vol. 27, number 5; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 13272" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/2/1980",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 a.m. a blimp-shaped object with eerie lights and odd maneuvers was seen in Texarkana, Arkansas by a doctor who was also a pilot; it vanished on the spot! ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5581",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "William D. Leet, MUFON UFO Journal, June 1982, p. 5; Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing MUFON" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/2/1984",
  "desc" : "A black, saucer-shaped UFO was seen for six minutes flipping around the Inner Harbor area of Baltimore, Maryland in slow motion. It was witnessed by many, including physicist Bruce Maccabee. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5582",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bruce Maccabee, MUFON UFO Journal, May 1985" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/2/1994",
  "desc" : "On this night on Dry Creek, the Greenhorn Mountains, Huerfano County, Colorado a local hunter was at his campsite when a large group of \"aliens dressed in camo appeared\", and before he could react, he was gassed, captured, and tied up. They never spoke to him, and never fed him. He claims he survived by eating grasshoppers. The camoflage wearing, human looking entities appeared to be conducting \"some sort of maneuvers.\" The group then began boarding a small, silver colored flying object, and the witness was astonished when the object appeared to expand in size to accommodate them all. The object then took off, morphed into the shape of a bear, then morphed into \"a three headed wolf\", then turned into a cloud. Later, law enforcement personnel searched the area and found the witness's truck trashed, the remains of his campfire, and \"his half-burnt clothes\" scattered around the area. At the same time a second hunter was reported missing in the same area, but when he finally showed up, he \"raced away in his truck without saying a word.\" a local hunter was captured by human-like alien beings, dressed in camoflauge. Small silver UFO grew in size, changed shape 2x. 2nd hunter also missing, wouldn't say why. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5583",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 254; Albert S. Rosales, 1994 Humanoid Contact Database, case # 2550, citing Christopher O'Brien" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/2/1995",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. at the Bay Bridge in Pensacola, Florida two witnesses watched a one foot in diameter red ball of light low over some trees shoot out and back a number of times, swinging back in forth in the sky in a pendulum motion. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5584",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, October 1995" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/3/1952",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 a.m. a flight instructor and one other witness witnessed a dark ovoid object that made two separate loops over Tucson, Arizona. It finally flew off quickly to the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5585",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: September-October, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/3/1953",
  "desc" : "On this day a very large, luminous UFO hovered close to ground in Bedford Park, near Cleveland, Ohio. It threw up rocks and sticks from the ground, and then flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5586",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 3126, citing Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 297" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/3/1954",
  "desc" : "At 1:00 p.m. many workers in the fields 12 kilometers south of the town of Souk-el-Khemis, Tunisia saw an object apparently made of transparent plastic fly over the houses, stop on its edge, and swing like a pendulum just a few meters above the ground. It made several erratic jumps, then resumed its horizontal position and flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5587",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 141" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/3/1954",
  "desc" : "A dazzling cigar-shaped UFO did loops over Weston, Staffordshire, England at 7:30 p.m. It turned vertical and moved off quickly toward the south. It was absolutely silent during the entire two minutes of the sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5588",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 3552, citing Gavin Gibbons, The Coming of the Space Ships, p. 60" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/3/1954",
  "desc" : "U.S.A.F. Major R. J. Waste and the nine man crew of his B-47 bomber were flying near Dallas, Texas at 4:30 p.m. when they were directed to investigate a UFO. It was a missle shaped object that dogged them for more than an hour, then disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5589",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UNICAT, case #3, citing Paul Cerny, International UFO Reporter, September 1983, p. 6; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 24" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/3/1956",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. many people on the beach in Higuerote, Venezuela watched several silent disc-shaped objects with square windows on the rim; one hovered over the sea, while another one landed on the surface of the ocean. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5590",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 4771, citing APRO Bulletin, September 1956" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/3/1965",
  "desc" : "In San Justo, Santa Fe State, Argentina J. Fernandez was awakened at 1:20 a.m. by a humming sound, and saw a two-meter wide, luminous, oval object that had landed on the roof of his house. Its color varied from white to red. It shot up into the sky, and it left marks on the roof. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5591",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 692; Gordon Creighton, The Humanoids, p. 41" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/3/1965",
  "desc" : "At midnight all the lights at Pease Air Force Base, New Hampshire went off for 30-40 seconds while an unknown, elongated flying object flew over. It had blinding headlights with other lights perhaps in the rear, and flew at an altitude of only 300-400 feet. It passed directly over the guard shack at the main gate. There were three military guards on duty, including the main witness, Robert Mark. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5592",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UNICAT, case # 618, citing Lawrence Fawcett & Barry Greenwood, Clear Intent: The Government Cover-up of the UFO Experience, p. 58" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/3/1965",
  "desc" : "At 1:30 a.m. Mr. D. Winters, a school teacher, was driving in Ipswich, Massachusetts when he saw a yellow UFO hovering over the golf course. It looked like an inverted saucer with white lights around the rim. The sighting nearly caused him to drive off the road for a moment.The hairs on the back of his neck rose during the encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5593",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 334" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/3/1965",
  "desc" : "At 2:00 a.m. several independent witnesses as well as two police officers watched a dark object with a row of flashing red lights as it wobbled and descended in a falling leaf motion over Exeter, New Hampshire. Dogs howled and horses reacted by kicking and neighing during its presence. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5594",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler case files, report dated September 11, 1965; Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 334; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 279, 371; UNICAT, case 4; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 693" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/3/1965",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. a football-field sized purple oval or cigar-shaped object, 40 feet high, approached a stopped sheriff's patrol car in Damon, Texas. The two sheriff officers in the car, McCoy and Goode, saw the huge illuminated object speed toward their patrol car, hover, and illuminate them and the surrounding terrain in a purple light. They reported that there were bright lights on either end of the object: a weak blue light was seen on the extreme right of the object, which came out in two steps, and a purple light on the left, which lit the ground and bathed the car's interior.The UFO hovered within 30 meters of them, casting a huge shadow when it intercepted the moonlight . They felt a sensation of heat, and drove away in fear. Later they returned to investigate and had another close encounter. One of the officers reported that a skin lession he had healed rapidly after their UFO close encounter.Goode had been bitten by an animal before the sighting, and his left index finger swelled and bled freely. After exposure to the light from the object the pain was gone, and the wound cured unnaturally quickly. Later that evening, two men found him at a restaurant and described the object in detail, adding he should keep future encounters to himself. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5595",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 245; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers - Serious Business, p. 295; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 267, 453; UNICAT, case # 509, citing James E. McDonald; Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 694" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/3/1965",
  "desc" : "On this night Mrs. M. Gorzelle, age 45, had remembered going to bed, but suddenly found herself awake and driving on a rural asphalt road near Des Plaines, Illinois. Then she came to a spot where a man was standing on the road, waving a lantern. She stopped, believing there had been an accident, and got out. The man was tall, normal in appearance except for a very high forehead, and was dressed in a white coverall with a metal buckle at the waist. She was led across the grass to an area that was suddenly brightly illuminated from a door opening in a craft, which she described as a large round mass sitting on legs, about 100 feet from the road. There were three more cars stopped along the road, and the occupants of these vehicles were also being escorted into the craft. Their abductors were all over 6 feet tall, with very high foreheads, and bald. Inside the vessel were two “normal appearing” men, also in white coveralls, one with white hair. He was the only one who spoke during the experience, and he did so in a language unknown to the witness. The other “human” looked Italian, and was younger. The four tall occupants each appeared to be in charge of the four abductees and were identical in appearance. The room was filled with electronic equipment and control knobs, and telepathically she was told she would not recall the incident. The next thing she remembered was being led outside again by her “host,” and being helped into her car. The other three men were likewise being assisted to their cars. Mrs Gorzelle made a U-turn, and drove straight home, where she went directly to bed. Self-hypnosis indicated that a medical examination had been conducted, and that this was actually her second abduction experience. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5596",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb, Proceedings of the CUFOS Conference: 1976, p. 268; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1965-46, citing Fred Merritt for CUFOS, report dated February 13, 1976" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/3/1966",
  "desc" : "Two young teenage witnesses went outside when their TV set became blurred near Kelly AFB, Texas. They observed a fantastic spinning light illuminating the house. It came from an object hovering at the same location as a sighting earlier that month. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5597",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 791" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/3/1967",
  "desc" : "On this evening in Caracas, Venezuela Miss Paula Valdez, a young actress, came home from work with a headache. Lying down on bed, she soon became aware that someone else was nearby and she heard a whistling sound. A small being with a large head and prominent eyes (a Grey humanoid) was leaning over her bed. He said to her, \"I want you to come with us, so that you'll know other worlds…\". She screamed and the being ran from room. Her family came into the room to find out why she had screamed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5598",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Coral E. Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 224; Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p. 80; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 877; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0865, citing Ganteaume Horacio Gonzalez" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/3/1967",
  "desc" : "At 11:05 p.m. in Avon, Connecticut a motorist saw a \"robot-like\" being walking at the side of the road. The being wore a one-piece silvery garment that covered its hands and feet, and was wearing an opaque helmet. It moved its arms stiffly, as if trying to stop cars. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5599",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Hartford Courant, September 5, 1967;" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/3/1973",
  "desc" : "Many people witnessed the landing of a four meter long vertical cylinder that came down in the town of Feignies, Nord, France. The air surrounding the object was reportedly ionized. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5600",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. M. Bigorne, FSR, May 1976, p. 26; Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1976; J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, volume 5 (1974), case 482" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/3/1973",
  "desc" : "At 4:30 a.m. Mr. & Mrs. Yothers in Whitney, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania had an encounter with a Bigfoot looking creature in their yard. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5601",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Stan Gordon, MUFON UFO Symposium 1974, p. 138; Allen V. Noe, Pursuit, October 1973, p. 84" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/3/1973",
  "desc" : "A motorist driving home in Athens, Georgia first experienced radio interference and then encountered an egg-shaped object that descended onto the road ahead of the car. Two small beings emerged. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5602",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 254, 341" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/3/1974",
  "desc" : "Late in August, while driving on her early morning paper route in Duxbury, Massachusetts, the witness observed a red pulsating object at treetop level. When two beams of light emerged from its base to play across a nearby cranberry bog, her car engine \"fluttered\" and the car radio emitted static. The car interior became extremely hot and she felt nauseated. On this pre-dawn morning while driving the same route as her previous sighting, the witness heard a voice \"inside her head\" telling her to turn left at the next intersection, which she did. Then her car radio went out and the car motor died. She next saw four short humanoid figures, each standing upon a \"small surface vehicle\" resembling a Roto Tiller, darting up and down the road a few inches above the road surface. One figure approached her and asked her, telepathically, to open the car door. When she did not, all four doors flew open at once. The humanoids, after inspecting the interior of the craft, requested that she make certain arm movements, then to bend her head forward. Looking at the back of her head, one being said, \"Yes, you are different,\" and touched the spot with something that left five small puncture marks. He then told her telepathically that there were thousands of ships that have been visiting Earth for many years, and many people who have been examined by the aliens, voluntarily or otherwise. He told her they come from a planet whose name resembled \"Omius\" or \"Omnigus\"; and that there was a \"mother ship\" at that time in Scituate Harbor. In reply to her own questions, the examiner said that she was not permitted to touch them or to board one of their ships, but he promised that she would see a ship subsequently. She was advised that she would suffer headaches for some weeks, which proved to be true; he also said that she would \"not like to look upon their faces.\" The humanoids departed and she arrived home an hour and a half later than usual. The figures were 4-5 feet tall, with small heads in transparent fishbowl helmets, through which she was only able to see \"small, beady, very shiny eyes.\" The spokesman had two stripes on the upper part of his arm, while the other three had stripes that were longer on their sides, just above their waists. The leader had a buckle on his belt upon which was a wavy line. She was extremely upset by this encounter, and told only her husband, who gave details to the investigator. On the night following this encounter, the witness again experienced E-M effects on her car as a large, disc-shaped object with multi-colored lights descended and extended three landing legs from the bottom. The craft passed barely inches from the windshield of her car, and she was able to see an insignia on the UFO that resembled \"mathematical symbols.\" After hovering briefly, the object shot straight up and vanished. The witness refused to cooperate in any further investigation. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5603",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted Bloecher, MUFON Conference Proceedings: 1975, p. 60; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1974-46, citing John Giambrone" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/3/1976",
  "desc" : "The witness heard a very high-pitched whine in the early morning in Bethel, Alaska, and looked out onto the tundra where a small (3 inches in diameter) white \"beach ball\" seemed to be moving in the air, close to the ground. After a while it tilted so that she could see that it was a disc with a rotating, shiny, platinum-colored area in the middle. The object arced upwards, then back down, and seemed to just disappear into the ground. As soon as it entered the ground, all sounds stopped. On inspection, she found no ground marks or evidence where it had disappeared. Following this incident by about a month, the same witness and a little dog were on her porch facing the area of the sighting. She went inside for a couple of minutes and the dog wandered off. She immediately began to search for her dog, following its tracks in the fresh snow, but she couldn’t find her. “It was snowing. And her little tracks went out there and she just disappeared? She weighed maybe five pounds max, so possibly some owl or something could have gotten her, but there wasn’t,,,any other disturbance in the snow.” Since these events the witness feels that she has had a few very unusual light-projecting experiences, which have resulted in vivid dreams or out of body experiences. The contents of her experiences are difficult to describe. She has the feeling of movement, and there are these enormously huge, very bright shining objects that are suspended in space, all around her. They are all different kinds of geometrical shapes and forms, but they are immense. She also has had the feeling like being in an invisible corridor that she is moving down. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5604",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael D Swords, “Unusual Experiences From the Timmerman Files”, International UFO Reporter, Summer 2002" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/3/1976",
  "desc" : "At around 1:00 a.m. a woman was alone at her home in Ravenna, Italy when she heard a noise outside. When she looked out she could see an red oval-shaped object on the ground between two houses. Nearby were four or five small spheres. Standing in front of the ovoid object was a tall being, dressed in what appeared to be body armor and a helmet with a protuberance in the center. She was distracted for a moment and lost sight of the being, and when she looked back she saw the object take off at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5605",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1976, case # 997, citing BUFORA Journal, Vol. 8 # 3, quoting Maurizio Verga; Maurizio Verga, ITACAT, case # 88" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/3/1976",
  "desc" : "An extremely bright, silent object with three colored jets at the rear was seen over North Canton, Guangdong Province, China at 8:00 p.m. It flew up vertically, then horizontally. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5606",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, p. 87" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/3/1976",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. a 63-year-old woman and her 18-year-old friend were walking past a waste storage area in Fencehouses, England when they saw a domed, oval-shaped object, resting on sledge runners, on a mound of earth. It had a large glass like compartment in the center, and a bright orange dome on top. It was 5 feet long and 3.5 feet high. As the witnesses approached it, they noted that the wind and the traffic on a nearby road both seemed to stop, and they later discovered that their watches had stopped. One of the witnesses ran her hand over the object; it felt very smooth and warm. Suddenly two humanoid entities “the size of dolls” appeared beside it; they had long white hair parted down the middle, large eyes, and claw-like fingers. Apparently frightened by the witnesses, they put both hands up to their faces. The witnesses were not sure what happened next, but after experiencing a period of missing time the next thing they remember is that the object took off at great speed with a humming sound.  ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5607",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jenny Randles, FSR, April 1977, p. 3; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1976-66 (A1493), citing John Rouse for Contact & Northern UFO Network" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/3/1976",
  "desc" : "At 7:00 p.m. local time, about two hours after the missing time close encounter in England, Joao Romeu Klein, age 19, was returning home after visiting his mother near Serra Do Mouro, Santa Catarina State, Brazil when he observed an approaching disc-shaped object from the south. The object had a rotating lower half and a bright light on top which seemed to change colors. The UFO flew over the witness, then came to a halt just ahead of him. It projected an intense beam of red light from its base. Inside this beam three small beings levitated slowly to the ground. The three small humanoids took up positions across the road, blocking Joao's path. The object then glided over to a clump of trees nearby. As the witness continued to walk, the three small beings spread out their arms in an obvious attempt to block him, while at the same time speaking in an unknown language. The witness threw a knife at the beings but it seems to strike an invisible wall. The being in the middle then pointed a rod like device at the witness from which a beam of bluish white light emerged. The witness apparently blacked out and was found later on the ground by his neighbors. The beings were described as heavy set and human like, wearing tight gray coveralls, and globular fishbowl helmets that covered their heads. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5608",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Walter Buhler, FSR, August 1982, p. 5; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 230; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1976-66 (A2249), citing Dr. Walter Buhler; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1976, case # 834, citing Dr. Walter Buhler, FSR, Vol. 28, # 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/3/1979",
  "desc" : "Following a series of low level sightings in Gateshead, England by the main witness and her family, the woman awoke in the middle of this night to see a small metallic disc-shaped object inside her bedroom. A dozen small dwarfs now appeared. They were about three feet tal and had large heads and eyes and feminine features. They wore white uniforms and white cloaks. They walked up to her bed and examined her. The witness was paralyzed during the encounter. She later reported a subsequent incident with another entity. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5609",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case # 764, citing John Watson, Northern UFO News, # 74" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/3/1979",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. two married couples had a close encounter of the second kind with a disc-shaped object while driving in Balsam Lake, Wisconsin.  ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5610",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allen Hendry, International UFO Reporter, December 1979, p. 6, 12; UNICAT, case # 85" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/3/1987",
  "desc" : "Five witnesses, including three police, witnessed a metallic-appearing, disc-shaped object over some power lines in Greensburg, Pennsylvania at around 1:00 a.m. It was the documented cause of an electrical power outage. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5611",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dan Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, May 1989, p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/3/1988",
  "desc" : "A female witness was preparing for bed at 1:10 a.m. in Ipswich, Massachusetts when she heard a noise outside that was a cat. She looked out through an upstairs window and saw a multicolored rectangular object in the sky. She went downstairs and looked at it from another angle, then awoke a male witness, who also saw it. Both went outside, but the obj had gone. 2+ witnesses. It was estimated to be eight feet in length, and 70 feet away over some trees. It had lights around edge, and was over the same field as 1976 UFO sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5612",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, MUFON case files, case # 880903; Dan Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, May 1989, p. 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/3/1989",
  "desc" : "At 6:30 p.m. the witness was walking with some friends on the beach of the Caspian Sea near Sari, Iran when suddently this brilliant, orange-colored object, 8-12 meters in diameter, rose up out of the Caspian Sea at a distance of 250 meters from shore. The UFO caused panic among many witnesses; in fact, in just a few minutes nearly everyone had fled from the beach. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5613",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Carl W. Feindt, UFOs and Water, p. 16, citing FSR, July 1991" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/3/1989",
  "desc" : "The witness, a 17-year-old male driving in a car, sighted an arrowhead-shaped object flying at treetop level in Ebensburg, Pennsylvania at 10:30 p.m. It rotated counterclockwise and then sped away. The object was seen approximately two miles south of Ebensburg on a secondary road near the Mini Mall. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5614",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Kessler Paul J. Kessler, MUFON field investigation case files, case # 891002; Dan Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, February 1990, p. 16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/3/1992",
  "desc" : "At 9:20 p.m. a dark, disc-shaped object hovered just 20 meters over a road in Colombieres, Herault department, France. A blue beam of light was emitted from the object. The UFO tilted, and then shot away to the southwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5615",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 313" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/3/1992",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. in Guaira, Parana State, Brazil three beams of light hovered and maneuvered over a bank of the river. The beams of light were directed down at a boat, and the boat couldn't move. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5616",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #15819, citing UBPDV, issue 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/3/1993",
  "desc" : "A blue ball of light was seen by police and others in a field in Hull, Quebec at 11:30 p.m.. Residential lights were out, but a stereo worked OK. EM effect: the police radio didn't work. Rated as high-reliability unknown. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5617",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 1993 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 105" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/3/1998",
  "desc" : "At around 5 p.m. a witness in Kamloops, British Columbia observed an object shoot across the sky, hover, then depart straight up vertically. It made no sound. Another object then did the same thing. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5618",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 1998 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 100" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/3/1999",
  "desc" : "A very large, shiny, metallic-looking cigar-shaped object, seen at an estimated 2000 feet altitude, hovered stationary over highway A465 between Ebbw Vale and Bryn Mawr, Gwent, Wales at shortly after noon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5619",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul McCart, UFO Magazine (UK), January 2000, p. 76" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/3/1999",
  "desc" : "A 35-year-old man named Mike and his friend Henry were using their computer at home in northern Arkansas around midnight, when Henry looked up and saw a humanoid standing outside the window. The figure appeared grayish white, with large black eyes, and was about 4 to 5 feet tall. It just stood at the window staring at Henry. Henry turned his head briefly, and when he looked back the figure was gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5620",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1999 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 3816, citing Billy Dee, UFOSSI" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/3/2003",
  "desc" : "Near Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. At around 2:30 a.m. the main witness's 12-year-old son woke her husband and her telling them that he had a nosebleed. They did not think much about it since the boy usually gets a nose bleed once a year and it just a persistent trickle. He then got into their bed with them, and the witness fell back to sleep  very rapidly and had an extremely vivid lucid dream. In the dream, her son and she were outside of a house and they ran to the other side to see a UFO in the sky. The UFO was not lit, but rather a dark shadow in the night sky, huge and in two parts that were connected. They somehow knew that this was something to be afraid of, and hid in the deep shadows of the house. As the UFO came down almost noiselessly it transformed itself into a vast robot, which started walking across the countryside. She believed they somehow \"knew\" this had something to do with electrical power, and that they would be forced to use some power they didn't want to use. She believed using their power would be a trick which would ultimately be used to imprison them. They ran inside the house and there the phone was ringing, and they again \"knew\" it was the power company calling them to force them to use this new power, so they did not answer the phone. In the dream, there was a glassed-in room in the house, which had a number of people seated in it. These people were important to the experiencer, although they were not familiar to her. She ran into the room to warn them of what she had seen. One of the people was a brown haired girl, about 20 years old, whom the witness recognized as her \"daughter\" (but not her real life daughter). She was crying, although the witness was not sure why. What was remarkable about her was that she was half human and half \"android\" or robotic. At one point the experiencer could see some of the skin on her back, and she believed could see that the skin was living tissue stretched over a metallic frame. The skin was red and sore appearing, like burned scar tissue. She was also pregnant and made a comment to the witness about how she had been to \"animal control\" (the witness could not quite recall the phrase but it was like going to a veterinarian instead of a human doctor), where she had been impregnated. The father of her child was also there, another predominantly robotic person who has a face that looked as if a human face had been grafted on. He appeared to be a sympathetic figure, and she believed he understood what the experiencer was telling him. There were others in the room that were similar, but the witness did not have a chance to speak to them. The dream went blank for a bit, and then the witness found herself outside in a \"neighborhood\". There was a huge wind blowing and she believed that this was due to changes occurring to the Earth. She also \"knew\" that after the Earth changes the alien beings will come for us, and that would be terrible. In this vivid dream, the power company had set up a steel building that looked like the only thing that could withstand the wind. Everyone crowded inside, but the experiencer believed that it was trap. She pointed out to the father of her daughter's baby that the heavy stainless steel door only opened from the outside, and that if they let go of them they would all be trapped inside. Between them they managed to keep the doors from closing. The dream went on with dire predictions for humanity and coming Earth changes: a collapse of society was coming. The witness woke up around 6:00 a.m. with a severe nosebleed, stiff arms and legs, and total physical exhaustion. Other family members reported strange scratches and marks on their bodies. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5621",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 2003 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing Brian Vike, HBCC UFO Research" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/3/2004",
  "desc" : "On this evening around 10:00 p.m. two people watched a set of brilliant strobing lights through binoculars from Linton, Oregon. The lights were hovering in the sky across the Willamette River. They distinctly saw four colors of lights: red, white, green, and blue. They flashed and rotated around the edges. They would shift position, tilting from horizontal to vertical, then rotating slowly so that they could see the underside of a single multicolored object, and then flatten out. The witnesses also reported that they thought airliners taking off from Portland International Airport must have seen this object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5622",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 135" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/3/2008",
  "desc" : "At 8:02 p.m. a saucer-shaped object split into three orbs which flew around, then rejoined over Nanaimo, British Columbia. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5623",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2008 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 663" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/4/1953",
  "desc" : "Mrs. Deshais, a farmer's wife in Tonnerre, France saw two UFOs at 9:30 p.m., a five-meter long elongated object and a sphere, both on the ground. There were three 1.5-meter (5 foot) tall men running toward the craft. They had oversized heads and wore helmets and boots. One entered the elongated object, which then spread some \"wings\" that made it look like a butterfly. It then shifted to a vertical position, resting on tripod landing gear, and took off at the same time as the spherical object into which the other two beings had gone. Traces were found at the spot. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5624",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Phenomenes Spatiaux, March 1968; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 204, case 117" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/4/1954",
  "desc" : "On this morning in Obersuessbach, Bavaria, Germany between ten and eleven a.m. a schoolteacher and four others sighted a flat circular, silver colored object that had a funny looking rim. The edge of the craft gave them the impression of fringe. It passed over at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5625",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 34" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/4/1957",
  "desc" : "At 8:06 p.m. four Portuguese F-84 fighter jets from Ota AFB on a night training flight at 25,000 feet altitude between Cordoba and Coruche, Portugal sighted a large disc-shaped object. It was changing color from green to yellow to blue. It also appeared to change size. Four small circles of light detached from a larger light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5626",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Flying Saucer Review, July 1958; Brinsley LePoer Trench, Flying Saucer Story, p. 37; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 29; Flying Saucers magazine, September 1962, p. 30; UNICAT, case # 791" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/4/1964",
  "desc" : "Shortly before 8:00 p.m. two teenagers in Glassboro, New Jersey were approached by two tall blond men, who had long hair and were barefoot. They asked the boys if they were interested in seeing a UFO. They walked to an apple orchard where they saw a red light land in the woods, and then take off. A burnt crater was found by the NICAP investigator, with tripod indentations. The US Air Force was called and performed a perfunctory, sloppy investigation of the case, but NICAP did a more thorough job. In addition to the burnt area and ground marks, some white powdery balls were found that were cold to the touch. After touching them the witnesses' hands retained numbness for 24 hours. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5627",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1964, p. 1; Jean Bastide, MUFON UFO Journal, July 1977, p. 11, citing NICAP field investigator Campbell" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/4/1964",
  "desc" : "That same evening two men had gone bow hunting in the forest near Cisco Grove, California. One of the men, Mr. D. Shrum, age 28, became lost and climbed a tree. It was then, at around 10:00 p.m., that he noticed a domed object with a blinking light on top descend and land. Two short humanoid beings, wearing silvery white coveralls, and a robot-looking creature got out and approached his location. They attempted to climb the tree after him in an apparent effort to capture him, but were unsuccessful. The robot released a vapor that drifted up to him and made him groggy, but before he lost consciousness he was able to tie himself to the tree trunk with his belt. He shot arrows at the robot, but the arrows just bounced off and caused no damage. The beings remained in the area, as far as he could tell, for most of the night. He stayed in the tree for eleven hours. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5628",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Coral E. & Jim Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 137; Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 248; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 21; J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 210; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 221; UNICAT, case 297" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/4/1965",
  "desc" : "In an isolated area of the Green River Gorge, Washington State a man named Salsbury encountered a landed white, disc-shaped craft from which a loud voice resembling a “loud speaker” originated. It told him not to be afraid, and to put down his gun. Once he did that, an oval-shaped door opened under the lower part of the object, and a man came out walking slowly towards him. The man was described as six feet tall, appearing to be about 30 years of age. He was dressed in a one-piece tight-fitting suit made of some sort of metallic coating, resembling aluminum or chrome, but dull reflecting. He also wore a helmet that was very tight-fitting on his skull. On his side he carried an odd-looking sidearm with a barrel about the size of a regular flashlight, but instead of a hole in it, it had some sort of oval lens of a purplish-bluish color. He spoke to the witness in a very refined voice, telling him “Don’t be alarmed, I am not here to cause you any injury or harm.” The man told the witness that he was the captain of his craft, and invited him onboard for a brief tour. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5629",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1965 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 2580, citing Andy Page" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/4/1967",
  "desc" : "At 5:10 a.m. police officer P. A. Andrade was on duty at City Hall in Valencia, Venezuela when he heard a humming noise and footsteps in the garage. He entered the garage and encountered a one-meter tall dwarf humanoid, with a big head and bulging, reddish glowing eyes. The being wore a silver colored, metallic-looking coverall. Andrade pointed his machine gun at the creature, but a voice from a hovering disc-shaped object said in Spanish that he should not harm the creature. The dwarf then tried to convince Andrade to come to \"their world,\" adding it was \"very distant and much larger than the Earth, and with many advantages for earthlings.\" When Andrade declined, the creature flew back into the object, which left. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5630",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p. 82; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-92 (A0868), citing Jim & Coral Lorenzen; Jacques Vallee: Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 878" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/4/1969",
  "desc" : "In Ngatea, New Zealand a UFO took off and flew away to the south at 7:00 p.m. A 17 meter circle of burnt brush was found at the landing site, with deep tripod indentations at the center. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5631",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, September-October 1969" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/4/1971",
  "desc" : "In Wingles, France a domed disc flew behind a hill of mine tailings at 7:40 p.m. There were independent witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5632",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, August 1972" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/4/1971",
  "desc" : "An exceptional photograph of a disc-shaped object emerging from a lake was recorded by an official mapping aircraft of the Costa Rican government at 08:25 am (EDT) while flying at 10,000 feet altitude over Lago de Cote, three miles north of the town of Arenal, Costa Rica at 10.583 degrees North and 84.916 degrees West. None of the flight crew or photographers saw the object at the time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5633",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 15, 289; Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact, p. 58; www.nicap.org/1971 UFO Chronology.htm" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/4/1973",
  "desc" : "In Bavilliers, Belfort department, France at 6:50 p.m. smaller UFOs cavorted over the top of a long cigar-shaped object in the sky. They vanished, and soon jet aircraft appeared apparently looking for the UFOs. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5634",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 10078, citing LDLN, issue 142" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/4/1973",
  "desc" : "At 11:10 p.m. a 30 meter in diameter disc-shaped object was observed in Louvroil, Nord department, France moving with a slow wobble. It shot two separate beams of light that converged on the ground. At the same time an ovoid object was seen at very low altitude in Maubeuge, Nord, France. Plants were found scorched on the ground at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5635",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1976; FSR Case Histories, December 1973, p. 16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/4/1974",
  "desc" : "In Hierges, Nord, France dogs barked fiercely when a metallic domed disc-shaped object approached to within 70 meters only 15 meters above the ground. It was dark with eight white rectangular windows illuminated from inside. A photograph was taken. When the house lights were switched off the object moved, then lifted off vertically.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5636",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "9/4/1974",
  "desc" : "Farm animals reacted in panic when a nocturnal light maneuvered at tree top level outside of Sioux City, Iowa. A burnt patch of vegetation was found in an alfalfa field. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5637",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted R. Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, p. 104, case 745" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/4/1979",
  "desc" : "A small silver disc-shaped object, 2.5 to 3.0 feet in diameter, hovered with a wobbling motion low over a field in New Richmond, Wisconsin at 7:45 p.m. It rose and moved away, still wobbling. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5638",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, December 1979, p. 7; UNICAT, case 86" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/4/1982",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. a 150 foot long cigar-shaped object made a deep humming sound at low altitude in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. It had a red light and a white beam that searched the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5639",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, October 1983" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/4/1989",
  "desc" : "At 4:30 a.m. in Les Tuiles, Tarn department, France a man saw down in a field of alfalfa a luminous square 10 x 10 meters; a stationary object above the roof was in the shape of a spinning top with multiple facets. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5640",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "GEIPAN, case 40" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/4/1992",
  "desc" : "An oval-shaped object with a dome on top was seen at a low level in Ontario, Canada (precise location not given). There were red and white light in an equatorial band around the object, running around the object in sequence like on a Christmas tree. A cloud of fog also enveloped the object, and it had an appendage at the tail end. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5641",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON CDROM field investigation files, case 930408J, field investigator Dan A. Boswell" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/4/1993",
  "desc" : "A domed disc-shaped object floated over cars on the M62 highway in Oldham, England at 10:30 p.m. Nocturnal lights hovered in the sky for 40 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5642",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, November 1993" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/4/1997",
  "desc" : "At 10:15 p.m. two young boys, 13-year-old Giovanni and 15-year-old Alessandro, were walking alone on the Via Vittorioin in Cordenons, Fruili, Italy when they noticed a dazzling light emanating intermittent flashes. This flash light was immediately followed by a strange whistling sound. After walking for about 100 meters the two boys next noticed a bizarre creature standing next to a light pole. It was described as short and white in color. The creature moved away very rapidly in a strange, zigzagging motion and disappeared into a nearby wooded area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5643",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, citing Moreno Tambellini, SHADO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/4/2004",
  "desc" : "A married couple spotted a shiny cigar-shaped object in the sky as they played with their sons in a park in Aldershot, England. The object appeared in the sky at around 2:15 p.m., and it spent the next 20 minutes ducking around in the sky, making random turns, and flying horizontally, vertically, and diagonally. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5644",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 132" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/4/2005",
  "desc" : "Four police officers sighted a diamond-shaped object over Wolsingham, Northumbria, England at 2:35 a.m. It was the approximate size of a large helicopter, had green lights on either side, and was clearly a three-dimensional craft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5645",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "British Defence Ministry, case # 2005-077" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/4/2007",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. a hexagon formation of six lights flew over Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada going slowly from north to south. The sighting lasted ten minutes.  At 10:30 p.m. a flat, plate-like or saucer-shaped object with numerous blinking lights (red, ivory, and green in color) around its perimeter was sighted in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5646",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 565; (2) Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2007 webpage, report uploaded October 8, 2007" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/4/2008",
  "desc" : "At around 2:00 a.m. several witnesses reported seeing a UFO resembling a bright greenish sphere encircled with red lights moving very fast over Taverny, Bessancourt, Ile-de-France, France. The object apparently landed, not far from the military base at Taverny, and several independent witnesses from separate locations saw two humanoids exit the object. The beings were described as \"translucent\" and greenish in color with large black eyes. No legs were visible, and they seemed to move around strangely and very quickly. Two of the witnesses were just 50-100 meters from the craft and beings, but were too surprised and frightened to take any photos on their cellphones. The humanoids appeared to notice the witnesses, and re-entered the craft, which soon took off and disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5647",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 2008 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing http://nousnesommespasseuls.xooit.com" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/5/1952",
  "desc" : "Two 12 meter long cigar-shaped objects circled the area of Springhill, Nova Scotia for 12 minutes at aircraft speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5648",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Ledger, Maritime UFO Files, p. 33" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/5/1954",
  "desc" : "Ten witnesses including three police officers saw a disc-shaped object that flew over the city of Graz, Austria from east to west at 9:30 a.m. It came back again 90 minutes later, and was also seen in Bavaria, Germany. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5649",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 35" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/5/1956",
  "desc" : "At 1:30 a.m. a delta-shaped UFO with a transparent cockpit on the front passed over Kaponga, New Zealand making a hissing noise. Its wings were rounded at the ends. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5650",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bruce Cathie, Harmonic 33, p. 106" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/5/1962",
  "desc" : "Responding to a telepathic summons, Mr. Siragusa, age 43, went to a spot in Monte Manfre, Italy on the island of Sicily where he met two seven-foot tall men. The wore helmets of a metallic cloth. They gave him the message that humans should desist with H-bomb testing. They left in a UFO shaped like a spinning top, about 80 feet in diameter. The object hovered with a ten-foot wide cylindrical section that connected with the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5651",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Hulvio Brant Aleixo, FSR, November-December 1968, p. 11; Gordon Creighton, FSR, January-February 1970, p. 14; Roberto Pinotti, Flying Saucers magazine, January-February 1966, p. 58" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/5/1964",
  "desc" : "On a farm in Cofico, near Salta, Argentina a saucer-shaped object touched down briefly at 9:00 p.m. It stood on a kind of cylindrical pillar, giving out a blinding light. Near it the witness, Mr. Dagota, got a blured glimpse of two figures moving about. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5652",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0607, citing Flying Saucer Review, May-June 1966, p. 26; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 623" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/5/1965",
  "desc" : "At five o'clock in the morning Governor Sebastian Macha of Santa Barbara, Peru saw two dwarfish creatures, 80 cm tall, on the snow near Ceulacocha. They entered a craft, which took off and left making a thundering noise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5653",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1966, p. 38; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 695" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/5/1966",
  "desc" : "On this night in Harlingen, Texas, near Kelly Air Force Base, Mr. Morrison, a father of four, was propped up in bed when he saw a small person, 3.5 to four feet tall, dressed in white tight-fitting clothing, enter his son's bedroom. About ten minutes later he saw something like \"a bar of light, which appeared to crumble.\" The boys and their mother had not seen anyone enter the bedroom, but they had seen the bar of light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5654",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-40 (A0607), citing USAF Project Blue Book Files; Jacques Vallee, Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact, p. 67" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/5/1973",
  "desc" : "Ms. Brown, age 52, saw a silvery metallic sphere at 20 degrees elevation in the sky while driving between Snyder and Big Springs, Texas during a rainstorm at around four p.m. It was the apparent size of the full moon, and had a band around the middle with diamond shapes that did not appear to be windows. It was doing a slow yo-yo, up-and-down motion, and it made no sound that could be heard. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5655",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John F. Schuessler, MUFON Field Investigator Case Files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/5/1973",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. in Morris, Illinois a discoid object hovered over the Northern Petro Chemical Company plant for 20 minutes. There was a brief power failure reported. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5656",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Skylook, issue no. 71, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/5/1976",
  "desc" : "Three men saw a four foot tall dwarf at a former Army building in La Spezia near Mount Parodi, Italy on this day. The being wore a black coverall uniform, with part of it covering its head. It had two oblique slits for eyes. It walked in a clumsy way, \"as if sliding on the ground.\" It vanished leaving no footprints. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5657",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1496, citing Stampa Sera, September 6, 1976" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/5/1976",
  "desc" : "On this night in a shopyard in Vargem Grande, Minas Gerais province, Brazil 39-year-old Mr. Coelho de Silva was a five-meter in diameter yellow glowing dome with a blue violet band around its base, and a hole at its center. As the witness ran away he felt a blow and was knocked down. He then saw a being slide down on a hook from the hole. He wore a dark metallic uniform with an opaque helmet. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5658",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1494, citing J. Allen Hynek and Alberto F. do Carmo" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/5/1979",
  "desc" : "At 10:45 a.m. a large, football-shaped object with a brilliant metallic sheen was seen by five witnesses near a lake two miles east of Dresser, Wisconsin. It closed to within 200 meters of their car, moved over the lake, and was seen again later over a gravel pit; it ascended at an 85 degree angle. Total duration was five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5659",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, December 1979, pp. 7, 12; APRO Bulletin, December 1979, p. 3; UNICAT, case # 87" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/5/1981",
  "desc" : "A 50 meter wide, bell-shaped domed disc was seen on the ground by three witnesses in a forest in Mansigne, Sarthe, France. It emitted two beams of light. Ground traces and a powder residue were found at the landing site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5660",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch,U computer database, case # 14268, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 313" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/5/1981",
  "desc" : "On this day possible UFO landing traces were also found in Blanchardville, Wisconsin by Robert Johnson on his farm. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5661",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joe Graziano, APRO Bullletin, January 1982, p. 8; Jay Rath, The W-Files: True Reports of Wisconsin's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 63" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/5/1985",
  "desc" : "Top politicians and pilots saw and then photographed a bright, cigar-shaped UFO over Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The plane's radar indicated it was at 100,000 feet altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5662",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George C. Andrews, Extra-Terrestrials Among Us, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/5/1991",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. a man in Margut, Ardennes, France reported sighting three luminous points traveling through the sky in a triangle, with the point towards the rear. It had two red points towards the front and a white point towards the rear, according to the direction of travel. Speed was slow and quiet. It was seen twice. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5663",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "GEIPAN, case #86" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/5/1993",
  "desc" : "At 11:33 p.m. in Depoe Bay, Lincoln County, Oregon a ball of red-orange light, pulsating, travelled north to south just 150-300 feet off the ground. It moved at 20-30 mph, and was the size of a car. The light emitted a small light, that fell leaf-like to the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5664",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Li F. Wong, MUFON field investigation case files, case 850304Sb" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/5/1995",
  "desc" : "On this night a police officer in Campo Rico, Puerto Rico shot at and hit a creature with a .357 pistol while the monster was attempting to grab a dog. The creature ran away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5665",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 17031, citing FSR, volume 41, issue no. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/5/1997",
  "desc" : "Following an encounter with a strange looking humanoid the evening before, the next morning the same two boys in Cordenons, Italy along with two other friends went into the woods where they last saw the creature. About 50 meters away, among some bushes, the boys saw a round hairless head that was whitish and extremely wrinkled in appearance. Terrified, the boys fled the area, but soon returned armed with a camera and a pair of binoculars. They were soon overcome with a strange malaise and headache. They saw the humanoid again, who they described as about 90 cm in height, dirty-white in color, and with very long arms. It had three-digit hands that ended in ball-shaped tips. Its head was oval shaped and devoid of any facial expressions. The head seemed pointed on top and had a very pointed chin. Its most prominent feature was its huge black, oval-shaped eyes. Its mouth was but a thin line and its nose was just two small round holes. Its skin appeared gelatinous and corrugated or wrinkled. They didn't see any sexual organs. The boys left quickly. The creature was seen briefly next day in the same woods, but it scurried away into the bushes when the witness approached. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5666",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, citing Moreno Tambellini, SHADO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/5/2002",
  "desc" : "In Fallon, Nevada a witness reported sighting a dark, very large craft at 11:13 p.m. that he thought at first was a B-52. It was a huge flying triangle with no running lights, but it did have some 7 to 9 dimly lit nodes. It flew at 20 mph making no noise. It was astonishingly close and so large! Total event time was 8 seconds. The witness had a clear view of the side and bottom of the ship, but could not make out the leading edge or rear of the craft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5667",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 91" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/5/2003",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. in Calaveras Big Trees, California a ball of light followed witnesses out of a pitch black forest, and then hovered in the bed of their pickup truck for 10 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5668",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2003 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/5/2004",
  "desc" : "On this evening around 10:00 p.m. a couple again watched a set of brilliant strobing lights through binoculars from Linton, Oregon. They had previously seen the same lights from the same location on September 3rd, two nights previously. The lights were hovering in the sky across the Willamette River. They distinctly saw four colors of lights: red, white, green, and blue. They flashed and rotated around the edges. They would shift position, tilting from horizontal to vertical, then rotating slowly so that they could see the underside of a single multicolored object, and then flatten out. The witnesses also reported that they thought airliners taking off from Portland International Airport must have seen this object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5669",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 135" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/5/2009",
  "desc" : "At 5:22 p.m. a married couple and their 7-year-old son were parked next to the Coronda River in Puerto Gaboto, Santa Fe State, Argentina when they noticed something strange in the sky over a nearby field. They saw something white flying through the air, and when they looked at it through the telephoto lens of their camera's zoom lens they were startled to see that what it was was a cow suspended beneath a hovering, metallic disc-shaped craft some 30 meters above it. It became clear that the cow was being \"absorbed\" or levitated up into the UFO. Suddenly and inexplicably, both the cow and the ufo vanished in plain sight, but they managed to photograph the bizarre series of events. According to them the cow was not moving, but appeared to be either asleep or paralyzed. Locals reported that cattle mutilations had been found in the region in the past. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5670",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 2009 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing Daysee Moreira & Blas Kolev, Vision OVNI; Still images of the incident can be found at http://inexplica ta.blogspot.com/2009/10/argentina-cow-abducted-by-ufo-analysis.html" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/6/1914",
  "desc" : "Flight Commander C. E. Rathbone of the Felixstowe Naval Air Station, Suffolk, England returned from an early morning patrol in his seaplane to make perhaps the first report of a UFO sighting by a military officer. He reported that, \"At 5:35 a.m. whilst on patrol, I sighted an airship steering south-southeast with a silver-colored envelope on the horizon, while flying at 1,300 feet, 27 miles south of Orfordness.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5671",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Wordwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 118, citing David Clarke" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/6/1947",
  "desc" : "Four sailors, including a Richard Cruthers, onboard the US Navy oiler Chipola in the Persian Gulf spotted eight round spots of light flying in a group. They passed within half of a mile of the ship, made a climbing turn in echelon formation, and then went out of sight. They were a white or blue color. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5672",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 120; Project 1947 Research Notes from Bordentown NJ talk April 16, 2005; Astorian Budgeteer, November 4, 1947" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/6/1949",
  "desc" : "At 10:12 a.m. a military flight instructor flying over Payerne, Switzerland watched a metallic disc-shaped object at 2 km altitude fly to the southeast at a speed in excess of 1200 km/h. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5673",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/6/1951",
  "desc" : "In Claremont, California Sergeants W. T. Smith and L. L. Deuel saw six orange lights flying in an irregular formation at 7:20 p.m. They flew straight and level into a coastal fog bank after approximately 3-4 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5674",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #964; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/6/1952",
  "desc" : "Sergeant J. E. Wilson and two enlisted men at the Lake Charles AFB in Louisiana sighted a bright star-like light moving about the sky at 1:30 a.m. The light stayed visible for two hours. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5675",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #2045; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/6/1952",
  "desc" : "At 10:10 a.m. fourteen people in Enfield, Connecticut watched a metallic flying object zigzag downward in a descent. They heard a \"bang,\" and the UFO then shot upwards at a high speed, executing a 90-degree angle. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5676",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: September-October, p. 11" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/6/1952",
  "desc" : "In Tucson, Arizona at 4:55 p.m. ex-Congresswoman Mrs. Isabella King and Bill McClain witnessed an orange teardrop-shaped object whirl on its vertical axis, descend very fast, stop, re-trace its path upwards, and then whirl in the opposite direction. Their sighting lasted 1.5 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5677",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/6/1954",
  "desc" : "Two spheres hovered over Ain Khabbeb, Morocco at 10:30 p.m., attached to each other. With green lines dangling from the attached spheres, they flew off quickly toward the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5678",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 228" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/6/1956",
  "desc" : "White lights were seen flying erratically over Pasadena, California at 1:10 a.m. and were reported to the US Air Force by two airline pilots for Western Airlines. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5679",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Newsletter, October 1956, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/6/1964",
  "desc" : "A saucer-shaped UFO touched down briefly in Cofico, Argentina around nine o'clock in the evening. It stood on a single pedestal that looked like a pillar, and gave off a blinding light. Nearby the UFO the witness, Mr. C. Dagota, got a blurred glimpse of two figures moving about. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5680",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Oscar A. Uriondo, p. 27" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/6/1964",
  "desc" : "On that same evening in Medford, Massachusetts at 11:45 p.m. EDT, a 25' wide royal blue glowing UFO bounced up-and-down as it moved across the sky horizontally. It had a red light revolving around its perimeter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5681",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 330" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/6/1965",
  "desc" : "In what remains of Lake Texcoco, in Mexico City, Mexico a saucer-shaped UFO landed in one of the several pond-sized pools in the otherwise dried-up lake bed. Many people witnessed the event. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5682",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Los Angeles Times, September 6, 1965; Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, pp. 234-235" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/6/1966",
  "desc" : "At the Suffolk County Air Field, New York Witnesses Stahl and Ladesic sighted a white cylinder of light that came from the east at high speed at 6:50 p.m. It stopped and hovered in place for three minutes, and then turned and slowly disappeared. The sighting lasted a total of eight minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5683",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #10933; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/6/1967",
  "desc" : "At 9:50 p.m. in Meir, Stoke-on-Trent, England an oval object emerged from a vertical, sausage-shaped cloud. The light flashed at irregular intervals. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5684",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Roger Stanway and Pace, UFOs: Unidentified, undeniable, p. 14, case 50" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/6/1969",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. a strange man stared into the bedroom window of Mrs. Barbara Robinson in Springdale, Arkansas. She called the police and Officer Ken Speedlin “discovered that anyone who looked through the bedroom window would have to have been at least seven feet tall…there was nothing in the area of the window on which a prowler could have stood.” ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5685",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 184; Northwest Arkansas Times, July 8, 1969" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/6/1973",
  "desc" : "On this night a woman passenger in a semi-trailer truck on Route 2 was enroute to Perth and between Penong and Ivy Tanks, Western Australia. She had been sleeping but awoke to observe a bright egg-shaped object on the ground off to the left side of the road. Walking towards an open door was a normal sized figure of human appearance. A second occupant was seen seated inside the object, through a squarish window. He was looking up at something in the craft. As the truck drove past the light rapidly faded until by the time she got the driver to stop only a single white light was visible in the distance. Both figures wore white silvery suits. She said she had been awakened by a \"voice\" just prior to her observation. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5686",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-21; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/6/1974",
  "desc" : "At 11:20 a.m. a pilot flying at 1200 feet, heading southeast out of Half Moon Bay Airport, California spotted a daylight UFO hovering over some ABM radar domes on top of a ridge of low coastal mountains. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5687",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies, report dated September 10, 1974" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/6/1976",
  "desc" : "On this night bat-wing shaped UFOs were seen in Port Austin, Michigan; the next morning US Air Force radar tracked five UFOs for 30 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5688",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 243" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/6/1976",
  "desc" : "At around eight o'clock in the evening a 60-foot wide UFO with windows landed only 100 feet from a truck in Accopampa, Peru. The truck motor stalled. Two men emerged from the UFO. They stood about 5\" 8\" tall (1.8 m), wore shiny spacesuits, and carried lamps. One touched one of the witnesses, who felt a hot searing sensation and suffered from temporary paralysis. He later claimed to be healed of his arthritis pain. Landing traces were found at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5689",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1495, citing La Razon, September 8, 1976" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/6/1978",
  "desc" : "The young witness, Juan O. Perez, had gone out at dawn to bring in a herd of horses in Venado, Tuerto, Argentina. At 6:45 a.m. as he rode his horse through the morning fog he felt something fly overhead. Next, several objects appeared and began maneuvering overhead, emitting powerful beams of multicolored, changing lights. His horse panicked and he barely managed to ride back home. When he got home, his father reprimanded him and ordered him to go back to get the horses. Back in the field he encountered a large round object on the ground; it had a dome on top with several round windows. A door in the craft opened, and a seven-foot tall being wearing gloves and a cylindrical helmet appeared. The being seemed to be attached to the object by some type of breathing apparatus. He invited Juan to come inside. They boy then tied his horse to the craft's ladder and climbed in. Inside, he was able to see a panel with buttons, tables, and a small robot-like being that was apparently busy disecting the large bones of some animals resembling either cows or horses. Afraid, the boy jumped out of the object and onto the ground. The tall being followed him out. He then requested that the giant give him one of the giant's gloves, as proof of the experience, and when he removed the glove he then saw that the being had green, claw-like hands with blue metallic nails. The being then pricked Juan's right arm, apparently extracting some blood in the process. As he rode back toward home carrying the glove, two flying objects caught up with him and emitted a small slab and sphere that descended and brushed by the horse, pulling off the glove like a magnet. Another curious feature of his report was that while inside the UFO the young witness attempted to touch the being and the object several times, but was prevented from doing it by what appeared to be an invisible barrier. Six days prior to the incident the witness's father had found a mutilated cow in one of his pastures. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5690",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1978 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 919, citing Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/6/1978",
  "desc" : "A man on his way to bed in Sassello, Italy heard strange sounds outside his house and looked out his bedroom window. He saw two round black objects sitting in the street. They made sounds like an incomprehensible radio dialogue, e.g. \"bla, ble, bli, bla.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5691",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, October 1979, p. 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/6/1978",
  "desc" : "On this same night in Cordoba, Argentina a luminous UFO, giving off red and blue sparks, started to emit a high-pitched whistling sound at 11:15 p.m. Power outages occurred throughout the neighborhood. The first UFO was joined by two or three other UFOs in an undulating motion, and together they flew off in a V-shaped formation. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5692",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, November 1978, p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/6/1981",
  "desc" : "Dogs ran and barked when a DC-10 sized cigar-shaped object flew silently low over the trees in Pollock Pines, California. It flew slowly at 10 mph to the southeast.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5693",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "9/6/1986",
  "desc" : "While driving in Evansville, Indiana at 3:30 a.m. two military Air Traffic Controllers encountered a 55-foot long cigar-shaped object with fins on the top and bottom. It floated at 3 mph from behind a tree, and was in view for 15 seconds. It had red, blue and green lights. It turned south, and then vanished. That evening at 7:30 p.m. four extremely bright red lights in a tight rectangular formation, traveling northeast to southwest, made a sharp angled turn to the right, then flew off to the northeast ascending at a 45 degree angle. It gave off a burst of black smoke when it turned. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5694",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, pp. 99-100" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/6/1988",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. in Trun, Orne, France a driver saw an orange, barrel-shaped object with ailerons as it flew over the road fast, made a turn, and then hovered over the roadway, apparently waiting for him. It was completely silent. When the driver turned off the car headlights, the object left. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5695",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "GEIPAN, case # 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/6/1993",
  "desc" : "On this night in her home in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia abductee Kelly Cahill awoke to see a slender, seven-foot tall being with red eyes standing next to her bed. The creature was only inches away from her as see felt a suction on her chest. It wore a black, hooded cloak. It appeared to vanish. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5696",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Kelly Cahill, Encounter, p. 76" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/6/1994",
  "desc" : "At 1:30 p.m. a domed, disc-shaped UFO with a big contrail moved to the north slowly over Cazeres, Haute-Garonne department, France. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5697",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 327" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/6/1994",
  "desc" : "Beginning at 8:30 p.m., a multi-colored, cone-shaped object zig-zagged and expelled probes over a two and a half hour period over Rockville, Indiana. There were 5 witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5698",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Croda Norma J. Croda, MUFON field investigation files, case # 941108S" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/6/1994",
  "desc" : "An orange, V-shaped object flew over Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It had a large light with four others on either side; it appeared \"misty\". ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5699",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Frank Ducks, 1994 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 99" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/6/1995",
  "desc" : "The witness had fallen asleep in a chair in Ashland, New Hampshire when shortly after eleven p.m. he found himself lifted into a globular object and transported over a city where he saw people looking up at him. He then flew above what appeared to be an African savannah and muddy river, whereupon the craft then went up through the atmosphere an into outer space. He was then placed inside a transparent tub or tank filled with breathable fluid by two short Grey humanoids, while a third being observed. He remarked that he was surprisingly calm about the experience although he would normally be panicked. After a few more minutes he was allowed to walk to a window or screen. A huge metallic cylinder, apparently somekind of space station, began to fill the view from the left side of the window. There were white and blue lights running the entire length of it. Later, before being returned, he saw four other species of beings together in one place. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5700",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/6/1998",
  "desc" : "A bedroom visitation also reportedly occurred in Bothell, Washington on this night. At two o'clock in the morning the witness was awakened by a white light appearing suddenly in a dark bedroom. Sitting up in bed, the witness observed two creatures staring up her, surrounded by the white light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5701",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 1998 log" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/6/2000",
  "desc" : "Three days after a witness had filmed a strange UFO over the area, 31-year-old Gloria Siboa was walking home at 1:30 in the afternoon in Santa Cruz, Manila, the Philippines when she was approached by four women wearing black nun's habits that obscured their facial features. They seemed to be lost, and asked Gloria for directions. They failed to understand her directions, and invited her to board their van and accompany them to their destination. Strangely, she felt unwilling to resist and got in the van. As soon as she boarded the van one of the women covered her nose and mouth with a drug-laced handkerchief, knocking her out. Three days later, Siboa woke up still in the van that was headed to an unknown destination, and she was still blindfolded. She jumped out screaming for police. She could not explain where she had been for the last three days. Her abductors had taken her wallet and ID. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5702",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 2000 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 3937" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/6/2006",
  "desc" : "A multi-colored, oval-shaped object with blue, yellow and green lights passed 30 feet above the witness's car as he was driving in Greensburg, Indiana. The witness could hear a voom and a whistle coming from the object.  ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5703",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2006 webpage, report uploaded October 30, 2006" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/6/2008",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. three grayish, bullet-shaped objects flew near witnesses in London, Ontario. At 10:00 p.m. a bell-shaped object, stationary at first, was sighted in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It then headed off the the south very fast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5704",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2008 Canadian UFO Survey, cases # 666 and 671, citing MUFON and Alberta UFO Study Group" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/6/2009",
  "desc" : "In Newton, Iowa at 2:00 a.m. three bright orange, oval-shaped craft were sighted moving slowly over Interstate 80. The sighting lasted three minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5705",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2009 webpage, case uploaded December 12, 2009" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/1820",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. many observers in Embrun, Hautes-Alpes, France watched flying saucers maneuver with military precision during a lunar eclipse, making 90 degree turns and other maneuvers, for five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5706",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Charles Fort, Book of the Damned; Ray Palmer, Flying Saucers magazine, November 1973, p. 36; Desmond Leslie & George Adamski, Flying Saucers Have Landed, p. 24" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/1952",
  "desc" : "In San Antonio, Texas at 10:30 p.m. Chemist J. W. Gibson and others watched an orange object or light (the color of iron heated to 2,000º F) explode into view. It was seen for 3-20 seconds by various observers. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5707",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #2049; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/1953",
  "desc" : "While flying over Vandalia, Ohio at eight p.m. two onboard a U.S. Navy FG1D research aircraft sighted a white light that shot up and away vertically. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5708",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO News, September 1954, p. 5; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 48; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 32" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/1954",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m. three members of the Chovel family saw an orange-red disc with a luminous plume coming from the opposite side of its direction of movement above some railroad tracks in Origny-en-Theirache, Aisne department, France. It changed direction suddenly, rose, then hovered, and finally flew off to the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5709",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 38; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 73" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/1954",
  "desc" : "Between Harponville and Contay, Somme department, France two bricklayers, Emile Renard, age 27, and Yves DeGillerboz, age 23, saw a bluish-gray object floating in midair over a field at 7:15 a.m. \"It looked like an unfinished haystack, with a plate turned upside down on top of it.\" When they tried to approach it took off. It had a diameter of ten meters (33 feet), and they noticed it had a kind of door. The observation lasted over three minutes, at which point the object released some smoke as it departed straight up. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5710",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Le Figaro, September 9, 1954; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 35; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, pp. 208-209" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/1954",
  "desc" : "At eight o'clock in the evening three members of the Guibert family in the city of Marseille, France sighted a red luminous spherical object that hovered for 30 seconds, then flew in a complicated course. It was seen through binoculars, and swayed when it turned. The entire sighting lasted seven minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5711",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 39; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 73" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/1955",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 a.m. GMT a teacher and ten students aboard a school bus in Dunoon, Scotland, UK sighted five shiny, metallic saucers that reflect sunlight as they flew. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5712",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, January 1956" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/1955",
  "desc" : "Washington, D.C. Two photographers and an engraving plate maker for the Army Map Service sighted a glowing round object that flew in an arc through the sky for one minute at 6:30 a.m. EST. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5713",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #3750; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/1956",
  "desc" : "In Moneymore, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom at noon on this day a three-foot long cigar-shaped UFO landed in a nearby bog. The witness, a Mr. Hutchinson, attempted to capture it, but it began spinning and rose out of sight. It had three red stripes around the center, and a saucer-shaped base. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5714",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, March-April 1963, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/1956",
  "desc" : "A fast moving, brilliant domed disc with windows was seen in the night sky by many separate witnesses southeast of Chihuahua, Mexico. It was estimated to be about four meters in diameter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5715",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, September-October 1956" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/1956",
  "desc" : "An attorney and two ranch hands on a ranch 40 miles south of Twin Falls, Idaho reported watching a 200-foot diameter saucer-shaped object land near a steer. When it sped off the steer was gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5716",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, July-August 1970, p. 35" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/1959",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 a.m. while driving along highway 559 in Wallingford, Kentucky a postman saw an elliptical shape hovering just over the ground. It rose vertically emitting a blast of flame, and then sped away horizontally. There was a 30 cm wide stained ring on the ground enclosing a 4-meter diameter circle. At 9:05 p.m. north of Lexington, Kentucky five glowing ovoid objects dived and maneuvered toward the east and west, making extremely fast, sharp turns. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5717",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1960, p. 5; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 497" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/1964",
  "desc" : "A silver colored, egg-shaped object with two rows of windows was sighted at night over Daytona Beach, Florida. It was estimated to be over 200 feet long. Inside 12 \"large people\" could be seen moving about. The witness was familiar with blimps and aircraft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5718",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted Bloecher investigation files, case investigation dated February 11, 1965" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/1965",
  "desc" : "In Warminster, England a British Army major reported that his headlights flickered and his car engine stopped when a UFO hovered 1500 feet overhead. The object rose vertically when it departed, making a tremendous noise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5719",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 31, case 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/1965",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. in San Joaquin, Peru more than 200 witnesses saw two objects come to ground level, leaving behind crater-like depressions. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5720",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 696" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/1966",
  "desc" : "A bright light zigzagged over the city of Beja, Portugal at midnight. At 8:00 p.m. Mrs. E. Bruns and her two children observed an elongated object about 15 km east of Durand, Wisconsin. It was about 10 meters long with revolving lights and hovered one meter above theground, making a deafening noise. After 30 seconds it tilted at an angle and took off. At 9:25 p.m. a UFO with red, blue and white lights bobbed, hovered, darted, and went away and came back several times over a 45 minute period in the city of Eau Claire, Wisconsin. It was observed by police and a newspaper reporter. At 11:25 a UFO the size of a house landed 1.5 miles away from the witness northwest of Vernal, Utah. It had a bluish-white light in the dome and pulsating red and yellow lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5721",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos; Victor Lourenco, PORTUCAT computer catalogue of Portuguese UFO reports citing Diario Noticio, September 9, 1966; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 795, (3) Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers-Here and Now! p. 112; (4) Frank Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, p. 19" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/1966",
  "desc" : "At 11:25 p.m Mr. V. Massey watched as a disc-shaped UFO landed remotely 1.5 miles away, northwest of Vernal, Utah. It was estimated to be the size of a house, with a bluish-white light in the dome. It landed on the ground and was pulsating reddish orange and yellow. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5722",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Frank Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, case A13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/1967",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 in the morning in Huanta, Chile a 50-meter wide silver disc hovered, maneuvered, and then shot away at high speed. It was observed by several soldiers. In Toronto, Ontario a woman reported meeting a man wearing an \"astronaut suit.\" He gave her a stone with a high nickel content. At 10:45 p.m. a taxi cab driver four kilometers outside of Arriondas, Spain saw a phosphorescent tube-like object land nearly 30 meters away. It had a rectangular tube structure approximately 4.5 meters in width, and made a sound like a refrigerator. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5723",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Roberto Banchs, Las evidencias del fenomeno OVNI; (2) Albert Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case 1968-150; (3) Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I Events in Spain and Portugal, case 76" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/1968",
  "desc" : "A woman in Toronto, Ontario reported meeting a being wearing an \"astronaut suit\" who gave her a stone of a very high nickel content and a unique alloy composition. It was hinted that the extraterrestrial also had sex with the witness. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5724",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, citing Jean Ferguson, Enigmas of Time Present" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/1970",
  "desc" : "After an argument with her mother in Sao Joa da Boa Vista, Sao Paulo, Brazil 17-year-old Valeria was upset and drove away from her house with her brother. They parked the car in an isolated area at 7:30 p.m. to smoke cigarettes and relax. They soon heard a loud buzzing sound similar to those emitted by crickets. The sound rose in intensity until it became unbearable. At that moment Valeria's mind seemed to go blank and she did not come to until 10:15 p.m. After the incident Valeria suffered from strange dreams of lights.<br/><br/> During a hypnotic regression session she remembered being in the car and hearing the loud humming sound. Moments later she found herself inside a room illuminated by an orange light. The room was very cold and she felt a tingling sensation on her hands. She was lying on top of a \"bed\" and she could not move her head. At first she could only see what appeared to be luminous spheres floating around her. Suddenly she felt someone holding down her hands. A figure then stood in front of her. She described the figure as short, with a large hairless head and dark eyes. Soon a sort of cable with what appeared to be a needle on its tip was introduced into her nose. The needle emitted a greenish liquid. A small implant was also apparently inserted between her eyes. Moments later a small cut was made on one of her big toes, but she did not bleed or felt any pain. A voice in her head told her that she was being implanted in order to facilitate future contacts. Soon one of the short humanoids approached her and took her on an \"astral\" journey. Both traveled through the solar system, around Saturn and the Sun and even inside the earth's interior. Soon awoke back in the car. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5725",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1970, citing Pablo Villarrubia & Mario Rangel" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/1971",
  "desc" : "On this night at Colwyn Bay, Wales, United Kingdom an oval-shaped light, partially obscured by haze, was seen moving toward the northwest over the Irish Sea. Two witnesses watched it for 20-30 minutes. Several schoolboys also saw it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5726",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "BUFORA Journal, January 1972, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/1972",
  "desc" : "Two men, Gerard Petit and F. Tantot, in Taize, Saone-Loire department, France first sighted a phosphorescent green light in the sky just before midnight. As it came closer it became a disc-shaped platform three meters in diameter, with four lime green, solid looking luminous pylons or legs, giving the object the appearance of a stool. It hovered just 10 meters in the air. Mr. Tantot would go on to have two more UFO sightings on 11 and 13 September 1972. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5727",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Henry-Jean Besset, Phenomenes Spatiaux, March 1973, p. 18; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 396-397" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/1972",
  "desc" : "At 9:45 p.m. a bright ovoid shaped UFO followed a car with two people home along Highway 203 near Beausejour, Manitoba. It paced the car at a low altitude and flew quite close, and then hovered over their house, spinning. It left by shooting off toward the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5728",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Data-Net Report, November 1972, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/1974",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. in Hergies, Nord department, France a flashlight stopped working when a farmer approached his cowshed. His dogs started howling, and the area became lit up, revealing a circular dark mass hovering 15 meters up in the air. A white beam of light came down to the ground, and the main witness felt an electric shock. Three disc-shaped objects flew off to the east, making no sound. The flashlight functioned normally after the close encounter. There was a total of six witnesses from three families and the incident lasted 15 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5729",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 517-518; Jean-Marie Bigorne, SOBEPS News, January 1976, p. 9; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 10970, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1976, issue # 156" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/1974",
  "desc" : "A calf was found mutilated in Pierce County, Nebraska. The blood had been drained from the animal and the sexual organs removed. A Bigfoot sighting was reported the previous day in Jefferson, South Dakota. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5730",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, Zetetic Scholar, p. 49, case 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/1975",
  "desc" : "A black heifer calf was found mutilated in Kiowa, Colorado. The incisions appeared to be of a surgical nature, and the rectum had been removed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5731",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, Zetetic Scholar, p. 50, case 21" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/1977",
  "desc" : "Five members of a family, traveling in a car south of the city of Havelock North, New Zealand at 9:40 p.m., sighted a cigar-shaped, solid-appearing object moving parallel to the road. It gave off a brilliant, hot, bluish light from its leading edge, which seemed to reflect off the rest of the body of the craft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5732",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, March 1978, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/1977",
  "desc" : "In N'Djamena, Chad at eight o'clock in the evening a luminous cloudy object flew over from the north to the south. Twelve blasts or explosions were heard. At nine p.m. a loud \"krim-krim\" sound was heard. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5733",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, November 1977" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/1977",
  "desc" : "At 10:24 p.m. a nocturnal light with a vague outline made several passes at a car in Tooele, Utah. The UFO made a 90-degree turn to the west, then another back to the east, and left going toward the northeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5734",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, October 1977, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/1980",
  "desc" : "A couple out elk hunting, Mr. & Mrs. Gautreau, awoke three hours late, the wife with a sore mouth. Through hypnosis it was revealed that they had been abducted by three alien being. The beings were described as thin in build and had large heads and eyes; they stood between 5'7\" and 6 feet tall. The abduction occurred at four o'clock in the morning at McGuire's Ranch, Wyoming. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5735",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 113" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/1986",
  "desc" : "In Forest Row, England, UK a slow moving, silent, glowing ball of orange light flew from west to east over a golf course at ten minutes past midnight. At 9:40 p.m. east of Vanderbilt, Pennsylvania a glowing ball of light rose from a field and paced a car on SR highway 201 for three minutes. During the pursuit the FM radio on the car emitted nothing but static. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5736",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, cases 1185 and 1619" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/1990",
  "desc" : "A UFO shaped like an octagonal donut hovered over a car in Culver, Indiana at 10:30 p.m. It had colored lights in the corners, and vanished in place. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5737",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, case 962" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/1993",
  "desc" : "At Ile de Groix, Morbihan department, France a delta-shaped craft hovered low over a field at 8:50 p.m. Directly under the object several small, thin, shadowy figures were seen gliding about just above the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5738",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 323" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/1994",
  "desc" : "At 10:15 p.m. a pilot sighted a big black triangular object, 80 meters long, that had big yellow-white lights in the corners and a red light in the center near the coast of Corsica in the town of Bravone, Corse-Sud department, France. It made a 90 degree turn, revealing two more small flashing lights on the back of the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5739",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 35" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/1994",
  "desc" : "A UFO was sighted over Gulf Breeze, Florida at 2:30 a.m. It dropped down, zigzagged, and then shot straight up. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5740",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, November 1994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/1994",
  "desc" : "A white light zigzagged across the sky from west to east in Baca Chalets, Colorado at 8:25 p.m. One and a half hours later a large luminous UFO, described to be as big as a room, drifted slowly over a nearby trailer in a trailer park in Taos, New Mexico. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5741",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 255; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #330" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/1995",
  "desc" : "On this evening in Campo Rico, Canovanas, Puerto Rico a five-foot tall humanoid creature attacked a police officer's Chow Chow dog. The officer fired his pistol at the creature, which doubled into a ball, bounced against a wall, and ran away at a high speed. A mutilated goat was found in the area the next day. On the same night Misael Negron observed a strange creature standing on his second story balcony for about ten minutes. He described the creature as about five feet tall, with dark skin, a round head and pointy chin, large red eyes, no ears and what appeared to be two long fangs coming out of its mouth. It had a thin neck and thin arms with three fingered hands that had sharp claws. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5742",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, cases 2299 & 2300, citing Jorge Martin, Evidencia OVNI, issue # 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/1996",
  "desc" : "At 10:50 a.m. a triangular UFO with orange lights circled a group of witnesses in West Manchester, Ohio four times. It made humming and buzzing sounds, and flew off toward the south. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5743",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 1996 web page" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/1997",
  "desc" : "In Paris, France at 1:43 a.m. a witness observed from his balcony a huge (700 meter) triangular object with two blue flames and a green flame that approached slowly on a linear trajectory. Duration 12 seconds. There was no noise, but he felt body vibrations as it flew over. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5744",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "GEIPAN, case # 266" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/1997",
  "desc" : "At 12:15 p.m. in Connecticut an orange UFO approached a group of witnesses, hovered over some trees about 50 meters away, and then shot away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5745",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 1997 web page" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/1997",
  "desc" : "According to an \"ex-KGB source\" a cylindrical craft allegedly exploded into small pieces over Illinois in the USA on this date. A special U.S. military recovery team reputedly was sent and recovered these fragments as well as the mutilated remains of alien bodies. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5746",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, citing Anton Anfalov, Moscow" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/2001",
  "desc" : "In Toussus le Noble, Yveslines department, France three carbonized circles of vegetation between 30 and 40 centimeters in diameter were found in a field, forming an isosceles triangle. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5747",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "GEIPAN, case # 347" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/2003",
  "desc" : "In Luton, Bedfordshire, England a metallic sphere hovered 150 feet above a home, emitting sparks like a Van der Graff generator, then shot straight up very fast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5748",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2003 web page" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/2004",
  "desc" : "At 7:00 p.m. a mother and son were driving west together in Spokane, Washington and saw a triangle object just as the sun was setting. It was half the apparent size of the Moon. It hovered for a long while, and they watched it for 8 minutes before it went out of sight. \"It looked like a jet with a very short contrail heading north at an odd angle toward the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5749",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 65, citing Brian Vike, HBCC UFO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/2005",
  "desc" : "A boomerang shaped object, white with multiple colors on the bottom, was seen over Williamsport, Pennsylvania for about an hour beginning around two p.m. It took off sideways at blinding speed while other objects were suspended in air below it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5750",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2005 web page, report uploaded October 11, 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/2005",
  "desc" : "In Big Sur, California at 2:00 a.m. a witness spotted a large, bright, diamond-shaped object, initially stationary, that moved quickly across a large area of the sky, dropping \"balls of light\", before accelerating into outer space. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5751",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2005 web page, report uploaded October 11, 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/2007",
  "desc" : "In Victoria, British Columbia at 9:30 p.m. an object like a dome with a flat bottom was first seen hovering, then completely vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5752",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 568" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/7/2008",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. CDT a witness sighted a black triangle with three white lights and one red light over Council Bluffs, Iowa. It hovered, moved slowly, then made a turn, and made only a little sound. Another large triangle-shaped UFO was observed over Tacoma, Washington by three witnesses at 10:15 p.m. PDT. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5753",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, September 2008 webpage, reports uploaded October 31, 2008" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/8/1954",
  "desc" : "A cigar-shaped object with a glowing underside was seen for 20 minutes in Stafford, England. It traveled in waves, moving every four minutes. It finally turned off its light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5754",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: September, p. 11" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/8/1958",
  "desc" : "Air Force Major Duich and several others at Offutt AFB, Nebraska saw a rocket-like UFO with a group of satellite objects for 20 minutes at 6:40 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5755",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, May 1961, p. 4; Otto Binder, What We Really Know About Flying Saucers, p. 127, Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/8/1961",
  "desc" : "Disc was seen spinning over the radar hill at Laverton Royal Australian AFB, Victoria, Australia. It make an ascent for 90 seconds, then hovered while spinning again, and finally ascends and leaves. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5756",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, November 1961" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/8/1962",
  "desc" : "A lens-shaped UFO with the appearance of burnished metal was sighted by an Argentine Navy pilot in Florista, Bahia State, Argentina. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5757",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, November 1962, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/8/1965",
  "desc" : "An erratic moving, blurry object emitting green, red and & white light was seen at 10:00 p.m. in Tenterfield, New South Wales, Australia. Seen through binoculars there were aerial-like structures on the top. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5758",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 88" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/8/1965",
  "desc" : "At 9:15 p.m. local time a luminous object zigzagged away from the town of Beja, Portugal. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5759",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Victor Lourenco, PORTUCAT, case 100" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/8/1965",
  "desc" : "On this evening after work, rubber latex gatherers in Alto Purus, Brazil witnessed a flying object resembling a near by them. They hid, and observed the craft as it flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5760",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon Creighton, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 43; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 697, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/8/1965",
  "desc" : "Children reported seeing a luminous object from which seven or eight Cyclops creatures, 80 cm tall, with only one eye, emerged. The same day a newsman was said to have seen an object land in the vicinity of Puno, Peru and to have made an unsuccessful attempt at communication. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5761",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 698; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0663" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/8/1967",
  "desc" : "Caracas, Venezuela - Miss Alicia Rivas Aguilar, age 23, was getting ready for bed at 2:30 a.m. when she noticed a strange looking being just outside her bedroom window. It seemed to be gesticulating but she did not get a good look because she began screaming and the creature flew off. Her brother in law and her parents saw the creature flying off over the neighborhood rooftops. It was surrounded by a yellow glow. Gumersindo Neiro, her brother in law, got the best view from his own room. When he heard her screaming he looked out his window and saw a little being shove off from the window sill. It \"soared as if he were lighter than air, with its hands and feet pointed backwards.\" The creature flew eastward and out of sight among the tall buildings in that part of the city. They all said he was wearing a kind of metallic suit, and the odor of \"melted iron\" lingered in the air. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5762",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p. 81; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-93 (A0870), citing Horacio Gonzalez Ganteaume for APRO; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 879" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/8/1967",
  "desc" : "In Newton, New Hampshire four witnesses saw a disc-shaped object with white flashing lights on the rim and a red light on top at 10:30 p.m. It passed back and forth in front of the witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5763",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 349; Richard.Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 360, 373" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/8/1968",
  "desc" : "Just outside Beaminster, England seven witnesses in three separate cars heard a strange noise at 9:00 p.m. and the electrical systems of the cars completely failed and stayed inoperable for thirty minutes. The temperature gauge dropped precipitously in one car, and the hood of another car could not be opened. A compass spun wildly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5764",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dorset Evening Echo, September 11, 1968; Spacelink, January 1969; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 43" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/8/1968",
  "desc" : "A 48-year-old woman and her adult son were driving near the city of Evansville, Indiana when she saw an object hovering over some railroad tracks. It was described as being an ugly brown metallic object resembling a harmonica, flat with smudges, which had top and bottom rows of waffle-like squares indented into the metal. It was the length of an airplane, and not tall enough to stand up inside. Itr hovered near the municipal airport. When they turned a corner some trees blocked their view, so they continued on. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5765",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 36" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/8/1971",
  "desc" : "At 4:50 p.m. a white disc-shaped object zigzagged slowly into the wind over Vendhuile, Aisne, France. It made a 90 degree turn and flew away. It was completely silent. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5766",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 9362, citing LDLN Lecteurs" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/8/1971",
  "desc" : "At 11:40 p.m. a well-defined cone-shaped object with a flat top, metallic silver in color, flew low over Clee Village, Shropshire, England, causing the two witnesses to feel fearful. It had three portholes of light and a convex row of small round lights. A red light shone from the top, and it emitted a light beam for five seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5767",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mrs. K Smith, BUFORA Journal, January 1972, p. 17" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/8/1973",
  "desc" : "Two military police, Burns and Shade, at Hunter Air Force Base, Georgia observed a saucer-shaped object with flashing red and white lights at 2:20 a.m. It dove at their MP patrol vehicle repeatedly and then chased them at high speeds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5768",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Augusta (GA) Chronicle-Herald, September 10, 1973; Leonard H. Stringfield, Situation Red: The UFO Siege, p. 6; Ralph Blum, Beyond Earth: Man's Contact with UFOs, p. 88; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 77, 341" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/8/1973",
  "desc" : "At four o'clock in the morning a 20 foot wide lighted UFO passed over Lanett, Alabama at low altitude. News coverage of the sighting appeared in many local newspapers. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5769",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, volume 5 (1974), case 514" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/8/1973",
  "desc" : "A police officer in Savannah, Georgia was sent to investigate reports from residents of a UFO in the area. He saw a \"large circular craft\" with a spotlight and smaller flashing lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5770",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, volume 5 (1974), case 516; Ralph Blum, Beyond Earth: Man's Contact with UFOs, p. 88; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 174" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/8/1974",
  "desc" : "In Bizeneuille, Allier, France an intensely bright red dome, 12 meters in diameter, was sighted at a low level at 9:30 p.m. It emitted yellow beams of light. Manure sacks were scattered about where the object had been. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5771",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1975" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/8/1974",
  "desc" : "At around 10:30 p.m. and continuing until 1:30 a.m. the next morning, residents of Causses, Herault department, France saw an odd red-orange light, then a luminous sphere that rose from behind a hill. A married couple with their child were driving in town when they observed the sphere. The driver signaled the UFO by blinking the car headlights a couple of times, and it immediately shot toward them and stopped overhead emitting a humming sound, its light illuminating the terrain.After a while the object disappeared. This man and others in the area later saw a large, luminous orange-red disc-shaped object moving around near the ground, its light illuminating a dock, a distillery, grapevines and other terrain features. One witness noted that no light rays or beams were visible between the luminous object and the illuminated ground. Still later, nocturnal lights danced about in the sky all over the town. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5772",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1976, p. 6; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 147; Ouranos, No. 14, Second Quarter 1975, investigated by M. Grazzioli and M. De Cordova" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/8/1974",
  "desc" : "In Sioux City, Iowa a 16-year-old youth was awakened in his basement room at 3:30 a.m. by a loud noise like a sonic boom. A few minutes later he saw a bright purple light flashing outside his basement window, lighting up the interior of his room. The neighborhood dogs were carrying on, although the usually chirruping crickets in the basement were now silent. Three minutes after the purple light was seen a bright white light the size and shape of a baseball passed in front of the window. He heard a \"scratching\" sound on the screen door to the backyard, and the purple and white lights again came in through the window. Hearing a \"tapping\" nose outside, the witness got up and looked out and saw a three-foot tall figure carrying a purple light like a flashlight. He was standing between two garbage cans. The youth yelled and dashed upstairs, just as \"an enormous gust of wind\" hit the house. The sounds woke up two girls in the house. The following morning a dark scorched mark, three feet in diameter, was found on the concrete patio. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5773",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-47 (A1359), citing Dr. Lawrence Lacey for MUFON" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/8/1976",
  "desc" : "At 3:00 a.m. a 25 meter ovoid object hung in the sky low over a gully in Elephant Pass, Tasmania. A nocturnal light also hovered nearby the witness, and the witness reported feeling a tingling sensation. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5774",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Keith Basterfield, citing Tasmanian UFO Investigation Centre; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 12391, citing Jan Aldrich" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/8/1976",
  "desc" : "At around 10:00 p.m. two men in their twenties, Torres and Bedjara, driving in a truck on the highway between Ollachea and Ayaviri, Peru encountered a 30 meter wide saucer in the roadway. Two six foot tall, human-looking UFOnauts with flashlights examined the witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5775",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, January 1977, p. 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/8/1978",
  "desc" : "At 3:37 a.m. in Venado Tuerto, Santa Fe State, Argentina a power blackout occurred, followed by an intense light. A domed oval-shaped object then hovered 50 meters above a witness named Torres; it was 10 meters in length. A luminous beam came from the object, and the witness felt a sensation of intense heat while the object oscillated smoothly in the air. He later had a sunburn as a result of his exposure to the beam. The power outage was documented as occurring at the same time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5776",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, November 1978, p. 15, citing La Nacion, September 12, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/8/1987",
  "desc" : "On this night at 10:00 p.m. two security guards patrolling a section of a by-pass road under construction in Deepcar, Stocksbridge, South Yorkshire, England saw a hooded figure standing on an inaccessible bridge near the road junction. When they directed the headlights of their car upon the figure it suddenly vanished. Moments later both men saw what appeared to be a group of small children apparently dancing around an electricity pylon. Upon approaching the figures, they also suddenly vanished into thin air. No footprints or other traces were found on the muddy ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5777",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Devereux, Earth Lights Revelation, p. 99; Albert S. Rosales, 1987 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 1625, citing Paul Devereux" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/8/1990",
  "desc" : "Security Police had several landings reported on this night at Sandia Labs, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, the world's largest atomic arsenal. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5778",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15249, citing MUFON UFO Journal, April 1992" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/8/1996",
  "desc" : "Several people in Piracicaba, Sao Paulo State, Brazil saw a triangular shaped craft land. A hatch opened and three occupants emerged and floated to the ground. These beings were described as only 1 foot, 10 inches tall, wearing coverall garments, and having very large heads far out of proportion to their bodies. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5779",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1996 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 2482, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Volume 1, number 29" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/8/2001",
  "desc" : "At 9:15 p.m. a large hazy golden glowing ball, with 4 or 5 smaller starlike objects preceeding it, were seen traveling at a high speed. They went to the north, passing overhead in Manassas, Virginia. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5780",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), December 2001, p. 26, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/8/2004",
  "desc" : "Two fuzzy orange triangles were seen zig-zagging in the sky over Grimsby, Humberside, England at 12:30 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5781",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, September 2004 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/8/2007",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. a V-shaped formation of reddish orange dots were sighted going west to east over St-Bruno, Quebec. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5782",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 572, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/9/1922",
  "desc" : "John Morris and William James in Barmouth, Wales saw an object fall into the ocean so slowly that they thought it might have been an airplane. A boat was sent out but nothing was found. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5783",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 189; citing Charles Fort, The Books of Charles Fort, p. 639" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/9/1952",
  "desc" : "In Rabat, Morocco at 9:00 p.m. Mr. E. J. Colisimo, a civilian illustrator with USAF Intelligence, sighted a disc with lights along part of its circumference. It flew twice as fast as a T-33 jet trainer, in a slightly curved path for five seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5784",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/9/1954",
  "desc" : "A photograph of three disc-shaped UFOs was taken on this night at 2:20 a.m. by witnesses Gibbons and Ingram in Nelson, New Zealand. It  has been rated as a highly reliable unknown. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5785",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Orbit, November 5, 1954, pp. 5-6; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, pp. 89-92; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, p. 3-30; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 95; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: September, pp. 13 & 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/9/1955",
  "desc" : "At noon on this day Mr. M. N. Dawkins, using binoculars, spotted a brown, almost square object near Alcoa, Tennessee that flew with a circular motion for 10-15 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5786",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/9/1965",
  "desc" : "Ms. Martindale in a residential area near Aldershot, Hampshire, England reported that at 8:40 p.m. her dog won't move but remained transfixed when a UFO with headlamps and rotating lights passed overhead. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5787",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon Creighton, FSR, January 1970, p. 28" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/9/1966",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. a man in Franklin Springs, New York saw a solid object, larger than an Army tank, descend from a cloud bank, slow down, and land with a soft whirring sound. It had lights all around it, with three horizontal bands of light-blue, red, and green. It disappeared into some woods. The sighting lasted 30 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5788",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 53; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 796" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/9/1967",
  "desc" : "At 7:45 p.m. Mrs. Ritchie and three children saw 18 red lights in a trapezoid pattern, only 1.5 feet above a rural road in Winchester, Connecticut. The object behind the light pattern was at least as tall as a telephone pole and as wide as the road (15 feet). It was close to a nearby microwave tower; it moved off the road, and vanished behind some trees. Ground marks were found. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5789",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald Johnson, APRO-Connecticut; Bill Ayer, NICAP; Edward U. Condon, Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 342; UNICAT, case # 680" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/9/1968",
  "desc" : "On this evening several US helicopter pilots and troops in Dong Ha, Vietnam had a close encounter with a fast moving object over the US Marine Corps Base. It had green and white lights and engaged in maneuvers for 20 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5790",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers magazine, April 1969, p. 24" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/9/1968",
  "desc" : "On this night a number of independent witnesses reported and described a close encounter with a UFO at Itaipu Beach near Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. It was a disc-shaped craft emitting orange light, and it made several low-level passes over the beach before briefly landing. One witness, Professor Sohail Saud, said he saw occupants inside the object, who were wearing helmets. Others said the object hovered 10 meters above the water, emitting a soft hum and spinning on its axis. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5791",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Walter Buhler, FSR Case Histories, February 1971, p. 11; Roberto Enrique Banchs, FSR, March 1971, p. 30; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1968-65 (A0977)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/9/1970",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 a.m. a hydroelectric dam security guard in Guanabara, Brazil was paralyzed after firing on a UFO with multicolored lights. He drew his revolver and fired at the object, and between the second and third shots he was struck by a violent flash that temporarily blinded him. His hearing was also impaired by a loud noise, and he needed to be hospitalized for treatment. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5792",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Jouurnal, August 1971, p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/9/1970",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. a 12 meter diameter disc-shaped object landed on rectangular legs in a pasture in Ruelle-sur-Touvre, Charente, France. When it took off, it zig-zagged toward the north. Ground traces were found at the landing site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5793",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, September 1975" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/9/1972",
  "desc" : "A revolving top-shaped object hovered over Glasgow, Scotland at 4:30 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5794",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, Volume 9 (1978)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/9/1973",
  "desc" : "Mr. and Mrs Ron McClure and seven others were watching for UFOs on Cradle Hill, in Warminster, England. At around 2:00 a.m. they saw an orange ball descend behind a copse. Walking toward the copse they encountered a man between 6.5 and 7 feet tall. He was wearing a two-piece garment of dark green denim like material with an \"anorak\" type hood that almost completely covered his face. He held a silver object resembling a flashlight. The man shouted in a resonant voice; \"Move on! Go away!\" McClure shouted, \"Will you harm us?\" There was no reply, he then asked, \"Will you come back?\" The answer was \"Yes.\" Another member of the group followed this man into the copse, where he vanished while the witness attention was diverted for a moment. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5795",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-104, citing Scan Newsletter" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/9/1973",
  "desc" : "Around 4:00 a.m. Auburn, Alabama police officer Keith Broach had a close encounter with two UFOs. An airplane-sized object was seen changing colors, while a car-sized object came within 150 feet of the ground. The UFOs were also witnessed by a Lanett, Alabama police officer. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5796",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 174" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/9/1973",
  "desc" : "On this night in Savannah, Georgia several youths reported that a UFO landed in Laurel Grove Cemetery, and ten creatures resembling \"big, black hairy dogs\" emerged from the landed UFO and ran through the cemetery. The UFO turned out its lights after landing. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5797",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-22; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/9/1974",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. a luminous UFO hovered over a radio tower in South Bar, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and then landed in a field. The witness was a Ms. K. Vernon. The UFO left behind ground marks at the landing site: a 35 foot wide burnt patch, and four landing pad indentations. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5798",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Sydney (NS) Post, November 8, 1974; Larry Hatch, U Computer Database, case # 10974" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/9/1975",
  "desc" : "Shortly before 9 p.m. a Ms. DelGouffe sighted a grayish ovoid or elliptical object emitting two white light beams in Jette, East Flanders, Belgium. It flew between the witness and the belltower of a church. Its computed size was 2 meters. It flew from the northwest to the southeast. If left no trail, nor did it have a halo. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5799",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Thiry, SOBEPS News, May 1976, p. 32" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/9/1976",
  "desc" : "A silver domed disc was seen spinning at an altitude of two kilometers over Yichun, China at 6:00 p.m. It spewed out a misty cloud, then flew off quickly to the northwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5800",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Wendelle Stevens & Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, p. 89" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/9/1976",
  "desc" : "A small disc-shaped object, three meters in diameter, dropped four cables toward the ground in Vargem Grande, Minas Gerais State, Brazil at around two o'clock in the morning. A humanoid looped a hook from one over a man's leg, but he was able to escape. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5801",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next? p. 56" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/9/1978",
  "desc" : "There were three reports from Benevides, Para State, Brazil on this evening. At 7:20 p.m. a reddish-yellow light flew southwest to northwest at 12,000 feet altitude, 400 km/h, with a curving trajectory; it went out 2/3rds of way across the sky. At 8:25 p.m. another reddish-yellow light flew southwest to northeast at 9,000 feet altitude, emitting blue light rays; when overhead the light went out. At 9:10 p.m. a third reddish-yellow light was seen zigzagging from the southeast to the west at medium speed, 4000 feet altitude; it emitted two very strong flashes of blue light, and then went away at great speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5802",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Pratt, Operacao Prato, p. 55" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/9/1979",
  "desc" : "Four or five 6-pointed star-shaped objects paced a police Cessna airplane with three passengers flying 30 kilometers north of Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany at 9:30 p.m. They darted back and forth in front of the light plane, playing cat-and-mouse. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5803",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases - Europe, p. 25" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/9/1979",
  "desc" : "A 28-year-old female medical technician suffered physiological effects from a close encounter with a UFO at 4:30 a.m. in Streamwood, Cook County, Illinois.  ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5804",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, November 1979, p. 12; UNICAT, case 97" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/9/1979",
  "desc" : "\"Gee, that looks like a flying saucer,\" thought the 38-year-old witness in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois when he observed a silver disc moving directly overhead at 4:30 in the afternoon. His neighbors and the members of his family agreed. The silver disc had a black center on the underside and was distinct against the clear blue sky. Its angular size was about half that of the full moon. There was no noise as it moved south to northeast at high altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5805",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, December 1979, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/9/1979",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. (PDT) a group of geologists spotted a cone-shaped object that emitted a smaller box-shaped object northwest of Maricopa, California. The box then flew along the San Andreas fault line. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5806",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1989, p. 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/9/1991",
  "desc" : "At 8 p.m. a disc-shaped object  hovered over a teenager for 15 minutes in Ibicuitinga, Ceara State, Brazil. The shirt he was wearing later disintegrated. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5807",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next? p. 287" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/9/1994",
  "desc" : "In a bedroom visitation and possible abduction attempt, a man reported undescribed \"aliens\" in his room late at night in Saginaw, Michigan. They probed his esophagus or inserted something inside. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5808",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1994 Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, case # 2640, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/9/1994",
  "desc" : "On his way to work at 2:55 pm, driving 45 mph on highway 54 between Sharkey and Bloomfield, Indiana and with no other cars on the road, a 56-year-old man saw a gray, disc-shaped object pass silently in front of his vehicle from left to right. It \"made a wide sweeping turn to the east\" and went out of sight in 5 seconds. He estimated in flew at 300 mph, at only 300 feet altitude, and came within 500 feet of him. Later, military jets came over the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5809",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "T. David Spencer, MUFON UFO Journal, January 1995, p. 16, field investigator Thomas A. Vlaskamp" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/9/1994",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. a huge, green and red lit, delta-shaped object with satellite objects was sighted in Racoon Lake, Indiana by five witnesses driving on US Highway 36. It emitted smaller luminous objects that darted around independently, and later took on these objects. Green balls of light came from the woods, and zigzagged over a house. The sightings lasted for over two and a half hours. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5810",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, December 1994, p. 12; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 68" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/9/1997",
  "desc" : "At eleven o'clock at night a woman stepped out of her mobile home onto her lattice-enclosed patio in Marshalltown, Iowa to get some fresh air. She sighted an object that was either landed on or hovering above her nextdoor neighbor's mobile home roof. She could see a large curved window with a thin strip down the middle, and there was a bright spotlight shining from the lower front of the object. She heard no sound. She then noticed a \"pilot\" with something like a form-fitting hood over his head, motionless. She could not distinguish any features. Two doors then swung open in the craft and several small entities exited. She could not see their shapes or how they moved. The bright light was directed at her and she thought she was being watched. Frightened, she went back inside her house and noticed that the beam was now illuminating the interior. She continued to watch the UFO as it moved around the trailer court, occasionally stopping, hovering, and shining its light on various mobile homes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5811",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, case # 2904, citing Beverly Trout, MUFON; Beverly Trout, MUFON field investigation files, case # 971116aC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/9/2001",
  "desc" : "At 2:15 a.m. a bright light moving across the city of Mount Gambier, South Australia approached the two witnesses who were ten kilometers southeast of the town. It changed color to a subdued orange. When it passed overhead at 300 meters altitude, it was seen to be a cylindrical object, with a speed estimated at 600 km/h. The sighting lasted three minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5812",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Keith Basterfield, South Australia UFO Reports - Project 1947 Website, citing AUFORN" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/9/2001",
  "desc" : "In Calgary, Alberta three witnesses reported a triangular group of orange lights were seen over the reservoir at 11:00 p.m., with a beam of light shining down from the object or objects. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5813",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2001 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 295, citing Alberta UFO Study Group" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/9/2002",
  "desc" : "At 7:02 p.m. the U.S.Coast Guard in Boston received a report of a close encounter off of Moriches Bay, Long Island, New York by two males in a sailboat. A fishing boat skipper heard their dramatic UFO report to the USCG over the radio and relayed the report to the National UFO Reporting Center. (3 reports of this encounter were received at the Center). ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5814",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, September 2002 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/9/2004",
  "desc" : "At 9:45 p.m. 15 glowing discs or orbs were seen and videoed in Sonora, California, moving in various directions, in tandem, one behind the other, and crossing pathes. One huge object in particulalr, a bright yellow or silver-white object, flew no more than 200 meters overhead, and moved very slowly to the northeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5815",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 28" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/9/2005",
  "desc" : "Villagers in Mae Chan District, Chiang Rai Province, Thailand claimed they witnessed a dwarfish \"alien\" humanoid being that stood 70 centimeters tall and had a large head, large glowing eyes, and big ears. Over 10 residents of Huay Nam Rak Village in Mae Chan district's Tambon Janjawa said they saw the humanoid early in the morning in a rice paddy outside the village, and that he levitated or floated up into the sky when discovered. They insisted that what they saw could not have been a \"Tweety Bird\" toy balloon, as was conjectured by the news media. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5816",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "The Nation (Bangkok, Thailand), Sept. 9, 2005; ufoevidence.org/cases/case490.htm" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/9/2005",
  "desc" : "A red crescent object, like a \"half circle\", was seen above the North York, Ontario airport, quickly moving in the western sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5817",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2005 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 92, citing HBCC UFO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/9/2005",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. seven witnesses in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario reported a low-flying object, flat, circular, and with blue-lights travelling at a great speed through the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5818",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2005 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 93; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, September 2005 webpage, report uploaded October 11, 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/9/2009",
  "desc" : "There were two reports of boomerang shaped objects maneuvering in the daytime skies over Alabama on this day. The first report was at 8:17 a.m. from Franklin County, Alabama of a dark chevron or boomerang-shaped object maneuvering in daylight. The second report was at 5:05 p.m. from Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama of three silver boomerang shaped objects spotted in broad daylight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5819",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, September 2009 webpage, reports uploaded December 12, 2009 and February 14, 2010" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/10/1951",
  "desc" : "U.S. Air Force pilots Lt. Wilbert Rogers and Major Ezra Ballard were flying in a T-33 at 20,000 feet from Dover AFB when at 11:35 a.m. EDT they saw a silvery metallic disc-shaped object to their 11 o'clock position and below their aircraft, three miles northeast of Sandy Hook, New Jersey. It was silhouetted against the ground. Rogers immediately turned left and descended to intercept the craft, which then banked revealing its flat round profile, with no appendages. The UFO curved in a tight turn, covering an estimated 30 nautical miles in two minutes at a speed estimated between 1,000-1,500 mph. The object passed within about 8,000 feet distance of the T-33, descending from about 12,000 feet to 5000 feet and heading out to sea at high speed near Point Pleasant. The aerial sighting lasted two minutes and was rated a high reliability unknown by Project Blue Book and Dr. James McDonald. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5820",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Edward J. Ruppelt, True Magazine, May 1954; Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 127; UNICAT, case # 637, citing James E. McDonald, 1968 Armed Services Committee Congressional Hearings, p. 66; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 131; Brad Sparks, NICAP 1951 UFO Chronology webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/10/1954",
  "desc" : "Mourieras, France. A farmer, Mr. Mazaud, age 50, was walking home when he was suddenly confronted with a helmeted being of average height who made friendly gestures, then went back into the brush, entered a cigar-shaped object about four meters long, which took off toward Limoges. A few minutes later witnesses in Limoges reported a disc-shaped, red object leaving a bluish trail. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5821",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Le Parisien, September 14, 1954; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 40; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 209" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/10/1954",
  "desc" : "A metal worker, Marius Dewilde, age 34, came out of his house in Quarouble, France at 10:30 p.m. when his dog was barking and saw a dark object sitting on the railroad tracks. He then observed two dwarfs walking toward it. When he tried to stop them, he found himself blinded and paralyzed by a strong orange beam of light that was projected at him. The beings were under 1 meter (3.3 feet) tall, bulky, and wore dark diving suits with diver's helmets. No faces or arms were visible. Imprints were made by an object, that an engineer estimated must have weighed 30 tons. French police and the French Air Force investigated the case. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5822",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Le Parisien, September 13, 1954; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 44; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 209; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 467" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/10/1960",
  "desc" : "In Ridgecrest, California at 9:50 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Evans sighted two light gray glowing objects, saucer or boomerang-shaped, which made a swishing sound when accelerating. They were seen for a couple of seconds each. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5823",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/10/1964",
  "desc" : "Chemist P. H. De Paolo in Cedar Grove, New Jersey sighted four white lights at 7:09 p.m. They were seen in the northern sky, heading west for 45 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5824",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/10/1965",
  "desc" : "Antonio Pau Ferro, a farmer, was working in his cornfield in Sao Joao, Pernambuco State, Brazil at 8:30 in the morning when he heard a rushing noise and saw two luminous discs five feet wide and two feet thick, come down nearby. They discharged two small beings, 27-31” tall, and then rose to hover at 15 feet. The entities had reddish brown, wax-like complexions and wore tight fitting one piece-outfits. They spoke an unknown language, smiled at the witness, and picked a tomato; then the two discs came down and picked them up, rising vertically with a whistling sound. The farmer said that they appeared quite human, except for their strange skin color and their size. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5825",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1965-50 (A0665), citing Walter Buhler, SBEVD; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 114; Tribuna Santo, September 12, 1965; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 472" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/10/1965",
  "desc" : "On this night a hovering object was seen from a street in Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. It discharged yellow, blue, and orange lights from slits around its circumference. Four people--a local reporter, a bullfighter, and two taxi drivers--saw a creature with glowing catlike eyes dressed in black, walking down the street. The entity was holding a metallic tube. When they pursued the being it vanished suddenly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5826",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Chicago Tribune, October 14, 1965; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 699" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/10/1965",
  "desc" : "On or about this date three women in Mexico City, Mexico were said to have observed a group of giant beings, three meters tall, without noses or mouths but with bright red eyes, wearing gray uniforms and boots. No object was described. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5827",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 700" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/10/1967",
  "desc" : "At 6:03 p.m. flying over the Pyrenees Mountains in a DC-6 at 16,000 feet altitude, 65 miles north of Reus, Tarragona, Spain three men, Underhill, Hope and Dunlop, sighted an inverted flying cone, silver on top, with a curved base, that looked metallic and solid. Its minimum distance was estimated to be 1/2 mile, and it was moving opposite to the plane. It was initially higher, then half a mile below. The sighting lasted more than two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5828",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, September-October 1967, p. 6; Alastair Prevost, Flying Saucer Review, September 1967, p. 2; UNICAT, case 638; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1987, p. 19; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 36" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/10/1968",
  "desc" : "On this night in Pergamino, Buenos Aires, Argentina J. Bautista Perazzo allegedly had contact with extraterrestrial beings. He said he was going along National Highway # 8 when he caught sight of “the only UFO which has molested the earth in these past years.” The alien crew contacted him and communicated with him orally in perfect Castilian Spanish about his technical resources and their purpose on our planet. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5829",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1968-96 (A1570), citing Carlos Banchs" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/10/1975",
  "desc" : "On this evening two children in Moulin Sous Fleron, Liege, Belgium were frightened by a being dressed entirely in black that moved like an ape and jumped from the bushes in front of them. They ran to a neighbor's house. Twenty minutes later the same being was seen again by another witness, who reported that the being had thrown rocks at him. No UFO was reported. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5830",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Awareness, April 1975, p. 12; newspaper clipping in CUFOS files; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A1625; Albert S. Rosales, 1975 Humanoid Contact Database, case # 1761, citing Denys Breysse, Project Becassine" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/10/1976",
  "desc" : "Colusa, California. At 12:45 a.m. mechanic Bill Pecha and other household members noticed a complete electrical system failure in their mobile home. Next, stepping outside to check the circuit breakers, he felt static electricity and spotted a brightly lit, 150 foot domed disc-shaped object with a clockwise rotating rim hovering almost overhead, just 50-60 feet away. The object had a red light in front and other lights on either end, and the bright light that came from the bottom of the object dimmed when hovering. On the underside it had 6-8 dangling cables, and on each were two arms with hooks which retracted when Pecha stepped toward the object. The object retreated, moving slowly out over a field, with the cables still retracting. The white light underneath intensified and a cone of light was projected downward, but initially the beam was truncated before reaching the ground. The object maneuvered above a neighbor's house illuminating the ground with beams of light. Two other similar UFOs were seen in the distance casting blue light beams down onto power lines, and an arc of light was extending upward from the power lines to the objects. When the object shot away at high speed to the west, it lit up the foothills, then it rushed back over the neighbor's property again as the other two, more distant object sped away in different directions, and were gone in 30 seconds. The power came back on in Mr. Pecha's mobile home; the entire elapsed time of the close encounter was 9 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5831",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Colusa (CA) Sun-Herald, September 12, 1976; Brad Sparks, CUFOS files, report dated October 3, 1976; Paul C. Cerny, International UFO Reporter, January 1977, p. 6; UNICAT, case 234; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 39" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/10/1977",
  "desc" : "A beam of red light penetrated the roof of 32-year-old Beatriz Almada da Costa's house in the village of Santo Antonio do Ubintuba, Para State, Brazil at 7:30 p.m. As the beam struck her body, paralysis spread throughout her body accompanied by chills and shaking. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5832",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Pratt, Operacao Prato, p. 11" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/10/1978",
  "desc" : "At 4:40 p.m. two men were sitting at home watching television in Las Salinas, San Miguel de Tucuman, Tucuman State, Argentina when they starting having TV interference. They next attempted to use a stereo player, and then the radio, but these did not function properly either. They then heard some noises coming from an adjoining shop that was connected to their house. When they went to investigate, they found some broken bottles on the floor and some other damage. Moments later, they became aware of presence of two short beings standing nearby. These beings were dressed in bright blue, one-piece suits, dark blue helmets, and high boots also bright blue in color; on their arms they wore shiny black gauntlets that went above the elbow. Their faces were brown and their complexion seemed pockmarked, their eyes looked normal and their noses were flat. One of the figures was holding an object that looked like a \"hair dryer\", and was pointing it at the witnesses. Both men then received a telepathic message warning them not to scream. At this point one of the men ran for the door, and in response both figures put their fingers up their noses and vanished instantly, reappearing in a different location in the shop. They did this several more times as the first witness, armed with a knife, ran around trying to get out of the shop. Some empty crates were thrown at the witnesses during the melee. They finally managed to escape, and summoned the police who searched the premises but found nothing. Neighbors had reported seeing strange lights in the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5833",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2251, citing Jorge Eduardo Catoja, FSR, Volume 28, number 4; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 825, citing Jorge Eduardo Catoja" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/10/1978",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. in Port MacQuarie, New South Wales, Australia two men sighted a hat-shaped disc, glowing on-and-off around the perimeter, that dropped behind the treeline. It made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5834",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Australia CUFOS files, report dated September 1978; ACOS Bulletin, December 1978, p. 20" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/10/1978",
  "desc" : "At 9:22 p.m. a disc-shaped object was sighted in Poitiers, Vienne, France by six witnesses. It made a pendulum wobble, and had six lights arranged around the circumference on the bottom. There was also an orange-yellow cigar-shaped object, and a triangle-shaped object with a red tip, orange behind tip, and a yellow body. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5835",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Coudert, Ouranos, 1978, issue 24, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/10/1978",
  "desc" : "In flight over Springfield, Missouri 30-year-old Richard Renne sighted a yellow-white light at 8:30 p.m. that descended from 15,000 feet to the altitude of his Beech Bonanza airplane (9500 feet). It went below his tail, then to the 3 o'clock position, and then finally ascended above 25,000 feet. Another second light flew around erratically. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5836",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, July 1979, p. 11; UNICAT, case 128; Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 73" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/10/1978",
  "desc" : "At 10:15 p.m. in Dearborn Heights, Michigan a postal clerk, Mr. T. Atkins, and five other witnesses sighted a stationary formation of red lights at a 45 degree elevation in the sky, that blinked on-and-off 3-5 times in 15 minutes. They grew dimmer over time, then disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5837",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, July 1979, p. 11; UNICAT, case # 129" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/10/1981",
  "desc" : "At around 11:00 p.m. Denise Bishop, age 23, of Weston Mill, Plymouth, Devonshire, England had a time distortion while in contact with a pencil thin, green beam of light from a 125 foot wide, metallic appearing UFO. It felt \"as though a film had been stopped and started again.\" The huge UFO was the \"same shape as the body of a crab\", and it hovered over a hill of residential houses, emitting 6 to 7 pink, purple and white light beams. The green beam of light from the UFO hit her left hand, and she was unable to move. Some congealed matter formed on her hand, causing a burn. She still had a burn on her hand three months later that looked like a \"pale birth mark.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5838",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joe Graziano, APRO Bulletin, March 1982, p. 7; UNICAT, case 311, citing Robert Boyd; Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, p. 98; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 271, 383" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/10/1992",
  "desc" : "On the beach on a clear, pre-dawn morning on Fenwick Island, Delaware at around 4:00 a.m. a 36-year-old couple witnessed an object shaped like two triangles connected by cylinder. Next, 10-12 nocturnal lights joined the first object, and all went off rapidly to the north-norheast. Fifteen minutes later a second object followed same path. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5839",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Stephen Rosiak, MUFON field investigation case files, case # 930105E; Donald Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, February 1993, p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/10/1992",
  "desc" : "Driving to work in heavy traffic a 30-year-old female in Honolulu, Hawaii watched a flying object pass down the length of the freeway at 6:55 a.m. It was a star-shaped disc with 5 rounded points, like a discoid with 5 bites taken out of it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5840",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Brein, MUFON field investigation case files, case # 921009W; Donald Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, February 1993, p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/10/1993",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. a large silver, disc-shaped object hovered at 300 meters altitude over Surrey, Vancouver, British Columbia. Over 100 witnesses watched lights dancing in the sky for the next two hours. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5841",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, January 1994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/10/2001",
  "desc" : "A bread delivery man and a salesman had separate pre-dawn highway encounters with two bright oncoming lights in Kanturk, County Cork, Ireland; one reported it looked like a figure-8 on its side. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5842",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dermot Butler, Conspiracy of Silence: UFOs in Ireland, p. 113" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/10/2002",
  "desc" : "An airline captain of Aer Lingus flight EIN 566, taking off from Dublin, Ireland at 2:20 p.m., reported a \"paraglider\" two miles north of runway 10, at an estimated altitude of 1200 feet. A \"very slight radar echo\" was also detected from the object. There were ground witnesses as well. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5843",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dermot Butler, Conspiracy of Silence: UFOs in Ireland, p. 52" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/10/2002",
  "desc" : "At dusk a black flying triangle with three white lights in a triangle formation, and a faint steady red light in the center was sighted in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. It made a flat, 45-degree left hand turn without banking. Later that same evening, a disc-shaped UFO changing colors from purple to green to blue, then with a solid blue with red glow on the trailing edge was seen at 10:50 p.m. on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. It moved overhead to the west, then disappeared. It was fast but slower than a meteor. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5844",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, pp. 66, 44" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/10/2004",
  "desc" : "At about 10:10 p.m. a witness saw a bright moving object in the clear sky over Mount Cobb, Pennsylvania and called his mother and two sones to come see. It was moving near the Big Dipper and changing colors from green to red to dark orange to white, as though it were spinning. Looking at it through binoculars it was a rounded triangle. They could see the colors very clearly. On top of the object was a very bright white light. It was hovering, then it moved from the left to the right. The main color of the object was yellow. A military aircraft was flying to the northwest, but this object flew southeast. The strange object was much brighter, much bigger, and much higher than the military planes. That same night many witnesses in Los Angeles, California also saw a triangle UFO that came back the next night as well. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5845",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 98 & 65, citing Brian Vike, HBCC UFO Research and MUFON Los Angeles" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/10/2007",
  "desc" : "A humming sound was heard first, then a disc-shaped object reportedly landed in Headingley, Manitoba, Canada at around 2:00 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5846",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 584" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/1621",
  "desc" : "Contrails and white \"crowns\" moved in groups over Paris, France at 10:00 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5847",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dan la Nuit, issue 125" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/1946",
  "desc" : "In Oak Lawn, Illinois a V-shaped formation of five silver disks, with one trailing behind, were seen heading northeast to Indiana, bypassing Chicago. They were the size of small peas at arms length, traveling high and fast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5848",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 1946 archived webpage, report uploaded April 16, 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/1948",
  "desc" : "At 3:20 p.m. a U.S. Air Force pilot and copilot flying a C-45 transport ten miles southeast of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania saw a round white object moving at high speed on a SW heading. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5849",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 website" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/1950",
  "desc" : "On this day 8 mm motion pictures were shot with a telescopic lens of a spinning disk at Wickup Reservoir in Oregon by a man named Murphy. He shot 10 feet of film showing the spinning disc-shaped object. There was one other witness. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5850",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "newspaper clipping, September 12, 1950; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: August-December, p. 21" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/1952",
  "desc" : "A UFO was seen over Belem, Brazil near the mouth of the Amazon River on this day. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5851",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael D. Hill, Captain Edward J. Ruppelt: Summer of the Saucers - 1952, p. 193" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/1952",
  "desc" : "A group of young people in Flatwoods, West Virginia saw a bright red \"meteor\" land on top of a hill at around 7:15 p.m. A fluctuating orange-red light was seen on the hill, so they went up to the site to investigate. They were accompanied by beautician Kathleen Hill and her two sons and another youth, Gene Lemon. When the seven witnesses got close to the hilltop, they observed a globe as large as a house, making a throbbing or hissing sound. A huge black figure with glowing orange eyes blocked their path. The figure was about 12 feet high (4 meters), and it had a reddish pear-shaped head or helmet, with two luminous eyes from which beams of bluish light emerged; it also had a dark metallic green body that \"floated\" toward the witnesses, who fled in terror. The “entity” glided toward them, then toward a luminous, 20-foot wide pear-shaped about 50 feet away, which was pulsating between bright orange and dull red. There was also a mist in the area which had a choking, metallic smell. Gene Lemon fainted, so some of the others had to drag him away with them, while the others ran. Lemon vomited all night long. Reporters who went to the site later that evening saw no object, but could still smell the lingering odor. Next day, a 15-foot circle of flattened grass, some “skid marks”, and a strip of browned vegetation were found at the landing site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5852",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Charleston (WV) Daily Mail, September 14, 1952; O Cruzeiro, November 13, 1954; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 116; Ivan T. Sanderson, Uninvited Visitors, p. 50; Charles Bowen, The Humanoids, p. 52; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 101; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1952-16 (A0200), citing Gray Barker & Ivan T Sanderson;  Michael D. Hill, Captain Edward J. Ruppelt: Summer of the Saucers - 1952, pp. 192-3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/1952",
  "desc" : "That same evening in Allen, Maryland at 9:30 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. David Kolb, of the Ground Observer Corps, viewed a white light with red trim through binoculars. It had streamers of light coming off it as it flew toward northeast for 35 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5853",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book case files, case # 2077; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/1953",
  "desc" : "A large yellow nocturnal light zigzagged over Fort Meade, Maryland. It vanished temporarily, then reappeared. It was also seen over Andrews Air Force Base. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5854",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, September 1953" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/1953",
  "desc" : "Brovst, Denmark was the scene of an attempted abduction of a girl by two humanoids emitting a golden light. Their hands were rugged and cold like a fish. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5855",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jimmy Guieu, Les SV Viennent d'un Autre Monde; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 204" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/1954",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon a merchant driving a van near Quarouble, Nord department, France saw a domed disc descend vertically, and then hover near a grove of trees. Several human-looking beings were then seen in front of the craft. When the witness walked toward it, he was hit by a luminous beam of light and paralyzed. The object took off going straight up vertically. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5856",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-15 (A1688), citing Joel Mesnard & Jean Marie Bigorne, p. 131; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, pp. 77-78" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/1968",
  "desc" : "A 25-meter long oval object emitted a reddish light, then descended, almost touching the roofs of houses in Ceres, Argentina. It departed to the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5857",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Oscar A. Uriondo, p. 21" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/1969",
  "desc" : "Shortly after midnight a man named Rodilana saw a ten meter in diameter landed noisy disc in a field in Viana de Cega, Valladolid province, Spain, which took off when he got to within 400 meters distance. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5858",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, p. 26, case 117" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/1969",
  "desc" : "Flying from Chicago, Illinois to Cleveland, Ohio a passenger on a plane sighted a silver disc-shaped object accompanied by 12 smaller spheres. The disc was large, while the spheres were 12\" in diameter. The UFO got close to the plane, within 300 yards, for several minutes, and according to the witness the airplance experienced radio interference, he felt a sensation of heat from the object, and the UFO actually pulled the airplane towards it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5859",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joseph Erhardt, UFO Chronolog, case # 7006-451" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/1971",
  "desc" : "On this night Juan De La Palmareno, an 81-year-old peasant, was guarding a melon field in Aznacollar, Spain from poachers when he saw a vessel \"as big as a bus\" land near an old well. Many, perhaps over 50, blue uniformed men without headgear disembarked. Most of them went down into a depression in the field, but 5 or 6 stayed behind, and one of these shone a light into the witness eyes. He went into the village to report this, followed for much of the way by two men with a light. Ground marks were said by the witness to have been left at the landing site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5860",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ignacio Darnaude Rojas-Marcos, FSR, May 1974, p. 19; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-22 (A1122), citing Manuel Osuna, Felipe Laffitte, and Ignacio Darnaude; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 147" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/1973",
  "desc" : "Two motorists driving in Long Barn, near Sonora, California in the early morning hours observed a \"silverish-yellowish orange disc\" hovering silently over a canyon on the south side of Highway 108. Several other sightings were reported in the vicinity between September 12-17. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5861",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Sonora Daily Union Democrat, September 18, 1973" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/1973",
  "desc" : "Kent, Litchfield County, Connecticut - At 10:30 p.m. two 17-year-old boys were driving north on Route 7 from Westchester County, New York to Connecticut and saw a large oval object with flashing colored lights when they were several miles south of town. The object hovered just over the ridge on the west side of the Housatonic River, and they stopped and got out for a better look. They were joined by another couple, a boy and girl also driving back from Westchester to Connecticut. Meanwhile on Spooner Hill, in Kent, Connecticut to the east, a witness on his way to visit his friends, a young married couple, saw the same object and when he arrived at his friend's house, he called them outside. By this time the object had dropped behind a ridge, although they could still see its lights shining over the crest of the hill. They got into the witness car and drove down the hill to Route 7, where they met the four younger people. All seven then drove north into town to bring back two additional witnesses. The large object was no longer visible, but they now saw a dozen or so smaller whitish lights maneuvering in a circular pattern just this side of the ridge. These lights then separated into a single line and proceeded north toward Mt. Algo, just southwest of the main section of Kent. The witnesses got into their cars and followed the lights toward Kent. The two additional witnesses were dropped off in town while the other seven turned west on Rte. 341 and crossed the bridge over the river, heading toward Mt. Algo. There they turned south on Schaghticoke Road, which runs along the base of the mountain, to Bonu's Field, an open spot about a mile south. The group assembled there briefly but was unable to see anything. Meanwhile, at about the same time, a separate group of three teenage girls, camping out in a backyard along the Housatonic, observed a line of lights descending Mt. Algo on its steep, north side. The witnesses at Bonu's field had gotten back in their cars and drove north again to the junction of Rte 341, where they discovered a small parked white car that had not been there a few minutes earlier. They parked their cars and the two younger boys got out and asked the occupants of the white car (two unidentified girls) if they had seen anything unusual. They said that they were waiting for a group of hikers who had told them an hour earlier that they were \"hiking over the mountain\" and that the girls should meet them there.<br/><br/> Just then a group of 15 to 20 \"hikers\" came jogging down Schaghticoke Road from the same direction the young people had just driven (they had not seen anyone on the road). Each \"hiker\" had a lighted hat like a miner's hat on his head and they all carried poles or \"rods.\" They were mumbling or \"chanting\" and approached in a double column. They did not answer the boy's questions as they passed on either side of them, when asked where they'd come from. According to the young people, the \"hikers\" apparently turned right at Route 341 and headed towards Kent. However, when they all got back in their cars and drove after them, the \"hikers\" were nowhere to be seen--as though they had disappeared into thin air. According to the two young men and the younger couple, there were at least two hours they could not account for. The three older people could not recall what they did or where they went after the \"hikers\" passed them. Hypnotic regression was attempted, but the results are not described. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5862",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Budd Hopkins, 1981 MUFON Conference Proceedings, p. 47; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-122, citing Budd Hopkins, Ted Bloecher Dr. Aphrodite Clamar, and Dr. Robert Naiman; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions:  The Measure of a Mystery, case 41" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/1975",
  "desc" : "Bernie, a young Milwaukee truck driver, was driving his truck near Rockford, Illinois around 1:00 a.m. when he had an \"out of body experience\" (OOBE) and the next thing he knew he found himself in a UFO. He conversed with a human-like entity, whom he identified as \"Bob C\", telepathically for nearly two hours. During this exchange he was given a number of apocalyptic prophecies, and was then handed a cube-like device (or crystal) with instructions that if anyone should demand it, he should surrender it immediately. He then found himself back in his truck. When he arrived at his destination and parked his truck, he got into his car to drive home and found his passage blocked by a UFO.  Several \"Men in Black\" (MIB) types confronted him and asked for the device. He turned it over to the men. Following his experience, he claimed to have a number of additional telepathic communications with \"Bob C.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5863",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1975-41, citing Lee Jewell for NICAP, Don Mueller, Jerome Clark and Richard Heiden" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/1976",
  "desc" : "A cat went crazy with fear and the witness's TV experienced interference when a 30-meter wide disc-shaped object came down by some woods in St-Verand, France at 10:40 p.m. The telephone was out of operation for seven days. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5864",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 12402" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/1978",
  "desc" : "An ovoid-shaped UFO hovered 400 meters over the city of Lisbon, Portugal at 7:30 p.m., causing several traffic jams by the cars that stopped to watch. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5865",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 12817, citing Diario de Lisboa" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/1978",
  "desc" : "A gray cube, viewed at 11:00 p.m. by a man through a telescope in Torbay, Devon, England split into two separate objects that moved in opposite directions. The sighting lasted two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5866",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "D. N. Mansell, Awareness, October 1978, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/1979",
  "desc" : "All electrical power failed in the city of Huaihua, China at 8:50 p.m. Next, a UFO shooting beams of light was seen, leaving behind a lens-shaped cloud. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5867",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Wendelle Stevens & Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, p. 132" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/1979",
  "desc" : "A phantom helicopter was seen over Albuquerque, New Mexico on this night. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5868",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, November 1979, p. 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/1979",
  "desc" : "Repeated reports of multiple nocturnal lights maneuvering back and forth across the sky were made from the Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington State from 11:00 p.m. onwards. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5869",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bill Vogel, International UFO Reporter, December 1979, p. 9; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 191; UNICAT, case # 88" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/1981",
  "desc" : "After having a late dinner with some friends, Mauricio Cavallo decided to drive around Monferrato hill in Trino Vercellese, Piemonte, Italy. He parked his vehicle and proceeded to explore on foot. He soon saw a bright football-shaped light that appeared to descend into the thick woods. After checking where he thought the light had landed, and failing to find anything, he decided to drive home. At home he felt uneasy and could not sleep. Inexplicably, around three a.m. he decided to drive back to the site where the light had come down. When he arrived he was overcome by a strange malaise, and soon saw a reddish orange yellow light floating about 100 meters away. Terrified, Cavallo felt himself being levitated up towards the light. His next recollection was of being inside a sphere where he was able to perceive numerous lights and movement around him. He then heard a metallic voice in his head tell him not to be afraid. Soon a tall woman, about 1.90 meters in height, appeared in front of Cavallo. She had black hair in a bun, Oriental shaped eyes, and she lacked any fingernails. She wore a long sleeveless habit with white boots. Among other things, the woman told Cavallo that she hailed from the planet Clarion and that her name was Ciama. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5870",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1981, citing Moreno Tambellini, Alieni in Italia" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/1982",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. a bright white disc-shaped object stopped in Butler County, Pennsylvania when hit by a beam of light, hovered for two minutes, then rose straight up. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5871",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, October 1983" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/1985",
  "desc" : "Dogs barked and a farmer watched as a glowing ball of light with a beam searched the terrain in Vilnius, Lithuania at 10:10 p.m. The beam was peculiar because it did not light the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5872",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon Creighton, FSR, March 1988" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/1988",
  "desc" : "At 8:07 p.m. a woman in Gulf Breeze, Florida saw a large UFO that appeared to be towing a smaller disc through the sky. It made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5873",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Edward Walters, UFO Abductions at Gulf Breeze, p. 184" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/1990",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. a huge, luminous rounded rectangle flew over Calais, France silently to the southeast, and crossed the sky in 15 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5874",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 303" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/1990",
  "desc" : "Two men had a close encounter with a cylindrical object crossing their path in Rockwood, Texas at 10:30 p.m. It moved at 15-25 mph until out of view, and came to within 150 yards of them at the closest point. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5875",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mack Standard, MUFON field investigation case files, case # 901106" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/1993",
  "desc" : "At 12:40 a.m. a double-cigar shaped object in Tavistock, Devon, England made a 90- degree turn, and then followed the main highway for two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5876",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, November 1993" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/1994",
  "desc" : "A man was lying in bed in his home in the U.S. state of Georgia (exact location not given), when around two a.m. he suddenly awoke and found that several short Grey humanoid beings were touching him, apparently trying to roll him over. They were about four feet tall, had large heads, huge black eyes, soft wrinkly skin, very long arms, and four-digits on their hands. Some of them were wearing robes like monks, but the ones without robes were the typically described \"Greys\". They floated him out and up into a large triangular-shaped craft. Inside the object, he found himself in a room with \"Gothic\" looking arches and illuminated walls. He was met by a dark gray being with deep eyes, and a very \"convoluted\" flesh, who ordered him to lie down. This being had slits in his eyes, and called himself the \"leader.\" He remembered lying down on a cot-like structure that came out of the wall. Everything became confused at this point.; he was only able to remember seeing huge eyes and 12\" long fingers working on him. Next, he was floated down a hallway into another room. There he met some strange robed entities, who resembled the statues on Easter Island. They were about five feet tall, grayish brown in color, and with long, stout features. At this point the \"leader\" reappeared and placed his hands over the abductee's eyes. Moments later he entered another room that smelled like wet concrete or lime. There he remembered seeing several different species. Later, he found himself in another room with a large window. From this vanntage point he was able to see the stars, and got a good look at the side of the craft. Finally, he was told it was time to go back, and he next found himself standing in his backyard. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5877",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, case # 1944, citing C. Leigh Culver, UFO Encounters, volume 2, number 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/1994",
  "desc" : "At 7:15 p.m. a strange light maneuvered up and down near the tree line in Indianapolis, Indiana. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5878",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, citing Francis L. Ridge" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/1994",
  "desc" : "There were three separate sightings this evening in Gulf Breeze, Florida at 7:40 p.m., 7:50 p.m., and 8:25 p.m. of balls of light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5879",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, citing MUFON UFO Journal" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/1994",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. a local woman was driving down an isolated dirt road in Grady County, Georgia when she came face to face with four short \"Grey\" humanoid beings when she rounded a curve. These were described as four feet tall with very large heads. They darted into the woods at a high speed and disappeared. Around the same time, in the same area, a large orange sphere was sighted hovering three feet from the ground in a wooded area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5880",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1994 Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, case # 1967,  citing Billy J. Rachels, UFO Bureau" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/1995",
  "desc" : "A witness in Rostrevor, South Australia saw a dark silver, revolving object coming from the northwest. It came from nowhere and dropped out of the sky. It slowed, then moved away at a steady pace. At 8:35 all TV channels went off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5881",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Keith Basterfield, South Australia UFO Reports - Project 1947 website; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 336" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/1995",
  "desc" : "At 10:21 a.m. a  large, bright, dome-shaped object looking like a speckled \"bicycle helmet\" hovered over a cemetery in North Haven, Connecticut. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5882",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, September 1995 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/1995",
  "desc" : "A police car was followed for 6 kilometers in Marsaneix, Dordogne, France at 6:30 p.m. by a 30 meter in diameter disc-shaped object and a rectangular light, at 100 meters altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5883",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 334" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/1996",
  "desc" : "A mother and daughter in a car in Pont-de-Salars, Aveyron, France saw an object with an ovoid skirt and a cylinder, surmounted by a dome with 3 sharp red portholes. On the cylinder was a fluorescent green light that turned like a gyrosphere. It was at four meters altitude, only 10 meters away from them. The close encounter lasted for two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5884",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "GEIPAN, case 226" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/1997",
  "desc" : "In West Palm Beach, Florida a woman named June, who had been involved in previous humanoid close encounters, had gone to bed early because she was falling asleep while lying down watching television. At ten o'clock in the evening she awoke to find a Grey humanoid standing over her in her bedroom. She tried to fight him off by hitting him, but her hand seemed to swat thin air. She could see her hand go right through the alien's body. She screamed out loud, telling him to go away. All the time she kept trying to hit the creature, nothing seemed to work. The alien stayed right beside her. Then suddenly another voice came from nowhere and it said, \"Go away!\" This voice sounded in slow motion. It was a very deep and masculine voice. Surprinsingly, the being vanished. She remained paralyzed from her waist down, and she was so sluggish her brain seemed as if it had been drugged. She wanted to go back to sleep, but somehow she knew if she did something bad would happen. After struggling for awhile she was able to move and sat up in bed. It took several more minutes before she could get to her feet and stagger into her living room. She stayed up until 3:30 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5885",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, citing Miami Skyscan, March 2000" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/1997",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. MDT a huge craft hovered over the northeast end of the San Luis Valley, and was viewed from Baca Grande, Colorado. It had unblinking red and green lights arrayed around the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5886",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Christopher O'Brien, Enter the Valley, p. 294" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/1998",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. PDT, two sets of seven lights, yellow, blue, red and green, were seen and viewed through a spotting scope in Sheridan, Oregon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5887",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, September 1998 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/2000",
  "desc" : "A huge lighted disc-shaped object lit up the sky in West Berlin, New Jersey. Mrs. D'Imperio and her family (4 witnesses) saw a lighted wheel in the sky at 9:30 p.m. with what looked like bicycle spokes coming out of it. Another ring was on the outside of the object, like a \"wheel within a wheel\". \"What amazed me was lights were coming down the spokes going around the outside of the other [outer] ring, coming back to where they started and coming together, [joining up with] all of them in the center of the ring. They kept repeating this action.\" Next, a second object came and joined the first, going around the circle and making another spoke. As they watched for some time two helicopters came overhead. One was bigger that the other one, and they both went straight for the UFO they were watching. They then flew around it for awhile. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5888",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 25" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/2000",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. a glowing cigar-shaped craft was spotted over a casino in Windsor, Ontario on the Detroit River. It made no sound. At one point it seemed to be flying in a snake-like pattern. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5889",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2000 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 168; citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/2001",
  "desc" : "At midnight, several witnesses on the outskirts of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia first reported a group of three craft coming over the mountains, flying in a triangle formation. The object at the head of the triangle was estimated to be at least 7,000 meters long, and the two behind it were 1,000 meters long. There was also a bright red light flying with them in a consecutive pattern. This group then disappeared. Next came another nine (9) craft, which came over at a speed of 30-35 km/hour; these were about 500 meters long but did not blend in with the sky as the first group had. Then eight of the craft disappeared, but the ninth stayed behind and after a minute or two it landed. The main witness and seven others in a hiking group went to investigate. When they got to the scene, they spotted 50 or more short, greenish-gray creatures that appeared to be “testing” and examining the area. After about an hour the creatures went back inside their spacecraft, and took off into the night sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5890",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 2001 Humanoid Reports, citing NUFORC, September 2001 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/2001",
  "desc" : "High speed maneuvering lights were seen over Cleveland, Ohio at 10:10 p.m.  At 8:30 p.m. three triangular UFOs were sighted from Bordentown, New Jersey. They had very bright round lights at each apex. At 11:50 p.m. three unknown aircraft traveling in formation made impossible maneuvers above Oxford, Ohio. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5891",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2001 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/2002",
  "desc" : "At 2:00 p.m. a disc-shaped or cigar-shaped object, extremely bright and painful to the eyes even in broad daylight, was seen over Dennisport, Massachusetts. Deep red, pulsating triangles flew over Fort Walton Beach, Florida at 9:30 p.m. At 10:30 p.m. PDT a single object approached from the north-northwest in Pullman, Washington. It twinkled, and sometimes emitted red and blue and gold flashes. It made a 90 degree turn, then stopped and hovered for 20 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5892",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2002 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/2004",
  "desc" : "A cigar-shaped object with two lights was sighted briefly over Seattle, Washington in daylight at 11:11 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5893",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2004 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/2004",
  "desc" : "Triangular craft were reported at four widely separate locations on this date. Formations of slow moving pairs of rapidly flashing lights, possibly representing triangular crafts, flew over Andover, Hampshire, England at 5:00 a.m. Next, at three o'clock in the morning PDT a triangle-shaped object zoomed overhead in Palo Alto, California. It made no noise and pulsated, and appeared to change size three times, before each point of light on the apexes of the triangle seperated and flew off in different directions. After that, a structured craft in the shape of a triangle flew slowly from the north to the southwest in Westlock, Alberta, Canada at 11:10 p.m. It seemed to be a charcoal gray or even black in color, but stood out from the color of the night sky on this clear night. Finally, on the same night on the eastern border of Washington State, a huge triangle of lights passed over a remote campsite at high altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5894",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2004 webpage; Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 673, citing NUFORC; George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 99" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/2005",
  "desc" : "A large black triangular craft was seen in Roanoke, Virginia at 9:56 a.m. Its bottom was covered with lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5895",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2005 webpage, report uploaded October 11, 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/2006",
  "desc" : "A witness saw a silver, reflecting disc-shaped object doing maneuvers over Raynham, Massachusetts at 2:00 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5896",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2006 webpage, report uploaded October 30, 2006" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/2009",
  "desc" : "At 9:25 p.m. a glowing, oval-shaped craft appeared and hovered over a house in Mather, California. It vibrated and zipped around, and disappeared in an instant. At 11:00 p.m. three orange glowing balls appeared above an ocean beach in San Diego, California. They moved north, and then shot straight up. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5897",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2009 webpage, report uploaded October 31, 2009" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/11/2010",
  "desc" : "Witnesses in Nashville, Tennessee reported seeing a flying cigar-shaped object at 7:00 p.m. that was red and white in color. It was wingless and was flying at a tilted angle, ascending. It had a large clear window with small human-like figures inside looking out. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5898",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 2010-2012 Humanoid Sighting Reports, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/12/1952",
  "desc" : "A group of young people in Flatwoods, West Virginia saw a \"meteor\" land on top of a hill and went to the site. They were accompanied by Kathleen Hill and three men. They observed a globe as large as a house making a throbbing or hissing sound. A huge black figure with glowing orange eyes blocked the path. About 12 feet high (4 meters), the figure had a reddish face and \"floated\" toward the witnesses, who fled in terror. A lingering smell and skid marks were found at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5899",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Charles Bowen, The Humanoids, p. 52" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/12/1952",
  "desc" : "That same evening in Allen, Maryland at 9:30 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. David Kolb, of the Ground Observer Corps, viewed a white light with red trim through binoculars. It had streamers of light coming off it as it flew toward northeast for 35 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5900",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/12/1953",
  "desc" : "Brovst, Denmark was the scene of an attempted abduction of a girl by two humanoids emitting a golden light. Their hands were rugged and cold like a fish. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5901",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jimmy Guieu, Les SV Viennent d'un Autre Monde; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 204" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/12/1971",
  "desc" : "On this night Juan De La Palmareno, an 81-year-old peasant, was guarding a melon field in Aznacollar, Spain from poachers when he saw a vessel \"as big as a bus\" land near an old well. Many, perhaps over 50, blue uniformed men without headgear disembarked. Most of them went down into a depression in the field, but 5 or 6 stayed behind, and one of these shone a light into the witness eyes. He went into the village to report this, followed for much of the way by two men with a light. Ground marks were said by the witness to have been left at the landing site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5902",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-22, citing Manuel Osuna, Felipe Laffitte, and Ignacio Darnaude" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/12/1973",
  "desc" : "Kent, Litchfield County, Connecticut - At 10:30 p.m. two 17-year-old boys were driving north on Route 7 from Westchester County, New York to Connecticut and saw a large oval object with flashing colored lights when they were several miles south of town. The object hovered just over the ridge on the west side of the Housatonic River, and they stopped and got out for a better look. They were joined by another couple, a boy and girl also driving back from Westchester to Connecticut. Meanwhile on Spooner Hill, in Kent, Connecticut to the east, a witness on his way to visit his friends, a young married couple, saw the same object and when he arrived at his friend's house, he called them outside. By this time the object had dropped behind a ridge, although they could still see its lights shining over the crest of the hill. They got into the witness car and drove down the hill to Route 7, where they met the four younger people.<br/><br/> All seven then drove north into town to bring back two additional witnesses. The large object was no longer visible, but they now saw a dozen or so smaller whitish lights maneuvering in a circular pattern just this side of the ridge. These lights then separated into a single line and proceeded north toward Mt. Algo, just southwest of the main section of Kent. The witnesses got into their cars and followed the lights toward Kent. The two additional witnesses were dropped off in town while the other seven turned west on Rte. 341 and crossed the bridge over the river, heading toward Mt. Algo. There they turned south on Schaghticoke Road, which runs along the base of the mountain, to Bonu's Field, an open spot about a mile south. The group assembled there briefly but was unable to see anything. Meanwhile, at about the same time, a separate group of three teenage girls, camping out in a backyard along the Housatonic, observed a line of lights descending Mt. Algo on its steep, north side. The witnesses at Bonu's field had gotten back in their cars and drove north again to the junction of Rte 341, where they discovered a small parked white car that had not been there a few minutes earlier. They parked their cars and the two younger boys got out and asked the occupants of the white car (two unidentified girls) if they had seen anything unusual. They said that they were waiting for a group of hikers who had told them an hour earlier that they were \"hiking over the mountain\" and that the girls should meet them there.<br/><br/> Just then a group of 15 to 20 \"hikers\" came jogging down Schaghticoke Road from the same direction the young people had just driven (they had not seen anyone on the road). Each \"hiker\" had a lighted hat like a miner's hat on his head and they all carried poles or \"rods.\" They were mumbling or \"chanting\" and approached in a double column. They did not answer the boy's questions as they passed on either side of them, when asked where they'd come from. According to the young people, the \"hikers\" apparently turned right at Route 341 and headed towards Kent. However, when they all got back in their cars and drove after them, the \"hikers\" were nowhere to be seen--as though they had disappeared into thin air. According to the two young men and the younger couple, there were at least two hours they could not account for. The three older people could not recall what they did or where they went after the \"hikers\" passed them. Hypnotic regression was attempted, but the results are not described. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5903",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-122, citing Budd Hopkins, Ted Bloecher Dr. Aphrodite Clamar, and Dr. Robert Naiman" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/12/1981",
  "desc" : "After having a late dinner with some friends, Mauricio Cavallo decided to drive around Monferrato hill in Trino Vercellese, Piemonte, Italy. He parked his vehicle and proceeded to explore on foot. He soon saw a bright football-shaped light that appeared to descend into the thick woods. After checking where he thought the light had landed, and failing to find anything, he decided to drive home. At home he felt uneasy and could not sleep. Inexplicably, around three a.m. he decided to drive back to the site where the light had come down. When he arrived he was overcome by a strange malaise, and soon saw a reddish orange yellow light floating about 100 meters away. Terrified, Cavallo felt himself being levitated up towards the light. His next recollection was of being inside a sphere where he was able to perceive numerous lights and movement around him. He then heard a metallic voice in his head tell him not to be afraid. Soon a tall woman, about 1.90 meters in height, appeared in front of Cavallo. She had black hair in a bun, Oriental shaped eyes, and she lacked any fingernails. She wore a long sleeveless habit with white boots. Among other things, the woman told Cavallo that she hailed from the planet Clarion and that her name was Ciama. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5904",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1981, citing Moreno Tambellini, Alieni in Italia" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/12/1997",
  "desc" : "In West Palm Beach, Florida a woman named June, who had been involved in previous humanoid close encounters, had gone to bed early because she was falling asleep while lying down watching television. At ten o'clock in the evening she awoke to find a Grey humanoid standing over her in her bedroom. She tried to fight him off by hitting him, but her hand seemed to swat thin air. She could see her hand go right through the alien's body. She screamed out loud, telling him to go away. All the time she kept trying to hit the creature, nothing seemed to work. The alien stayed right beside her. Then suddenly another voice came from nowhere and it said, \"Go away!\" This voice sounded in slow motion. It was a very deep and masculine voice. Surprinsingly, the being vanished. She remained paralyzed from her waist down, and she was so sluggish her brain seemed as if it had been drugged. She wanted to go back to sleep, but somehow she knew if she did something bad would happen. After struggling for awhile she was able to move and sat up in bed. It took several more minutes before she could get to her feet and stagger into her living room. She stayed up until 3:30 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5905",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, citing Miami Skyscan, March 2000" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/13/1948",
  "desc" : "At seven o'clock in the evening a seminarian in Oristano, Sardegna, Italy watched as a domed disc-shaped object tilted in the air, so that two humanoid beings were visible inside its transparent dome. The object flew off to the east toward Madau. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5906",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1346, citing a website" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/13/1952",
  "desc" : "At around 8:00 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. George Snitowski and their little girl suddenly found their car stalled in Frametown, West Virginia. An unpleasant odor filled the air, similar to the smell of ether mixed with sulphur. Mr. Snitowski thought a chemical plant might be burning in the area and walked towards a strong light visible in the woods, in spite of the noxious smell. Coming near it, he felt a prickling sensation throughout his body, had to stop, and then lost his balance several times as he returned to the car where he found his wife terrified, pointing at a giant creature. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5907",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 200; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case # 1; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1952-17, citing Paul Lieb, Jacques Vallee & Mark Hall; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers magazine, September 1972, p. 27" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/13/1952",
  "desc" : "On that same night in Allentown, Pennsylvania at 7:40 p.m., private pilot W.A. Hobler was flying his Beech Bonanza airplane when he sighted a flying object shaped like a fat football, fiery orange-red in color, descend and then pull up in front of his airplane. This encounter was very brief, and lasted only two 2 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5908",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #  2085; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: September-October, p. 28" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/13/1955",
  "desc" : "At 2:10 a.m. a silent red sphere flew across the sky to the northeast in St. Louis, Senegal, curving and spiraling. It made an ascent to a higher altitude, flew to the southeast, and then shot off to the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5909",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, November 1968" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/13/1959",
  "desc" : "At 1:05 a.m. Mr. R. H. Daubner of Gills Rock, Wisconsin observed a yellow ring of lights, with eight blue lights within it, and then five larger brilliant red lights. The object rose very fast vertically from a field three kilometers away, while making a pulsating jet noise. The tremendous pulsating noise hurt the ears of the witness. The encounter lasted ten minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5910",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 6506; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/13/1959",
  "desc" : "Scott Mitchell was in the hallway of his home near Gills Rock, Wisconsin at around two o'clock in the afternoon when he saw a being with dark gray, wrinkled skin standing at the opposite end. The being communicated in a telepathic voice that went directly to the witness head, \"Do not be afraid, we will not harm you.\" Frightened, he tried to run away but was paralyzed in his tracks, and time seemed to slow down around him. A greenish haze surrounded him and the being glided towards him. The witness then lost consciousness. His next memory was of waking up in the house in a back bedroom. The witness subsequently experienced further close encounters. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5911",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1959, citing UFOs and Aliens Among Us" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/13/1959",
  "desc" : "At four p.m. at least two control tower operators at Bunker Hill AFB, Indiana plus the pilot of a Mooney private aircraft sighted a pear-shaped object, colored white, cream, and metallic, with a trail under it. The UFO showed little movement during the three hour sighting. An intercept was attempted by a USAF T-33 jet trainer, but it failed to find the UFO in time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5912",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 6507; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/13/1962",
  "desc" : "Overfield, England. Myra Jones was driving between Overfield and Norris Hill at 11:20 p.m. when she spotted a luminous, gray object, larger than a car, with a dome on top. It was flying just above the ground at the height of the telephone poles, spinning slowly. There were dark spots visible on the underside of the object. It nearly touched the car, then gave a whistling sound and flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5913",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 546; citing Flying Saucer Review, November-December 1962" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/13/1966",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 a.m. a 12-year-old boy, Randy Rotenberger, saw a silvery-gray ellipsoid object with a clear bubble dome protruding from its top; it hovered about a mile away, then landed with a falling leaf motion near a farm between Gwinner and Stirum, North Dakota within 300 yards of him. It made a low-pitched whine during the five-minute sighting. It had tripod landing gear, two red lights, two white and one green light, and the transparent dome. A businessman from Gwinner and an Air Force Lt. Colonel went to the site and discovered three ground traces, apparently left by spherical objects, 18 centimeters deep, which were very compact. The ground imprint marks were in the arrangement of an isoceles triangle 7.9 m x 6.5 m x 6.5 m. Radiation measured at 0.1 milliroentgen (normal). The boy reported that the object \"went away so fast that it vanished.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5914",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, November 1966, p. 4; APRO Bulletin, July 1966, p. 1; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 797; Project Blue files counted in official statistics, case 10944; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; UNICAT, case 369" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/13/1966",
  "desc" : "The two astrononauts on Gemini XI, Dick Gordon and Pete Conrad, during their 18th orbit of the Earth, took a photograph of a unknown object in outer space while over the Greenwich Time Zone at 18.25 hours. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5915",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1977, p. 1; Margaret Sachs, Celestial Passengers, p. 183" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/13/1967",
  "desc" : "A very bright strobe light was seen, and then six red lights in a row appeared at the same spot and hovered over the Haddam Neck, Connecticut Yankee Nuclear Power Plant at 8:45 p.m. It was seen by Mrs. Rarey and her two children from their home across the Connecticut River in Haddam, Connecticut. The sighting lasted 15 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5916",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald A. Johnson field investigation case files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/13/1972",
  "desc" : "A rural family in Burlington, Colorado, who police said were responsible people, reported that a UFO \"as big as a house\" flew parallel to their car as they were driving down a country road at night. One of the witnesses said the object landed and took off twice in a nearby field. The object was round and  had \"rays\" or beam of light coming out of it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5917",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1972, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/13/1973",
  "desc" : "While driving toward Ijui, Brazil at about 1:30 a.m., a group of motorists saw a luminous yellow egg-shaped object approach their car near the town of Gravatai and begin pacing them on the left side, some 2-3 kilometers away. When the driver blinked the headlights off and on, the object reproduced the same signals. The driver stopped the car and he and some passengers then got out, waving their arms. The object was very close to the ground and appeared to be about to land. They resumed their trip and after awhile the object, which continued to pace them, beamed a light in their direction. One of the passengers said she had the impression something or someone was trying to contact her mentally. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5918",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Inforespace, August 1975, No. 22; translated from the French by Jacques Deschenes" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/13/1986",
  "desc" : "On this night, during a rash of UFO sightings in the region, Mrs. Lourdes Altamirano watched a huge luminous object descend and hover above a large tree in Ciudad Valles, San Luis Potosi State, Mexico. Several gigantic figures descended from the object and inspected the surroundings, at one point they showed interest in a large ceramic jar near the witness's house. She attempted to wake her husband but he remained asleep. After awhile, the beings reboarded their craft, which took off at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5919",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, citing Contacto OVNI" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/13/1988",
  "desc" : "At 10:45 p.m. a 39-year-old witness stepped outside his house in Chiloquin, Klamath County, Oregon and saw a multicolored, oval object moving away. He got his wife, daughter, and a telescope. They watched the object in the sky for more than an hour. They saw the same object \"at distance\" for the next two nights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5920",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Hernandez Jose L. Hernandez, MUFON field investigation case files database, case # 930508J" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/13/1990",
  "desc" : "At around 1:00 a.m. a mother awoke to tuck her young daughter under the blankets in Rudnyi, Kustanay region, Kazakhstan when she saw a luminous sphere through the balcony door on the upper level of house. A bright yellow beam, surrounded in a greenish glow, shone into the room from the sphere. The woman covered the young girl with the blanket and then heard a strong ringing in her ears and developed a strong headache. At this point she lost consciousness. After an hour or so she woke up, feeling a burning sensation on her stomach. She found a spot about ten centimeters in length and two centimeters wide on her stomach that appeared to be a burn scar. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5921",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1990 Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, citing UFOZONE Russia" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/13/1990",
  "desc" : "At 8:12 p.m. a local woman named Irina M. was returning home from work in Mahachkala, Dagestan, Russia when she looked at the sky and saw a fast moving yellow light, which was flying from the southwest to the east. It was moving faster than a normal aircraft, and she immediately thought it could be a UFO. The object began to descend at a high speed, noticeably increasing in size. It was round and silvery, and hovered in midair not too far away from the witness. Astounded, she next saw a humanoid figure floating next to the object. The figure was human-like, tall, slender, and with a pale young face without wrinkles. He also had what appeared to be very kind, blue eyes. The alien was dressed in a loose-fitting tunic, silver-white in color. The being stood in mid-air, gazing at the witness intently, and seemed to be encased in a bright halo of light. She became concerned, fearing that she might be abducted by the alien, and she rushed home to her children as fast as she could. Near her front door she looked back and saw the UFO departing, decreasing in size and vanishing in a few seconds. Apparently the only other witness to this event was a stray dog that frequented the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5922",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1990 Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, citing \"Iks\" UFO Newspaper, Mahachkala Dagestan, issue # 4, and Anton Anfalov" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/13/1990",
  "desc" : "On the same night as the CE-3 encounter in Dagestan, witnesses in Samara Province, Russia reported seeing a small luminous, white triangular-shaped craft flying above their rooftops. The object appeared to be transparent, and inside three dark human-like figures with large round heads could be seen. One figure was standing up, while the other two were seated behind what looked like a control panel. The object later became dark and landed outside a perimeter fence of the Volga-Ural Military Air Defense Radar Station. At around midnight, as armed guards approached the object, without warning it fired a powerful beam of concentrated energy that destroyed the radar antenna on top of their communications building. The steel in the radar unit was burned from a distance of 430 feet. A wristwatch reportedly slowed, and other strange physical effects were noted. Some of the sentries went missing temporarily, and could not account for their whereabouts. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5923",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Stonehill, The Soviet UFO Files, p. 50; Antonio Huneeus, UFO Universe 1995, quoting Russian film, Cosmic Top Secret; Albert S. Rosales, 1990 Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, case # 1836, citing Antonio Huneeus" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/13/1992",
  "desc" : "In Albertville, Minnesota a 5-6 foot wide disc-shaped object with portholes was seen at 100 feet altitude, only 100 yards away. It had an estimated thickness of 1-2 feet. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5924",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joni Astrup, UFO Newsclipping Service, December 1992, p. 1, citing Star News, September 30, 1992" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/13/1994",
  "desc" : "Larry Gardea, while out bear hunting near Chacon, New Mexico heard a humming sound at 4:30 p.m., and witnessed a cow being dragged up a hill backwards into the underbrush. One cow was dead and mutilated, another one crippled, and a third missing. The hunter fired shots in the direction of the sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5925",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 256, citing Linda Moulton Howe" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/13/1994",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. while driving on Highway 160 east of Del Norte, Colorado two people witnessed two orange streamers that crossed their path. The two flourescent orange streamers flew in tandem right in front of their van's windshield. They were four to six feet in length, six to eight feet apart. They crossed the highway at the same place as an ambulance's electrical system failure earlier in the month. Satellite TV in the area also failed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5926",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 256" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/13/1994",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. a silent formation of dark objects flew across the sky toward the southwest in Cheyenne, Wyoming. They were thought to be much too fast to have been geese. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5927",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 16525, citing R. Leo Sprinkle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/13/1995",
  "desc" : "At 12:10 a.m. a bizarre, irregularly shaped object, only 300 feet away, shot beams of light down on a house in Corpus Christi, Texas. It had a pulsating light on top. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5928",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, list of 1995 reports" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/13/1995",
  "desc" : "At 12:20 a.m. a yellow-white disc-shaped object moved south in the sky over Tallahasee, Florida. Its apparent size was larger than the full moon, and it had a halo surrounding it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5929",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, list of 1995 reports" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/13/1999",
  "desc" : "Witnesses in Blanchardville, Wisconsin reported a shoot-out between Air National Guard F-16s and six maneuvering balls of light (BOLs) at 2:15 a.m., with one light emitting a ray that took out one of the jets. The jet reportedly crashed, and the pilot who ejected was treated for injuries. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5930",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer, MUFON UFO Journal, January 2000, p. 17; UFO Magazine (US), March 2000, p. 16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/13/1999",
  "desc" : "A tube-shaped UFO with a pointed rear end, brilliant white, sped east to west at 2200 km/h over Melbourne Reservoir, Victoria, Australia at 7:20 p.m. It was viewed for few seconds. The witness has worked in the aviation industry for many years, and attests that it was not a meteor or a conventional plane. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5931",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Frola, Australasian Ufologist, April 2000, p. 52 & January 2001, p. 46" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/13/2000",
  "desc" : "An EM vehicle ignition interference effect case occurred on this evening at 7:00 p.m. The witness's car engine shut off between Hagerstown and Sidling Hill, Maryland when an extremely bright light appeared above the car. The witness also had terrible migraine headache later that night. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5932",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2000 archived webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/13/2001",
  "desc" : "At 6:05 a.m. a formation of lights was seen moving low over Toronto, Ontario during a rainy day; this was during the no fly period two days after the World Trade Center attacks. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5933",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2001 Canadian UFO Survey, case 298" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/13/2003",
  "desc" : "The Senior Curator/Royal Armouries Museum reported two circular flying objects in the sky over Heckmondwide, West Yorkshire, England at 9:40 p.m.; they were about half the apparent size of the moon, and were a very dull yellow. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5934",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "British Ministry of Defense, case 2003-075" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/13/2003",
  "desc" : "A witness reported seeing a dark triangular shape in Yelm, Washington at 12:30 p.m., moving slowly at treetop level without making any sound. It had white and red lights on the bottom. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5935",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2003 archived webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/13/2003",
  "desc" : "At midnight a 21-year-old woman walking her dog in Seaman, Ohio heard coyotes howling loudly during a sighting of a large stationary triangular craft. The color of the object's lights changed from  pinkish-red to blue, white and yellow. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5936",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joan Woodward, NICAP Category 4 - Animal Effects Cases, www.nicap.org" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/13/2006",
  "desc" : "The British Ministry of Defense received a report of a triangular object with lights flying over Whitehaven, Cumbria, England at 9:45 p.m. One of the lights was green, one was red, and the other two were amber. There was a strange droning noise as it passed overhead.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5937",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "British Ministry of Defense, case 2006-050" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/13/2007",
  "desc" : "At 8:10 p.m. eight white, cigar-shaped objects were photographed in Calgary, Alberta, Canada several times as they were descending rapidly to the southeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5938",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 598, citing ufoinfo.com" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/14/1949",
  "desc" : "Over a 30-minute period starting at 9:30 p.m. several small round silver objects, that were not birds, flew over Lubbock, Texas in groups of 3 to 50. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5939",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1454; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1951, p. 53" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/14/1951",
  "desc" : "At nine o'clock in the evening at the Goose Bay AFB in Labrador, Canada Sgt W. B. Maupin and Corporal J. W. Green tracked three objects on radar. Two were on a collision course when one of the bogeys diverted to the right upon the request, by radio, of one of the radar operators! No aircraft were known to be in the area. A third unidentified track then joined the first two. This incident lasted longer than 15 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5940",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 969; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/14/1952",
  "desc" : "An animal reaction case occurred on a farm in Belle Glade, Florida just before dawn at 4:30 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5941",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers magazine, December 1967, p. 24; NICAP case files; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: August, p. 28" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/14/1952",
  "desc" : "In Ciudad Juarez, Mexico between 11:30 p.m. and 1:20 a.m. the next day R. J. Portis, a consulting engineer, and three others sighted six groups of 12-15 luminous spheres or discs. The UFOs flew in formations varying from arcs to inverted-Y's, and moved very fast through the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5942",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/14/1952",
  "desc" : "North Atlantic, between Ireland and Iceland. Military witnesses from several countries aboard ships participating in the NATO \"Operation Mainbrace\" exercise had several UFO sightings. Among the sightings: a blue-green triangle was observed flying at 1,500 mph while another three objects in a triangular formation gave off a white light exhaust while moving at 1,500 mph. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5943",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/14/1952",
  "desc" : "While flying over Olmstead AFB, Pennsylvania the pilot of a Flying Tiger Airlines transport plane, # N67977, saw a blue light that flew at his plane very fast on a collision course. Note: the summary card attached to the file showed completely different information. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5944",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2093; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 18; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/14/1952",
  "desc" : "White Lake, South Dakota. At 7:00 p.m. L.W. Barnes, a Ground Observer Corps observer using binoculars spotted a red, cigar-shaped object. It left three puffs behind it, flew to the west, then to the south, and then was gone. It was viewed for 30-40 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5945",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #2089; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/14/1952",
  "desc" : "Santa Barbara, California. At 8:40 p.m. Mr. Tarbutton, a USAF C-54 transport pilot, sighted a blue-white light that traveled straight and level, then went up. It was seen for 30 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5946",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/14/1952",
  "desc" : "Several people in Charleston, West Virginia saw a luminous white disc-shaped object land at around 9:00 p.m. Two men wearing bright suits emerged from the craft and reportedly climbed a nearby tree. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5947",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: September-October, p. 33" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/14/1954",
  "desc" : "At 5:00 p.m. over 200 witnesses in St.-Prouant, Vendee department, France watched a cigar or carrot-shaped UFO as it emerged from a cloud, tilted toward the ground, hovered, and then elevated its front end quickly into a vertical position. It emitted vapor from its lower end. Next, a metallic disc-shaped object flew out, spun around the cigar, and then re-entered the mothership. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5948",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 23, Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 16; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference to Outstanding UFO Reports, case # 44" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/14/1954",
  "desc" : "John J. Swain, age 12, was driving a tractor back from his family's fields in Coldwater, Kansas when he saw a little man no bigger than a 5-year-old child a few meters away from him. He had a long nose and long ears and seemed to fly or glide as he moved toward a saucer-shaped craft hovering just two meters above ground. It \"opened up\" and the creature \"popped inside.\" The craft became luminous and shot out of sight. Unusual traces were found by police. The being was dressed in shiny clothes, and his shoes seemed to have \"fins\" attached. He carried two cylinders on his back and had long, pointed ears. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5949",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 239; Charles Bowen, The Humanoids, p. 53; Lincoln Nebraska Star, late September 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 209" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/14/1956",
  "desc" : "At one o'clock in the morning in Highland, North Carolina three men, one a policeman, sighted fourteen yellow-to-red round objects giving off a tremendous exhaust and flew in a vague formation from southwest to east to northeast and back again, while swooping up and down. The sighting lasted 1.5 hours. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5950",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/14/1963",
  "desc" : "At 3:15 p.m. in Susanville, California E. A. Grant, a fire lookout with 37 years of experience at forest fire lookouts for the U.S. Forest Service, sighted a round flying object intercept a longer object and either attached itself to the latter or disappear. The sighting lasted ten minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5951",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/14/1965",
  "desc" : "At 1:00 a.m. an engineer on a motorbikein Langenhoe, Essex, England heard a high-pitched hum, which changed to a buzz when a domed disc-shaped object approached to a close range, and then his engine coughed, sputtered, and finally died. There was a blue light coming from the translucent dome on the object. The witness also received an electric shock, and suffered temporary paralysis. He could not move or speak, and his body tingled like he had received an electric shock. The buzzing diminished as the object descended and landed in a swampy area near some houses. The witness also experience strong static electricity throughout the next day. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5952",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 25; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 249, 267, 454" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/14/1967",
  "desc" : "At eleven o'clock in the morning Fabio J. Diniz, age 16, was walking near a hospital in La Baleia, Minas Gerais State, Brazil when he saw a mushroom-shaped craft on a playing field. It had a cupola on top, and a guillotine-like door that slid up. The boy started to flee, but a voice in Portuguese told him, \"Don't run away.\" He next saw two tall men, two meters in height, dressed in green tight-fitting uniforms. They told him not to be afraid and to return the next day, or \"otherwise we will take your family.\" They had a greenish skin tone, and round eyes that were set wide apart. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5953",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 881, citing FSR, November-December 1968, p. 8; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0872" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/14/1968",
  "desc" : "Eight young people in Drummondville, Quebec saw a \"man\" who walked like a robot. The next day they saw a little man, 4 feet tall, who was surrounded by a luminous glow. He disappeared, and in his place was the robot. The ground traces showed tracks of a creature with six toes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5954",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Sherbrooke Tribune, October 9, 1968; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0979" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/14/1969",
  "desc" : "At 5:00 p.m. a young boy saw a small silver object land close to him outside the town of Beauharnois, Quebec. Through a small hatch two small, green colored humanoids emerged, these moved like robots and appeared to gather rocks and plants before returning to the object. The object then took off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5955",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1969, case # 19, citing John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants and Critters, p. 49; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A2097, citing Wido Hoville" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/14/1972",
  "desc" : "At 4:20 a.m. an unidentified \"bogey\" was detected on radar at the West Palm Beach International Airport by FAA air traffic controller C. J. Fox and tracked for about an hour. NORAD was alerted and at approximately 6:00 a.m. two F-106 jet interceptors were scrambled from West Palm Beach Airport, Florida to intercept the glowing UFO, but the object disappeared from the radar scopes shortly before the jets arrived. FAA watch supervisor George Morales viewed the object through binoculars and described the object as silver white in color and cigar shaped. Officials at Miami International Airport also tracked the strange object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5956",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1972, pp. 1 & 4; Sandra Thomas, APRO Bulletin, September-October 1972, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/14/1972",
  "desc" : "Following several civilian reports of UFOs in Crumlin, Monmouthshire, Wales several police constables were sent to the scene at around 8:30 p.m. They saw a circular orange object that changed shape to a cone. In Croespenmaen, Wales a bowl-shaped disc was observed hovering and spinning for two hours. The UFO hid three times when aircraft appeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5957",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Western Mail, September 16, 1972; FSR, November-December 1972, p. 28; Gary Heseltine, UFO Magazine (UK), July 2003, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/14/1972",
  "desc" : "At 10:45 p.m. two witnesses southeast of Sandoval, Illinois saw a UFO moving toward their car, about 45 feet up in the air. It had green and blue hazy lights and a huge red flickering light on top. It passed directly overhead, then came back and circled the car. Next it hovered nearby for 20 minutes, and finally flew off slowly to the south. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5958",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John F. Schuessler case files, report dated July 22, 1973" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/14/1973",
  "desc" : "A yellow ovoid-shaped object paced cars near Gravatai, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil for 20 minutes beginning at around 1:30 a.m. There were several other reports of UFOs in the vicinity on the same night. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5959",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Inforespace, August 1975" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/14/1973",
  "desc" : "At 7:45 p.m. a 20-year-old woman with the last name of Plume and her father were driving through a mostly swampy area between Cuesnes and Mons, Belgium, when upon rounding a bend in the road they saw a bright orange luminous object shaped like a truncated cone hovering at low altitude about 200 meters off the road, almost directly over an electric power station. The upper edge seemed jagged and had sparkling antenna-like protrusions at either end. The object was dazzling to look at and seemed to be vibrating slightly. As they pulled abreast of the power station the object's luminosity diminished and it flew away, rising gradually in a slight curve and disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5960",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dennis William Hauck, MUFON UFO Journal, October 1976, p. 8; Jacques Bonabot, Catalog of Belgian Cases, case 354" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/14/1977",
  "desc" : "At around 11:00 p.m. in Cassel, Nord department, France a glowing sphere first descends, then reverses course and follows a car for three minutes. The car windows were pock-marked as a result of the close encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5961",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1980" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/14/1978",
  "desc" : "At 5:55 a.m. in Rome, Italy a triangular shaped object seen by hundreds for five minutes, including police, guards, and airline workers. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5962",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, November 1978, p. 15, citing La Cronica, September 15, 1978; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year History, p. 349" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/14/1978",
  "desc" : "At 6:00 a.m. in Torre del Lago, near Firenze, Italy a cigar-shaped object with a blue trail of light behind it gave off intense light beams. The craft's lights went off-and-on two or three times during the sighting, which lasted five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5963",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, November 1978, p. 15, citing La Cronica, September 15, 1978; Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter,  October 1979, p. 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/14/1978",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. in San Basilio, Sardegna, Italy a big brilliant light in the night sky resolved to a huge metallic gray ovoid. It hovered for a couple of minutes, then vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5964",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, August 1981" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/14/1978",
  "desc" : "The owner of a large firm and prominent business executive was driving on I-80 to Randolph, Nebraska and had reached a point two miles west of Belden at around 10:00 p.m. when an object descended on the highway ahead of him, directing a light beam on the road surface. It looked like a tank with treads but without guns. As the witness stepped out of the car, a door opened on the object and a man stepped out. He seemed normal, was dark haired, of normal height and wore white pants and a white shirt. He spoke to the witness by name, in perfect English, then re-entered the object, which rose up in a brilliant column of light emitting a high pitched whine as it left. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5965",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, December 1978, p. 1; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case #  A1964; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 317, citing Robert E. Bartholomew, UFO Lore, quoting APRO Bulletin" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/14/1979",
  "desc" : "At 6:30 a.m. a boat crew off the coast of Siniscola, Sardegna, Italy watched a sphere with luminous rays as it hovered for ten minutes over the ocean, then shot away fast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5966",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 200, December 1980" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/14/1979",
  "desc" : "On this night a beam of light shone through the witness's bedroom window in Oakenholt, Wales and she suddenly felt dizzy. She then felt herself being levitated through some form of a tunnel and encountered two aliens in a field. A huge craft hovered nearby and a beam of light lifted her inside. The interior of the craft consisted of one large room with three other alien beings and an almost human appearing girl of about 19 years of age. The room contained a portrait of an older being, apparently a leader. After a 30 minute otherworldly trip the beings showed her an alien zoo with many bizarre animals. The beings communicated with the witness and then said goodbye, whereupon she then found herself back in her bed again. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5967",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case # 2234, citing Jenny Randles & Paul Whetnall" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/14/1979",
  "desc" : "Two women in Canoga Park, California witnessed a disc-shaped object with flamelike jets around the perimeter hovering ahead of their car at 7:55 p.m. It tilted, darted from point to point, and then took off at very high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5968",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ann Drufel, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1981, p. 13; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 24" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/14/1987",
  "desc" : "A 23-year-old man in Hebron, Indiana witnessed a very large, black, boomerang-shaped object, the size of a railroad car, only 75-100 feet away and at 75-100 feet altitude. It had two rows of steady blue lights on the underside, with 11 lights in each row. The object was described as blacker than black. Its speed was very slow, moving at about 15 mph. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5969",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Rigg, MUFON field investigator, MUFON case files CD-ROM, report # 880808" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/14/1989",
  "desc" : "A woman's dogs hid while a diamond-shaped object passed over her home in Cantonment, Florida at 8:00 p.m. It looked “like two Hershey’s Kisses attached together at the bases” with more than 40 colored lights, rotating clockwise. It was also seen by her 12-year-old son. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5970",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Carol & Rex Salisberry,MUFON field investigators, MUFON case files CD-ROM, 891006b; MUFON UFO Journal, February 1990, p. 16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/14/1995",
  "desc" : "A large dark, silent triangle was seen against the clouds in Gulf Breeze, Florida at 8:30 p.m., flying to the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5971",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #  17426; UFO Newsclipping Service, January 1996" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/14/1998",
  "desc" : "At a little before sunset two women were sitting on the balcony of a house belonging to one of them, at Markou Mousourou Street in the Metz neighborhood of Athens, Greece opposite Ardittos hill. They saw a small black object in the sky about one kilometer away. They first thought it might be a helicopter but it made no sound. When the object approached, they saw it was a humanoid figure in a standing position. It flew closer and the flying humanoid turned its body once in the direction of nearby Zappeio park and then once in the opposite direction, without changing speed or posture. It started coming down and seemed to land somewhere inside the forest on Ardittos hill. They thought that the flying creature was wearing something like an \"astronaut suit\" because from time to time the sunset light gleamed on it. After landing the figure went up the hill by making some small mechanical \"hops,\" until it reached a point just below the crest. It did not bend its knees when it hopped nor did it move its arms. After ten minutes the creature transformed itself into a \"bright spot\" and then vanished. During the incident, there was a strong wind blowing but the movement of the creature's flight was steady. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5972",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, citing Thanassis Vembos" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/14/2003",
  "desc" : "At ten o'clock in the morning a dark grey disc-shaped object hung 100 feet over the water at the Wivenhoe Dam in Brisbane Valley, Queensland, Australia on a clear day. The water below the disc was being agitated by the UFO's presence. The craft took off at an angle at an incredible speed. The sighting lasted ten minutes and was witnessed by a Mr. & Mrs. Thompson. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5973",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Australasian Ufologist, October 2004, p. 5, citing an email from the witnesses" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/14/2004",
  "desc" : "In Humboldt, Saskatchewan, Canada three or more orange-red tinged, chevron-shaped objects at a very high altitude, flew from west to east at a very high speed in single file. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5974",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 678, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/14/2005",
  "desc" : "A cigar-shaped UFO flew to the south over Guaynabo, Bayamon province, Puerto Rico at 7:06 a.m. It was the size of a commercial jet, but had no wings. Its polished silver surface reflected the sunlight. It was lost from sight when the craft passed into some cumulus clouds.Duration of the sighting was 15 to 20 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5975",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mike Vike, www.ufoinfo.com" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/14/2007",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. a round orange light descended from the sky over Saint-Anaclet, Quebec, Canada, then stopped. It flew off after 90 seconds leaving a trail of smoke. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5976",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case 602, citing RCMP" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/14/2009",
  "desc" : "At 10:15 p.m. a man who wishes to remain anonymous was driving north on Hudson Drive, Stow, Ohio on his way to work when he spotted a 9 to 10 foot tall solid black entity standing on the southbound side of the road, near the Rte 8 overpass and just north of the local Applebee's restaurant. It was only about fifteen to twenty feet from his vehicle as he drove by. The creature had no discernable head or facial figures. Looking back in his rearview mirrow the entity was no longer visible, and the entire sighting lasted only about five seconds. The witness became extremely upset, and he had uncontrolled watering of his eyes; he tried to call his wife on his cell phone, but it would not work, either from the programmed address book or with manual input calling. He kept getting \"call failed\", which had never happened before. The cell phone failed to connect all the way to the I-271 entrance ramp, a distance of 8-10 miles. The following day, on his way home from work, as he neared the Rte 8 overpass, this time driving over the bridge, his eyes began to tear up uncontrollably again until he got beyone the bridge, when his eyes began to clear up.  ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5977",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 2009 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing http:/naturalplane.blogspot.com/2009/" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/15/1954",
  "desc" : "At 3:20 a.m. a red disc-shaped object surrounded by a green halo was sighted by a married couple in Roubaix, Nord department, France for 35 seconds. It rose vertically until a point of light, and disappeared when at the zenith. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5978",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 49" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/15/1954",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon in Kadori, Bihar, India a noisy disc-shaped object approximately 20 feet in diameter was sighted by over 800 people, hovering for a few minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5979",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 26; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case # 45" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/15/1954",
  "desc" : "At 8:45 p.m. a red cigar-shaped shaped object reappeared over the town of Bois-en-Ardres, Pas-de-Calais, France and circled the area, giving off a red and white glow. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5980",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 49; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 79" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/15/1954",
  "desc" : "Driving on a secondary road at around 11:00 p.m. in Feurs, St. Etienne, Loire department, France the witness's car engine quit. Soon a bright saucer-shaped object descended and landed very close to the car. A small being, described as wearing a Hitler-like uniform, ran by the car and was seen by several observers. It ran away from the group of witnesses when they attempted to approach and communicate with him. The craft soon took off. A dog was supposedly excited during the encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5981",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 3582; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 79" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/15/1954",
  "desc" : "A white light suddenly swept the road in front of Roland M., age 19, who was driving in Feyzin, Rhone department, France at 11:30 p.m. He observed that it came from a large, dark object shaped like an ellipse about ten meters above the ground, 50 meters away. It flew away, making a noise like wet fireworks, and throwing magnesium-like sparks. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5982",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Le Parisien, September 29, 1954; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 49; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 210" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/15/1962",
  "desc" : "Two bright discs were first seen at 5:00 p.m., then again at 6:00 p.m., at the state line near Oradell, New Jersey. Two witnesses saw one round object with a fin on top, and another under it at 7:50 p.m., and reported that it was going down toward the Oradell Reservoir. Three young men next saw and heard the object as it touched the water. Another witness called the police. The luminous object took off a few minutes later. The official investigation described it as bright, surrounded with a glow, and the apparent size of a small plane one kilometer away. It left flying toward the south. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5983",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 547, citing Project Blue Book files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/15/1963",
  "desc" : "At six o'clock in the evening Mrs. F. E. Roush of Vandalia, Ohio reported seeing two very bright gold objects in the sky, one shaped like a banana and the other like an ear of corn. One UFO remained stationary while the other moved from west to north. The sighting lasted 10 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5984",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/15/1965",
  "desc" : "Two policemen, John Lockem and Koos de Klerk, were on patrol on the Pretoria-Bronkhorstspruit Road in Silverton, South Africa just before midnight when their headlights illuminated a disc-shaped object resting on the road. It was 10 meters in diameter and copper-colored. Ten seconds later it took off in a pool of flames at high speed. The tar on the road kept burning for some time after the UFO left, leaving behind a large hole in the bitumen. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5985",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Charles Bowen, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 71; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 702" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/15/1965",
  "desc" : "At 11:45 p.m. in Sudbury, Massachusetts Mr. R. Schofield's car engine skipped and the lights dimmed, and he stopped to check engine in midst of rainstorm. When the driver got out of the car, he saw a disc-shaped object with a glowing rim that sparked in sequence, 200 feet above him. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5986",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler case files, report dated March 18, 1967" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/15/1966",
  "desc" : "At two o'clock in the afternoon J. Koch sighted a 35-foot in diameter revolving gray disc w dark windows around the rim in White Rocks, Uintah County, Utah. It had a flashing red light on the top, and a glowing green flashing light on the bottom. It also had what looked like exhaust pipes (see sketch below). ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5987",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Frank Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, case # A15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/15/1967",
  "desc" : "The carcass of a horse named \"Lady\", but misnamed in press reports as \"Snippy\", was discovered mutilated on a ranch outside of Alamosa, Colorado. Unusual radioactivity and strange traces were claimed to have been found at the spot. This was the first highly publicized case of many more such animal and cattle mutilations to occur in the San Luis Valley. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5988",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 883, Edward U. Condon (editor),  Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 344" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/15/1967",
  "desc" : "In Winsted, Connecticut at 8:45 p.m. two teenage girls observed a large, glowing object, and three small figures, about 1.25 meters tall, with oversized heads, running across a road near a barn. From the object came a noise similar to that of \"a power mower when it fires but fails to start.\" The object blacked out, and the figures hid while a car passed, afterwards the object pulsated between very bright white and dull red, and moved diagonally several times. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5989",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs Over the Americas, p. 166; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 883, citing Lorenzens and Edward U. Condon (editor),  Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 347" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/15/1968",
  "desc" : "Near Ocala, Florida. 9:30 p.m. Missionary pilot Jay Cole, flying a Beech C-45 twin-engine utility plane, observed an unidentified light performing aerobatics in the night sky. He watched it for 15 minutes before it vanished. A second light appeared, heading toward Cole's plane on a collision course. It made a 90-degree turn and disappeared. Later, ground radar told them a target had been following them. The two sightings lasted a total of 15 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5990",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/15/1973",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. a 13-year-old boy and some other younger children watched a lighted disc-shaped UFO slowly descend over a neighborhood in North Royalton, Ohio. It then hovered silently overhead. They could see three lighted windows and behind them several occupants were inside and they appeared to be looking down. They were described as having large oblong shaped heads that seemed too big for their thin necks. They appeared to be leaning on something, and their long skinny arms were crossing each other. The craft suddenly turned off its lights and ascended quickly out of sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5991",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/15/1975",
  "desc" : "In August 1975 about 20 people in and around Gilroy, California saw unexplained red and white lights in the sky on successive nights. On August 10, a lighted object followed and badly frightened 12-year-old Imelda Victor and another woman as they were driving to the girl's house. The girl's mother also saw the object, which had \"four large landing gear like arms coming out of it.\" On this night Mrs. Victor (a doctor by profession), woke up to find two beings in silvery suits standing near her in her bedroom. They had small slits for eyes, the nose and the mouth. She felt very calm. They asked her telepathically to go with them, and she found herself floating up into a hovering UFO. As she floated up she clearly saw the roof of the house and the stars. Inside, she had a sensation of intense beauty, with emerald colored floors. The walls were silvery, smooth, and with large round instruments. She was then blinded by a white light, and the next thing she remembers she woke up in bed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5992",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1975 Humanoid Contact Database, citing David Pratt, Visitors from the Twilight Zone; Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact, p. 92" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/15/1976",
  "desc" : "On this night in Los Teques, Venezuela a man ran to the gate of the textile plant were he works, in a state of shock and terror. He collapsed and was sent to the local hospital. He later claimed that he had seen a disc-shaped object land, and had a confrontation with several undescribed occupants from the object. For two months there were nightsly UFO sightings in the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5993",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, November 1976" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/15/1977",
  "desc" : "Paciencia, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. At 2:20 a.m. Antonio La Rubia, age 33, a bus driver, was en route to work when he saw a flying saucer in a field that looked like an enormous hat. Frightened, he started to run when a blue light beam lit up the area, and he found that he could not move. At the same time, three very odd figures materialized nearby him. The figures were about four feet tall, with football-shaped heads or helmets and a tall antenna on top. The only features he could make out of the heads were a row of shiny, small, mirror-like sections around the center of the head, from which blue flashes were being emitted. The beings had stocky bodies and long, elephant trunk-like arms ending in a single digit. Their robot-like bodies were covered by a rough metallic surface he believed could have been the body surface, or skin. Their bodies were rounded at the bottom and surmounted a single leg, like a pedestal, with a rounded base.<br/><br/> The three creatures surrounded La Rubia, and he was captured inside an invisible glass or \"bell jar.\" The robots floated above the ground and one pointed a syringe like device at him and he began to move toward the object. The next thing he knew he was inside the craft with no recollection of how he entered it. He was in a white \"aluminum\" corridor, with one transparent wall, through which he could see the field from which he had just come. Two figures went one way, the third another. He could see through the transparent wall that the object was airborne. A bright blue light came on, and he found himself in a large circular hall. There were a dozen similar entities on either side of the hall; they reminded him of children sitting in a schoolroom on single legged chairs. Up until now he had been unable to speak, but suddenly he found his voice and began screaming, \"Who are you? What do you want from me?\" The figures fell back at the sound and tumbled all over the floor. They lifted their single digits to the antennae on their heads and held them. These tips rotated so rapidly that only when they held them could he see them clearly.<br/><br/> He noticed a small box-like device standing on two poles that raised it to about the height of his chest. An antennae jutted up from each end of the box, and a receptacle stood atop it. The robot-like entities removed small devices from the belts around their waists, and placed them in this container, pushing a key on the box. When this happened, a scene would appear on the wall in moving color. The first showed Antonio, lying naked, on an unseen table, while he was being examined by a being with a small bluish light, while another being examined his head. Another \"slide\" was projected and showed Antonio, still naked, standing alone. Other images included a view of him dressed and carrying a shopping bag, with his teeth chattering; another showed a horse and cart on a dirt road, with a barefoot peasant wearing a straw hat. Another picture of him showed him next to an orange ball, and then next to a blue ball beside which stood another entity. The next slide showed an image of a big dog attacking one of the entities, and the being began melting from top to bottom, until it was nothing but a porridge like substance. Then in the \"film\" one of the entities moved toward the dog and pointed a syringe like device at the animal and it too began melting, after turning blue. A UFO \"factory\" was displayed in another image; then a train entering a tunnel; and a view of a busy Rio thoroughfare. One scene showed La Rubia vomiting and defecating into his clothes.<br/><br/> During this display, an entity approached and pointed a syringe at him; his arm was raised against his will and the syringe was stuck into his middle finger, taking a blood sample, but leaving no mark. The entity then pointed it at a wall and drew three red circles intersected with an \"L\". The next thing he remembered was being thrown overboard, where he found himself once again in the street, with all his belongings, as well as one of the beings. His watch had stopped at 2:20 a.m. The being then vanished, and the object ascended out of view. His head was spinning and he was burning. The time was 3:55 a.m. Anotonio was eventually taken to a hospital, where he suffered from sporadically high fevers and insatiable thirst. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5994",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1977-75, citing Irene Granchi for APRO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/15/1978",
  "desc" : "At four o'clock in the morning a 26-year-old woman in Carpentersville, Illinois was awakened by a whirring sound and she went to her bedroom window to look outside. The noise stopped, but then she saw the figure of a six-foot tall man. He was dressed in a silvery suit. Several feet away from him she saw a small, silver, domed disc sitting on the edge of the grass. It was opaque and smooth and was the source of the whirring sound. The witness then screamed at her husband to wake up, and her dog started barking furiously. They both tried to phone the police but the phone was not working. When the police eventually arrived both the mysterious visitor and the UFO were gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5995",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 228, citing International UFO Reporter, Vol. 4, # 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/15/1978",
  "desc" : "The principal witness and her family had seen a shiny disc-shaped flying object hovering near their farmhouse in Edmunston, New Brunswick, Canada late this night. The witness could only recall vague memories after this, but she remembers the police were called. Years later her mother told her that she had seen the disc land and saw figures come out of it. The next night she woke up thirsty and asked her father to bring her a glass of water. As she followed her dad to the kitchen she noticed an odd smell, which was at the same time smokey and sweet. She then noticed a small being walking behind her. It was about four feet tall, grayish green in color, and had no visible eyes, ears, mouth, or nose. It had some sort of bag, which it threw over the witness. Her last memory was of seeing her father standing still as if frozen in place. She doesn't remember anything else. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5996",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case #3559, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/15/1985",
  "desc" : "In Bagshot Heath, Surrey, England a fifty-foot diameter lenticular disc with portholes around the rim paced cars at ten o'clock in the evening. The main witness, named McMurray, experienced telepathic communication with the UFO occupants, and had a possible missing time experience and abduction. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5997",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, October 1986" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/15/1996",
  "desc" : "A young backpacker, Ricardo Machado Oliveira, was exploring a remote mountain cave near Cabeca da Penha Mountain, Portugal and while in it apparently passed out. When he came to, he found himself in a vast underground hangar surrounded by \"three distinct species of aliens\". Nearby were several silvery ovoid craft. The aliens told Ricardo that they were part of an alliance of interstellar worlds engaged in observing Earth. Their base under the Serra da Guardunha Mountains was one of four such bases. Immediately after hearing this Ricardo blacked out again. When he opened his eyes, he was lying on the ground right outside the cave. In the 14th century, at the same cave, a little girl from a nearby village vanished for three days. When she was finally found, she told the search party that she had been cared for by \"a lady in white\", who had offered her water to drink from a bell. Some have attributed this to a visitation by the Blessed Virgin Mary. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5998",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1996 Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, case # 2483, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Volume 1, number 32" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/15/1996",
  "desc" : "St Seurin D'Uzet, Charente Maritime department, France. At around 8:00 p.m. a witness was standing in his garden when he saw a bizarre object, which descended until it touched down of the surface of the Gironde River. Using a pair of binoculars, from about 200-300 meters away, he saw a figure suddenly appears, along with what resembled an inflatable orange raft at the being's feet. The being then began to float against the current on the orange \"raft\". At the same time there was a reported power blackout in the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_5999",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 340; Phenomena, issue # 34, Sud Ouest newspaper" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/15/2002",
  "desc" : "At 2:45 a.m. Denny Unger decided to step outside on a clear and windless night in Leduc, Alberta, Canada. He saw three points of light forming a flying triangle. \"My first thought was that I was having a dizing spell, so I refocused, and the lights were there.\" Thirty seconds later the flying triangle of lights changed direction from north to east, and appeared to blot out stars as it passed them without making any sound. The lights on each tip were solid white, but of low intensity. He had the distinct impression that the corner lights were used to camouflage the object, and it was doing its best not to be seen. It was completely silent. He grabbed his video camera inside the house and began filming the object, but soon lost sight of it as it flew behind a neighbor's house. A triangle formation of lights was all that was captured on video. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6000",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twitchell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 109" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/15/2002",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. a husband and wife and their two children were driving home to Mercier, Quebec from their country place near Huntington when the wife sighted what appeared to be really bright stars. After five minutes, as they got closer the two lights ahead changed position, and what she saw gave her shivers. It was a distinct flying triangular shape, with lights at all three corners, unlike any aircraft and larger than a Boeing 747. Her husband said he could \"see through it\". They all watched the low flying object for 10 minutes as it flew overhead. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6001",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer &David E. Twitchell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 108; Geoff Dittman, 2002 Canadian UFO Survey, case 417, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/15/2002",
  "desc" : "At about 9:35 p.m. a witness driving a van in Poquoson, Virginia saw a bright light streaking across the sky. Stopped van, watched it travel across sky at an extremely high rate of speed. He contacted Langley Air Force Base who confirmed they had no aircraft up that night. He also contacted the local TV station but they had had no other calls. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6002",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twitchell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 21" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/15/2003",
  "desc" : "A large, white ring-shaped object with twirling lights descended out of sight in Airdrie, Alberta, Canada at 11:20 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6003",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2002 Canadian UFO Survey, case 493, citing HBCCUFO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/16/1952",
  "desc" : "The crew of a U.S. Navy P2V Neptune patrol plane, Boak, Prentis and Hara, flying near Portland, Maine at 6:22 p.m. sighted a dark elongated cigar and a group of five unidentified lights and picked up a long thin blip on radar. Investigators considered whether the crew had sighted a USAF KC-97 aircraft involved in a refueling operation, but decided that this was unlikely. The sighting lasted 20 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6004",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2099; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 146; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Cominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 19; UNICAT, case # 746" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/16/1952",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. three Air Force officers and two civilians at Warner-Robbins AFB, Georgia observed two unidentified white lights flying abreast, at a speed of 100 mph, for 15 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6005",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/16/1954",
  "desc" : "At 5:45 p.m. a metallic round flat object, was seen gliding along rapidly in calm air over Le Pin, Isere, France by four witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6006",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 50" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/16/1954",
  "desc" : "In Marion, Virginia a radio station transmitter failed as a round shiny UFO passed by the tower. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6007",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 74" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/16/1955",
  "desc" : "Boisseuges, France. A young shepherd heard a whistling sound at 6:00 p.m. as a dark mass appeared to fall from the sky and a rush of air swept him from his feet. The object looked like a machine with an opening where a stairway became visible. Two occupants were seen. One was observed to have a reddish face, a baldhead, and very fine teeth. The craft was round, about 3.5 meters in diameter, and two meters high; it was lighted with a neon-like light. The occupants gathered some plants and flew away to the northwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6008",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 252 (case 375); Gamard Alain, UFO Register 1978 (volume 7), p. 44" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/16/1957",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. in Smithfield, Queensland, Australia Les McDonald, age 17, and Gladys Smith, age 14, saw a red light changing to green, spreading around them like a mist and covering an area about 100 meters in diameter. They became nearly paralyzed and \"felt a warm glow.\" They had no fear, but were \"merely cognizant of things as they were without [the ability] to react.\" This sensation lasted two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6009",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 258 (case 402), citing UFO Bulletin, December 1957" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/16/1962",
  "desc" : "On this night a rubber plantation worker in Vila Conceicao, near Barcelos, Amazonas, Brazil saw a round glowing object emitting sparks come down into a clearing in the plantation. Three humanoid beings jumped out, attacked another man, who happened to be a soccer referee, abducted him and took him away. They also stole 17 hens, six pigs, and two cows from the plantation. The UFO shot straight up into the sky when it took off. Neither the man nor the animals were ever returned. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6010",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, January 1963, p. 3; FSR, September 1970, p. 28; Brad Sparks, Computer Catalog of Abduction Cases (N=150), case 74; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions:  The Measure of a Mystery.  Volume 2: Catalogue of Cases, case # 262" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/16/1965",
  "desc" : "Pretoria, South Africa. Two police officer witnesses in an approaching car, Lockem and De Klerk, watched in astonishment as a copper-colored, domed disc-shaped UFO, 30 feet in diameter, lifted off from the road in front of them at 12:10 a.m., emitting flames from two tubes on the underside. The physical traces included a burned five foot diameter depression on the macadam road. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6011",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, September 1965, p. 5; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 171, 262" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/16/1971",
  "desc" : "Radar/visual confirmation. At 8:45 p.m. astronomers and many other witnesses in St. Michel, east of Manosque, Alpes-Haut-Provence, France saw a 12 meter diameter disc-shaped object make maneuvers and turns; it shot off to the northeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6012",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, FSR Case Histories, February 1972, p. 2; GEPA Phenomenes Spatiaux, September 1971, p. 28, citing LDLN" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/16/1973",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. a brightly glowing ellipse hovered near a house in Greilickville near Elmwood Township, Michigan. There were four witnesses, including Mr. Peacock. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6013",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, p. 341; J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, volume 5 (1974), case 570" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/16/1974",
  "desc" : "At around 9:15 p.m. Mrs. Richards was driving north of St Helens, Tasmania, Australia with her two young children when she noticed the sky light up ahead of her. Crossing a bridge, the car then lost power and rolled to a stop. The entire electric system was out, even the heater, radio, headlights and dashboard lights, and an attempt to restart the car failed. Then \"a deafening vibrating noise enveloped the car.\" As she and the children covered their ears, \"painful electrical shocks began penetrating their bodies.\" This went on for about a minute. Next, the car filled with a \"choking smell,\" and they evacuated the car and ran down the road to a house some distance away. The local resident noted their alarmed condition and took them in, and after a short while they all went back to check on their vehicle. The light had gone, and all that was unusual with the car was that its hood was hot. The car started normally, and they drove home. Coincidentally, Mrs. Richards husband was out waiting for them and saw lights in the sky and heard a distant roar. Although the children suffered no subsequent physiological effects, Mrs. Richards had swollen arms, fingers, and became numb on the right side of her face. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6014",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Saturday Evening Mercury, September 21, 1974; W. K. Roberts, FSR, February 1976, p. 22; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 63; Keith Basterfield, UFO Research Australia, March 1982, p. 26" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/16/1974",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon west of Dargnies, Somme, France two domed discs were seen on the ground. \"Men\" were seen working outside the crafts. The objects took off rapidly to the west, and \"lava rock\" was found at the landing site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6015",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 339" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/16/1978",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 a.m. in Delano, Tennessee a witness saw two humanoid beings with what looked like flashlights in the yard. Then a pink-colored UFO descended, and the figures vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6016",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 12827, citing International UFO Reporter, July 1979" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/16/1981",
  "desc" : "Mr. Burke, age 48, was driving between Nowra and Kangaroo Valley, New South Wales, Australia when his car was enveloped in a blazing light which allegedly melted his tape recorder. It also caused soreness in witness's leg and fingers. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6017",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "ACOS Bulletin, March 1982, p. 11" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/16/1981",
  "desc" : "At Charleston Lake, Ontario three members of a family watched three red spheres at 9 p.m. The first object came in over the lake at tree level, banked left over the water, and disappeared in the east. The other two stayed over water, then vanished \"into thin air\". ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6018",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joe Graziano, APRO Bulletin, March 1982, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/16/1989",
  "desc" : "Radioactive release occurred on this day at 8:20 a.m. at Chernobyl' Unit 4, Ukraine. A few hours later a doctor, Dr. I. Gospina, sighted an amber, elliptical UFO. She was able to discern its top and bottom. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6019",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Stonehill, The Soviet UFO Files, p. 68" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/16/1989",
  "desc" : "On this night a young female employee of a local meat packing plant in Nikolayev, Russia had stepped outside for a quick break at a tramway when a beam of light struck her from above. Looking up, she saw a hovering disc-shaped craft which the beam had emanated from. The object was about 40-60 meters in diameter. She reported that she felt no fear and indeed had a euphoric feeling as she began rising up into the air towards the object. She was levitated up to 160 feet and near to the UFO. She also heard a voice extolling her to \"fly with them\". Other workers came to the scene and began yelling and ran towards the woman.The witnesses screaming apparently had an effect, for the beam disappeared, she was returned to ground, and the UFO flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6020",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 10; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14941; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, citing Mikhail Gershtein, Immense Invasion" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/16/1989",
  "desc" : "On this night witnesses north of Zaostravka, Perm, Russia watched several disc-shaped objects engaged in what looked like an aerial battle or \"dogfight\" with another gold-colored disc. After several explosions the electrical power in Zaostravka went off. The gold-colored disc was seen crashing into a swamp. Several military personnel tried to get near the crash site, but the isolated location seemed impossible to access. The zone was declared off limits by the local military, several families living nearby were displaced, and a barbwire fence was installed in the area. Aircraft flying over the area afterwards reported equipment malfunctions and were diverted to other flight paths. The downed object was described as mushroom-shaped with a greenish-gold dome and a matt black rim with a narrow base. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6021",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, citing F. Bachurin, N. A. Subbotin and Anton Anfalov" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/16/1992",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m. on County Road 70 northeast of Elk River, Minnesota, Mr. Townsend, age 49, witnessed a huge gray, silent domed disc over a clearing in the midst of a rainstorm. He viewed it clearly when the lightning flashed. The main body of the craft was disc-shaped, like a plate upside down, with a smaller bowl on top. There were four round white lights spaced evenly around the bottom, and it had smaller green and red lights in between. An interesting feature was that the rain stopped one foot from top the top of the craft, as if the energy field surrounding the object was causing the rain to dissipate. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6022",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gary Trash, MUFON field investigation case files, case # 120592C; Donald Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, February 1993, p. 16; Joni Astrup, UFO Newsclipping Service, December 1992, p. 1, citing Star News, September 30, 1992" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/16/1994",
  "desc" : "At 10:15 a.m. several children in school in Ruwa, Mashona East, Zimbabwe watched three silver discs or spheres disappear with a flash of light, then reappear three times. One of the objects landed and a small man emerged. He was one meter tall and pale with a scrawny neck, big eyes and long black hair. He wore a shiny tight black suit. There were a total of 62 witnesses, and the incident lasted eight minutes. In another account of the same or a parallel incident, at 10:18 in nearby Harare, Mashona East, Zimbabwe school children at a school in a rural area spotted an unknown craft that landed in the valley below, with black humanoids patroling outside. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6023",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Cynthia Hind, UFO Afri News, January 1995; Cynthia Hind, MUFON UFO Journal, January 1995; (2) Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 1994 webpage, report uploaded December 5, 2001" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/16/1994",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. numerous witnesses observed a strange craft hovering over Metepec, Mexico. At about the same time Sara Cuevas filmed a disc-shaped craft hovering over the area. A few hours later she noticed a strange luminous being standing about 90 feet away from her in the middle of a nearby sugar cane field. She filmed the four-foot-tall humanoid as it slowly moved away. The next day, footprints and strange formations of flattened crop-formation depressions were found in the sugar cane field. Another witness came forward who had seen a luminous dome-shaped craft land in the field that same night. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6024",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1994, case # 2283, citing Michael Hesemann, The Cosmic Connection; Carlos Alberto Guzman Rojas, Los OVNIs y la Aviacion Mexicana: 50 anos de encuentros con OVNIs en el espacio aereo mexicano, p. 175" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/16/1995",
  "desc" : "At around midnight, during the heavy rain and buffeting of Tropical Storm Marilyn, a local resident of Pozo, Campo Rico, Puerto Rico saw a strange five-foot creature with red glowing eyes. He fired at the being several times with his gun, but it sprouted small wings and flew away from the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6025",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1995 Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, case # 2303, citing Jorge Martin, Evidencia OVNI, issue # 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/16/1996",
  "desc" : "At around 5:00 a.m. a witness in a car noticed a shiny luminous point of unusual size in Corme Royal, Charente-Maritime, France, then saw an ovoid craft with three portholes emitting a strong orange light. It was stationary at an altitude from 30-40 meters and 300-400 meters from the road. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6026",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "GEIPAN, case 237" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/16/1996",
  "desc" : "The 6-year-old witness was sleeping on the floor of his brother's room in Windsor, North Carolina when at 4:15 a.m. he awoke, looked to his right, and saw a white face with a grayish tint that was apparently lying on the ground staring at him. It had large black eyes and an almond-shaped head, no ears, a slit for a mouth, and two holes for a nose. It seemed to be about 5 feet 8 inches tall. The witness could not move his neck much, so he could not see its entire figure. Both the alien and young boy stared at each other for at least five minutes. It didn't flinch or move. When the witness attempted to scream he couldn't. He could move his arms, but not his legs. He then heard a voice in his head that said, \"Don't move it is already done\" or something similar to that. Upon hearing that, the witness decided to defend himself and punched it directly at the face. As soon as his hand made contact with the creature, it disappeared. There appears to have been about an hour time lapse, and in the morning the witness found marks on his arm and later on his back. He remembers that while he was staring at the alien there appeared to be a white light aura surrounding him. He does not believe he was in his brother's room at that point. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6027",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1996 Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, citing direct communication with the witness" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/16/1996",
  "desc" : "On this evening 62-year-old Uri Sakhov was walking to the local post office in Nazareth, Israel when he suddenly heard a loud whizzing sound and felt hands grab his hair and shoulders. In an instant he found himself being pulled into an egg-shaped object. Inside he found himself in a strange crystal chamber surrounded by several small humanoids. These were described as 2 to 3 feet tall, with heads shaped like light bulbs and skinny limbs that made unintelligible noises. The leader was described as taller and green colored, wearing flowing robes. He was very slender and had a narrow vertical head, with eyes located on either side of it. One of the small humanoids stepped up to the witness and sprayed his face with a yellowish powder. Soon they were conducting numerous medical tests on Sakhov, which made him feel \"horrible\" and very uncomfortable. Midway through the tests he lost consciousness. When he recovered consciousness he found himself lying flat on his back in the middle of a soccer stadium, half a kilometer from his house. Feeling dizzy, he went home and noticed that he still had some of the yellow powder on his face. The powder was analyzed at a local hospital and it was found to be about 60 percent aluminum and different from any soil found in the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6028",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1996 Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, case # 2461, citing Barry Chamish" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/16/1998",
  "desc" : "In Serpent River, Ontario two witnesses observed a silver oval object hovering overhead (below the clouds) for a few seconds at 1:00 p.m. Then it moved further away and hovered again. It left at a high rate of speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6029",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 1998 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 111" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/16/1999",
  "desc" : "A rural Menomonie, Wisconsin couple and a Dunn Sheriff's Deputy watched an ovoid object in the sky early Thursday morning at 4:04 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6030",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, September 1999 webpage, citing the Leader Telegram" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/16/2001",
  "desc" : "At 4:45 a.m. a mushroom/lampshade shaped object, about six-eight feet across, was seen in Market Drayton, Shropshire, England. It was white with a very bright base. It moved very fast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6031",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "British Ministry of Defense, case 2001-163" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/16/2006",
  "desc" : "A glowing cone-shaped UFO gave off heat and sound, and caused an electrical disturbance in Liberty, Kentucky at 1:00 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6032",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, September 2006 webpage, report uploaded December 2006, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/16/2007",
  "desc" : "At 4:00 a.m. a small, fast maneuvering ball of white light slowly descended from the sky to within 30 feet of a campsite in Bayfield Inlet, Ontario. It approached the witnesses, and when a flashlight was pointed at the light it reacted by moving away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6033",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 608; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, September 2007 webpage, report uploaded October 8, 2007" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/16/2007",
  "desc" : "Anza Borrego State Park, California. Carl Mandeville (pseudonym) and his girlfriend had decided to go on an overnight backpacking adventure. Their destination was Mount Laguna, in the unincorporated area of San Diego, California. However, a forest fire in Julian closed off Route 78, so they took an alternative route and stumbled upon the Anza Borrego Desert State Park. They arrived at the park at 5:00 p.m. He had never hiked or backpacked at the park before, so Carl went to the visitor center and got the information he needed, and set off on his journey to Culp Valley Campground. Culp Valley campground is at approximately 3,500 feet in elevation. He and his girlfriend pulled into the campground, loaded their backpacks, and set off. They only backpacked about one mile out due to it being the evening. They set up a tent about 20 feet north of the trail. The tent was set up on a small slope looking down on the trail.<br/><br/> At around 3:00 a.m. the moon had sunk behind the mountains surrounding the desert, and it was pitch black, and his girlfriend was sleeping. Unable to sleep Carl just lay there staring at the starry sky. Suddenly, he heard a man’s voice, he when he looked in the direction it was coming from he saw a green light being waved back and forth. He immediately thought it was the park ranger. The light was about 50 yards east from his tent, and he could tell that whoever it was was using the green light to guide somebody on the trail. The green light was coming closer and closer to their tent, probably not directly to the tent but down the trail. Abruptly, the green light disappeared and Carl panicked, because out of nowhere a massive amount of light lit up the trail 20 feet from where he was. He was terrified; nobody was talking at this point, and he didn’t hear footsteps--just saw a massive amount of white light. The light was getting closer. He immediately ducked down and lay low in his tent, very scared. He then peeked out of the tent and saw 12 to 15 humanoid figures that looked like people, but some were extremely tall, and the rest were really very short with large bald heads. The tall figures appeared to be wearing white, cloak-like outfits, and the short figures appeared to be naked. Terrified and with his heart pounding, Jeremy watched the beings walk very gracefully and slowly, turning their heads from left to right with each footstep. They were all holding metal rod-like implements which emitted a powerful white light. They seemed to ignore the tent and walked “peacefully” by. The witness remained lying still and as quiet as he could, as the beings walked by his tent. The light eventually faded as the beings continued down the trail and disappeared. Still terrified, he woke his girlfriend 10 minutes later. He waited because he didn’t want the beings to hear them talking. The next day, he told the ranger about what had happened, and the ranger wrote it down in a report, suspecting it was some type of religious cult. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6034",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2007 webpage, report uploaded October 8, 2007; Albert S. Rosales, 2007 Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, confidential report from the witness" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/16/2007",
  "desc" : "At 7:33 p.m. three white circular objects in a triangular formation hovered above the hills between Glendale and Los Angeles, California for 15 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6035",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, September 2007 webpage, report uploaded October 8, 2007" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/16/2009",
  "desc" : "Many lights, changing color and blinking randomly, merging and dividing, flying randomly and also in formation, were seen in Ajo, Arizona at 5:00 p.m. for 25 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6036",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, September 2009 webpage, report uploaded December 12, 2009" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/17/1897",
  "desc" : "In the far eastern reaches of Siberia several people witnessed a round UFO flying toward the northwest. It was seen for five minutes in Antsiferova, Russia. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6037",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Luminieres dans la Nuit, issue # 204; FSR, January-February 1969, p. 27; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 214" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/17/1952",
  "desc" : "Mr. and Mrs. Ted Hollingsworth of Tucson, Arizona sighted two groups of three large, flat, shiny objects at 11:40 a.m. north of the city. The daylight objects flew in tight formations: the first group slowly, the second group faster. The sighting lasted for 2 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6038",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2105; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: September-October, p. 36; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/17/1954",
  "desc" : "At 4:45 p.m. a silver bullet-shaped object was seen in the sky by over a thousand people including military witnesses near the Ciampino Airport, ten miles outside of Rome, Italy. It rotated from a horizontal orientation to vertical with the point down. It had an estimated altitude of 2500 feet and a speed of 150-180 miles per hour. It left a luminous vapor trail and was tracked on radar. At the same time in Pitigliano, Italy in Tuscany two hunters, Bacherini and Formiconi, heard a series of detonations and then saw a round white craft moving slowly with lateral oscillation as it advanced. It blew toward the southwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6039",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 55-57; Richard Hall, UFO Reports from the Files of the CIA, p. 21" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/17/1954",
  "desc" : "At 7:15 p.m. a cigar-shaped object was seen through a 25x telescope and was witnessed by at least 11 people in Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dome, France. It was black with a luminous tail, and the trail was exceptionally luminous. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6040",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 57" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/17/1954",
  "desc" : "Between Cenon and Vouneuil, France at 10:30 p.m. Yves David, age 28, met a being in a diving suit who made friendly gestures. The being was very small and had a voice \"inhuman and incomprehensible.\" The witness could not move throughout the encounter. He saw the creature enter a three-meter wide by one-meter tall object sitting on the road, and it took off \"like lightning.\" It cast a greenish light as it did so. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6041",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Le Figaro, September 30, 1954; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 58; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 210; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-50 (A0249), citing Aime Michel" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/17/1955",
  "desc" : "Pine Bush, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Bordes of New York City were fishing at night when they heard a loud splash and a \"gurgling sound.\" They then saw a pink, iridescent, mushroom-shaped object rise about 70 cm out of the water, then sink back into the reservoir. Later, they saw the object again. It was about five meters long and surrounded by turbulence. After it took off it reversed direction several times without turning around and finally flew away at a high rate of speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6042",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Arthur Constance, The Inexplicable Sky, p. 226; Flying Saucer Review, May-June 1955; Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 226; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 252" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/17/1966",
  "desc" : "Mr. and Mrs. Ronald MacGilvary of Cranes Beach, Massachusetts saw a golden-white, luminous cigar-shaped object resting on the beach at 4:45 a.m. It had two or three bright lights that flew in and out of the craft. They moved around with an up-and-down skipping motion. It left after an hour. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6043",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 341; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 798; NICAP UFO Investigator, November 1966, p. 4; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 414" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/17/1967",
  "desc" : "At around 2:00 a.m. An anonymous witness observed an eight-foot tall humanoid in a wooded area near Langley, British Columbia, Canada. It was reported to be pink colored and covered with scaly skin. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6044",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2085, citing John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants and Critters" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/17/1975",
  "desc" : "At 8:20 p.m. two women in their fifties were driving on a highway in Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts when they briefly glimpsed a large humanoid creature. They noticed that as they were traveling they were the only vehicle in the road, and there was total silence in the area. Suddenly, a very tall gray figure with bits of white hair appeared in front of the car. It had luminous oblong shaped eyes and what appeared to be white whiskers. The humanoid figure seemed to be in total \"control\" and had a \"majestic\" air to him. It also had a long tail that narrowed towards the end. The driver swerved to avoid hitting the creature, and temporarily ran off the road, so they did not see the humanoid depart.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6045",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "CUFOS case files, report dated May 6, 1976" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/17/1976",
  "desc" : "In Wingen, New South Wales, Australia at 3:30 a.m. a round, bright object with an intense blue glow passed only 12 feet over a car. The car engine stopped and the lights went out, and the speedometer needle jumped about even though the car was stationary. The driver, a 30-year-old man named Ryan, felt an intense heat from the object, and his watch stopped working. He also reported that his flashlight wouldn't work, even though it had new batteries. The UFO made a low humming sound. Trouble with the performance of the car persisted after the event. The close encounter lasted two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6046",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Cashman, Project 1947 EM Effects Catalog website, citing UFO Research NSW; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 69, citing Australian CUFOS" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/17/1978",
  "desc" : "At the Maatsuyker Island Lighthouse, Tasmania, Australia electrical power failed twice at 9:20 p.m. when a big glowing light flew by south of the island. It was seen by four men at the lighthouse, including the main witness, a 47-year-old man named Burns. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6047",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Australian CUFOS Files, case file NA781219" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/17/1978",
  "desc" : "In Torrita di Sienna, Tuscany, Italy at 8:15 p.m. two witnesses watched a bright sphere descend over the area the same time a electrical blackout occurred. Shortly after that a motorist, Sr. R. Faralli, a 25-year-old man driving a Fiat 127, was on his way home when his engine and lights went out, then a bright red object descended over the road just ahead of him and hovered. It was a domed disc, hat like in shape. He found he was paralyzed and could not move, as he watched a panel open and two humanoids emerge and float towards his vehicle. They were five feet tall and wore green coveralls and helmets with aerials and face masks, and they floated about four feet above the ground. They circled the car and appeared to inspect it. Their skin also appeared greenish. They re-entered the UFO, which took off with a flash of light and an explosive sound. The witness suffered eye irritation. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6048",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Roberto Pinotti, International UFO Reporter, October 1979, p. 15; Richard Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 153 (November 1980); Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1981; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 265, 270, 349, 491, 495; UNICAT, case # 111; Mark Cashman, Project 1947 EM Effects Catalog website; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1968" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/17/1979",
  "desc" : "At quarter past midnight in the Bavarian town of Eichstatt, Germany three pentagon-shaped UFOs were seen by many, including 10 police officers. One object hovered at 500 meters, then shot away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6049",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, October 1981; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 13306, citing MUFON" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/17/1979",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 a.m. a luminous white disc-shaped object was seen hovering over some trees in Vieille-Eglise, Pas-de-Calais, France; it shot away toward the northeast. Shortly after that three military interceptor jets converged on the location. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6050",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, February 1981" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/17/1981",
  "desc" : "A woman by the name of Wharry reported sighting a disc-shaped object in Apple Valley, San Bernardino County, California at 8:00 p.m. It hovered, shot away and then came back. It was spinning, had colored lights, and was not far from George Air Force Base. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6051",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joe Graziano, APRO Bulletin, February 1982, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/17/1981",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. in Kentfield, Marin County, California a huge disc-shaped object passed over homes, making a deep rumbling sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6052",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joe Graziano, APRO Bulletin, March 1982, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/17/1982",
  "desc" : "At 11:03 p.m. a bright patch of light exploded into an orange fireball near the M.V. Strathdee, a Romanian registry ship sailing in the South Atlantic at the geographical coordinates -11.62 S 33.47 W. According to the article in the MUFON UFO Journal, it flashed rays of light and made no sound. A geiger counter reading indicated a radiation level of 5-7 rads. There were 16 witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6053",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "William R. Corliss, Remarkable Luminous Phenomena in Nature, p. 283; MUFON UFO Journal, September 1984" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/17/1984",
  "desc" : "In Goshen, Connecticut a row of lights paced car on a rural road at 9:30 p.m. The configuration of lights in the row first turned into a U-shaped, and then into a delta.  They seemed to be part of one UFO, changing shape. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6054",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George C. Andrews, Extra-Terrestrials Among Us, p. 301" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/17/1989",
  "desc" : "A bright white light paced a car driving on the A5 highway near Brinklow, Warkwick, England for more than five minutes. The driver and child passenger were named Goold. The driver believed she received a telepathic message from the UFO. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6055",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard F. Haines, CE5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 160, citing FSR, March 1991, p. 22" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/17/1992",
  "desc" : "A 12-foot long metallic object with stubby wings, and a clear dome or cupola, buzzed UFO investigator Christopher O'Brien and his partner while driving seven miles north of Gardner, Colorado at 1:30 p.m. It made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6056",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 54" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/17/1994",
  "desc" : "At 11:45 p.m. a 17-year-old male reported having a close encounter with a pinkish, 25 foot diameter circular object that illuminated the ground in Memphis, Tennessee; it then rose to treetop level before flying off slowly to the southeast. It had a neon glow. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6057",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert McDowell, MUFON field investigation case files, case 950326C; T. David Spencer, MUFON UFO Journal, April 1996, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/17/1995",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m. a gray V-shaped flying wing moved silently overhead at a steady pace in Colorado Springs, Colorado. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6058",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17432, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/17/1996",
  "desc" : "Thousands including police saw a huge disc maneuver over Tel Aviv, Israel at two o'clock in the morning. The aerial display lasted two hours. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6059",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 340; Michael Hesemann, UFOs: The Secret History" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/17/2000",
  "desc" : "At 8:55 p.m. a very large, wing-shaped object flew at a low altitude over Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. It flew very fast. It was completely silent, black in color, and had no running lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6060",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2000 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/17/2004",
  "desc" : "A submarine-shaped object with many lights was seen briefly in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada at 3:30 a.m. It made a humming sound, and was mesmerising. There were two witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6061",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 682" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/17/2006",
  "desc" : "At 3:30 a.m. a boomerang V-shaped object, very large, was seen at height in Las Vegas, Nevada. Although not flying at a low altitude, it was close enough to determine that it was not a commercial nor military aircraft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6062",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2006 webpage, report uploaded October 30, 2006" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/17/2007",
  "desc" : "Independent lights forming a chevron passed silently over San Carlos, California at 11:15 p.m. at a very high altitude and at a very high rate of speed; each light shifted position. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6063",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2007 webpage, report uploaded October 8, 2007" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/18/1951",
  "desc" : "A U.S. Air Force B-36 on a training flight near Goose Bay, Labrador, Canada spotted a saucer-shaped object with multiple white lights on a parallel flight course, which then crossed over in front of them from right to left. The ADF went out for a few minutes, then the radar jammed and also went out for a few minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6064",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 14; J. Allen Hynek files; Richard F. Haines, NARCAP: A Preliminary Report of 64 Pilot Sightings Involving EM Effects on Aircraft, case # 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/18/1954",
  "desc" : "At 5:55 a.m. two control tower operators, a weather forecaster and a weather observer at Kimpo Air Base in Korea watched a round object, like polished aluminum, fly straight and level for 11-13 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6065",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 3213; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/18/1954",
  "desc" : "At 8:15 p.m. a small gray disc flew over a car from the rear at very high speed in Casablanca, Morocco. The car was being driven by a Mr. Guitta. The car was pulled to the left by an unseen force, and this was followed by a blast of cold air. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6066",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ouranos magazine; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 210; Thomas M. Olsen, Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case #  47" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/18/1962",
  "desc" : "Three men working on a rubber plantation in Barcelos, Amazonas State, Brazil saw a large, disk-shaped object hover above the river. It emitted sparks, was a silvery color, and very brilliant. It eventually rose straight up at high speed. Disappearance of cattle was noticed in the area during that period and blamed on the same cause. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6067",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 548, citing APRO Bulletin, January 1963" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/18/1962",
  "desc" : "Minerva, Ohio. Six policemen in northeastern Ohio sighted UFOs at about the same time at around five a.m. One object was hovering, while two were maneuvering. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6068",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 62" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/18/1966",
  "desc" : "Police constable Dack and two others witnessed a UFO that hovered motionless over the city of Southampton, England. It had flashing red, white and blue lights, and was dropping flares. It made no engine sounds, nor was it shaped like any known aircraft. It shot off at high speed towards Eastleigh. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6069",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Charles Bowen, Flying Saucer Review, November-December 1966, p. 31; Gary Heseltine, UFO Magazine (UK), July 2003, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/18/1967",
  "desc" : "Forestry employee Russell Hill heard a strange pulsating sound at one o'clock in the morning in Nanton, Alberta, Canada and then saw an object giving off a green glow hovering near his cabin. He also experienced radio interference during the sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6070",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p. 34; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 884" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/18/1971",
  "desc" : "At 11:45 p.m. in Chauchina, Granada, Spain a 1.5 meter diameter disc was seen hovering just six meters above the ground. Two figures were visible inside, would could be seen apparently signaling to the witness. The object was in view for 30 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6071",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, p. 35, case # 149, citing Llorente Manuel Osuna, Lumieres dans la Nuit, March 1972, p. 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/18/1978",
  "desc" : "Mr. Gould, age 52, had experienced a series of humanoid encounters in January of 1978 in his neighborhood. At two o'clock on this early morning, again in South Middleton, Massachusetts he looked out the front window of his house and noticed a group of humanoid figures standing besides the road. Five of the figures wore white coverall suits, as in the previous encounters, and one wore black. The black dressed individual appeared to be pointing to the ground. Their clothing was reflective. After a few minutes the beings walked into the woods and disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6072",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1969, citing David F. Webb, FSR" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/18/1981",
  "desc" : "Four witnesses, two each in two cars, were driving on the SR23 Freeway south of Moorpark, California at 9:15 p.m. when they sighted three bright delta-shaped objects in the sky. They were estimated to be between 25 and 50 feet in length, and they flew at a low 100-foot altitude. They went behind some hills, and then came back. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6073",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "William F. Hassel, MUFON UFO Journal, January 1982, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/18/1983",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. a boomerang with lights moved slowly across the sky over Carmel, Putnam County, New York for ten minutes, then banked to the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6074",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Doris Graziano, APRO Bulletin, July 1984, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/18/1993",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. a boomerang-shaped object with a luminous tail (or \"anchor\") flew silently over the city of Magdeburg, Germany at a low altitude. It had two red round lights near the \"focal point\". ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6075",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 41" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/18/1998",
  "desc" : "At 9 p.m. several people in Torriglia, Italy watched a luminous blue oval-shaped light on or near the ground on Mt. Prela for about an hour. In front of the light a small child-like figure was seen walking back and forth as if inspecting the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6076",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, citing CUN Genova" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/18/2004",
  "desc" : "Another boomerang-shaped object flew over the witnesses in Kanata, Ontario, Canada at 10:00 p.m. It had no lights and made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6077",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2004 webpage; Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 687, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/19/1947",
  "desc" : "A Humble Oil geophysicist in Grand Isle, Louisiana was testing radar to detect bad weather at 5:30 p.m. when his radar detected a UFO shooting to the southwest at a speed greater than 1,000 mph for less than a minute. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6078",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 43, citing Houston Press, March 24, 1950" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/19/1952",
  "desc" : "Five men in a RAF Meteor aircraft, including John W. Kilburn, were flying at 5,000 feet altitude over Dishforth, North York, England when they sighted a UFO at 1,000 feet above their plane at 10:53 a.m. They described it as round and silvery, and it changed shape to something more elliptical. It was solid looking, and it swung like a pendulum as it lost altitude. Ten British officers had just deplaned from Operation Mainbrace at Dishforth Aerodrome when they spotted the same UFO. It appeared as a white, round, glimmering circular object, followed by the RAF Meteor jet aircraft two miles back. The UFO lost altitude, and then fluttered like a leaf in a pendulum-like motion. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6079",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, The Truth About Flying Saucers, p. 136; UNICAT, case # 413; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case # 24; Michael David Hall, Captain Edward J. Ruppelt: Summer of the Saucers - 1952, p. 194" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/19/1954",
  "desc" : "At 4:30 p.m. five women in Col du Beal, Puy-de-Dome, France saw a flat gray, metallic disc-shaped object that hovered for 30 seconds, then accelerated rapidly and flew away to the northwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6080",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 62" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/19/1954",
  "desc" : "At 9:15 p.m. a policeman, Louis Moll, saw a bright light land on the heights in Oberdoff, Moselle department, France, then darken. The object was the size of a small bus. The light from the object became reddish, and he could see a black silhouetted figure moving around in front of it. After 40 seconds the object then rose up into the air again, and took on the appearance of a red ball. It flew off to the southeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6081",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 63; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-51 (A0250); Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 149" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/19/1957",
  "desc" : "A boomerang-shaped object bigger than a house was reported to have landed in Point Pleasant, New Jersey at 6:40 p.m. According to eyewitness accounts the grass had been flattened at the landing site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6082",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 258" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/19/1961",
  "desc" : "In perhaps the most famous UFO abduction story ever reported, Betty and Barney Hill, a biracial married couple active in the Civil Rights movement, were driving home from Montreal to their home in Portsmouth, New Hampshire late on this evening. When they reached Colebrook they noticed a bright lighted object in the sky that seemed to be pacing their car, and they continued to observe it as the drove along a desolate section of U.S. Route 3 through the White Mountains. Around Indian Head, New Hamsphire they stopped by the side of the road to take a closer look, and saw through binoculars a lenticular object with a double row of portholes and half a dozen dark figures working at control panels inside. One of the occupants seemed to stare directly at them. They became frightened and drove away. A \"beeping sound\" enveloped their car, and they felt a prickling sensation before losing consciousness.<br/><br/> When they came to, they were driving near Ashland, New Hampshire. They arrived home in Portsmouth unable to account for about two hours. A series of nightmares and then a series of hypnosis sessions performed by a psychiatrist in Boston brought back memories of their abduction experience by the occupants of the UFO. They encountered six five-foot-tall entities with large eyes and heads. One acted as their guide or interpreter, and he communicated with them by telepathy. They were separated, stripped for a medical exam during which a needle was inserted in Betty Hill's navel and Barney's dentures were removed and examined. There was also a map of the stars seen at one point, and Betty asked to take an artifact as evidence of their experience, but was refused. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6083",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John Fuller, The Interrupted Journey, New York: Dial, 1966; Thomas M. Olsen, Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case 125; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 524; UNICAT, case 328" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/19/1963",
  "desc" : "Four children in Saskatoon, Saskachewan, Canada saw a bright oval object hover in a field and drop something. Approaching the site, they were confronted by a three meter tall man dressed in a white monk's suit, who held out his hands and made unintelligible sounds. The giant entity was semi-transparent and had no visible face. The children fled in panic. One girl was admitted to the hospital in shock. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6084",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 581; John A. Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 145; John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants and Critters, p. 44" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/19/1967",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. Aeroflot IL-14 airliner flying over Volgograd, Russia was buzzed by a UFO. The aircraft engines quit temporarily, but then restarted as the object shot off toward the east. Ten minutes later, a luminous crescent-shaped object was seen high in the sky by a group of scientists in Belgogradskaya District, Russia at 7:40 p.m. The object then began making a rapid descent. It had a cone-shaped tail. For 40 seconds it engaged in a falling leaf motion, turned red, then assumed a drop shape, and finally dissolved away and vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6085",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Felix Zigel, unpublished manuscript, pp. 32-36; L. M. Gindilis, Observations of Anomalous Atmospheric Phenomena in the USSR, p. 37; Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 193" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/19/1968",
  "desc" : "At 6:10 p.m. in the city of Bistrita, Romania a group of observers including a man named Rusu watched a disc-shaped object with three small lights hovering for five minutes. The object stayed in one place during heavy winds, and caused electromagnetic interference effects at a nearby radio station and also blocked TV reception. It flew off rapidly to the south. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6086",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 144" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/19/1968",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. Mr. Tsekhanovich, a high trained observer, watched as a  bright pulsating orange ball descended over the ocean as it was being circled by four smaller balls of light near Gagra, Georgia. The large UFO became elongated and then vanished. One minute later there was a flash of light and all the remaining objects were gone as well. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6087",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Xenolog, August 1976, p. 13; Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 138" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/19/1970",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. a two-meter in diameter halo of light hovered over a 22-year-old woman on a farm near Villalba del Alcores, Valladolid, Spain making a buzzing sound. Dogs on the farm acted stunned and disoriented. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6088",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 136; Stendek, June 1971, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/19/1971",
  "desc" : "On this evening in Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires province, Argentina 19-year-old Osvaldo D'Annunzio had a close encounter of the second kind with a UFO that involved landing traces and physiological effects. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6089",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Nachtrichten, March 1972, citing an unnamed newspaper source; Data-Net Report, June 1972, p. 15." ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/19/1972",
  "desc" : "Mr. Jamieson took photographs as a brilliant disc-shaped object flipped 6-8 times in the sky over Broadmeadows North, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia at 10:10 p.m. The object flew at fantastic speeds and was observed for more than 15 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6090",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, September-October 1972, p. 11; FSR, January-February 1973, p. 30" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/19/1972",
  "desc" : "At 5:00 p.m. a sphere with a  triangular tail landed in the city of Rosetto Abbruzzi, Italy. After about a minute it took off very fast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6091",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Maurizio Verga, ITACAT" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/19/1973",
  "desc" : "After midnight two successive F-4 jet interceptors flying above Tehran, Iran attempted to catch a radar-visual UFO that had been widely reported by civilians. Every time visual contact was made and the crews attempted to arm a missile and prepare to fire at it, the weapons systems electronics failed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6092",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Fund for UFO Research, citing DIA documents" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/19/1973",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. a shiny salad-bowl shaped domed disc hovered at low altitude over Dunkerque, Nord, France. It made no sound, and there were many witnesses at the border post. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6093",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 10122; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 133" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/19/1974",
  "desc" : "At 12:45 a.m. Younic Le Bihan, age 20, was awakened by his parents to observe a UFO hovering outside their house in Riec sur Belon, France. The family was using binoculars to view it. The object resembled a boat; it had lights like portholes that emitted a very bright light that changed from orange to green, and on each side of the base was a red light. The object was estimated to be 30 feet wide and 22 feet high, and it hovered just two feet above the ground. Then the lights were extinguished, and the family saw a star-like light that quickly disappeared. Younic then observed three heavy set humanoid figures, about 5 1/2 foot tall, \"waddling\" toward them. The beings were dressed in metallic suits and appeared to be floating above the ground, and their faces were not visible. The family fled from their house in fear. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6094",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1974-48, citing J. L. Brochard & Pascal Gireaudot" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/19/1975",
  "desc" : "In Les Mureaux, France at 10:30 p.m. a 22-meter long reddish-orange cigar-shaped object zig-zagged up the Seine River at only 5 meters altitude. The size and distance of the object was calculated by triangulation. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6095",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1977" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/19/1976",
  "desc" : "Two Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom jets with AIM-9 missiles were scrambled to intercept a UFO, 40 nautical miles north of Tehran, Iran at 1:30 a.m. local time. They were vectored in by ground radar, and the UFO was described as a brightly luminous domed disc the size of a Boeing 707. A small object was shot by the larger disc toward the plane. First, the aircrafts' inertial navigation systems fluctuated and their radio communications were lost. When the pilot of the first aircraft, Houssain Perouzi, tried to fire one of his missiles at the UFO, their jet lost control of all its instruments. The second jet just lost weapons control. The disc was changing colors and shape when first detected; it next engaged in a series of sharp maneuvers. A third object descended vertically and landed in a desert area. The entire incident lasted two hours. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6096",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, September 1976, p. 1; Richard H. Hall, International UFO Reporter, March 1992, p. 4; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 50; UNICAT, case # 372; Richard F. Haines, citing a Joint Chiefs of Staff report dated July 19, 1978; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 20, 122, 244" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/19/1976",
  "desc" : "At 1:10 a.m. four crew members on a Boeing 707 airliner, Duarte, Alexio, Graca, and Santos, flying over the Atlantic Ocean between the Azores and Lisbon, Portugal at 35,000 feet altitude encountered an intense bluish light, which suddenly turned off, then became many less intense lights. There were three or four on top of the object, three smaller yellow lights below that, and two at the bottom of the object that looked like portholes. The minimum distance to the object was one mile. The duration of the sighting was five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6097",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UNICAT, case # 790, citing Joaquim Fernandes, p. 163" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/19/1976",
  "desc" : "At 1:15 a.m. Eloi Weigert and Jose Pinto, captain and first officer of the Portuguese airline TAP, flying a Boeing 707 airliner at 4000 feet altitude and at a speed of 240 km/hour were five minutes after takeoff from Portela Airport in Lisbon, Portugal when they spotted a bluish white light in front of them. They immediately contacted the control tower because the UFO was hovering in front of them, but it then moved in another direction. The minimum distance to the object was only 200 meters. The white light (reported to be blue by the tower) accelerated fast to the north. The close encounter lasted 45 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6098",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Phenomenes Spatiaux, December 1976, p. 14; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 40; UNICAT, case # 789; Charles Bowen, FSR, April 1977, p. 31 & June 1977, p. 1; John Wallace Spencer, World Atlas of UFOs, p. 107" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/19/1979",
  "desc" : "The witness, a military man, awoke in the middle of the night in his home in Barrio La Gloria, Mendoza province, Argentina unable to sleep, so he lit a cigarette and walked to the kitchen, leaving his family still sleeping. He leaned on the kitchen window ledge, and when he pulled the curtain aside he was surprised to see a circular gray metallic object on the ground near his house. A short, human-like figure appeared next to the craft. He wore a very white outfit with what appeared to be a bright green visor over the eyes. The witness sensed some type of telepathic message, but could not recall its contents, and does not remember how the figure and the object left. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6099",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case # 376, citing Richard Heiden, quoting R. Banchs" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/19/1979",
  "desc" : "At 7:00 p.m. four witnesses, including two 11-year-old boys with the surnames Lara and Moron, had a close encounter with a hovering, flashing, round red light in an empty lot in the neighborhood of Lujan de Cuyo, the city of Santa Ines, Mendoza province, Argentina. The object, which was emitting the flashing red light from the top of the craft, was 20 meters above ground at the time. After touching down on the ground, the object rose two meters into the air, and then landed again. Its color changed from red to white to blue. The UFO landed with a shrill sound, giving off rays of blue and white light. At the landing site were found five holes, three centimeters in diameter and two cm deep, with one of the holes in the center. These imprint marks were within a 50 cm circle marked on ground, which was compacted and hard.No unusual radioactivity was detected, but a policeman who touched the traces had his hand swell up. A general power blackout occurred in the area at the time, which was associated with the UFO landing. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6100",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, November 1979, p. 11, citing Cronica, September 24, 1979; UNICAT, case # 461, citing Daniel Moreno, UFO Press, July 1983, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/19/1983",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. 3 in a car in Tomkins Cove, Rockland County, New York had a close encounter with a 40 foot in diameter, disc-shaped object that was seen over some high tension lines. The UFO followed their car, making a humming sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6101",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1983, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/19/1986",
  "desc" : "At 1:10 a.m. a seven-meter in diameter, bowl-shaped disc landed on the road on 5 thin legs in Fredensborg, Denmark. A tube of light extended from the object, then was retracted. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6102",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Scandanavian UFO Information News, issue 11; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14458" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/19/1990",
  "desc" : "An observation by a couple and their two children of an ovoid form of milky white color at the top of some trees, around 9:45 p.m. in Thann, Haut-Rhin department, France. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6103",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "GEIPAN, case # 67" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/19/1990",
  "desc" : "Gulf Breeze, Florida. Two witnesses at 9:30 a.m. watched a large red light that flew toward the west, stopped and hovered, ejected 6-8 red lights, and then switched off. This was followed with a loud boom. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6104",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1992, p. 17" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/19/1992",
  "desc" : "An armless, neckless black entity was seen in Jarradale, Western Australia one this day at around noon. A man and his son were out hunting for firewood, and were using a disused track into the bush, when the boy noticed a movement nearby and told his father. They then saw the tall, jet-black figure watching them from behind some trees. The figure ducked down, then bounded away into the bush in two great strides. The entity had no arms and on either side of its head it had two white patches where the eyes might have been. It did not have a neck and was estimated to have been 3 ½ meters tall, or almost nine feet. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6105",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1992 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 924, citing Keith Basterfield; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15835" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/19/1995",
  "desc" : "At 5:57 a.m. a round object with a vertical ring (Saturn-shaped) was sighted at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. It moved from east to west, flying on its edge. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6106",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17435" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/19/1995",
  "desc" : "Several bell-shaped objects were sighted near the airport in Johnson City, Tennessee on this evening at 10:46 p.m. Beams of light were directed toward the ground. The UFOs hovered and maneuvered; a complex event. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6107",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17434" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/19/1995",
  "desc" : "The occurrence of anomalous radar echoes in the Central European surveillance area happened on this date.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6108",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "9/19/1997",
  "desc" : "A bronze, metallic, rectangular object with a narrow head and a small, fan-shaped horizontal tail was sighted in Orland Park, Cook County, Illinois at 5:40 a.m. It moved slowly, and made no sound. It had two rows of 8-12 lights; one row was red and the other one was blue. The tail also had a smaller row of penpendicular lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6109",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 1997 webpage; Jay Rath, The I-Files: True Reports of Unexplained Phenomena in Illinois, p. 80" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/19/2000",
  "desc" : "In Sherman Oaks, California at 9:30 a.m. a white object, shaped like the number \"8\", rose vertically very quickly across a great distance, and then disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6110",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2000 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/19/2001",
  "desc" : "A huge, silvery, flying triangle went east at high speed in Woodward, Oklahoma at 9:38 a.m. It then stopped in midair without slowing and went invisible for two seconds. Next, it sped off to the west, stopped again, and then dropped straight down. Three loud sonic booms, followed by a roaring sound, were heard. The entire sighting lasted five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6111",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George Filer, MUFON UFO Journal, November 2001, p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/19/2003",
  "desc" : "Over 50 witnesses at a fooball game in Onawa, Iowa at around 8:00 p.m. watched a light that separated into three other lights, and then formed a cross. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6112",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2003 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/19/2004",
  "desc" : "A cigar-shaped object with windows and many colored lights hovered over Ile des Soeurs, Ile-de-Montreal, Quebec, Canada at 8:30 p.m. A second object flew up to it, and then entered the larger object. The incident lasted 90 minutes. Earlier that day a large silver, cigar-shaped object was seen moving rapidly through the daytime sky over Waynesburg and Canton, Ohio from the northeast to the southwest. These corroborating reports both occurred at 4:35 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6113",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 692; (2)Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2004 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/19/2008",
  "desc" : "A motorist in Lebanon, St. Clair County, Illinois reported that a triangle-shaped craft flew directly over his vehicle. The object was flying very low and very slow, and was in view for an estimated 10 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6114",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2008 webpage, report uploaded October 31, 2008" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1947",
  "desc" : "A flaming object fell into the sea off the shore of San Diego, California. An investigation by the U.S. Coast Guard found no missing aircraft nor floating debris. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6115",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 72" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1949",
  "desc" : "A silvery cylindrical object with an orange-white exhaust was seen by a U.S. Air Force C-54 pilot flying northeast of Rome, New York at 9:06 a.m. It was seen again by another pilot at 10:00 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6116",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1989, p. 13; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 11" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1950",
  "desc" : "Kit Carson, Colorado at 10:49 a.m. A witness described by Project Blue Book as a \"reliable source\" reported sighting two large, round glowing objects and three smaller, internally lit objects. The two large objects hovered for one minute and then moved, while the three smaller objects came from behind or from within the two larger objects, and all shot upward and away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6117",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1952",
  "desc" : "Between 4:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m., a silver spherical UFO appeared over the North Sea end of the English Channel during the NATO naval exercise Operation Mainbrace and was seen by several aboard several different warshaps. It was photographed by Wallace Litwin aboard the U.S.S. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6118",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 256; UNICAT, case # 584; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 403" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1954",
  "desc" : "A bright light was seen in the east by residents of Oberdorff, France at 9:15 p.m. It came to the ground, lost its brightness, and remained in one spot for approximately 40 seconds. It was reported to be about the size of a small bus, and there was a figure standing in front of it. The object rose and took on the appearance of a red ball. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6119",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Le Parisien, September 23, 1954; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 63; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 210" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1954",
  "desc" : "Three farmers saw a saucer land in La Chassagne, Correze department, France at 11:00 p.m.  It brushed a tree, leaving behind burnt leaves and ground marks in the dirt. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6120",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 85" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1954",
  "desc" : "In the North Atlantic on Santa Maria Island in the Azores, at 11:00 p.m. Vitorino Monteiro, an airport guard at Santa Maria Airport,  saw a bluish metallic pecan shaped object 5’ x 10’ land on 4 legs, with a hum or whine. In its nose was an orange light. There was a Plexiglas type section in the forward end, which contained the pilot. There were four pole-like appendages, two at each end, which supported parallel aerials. A blond man 5’10” tall, wearing a gray aviator suit got out of a door located in the Plexiglas section, he approached the witness & spoke in an unknown language; he understood neither Portuguese nor French. He patted the guard’s shoulder, got back into his craft, fastened safety belts, and took off, turning almost straight up. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6121",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques & Janine Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 132; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-52, citing Robert D. Gammell, Project Blue Book" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1954",
  "desc" : "Late on this night two men, Srs. Atencio and Garcia, watched a luminous object in the sky for about an hour as they waited for roadside assistance next to their stranded vehicle that they had driven into a ditch. Later, they saw a luminous craft, which resembled a full moon, land behind a grove near Monte-Brandsen, Buenos Aires province, Argentina. Two one-meter tall dwarves dressed in white with big silver helmets got out and walked in their direction. When they saw the two frightened witnesses they glided back in the direction of the craft, which promptly took off fast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6122",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "La Razon, April 19, 1973; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0251; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case #1325, citing Hector P. Anganuzzi, Historia de Los Platos Voladores en Argentina" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1956",
  "desc" : "The witness was sitting on the bank of a pond on a sunny day in Hope, Arkansas when at twelve noon he observed nine silver saucers that appeared at a very high altitude in the sky. The sighting lasted 20 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6123",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, report uploaded to September 1956 webpage on April 16, 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1957",
  "desc" : "At 8:05 in the evening Sergeants H. T. O'Connor and H. D. Bridgeman at Kadena AFB on Okinawa observed an object shaped like a coke bottle without the neck. It was described as translucent and fluorescent. It made four 5-10 second passes over the airbase from north to south, with 4-5 minutes between passes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6124",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 4959; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1963",
  "desc" : "A metallic cone was seen near the ground on a farm in Fano, Marche, Italy at 11:30 a.m. A tube extended from the object and scraped the ground with fast movements. The object made a whistling sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6125",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 6407, citing Maurizio Verga, ITACAT, p. 55" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1964",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. four lens-shaped objects were observed from Comodoro Rivadavia, Chubut province, Argentina flying in a curved trajectory out to sea. They gained altitude, but then suddenly dipped and plunged into the sea. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6126",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "GEPA Phenomenes Spatiaux, December 1968; Wendelle Stevens, Saga UFO Report, March 1977, p. 37" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1965",
  "desc" : "At 4:30 p.m. a young farm woman saw an object land in Pichaca, Peru and six dwarves, 80 cm tall, emerged from it. They wore very shiny white suits that emitted flashes of light, and \"walked like ducks.\" She hid during the observation, and noted that they spoke in a language she could not understand. After their departure, a liquid resembling vinegar or oil was found on the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6127",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "P. M. H. Edwards, FSR, May-June 1970, p. 23; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 114; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 703" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1965",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. an orange oval-shaped object emitting a hum passed low over observers in Felixstowe, Suffolk, England. the witnesses were terrified by the experience, and one observer was hospitalized for shock. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6128",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 70" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1966",
  "desc" : "A huge cone-shaped UFO paced a private aircraft being flown by J. O'Connor over Sebring, Florida at 10:00 a.m. The object made a \"singing\" noise. At first the object descended, then followed the aircraft, and finally accelerated up and away at high speed. The encounter lasted 17 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6129",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1966, p. 4; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1991, p. 11" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1966",
  "desc" : "A yellow-orange domed disc with pulsating white lights around the rim, and a red searchlight directed at the ground, was seen in a close encounter in Randlett, Uintah County, Utah at 8:30 p.m. by P. Sireech. The witness experienced a levitation effect. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6130",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Frank Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, case A16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1968",
  "desc" : "A disc-shaped object was seen low over a courtyard in Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil at around 1:00 a.m. Three beams of light came down from the object, and human-looking beings appeared inside each beam. All ascended back up to the craft through the same method after a minute. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6131",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Irene Granchi, UFO Abductions and Reports from Brazil, p. 70;  David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0973, citing Irene Granchi" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1970",
  "desc" : "A disc-shaped object, two meters in diameter, buzzed a car driving on a road in Alijo, Portugal at 10:30 a.m. Two 5-foot-tall beings wearing backpacks with aerials were seen near a landed object on the road. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6132",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Victor Lourenco, PORTUCAT: Portugal UFO database" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1970",
  "desc" : "At 6:30 p.m. a bright red-orange ball of light descended slowly behind some trees in Beverly, Massachusetts and landed remotely near a golf course. It appeared to have spikes or rays sticking out that also glowed a red-orange color. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6133",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler case files, report dated September 25, 1970" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1971",
  "desc" : "At 1:45 a.m. Osvaldo Nestor D'Annunzio, age 19, was returning by truck along an isolated road from a local ranch in Estacion Gil, near Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires, Argentina when he noticed a bright white object quickly approaching him at high speed. The object rapidly approached the ground in an unnatural manner by making a very wide curve. As the object got closer it looked more like a reddish, triangular light. When it came even closer it changed into a top-shaped craft that emitted a cloud of red and white flame. The craft swung from right to left in a descending pendulum trajectory, finally slipping behind the tops of some nearby trees near the edge of the road. Once the object went behind the trees, a powerful reddish glow transformed the night into day, and he felt heat emanating from the object. At that moment he blacked out.<br/><br/> When he recovered consciousness he saw the UFO ascending, and it disappeared behind a nearby eucalyptus forest. He did not know how long he had been unconscious. Upon arriving home, D'Annunzio felt a paralysis in both his arms. He could walk, but his arms became so completely paralyzed that he could not use them to open the door, and he had to kick the door to attract attention. He was immediately rushed to a local military hospital for treatment. His paralysis continued until four p.m. the next afternoon.For the next seven months he suffered from paralysis in his arms, starting at midnight and lasting until early in the morning. He also suffered facial and scalp burns. Later he had further memories of the incident, recalling that he saw numerous cows and sheep standing strangely still at the edge of the road as the UFO descended, and the craft seemed to have split in two as it disappeared behind the trees. He further described the UFO as shaped like a child's top, metallic blue in color, and encased in a red glow with a flame shooting from the bottom. It was about three meters in length.<br/><br/> Other witnesses in the area reported seeing the same or a similar UFO flying low over the area, including a man who reported vehicle interference as a result of the passage of the object. Later, local UFO investigators discovered dozens of cows and sheep dead and scorched alongside the road. Using a Geiger counter they measured a high level of radioactivity in certain areas. In the place where the object had descended they also found a burned circular area of grass about 10 meters in diameter. In addition, several metal telephone lines in the area were found severed along what appeared to be the object's trajectory. A last unusual detail is that D'Annunzio apparently managed to drive the last eight kilometers in only two minutes, so some levitation and translocation may have been involved. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6134",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1971, citing Roberto Enrique Banchs, Las Evidencias Del Fenomeno Ovni; OVNI Web, Fenomeno Ovni en Bahia Blanca (erroneously lists the year as 1970); Data-Net Report, June 1972, p. 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1971",
  "desc" : "At 8:13 a.m. a metallic triangular-shaped object was sighted at 33,000 feet altitude from a DC-9 airliner flying 40 miles southwest of Lanejevo, Yugoslavia. The sighting lasted eight minutes, and the main witness was named Lupancic. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6135",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, September-October 1971, p. 1; Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 207" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1971",
  "desc" : "At 10:45 p.m. a car driving northeast of Ojebyn, Sweden was engulfed in a cloud of blackness and then surrounded by intense vertical beams of light. The car was levitated and transported beyond its destination, and the driver felt a sensation of high atmospheric pressure. When the beams vanished, the driver saw a black object 1000 meters away rise from a field and fly off toward the south. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6136",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 51; GICOFF Sweden, FSR Case Histories, June 1972, p. 1; Jenny Randle, Time Storms: Amazing Evidence for Time Warps, Space Rifts, and Time Travel, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1971",
  "desc" : "A large domed disc-shaped object with multi-colored lights around the bottom edge was seen at 9:00 p.m. in Fort Duchesne, Utah. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6137",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Frank Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, case A79" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1973",
  "desc" : "On the 59th day of flight the three-man crew in orbit in outer space aboard Skylab III saw and photographed a strange red object over the southwestern Indian Ocean. It was not more than 30-50 nautical miles from them. Alan Bean, Owen Garriott and Jack Lousman reported that the object was brighter than any of the planets. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6138",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "www.nicap.org/SkylabIIIdir.htm" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1973",
  "desc" : "Julian Garside was riding home from work at night on a friend's motorbike near Halifax, Yorkshire, England when the two young men saw three bright triangular lights, or shapes, gliding uphill through the woods near the road. They stopped and, out of curiosity, decided to follow. The shapes sped up and the boys noticed an odor like burning oil. When they reached the top of the hill, a quarter mile from the road, the figures had vanished; above them, however, they observed a small, round orange light, like a road-crossing beacon. It vanished in about a minute. There had been no path through the woods, and the three objects (or figures) appeared to glide straight through the undergrowth, leaving no traces. The odor of oil was the only trace left behind. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6139",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher: HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-98, citing BUFORA Journal, July-August 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1973",
  "desc" : "A series of reports occurred in Sidney, North Carolina starting on September 20. Though several people reported seeing something, the main witnesses were members of the Williamson family from the town of Sidney. They saw at least one humanoid with large red glowing eyes, a gray face, long hair, pointed ears, and a hooked nose. It was dressed in a brown shirt and black pants and had a small brown cap on its head. It walked with a limp and had one hand missing. It was said to leave no tracks and to leap 50-60 feet in a single bound. It had a metal medallion on its chest, which was said to be used for communication and disappearing. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6140",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher: HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-23; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1975",
  "desc" : "At 12:40 a.m. a glowing orb of light hovered near two TV towers in St.-Josse-Ten-Noode, Belgium for three minutes, then moved away against the wind. A perfectly ovoid-shaped cloud lit from inside hovered over the airport in Zaventem, Belgium for over an hour, beginning at 5:30 p.m. It was viewed through binoculars by several witnesses. At 7:50 p.m. a bright star-like object zigzagged over La Hulpe, Belgium then flew off straight toward the south-southwest. At 9:30 p.m. three nocturnal lights in a triangle formation changed into a row formation, then chased each other over Etterbeek, Belgium. They later regrouped. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6141",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Inforespace, May 1977" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1976",
  "desc" : "A witness was on his terrace in Digne, Basses-Alpes department, France at 10:00 p.m. when he noticed a luminous \"cabin\" shaped object that was hovering about 200 meters away and 100 meters above the ground. The object was 12 feet square and 6 feet high, and it was the color of an incandescent lamp. No additional structure could be seen. He watched it for about seven minutes. Human-shaped shadows could be seen moving around inside. The object departed slowly at first, then shot away at great speed. It made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6142",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, April 1980; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1976-24, citing ADEPS, March 1977, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1977",
  "desc" : "A huge jellyfish-shaped light beamed rays to the ground in Petrozavodsk, Russia, causing damage to windows at around four o'clock in the morning. It also melted holes in some flagstones. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6143",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "V. I. Sanarov, Awareness, October 1978, p. 4; Gordon Creighton, FSR, January 1978, p. 19; Richard H. Hall, UFO Reports from the Files of the CIA, p. T-8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1978",
  "desc" : "On Councillor Island near the town of Currie, Tasmania, Australia a large yellow light followed a car with three passengers for six miles at 9:15 p.m. It flew off over a hill, then returned. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6144",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 12836; Australian CUFOS files,  case # NA781111" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1978",
  "desc" : "In Chingford, England a hexagon-shaped object was seen over the town. The Ministry of Defence asked a retired police constable to investigate. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6145",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 12835; Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, p. 71" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1978",
  "desc" : "Two witnesses were driving on the outskirts of Tampa, Florida near some orange groves at around 6 p.m., when they spotted a huge dark blue flying object that had an orange glow coming from some large windows. The object glided silently over their heads. Through the windows in the craft they were able to see several figures that seemed to be talking excitedly to one another, and some of them waved down at the witnesses. The driver attempted to chase the UFO, which came down to some 50 feet above the ground. At this point their memory of the event becomes a little sketchy, and they experienced a period of missing time. However, the main witness did have some vague memories of the two of them walking through an orange grove without talking to each other. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6146",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 3573, citingPeter Davenport, NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1978",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. Sr. J. Marchisio was driving near a lake in Maria Teresa, Santa Fe province, Argentina when he spotted a red spherical object by the side of the road. He signaled with his lights, then pulled over. Next, he was struck by multi-colored beam of light, and he was unable to control his vehicle as it was transported seven kilometers at high speed. During the translocation he experienced viewing an unfamiliar, altered or otherworldly, environment, and there was damage to his vehicle that resulted from the weird experience. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6147",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, February 1979, p. 14, citing Rosario Tribune, November 2,1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1979",
  "desc" : "At 5:30 a.m. a pear-shaped form of blue light engulfed an automobile being driven by a 28-year-old nursing home employee in Poplar Grove, Illinois. The surrounding area was lit up like daylight. In addition, the car's AM radio was racked with static and the car lost power and was unable to exceed 40 mph. The woman next experienced an undetermined amount of missing time. At the same time another close encounter occurred in Fennimore, Wisconsin when a Mr. G. Gratz encountered a landed UFO that gave off a sulphurous odor. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6148",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, November 1979, p. 12; UNICAT, case # 98; Jay Rath, The W-Files: True Reports of Wisconsin's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 68" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1979",
  "desc" : "Miroslaw Goralski and Krzysztof Kobus had been working in their garden in Sztum, Poland late in the evening and at 9 p.m. were cleaning their tools when a UFO descended abruptly into their enclosure. One witness described the UFO as resembling a \"ring,\" and the other--who saw it from a different angle--said it looked like \"two silver deltas connected by a cross.\" Both men experienced a high frequency squeaking sound in their heads. As they approached to investigate they were engulfed by a dense white \"fog\" and illuminated by bright light. They both felt inertial effects as if rising up into the air at high speed. Kobus propped himself against a soft object like an \"armchair,\" which later vanished, and he experienced a kaleidoscope of colors and other odd sensations as if thoughts were flowing into his brain from an external source. Goralski asked questions of what he supposed were unseen entities, and obtained partial answers in an unspecific fashion. \"What is matter?\" he asked, and the answer he received was, \"The most important attribute of matter is its ability to pervade through other matter.\" Goralski leaned over to the edge of the \"fog\" and could clearly see the town below. He experienced a visual display like a \"time tunnel,\" including people in costumes of bygone days. Suddenly they fell, as if from a height of about 30 cm, and landed back in the garden. Goralski ran home, arriving there at 9:30 p.m.. The witnesses were administered psychological test, that indicated their personalities were normal. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6149",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Emilia Popik, MUFON UFO Journal, August 1980, p. 16; Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1981; Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 306; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions:  The Measure of a Mystery, case 155; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2221; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, citing MUFON Journal" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1981",
  "desc" : "On this night a man reported seeing a bright luminous object on the ground next to a local bridge near his residence in Genoa, Italy. As he approached the object he noticed a very tall figure who was wearing a shiny luminous outfit. The being had very large dark eyes. Initially frightened, the witness became very calm when the being gazed at him with a very gentle stare. After a few moments the being boarded the cylindrical object that was partly hidden behind some bushes. The object then rose and disappeared quickly from view. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6150",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 14280, citing Maurizio Verga, ITACAT; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1981, case # 1525, citing ITACAT" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1983",
  "desc" : "A fire lookout at Sopelia Tower in Yakima County, Washington spotted a nocturnal light making zigzag maneuvers in the sky at 8:00 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6151",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Greg Long, Examining the Earthlight Theory: The Yakima UFO Microcosm, p. 136" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1990",
  "desc" : "A man waiting next to his disabled vehicle in Leominster, Massachusetts saw a light approach, hover, and then descend only 15 feet away from him at 8:30 p.m. It disappeared when traffic approached, and was lost from view entirely when the tow truck arrived. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6152",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bill Goffrier, MUFON investigation files CDROM, case 901208" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1992",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. a rectangular UFO emitted a beam of light that levitated a witness from a road in Sao Francisco de Paula, Minas Gerais State, Brazil. This was confirmed by a separate independent observer. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6153",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UBPDV, Causistica Brasileira de 1992, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1992",
  "desc" : "Three witnesses in Sullivan, Missouri sighted a large metallic craft with several large lighted windows hovering low over a field at 8:30 p.m. They could see that behind the windows there were about 20 thin humanoid figures standing and moving back and forth. No sound was reported. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6154",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Francis L. Ridge, UFO Intelligence Newsletter, March 1993, citing the Missouri UFO Study Group" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1993",
  "desc" : "In Canterbury, Kent, England a large bright cigar-shaped object engaged in aerobatics for 25 minutes beginning at around 8 p.m. It shined a beam of light, and at one point moved over a mile instantaneously. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6155",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, February 1994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1994",
  "desc" : "A bedroom visitation and abduction occurred in Yuma, Arizona at around one o'clock in the morning.  A 22-year-old man awoke to find a bright light shining in his face and several figures standing around his bed. He next found himself in a large round, cold, seamless metallic gray room with a reddish tint. He was sitting on a bench next to two fellow abductees: a blond woman and a man with tattoos who both appeared to be incoherent. He saw tables and cows in the room, and beings that seemed to be removing things from the cows. He saw two types of beings. The large ones appeared to be in charge. He described them as lizard-like, very muscular, with almond shaped black eyes with yellow slits in them. They also had several smile-shaped parallel ridges on their faces. The smaller beings were working on the cows and wore some type of helmet. His next recollection was that he found himself on one of the tables. He lost complete recall at this point, and the next thing he remembers was he was back in his bed sweating. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6156",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joe Murek, MUFON investigation files CDROM, case # 941101S; T. David Spencer, MUFON UFO Journal, January 1995, p. 15; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1994, case # 2014, citing Kevin Bowman & Joseph Murek, MUFON" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1994",
  "desc" : "Another bedroom visitation and missing time experience occurred in Miami, Florida in the evening hours. A 59-year-old woman went to bed with her dog sleeping at her side at 8:00 p.m.  The dog left the bed, as was normal, but when the dog began barking the witness turned on her side and she saw a small humanoid figure sitting near the foot of her bed. It had a large head and a brown skinned face. The startled woman took a swing at the figure but missed. Two other figures were standing next to the bed and they made a peculiar \"chirping\" or \"giggling\" sound. As she attempted to escape, one of the figures approached her and grabbed her by the wrist, apparently causing her to loose consciousness.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6157",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Zimmer Mary Margaret Zimmer, MUFON investigation files CDROM, case # 950105E" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1994",
  "desc" : "At the Triple L Ranch in Saguache County, Colorado, at the same time and place as the sighting of a nocturnal light, two cattle mutilations--a cow and a calf--occurred west of the Sand Dunes National Monument. Missing organs included the udders, rectums, and ears. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6158",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 259, citing the Center Post Dispatch" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1994",
  "desc" : "A huge manta ray shaped object passed just above a car being driven between Oxnard and Camarillo in Ventura County, California at 10:50 p.m. It then spiraled up to a higher altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6159",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, November 1994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1995",
  "desc" : "A disc-shaped object with multi-colored lights was seen overhead in the night sky in Reno, Nevada at 3:30 a.m. It \"bounced like a ball\" in the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6160",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 1995 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1995",
  "desc" : "In Pensacola Beach, Florida a ring-shaped object with portholes was seen over the coast at 8:10 p.m. for 15 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6161",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, November 1995" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1996",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. a disc-shaped object with lights around the rim hovered over the bay at Altona, Victoria, Australia then moved away to the northeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6162",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup website, volume 1, number 31" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1997",
  "desc" : "Twelve witnesses saw lights in a V formation flying over Poway, California at 10:15 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6163",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 1997 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1999",
  "desc" : "Two people in Barrington, New Hampshire witnessed a cigar-shaped object at tree top level at 5:10 p.m. When the object reached the crest of a hill it disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6164",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 1999 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1999",
  "desc" : "Police officers and many others watched a delta-shaped UFO with lights as it hovered only 30 meters above some construction at Exit 24 on Interstate 91 in Wethersfield, Connecticut on this night. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6165",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George Filer, Filer's Files website, volume 9, number 40" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/1999",
  "desc" : "At 10:45 a.m. a triangular object was seen hovering and wobbling in the sky over Highland Park, Los Angeles County, California. It then rose vertically very fast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6166",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 1999 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/2000",
  "desc" : "While driving in Mississauga, Ontario at around 7:00 p.m. the witnesses observed two fireball like objects collide. One then went straight up vertically, while the other went straight down. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6167",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2000 Canadian UFO Survey, case 175" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/2000",
  "desc" : "At 10:57 p.m. a flattened out V-shaped object, made up of many pinpoints of light, glided silently and smoothly overhead in Marshall, Minnesota. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6168",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2000 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/2002",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. a white teardrop shaped object was seen in the sky over Genoa, Italy for 15 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6169",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2002 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/2002",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 a.m. 100 people in Danville, Contra Costa County, California saw a neon orange glowing saucer-shaped object disappear into the hills. The sighting lasted for two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6170",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2002 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/2003",
  "desc" : "A black disc-shaped object with no lights was seen in broad daylight in Saugus, Massachusetts at 6:00 p.m. for 30 seconds. At 6:15 p.m. in Sedona, Arizona a silver cylinder-shaped object in a vertical orientation was seen moving rapidly westward at a speed faster than a typical airplane. It was in view for five seconds before it disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6171",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2003 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/2007",
  "desc" : "At 5:30 p.m EDT two University of Michigan at Flint, Michigan college students observed 11 discs making formations in the early evening sky for 15 minutes. At 8:30 p.m. EDT a cylindrical object with a purple underglow was spotted moving very fast across the sky in Palm Harbor, Florida. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6172",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2007 webpage, reports uploaded January 21, 2008 & March 4, 2008" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/2007",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. PDT a cigar-shaped object, possibly hundreds of feet long, was viewed for 12 minutes from Coos Bay, Oregon as it flew slowly along the Pacific Ocean coastline. At the same time (9:00 p.m. MDT) three black triangular craft maneuvered across the sky from the horizon and then hovered over the witnesses' location for two minutes in Kingston, New Mexico. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6173",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2007 webpage, reports uploaded November 28, 2007" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/20/2007",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. a circular object with white lights on the underside was seen from Trabuco Canyon in Mission Viejo, California flying over Orange County toward Riverside County. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6174",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2007 webpage, report uploaded October 8, 2007" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/21/1950",
  "desc" : "Provincetown, Massachusetts. At 9:52 a.m. an M.I.T. research associate and Air National Guard Major M. H. Ligda observed the radar tracking of a UFO during an M.I.T. tracking of a flight of two USAF F-84 or F-86 jet fighters. The object's speed was calculated as 22 miles/minute (1,200 mph), and it executed a turn of 11-12 Gs acceleration during the one-minute observation. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6175",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 809; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; J. Allen Hynek, Hynek UFO Report, p. 139; UNICAT, case 275" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/21/1952",
  "desc" : "A silver spherical UFO was tracked by RAF jets over the North Sea during the NATO Operation Mainbrace. An attempted intercept by three jets and a total of six air crew members failed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6176",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 258; Richard Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Coverup, 1941-1973, p. 403" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/21/1954",
  "desc" : "Two weathermen with a theodolite watch a delta-shaped object, larger than balloon, maneuver thru sky over Durban, South Africa and ten o'clock in the morning. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6177",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: September, p. 34" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/21/1954",
  "desc" : "At one o'clock in the morning in Barstow, California two local policemen, four U.S. Marine Corps police, and a California highway patrolman watched a reddish-orange ball of light giving off sparks. A smaller orange ball of light make a zigzag descent and then hovered. Their sighting lasted a total of 20 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6178",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 3222; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: September, p. 34" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/21/1958",
  "desc" : "A circular, flat object, seven meters in diameter and two meters thick, was seen by a woman from her home at three o'clock in the morning, hovering 1.5 meters above the ground in Sheffield Lake, Ohio. It made a sound like a jet and was aluminum in color. It wobbled and emitted gray smoke before rising up again and taking off into the night sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6179",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, November 1958, p. 2, December 1958, p. 5; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 471; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 113" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/21/1961",
  "desc" : "On this day at around five o'clock in the afternoon the passengers and crew of two Boeing 707 airliners, a BOAC flight and a Pan Am flight, witnessed a bright white UFO with a halo while flying over the Pacific Ocean northeast of Midway Island.  ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6180",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, November 1961, p. 1; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1991, p. 11" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/21/1962",
  "desc" : "A fishing boat captain, S. A. Guthrie, and a deck hand sailing west-southwest of Biloxi, Mississippi in the Gulf of Mexico sighted two UFOs at 7:37 p.m. The objects were red and black with orange streaks. One was as big as the Moon and the other somewhat smaller. They arced across the sky for 13 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6181",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 8133; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/21/1966",
  "desc" : "Eight members of the Royal Canadian Air Force saw a bright object that flew down at high speed in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada. It stopped abruptly, remained at ground level for 20 minutes, then flew away straight up. There was radar-visual confirmation of the UFO over a missile site. NORAD was alerted and jet interceptors were scrambled. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6182",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, November 1966, p. 4; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Here and Now, p. 111; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 799; Richard Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Coverup, 1941-1973, p. 413" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/21/1967",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m. Jose M. Edrosa was driving home to Granoliers, Spain when between the towns of Santa Coloma and La Roca in Barcelona province he saw a very bright \"casserole\" shaped object on the ground. Near it were several small beings with large heads, who were approaching the UFO. At that point his car \"reared\" and Sr. Edrosa became panic stricken, fleeing on foot. Unnerved by the experience, he was hospitalized for an extended period of time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6183",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Balester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 50; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-97, citing Alberto Adell" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/21/1967",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. a fiery light thought to be a UFO was seen at ground level in some woods in Winsted, Connecticut by two witnesses, Pasko and Ellis. Circular ground marks were found later at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6184",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, November-December 1967, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/21/1968",
  "desc" : "At around two a.m. a truck driver on the Barcelona-Puigcerda road near La Llagosta, Barcelona, Spain saw a landed egg-shaped object standing vertically on end. It was brightly lit, and near it he saw a small being. He did not stop, but reported the incident at the next service station near the village. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6185",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-68, citing FSR Special Bulletin # 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/21/1968",
  "desc" : "At three a.m. in La Escala, Gerona, Spain Sr. Ballesta, age 52, saw two beings with frightful yellowish faces, wearing tight black clothes, that came out of an object that resembled a buoy. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6186",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Balester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 78, citing Stendek, August 1972, p. 30; Vicente-Juan Balester Olmos, FSR, May 1973, p. 19" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/21/1968",
  "desc" : "In Coaticook, Quebec, Canada two young girls reported they saw a \"Martian\" on the roof of the local high school. By 9:30 p.m. a crowd of some 50 people had assembled to see what was going on. Shirley Green said that she saw a \"green face with no nose, mouth or hair,\" and that the strange man emitted intermittent sparks. In a nearby field the grass had been burned in a circle 42 feet in diameter, and some tracks were found. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6187",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-98 (A0983), citing Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science, issue # 54" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/21/1968",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. a dark disc-shaped object with a series of square windows, rotating clockwise, moved slowly and silently through the skies over Linton, Indiana.  It was half the size of a pea at arm's length, and its lights were large, three-quarters the height of the object itself. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6188",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Francis L. Ridge, NICAP investigation files, October 21, 1968" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/21/1970",
  "desc" : "A round object with a halo hovered over St. Jean, Switzerland at 9:15 p.m., and then vanished. It left behind a faint contrail. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6189",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Tova Bratt, FSR Case Histories, February 1972, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/21/1972",
  "desc" : "Three witnesses were driving in Rougemont, Quebec, Canada at 12:30 a.m. when they witnessed a Saturn-shaped disc making pendulum movements in the sky, then landing on Mount Rouge. The object was 100-150 feet in diameter and had a row of oval windows. The driver, Mr. G. Poisson, flashed his car headlights at the UFO, and the object responded by diving and coming straight at them, passing only 30 feet overhead. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6190",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Wido Hoville, Canadian UFO Report, Spring 1974; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 55; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 40" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/21/1972",
  "desc" : "At 5:40 a.m. in Santa Isabel, Cordoba province, Argentina Sr. Teodoro Merlo, age 56, a maintenance worker at the Ika-Renault car factory, unlocked and entered a company washroom and was surprised to encounter a \"man\" nearly eight-feet tall sitting on the long washbasin. The being's complexion was very pallid, and he had a bald head with high, pointed ears. The giant wore a very tight-fitting, dark blue one-piece garment. He noticed the uniform was glove-tight at the wrists, and that the being held his right forefinger below his nose. The figure suddenly vanished unaccountably from the washroom, in which the temperature was abnormally high. Lights in the building went on and off by themselves. Sr. Merlo later suffered eye irritation, repeated headaches, and back pain in his lumbar region for eight days. The witness reported that he again saw the face of the entity in a mirror on the bus the next day. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6191",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Oscar A. Galindez, FSR, August 1975, p. 11; UNICAT, case # 576; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1972-26 (A1169); Stendek, December 1973, p. 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/21/1974",
  "desc" : "In Huntsville, Ontario, Canada Oscar Magocsi, a Hungarian-born radio technologist, claimed he encountered a landed disc-shaped object and came in contact with its occupants for the first time. They were human in appearance and said they called themselves \"the Psycheans\". He claimed to have been given a ride in their craft, flying over Lake Ontario, and was then transported to other worlds. At 9:20 p.m. in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada four teenage girls had a ten minute close encounter with a UFO that caused them some lasting physiological effects. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6192",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) John Colombo, UFOs over Canada: Personal Accounts of Sightings and Close Encounters, p. 214; (2) CUFOS case files, letter dated October 20, 1974" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/21/1978",
  "desc" : "A 12-year-old boy in Marcos Paz, Buenos Aires province, Argentina photographed a UFO during the day with a Kodak instamatic camera. The image in the newspaper shows a black body between some iron bars. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6193",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, December 1978, p. 15, citing Cronica, October 1978, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/21/1978",
  "desc" : "At 7:40 p.m. a young man was walking near a field in Cosenza, Calabria, Italy when the area was suddenly illuminated by a bright light and he could no longer see his surroundings. Shortly later, he saw an oval-shaped object resting on the ground on top of a nearby hill. A human-like figure stood by the object. It wore two antennae-like protrusions on its head. Frightened, he began to run away but fell down while four humanoids approached him, making huge, bizarre, bounding-like jumps. Next, he fainted, and when he awoke he again saw that the four 5-foot-tall entities were closer, wearing buttoned jackets, backpacks, and helmets with antennae. Their hands appeared to be shaped like pincers. This frightened him and he fainted again, and when he finally woke up sometime later everything had vanished. Coincidentally, at around the same time (8:00 p.m.) a bright light approached an Italian Air Force F-104 jet over Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. It disappeared after three minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6194",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, October 1979, p. 17; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1971; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 136, citing Paolo Fiorino, UFO Universe, October-November 1991" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/21/1980",
  "desc" : "The pilot and four passengers onboard a Piper Aztec airplane, including Wendy and Michael Gannon, witnessed two red UFOs for nine minutes while flying over Crewe, Cheshire, England at 8:00 p.m. The objects had a hazy round outline, and an apparent size of 1.25 degrees. The top one approached to within 450 meters distance, and hovered for three minutes. When accelerating a red glow was visible from the rear. During the encounter they experienced radio interference on their VHF mobile transceiver. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6195",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 191; UNICAT, case # 401, citing S. R. Cleaver" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/21/1980",
  "desc" : "A female credit manager in Lima, Ohio briefly observed a vivid orange to red object that appeared through an opening in the clouds. It resembled the bottom view of an Army tank, with runners on two sides. It went back up through the clouds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6196",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John Timmerman, CUFOS Newsletter, November 1980, p. 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/21/1986",
  "desc" : "A huge Ferris-wheel shaped object was seen spinning in the sky at 7:50 p.m. as it crossed above the M1 motorway in Markfield, Leicester, England. It flew off to the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6197",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 14459; FSR, March 1990" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/21/1989",
  "desc" : "In Voronezh, Russia as many as 40 children, including some young boys named Lukin, Levchenko, and Borise watched a large sphere, five meters in diameter, land in a park at 8:30 p.m. Two tall humanoids wearing silvery outfits and large black boots briefly emerged. A smaller headless robot-like entity with small knobs on its chest also accompanied them. Landing traces were reportedly found, including a 60-foot wide circle in which there were four depressions arranged in a diamond pattern. Each imprint was two inches deep and six inches in diameter. Holes in the ground looked as though someone had taken soil samples. The event was widely publicized around the world, although the facts of the case were greatly distorted. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6198",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles Of The Soviet Union, p. 44, citing Silanov; MUFON UFO Journal, December 1989; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 492; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 14943, citing Rivista Info UFO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/21/1989",
  "desc" : "At 8:15 p.m. a V-shaped craft or flying wing with red lights flew over Mount Vernon, Indiana headed toward St. Louis, Missouri. The FAA couldn't ID it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6199",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case 108, citing Francis L. Ridge" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/21/1990",
  "desc" : "At 11:20 a.m. a kite-shaped UFO dove into a clearing in some woods in Luton, Bedfordshire, England. It was seen from a bus through the trees on and off for the next 5-6 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6200",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 130" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/21/1990",
  "desc" : "At 5:30 p.m. police and militia pursued a Saturn-shaped UFO with shining portholes on its rim that hovered over an old airport near Frunze, Kyrgistan. The UFO seemed to be rotating, and emitted a coherent cone of yellow light. When it touched down to the ground it set fire to a meadow, leaving behind four burned spots 135 feet in diameter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6201",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hesemann, UFOs: The Secret History, p. 291; Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 68" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/21/1994",
  "desc" : "In the middle of the afternoon in Iasi, Romania a domed disc-shaped object hovered over a soccer match. It had a glowing halo, and was accompanied by a luminous orange sphere. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6202",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, Issue # 328" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/21/1995",
  "desc" : "Many calls were received by the Sheriff department in Concordia, Kansas at around 9:00 p.m. reporting two circular spheres with rotating centers. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6203",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/21/1996",
  "desc" : "In Joshua Tree, California a disc-shaped object 65 feet in diameter hovered silently at only 200 feet close to witnesses for four minutes. It then moved off to the northeast hugging the terrain. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6204",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup website, volume 1, number 34" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/21/1997",
  "desc" : "In Manoa Valley, Michigan at two o'clock in the afternoon a gray disc-shaped object hovered, then shot up vertically into the sky. It made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6205",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 1997 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/21/1998",
  "desc" : "At 2:00 a.m. a slow-moving, V-shaped UFO displaying red and white rapidly flashing lights, was seen passing overhead by several citizens and police between Nantwich and Crewe, Cheshire, England. Air traffic control at Manchester International Airport said they had nothing on radar. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6206",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Curt Sutherly, UFO Mysteries: A Reporter Seeks the Truth, p. 204" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/21/1998",
  "desc" : "Extension Forest Hills, Bayamon, Puerto Rico. On the night that Hurricane Georges struck Puerto Rico Iris Rodriguez was outside her home doing some washing when the winds began to pick up strength. She went back inside her house at 8 p.m., and soon after she looked out her window and noticed a bright sphere of light making triangular movements in the sky. The sphere descended lower in the sky and hovered above a neighbor's home. A few moments later a bright white, oval-shaped hole appeared in the center of the red light. Then a figure became visible inside the white light. The figure moved back and forth, apparently looking out. The witness described the figure as tall, thin, and man-like. It wore a tight-fitting gray colored outfit and his skin appeared to be also gray or pale. As the wind from the approaching hurricane grew stronger the witness lost interest in the object and its occupant, and eventually lost sight of it. On the same night Gerardo Mendez of Bayamon, Puerto Rico had gone out to pick up some trash bins in order to secure them from the wind. Suddenly from behind a nearby tree a strange creature jumped out. It was described as short, hunched over, with a snout-like nose, thick black hair, and round black eyes. It had thin but strong legs, large pointy ears, and sharp fang-like teeth. The creature quickly hopped by the witness, stopping briefly to stare at him. It then hopped into the nearby woods and was gone from view. That same night others saw speeding red balls of light over different parts of the island. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6207",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, cases #3157 and #3324, citing Jorge Martin, Evidencia OVNI #18 & #19" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/21/1999",
  "desc" : "At 7:15 p.m. two people in Post Falls, Idaho witnessed a fiery ball of light that was seen on the side of the Interstate 90 highway for approximately 20 mins near the Idaho-Washington border.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6208",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 1999 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/21/1999",
  "desc" : "At 8:49 p.m. a cylindrical object was seen flying to the west over Everett, Washington. It changed form to a boomerang shape and became transparent, and changed course to the south. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6209",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 1999 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/21/2001",
  "desc" : "A metallic cigar-shaped object was seen hovering near Offutt AFB in Omaha, Nebraska for five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6210",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2001 webpage, report uploaded October 12, 2001" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/21/2007",
  "desc" : "A 37-year-old service technician in Spencerville, Ohio stepped outside for a cigarette before going to bed at 1:50 a.m. and sighted a pair of lights just over the horizon. It was a dark cigar-shaped object with two lights at both ends, larger than a normal aircraft, and it made no sound as it moved west-northwest overhead. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6211",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2007 webpage, reported on September 22, 2007" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/21/2007",
  "desc" : "An undisclosed witness had an apparent abduction experience with missing time beginning in the predawn morning hours in Lexington, Kentucky. He reported to the National UFO Reporting Center that while out walking the dog at 4:30 a.m. the small dog \"who never barks\" began to growl and spasm uncontrollably. Then a white light appeared and a sensation of warmth came over him, and the witness was knocked to the ground. When he awoke it was early afternoon, he was in a different location, his clothes were tattered, and he had several sore spots on his body including his anus.  At first he thought he must have been the victim of an automobile hit and run, but to his dismay his arms and legs had various burn marks of unknown cause, and he suspects the cause may have been UFO related. The report form lists the shape of the UFO as a disc. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6212",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2007 webpage, encounter was reported on September 23, 2007" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/21/2007",
  "desc" : "At 4:13 p.m. a father and son in Bastrop, Texas were playing catch with a baseball when a silver, cigar-shaped object appeared out of nowhere and hovered 1000 feet in the sky.It had two wings in front and two wings in the back. It backed up, came forward, then went up and down in a controlled pattern, and then quickly disappeared into thin air. The sighting lasted 45 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6213",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2001 webpage, reported on November 21, 2007" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/21/2007",
  "desc" : "Three reports of triangular craft were made from Ohio between 8:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. At 8:00 p.m. in West Chester, Ohio a triangular craft with an array of bright lights glided silently near the treeline. At 8:25 p.m in Deer Park, Ohio an observer witnessed a triangular object with hundreds of bright yellow lights near Cincinnati. At 9:00 p.m. a \"really big\" craft was seen in Evendale, Ohio that came close but remained silent the whole time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6214",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2001 webpage, reports uploaded October 8, 2007" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/21/2007",
  "desc" : "A couple were traveling north on Highway 371 near Bisti badlands in San Juan County, New Mexico at 10:34 p.m. when they saw a bright white cigar-shaped craft near the ground about 100 yards off the east side of the road. They slowed their vehicle down and the craft took off very quickly. It shot up very vertically and left behind no traces. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6215",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2007 webpage, reported on September 22, 2007" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/22/1910",
  "desc" : "On this evening a UFO landed remotely at the Dunkirk Waterworks in Chautauqua County, New York. It was witnessed by a Mr. D. Ready. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6216",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Rogerson, World-Wide Catalog of Type 1 Reports, citing FSR, May-June 1970, p. 11" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/22/1953",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 a.m. an object shaped like an airplane \"wing tank\" fell from the sky over Ontario, California. It stopped in midair, turned into a circular shape, then shot off toward the north at an extreme speed. There were four military witnesses. Another UFO was seen later that day by a man named Bray in Hayward, California in Alameda county at 11:45 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6217",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: August-December, p. 23; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, September 1953, case 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/22/1954",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. red luminous cloud-cigar was seen by three people emitting disc-shaped UFOs in Fontainebleu, France. The object was surrounded by a luminous vapor. The cigar-shaped UFO flew in a manner to avoid a passing airplane. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6218",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing Jacques Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 66" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/22/1954",
  "desc" : "In Marshfield, Missouri at eleven o'clock in the morning private pilot J. N. Williams and his friend E. J. Ash observed a thin, translucent tan asymmetrical boomerang-shaped object as it came down behind some trees. The object appeared to be revolving, and it then tumbled down behind the trees. Marks were found in the dirt at the supposed landing site. The ground was \"pulverized\" with dirt torn up and small rocks disturbed. Their sighting lasted 15 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6219",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 3226; J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 178; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/22/1955",
  "desc" : "At Hickham Field in Honolulu, Hawaii at 7:30 p.m. a huge sausage-shaped craft, traveling at a speed of 1,700 mph and an altitude 32,000 feet, was tracked on several radar sets and seen visually by many. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6220",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Civilian Saucer Intelligence (New York) Newsletter, February 1956, p. 29, citing M. Myerson; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1955: September 15-December, p. 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/22/1956",
  "desc" : "At 7:50 p.m. Mr. Borrud, an amateur astronomer, sighted a dull metallic elliptical object over Williston, North Dakota. It was the size of a small airplane, and it oscillated in a side-to-side motion as it moved above the Missouri River. The estimated speed of the craft was 150 miles per hour, and the sighting lasted five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6221",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Orbit, November 1956, p. 3; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case 79; Richard F. Haines, International UFO Reporter, April 2000, p. 25" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/22/1967",
  "desc" : "In Caracas, Venezuela a horse trainer was awakened on this night by the presence of an intruder who first tugged at the trainer's pillow, then grasped his arm tightly. As the man tried to sit up, the attacker encircled his neck with its arm trying to choke him. A horse in the nearby stables began neighing and the attacker let go and fled. The man screamed for help and was found to have several cuts and abrasions where he had been scratched by claws or sharp fingernails. A short while later another stable worker heard a horse acting up again, and as he approached the stall a small figure about the size of a boy, 3.5 feet tall, \"zoomed\" out of the stall and was gone in seconds. The figure was described as a hairy dwarf, and looking like a chimpanzee or monkey. The horse was skitish for several days following the incident. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6222",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs Over the Americas, p. 83; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-98, citing Jim & Coral Lorenzen" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/22/1967",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. a priest named O'Sullivan saw a luminous ball of light in the sky while driving three miles outside of Gravois Mills, Missouri with two other men. The UFO swung around to the northwest, then to the north, and flew off toward the northeast. It was flat with a dome shape on top. The sighting lasted 15 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6223",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted Phillips, Skylook, January 1968, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/22/1969",
  "desc" : "On this evening a woman was walking with her son along a footpath in a wooded area in Montreal, Quebec when they noticed a bright circular object on the ground at the edge of the woods. There were three men standing outside of the object and two men inside. The men were described as very tall, over seven-foot tall, thin, and wearing tight-fitting one-piece garments. The witness left to get other witnesses but upon returning the object and the humanoids were already gone. A circular flattened area of grass was found at the site. That same evening in Saratoga, New York at 7 p.m. a large circle of white light was seen by three witnesses. It was flashing red, green and orange lights. It made no sound as it moved very slowly off at a low altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6224",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Jean Claude Bourret, The Crack of The Universe, p. 111, citing field investigator Cazeau; (2) Richard Bonenfant, Proceedings of the CUFOS Conference: 1976 , p. 49, citing The Albany Knickerbocker, September 23, 1969" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/22/1971",
  "desc" : "An 18-year-old apprentice was riding his motorcycle near the beach in Semaphore Park Beach, South Australia at 8:40 p.m. when he saw a dull form in the sky with lighted sections. It descended to fifty feet over the sea, as close as 150 feet away. When he shone his motorcycle's high beam headlight on the object the light dimmed. When he did it a second time it did not respond again. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6225",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Keith Basterfield, Australian Flying Saucer Review, February 1972, p. 21" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/22/1971",
  "desc" : "At 11:45 p.m. a silent ovoid-shaped UFO flew at 500 to 1000 meters altitude over the city of Marseille, France illuminating the area below it yellow in color. It made a sudden 70 degree turn and shot off toward the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6226",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 127" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/22/1971",
  "desc" : "Sr. Paulo Caetano Silveira, age 27, a typewriter technician, found his car being followed by a red luminous disc while driving to his home in Itaperuna, Brazil. At Tombos he reported the matter to the local police, but they did not take him seriously. After he calmed down he started off again. This time, at about 7 p.m. and at a small village named Serraria, he encountered a black object on the road that turned a luminous red and then blinding white in color, and his car engine died. The object, slightly larger than a Volkswagen, had small windows and an open door. Next to it were standing three short, chubby beings approximately 20 inchestall, with fair complexions and slanted eyes. They wore one-piece, sky-blue coveralls with high collars, and \"Roman helmets\" with spikes. They carried vivid red and blue lights and moved in a stiff, mechanical way.<br/><br/> Two bright beams of light were focused on the witness's car and its doors popped open. These beams pulled the witness from the car and into the machine, whose interior was brilliantly illuminated by white light. There was little in the way of furnishings inside, but inside were five more similar dwarfs. \"An infernal din\" commenced and believes the object flew some distance with him, but he shortly lost consciousness. The next thing he was remembered was being carried out and laid on the road beside his car. The UFO then rose vertically, hovered a moment, then shot off laterally at a staggering speed. The witness was left in a state of shock and nearly blind. For five days he still could not see well and was extremely nervous. His watch had lost 15 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6227",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, citing Dr. Munir Russade and Dr. Walter Buhler" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/22/1971",
  "desc" : "That same night in Twin Falls, Idaho two young boys reported that their farm animals were frantic when an orange UFO flashed and circled overhead. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6228",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, September 1971, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/22/1972",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 a.m. Virgilio Gomez was driving along a lonely road near the University's experimental farm in Palenque, San Cristobal, Dominican Republic when a man wearing a light green coverall that covered even his feet waved him down. The man wore no gloves, and had a sort of watch on his wrist. The man identified himself as Freddy Miller, a well-known Dominican baseball player who had disappeared mysteriously more than 13 years ago on May 5, 1959. He said that a UFO had rescued him from drowning in a boating accident, when two of his companions drowned, \"because of my knowledge of radio technology and my intelligence.\" Nearby were two slender men seven feet tall. They were dressed like Miller. They had complexions like Orientals and short, chestnut colored hair. Miller pointed out to Gomez the craft in which they had arrived: it was football shaped, the size of an automobile, with a bright \"nickel plated\" surface. The conversation continued for about five minutes, during which Miller told Gomez that the humanoids were \"supposedly from Venus.\" Then Gomez was told to leave, because theywere departing, and not to worry if his car wouldn't function, because it would return to normal spontaneously. As he drove away Gomez saw the three men approach and get into the UFO. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6229",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Leonte N. Objio, APRO Bulletin, January 1982, p. 5; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1972-27 (A1170), citing Danilo Rodriguez Dominguez, Stendek, March 1973" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/22/1973",
  "desc" : "At around 6:00 a.m. Isobel Nielson saw an object that at first seemed oval shaped, then assumed a domed disc perspective, as she was travelling on the train near London, England from Glasgow, Scotland. She could not recall the exact location. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6230",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Bernard Delair, The UFO Register, Volume 5, 1974, p. 51, case 600" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/22/1974",
  "desc" : "In Tayene, Tasmania, Australia a married woman was driving her car along a mountain road with the radio on when the whole area lit up and a high-pitched whistle came over the radio. A glowing orange-silver disc dropped toward the road and approached to within 20 meters. It hovered 25 meters in front of the car just three meters above the road as the woman backed up the car to escape. It then shot straight up. The witness felt sick after incident. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6231",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "W. K. Roberts, FSR, February 1976, p. 23; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, page 63" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/22/1976",
  "desc" : "A TAP Boeing 707 reported a near collision with a luminous UFO being escorted by four smaller satellite objects near Lisbon airport, Portugal. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6232",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 40" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/22/1976",
  "desc" : "In Regal, Minnesota a ten-year-old boy saw a 3 to 3.5 foot tall green humanoid tapping on his bedroom window at 10:30 p.m. It had big red eyes, no nose, a slit for a mouth, and long arms. It walked to the edge of the roof and floated down to the ground. Outside was a gray rectangular UFO that made no sound. It rose up into the sky vertically. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6233",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John Barry, CUFOS case investigations file, citing Kandiyodi County Sheriff's Office; International UFO Reporter, November 1976, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/22/1977",
  "desc" : "An elongated object with brightly lit windows passed Continental Airlines flight 954 near El Paso, Texas on a cloudy morning at 5:25 a.m. There were three witnesses onboard the DC-10. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6234",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, October 1977, p. 1; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 40; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 21 & 123" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/22/1980",
  "desc" : "At 3:43 a.m. another air collision nearly occured over the Caribbean Sea south of Haiti between Pan Am flight 440 and an unidentified bluish-green cigar-shaped object. The UFO had a horizontal row of 5-6 steady lights, which the flight crew presumed were windows. The distance between the Pan Am flight and the UFO at its closest approach was less than a mile. The estimated length of the UFO was 50 feet. It changed course when the plane flashed its landing lights. The event was witnessed independently by the crew of two other airliners in the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6235",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, November 1980, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/22/1988",
  "desc" : "On a highway in Walcha, New South Wales, Australia at 7:30 p.m. a car engine died and the driver reported it got cold inside the car when a red light hovered over his car for five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6236",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Keith Basterfield, Keith Basterfield investigation files, citing investigator Bryan Dickeson; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 14733, citing John Schuessler, Physiological Effects from UFOs" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/22/1992",
  "desc" : "On this day a group of children flying kites in Sentul, West Persekutuan, Malaysia saw a tiny being, which they described as human-like in appearance but measuring only 15 cm tall. The body was reported to be greenish in color and shiny. They said that the hands had only three fingers. On seeing the witnesses, the tiny creature scurried away into the housing project that was still under construction. On the same day a 13-year-old student, Law Wai Chow, claimed to have encountered a strange tiny entity in the same area. He described it as having eyes like those of humans but red in color and with no eyebrows. The creature had pointed ears. That afternoon another boy, Mohd Najib Rasli, age 12, went to the site where the creatures were reported earlier in the day. He spent nearly an hour searching for the creatures. Finally at 3 p.m. he spotted the tiny being near a hole in the ground. He tried to catch it but it immediately ran away and was lost from view. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6237",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, citing Ahmad Jamaludin, Centre for Malaysian UFO Studies" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/22/1992",
  "desc" : "About 15 members of an international UFO group had gone to the scene of previous encounters in Huaika Tabio, Colombia and were waiting for any unusual phenomena. At 8:05 p.m. they saw a large orange-colored sphere descend from the mountain and land about 300 meters away from them. Five from the group approached and watched a beam of white light strike the ground ahead of them. From the ground it became a crescent shaped light, blue in color. Smoke then rose around the object and a tall blond-haired, Nordic-looking individual emerged from the smoke. He walked around briefly, then entered the crescent-shaped light. Everything then just disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6238",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, citing Grupo Contacto OVNI, Colombia" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/22/1994",
  "desc" : "At four o'clock at night a 40-meter long triangular UFO flew over a farmhouse in Sornay, Saone-Loire department, France. The farm's dog barked furiously, and the UFO shot away at an incredible speed. The sighting lasted 3 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6239",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 329" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/22/1995",
  "desc" : "On hearing a humming sound at 8:45 p.m., four people in Navaho Estates, Colorado went outside to see a 100 meter long rectangular object move slowly to the west at 60-80 feet altitude. It was yellow and had white lights oscillating on a rounded front, and red lights in the rear. After it went over a ridge eight or more blinking nocturnal lights crisscrossed in the same direction. Livestock in the area panicked. The entire sighting lasted about two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6240",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, January 1996, citing Pueblo Chieftain; Christopher O'Brien, Enter the Valley, p. 315" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/22/1995",
  "desc" : "In Redmond, Washington at 9:30 p.m. dogs were barking as one, and then four round objects with lights hovered overhead for about a minute. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6241",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/22/1997",
  "desc" : "A 67-year-old married couple named Becker heard a loud noise outside their rural home in Frazee, Minnesota at 11:30 p.m. Then they saw five brilliant lights on a lenticular-shaped object the size of a house. No structure could be discerned, but the UFO radiated bluish beams of light. Three more lights, round in shape, formed a triangle in the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6242",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Craig R. Lang, MUFON Minnesota" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/23/1948",
  "desc" : "At 9:40 a.m. a group at the Los Alamos, New Mexico airport saw a tilted, silver disc-shaped UFO with the apparent diameter of a dime at arm's length. Its estimated distance was 15 miles. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6243",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1347, citing Jerome Clark" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/23/1948",
  "desc" : "San Pablo, California. At twelve noon Sylvester Bentham and retired U.S. Army Colonel Horace Eakins observed two daylight UFOs: one a buff or gray rectangle with vertical lines, the other a translucent \"amoeba\" with a dark spot near the center. The arms of the \"amoeba\" undulated. Both objects traveled very fast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6244",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, p. 90" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/23/1951",
  "desc" : "On this morning a total of seven F-86 fighters were scrambled to chase a UFO that remained over southern California for nearly ninety minutes. Two F-86 jet interceptors were scrambled from George AFB near Victorville, California then vectored by air defense GCI radar to a target off the Pacific Coast 30 miles west of Long Beach Airport, where the jets circled and then headed east toward Long Beach when the object was seen at 7:55 a.m. PDT at the 12 o'clock high position. It was in a left orbit at about 50,000 feet, above the F-86's. It appeared to be a bright silvery aircraft with highly swept back 45° wings. The F-86's tried to climb to intercept the object but it climbed away in response. Another two F-86's were scrambled from George AFB at about 8:00 a.m. as the first two were running low on fuel and broke off pursuit. The second pair of F-86's was vectored by GCI  radar to Camp Pendleton, arrived there at 8:10 a.m. at 43,000 feet, and spotted the object at the one o'clock high position back to the north toward Muroc/Edwards AFB, appearing to be at about 50,000-55,000 feet in a controlled orbit. It looked like a swept wing aircraft that sped up when the F-86's tried to close. The object was again found near March AFB, Riverside, California to the NNW but the jets broke off intercept because they were low on fuel at about 8:20 a.m., landing at 8:45. A third flight of two F-86's were scrambled from George AFB and saw the object shortly after takeoff, heading south. The F-86's made climbing turns up to 43,500 feet under the now round silvery object at 55,000 feet over the San Bernardino Mountains. They broke off the intercept at about 9:25 a.m. A seventh F-86 was scrambled to the south toward Long Beach but the UFO had gone. The Air Force explanation for the sightings was a balloon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6245",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Grudge Report #1, November 11, 1951; Project Grudge Report #2, December 31, 1951; Edward J. Ruppelt, Unidentified Flying Objects, pp. 94-95; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 48; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 42; Kenneth Larson, Flying Saucers, June 1968, p. 44; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 400; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 14; Blue Book Archive Document Group NARA-PBB85 566 (566-568) -Francis Ridge, From Long Beach to Camp Pendleton -MAXW-PBB8-1583-1588,1596-1617 - Dan Wilson, Blue Book Archive Document Group MAXW-PBB8 1604 (1604-1649) & PBB2 273 - Fran Ridge The Report and the Flimsy Analysis - Francis Ridge The original Project Blue Book Special Report Document, p. 16; Analysis: Air Force Documents Supporting Negative Conclusion, Project Blue Book Special Report, pp. 44-47" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/23/1952",
  "desc" : "Gander Lake, Newfoundland, Canada. No time given. Pepperell AFB operations officer and seven other campers witnessed a bright white light, which reflected on the lake. It flew straight and level at 100 mph for ten minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6246",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/23/1954",
  "desc" : "At three o'clock in the morning an ovoid-shaped UFO was sighted on Highway N269 in Moussoulens, France. Two human-looking occupants exited the craft, gestured, then re-entered it and the object took off, flying to the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6247",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 3617; Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 166" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/23/1954",
  "desc" : "In Gatlinburg, Tennessee at 9:45 a.m. Dave Owenby sighted two daylight UFOs. The two bright silver, wheel-shaped objects flew from north to south in trail formation for two minutes ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6248",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/23/1954",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. in Le Jou, France the Patient family witnessed the landing of a bright object that gave off a magnesium-like light, a red glow, and a narrow beam of light. It took off again a moment later and followed their car until they reached Fontland. Policemen in Plombieres and several other independent witnesses observed the object as it flew erratically over the area for 60 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6249",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 69; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 210" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/23/1954",
  "desc" : "At the same time as the Patient family sighting, Mrs. Vignolles of Lencouacq, France saw a luminous object come down from the sky very rapidly. It made no noise as it landed in a nearby field, next to a church. It took off very fast a few seconds later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6250",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 77; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 211" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/23/1955",
  "desc" : "An eight meter wide gray colored plate-shaped disc flew at only 50 meters altitude over the town of Kreuzlingen, Switzerland on this day. It was rotating as it flew by, six cycles per second. It tilted upward and flew away. There were two witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6251",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "L. Zinstag, UFO Sichtungen, p. 21" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/23/1960",
  "desc" : "A Canadian ship reported that a cylindrical object with lighted portholes came down, hit the ocean, and sank off the north coast of Labrador. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6252",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 509" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/23/1962",
  "desc" : "An abduction reportedly occurred near Franconia Notch in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. While driving on Route 3 at ten p.m. the male witness saw a large, lighted domed-oval craft, the same as he had seen in 1959. He parked his truck and walked into a blue beam. Inside the craft he met the same four entities as he had encountered three years before. He was shown controls, and watched others being abducted and medically examined. He was taken to a mother ship and returned in two hours. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6253",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Morton Schafer, MUFON case file investigations, case 930403E" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/23/1965",
  "desc" : "A luminous UFO flew over the city of Cuernavaca, Mexico on this evening and caused three separate power failures. The domed object was seen by thousands, including the mayor. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6254",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, December 1965, p. 3; Charles Bowen, Flying Saucer Review, January-February 1966, p. 14; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers -Serious Business, p. 259" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/23/1967",
  "desc" : "Four photographs were taken on this evening of an orange, flare-like light that flew in from the south over the Stafford, England railway station. It stopped above the station, shot up, vanished, reappeared, moved around in an odd manner, and then faded away. There was no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6255",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Roger H. Stanway & Pace, UFOs: Unidentified, Undeniable, p. 16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/23/1967",
  "desc" : "At 1:37 p.m. Dr. B. Hand, a geology professor and a NICAP UFO investigator, sighted two silver cylinders moving against the wind in a bright blue sky over Amherst, Massachusetts. They made no sound as they went behind some low lying cumulus clouds and did not emerge. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6256",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 349" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/23/1968",
  "desc" : "A minister in Whitefield, Maine awoke at 2:30 a.m. EDT to see two pencil-shaped beams of light coming through his window from a reddish-orange saucer-shaped object hovering in the sky. It made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6257",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 354" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/23/1968",
  "desc" : "Later that same evening at ten p.m. Mr. Battease looked out his bedroom window, six miles east of Roosevelt, Utah in Duchesne County, and saw a double convex disc that was slightly flatter on the bottom. It had red lights on top and was making a humming sound. The lights were steady and the disc moved at the speed of an airplane. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6258",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Frank Salisbury, Utah UFO Display, Appendix case 68" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/23/1971",
  "desc" : "Three people saw a twelve foot by twelve foot by ten foot box-shaped object in an oilfield in Drumheller, Alberta, Canada at 4:30 p.m. It was not there a short time later. When they investigated, they found footprints that descended a steep ledge. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6259",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John Magor, Our UFO Visitors, p. 183; Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, p. 491" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/23/1972",
  "desc" : "Eight children reported watching a UFO maneuvering in the sky over Sudbury, Ontario for over an hour, beginning at around eight p.m. The object had a green dome and red and green body lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6260",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "newspaper clipping dated September 25, 1972, Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #127" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/23/1973",
  "desc" : "In Tyler, Texas a truck driver going to work this morning at five a.m. saw a small \"airplane\" change shape into a cigar, hover for awhile, and then change shape again into an elongated balloon with lights. He heard a \"loop-loop-loop\" thumping sound emanating from the object. A bright square light also swung from the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6261",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John P. Timmerman, International UFO Reporter, July 2002, p. 24" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/23/1973",
  "desc" : "At 7:20 p.m. a huge object, described as a \"flying oceanliner,\" was seen from a residential area of Fort Wayne, Indiana as it moved behind the treeline. It had five rows of lights of its side, and was seen for several minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6262",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Francis Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 37" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/23/1975",
  "desc" : "An elongated fuselage-shaped object 15 meters long with several big, lighted portholes appeared over Cambrai, Nord, France at 10:30 p.m. It moved rapidly and vanished instantaneously when chased by a French Air Force Mirage III jet. It made four appearances. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6263",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 39" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/23/1978",
  "desc" : "At midnight two locksmiths watched a mysterious light pulsating and hovering silently above the ground near Biela Lake, Carpathia, Romania. It suddenly disappeared in plain sight. Around the same time an army private at a nearby military barracks was walking around some buildings when a two meter tall, dark man confronted him. The soldier ran into the barracks to get additional witnesses, but when they came back out he was unable to locate anyone. He saw the being again, later, standing against a window. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6264",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 1783, citing Boczor Iosif, Fate, September 1994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/23/1978",
  "desc" : "Before dawn, during a road rally north of Viedma, Argentina one of the cars, a Citroen being driven by two men named Sr. Acevedo Ramirez and Sr. Moya, was approached from behind at high speed by a bright yellow luminous light, blinding the witnesses. They estimated the approaching object's speed at 300 kph. They felt their car levitated four meters from the ground and experienced the loss of steering, and the car's engine and lights died. As the light faded their car descended to the right shoulder of the road. However, they had experienced a two hour loss of time and were somewhere else along the road than they should have been. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6265",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, November 1978, p. 15, citing Cronica, September 24, 1978; Richard Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, October 1978, p. 11; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 204, 276, 350" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/23/1978",
  "desc" : "That morning a florist in the city of Rosario, Argentina saw a reddish-orange lighted sphere make several 90-degree turns impossible for any conventional aircraft. The object crossed over the Parana River into Entre Rios province. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6266",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, November 1978, p. 16, citing Cronica, September 27, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/23/1979",
  "desc" : "In Feignies, Nord, France a near collision occurred on the D136 highway between an automobile and a six-meter wide disc on the highway, at five o'clock in the morning. The UFO had portholes around its rim. It flew off toward the southwest into some trees. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6267",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, December 1980" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/23/1979",
  "desc" : "A silver cigar-shaped object approached a cattle lot two miles north of Dexter, Iowa at 1:28 p.m. It was only 150 feet above the ground, had no wings or windows, and made no sound. It hovered in place for a few minutes so the witness, a 49-year-old contractor, got out of his truck and attempted to walk underneath it. It then moved off toward the northeast, moving rapidly, and rose slightly into the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6268",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, July 1979, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/23/1984",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. several nocturnal lights buzzed fishermen fishing in the Parnaiba River in Maranhao State, Brazil. A door was heard to slam, and voices were heard. Footprints were found on the bank of the river. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6269",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact, p. 182" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/23/1984",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. a large disc-shaped UFO followed a Piper airplane from Cordoba to Resistensia, Argentina. It reportedly maneuvered at great speed, and changed color from silver to orange. The plane's compass oscillated between 0.5 and 270 degrees, and there were several other variations noted in other onboard instruments. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6270",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 51" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/23/1989",
  "desc" : "At 9 p.m. a boy named Torshin returning home late in the evening from school in Voronezh, Russia noticed a large round red object with a black, door-like hatch hovering close to the ground. It suddenly landed on four legs and the hatch opened. A ladder descended and a square, robot-like being emerged. The witness did not stay around. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6271",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 202; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case # 535, citing Gordon Creighton, in Timothy Good (ed.), The UFO Report 1991" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/23/1996",
  "desc" : "In Bouville, France a circular object was seen at 8:50 p.m. only 100 meters away. It had three square windows and a beam of light in the front. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6272",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 17426, citing Banque OVNI Reports, case 96" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/23/1996",
  "desc" : "Lyn and Jean, two women from Kennoway, Fife, Scotland had seen a huge triangular craft shining very bright beams of lights towards the ground at around 8 p.m. The object hovered over the area and was seen to bank slowly, revealing a large dome on top. On the underside they could see three small red lights on each apex. The craft shot away suddenly at the sound of an approaching aircraft. At 8:30 p.m. the witnesses again saw the huge triangle over the same location, shining down powerful beams of white light.<br/><br/> The witnesses returned back to the area at 9:55 p.m. and watched a powerful blue glow appear over a nearby field at about treetop level. In order to get a better look they drove down a narrow lane and parked their vehicle. They then saw a large star-like object just above the blue glow that was pulsing while appearing to grow repeatedly larger and smaller. Suddenly they noticed the silhouettes of many small thin figures, moving about in the field. One of the figures was much taller than the others, around seven feet tall. Other small beings moved in among trees in the field, while a large black object sat on the ground. The figures appeared to be moving towards this object. At this point the witnesses became extremely frightened and drove away.<br/><br/> They arrived at the home of one of them and borrowed some binoculars, after which they soon returned to the same location and again saw the blue light, still glowing, and they again saw the little beings moving about the trees. They also saw the very tall being again, standing with its back to them. Viewing the hovering object with binoculars, they could now tell that it was amber in color, with dark indentations all around it. It rotated slowly, occasionally turning on its axis. Dozens of small creatures were visible inside, apparently carrying small boxes and tubular canisters around. Taller figures were also seen and described as having brown skin and oriental shaped eyes. They seemed to be supervising a large group of the smaller beings. Using the binoculars they now spotted a large transparent illuminated capsule-shaped object, that rippled on the outside and had indentations like the crenulations of a brain. The object appeared to be resting on the ground, and there were some very small, thin beings inside it. Next to this object was another smaller one, identical to the first, but this one contained a very tall being with brown skin and narrow eyes. Another larger craft was also seen on the ground near the woods. There were lots of lights around it and dozens of small entities that appeared to be working in groups, coming and going from the woods. The witnesses also saw capsule shaped objects resembling cocoons coming out of the woods. These objects suddenly shot across the field towards the witnesses, hovering only a few feet from them. Each of the capsules contained a small entity. They were soon dozens of bubbles or capsules hovering near the two women.<br/><br/> At this point the witnesses became disoriented and had vague memories of being touched by the small entities with probe-like devices. These small entities were described as having big dark eyes, big heads, and smiled at the witnesses. They communicated among themselves by making loud high-pitched noises. They remember leaving the area and returning home in a state of shock. Later, while checking the scene of the incident, UFO investigators found circular marks on the ground, burnt and dead vegetation, and branches from nearby trees covered in what appeared to be white spider web material. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6273",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Tony Todd, UFO Magazine (UK), Volume 15, No.15; Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland's UFO Phenomenon, p. 162; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case # 2562" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/23/1999",
  "desc" : "A silver-metallic, featureless disc dropped to 75 meters altitude over Interstate 75 near McDonough, Georgia on this night. It then moved off rapidly to the west and hovered there for a couple of minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6274",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George Filer, Filer's Files, volume 9, # 39" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/23/2000",
  "desc" : "Ms. Rosa Lopez was on her way home late one night at 3:25 a.m. near Sevilla, Spain when her vehicle entered a strange fog on the road. When she drove out of the fog she was surprised to see that it was almost five a.m. already, although it seemed only minutes had passed. Later, under hypnotic regression, she recounted encountering a huge metallic object on the road. Her car then stalled and stopped. Several short figures with large heads and huge eyes next surrounded her vehicle. She felt weak and helpless as the humanoids carried her into the UFO. She was questioned and put through what she thought was a \"brain scanning\" device. She was then taken back to her car, and she drove away apparently still under the control of the humanoids. She only seemed to snap out of it completely when she got home. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6275",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case # 3935, citing Jose Manuel Garcia Bautista & Rafael Cabello Herrero" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/23/2006",
  "desc" : "A large triangular craft flew low over two witnesses traveling in a car in Ste. Adolphe, Manitoba at 8:30 p.m. No noise was heard coming from the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6276",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2006 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 624" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/24/1952",
  "desc" : "The crew of a USAF B-29 bomber, flying near Charleston, West Virginia at 3:30 p.m. reported seeing a lot of bright, metallic particles or flashes, up to three feet in length, stream past their aircraft for 15 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6277",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2124; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/24/1954",
  "desc" : "At nine o'clock in the morning two women, Mrs. Geoffroy and Miss Gazelle Fin, independently witnessed a dark gray disc, six meters in diameter, in a clearing in Becar, near Diges, Yonne, France. A man of normal height was seen standing close to it. He wore dark clothes and some kind of cap. Miss Fin came within 30 meters of the craft and said that it looked like the man was repairing it. Traces were found on the grass. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6278",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Le Parisien, September 28, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 211" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/24/1954",
  "desc" : "At 10 o'clock in the morning Cesar Cardoso and three others saw two individuals, 2.5 meters (8.3 feet) tall emerge from a landed craft in Almaseda, near Castelibranco, Portugal. They were dressed in shiny uniforms, and were gathering flowers, shrubs, and other vegetation and putting it in a shiny box. Before they took off they seemed to be inviting the witnesses aboard, but their language was not understood. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6279",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 55; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 211" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/24/1954",
  "desc" : "At sometime before 3:00 p.m. in Bayonne, Pyrenees-Atlantique, France three metallic ovoid objects hovered in a triangular formation for over one minute, then flew away fast. At 3:00 p.m. a fast silent cigar-shaped object crossed the sky slowly over the Vichy stadium, Allier, France and was seen by many. These are two of the defining sightings of the Bayonne to Vichy (BAVIC) orthotenic line discovered by Aime Michel and confirmed by Dr. David R. Saunders.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6280",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 76; David R. Saunders, Is BAVIC Remarkable?, FSR, Vol. 17, No. 4, July-August 1971" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/24/1954",
  "desc" : "At dusk a fast, silent, luminous object landed for a few seconds in a field by a church in Lencouacq, Landes, France and was seen by a Miss Vignolles. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6281",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 77" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/24/1954",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. a large 40-50 meter in diameter domed disc, which was bright red with an orange glow and a blue-violet colored dome, was sighted south-southwest of Civray, France. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6282",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Coudert, Ouranos, vol. 24 (1978), p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/24/1954",
  "desc" : "Mr. Cisterne lived on the Farm Lachassagne, near Ussel, France. He was driving back to the barn at 11:00 p.m. with his tractor when he saw a luminous object fly very low over him. There were two other witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6283",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 76; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 211" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/24/1956",
  "desc" : "Two 10 meter wide disc-shaped objects were observed at 300 meters altitude in Gibston, Tennessee at 5:30 a.m. One hovered while the other rocked back and forth. They both had a dark circle around their rims. They suddenly shot off to the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6284",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: September-October, p. 44" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/24/1966",
  "desc" : "At 9:20 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Burwood were driving between Tilshead and Shrewton on Highway A360 in Wiltshire County, England when  their car headlights and engine died. A red misty light descended and landed behind their car. It was 15 feet in diameter and only 30 feet away. When another car came around the corner it vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6285",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "T. Burwood, Flying Saucer Review, November-December 1966, p. 18; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 30" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/24/1968",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. a 56-year-old woman in Cedeira, La Coruna, Spain saw a bright light coming from Ponteiro, and she later observed two tall men walking on the road toward her. There were “lights of changing color visible on their faces.” Frightened, she ran to her nearest neighbor's home. A sailor went out to investigate but found nothing. However, an investigator later found “a burned area, irregular but about two meters in diameter\" at the supposed landing site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6286",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, FSR, May-June 1973, p. 19; Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 80; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-69 (A0984), citing FSR Special Bulletin # 4, p. 54" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/24/1969",
  "desc" : "An architect named Breeus in Zellik, Belgium watched two silent, glowing delta-shaped objects stop in mid-flight at 8:10 p.m. A dog barked furiously during the five minute encounter. The flourescent UFOs hadedges lit by bluish-white light, red underparts, and created fiery exhaust trails. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6287",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, January-February 1972, p. 27; Jacques Bonabot, Catalog of Belgian Cases, case 271" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/24/1971",
  "desc" : "In Caleta Buena, Chile a police car engine and its two-way radio failed when a luminous domed oval-shaped object approached the car. It came from over the ocean close to the beach. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6288",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Pablo Petrowitsch, APRO Bulletin, March-April 1972, p. 9; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project, p. 57; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 56; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, p. 253" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/24/1973",
  "desc" : "On this evening two patrolmen in Fort Wayne, Indiana saw an unidentified light while checking on a UFO report from a woman from Churubosco. The object moved slowly. Authorities at Baier Field were notified, who reported that no aircraft were in the vicinity nor had any balloons been launched, but they also observed the object in the western sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6289",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Skylook, issue 72, p. 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/24/1974",
  "desc" : "At 12:10 a.m. near Eggardon Hill between Newport and Bridport, England a motorist reported that the interior of his car became cold and there was a loss of power resulting in no acceleration, plus the lights dimmed for four seconds. He witnessed a bluish circular tube with blurred edges that zigzagged as it rose, and was gone from view in 15 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6290",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 63, citing BUFORA" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/24/1974",
  "desc" : "Two men at Rock Lake, south of Wheatland, Wyoming saw 35 silver disc-shaped objects approach making a droning noise as they flew to the north at 4:40 p.m. The objects stopped and hovered over the lake. One object tilted, circled, and then ascended. The entire event lasted 35 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6291",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, December 1975, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/24/1978",
  "desc" : "At the army barracks near Biela Lake, Carpathia, Romania the witness of a humanoid encounter the previous night was out with a friend checking an animal trap when they ran into another soldier who suddenly cried out, pointing to a tall dark figure on a nearby hill. The being was standing next to an oil tank. The three men retreated to their barracks, then came back out, noticing that the being was still there. One of them walked towards the figure holding a club in his hand, and attempted to strike at it, but was somehow unable to hit it. That soldier suddenly fell over backwards. The being then bent down and examined him for a few moments. The other two heard a strange sound coming form the being and saw something flash in its hand. They wanted to assist their friend but were unable to move. When the being finally disappeared and they were able to move they went to check on their friend. He was unconscious and half of his body appeared softer than the other half. His face and hands were red. That night other soldiers saw weird dancing egg-shaped lights on top of the hill, and strange marks were found on the barrack window blinds the next day. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6292",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 1784, citing Boczor Iosif, Fate, September 1994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/24/1982",
  "desc" : "At 6:00 p.m. three witnesses in a rescue boat in Braviken Bay, Ostergotland, Sweden had their navigational radar go crazy when their boat was caught in the wake of a very large object that dove into the ocean from the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6293",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Andre Liljegren, AFU Sweden, issue # 25" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/24/1987",
  "desc" : "A 16-year-old farm boy and high school student, Tirn Kendall, was driving at 35 mph down a road in Corydon, Indiana when he noticed a bright blue light behind him. Within seconds the Saturn-shaped UFO proceeded to pass him and moved in front, then tilted right to avoid hitting a house, powerlines and trees. The object went straight ahead, and then shot straight up, paused and finally accelerated out of sight. When the UFO passed the car there was a slight stall to the engine, and the headlights and dashboard lights dimmed for a few seconds. The UFO was about the size of a car, had a greenish-yellow glow, antennae, and multicolored (red, orange, blue and green) lights on the rim. There was a bright blue light in the center of the bottom dome and antennae on both the top and bottom domes. The close encounter lasted 15 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6294",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, citing MUFON case # 871104, Field Investigator Delehanty; Dan Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, May 1989, p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/24/1988",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. a 400 meter long fiery cylinder flew at low altitude over the tundra near Bruderovskiy-Raspadok in the Asiatic region of Vladivostok, Russia. It left behind a white vapor trail. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6295",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 126" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/24/1989",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 a.m. a Mr. Kugatov in Voronezh, Russia witnessed an airship-like elliptical object that flew rapidly toward the east, then reversed direction. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6296",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, p. 155; Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 46" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/24/1992",
  "desc" : "At around six o'clock in the evening several villagers in Pedrera, Sevilla, Spain, including a woman named Paca and two local boys, were walking up a hill when Paca suddenly felt chills and felt compelled to go to a nearby olive grove. The others followed her. When she entered the olive grove she suddenly felt as if her feet were fixed to the ground and she was unable to move from the spot. Moments later a luminous figure appeared, hovering about 10 meters away in front of an olive tree and suspended on a bright glowing \"cloud\" 25 cm above the ground. The figure was described as a female wearing a blue dress with a white blouse and an intense sky blue scarf on its head, which is classically similar to descriptions of apparitions of the Virgin Mary. She saw what appeared to be 12 small lights hovering over the figure's head. Another witness, standing directly beside Paca, was not able to see anything. According to Paca the figure had extremely beautiful facial features, but was somewhat pallid. The hair was light brown in color and its eyes were \"caramel\" colored. She suddenly became able to move again, but when she attempted to approach the glowing figure it seem to vanish, but when she stepped back it would reappear again. This disappearance-reappearance of the apparition was repeated several times. During the encounter the area suddenly became cold. Paca again became paralyzed and was unable to speak, and one of the other witnesses, a young woman, fell to the ground and went into a trance. The young woman began speaking in a slow deliberate manner, repeating the words, \"Pray for peace in the world.\" A strong rose-like fragrance then permeated the area. The apparition moved in slow motion, and it never moved its arms or legs or made any facial gestures. Its body was described as thin and child-like, and was only about one meter in height. It never once spoke to any of the witnesses present. The two local children, Cristina and Sergio, who were present at this time, were to have another encounter two weeks later. Around the same time and in the same area, witnesses observed what they called a \"procession of monks\" walking in single file in a field. They wore black smocks and cowls that covered their faces completely. Others saw a tall heavy set man, described as wearing a brown monk's outfit, with sandals and walking with a large cane. He had a long dark beard, never spoke to anyone and seemed to be in a trance. Three days before these encounters a local power failure had occurred and a huge white light traversed the area, leaving behind a luminous wake. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6297",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, citing Edenex Spain, La Virgen del Cuarton" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/24/1992",
  "desc" : "A woman abductee from Springfield, Missouri recalled being onboard a craft in the early morning hours, and apparently witnessed a live cattle mutilation in progress being performed by several short, gray-skinned humanoids. She was made to assist with the tissue removal around the jaw of the cow. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6298",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, case # 1354, citing Linda Moulton Howe, Glimpses of Other Realities Volume I" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/24/1995",
  "desc" : "In the early hours after midnight Edson Roberto Marcelo, age 29, was driving along a road near his city of Santa Barbara D'Oeste, Sao Paulo State, Brazil when he noticed a very bright light by the side of the road. A beam of light suddenly illuminated his car, and Edson felt a wave of heat and quickly blacked out. When he came to he found himself several kilometers from where he had seen the light, and 40 minutes of missing time had transpired. Very shaken and with irritated eyes, he next drove to the home of a friend. The next day he found several unexplained marks on his wrists and his ears were buzzing. Upon inspecting his vehicle he noticed that parts of the steering wheel had apparently been melted. Later, he vaguely remembered being inside a room with smooth walls and of lying on top of a table. There he remembers being given a telepathic order instructing him to forget the whole episode. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6299",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing Boletim CEPEX; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, citing CEPEX, UFO Genesis Brazil" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/24/1995",
  "desc" : "At 8:25 p.m. a woman called to report seeing a large black triangular mass with no lights hovering and moving slowly near Boise, Idaho. Her son saw the same thing from a different location. It made no sound at all. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6300",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Curt Sutherly, UFO Mysteries: A Reporter Seeks the Truth, p. 195, citing Idaho Statesman, February 25, 1996; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/24/1996",
  "desc" : "At one o'clock in the afternoon two 9-year-old children, a girl and a boy, spotted a four-foot-tall sky-blue figure marching through a cornfield near their school not far from Georgeville, Pennsylvania. The creature was reportedly striding across the clearing, swinging its arms back and forth like a soldier. It had long arms that ended in three fingers. It also had a tube-like appendage coming from the top of its head and dangling down its back. Its skin color was light blue and it had a black \"thing\" that appeared to be an eye but lower than normal, where a nose should have been. They watched the entity for about nine minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6301",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup website, volume 1, number 31; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case # 2486, citing UFO Roundup" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/24/2002",
  "desc" : "Two males were driving in Morphett Vale, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia at 8:30 p.m. when they encountered an intense purple flash of light for 4-5 seconds. They pulled the car over and the driver felt ill. Two minutes later there was another flash of light, accompanied by a strange loss of surrounding noises. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6302",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Keith Basterfield, Australian UFO Research Network, case 02092" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/24/2002",
  "desc" : "At 5:30 p.m. in Dublin, Ireland four black saucer-shaped and shiny UFOs flew in a straight line formation from the southeast to the northwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6303",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2002 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/24/2003",
  "desc" : "Pottsdam, New York. A triangular object with red, white, blue and orange lights danced through the sky at 3:00 a.m. It also flew vertically and gave off a partial beam of red light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6304",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2003 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/24/2006",
  "desc" : "A circular disc-shaped object hovered near the ground in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England at 6:00 p.m. It had a black tinted curved perimeter with lights around it. Close to the pavement it let off a green beam of light.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6305",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2006 webpage, case posted October 30, 2006" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/24/2006",
  "desc" : "A witness in North Surrey, British Columbia, Canada observed a hockey stick-shaped object with flames shooting out the back at 4:00 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6306",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2006 Canadian UFO Survey, case 630" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/24/2007",
  "desc" : "A small triangular craft with bright red, blue and yellow lights, 4-5 per side, was observed moving slowing at a few thousand feet altitude over Shanghai, China at 10:00 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6307",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2007 webpage, report uploaded October 8, 2007" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/25/1949",
  "desc" : "A yellow, rocket-shaped object flew within 100 feet under an airplane that was flying four miles southwest of Parkersburg, West Virginia at 2:45 p.m. The rocket had what looked to be fins. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6308",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bruce S. Maccabee, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1978, p. 11" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/25/1952",
  "desc" : "Several witnesses watched a 20 foot diameter disc hover over Camp Drum near Watertown, New York at 6:00 p.m. It circled the base making a sound like a \"dynamo.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6309",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: September-October, p. 54" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/25/1954",
  "desc" : "A disc-shaped object descended and landed along the banks of the River Marne in Joinville-le-Pont, France at 9:20 p.m. Two humanoids about 1.10 meters tall exited the machine. Their faces were covered with hair. A beam of light paralyzed both of the witnesses, and one of the humanoids approaches the witness with the initials M.P. and tore off his trousers. The short humanoids then boarded their machine, which rose vertically and disappeared at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6310",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 168" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/25/1957",
  "desc" : "Shortly after 11:00 p.m. a white luminous sphere landed in a field 700 yards away from the house of Mr. & Mrs. Aellig in Alliance, Ohio. Eleven or twelve men, all seven feet tall, walked through the cornfield, wearing gray diver suits. One walked between the house and their garage. The encounter lasted 18 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6311",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0426" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/25/1959",
  "desc" : "Two brilliant spheres hovered at three kilometers altitude northwest of Tres Arroyos, Argentina at 7:45 p.m. One of the object landed, while the second object darkened until it could no longer be seen. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6312",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, November 1959" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/25/1959",
  "desc" : "At 11:20 p.m. a gray disc-shaped objects with lights, estimated to be six meters in diamete, hovered while spinning counterclockwise near Akron, Ohio. It appeared to spin in a clockwise direction when rising in altitude. It eventually landed in a field. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6313",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, November 1959" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/25/1965",
  "desc" : "At 9:55 a.m. in Chisholm, Minnesota Bett Diamon saw five orange lights flying in a row at a high speed, and then execute an abrupt turn. The duration of the sighting was one minute. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6314",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 9970; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Don Berliner, Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 52; Jay Rath, The M-Files: True Reports of Minnesota's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 38" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/25/1965",
  "desc" : "At ten o'clock in the evening Dr. George Walton, a physical chemist with a Ph.D., and his wife witnessed two round white objects that flew side-by-side in the sky over Rodeo, New Mexico. The objects flew at 30 to 50 feet above the ground, on a collision course with the witnesses' car, then moved parallel to the road and paced their car at 50-80 mph for six minutes. The object changed to a blue color. Light illuminated the car interior. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6315",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Don Berliner, Australasian UFOlogist, April 1999, p. 52; Mort Young, UFO Top Secret, p. 106-111; UNICAT, case # 636" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/25/1967",
  "desc" : "In Buret, Belgium at 7:00 a.m. two witnesses watched as two chrome colored saucers exited a fog bank 100 meters away. They were 20 meters in diameter. They emitted red satellites balls of light, then flew off to the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6316",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jean Luc Vertongen, Inforespace, May 1972, p. 19; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 84; UNICAT, case # 629" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/25/1970",
  "desc" : "At 8:20 p.m. Mr. Don McTrow reportedly saw a green, domed object \"half the size of a cabin\" near Banff, Alberta, Canada. It had four windows through which two human looking beings could be seen. The object emitted a high-pitched sound and was in view from five to six minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6317",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1970-16, citing William K. Allan, Calgary" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/25/1970",
  "desc" : "In Jessup, Pennsylvania a 16-year-old boy was returning home from a high school football game at ten o’clock at night when, three blocks from his home, he sighted a disc-shaped UFO. It was silver-aluminum in color and approximately 1,000 feet in length. It had a turret on top surrounded by a row of windows. The underside had three large spheres, with a central flat disk. It was glowing white. The sky was clear and the object moved silently across the night sky in an easterly direction. While deciding whether to report this incident or not, the witness was peering out his kitchen window and sighted a large black limousine. He could see it quite clearly because there was a street lamp directly across the street from his house. Four occupants were in the vehicle. Two were seated in the front, and two in the back. Each had on dark suits and hats similar to those worn in the 1940's. They sat in their vehicle, motionless. They returned for the next several evenings. There was no verbal or physical contact with the strangers. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6318",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1970, citing Wisconsin UFO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/25/1970",
  "desc" : "Thirteen-year-old David McTrow of Banff, Alberta, Canada saw a green, domed disc \"half the size of a cabin\" at 8:20 p.m. Inside the craft could be seen two human-like beings. The UFO emitted a high-pitched sound. It was visible for 5-6 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6319",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science, November 1971, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/25/1971",
  "desc" : "At two a.m. Benito Miranda, a 24-year-old truck driver, was driving on Highway 40 west of Itaperuna, Minas Gerais, Brazil when he perceived a strong beam of reddish light, coming from something that blocked the road ahead of him. He lost control of his car, and it slowed down and stopped despite his best efforts. He got out of his car and saw an object about the size of a Volkswagen Beetle on the road. A door opened in the object and three diminutive beings, less than two feet tall, jumped down from it. They wore coveralls with \"Roman type\" helmets, and carried dazzling lights. With a yellow beam of light they levitated him 150 feet from the ground, where he was floated for about 15 minutes. When the headlights of an approaching car came into view he was gently lowered back down to the ground, and the object and its occupants vanished. He drove back to Itaperuna and reported his close encounter to the police, who sent him to SAMDU Hospital to be examined. An independent witness, the driver of the approaching car, reported witnessing the event. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6320",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Irene Granchi, APRO Bulletin, September 1971, p. 3; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-24, citing Dr. Walter Buhler" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/25/1971",
  "desc" : "The first sighting of a tall, hairy creature to occur on this day in Wantage, Oxfordshire, England happened at 5:30 a.m., but no details are available. Later that same day Miss Linda Milne saw a tall, hairy creature enter some woods near the old Wantage canal. Two 14-year-old boys said they were chased by it, that when they threw stones at it it ran towards them. They scaled a fence to get away, but the creature did as well. Later, they observed a disc-shaped object take off from a field in the same field. At the time there were many reports of UFOs in the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6321",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-25, citing J. D. Llewellyn, FSR, Vol. 18 # 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/25/1971",
  "desc" : "There were a number of sightings from across China on this day. In Xuchang a luminous object spiralled in a counterclockwise spin in the northwestern sky. It descended to a lower altitude, rose again, then shot away to the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6322",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Wendelle Stevens & Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, p. 74" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/25/1973",
  "desc" : "At about 9:00 p.m. two people watched a segmented circular object in the sky over Crown Street, Reading, Berkshire, England. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6323",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Reading Evening Post, September 26, 1973; J. Benard Delair, UFO Register, Volume 5, 1974, p. 52, case 616" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/25/1975",
  "desc" : "A member of the U.S. Air Force, at home on leave in Mountlake Terrace, Washington was awakened by barking dogs at 5:50 a.m. He saw a bright red sphere about a foot in diameter hovering 12 inches off the ground in front of his parked car. Beside it stood a man about 6' 5\" tall. The witness next heard a high-pitched, beeping sound that made him feel as if he were going to faint. He awakened his wife and the beeping sound immediately stopped. When they looked again the sphere and the figure were both gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6324",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1975-33, citing Robert Gribble, NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/25/1976",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. between Mildura and Karrawinna, Victoria, Australia four witnesses watched red lights near the ground in a field. They hovered for one minute over their initial position, 50-100 feet above the ground, then drifted to the east gaining altitude; they then hovered again, and finally vanished. A distant rumbling was heard just after their disappearance. Three days after the sighting of the low level lights, a 21.6 meter (71 foot) circle of dried grass was found in the paddock were the straw had been blown or sucked off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6325",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, December 1976, p. 10; ACOS Bulletin, December 1976, p. 24; Bill Chalker, Australasian Ufologist, April 1993, p. 24; UNICAT, case # 792" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/25/1977",
  "desc" : "At midnight a man who had had a close encounter with a bright multicolored object the previous night, was again driving on the same highway on his way to San Juan, Puerto Rico when he began hearing voices in his head. He stopped his car and flagged down a passing police officer, and he was taken to the local police station in Pedro Avila. When he felt better he left and again headed off towards San Juan, but after a few minutes he once again began to hear voices, so he stopped the car and suddenly a bright light appeared. There was a brilliant flash, and a three-foot tall figure encased in light appeared. The witness felt dizzy and got out of his vehicle. He felt a strange attraction to the little man and could not stop himself from approaching. The humanoid carried two loops in his right hand, and something resembling a flashlight that emitted a brilliant golden yellow light. The figure also radiated a blue aura that at times would briefly turn golden. The little man pointed to a nearby hovering light, and then entered it, which vanished abruptly. The man suffered from severe neck pain after his encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6326",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, cse # 267, citing Robiou Lamarche, Manifesto OVNI en Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo y Cuba" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/25/1978",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon in Ostuni, Apulia, Italy two observers watched a disc-shaped object make a whistling sound at 25 meters altitude. It maneuvered, made a descent and wobbled. It shot off to the south toward a NATO base. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6327",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 12846, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 208" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/25/1979",
  "desc" : "In a farming region of Talco, Chile a peasant out plowing the fields encountered a landed disc-shaped craft. A tall humanoid emerged from the object and briefly chased the peasant. The humanoid caught up with the farmer, placing its hand on his shoulder. Later the farmer was treated at a local hospital for second and third degree burns on his shoulder, apparently caused by the humanoid's touch. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6328",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case # 1075, citing Saga 1980 UFO Annual" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/25/1979",
  "desc" : "At 5 p.m. two witnesses at Lake George in Rochester, New York saw a silent, chrome-colored flattened sphere rise in the sky and shoot off to the northeast. It left behind no trail. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6329",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, December 1979, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/25/1980",
  "desc" : "Elias Seixas de Mattos and two of his friends were returning to Rio de Janeiro in a truck. At 10:28 p.m., when they had reached a point on the road near Conceicao de Araguaia, Goias State, Brazil the driver felt a sensation like a cold liquid on his body, and heard a voice in his head telling him to go to a certain spot. The other two men saw a flash of light hit the hood of the truck. All three of them then saw a luminous object on the ground about a mile away. Sr. Seixas got out of the vehicle and attempted to film the object, while the other two men panicked and ran from the truck. A short while later Elias, feeling drowsy, talked one of the other men into driving the truck. They next experienced the vehicle behaving in a strange manner, perhaps because it was being levitated, followed by a period of missing time. Later under hypnosis, Elias recalled floating into a fiery red, cigar-shaped object with flashing white lights. Inside, he entered an egg-shaped chamber attached to a large white circular room with tables and machinery. A seven foot tall being, described as wearing a tight fitting, yellow coverall outfit that covered his entire body and head except for his face, operated the machinery. The being had large, slanted, lilac colored eyes, a long nose, a large lipless mouth, long arms and hands, and very pale skin. He wore a belt with a circular buckle that had colored lights. An invisible barrier apparently prevented the witness from approaching the being. Seixas was submitted to several medical examinations on top of an exam bed-like apparatus. At one point the aliens connected some type of equipment to his head and chest. In addition, blood and sperm samples were taken from him. He remembered seeing two human like beings, one black, the other white, who resembled identical twins; they wore tight-fitting gray uniforms. The beings told Seixas that their point of origin was within the star cluster of Ursa Minor, and that they had bases on the planet Mars. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6330",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Irene Granchi, APRO Bulletin, March 1982, p. 1; Timothy Good, Alien Contact, p. 93; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of A Mystery, case # 72; Albert S. Rosales, 1980 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 493" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/25/1988",
  "desc" : "Three separate cars stalled on State Route 113 in Lorain County, Ohio at 10:30 p.m. The occupants of the cars then spotted a silent, silver, delta-shaped object in some woods. The noticed that the treetops near the object were swaying despite the fact that there wasn't any wind at the time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6331",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Thomas M. Olsen, FSR, June 1989" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/25/1998",
  "desc" : "At 4:40 a.m. the witness was driving his truck along his paper route in Sunrise Beach, Texas when as he rounded a corner he saw a disc-shaped craft with green and orange lights hovering about 25 or 30 feet above the ground. He also briefly saw a 4 foot 8 inch tall figure apparently standing on the object that quickly disappeared from sight. When the truck started to slow down there was a very bright flash of light. The witnesses was momentarily blinded and when he was able to focus again the object had disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6332",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case #3228, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/25/1998",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. two women driving north on Interstate 95 near Brattleboro, Vermont noticed several bright headlights approaching from behind. Three or four cars sped by the witnesses, who were doing about 70 mph. The cars appeared to be traveling together. As the first car passed them, the headlights of the car directly behind it illuminated the interior. The witnesses then saw in the back seat of the front car a lone entity sitting erect. It looked tall with a huge head on a spindly neck. Its color was pasty and it looked like a lot of veins covered its head. These cars drove at such a high speed that they could not catch up with them. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6333",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case # 3914, citing Sandra Black, MUFON" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/25/2001",
  "desc" : "While driving shortly after 6:00 p.m. near Canberra, ACT, Australia, a man and woman, Hans and Fiona, saw a combination of low flying, bright white lights. The two outer lights were round and bright, while the inner lights were dimmer. The sighting lasted 15 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6334",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Australian UFO Research Network, ufoinfo.com" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/25/2002",
  "desc" : "A close encounter in which one of the witnesses shot at the up-close, hovering UFO with his pistol occurred in the early morning hours on this day in Naxcivan, Azerbaijan. The main witness reported, \"My friends own an Internet café, and I closed up late that night. It had been raining, but the rain stopped as I left the café at 3:30 a.m.\" It was a very dark night, and when he looked up he saw a huge disc-shaped object, 500-600 meters in diameter, hovering overhead. It was so close that it blocked the rain. He saw one man shoot his pistol at it about eight times, and the UFO started to move away, where upon it started to rain again. \"The police came and arrested the man. I'm 100% sure this was a UFO.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6335",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 45" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/25/2002",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. a white, V-shaped object hovered over Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. It was seen to rotate and then descend. The incident lasted three minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6336",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2002 Canadian UFO Survey, case 422, citing UFOBC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/25/2002",
  "desc" : "A missing time incident also occurred at 8:30 p.m. local time in Grapevine, Tarrant County, Texas. The witness reported that he was driving when he was approached by blinking lights on a circular UFO. This was followed by a period of missing time, and when he recovered consciousness he and his car were not in the same location as when the CE-4 experience began. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6337",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2002 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/25/2003",
  "desc" : "Two dogs showed fear as a mysterious, large dark object was observed for five minutes overhead in Marstons Mills, Massachusetts. At 8:20 p.m. the witness reported that the sky above him appeared to be a solid black, with no stars showing, nor light of any kind, and the black void was seen changing its shape. There was no sound reported, either. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6338",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2003 webpage; Joan Woodward, NICAP Category 4 - Animal Effects Cases, www.nicap.org" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/25/2008",
  "desc" : "At 2:45 p.m. a metallic, disc-shaped object hovered in the sky over Roscoe, Illinois for 30 seconds, and then shot off. It left behind a slight trail, but it also was gone in seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6339",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2008 webpage, report uploaded October 31, 2008" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/26/1949",
  "desc" : "Over the town of Winchendon, Massachusetts a cigar-shaped UFO emitted a cloud of smoke. It flew from the northwest to the southeast slowly, and then disappeared. The sighting lasted 15 minutes and the report was made by two men named Peckham and Clements. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6340",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, September 1949; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949, Volume 2, p. 44" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/26/1949",
  "desc" : "Southeast of Lexington, Nebraska three ovoid objects, about four meters in size, flew toward the northeast at 6:40 p.m. Two of the objects left trails of sparks. There were five witnesses, and the report was made by someone named Wolfe. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6341",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, September 1949; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949, Volume 4, p. 38" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/26/1952",
  "desc" : "In the Atlantic Ocean 400 miles NNW of the Azores Islands. 11:16 p.m. The pilot, copilot, engineer and aircraft commander of an USAF C-124 transport plane reported observing two distinct green lights to the right and slightly above the C-124 at 11:16 p.m. At one point the lights seemed to turn toward their aircraft. The lights alternated leading each other during the aerial encounter, which went on for more than one hour of observation. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6342",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book Report #8, report dated December 31, 1952; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; UNICAT, case # 748" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/26/1954",
  "desc" : "Hearing her dogs barking and howling at 2:30 p.m., Ms. Lucette Leboeuf of Chabeuil, Drome, France saw what first resembled a \"scarecrow\" in a cornfield. After approaching to within eight feet she saw it to be a \"diving suit\" of transparent plastic, 3.5 feet high. A little man with large eyes was inside, resembling \"a child in a plastic bag, with eyes larger than human eyes.\" She could see no arms on the creature. When he began waddling toward her she fled. A flat, circular four meter wide disc was seen to rise up making a whistling sound and fly away toward the northeast. An eleven foot wide circle of crushed foliage was found at the site. Ms. Leboeuf was in a state of shock and was in bed for the next two days. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6343",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 70; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 211; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 67; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-55, citing Aime Michel; UNICAT, case # 611" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/26/1954",
  "desc" : "A disc-shaped object maneuvered around the sky and then hovered over a radio station on a mountain peak in Col-de-Chat, Savoie department, France at 5:14 p.m. There were 15 witnesses, and the sighting lasted at least 4 minutes. A photograph was taken. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6344",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case 50; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 81" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/26/1954",
  "desc" : "One minute after the radio station sighting a short humanoid in a diver suit was seen by a Mr. Guyard at the Challes Airport in Savoie department, France. The being waddled quickly toward and got into a saucer-shaped craft. A ten-foot circle was found at the landing site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6345",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 81" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/26/1959",
  "desc" : "On this night a Russian military aircraft reportedly spotted from the air the crash site of a large disc-shaped craft not far from Moscow, Russia. The object appeared to be smoldering and it was shattered with one large piece broken off. The largest section of the craft was transported by helicopter to a nearby airfield at Aktyubinsk. It was badly damaged by some kind of explosion and fire, and the inside was completely charred. Noticeable radiation was detected at the crash site, where among the remaining wreakage was discovered the fragments of the body of a dwarf humanoid, perhaps 80 cm tall. Fragments of the craft were transported to different secret scientific research locations and the body was allegedly taken to an underground bunker in Moscow. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6346",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1959, citing Anton \"Cade\" Belousov, Soviet X Files List" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/26/1962",
  "desc" : "On a farm near Capay, Glenn County, California at 9:45 p.m. a man named Gray sighted a silent ovoid object hovering just eight meters above an alfalfa field. It had blunt ends. It ascended to a higher altitude and then flew away toward the southwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6347",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, July-August 1963, p. 4; Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 156, citing the Orland Union Register" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/26/1963",
  "desc" : "At 4:20 a.m. a police officer and eight others in Sunnyvale, California observed a gray disc-shaped object with a central bright spot, moving on a westerly course at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6348",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 63; Thomas M. Olsen, Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case # 144" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/26/1967",
  "desc" : "In the middle of the afternoon a woman was alone in her house in Seaford, Long Island, New York when she heard a loud humming sound coming from outside. Looking out the window, she saw a hovering silvery disc-shaped object, perfectly smooth without any visible openings. While she was watching her doorbell rang. When she answered the door she was confronted by a tall dark woman wearing a shimmering long gray gown. The woman asked her some questions, apparently confusing her for somebody else. She then asked for a glass of water and salt, claiming that she had to take a pill. When she left she walked away into the bushes, and moments later the humming sound got louder then the disc rose up and shot up into the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6349",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, case # 1404, citing John A Keel, The Mothman Prophecies" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/26/1967",
  "desc" : "That night at the Da Baleia Hospital, Minas Gerais, Brazil a sixteen-year-old boy named Diniz had a humanoid encounter with a being from a disc-shaped UFO. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6350",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, September-October 1967, p. 13; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 158" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/26/1973",
  "desc" : "A Spanish Air Force Mirage jet was flying at 20,000 feet 24 nautical miles offshore of Valencia, Spain at 8:24 p.m. when an intensely white UFO paced their aircraft briefly. The two Spanish A.F. captains said that the object changed color from white to red, and matched their descent from 20000 feet to 7000 feet. A weak radar return matched the maneuvers of the UFO described by the pilot. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6351",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UNICAT, case # 822, citing Spanish Air Force" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/26/1973",
  "desc" : "The main witness was a young woman who was walking through a local park in Actinolite, Ontario, Canada along with some friends during the evening when a strange heavy mist enveloped the area. They saw what seemed to be a silvery glow coming from the center of the mist. and the witness felt strongly attracted to it. As she got closer she saw a beautiful silvery object on the ground. She described it as a \"starship.\" She went inside the object and saw several of her friends being led towards different sections of the craft. She was taken to a large circular room of a transparent blue color with two transparent doors at each end. The occupants of the UFO were all apparently human or human-like beings and beautiful in appearance. Through a large window she saw a woman sitting at a communications console. The witness sat on a chair in the center of the room and ate from a bowl of fruit on a table. A man entered the room and walked into what appeared to be a circular shower stall and removed some dirty coveralls. When the stall lit up the man then emerged wearing shiny clean coveralls. The witness felt that she had experienced some type of mind control onboard the object, which changed her life. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6352",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1973, case # 1438, citing Winifred G. Barton, in John Robert Colombo (editor), Dark Visions" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/26/1973",
  "desc" : "On this night a local DJ and four others saw a tall creature with pointed ears, a hooked nose, a gray face, and red glowing eyes in the woods along highway 701 in Sidney, North Carolina. It was dressed in a brown shirt, black pants, and wore a small brown cap and some kind of medallion on its chest. It walked with a limp and was missing one hand. Someone fired five or six shots at the creature with no apparent effect. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6353",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Wedd & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1226, citing The Robesonian; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of the Humanoids, case 73-12E" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/26/1974",
  "desc" : "At ten p.m. on a farm in Lynchburg, Ohio two men watched a hovering UFO pulsing different colors. The witnesses shone a light on the UFO, and the UFO beamed back a red beam of light. Their dogs were frantically barking during the encounter, which lasted about five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6354",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Leonard Stringfield, CUFOS case files; Leonard H. Stringfield, Situation Red: The UFO Siege, p. 90" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/26/1975",
  "desc" : "In Asservent, near Maubeuge, France a very large disc-shaped object was watched by some 12 witnesses at 9:30 p.m. This disc was only 20 meters from the ground. A cone-shaped object detached from it and rose vertically. Eight photographs were taken. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6355",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, Skylook, May 1976, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/26/1977",
  "desc" : "At 7:36 a.m. a woman named Cater was driving by a pasture in Minehead, England near Kilve on highway A39 in Somerset with she noticed fog and a floating gray, egg-shaped mass above a hedge. The cows in the nearby field were acting very disturbed. Her skin prickled as if she had entered an electrostatically charged energy field and she heard a humming sound. When she checked the time 12 minutes had passed but it seemed it should have been a much briefer experience. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6356",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jenny Randles, Time Storms: Amazing Evidence for Time Warps, Space Rifts, and Time Travel, p. 5, citing BUFORA Journal, July 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/26/1977",
  "desc" : "At 8:10 p.m. five silent disc-shaped object flew along some power lines in Griselles, France. One of the UFOs shot away very quickly. An electric oven stopped working when the UFOs approached. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6357",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 12346, citing Jean-Claude Bourret, La Nouveau Defi des OVNI, p. 238" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/26/1978",
  "desc" : "At 12:05 p.m. a domed disc giving off a dim glow through openings around its perimeter was sighted by a 19-year-old female grocery worker driving near the Lunn River in Strongsville, Ohio. The sighting lasted over two minutes, during which there were 15 seconds of FM radio static and her car's lights went out for one second. When the UFO flew close to the witness's car she reported it felt like someone was watching her. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6358",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 73; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 257; International UFO Reporter, July 1979, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/26/1978",
  "desc" : "On this night Alejandro Hernandez and his 13-year-old son had gone for a drive southeast of Santiago, Chile. Hernandez felt an odd sensation that slowed the car down. When he looked out the car window he saw a hovering UFO nearby. A hatch opened on bottom of the object and their vehicle and its two occupants was elevated up into the craft. Inside, five short humanoid beings surrounded by a bright light approached them. One of them spoke in a metallic voice and ordered them to exit the vehicle. Once outside the car they saw numerous devices with red and orange lights. When they asked the UFOnauts where they were from, they remained silent but all pointed upwards. After ten minutes both witnesses were deposited back on the ground. There apparently were other witnesses to their abduction. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6359",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 3394, citing El Mundo de las Enigmas" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/26/1979",
  "desc" : "At 5:00 p.m. a witness in Monsey, New York watched a saucer-shaped craft hover above some nearby power lines. The craft emitted a soft humming sound and was about 35 feet in diameter. On the bottom of the object there was a ring of rotating colored lights. On the upper section was a circular row of windows, and at the top was an antenna like projection. The witness stood about 80 feet away and was able to see shadowy figures appearing at the windows. The UFO then flew straight up and away at incredible speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6360",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/26/1980",
  "desc" : "In Blythe, Riverside County, California at 2:26 p.m. a luminous Saturn-shaped UFO passed directly over the house of a 20-year-old female witness. The craft flew slowly, stopped briefly in in the west, and finally shot straight up out of sight. The witness was badly frightened, and claimed to have a headache and sore-throat from her encounter; her symptoms were gone the next day. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6361",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, November 1980, p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/26/1989",
  "desc" : "A young witness saw an object with portholes on the ground in Voronezh, Russia at 7:00 p.m. A figure more than three meters tall emerged from it. The entity had two large eyes on its head and a red light on top. On its chest it had a silvery disk with three round spots of different colors. Below that it had a rectangular box that protruded out. The being also wore large silvery boots. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6362",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case # 536, citing Gordon Creighton, in Timothy Good (ed.), The UFO Report 1991" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/26/1995",
  "desc" : "On this day on a ranch in Farasita, Huerfano County, Colorado a horse named \"Whiskey\" was found dead from unexplained mutilations. A 6 inch, perfectly circular coring had been performed on its rectum, half of its tongue had been removed with a clean diagonal slice, the upper eye had been removed, and the horse's hair and hide had been blackened as if by exposure to a heat source. No ground tracks were found around the carcass. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6363",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Christopher O'Brien, Enter the Valley, p. 314" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/26/1996",
  "desc" : "A man was lying in his bed in Cowen, Webster County, West Virginia when, at 2:39 a.m., he heard a loud noise resembling an approaching train. It was so loud that the house shook. Next, there was a bright light that lit up the sky, and it moved over his house to hover over the porch. Looking out his bedroom window, he saw a dark figure standing outside on the ground. Terrified, he closed his eyes, and when he opened them he found himself floating above the hedge outside his house. Looking up, he saw an arrangement of red, blue, yellow, and white lights on the bottom of the UFO. In the middle of the object there appeared to be a glowing door-shaped entrance. He screamed and lost consciousness. He only remembers waking up in his bed three days later, with no memory of what happened during those three days. He did, however, reportedly find numerous scars on his body that he attributes to his abduction experience. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6364",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1996 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/26/1996",
  "desc" : "In Valley, Alabama a farmer photographed a dark thimble-shaped UFO at 2:30 p.m. His dog howled and ran off. Later, unmarked copters were seen following the UFO. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6365",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Volume 1, Number 33" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/26/1997",
  "desc" : "In Penuelas, Puerto Rico Ivan Rivero Morales and several other witnesses watched an object flying around a nearby mountaintop for about an hour starting at around 10:00 p.m. It then landed on the summit. The intensity of its light diminished to a soft amber glow, which it retained throughout the duration of its landing. With the aid of binoculars and telescopes, the witnesses watched a number of tall beings walking around for another hour. They were described as a greenish color with large oval-shaped heads, black eyes, pointed ears and protruding bellies. The beings re-entered the craft and its brilliance increased, and it then vanished in a matter of seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6366",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, case # 3184, citing Federico Alvarez Frank" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/26/1998",
  "desc" : "In San Jose, California two sets of five objects flew over the city at 10:30 p.m. in parallel formation. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6367",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 1998 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/26/2002",
  "desc" : "Several orange objects were sighted in a huge V formation over Taylorville, Utah beginning at 9:15 p.m. MDT. They moved slowly and then hovered, staying in straight lines. A low humming sound was heard during the event, which lasted for about an hour. At about the same time, at 8:21 p.m. PDT, 4 or 5 rectangles connected by a thin filament were seen moving over Wheeler Springs in Ojai, California. The formation was one degree of arc in length, and the objects were seen moving slowly through the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6368",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twitchell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 91, citing NUFORC; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2002 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/26/2003",
  "desc" : "A very large, silent, dark boomerang shaped aircraft was seen over Centerville, Montgomery County, Ohio at 12:30 a.m. It made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6369",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2003 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/26/2005",
  "desc" : "A huge non-lit triangular craft with spheres attached to it and others trailing behind, flew over Bay City, Michigan at 11:48 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6370",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2005 webpage, report uploaded October 11, 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/26/2006",
  "desc" : "A dark triangular object was seen over San Jacinto, Riverside County, California at 7:30 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6371",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2006 webpage, report uploaded October 30, 2006" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/27/1952",
  "desc" : "Inyo, Kern County, California. Two couples, looking through a 5x telescope at 10 p.m., observed a large, round object, which went through the color spectrum every 2 seconds. It flew straight and level for 15 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6372",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/27/1954",
  "desc" : "Foussignargues, France. At \"Revety,\" people on a bus saw a reddish light with a halo come down from the sky at 2:30 a.m.. Later Mr. and Mrs. Louis Roche noticed a softly glowing red object on the ground a short distance from their house, but were afraid to approach it. It remained there for several hours. It was described as \"a sort of glowing tomato, with antennae on top.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6373",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 212; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 89-90" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/27/1954",
  "desc" : "Children in Figeac, France saw \"a box\" and \"an unknown man\" standing nearby it at 8:40 a.m. The object took off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6374",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 212; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 90" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/27/1954",
  "desc" : "Perpignan, France. A college student saw a circular object on the ground this afternoon. Two beings came out of it, then reentered the craft and left. The witness was reportedly in a state of shock. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6375",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 212" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/27/1954",
  "desc" : "A luminous disc-shaped object was observed in Lanta, Haute-Garonne, France at 8 o'clock in the evening. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6376",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 92" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/27/1954",
  "desc" : "Four children in Premanon, France came outside of their home at 8:30 p.m. because their dog was barking furiously. They saw a large object on the ground and a small being they thought was a \"ghost\" in their yard. Raymond Romand (or Rolland), age 12, threw stones at the intruder. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6377",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, A propos des Soucoupes Volantes, p. 116; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 212; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 91-92" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/27/1954",
  "desc" : "Two flying cigars were seen in Sauzet, Drome, France at 9:40 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6378",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 92" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/27/1965",
  "desc" : "A physicist employed by the U.S. Air Force sighted a sharply defined, brillian white ball of light in Andover, Massachusetts at 7:28 p.m. He first thought it could be a meteor, but it did not burn out when he stopped to watch it. It moved faster than any known conventional aircraft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6379",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 334" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/27/1971",
  "desc" : "On this night Len Delman, a lorry driver, saw what he took to be a man in a white suit in the road directly ahead of his truck while driving near Banbury, Oxfordshire, England. He slammed on the brakes and came to a halt, believing he may have hit the man. He jumped out and went behind his truck, but found no one. Coming back around to the front of his vehicle he saw in the headlights a \"spaceman,\" 7-8 feet tall, with big, staring eyes 8-12 inches apart and extending around the sides of its head. It had a pack on its back from which two tubes led to the head. When Delman honked his horn repeatedly the \"thing\" jumped three feet in the air and ran across the road, then leapt over a hedge. Two other lorry drivers came upon the scene, and together they watched a disc-shaped object take off from the field where the figure had disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6380",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-26, citing J. D. Llewellyn, FSR, Vol. 18 # 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/27/1972",
  "desc" : "At 11:13 p.m. Enrique Moreno was delivering documents to the Ika-Renault factory in Santa Isabel, Cordoba, Argentina when the fluorescent lights in the engineering room went on and off three times. There was an accompanying noise like that of a turbine lasting for several seconds. Driving his motor runabout outside the plant he briefly glimpsed \"a sort of rainbow very near the ground,\" but thought no further of it until he suddenly encountered a tall figure, glowing a bluish green, moving among a pile of chassis beside his route. As he approached within 30 meters the figure swung around, in a stiff mechanical way, to face him, and at the same time his engine faltered then quit when he came opposite the being.<br/><br/> This humanoid figure, strongly built and about 7.5 feet tall, had eyes like yellow light bulbs, large pointed ears, a square chin, and a slit-like mouth. The face appeared pale green, but this may have been do to a reflection from the clothing, a one-piece luminescent bluish-green tight fitting coverall with a broad silvery belt. Moreno felt an intolerable humming in his ears, a sensation of heat, and itching over his entire body. There was also the smell of burning oil. His arms and legs were paralyzed. After 30 seconds of this confrontation, his motorcycle shot off to the left seemingly under its own volition at high speed, and the witness was returned to the Security Office without his conscious control. He arrived there at 11:30 p.m., but his wristwatch had stopped at 11:13 p.m., leaving 15 minutes unaccounted for. Moreno was in a highly agitated state, and subsequently suffered nausea and pains in the neck, as well as a burning sensation in his eyes. At the encounter site two rectangular \"footprints\" 8 inches x 16 inches were found and the soil there was warm to the touch. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6381",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Oscar A. Galindez, FSR, November 1975, p. 21; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1972-28, citing Dr. Oscar A. Galindez" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/27/1972",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. independent witnesses, one a woman with the surname of Quiroga, saw near the local Ika-Renault auto plant in Santa Isabel, Cordoba, Argentina a luminous object which picked up a tall humanoid entity. It did so by means of a solid beam of blue light. It somehow levitated or took the being up through the tube of light and into the UFO. Others saw a luminous object rising up into the sky from the vicinity of the auto plant. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6382",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Oscar A Galindez, FSR, November 1975, p. 21" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/27/1973",
  "desc" : "At around 5:30 p.m., while picking mushrooms in the woods on Mont Real in Bedarrides, Vancluse, France, the witness observed a four-foot-tall dwarf standing at the edge of the clearing some 100 feet away. As he grabbed something from the ground a second identical-looking being joined the first one from the woods beyond. They looked human and wore beige coveralls that covered up their wrists and neck; their feet were obscured by high grass. Their arms were slender and their hands normal. Each wore a black beret on his head. Thinking they were children, the witness called out to them, whereupon they laughed aloud, then turned and fled into the brush behind them. A few seconds later, the witness saw a dull bluish-gray oval-shaped object, about five meters wide, rise up beyond the trees and ascend to a height of 20 feet, making a slight whistling sound. There it paused briefly, then departed toward the northeast rapidly and in total silence. At the landing site, a bush and some grass had been flattened, suggesting that the UFO had been hovering a foot or so above the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6383",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher: HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-97, citing Jean Bastide, MUFON UFO Journal , no. 118" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/27/1973",
  "desc" : "Two girls were standing outside in Beaver County, Pennsylvania at 9:30 p.m. when an eight-foot tall being covered with white hair and with red glowing eyes ran into the woods nearby. The humanoid was carrying a large luminous sphere in its hands. The girls ran off hysterically into their house. The father of one of the girls then went into the woods in search of the creature and stayed there for over an hour. When he returned he refused to talk about what he had seen in the woods. During the period of time he was in the woods several people watched a silvery object hovering over the woods. At one point it emitted a beam of light into the woods. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6384",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Stan Gordon, MUFON UFO Symposium 1974" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/27/1978",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. two witnesses watched an object with pulsating red lights fly low over some pine trees in Prcirovnik, Poland. The object was oval shaped and appeared to descend into the woods. In the woods, a mushroom picker encountered three short beings dressed in black one-piece suits with flippers on their feet. On their chests they wore a yellow emblem with a red dot, and on their heads they wore tight-fitting black helmets. The beings were greenish in color and had pointed ears, red slanted eyes, and pronounced cheekbones. They gave off a strong chlorine-like odor. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6385",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 563, citing Felix Zigel, UFO Landings in the USSR and Other Countries" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/27/1989",
  "desc" : "A woman was called by her granddaughter to look at something unusual outside at 4:20 p.m. She stepped out of her house near Tillamook, Oregon and was confronted by an object resembling an inverted toy top, hovering just above the ground. It was 20 to 30 feet in diameter and had a flat bottom and a bright yellow-white light shining at both ends. The woman approached to within 30 feet of the craft when a door opened revealing a blond human-like entity of average height with fair skin and blue eyes. He was wearing a silvery coverall uniform. The woman then noticed at a window next to the door a large hairy, Sasquatch type creature apparently seated and only visible from the chest up. The woman stared at the object and beings for a few minutes, and then the UFO suddenly vanished from plain sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6386",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case #116; MUFON UFO Journal, April 1990" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/27/1989",
  "desc" : "Several children playing at a local park in Voronezh, Russia first observed a pinkish glow approaching in the sky at 6:30 p.m. As it came overhead they could see that it was a deep red, ball-shaped object. The object flew around in circles for a few minutes and then left. When it returned it hovered briefly, and then descended very close to the ground. A hatch opened and a heavy set figure emerged. The being moved very slowly and looked around, he had a very small head resembling that of a doorknob, set in between its shoulders. It had three luminous eyes, the middle one moving around like\"radar.\" On its chest there was a shield-like object. The being then closed the hatch and the object landed gently on four legs. The hatch opened again and three huge humanoids with small knob-like heads stepped out. These wore silvery coveralls and bronze colored boots. A strange robot-like creature accompanied the giants. All four of them walked around the object several times. A beam of light came out of the chest of one of the beings and struck the ground, creating several luminous triangles that later faded away. At one point the craft and beings became briefly invisible but then reappeared. One of the boys screamed in fear. Then one of the beings looked at the boy and pointed a tube at him. A luminous beam came from the tube and hit the boy, which made him disappear. The boy later reappeared after the beings and the objects had gone. Subsequent information revealed that on of the craft's hull and on the landing prop of another craft was the letter or symbol \"Zhe,\" reported to have been similar to the \"UMMO\" insignia reported in Western Europe in the 1970s. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6387",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case # 534, citing Gordon Creighton, in Timothy Good (ed.), The UFO Report 1991" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/28/1954",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. Georgette Mongot and Mr. and Mrs. Alexis Lartillot in Froncles, France observed a large, bright object oscillate, then land. It changed color and was lost to sight behind some trees. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6388",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 212; Aime Michel, Mysterieux Objets celestes, p. 94; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 92" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/28/1954",
  "desc" : "At \"Le Grand Tertre\" in St-Amand-Montrond, France Mr. Mercier, a vintner, observed that someone had stolen grapes from his vineyard. He decided to stay late and catch the \"robbers.\" Around 10:30 p.m. he was amazed when he saw a luminous mass descend from the sky about 50 meters away, and found himself paralyzed while three figures emerged from the light and moved about. He lost consciousness. When he came to his senses, everything had vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6389",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, A propos des Soucoupes Volantes, p. 125; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 212; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 93" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/28/1954",
  "desc" : "At 11:10 p.m. near St. Nicolas de Redon, France two railroad engineers, Emile Gerard, age 49, and Victor Paroux, age 40, were bringing a locomotive from Nantes to Auray. When they reached \"La Butte Rouge\" they saw a dark object take off with a purple glow and follow them for 10-15 seconds before veering off. Mr. Paroux was so agitated he had to see a doctor. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6390",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Le Parisien, September 30, 1954; Aime Michel, A propos des Soucoupes Volantes, p. 112; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 212-213; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 93-94" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/28/1954",
  "desc" : "At 11:45 p.m. in Albias, Tarn-Garonne department, France a three meter wide disc was seen resting on legs in a field by a single witness. Three beings were seen outside the craft for two minutes. When they reboarded the UFO rose vertically up into the air, then shot away horizontally at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6391",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #3661, citing J. Sider, p. 173" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/28/1966",
  "desc" : "A witness with the last name of Clarke reported to the U.S. Air Force that three round, oval-shaped, aluminum-colored objects with rotating rings around them appeared over Wilmington, Ohio at 3:38 p.m. Two of the objects remained stationary while the third one varied its altitude, and rose vertically. The sighting lasted 90 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6392",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/28/1969",
  "desc" : "On this night in Izmir, Turkey eleven people watched a black, segmented rectangular object fly toward the northeast over the bay. The flight path of the UFO curved upwards, and it made no sound as it flew. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6393",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Claude Poher, Etudes Statistiques Portant sur 1000 Temoignag, case 2784, citing LDLN Lecteurs" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/28/1970",
  "desc" : "Nocturnal lights and ovoid objects circled and zigzagged in the sky over the town of Reze, France in Loire-Atlantique department at 8:30 p.m. A triangular object flew to the west, then turned back and shot away toward the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6394",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #9173, citing LDLN Lecteurs" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/28/1970",
  "desc" : "Two hours later in Warminster, Wiltshire, England a man sighted an eleven-foot long beetle-shaped object that had landed on tripod landing gear by an old Roman road. Ground marks and metal fragments were found at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6395",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Eileen Buckle, FSR Case Histories, February 1971, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/28/1972",
  "desc" : "At 3:40 a.m. in Santa Isabel, Cordoba province, Argentina truck driver Luftolde Rodriguez was making a delivery to the Ika Renault plant four and a half hours after another UFO close encounter, and he had driven into the northeast sector of the plant to unload. He was driving a 1957 Dodge dumptruck. Having unloaded his cargo, he was just starting off when he noticed the whole area light up. He heard someone approaching from behind, and when he looked out the right window he saw, in profile, the torso of a very tall figure pass close by. Only when he could see this figure through the windshield could Rodriguez see its head. At that point the being stopped, did a right about turn stiffly, and looked straight at him. He did another right turn, and walked slowly and awkwardly ahead, finally crossing diagonally to the left and disappearing behind some pallets. He had been in view from 60 to 90 seconds. The entity was dressed in a tight one-piece coverall of luminescent blue-green color, identical to the one seen by Moreno four hours earlier. He was over 2.5 meters tall and his head was bald, with the skull flattened at the rear. He hadlong, narrow pointed ears. His eyes were numerous circles with no eyelids or eyebrows. The nose was straight and the mouth rudimentary. His complexion was very white. Legs and arms were extremely long, and he did not bend his legs as he walked. In his left hand he held a small white sphere the size of a billiard ball. He had on a wide silver belt and large, square silver boots.<br/><br/> A number of physical effects occurred simultaneous with the being's appearance: the truck's engine and lights died, and these effects lasted until it was 25-30 meters distant. Rodriguez was immobilized in his seat. Although he could follow the movement of the figure with his eyes, he could not move either his arms or legs. He heard a humming noise, similar to bees, while the figure was in view. He sat there for several minutes after the figure vanished, not knowing what to do. Finally, some other workers approached to ask what was wrong and he told them what he'd seen. A search disclosed no sign of the intruder, nor where there any traces. Subsequent inquiries disclosed there were a number of independent UFO observations in the area during the evening of September 27-28. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6396",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Oscar A Uriondo, p. 32; Oscar A. Galindez, FSR, November 1975, p. 21; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1972-29, citing Dr. Oscar A Galindez" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/28/1974",
  "desc" : "A huge glowing disc, the size of a Boeing 747, was sighted flying to the south on a wavy trajectory east of Eugene, Oregon during the day. It was clearly outlined in the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6397",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1975" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/28/1978",
  "desc" : "Between 3:00 and 4:00 p.m. a 40-year-old woman in the Izmailovskiy region of Russia noticed a short humanoid figure standing on the balcony of her house and facing the window. She stared in fascination at the figure, which she described as having a disproportionately large, wide head with definite Asian features. It had narrow pale lips, a small chin, and snub nose with large visible nostrils. The eyes were of normal size but slanted. Somehow the creature gave the witness an overall impression of curiosity and benevolence while it stared directly at her. She could not see any ears and had something dark covering its head. The color of its face was brilliant yellow. The creature moved its head from side to side and then vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6398",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing V. G. Azhazha, Another Life" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/28/1978",
  "desc" : "On this day a Bigfoot creature was seen east of Bonner Springs, Kansas from Interstate 70, in Wyandotte county. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6399",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geroge Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 314, citing Topeka Capital Journal, September 30, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/28/1978",
  "desc" : "At two o'clock in the morning two twenty-year-old female steel company employees were driving in a residential area in Omaha, Nebraska when they drove by a dark, cone-shaped UFO with three white rotating lights on the underside. The tape casette in the VW car's tape player erased as the car drove close to the object, but other casette tapes in a cardboard box on a car seat were undamaged. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6400",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, July 1979, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/28/1980",
  "desc" : "At 2:45 in the afternoon two bright yellow UFOs shaped like hamburger buns spproached to within 200 feet of an airplane flying over Boca Raton, Florida near Pompano Beach. The UFOs circled the plance 8-10 times maintaining a distance of approximately 1500 feet. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6401",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 161" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/28/1988",
  "desc" : "A 28-year-old couple driving in Atherton, Indiana saw intensely bright lights approach their car and move overhead. The lights turned out to be from a triangular shaped object. When directly overhead the automobile's electrical system failed, and a clock and their wristwatches lost three minutes. There was also a loud humming sound. Both witnesses were very tired for the next couple of days. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6402",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "field investigator Mike Palmiter, MUFON investigation files database, case #890210" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/28/1989",
  "desc" : "At around 10 p.m. ten calls were received by the Coast Guard and KTIL radio reporting small explosions and red and white flying lights in Tillamook county, Oregon. Sightings occurred in Oceanside, Oregon and for seventy miles north along the coastline. In Tillamook Bay a circle of nocturnal lights were seen moving toward the northwest. Each nocturnal object consisted of a ring of light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6403",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "field investigator Skip Schultz, MUFON investigation files database, case #891206W; UFO Newsclipping Service, October 1995" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/28/1990",
  "desc" : "A round UFO landed in a field during the day in Pelabuhan Klang, Selangor province, Malaysia. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6404",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ahmad Jamaludin, Centre for Malaysian UFO Studies internet website" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/28/1990",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m. a 200 foot wide disc-shaped object was seen clearly by two witnesses in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex county, England. It made a very sharp angled turn, and flew away over some woods. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6405",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 131" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/28/1990",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. several cars stopped to watch a bright white, dome-shaped object with red portholes hover over a roadside swamp in Roc Tredudon, Finistere department, France. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6406",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 303" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/28/1995",
  "desc" : "At 9:50 p.m. a multi-colored flying object with neon red, green and yellow colored lights zigzagged overhead in Las Vegas, Nevada. The witness's dog was scared and wouldn't leave the house during the UFO sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6407",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/28/2005",
  "desc" : "At 2:38 a.m. a huge triangular-shaped object with lights glided smoothly to the southeast over Jacksonville Beach, Florida without a sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6408",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, report uploaded October 11, 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/29/1944",
  "desc" : "At 10:45 a.m. a German Me-262 jet pilot, while in flight over Rechlin Goggenthin, Lower Saxony, Germany sighted a 100 meter long cigar-shaped object with openings on the side and a long antennae. The UFO shot off at a speed in excess of 1,900 km/h. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6409",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dale Goudie, CUFON; Larry Hatch, U computer database,  Claude Poher, case # 420" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/29/1944",
  "desc" : "At 6:00 p.m. Soviet forces in Ukraine reported that they had sighted a \"German aircraft\" that stood still in the air for two minutes and made no noise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6410",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 227" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/29/1949",
  "desc" : "An ovoid object composed of luminous, translucent rings flew quickly to the south over Humboldt, Nebraska. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6411",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949, p. 47" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/29/1952",
  "desc" : "On this day a cigar-shaped mothership and accompaning disc-shaped UFOs were seen together over Denmark. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6412",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1987, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/29/1952",
  "desc" : "Rochester, England. At 3:55 p.m. GMT the Rochester Police Department received a report that two flat unidentified objects had hovered over the city for three minutes, and then sped away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6413",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2136; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/29/1952",
  "desc" : "In Aurora, Colorado at 3:15 p.m. USAF Sgt. B. R. Hughes witnessed five or six circular objects, bright white but not shiny. They circled in trail formation for 5-6 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6414",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/29/1952",
  "desc" : "At 8:15 p.m. U.S. Army Reserve Lieutenant C. H. Stevens and two others in Southern Pines, North Carolina observed a green ellipse with a long tail orbiting in the sky for 15 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6415",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2140; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/29/1953",
  "desc" : "The vertical hold on a TV set went out when a UFO emitting white vapor passed overhead in Easton, Pennsylvania. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6416",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Whalley, Flying Saucers magazine, October 1968, p. 26; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 73" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/29/1954",
  "desc" : "In La Riche, near Tours, France three witnesses in a truck saw a seven-meter long ovoid object on the ground near the road at 1:20 p.m. It rose vertically, then flew off to the south. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6417",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 319" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/29/1957",
  "desc" : "Deerwood Nike Base, Maryland. 5:00 a.m. Undocumented report of a landing observed by missile men. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6418",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 258" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/29/1959",
  "desc" : "An electrical power outage occurred In Mariannelund, Sweden at 6:55 p.m. Going outside during the power failure, Mr. Gideon Johansson and his son saw a brilliant white light hovering over a nearby building. The object descended, breaking through the top of a maple tree, until it was 18 inches above the street and only ten feet from Mr. Johansson. It was a domed, oval-shaped machine 12 feet long and 8 feet high, and light blue in color. In the front of the object was a large window surrounded by rivets. Inside, brilliantly illuminated by a white light, he could see two small, seated individuals. They had very high crowned heads, big eyes, small mouths, and pointed chins. Each had what looked like an earphone on one ear. They wore white uniforms with broad black belts crossed over their shoulders and chests. One of them loosened his belt to work on something below the window level. After two minutes the craft floated along the street for 25 meters then disappeared in a flash, with a gust of air. A glassy deposit was found on the power line a kilometer away. Mr. Johansson suffered ill effects to his health and the maple tree eventually died. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6419",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1959-12, citing K. Gosta Rehn, APRO, and Anders Liljegren, UFO Sweden" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/29/1965",
  "desc" : "Mr. & Mrs. Carlsson sighted a UFO with at least one occupant aboard at 6:30 p.m. in their yard in Arboga, Vastmanland, Sweden. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6420",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Information Sweden, November 1974, p. 20" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/29/1965",
  "desc" : "Julio Lopez de Ramana and Antonio Chaves Bedoya, while driving in Arequipa, Peru nearly ran down a strange bipedal creature in the road. It was short, only 31 inches tall, and had only one eye. It also had silver and golden stripes running down its body. Soon afterwards, a UFO flew above their car for some time. That night others in the area reported also seeing low flying UFOs. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6421",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 705; John A. Keel, UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse, p. 145; Gordon Creighton, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 45; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1965-56 (A0672), citing Donald Hanlon" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/29/1968",
  "desc" : "At 8:11 p.m. an engineer familiar with astronomy and artificial satellites sighted a bright blue light source moving across the sky in Needham, Massachusetts at one-degree per second. It was about magnitude-2 in brightness and pulsated twice a second. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6422",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler case files, report dated September 29, 1968" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/29/1974",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m. a witness named Sorba reported seeing several strange humanoids at the local \"Parc de la Gaudiniere\", in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France. He described the beings as robot-like, with bumpy looking skin, and without faces. They moved about heavily swinging their arms. Fifteen minutes later, at 12:45 a.m., a 46-year-old woman named Le Bihan and two other witnesses saw three humanoids in Riec-sur-Belon, Finistere, France. They were 1.7 meters tall, corpulent like the Michelin tire man, and moved by rocking side-to-side. There suits were metallic, their heads round, and they had no facial details eventhough they wore no headgear. Physiological effects and post traumatic stress were reported. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6423",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, # 195; (2) Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1975, p. 6; J. L. Brochard, MUFON UFO Journal, June 1978, p. 8; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 490; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A1361" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/29/1978",
  "desc" : "A disc-shaped object landed in the Groendal Nature Reserve, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. It was seen by a single female witness. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6424",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Cynthia Hind, MUFON UFO Journal, October 1978, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/29/1978",
  "desc" : "There were two reports from Seven Hills, New South Wales, Australia on this date. At 5:30 p.m. a huge red disc hovered over the main road. and was seen by five witnesses including a 30-year-old woman named Stevens. At 8:00 p.m. a huge red disc-shaped object was seen hovering over a high tension power line tower by a 40-year-old woman named Summerling; it then flew off to the north-northeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6425",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 12855, citing Australia CUFOS summary of reports 1978-1982; (2) Australian CUFOS case files, report dated November 13, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/29/1978",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. in St. George, Queensland, Australia four hunters in a vehicle travelling in a rural area shot at an ovoid flying object. It dodged the bullets, then followed the car, causing electromagnetic interference effects. The object flew off to the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6426",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 167" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/29/1978",
  "desc" : "At 8:55 p.m. in Orange, California ten witnesses watched a huge dark disc-shaped object with very strong spotlights make abrupt turns in the sky. It chased a car for 15 minutes continuing to make abrupt turns, then vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6427",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Willard D. Nelson, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1979, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/29/1978",
  "desc" : "At 11:08 p.m. a woman fire watcher at Satus Peak, Yakima County, Washington sighted a cigar-shaped object with a row of lit windows. The object made a faint electric motor sound. She watched the object through binoculars for four minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6428",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Greg Long, Examining the Earthlight Theory: The Yakima UFO Microcosm, p. 132" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/29/1992",
  "desc" : "At 10:20 p.m. in the towns of Galten, Mosso, and Lasby, Denmark a domed disc-shaped UFO was sighted making a humming noise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6429",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15837; SUFOI News, issue # 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/29/1995",
  "desc" : "An anonymous male witness, age 20, reported that he had a very close encounter with a UFO while driving in a forest in Jelling, Vejle province, Denmark at 9:30 p.m. The lights, engine, and instruments of his car malfunctioned when a dazzling white light from a disc-shaped object hovered fifteen feet overhead. The craft emitted indigo beams from lamps on the bottom, which formed concentric circles and shone straight down. The UFO dipped to avoid the trees, then finally shot off to the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6430",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dennis Stacy, Field Guide to UFOs, p. 62; SUFOI News, issue # 16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/29/2004",
  "desc" : "At 4:10 A.M. a very bright white ball of light was seen in the sky over Lindsay, Ontario, Canada. It paced the witness's vehicle for 10-15 minutes. Next, the object acclerated past the vehicle, then stopped and hovered. It \"bounced\" during its flight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6431",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 719, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/30/1954",
  "desc" : "There are 20 UFO reports recorded in UFOCAT for this day in 1954: one humanoid report from Michigan, one luminous daylight disc from Holland, and the rest were from France.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6432",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "9/30/1954",
  "desc" : "While driving to work in Dearborn, Michigan Lawrence Cardenas, age 41, a laundry employee, saw 15 strange men wearing dark green uniforms along the side of the road to his right. They had cylinders on their shoulders, tight fitting skullcaps with pointed peaks in front, and heavy goggles. They were of medium height, and a taller man seemed to be their leader and giving them instructions. About 80 meters away from them was a 4-meter high craft with colored lights, flickering on and off. The witness drove away as fast as he could. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6433",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 230; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 213" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/30/1954",
  "desc" : "At one o'clock in the afternoon in Blanzy, France two bricklayers, Romain de Bastiani, age 21, and Bruno Burato, age 20, witnessed a partially yellow, partially maroon colored cigar-shaped object landed on the ground. They started to approach the three-meter long object when it took off from the ground with a whistling sound. The pointed section of the object was yellow; the rest of the object was reddish-brown. Two foot-like appendages extended to the ground from the fore section. (Note: Vallee incorrectly lists the date as October 1.) ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6434",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Le Figaro, October 2, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 214; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 94-95" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/30/1954",
  "desc" : "At 3:30 p.m. in Chereng, France, 10-year old Jean-Claude Delmotte, a school student, saw a three-meter diameter sphere at the edge of some woods, about 300 meters away. It was yellow-orange in color and quite bright. There were landing traces: a circle 1.5 meters in diameter and landing pad imprints 16 cm long. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6435",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "La Voix du Nord, October 6, 1954; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 95-96" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/30/1954",
  "desc" : "At 4:30 in the afternoon, Georges Gatay, construction supervisor, and seven construction workers in Marcilly-sur-Vienne, France saw a disc at ground level, with a humanoid standing next to it. Both vanished in a very odd manner. Physiological effects in all witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6436",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michel Carrouges, Les apparitions de Martiens, pp. 123 & 125; France Soir, October 3, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 213; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 96" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/30/1954",
  "desc" : "At sea between Brest and Roven, France on the Atlantic Ocean, the crew of the tanker \"Port Lyautey\" observed a UFO touch the surface of the sea. It then took off vertically, giving off a red flame before being lost to view. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6437",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Le Figaro, October 2, 1954; France Soir, October 3, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 213; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 97" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/30/1954",
  "desc" : "Jean Andrieux, a ferry operator in Grand-Couronne, France and another witness, saw a large white sphere at 10:00 p.m. A smaller green sphere accompanied it and hung below, both object remaining stationary above the Seine River for 20 minutes. It eventually flew away to the southwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6438",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 213" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/30/1954",
  "desc" : "Mr. Celeste Simonutti was returning home at 10:00 p.m. near La Flotte-en-Re, on the Ile de Re, France when he saw a brilliant light and, fearing a fire, rushed to the scene. There he observed a luminous sphere 12 meters in diameter, hovering one meter above the ground. The object changed colors from red to blue, and took off. Two other witnesses also saw it leave. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6439",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Sud-Ouest, October 2, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 214; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 98" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/30/1956",
  "desc" : "On this evening several UFOs were observed over Cherry Valley, Illinois by Mr. & Mrs. L. L Leonard, and afterward \"angel hair\", in the form of a spider web-like substance, was found floating to the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6440",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Stringfield Leonard H. Stringfield, Inside Saucer Post...3-0 Blue, pp. 49-50; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 101; Jay Rath, The I-Files: True Reports of Unexplained Phenomena in Illinois, p. 57" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/30/1961",
  "desc" : "At around 9:04 a.m. local time, a weather observer at Indian Springs AFB, Nevada saw several objects on a 20 power theodolite at 133.4 degrees azimuth, 55 degrees elevation. The observer first saw one object that was white or metallic in color, round in shape, and the size of the head of a pin. Four smaller objects, traveling very fast, then came out from the first object. The Las Vegas AFS tracked a UFO on radar 45 miles southeast of Nellis AFB.  The object was tracked for approximately 45 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6441",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1961-466, James E. McDonald files; www.nicap.org" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/30/1961",
  "desc" : "At ten o'clock in the evening 16-year-old Dennis Bealor saw a large sphere of orange light on the road while riding his bicycle four miles south of La Porte, Indiana. It rose up into the sky while still ahead of him. He was so frightened that he lost control of his bike and ran off the road. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6442",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Hartle Orvil R. Hartle, A Carbon Experiment, p. 158; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 525" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/30/1966",
  "desc" : "A 60-foot wide Saturn-shaped UFO was seen northeast of Roosevelt Airport in Utah at 4:30 p.m. by three men. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6443",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Frank Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, p. 36 case # A22" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/30/1968",
  "desc" : "At around three a.m. Guy Lemargue, age 16, was walking with a friend on a small country road in Roncenay, Aude, France when they both saw, about 150 yards away, a disc-shaped red-orange luminous UFO, about 50 feet in diameter and feet in height, resting on legs. It had a row of portholes all around the edge. Beside it, several luminous entities of small stature were “maneuvering” with very strong lights sources in their hands, which they shone on the ground. They walked or floated two feet above the ground, and sometimes made sudden gliding leaps of a hundred yards. One creature approached to within 15 feet of the teens, and they reported that they could see that its hands were shaped like pincers or crab-like claws. Realizing that their presence had been detected, the boys ran away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6444",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Luc Billion & Raoul Foin, Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1973, p. 10; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1968-99" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/30/1968",
  "desc" : "Starting at 8:15 p.m. two men in Bucharest, Romania watched a spherical object that changed shape to a dumbbell, then back to a sphere. It also changed colors. It maneuvered in the sky for 35-40 minutes, then shrank and vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6445",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p.<br/><br/> qryOnThisDay<br/><br/> 248" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/30/1971",
  "desc" : "At two a.m. Mr. Ron Foreman heard a loud noise outside followed by a \"whoosh\" come from outside his home in West Malling, Kent, England. His television cut out and the room lights went dim. He opened the back door and saw a seven foot tall \"creature\" standing there, clad in a silver suit and wearing a transparent helmet. It \"glided\" away over a fence, but later returned with a second entity, surrounded by a haze of light. Foreman went for the police. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6446",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-27, citing BUFORA Journal, Vol. 3 # 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/30/1972",
  "desc" : "SAM missiles were fired upon a luminous orange sphere that was at a very high altitude hovering over Hanoi, Vietnam in the broad daylight. It stayed in place for an hour and 20 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6447",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Saturday Evening Mercury (Tasmania), September 30, 1972; Australian FSR, December 1972, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/30/1973",
  "desc" : "The witnesses, Claude Champoux, Florent Papillon and a man called J. R. were camping near a lake--Lac-aux-Bleuets, Quebec, Canada--when they heard a loud engine sound coming from a nearby field. When they went to look the men spotted an oval-shaped, metallic object on the ground. The UFO was silvery in color and emitted flourescent-like orange lights that changed colors to blue, and red. A strange humanoid figure, metallic or robot-like in appearance, stood next to the object. It was wearing either a reflective metallic suit or was itself made out of metal. The being's body emitted bright silvery flashes. While on the ground the object emitted a sound resembling that of a transformer. Soon the strange character disappeared inside the object, which then rose up, moving up and down like a yo-yo, it then accelerated and disappeared at high speed. They estimated the craft to have been about 600 feet in diameter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6448",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1973, citing Gilles Cote & Marc Leduc, CASUFO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/30/1973",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. a Franklin County, Ohio man found the landing site of an object he had seen hovering near his home earlier in the evening. The site was in a field of waist-high weeds about a quarter mile south of Hall Road, west of Outerbelt, Ohio. Weeds had been crushed to the ground in a semi-oval area 20 feet x 30 feet. There were no scorch marks. The object had swooped down in a zigzag pattern and dropped below trees. Several dozen other sightings were reported from the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6449",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, case 82; Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p.  46" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/30/1975",
  "desc" : "At 3:30 a.m. two men, Philips and Brown, had a close encounter with a domed disc-shaped object hovering over a dairy farm seven miles south of Corning, California and illuminating the dairy \"like daylight\". It emitted a bright red light, and made a humming sound. Cows fled from area. The UFO hovered for 3-5 minutes, then took off and was out-of-sight \"in the blink of an eye.\" An inside occupant was also seen. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6450",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Corning (CA) Daily Observer, October 16, 1975; Dwight Connelly, Skylook, October 1975, p. 14; Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 283; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 19, 281" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/30/1980",
  "desc" : "At one o'clock in the morning in Rosedale, Victoria, Australia 54-year-old caretaker George Blackwell heard a screeching whistle, and then saw a 25 foot wide domed disc or top-shaped UFO withmulticolored body lights and a black tube appendage that landed on the ground at the cattle station called White Acres. He got to within 50 feet of it on his motorcycle before it took off with a wave of heat and an explosive sound, showering down debris, and left a black ring on the ground at the landing site. In addition, 10,000 gallons of water were missing from a nearby water tank. During the close encounter a horse galloped away and cattle bellowed, panicked and ran. Mr. Blackwell suffered from physiological effects including headaches and vomiting, and diarrhea that lasted for a week. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6451",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bill Chalker, APRO Bulletin, December 1981, p. 3;  Harry Griesberg, Frontiers of Science, July 1981, p. 17; UNICAT, case # 44; Bill Chalker, Australasian Ufologist, April 1993, p. 25; Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 309" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/30/1982",
  "desc" : "At 8:15 p.m. four women in their thirties--Messina, LaMontagne, Poland, and LeClair--had a close encounter with a large metallic ovoid object with red lights while driving on a highway east of Exeter, New Hampshire. It was seen at treetop level. The women got out of the car and attempted to get closer. The sighting lasted four minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6452",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek, International UFO Reporter, January 1983, p. 4; UNICAT, case # 16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/30/1992",
  "desc" : "At 5:15 a.m. Rose Mahony of Barnagearagh, Ireland saw a huge aerial craft with multicolored lights on its rim; she woke her two teenage children who also watched it. It flew off toward Dromkeal. John McManus of Dromkeal, Ireland reported he experienced an abduction from his bedroom by four 4-foot tall beings. He was taken into a circular room, which had an exam table like a couch. They jabbe him in the neck with a probe, which caused him an electric shock and he passed out. He woke up naked, with mud on his feet. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6453",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dermot Butler, Conspiracy of Silence: UFOs in Ireland, pp. 120-121" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/30/1992",
  "desc" : "At 6:30 p.m six witnesses in Miraima, Ceara State, Brazil saw a fiery ball of light that moved at six meters altitude over a railway bridge, then directed two beams of light into a nearby lake. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6454",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15838, citing UBPDV, Causistica Brasileira de 1992, p. 11" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/30/1992",
  "desc" : "There were three reports of low level UFOs on this evening from North Carolina, and another from neighboring South Carolina. On Interstate 95 in Raeford, North Carolina a 36-year-old woman saw a 50 foot long gray rectangular craft, 20 times the apparent size of the Moon. It was seen at an estimated distance of 1500 feet, and had six lights on the bottom. It was followed by 20 smaller glowing ovoid objects, and the air got cold as the UFOs passed over. At 9:10 p.m. in Gastonia, North Carolina a 45-year-old man was in his backyard closing up his shop when he saw a glowing oval or fat cigar-shaped object flying at 2,500 feet altitude that had three bands of a bluish white corona around its mid-section. It had intense beams of light coming from the two ends. Five minutes later (9:15 p.m.) in Stanley, North Carolina a 38-year-old mechanic and his girlfriend were out stargazing when they spotted a bright, light yellow glowing cone-shaped UFO. It was surrounded by four misty white cigar-shaped nocturnal lights. Three minutes later (9:18 p.m.) in Moonville, South Carolina three witnesses saw a large cylinder with an orange glow and a yellow flame that flew overhead and to the east; it had 5 small lights around the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6455",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1, 2, & 3) Donald M. Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, January 1993, pp. 15-17, citing field investigators Henry H. Morton & George D. Fawcett; (4) Jerold R. Johnson, MUFON UFO Journal, January 1994, p. 19 citing field investigator Michael S. Harrell" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/30/1992",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. an 81-year-old woman in Mount Katahdin Iron Works Park, Maine had a close encounter with an eight-foot wide circle of blinking lights at eye level near her window. The object was twice the apparent size of the Moon with a dozen lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6456",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Arnold Dunning, MUFON UFO Journal, April 1993, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/30/1997",
  "desc" : "Dr. Carlos Munoz and Enrique Bermudez were parked in an isolated wooded area near Punta Arenas, Chile at 11:30 p.m. They had stepped out of the car when they heard something moving close to them, and they could perceive small shadows nearby. They next saw a fluorescent tube of light in a vertical position, about 30 meters away. It was suspended about a meter from the ground. It was pulsating and was red andwhite in color. They ran to their car and grabbed a camcorder in a futile attempt to videotape the object. They got back in their car and started driving away, when suddenly they heard a loud engine noise and a black sports vehicle with tinted windows drove past them at high speed. Simultaneously, their vehicle's instruments malfunctioned. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6457",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, case # 2734, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Volume 2 # 38" ]
},
{
  "date" : "9/30/2008",
  "desc" : "A yellow triangular object flew over Edmonton, Alberta, Canada at 12:35 a.m. It reportedly moved like a \"puck on ice\". ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6458",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2008 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 756, citing HBCCUFO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/1/1948",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. an aerial encounter occurred on this day over Fargo, North Dakota between an F-51 fighter plane and a somewhat flattened white circular unidentified object, blinking on and off. The UFO made a head-on approach toward the F-51, then veered off, next made a 180 degree turn, then out climbed the performance aircraft, rising straight up until out of sight. Its close turns were tighter than could be made by the fighter plane. The encounter lasted 27 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6459",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Edward J. Ruppelt, True Magazine, May 1954; Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 59; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 33; UNICAT, case # 532" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/1/1954",
  "desc" : "There are 26 UFO and humanoid reports recorded in UFOCAT for this day. There is one from the Assam region of India, two are from Italy, and the remainder are from France, which appears to have been at the center of a massive wave of UFO sightings. Notice how the humanoid cases tend to occur at intersections of the major great circle routes described by four or more points on a straight line. Below are some of the more interesting reports on this day:",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6460",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "10/1/1954",
  "desc" : "A woman in Dhubri, Assam, India reported to police that she had seen a luminous disc leaving a long trail in the sky. It landed in a field, and then took off again. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6461",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 132; Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 214, case 169" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/1/1954",
  "desc" : "At 1:00 p.m. two bricklayers, Sebastiani and Buratto, approached a cigar-shaped object in Blanzy, Saone-Loire department, France that was sitting on the ground. It was three meters long, 80 cm wide, and it took off from the ground with a whistling sound. The pointed section of the object was yellow, the rest brown. From the fore part, two appendages extended to the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6462",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 214, case 170" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/1/1954",
  "desc" : "At 4:00 p.m. a man and his dog in Bry, Nord department, France were \"paralyzed\" and frozen in place when a luminous white object dove toward them, then climbed back into the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6463",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 214, case 171" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/1/1954",
  "desc" : "Two young men in Jussey, Haute-Saone department, France saw a luminous white disc moving in the sky at 7:00 p.m. It dove to the ground and two very tall beings, dressed in white, emerged from it and made gestures. The witnesses ran away in fear. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6464",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 214, case 173; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 104" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/1/1954",
  "desc" : "Near St. Jean d'Angely, France two businessmen, Messrs. Estier and Phelippeau, who were driving back from Royan at eight o'clock at night, saw a little man crossing the road in front of their car. When they stopped the car the figure disappeared into the woods. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6465",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Sud-Ouest, October 2, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 214, case 174; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 105" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/1/1954",
  "desc" : "Mechanic Ernest Delattre, age 19, was riding home on his motor scooter between Lormaison and St-Crepin-Ibouvillers, France at eight o'clock when a brilliantly illuminated egg-shaped object landed on the left side of the road 15 meters away. He saw short, dark shapes \"like potato bags\" moving about the object. He sped up, saw the object, the size of a small bus, taking off while its color changed from orange to blue and then to grayish-blue. The witness fainted while telling his story. Two persons in neighboring villages independently reported observing the object. (Note: Vallee lists the date as October 2nd but Figuet & Ruchon believe the correct date is October 1st.) ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6466",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 215; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 104" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/1/1954",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. several inhabitants of St-Michel-sur-Meurthe, France saw a cigar-shaped object in the sky with very bright white lights fly towards the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6467",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 106" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/1/1954",
  "desc" : "In Branges, near Louhans in Saone-Loire department, France. While coming home at night around 10:00 p.m., Gilbert Prudent and one other witness saw a lighted object on the side of the road. It had a flat section and a sort of large \"mushroom\" on top (domed disc). As he approached it, the object became dark and took off vertically with a soft whistling sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6468",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 214, case 175; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 105" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/1/1954",
  "desc" : "Returning home from work in Bergerac, Dordogne department, France fireman Jean Dufix, age 26, saw an oval light in the sky at 10 o'clock. He first took it to be a shooting star, but later he was alarmed when his yard looked to be ablaze. Rushing outside, he saw a disc rise from the ground with a whistling sound. It flew off, became luminous again, and then shot off at a fantastic speed. His neighbor, Jean Labonne, age 61, also saw the disc resting on three legs in the yard. They estimated the disc was three meters (10 feet) in diameter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6469",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Le Figaro, October 6, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings , p. 214, case 176" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/1/1964",
  "desc" : "At 12:50 p.m. a 24-foot diameter dark disc-shaped object passed over an industrial plant in Danvers, Massachusetts. It flew under a cloud at 2,500 altitude, at an estimated speed of 300 mph. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6470",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, pp. 21, 330" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/1/1965",
  "desc" : "Three school students, Santos Vallejos, Antonia Aparti, and Adela Sanchez were walking to General San Martin School, Aguas Blancas, Salta province, Argentina when they were attacked by small creatures with greenish skin. The children ran away, and arrived at the school in a state of terror. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6471",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 706, citing CODOVNI" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/1/1967",
  "desc" : "Valeriano Ruiz Fontes, a 28-year-old radio technician, observed an illuminated object at 10:30 p.m. in Tibidabo, Barcelona, Spain which he first took to be a large Jeep. However, It was hovering just above the ground about 700-800 yards away. It was about 14 feet long, with half a dozen oval illuminated windows, and had on top a square turret. Near the UFO were four people of normal stature wearing dark uniforms and bright helmets. Two of the beings climbed up the turret, manipulating or fixing some fittings there, while the other two were examined the underside of the object. After watching for about half an hour, the external lights were extinguished, showing only the illuminated portholes. The object then rose vertically with no noise to about 500 feet, showing yellow, red orange, and a triangle of blue-green lights, and took off at extremely high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6472",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Antonio Ribera, FSR, May 1968, p. 26; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1967-101 (A0879)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/1/1973",
  "desc" : "On this night three teenagers in Anthony Hill, Tennessee saw a huge, hairy, robot-like creature that walked mechanically with its hand upraised. It had a large round head. An egg-shaped UFO was also seen at the same time. This occurred during a thunderstorm, and imprints were later found at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6473",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher: HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-27; David F. Webb, 1973, The Year of The Humanoids" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/1/1975",
  "desc" : "At around 8:00 p.m. two teenagers, Michio Hikawa and Takashi Furuya, were parked in a car at a scenic spot in Japan's Southern Alps near Hakushu, Japan when Furuya became agitated about a group of children resembling beggars near the car. Hikawa didn't see them. Among the figures Furuya saw were some resembling girls, about one meter tall, dressed in white. Pointing them out to his companion, Hikawa still was unable to see them, and turned on the car's headlights. When this happened the figures faded away, but their car was abruptly pulled backwards several times by an unseen force, eventhough the hand brake was on. Frightened, the two teenagers left the area. Hikawa suggested that the figures may have been \"spacemen\", and the pair returned to the scene later, where the same mass displacement effects occurred to the car again. Again fearful, the pair drove home. The car subsequently malfunctioned and required repairs, the result of a broken piston. Peculiar \"hoof like\" marks were observed on a window in the car following the encounter. There were no reports of UFOs seen. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6474",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1975-44, citing Jun Ichi Takanashi for APRO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/1/1977",
  "desc" : "At 7:00 p.m. two brothers were hunting in an uninhabited area near a quarry west of Libau, Manitoba, Canada when they saw a UFO that looked like an inverted bowl with two long extensions. It was 75-100 feet wide, 25 feet high, and 1/2 a mile away at 500 feet altitude. It made a humming noise, and moved away slowly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6475",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, December 1977, p. 2; UNICAT, case # 188" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/1/1987",
  "desc" : "Marysville, Indiana. At 7:50 p.m. a black rectangular object was witnessed by a lone witness for 10 minutes while driving in a rural area. The UFO flew silently to the southwest, then toward the northwest, and finally further to the southwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6476",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 112" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/1/1992",
  "desc" : "Three men were in the backyard of a home in Clare, South Australia at 7:00 p.m. when they saw, at a low altitude in the northwestern sky, two lights travelling to the northeast. It resolved into a cigar-shaped object that was thicker in the middle, with a hazy glow surrounding it. It continued to fly to the northeast and was lost from sight behind some trees.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6477",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "10/1/1993",
  "desc" : "A large white ball of light flew from north to south over Nutter Fort, West Virginia at 7:00 p.m. It followed a car to Stonewood, then shot away quickly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6478",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Teets, West Virginia UFOs: Close Encounters in the Mountain State, p. 162" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/1/1995",
  "desc" : "An orange disc-shaped object hovered over a house in Vacaville, California for a minute at 9:00 p.m., at only 100 feet altitude. At 10:30 p.m. an extremely bright disc-shaped object flew over a house in Austin, Texas heading north. It was the \"size of a volleyball at arms length,\" and had a green tinge on top. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6479",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/1/2000",
  "desc" : "At 11:15 p.m. two objects were sighted over Jones Beach on Long Island in Nassau County, New York. A diamond-shaped UFO landed on the beach. It directed an intense red beam, then a blue-colored beam, at the witnesses' car, which caused the car with the three occupants to be lifted into the air. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6480",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 18144, citing George Filer, Filer's Files;Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, report uploaded December 2, 2000" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/2/1949",
  "desc" : "On this day in Holland, Michigan a very bright disc flew into a cloud heading west, then exited the cloud from the same point and flew off rapidly to the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6481",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 473" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/2/1954",
  "desc" : "There are 39 UFO and humanoid reports recorded in the UFOCAT database for this day. There is one from Denmark and one from the Orkney Islands of Great Britain. The rest are from France, which appears to have been at the center of a massive wave of UFO sightings.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6482",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "10/2/1954",
  "desc" : "In Levroux, France two single women (Janicki and Lacotte) independently reported to police that a luminous disc about three meters in diameter had flown very low over their village of Cerisier. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6483",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 215; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 106" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/2/1954",
  "desc" : "Two creatures were seen on the ground in Jonches, France. Two hours later a luminous red object was observed at the same spot, at a very low altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6484",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 215; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 107" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/2/1954",
  "desc" : "In the immediate vicinity of the sighting on the day before (October 1) in Louhans, France, Mr. Nicolas saw a domed disc on the ground at 2:30 a.m. between the road and the railroad tracks. Through some openings in the object a strong yellow light shone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6485",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bourgogne Republicaine, October 3, 1954; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 109; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 215" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/2/1954",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 o'clock in the morning several people in the city of Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dome department, France saw a luminous, metallic object oscillating in the sky, then fly off rapidly to the north-northwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6486",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 107" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/2/1954",
  "desc" : "In Vichy, Allier department, France at 6:30 p.m., bus passengers observed a luminous object rapidly traverse the sky flying in the direction of Cote St.-Amand. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6487",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 107" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/2/1954",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. in Poncey-sur-Lignon and the region of Cote-d'Or, France several persons observed a huge cigar-shaped luminous object that flew silently to the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6488",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 107" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/2/1954",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. in Croix d’Epine, Oise department, France Ernest Delattre, age 19, a mechanic, was riding home on his motor scooter when a brilliantly illuminated egg-shaped object landed on the left side of the road 15 meters away. He saw some short, dark shapes, “like potato bags” moving about the object. He sped up, then saw the object, which was the size of a small bus, take off. During the ascent the object's color changed from orange to blue. The object was observed by two other witnesses. As an additional note, Mr. Delattre fainted while telling his story ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6489",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-65 (A0267); Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 215" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/2/1954",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. in Bergerac, Dordogne department, France a luminous mushroom-shaped object was seen in the garden by J. Labonne, who described it as \"constructed of plexiglass.\" Three meters away moved a short shadowy figure that \"slid over to the machine.\" The object rose into the sky, leaving behind a luminous trail. There were three imprints found in the ground and some black mushrooms. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6490",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0268" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/2/1954",
  "desc" : "Near La Rochelle, France at 11:00 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Guillemoteau saw a red glowing round object, five meters in diameter and 2.5 meters high, hovering for several minutes one meter above the ground. The UFO then rose vertically. Oily marks were found at the spot. (Note: Vallee lists the date as October 3rd, but Figuet & Ruchon believe this is in error and that October 2nd is the correct date). ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6491",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 131; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 216; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 110" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/2/1954",
  "desc" : "At 11:45 p.m. Messrs. Domant and Gilcher saw a disc-shaped UFO in a field in Guebling, France. It was emitting a weak green glow. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6492",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 105; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 215" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/2/1958",
  "desc" : "An enormous object that first looked like a puff of smoke, then \"like pickle with a flat bottom\" was sighted in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania at 5:29 p.m. At was a dull gray color. It went from appearing diaphanous to solid in appearance, then went black momentarily. A Project Blue Book \"unidentified\" case. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6493",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 6089" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/2/1961",
  "desc" : "A pilot in flight and seven witnesses on the ground observed a lens-shaped disc of brightly polished aluminum over the Utah Central Airport in Salt Lake City, Utah at noon. It was seen against the mountains as a backdrop, and had an estimated diameter of 50-60 feet. It moved out of sight in seconds, covering a distance of 70 degrees, with a speed \"beyond any known jet..\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6494",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, October 1991, p. 22; UNICAT, case # 531, citing James E. McDonald, 1968 Proceedings of the Scientific Subcommittee Hearings of the U.S. Congress, p. 49" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/2/1963",
  "desc" : "At 6:45 p.m. a black oval object was seen to come out of, and then re-enter a lone cloud in the sky over Audenshaw, Greater Manchester, England. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6495",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Orbit, 1963, case # 324; J. Bernard Delair, Awareness, October 1977, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/2/1965",
  "desc" : "At 8:20 p.m. J. Centorino saw a dark UFO hovering over the power plant in Salem, Massachusetts. It was cigar-shaped with an off-centered hump and had a white light on each end. It swayed back-and-forth, inclined at a 45-degree angle. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6496",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler case files, report dated October 5, 1965; Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 94 & 334" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/2/1966",
  "desc" : "Mrs. Everett Steward, a flight attendant, was talking on the telephone from her home in Cincinnati, Ohio at 10:20 p.m. when she smelled a foul odor in the room. She went to her bedroom, where she had a feeling of being watched. Looking out the window, she saw an oval-shaped object with portholes and red, green, and white lights revolving around it. It was 75 feet in diameter and 100 feet above the ground. She woke her husband, who also saw it, and called her married daughter, Mrs. Janet Emery, a mile away. The Emerys also saw it, and a neighbor with binoculars could see that it had illuminated yellow square windows. Next, her daughter Janet went outdoors and saw the UFO eject a red ball, which maneuvered about while the first UFO took off southward. The red ball flew 100 feet over Jane's head. It too was oval shaped, and its underside was shiny like aluminum foil. It was \"bigger than my cottage and yard combined.\" She also smelled the garbage like odor. Mrs. Steward went to bed, but the odor still persisted in the house. Sometime later that night the room was filled with a brilliant white light, which then vanished, and a globe of light about 21 inches in diameter appeared at the foot of her bed. Inside the globe were the images of five \"non-human, hairless heads\" with oval, sunken eyes. \"Instead of noses, there were slits, and they had no mouths.\" Telepathically, they repeated several times that \"we have made contact.\" Mrs Steward screamed, and the globe disappeared. She was so upset by the experience that she began psychiatric counseling and continued it for the next two years. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6497",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Leonard H. Stringfield, Situation Red: The UFO Siege, pp. 35-36 & 51-52; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1966-41, citing Leonard H. Stringfield" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/2/1967",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. in Melville, New York P. E. Burkhardt, an aerospace computer systems engineer, and several teenagers witnessed a silver disc-shaped object with a set of rectangular-shaped lights that blinked on-and-off, revolving across the lower portion. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6498",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP case files, report dated October 3, 1967; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 11, 153" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/2/1967",
  "desc" : "At 8:20 p.m. in Ipswich, Massachusetts several witnesses spotted a domed disc or domed oval-shaped object that glowed yellow around it perimeter. It carried a red, a greenish blue, and a bright white light. At times it glowed red all over. It hovered, spun, and moved up-and-down. Dogs barked during the sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6499",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 350" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/2/1968",
  "desc" : "In Lins, Sao Paolo State, Brazil at 6:20 a.m., while oiling his bulldozer’s engine, Sr. Doribio Pereira saw a golden colored cigar-shaped craft hovering a foot or so above the ground, only a few feet away,  Next he saw a man standing on a platform that extended from the base of the object, who drew a weapon resembling an electric drill from his sleeve. The being pointed it at the witness, and when it emitted a bright flash Pereira found himself paralyzed. He could see that inside the cigar, which had a “glass roof,” there was a man using some sort of keyboard with both hands, and outside the craft on an extended platform stood three more men. One of them was taking soil samples with a “conch shaped object.” Then the craft flashed a very vivid light three times, the platform retracted, and underneath the craft appeared “something like an electric polisher, rotating at high speed.” After that it took off with a slight sound. The men were described as thin, about 5’5” tall, and dressed in blue knee-length robes, hoods, and brown sandals with cross garters to the knees. Pereira, in a state of near shock, was given a lift to his home, and from there he reported to the Town Council. Because of his nervous state he was sent for a medical examination, during which Dr. Antonio Geris found him entirely normal. Officials of the Brazilian Air Force later subjected him to an intense interrogation. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6500",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon Creighton, FSR, January-February 1969, p. 22; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1968-70, citing Gordon Creighton" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/2/1971",
  "desc" : "Mr. Wazny, age 29, a retired U.S. Air Force airman sighted a huge, silent triangular craft with many lights southwest of Caro, Michigan at 6:20 p.m. It made sharp turns at a fantastic speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6501",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, December 1971, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/2/1975",
  "desc" : "On this night in Fort Lee, New Jersey a single witness said an oval-shaped object with red and green lights that came close to witness after appearing at first as a bright light. It circled behind some trees, then passed the witness making a faint whirling sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6502",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "CUFOS News Bulletin, February 1976, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/2/1977",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. a four-meter in diameter domed disc buzzed an amateur astronomer outside with a telescope in Auchey, Pas-de-Calais, France passing only four meters overhead. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6503",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 309" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/2/1978",
  "desc" : "At 11:15 a.m. four young boys in the Groendal Nature Reserve, Uitenhage, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa had been out hiking in an isolated area, and were now waiting to be picked up by their parents, when suddenly their attention was drawn to a glistening object in the distance. They next saw two men wearing shiny silvery outfits, standing just to the west of the object. The men were able to move across the difficult terrain in a gliding motion, and on on top of the hill they were joined by a third man that appeared to be carrying a small suitcase. The three men then glided towards a dividing fence and flew over it, and one stopped to look at the boys. The silver suit covered his forehead, so only his lower face was clear, but they could see he had gray skin. Finally, the men glided up a hill and seemed to disappear upon reaching the summit. During the incident the boys noticed a strange silence in the area and two of them felt disoriented. Possible ground traces were found on the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6504",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Cynthia Hind, MUFON UFO Journal, October 1978, p. 5; Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, January 1980, p. 7; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A1976; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 904, citing Cynthia Hind, Phenomenon: 40 years of Flying Saucers" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/2/1978",
  "desc" : "Shortly before two o'clock in the afternoon in Unanderra, near Port Kembla, New South Wales, Australia a six-meter long non-metallic ovoid object flew over to the southwest, then zig-zagged quickly to the west over the mountains at Kiama. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6505",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Australian CUFOS case files, report dated October 10, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/2/1978",
  "desc" : "At 7:15 p.m. seven triangular objects were sighted simultaneously in the sky over Kingstanding, West Midlands, England by many. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6506",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "D. N. Mansell, Awareness, April 1979, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/2/1981",
  "desc" : "Helmstedt, Germany - At around 2:10 a.m. the witness was riding a bus through East Germany to Mittaguzeit in the East Berlin sector when he noticed two tall figures walking on the side of the road. They were oddly dressed, wearing silvery coveralls. They were also walking in a peculiar fashion, and he had never seen similar people before in the area. The bus continued on and he lost sight of them. The next day there were reports of bright lights over the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6507",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1981, case # 183, citing Ulrich Magin" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/2/1982",
  "desc" : "At 5:00 p.m. ten college women, members of a volleyball team, saw an arrowhead or pentagon-shaped object with many multicolored lights while riding in their van onHighway 13, 18 miles north of Springfield,  Missouri. The object glided over nearby trees, and then hovered near their van. Its lights were white, yellow, and red, and it gave off white beams of light.  It finally moved away silently after 30 seconds. Three hours later ten people in a bus in Brighton, Missouri watched a silent manta ray-shaped object hovering nearby. It too had many lights, and tilted at an angle. Their sighting lasted two minutes.  ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6508",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Boone County (AR) Headlight, October 7, 1982; (2) Erwin Polakoff, International UFO Reporter, January 1983, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/2/1995",
  "desc" : "At 1:40 a.m. several women in Bolingbrook, Illinois saw an \"orange or yellow arrow-shaped\" object moving slowly through the sky to the west. It had a light on each side. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6509",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jay Rath, The I-Files: True Reports of Unexplained Phenomena in Illinois, p. 51, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/2/1998",
  "desc" : "Ms. J. Juanin watched a round, bright orange flashing light with small black dotted things on it in Beluran, Sabah, Malaysia that seemed to land two kilometers away. She watched it for five minutes until its lights turned off. The sky was dark with no moon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6510",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George Filer, Filer's Files, 1998, issue 40; Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Volume 3, No. 41" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/2/2000",
  "desc" : "Mr. and Mrs. Osborne sighted a dark gray cloud-like object, darker than the background clouds and not moving with the wind, over Crick, Northampton, England at 1:00 p.m. The object changed shape, making angular angles, and was watched through binoculars. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6511",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (UK), January 2001, p. 58" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/2/2001",
  "desc" : "At 6:55 a.m. several motorists in Sandyville, West Virginia spotted a blimp-like UFO with a smooth surface that was glowing bright red in the overcast daytime sky. A chevron-shaped object exited from a door in the bottom. There was no sound during the entire incident, which lasted five minutes. The two objects vanished at the same time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6512",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), February 2002, p. 21" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/2/2004",
  "desc" : "A large triangular object, close to the ground, was seen in South Attleboro, Massachusetts at 11:37 p.m. for about a minute. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6513",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2004 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/2/2004",
  "desc" : "A man was driving home at 5:30 a.m. in rural Tennessee when he noticed what first appeared to be a fire on a nearby ridge. As he drove he got closer and realized that it was not a fire at all but a series of three reddish-orange lights affixed to the bottom of a huge triangular craft. He neared an intersection and got out of his car to watch this metallic craft as it approached from the north and moved directly towards him. He became fearful and started to run from his car, but realized that there was nowhere to run. As the giant object passed overhead, it blocked out all the stars and he estimated its size to be some 300 feet in length. The bottom of the craft was illuminated from three flame-like symmetrical appendages, and there was a ribbed structure running across the bottom of the object. As it passed directly overhead he felt an energy that reverberated through his body. He stated that he felt many sensations all at once, but could find no description for what he actually felt. The object also made a pulsating or drumming noise which also passed throughout his body. After the object passed him, it suddenly turned west and moved behind some nearby hills. The witness reported a metallic taste in his mouth and a nose bleed. Later he found that his face and back were slightly sunburned and his hair was falling out, he also felt lethargic. He realized later that he had experienced 15 minutes of missing time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6514",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2004, citing Kim Shaffer, Tennessee MUFON" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/2/2005",
  "desc" : "Three bright lights appeared at different times in Westfield, Massachusetts starting at 3:00 a.m. They moved in zig-zag patterns in the sky over a long period of time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6515",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2005 webpage, reported uploaded October 11, 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/3/1843",
  "desc" : "Farmer Cooper saw three men flying through the sky over Warwick, Quebec. They were completely white. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6516",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John Colombo, UFOs over Canada: Personal accounts of sightings and close encounters, p. 209" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/3/1951",
  "desc" : "At 9:27 p.m. military radar picked up a large sausage-shaped radar blip. It was tracked flying over Kadena AFB, Japan moving at 4,800 mph. Listed as a Project Blue Book \"unidentified\" case. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6517",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 984" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/3/1952",
  "desc" : "At 1:30 a.m. a UFO zigzagged over Abidjan, Ivory Coast. That evening, at Cocoa Beach, Florida a white ovoid object hovered near Cape Canaveral for two and a half hours. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6518",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: September-October, p. 61" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/3/1954",
  "desc" : "There are 81 UFO and humanoid reports recorded in UFOCAT for this day. There is one from India, one from Lebanon, one from Quebec, one from Switzerland, two each from England and Italy, and three from Austria. The rest are from France, which appears to be at the center of this massive wave of UFO sightings.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6519",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "10/3/1954",
  "desc" : "Angelo Girardo, 55, a stockyard employee, was going to work in Bressuire, France at dawn when he saw a circular craft with a three-meter diameter and a small figure wearing a diving suit, standing close by. The object took off at a fantastic speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6520",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 215; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 111" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/3/1954",
  "desc" : "Between Rue and Quend, France on Route D27, near the village of Vron, Rene Coudette and B. Devoisin were riding bicycles with a third witness when they saw an orange object, shaped like a beehive, on the road ahead of them. A small strange \"man\" wearing a diving suit, about 0.9 meters (3 foot) tall, was standing close to it. When they got within 70 meters of it, the object took off very fast. Less than three hours later, the same or a similar orange object chased a car down a road in Quend for eight kilometers, then flew away toward the sea. The witness was a butcher named Georges Galant. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6521",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, pp. 118, 116; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 216" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/3/1954",
  "desc" : "At 7:20 p.m. the crowd at a fair in Chereng, France saw a luminous object arrive very fast in the sky, stop in flight, emit sparks, and come down to ground level. As witnesses rushed to the spot it took off again. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6522",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 113; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 216" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/3/1954",
  "desc" : "At 10:45 p.m. a circular craft was seen by Mr. Jean Allary, age 22, while riding a motorcycle between Montmoreau and Villebois Lavalette, France. It seemed to be gliding over the ground. It showed luminous spots and became completely illuminated when it took off. It was about 1.2 meters high. Grass was found flattened and scorched over an area seven meters across. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6523",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 130; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 216; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 114" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/3/1954",
  "desc" : "Near La Rochelle, France at 11:00 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Guillemoteau saw an object, five meters in diameter and 2.5 meters high, hovering for several minutes one meter above the ground. The UFO then rose vertically. Oily marks were found at the spot. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6524",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 131; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 216" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/3/1958",
  "desc" : "At 3:20 a.m. in Owasco, Indiana four big, soft white elliptical lights, about 40 meters in diameter, maneuvered back and forth just above tree top level while changing color. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6525",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1959, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/3/1967",
  "desc" : "At 7:45 p.m. Kathy Skolem of Portland, Connecticut, age 13, saw an orange cloud bigger than the moon, which changed colors from pink to blue to green. This turned out to be a barium cloud experiment launched by NASA at 7:18 EDT from Wallops Island, Virginia. However, she then saw a white domed disc surrounded by a haze. It had lights around its rim, and it flew off toward the southeast. At 8:40 p.m. a glowing Saturn-shaped object with a fuzzy amber center flew over Cambridge, Massachusetts. It had white lights sparkling around its circumference. This too was not the barium cloud experiment, which they had seen earlier in the evening. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6526",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald A. Johnson, case investigation files; NICAP case investigation files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/3/1971",
  "desc" : "Mr. and Mrs. Cury where driving in Anapolis, Brazil at 1:40 a.m. when their car's engine made an odd sound and suddenly accelerated to 160 kph despite the driver's effort to slow it down. A large glowing sombrero-shaped object appeared in front of the car. It passed back and forth across the road, oscillated up and down, then sped away. On the same day two disc-shaped objects descended low over Rainbow Lake in Derry, New Hampshire. There were independent witnesses to the event, and other UFO sightings in the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6527",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, September-October 1971, p. 3; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 52; Hans Holzer, The UFOnauts, p. 168" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/3/1973",
  "desc" : "During a flurry of low-level UFO sightings in the area of North Melbourne, Australia, a man woke up in the middle of the night and noticed two figures standing in the shadows in front of his bedroom wall looking at him. They were described as humanoid and tall, and they appeared to be floating just above the floor. Both swayed gently from side to side. Both beings had large baldheads, slanted eyes, lipless mouths, and small flat noses. Their ears were pressed back against the side of their heads. No clothing details could be discerned. Moments later one of the beings opened his mouth and a high-pitched whine filled the room. At the same time both beings began to fade and disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6528",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1973, case # 868, citing George Alahouzos, FSR, Vol. 25 # 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/3/1973",
  "desc" : "A former aerospace photographer sighted a silver disc-shaped UFO making erratic maneuvers near SR177, northeast of Cape Girardeau, Missouri at 7:30 p.m. At 8:00 p.m. a UFO landed on a lake and lifted off from the water's surface in East Derry, New Hampshire. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6529",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Harley Rutledge, Project Identification: The first scientific field study of UFO phenomena, p. 170" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/3/1975",
  "desc" : "On this night a large mass of white light, with smaller blue lights inside, hung stationary over Quincy, Massachusetts. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6530",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "CUFOS News Bulletin, February 1976, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/3/1976",
  "desc" : "On this night a luminous object rose up from the road only twenty meters in front of an approaching car in Tonsberg, Norway. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6531",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "U computer database, case 11905" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/3/1978",
  "desc" : "Thousands of witnesses in Bogota, Colombia saw two UFOs in an unusually clear sky. One was shaped like a \"croissant\" and the other was cylinder-shaped. Both gave off an intense luminosity. Traffic halted throughout the city during the sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6532",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, December 1978, p. 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/3/1978",
  "desc" : "At 9:37 p.m. a car driving over a mountain pass near Sayama City, Japan was suddenly illuminated. An orange beam of light came down from the sky and struck the Mr. Amano's two-year-old daughter's stomach. Then a short humanoid being with no obvious nose appeared and pressed a metallic object against his forehead. He began receiving telepathic communication from the being accompanied by a high-pitched noise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6533",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1977" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/3/1983",
  "desc" : "At two o'clock in the morning Debbie Tomey heard a voice call her in her bedroom at her home in suburban Indianapolis, Indiana. She saw a small ball of light fly through her hallway. Under hypnosis she recalled being drowsy, then being touched by a device clamped to her neck. She saw a short humanoid being, and then experienced an episode of missing time. When she regained consciousness she found herself outside her house. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6534",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery. Volume 1: Comparative Study of Abductions, case 195 (episode K" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/3/1983",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. nine amateur astronomers sighted at blue ovoid object orbited by smaller objects over Split, Croatia. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6535",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, December 1983" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/3/1989",
  "desc" : "At 3:00 a.m. in Ochlocknee, Georgia two men observed a round object at tree top level, emitting small balls of light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6536",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, case 992" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/3/1996",
  "desc" : "At approximately 8:00 p.m. local time a number of vehicles traveling on I-25 south of Springer, New Mexico were witness to a cigar-shaped object, estimated to be at least \"two stories\" tall and covered with very bizarre lights. The object was seen to descend out of the night sky and hover over an area near the highway. At least 4-5 automobiles, and two tractor-trailers had stopped along the highway and their passengers had gotten out of their vehicles to look at the object. At some point during the sighting the object extinguished its lights and apparently settled to the ground. One young person was emotionally upset by the event, and was still in a state of shock several hours later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6537",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center website" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/3/1996",
  "desc" : "On this Thursday night numerous sightings of one or more blue-green \"fireballs\" streaking overhead were reported to various law-enforcement agencies in California. Some reports hinted at the possibility that the sightings were associated with several fires of unknown origin that had allegedly broken out as the object or objects passed overhead. Witnesses in at least four counties made reports to the California Emergency Management Office in Sacramento. One observer reported that he had seen a bluish or blue-green fireball descend almost vertically to the east of his location in Bakersfield. The object was observed for approximately 20-30 seconds, during which time it traversed an arc or approximately 30 degrees of angle. The object went below the horizon to the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6538",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center website" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/3/1997",
  "desc" : "At four in the afternoon Osmo Kurkela was walking home from school in Raahe, Finland when he saw a red light in the sky that was coming straight down towards him. It stopped ten meters from the witness then landed. The UFO was five meters long and ten meters wide. Three human-looking beings emerged and one of them appeared to be a woman. Osmo ran home and attempted to hide, but his next recollection was being taken from his home and into the object. A sperm sample was allegedly taken from the young man. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6539",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, case # 2840, citing UFO Sightings in New Mexico and the World" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/3/1998",
  "desc" : "A five-meter diameter disc flew low over the valley of the Tevere River in Rieti, Italy and skimmed the surface of the water. It flew off toward the southwest and was sighted again in Rome. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6540",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup website, volume 3, no. 41" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/3/2000",
  "desc" : "A witness saw three lights chasing one another over Montreal, Quebec at 9:33 p.m. They zigzagged around the sky making no noise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6541",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Research Manitoba, 2000 Canadian UFO Survey, case 187" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/4/1954",
  "desc" : "There are 41 UFO and humanoid reports on this date in UFOCAT, including six CE-III reports. One report is from Tel Aviv, Israel and one of the humanoid reports is from Salta, Argentina. The rest are from France, which was at the center of a massive wave of UFO sightings.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6542",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "10/4/1954",
  "desc" : "An object was said to have landed in the yard of Mr. Montagne, a railroad employee, in Limoges, France. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6543",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "France-Soir, October 7, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 216" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/4/1954",
  "desc" : "Andre Garcia and Andre Darzais were driving a truck between Lagrasse and Villemagne and were near the village of Lezignan, France when they saw a luminous object coming slowly to the ground. It measured about 10 meters in diameter and took off with a burst of light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6544",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "France-Soir, October 7, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 217" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/4/1954",
  "desc" : "Mr. Garreau, a farmer in Chaleix, France saw an object the size of a carriage land in his field. Two men of normal height emerged through a sliding door. They wore khaki overalls and were of European type. They shook hands with the witness and said some thing like: \"Paris? Nord?\" (According to another version they spoke indistinct words.) They gave a pat on the back to Mr. Garreau's dog and took off at an amazing speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6545",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Liberation, October 7, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 217" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/4/1954",
  "desc" : "At 8:10 a.m. Mr. Lacambre, a forester, saw a little man or dwarf in a streambed 200 meters from his house in St-Perdoux, Lot, France. The being wore a wide leather belt or girdle, boots, and a tunic. He put water in a bottle, and some pebbles in a belt pouch; he then rose up into air and vanished. The creature had two pear-shaped boxes under his arms that may have assisted his ascent. Footprints were found at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6546",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michel Figuet and Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 116-117" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/4/1954",
  "desc" : "Several people noticed an object hovering near a hilltop in the evening in Tregon, France. They drove to the site, but it flew away. What seemed to have been the same object was seen at Megrit, 25 km to the southwest, hovering over a farm. It was described as metallic, flat, and emitting light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6547",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 139; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 217" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/4/1954",
  "desc" : "Montceau-les-Mines, France. At 6:30 p.m. about 20 people, among them Remy Gaudicourt of Sanvignes, saw a circular, luminous object rise vertically from the vicinity of the railroad tracks. There were no traces found. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6548",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 138; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 217; Michel Figuet and Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 118" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/4/1954",
  "desc" : "Villers-le-Tilleul, France. Ten year old Bertiaux saw an object at 6:40 p.m. \"like a tent\" with an unknown man nearby. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6549",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 217" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/4/1954",
  "desc" : "On a road in Lessard-le-National, France at 7:20 p.m., a silver cigar-shaped object stopped in a vertical position when illuminated by car headlights. Landing traces found nearby. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6550",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 319" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/4/1954",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. a six-meter in diameter red, round, domed object, hovered 10-12 meters above the ground in Taupignac, France. Four little men, one meter tall (3.3 feet) exited. As the three male witnesses approached they quickly entered the object. The domed disc changed color from blue to orange and then to red, and made no noise as it took off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6551",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 159" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/4/1954",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. Mr. Henry Leherisse, age 23, in Megrit, France saw two shadows moving about inside a flat luminous, metallic, three-meters wide object, that hovered 50 meters above his garage. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6552",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "newspaper clipping, October 7, 1954; Michel Figuet and Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 122" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/4/1954",
  "desc" : "Mrs. Fourneret, a housewife, ran away as an orange, circular object 3 meters in diameter that swung in midair and landed near her farm in Poncey-sur-Lignon, France. When Messrs. Girardot and Vincent arrived with rifles, they found that the earth had been \"sucked up\" over a quadrilateral area. Francois Bouiller confirmed he had seen a luminous object in flight. Extensive investigation by French Air Force and police. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6553",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Liberation, October 7, 1954; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 134; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 71; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 217" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/4/1955",
  "desc" : "United States Senator Richard Russell, Head of the Senate Armed Services Committee, was on a high-level diplomatic mission to the Soviet Union and was traveling on the trans-Caucasus railway outside of Baku, Azerbaijan on this day in 1955. While on the train at 7:10 p.m. he and his aide saw a disc-shaped UFO slowly ascend to 6000 feet and then shoot to the North. A second disc appeared and maneuvered about the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6554",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael David Hall, UFOs: A Century of Sightings, p. 240" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/4/1957",
  "desc" : "Angel hair residue fell on Ichinoseki, Japan at 11:45 a.m. on this day. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6555",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 101, citing Flying Saucer Review, January 1958" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/4/1960",
  "desc" : "Reverend and Mrs. Browning in Cressy, Tasmania observed a cigar-shaped object fly toward the west. Five 30' diameter domed discs joined the larger object, and all flew away rapidly to the east at 6:10 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6556",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "James E. McDonald case investigation files; APRO Bulletin, September-October 1960, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/4/1967",
  "desc" : "At 11:20 p.m. Atlantic Daylight Time at least one and most likely two separate UFOs dove or crashed into the ocean near Bon Portage Island, in the area of Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada. There were at least a dozen independent witnesses to the event. Canadian Navy divers searched the area for three days but found nothing. This followed a series of six UFO sightings across Quebec and Nova Scotia beginning at 7:19 p.m., when Air Canada Captain Pierre Guy Charbonneau, flying between Sherbrooke and St. Jean, sighted an orange rectangular object followed by a series of smaller lights, followed by a sizeable explosion near the large object that turned into a big white ball-shaped cloud. The cloud turned red, then violet, and then blue. Two minutes later there was another explosion that turned into a second sphere which was orange in color. Like the first one it too eventually faded to blue. The smaller lights on the \"kite tail\" broke formation with the rectangular object and began to dance around the spheres like fireflies. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6557",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Yarmouth Light Herald, October 12, 1967; Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, pp. 44-45; Don Ledger & Chris Styles, Dark Object: The world's only government documented UFO crash, pp. 9-13; 28-50, 151-162" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/4/1973",
  "desc" : "A man was driving on the Simi Freeway in Simi Valley, California during the afternoon when he saw a 30 by 350 foot triangular object in a dust cloud near the road. It was 80-100 feet away and was swaying back and forth 10 feet above the ground. An eight-foot hose dangled from the bottom of the object. A clear bubble three feet in diameter swiveled atop the UFO. As he watched a being crawled around from behind the machine, looked at the witness, and then scrambled out of sight. The humanoid was of normal stature but wore a silvery type of wet suit. The bubble began rotating faster and disappeared inside the object, which emitted a whirring noise. A fog enveloped the craft, which then disappeared. An unidentified woman witness had reported a similar sighting the week before. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6558",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher: HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-28; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/4/1979",
  "desc" : "Garbage collector Aldo Natoli was on his way to work in Viggiu Varese, Italy at 3:20 a.m. when he spotted two strange figures suspended about 20 cm from the ground, and gesticulating animatedly among themselves without making a sound. Natoli stopped his Vespa motorscooter and continued observing the scene. The figures were thin and human-like, wearing dark blue, loose fitting coveralls. Their eyes were fluorescent and they had black hair. When the witness restarted his scooter, the figures disappeared into the darkness. The scooter then malfunctioned but moments later it started again. He then drove away from the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6559",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, citing C.U.N." ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/4/1979",
  "desc" : "In the early evening a seven-year old boy in Handsworth, Sheffield, England watched a seven-foot-tall silvery figure that was apparently drilling a hole in the ground with a tube. The boy watched the figure until it suddenly spotted him. The figure then disappeared in a puff of pink smoke. Four non-human looking footprints were found at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6560",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, citing Janet & Colin Bord, Modern Mysteries of Britain" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/5/1914",
  "desc" : "At Silver Bell Siding in Tasmania, Australia a lighted object appeared traveling from MacQuarie Heads to Mount Dundas. Two lights were distinctly visible, and intermittent rays of light were thrown to the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6561",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Australasian Ufologist, January 2001, p. 43" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/5/1950",
  "desc" : "While flying over Van Nuys, California at 7:32 p.m., a CAL airliner had a near collision with a luminous object that looked like a flying wing without a fuselage. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6562",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "San Francisco Chronicle, October 7, 1950" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/5/1954",
  "desc" : "There are 43 UFO reports recorded for this date in UFOCAT, including nine close encounters. Five reports are from North Africa, one each from Germany and Italy, and the rest are from France, which was at the center of a massive wave of UFO sightings.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6563",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "10/5/1954",
  "desc" : "Roverbello, Italy. A red clad being who spoke an unknown language approached a fisherman. It quickly left when the witness called to his wife. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6564",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Newspaper clipping, October 7, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 218" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/5/1954",
  "desc" : "Loctudy, France. At 4:00 a.m. a baker, Mr. P. Lucas, was draining water from a well when he noticed an object some distance away. It was circular and about three meters in diameter. From it emerged a dwarf with an oval-shaped face, covered with hair, and big eyes \"as large as raven eggs.\" The short being touched him on the shoulder and spoke to him in an unknown language. The dwarf then went away and the object took off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6565",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 218" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/5/1954",
  "desc" : "An Egyptian military officer in Behnay, Egypt photographed a \"rotating saucer.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6566",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 232" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/5/1954",
  "desc" : "At 6:30 a.m., east of Le Mans, France on Route N23, some Renault employees were going to work when they saw by the road a luminous object on the ground and felt a prickling sensation and a form of paralysis. The glowing UFO emitted a burst of green light and flew away, very low over the fields. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6567",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 218" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/5/1954",
  "desc" : "Mertrud, France. A road crew member, Mr. Narcy, saw an object near the road between Voillecomte and La Neuville at 7:15 a.m. In a report to the police, he stated he saw a hairy dwarf wearing an orange tight fitting jacket climb aboard the craft, which consisted of a cigar-shaped section under a flat disk. Between the two sections was a kind of porthole through which the entity entered the object. Traces were found at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6568",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 218" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/5/1954",
  "desc" : "In Wassy, France a golden-orange sphere with a dome on top plunged to the ground and bounced several times across a field this morning. The witness, Mr. G. Oldut, saw a one-meter tall dwarf emerge and then re-enter the craft. It rose up into the sky and disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6569",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paris Radar, October 17, 1954; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT Humanoid Report Database" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/5/1954",
  "desc" : "At 11:45 a.m. in Bordeaux, France, five people saw two bright metallic discs fly over a factory. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6570",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 125" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/5/1954",
  "desc" : "Ten kilometers from Beaumont, France several people saw an flying object coming toward them and getting brighter at 3:45 in the afternoon. When it was about 150 meters away they felt \"a strange sensation\" and found themselves unable to move. The object left a smell compared to that of nitrobenzene. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6571",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 218" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/5/1954",
  "desc" : "A farmer saw a humanoid occupant inside a UFO on this evening in Cote du Nord, France. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6572",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jimmy Guieu, Fying Saucers come from another world, p. 195; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 217" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/5/1957",
  "desc" : "Sao Francisco de Sales, Brazil. Antonio Villas-Boas could not sleep because of the heat, so he opened the shudders on his house and saw a silvery glow in the yard. The light began to move and left going over his house. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6573",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1966; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 259" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/5/1959",
  "desc" : "Admiral Hyman Rickover's submarine the SSN Sea Dragon detected an unidentified submerged object outside Portsmouth, New Hampshire harbor on this day. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6574",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/5/1965",
  "desc" : "Fout saucer-shaped objects, the size of airliners, flew over Ballarat, Victoria, Australia in a diamond formation. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6575",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 118). On this same day sheriff deputies in Coldwater, Michigan saw a yellowish-white UFO hovering and moving around in the sky. It shot straight up at high speed as it departed. (Source: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-year Report, p. 171" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/5/1966",
  "desc" : "A boy in Potomac, Maryland saw a disc-shaped object with a transparent dome and a row of lights, at ground level. It rose at high speed, emitting a \"heat wave,\" and was lost in the clouds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6576",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 800" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/5/1970",
  "desc" : "At 4:00 a.m. at the Sturgeon Bay Hospital in Wisconsin, a nurse was called by an upset patient. He said he saw \"monkeys\" outside his window, swinging from the trees and sitting on the window ledge. She opened the drapes and saw a hovering yellowish-green, balloon-shaped object emitting a white light beam. At 4:15 a.m. a red object with beams of bright light was sighted in Walsh, Illinois. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6577",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, September-October 1970, p. 4; November-December, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/5/1970",
  "desc" : "At 6:10 a.m. in Sheerwater, Nova Scotia radar picked up an unidentified flying object, and an orange, yellow, and green object trailing white smoke and emitting a high-pitched whine. Horses were frightened by the presence of the UFO. At 9:00 a.m. a 59-year-old woman in saw a luminous orange object descend very low over some houses in Montreal, Quebec. She described the object as a very luminous orange circle surrounded by a sparkling white halo. Inside the circle she saw a small black object pivoting upon itself. During this time she realized that she was paralyzed and couldn't move. After a minute the object ascended rapidly into the sky, leaving a long trail behind it. She wanted to get some air and stepped out onto her balcony. She confronted a very heavy mist and a strong odor, which had a choking effect upon her. She went back inside, fainted, came to 10-15 minutes later with her eyes burning, her head feeling hot and heavy, and quite stunned. She felt electrical jolts in her body, and her hair had turned yellow in color. Her diabetes also manifested itself in an alarming fashion. UFO report involving physiological effects occurred in Quebec City, Quebec. At 9:00 p.m. that night in Saint-Romuald, Quebec two witnesses saw a elongated, luminous flying object. Their car radio had heavy static during the sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6578",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, November-December 1970, p. 29; Montreal Le Petit Journal, November 10, 1971" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/5/1972",
  "desc" : "In Remans, Belgium at 1 o'clock in the morning a 20-meter in diameter disc hovered over a car, illuminating the car's interior and the surrounding area in a green color, It flew off toward the south-southwest, but came back again at 4:40 a.m. and landed. Later that evening in Verdugo, California three discs flew at a low altitude toward the south. They had red glowing rims. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6579",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, November 1973; NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1973, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/5/1973",
  "desc" : "At 1:30 a.m. an X-shaped UFO buzzed a car in Launac, France. It ascended and flew off to the horizon within seconds. It made no sound during this close encounter. At 5:20 a.m. in Nohant-en-Gout, France there was another case involving fog or mist. A motorcycle stalled as a luminous ovoid object approached and hovered, with smoke or fog underneath. A being two-meters tall appeared suddenly, put a hand on the witness's shoulder. The creature was wearing a large helmet and had slit eyes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6580",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, December 1974" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/5/1973",
  "desc" : "Another case involving a UFO and mist or fog occurred in Oracle Junction, Arizona on this day. At 6:20 p.m. in Laurel, Indiana a disc the size of a house, with three segments on the bottom, hovered for three minutes. At 7:20 p.m. hundreds of phone calls were received by the police in Connersville, Indiana about a circle of light that was seen in the sky making several passes over the area at high speeds and a low altitude. A third case of this day involving a UFO surrounded by mist or vapor occurred in El Centro, California. At 8:00 p.m. a large, disc-shaped object surrounded by glistening vapor rose to 1200 feet altitude, turned, then shot away leaving a vapor trail. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6581",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Gribble, National UFO Reporting Center, case 0095 for 1973; George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 676; Francis Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 38; APRO Bulletin, January-February 1976, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/5/1973",
  "desc" : "At 3:35 a.m. Helen Hoag of North Miami, Florida--who had previously seen mysterious multi-colored lights outside her window--decided to make an attempt to communicate with them using telepathy. Moments later she unexpectedly found herself inside a circular control room, onboard a V-shaped craft. A beautiful tall blond woman greeted her. She wore shiny pale-blue pants, a jeweled scarf, and a headband. The woman introduced herself then a taller man wearing a silvery white suit appeared and introduced himself as the captain. There was a metallic pole in the center of the craft that flashed in multi-colored hues of light; and it seemed to be part of the flight control mechanism. She was taken to a soft contour chair and given a peach-colored liquid to drink. She was later shown a huge viewing screen on which she was given different messages. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6582",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1973, case # 1379; Glenn McWane & David Graham, The New UFO Sightings" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/5/1976",
  "desc" : "A farmer in Torrita, Victoria found two circles seven meters apart, each 5.5 meters in diameter. The grass inside the circles had been swirled and burnt. At 9:40 p.m. in Drumchapel, Scotland Mr. B. Goodwin watched a silver ball descend and then as it approached the ground it swung back-and-forth in a pendulum motion. The UFO suddenly shot straight up and disappeared into the night sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6583",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Australasian Ufologist, April 1993, p. 24; Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The secret history of Scotland's UFO phenomenon, p. 59" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/5/1978",
  "desc" : "In Palpala, Argentina at 8 o'clock in the evening, two witnesses, Barrionuevo and Mercado, saw an alien being with a light attached to its chest through a kitchen window. It was very tall, with ugly eyes, a face marked as if with scratches, a reddish-orange neck, and white hair. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6584",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, December 1978, p. 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/5/1980",
  "desc" : "On this night near Ta Kang, China several sailors off the coast in a ship on the Yellow Sea, including a witness named Hung, saw a reddish cone-shaped object with an intense bluish-green electric-arc glow fly overhead. It was close enough that they were able to feel heat from the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6585",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, March 1983, p. 24" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/5/1981",
  "desc" : "One of the events following the Breiland abduction occurred on this day in Victoria, British Columbia. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon two men, dressed in dark clothes, visited the abductee. They were stiff and expressionless, their eyes were unblinking and they talked and walked mechanically. Their eyes also appeared not to reflect light. They seemed unaccustomed to typical manners or customs. After they left they vanished without leaving footprints on the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6586",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery. Volume I: Comparative Study of Abductions, p. 202." ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/5/1984",
  "desc" : "Astronomer and UFO expert J. Allen Hynek, accompanied by field investigators Philip Imbrogno and Dennis, saw a \"Ferris wheel\" shaped UFO in the sky in Hudson Valley, New York that turned on its side and then disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6587",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek, Philip J. Imbrogno & Bob Pratt, Night Seige: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, p. 151" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/5/1985",
  "desc" : "Whitley Streiber reported that he was abducted on this night near Middletown, New York. He remembered fog and a blue light before the missing time experience. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6588",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Whitley Streiber, Communion, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/5/1989",
  "desc" : "Cars were chased in Portland, Victoria, Australia by a cluster of very bright lights. The UFO continued to the east out over the sea. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6589",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, March 1990" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/5/1991",
  "desc" : "On this night in Szecsenyfelfalu, Hungary a luminous sphere followed a truck home. It then emitted green beams of light, and changed its shape into an ovoid object. A video of a UFO was taken on this same night in Gulf Breeze, Florida. Thirty residents and a team of MUFON investigators saw a red sphere, and took photographs and videos ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6590",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Phenomena, issue no. 6; Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, case 1161" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/5/1995",
  "desc" : "At 10 o'clock in the morning a metallic, rectangular object was seen hovering over the desert outside of Chinle, Arizona. It was sighted again four times. Eleven aircraft seemed to be chasing it. Later that evening, a large cigar-shaped craft with bright lights hovered over the desert north of Las Vegas, Nevada at 7:00 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6591",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, 1995 report" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/5/1996",
  "desc" : "A huge pyramid-shaped object was seem from an Embraer-712 aircraft 35 miles east of Pelotas Airport, Brazil at 10:30 a.m. A disc was seen emerging vertically from the top of the bigger object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6592",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p 48" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/5/2000",
  "desc" : "At 9:10 p.m. an object resembling a giant disc \"with a bite taken out of the bottom,\" with yellow, orange and blue lights, markings, and a dark circle in the center, hovered over some woods in Middleton Wood, England. A videotape was made as the object seemed to expand and get smaller. It also emitted pulses of light. Later in Bradford, England at 10:40 p.m. a large UFO was viewed through binoculars as it stood almost upright with bright lights at each end. It had white and amber lights, and a red strobe light was running up and down the length of the objects between the ends. It passed behind a church tower at a fairly low altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6593",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (UK), January 2001, pp. 58-59" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/6/1952",
  "desc" : "A cigar-shaped object was seen in Oran, Algeria at 6:30 p.m. At 7:28 p.m. two witnesses onboard an Air France DC-4 flying over Draguignan, Var, France sighted a white luminous object that looked like an elongated egg with a bluish-white tail. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6594",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, October 1987, p. 18; (2) Aime Michel, The World of Flying Saucers, p. 145; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 19" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/6/1954",
  "desc" : "In the predawn hours a 30-year-old mechanic, Joseph Roy, was returning home by motorcycle on National Highway 51 from Reims to Rethel, France. Near the Isles-sur-Suippe he noticed a sharp reddish gleam on the road ahead of him. It suddenly disappeared, and when he arrived at the point where he had seen the light he noticed an odd looking object in a field. It was about three meters in length and had the form of a large artillery shell with several portholes on the front. He was also able to distinguish a vague dark silhouette of a small humanoid figure. However, seized with fright he did not stay longer to investigate and sped away as quickly as he could. Three other workmen reported seeing the same gleaming light in the area.  ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6595",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-23 (A0280), citing Joel Mesnard & Jean Marie Bigorne; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 126; Alain Gamard, UFO Register, volume 7 (1978), p. 43" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/6/1954",
  "desc" : "At 7:15 a.m. a 1.2 meter tall hairy dwarf was seen next to a sphere that was 10 meter in diameter. The object made a jet powered takeoff, leaving behind ground traces. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6596",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case , citing Dominique Weinstein" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/6/1954",
  "desc" : "At 7:15 p.m. an astronomer named Potter and one other witness in Norwich, England viewed a domed disc hovering for three minutes through a telescope. It had lit windows in the dome, and at one point made a 180 degree turn. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6597",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Leonard L. Cramp, Piece for a Jig-Saw, p. 374; Gavin Gibbons, The Coming of the Space Ships, p. 140" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/6/1954",
  "desc" : "On this evening Mr. and Mrs. Laroche from Paris saw a fiery sphere land near Chantonnay, Monchamps, France. At 9:30 p.m. near the military barracks in La Fere, Aisne, France two soldiers saw a strange luminous torpedo-shaped object on the ground 300 meters away. As one of them approached the four meter long craft, which stood about 80 cm high, he found himself paralyzed.  Finally, at 10:30 p.m. two women, Mrs. Salabrino and her adult daughter, saw a whitish light in the western sky in Villers-le-Lac, France. It seemed to slowly approach the ground, and was later seen between the railway station and the bridge 100 meters away from their house. When it moved, a very bright light was visible under its dark mass. It gave off a flow of sparks and rose, hovered for a moment, and then flew away rapidly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6598",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, cases 200-201; (2) The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 12; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 127; (3) Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 138" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/6/1959",
  "desc" : "At 8:15 p.m. U.S. Army Lt. Colonel L. Liggett and two members of his family sighted a round yellowish-white nocturnal light southeast of Lincoln, Nebraska that made several abrupt turns in the sky at very fast speeds for two minutes. A Project Blue Book \"unidentified\" case. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6599",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 6543; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns, p. 28" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/6/1959",
  "desc" : "On this night an Air National Guard T-33 aircraft with a pilot and co-pilot aboard chased a glowing UFO over Forrest City, Arkansas. It flew too fast to get any photos. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6600",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, p. 256" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/6/1964",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m. a thirty-foot in diameter silver domed disc hovered 30 feet over nearby trees in a cemetery in Haverhill, Massachusetts only 150 feet from the two male witnesses. It had a glowing bottom. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6601",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler case files, report dated October 8, 1964; Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, pp. 23 & 330" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/6/1967",
  "desc" : "At seven o'clock in the evening numerous strong radar targets were detected at the same time that elliptical, fuzzy objects with red and green lights were seen overhead at Vandenburg AFB, California. At least two objects were picked up on five separate radars. Scrambled jet fighters did not find them. They moved at speeds of 80 knots, and changed altitude. Most targets were over the ocean. The various Air Force explanations of mirages, birds, and anomalous propagation have been judged to be lacking in credibility. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6602",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1968, p. 6; Gordon D. Thayer, in Edward U. Condon (ed.) Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 171; UNICAT, case # 679" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/6/1967",
  "desc" : "An abduction and sexual encounter occurred in Belfast, Northern Ireland at 10:45 p.m. Eugene Browne was walking home from a jazz club when he saw a craft in the sky. A yellow light came from it, which danced around him and made him feel dizzy and soon lose consciousness. He awoke on an exam table in a windowless, oblong room that was lit by a blue light from the floor. He was strapped by metal bands attached to an apparatus on the side of the table. Four men and a woman surrounded him; although they were human in appearance they had a bluish aura. The tallest was dressed in a dark one-piece uniform and said, \"at last, someone who will do,\" and released him. The woman had long blond hair, high cheekbones and was very fair with a freckled complexion. He had sex with her and she told him they were \"from another galaxy\" and were experimenting to obtain human seed. Afterwards he was tied up and told it would not be long before he was returned. He blacked out again and recovered in a field about a mile from his original location. He had been abducted for about 40 minutes. He saw the object leave, which took off with a whistling sound as it retracted its tripod landing gear and flew off. He reportedly suffered somephysiological effects after the encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6603",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Charles Bowen, FSR, January-February 1970, p. 25" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/6/1970",
  "desc" : "At 4:30 a.m. two married couples, the Morrises and the Willies, traveling together on US Highway 63 twelve miles north of Rolla, Missouri had a close encounter with a luminous crescent-shaped object that descended very rapidly. The UFO appeared to have a saw-toothed bottom edge, and seemed to be dripping a liquid. It approached to within 50 feet of the ground, and then took off at a 70 degree angle at high speed, leaving behind a glowing trail. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6604",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Kansas City Times, October 6, 1973; Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, August 1971, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/6/1973",
  "desc" : "Shortly after midnight a married couple in St.-Mathias-de-Chambly, Quebec saw bright lights on their property. Later that morning they observed a dome like a \"tent\" about a third of a mile away. A second, smaller object emerged from it and moved across the ground to a distance of about 200 feet from them. Five figures of small stature, wearing bright yellow garments and helmets, moved quickly back and forth between the two objects for a time. When the witnesses next looked, both the objects and the humanoids had vanished. Ground traces were found at the sight the next day consisting of three rectangular imprints arranged in a triangle with 34 foot sides. There was a 50 foot in diameter circle of burnt grass, and a second circle 12 feet in diameter next to a spring. The daughter, who investigated, subsequently suffered from nausea and headaches. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6605",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Canadian UFO Report, Spring 1974, p. 22; APRO Bulletin, September-October 1974, p. 1; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher: HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-29; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids; UNICAT, case # 512" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/6/1975",
  "desc" : "On this night in Santa Clara, California three witnesses had a close encounter with a saucer-shaped disc with a bluish white glow underneath. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6606",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "CUFOS News Bulletin, February 1976, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/6/1976",
  "desc" : "At 7:20 p.m. six witnesses saw a domed disc-shaped object over a factory in Rive-de-Gier, Loire, France. A figure was seen moving about inside the dome. The object turned extremely bright and shot away rapidly to the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6607",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, March 1979" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/6/1977",
  "desc" : "A housewife in Fiesole, Italy had gone to visit the pediatric ward of the local hospital, and was looking out the window at 10 p.m. when she noticed a pulsating red light on the ground beside a nearby hill. It was the apparent size of a full moon. Moments later two similar pulsating lights descended at a 45 degree angle and came down near the witness. The woman opened the window and was able to see one of the lights dim, then stop and hover, as if preparing to land. At this point she was joined by other witnesses. The light turned silvery white in color and landed. It then began changing colors, first to red and then to silvery white. When the color was silvery white two human like figures could be seen moving slowly inside the length of the illuminated object. The other witnesses became tired of watching after awhile, and left to got to bed. Later, the original witness saw another light appear again in the same location. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6608",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 1532, citing Maurizio Verga, ITACAT" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/6/1979",
  "desc" : "The witness had been watching television late at night by himself in Toms River, New Jersey when around midnight a sense of apprehension overcame him and an intense blue light appeared inside the room. It brightened and then faded. The witness armed himself with a handgun and went outside to investigate. He saw a bright light among the nearby trees. Something then touched his neck and he dropped his gun and fell to the ground, unable to move. Several shadowy, short humanoids came up to him. They had bright eyes, long fingers, and skinny arms. The beings seemed weak and fearful of him. They also felt cold to the touch. A light surrounded the witness and he floated towards a black cloud with a light inside. He next remembered being in a room where the beings touched him with lights and \"drained him of energy.\" The beings never spoke to or otherwise communicated with the witness. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6609",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery ; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case # 495, citing Bullard" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/6/1979",
  "desc" : "A 28-year-old stone mason and his companion driving between Capulin and Des Moines, New Mexico at three o'clock in the morning had a close encounter with an octagonal UFO that came in low in front of the car. It was several times larger than the Moon, with light that was shining through sections of the object. It appeared to be metallic, with bolts \"like a tank,\" and passed slowly and silently over the car headed eastbound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6610",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, July 1979, p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/6/1990",
  "desc" : "At 6:00 p.m. two police officers, Jacques Belanger and Stephan Filiatrault, driving on Route 317 in Thurso, Papineau County, Quebec, Canada encountered a bizarre looking creature about 1.50 meters to 1.80 meters in height and about 50 meters away from their vehicle. The figure had two long legs and two huge round phosphorescent red eyes. When the two officers stopped and attempted to approach the creature it quickly disappeared into some nearby woods. Its feet did not appear to touch the ground as it moved. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6611",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 2353, citing the 1990 Canadian UFO Survey, Marc LeDuc, CASUFO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/6/1990",
  "desc" : "A close up photograph was taken of a circular object with a dome on top and colored lights around the rim in Eveleth, Minnesota. The object made a low rumbling sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6612",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case 929" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/6/1990",
  "desc" : "At 9:45 p.m. a 32-year-old salesman in Malden, Massachusetts had a close encounter with a gray metallic disc-shaped object that hovered over a church 350 feet away. It had six lights on its perimeter. First it was seen hovering, then it moved about 400 feet in less than a second to hide behind some trees, and finally it vanished after being in sight for 15 seconds. The man reported that he felt a vibration in his head during the encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6613",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald M. Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1992, p. 17" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/6/1993",
  "desc" : "At 9:10 p.m. two witnesses driving on the A52 highway in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England had a close encounter with an H-shaped UFO that changed shape to a disc, then changed back again to an H-shape. It followed their car for five minutes and had flashing lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6614",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 16198" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/6/1993",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. in the suburbs of Montgomery, Alabama a woman driving home on a clear night saw a UFO low over a nearby vacant lot. It was round and had a flattened top and bottom, and she described it as shaped like a woman's compact. It had red and green lights around its perimeter, as well as four roving spotlights. She continued driving home and went back to look for it again ten minutes later, but by this time the object had gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6615",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jerold R. Johnson, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1994, p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/6/2005",
  "desc" : "At 1:15 a.m. an object trailed by a military aircraft flew over Coon Rapids, Minnesota at a high rate of speed, knocking out electrical power in homes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6616",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, October 2005 webpage, report uploaded October 11, 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/6/2005",
  "desc" : "A cigar-shaped object was seen leaning to the left as it moved through storm clouds over Huachuca City, Arizona at 5:30. It moved to lean to the right, and then became a dot and moved toward another large storm cloud. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6617",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, October 2005 webpage, report uploaded Feb. 14, 2006" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/6/2006",
  "desc" : "At 5:30 p.m. four people standing in their front yard in Grand Rapids, Michigan watched a silver cigar-shaped craft that moved slowly across the sky, and then suddenly picked up speed and quickly vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6618",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, October 2006 webpage, report uploaded Oct. 30, 2006" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/7/1954",
  "desc" : "Beruges, France. A farmer, Edouard Thebault, age 31, awoke at 4:15 a.m. to see a luminous object, two or three meters in diameter, emitting a beam of light that swept the countryside. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6619",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 219; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 129" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/7/1954",
  "desc" : "St.-Jean-d'Asse, France. Mr. Alexandre Tremblay, a café owner, was driving on Route N138 at 6:20 a.m. when he saw an intense, blue light coming toward him. The object producing it was a one-meter long cigar, red and blue in color. The engine and headlights of his vehicle died. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6620",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 220; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 129-130" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/7/1954",
  "desc" : "Hennezis, France. At 6:30 p.m. Claude and Francoise Lanssellin, ages 10 and 9, witnessed the landing of a luminous, red object. It was shaped like a half egg (sliced lengthwise), They saw two occupants who looked like normal men. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6621",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 219; Jimmy Guieu, Black Out sur les Soucoupes Volantes, pp. 199-202; Aime Michel, A propos des Soucoupes Volantes, p. 182; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 132-133" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/7/1954",
  "desc" : "Plozevet, France. Early in the day the crew of several fishing boats at sea saw a luminous, orange-colored object over the coast, apparently surrounded by dense smoke. Villagers in Plozevet saw the same object and stated independently that it came within 10 meters of the ground, then flew away to the southeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6622",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "France-Soir, October 9, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 219; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 131" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/7/1954",
  "desc" : "Two red mushroom-shaped objects, six feet in diameter, landed this morning in Mendionde, France. Two little men, 2.5 feet tall stood beside it, speaking an unknown language and gesticulating to the witness to come closer. However, when he did they shut the door in his face, and the UFO took off straight up. The grass at the site was crushed and turned yellow. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6623",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1689" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/7/1954",
  "desc" : "Jettingen, France. A railroad employee, Rene Ott, saw a mushroom-shaped object three meters in diameter, in a field three meters away from Route N16 and one meter above the ground. A luminous rectangle, like a door, was seen on the side. It took off and flew about five meters over the head of the witness, following him to the next village. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6624",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 143; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 219" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/7/1954",
  "desc" : "Monteux, France. At 2:30 p.m. Rene Margaillon, a farmer, was traveling between Monteux and Althen-des-Paluds when saw a metallic object that had landed in a field. It was hemispherical, about 2.5 meters in diameter. The witness gasped for air and felt \"paralyzed.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6625",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 145; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 220; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 131" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/7/1954",
  "desc" : "A red ovoid object was seen in Eurre, Drome, France at 7 o'clock in the evening. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6626",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 133" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/7/1954",
  "desc" : "Marcel Guyot was coming home from work at 7:30 p.m. near the village of St.-Etienne-sous-Barbuise, France, and his son Jacques followed the same road 10 minutes later. Both saw three objects on the ground at a railroad crossing that gave off a bright white light. One was circular, the other two were cigar-shaped. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6627",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 146; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 220" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/7/1954",
  "desc" : "Mr. Sebelli saw an object land in the village of Bompas, France shortly before midnight. He called his neighbors, and they observed the departure of the craft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6628",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 146; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 220" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/7/1959",
  "desc" : "Eastern Airlines flight 541, flying over Virginia at 3:10 a.m., was paced by a cigar-shaped object for ten minutes. The craft had illuminated portholes. At approximately the same time (8:00 p.m. New Zealand time) a large white, domed shaped mass flew quickly toward the west over Fairlie, New Zealand, and was gone from sight behind some hills. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6629",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, cases 5835 & 5836" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/7/1964",
  "desc" : "At 3:30 p.m. a grayish black wingless object w two stubby fins in the rear portion followed a C-119 \"flying boxcar\" transport plane over Waltham, Massachusetts. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6630",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 24" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/7/1968",
  "desc" : "A cigar-shaped object flew rapidly to the south over Lagoa Rodrigo, Brazil at 9:20 a.m. A jet aircraft attempted to follow it, but the UFO was much faster. On this same day a 42-foot diameter circle was found in Ngatea, New Zealand. The circle was somewhat radioactive and the plants inside the circle were bone-dry as if completely dehydrated. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6631",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Irene Granchi, UFO Abductions and Reports from Brazil, p. 74; Data-Net Report, January 1970, p. 11" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/7/1974",
  "desc" : "In the predawn hours on this day in Plant City, Florida a motorcyclist had his engine and all its electrical system die. He had been traveling at 70 mph when suddenly there appeared a UFO right behind him, moving at the same speed. After the ignition system failure he coasted to the roadside and the UFO shot off toward the northeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6632",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Tampa (FL) Neighbor, October 16, 1974" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/7/1974",
  "desc" : "After being summoned telepathically to a remote desert spot near Chilca, Peru the witness saw a luminous, disc-shaped object land this night. It touched down nearby on four legs like protrusions. A door opened and a very tall blond man wearing a silvery outfit came out. The being communicated via telepathy with the witness. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6633",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1974, case #282, citing Lisa Rome, UFO Universe, June-July 1991" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/7/1975",
  "desc" : "Robert Suffern of Three Mile Lake reported that a UFO landed about 13 miles northwest of Bracebridge, Ontario on this night, and he almost ran over one of its occupants with his car. Mr. Suffern said the craft was about 12-14 feet across, nine feet high, and circular in shape. \"There was a black strip running around the circumference, and what looked to be a small platform at the bottom of the vehicle.\" Mr. Suffern said he found the craft while driving around to investigate \"a glow in the sky\" seen by his sister, and who telephoned him to say she thought his barn might be on fire. The UFO was parked on a road that led to the lake. A few seconds after he saw it, the ship lifted straight up from the road in front of his car. \"There was no dust raised, no apparent thrust, nothing,\" he said. \"It went straight up and over the trees.\"<br/><br/> Mr. Suffern turned his car around and headed home. However, when he reached the top of the hill, he had to slam on his brakes to avoid hitting \"some sort of creature.\" The being was the height of the car fender. It was humanoid in appearance and wore a globe-shaped helmet, and walked like a midget. The helmet was slightly lighter in color and the \"spacesuit\" was like tin foil that had been crushed and flattened out. The creature turned, took three or four steps, vaulted over a fence, and disappeared. Suffern raced back to his house and arrived in time to see the object hover near his home before crossing the lake. He was badly shaken by the incident. \"It's all right to think what you would do…but when it actually happens, you are scared because you are dealing with the unknown.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6634",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Gribble, \"Looking Back October 1975\", National UFO Reporting Center website" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/7/1977",
  "desc" : "Nine disc-shaped UFOs circled a Soviet Navy submarine tender on this day. The radio, electronics, and on-board communications were all disrupted. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6635",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A cosmic Samizdat, p. 29" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/7/1979",
  "desc" : "Four 15-year-old youngsters were playing in a field in Heiloo, Netherlands at around seven p.m. when they encountered several strange luminous flashes and lights around them. They soon saw what appeared to be a luminous \"mass\" behind some nearby bushes. One of them approached and was confronted by a tall humanoid with a large human-like face. The being had white hair and large, red, almond-shaped protruding eyes. The figure wore a shiny white robe. One of the other boys then approached on a bicycle and saw three other similar figures standing immobile about 50 meters away. Apparently a total of seven humanoids were encountered at one time or another for the next hour. They seemed to be able to move around from one place to another in an instant. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6636",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case # 1487, citing Hans Van Kampen" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/8/1952",
  "desc" : "A thin, silver disc-shaped craft hovered and wobbled 500 meters over the heads of three witnesses in Guimiliau, Finistere department, France on this afternoon at 1:00 p.m. It made a whistling sound as it shot away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6637",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 131" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/8/1953",
  "desc" : "A glowing disc flew at high speed over Akron, Ohio at 8:40 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6638",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, May 1954" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/8/1954",
  "desc" : "Mr. Ghaseme Fili, of Amireah Street, Teheran, Iran was on the balcony of the second floor of his house at 2:30 a.m. when he saw a luminous, white flying object stop in mid-air, only 20 meters away from him. Lights shone from the rear and the sides of the craft, and inside there was a small man dressed in black, wearing a mask or breathing apparatus that resembled the trunk of an elephant. \"I was standing with both hands on the bar of my balcony, looking with astonishment at this strange object, when I suddenly felt as though I were being drawn up toward the object by a magnet.\" Mr. Fili cried out in terror and woke up his neighbors. The object shot straight up, emitting sparks, and it was lost to sight almost immediately. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6639",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon Creighton, Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1967, p. 23; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 211" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/8/1954",
  "desc" : "In the predawn hours a motorcyclist, R. Ott, riding through farm county in Jettingen, Haut-Rhin department, France saw a 10 foot wide mushroom-shaped object with an open 5 foot by 2 foot wide doorway near the ground. He saw no UFO occupants, but after driving by he was struck by a powerful beam of light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6640",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 143; Jacques Vallee, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 13; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0283, citing Mulhouse Alsace, October 9, 1954" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/8/1954",
  "desc" : "At 7:00 a.m in the town of Stintino on the island of Sardegna, Italy a single witness named Milia watched a white UFO that looked like \"an oval sail\" descend to five feet above the ground about 60 feet away. Attached to it was a man dressed in black, who wore a helmet. When the UFOnaut saw the witness, the witness claims he threw out some pamphlets that were written in an unknown language. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6641",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0284" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/8/1954",
  "desc" : "At 9:15 p.m., on the road to Boulogne in Pas de Calais department, France a bluish domed disc-shaped object dove toward the ground, became white and then flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6642",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 154; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 212" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/8/1954",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. in St. Claude, Charente, France a human silhouette was seen standing motionless near where a luminous ovoid shaped UFO had landed. Strip of burnt, crushed grass found at spot, trodden down. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6643",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1690, citing Charente Libre, October 11, 1954; Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 189" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/8/1954",
  "desc" : "At 11:15 p.m. an orange disc-shaped object danced \"arabesques\" in the sky over the city of Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6644",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 3823; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 135" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/8/1955",
  "desc" : "R. D. Prather and H. Ahern sighted a round, silverly white flying object at 4:38 p.m. in Loogootee, Indiana that zoomed through the sky at a speed in excess of 1,000 m.p.h. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6645",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 3800; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/8/1957",
  "desc" : "At three o'clock in the afternoon two couples going from Nabouwalu to Nawaca in the Fiji Islands by motor boat saw a white colored object descend from the sky. They thought it was a plane in trouble so they went closer. Instead of plane wreakage they found the object hovering seven meters above the water, and a figure onboard the craft then aimed a beam of energy at them that was very bright and made them feel weak. The figure disappeared suddenly, and the object took off vertically at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6646",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques & Janine Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 18; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 408" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/8/1957",
  "desc" : "At 7:05 a.m. a bright silver object flew at great speed over the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts. The witness, Mr. J. Flynn, was flying in a Pan Am DC-7C airliner over Norfolk County at the time of his sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6647",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 967, citing New York World Telegram & Sun, October 8, 1957; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 42" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/8/1957",
  "desc" : "At 9:17 a.m. two U.S. Army sergeants outside of Seattle, Washington observed two flat, round, white objects that flew in trail formation along an irregular path, frequently banking during the 25-30 seconds of their sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6648",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 5003; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/8/1965",
  "desc" : "In Heytesbury, Wiltshire, England a Ms. Randall's car motor and headlights died at 12:25 a.m. The witness then saw two objects in the sky, one of which was close while the other was hovering in the sky. The second object took off to a higher altitude, and changed color from orange to red while doing so, then emitted red and blue sparks. The witness also thought she saw two beings by the roadside. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6649",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 26; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0679" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/8/1965",
  "desc" : "In the early evening after work, rubber plantation latex collectors in Alto Purus, Brazil saw evening an object resembling a huge wheel coming down to land near them. They described it as intensely bright with two flaming openings in the front. They quickly went into hiding, and observed the craft as it flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6650",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 84" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/8/1965",
  "desc" : "A child in Puno, Peru reported seeing a luminous object at ten o'clock in the evening, from which seven 80 cm tall creatures with only one eye emerged. On the same day a newsman was said to have seen another object land in the vicinity of Puno, and to have made an unsuccesful attempt at communication. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6651",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/8/1966",
  "desc" : "At 7:00 p.m. in Tenby, England a blue luminous cloud cigar circled, hovered, and emitted a dark object that flew off to the southwest. The larger object sped off to the east.  ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6652",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "F. W. Holiday, FSR, July-August 1972, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/8/1966",
  "desc" : "A red and white object was observed at treetop level from Highway 44 in Rushville, Indiana making a \"screaming sound.\" TV interference was reported, and German shepard dogs howled during the six minute close encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6653",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald Worley, APRO Bulletin, November-December 1966, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/8/1967",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. in Elk Garden, West Virginia a turtle-shaped disc flew over a cemetery shortly after a funeral at only six feet above the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6654",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Teets, West Virginia UFOs: Close Encounters in the Mountain State, p. 191" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/8/1967",
  "desc" : "Dr. John Altshuler came to Alamosa County, Colorado to examine the carcass of the horse \"Lady\" thought to have been killed and mutilated by UFOs, and was abducted this night while camping at the Sand Dunes National Monument. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6655",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Christopher O'Brien, case files, citing Valley Courier, October 9, 1975" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/8/1968",
  "desc" : "On this night in Asbestos, Quebec, Canada Mr. Bellerose, his wife, his brother in law, and his sister in law saw a rectangular green shape in the sky. After some minutes “a real saucer” came out of a cloud, with a yellow-orange light around it and three circular lights beneath it. The two men got into a car and followed the UFO toward St. Claude; watching from the home, the women distinctly saw humanoids walk from the object and seemingly float into space. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6656",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-101, citing Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science, issue # 54" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/8/1968",
  "desc" : "In Medulla, Florida a terrified dog crashed through a screen porch to hide from a domed disc-shaped UFO dropping sparks at treetop level and see-sawing in a rocking motion in the sky, only 150 feet away from the house. Two occupants wearing tight rubbery suits and headgear were visible inside the UFO. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6657",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lakeland Ledger, November 11, 1968; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, June 1969, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/8/1969",
  "desc" : "A large Saturn-shaped object was viewed through a telescope in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France at 4:10 a.m. It had small satellite lights orbiting it in both clockwise and counter-clockwise directions. It shot to the north, then flew away to the south. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6658",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 104" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/8/1972",
  "desc" : "A security guard had a nocturnal close encounter with a 100 foot in diameter domed disc that hovered 300 feet over a factory in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. The UFO made a humming noise, tilted and then shot straight up. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6659",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 9722" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/8/1978",
  "desc" : "At 2:00 a.m. a multi-colored disc-shaped object hovered north of Ord, Nebraska at a low altitude (75m) while making a loud buzzing sound. The object beams two tentacled figures down to the ground, who collect soil and plant samples. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6660",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, July 1979, p. 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/8/1978",
  "desc" : "At 7:00 a.m. seven separate witnesses in Jenkins, Missouri, including a 71-year-old couple, watched two ovoid objects, one on the ground, for two hours. At its closest the nearest object was 180 feet away, and left behind ground traces. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6661",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, December1978, p. 11; citing Ted Phillips; UNICAT, case # 135; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 191; Joplin Globe, October 24, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/8/1978",
  "desc" : "A cattle mutilation was reported in Avoca, Arkansas. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6662",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 373, citing Robers (AR) Daily News, October 9, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/8/1978",
  "desc" : "A hat-shaped disc was photographed at 5:30 in the afternoon over a camp in Gobernador Virasoro, Corrientes, Argentina. The object resembled an inverted dish or narrow-brimmed hat. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6663",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, February 1979, p. 14, citing Clarin, November 2, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/8/1978",
  "desc" : "A man was driving with his sleeping wife through Lowton, Greater Manchester, England when at 11:30 p.m. a figure suddenly appeared in his headlights, standing in the middle of a grassy median strip in the center of the highway. The figure was human like but over six feet tall and was wearing a shiny silvery uniform. The figure was also encased in an orange glow. The man drove on but could still see the orange glow in the roadway when he looked back. Earlier in the same area other witnesses had seen a large lighted object with a silvery dome, and reported that three bumps underneath the object descended slowly towards the road. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6664",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 763, citing Peter Hough & Stephen Balon in Northern UFO News, issue # 55" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/8/1981",
  "desc" : "At 6:40 p.m. a one-meter wide red disc-shaped object flew slowly over the town of Linkou, Heilongjiang province, China from east to west at 350 meters altitude. Its estimated distance was 2500 meters. It was rotating and gave off an intense glow. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6665",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Wendelle C. Stevens & Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, p. 234" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/8/1981",
  "desc" : "Three people driving in a car through Salen Forest on the Island of Mull, Highland, Scotland encountered a sudden fog around the middle of the day. The mist appeared to come from nowhere, and seemed to attach itself to the car. They felt a vibration and a sensation of heavy pressure, witnessed a blurred silvery shape, and after that experienced several hours of missing time.Three watches and a clock stopped working. The contents of the car trunk was found strewn about. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6666",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jenny Randles, Alien Contacts and Abductions, p. 119; Jenny Randles, Time Storms: Amazing Evidence for Time Warps, Space Rifts, and Time Travel, p. 70" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/8/1981",
  "desc" : "On this day at around eleven o'clock in the morning a famous color UFO photograph of a silvery disc-shaped object with a clear bubble dome was taken thirty miles north of Kelsey Bay on the eastern side of Vancouver Island, British Columbia by Ms. Hannah McRoberts. The 25-year-old woman was traveling with family and took a photograph of a mountain at the time and did not observe the UFO when she snapped the picture.The resulting photograph shows an object to the right of and above the peak and a plume of cloud. The photograph has been judged authentic by Dr. Richard F. Haines and Dr. James Harder, among others. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6667",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon Creighton, FSR, December 1983, p. 16 citing Bill Allan; UNICAT, case # 593; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, p. 295).<br/><br/> For photo see: http://www.ufoevidence.org/photographs/section/1980s/Photo43.htm (opens in new tab/window" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/8/1984",
  "desc" : "At 7:40 a.m. a four foot tall furry being wearing a helmet was seen on the ground in Prato Principato, Compania, Italy carrying a forked tool. A box-shaped UFO took off vertically and flew off rapidly to the southwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6668",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 261; Maurizio Verga, ITACAT" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/8/1987",
  "desc" : "On this night a round UFO ran an Ohio family off the road while driving in Grahams Forge, Virginia. The object made no sound and sped away to the north after buzzing their car. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6669",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Danny B. Gordon, Don't Look Up! The Real Story Behind the Virginia UFO Sightings, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/8/1989",
  "desc" : "A saucer-shaped UFO flew low over Sungai Petani, Malaysia at 8:10 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6670",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ahmad Jamaludin, Centre for Malaysian UFO Studies website" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/8/1989",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. Anna L was returning home with her husband in Primorskiy Kray, Vladivostok, Russia when she fell to the pavement, spinning and yelling in a panic, “Please don’t take me, I do not want to fly away, leave me alone, don’t touch me!” Something invisible appeared to be pulling Anna by her arms and legs. Her husband tried to calm her and yelled at her that there was no one around. He then tried to pick her up, but to his surprise she proved to be unusually heavy and he was unable to lift her. A crowd gathered, including some local militia, and the police thought her husband had struck her and they wanted to arrest him. At this point Anna calmed down and was able to rise from the pavement. In the morning she felt extremely depressed, and her temperature rose to 38.5 degrees. She then described what she believed had happened to her: She remembered walking with her husband when suddenly everything around her became black; the road, posts, and houses had all vanished and a black void surrounded her. From this void emerged three enormous figures over two meters in height, wearing silvery clothing. She next heard a loud rumbling noise, resembling something that would be made by machinery. After approaching her the figures pulled her by her arms, but she resisted and began screaming at them. She finally began to fade out of consciousness, and her body seemed to disappear. She came to the next morning. Doctors could find no bruises nor abrasions on her arms, and strangely her clothing did not have any traces of mud on them eventhough she had fallen in a puddle of water when she claimed to have struggled with the invisible entities. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6671",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, citing Vladivostok Ufological Association" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/8/1989",
  "desc" : "At 11:05 p.m. a witness reported that a huge white light appeared over Londonderry, New Hampshire and changed color into a dull red, and then back to a dull white light. A second witness saw that the light was actually a triangular object with a big rectangular white light on the back end and a red light near the apex. It moved slowly, making a roaring sound, and was definitely larger than a house. Its estimated altitude was 2000 feet and its distance 3000 feet. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6672",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Cheryl L. Powell, MUFON investigation files, case 900719" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/8/1990",
  "desc" : "Russian Air Force jet fighters were scrambled after radar contact was reported with two bogeys over T'Bilisi, Georgia at 11:22 a.m. The pilots saw two cigar-shaped objects, the first one reported to be two kilometers long and the second one 400 meters long. These huge objects moved horizontally at great speed. There was both ground and airborne radar contact with the targets, and the incident lasted 20 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6673",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 72; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 46; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 192" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/8/1992",
  "desc" : "An ovoid UFO silently hovered over a park in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England at 6:45 p.m. for 70 minutes. It shot away faster than any plane, according to the four teenage witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6674",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, February 1993" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/8/1992",
  "desc" : "Late on this evening a woman reportedly had an abduction experience in Gardendale, Alabama. Leah Haley saw a moon-like object outside her house, and when she saw the real moon and recognized the second object wasn't it, a beam of light engulfed her and transported her onboard the craft. She then claims that she found herself in a \"contemporary\" looking room with tables adorned with crystal figurines. She also saw slips of paper underneath the figurines, with the names of other people to be abducted that night. A female, human-looking alien then came into the room. She had short brown hair and wore a red and gold blouse with black trim. She told the witness that her people \"were trapped in a time dimension and needed our help to get out.\" From her limited recollection she recalled that the beings then performed some painful physical exam procedures on her that she was made to forget. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6675",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 2071, citing a published article by Leah Haley" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/8/1993",
  "desc" : "A disc-shaped object with white and green lights on its surface lit part of the sky over Langold, Nottingham, England at 7:15 p.m. Many more witnesses reported seeing orange nocturnal lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6676",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, February 1994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/8/1993",
  "desc" : "A fifty foot in diameter disc-shaped object hovered over the Lake Wylie reservoir in North Carolina at 3:45 a.m. It had more than 30 red lights and flew at treetop level, and made a sound like a jet. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6677",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/8/1994",
  "desc" : "A police officer watched two bright lights descend into a cornfield near O'Fallon, Missouri at 3:40 a.m. He reported having headaches and blurred vision afterwards.  ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6678",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 16556, citing Actaeon Advisor, issue # 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/8/1995",
  "desc" : "A witness in a truck near Luke Air Force Base outside of Phoenix, Arizona sighted a reddish orange ball of light at 7:00 p.m. It flared up, then dimmed, and then rose vertically into the night sky until gone from sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6679",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/8/2003",
  "desc" : "A huge triangular object moved silently through the sky over Ringgold, Virginia at five o'clock in the evening. It was close enough that the witness could clearly discern its three dimensional appearance. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6680",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, October 2003 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/8/2005",
  "desc" : "An oval flying object resembling a shiny mylar balloon but oriented horizontally flew over Buena Park, California at 8:01 p.m. It had a red light underneath the body of the craft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6681",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, report uploaded October 11, 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/8/2006",
  "desc" : "A black disc-shaped object rose from behind a mountain in Anchorage, Alaska at 2:02 p.m. It stopped, then moved off quickly to the south against a heavy wind. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6682",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, report uploaded October 30, 2006" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/9/1951",
  "desc" : "At 1:42 p.m. CAA Chief Aircraft Communicator Roy Messmore at Hulman Municipal Airport in Terre Haute, Indiana sighted a round silver object that flew directly overhead. The UFO reached the horizon in 15 seconds. A very similar incident happened three minutes later near Paris, Illinois (15 miles NW) and was also listed as \"unidentified\" for several years, but was eventually reclassified. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6683",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/9/1954",
  "desc" : "A mailman in Huy, Belgium saw a cigar-shaped object land. Two silhouettes \"approximately human\" in appearance were seen on board the craft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6684",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 154; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 221" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/9/1954",
  "desc" : "Between Montaren and Serviers, France, 1 kilometer from \"Le Mas Blanc,\" Dr. Fabre, Mr. Court, and six others saw an orange oval object oscillating in midair. It was very bright and \"fiery,\" and came very low to the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6685",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 221" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/9/1954",
  "desc" : "Some men out hunting in Dreux, France saw a luminous sphere take off and fly toward the southwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6686",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 153; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 221" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/9/1954",
  "desc" : "In Soubran, France several local people saw a luminous, spherical object land in a pasture. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6687",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 154; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 221" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/9/1954",
  "desc" : "In Rinkerode, Germany Willi Hoge, a projectionist, was returning home in the evening when he saw four occupants of an object that had descended to ground level 70 meters from the road he was on. Seeing a blue light at first, he thought that an airplane had made an emergency landing. However, the cigar-shaped object was wingless. There were four humanoid beings wearing some type of rubber coveralls working under it. They were about 1.2 meters tall and had very large chests and oversized heads; their legs were short and thin. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6688",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 221" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/9/1954",
  "desc" : "Near the Landeforet pool in Beauvain, France Christopher Carette saw a fiery sphere flying at treetop level for ten seconds. It had a protuberance or dome on top, and was estimated to be about 4 meters in diameter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6689",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 152; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 221" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/9/1954",
  "desc" : "As he was driving near Carcassonne, France at around 4 o'clock in the afternoon, Jean Bertrand saw a bright, metallic sphere ahead on the road. The top half appeared to be made of transparent plastic, and two humanlike figures were seen standing inside. It took off quickly, flying away to the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6690",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 145; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, pp. 221-222" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/9/1954",
  "desc" : "Pournoy-la-Chetive, France. Four children--Gilbert Calda, age 12; Daniel Hirsch, age 9; J. P. Hirsch, age 5; and Robert Maguin, age 16--were roller skating at 6:30 p.m. when they saw a luminous object near the cemetery. It was round, about 2.5 meters in diameter, on stood on three legs. A dwarf, about 1.2 meters tall, dressed in black, having a face covered with hair and large eyes, came out and shone a blinding light at them. It said something in an unknown language. The children ran away, but looked back in time to see the object flying away high in the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6691",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 154; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 222" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/9/1954",
  "desc" : "Mr. Barrault was riding his bicycle in Lavoux, France at seven o'clock in the evening when he suddenly saw a figure in a diving suit aiming a double beam of light at him. The individual had boots without heels and very bright eyes. It walked along the road for about a minute and then went into the forest. The witness was paralyzed and was unable to movethroughout the incident. The entity had a hairy chest and two lights, one above the other, in front of him. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6692",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 153; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 222" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/9/1954",
  "desc" : "Briatexte, France. At 8:30 p.m. on Route N631 at \"La Caiffe,\" a technician named J. P. Mitto was returning from Toulouse with two other friends when they saw two small figures cross the road in front of their car and jump into a pasture. The beings were about the height of 11-year-old children and crossed only five meters in front of them. Stopping immediately, the witnesses saw a large convex disc take off vertically. It was about six meters in diameter, orange in color, and was literally \"sucked up\" into the sky. Brown oily spots were found at the landing site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6693",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 222" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/9/1954",
  "desc" : "In Beirut, Lebanon at 10:15 p.m. the local company representative of a German firm, Max Favell, saw an white flying object land. It took off vertically, spinning, and was lost from sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6694",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 222" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1935",
  "desc" : "A military witness at Nobby's Head, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia took a photograph of a circular flying object at ten p.m. The object, seen revolving on its vertical axis, had clearly visible details, and flew off to the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6695",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 35" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1944",
  "desc" : "A bicyclist in Alghult, Sweden reported that on this evening a beam of light from a luminous flying sphere struck the small generator used on the bicycle to generate electricity for the headlamp.  The UFO hovered over some nearby woods, then vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6696",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century, p. 24" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1951",
  "desc" : "A cigar-shaped object crossed the sky ten miles east of St. Croix, Wisconsin. It made a slight dive, levelled off, then accelerated out of sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6697",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Grudge Report #3; January 31, 1952; Project Blue Book, October 1951; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 56" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1952",
  "desc" : "At 6:30 p.m. three enlisted men at Otis AFB, Massachusetts watched a blinking white light swing in the sky like a pendulum for 20 minutes. It then shot straight up. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6698",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2155; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1954",
  "desc" : "On or about this day a large group of farmers in Mahallat, Iran witnessed a luminous hemispherical object land. It emitted multi-colored beams of light. The central part of the object appeared to be metallic. The object suddenly shot straight up and was soon gone from sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6699",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 223, case 224" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1954",
  "desc" : "At around 2:00 a.m. in Epoisses, Côte-d'Or, France between Epoisses and Toutry, Daniel Grapin and Francois Bolatre, two topographers, saw a luminous sphere 3.5 meters in diameter on the ground near Route N454. The encounter lasted four minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6700",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 223, case 225; Jimmy Guieu, Flying Saucers Come from Another World, p. 208; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 141" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1954",
  "desc" : "At 4:30 a.m. a bulging ovoid object was seen on the road ahead in Cavanac, Aude, France. It gave off sparks, and took off vertically making no noise during its ascent. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6701",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 3845" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1954",
  "desc" : "In the predawn hours four beings 1.2 meters tall were busy underneath a blue cigar-shaped object hovering 1.5 meters over a field in Rinckerode, Lower Saxony, Germany. The witness was a 42-year-old man named Hogl. They had thin legs, broad chests, large heads, and they wore rubber suits.They re-entered the craft via a ladder; the object then tilted to one side, and shot up and away at an angle. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6702",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 47" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1954",
  "desc" : "At 6:15 a.m. Michel Toutain was bicycling in Marville-Moutier-Brule, Eure-et-Loir department, France when he saw a red ball of light above which was a greenish circular disc resembling the cover of a washbasin, four meters in diameter. Inside the green dome he could see that there were four dark silhouettes. He was unable to advance towards the object, stopped by some unseen force. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6703",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 141, citing La Gazette Francaise, October 16, 1954" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1954",
  "desc" : "At 6:30 a.m. Roger Thiriet, a jailer in the Ecouvres detention center, was riding his motorcycle in Charmes-la-Cote, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France when he suddenly saw an aluminum-colored object shaped like a plate, with a dome on top and two portholes. It was about two meters in diameter and one meter high. It took off immediately. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6704",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "France Soir, October 21, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 223, case 227" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1954",
  "desc" : "At 2:02 p.m. a math professor, Mr. Bon, observed a silvery disc about seven meters in diameter rise silently from a point about 250 meters to the side of the road in St-Germain-de-Livet, Calvados, France. Spinning, it dove towards the ground from an altitude of about 800 meters, then flew off horizontally at a dizzying speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6705",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "France Soir, October 14, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 223, case 228" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1954",
  "desc" : "In the evening at Saillat-sur-Vienne, Haute-Vienne, France Mssr. Roger Gayout and his family saw a very bright object come very close to the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6706",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 162; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 223-224, case 229" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1954",
  "desc" : "Quarouble, Nord, France. At 11:30 p.m. a second landing with occupants was witnessed here by Marius Dewilde and his four-year-old son. A disc, six meters in diameter and about one meter tall, landed again on the railroad tracks. Seven little men about one meter tall emerged from the craft and spoke in an unknown language. The craft then vanished without noise or smoke. Traces larger than the first, and symmetrical, were observed. Dewilde refused to report the case to the authorities. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6707",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 158; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 223, case 226" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1956",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. three balls of light flew from north to south over Villamassargia, Sardegna, Italy and then circled an arriving 60 foot long cigar-shaped object. There were several witnesses, and the sighting lasted 30 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6708",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1963, p. 3; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, p. 82; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 45" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1957",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 in the afternoon Mrs. Edward Yeager, who lived in a trailer on the Duanesburg Church Road in Schenectady, New York near Mariaville, saw a circular UFO go down behind a hill. Two minutes later it flew up again and was very bright. The next day she was feeding her animals and the animals ran away when the same or a similar object came down within two meters of the ground. Two dark little men came out of the craft and went into the woods. The object remained there for two minutes, then left. A search for the occupants proved futile. A bus driver was reported to have seen two craft land in a nearby field at the same hour. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6709",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 259, case 409; Flying Saucer Review, May 1958 & FSR, July-August 1970, p. 35; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0432" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1957",
  "desc" : "Quebracoco, Brazil. On this night a naval officer, Miguel Espanhol and another man, were driving to Ceres, Goias State, Brazil when they saw a bright object that illuminated the countryside and flew down to ground level as their truck stalled. It was oval or saucer-shaped, over 150 meters in diameter and 40 meters deep, with a dome supporting a long \"aerial\" with a red light on top. The bright light went off and the witnesses saw seven childlike beings, with long hair and luminous suits, who looked down at them for about three minutes. The craft flew south and released a smaller disc, which flew north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6710",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 259; O Cruzeiro, May 17, 1958; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 110" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1962",
  "desc" : "Several one meter wide balls of light maneuvered around houses in Jacksonville, Florida at around eight o'clock in the evening. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6711",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, November 1962, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1962",
  "desc" : "A blue flash in the woods caused a tractor to stop running in Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires province, Argentina at 8:00 p.m. A nocturnal light lifted off from the ground and headed out to sea, leaving behind ground marks. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6712",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, December 1972, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1966",
  "desc" : "At 5:20 p.m. six witnesses in Newton, Illinois saw a metallic oval-shaped object or football with a tail appendage come down over some power lines. It made a whirling sound, and shot away at terrific speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6713",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 238; UNICAT, case 252; George Kocher, UFO's: What to Do? (Rand Corporation document), p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1966",
  "desc" : "A person contacted the National UFO Reporting Center in Seattle to report that at around 9:00 p.m. in Live Oak, Florida a saucer-shaped object zapped energy from some powerlines while at the same time his pregnant mother received a mental message from the UFO not to pass on any information about the close encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6714",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, report uploaded May 11, 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1966",
  "desc" : "At 9:15 p.m. police officers Pastro and Thompson at Wanaque Reservoir in Wanaque, New Jersey observed a spherical object with a protrusion on one side emitting an extremely bright, blinding light that lit up the surrounding terrain. The UFO first hovered, and then moved around erratically at high speeds, making sharp turns and leaving a misty trail in its wake when it moved. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6715",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, Oct.-Nov. 1966, p. 6; NICAP case files, report by John Pagano; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Here and Now, p. 20" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1966",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. an Air Force pilot and his wife driving on Interstate 93 in Medford, Massachusetts sighted a wheel and spoke like object in the sky. It had slow moving lights, like mirrors on a carousel with dark gaps in between. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6716",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 341, investigation report dated November 23, 1966" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1967",
  "desc" : "At 12:45 a.m. Norman Cory was driving home in Lakewood, Colorado when he was flagged down by a tall man with a forked goatee. The man was well over six feet tall, and was wearing a jacket with four gold bars on each shoulder. The man talked to the witness without moving his lips, presumably by telepathy. He asked where the North Star was, and what the date was; in response to the answer, he replied, \"In your primitive time.\" He then asked what the witness had in his mouth, and on being told it was a cigarette, he replied, \"Oh, one of your primitive vices.\" He next asked about the car and said, \"Oh, your primitive mode of transportation.\" When the witness asked him who he was and where he was from, the man replied, \"I cannot tell you now, but my colleagues and I will return.\" Then the man walked about four feet away from the roadside and vanished. Norman then heard a noise and looked up and saw hovering overhead a red object the size of a football field. With a whining noise it went straight up, and then was joined by two more objects, and all three shot away at a tremendous speed.  ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6717",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-102 (A0880), citing R. Leo Sprinkle; Lt. Col. A. P. Webb, Project Blue Book" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1967",
  "desc" : "A forest fire lookout in Bow River Provincial Forest, Alberta, Canada saw an oval object with a rim around the circumference and a green light on top. The light rotated, and when the object moved it turned white. The object hovered, then moved off and disappeared emitting four blue flames as it departed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6718",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "London (ON) Evening Free Press, October 16, 1967, copy in NICAP files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1967",
  "desc" : "At 7:00 p.m. three witnesses in Leek, Staffordshire, England using 7 x 50 binoculars saw a yellowish oval with a small dome on top, with a yellow light rotating around the dome. The object also had one red and two green body lights that pulsated on and off. As the lights pulsated, the color of the object changed from yellow to white. At 7:30 p.m. a similar object shot across the sky, stopped and joined the first object (rendezvous). Both objects were gradually obscured by clouds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6719",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Roger Stanway & Anthony Pace, UFOs Unidentified Undeniable, p. 16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1967",
  "desc" : "A cigar-shaped object was seen in the northwestern sky over Dublin, Ireland by several witnesses in the evening. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6720",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dermot Butler, Conspiracy of Silence: UFOs in Ireland, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1970",
  "desc" : "Two brightly lit, 25 foot in diameter disc-shaped objects buzzed a car in Bay City, Michigan at 2:15 a.m. The car radio developed interference as they flew over. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6721",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, September-October 1970, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1972",
  "desc" : "Around noon two witnesses in Bontrask, Norrbotten, Sweden saw six tiny delta-shaped objects that flew 7 kilometers in 30 seconds. Three flew off to the north, and three flew off to the northwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6722",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "GICOFF Sweden, November 1972, p. 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1973",
  "desc" : "On this evening, during a time period that was during the height of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, two police officers in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia watched a big fireball making maneuvers and turns in the sky for a few minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6723",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Awareness, January 1974, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1973",
  "desc" : "At 3:00 a.m. two oddly shaped objects flew over a chemical plant in Yazoo City, Mississippi causing a power outage. At 6:00 p.m. in Magnolia, Mississippi two witnesses, one named Brumfield, saw a round, shiny, metallic object on or near the ground. Something rectangular about the size of a small person emerged, perhaps a robot, and later re-entered, and the object took off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6724",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Clarion (MS) Ledger, October 18, 1973; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, p. 341" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1973",
  "desc" : "Fifteen objects with colored lights buzzed rooftops in New Lebanon, Ohio at 7:30 p.m. By 8:00 p.m. there had been at least 15 different sightings of UFOs \"covered with red, green and blue lights\" reported in southwestern Ohio, zooming about at tree-top level. Most sightings occurred between Dayton and Cincinnati, and were all classified as \"unofficial\" reports by Wright-Patterson Air Force Base officials. None were detected on radar, apparently because they were flying too low. A New Lebanon Township, Ohio police officer reported his sighting shortly after 8 p.m. \"He didn't want to say he saw it, but he said it,\" Montgomery County Sheriff's deputy Michael Sullivan reported. \"The officer said it was oblong and covered with lights. It appeared stationary in the sky about treetop level for several minutes until he tried to shine his cruiser spot light on it,\" Sullivan said. \"It then zoomed toward him and then shot straight up in the air... after he turned out his light...and disappeared.\" Sullivan said the UFO sightings lasted from a fleeting moment to twelve minutes. \"They would be behind the trees and come up and fly away...as if you startled it or something,\" he said. A spokesman at Wright-Patterson AFB said there would be no attempt to investigate the sightings unless there was an \"imminent danger.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6725",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UPI, Columbus Dispatch, October 11, 1973; Cincinnati Post, October 12, 1973; NICAP UFO Investigator, November 1973, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1973",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. in Avery Estates, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana a luminous red UFO passed overhead, causing a CB radio to stop working. It flew fast and straight to the southeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6726",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ralph Blum, Beyond Earth: Man's Contact with UFOs, p. 128" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1974",
  "desc" : "Beginning at 10:45 p.m. a luminous triangular or delta-shaped object followed a plane flying 65 kilometers northwest of Gander, Newfoundland, Canada for 25 minutes; there was radar confirmation. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6727",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 39; Donald Ledger, Maritime UFO Files, p. 102" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1975",
  "desc" : "On highway D45 east of Pierreclos, Saone-et-Loire department, France at ten p.m. a car's lights and engine died when a fuzzy looking 100 meter wide disc-shaped object hovered nearby, then rose vertically, and flew off to the southeast slowly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6728",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1976" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1982",
  "desc" : "Four hat-shaped saucer-shaped objects with flashing lights flew low and fast over San Carlos Sija, Guam at around 6 a.m. A radio died during the encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6729",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14452" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1985",
  "desc" : "A small crescent-shaped object with rounded, swept back or drooping wings flew silently over a farm in Statesville, North Carolina at 7:45 p.m. It had a convex window in the bottom center of the craft and was dark with a reddish glow. The sighting was made by a 37-year-old man, and lasted 30 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6730",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON investigation case files, case # 930412J, investigator Franklin B. Reams" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1985",
  "desc" : "There were at least 60 unidentified radar returns from flying objects without transponders on this evening over Tucson, Arizona. At one point a police helicopter engaged in a pursuit of at least one nocturnal light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6731",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, case 1032" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1988",
  "desc" : "A bus driver and seven passengers in Mundrabilla, Western Australia said that several bright nocturnal lights paced their bus for 10 minutes at 12:10 a.m. Their report was ridiculed by the news media. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6732",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 163" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1988",
  "desc" : "In Akirkeby, Denmark a tractor's headlights flickered when a triangle of light passed overhead at around 6:00 p.m. The tractor functioned normally after the object had gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6733",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Scandinavian UFO Information Newsletter, issue 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1989",
  "desc" : "A pilot flying between Clarksdale and Memphis, Tennessee at 5:30 p.m. sighted a round, metallic object moving at 800-900 mph. He estimated the object was 3,000 feet off of his left wing. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6734",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1991, p. 231; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 46" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1990",
  "desc" : "Five white discs flew over a racetrack in Paris, France at the speed of aircraft at 4:30 p.m., heading toward the southeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6735",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 304" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1990",
  "desc" : "Starting at 10:15 p.m. in Skibo, Minnesota at least four ground observers, including two police, saw 3-5 glowing lights in a forested area of northern Minnesota for more than an hour. Duluth Air Traffic Control radar picked up seven unidentified targets and a commercial pilot also corroborated the sighting of UFOs that alternately hovered and darted around. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6736",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON investigation case files, case # 901206, investigator Richard C. Bauerlein; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, p. 341" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1992",
  "desc" : "In Greenville, Virginia there was a close encounter by three witnesses--one independent of the other two--with a huge oval or cigar-shaped object at 7:00 p.m. flying several hundred feet above the ground. It was 150-200 feet in length and had three rectangular 20 foot long bright pink lights along the side. There was also another circular object that was reddish-pink in the center with rings of rainbow colors around its center. The circular or disc-shaped object with the rings of light was over the mountains; it dropped to a low altitude, and a jet roar was heard for four minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6737",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON investigation case files, case # 930802E, investigator Mark Blashak; Jerold R. Johnson, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1993, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1992",
  "desc" : "A ring of lights divided into two sections over the M56 highway in Streton, Cheshire, England at 11:00 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6738",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, January 1993" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1994",
  "desc" : "A delta-shaped object hovered over a cornfield in Traverse City, Michigan at 8:05 p.m. It had searchlights that shone down on the ground. The object abruptly shot away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6739",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Curt Sutherly, UFO Mysteries: A Reporter Seeks the Truth, p. 194" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1995",
  "desc" : "A large bright blue light buzzed a car on Interstate 43 southwest of Milwaukee, Wisconsin at 7:45 p.m., then dropped, turned, and crossed the highway. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6740",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1996",
  "desc" : "At 12:10 in the afternoon Brian Norton sighted a white cigar-shaped object that left no vapor trail and flew silently over Del Norte, Colorado. At 11:30 p.m. healing arts students in Crestone, Colorado first sighted a rapidly zigagging light high in the sky headed from west to east. This was followed by a group of 10-12 blinking lights on the western horizon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6741",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Christopher O'Brien, Enter the Valley, p. 302; Christopher O'Brien case files, case 449" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1997",
  "desc" : "Muhand Faras, age 16, was walking home from school in Tulkarem, Israel on this late afternoon when he came upon a strange man-sized figure, dark green in color, with a strange growth on its face. The figure had two small hands with three fingers on each hand and long fingernails. The being made a threatening gesture towards Muhand, screamed something in an unintelligible language, and then flew up into the sky and vanished. At sunset a local engineer, Raid A'anam, saw a black creature in the sky. He told police investigators that he saw the outline of the figure, and that it was human looking with two arms and two legs. It flew fast over the area, quickly disappearing from sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6742",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, cases # 2732 & # 3774, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup website & Israeli UFO Research" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/1998",
  "desc" : "At 11:51 a.m. witnesses observed a 75-80 foot silver domed disc hovering approximately 75 feet over a bookstore in London, Ontario, Canada. The object then turned upside-down for 2-3 seconds, then righted itself. It next shot straight up to an altitude of 1/2 to 3/4 of a mile and resumed hovering until it blinked out after five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6743",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Brian Vike, HBCCUFO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/10/2007",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m an oval-shaped object hovered and shot through the sky with very bright lights over Jensen Beach, Martin County, Florida for two minutes, and then vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6744",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Oct. 2007 webpage, report uploaded November 28, 2007" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/1951",
  "desc" : "In Minneapolis, Minnesota at 6:30 a.m. General Mills balloon researchers, including aeronautical engineer J. J. Kaliszewski and aerologist C. B. Moore, pilot Dick Reilly in the air, and Doug Smith on the ground sighted a UFO. The flight crew saw the first object, a brightly glowing UFO with a dark underside and a halo around it. The object arrived high and fast, then slowed and made slow climbing circles for about two minutes, and finally sped away to the east. Soon they saw a second UFO, confirmed by ground observers using a theodolite, which sped across the sky. The total time for the sighting of the first object was five minutes, and the second sighting lasted a few seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6745",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Grudge Report #1, November 11, 1951; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 56; UNICAT, case # 362; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case 12; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/1954",
  "desc" : "Farmers in Doncourt-Village, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France were awakened by a whistling sound and saw a flat object land near the woods. It soon rose up vertically very fast, and flew away. The ground was found calcified. Soil samples were taken by the police for analysis. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6746",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Figaro, October 13, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 224, case # 230" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/1954",
  "desc" : "Two men riding motorcycles near Acquigny, Eure, France saw a bell-shaped craft about 2.5 meters tall while it hovered just a meter above the Evreux-Louviers railroad line. The lower part was ringlike, and the object gave off reddish and greenish sparks. A burst of orange light was seen as it jumped about 10 meters high, then it remained motionless for about one hour. During this time a third witness joined the first two. The UFO ultimately brightened and flew away toward the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6747",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 162; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 224, case # 231" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/1954",
  "desc" : "In Fonfrede, near Chambon Feugerolles, Loire, France. Baptiste Jourdy, who was making the daily collection of milk at 4:15 a.m., was suddenly stopped as the engine and headlights of his truck died. He got out and saw a light above him. After it crossed the road, the headlights came on again and he was able to restart his truck. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6748",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 157; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 224, case # 232" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/1954",
  "desc" : "At 4:20 a.m. in Lacanche, Côte-d'or, France Mr. Labonde was driving at the intersection of D14 and D104 when he was followed by a sort of luminous globe surrounded with a reddish glow, about two meters in size. It stayed within 25 meters of his car. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6749",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 158; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 224, case # 233" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/1954",
  "desc" : "At 4:30 a.m. in Sassier, near La Carie, Nievre, France two men, Messrs. Gallois and Vigneron, were driving from Clamecy to Corbigny when felt an \"electric shock\" at the same time their car headlights died. They then saw a craft in a pasture 50 meters away. It was cylindrical and fairly thick in shape. Three dwarf humanoids were standing close by. No light was seen, except a small, reddish point of light. Both witnesses were paralyzeduntil the craft left. A third witness, Mr. Chaumeau, had seen a lighted object fly over the woods at La Carie, France. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6750",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 158; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 224-225, case # 234; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case 52" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/1954",
  "desc" : "Ms. Anny Pracht, her sister Roselyne, and two other witnesses in Heimersdorf, Haut-Rhin, France saw a luminous object on the ground. It became fiery red in color and flew away when they came near. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6751",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 162; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 225, case # 235" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/1954",
  "desc" : "In Bauquay, Calvados, France a large red object was seen flying very fast at treetop level while cattle panicked. There were three witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6752",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 159; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 225, case # 236" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/1954",
  "desc" : "In Lavarande, Algeria a large disc flew very low over a road and scared two truck drivers, Messrs. Gaston Breau and Amoura, who stopped their gasoline truck and ran away into some fields while the object flew on toward Medea in silence. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6753",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 225; France Soir, October 17, 1954" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/1954",
  "desc" : "At 6:40 p.m. horses panicked and ran when a bluish yellow saucer approached them to within 20 meters in Bremondans, Doubs, France. A figure was seen for two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6754",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 3872, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 196" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/1954",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. three men driving near Taupignac, Charente-Maritime, France got out of their car to observe an intense red sphere in the sky. Then they discovered a round disc-shaped machine with a dome, six meters in diameter, giving off a yellow-red light, only 200 meters away from them at 10 meters altitude. It was motionless and silent. It suddenly moved horizontally for a short distance and landed behind a woods. Two witnesses went closer and saw four dwarfs, one meter tall, who seemed busy with the machine. The creatures rushed inside when the witnesses arrived within 15 m. The witnesses was blinded by a sudden burst of light blue, then orange, then red, and the object took off vertically at fantastic speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6755",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 225, case # 238; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 468" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/1954",
  "desc" : "At 9:50 p.m. four persons in Birac, Charente, France--among them Julia Juste, Maria Barbeau, and Marion Le Tanneur, of Jarnac--saw two luminous spheres flying in the same direction. Having stopped and maneuvered in midair, the larger one took on a deep red color, turned to an intense white light with a red aura, and both landed. Witnesses did not wait around to investigate further. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6756",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 160; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 225-226, case # 239; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/1954",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. in Montbazens, Herault, France a round craft, four meters in diameter, landed in a pasture. It gave off a powerful red light and took off with extreme acceleration when witnesses (garage owner Mr. Carriere and son; farmer Mr. Gardelle, shoemaker Mr. Ginestre, and two others) came close to it. Mr. Gardelle felt an electric shock. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6757",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 226, case # 240" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/1954",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. a luminous, mushroom-shaped saucer made fast, silent maneuvers over La Roche-sur-Yon, Vendee, France. A Mrs. Drouillard was the single witness. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6758",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1954: October, p. 48" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/1955",
  "desc" : "At four o'clock in the afternoon in Point Lookout, Maryland witnesses B. Hale and A. Ostrom sighted a round UFO that looked white in the daylight and turned red with sparks toward the end of their two and a half hour long sighting. It made a deep roaring sound, unlike any known aircraft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6759",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 3810; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/1957",
  "desc" : "At around 8:00 p.m. two witnesses in a car being driven in Roulon, France saw something they described as \"a dark, transparent ball\" about 50 cm in diameter rising from the side of the road. It had appendages trailing behind. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6760",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia; A Century of Landings, p. 260, case # 411" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/1957",
  "desc" : "At 10:20 p.m. in Derby, England nocturnal lights were seen maneuvering in front of the new Sputnik satellite. A silent disc-shaped object was seen at Alvaston which went away, but soon returned. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6761",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/1964",
  "desc" : "D. Hanson, an engineer, and two others observed a domed disc-shaped object being followed by jet fighters in Brockton, Massachusetts at four o'clock in the afternoon. The UFO shot straight up and was gone from sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6762",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ray Folwer, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 331" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/1966",
  "desc" : "A glowing round object with a dome like up the waters of Wanaque Reservoir, New Jersey at 9:15 p.m. It hovered 250 feet over the water at a distance of 250 feet, giving off a blinding white light. It made a square turn maneuver. The sighting by Police Sgt. Thompson lasted for three minutes. The witnesses noted a suction effect upon the water, and heavy mist as the object departed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6763",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dwight Connelly, Skylook, May 1976, p. 14; John A. Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 177; UNICAT, case 698, citing Berthold E. Schwarz" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/1967",
  "desc" : "At 7:50 p.m. in Aldersyde, Alberta, Canada an oval-shaped UFO with a dome circled a car. The driver, Mrs. N. Tibbs, felt a sensation of cold, and the car engine and lights died. The engine restarted by itself when the object departed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6764",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP case investigation files; Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science, Winter 1968, p. 7; APRO Bulletin, September-October 1967, p. 11; Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p. 33; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 37; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 251" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/1967",
  "desc" : "There were several UFO sightings in Uintah County, Utah on this night. In one close encounter, Mr. Hackford was driving up a road in Farm Creek, Utah when a UFO hovered over his vehicle for 15 seconds. He suffered physiological effects as a result. At the phosphate plant north of Vernal, Utah Mr. Rasmussen saw a light that hoveredin the sky, then shot straight up vertically and was gone. His daughter also saw it on her way home. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6765",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Frank B. Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, p. A53" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/1967",
  "desc" : "An object with a row of six red lights, 55-60 feet long and at an altitude of 500-600 feet was watched for ten minutes at around 10:00 p.m. in Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada. The lights disappeared, but reappeared as 4 lights in a linear formation at a 45 degree angle in the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6766",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science, Autumn 1967, p. 11, citing the Toronto Star" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/1969",
  "desc" : "At 4:30 a.m. a luminous ball of light paced a car driving between Saintes and Royan, Charente-Maritime, France by flying in front of the vehicle and swaying to the left and right four times. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6767",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 106" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/1969",
  "desc" : "At 6:15 a.m. a dark 12 meter long ovoid object with a lit edge did a loop in the sky and then landed in a pasture in Beauvais, Oise, France, but the cows did not seem to react to its presence. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6768",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jean-Louis Becquereau, Phenomenes Spatiaux, March 1970, p. 27" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/1969",
  "desc" : "Two objects hovered just twelve feet above the ground in the pre-dawn sky in Baralaba, Queensland, Australia, each flashing red and yellow lights. Both objects then rose and were joined by a third larger UFO. This new object was turtle shaped, and had \"surface craters\" on it, and reflected light. It made a high frequency buzzing sound like mosquitos. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6769",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, September-October 1969, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/1971",
  "desc" : "Itaperuna, Brazil - At three o'clock in the morning Paula Caetano Silveira awoke from sleep abruptly, as if by \"a mental shock.\" From his bed he saw a light in the garden, so he went to his kitchen where he could get a better view. Through the window grating he saw the same object that had stopped him on September 22nd. It was hovering a half meter from the ground only three meters from his house. Paulo Caetano saw several small figures beside the craft, who pointed a small box-like implement in his direction. The witness and the small figures remained eyeing each other, with no movement, for 10 minutes. At some point Paulo Caetano's head began to ache. The craft and its occupants left, but the witness was so upset he was unable to return to sleep. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6770",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Walter Buhler, UFO Encounters: FSR Special Edition No. 5, p. 19; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-28, citing Walter Buhler" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/1971",
  "desc" : "At 4:30 a.m. two police in Walthamstow, England--Parker and Giles--saw a long cigar-shaped object flashing as it flew through the sky. It gave off a blinding white light, and went out of sight over some rooftops in six seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6771",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, January 1972, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/1973",
  "desc" : "There were several UFO reports throughout the United States on this day, one in Colorado and the rest in the Midwest and Gulf States.  There are 27 reports in the UFOCAT database for this day, including ten reports of nocturnal lights and two close encounters from Ohio alone.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6772",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/1973",
  "desc" : "At dawn around fifty motorists pulled off the expressway in Montgomery County, Ohio to watch two plate-like objects flying around. The Ohio State Highway Patrol was dispatched to the scene. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6773",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Chronology 1973, www.nicap.org" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/1973",
  "desc" : "In Connersville, Indiana at 4:40 p.m. a disc-shaped UFO with a segmented compartment on the bottom hovered over trees near a house. It was silver colored with a dome, and had three green doors on the bottom. It shot off after several seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6774",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, May-June 1976, p. 1; Kevin D. Randle, The October Scenario, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/1973",
  "desc" : "Nearly three hours after the first close encounter report from Connersville, Indiana 46 people watched an oval-shaped UFO with a pale yellow light on top, and a segmented compartment on the bottom, as it flew over a U.S. government test range and restricted air space. It took off, but was seen 30 minutes later to the northeast.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6775",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, May-June 1976, p. 1; Kevin D. Randle, The October Scenario, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/1973",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. a domed disc-shaped object hovered low and maneuvered between some trees in Laurel, Indiana for three minutes. It made a sound like a swarm of bees. The object jiggled up and down and sideways, and looked like two saucers joined together with a cabin on top. The bottom of the craft was trisected, with a circle in each of these sections. A truck driver blew his air horn and the craft took off over trees at a fantastic speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6776",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald Worley, Official UFO, January 1976, p. 16; Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 46, citing Donald Worley; APRO Bulletin, May-June 1976, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/1973",
  "desc" : "Two men, Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker, were doing some evening fishing from an old pier in an abandoned shipyard on the Pascagoula River in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Shortly after nightfall, at around 8:30 p.m., Charley Hickson, looking around to bait his hook, saw a domed, football-shaped object descend until it hovered just off the ground about 30 feet away from them. The craft had two windows and two blue lights, and made a buzzing sound. When the object landed an unseen door opened to reveal a brilliantly lit interior. Three beings came out and floated toward the witnesses. These beings were about five feet tall. Their skin was gray and rough like elephant skin that made them look like mummies. No clothes were apparent. In the center of their faces was something about two inches long that came out to a point and resembled a nose. They had a slit for a mouth, which never opened, if they had eyes they couldn't be seen because the area above the nose was too wrinkled. They had no neck and their ears were pointed and retractable. Their arms were unusually long, and their hands were like mittens with a thumb attached. Their legs never moved but stayed together like a pedestal. Their feet were elephant-like.<br/><br/> When two of the beings grabbed Hickson by his arms he felt a pain in his left shoulder. This immobilized him and allowed his captors to lift him and somehow float him over to the craft. The third being seized Parker, who immediately went limp. Once inside Hickson was nearly blinded by the light but was unable to close his eyelids. He saw no furniture, only a screen-like device on the wall. He hung suspended in the air at a 45-degree angle while an eyelike device appeared out of the wall in front of his face and circled around him. The beings that held Hickson moved in a stiff, mechanical way but did their work with speed and efficiency. One made a buzzing sound. The beings then disappeared for some time. When they returned, they grasped Hickson again and floated him through the opening, which had reappeared. They left him back at the place where they had found him. His legs collapsed when he touched the ground. Parker stood by with a terrified look on his face. Meanwhile, the buzzing sound and blue light resumed, and the craft rose straight up and disappeared almost instantly. Hickson \"heard\" a message in his mind that the beings were peaceful. Hickson subsequently reported having three more close encounter incidents, one of which apparently involved the same beings. Two involved telepathic communication only and the transfer of information that has not been disclosed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6777",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher: HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-31; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of the Humanoids" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/1973",
  "desc" : "On the same afternoon as the Hickson and Parker abduction in Pascagoula, Mississippi, a three-year-old boy told his mother that he had been playing with \"some old monster\" in the backyard. He said the monster was gray with wrinkled skin and pointed ears. This occurred in Tanner Williams, Alabama not far from Pascagoula. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6778",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher: HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-30; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of the Humanoids" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/1973",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. the Cline family of Berea, Tennessee awoke to the sound of dogs barking. Looking out, they saw an object that rose from the ground above some trees. Something humanoid with an oversized head was next seen crossing the road. Landing gear imprints were found at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6779",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Pulaski (TN) Citizen, October 24, 1973; W. A Darbro & Stanley L. Ingram, Unidentified Flying Objects Over the Tennessee, p. 54; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of the Humanoids, case 73-18; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 342" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/1973",
  "desc" : "At just before 11:00 p.m. a mass of lights approached Boulder, Colorado from high overhead, flying at a steady speed. Strung out of the bottom were a series of lights divided into thirds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6780",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, May-June 1976, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/1974",
  "desc" : "A metallic domed disc-shaped object came to within a quarter of a mile of a pickup truck being driven by an astronomer in Cloudcroft, New Mexico at 4:10 p.m. The engine of the truck stalled but the tape deck continued operating. The saucer curved up into the sky over the next 8-10 seconds, after which the engine functioned normally again. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6781",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Sturrock, Report on a Survey of the Membership of the American Astronomical Society Concerning the UFO Problem, p. 130" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/1974",
  "desc" : "In Farmington, West Virginia a witness with binoculars watched a dark object with four red lights around the rim at 8:30 p.m., presumed to be disc shaped. The object moved slowly at treetop level, and appeared to be searching the woods. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6782",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Teets, West Virginia UFOs: Close Encounters in the Mountain State, p. 94" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/1977",
  "desc" : "Starting at around six o'clock in the evening a bright pulsating light flew alonside a Soviet airliner for 24 minutes as it flew over Ryazan, Russia. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6783",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 41" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/1983",
  "desc" : "An egg-shaped UFO with a one blunt end and one round end and two large spotlights hovered low over a roadway four miles south of Cochrane, Ontario at 6:30 a.m. It made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6784",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Doris Graziano, APRO Bulletin, May 1984, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/1989",
  "desc" : "A figure with two eyes and a broad mouth stood inside a glowing ovoid UFO wth two landing gear in Voronezh, Russia. A horizontal \"H\" symbol or insignia was seen on the craft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6785",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 13; John Wallace Spencer, World Atlas of UFOs, p. 140" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/1989",
  "desc" : "On this evening 16-year-old Hatawa Barinova was returning home on her moped from trade school in Mayskiy, Kabardino-Balkariya Republic, North Caucasus, Russia. Suddenly she heard in her head a low pitched, mechanical, monotone voice that clearly said, “Sit down quietly!” She looked up and saw a thin transparent “grid”, resembling polyethylene, falling over her. Beams of light emanated from each polygon. The grid-like net began to control the moped, covering the witness from all sides. She felt a compression in her head and her breathing became shallow, and soon both she and her moped began to rise in the air. She started screaming for her mother, but her voice sounded like an echo inside a “barrel.” When she tried to jump from the moped she momentarily grasped the luminous grid and received a mild electrical discharge. Through the grid she saw her aunt Galya approaching and yelling something; she could see her lips moving but heard nothing. Her aunt, along with her aunt's husband, managed to grab the terrified girl and pull her away to safety as the grid rose upwards and disappeared. She was taken home where she was treated for burns to her hands and fingers. Around the same time other locals had spotted a large luminous sphere hovering above approximately the same location. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6786",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 36; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, citing UFOZONE Russia" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/1990",
  "desc" : "In Bristol, England three witnesses watched a delta-shaped object surrounded by an orange glow at 8:00 p.m. At 10:00 p.m. two disc-shaped objects were seen over highway A835 in Saddleworth Moor, England. The object shone a spotlight into one of the cars of the witnesses. There were three separate reports of the disc. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6787",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 133" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/1990",
  "desc" : "An object with hazy edges zig-zagged over a residential area in Ferin, Nord, France. It was invisible between jumps. It flew in a trajectory from northwest to south-southeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6788",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 304" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/1994",
  "desc" : "Dogs alerted witnesses to the presence in the sky of three white lights in a row between Custer and Hot Springs, South Dakota, which shift to a triangle configuration, then back to a row again before lost from sight. Each light strobed in sequence. The configuration was about 600 feet across, at an estimated altitude of 1,000 feet and a speed of 100 mph. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6789",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON investigation files, case 941201S, field investigator Davina M. Ryszka; MUFON UFO Journal, January 1995, p. 16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/1995",
  "desc" : "A large orange ovoid object moved fast in the sky over Huntington, West Virginia at 8:00 p.m. It hovered, then moved erratically. There were two witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6790",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/2000",
  "desc" : "At 8:55 p.m. a couple stopped their car at Jones Beach, New York to watch two large diamond-shaped objects approach from the ocean and land on the beach. A red beam of light engulfed the car, and they couldn't start it or open the doors. When the light changes to blue, the car is buffeted around. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6791",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), February 2001, p. 29" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/2006",
  "desc" : "A man and his son saw several dull white objects flying in a triangular formation over Aldergrove, British Columbia, Canada at 8:30 p.m., travelling fast at high altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6792",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2006 Canadian UFO Survey, case 659" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/11/2006",
  "desc" : "Two triangular objects, lit up by three main lights and other lights in between, flew over Pampa, Texas at 11:00 p.m. heading east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6793",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seatte, October 2006 webpage, report uploaded October 20, 2006" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/12/1954",
  "desc" : "Mamora Forest, Morocco - A French engineer driving to Port Lyautey in the afternoon saw a dwarf about 1.2 meters in height enter an object which soon took off. The little man was wearing silver coveralls. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6794",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 226" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/12/1954",
  "desc" : "A farmer, Mr. Beuc, saw a small pilot enter an object in Orchamps, France. It glided over the road for 30 meters and then rose rapidly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6795",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 167; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 226" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/12/1954",
  "desc" : "A railroad employee, Mr. Laugere, saw a torpedo-shaped, metallic craft on the ground near a gas/oil tank in Montlucon, France. An hairy humanoid was standing nearby, emitting sounds that were not understood. The witness went to get his friends, but the thing had disappeared in the meantime. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6796",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 167; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 226" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/12/1954",
  "desc" : "Jan Marty, age 42, a mechanic, was in his shop in Leguevin, France when he saw a luminous disc land. It was about 6.5 meters in diameter and 2.5 meters thick. He tried to approach it, but the craft rose vertically and silently at an amazing speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6797",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 226" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/12/1954",
  "desc" : "Ste.-Marie d'Herblay, France. Gilbert Lelay, age 13, saw a phosphorescent cigar-shaped UFO in a pasture and a man standing near it, wearing a gray suit, boots, and a gray hat. He held a flashing sphere and told Gilbert in French not to touch it. He went back inside the craft, which flew in loops and then vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6798",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 226" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/12/1954",
  "desc" : "Dompierre-les-Tilleuls, France - Mr. Vielle, a businessman, was on Route N471 between Frasnes and Pontarlier when he saw a circular flying craft that gave off a yellowish and a purple light. Losing altitude, the craft came very close to the ground, changed its course to southwest, and then rose again in the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6799",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 167; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 227" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/12/1954",
  "desc" : "Roger Ramond, a night watchman, saw a great light and noticed an oval object land 300 meters away in Vielmur, France. It looked like a fiery orange ball, illuminated the vineyard for nearly 3 hours, then assumed a vertical position, rose slowly, hovered 30 meters above the ground for a few seconds, and took off at fantastic speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6800",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 168; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 227" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/12/1963",
  "desc" : "At 3:30 a.m. Sr. E. Douglas, while driving a truck through a violent rainstorm, had to stop when he encountered a large, blinding object, 35 meters high, from which three giants, three meters tall emerged. They wore luminous clothes and strange helmets. Douglas took out a gun and fired at them, as a red beam burned him. He ran away and found shelter in Monte Maiz, Argentina. He suffered burns similar to strong ultraviolet exposure. Very large footprints were found at the site. \"A truck driver was travelling along a lonely road at night during a violent storm when he was suddenly blinded by a vivid white light which enveloped his vehicle. Simultaneously, he felt a burn on his face. He then braked but the vehicle skidded, left the road and became bogged down in the mud. The driver found himself in the presence of three strange beings with the gait of robots. Nearby he saw an oval-shaped object with portholes emitting a harsh light. Picking up his revolver, he fired four shots at the beings, who fled to the object. It then took off and flew around the truck several times, each time causing the driver to feel burns all over his body. Examination by a doctor revealed that the burns were 'curious lesions' of undetermined cause.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6801",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 583; Gregory Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Catalog" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/12/1979",
  "desc" : "On this night two glowing humanoids about 1.20 meters in height, that appeared not to have eyes or arms, were seen moving around in a field in Goiania, Brazil. They moved about with jerky, mechanical movements. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6802",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, citing Antonio Faleiro, Brazil" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/13/1917",
  "desc" : "Approximately 70,000 people crowded the fields surrounding the Cova da Iria, a grotto in Fatima, Portugal to witness a promised miracle. Miraculous events and apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary had been occurring monthly on the 13th of every month since three children--Lucia, Jesus and Marto-- had first met a mysterious lady in blue there in May. Not many of those in the crowd, even those close to the three children, were able to witness the apparition of the Lady on this day, but it is reported that everyone present saw \"something.\" The most common description was of a \"gyrating sun\" that became a silver disc, and emitted bright rainbow shafts of light, changing colors in succession from red to violet to blue to yellow. The flat silver disc plunged downward toward earth in a zigzag fashion. Catholics present interpreted these events as a sign from God, and the religious event was later sanctioned as a miracle by the Roman Catholic Church. The prophesies revealed that day have been kept secret by the Vatican, but reportedly involve the assassination of \"the last Pope.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6803",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 12; John A. Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 259; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 149; Jacques Vallee, The Invisible College, p. 143" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/13/1953",
  "desc" : "Four maneuvering, nocturnal UFOs and the fall of \"angel hair\" was reported to have occurred in Pleasant Hill, California this night. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6804",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 201" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/13/1954",
  "desc" : "At 10:05 a.m. a weather observer in Nouasseur, French Morocco, following a balloon in his theodolite, saw a round, flat, silver object fly straight and level. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6805",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/13/1954",
  "desc" : "At 4:30 p.m. in Graulhet, Tarn department, France, numerous witnesses consistently reported that a white object flew southward at full speed without leaving a vapor trail and then exploded. At the same time a circular object, much smaller and silvery, seemed to spurt out of the mass of debris and continue straight toward the south. The burst of fragments scattered throughout the sky and fell gently down like shreds of paper or cloth. The debris, which resembled silvery filaments clinging together like cobwebs, \"wilted away\" when handled. This volatile \"angel hair\" dropped by UFOs, usually in the month of October, has been described many times since 1947. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6806",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 170" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/13/1954",
  "desc" : "Three hours later in Crocq, France, at Donjon de Montlaur, J. Dubois and four other witnesses saw a round craft maneuver, giving off a blinding light. It had some openings or portholes, and seemed to come down and land far away from them. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6807",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 227" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/13/1954",
  "desc" : "On that same night Messrs. Olivier and Perano and a third man in Bourrasole, France saw a reddish disc about 4 meters in diameter with a small humanoid close by. The being stood about 1.2 meters (5 feet) tall, wearing a diving suit. \"His head was large with respect to the rest of the body and he had two enormous eyes. The suit was bright and shiny like glass.\" The Disc was surrounded by a sort of misty glow. One of the witnesses came within 20 meters of it and found himself paralyzed. The craft took off, throwing the man who stood closest to the ground, and rose into the sky very fast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6808",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "La Croix, October 16, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 227" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/13/1957",
  "desc" : "On this night Antonio Villas Boas witnessed a UFO making complex maneuvers in the sky above his family's farmhouse in Sao Francisco de Sales, Brazil. This is three nights prior to his famous abduction experience, which occurred in the early morning hours of October 16. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6809",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Olavo T. Fontes, APRO Bulletin, July 1966, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/13/1967",
  "desc" : "On this day in Le Mas, France (Lozere department) at 12:45 p.m., a young woman saw three small beings dressed in copper-red suits. Other observers saw only a compass needle deviate and a brief apparition of a line of six luminous discs. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6810",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of humanoid reports, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1968, p. 19" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/13/1969",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. a round object flew over Vancouver, British Columbia. The witness reported seeing several men inside. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6811",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants and Critters, p. 49" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/13/1971",
  "desc" : "In the afternoon in Kladar, Bosnia (then part of Yugoslavia) a cloud of dense \"flying smoke\" one kilometer long and 1 meter wide moved in an undulating wave across the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6812",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Awareness, October 1977, p. 10, citing J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, volume 3, 1972, case no. 121" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/13/1972",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 a.m., in the old part of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Sr. Joaquin Mercado and his wife watched a triangular formation of lights move back and forth in the sky from the terrace of their apartment. In the early morning of the same day, twenty hospital employees of the Aguadilla Hospital and others saw several UFOs maneuvering in the skies. The hospital supervisor, Sra. Rosa G. de Castro, told reporters that she had seen the dish-shaped objects, with a cone on the upper part, very clearly. They had lights rotating around their peripheries. At one point she saw something shoot out from one of them towards the ground, and then come back up again. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6813",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon Creighton, FSR Case Histories, December 1973, pp. 11-14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/13/1973",
  "desc" : "Photographs of nighttime lights and objects were taken in Tennessee and West Virginia, in the midst of the largest wave of UFO sightings since 1967. In Elkhorn, West Virginia a photograph was taken of a huge object, flashing regularly every one-third of second, which flew toward the southeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6814",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted Spickler, MUFON UFO Journal, June 1977, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/13/1983",
  "desc" : "In Gaffney, South Carolina, a married couple awoke at 12:30 a.m. to the sound of a siren, then witnessed a glowing orange-yellow UFO only twenty feet above their neighbor's house. Dogs barked. The UFO, estimated as the size of Winnebago, had two beams of light coming from the bottom. It crossed some power lines and headed to the east toward the nuclear power plant. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6815",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George D. Fawcett case investigations file; UFO Magazine, June 1990, p. 33" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/13/1989",
  "desc" : "Several UFO sightings and a report of humanoids occurred during this day. At 10:20 a.m. in Langenburg, Saskatchewan, Canada a silver disc hovered over a garage, moved away to the north, then came back to hover over a barn. A 22-year-old man out driving to meet a friend in the city of Pensacola, Florida at 8:30 p.m. saw a white, rectangular object hovering near the approaching intersection. He lost sight of it when he drove through the intersection because some trees blocked his view. In Welch, Oklahoma a family of six out driving in the evening on US Route 59 south of town saw two UFOs and two nine-foot-tall luminous green beings, near a disc-shaped object blocking the road. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6816",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1991, p. 231; Rex and Carol Salisberry, MUFON case investigations file, case # 891007E; UFO Magazine, June 1990, p. 31" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/13/1997",
  "desc" : "near Gundagai, New South Wales -- On this Monday at approximately 6 p.m. a married couple were traveling by car to Victoria along the Hume Freeway. The weather was clear and there were no clouds in the sky. It was warm and previously there had been a strong north wind, but it had subsided. The witnesses were traveling toward the west and were approximately 100 kilometers north of Gundagai, Australia. As they came over the top of a hill, they noticed a light directly in front of them at about 25 to 30 degrees above the horizon and to the left of the first object. Neither object appeared to be moving.<br/><br/> They watched the objects for the next 30 minutes while driving toward the objects. The distance to the objects had decreased to approximately one mile. They were then able to see that one was triangular and the other was a sphere with a ring around it. The objects began to throw flames from underneath, similar to rockets, although at first neither seemed to move. They stopped the car and got out and the UFOs started to move. The higher object was moving away much faster than the lower one.<br/><br/> The witnesses got out their camera and took three photographs as the UFOs moved higher into the sky. The top object veered to the right while the lower one veered left. They remained lit by the sun while the witnesses were already in the gathering darkness. Both objects turned into black balls as the flames were emitted and remained that way. The total observation time was approximately 45 minutes. The photographs showed many details. The RAAF and Australian Army provided information that discounts the possibilities that these objects were jets, missiles or rockets. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6817",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "James Owen case investigation files, Victorian UFO Research Society website" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/13/1997",
  "desc" : "On the same day as the Australian sighting, four lights in a row approached a car from behind, being driven by a 30-year-old woman at 8:30 p.m. in Struthers, Scotland. The witness drove at speeds of 90 miles per hour in an attempt to get away, and she does not remember how she got past a sharp bend in road. Possible missing time of about ten minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6818",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland's UFO Phenomenon, p. 156" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/13/2000",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m. a multicolored UFO zigzagged around the sky over Kelowna, British Columbia and made a loud rumbling noise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6819",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, Canadian UFO Survey 2000, citing UFOBC case investigation files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/14/1954",
  "desc" : "At 12:15 a.m. five kilometers north of Nimes, France Mr. & Mrs. Dupuy saw an object shaped like a rugby ball resting on crutch-like landing gear. It was lit by a greenish light and had three portholes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6820",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 159-160, citing Le Provencal,  October 15, 1954" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/14/1954",
  "desc" : "At 3:40 a.m. a brilliant, yellow machine in the shape of a mushroom, two meters in height and four meters in diameter, was seen resting on railroad tracks in Saint-Pierre Halte, France by a baker's assistant from Calais. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6821",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 160, citing La Croix, October 16, 1954; Aime Michel, A Propos des Soucoupes Volantes, p. 220" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/14/1954",
  "desc" : "Several witnesses including one named Chasseurs in Saint-Ambroix, Gard department, France saw seven small beings flee into a phosphorescent object when they were approached. It took off immediately. It is claimed that \"unknown seeds\" were found at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6822",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 250; Michel Carrouges, Les Apparitions de Martiens, p. 104" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/14/1954",
  "desc" : "Shamsabad, Iran. At 6:30 a.m. a man coming out of his house saw a luminous object resembling a bright star. When he approached, he observed that it was a 5-meter long object, next to which a \"short young man\" was standing on a circular piece of metal, laughing at the witness's terrified expression. The witness was 20 meters away when the craft took off at unbelievable speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6823",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 251" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/14/1954",
  "desc" : "At 3:30 p.m. in Erchin Wood in Lewarde, Nord department, France Casimir Starovski, a miner, met a strange being of small height and bulky figure with large slanted eyes. Its body was covered with fur. Its nose was flat, and it had thick lips. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6824",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 143; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, case # 252; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0301" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/14/1954",
  "desc" : "At 6:15 p.m. a municipal employee, Jose Casella, was riding home in Biot, Alpes-Maritimes department, France when he suddenly found in front of him on the road an oval-shaped aluminum object about 5.5 m in diameter, 1 m high. As he applied the brakes, the object took off at very high speed. Sev- eral persons confirmed the sighting. The disk was gray, supported a dome, and emitted a soft whistle. It took off when Casella was only six meters away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6825",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paris Presse, October 21, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 253; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 160-161, citing Jimmy Guieu, Black-out sur les Soucoupes Volantes, p. 219" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/14/1954",
  "desc" : "At dusk, around 6:00 p.m., a farmer in Angles, Vendee department, France saw a bright object, which came almost to the ground. When he tried to approach it the object produced an intense \"screen of light\" and vanished without a noise. Several other persons in Angles also observed the scene. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6826",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "La Croix, October 16, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 254" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/14/1954",
  "desc" : "At 6:30 p.m. a grocer and his wife, Mr. & Mrs. Vitre, inhabitants of the village of Chevigny-en-Valiere, together with some farmers, watched a fast luminous disc-shaped UFO maneuver and change colors over Rte. D111 in Meursanges, Cote-d'or department, France. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6827",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 173; Aime Michel, A Propos des Soucoupes Volantes, p. 211" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/14/1954",
  "desc" : "At around 7:00 p.m. Messr. Duvivier, a farmer in Meral, Mayenne department, France observed an orange sphere land and he walked out to approach it. When he got close he found it was shaped like a flattened dome, 5.5 meters in diameter, and it gave off a blinding light, which illuminated the countryside for about 200 meters. It was also transparent, and a dark figure could be seen inside. After remaining at ground level for 10 minutes it left by flying to the north, while a bright cloudy misty material fell slowly to the ground at the site. When the witness arrived home he found his clothes were covered with a white film of adhesive substance, not unlike paraffin wax. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6828",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "La Croix, October 16, 1954; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 174; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 255; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 97; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 31" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/14/1954",
  "desc" : "Just after dark, around 7:00 p.m., in Saint-Germain-du-Bois, Saone-et-Loire department, France Mr. Lonjarret observed a luminous circular orange object on the ground near a corn field off of highway D91. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6829",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 175; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 256, citing Quincy; Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 24" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/14/1954",
  "desc" : "In Chazey Wood, south of Gueugnon, Saone-et- Loire department, France at 7:30 p.m. Messrs. Jeannet and Garnier saw a reddish fireball fly low over their car as their engine and headlights died. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6830",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 175; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 130; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 257).<br/><br/> 1954  - Again in Chazey Wood, Saone-et-Loire department, France a short time later, Andre Cognard, who was coming from Gueugnon, was blinded by a light from a luminous disc-shaped object as it flew low over his car. The projected light beam was so bright and blinding that he was forced to stop his car. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 130; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 258; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 163-164" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/14/1954",
  "desc" : "Between Saint-Romain-sous-Gourdon and les Brosses-Tillots, Saone-et-Loire department, France Mr. B. saw a circular craft shaped like an upside-down plate just after dark. At the same time, the engine on his motorcycle stalled. After watching for some time, he pushed the motorcycle down the road, where it could be restarted. In the same area an engineer also saw a luminous object coming down rapidly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6831",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 175; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 130; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 259; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 3919; Michel Carrouges, Les Apparitions de Martiens, p. 128" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/14/1954",
  "desc" : "At 8:10 p.m. on the road between Thieulloy-la-Ville and Beauvais, Somme, France Mr. Covemacker saw an object fly over his car as the headlights died. It went on toward the north, seemingly following a train. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6832",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 259" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/14/1954",
  "desc" : "At 8:50 p.m. an engineer, Mr. G. Mouillon from Genelard, was driving between Ciry-le-Noble and Montceau-les-Mines, Saone-et-Loire, France when he witnessed an enormous luminous object that descended toward the ground without any noise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6833",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 130; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 166" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/14/1957",
  "desc" : "Antonio Villas Boas, age 23, had his second UFO sighting prior to his famous UFO abduction, when at 9:45 p.m. he watched a blazing object, possibly disc shaped, play tag with him over a field on his family farm in Sao Francisco de Sales, Minas Gerais, Brazil. He was plowing the field with his brother on a tractor when they saw a red light at the edge of the field. He went toward it, but it shifted its position every time he got close. The object nearly touched down, and came down to a height of 100 meters. It vanished on the spot. The sighting lasted from ten to twenty minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6834",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Olavo T. Fontes, Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1966, p. 23; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 62; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 412" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/14/1961",
  "desc" : "At 12:15 p.m. a 200 meter long object descended onto Lake Superior near Two Harbors, Minnesota. It floated on the water for three minutes, then ascended and flew off toward the southeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6835",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, November 1961, p. 3; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 230; Jay Rath, The M-Files: True Reports of Minnesota's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 50" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/14/1969",
  "desc" : "A half circle of bright \"sparks\" flashed at random on the leading edge of a dark object, that passed overhead at 3,000 feet altitude in Shirley, Massachusetts at 8:50 p.m. It left behind a vapor trail. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6836",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler case files, report dated October 20, 1969; Ray Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 356" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/14/1971",
  "desc" : "At 9 p.m. three men camping on the banks of the Trinity River near Hawkins Bar, California heard a deafening roar come from the opposite side of the river. They then saw several large, dark humanoid figures moving about. The campers stayed up the remainder of the night watching the black shapes moving around a campfire, making high-pitched whining noises and sounds of rapid-fire chatter. There had been numerous reports of UFOs and strange lights in the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6837",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1971, case # 1057, citing Peter Guttilla, Saga UFO Report, September 1977" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/14/1972",
  "desc" : "In Rexville, Puerto Rico at 4:00 a.m. a witness named Martinez saw an ovoid object land. Some beings exited from the craft and took concrete blocks from the landing site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6838",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 9733; J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, volume 9 (1978)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/14/1972",
  "desc" : "Airman First Class Steven Briggs and Airman Dennis Hillsgeck, stationed at McChord Air Force Base in Pierce County, Washington, were instructed to check the tactical air navigational (TACAN) facility located eight miles east of air base. Upon their arrival at the site they opened the locked security fence surrounding it and entered the compound. Once inside, they began their systems check of the equipment. At around 2:00 p.m. Briggs heard a high-pitched engine sound coming from outside the building, so he went out to investigate. Once outside he observed a saucer-shaped object directly over the building. He then watched the object land just south of the compound. Startled, Briggs entered the building and summoned Hillsgeck. Back outside both men observed two \"creatures\" walking towards the fence. Briggs went back into the building and telephoned the base security police. He yelled that they needed help because \"intruders\" were attempting to enter the facility. Sgt. Holmes at the security desk dispatched Sgt. Dwight Reid and AIC Michael Tash to the scene. After 17 minutes they arrived and observed Briggs and Hillsgeck standing near their government vehicle; both appeared to be in a daze and neither could speak. An ambulance was summoned. Hillsgeck appeared to have burns around the face. Tash walked around the area and found ground marks in the soft dirt. Suddenly Reid yelled to Tash that an object was directly overhead, and indeed the saucer-shaped object was hovering just above the facility. Sgt. Reid attempted to communicate with the security police desk, but the radio would not work. Reid and Tash then got Briggs and Hillsgeck and drove them from the scene. One mile from the site Reid was able to communicate with security, and he requested assistance, declaring a \"Covered Wagon\" (a high security violation alert). Four additional security officers arrived, including Sgt. Darren Alexander and his dog \"Champ.\" Approximately 400 yards south of the site, Sgt. Alexander was alerted by his dog to two creatures standing near a remote power station. Sgt. Alexander yelled for the creatures to stand and raise their hands, but instead both creatures moved towards Alexander, who noticed that one of them was holding somekind of an object he thought was a weapon. Sgt. Alexander then fired six rounds form his revolver. After firing the shots, Alexander returned to his vehicle and radioed that he had fired at the creatures. Soon another security alert team arrived. They conducted a search of the area and also observed the saucer sitting on the ground, directly east of the power station. They circled the craft and called for a supervisor, a Captain Henry Stone. When Stone arrived and walked toward the object it flew off in an easterly direction and was out of sight in a few seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6839",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1972, citing report from Robert Collins, 2001" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/14/1973",
  "desc" : "In Dover, Delaware at 12:20 a.m. a brilliant yellow-orange UFO descended rapidly, and then hovered over the airport. A helicopter was sent up to investigate, which chased the UFO into Maryland. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6840",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, p. 174; Paris Flammonde, UFO Exist! p. 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/14/1973",
  "desc" : "Nancy, age 22, and her boyfriend Jim were camping at Phantom Lake, Wisconsin with another couple and the couple's baby. Nancy and Jim had just settled down in the camper for the night when they were awakened by a bright light shining in through the back window. Then the camper door suddenly burst open. They saw a bright saucer-shaped object about to land, descending in a zigzag motion. Once on the ground the glowing object disgorged a variety of figures, perhaps twenty. They could see a couple of male figures approaching their camper slowly. One appeared to be a black man. A second was similar to a swami, standing on one leg with his other leg wrapped around his head. A disembodied face appeared in the camper telling them not to be afraid. About seven of the men stood in a semi-circle, ten feet away form the van door. One of the seven had dark curly hair and was dressed in blue jeans and a red plaid shirt, and he held a German shepherd in each hand by a leash. The group stood there for about ten minutes, staring silently at the witnesses, who cowered inside the van in great fear. A man appeared carrying what looked like a scroll. Three more beings, different from the others and only four feet tall, came out of the \"space ship\" and moved about the area very quickly, \"just sort of running around.\" They seemed to glow a whitish green color. One of these perched in a tree.<br/><br/> While this strange assemblage was still present, Jim jumped out of the camper and warned their friends who were asleep in a nearby tent. They were unable to understand what all the excitement was about because they were unable to see either the \"spaceship\" or any of the beings. Jim hustled them into the camper, collected all their belongings, found his dog and, with the other couple driving, they took off. En route back to Milwaukee Nancy and Jim, riding in the rear of the camper, experienced a variety of strange phenomena, including a gloved hand apparition and a presence. Both Nancy and Jim became hysterical. The other couple perceived nothing unusual and believed their friends had gone crazy. They took them directly to a hospital emergency entrance upon returnning to Milwaukee. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6841",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher: HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-120, citing Richard Heiden & Lee Jewell" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/14/1973",
  "desc" : "On this evening there were at least 80 reports of discs with red and green lights in central and western Ohio. These included reports made by both citizens and police from Union and Dayton in Montgomery County, Ohio. In Dayton, Ohio at 7:30 p.m. four \"flattened footballs\" were chased through the skies by military jets. There were over 50 witnesses. In Boston, Ohio a cow was missing from a pasture after a UFO landed there. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6842",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, p. 342; Fairborn (OH) Daily Herald, October 15, 1973" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/15/1948",
  "desc" : "At 11:05 p.m. U.S. Air Force pilot Halter and radar operator Hemphill in a propeller driven P-61 \"Black Widow\" night fighter tracked up to six objects on radar over Fusuoka, Japan. The six bogeys were seen on the radar by Hemphill, and his radar picked up the targets five miles ahead of the plane. Only one of the bogeys was seen visually. It was a dull or dark object, shaped like a bullet or dirigible with a flat bottom and with a heel-shaped clipped tail end. Pilot Halter attempted to close on the visual object, but it dove below the F-61, then reappeared, and finally took off with a burst of speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6843",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 218; J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 135; UNICAT, case # 273; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/15/1950",
  "desc" : "In Oak Ridge, Tennessee at 3:20 p.m. Atomic Energy Commission Troopers Rymer, J. Moneymaker, and Capt. Zarzecki sighted two shiny silver objects shaped like bullets. They dove in the sky leaving a smoke trail and one vanished. The other hovered at a low altitude only 50 feet away, then left and returned several more times, but somewhat further away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6844",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 819; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1833" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/15/1950",
  "desc" : "At 4:20 p.m. a pilot named Daniel, flying from Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina sighted four metallic spheres, 100 feet diameter, that flew in a perfect line formation. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6845",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 821; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: August-December, p. 39" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/15/1952",
  "desc" : "At 7:10 p.m. beings with helmets and masks were seen through lighted windows in a craft on the ground at the Le Vigan Airport, Gard, France. The cigar-shaped object was 30 meters long, 6 meters in diameter, and had a rounded forward section. A fog was noted at both ends of the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6846",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 62 & 141; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 103" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/15/1953",
  "desc" : "At 10:10 a.m. a saucer maneuvered at 45,000 feet for 40 seconds over the General Mills Research Laboratory in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and was viewed through a theodolite by three scientists. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6847",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 113; UNICAT, case # 265" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/15/1954",
  "desc" : "Near the community swimming pool in Saint-Assiscle, Perpignan, France Damien Figueres, age 56, was walking with his dogs when a red luminous sphere landed 30 meters away. A humanoid being in a diving suit got out and walked around it. The dogs barked at him. The being then boarded the craft and it flew away in silence. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6848",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 229, case # 261; Michel Carrouges, Les Apparitions de Martiens, p. 120" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/15/1954",
  "desc" : "In Boaria, Italy a farmer was leading his cows to a pond when he suddenly saw an object fly over his house. The cows panicked and ran away, knocking a girl to the ground, while the object emitted a burst of light. The farmer ran to the house and then fainted. Three other persons saw the craft depart. It was dark in color but surrounded by short blue and yellow flames. It was egg-shaped, flew at 15 meters above the ground, and emitted intense heat. The little pond was found desiccated, and haystacks caught fire as it flew over while the cattle suffered burns. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6849",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 229-230, case # 262" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/15/1954",
  "desc" : "St.-Pierre-Halte, France. At 3:40 a.m. a baker saw a brilliant yellow craft descend rapidly and land on some railroad tracks. It was mushroom shaped, about four meters diameter, and two meters high. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6850",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 180; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 230" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/15/1954",
  "desc" : "In Luino, Italy an ovoid object made a pass over a range of trees; two of the trees caught fire. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6851",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 230, case # 264" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/15/1954",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon in Po-di-Gnocca, Italy farmers saw a disc-shaped object land, then take off vertically. At the site was found a deep crater about 6 m in diameter. Poplar trees were partially burned. Official investigation. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6852",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 181; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 230, case # 265" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/15/1954",
  "desc" : "At 7:50 p.m. at the Courbessac Airfield in Nimes, France a yellow, cigar-shaped object with brilliant portholes, 30 m long, 6 m diameter, was seen on the ground. Figures with helmets covering their heads could be seen inside. A sort of haze was observed at both ends of the craft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6853",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 230, case # 266" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/15/1954",
  "desc" : "On this night Ms. Pat Hennessey ran away when she saw an object land on the road near Chalkwell Park, Southend, England. It had vanished silently when she looked back. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 182; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 230, case # 267).<br/><br/> Starting on this date in 1954 and for the next two nights, fifty objects with illuminated bottoms were seen flying very fast in a V-formation on successive nights over Kingfisher, Oklahoma at around 8:45 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6854",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 3269; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns, p. 24" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/15/1954",
  "desc" : "A steelworker in Isbergues, France observed a luminous sphere land in the countryside on this night. After landing it then emitted lights of various colors. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6855",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 181; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 230, case # 268" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/15/1954",
  "desc" : "While driving at night in Fouesnant, France truck driver Rene Le Viol saw a flat craft, -shaped like an inverted plate, fly very low toward the sea. A second disc followed shortly afterward. Both emitted a red glow. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6856",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 182; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 230, case # 269" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/15/1954",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. a cigar-shaped object landed in Saint Privat, Vallongue, Lozere department, France. It took off vertically making a whistle sound and blazing red in color. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6857",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 107" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/15/1954",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. a fireball was seen by two witnesses driving in a car as it zig-zagged over the N68 highway between Niffer and Kembs, France<br/><br/> nThisDay<br/><br/> . It headed off to the southeast toward the Rhine River. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6858",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 182" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/15/1955",
  "desc" : "In a forest east-southeast of Wissembourg, Bas-Rhin, France a huge, 400 meter long UFO was seen flying only six meters over some oak trees by a witness while driving on highway D3. It had 76 porthole-shaped windows in three rows. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6859",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, February 1977" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/15/1957",
  "desc" : "On this day while working outside, Mr. Moudy, a farmer, observed a silvery disc that hovered above his tractor in Covington, Indiana. The tractor engine failed when the object took off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6860",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 260, case # 413" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/15/1966",
  "desc" : "Jerry H. Simons had a close encounter with an orange domed disc-shaped object while driving at Split Rock Pond, New Jersey at 4:30 a.m. The UFO emitted a brilliant light beam. The engine and lights of his car died, and although the engine restarted spontaneously there was permanent damage to the mechanics.  His physiological effects included chronic illness, fatigue, anorexia, weight loss, weakness, and chills. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6861",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., UFOs: A New Look, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/15/1968",
  "desc" : "Driving across the desert near Kingman, Arizona with a hitchhiker at around 3:00 a.m., Michael Watts saw a \"falling star\" that stopped in midair, and then shot back up into the sky. The two men then stopped the car and got out to investigate a distant light source on the ground. When they walked up to it the light on the ground proved to be four lights, one of which took off into the air. Nearby they could dimly see two four-foot-tall beings with large heads and abnormally long arms, and heard a sound like digging. The hitchhiker then suggested they go back to the car for a gun, and the figures vanished. Other maneuvering lights were then observed. Then something sounding like a train passed by at a distance: it had a string of lighted windows in which silhouettes of passengers sitting up inside were visible. After this, a dark lens-shaped object having a flat dome on top and a row of pulsating multi-colored lights around the edge approached them quite closely. As the dawn approached and it became possible to see better, the remaining lights on the ground could be seen to be connected to a palely lit cigar-shaped object. Watts believes he may have experienced a memory lapse at this point. Cloven footprints were found at the site where the beings had been seen. The hitchhiker could not be identified and was therefore unavailable for an interview by the investigators. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6862",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Schutz & Loren Reichert, Skylook, August 1975, p. 10; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1968-73, citing Michael Schutz & Loren Reichert" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/15/1973",
  "desc" : "A man in Omro, Wisconsin was awakened sometime after midnight by a brief, high-pitched sound. His bedroom was lit up by a bright, orange-red glow, and he saw three 4-5 foot tall humanoids materialize. They had baldheads; grayish white wrinkled skin and rounded ears. They moved mechanically. The witness passed out and then came to on the floor, propped against the wall, unable to move. The entities were examining him with an oval object that showed the bones of his legs when it passed over them. He had a severe headache and passed out again as a being reached toward him. He awakened toward dawn on the floor. He found the lights were left on the bedroom, and the bed sheets folded neatly back. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6863",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher: HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-32; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/15/1973",
  "desc" : "Late on this night a female witness and her sister observed a huge light maneuvering over Connersville, Indiana. The light darted across the sky and began to descend near them. She ran up to the craft and remembered seeing three large windows. In one window stood a very short humanoid with protruding eyes and four fingers on each hand. He wore a tight-fitting outfit with a hood. Other people had gathered to see the UFO and stood around as if in a trance. The witness was taken inside and glided around with the short humanoid next to her. She remembered seeing two other humanoids sitting at a control panel, and three cubicles as well as beautiful curved walls inside the craft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6864",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1973, case # 972, citing Don Worley, UFO Newsclipping Service, issue # 257" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/15/1973",
  "desc" : "Awakened by the barking of their dogs late on this night, a farm family living near Berea, Tennessee saw lights from a UFO in the woods. Mr. James Cline saw a being with a glowing white head cross the road 50 feet away from him. Claw-like tracks were found in the dirt road later, as well as \"landing marks\" two feet long by 12 feet wide where the UFO had been. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6865",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher: HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-33; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/15/1974",
  "desc" : "In Ramona, California five young people from the Overfelt and Nelson families saw a round UFO making a humming noise maneuver in the sky for several minutes, and then land. Many types of animals (a horse, a dog, a goat, chickens, and a cat) reacted to the landed object. Compass deflection was reported, as well as TV and radio interference. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6866",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George D. Fawcett, Official UFO, August 1975, p. 12; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 11024, citing the MUFON UFO Journal, October 1989, p. 24" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/15/1976",
  "desc" : "Paul Bennett was playing with five friends near Westfield Grove in Wrose, Yorkshire, England at around 7:30 in the evening when he saw “a little black creature about two-foot tall” standing at the edge of the road. The short humanoid creature then ran with little short paces across the road and up Westfield Grove. Its head was “squashed” like a tomato, and it had no feet or toes; its legs extended straight to their extremities; similarly, its thin arms were lacking hands and fingers. There were no facial features visible, neither ears nor hair. None of the other boys appeared to have seen it, and most of them made fun of Paul when he told them. One of them, Michael McDermott, did assist Paul in a search for some evidence of the little creature, and they found a set of 30 small circular footprints leading from a puddle along the route taken by the being. McDermott claimed he heard a faint whistling sound and someone calling Bennett’s name. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6867",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1976-97 (A1867), citing Nigel Watson & Roger Hebb, MUFOB" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/15/1976",
  "desc" : "At 6:20 p.m. in the mountains of Auribeau, Alpes-Maritimes, France three witnesses sighted an eight-meter wide disc-shaped object that flew toward the south, and then circled a tower on a hilltop. It had two white beams of light. It finally flew off towards the sea. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6868",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1977" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/15/1976",
  "desc" : "Driving home from friend's apartment near midnight in the suburbs of Burgoberbach, France, an 18-year-old woman had a close encounter with a disc-shaped object that made no sound. The UFO had two rows of lights: the top row was red and the bottom row was white. There was no moon nor stars visible in the sky at the time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6869",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Carol & Rex Salisberry, MUFON case files, case # 891006c" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/15/1977",
  "desc" : "In Colares, Para State, Brazil Raimundo Galvao Trindade, age 36, saw an orange light outside in the sky at 4:00 a.m. He next felt as if he had been pricked by a needle in the leg from a beam of energy. His subsequent symptoms included weakness, a headache, dizziness, and a red area on his thigh. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6870",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Pratt, Operacao Prato, p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/15/1977",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m in Zugliano, Veneto, Italy a huge luminous disc-shaped object descended into a field, and then stayed on the ground for several minutes. A metallic noise was heard, and the object suddenly took off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6871",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Maurizio Verga, ITACAT" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/15/1978",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 a.m. the witness, a 50-year-old important Communist Party politician, was alone in a wooded area in Jaraba, Zaragoza, Spain attempting to photograph some eagle nests, when suddenly all sounds in the area ceased. He then began walking and next heard a weak whistling sound. He started to feel nauseated with a metallic taste in his mouth, and his wristwatch felt hot to the touch. When he turned around, he saw in clearing a 5 meter metallic dome-shaped craft whose perimeter was which surrounded by small antennae like protrusions. Next to the object stood two very tall men, 1.90 meters in height, with blond hair wearing blue-gray outfits and wide belts. One was leaning over a metallic tube apparently stuck on the ground. The other carried a box with a small sphere on top. The one holding the tube motioned to the witness to approach. The man felt a wave of heat as he approached to within 20 meters, so he stopped and frightened, yelled at them. He heard his own voice in a strange, weirdly distorted manner. The two UFOnauts then walked back over to the object and got aboard. The whistling sound now intensified and the witness felt an electric shock on the back of his neck and strange vibrations on the ground. The craft lifted up and flew out of sight while the whistling sound increased. He managed to take a photograph of the object as it departed, and a hole was found in the ground at the scene. UFO investigators found the witness to be well qualified but uncooperative, seeking to avoid publicity. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6872",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A2174; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 101, citing Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos & Fernandez Peri, Enciclopedia de Los Encuentros Cercanos con Ovnis" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/15/1978",
  "desc" : "At 7:40 p.m. in Caumont, Vaucluse department, France a domed disc-shaped object buzzed two witnesses in a car at 80 meters altitude. It had a ring of red lights around its rim. It vanished quickly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6873",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, December 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/15/1978",
  "desc" : "On this night a doctor named Rotela and his family were followed by a luminous yellow-orange object about 2 feet in diameter, until their car became bogged down. The ball of light then landed near the Salado River, 30 kilometers from Gobernador Crespo, Santa Fe province, Argentina. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6874",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, January 1979, p. 15, citing La Nacion, October 20, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/15/1994",
  "desc" : "At 8:10 p.m. a disc-shaped object witnessed by three teenagers dropped down near a military communication center in La Farlede, Var department, France. It vanished for awhile, then rose up into the sky at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6875",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 330" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/15/1995",
  "desc" : "In Yellowknife, North West Territory, Canada a golden colored, square object moved slowly over a witness at 2:30 p.m, making a humming noise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6876",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Frank Ducks, 1995 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 137, citing Alberta UFO Research Assn." ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/15/1996",
  "desc" : "A couple driving in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada around 11:00 p.m. saw three triangular objects flying in N. One object aimed an intense white beam at their car and bathed it in intense light for \"at least 20 minutes.\" There was a third independent witness and dozens of other people in the region reported UFOs that night. Airports said there were no planes in area at that time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6877",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, International UFO Reporter, Summer 1997, p. 32" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/15/1997",
  "desc" : "Duncan, Oklahoma - At 2:15 a.m. the witness suddenly awoke feeling a strange presence in his bedroom. An odd feeling swept through his body, forcing him to close his eyes. His next memory was of being awake at 5:15 a.m. with a strange presence still in the room, and he once again felt forced to close his eyelids. When he woke up in the morning he was able to recall standing naked in an oval-shaped metal room with small windows in the top right hand corner. Directly behind him there was a large door where the two oval walls met. In the middle of the room there was an odd looking operating table with two needle devices on robotic arms sticking out of the side. This was the only apparent object in the room.<br/><br/> Afraid, he began banging on the large door demanding to be let out. He could hear voices in the background. He was then told by an angry male voice, in his head, to either lay down on the table or someone he loved would get hurt. He did as he was told. He was then asked to lay down in such a manner that his left lower back was exposed to the two needles. At the base of the needle there was a triangle-shaped piece of metal and two rectangle designs on both sides. He was then told by a friendly female voice that he would feel no pain but would feel his legs go numb, and would feel paralyzed and unable to move. The robotic arm moved closer to his back and plunged the needle into his back. He felt the clear liquid being injected into his body. He then felt paralyzed, and after a minute the needle device began sucking instead of injecting. It then moved back and the second needle performed the same operation. He woke up the next morning feeling some pain in his lower back with a triangular shaped imprint on it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6878",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, case # 3202, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/15/2000",
  "desc" : "At 7:00 p.m. a disc-shaped object was seen on the ground in Strawberry, Gila county, Arizona and viewed at length with the scope from a deer rifle. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6879",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, October 2000 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/15/2000",
  "desc" : "There were two apparent abductions involving missing time in the United States on this day, and they both were reported to the National UFO Reporting Center in Seattle by the percepients. The first was in Del Valle, Texas and occurred at around 2:30 a.m. A woman was awakened by a loud noise that seemed to be getting louder and approaching her house from above, as if a flying object was coming down in a vertical descent. For some reason she continued to stay in bed, terrified and shaking but unable to move. She suddenly became aware of a presence, and when she turned her heard she saw several figures in the room: two of them took hold of her shoulders, one on each side. She then felt warm and was stood straight up. Next, she was floated across the floor and out the front door, accompanied by a bright white light. The beings were short with large heads, large black eyes and long dangling arms. Her next memory was being back in her bedroom at 4:30 a.m. She again heard the loud noise, but this time it seemed to be leaving the area. She also noticed a strong odor in the room that went away after a few moments. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6880",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/15/2000",
  "desc" : "The second apparent abduction and missing time experience occurred at eleven o'clock that night in Martins Ferry, Ohio. A man was sleeping when he was jolted awake by the sound of the bedroom window being pried open. When his eyes came into focus, he saw two figures already inside the room and a third coming inside. The figures appeared to be slightly luminous. The terrified witness could not speak, and began to sway back and forth on his bed. One of the figures then became dark and apparently approached the witness. He now felt hands around his mouth, and was lifted up. He then became unconscious, and could not remember anything else of the incident. The next day his neighbor mentioned something about seeing a strange object on the ground in a nearby field. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6881",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case # 3590, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/15/2004",
  "desc" : "The leader of Mirage 4 military jets was alerted by one of his fellow crew members to a bogey at the 5 o'clock position while flying over France at 8:10 a.m. There were a total of three airborne witnesses to the UFO, but there was no radar trace by air traffic controllers on the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6882",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "GEIPAN, case # 399" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/15/2007",
  "desc" : "In Worchester, Massachusetts at 3:00 p.m. a very bright silver circular object hung stationary in the sky, about 500 feet up in the air for 15 to 20 seconds, then vanished. It was estimated to be 60 to 70 feet in diameter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6883",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2007 webpage, report uploaded March 4, 2008" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/15/2007",
  "desc" : "A spherical metallic object was seen in broad daylight above University Hospital for 22 minutes in Aurora, Colorado. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6884",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2007 webpage, report uploaded November 28, 2007" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/15/2007",
  "desc" : "At 7:15 p.m. in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada a big, red irregularly shaped ship with claws was sighted, and the witness's MP3 player stopped working. The witness also heard four loud bangs associated with the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6885",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 667, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/16/1954",
  "desc" : "On or about this date a UFO landed in Thin le Moutiers, France only thirty meters away from a woman, who promptly fainted. Following the incident the witness suffered from a skin condition that she linked to the encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6886",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Challenge to Science: the UFO Enigma, p. 53; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 231" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/16/1954",
  "desc" : "In Cier-de-Riviere, France Guy Puyfourcat, age 22, was coming back from the fields leading a mare by her halter when the horse surprised him by suddenly becoming restless and jumpy. Rising from the side of the road, a gray object about 1.5 meters in diameter flew over them. The mare rose about three meters into the air and the witness had to release her. Then the animal fell to the ground like a mass and for 10 minutes was unable to move. At last, it got up and attempted to walk, but it was still trembling and stumbling with fear. The object had long since flown away at high speed. The witness himself had felt absolutely nothing. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6887",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 231" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/16/1954",
  "desc" : "At 5:30 p.m. in Mazaye, France Mr. Bachelard was driving a light truck on road D52E between Chanat and Couhay when suddenly the engine seemed to slow down and he felt \"paralyzed. \" He then saw in a field near the road a brown object about 10 m long, 2. 5 m high. Silent, it gave off no light and showed no opening. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6888",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 198; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 231" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/16/1954",
  "desc" : "Dr. Robert, driving through Baillolet, France at nightfall, saw four objects flying slowly in echelon formation at about 300 meters altitude. One of UFOs dropped abruptly to the ground with a falling leaf motion, landing only 100 meters away. The witness felt an electric shock as the engine and headlights of his car died, and his car stopped the moment the object touched the ground. Incapable of moving, Dr. Robert watched as a figure about 1.2 meters (4 feet) tall moved around in the light of the object, then all went dark. Some time later the headlights came back on by themselves, and Dr. Robert saw the craft take off toward the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6889",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 185; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 231-232" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/16/1954",
  "desc" : "Messrs. Deschamp and Laclotre saw a craft, about 20 meters in diameter and two meters tall come within four meters of the ground in Dompierre, France. The object stayed near the ground for 3-4 minutes. It gave off a yellowish light and a glow extended around it for an estimated distance of four meters. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6890",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 232" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/16/1954",
  "desc" : "Two objects were seen in Quasso, Italy one of which made a pass at treetop level. It was top-shaped, and a small, gesticulating human figure was seen under it. The witness was a bus driver, Mr. De Rossi. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6891",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 232, case 270, citing Il Tiempo, October 17, 1954" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/16/1954",
  "desc" : "At midnight several people saw a landed object in a meadow in Siena, Italy. It appeared phosphorescent and to be large in size. It took off very suddenly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6892",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 232, citing Il Tiempo, October 16, 1954" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/16/1957",
  "desc" : "Sao Francisco de Sales, Brazil. A famous alien abduction and sexual encounter case occurred in the early morning hours of this day. Alone in the fields on a clear night, Antonio Villas-Boas saw a big, red star which soon took on the appearance of a luminous, egg-shaped object that stopped and hovered 50 meters above his tractor. Its light was brighter than that of the tractor headlights as it landed 15 meters away. The top part of the UFO was spinning, and it became green as it slowed down. It then appeared as a flattened dome. Three legs emerged from the machine as it settled down. Sr. Villas-Boas's tractor engine stalled and he tried to run through the furrows in the freshly plowed field, but he was quickly seized by unknown individuals who dragged him aboard the craft, where he was medically examined. After being stripped and sponged down with what he took to be a disinfectant liquid he was then left alone with a woman of short stature with whom he had sexual intercourse. Villas-Boas reported that the woman had high cheekbones and a sharp chin. He was allowed to redress himself and spent a short time subsequently with the other crew members. He reported they wore tight-fitting, white uniforms with a light on the belt, heelless white shoes, big gloves, and opaque helmets with a slit at the level of the eyes. Their language was shrill, and he could establish no verbal communication with them. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6893",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1966; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 260" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/16/1959",
  "desc" : "A worker was alone at a local water plant in El Cobre, Algeciras province, Spain at three a.m. when suddenly all electricity and lights at the plant were shut off. He went outside to see what had caused the outage and felt a strange electrical sensation in the air. He then saw a hovering luminous object about 200 meters away that was very close to the ground. It was shaped like a half egg on top of a plate, and it emitted brilliant orange, green and purple lights. Next to the object stood two tall human-like figures wearing shiny silvery-orange outfits. One of the beings bent down under the object and appeared to look inside. All the time the witness was not able to move a muscle, holding a flashlight in his hand. Somehow he was finally able to turn the flashlight on and when he did so both beings re-entered the object, which then ascended slowly, emitting a loud buzzing sound and increasing in luminosity. Ground traces were found at the site. The witness nearly suffered a nervous breakdown afterwards. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6894",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1971, case # 94, citing Vicenter-Juan Ballester Olmos & Fernandez Peri, Enciclopedia De Los Encuentros Cercanos con Ovnis" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/16/1969",
  "desc" : "On October 8, 1969, or eight days earlier, ten-year-old Steven with another youngster had sighted a UFO at the base of a cloud in Waterville, Iowa and took a snap shot. The UFO apparently landed at the time, leaving traces. On the 16th at around 5 p.m., Steve watched a spherical UFO, ten feet wide and 6-7 feet high, land not 60 feet away from him. His attention was caught by the humming sound it emitted as a ramp came smoothly out of the craft. A little man, 3 to 4 feet tall, with long arms and hands with only two digits, emerged with a bow-legged gait. He wore a disproportionately large yellow-brown helmet, which he took off to wipe his brow. The boy could see that he was bald and had a pale green complexion. He had large eyes set close together, a slit like mouth and a double slit where the nose would be. He was dressed in a white spacesuit. The being looked directly at Steven, then put his helmet back on and re-entered the UFO. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6895",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-53, citing Brad Steiger, Kevin Randle, Ralph DeGraw, Ed Olsen and Bob Griffadel" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/16/1971",
  "desc" : "Six members of a rock band were returning from a performance and were driving in a van near St. Catharines, Ontario when they saw a large disc-shaped object with brightly lit portholes and blue beams of light shining on the roadway. The group tried to turn back but the van came under the control of the object and it drove directly towards it. They got to within 20 feet of the craft and the van stopped. They all felt heat at this point. They then saw a face with large black eyes staring at them through the window. The back door of the van was opened and four humanoids stood there. They had large hairless heads and large black eyes. The beings communicated telepathically with the witnesses telling them they would not be hurt. Three of the witnesses were taken inside the object and tested with numerous instruments. At one point the aliens told one of the witnesses that there was not a \"correct religion on earth.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6896",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1971, case # 298, citing Lawrence J Fenwick, SBI Report # 40" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/16/1973",
  "desc" : "At 2:00 a.m. Gabriella Versacci was driving on the motorway and had just passed the Langford Budville, England exit. The highway seemed completely deserted, but she saw the glare of a single headlight ahead of her that seemed to be stationary. As she got closer she saw that it was too bright to be a headlight. Her car suddenly began to lose power. The headlights flickered, dimmed, and then cut out. Next the engine faltered, sputtered then fell silent. Panic-stricken Mrs. Versacci pressed her face to the windscreen struggling to steer the car to a halt in the almost complete darkness. Thinking she could not stay there alone in the vehicle, she climbed out the car. She fumbled with the car hood as she lifted it, and as she stood there feeling helpless she noticed a humming sound, faint at first that seemed to be growing stronger. She could not see the source of the hum. As she stood facing the car a heavy hand came down on her shoulder and pushed her to the ground. She struggled to face her assailant and saw a tall, dark-colored metallic figure. Gabriella then saw flickering multi-colored lights and blacked out. When she came to she was standing in a field. The \"robot\" like figure was standing next to her, and before them stood a strange bright object. It was half-moon shaped, rounded on top and flat on the bottom. It was silver gray in color and rested on thick legs, of which she saw two but there might have been more. It was about 20 feet in height and forty feet across, and it had large, oblong windows in the middle from which yellow lights issued.<br/><br/> Gabriella now realized that the humming sound came from this object. She then blacked out for a second time. She awoke inside a strange room.It was circular, and she was strapped to a table in the center. She was naked but covered with a light blue blanket. Her wrists were bound to the table by what she described as \"large rubber bands.\" Her spread eagle legs were restrained in the same manner, with the bands holding her ankles to the cold surface of the table. The inside of the craft was freezing. She glanced over to a far wall where the \"robot\" stood inactive. To her right was a console covered in buttons and dials. The floor was covered in what appeared to be black colored rubber matting. A few moments later, three men that came into view proved her. Two stood to the left of the table while the third went to the foot of the table and picked up some boxes or cubes. He placed three of the objects on a rail, which ran the length of the table, one by her head, one by her feet and one in the middle. As soon as the cubes were placed on the rail they began to glow.<br/><br/> The three men were all about the same height, five feet six inches to five feet eight inches tall. Fair skinned and slim in build, they wore the same garments. All wore a skullcap, tied at the back of the head and ending just above the eyes. Facemasks covered the nose and mouth, so only the eyes and upper face were visible. No hair was visible, but she could make out the hair bumps under the caps. The eyes were more rounded than normal human eyes, and seemed emotionless. All three men wore a tunic with a gray colored edging, long gloves that went to the elbows and very long aprons that fell as far as their ankles. Thick-soled boots covered their feet. Every piece of clothing was light blue in color. Throughout the episode none of the man spoke or made any other noise. They looked at each other frequently, and nodded occasionally. Furthermore they did not appear to breathe, making no respiratory noises. During the examination none of the three beings touched Gabriella. The man at the bottom of the bed took a number of gray colored instruments, which he used one by one. A small knife like implement was used to take a nail paring from her right hand index finger. A blood sample was taken with a small plastic looking bottle with tubes and wires attached. Her blanket was removed and a thin pencil-like device was used to prod and probe her and a large black rubber suction device was used on the area around the groin. Soon the examiner placed another blanket over her, which provided badly needed warmth.<br/><br/> Noticing her frequent glances towards the now inactive \"robot\" the examiner now spoke to her in perfect English. The robot was a trained retriever device. It did all the manual work outside the ship. It brought specimens for examination and study. It was merely a non-thinking intelligence that was programmed to do certain tasks. The examiner spoke in a deep male voice, although Gabriella could not see his mouth move beneath the mask. His eyes never blinked, not even once. His movements appeared practiced, deliberate and precise. When he completed his task, all three men left the room together. After several minutes Gabriella caught sight of the robot again. A flashing purple colored light was coming from it. It did not move but remained by the wall.<br/><br/> Soon one of the men came into view from behind her and walked to the far end of the table. He lifted the end of the blanket form the bottom and stared at her body. At this point she felt something awful was going to happen, and Gabriella struggled with her bonds but could not free herself. The being took a small pin and placed it on her thigh. Gabriella stopped struggling immediately. The device caused numbness in every part of her body apart from her head. The being climbed slowly on the bottom of the bed and slowly and without emotion raped her. She felt discomfort but no pain. Soon the three men came into the room and released her from the table. Gabriella looked down on the floor to see her clothes before passing out one more time that night. When she next regained consciousness Gabriella was standing, fully clothed, next to her car in the deserted country road. Distraught, she drove home. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6897",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of the Mystery" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/16/1973",
  "desc" : "Seventeen and one-half hours later, at 11:30 a.m. in Burbank, California another domed disc was seen making a buzzing sound. Two children, ages 2 and 4, reported a UFO with a pointed dome and rays emanating from the bottom. It made a buzzing sound. As many as four occupants were mentioned. They invited the older boy to look in the object. When the boy's father stepped into the backyard minutes after the sighting, the family dog was barking furiously. No other information. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6898",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-35; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of the Humanoids" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/16/1973",
  "desc" : "Upon arriving home in Albany, Ohio in the evening a woman saw a \"ghost like\" figure floating about 50 feet above the ground a 1000 feet away. It was about four feet tall and thin, \"like a person draped in a close fitting sheet.\" It was seen only briefly. She then noticed a bright white object moving about, approaching to within 200 feet before going away. It was about 20 feet in diameter and 25-30 feet off the ground. Later, she saw a \"little blue green thing\" look in an open door. It was about 2.5 feet tall and had stumpy arms, and a face with \"spiky things at the tops and side of the head.\" It quickly disappeared from sight. UFO sightings occurred about the same time in nearby Athens and elsewhere. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6899",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-36; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of the Humanoids" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/16/1973",
  "desc" : "Later this night a cab driver reported that he was confronted by a blue, oblong UFO that landed in front of his cab on Interstate 90 between Gulfport and Biloxi, Mississippi. His car stalled and its lights and radio died. He heard a tapping on the windshield and saw a crab-like thing with two shiny spots for eyes. The driver reportedly later confessed to a hoax, but this has never been confirmed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6900",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-34; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of the Humanoids" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/16/1973",
  "desc" : "A woman was abducted from her home in Lehi, Utah as well as possibly three of her children and a neighbor boy, and given a medical examination on board a craft. Carrying a \"machine\" of some sort, three beings lifted the woman from a couch and carried her by the arms. Her next memory was of a big, bright room with lots of \"lights and buttons\" and glass tubes containing liquid. She observed four or five humanoids on the craft and at least two human like beings. The humanoids did not communicate with her, were coldly efficient, and made her feel like a guinea pig. They were 40-5 feet tall, with head coverings, no noses, long fish like mouths, orange hands (gloves?) with two or three big claws or fingers that opened \"like a clasp.\" They had large oval eyes that wrapped around the side of the head. The pupils were big, black, and round and move a lot. Their suits were a fluorescent 'silvery and blue,\" in contrast to the three beings that took her from her home who wore shiny, bright white uniforms. During the exam she was hooked up to a machine, probed with needles, given a blood pressure test and a gynecological exam. The beings were able to read her mind. One of the humans was bald, about 55, and talked with her and helped during the exam. They gave her a shot to make her forget, and then carried her out a door to be reunited with her children. The incident took between 45 minutes to an hour. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6901",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-37; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of the Humanoids" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/16/1973",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. a UFO occupant was sighted at the Istrana NATO Air Base in Campania, Italy. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6902",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted Bloecher, MUFON UFO Symposium Proceedings 1975, p. 76; J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, Volume 5, 1974, case 727" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/16/1975",
  "desc" : "In Davis, California at 8:20 p.m. seven witnesses including the main witness named Landeros sighted two UFOs maneuvering in the sky. The first object was triangular in shape with white and yellow lights. It went down and up rapidly, then back-and-forth. The second UFO was a domed disc; it came from same direction as the first and had red, green, and blue lights spinning on its rim. It hovered, tilted, and shot off toward the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6903",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "CUFOS News Bulletin, February 1976, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/16/1985",
  "desc" : "A delta-shaped UFO flew over the beach at West Haven, Connecticut at 11:30 p.m. The witness received burns on his body that resembled a sunburn while standing under the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6904",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George C. Andrews, Extra-Terrestrials Among Us, p. 314" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/16/1990",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. a woman in Dallas, Oregon heard dogs barking, then saw a domed disc-shaped object approach, making a whirring sound. She and her father watched it pass low over their house, move off into the distance and out of sight. Their houselights dimmed when it passed overhead. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6905",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Skip Schultz, MUFON field investigations case file, case # 901207; MUFON UFO Journal, February 1991" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/16/1997",
  "desc" : "In Dir Al Awsan, Israel a young girl, Miss Suha A'anam, was standing on her second floor balcony at night when an unknown alien looking figure suddenly began pulling on her left arm. She screamed hysterically alerting her neighbors to the scene. She was taken to the nearby Tulkarem hospital with scratches on her arm. A neighbor told police that she heard a noise like a helicopter, looked out her window and saw \"a whirlpool in the air, spreading ash everywhere\" opposite the witness's balcony. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6906",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, case # 3773, citing Israeli UFO Research" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/16/1999",
  "desc" : "A white light paced a truck in Burnaby, British Columbia at 4:25 a.m., then ejected other satellite objects. There was a power failure simultaneously in the area. The event lasted 15 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6907",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, Canadian UFO Survey 1999, citing UFOBC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/17/1952",
  "desc" : "At 12:50 a.m. in Oloron-Sainte-Marie, Alpes-Maritimes, France a whitish cylinder-shaped UFO hovered at a 45 degree angle in the sky with 30 other UFOs in front of it. Through binoculars the small objects were made out to be red spheres with a yellow ring around them. Angel hair filament material fell to the ground. The fibers resembled wool or nylon strands, except when balled together became gelatinous, and sublimed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6908",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, The Truth About Flying Saucers, p. 153; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 100; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 62; Roberto Pinotti, FSR, May-June1970, p. 7; UNICAT, case 641" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/17/1952",
  "desc" : "At 9:15 p.m. in Taos, New Mexico four USAF officers observed a round, bright blue light moved from north to northeast at an elevation of 45 degrees for 2-3 seconds and then burnt out. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6909",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/17/1952",
  "desc" : "In Killeen, Texas two ministers, Reverends Greenwalt and Kluck, sighted ten lights, or a rectangle of lights, moving more or less straight and level through the sky for 5 seconds at 10:15 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6910",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/17/1952",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. in Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico a military witness sighted what looked like a white streamer move in an arc through the sky at an estimated 3,000 mph. The sighting lasted for 20 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6911",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/17/1954",
  "desc" : "Leon B., a city councilor in St-Cyr-sur-Mer, France saw a circular, orange craft take off from the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6912",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 232" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/17/1954",
  "desc" : "Manuel Madeira saw a landed object while out hunting in O Alvito, Portugal. It took off and flew away as he approached it, rose quickly into the sky, and was lost to sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6913",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 232, case 278" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/17/1954",
  "desc" : "In Cabasson, France a 65-year-old man was hunting with his dog at 2:30 p.m. near the junction of the Brillance Canal and the Durance River. He saw a gray object, about four meters long and one meter high on the ground and 40 meters away. It had a dome from which two helmeted figures emerged. The witness fled, but his dog started toward the object. The dog soon retreated, walking awkwardly as if partially paralyzed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6914",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 232, case 279; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0310" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/17/1954",
  "desc" : "A man was returning from fishing along the canal at Reims, Marne, France in the earlty evening when he saw a brightly lit cigar-shaped object resting on the grass near the canal. As he approached he saw it was about 26 feet long and 7 feet high. From one end came “phosphorescent” lights, which reflected on the metallic hull of the object. A door appeared from which emerged three hairy dwarves, about 3 feet 9 inches tall, walking “crab-wise,” or sideways. Then an even smaller being, a little more than a meter tall appeared, whose lower legs appeared transparent. The witness tried to get closer, but the beings rushed back inside the object at surprising speed. Just then the witness was paralyzed by a red beam of light coming from a porthole in the craft, which turned yellow. The object took off and flew rapidly towards Tinquex. The witness was then able to recover his freedom of movement. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6915",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-31 (A0340); Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 206" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/17/1954",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. three witnesses in Dole Gray, Jura department, France reported watching a luminous object maneuver in the sky, changing colors for ten minutes. Each color lasted several minutes. It finally shot away at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6916",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 187" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/17/1954",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. in Varigney, Haute-Saone department, France several witnesses, among them policeman Beuclair, saw a bright red dome-shaped object descend to ground level 20 meters away. The underside displayed red and white lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6917",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 188; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 232, case 280; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case 56" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/17/1954",
  "desc" : "At 7:20 p.m. a luminous orb descended over Naples, Italy. It stopped and hovered just five meters above the ground. It rose again, then flew away to the north, generating a great deal of national excitement and press coverage. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6918",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 3977" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/17/1954",
  "desc" : "Cape Massulo, Italy. On the Isle of Capri an artist, Raffael Castelle, saw a disc five meters in diameter land on the property of Curzio Malaparte on this night. Upon approaching it he discovered it was not a helicopter as he first thought, and he saw four dwarfs wearing coveralls emerge from it. After 30 minutes the craft made a soft whirring sound and rose vertically, leaving blue sparks. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6919",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "France Soir, October 20, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 232-233, case # 281; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-103 (A0311)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/17/1954",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. several people in the town of Ascoli Pisceno, Marche, Italy witnessed an umbrella-shaped disc that slowed down, then shot straight up vertically. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6920",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Maurizio Verga, ITACAT, citing Voce Adriatic" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/17/1965",
  "desc" : "A domed, disc-shaped object with red lights around the edge zig-zagged below the clouds in Tully, Queensland, Australia on this day. It had landing gear displayed underneath. At 7:45 p.m. a Mr. Cock witnessed a flight of seven UFOs which passed overhead, then circled the city of Cairns, Queensland. They did not keep in a perfect line, but 1-2 dropped out of place from time to time. They flew off to the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6921",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 152, 155" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/17/1965",
  "desc" : "At 7:15 p.m. a couple saw four disc-shaped objects flying in a half wing formation pass over La Jolla, California.  ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6922",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, report uploaded April 16, 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/17/1966",
  "desc" : "Two bright red lights with dim bluish white lights in between, which moved as if attached to one object, passed directly overhead in Chelmsford, Massachusetts at 9:05 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6923",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Folwer, UFOs:  Interplanetary Visitors, p. 342" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/17/1967",
  "desc" : "On this day in Shillong, India an object at 500 feet altitude swooped down to ground level and damaged vegetation, then \"sucked and churned the water\" over a pond. It finally sped off. There were many witnesses to the event. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6924",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 228" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/17/1967",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. a large orange ball hovered over a corral in Roosevelt, Utah. In a few minutes it was joined by a second one. They left together flying to the east and out of sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6925",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Frank B. Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, Appendix case 54" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/17/1970",
  "desc" : "A very large, shiny ovoid object like a giant mirror in the sky was observed for a few seconds over Castel, South Guernsey Island, The Channel Islands, Great Britain. It rapidly shrank down to a small ball and vanished. The sky then turned pink. There were three witnesses in their twenties, named Gavey and Page. The sighting lasted several seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6926",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Guernsey Evening Post, October 19, 1970; FSR, January-February 1971, p. 32" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/17/1971",
  "desc" : "Two boys in Leicester, England reported that they witnessed an object in the sky that bobbed up-and-down starting at 6:30 p.m. It turned red in color when it ascended, then turned white when it descended. When white it was so bright it hurt their eyes. They watched for 10 minutes before it went behind a tree. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6927",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, July 1972, p. 28" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/17/1973",
  "desc" : "There are 113 cases recorded in the UFOCAT database of UFO reports and close encounters on this day and night. There was one from Sweden and two from England, and the rest were from the United States. The common perception was that the UFO wave was concentrated in the South and the Midwestern States, but there were 10 reports from California including six close encounters. The state with the most reports was Tennessee, with 16, followed by Ohio, with 15. Robert Gribble's UFO Reporting Center in Seattle, Washington received many reports, including a landing report with traces in Uniontown, Ohio at 7 p.m. and a vehicle interference CE-II report from Midland, Ohio at 8:30 p.m. At 7 p.m. CDT a car was also pursued south of Memphis, Tennessee by a metallic UFO emitting a beam of light. There were also aircraft UFO close encounters over Anaheim, California at 2 p.m.; Shreveport, Louisiana on this evening; and Johnson City, Tennessee at 9 p.m.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6928",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "10/17/1973",
  "desc" : "Shortly after midnight Pat Roach and her children Bonnie and Debbie were abducted and taken aboard a UFO in Lehi, Utah. They experienced 45 minutes of missing time; they found they had pin-prick like marks in a triangle on their arms, and recalled going through physical examinations. Debbie was ill at the time, and reportedly was healed as a result of her abduction experience. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6929",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John F. Schuessler, UFO-Related Human Physiological Effects, p. 57; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 340, based on investigation by James Harder" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/17/1973",
  "desc" : "At three o'clock in the morning a woman in Pikesville, Maryland was awakened by a sound like an explosion. She heard a loud humming sound, walked out onto her front porch. There she saw a red, transparent ovoid object, 15 feet long and 6-8 feet high. On top was a bubble. Inside she saw a human figure standing up. Eighteen hours later, at 9 p.m. in Warner Robins, Georgia a cigar-shaped object chased a vehicle, making a humming sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6930",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-38; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/17/1973",
  "desc" : "At 5:40 a.m. near Crooked Mountain, Pennsylvania a small circular object with rotating lights hovered over a car being driven by a 47-year-old man. It caused the interior of the car to heat up. The car spun around 180 degrees although the driver had not turned the steering wheel. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6931",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 58; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 274" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/17/1973",
  "desc" : "A circular, copper-colored UFO hovered just off the ground in Watauga, Tennessee on this afternoon while a six foot tall being reached out of a doorway and tried to grab two children. It had two claw-like hands and blinking eyes. At least six other reports of UFOs came from the same area on the same day. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6932",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-40; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/17/1973",
  "desc" : "On this evening a silver colored, oval-shaped object landed on US Route 29 near Danielsville, Georgia about 300 feet ahead of Paul Brown's car, forcing him to make an immediate stop. Two small 4 1/2 foot tall beings clad in silver suits and white gloves appeared underneath the UFO. They had reddish faces and white hair. When Mr. Brown stepped halfway out of his car with a gun in his hand the beings turned and re-entered the craft, which took off with a whooshing sound. Brown fired several shots at it with no apparent effect. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6933",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-42; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/17/1973",
  "desc" : "A 50 foot wide UFO hovered two to three feet above Highway 82 near Eupora, Mississippi at twilight, seemingly suspended on a \"beam of light.\" The primary witness's car lights and engine died when it was 100 yards from the craft. Another car stopped just behind him. A second UFO hovered about 60 feet above the first, illuminating it with a light. Both craft were similar in appearance, like inverted cups, and had greenish blue flashing lights. A catfish like creature came out from the top of the lower UFO, holding onto a handrail. It had gray, fish-like skin, a wide mouth, one glowing eye, flipper like feet and webbing between its legs like a \"flying squirrel.\" It had feather like objects on its back, which opened and closed when it moved. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6934",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-44; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/17/1973",
  "desc" : "Two men were driving on Route 23 toward New York City from work when they saw a large, round, silver craft hovering over a field near Wayne, New Jersey. The UFO landed, so they stopped and got out of their car. But then the driver then got scared and he decided to drive off. The other man stayed behind and conversed with seven human-like beings, four men and three women, who got out of the UFO. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6935",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-39; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/17/1973",
  "desc" : "Later this same night Police Chief Jeff Greenhaw of Falkville, Alabama photographed a 5 1/2 foot tall being in a crinkly looking silvery suit after investigating a reported UFO landing. The Chief stopped his car in the road and the thing moved slowly like a robot toward the car. When 10 feet away it turned and began running. The Chief pursued it in his patrol car, but the being accelerated and disappeared when the car spun off the road. \"He was running in a very odd manner, from side to side, arms down to his sides, and it looked as if he had springs under his feet to propel him. He could take 10 feet in one leap.\" The photo is regarded by some UFO investigators as a hoax, as showing a man wrapped in aluminum foil. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6936",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-41; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/17/1973",
  "desc" : "Late on this night Clarence Patterson said he and his pickup truck were sucked up into a huge cigar-shaped object with a green light near Loxley, Alabama. He was pulled out of the truck by six robot-like beings that seemed to read his mind. The next thing he remembered he was back on the highway going about 90 mph in the truck. He may have been onboard for up to 30 minutes. A sulphur-like smell was noted during the encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6937",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-43; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/17/1976",
  "desc" : "At 10:40 a.m. at Akita Airport, Japan Captain Masara Saito, age 34, an airline pilot for Toa Airlines, situated in an airliner on the runway and preparing to takeoff, and the control tower observed a glowing yellow disc, like two plates rim-to-rim. It hovered to the south near the airport for five minutes, then flew away toward the sea. Over 50 people witnessed the UFO. The object was estimated to be 16 feet in diameter, at an estimated altitude of 1500 meters from the ground. \"It was something I had never seen before,\" said Captain Saito. Tazawa Takumi, air traffic controller on duty, who observed the object through binoculars, said it looked like \"two plates placed together, with the top one inverted.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6938",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, October 1991, p. 22; National Enquirer, January 4, 1977; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 134" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/17/1977",
  "desc" : "Uccle, Belgium. On this evening a blinding red nocturnal light hovered silently for an hour. Then it went to the west, turned to the north, and had two more nocturnal lights circling it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6939",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, March 1978, p. 2; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 191, UNICAT, case # 176" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/17/1981",
  "desc" : "Abel Boro was hunting with his friend Ribamar Ferreira in the rain forest in Matoes, near Parnarama, Maranhao State, Brazil when they saw a bright star that descended and hovered over the two terrified men, focusing its light on Boro. He climbed a tree and Ferreira ran away. The object hovered over the tree, spinning around and doing something bad to Boro, who was shaking with fear. His body was glittering. When Ferreira came back with help, Boro was dead; his body was all white and he reportedly didn't have a drop of blood left in him. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6940",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John F. Schuessler, UFO-Related Human Physiological Effects, p. 95; National Enquirer, December 29, 1981; FSR, March 1989; Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact, p. 188" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/17/1983",
  "desc" : "At 6:50 p.m. an oyster-shaped object passed over a house at 2000 feet altitude in Bedhampton, Hampshire, England. It was described as silent, very bright, with five lights by the two witnesses, two men named Woods and Waters. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6941",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Doris Graziano, APRO Bulletin, July 1984, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/17/1992",
  "desc" : "At 4:00 p.m. a large green, vertical, cylindrical object with thin legs was sighted moving north between Chichester and Midhurst, West Sussex, England. It moved slowly at 30 mph at only 100 feet altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6942",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, January 1993" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/17/1993",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 a.m. an eleven-year-old girl and her cousin saw a gray, saucer-shaped object  with lights on the bottom in Connersville, Indiana. Three lights emerged from a fog and circled a field for three minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6943",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "T. David Spencer & Donald Worley, MUFON UFO Journal, January 1995, p. 16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/17/1999",
  "desc" : "At 8:25 p.m. two cylinder-shaped crafts were seen maneuvering over a road near Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Two vehicles stalled as the objects approached and several of the witnesses felt dizzy in the presence of the objects. The objects were silver in color and highly polished. Each object had a row of about 13 yellow-orange lights. There was also a blue haze around one of the objects. Also, at least two silhouettes of humanoid beings with large heads were seen in each of the crafts. The eyes of the beings were red and fiery, and were like slits. The UFOs did not land, but hovered just above the ground. There was a sudden sound like thunder, and the objects abruptly vanished. Scorch marks were reported to be found on the ground near where the objects had hovered. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6944",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1999 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/17/2005",
  "desc" : "In Welland, Niagara County, Ontario three witnesses reported seeing a bright white light at 7:00 p.m., which when it approached turned out to be a triangular craft with three lights on the bottom. It made no noise, and had red, blue and little white lights on it. The object rose up into the clouds. The sighting lasted 15-20 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6945",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2005 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 101; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, October 2005 webpage, report uploaded October 20, 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/18/1927",
  "desc" : "A man by the man of Sweed witnessed a hexagonal flying craft with rivets and a dome that was flying low over a road in Bakersfield, California. A human looking occupant was seen inside a window. The object shot away extremely fast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6946",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/18/1954",
  "desc" : "Mrs. Paquet was tending her cows in a field in Moutier-Rozeille, Creuse, France at around ten o'clock in the morning when she suddenly heard a peculiar sounding language which she could not understand. The conversation came from a nearby heather field. Then two men approached to within 50 meters of Mrs. Paquet. One of them turned towards the mill of Mr. Blanchon, emitting a yell and making gestures. Two more men next showed up, and walked in the direction of the Rozeille River, where they then joined the first two and all four vanished. Fiteen minutes later Mrs. Paquet's dog began to bark furiously, and she see a silent dark cigar-shaped object rise into the air and disappear towards the southwest. The men were approximately 1.80 meters in height and wore dark blue combinations suits. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6947",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, pp. 184-185, citing La Montagne, October 27, 1954" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/18/1954",
  "desc" : "Cisternes-la-Foret, Puy-de-Dome, France. Messrs. J. Augard and J. Chanzotte saw an oval object with a dome, emitting a bright white light and resting in a field. When they approached it the object rose vertically, leaving a reddish trail, and flew off toward the northeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6948",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 198; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 233" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/18/1954",
  "desc" : "At Pont l’Abbe d’Arnoult, Charente-Maritime, France Mr. Meunier, a construction supervisor, was terrified by a strange craft, which rose vertically from the ground. He said he had never been so afraid, even during the war. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6949",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 196; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 233, case 283" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/18/1954",
  "desc" : "Driving a van four miles from Coheix, Puy-de-Dome, France Mr. Bachelard, age 42, was going around a bend in the road at 5:30 p.m. when he felt half paralyzed and his van's motor began missing and slowed to 20 mph. He then saw hovering in a nearby field a motionless, silent elongated or flattened object 30 feet long. A police investigation was conducted. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6950",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 198; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 74; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/18/1954",
  "desc" : "An anonymous schoolboy returning from his evening studies in Louvigne-Du-Desert, Ille-Et-Vilaine, France was approaching the hamlet of Salmoniere when he suddenly saw a small being with an odd face, which frightened him enormously. The creature entered a machine that was lying in a ditch, and then the machine rose up in the air at a tremendous rate of speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6951",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/18/1954",
  "desc" : "Fontenay-Torey, Oise, France. At 8:40 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Lherminier saw a red, cigar-shaped object dive toward them with a reddish trail and land near the road. Upon reaching the top of the hill, they were confronted by a bulky human figure about one meter (3.3 feet) tall. The creature wore a helmet and his eyes were glowing with an orange light. One witness fainted on the spot. Four others saw the object in flight from separate locations. The countryside was illuminated over 2 or 3 kilometers. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6952",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 233; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-104" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/18/1954",
  "desc" : "At 8:45 p.m. three witnesses observed a cylinder or rocket shaped device with several illuminated portholes following a complex trajectory along a river in Formerie, Oise department, France. The craft then landed close to the witnesses and several humanoids described as about 1.50 meters in height, with dark skin and wearing metallic helmets and metallic garments, exited the craft. As the witnesses watched stupefied, they suddenly experienced headaches and memory loss. Apparently they did not see the object and its occupants depart. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6953",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, citing Claude Poher, GEPA “Statistics from 735 UFO observations”" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/18/1954",
  "desc" : "In Royan, Charente-Maritime, France Mr. and Mrs. Labassiere and other witnesses saw two discs in the sky at 9:00 p.m, one orange and the other red, with a sort of luminous \"bridge\" between them. They landed, and one dwarf came out of each craft and went into the other without any sign. After this exchange of pilots both objects flew away with a tremendous flash. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6954",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 193; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 233, case 285" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/18/1954",
  "desc" : "At 10:45 p.m. Miss Marie Louise Bourriot saw a bright red light on Route N437 near an old factory in St.-Point Lake, Le Vezenay, Doubs, France. She was on a motorbike and saw that the luminous object was over the road. Next to it stood a man of normal stature in a trenchcoat. He was motionless, and he was joined by two dwarves who crossed the road ahead of her. She had to swerve to avoid hitting them.The craft took off, flying over the lake at a high speed. Small footprints were later found at the site. Jean-Luc Rivera thinks that woman was witnessing an abduction taking place, and that the man in trenchcoat was an abductee, and not one of the UFO occupants.  ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6955",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 97; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 197; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 233-234; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-106 (A0314); J. Tyrode, FSR Case Histories, October 1970, p. 16; Jerome Clark, Anomalist, April 2000, p. 20" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/18/1954",
  "desc" : "Sometime before midnight 15-year-old Albert Geraud was on his bicycle on route D216 between Andigne and Saint-Martin du Bois, France when he saw a light that turned from green to red. It descended in a jerky motion and landed on the road, revealing a saucer-shaped object giving off a red gleam on the ground. The panicked witness felt like his legs were paralyzed. Inside the object he could see a small being covered with hair, that stared at him with large eyes. Abruptly the object lifted off, emitting a strong gush of wind toward the teenager, and it zipped away in the direction of Lyon. After the incident the witness had to lie prostrate in bed for several days. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6956",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, pp. 182-183, citing Ouest France, October 20, 1954; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 2435, citing Figuet & Ruchon" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/18/1954",
  "desc" : "At just before midnight salesman Renzo Pugina, age 37, was parking his car in Erba, Como, Italy after returning home from seeing a movie. Pugina noticed a soft glow in the park of the villa, but he attributed this to the moon. After he had climbed a half-flight of stairs connecting the lane to the villa, he observed a strange figure at the top of the steps, near to a tree. The creature was 1.3 meters tall, and facing to the right. The creature was surrounded by a soft, warm light and appeared to be wearing armor. It wore a helmet with a transparent visor, and it seemed most of the light emitted by the creature was concentrated at the top of its head. Its upper body was covered in slightly luminous overalls comprised of metallic scales while the lower part was contained by a large “pipe” 50 cm high and 20 centimeters wide (no legs were visible). A much smaller pipe 1.5 meters in length was attached horizontally to the first one, just centimeters above the ground. Near the end of this pipe was a luminous disc “as large as a bicycle wheel.” Its upper part was dome-shaped and orientated horizontally over the pipe, but there was no contact between the two elements. Pugina continued to climb the steps, but after a few seconds, the creature rotated his trunk towards him. He also slowly rotated his head, as if manipulated by a mechanism. The creature held a flashlight type device in its right hand, and it was directed at the witness, who instantly felt paralyzed when struck by a beam of light. He remained unable to move for some time. Pugina noticed that the outer features of the creature’s face were rather normal yet striking, featuring almost no forehead and eyes that were almond-shaped. Its face was olive in shade “as if it had been splashed with motor oil.” Once Pugina was able to grasp a bunch of keys in his hand he regained control of his body . Pugina took a few more steps forward, pronouncing in Italian the word “Marte!” (Mars!). He did this because he thought the being was a Martian, and in order to tell him not to leave. The creature appeared to grimace, and when Pugina advanced another step the creature alighted one meter off the ground and flew away along the villa lane, maintaining a flight path below the tree branches. The flight produced a soft buzzing noise. Pugina ran after him, but the creature disappeared around a curve. The entire sighting lasted but a few minutes. His wife was at home asleep but she woke up when Pugina made a hasty entrance. She saw he was in shock and could not speak, and was shivering. Pugina’s wife said that her husband shivered the rest of the night. The press reported that Pugina remained in bed for two days after his encounter. Some form of trace material was found on the gravel lane of the villa the following day. It was odorless, dry and greaseless. A couple of days later this trace area had greatly expanded. The local Carabinieri claimed that Pugina was a “normal” individual not known to drink or to suffer from psychological problems. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6957",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, citing Maurizio Verga, When Saucers Came to Earth" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/18/1965",
  "desc" : "At 10:20 p.m. an oval-shaped object with a flashing red light on top and green, red and white lights around the perimeter was seen in Sharon, Massachusetts. It moved slowly 100 feet above ground, and only 500 yards away from the witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6958",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ray Fowler case files, report dated March 5, 1967" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/18/1967",
  "desc" : "At nine o’clock in the evening in Lake Charles, Louisiana John Herbert witnessed a bright, fiery ball that flashed four times while moving east, just above the treetops. The sighting lasted one minute. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6959",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/18/1973",
  "desc" : "On this evening two youths were chased by a white \"thing\" 3-4 feet tall on White Oak Mountain near Chatham, Virginia. The thing had a shimmering body, large head with no eyes, and ran sideways. A green hazy cloud was seen moving away. Several other reports of objects were made in the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6960",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-45; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/18/1973",
  "desc" : "Later this same night a tiny silver being was seen standing beside US Route 17 near Savannah Georgia. A line of autos slowed down to observed the humanoid, but no one left his car. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6961",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-46; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/18/1997",
  "desc" : "Near Huntsville, Texas 15-year-old Joanna Alice Stevenson was awoken around midnight to find several strange beings standing over her bed. They were humanoids with large craniums, small mouths, and two slits for a nose. She was terrified. She looked out her window and could see a UFO hovering right outside her bedroom window. The creatures that were examining her talked or communicated by using grunts that sounded like a foreign language. Her conscious memory suddenly stopped at this point, and she could only vaguely remember being poked and probed by the aliens. They took blood samples, then let her go by dropping her off in a large field, not far away from her rural home. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6962",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, citing I was abducted.com" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/19/1952",
  "desc" : "San Antonio, Texas. At 1:30 p.m. ex-USAF aircrewman Woolsey saw three circular aluminum objects, one of which was olive drab colored on the side. They flew in a rough V-formation. One object flipped slowly and another object stopped during the 3-4 minute sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6963",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2177; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: September-October, p. 77; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/19/1952",
  "desc" : "The crew of an USAF C-50 transport plane, flying 500 miles to the south of Hawaii at 6:58 p.m., sighted a round yellow light with a red glowing edge. The object was estimated to be 100 feet in diameter and it flew at 300-400 knots (350-450 mph). They watched it for 20 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6964",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2175; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 19; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: September-October, p. 77; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/19/1953",
  "desc" : "A near collision occurred between a UFO and an American Airlines DC-6 airliner at 12:10 a.m. over the Conowingo Dam near Baltimore, Maryland. The UFO, a dark mass with a blindingly bright white beam of light, was about the same size as the aircraft. Passengers were injured in the avoidance maneuver. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6965",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious Business, p. 67" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/19/1954",
  "desc" : "At 9:10 a.m. a silent aluminum colored cigar-shaped object flew to the southeast over Taza, Tetouan, Morocco, then curved its trajectory to the east, becoming spherical. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6966",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4005, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #228" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/19/1954",
  "desc" : "On this day two French Air Force jets chased a white disc-shaped object with colored lights over Avignon, Vaucluse, France.The flying disc easily outpaced them. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6967",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Orbit, November 1954, p. 5; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1954: October, p. 67" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/19/1954",
  "desc" : "At noon 70 people in the city of Amiens, Somme, France saw a fiery object spinning high in sky, shooting out green beams of light. Also, at the same time in Montandon, Haute-Marne, France a teenager saw a saucer-shaped object land by some woods near a pasture. A man wearing a white spacesuit exited the craft. His report was investigated by the police. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6968",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issues # 321 & 260" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/19/1954",
  "desc" : "Bruno Senesi saw two shining objects emitting smoke land in a field in Livorno, Tuscany, Italy. Out of the craft came several small, monstrous red beings that chased after him. Mr. Senesi was brought to a hospital in a state of great distress , where he tried to hide under a bed while screaming and trembling in terror. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6969",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 234, case 287, citing Il Messagero, October 20, 1954" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/19/1954",
  "desc" : "A 14-year-old girl in Montlandon, France reported seeing a strange disc-shaped object descend and land in a field next to some woods. A man dressed in a sort of white cassock or smock was seen briefly onboard the object. The craft immediately took off again and disappeared from sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6970",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, citing Raoul Robe, Regional Catalogue" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/19/1954",
  "desc" : "At 7:00 p.m. a disc-shaped object landed in a field in St. Avold, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France. Trees were scorched and the ground was plowed up at the landing site. Figures may have been seen. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6971",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 116" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/19/1954",
  "desc" : "At 7:20 p.m. Filippo Corridoni saw what he thought was a half empty balloon at ground level near the Isonzo River in Gorizia, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. Near it, a ten-meter wide disc-shaped object was resting on a strange frame. The upper part of the disc was white with a black dome, around which was a series of portholes. Some of the portholes gave off a very bright, bluish-white light that suddenly went out as the object took off. The disc rose vertically while spinning and pulling the balloon with it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6972",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 234, case 288, citing Il Messagero, October 21, 1954" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/19/1954",
  "desc" : "At 8:45 p.m a flaming object buzzed a truck driving in St. Didier-en-Velay, Haute-Loire, France causing the engine and headlights to die. They functioned again after the object departed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6973",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 115" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/19/1954",
  "desc" : "Also at 8:45 p.m. near St. Samson-La-Poterie, France 25-year-old Andre Vasseur and his wife were returning home on their tandem bicycle and were approaching the descent that precedes Hericourt-St. Samson when their attention was drawn to a hovering red cigar shape gleaming in the sky. The shiny cigar-shaped object plunged abruptly towards the ground at a terrific clip, leaving behind a red trail and disappearing behind a hedge a few hundred meters from the road. When the young couple arrived at the top of the hill, Mrs. Vasseur cried about when she was confronted by a strange being on the edge of the road, just inches from her handlebars. The figure was of human shape, but squat, and his head was capped with a helmet that came down to the shoulders. The strange being stood staring fixedly at her, and a pencil beam of orange light came from his eyes, which followed the woman. His wife lost consciousness and fell into her husband's arms, but Andre continued on with his wife. When he turned around to look back the being had still not moved. They both suffered from insomnia after the incident. Police reportedly found mysterious footprints at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6974",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, citing LDLN" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/19/1954",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. several UFOs flew over Bondowoso, East Java, Indonesia. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6975",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP files; Jacques Vallee citing Jimmy Guieu and Aime Michel" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/19/1954",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. in Fabriano, Marche, Italy two men, satirist Paolo Cutizi and writer Guilio Emery, were in a local park when they saw a disc-shaped object, six meters in diameter, hovering and emitting small violet flashes. On top of the object was a very tall antenna. Two small robot-like beings, 1.2 meters or four feet tall, descended from it on a long ladder. Their eyes were dark red and \"sharp.\" They spoke something that sounded like \"Dbanoda skigyay o dbano,\" then went back aboard their craft and flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6976",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 234, case 289, citing Il Messagero, October 24, 1954" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/19/1954",
  "desc" : "At 11:50 p.m. a disc or orb-shaped object was seen at ground level in some woods in Laqueuille, Puy-de-Dome, France. It was seen by two witnesses from a truck, and reportedly had an 'arc-welder' glare.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6977",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 115" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/19/1959",
  "desc" : "At 9:25 p.m. Captain F. A. Henney, an engineering instructor at the USAF Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado was flying a T-33 jet trainer over Plainville, Kansas at 9:25 p.m. when a bright yellow light came directly head-on at him. The T-33 pilot avoided it and the light then dimmed. The encounter lasted 30 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6978",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 6563; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns, p. 28" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/19/1959",
  "desc" : "Two teenagers were in Poquoson, Virginia at 6:15 in the evening when they saw a four foot wide black disc with a silver ring around it, hovering at eighty feet altitude and making a whirring noise. One of them took a shot at it with a rifle, and they heard a clank suggesting that the bullet hit a solid object, then the UFO disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6979",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Flying Saucer Review, November 1961, p.27; C. W. Fitch, APRO Bulletin, May 1963, p. 5; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: October-December, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/19/1968",
  "desc" : "At 1:30 a.m. a glowing white object seen in sky in West Quincy, Massachusetts. It changed shape from an oval to a cigar standing on end. At times a small blue light appeared underneath it. It blinked out when an airplane approached. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6980",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler case files, report dated November 22, 1968" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/19/1973",
  "desc" : "In West Melbourne, Florida a youth called the sheriff's department and said he had been watching television at 4:30 p.m. he looked out the window of his house and saw a UFO in his front yard. Apparently the craft just materialized on the ground and did not fly in. He told the department a creature got out that had silvery skin, crab-like claws, antennas, and looked into his living room window with \"scary eyes.\" The sheriff's department quotes him as saying the creature got back into the saucer-shaped object and flew off. It notes that during the same time there were other reports. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6981",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-119, citing a newspaper source" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/19/1973",
  "desc" : "On this evening in Draguignan, France four youths in two cars drove up a small mountain called Le Malmont to investigate the sighting of an orangish yellow UFO seen earlier in the day by a friend and his girlfriend. No UFO was seen, but a being was seen approaching the group silhouetted by a diffuse white glow. Later two of the witnesses saw three entities chasing their car. The entities were wearing one-piece suits with red lights at the waist level. They wore square helmets with luminous, rectangular eye slots. One of the beings wore something resembling a gas mask with a veil covering the face. Their gait was slow and mechanical. Meanwhile, the two witnesses in the other car twice saw two sets of \"red legs\" cross the road. A short while later their car was swung sideways across the road and then back again by some unseen force. Other effects included EM interference with the engines of both cars, a sensation of heat, an odor like burnt insulating tape, and one of the cars was shaken while parked. The beings made modulated whistling sounds. A powerful white light beam was also seen. No physical traces were found at any of the sites. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6982",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-49 (A1254); David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of the Humanoids, case 73-30; Jean Chasseigne, FSR, July 1974, p. 32" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/19/1973",
  "desc" : "In Goshen, Ohio a farmer was walking his dogs in a field in the early evening when they began to bark. Further ahead he saw a landed, round UFO, 40-45 feet in diameter, with white and blue lights around it. From the object's illumination he could see a ladder and two beings standing beside it. They were human like, about six feet tall. When they saw the farmer and his dogs they got into the UFO, which rose slowly with a low humming noise and then took off at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6983",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-50; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of the Humanoids" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/19/1973",
  "desc" : "A woman was alone traveling by car in Iowa when she noticed a bright light over the next approaching hill. She dimmed her lights and when she crested the hill she noticed a landed disc-shaped object in a nearby cornfield. She slowed her vehicle and saw that the UFO had a slight dome on top and was glowing with a blue light. She called her husband on her CB radio and described the object but soon static made it impossible to communicate by radio. She stopped the vehicle and the next thing she remembered was watching the object take off at high speed. Later under hypnosis the witness remembered seeing five figures standing around her car looking at her. They were about five feet tall with pasty white faces and huge elongated eyes. They had two holes for a nose and slit like mouths. Moments later she found herself inside the object where she saw walls, lots of machinery, and also a very bright light. She next found herself in a room with several monitor-like screens and two humanoids standing near her. These creatures seemed to have claw-like hands. One of the beings was described as more human looking, a female with long hair, a skirt, and a band around her head. The male beings wore one-piece silver metallic jump suits, with gloves, boots, and belts across the chest area. She remembers lying on a table and being forced to remove her clothing. After a physical examination she is led outside by two of the beings and floated to her vehicle. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6984",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1973, case # 1413; Kevin D. Randle, The October Scenario" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/19/1973",
  "desc" : "A woman was driving on Interstate 75 near Ashburn, Georgia when her engine, power brakes and steering quit. No UFO was seen, but a small, metallic man appeared after she had pulled her car to the side of the road. The being had a bubble-dome head or helment with rectangular eye openings. The head moved like a robot's. From the elbows down the arms were narrow and wrinkled, like a chicken's legs. It moved around the car, then was gone. Afterwards she found the engine billowing smoke and the hood intensely hot. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6985",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-47; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of the Humanoids" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/19/1973",
  "desc" : "On this night a farm couple in Copeland, North Carolina encountered a blue, oval-shaped UFO hovering near their mobile home. They then saw a three-foot tall humanoid in a gold metallic coverall standing directly below the object. Their dog fled the area, and didn't return until the next day. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6986",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-48; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/19/1997",
  "desc" : "The witness heard a strange noise in her kitchen in Crofton, Maryland at 2:00 a.m. Thinking it was her cat she went to investigate. At the entrance to her kitchen she encountered several humanoids, which she described as about five feet tall, with pale grayish skin and large black eyes. The humanoids seemed to be inspecting a silverware tray, sliding it back and forth. Suddenly one of the humanoids turned and saw the witness, who promptly fainted. After a few moments she came to lying on the floor of the kitchen. She looked up and saw three humanoids huddled together. Feeling a surge of terror she fainted again, but not before seeing a silvery flashing sphere hovering over her. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6987",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, case # 3193, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/19/1998",
  "desc" : "Several men were out elk hunting in an isolated area near Vernal, Utah when they saw what appeared to be a plane crashing. They left their truck and proceeded over a nearby ridge to investigate. As they got closer to the area they saw two more craft hovering over the area. On the ground they saw what appeared to be some \"people\" gathered around. They reported their sighting to the National UFO Reporting Center. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6988",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case #3192, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/19/1998",
  "desc" : "A witness at 9:30 p.m. in Defiance, Ohio was just pulling out of a driveway when he noticed a triangular craft with a light at each corner, two white and one blue. He pulled over to get a better look, and watched as it flew silently close to the ground and behind some trees. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6989",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 1998 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/19/2000",
  "desc" : "At ten o'clock in the evening a white object hovered low over a school in Chiu-Chiu, Atacama, Chile. Fresia Berlina Vega, a young woman, was playing with 10-year-old Valentina, daughter of a local schoolteacher, on the school grounds when they both saw a bright star-like light suddenly appear in the sky. The light quickly descended towards the witnesses, emitting bright blue, red and yellow flashes of light. They could see a huge round object, the size of a soccer field, that hovered just outside the school perimeter at 40 feet above the ground. Next, a noise like a thunder clap was heard, and a panel opened on the object and a bright beam of light shone down from the object illuminating both of them. Fresia felt a cold wave envelope her body. The beam of light then retreated back into the object and another thunderclap was heard. The object remained above the witnesses for a few more moments in which Fresia again felt a definite change of temperature, and she felt her head was swelling up. Momentarily, she was overcome with a state of complete relaxation, and she felt a prickling sensation invade her entire body. Meanwhile, Valentina felt the same presence and complained of a headache and discomfort in her nose; she was later to suffer from insomnia. They may have experienced missing time and had a brief abduction experience at this time, because they were both found dazed and shivering. As the object moved away towards a nearby cemetery both witnesses felt a slight tremor in the earth. Fresia reported some beneficial aftereffects from the encounter, because a persistent back pain went away, but she also experienced irregularities with her menstrual cycle. She felt also more relaxed and at ease. She would have peculiar \"dreams\" in which several short dark human-like figures with large heads would approach her and ask her how she was feeling. They reassured her that things were going to improve in her life. She further described the beings as about 1.50 meters in height, wearing thick soled boots. She is convinced that she will see them again some day. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6990",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), February 2001, p. 29; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case # 3463, citing Ramon Navia Osorio" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/19/2005",
  "desc" : "At 8:45 p.m. a white sphere flew over the witness in Terrace, British Columbia, then stopped, hovered, and finally flew away again. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6991",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2005 Canadian UFO Survey, case 102, citing HBCCUFO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/19/2005",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. in Whitesburg, Kentucky a black triangle with red lights on the corners and two brighter smaller \"escorts\" flew silently overhead in the night sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6992",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2005 webpage, report uploaded November 3, 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/20/1950",
  "desc" : "Four people flying over Camaguey province, Cuba in a Beech Bonanza aircraft sighted a circular object with a diameter of 70-80 feet flying at terrific speed at 7:40 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6993",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 13; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: August-December, p. 45" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/20/1954",
  "desc" : "Lucien Fisch saw an object land near Route N83 in Issenheim, Haut-Rhin, France. It was luminous. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6994",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 234, case 290" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/20/1954",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 a.m. Lazlo Ujvari, age 40, saw a dark domed disc in Raon-l'Etape, Vosges, France that made a whining noise. He was suddenly confronted by a man wearing a jacket, boots, and some type of cloth headgear, like a pilot's leather helmet. The man pointed a gun at him and said something he could not understand. When Ujvari spoke to him in Russian, the man answered in the same language. He asked whether he was in Spain or Italy, and how far he was from Germany. When he asked the time, Ujvari said \"2:30.\" The man took out a watch and said \"You lie, it's 4:00.\" Then he wanted to know how far away and in what direction was Marseilles. He forced Ujvari to walk with him on the road, and they soon came to a gray craft with an antenna on top. The man left him there and went aboard. When Ujvari had walked about 200 meters from the craft he heard a soft whistling sound and saw it fly straight up, then take an oblique trajectory. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6995",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 235, case 291; Michel Carrouges, Les Apparitions de Martiens, p. 99" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/20/1954",
  "desc" : "On or about this date, in Binghamton, New York a Mr. White reported that he met two humanoids dressed in metallic snowsuits on the golf course. They spoke English with a peculiar accent, and said they would intervene in the event of a nuclear war. The UFO they arrived in was round, disc-shaped with a glass ring on the rim. Ground traces included burnt soil in a circle 14 feet in diameter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6996",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP case files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/20/1954",
  "desc" : "During a rainstorm on this late afternoon in the Lusigny Forest in Aube department, France Roger Reveille saw an oval flying object close to the ground. It was six meters long and hovered at treetop level. He felt intense heat coming from it. It shot up vertically at great speed. Inside the woods the heat had become intolerable and a cloud of dense smoke had formed under the rain. After 15 minutes the witness was able to approach the site, and he found the trees, grass, and ground perfectly dry. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6997",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 204; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 235, case 292" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/20/1954",
  "desc" : "Several unknown objects maneuvered for two hours near the village of St-Valery, Somme, France. One of them was very brilliant and landed in a pasture. Two others were seen near a cliff in Mers, France. They appeared to be in communication with UFOs in another group by means of light signals. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6998",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 235, case 293; Paris Presse, October 22, 1954" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/20/1954",
  "desc" : "In Turquenstein, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France at 6:30 p.m. Mr. Schoubrenner, a 25-year-old truck driver, saw a bright light in the distance and soon found his road blocked by a strange object. The engine died, and he felt paralyzed: \"My hands were as though glued to the wheel.\" He also felt a sensation of heat inside his vehicle. The craft looked like an inverted cone, the lower part phosphorescent, the middle dull, and the top luminous with a yellow or orange point. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_6999",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, pp. 203-204; Flying Saucers, September 1962, p. 34; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 74; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 235, case 294" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/20/1954",
  "desc" : "On this evening Mr. Renzo Pugina, age 37, had just parked his car in the garage at his residence in Parravicino d'Erba, Italy when he saw a strange being wearing a \"scaly\" luminous suit. It stood near a tree and was about 1.3 meters (4.3 feet) tall. The entity had what looked like a flashlight, and aimed a beam of light from it at him. He felt paralyzed and was unable to move until he made a clenching motion with his fist on the garage keys that he held in his hand. Freed from the temporary paralysis he ran to attack the intruder, who fled with a soft whirring sound. An oily spot was found at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7000",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 235-236, case 295" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/20/1955",
  "desc" : "Manuel Gonzalez Vazquez and his neighbor Erminda where in a field tending some cattle in Portela de Pau, Orense, Spain in the late afternoon when they felt a slight tremor that lasted a few minutes. Moments later they saw an undetermined figure inside a “screen-like” image in the sky. The figure had a definite human shape. Seconds later they spotted a second flying figure approaching under the clouds. As the figure approached they could tell that it was a female figure, flying at three meters above the ground. It resembled an 18-year-old girl, and was a little over a meter in height. Her hair was gathered up in a bun and she was wearing a light turquoise colored cloak. The woman flew by the two witnesses and turned to look at them but did not say anything. It eventually glided away and disappeared from sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7001",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1955, citing Gaceta OVNI" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/20/1973",
  "desc" : "In the evening Mr. Mars Walker, a student at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia observed a vague, purple shape about 50 yards from the house. A humanoid being with tentacle-like protrusions about the head came from it . He had hands with three or four fingers. It wore a belt that had several odd objects hanging from it, and appeared to be taking readings with them. The being completely ignored the witness for the 30 minute period that the encounter lasted. It was bathed in a green light from the UFO. Eventually it was \"taken back into the vessel.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7002",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-51; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/20/1973",
  "desc" : "The witness, a young women college student, had left college for home and was then reported missing, her car having been found abandoned in Indiana with the hood up by the side of the road. She turned up four days later at a police station, and reported that she had been driving along a deserted highway when her vehicle's engine sputtered and died at around ten p.m. She stepped out to check on it and was suddenly grabbed from behind by three creatures. She described them as wearing white face masks, or having white faces like molded plastic masks. Their eyes were large and set close to the sides of the head, and they had three-fingered, claw-like hands. They all wore metallic blue coveralls with a white stripe down the side. She was floated onboard a domed, disc- shaped object that was sitting on a nearby field. She was forced into a room, stripped, and then strapped to a table. Then she was given an extensive medical exam in which several needles were inserted into her body. She was left briefly alone in the brightly lit room, and then strapped to a chair. There several electrode-like devices were attached to her body and the creatures interrogated her at length. She was later given water and some food, which she did not eat, and released on a lonely stretch of road. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7003",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1973, case #1414, citing Kevin D. Randle, The October Scenario" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/20/1973",
  "desc" : "A 48-year-old homemaker in Gerena, Sevilla province, Spain was in her kitchen washing dishes at 11:15 p.m. when she saw her patio suddenly light up. She next saw an oval-shaped object descend and emit a loud grinding noise. On each end of the object there was a bright red square, while the object's central section appeared transparent. She saw two dark figures inside the UFO. The object descended very close to the ground, emitting a loud sound, and then then shot upwards while increasing in luminescence. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7004",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1973, case #81, citing Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos & Fernandez Peri, Enciclopedia De Los Encuentros Cercanos con OVNIS" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/20/1973",
  "desc" : "Late at night nine campers, a group of students led by three adults, had gone to El Yunque Mountain Park in Puerto Rico hoping to \"contact\" UFOs and their occupants. They made camp high up on a mountain trail. Mr. Heriberto Ramos, the group's leader, said that at one point during their ascent they met three persons heading down the trail. There was nothing \"alien\" about the trio aside from the fact that they all dressed exactly alike and had similar features. One of the group members, who had stayed behind, took a photo of the three mysterious walkers, but only a patch of mist appeared on the developed film.<br/><br/> Later that night the campers found themselves surrounded by five or six vaguely humanoid figures who darted about the thick vegetation. They had claw-like hands and elongated ears. Some of these \"monsters\" blocked the precipice flanked trail that constituted the only way down from the mountain. Mr. Ramos tried walking cautiously toward pne being, hoping to show that his intentions were amicable. He got to within ten feet from the creature, and was able to describe it as having a triangular head and \"extraordinary\" eyes. He even he managed to touch the strange being, which did not stir. Its skin felt neither cold nor rubbery. Almost simultaneously, one of his students lit a large, powerful flashlight flooding the area with light. The clawed creature reacted by racing away from the scene, literally tearing a path right through the dense vegetation.<br/><br/> The path led to a 100 foot drop, giving Ramos the impression that they had frightened the being into jumping. But to his amazement it reappeared instantly at the side of its companions, who were still blocking the downhill path. From then until the sky began to lighten the besieged campers were watched by the beings, who remained in constant motion around them. Terror had led one of the students to bang himself repeatedly on the head with a flashlight, hoping to escape the situation by passing out. Seized by an inexplicable urge, another camper expressed a desire to take a walk in the woods. Fearing for his mental state, one of his companions offered to walk with him. Before they'd taken more than a dozen steps, they found what could only be described as a glimmering, polychromatic \"egg\" lying on the ground. While entranced by the curious flashing object, neither one felt brave enough to touch it.<br/><br/> Later that night they saw it in the claws of one of the alien creatures. At sunrise the campers made a mad dash for their cars that were parked at the bottom of the mountain. No trace of the aliens remained aside from their footprints, which were much larger than a human's and appeared to have been made by heavy creatures. The campers made plaster casts of the prints and photographed them. These materials were stolen by unknown parties some months after the incident. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7005",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-52; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids; also Scott Corrales, Sebastian Robiou Lamarche, & Jorge Martin" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/21/1952",
  "desc" : "Persons at the Knoxville, Tennessee airport weather station saw six white lights flying in a loose formation for one to two minutes. The unknown lights made a shallow dive at a weather balloon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7006",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/21/1954",
  "desc" : "An egg-shaped object, about 5.5 meters in diameter, hovered and landed near the road in Pons, France. Two dwarf humanoids, about 1.25 meters (4.1 feet) tall, emerged from it, and went back inside almost immediately. The craft took off vertically leaving a red trail. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7007",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 236" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/21/1954",
  "desc" : "A young man walking in a field in Melito, Italy heard a rustling noise and saw a strange craft land nearby. Getting closer to investigate, he saw a pilot with a diving suit coming out of the craft, which emitted bronze-green rays of light, flooding the whole countryside. The witness was paralyzed. A dog barking about 100 m away caused the rapid escape of the pilot into the craft, which took off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7008",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 236" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/21/1954",
  "desc" : "Ranton, England. Near Shrewsbury, England Jennie Roestenberg and her two children observed a disc-shaped, aluminium object hovering above their house at 4:45 p.m. Through two transparent panels they saw two men with white skin, long hair to their shoulders, and very high foreheads. They wore transparent helmets and turquoise-blue clothing, resembling ski suits. The object hovered at a tilted angle while the two occupants looked at the scene \"sternly, not in an unkind fashion, but almost sadly, compassionately.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7009",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon Creighton, FSR Special Issue #1: The Humanoids, p. 4; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 236" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/21/1954",
  "desc" : "Criteuil-la-Madeleine, France. The car driven by a bricklayer, Mr. Fillonnau, stopped when a large fiery ball flew near it. A violent air displacement was felt. \"The battery was dead and the headlights were burned out. \" Thorough police investigation failed to identify the cause of the phenomenon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7010",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 236; Gregory Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Report" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/21/1954",
  "desc" : "Pouzou, France. Between Serifere and Paille, a man from Cherbonnieres suddenly felt painful pricklings similar to electric shocks and his 4-year-old child started crying. They felt increasing pain as the car went on, and suddenly the engine died and the lights went off. They were blinded by a strong red light, which turned orange. It came from an object hovering above the road, and everything returned to normal when it went away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7011",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 204; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 236-237" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/21/1963",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. six strange objects were observed for the next 40 minutes, causing a local panic in Trancas, Argentina. One UFO hovered at ground level above some railroad tracks, while another, showing a dome and portholes, was near a house. When witnesses flashed a light at the object the house was flooded with a strong beam. The temperature rose inside the house and they could smell a strong sulphurous odor. Figures were seen in the vicinity of the first disc. All six objects were about eight meters in diameter, had a white and a red light beam, and left a cloud of white smoke. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7012",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 584" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/21/1973",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 a.m. Mrs. Heitfeld, a resident of the Cincinnati suburb of Covedale, Ohio awoke with a terrible thirst. A bright light outside her house then attracted her. She drew the curtains and saw a line of lights forming an arc. Each light was as large as an open hand. There were six of them, separated from one another by 120 cm. She also observed another light hovering above a nearby parking lot. Inside this light she observed a gray \"ape like\" creature. She woke her 13-year-old son who also saw the creature. The being was completely surrounded by a bell-jar shaped area of light. No facial features could be discerned, but the witness could see a snout like feature on the face. Its body was uniformly gray, and it was moving its arms in the sort of jerky way a robot would. Ground traces from the UFO were later found. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7013",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-53; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/22/1954",
  "desc" : "At four o'clock in the morning an object that resembled a white cloud with lights on each end descended over a country road in Segre, Maine-et-Loire, France. It illuminated the road like daylight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7014",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4039, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 119" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/22/1954",
  "desc" : "At 7:20 p.m. engine of a motorcycle died in Ecaillon, Nord, France and then a cigar-shaped UFO was seen in a field by the rider. Four of more beings were seen inside the craft. One spoke an unintelligible language which sounded like \"Chinese\" to the listener. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7015",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4039, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 216" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/22/1954",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. a disc-shaped object emerged from the ocean off the coast of Guethary, Pyrenees-Atlantiques, France. When it dove down it illuminated the surface of the water. It then made a final ascent and flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7016",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4040, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 118" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/22/1954",
  "desc" : "At 3:15 p.m. a cigar-shaped object with portholes maneuvered in the sky over a school in Marysville, Ohio accompanied by many smaller discs. It was witnessed by 60 students of Jerome Elementary School and teachers Rodney Warrick and Mrs. George Dittmar, as well as thousands of witnesses at an afternoon high school football game. The silver cigar-shaped object traveled at high speed, and wafted a blanket of a web-like material, commonly referred to as \"angel hair,\" which fell to the ground over a three mile area. The UFO flew off quickly in a westward direction. Within minutes of touching the substance it would disappear, leaving a green stain on the fingers. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7017",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Marysville (OH) Journal-Tribune, October 25, 1954 & July 22, 1958; Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO News, December 1954, p. 5; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference to Outstanding UFO Reports, case 59; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 185" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/22/1957",
  "desc" : "UFO was seen on the ground near the beach in Praia Grande, Santa Catarina state, Brazil. It Illuminated the area with beams of light, it took off toward the east, then ascended vertically into the sky very fast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7018",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: October-November 2, p. 61" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/22/1959",
  "desc" : "A disc-shaped object paced a car in Cumberland, Maryland at dusk, and stayed 50 feet overhead while the car's engine, lights and radio stopped working. The disc then shot up into the clouds, and the car returned to normal operation. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7019",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 104" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/22/1965",
  "desc" : "On or about this date Jose Camilo Filho saw two creatures near a landed object in Canhotinho, Pernambuco State, Brazil. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7020",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 711, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 84" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/22/1967",
  "desc" : "Tracks of tiny creatures were discovered in a field in Charleswood, British Columbia, Canada clustered around a small pile of stones laid in a circular heap, after 17 witnesses reported seeing mysterious lights in the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7021",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dennis Stamey, Flying Saucers magazine, June 1970, p. 36" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/22/1972",
  "desc" : "Enrique Mercado, who had been involved in other alien encounters, was lounging on the terrace of his house in Mexico City, Mexico at 8 p.m. when a very tall young man suddenly appeared behind him. The man asked: \"Enrique, do you want to come with me?\" Enrique agreed. The young man straddled Enrique as he grabs a girdle on the man's coveralls. Then they fly through the air, inside an apparently invisible beam, into a hovering saucer-shaped object. Inside the craft Mercado is surprised at the apparent simplicity of the craft's furnishings. There is a table with multi-colored buttons, a screen on the wall, and two armchairs. The saucer then flew into a hovering mothership, around which other saucers were hovering. Mercado is then given a green coverall to wear and he is introduced to the commander of the vessel, a huge man over two meters tall, who wore a blue coverall. The commander's name was Yastek, and he showed Mercado what he called \"sky charts\". Enrique is informed he is at a point some 100,000 kilometers above Mexico City. Suddenly, he finds himself on the balcony of his house, and two hours have elapsed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7022",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1972, citing UFO Geheimnisse, Berlin, January 1998" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/22/1973",
  "desc" : "At 7:35 p.m. two people and three dogs in a car just west of Blacy, Marne, France encountered a silent, faceted sphere over the roadside, causing them temporary paralysis. The object turned and flew to the north, then shot off to the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7023",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bernard Vochelet, GEPA Phenomenes Spatiaux, June 1975, p. 16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/22/1973",
  "desc" : "At 2:00 p.m. a globe-shaped object was seen hovering in the sky for 30 minutes over Sudbury, Massachusetts by Ms. J. Margolin and a friend. Some web-like \"angel hair\" material fell from the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7024",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1974, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/22/1973",
  "desc" : "The first in a series of three independent observations of two silver-suited, four foot tall humanoids occurred in Hartford City, Indiana on this night. While driving home Ms. Debbie Carne saw the creatures slowly cross the road in front of her. As she drove past them on the roadside they made a loud noise and raised their arms as if to scare her. About 15 minutes after the first encounter by Ms. Carne, Mr. & Mrs. Donathan approached the same area in a car and saw the same or a similar pair of beings on the road. They were described as wearing bright silver suits, straight in form and with no features noticed except box-like feet. The pair moved in a clumsy, flopping manner as they tried to get off the road ahead of the approaching car. Mr. Donathan described this as a dancing effect. A snake-like pattern of lights was seen dancing over the field. The next day imprints were found in the field where the beings had last been seen. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7025",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald Worley, APRO Bulletin, September-October 1973, p. 1; Donald Worley, Official UFO, January 1976, p. 16; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, cases 1973-54 and 1973-55; David F. Webb, 1973, The Year of The Humanoids" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/22/1975",
  "desc" : "At noon a 5-year-old cow was found dead and mutilated in a field near Hayden, Colorado. An unidentified helicopter was seen in the area at the time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7026",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 11474" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/22/1975",
  "desc" : "At 1:30 p.m. a brilliant white domed disc was seen over trees, then angled down over the town of Artix, Pyrenees-Atlantiques, France before ascending and flying off to the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7027",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1977" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/22/1975",
  "desc" : "At dusk a disc-shaped object with wings silently circled buildings in downtown Covington, Kentucky and then hovered. It had rotating lights.  ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7028",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Leonard H. Stringfield, Skylook, January 1976, p. 5; Leonard H. Stringfield, Situation Red: The UFO Siege, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/22/1977",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m., in the second sighting by Dr. Wellaide Carvalho in Colares, Para State, Brazil a bright metallic object, thimble shaped, was seen spinning over a beach at 100 meters altitude and a distance of 1500 meters. It moved in a wavy rocking motion, making quick stops. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7029",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Pratt, Operacao Prato, p. 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/22/1978",
  "desc" : "The Minister of Agriculture and several other dignitaries saw a flying object hover for several minutes over the city of Arequito, Santa Fe, Argentina on this night. The object had segmented orange luminosities glowing from compartments or portholes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7030",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, February 14, 1979, citing La Nacion, October 24, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/22/2002",
  "desc" : "At 10:25 p.m. in Granisle, British Columbia a large glowing orange disc hovered over an old copper mine on an island in the lake. It rose up, stopped, moved sideways, then dropped down. The intensity of its light changed when it moved. It cast a reflection on the lake, and finally flew off toward the north at a low altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7031",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine, February 2003, p. 23; Geoff Dittman, 2002 Canadian UFO Survey, case 447, citing HBCCUFO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/23/1822",
  "desc" : "On this day in Berlin, Germany Astronomer Pastorff watched two disc pass in front of the face of the Sun. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7032",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case no. 81" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/23/1949",
  "desc" : "In Norwood, Hamilton County, Ohio outside of Cincinnati a black-and-white motion picture film was made showing a large disc-shaped craft hovering in a searchlight beam; it emitted five triangular or delta-shaped objects. The entire event began at 7:15 p.m., lasted over 210 minutes, and was witnessed by more than 50 people.  ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7033",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Leonard H. Stringfield, Inside Saucer Post...3-0 Blue, p. 72; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 88" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/23/1950",
  "desc" : "A retired USAF pilot watched a metallic blimp with three portholes hover for five seconds over Bonlee, North Carolina. He lost sight of it but saw it again after 40 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7034",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case no. 824" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/23/1954",
  "desc" : "At one o'clock in the morning two persons in a car saw an object resting by the side of the road in San Giovanni Vesuviano, Italy. They stopped and walked toward the craft, which was two meters in diameter. As they approached it suddenly changed its clear light into a red glow and took off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7035",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Il Tempo, October 23, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 237, case 302" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/23/1954",
  "desc" : "At 1:30 a.m. EDT in Cincinnati, Ohio a witness heard his radio shriek and his dog began barking. He looked out and saw a huge silent red disc surrounded by halo circles. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7036",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Leonard Stringfield, CRIFO Newsletter, December 1954, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/23/1954",
  "desc" : "A farmer named Carmelo Papotto in Tripoli, Libya saw a flying craft descend to ground level at 3:00 a.m. It hovered about 50 meters away, making a sound like that of an air compressor. It was an egg-shaped machine with six wheels and complex machinery. The top half was transparent and flooded with a bright white light. Aboard were six men in yellowish coveralls; they looked human and had on facemasks. When he touched part of the craft he got a strong electric shock. One of the occupants motioned for him to stay away. For the next twenty minutes the witness was able to observe the six men, apparently busy with their instruments. Reliable investigations were made. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7037",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 237, case 303; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-113" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/23/1954",
  "desc" : "At 5:10 a.m. a brilliant crescent-shaped object landed in Ernemont, France. Three shadowy figures exited the object and went in different directions. This was followed by a power outage. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7038",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4044" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/23/1954",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon baker M. Lelu was in his vehicle on Route 101 in Trondes, France and had come to a bend on the road when he spotted two phosphorescent points of light near a glade. He approached the area, thinking it was another car, when he saw a tall blond haired man standing immobile in a nearby field. Thinking that the figure might be an extraterrestrial he drove away from the area in order to get additional witnesses. Later, the harassed owner of the field claimed that the mysterious blond figure was merely a Polish farmer, but this was never confirmed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7039",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, citing Raoul Robe, Regional Catalogue" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/23/1954",
  "desc" : "Mrs. Boeuf was coming out of her farmhouse in the evening in St. Hilaire-des-Loges, Vendee, France when she saw a luminous disc hovering in the sky and called to her family. When everyone saw the object come closer they locked all the doors and spent a sleepless night inside. They did not observe the object's departure, but noticed an unnatural silence that pervaded the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7040",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "France-Soir, October 26, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 237, case 301" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/23/1954",
  "desc" : "That same night a big, bifurcated \"black radish\" shaped creature was seen walking around Wittenheim, Haut-Rhin department, France. Mr. Muller, a policeman, saw the being in his garden. There were three other witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7041",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paris Radar, October 31, 1954; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-114" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/23/1957",
  "desc" : "Strands of \"angel hair\" as long as fifty feet fell over a 110 mile-long area from Portales to Hobbs, New Mexico. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7042",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Civilian Saucer Intelligence-New York" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/23/1959",
  "desc" : "A strange buzzing sound was heard when a luminous saucer-shaped object flew over Cordoba, Argentina at 8:00 p.m. It flew off to the northwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7043",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, November 1959" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/23/1965",
  "desc" : "James Townsend, age 19, a radio announcer for KEYL Radio, had a close encounter with a UFO and three creatures at about 7:15 p.m. on a road about four miles east of Long Prairie, Minnesota. As he was driving around a curve in the road he saw an upright, rocket-like object straddling the road. It was about 30 or 40 feet high and about 10 feet in diameter, resting on legs or fins. His car engine stalled, the lights and radio went out, and he slammed on the brakes and stopped twenty feet in front of it. His first thought was to knock it over with the car so he would have some evidence, but the engine had already stalled. Then he got out with the idea of trying to push it over by hand.<br/><br/> \"When I got to the front of my car, three creatures that looked like individual tin cans on tripods, and were six inches tall, came from behind the rocket. They didn't have eyes that I could see, but I knew they were looking at me. I stopped. I didn't have any desire to get closer. There was no sound--just dead silence. It seemed like ages as we looked at each other. Then they went up into the rocket, which had a bright colorless light glowing out of the bottom. There was a loud hum. The rocket went up and disappeared. When the light on the bottom went out after it was in the air, my car radio and light came on, and my engine started without having to touch the starter.\"<br/><br/> Townsend said his car had an automatic transmission and he had placed the selector lever in \"park.\" Townsend said his heart was pounding and his legs were like rubber. He drove at high speed back to Long Prairie to report his close encounter. Townsend said the craft took off, looking \"just like a flashlight that is turned on and then lifted up from the table with the light at the bottom.\" That night several hunters in the Long Prairie area claimed to have seen a strong light above them that lit up the ground. Other hunters reported seeing a lighted object circle around and around in the sky over their farm. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7044",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Gribble, Looking Back October 1965, National UFO Reporting Center website; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 712, citing Flying Saucer Review" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/23/1966",
  "desc" : "In Adelaide, South Australia at 2:30 a.m. a bright oval-shaped object with a cone shape beneath it hung stationary in the sky at 20-degrees elevation above the horizon. It glowed a bright orange-yellow color. A \"sodium-light\" yellow colored object flew toward the northeast over Burnside, South Australia at 8:25 p.m. After four minutes of flight it slowed down and turned toward the north. It descended, gained speed and was gone by 8:35 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7045",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 177" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/23/1969",
  "desc" : "A dark or invisible object with lights fore and aft hovered over the beach at Highcliffe, England at night. It turned and flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7046",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, March 1970, p. 31" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/23/1972",
  "desc" : "An odd humming sound was heard in Balboa Park in San Diego, California. Although he couldn't see anything, the witness took photographs of a canyon in the direction from which the noise originated. On the developed photographs there was an image of an ovoid object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7047",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Contact UK; UFO Register, volume 9, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/23/1972",
  "desc" : "At around 6 p.m. a yellow and red bullet-shaped UFO approached an airliner that was flying 160 miles northeast of Churchill, Manitoba. There was a very intense beam coming from in front of the object. and exhaust with orange sparks coming from the rear. The airliner's radio failed to work during the encounter. Finally, a fog appeared from nowhere, obscuring the object. There were 15 witnesses, including 40-year-old Daryl Brown. The encounter lasted three minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7048",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UNICAT database, case #492, citing Jeff Holt, UFO Quebec" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/23/1973",
  "desc" : "In the morning in Russell Springs, Kentucky a woman encountered two three-foot tall, reddish-skinned humanoids who were near her house. The beings were first seen in her carport, and they walked around the side of the house and entered a washtub-shaped craft sitting on the ground, which then rose over the house and disappeared. The little men were reddish and walked as if on tiptoes. The ground was disturbed where the craft had been sitting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7049",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Russell Springs (KY) Times Journal, October 24, 1973; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-57; David F. Webb, 1973, The Year of The Humanoids; Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, p. 95; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 344" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/23/1973",
  "desc" : "Angel hair residue fell on Midway, Texas and was analyzed by the University of Texas. The residue was consistent with Dictyna spider web, but the sample did contain some rare elements such as zinc and lanthanum, so it could have resulted from the mixture of crebellate spider web with some other mystery substance. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7050",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, October 2001, p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/23/1973",
  "desc" : "On this night near Dobson, North Carolina David Simpson's car engine stopped and the headlights went out when an oval-shaped UFO, 12 feet wide by 8 feet high, landed near his car. A humanoid with eyes \"like balls of fire\" peered through his window. Afterwards the car's engine and lights came back on spontaneously without his having to touch the ignition switch. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7051",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-58; David F. Webb, 1973, The Year of The Humanoids" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/23/1975",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. a cigar-shaped object flew low over a car in Fairfield, Ohio. It extended a rod with four small orange balls at the tip. In York, Pennsylvania four orange lights in a delta formation traveled slowly and silently over the city. At 9:45 p.m. two UFO witnesses in Phoenix, Maryland experienced an episode of missing time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7052",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies case investigation files; George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 796" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/23/1978",
  "desc" : "At an open-air motion picture film showing in Kansu Province in China, several Chinese Air Force pilots sighted a large, bright rectangular object at an estimated 21,000-foot altitude. They watched it for two to three minutes. They said it carried intensely bright lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7053",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, March 1983, p. 24" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/23/1978",
  "desc" : "Two photographs were taken at night of an object shaped like a \"priest's hat\" in Pescara, Italy. It had a very brilliant center with crab-colored edges. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7054",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, February 1979, p. 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/23/1980",
  "desc" : "A high school band was holding practice in the evening at a playing field between Clifton and Morenci, Arizona. They sighted a string of lights shaped in a triangular pattern hovering above them. It would move and stop, then move and stop again. At 8:55 p.m. in Morenci, Arizona a crew of maintenance workers at a copper smelting plant saw a UFO with 12 red lights and a big searchlight on the front. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7055",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Philip Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, pp. 21-22" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/23/1984",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. a disc-shaped object with an amber light on the bottom and red lights in a circle on top of the disc buzzed a witness driving in a car north of Tyrone, Pennsylvania. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7056",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, January 1986, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/23/1987",
  "desc" : "Danny Gordon and two friends were driving out from Wytheville toward Fort Chiswell, Virginia on Interstate 81 at 7:30 p.m. looking for UFOs that had been sighted in the area. They saw a large V-shaped object make a 90-degree turn over the highway. It flew silently overhead, changing light colors as if signaling the witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7057",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Danny Gordon, Don't Look Up: The real story behind the Virginia UFO sightings, p. 54" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/23/1992",
  "desc" : "Motorists pulled off road to watch yellow ball of light at 12:45 a.m. west of Lake San Marcos in San Diego County, California. The nocturnal light hovered over the road for two minutes, then shot straight up. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7058",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, January 1993" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/23/1993",
  "desc" : "When Kelly Cahill awoke at 4:30 a.m. in her bed in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia she saw a dark, seven foot tall slender being, that appeared to be naked, leaning over her with its head near Kelly's stomach, as if about to kiss her navel. She screamed, it startled, jumped back, and then vanished. The being had a head much larger than normal, long thin arms and an out of proportion abdomen in relation to its thin frame. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7059",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Kelly Cahill, Encounter, p. 170; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 1886, citing Bill Chalker, International UFO Reporter, Vol. 19, # 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/23/1997",
  "desc" : "A dark, gray cylindrical object about 100 meters wide and 40 meters tall was seen 20 miles away from Billings, Montana at 4:30 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7060",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/23/1999",
  "desc" : "Several glowing silver orbs hovered over the Yorkshire moors near Keighley, West Yorkshire, England. They were the color of silver ball-bearings with rings of lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7061",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine, January 2000, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/23/1999",
  "desc" : "In Haywood, California at shortly after 9:00 p.m. a vertical column with three lights in a line moved silently across the sky. It disappeared behind a cloud and did not reappear on the other side. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7062",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 1999 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/23/2002",
  "desc" : "In Woodbridge, Suffolk, England a large silver triangle-shaped object was sighted at 7:04 a.m., which then changed shape. It was clouded in a pink and green haze. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7063",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "British Ministry of Defence case files, case 2002-077" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/23/2003",
  "desc" : "At 10:48 p.m. the pilot, co-pilot, load master, and flight engineer onboard an Airbus 310-200 cargo flight flying over Slane, Ireland saw a glaring red UFO accelerate, shoot vertically, and then disappear from sight at 7000 feet altitude. Twenty-seven minutes later a KLM 747-400 flying 38 nautical miles off the west coast of Ireland at 41,000 feet was paced by a bright red UFO. It stopped mid-air at the same altitude as the Dutch airliner, copied the 747's maneuvers, and then over Sligo changed course and sped away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7064",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dermot Butler, Conspiracy of Silence: UFOs in Ireland, pp. 44 & 45" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/23/2007",
  "desc" : "A triangular craft hovered right above a house in Williamsville, Niagara County, New York for 20 seconds. The homeowner reported that it looked like it was searching for something. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7065",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2007 webpage, report uploaded March 4, 2008" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/24/1886",
  "desc" : "On this night a loud humming noise awakened a family of nine in a hut in a village in Maracaibo, Venezuela. A vivid, dazzling light illuminated the inside of the hut. The family suffered symptoms of apparent radiation exposure, including vomiting, hair loss, swelling, black blotches, and sores. Trees in the area withered and died nine days later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7066",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Scientific American, December 1886, p. 18; APRO Bulletin, July-August 1972, p. 6; N. M. H. Turner, FSR Case Histories, December 1970, p. 15; Gordon David Kaswell, UFO Magazine, August 2002, p. 44; John F. Schuessler, UFO-Related Human Physiological Effects, p. 17" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/24/1948",
  "desc" : "Mr. and Mrs. Sanders were driving northwest on Highway 52 towards Moorhead, Minnesota (46.88° N, 96.78° W) when they saw a brilliant golden-white round object suddenly appear as if a light had been switched on. It was about three miles away to the northeast at 1,000 feet altitude in a gradual climb traveling at an estimated 600-1,000 mph and heading west towards Moorhead. It made no sound, and was about half the size of a full moon in angular size. When they reached the northern outskirts of Moorhead the object suddenly made a right turn and one second later disappeared by suddenly switching off. The Air Force said they had seen a meteor. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7067",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 192; Fund for UFO Research index of cases" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/24/1952",
  "desc" : "At 8:26 p.m. flying over Elberton, Alabama at 5,000 feet in a Beech T-11 trainer, USAF Lt. Rau and Capt. Marcinko sighted a deep orange, plate-shaped flying object with a brilliant front and vague trail. It flew with its concave surface forward and was in sight for five seconds. It moved much faster than F-80, and showed constant acceleration. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7068",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: September-October, p. 82; UNICAT, case # 750" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/24/1954",
  "desc" : "At around six o'clock in the morning Ulderico Cardinali, a farmworker, was walking down a path in a marshy meadow in Castiglion Della Pescaia, Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy. He entered a patch of fog and started hearing a buzzing noise. When the fog became less dense, he could see a strange object on the ground which he first thought was a downed airplane. It resembled a large \"plate\" resting on the ground; it was two meters wide and made of some sort of highly polished material. There was a very peculiar looking creature standing beside the craft, who appeared to be no taller than 1.40 meters and was dressed in a yellowish-brown uniform. It seemed that the being was performing some sort of task, moving about the craft. Once it had stopped moving about it went inside the object, entering a sort of cabin, and disappeared from sight. Then the object took off from the location, emitting a slight buzzing noise and flying at very low altitude, nearly brushing the tops of the trees in the meadow. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7069",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 1600, citing Maurizio Verga, ITACAT; Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing ITACAT" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/24/1954",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 a.m. a three-meter in diameter disc-shaped object landed in the woods near Lalizolle, Allier, France. Dogs refused to go near it. It left behind a three-meter wide area of flattened grass. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7070",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 4048, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 128" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/24/1954",
  "desc" : "In Saint Etienne de Baigorry, Pyrenees-Atlantiques, France at around 3:00 p.m. a shepherd watching his flock on a mountain peak called “Moumboa”, located at about 800 meters, reported seeing two “men” standing on the slope opposite him, looking around. At first he thought they were excursionists, but he soon noticed a brown craft shaped like a large shell between them, so he did not dare approach. It was three to four meters in diameter and a little more than a meter in height. In the center there was a small cabin, and at the two ends he could distinguish a number of small propellers. He said he did not notice any portholes. At the broad back end there was a bent tripod. After awhile the two men approached the machine, which they then placed upright on the tripod. The witness supposed that the machine must have been made out of some very light weight material. One of the men then opened a narrow door and both individuals disappeared into the cabin. Without any noise the two groups of propellers started to turn, but in opposite directions. The machine took off vertically to an altitude of about 100 meters, and then flew off quickly to the north. The two men were similar to humans, Caucasian in appearance, and between 1.70-1.75 meters tall. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7071",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, computerized catalog (N=3073), case 1793, citing Jimmy Guieu; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, citing Jean Sider" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/24/1954",
  "desc" : "At 5:30 p.m. in Les Egots, Rhone, France near Sainte Catherine, a child saw a man emerge from a strange craft. He was \"dressed in red, his clothes looked like iron.\" He walked stiff-legged, and had long hair and a hairy face. His eyes were large, \"like those of the cows.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7072",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, pp. 237-238, case 305; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-115 (A0323)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/24/1954",
  "desc" : "On this night a small man with strange glowing eyes was seen on the Mediterranean shore in Ain-el-Turck, Oran, Algeria. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7073",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 237, case 304; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-116 (A0325)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/24/1954",
  "desc" : "Between Biozat and Effiat, Puy-de-Dome, France at nine o'clock in the evening, on the road from Clermont to Vichy, the engine of a motor scooter died when an egg-shaped object took off from the side of the road and rose without a noise, leaving a bright trail behind. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7074",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, p. 238, case 306; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/24/1954",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. a doctor driving his car in Pancole, Tuscany, Italy saw a luminous globe stop at 20 meters altitude, just 50 meters away. It took off when he stopped his car. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7075",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #4055, citingMaurizio Verga, ITACAT" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/24/1954",
  "desc" : "At first, a dull white aluminum colored UFO was seen zig-zagging in the sky, starting at one o'clock in the afternoon, over Gravatai Air Force Base in Porto Alegre, Brazil.  It began making fast, tight circular turns through the clear blue sky, and kept up this behavior for over two hours. There was a misty halo around the object when it moved. A second UFO arrived sometime after two hours had elapsed, and circled the first one. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7076",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 212; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 119; UNICAT, case 561; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 104; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, October 1989, p. 23" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/24/1963",
  "desc" : "Cupar, Fife, Scotland. No time given. Brothers A. McLean, age 12, and G. McLean, age 8 saw a moving light in the sky for an unspecified length of time. No further details are found in the Air Force files, but Project Blue Book chief Major Hector Quintanilla wrote a letter to the youngsters that this was \"one of the most complete\" of the unexplained cases for the year! ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7077",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue book files counted in official statistics, case # 8604; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 129; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Lloyd Mallan, Official Guide to UFOs, p. 28" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/24/1967",
  "desc" : "At 4:10 a.m. two police officers chased a pulsating bright flying cross-shaped UFO across farmland between Okehampton and Holsworthy in Devon, England. It maneuvered at low altitude over the treetops, and a second cross appeared after the first had gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7078",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Flying Saucer Review, November-December 1967, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/24/1967",
  "desc" : "At 10:15 p.m. a 30 foot in diameter round or disc-shaped object was seen in Buston, Derby, England. There was a yellow glow from the rear of the object that \"caused treetops to bend.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7079",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1968, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/24/1967",
  "desc" : "A huge disc-shaped object was seen by four teenagers southeast of Lumsden, Saskatchewan, Canada at 9:10 p.m. It hovered and then landed remotely. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7080",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, January-February 1968, p. 1; Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p. 174" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/24/1967",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. Donald Chiszar, age 13, and Pat Crosier, age 10, reported seeing a large light that came closer and hovered over a house in Newfield, New York only 50 yards away. It was a round object with a cupola and antenna on top, and it had an oblong box on the bottom with red, green, and white lights. It was of a dull silver color, about 30 feet in diameter and 6-8 feet high. Around the rim were square shaped red and white lights. It tilted toward them, and they could see two big, square windows separated by a bar  in the dome. Through these windows two humanoid beings were visible, each less than 5'7\" tall, with \"rocky or bumpy\" skin of a chocolate brown color. They stood motionless, peering out, while several additional shadows shadows were seen moving behind them. Knobs and electronic equipment were visible inside the lighted section. The domed disc hovered in the same spot for about two minutes, tilted upward in the rear. Then the rim lights became very bright, it assumed a horizontal attitude, and shot away at great speed \"like a puff of wind.\" The following night, Chiszar told investigators he saw two more of the same flying objects. The boys claimed their walkie-talkies malfunctioned during the observation, and a nearby dog was barking. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7081",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, September-October 1967, p. 10; Lloyd Mallan, Science & Mechanics, August 1968, p. 51; Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs Over the Americas, pp. 179-180; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 889; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-105 (A0883), citing William Donovan for NICAP, Dr. Roy Craig & Dr. Fred Ahrens for the Colorado UFO Study; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 11, 458, 474" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/24/1967",
  "desc" : "On this evening George W. Ritter and three other soldiers were on guard duty at the Hunter Liggett Military Reservation in California when they all observed an orange fluorescent oval-shaped craft slowly approach, leaving a trail behind it. A hatch opened in the bottom of the craft and five small drones dropped out of it. These formed into a V formation and began hovering above the witnesses. As the men looked up they became mesmerized, and Ritter began hearing a \"blip-blip\" sound like sonar. All four felt paralyzed at this point. Ritter's next recollection was of being abruptly lifted up into one of the objects. He then found himself lying on the floor of the craft with a Grey humanoid looking down on him. The other three soldiers were nowhere in sight. The being had large black oval-shaped eyes, grayish skin, and did not appear to be wearing any clothing. He saw three other similar smaller creatures that appeared to be assistants. He next heard a voice in his head telling him that he was not going to be hurt. Inside the object there was a misty weird light, resembling a black light. He was then given a shot in his thigh near the groin, and then one of the beings came up to his left side and somehow put his whole hand inside the upper left side of his chest. After some time he was taken into another room where he saw a bright ball of light; it communicated telepathically with Ritter and emanated a sensation of energy and love. Ritter was told that \"something wonderful was going to happen\" in the near future  His next recollection was of standing back on the ground, looking up, but the objects had gone. He and the other men reported the incident to the military authorities, and as a result Ritter spent two months in a military mental hospital. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7082",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, case # 3337, citing Linda Moulton Howe" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/24/1970",
  "desc" : "Two people were driving between farms on this evening outside MacGregor, Manitoba when they sighted a glowing yellowish-white football-shaped object resting on a nearby field. One of the witnesses approached the object on foot but became frightened and ran back to the car. As they drove away they noticed a silver-suited figure walking towards them. They accelerated the vehicle and sped away. Later one of them returned and saw the object hovering over the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7083",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1970, case # 994, citing Chris A. Rutkowski, Visitations? Manitoba UFO Experiences" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/24/1973",
  "desc" : "At 7:15 a.m. a spinning, top-shaped object was seen in the sky over the sea from the deck of the SS Waalekerk, off Genoa, Italy by S. M. Saunders. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7084",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, volume 5 (1974), case # 827" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/24/1973",
  "desc" : "An abduction was reported to have occurred in Millville, New Jersey. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7085",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, case 244" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/24/1973",
  "desc" : "An woman in Frederickstown, Ohio was turning into the driveway of her home at nine o'clock when the car lights fell on an object. It was hovering approximately 20 feet over an open area of her backyard. Something \"lit up\" and the light became too bright to be merely the reflection of her car's headlights. The UFO was about 30 feet long and resembled an airplane's fuselage without wings, with an \"open cockpit\" at one end. Inside she was able to see three \"hooded figures.\" She hurried into her house and when she looked out through a window, the object had vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7086",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Columbus Dispatch, September 19, 1976; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-110 (A1264), citing CCAP of Columbus, Ohio" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/24/1973",
  "desc" : "At 8:45 p.m. there were a rash of UFO sightings by at least 50 citizens as well as police in Mount Airy, Surry County, North Carolina. They encountered round, red-orange objects engaged in rapid flight and erratic maneuvers. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7087",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Atlanta Journal-Constitution, October 26, 1973; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 175, 344" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/24/1973",
  "desc" : "David Simpson's car engine stopped and the headlights went out on Highway 601 when an oval-shaped UFO landed near his car on this night at 9:00 p.m. near Dobson, Surry County, North Carolina. It was 12 feet wide by 8 feet high. A humanoid with eyes \"like balls of fire\" peered at him through his car window. Afterwards the car's engine and lights came back on without him having to touch the ignition switch. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7088",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mount Airy News, November 30, 1973; George D. Fawcett, Skylook, January 1974, p. 14; David F. Webb, The Year of The Humanoids, case 73-37; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-58 (A1263); Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 59; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 255, 344, 488" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/24/1973",
  "desc" : "At 7:00 p.m. in Griffith Park, California two people watched a large round object at very low altitude. Both witnesses were scared by the object, as were some nearby horses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7089",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Santa Ana Register, October 31, 1973 & November 8, 1973; Ann Druffel, FSR, June 1975, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/24/1973",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. in Sigsbee, Georgia an ovoid object sat on highway SR133 at a bridge for two minutes before taking off. There were several witnesses, including a separate independent witness nearby. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7090",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Flying Saucers, May 1974, p. 39; Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon 1947-1987, p. 70" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/24/1973",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. in Gibsonville, Guilford County, North Carolina a police officer driving on Highway 100 had his patrol car engine stall when he had a close encounter with a bright light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7091",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Burlington Times News, October 27, 1973; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project, p. 68" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/24/1976",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. Romeo Lucarelli was driving home from Hestroff to Hobling, Moselle, France with his little daughter when he saw two lights ahead, which he first took to be a car parked on a hilltop. As he approached, he realized that it was a dumbbell or cigar-shaped UFO about 15 meters long, hovering in the air about 100 meters altitude. After he had passed it by it began to follow him, and the UFO passed over his car so as to be in front of him. He signalled with his headlights, and then saw in the middle of the dumbbell a rectangular “screen” or window feebly lit by an orange light, in which the silhouettes of two occupants appeared, as if looking at him. He came to the village of Hobling and drove to his house, and the UFO was now hoveriong above his garage, so he pointed it out to his wife who was home at the time. She went and brought him the binoculars, but just as soon as he was about to use them the UFO “turned out its lights.” They next heard a dull humming sound. At the spot at which he had first sighted the UFO three circular landing marks were found; each consisted of two tangential double circles of crushed grass, the outer ones about three feet larger in radius than the inner ones, and the entire area was about 50 feet wide. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7092",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, November 1977; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1976-95 (A1685), citing G. Bretelle & B. Wagner" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/24/1978",
  "desc" : "Between 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. two fishermen in a boat in Grottammare, Marche, Italy saw a 20 meter long, dark object emerge from the Adriatic Sea and hover for 30 seconds. It then dove back down to a depth of 20 meters. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7093",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allen Hendry, International UFO Reporter, October 1979, p. 17; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 12895; Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1981" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/24/1978",
  "desc" : "At 7:45 p.m. a witness driving in a car had a close encounter with physiological effects with a four-meter in diameter orb that was hovering low by some telephone lines in Compigny, Yonne, France. The driver felt an intense cold in the presence of the UFO, which shot up vertically after a couple of minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7094",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 12895; Lumieres dans la Nuit, December 1979, issue 191" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/24/1981",
  "desc" : "Two men were fishing close to the mouth of the River Salso near the city of Licata, Sicilia, Italy around 7:45 p.m. when they noticed some lights emerging from the sea. Five minutes later they noticed emerging from the surface three bright lights or forms that approached their position. One of the men grabbed a flashlight and pointed it towards the source of the lights. He was now able to see a two-meter tall humanoid standing in water up to its knees. The creature appeared hairy and was apparently only seen by one of the men, who felt a mysterious attraction towards the creature and the lights. Frightened, he fled the scene along with the other man who had only seen the lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7095",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1981, case # 1524, citing Maurizio Verga, ITACAT" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/24/1981",
  "desc" : "Two young men traveling on an isolated stretch of road near Port Lincoln, South Australia stopped their vehicle at 9:30 p.m. after one of them reported seeing what appeared to be a \"flare\" in the sky to his left, southeast towards Spencer Gulf. They stopped and both saw a second light that moved around and flew up and down the hills and gullies, before stopping in one particular gully. They continued to watch for a while before setting off again. The two talked about what they had seen, and shortly one of them felt like stopping again. What happened next was a missing time and abduction experience that was hard for them to explain. He recalls \"drifting off\" into a white endless space. He knew he was there but he couldn't move. A figure 1.2 meters tall walked up the road and stopped in front of him. It looked like it was wearing a toga like the Romans wore. It stood there for a while before vanishing. The other man woke up and sat for a while before his friend asked, \"What happened\"? He recalled walking into a big white room and also had vague recollections of an entity, seen as an outline standing some 15 meters away from the car. They had several hours of unaccounted for time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7096",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Keith Basterfield, UFO Research Australia, July 1982, p. 4; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions:  The Measure of a Mystery, case 57" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/24/1982",
  "desc" : "At 6:20 a.m. an unidentified object shaped like two globes connected by a nozzle with four tubes, buzzed a light aircraft being flown by a student pilot and a flight instructor southeast of Lowell, Indiana. The two men reported that they felt heavy turbulence from the object, and their altimeter malfunctioned. The craft made complex maneuvers for several minutes, and climbed at a speed of 6000 feet per second. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7097",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Remaley, International UFO Reporter, May 1983, p. 4; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 51; Richard F. Haines, A Preliminary Report of 64 Pilot Sightings Involving EM Effects on Aircraft, p. 50; UNICAT, case # 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/24/1988",
  "desc" : "An abduction by aliens with a physical exam occurred on this night in Adelaide, South Australia. A man awoke and became aware of a a group of short humanoid beings at the foot of his bed. Three or four of them stood back, but one approached him. The being who approached was one meter in height, with a large head and big eyes, and appeared to be surrounded by what looked like a glowing white light. He suddently felt overwhelmed with fatigue, and passed out or fell back asleep. He awoke in a sterile type room, and was given a medical exam. The light in the room was so bright he could not see his surroundings. This was followed by a period of missing time, and he recovered consciousness back in his bed two hours later; his arm was paralyzed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7098",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Keith Basterfield, citing Golden Age, February 10, 1989; John F. Schuessler, UFO-Related Human Physiological Effects, p. 101" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/24/1988",
  "desc" : "A large luminous UFO landed in a park in Sevan, Armenia, and then took off again. Black pumice and burnt soil was found at the landing site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7099",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 14691, citing Richard F. Haines, JUSA-CISAAF Translations, p. 401" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/24/1988",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. CDT in Skene, Mississippi a 20-year-old man was at home studying when he heard a low hum. He went outside to check on the source of the noise, and he saw a 32 meter in diameter cone-shaped object with colored lights, flying over his home at only 150 feet altitude. He watched it move across sky until it went behind some trees. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7100",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "James A. Scarborough, MUFON field investigation case files, case # 881203; Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case #512, citing Dan Wright" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/24/1988",
  "desc" : "In Valparaiso, Florida at 9:30 CDT a U.S. Air Force housewife with an M.B.A. witnessed light beams moving past her second story window. She looked out and saw a silent rectangular object hovering outside. It had a dull gray surface and was about 100 feet long, three feet high, and three to four feet deep. It had three white lights side-by-side at one end. Surprisingly, her dog and car wanted to approach the craft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7101",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dan Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, 19890515, citing Field Investigator Muril V. D. Garten, case # 881102; Joan Woodward, NICAP Category 4 - Animal Effects Cases, www.nicap.org, case # 08-19;Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case # 514, citing Dan Wright" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/24/1989",
  "desc" : "At 6:15 a.m. a boomerang-shaped object was observed 50 nautical miles south of Ord, Indiana from a commercial aircraft, CONNAIR flight 440, flying at 9,000 feet as it passed the plane. A vertical light beam and sparks were observed coming from the object. There was no radar detection of the object by either ground or airborne radar. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7102",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Franklin B. Reams, MUFON Field Investigation files, case # 900103; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 46, citing the UFO Newsclipping Service; Dan Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, April 1990, p. 14; Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 123" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/24/1993",
  "desc" : "A close encounter with a 100 foot long craft occurred in the suburbs of Union Grove, North Carolina at 8:45 p.m. The three sketches by the witnesses depict a V formation of white lights that behaved as if they were part of a single, solid triangular craft. It flew at a slow speed, at 150 feet altitude, and made a 90 degree turn. A faint hum was heard coming from the object. The encounter lasted 30 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7103",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Barbara Thompson, MUFON field investigation case files, case # 931217SE" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/24/1998",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. a woman in Grand Mere, Quebec, Canada saw two entities that were wearing white astronaut outfits with helmets on their heads. One of the beings was leaned over and looked to be picking something up from the ground. The other stood nearby. When the beings walked they seemed to float just above the ground. Their size and appearance were similar to humans. About 75 feet behind them there was a thick brown fog made up of different bright colors with a bright glow about 27 feet in diameter. She watched them for five minutes before leaving the window. When she returned the entities had gone and the strange fog was moving away. Investigators found ground traces and footprints. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7104",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case #3379, citing Skyopen #62" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/24/2000",
  "desc" : "At 7:15 p.m. a witness reported seeing a metallic, cone-shaped in the sky over Medina, Ohio. It had very bright lights and was making a humming noise. Later that night, at 9:45 p.m. MDT in Gila Bend, Arizona, a black, squat, triangular object with no lights, was seen emitting a smoke-like, dark mist or fog. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7105",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, October 2000 webpage, reports uploaded December 2, 2000" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/24/2004",
  "desc" : "A silver, disc-shaped object was spotted flying over Honolulu, Hawaii at 3:30 in the afternoon. The object made no sound, had no lights, no windows, was otherwise featureless, and was moving fast. It was in view for 40 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7106",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, October 2004 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/24/2008",
  "desc" : "A black triangular object was seen travelling north along the Interstate-5 freeway between Eugene and Cottage Grove, Oregon at 9:30 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7107",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, October 2008 webpage, report uploaded October 31, 2008" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/25/1909",
  "desc" : "A blimp shaped aerial object was sighted over Minderoo Station in Western Australia on this day. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7108",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 32" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/25/1953",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. Jim Milligan, age 16, was driving through a park in Santa Fe, New Mexico when he saw something fall in front of his car. He stopped his car when the object landed in some bushes. He walked toward it and found a craft that looked like two ship hulls glued together, about three meters (10 feet) in length. When he tried to touch it the object flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7109",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albuquerque Tribune, November 3, 1953; Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 223; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 204" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/25/1954",
  "desc" : "On or about this date Mr. A. Treussard and a friend were nearly blinded by a brilliant, luminous disc that landed in a pasture in Plemet, Cotes-du-Nord, France ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7110",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 238, case 307" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/25/1954",
  "desc" : "At six o'clock in the morning Ulderico Cardinali saw a disc-shaped craft among the reeds of a swamp in northern Italy. It was two meters in diameter and near it stood a small being, 1.40 m (4.6 feet) tall, clad in yellowish-brown coveralls. This creature went inside the machine, which took off at very high speed, touching the tops of the reeds as it flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7111",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 238, case 308; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0326, citing Oltre il Cielo-Missili e Razzi" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/25/1954",
  "desc" : "At 6:15 a.m. at least four witnesses at the Belgrade, Yugoslavia airport sighted over twenty UFOs. There was one large cigar shaped object and some high speed circular and egg-shaped objects, which were reportedly seen by hundreds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7112",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, October 1989, p. 23; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 58" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/25/1954",
  "desc" : "At 6:15 a.m. a brilliant disc-shaped object was seen by many independent observers spinning over the city of Vienna, Austria. It left a trail behind, and the event lasted five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7113",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 326" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/25/1954",
  "desc" : "At 6:30 a.m. a round silver disc with a flashing light crossed the sky quickly in Varennes-sur-Teche, Allier, France. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7114",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 199" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/25/1954",
  "desc" : "At 6:30 a.m. a luminous disc-shaped object with a glowing light was seen rising from a field nearby some beet scales in Calais, France. It was absolutely silent.  ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7115",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 121" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/25/1954",
  "desc" : "At 6:30 p.m. Mr. G. Mahou, age 30, a municipal councilor in Arraye-et-Han, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France saw a phosphorescent craft shaped like a chicken brooder, about two meters in diameter and one meter high. It rose vertically from the road leaving a luminous trail. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7116",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Parisien, October 27, 1954; France-Soir, October 27, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 238, case 309" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/25/1954",
  "desc" : "Two twelve year olds, Giampieri and Santucci, were walking home next to a field in Colcerasa Di Cing, Marche, Italy at around 5:00 p.m. when their dog became agitated and started barking. One of the youths went ahead to see what was wrong and observed three very short, dark figures with huge flattened heads standing next to a large keg like object. They wore shiny black outfits. The first boy yelled for his friend to come and look, whereupon the short humanoids ran into the object. It took off emitting a loud whistling sound, knocking the first witness down with a strong gust of wind. Another witness who was nearby saw the same or a similar object fly over the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7117",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0327; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 1602, citing Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Italian UFO database" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/25/1954",
  "desc" : "A reddish disc-shaped object that emitted a luminous streak from its rear landed near a witness in Benabbio, Liguria, Italy at around eight o'clock in the evening. Two human like figures briefly emerged from the object, then went back inside. The object then took off at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7118",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 1569, citing Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Italian UFO database, quoting from Nuovo Corrier" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/25/1954",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. many observers on Terceira Island, The Azores in the Atlantic Ocean watched a four meter long cigar-shaped object fly through the sky for two minutes, making a noise and emitting smoke and fire. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7119",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lourenco Victor, PORTUCAT - Portuguese UFO database; Project Blue Book case # 3287" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/25/1954",
  "desc" : "At eleven o'clock at night in Jonquerets-de-Livet, Eure, France two 18-year-old farm workers, Jean Cheradame and Rene Marais, encountered a bright light source in a field. When they approached the light, two featureless illuminated humanoid forms emerged from the light source. They lacked both arms and legs, and essentially resembled \"white plastic bags\" lit from within. The figures emerged from the light source in the field and separated into two distinct forms as they approached. When they receded they again merged into one form before merging with the light source. They were about five feet tall. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7120",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-117, citing Joel Mesnard & Jean Marie Bigorne; Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 220" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/25/1957",
  "desc" : "In Petropolis, Brazil a girl suffering from cancer appeared near death when the house was suddenly illuminated by a strong light, as if a searchlight had been aimed at her room. It came from an object whose top part was reddish yellow. Two figures emerged from it and entered the house. They were about 1.20 meters (4 feet) tall, had long reddish-yellow hair, slanted small green eyes, and wore white gloves and glowing white uniforms. Before the astounded family and another witness astounded witnesses they used a device producing a bluish-white light and another instrument, in what appeared to be radiation treatment of the patient. After 30 minutes they left, leaving her completely cured. The report was filed by an anonymous source. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7121",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Flying Saucer Review, September-October 1967; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 260-261, case 415" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/25/1959",
  "desc" : "On the Trans-Canada Highway west of Fort William, Canada four hunters (Douglas Robinson, Ray Disguiseppe, Victor Arnone and John Defilippo, of Port Arthur) saw an oval, luminous object follow their car about 13 meters above them. The object was spinning, stopped when they did, and was white in color. It paced their car and remained with them for nearly 50 km. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7122",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 499, citing Flying Saucer Review, January-February 1960" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/25/1967",
  "desc" : "Clive Robinson and Richard Corben, both age 14, and a third boy, reported that they had witnessed the landing of a dome-shaped object with a smaller hump on top in Malvern, England at 8:45 p.m. The object came down 200 meters away from them, and it took off diagonally, leaving behind some traces. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7123",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 890, citing FSR, 1968" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/25/1973",
  "desc" : "At around nine p.m. 15 people observed a very large red spherical object hovering low in the sky near Uniontown, Pennsylvania which began to descend towards a pasture. The incident began when the principal witness and two boys proceeded up a hill in a field and observed a white, dome-shaped craft on the ground that illuminated the area. It was making a loud whirring sound. It was estimated to be about 100 feet in diameter. They stood about 250 feet from the object, and about 75 feet from a fence line.<br/><br/> Walking along the fence line were two tall figures, from seven to nine feet tall, covered with hair, and with long arms hanging down past the knees. They displayed glowing green eyes. The witnesses shot at the creatures, first tracer bullets were shot over their heads, and then regular bullets was used. The larger of the two creatures turned towards the other almost touching it, and at the same time the object in the field disappeared and the sound stopped. The creatures slowly walked towards the woods. One boy had already run home, and the other two left the field and went to a neighbor's farmhouse and called the state police. When the state trooper arrived he and the main witness went to the site. Where the object had landed there was a glowing area that was about 150 feet in diameter. He said he could read a newspaper from the light. The farm animals refused to go into the area. One witness reported that before they left the field the larger of the two creatures was seen in the woods about 10 feet from them. He shot at it and it struck the fence that stood between them. Later that night an investigation team arrived in the area. Radiation levels were normal and the glow was now gone, but the animals still wouldn't go near the spot. Strange events now began to take place.<br/><br/> Some in the party saw a farmhouse several hundred feet away suddenly light up like daylight for several seconds. The main witness, a rather large man, suddenly began growling, and he threw his father and investigator George Lutz to the ground. The man ran into the field growling and screaming near inhuman screams. His own dog approached him as to attack, then ran off whimpering. He then collapsed onto the ground. Two of the investigating team started to complain they were having trouble breathing, and the air became filled with a strong odor like rotten eggs. As the main witness came out of what appeared to be a trance-like state, he began talking about visions he had seen of the end of the world. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7124",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-60; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of the Humanoids" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/25/1973",
  "desc" : "On this night Brian Scott saw an object with blinking lights on the bottom surrounded by haze. He drove to his home in Buena Park, California to get someone else to see it and returned with the teenage babysitter of his children. Both witnesses felt as if their minds had somehow been lifted up to the craft, bathed in green light, and returned. Scott saw short humanoids, but felt that this vague encounter was unplanned, and with different humanoids than in his earlier experiences. A period of an hour and a half could not be accounted for. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7125",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-59; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of the Humanoids" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/25/1974",
  "desc" : "Carl Higdon, an oil driller by occupation, was out hunting in the Medicine Bow National Forest in southern Wyoming in the late afternoon, and when he fired his rifle at an elk the bullet went only 50 feet and then fell to the ground. Next he saw a man standing in a shadow. He was human-like, about 6.2 feet tall, but he lacked a chin and his hair stood straight out. He wore a black uniform with a belt and insignia. Mr. Higdon could not remember what happened next, but he knew he had a two hour period of missing time. Under hypnosis by Dr. R. Leo Sprinkle of the University of Wyoming, he recalled an abduction experience that involved three short humanoids who gave him a medical exam. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7126",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Rick Kenyon, CUFOS case files, report dated November 2, 1974" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/25/1975",
  "desc" : "Two close encounter incidents occurred within an hour of each other in the same community in Ceara state, Brazil. At around 6 p.m. a young woman with the surname of Dira had bathed in a lagoon in Sao Gondolo do Amarante on the river and was washing clothes when she felt a heat wave and saw an oscillating blue light in the sky nearby. ing in river felt burning, saw oscillating blue light in sky. Frightened, she took cover in some undergrowth, but the light increased intensity. When the blue light approached even closer she ran home. She managed to escape inside her house, but she had a high body temp, bloodshot eyes, and her skin looked like it had a sunburn. Within the hour a local man was struck by a blue beam of light, reputedly from a disc. He subsequently died. Several other witnesses reported being attacked and terrified by the experience. Some reported being paralyzed by a blue light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7127",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Claude Bourtembourg, SOBEPS News, March 1976, p. 18; Charles Bowen, Saga UFO Report, December 1976, p. 80; both sources cite J. Gualberto; (2) Charles Bowen, FSR, July 1976, p. 33 and Saga UFO Report, citing La Razon, October 27, 1975" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/25/1975",
  "desc" : "On the same night in Happy Camp, California three men, Harris, Gayer, and Jackson had a humanoid encounter involving ground traces and the levitation of their car. On the previous night they had seen a large reddish orange light take off. This evening at 7 p.m. they found three imprints arranged in a triangle, 18 inches x 24 inches and 20 feet apart. They heard a high-pitched screeching sound. They directed their spotlight in the direction of the noise and saw two large eyes five feet above the ground and a black outline. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7128",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact, p. 164; MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 121; Alan Berry, Official UFO, May 1977, p. 14; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1435, citing Paul Cerny, MUFON UFO Journal, January 1978, p. 19" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/25/1977",
  "desc" : "In Asbygda Ringerike, Norway at 5:30 p.m. three witnesses, including two deaf 14 year olds, Johny Myhr and Frank Sverre Mandt, sighted a disc-shaped object some ten meters in diameter that hovered and then descended behind some bushes. After about 10 seconds it rose into the air again. The boys ran to the nearby Alm school. They noticed the object ascend at a 40-degree angle, and saw several windows in the craft. There was what appeared to be a human-looking person behind one of the windows. Tracks were later found in the newly plowed field. Each track was rectangular shaped with rounded corners, and measured 14 cm by 36 cm with a depth of 10 cm. The tracks were arranged in a triangular shape. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7129",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "GICOFF Sweden, September 1977, p. 5 citing a newspaper clipping; UFO Information Sweden, January 1978, p. 22 citing an on-site investigation; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, citing Ole Jonny Braene" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/25/1978",
  "desc" : "Around five o'clock in the morning a 51-year-old farmer name Giovanni was searching for a stray cow in the hills near his home in Tagliocozzo, Abruzzi, Italy when he came to an open field and spotted a large light brown object shaped like a shoeshine box on the ground. Lighted windows surrounded the craft. He approached to within three feet and saw six to seven humanoid beings inside. These were described as small and human like, both male and female. The women were blonde and had beautiful pink skin and smiled at him. The men were uglier, had darker skin and appeared elderly, and they ignored him. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7130",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Roberto Pinotti, International UFO Reporter, October 1979, p. 17" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/25/1978",
  "desc" : "Later that night in a factory in Godoy Cruz, Mendoza province, Argentina two night-shift workers were surprised by a short dwarfish being (0.75 meters tall), who hopped on one leg and operated a complicated looking machine that levitated the workers and left them floating in midair when it vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7131",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, January 1979, p. 15, citing La Razon, October 26, 1978; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1982, also citing La Razon" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/25/1981",
  "desc" : "At 10:40 p.m. a 25 foot long glowing ovoid object followed a car east of Snowtown, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, for miles. Radio interference was experienced. The UFO illuminated the surrounding terrain, maneuvered, and hid. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7132",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14304; UFO Research Australia, January 1982" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/25/1983",
  "desc" : "An experienced sky observer named Kraus at the Pine Mountain Observatory in Bend, Oregon watched a red light, possibly with antennas shoot toward him at 8:00 p.m. It lit up the area incredibly brightly as it hovered over the observatory,then drifted off toward the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7133",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Doris Graziano, APRO Bulletin, July 1984, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/25/1996",
  "desc" : "At 2:00 pm. a bowl-shaped disc with square windows was sighted in Gypsumville, Manitoba. It was seen through binoculars as it directed a beam of light down at the lake. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7134",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 17473; Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Volume 1, # 37" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/25/1998",
  "desc" : "A 12-year-old boy in Victoria, British Columbia suddenly woke up for no apparent reason. His room was illuminated by a light from an unknown source. He looked at the foot of his bed and saw an odd figure standing there. The figure was hard to see because of the light, but it looked as if its hands were covering up his face. The witness attempted to look closer but suddenly fell asleep. He woke up the next morning sleeping on the family sofa. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7135",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case #3899, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/25/2003",
  "desc" : "At two o'clock in the morning a witness reported seeing two disc-shaped objects flying overhead in Springfield, Illinois. The objects seemed to be \"chasing each other and just playing around.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7136",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2003 webpage archive" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/26/1951",
  "desc" : "Australia. At around four o'clock in the morning the driver of a transcontinental train on the east-west line saw a flying object that illuminated the countryside like the full moon. It flew very fast, came close to the train, and appeared ready to land in the desert, then it took off and disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7137",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magoinia: A Century of Landings, case # 84, citing Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 249" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/26/1954",
  "desc" : "At six o'clock in the morning Vincent Casamajou and his wife saw a large cauldron-shaped craft, the size of a truck (about seven meters long) at 50 meters distance. It was near the road to Paris, 18 kilometers from the town of Angouleme, Charente, France. It took off without a sound, leaving a white trail. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7138",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Le Parisien, October 28, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 238, case 310" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/26/1954",
  "desc" : "On this day a five meter long cigar-shaped object came down in some woods in Ranes, Orne, France. It began to rise off the ground slowly, then shot away when the witness approached. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7139",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 121" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/26/1954",
  "desc" : "At 6:00 p.m. several railroad workers in Chateaudun, Eure-et-Loir, France ran toward a luminous ball of light over the railroad tracks. It floated out over a field and then vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7140",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 122" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/26/1954",
  "desc" : "On this evening in La Madiere, Creuse, France Aime Boussard, a 47-year-old farmer, was suddenly confronted by an unusual individual of normal height (1.60 m) wearing a sort of diving suit with a pale green light emitted from either side of the helmet. The being aimed two beams of blue light at the witness, who was thrown backward when struck by the rays. No craft was observed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7141",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Le Parisien, October 28, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 238, case 311; Michel Carrouges, Les Apparitions de Martiens, p. 120" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/26/1954",
  "desc" : "Late in the day at Les Metairies, situated near Saint Quirin, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France, Mrs. Louis and her sons Marc and Yvon observed a six-meter diameter orange craft that flew over them as their tractor engine died. The headlights on the tractor also went out, and the battery was found to be dead after the sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7142",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 239, case 312; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/26/1954",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. Mrs. Spinner and another witness in Heiteren, Haut-Rhin department, France saw a flying object come from the west and land a kilometer away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7143",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 239, case 313" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/26/1954",
  "desc" : "On this night Mrs. Irene Sarris and Mr. Socrates Caraliamis saw a flying object emitting a blinding light in the sky over Antimachia, Kos Island, Greece. The UFO had the shape of a basket, and for a while it headed toward Antimachia, but changed course suddenly and went away. That same night Mr. George Cacamoundis saw a \"winged man\" crossing the sky over the village, at approximately the same time as the luminous UFO. The witness, terrified, ran to hide in the nearby church, where he stayed for a long time refusing to come out. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7144",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, citing Thanassis Vembos, Hellenicos Vorras" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/26/1958",
  "desc" : "Two men, Small and Cohen, had a close encounter with a 100-foot-long ovoid object with an irridescent moon glow as they drove near Loch Raven Dam in Baltimore County, Maryland. The object flew at 150 feet altitude, and when it approached their car at the bridge over the reservoir the car engine, dashboard lights, and headlights all died at a distance of 200 to 300 feet. The witnesses felt heat coming from the object and later discovered that they had sunburns  on their exposed skin. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7145",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 6148; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 1; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume I, pp. 74-75; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 115; UNICAT, case # 392" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/26/1965",
  "desc" : "A man by the name of Camilho encountered two little men sitting on stump around noon in Canhotinho, Pernambuco state, Brazil. They were one meter tall, with white hair, large heads, slanted eyes, and a brown wrinkled complexion. They wore shiny blue-green clothes with a belt; one wore a cap. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7146",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0681, citing The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 124" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/26/1966",
  "desc" : "Cold Bay Air Force Station, Alaska. No time given. Sometime after dark a civilian control tower operator spotted a white object approach the runway at 50 feet altitude. The runway lights were then turned on, and object accelerated and climbed away so fast that the witness was unable to use his binoculars. Sighting lasted 3 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7147",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/26/1967",
  "desc" : "A businessman driving in the pre-dawn hours north between Hook and Reading, England was momentarily puzzled when the electrical system of his car broke down at 4:30 a.m. He then observed a low hovering, dull-colored object about 100 meters away from him. It was 20 meters in diameter and at an altitude of about 15 meters. He was able to restart the car, but made the rest of his journey in a trancelike state. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7148",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 891, citing Flying Saucer Review, November-December 1967" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/26/1967",
  "desc" : "Four witnesses in Newton, Massachusetts saw a dark object at 9:30 p.m. that had two rows of horizontal red lights, a green light and a white light (see sketch below). The object circled in the sky, hovered for awhile, and then reversed direction, making a humming sound. Dogs barked and whined during the sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7149",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler case files, report dated November 21, 1967" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/26/1972",
  "desc" : "An abduction by UFO occupants was reported to the UFO Reporting Center in Seattle, Washington having occurred on this night. It occurred ten miles west of Woodland, California in Yolo County.  There were two people involved in the abduction. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7150",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, case # 17" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/26/1973",
  "desc" : "At 8:03 p.m. in Toulon, Var department, France a bright ovoid object divided into three parts. Two of the parts flew off, while the third split in half, and then vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7151",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 10321, citing Charles Garreau, Soucopes Volantes Vingt-cinq Ans d'Enquetes (Third Edition), p. 89" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/26/1973",
  "desc" : "The Kingwood, West Virginia police chief and two fire tower observers watched a light cavort over Caddell Mountain on this night for hours. Willard Zinn, a police officer from Terra Alta, West Virginia was driving home via a mountain road at two o'clock at night when he encountered a four-foot tall, brown, or green creature with long, fuzzy hair that darted across the road in front of his car. Zinn skidded into a ditch. The two fire observers joined him and all three saw a very bright, silent, reddish white light whiz overhead at tree top level. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7152",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted Bloecher, MUFON Conference Proceedings: 1975, p. 75; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of the Humanoids, case 73-38A; Preston County News, October 30, 1973" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/26/1975",
  "desc" : "Mrs. L. E. Dison, age 43, and her daughter were driving home at one o'clock in the morning in Cahaba Heights, Alabama when they saw on the dark side of the road two 8 foot tall beings wearing wearing silvery boots and tight fitting clothing of a dull silver color, and helmets. The front of helmets were luminous or light reflecting. The one nearest them had an arm up,  pointing at the sky. The second was looking up at the sky.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7153",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ed Planz, CUFOS files, report dated September 1976" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/26/1975",
  "desc" : "In Happy Camp, Siskiyou County, California just after midnight Steve Harris, San Gayer, and Carl Jackson returned to the spot of their \"creature\" sighting earlier that evening, accompanied by Helen White and Rick Pool. They shone spotlights around, but saw nothing. Then Steve fired his rifle several times. Immediately they heard a loud \"wow-wow-wow\" sound, and turned around to see in their spotlights the dark, non-reflecting forms about 5 feet tall. They were vaguely human shaped, with a glow around the edges, and about 30-35 ft away. These forms were moving about slowly, but staying at the same distance. They seemed to absorb the light from the flashlights without reflecting it, but occasionally an entire shape would start glowing slightly. No details could be made out. After several seconds, during which Helen failed to use her Polaroid camera, Helen and then the others began to feel a choking sensation, \"as if the oxygen was being depleted from the air.\" After another three or four minutes of this, all five of them piled into their Ford Bronco and drove away. Looking back, they saw a glowing orange disc-shaped object rise up from near where they had been. It was about 40 feet in diameter, and it followed them at a distance of 150 feet and right above the treetops, until they reached the highway. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7154",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1975-54, citing Paul Cerny for MUFON" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/26/1977",
  "desc" : "During an evening of intense UFO activity in the skies above Colares, Para State, Brazil a young woman, 25-year-old Nueza Pereira Aragao, was in her kitchen with her sister reading a book. At 10:15 p.m. a light beam came through the roof, badly frightening her. She was immediately attended to by military doctors, who were part of a team in the area investigating the UFO activity. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7155",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Pratt, Operacao Prato, p. 22" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/26/1977",
  "desc" : "A 14-year-old girl was walking home in Via Lagaccio, Genova, Italy at 9:00 p.m. when she spotted a strange humanoid figure standing by a nearby tree. The figure began walking very slowly and seemed to stagger like if intoxicated. The figure was short and very pale and had only two digits on each hand. It was dressed in black and wore some sort of helmet. The witness became frightened and ran home. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7156",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, case # 998, citing Massimo Varrichio, BUFORA Journal, Vol. 7 # 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/26/1977",
  "desc" : "Three hours later a bright red sphere hovered in front of a USAF T-38 aircraft flying from Abilene to Dallas, Texas. It departed in a rapid vertical climb and changed color to white after effecting the navigation instruments and producing a large amount of static on the radio. There were several other witnesses to the UFO. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7157",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Cashman, Project 1947 EM Effects Catalog website, citing MUFON UFO Journal, March 1983; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 50; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 21 & 123" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/26/1978",
  "desc" : "In Remoulins, Gard department, France a four-meter wide ball of light hovered low by some telephone lines at 11:45 p.m. The witness in a car felt intense cold. The object shot straight up when it left.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7158",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "10/26/1979",
  "desc" : "Roosters crowed, ducks quacked, geese honked, and bullfrogs started croaking loudly in response to a silver, bullet-shaped craft that hovered briefly over a farm near a river in Colusa, California at 12:15 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7159",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joan Woodward, NICAP Category 4 - Animal Effects Cases, www.nicap.org, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/26/1980",
  "desc" : "A \"huge\" lopsided triangular object was seen by a farmer and his wife in a close encounter on their farm in Green County, Indiana. Moreover, their farm animals were affected while the UFO was over their barn. The UFO passed only twenty feet over the barn and disturbed their pigs. The object looked \"like facets of a diamond.\" It moved smoothly from a hovering position, and had two steady white lights with a flashing light in the back. When it moved further away it looked like a bright orange light in the southwestern sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7160",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UNICAT, case # 41, citing Frontiers of Science, July 1981, p. 14; Joan Woodward, NICAP Category 4 - Animal Effects Cases, www.nicap.org, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/26/1981",
  "desc" : "Two men in a car near the seashore in Dickinson, Galveston County, Texas saw a silvery disc-shaped object paralleling their car and then crossing the road ahead of them. Nocturnal lights were seen in the area that evening. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7161",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1982, p. 13; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14305" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/26/1983",
  "desc" : "At 3:00 a.m. in Columbus, Georgia three people in a car at Camp McKensie, a Boy Scout camp, had a close encounter near some railroad tracks with a gray spherical object that made no sound. The object approached over the railroad tracks and disappeared. The witnesses first thought it was a train coming. One of the witnesses had a euphoric reaction to the experience. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7162",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jerrold R. Johnson, MUFON UFO Journal, February 1994, p. 18, citing MUFON Field Investigator Jim Maples, case # 931210E" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/26/1983",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. on US. Highway 321 northwest of Hickory, North Carolina a silent, diamond-shaped object stopped a car for 5 minutes, then rose into the sky and flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7163",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, April 1984" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/26/1983",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. in a rural area of Slaterville, New York a round UFO with 2-3 horizontal rows of windows was sighted on a cloudy night. It had a single revolving light on top, and was the size of a very large room. The minimum distance to the object was only 200 meters, and it was viewed through binoculars. The UFO hovered, and then went behind the hills. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7164",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, February 1984, p. 8; UNICAT, case # 300" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/26/1985",
  "desc" : "In Petersburg, Virginia a large cigar-shaped object crossed the sky at a high altitude at 6:30 p.m. The sighting had a two minute duration. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7165",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, case # 1020" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/26/1988",
  "desc" : "On this evening there were several reports of sightings of boomerang and V-shaped objects in Porterville, California. Beginning at 8:00 p.m. witnesses spotted 2 or 3 objects, V-shaped with red and white lights, which flew in front of the moon. The witnesses speculated that they could have been stealth bombers, but Northrup denied any of their stealth aircraft were flying that night. Futhermore, additional sightings included objects that were engaged in zigzag maneuvers after 9:45 p.m. In Antelope Valley, California two witnesses reported that a 600 foot wide boomerang flew over at 25 mph; it was joined by a second object, while 15-20 smaller disc-shaped objects trailed behind. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7166",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Imbrogno Philip J. Imbrogno & Marianne Horrigan, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 29; Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case # 515, citing UFO Newsclipping Service; MUFON UFO Journal, November 1990" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/26/1990",
  "desc" : "On this eveing, while returning from his work, a witness driving his car in Chateaugiron, Ile-Vilaine department, France observed a large triangular object like a plane, but changing direction easily and moving without noise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7167",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "GEIPAN, case # 071" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/26/1996",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. at Baca Rach and Highway 66T in the San Luis Valley, Colorado the author Christopher O'Brien and his two friends Dumas and Nickerson spotted a solid, unblinking orange light low in the sky moving from the southeast to the northwest at a speed of about 200 mph. The craft did a loop, moved to the east, then headed back displaying FAA lighting. Several minutes later, two more craft came from the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7168",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Christopher O'Brien, Enter the Valley, p. 299" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/26/1999",
  "desc" : "At 2:36 a.m. CDT two airline pilots in separate commercial airliners, both former military pilots, flying near Dallas-Forth Worth International Airport, Texas saw three gigantic lights approach their aircraft at cruising altitude (37,000 feet). The lights were part of a large triangular-shaped craft, described as \"the size of a fist at arms length.\" It executed a sudden turn to the east and streaked off. An FAA report on the incident was filed. The planes were about 100 miles apart at the time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7169",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), January 2000, p. 12, citing Peter Davenport, NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/26/1999",
  "desc" : "At 2:14 a.m. PDT a woman in California (exact location not disclosed) suddenly awoke feeling a presence in her room. Her body began to get a familiar vibrating feeling, and then she became very lethargic. In the dark she saw a figure in the room; she could see it standing by the bedroom door. The witness became enraged and by using her thoughts cursed at the entity several times. The being looked scared, and it crouched in the corner with its head down. She then tried to turn the light on, but it would not work, and she also tried to use the phone by her bed, but it was also out of commission. By this point she had calmed down somewhat, and asked the being why they were not going anywhere (presuming she would be abducted). She received the reply, “I just don’t like women.” The being now approached her bed, and she recognized her as being female, and sat on the bed. The woman then took her hand, which felt very cold. The being was about four feet tall, and was wearing a blackish, hooded cape. The being next told the witness she was going to take her to the ship now. Her next recollection was of waking up around an hour later, again feeling a vibration in her body. The female humanoid was gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7170",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1999 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 3942, citing CAUS" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/26/2005",
  "desc" : "At around two p.m. a bright, aluminum colored, cigar-shaped craft appeared in the northwest sky at an elevation of about 35 degrees in Orlando, Florida. The witness estimated the sighting lasted five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7171",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2005 webpage, report uploaded November 3, 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/26/2005",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. a young man in Vaudreuil-Dordon, Quebec, Canada was taking out the trash when he encountered a bizarre looking, eight foot tall creature. He came back inside running and out of breath, reporting to his family that he had seen the creature in front of the neighbor’s driveway. No specific details were provided about the appearance of the humanoid, but the witness's brother saw two similar creatures back in the summer of 2004. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7172",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1999 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing Peter Davenport, NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/26/2005",
  "desc" : "A silvery, oval shaped object with circular shining lights was sighted over Tracy, California at 10:05 p.m. The sighting lasted nineteen minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7173",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2005 webpage, report uploaded November 3, 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/26/2006",
  "desc" : "At three o'clock in the morning many residents of the cities of Colon, Argentina and Paysandu, Uruguay witnessed a huge triangular craft fly over the two cities. It made no sound, but flew at a low altitude. It flew from south to north at a very slow speed. Witnesses were able to see multicolored lights beneath it that were blue, white, and yellow. Again at 11:05 p.m. that night two loud sky explosions rocked both cities. They broke windows. Some witnesses in Colon said a powerful light could be seen toward the southeastern area of the city. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7174",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Julio Degeneve, www.ufoinfo.com, reported dated October 29, 2006" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/26/2008",
  "desc" : "At 7:50 p.m. a very bright, diamond shaped light hovered 100 feet in front of the witness near Spring Valley, Greene County, Ohio. The close encounter lasted four minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7175",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2008 webpage, report uploaded October 31, 2008" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/26/2008",
  "desc" : "A lenticular disc-shaped object was spotted at 8:10 p.m. in Almagro Pale, Buenos Aires, Argentina. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7176",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2008 webpage, report uploaded October 31, 2008" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/27/1910",
  "desc" : "A cigar-shaped object with red and green lights on the rear and a bright headlight flew overhead on this morning in Swift Current, Saskachewan, Canada at an estimated altitude of 600 feet. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7177",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/27/1952",
  "desc" : "Five military witnesses at Woomera Open Air Theatre saw a cigar-shaped object fly on a straight, horizontal course at 8:00 p.m. in Woomera, South Australia. It flew from right to left, had to porthols and interior lighting, and was faster than a jet. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7178",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Debbie Payne, Australasian Ufologist, October 2004, p. 31" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/27/1952",
  "desc" : "Several sighting reports came from France on this day. The earliest was at 2:03 a.m. at Marignane Airport, where customs official Gabriel Gachignard saw a 15-foot long football or cigar-shaped object, throbbing with soft changing tints. It had a metallic grillwork and four rectangular windows, 8 to 12 inches wide. It made a dull sound when it touched the ground, and a soft swishing sound on its quick departure when the witness ran towards it. The acceleration was instantaneous, and the UFO was gone from view in three seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7179",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, The Truth About Flying Saucers, pp. 159-160; Jacques & Janine Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 6; UNICAT, case # 410" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/27/1952",
  "desc" : "Two glowing balls hovered over Lignan-de-Bazas, France for ten minutes at 7:45 a.m., then seemed to burst. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7180",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 131" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/27/1952",
  "desc" : "At three o'clock in the afternoon white trails appeared in the sky over Forbach, France and some 40 small gray spheres exited and flew to the north toward Saar, Germany. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7181",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/27/1952",
  "desc" : "At five o'clock a white cylinder surrounded by eight pairs of Saturn-like red balls were seen at 300 to 400 meters altitude over the town of Gaillac, France. Angel hair filaments fell on the roofs of houses in the area. Thirty minutes later a UFO was seen hovering over Brives-Charensac, France. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7182",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, The Truth About Flying Saucers, pp. 155 & 159; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 62; John Magor, Canadian UFO Report, Spring 1974; UNICAT case #642" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/27/1952",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. a large round white object flew from east to west over Eyrans, France. It had a pointed end and threw off sparks. Angel hair residue also fell to gound here as well. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7183",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 131" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/27/1954",
  "desc" : "Several sightings and close encounters occurred this day in France and Italy, and a photograph was taken of a UFO in Und, Hungary. On this night in the Chicama Valley of Peru a brilliant disc flashed in the sky, moved slowly at first, then sped up, dropped diagonally, then hovered in the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7184",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 48" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/27/1954",
  "desc" : "A shop owner and his employee felt an electric shock as a very bright object flying very low stopped the engine and turned off the lights on their car in Linzeux, France. In Mezieres, France two policemen on bicycles saw a craft which took off from a field. They noted that the cows in the field appeared to be afraid, bellowing and grouping in the pasture. They saw a trail of sparks trailing from the object about 5 meters in length, heard a whistling, purring noise as it moved away. The minimum distance to the object was 150 m. They found that a fence had been damaged. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7185",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, cases 314 & 315; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 204; UNICAT, case # 424, citing Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 200-201" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/27/1954",
  "desc" : "At two o'clock in the afternoon in Ciolica Alta, Italy a young man named Fabrizio Bruni heard a strange hissing sound and saw an object in a field  that was emitting a blinding glare. It was stationary, hovering one meter above the ground, and seemed transparent. The witness fell to the ground \"because of his strong emotions\" experiencing thae sight of sruch a ts. The object took off vertically and suddenly, leaving a trail. Very white, glistening threads were found on the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7186",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 316" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/27/1954",
  "desc" : "The close encounter experiences continued unabated during that evening. At 7:30 p.m. farmer Gilbert Hee, in Les-Jonquerets-de-Livet, France was gathering pears when he suddenly saw an elongated object with a light at both ends resting in the pasture. He didn't dare get closer to investigate, but he did see cows gathering around the object. A minute later, the lights on the object went out, and the witness lost interest and went home. Two hours later, an 18-year-old man named Cheradame fell from his motorcycle when it suddenly failed at the same spot, and alerted neighbors saw the object again. It had moved only slightly and two occupants were seen. They were short, about one meter tall, and walked in a stiff fashion. They had on clothes resembling bright armor. They vanished suddenly, and the craft took off without making a sound. At 8:30 p.m. a schoolboy and his school director saw a UFO on the ground in Moussey, France. Triangular ground traces were reported. At 11:15 p.m. in Oye-Plage, France on Route N40, the Mayor's secretary saw a bright, cigar-shaped object for 15 minutes. It was flying very low and following the turns of the road at 20 meters altitude. It suddenly tumed at a right angle from the road and flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7187",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, cases 317-319; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-120, citing Vallee" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/27/1954",
  "desc" : "A 12-year-old girl approached a one-meter long ovoid object on the road northeast of Plouezoch, Finistere, France. She received electric shocks and was temporarily paralyzed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7188",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4074, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 122" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/27/1954",
  "desc" : "Finally, at 11:30 p.m. Ms. Ermellina Lanzillo was in her house near Grosseto, Italy looking for her cat, when she saw from her window a strange entity standing in her garden. The being appeared fat but had narrow shoulders, ape-like eyes, and a head like a diving helmet. At first she was paralyzed with terror, but she was able to regain self-control when called by her niece and withdrew from the window. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7189",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 320; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-121, citing Vallee" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/27/1958",
  "desc" : "An object resembling a large gray cigar with an assembly tail flew at treetop level over Union Dale, Pennsylvania making a strong \"swishing\" sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7190",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 472" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/27/1967",
  "desc" : "In Dympep, India a spinning multicolored object emitting red and green lights, 7.5 meters in diameter, came down to the surface of a river, causing thunderous agitation of the water, and then took off over a forest with a wave of heat. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7191",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 892, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 92" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/27/1967",
  "desc" : "At four a.m. a crackling sound was heard over the Bacup, Lancashire, England police station's short wave radio, so police officer B. Earnshaw went outside to investigate. He saw a 50 foot long cigar-shaped object flying at a low altitude, estimated to be only 250 feet. It had portholes on the side and no visible means of propulsion. It was metallic looking yet glowed, and made a whirring noise. At 4:15 a.m. six on-duty police officers in Glossop, Derbyshire, England saw the same UFO from different locations. The object was \"swinging from side to side\" in a pendulum motion. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7192",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) APRO Bulletin, September-October 1967, p. 7; (2) Flying Saucer Review, citing newspaper source" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/27/1967",
  "desc" : "A brightly luminous object bobbed up-and-down, and then hovered near a nuclear missile base in Parshall, North Dakota at 3:00 a.m. It was witnessed by a police lieutenant and a civilian. It shot straight up and out of sight in seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7193",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1968, p. 6; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Experience, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 173; UNICAT, case # 246, citing J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 89" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/27/1967",
  "desc" : "A near head-on collision between an airliner and a grayish, open triangle or V-shaped craft with six very bright white lights along one side occurred at three o'clock in the morning north of Jacksonville, Florida. The object was so close it caused a green glow to illuminate the cockpit. The UFO made an unbanked, 180 degree turn. It did not appear on radar. There were four witnesses on board the aircraft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7194",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Willy Smith, International UFO Reporter, September-October 1984, p. 4; UNICAT database case # 242" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/27/1968",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. three men in their twenties sighted a semi-circular or crescent-shaped object with red and green flashing lights and a white light hovering for 30 minutes over Wallingford, Connecticut. At one point it was joined by two more similar objects that remained for a few minutes, then shot off in opposite directions. They were gone in less than 15 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7195",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Meriden Morning Record, October 28, 1968" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/27/1973",
  "desc" : "At 6 p.m. fifteen witnesses reported that a lenticular disc-shaped object hovered over a lake, Lago Ramos Mejia in Nequen Province, Argentina at 2000 m altitude or less. There were four UFOs in total, and one approached to within 400-500 meters. It was pulsating with a weak luminosity. It finally moved out of sight in 45 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7196",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 189; UNICAT, case # 583, citing ARGENCAT, case # 214" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/27/1974",
  "desc" : "A blue, oval-shaped object paced a car in Aveley, Essex, England at 9:50 p.m. John and Elaine Avis and their three children were on their way home from a visit to Harold Hill, some 20 minutes away. A bright light from the sky swooped across the road in front of them, and the radio sparked, the car lights went out, and the engine stalled. It was surrounded by a green mist, which the car rolled into, and they felt a sensation of cold and there was abnormal silence. They were then abducted and they had three hours of missing time. Onboard the craft there were four foot tall creatures with pointed ears and 6 ft. 6 in. tall hooded human-looking albinos. Following the incident John had a nervous breakdown, while Elaine and the children had personality and lifestyle changes. For instance, they became ill if they ate meat. Both John and Elaine gave up alcohol and John stopped smoking. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7197",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, April 1978, p. 13; National Enquirer, July 3, 1979; Patrick Huyghe, Field Guide to Extraterrestrials: A complete overview of alien lifeforms based on actual accounts and sightings, p. 72; UNICAT, case # 782; John Schuessler, UFO-Related Human Physiological Effects, p. 62-63; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 541-544" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/27/1974",
  "desc" : "At seven p.m. there were three reports of a close encounter on Highway 42 in New California, Ohio. At 7:04 p.m. two women driving near Liberty Lake Bridge in Carroll County, Maryland suffered physiological effects during a close encounter with a UFO. At 7:30 p.m. five men in a boat in Cincinnati, Ohio had a close encounter with a huge UFO for ten minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7198",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "CUFOS files, reports dated October 28, 1974, December 8, 1974, and November 18, 1974" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/27/1975",
  "desc" : "David Stephens and Glen Gray were driving at around 2:30 a.m. on a rural highway between Norway and West Poland, Maine when David discovered that the car was no longer responding to the steering wheel. It turned of its own accord onto a back road full of potholes, but they felt no bumps, which suggested the car was being levitated. They came to a cornfield where two lights were visible four feet from the ground. As these lights rose silently to treetop level, they realized that they were coming from a very large, gray cylindrical object, \"as big as a football field.\" They were then enveloped in a blinding light, leaving them both unconscious. They regained consciousness only when the car had reached West Poland. They turned back, and the car automatically turned onto a road leading to Tripp Pond (also called Thompson Lake). The UFO was there, waiting for them, about 150 feet up. Another UFO only one-quarter as big, soon joined by a second, maneuvered over the pond, showing red, green, and blue lights. A smoke or fog then rose from the pond and concealed these two objects, so they could then see only the larger object, which showed a long window and three bright lights. Finally it rose vertically, together with the smoke. They drove to David's parents trailer, by which time both were feeling sick, with chills, swollen hands and feet, and orange whites of the eyes. They lacked balance and coordination, and felt lightheaded. Stephens experienced intense thirst, and both men slept very deeply. Hallucinations and poltergeist-like activity troubled them for the next few days.<br/><br/> Later under hypnosis, Stephens recalled that when they had encountered the bright light he had somehow been taken from the car into a round, metallic looking room with a small round window, from which he could see the car below. A Grey being 4.5 feet tall, wearing a long black robe that seemed to be made of paper, entered the room. It had a bald, mushroom-shaped white head and slanting \"white\" eyes, a small flat nose, and no mouth. The hands had a thumb and only three long fingers. By telepathy, this entity told Stephens not to be afraid. He was taken into a brightly lit adjoining room where there were four other beings. Here he was told to undress and lie on a table. Blood samples were taken, and a square machine with dials scanned his body. The Grey humanoids also took a button from his clothes. Finally, he put on his clothes, and was somehow transported back to his car. The beings told him they would see him again. The two men had experienced three hours of missing time. Both were ill for three days, and had a number of paranomal experiences, including a stocky Man in Black (MIB) who visited Stephens and told him not to talk about what had happened to them. Even when hypnotized he resisted revealing when the beings told him they would return. Their physiological effects included chills, swollen feet and ankles, eye discoloration, difficulty swallowing, and sore teeth. The Stephens family subsequently observed UFOs on numerous occasions. Investigation began the next day, and hypnosis sessions followed between December 1975 to March 1976. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7199",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Shirley Fickett, FSR, July 1976, p. 14; Brent M. Raynes, FSR, July 1976, p 11;  David F. Webb, Proceedings of the 1976 CUFOS Conference, p. 270; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1975-55 (A1428), citing Al Erickson, Shirley Fickett, Brent Raynes & Dr. Berthold Schwarz; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions:  The Measure of a Mystery (Volume 2), case 140; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 546-547" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/27/1975",
  "desc" : "A helicopter like object, but not a normal helicopter, hovered over the Brunswick Naval Air Station in in Maine in the early morning hours, at the same time as a Loring AFB UFO incident. It stayed for 5-10 minutes, then flew off over Atlantic Ocean. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7200",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bangor Daily News, January 20, 1979" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/27/1975",
  "desc" : "At around 8 p.m. Steve Harris, San Gayer, and Carl Jackson returned to the spot of their creature sighting in Happy Camp, California about an hour earlier, accompanied by Helen White and Rick Pool. They shone spotlights around, but saw nothing. Then Steve fired his rifle several times. Immediately they heard a loud \"wow-wow-wow\" sound, and turned around to see in the spotlights three dark, non-reflecting forms about five feet high, vaguely human in shape, with a glow around the edges, 30-35 feet away. These forms were moving about slowly, but staying at the same distance. They seemed to absorb the light without reflecting it, but occasionally the whole shape would glow slightly. No further details could be made out. After some seconds, during which Helen failed to use her Polaroid camera, Helen and then the others began to feel a choking sensation, \"as if the oxygen was being depleted from the air.\" After 3 or 4 minutes of this, all five of them piled into their Ford Bronco and drove off. Looking back, they saw a glowing orange, disc-shaped object rise up from close to where they had been. It looked to be about 40 feet in diameter, and it followed them at a distance of 150 feet just above the trees until they reached the highway. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7201",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact, p. 165; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1975-54, citing Paul Cerny, MUFON Field Investigator" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/27/1978",
  "desc" : "On or about this date two musicians, members of an orchestra, discovered the remains of two small beings (0.17 m tall), hanging from a tree branch on a beach in Posorja Beach, Guayaquil, Ecuador. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7202",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, January 1979, p. 15, citing Cronica, October 27, 1978; Xenolog, March 1979, p. 20" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/27/1982",
  "desc" : "On this evening a father and daughter witnessed a large silvery sphere, 100 feet in diameter, with pocks like a golf ball, near Summit Lake, Alaska. It changed color to orange, and then to red, only 100 yards away from them. It made no sound. The close encounter lasted about an hour. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7203",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Sigismonde, International UFO Reporter, November 1984, p. 8; UNICAT, case # 80" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/27/1989",
  "desc" : "A family of four in Brewster, New York found themselves awake, late at night, walking around their house for no apparent reason, and having no recollection of how they got there. The father was standing in the living room with all the lights on, when one of his sons came running downstairs, yelling that there was a UFO hovering outside. They all ran to the basement and looked out a window to see. Next, a red beam of light came down from the sky and covered the entire house. The light stayed on the house for about a minute, and then went out. The father then walked outside to see what was going on, and saw a large black, triangle-shaped craft with a large red light in the center and several white lights on the front. It was slowly moving away from the area. The youngest son later informed his parents that that same night he had awoke and seen two “little men” standing in his bedroom, a third being then walked in, passing right through the bedroom wall. In addition, the man and his wife remembered having had a “dream” of little bald men with big round eyes leading them down a dark corridor. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7204",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1989 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 2133, citing Phillip J. Imbrogno & Marianne Horrigan, UFO Universe, Winter 1996" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/27/1989",
  "desc" : "At 5:10 a.m. two women, Wilson and Underwood, took photographs of a reddish-orange object with columns of light, which then paced their vehicle at close range in Huntsville, Alabama. They experienced at least 25 minutes of missing time, and the clock in their pick-up truck was off by six hours. They also experienced nightmares over the next several nights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7205",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, December 1989, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/27/1995",
  "desc" : "Residents of the Las Margaritas and Santa Rosa development, Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico witnessed a collision between two UFO's in mid-flight at around 4 a.m., directly above the Bosques del Recuerdo cemetery. Both objects had been flying at high speed low above the ground. It was reported to resemble an enormous light that divided into three smaller lights, two of which had collided in mid-air. One witness reported being awakened by a loud noise, and saw his bedroom fill with light. After the objects had disappeared, three figures looking like women were seen standing in the middle of the cemetery; cab drivers rushed to the scene but could find nothing. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7206",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1995 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 3204, citing The UFO Phenomenon in Mexico" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/27/2004",
  "desc" : "On this evening in Orizaba, Mexico Mrs. M., who runs a small food retail establishment from her home, was watching television facing towards the street, and hoping for a client to stop by, when suddenly the television reception began to fail and there was sudden heavy RF interference. This was remarkable since the street was empty and there weren't any vehicles around that could cause the problem. Suddenly, a very tall figure walked by the front door of her house. The strange figure had a very pale white complexion, extremely white according to the witness. The figure then turned to look at her, and the stranger's stare was so intense and penetrating that she could not move; she wanted to yell out to her sister who lived next door, but was unable to utter a sound. The stranger abruptly disappeared, and at the same time the television returned to normal, but she was not able to move for at least five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7207",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 2004 Humanoid Contact Database, citing http://www.eldurmientedeorizaba.com" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/27/2004",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. a dark triangular object was sighted in Brooklyn, New York. It had no lights, made no sound, and was huge. Also at 10:00 p.m. a boomerang-shaped object was seen in Miami Gardens, Dade County, Florida. It was a gray, metallic looking object that glided smoothly, moving as fast as a small jet, with no lights or sound. At 10:15 two V-shaped UFOs were reported over New York City. They were gray V-shaped objects flying side-by-side, with no lights and no sound. Two more reports were received from Ithaca, New York at the UFO Reporting Center of a very large, white, V-shaped object that moved quickly across the sky between 10:20 and 10:30 p.m. on the night of a lunar eclipse. The sightings lasted several seconds. At 10:18 p.m. 1 V-shaped light formation traveling in a southwest direction was sighted over Largo, Pinellas County, Florida. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7208",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, October 2004 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/27/2007",
  "desc" : "At around 1:00 a.m. the main witness and his friend were riding around League City, Harris and Galveston Counties, Texas looking for something to do. As they drove about they came upon a newly finished building on a new road, so they decided to check it out. No street lights had been erected yet, and it went through a large field. They were in the middle of the road when a huge, brown and tan object, somewhat oval shaped, came flying through the air straight at them. The driver slammed on the brakes because it didn’t look like the craft was going to stop, but as soon as he did that the object stopped. It just sat there hovering, about 10-15 feet from their car. For a short while both witnesses just sat in the car staring at the object, which took off straight up at an incredible speed. They then drove away, not knowing what to do. A few yards down the road they stopped and turned around--scared but still curious. They then saw the object again, floating just above the road, and it flew straight towards them again and hovered right over them; it stayed there for about 10 seconds and then it flew away. As they watched the object speeding away a weird-looking creature about 5 feet tall, with a round shape to it, jumped out of the bushes and ran onto the road. They had to swerve to avoid hitting it. They don’t know where the creature went, but it walked on two legs. It seemed to have been naked, and was an odd looking brown color. Afterwards, they drove home. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7209",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 2007 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing Peter Davenport, NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/27/2007",
  "desc" : "At 1:00 p.m. a high altitude, disc-shaped craft moved from North to South over Keller, Tarrant County, Texas and hovered a few times for several seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7210",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, October 2007 webpage, report uploaded November 28, 2007" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/27/2008",
  "desc" : "At six p.m. a witness reported that three large round objects lined up along Highway 35 in Liverpool, Brazoria County, Texas; an identical looking object followed the witness as he drove home. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7211",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, October 2008 webpage, report uploaded October 31, 2008" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/27/2009",
  "desc" : "Fuselage shaped objects were sighted over McAllen, Hidalgo County, Texas at 6:30 p.m. They looked like planes without wings, emitting a high concentration of light and moving extremely slowly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7212",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, October 2009 webpage, report uploaded December 12, 2009" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/1902",
  "desc" : "Three men aboard the \"Fort Salisbury\" steaming in the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean, including Second Officer A. H. Raymer, saw a huge, dark object bearing two lights in the sea ahead. It was observed submerging slowly. Its estimated length was 150-200 meters. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7213",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jerome Clark, FSR, May-June 1972, p. 18; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 32; Charles Fort, The Complete Books of Charles Fort, p. 642" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/1949",
  "desc" : "At six o'clock in the morning several independent observers in Montecarotto, Italy watched an eight meter long cigar-shaped object as it flew 100 meters overhead towards the north-northeast. Tree branches thrashed about as it passed by. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7214",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Solas Boncompagni, UFO in Italia, Volume I (Periodo 1907-1953), p. 103" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/1954",
  "desc" : "There are several reports for this day from France and Italy and one from Japan. To view the distribution of reports, click on map. In Japan, Olen C. Cook and James W. Brown, both military pilots, viewed a round or oval object approaching the Miho AFB at 5:32 p.m. after sunset. The object was silhouetted against the clouds, and climbed and turned to the north. It entered a cloud but did not emerge. It was viewed through binoculars. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7215",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 3281; UNICAT database, case 780" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/1954",
  "desc" : "In Padua (Padova), Italy three witnesses watched an eight meter long ovoid object hover just 12 meters over a tree at 9:00 p.m. It directed a beam of light at the house, and one of the witness's eyes were red and irritated for days following the encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7216",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 4088; Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Italian UFO catalogue" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/1954",
  "desc" : "Mrs. Clare Booth Luce, American Ambassador to Italy, and others sighted a luminous, round UFO. Angel hair residue reportedly fell to the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7217",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 100; Charles A. Maney, The Challenge of  Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 59; Leonard H. Stringfield, Inside Saucer Post...3-0 Blue, p. 50" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/1954",
  "desc" : "In Thoury, Allier, France an orange football shaped object bounced up and down, then blinked out at 9:30 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7218",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 4089; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #128" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/1954",
  "desc" : "At ten p.m., on or about this date, according to the Milan, Italy newspaper Milano Notte dated October 29, 1954 a large number of witnesses in Tradate watched a saucer land on tripod landing gear, and saw three humanoids emerge who spoke in a gutteral, uncomprehensible language. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7219",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Milano Notte, October 29, 1954; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0330; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious Business, p. 191" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/1954",
  "desc" : "At the same time in Chatel-Blanc, Doubs, France a group of nocturnal lights zigzagged through the sky and may have landed, but the witness fled the scene. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7220",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4090, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 123" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/1955",
  "desc" : "A disc-shaped object with a row of blue lights on the periphery slowly maneuvered above a car on a deserted road In Galloway, England. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7221",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 135, Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 377" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/1956",
  "desc" : "A bright red-orange object was seen by a B-52 crew flying over North Dakota. At same time a missile maintenance man at Minot AFB saw the same or a similar bright orange-red UFO. The B-52 was vectored closer by the base which was tracking the object on radar, some 30 miles to the northwest of the base. The search for the UFO, which may have landed, was complicated by a period of unexplained radio interference. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7222",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek, Hynek UFO Report, p. 137; MUFON UFO Journal, October 1991; UNICAT, case # 274" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/1958",
  "desc" : "Two members of the Ohio Highway Patrol drove east of Georgetown, Ohio on SR125 at 4:20 p.m. when the witness saw a \"huge silver disc\" over the power lines and he asked the driver to stop. They went back to the police station, and the dispatcher also saw it. The three of them watched until the UFO departed off in the distance. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7223",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Delbert E. Anderson, MUFON field investigation database, case 951112dC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/1959",
  "desc" : "An astronomer and several other witnesses saw an orange concave disc-shaped object maneuvering in the sky over Valparaiso, Chile at 9:15 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7224",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 120" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/1962",
  "desc" : "Mrs. E. D. Sylvester was driving in Norwood, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia with her three children at 7:30 p.m. when an ovoid object with windows surrounded by a luminous rim landed near the road on three legs. A six foot tall man emerged from the object and descended some steps to the ground. He was wearing a uniform, helmet and gas mask. She watched him for 40 minutes, and reported he seemed to be working on the landing gear. He then put some plants into a silver colored box and carried them back onboard. The object made a vertical takeoff when it left. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7225",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 550, citing Flying Saucer Review July-August 1963; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious Business, p. 104 & 185; Bill Chalker & Keith Basterfield, Australian Catalogue of Close Encounter Type Three Reports, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/1966",
  "desc" : "A white cigar-shaped UFO hovered silently at a 45 degree tilt over some water towers in Lawrence, Massachusetts at 1:00 a.m. for 30 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7226",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 342" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/1967",
  "desc" : "At 6:45 p.m. a driver in Tunbridge Wells, England had a close encounter with an object with six bright lights that looked like a church steeple. The car engine and lights of the car died. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7227",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dan Lloyd, FSR, May-June 1968, p. 31; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 37; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project, p. 43, citing the Tunbridge Wells Advertiser, November 1, 1967" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/1967",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. a group of five hunters driving on Lone Cone Mountain southeast of Naturita, Colorado in Montrose County sighted a domed disc-shaped object with an antenna on top and square windows. The object turned and followed their car. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7228",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p. 177" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/1968",
  "desc" : "Four people driving in a car eight miles northeast of Murray Bridge, South Australia sighted five bright orange oval shaped lights that were self luminous and the apparent size of ten cent coins held at arm's length. The lights circled some scrub bush and landed remotely. Two more lights were seen 50 minutes later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7229",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 182" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/1968",
  "desc" : "At 11:20 p.m. bright white lights were seen hovering over the desert outside of Las Vegas, Nevada just 10 to 15 feet above the ground. They were replaced by a group of multi-colored lights that blinked in a pattern indicating a square shape. A nebulous figure was seen behind the lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7230",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, November-December 1968, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/1969",
  "desc" : "Fishermen in two boats off Paddy Island, Tasmania sighted a domed disc-shaped object at 100 meters altitude at 3:50 a.m. the object turned a violet color as it shot up into the sky and away toward the northwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7231",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Research Australia Newsletter, January 1983" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/1969",
  "desc" : "That same evening at 9:30 p.m. a two-meter long bullet-shaped object flew very slowly just half a meter above the ground over a vineyard in Portiragnes, France. The vines later died. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7232",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 8976" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/1969",
  "desc" : "Two 18-year-old teenagers, Sutherland and Talbart, had a close encounter with a circular UFO while driving near Mobile College in Wildwood, Alabama at 10:15 p.m. At first they noticed white lights, next red lights, and then two rings of red flashing lights on the object. It hovered at a low altitude, flattening the high grass and bending over small trees. It was less than 75 feet from them. The craft was estimated to be between 30 to 50 feet in diameter with luminous white panels around the circumference and lights on the top and bottom. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7233",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, September-October 1969, p. 1; Robert D. Boyd, A Comparative Unit, p. 157; UNICAT, case # 478" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/1970",
  "desc" : "Several people driving west of town, including witness Judith Dingler, saw \"a gigantic winged creature\" soaring towards Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania. It was dark colored and its wingspan was almost the same as that of an airplane. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7234",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1970, citing Jerome Clark and Loren Coleman, Unexplained!" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/1971",
  "desc" : "Two \"flying woks\" were seen in sharp relief in a clear blue sky over Fengrun, China. They shot off toward the west, one at high altitude, the other at a low altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7235",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Wendelle Stevens & Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, p. 76" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/1971",
  "desc" : "At 5:45 p.m. several people on a bus in North Montreal, Quebec saw an ovoid UFO that followed their bus, going north. It stopped near a power station, and a power outage resulted. At 8:30 p.m. another luminous UFO, this one disc-shaped, descended slowly and silently down near a power station in Mont Laurier, Quebec. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7236",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1972" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/1971",
  "desc" : "On this night Sally Pike was on a UFO watch on Cradle Hill, Warminster, England when she suddenly and inexplicably became apprehensive. Upon turning around, she saw, very clearly, the outline of a tall male figure striding up the road in the bright moonlight. The figure was about seven-foot tall, with extremely long arms, which hung limply at his sides. He seemed to have no neck, and his head appeared to rise directly from his shoulders. The body itself was almost transparent, with only the outline being solid. Later that same night, Neil Pike also was on watch near some white metal gates, and looked over to the road leading up to a military vedette post. He became aware of three giant figures standing in a line near the opposite hedgerow. His description was similar to his wife's, except that the bodies ended at the mid-section and he could not discern any legs. Startled, he shone the beam of his flashlight at one of the tall figures. Immediately it vanished, only to reappear at another spot nearer to him. He flashed the flashlight on the other two and the same thing happened. They were now much closer to him. Alone on the hill, he panicked and ran to his car, got in, and quickly sped away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7237",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1971 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing Ken Rogers, The Warminster Triangle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/1972",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. two teachers and others driving between Ubirajara and Galia in Sao Paulo State, Brazil had a close encounter with a 1.5 m in diameter saucer-shaped object that landed on the highway several times. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7238",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, March 1973, p. 32" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/1972",
  "desc" : "At 10:10 p.m. Corporal Juan Maria Fuentes Figueroa, age 41, encountered a multicolored, humming domed disc at his military base on Isla de Lobos, Rocha province, Uruguay and pointed his gun at three entities he saw on the ground. The entities were wearing rubber-like black diver suits, and the backs of their heads were elongated, as if they were wearing hoods. He was paralyzed when he did this. A blinding flash occurred when the object took off, then it flew away silently. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7239",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UNICAT database, case # 454, citing CIOVI; John Wallace Spencer, The UFO Yearbook, p. 161" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/1973",
  "desc" : "Dionisio Llanca, age 25, was changing a tire along a deserted road at 1:15 a.m. near Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina when he became aware of a yellow and blue light behind him, and three human-like beings. He then began to feel weak and barely able to move. One of the beings approached and pulled him to his feet, and a second one drew a blood sample from his finger with a device that looked like an electric shaver. Afterward, the witness lost consciousness and suffered trauma to his head and forehead. Under hypnosis and sodium pentothal Llanca recalled being transported onto a hovering, plate-shaped craft via a beam of light. He saw a room with a window and various instruments, including a screen showing a display of the stars. His abductors were two men and two women, between 5 ft. 6 in. and 5 ft. 8 in. (about 1.7m) tall. They had blond hair, wide foreheads, and elongated eyes. They were dressed in gray, tight-fighting uniforms, yellow footwear, and gloves. The beings spoke among themselves in a \"squeaky\" language, resembling the sound of buzzing bees. A technical device communicated with him in Spanish, or by telepathy, to reassure him and tell him that they had been coming to Earth since 1950. They told him he was chosen for contact because he was simple and good. They warned that the current course of mankind would lead to catastrophe. Later, they said, they would come back and take him with them. Llanca regained consciousness between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m., some 10 km (6 miles) from where his truck was. He wandered around with no memory of his own identity until a passerby took him to a hospital, where he remained for several days.<br/><br/> Llanca had nightmares and severe anxiety for a prolonged period, followed by personality change. He changed jobs frequently and finally stopping working altogether, became engaged to be married and then cut off all contact with his fiancee. His parents rejected him, and he subsequently was sentenced to prison for swindling. Afterwards, there were rumors that he had fabricated the story to sell a book, and that the doctors were a party to the hoax (which seems highly unlikely). ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7240",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 538-539;  APRO Bulletin, November-December 1973, p. 7-8; Gordon Creighton & Charles Bowen, \"The Extraordinary Case of Dionisio Llanca and the UFOnauts,\" FSR, November 1980, pp. 2-10; Skylook, March 1974, p. 19; Skylook, November 1975, p. 22; John F. Schuessler, UFO-Related Human Physiological Effects, pp. 58-59, citing Kevin Randle, The October Scenario" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/1973",
  "desc" : "In the early morning hours Ms. Proctor went to the window in her home in Reno, Nevada and saw three \"very large,\" saucer-shaped objects hovering across the street. A \"ground crew\" of 10-12 figures, wearing dully glowing \"cube type\" uniforms, were milling around, as if searching for something. A very low-pitched hum was heard, but no barking by the witness's dog, or others in the neighborhood. When two of the men approached her driveway, the witness took alarm and returned to bed, where she fell asleep immediately. There was no confirmation of anything unusual from any of her neighbors, and no traces were found. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7241",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1974, p. 3; David F. Webb, 1973, The Year of The Humanoids, p. 73; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1973-63 (A1269)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/1973",
  "desc" : "On this night a lone witness saw a domed object that had landed in a paddock in Waipukurau, New Zealand. It took off at a tremendous speed, leaving behind five ground marks and a scorched area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7242",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Hawke's Bay Herald Tribune, October 30, 1973; NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1974; J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, Volume 5 (1974), case 878" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/1973",
  "desc" : "On a farm north of Belpre, Ohio the witness noticed TV interference at 8:40 p.m. and it alerted him to the nearby presence of a 10 meter long ovoid UFO, which directed a beam of light on his barn. He tried to shine a flashlight on the object, but the UFO avoided the flashlight beam. It shot off to the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7243",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jerry Poling, APRO Bulletin, January-February 1974, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/1973",
  "desc" : "In Traunstein, Austria two men saw six domed discs extend and retract two arcs of light several times at 11:30 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7244",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ernst Berger, FSR, October 1974, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/1975",
  "desc" : "Four police officers and others saw at least two nocturnal lights in the sky from Caribou, Arrostook county, Maine at same time as Loring AFB radar picked up blips 15 miles east of the base in Canada. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7245",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lawrence Fawcett & Barry J. Greenwood, Clear Intent: The Government Cover-up of the UFO Experience, p. 22; UNICAT, case # 486" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/1975",
  "desc" : "On this night a police officer in Viroqua, Wisconsin viewed a round object the size of twin-engine plane that had gold, red and orange lights rotating around the craft. He reported it over his police radio and it was subsequently seen by police in four counties. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7246",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "CUFOS News Bulletin, February 1976, p. 10; Jay Rath, The W-Files: True Reports of Wisconsin's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 84" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/1976",
  "desc" : "On this evening a 600 foot diameter aerial craft allegedly settled over a small mountain near Guadalajara, Mexico causing cars in the area to experience electrical failure. When the cars stopped, the drivers got out and stood watching the craft making various maneuvers. After the UFO sighting a person who claimed to be from the \"spaceship\" asked for a medical examination at the clinic of an eminent and respected 43-year-old doctor. The doctor did perform the exam and was shocked at his appearance. His skin was milky white, and apart from a few black strands on his head there was no other hair on his body. He insisted that humans on our planet were very low on the scale of evolutionary development, and that we had yet to discover the three more planets that exist in our solar system.  ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7247",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, Alien Contact, p. 89; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1976-103, citing Thomas Hyman & Charlotte Blaab" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/1976",
  "desc" : "At 7:05 p.m. on a clear night six witnesses saw a multicolored object approach them and pass silently 100 feet over a house in Evansville, Indiana. It ascended rapidly, hovering twice, before disappearing out of sight. Five or more objects were ejected from the cylinder when it was at higher a altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7248",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, December 1976, p. 13; Francis L. Ridge, MUFON field investigations database, case 900603; Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p.65" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/1976",
  "desc" : "From the porch of their house Richard Britt and his 12-year-old son Richie saw a luminous domed disc-shaped object flying horizontally over some woods in Lake View, near Dillon, Florence County, South Carolina at 10:30 p.m. It began hovering close to the ground. It went out of sight for a short while and Britt went indoors, but his son Richie continued to watch. The object reappeared, rotating and emitting red, green, and blue lights. Then it flew down towards Richie and stopped near the porch. Now it began to give off a white light. The craft was aluminum colored, about the size of a large automobile, and had a set of small triangular windows above, which formed one large triangular window. In this window stood a being with pale white skin, apparently unclothed,with no other facial features except two large dark eyes. It had no neck, and its hands were claw-like. Richie began to scream for his father, but when his father rushed out there was nothing left to see. Richie had to be treated for hysteria, and he could not talk about what he had seen until the next morning. In the morning Mr. Britt noticed a 15 x 20 foot area in front of the porch where there was no frost on the grass. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7249",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Florence (SC) Morning News, November 11, 1976; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1976-74 (A1505); George D. Fawcett, Awareness, March 1977, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/1980",
  "desc" : "Two women, Stolfe and Klein, driving in the suburbs of Middletown, New York on this evening had a close encounter with a triangular object that hovered silently at tree top level. It was seen again 15 minutes later, making a slight humming sound. It shone four light beams down on them in their car. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7250",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joe Graziano, APRO Bulletin, May 1981, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/1983",
  "desc" : "At 2:15 a.m. an engineer in Mahopac, New York saw a 100 foot wide delta-shaped UFO repeatedly probe the surface of a lake with a red beam of light. Every time a car passed by the lake the lights on the object went out. The dramatic sighting lasted 15 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7251",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek & Philip Imbrogno, Night Seige, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/1989",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 p.m. several young students, among then Vova Startsev, saw a large pink sphere that flew over a local park in Voronezh, Russia. The sphere kept changing it shading, and it had two antennae on its left side. The sphere pushed out four legs and landed. A hatch opened and a ladder came down. Soon two beings and a robot like entity came out. The two beings carried the robot, set him down on its feet and appeared to give him mouth-to-mouth respiration. The robot then began walking like a normal human. The robot walked up to one of the young witnesses, followed by the two other aliens. The robot stretched out its hand towards the witness but he ran up a tree and hid, shaking with fear. The robot was just under six feet tall, and had a large head with three eyes in a row. Another witness, Sergei Makarov, got a close look at the other two aliens, whom he described as wearing silvery suits, silver waistcoats, with silver buttons and boots. Their faces were dark, and their skin was very smooth. When the door of the object opened there was a blinding light that came out. As the young witnesses watched, the legs retracted on the object, it, and then rose up, hovered briefly, and finally flew away quickly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7252",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case # 2344, citing Jenny Randles & Peter Hough, The Worlds Best True UFO Stories" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/1989",
  "desc" : "On this night a 4-foot-tall green humanoid being was seen checking out an Air Force jet at the Kecskemet, Hungary military base. When the figure lifted one of its arms a cone of light appeared, causing it to vanish. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7253",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1991, p. 233" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/1994",
  "desc" : "Two men in a pickup truck were skywatching for UFOs at 9:30 on this night near the New Mexico-Colorado border in the San Luis Valley of Colorado when a craft suddenly appeared in front of them, emerging from a fog. As it hovered, one of them mentally called to it to come closer, and it approached to within 50 feet. The second man, however, panicked and \"freaked out\", shooting his rifle at the object. The UFO then went overhead, and as it did it levitated the pickup truck and dropped it in a bar ditch. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7254",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 267" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/1994",
  "desc" : "Trinchera, Colorado resident June M. saw and reported \"a large disc-shaped craft\" at around 10:00 p.m. It appeared to be shining a spotlight at the ground. A short time later, military helicopters were seen \"buzzing\" the area.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7255",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 268" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/1995",
  "desc" : "For three hours beginning at 1:30 a.m. eleven bright lights were observed maneuvering over Greenwood, California and engaged in what looked like a \"dog-fight\" with loops; they appeared to \"shoot at each other.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7256",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/2000",
  "desc" : "Anthony Walsh left his girlfriend's house in Accrington, England at 1:00 a.m. and was walking along Duckworth Street when he heard a sound like a moan and then saw a flash of light that temporarily blinded him. When his vision returned he was inside a capsule-shaped craft. The inside of the capsule was dull and featureless. Inside he was met by a tall being who had no ears nor mouth and a metallic gray hue, but otherwise humanoid in appearance. It had tiny eyes that seemed to penetrate the witness's mind. On one side there was a control panel with shiny knobs, which flashed silver as he approached them. There were no windows or door seals. There was also a constant vibrating hum in the air. In the center of the capsule the abductee saw a large rotating silver cube that seemed to defy gravity. The cube changed color to red, and then some strange symbols became visible. Soon after the incident the witness suffered from severe toothaches and smelled a strong odor like body odor with no known source. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7257",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case # 3797, citing UFO Abductions Raw Data Page" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/2000",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 a.m. a metallic sphere flew within 30 feet of an apartment building in Portland, Maine. It was in sight for 30 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7258",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2000 webpage, report uploaded December 2, 2000" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/2001",
  "desc" : "At 12:28 a.m. a silvery, disc-shaped object with windows flew over Beaver, West Virginia making no sound. It had a gaseous haze or mist surrounding the craft, and was twice the size of a car, with white lights around the middle, and a green-blue light on top. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7259",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle,October 2001 webpage, report uploaded June 20, 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/2005",
  "desc" : "Beginning at 1:30 a.m. a triangle-shaped object with amber, green and white flashing lights was observed hovering over Pygra in Larnaca District of southern Cyprus. It hovered there for the next 45 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7260",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2005 webpage, report uploaded December 16, 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/2005",
  "desc" : "An irregularly-shaped, orange ovoid object moved towards two witnesses in Port Alberni, British Columbia at 6:00 a.m., then backed away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7261",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2005 Canadian UFO Survey, case 106, citing UFOBC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/2007",
  "desc" : "A bright, triangular object was seen in the sky over Rotherham, Kiverton, South Yorkshire, England at 9:45 p.m. It had one flashing strobe light and 12 fixed lights underneath. It was stationary at first, then moved over the witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7262",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "British Ministry of Defense, case 2007-079" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/28/2007",
  "desc" : "In Fort Riley, Kansas at 9:30 p.m. four glowing rectangular shaped lights were seen moving in a triangular formation very close to the ground without any sound what-so-ever. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7263",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2007 webpage, report uploaded November 28, 2007" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/29/1952",
  "desc" : "At two a.m. a white luminous object was seen by the pilots of two F-94s over Hempstead, England. It maneuvered at high speed, exhibiting extreme acceleration. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7264",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/29/1952",
  "desc" : "At 7:50 a.m. at Erding Air Depot in West Germany U.S. Air Force S/Sgt. Anderson and A/2c Max Handy sighted a round flying object silhouetted against a cloud. It flew straight, level and smooth at an estimated speed of 400 mph for 20 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7265",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2196; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: November-December, p. 10; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/29/1954",
  "desc" : "At 1:30 a.m. a glowing cylindrical object was seen along the roadside in Coulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France. It had a row of portholes on its side, four tubes and four fins, and took off vertically. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7266",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4092, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 124" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/29/1954",
  "desc" : "At 7:45 a.m. in Mesples, France a 14-year-old boy sought asylum in the farmhouse owned by Mrs. Gentil, screaming that he was being chased by a flying saucer. A disc three times the apparent diameter of the sun, red and purple in color, and spinning rapidly, was seen descending swiftly toward the ground. It then vanished. There was an investigation of the incident by the local police. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7267",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 240, case 321; Jimmy Guieu, Flying Saucers Come from Another World, p. 232" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/29/1954",
  "desc" : "At 2:25 p.m. several workers in a field in Palagonia, Italy sighted a luminous translucent disc-shaped object with two red lights on top descend and then hover above them. From inside of the object an unknown creature (not described) could be seen staring at the workers. As the creature scrutinized them they became frightened. The object suddenly descended then shot back up into the sky, emitting a very loud sound as it quickly disappeared from sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7268",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 1598; Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Italian UFO database" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/29/1954",
  "desc" : "At 6:00 p.m. the crew of a U. S. Air Force C-47D transport plane flying over the Philippines saw a long narrow bright blue oblong object emitting deep ­orange sparks from the front and rear. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7269",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 24; Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 website" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/29/1954",
  "desc" : "At nine o'clock in the evening four Portuguese nationals at the airport on Terciera Island in the Azores sighted a UFO shaped like a stovepipe. It had a central bulge and short wings; they estimated it was 10 in length, three feet in diameter, and had wings three feet long. The wings of the object had concave wingtips, and it was gray in color. The UFO made a gargling sound when hovering, then disappeared into the glare of the airplane's landing lights. The sighting lasted 4-5 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7270",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 3287; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos files, newspaper clipping dated November 3, 1954" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/29/1964",
  "desc" : "At 6:10 p.m. a 100-foot-long yellow glowing cigar, tilted 15 degrees upward, descended out of some low heavy clouds in Arlington, Massachusetts. It had a dark area at one end, and two vertical black stripes in its midsection. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7271",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, case investigation files, report dated December 24, 1964; Raymond Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 331" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/29/1966",
  "desc" : "A cigar-shaped object with satellite objects was seen in Rushville, Indiana for over an hour by a group of women, beginning at 6:35 p.m. There were other UFO sightings by other witnesses at 7:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7272",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, November-December 1966, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/29/1967",
  "desc" : "In Santa Adelita, Sao Paolo State, Brazil Mr. P, age 51, was driving home at around 11:00 p.m. when he came to the top of a ridge he saw an aluminum colored object hovering 200 feet away, just four feet above the ground.  It was plate shaped with a convex bottom side, and about 30 feet in diameter. When he got to within 50 feet of it his car motor stopped. He described the object as \"full of lights\", red and other colors, which alternately blinked on and off. Standing near the saucer was a robustly built man about 5-1/2 feet tall, dressed in a light colored garment (the witness could not specify the color because he was color blind). This being walked in front of the witness and turned on a very bright white beam of light from a flashlight like object. The witness thought he would be assaulted, so he half opened the car door, steadied his .22 revolver on it, and fired 6 shots at the UFO occupant. He reported that he was a good shot with this revolver, and after shooting he could no longer see him. Then the saucer-shaped craft began to oscillate, and he heard a sound like a cowbell. At last, the UFO flew away on an oblique course. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7273",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-109 (A1791), citing Walter Buhler, SBEDV Bulletin, May 1976, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/29/1970",
  "desc" : "At 4:40 p.m. while driving three kilometers east of Helleland, Norway Mr. Salvesen had just come to a transformer station on his right when he was temporarily blinded by a blue-white light that hurt his eyes. A ball of light 20 feet in diameter came down on a slope. Inside was a shiny, domed disc-shaped object. Its rim was a steel blue color. He had some lasting eye injury as the result of his encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7274",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Andre Liljegren, FSR Case Histories, April 1971, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/29/1972",
  "desc" : "A metallic gray, domed disc was seen on a clear day by a young woman in Ghlin, Hainaut, Belgium at 10:40 a.m. It had a well-defined outline, and moved slower than a plane. It moved in a straight trajectory, from northwest to southwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7275",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vertongen Jean-Luc Vertongen, SOBEPS News, March 1976, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/29/1973",
  "desc" : "At 5:20 p.m. Carlos Argue Balvidares, age 43, the manager of a country estate located 25 kilometers northeast of General Pinto, in Buenos Aires province, Argentina was drinking tea when his 13-year-old son Manuel called his attention to the presence of three people floating in the air over the surface of a pond 100 yards away. Balvidares went to the pond and called out to them. They \"disappeared immediately, only to return to show themselves at the opposite shore of the pond, 300 yards away.\"<br/><br/> (Continued.) There were two men and a woman. The woman was about 5' 3\" tall and had long black hair, black clothing, and white boots. The two men were both of the same height and somewhat shorter. The men appeared to be naked and of a \"sunburned\" color; they may have been wearing tight fitting one-piece suits. They were blond, and their hair appeared \"glued on.\" All three had white complexions, wide foreheads, and small noses. They floated about with their arms held close to their bodies.<br/><br/> (Continued) On the far side of the pond rested a luminous rectangular object approximately 35 feet in diameter and 7-10 feet high. It emitted a beam of light 15 inches in diameter that struck Balvidares. He felt dazzled and he could feel heat from it. Balvidares took his horse and rode to the pond, but when he had got halfway there he encountered an \"invisible barrier\" and could not proceed. Meanwhile the beings continued to maneuver over the surface of the pond, communicating by \"a kind of shriek, like the sound made by a radio which is poorly tuned.\"<br/><br/> After an hour and a half Balvidares again mounted his horse to ride around the pond, but this time the beings returned to the UFO. The images of the men changed in color to dark green and orange\" as they approached the craft. Then the witness smelled \"an odor of sulphur\" and became drowsy for a few moments. When he recovered the UFO and its entities had gone. On later investigation many triangular footprints four to five inches long, showing four claw marks at the front of the triangle, were found in the vicinity of the UFO's resting place. The object itself left four triangular impressions 15 inches on a side, arranged in a square 13 feet on a side. The horse \"exhibited nervousness\" after the event, and its hair began to fall out. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7276",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-117 (A1712), citing Omar R. Demattei, ONIFE" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/29/1975",
  "desc" : "An unknown helicopter with an orange light landed in a munitions storage area at Loring Air Force Base, Maine for the second night in a row. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7277",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume II). A Thirty Year Report, p. 77; Awareness, February 1978, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/29/1975",
  "desc" : "A 15-year-old teenager in Mount Healthy, Ohio had a close encounter with a cylindrical UFO at around 8:00 p.m. He reported that it was only 25 feet overhead, and completely silent. Red lights rotated on the bottom of the object. When it left it shot straight up. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7278",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Leonard H. Stringfield, Situation Red: The UFO Siege, p. 37" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/29/1975",
  "desc" : "Beginning at 10 p.m. an unknown object maneuved over the town of Sao Goncalo do Amarante, Ceara State, Brazil at low altitude for two hours, causing panic. It shot beams of blue and orange toward the ground; it stopped for a few minutes over a filling station, causing a power outage. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7279",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Claude Bourtembourg, SOBEPS News, March 1976, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/29/1976",
  "desc" : "At 8:25 p.m. six young men were out playing near a walled playing field next to a local cemetery in Baracaldo, Spain when they heard a loud crackling sound. Two of the boys next noticed an object resembling a telephone booth and emitting a red and white light descend towards the walled in field, so they ran to the field and saw it land behind some bushes on three legs. An oval-shaped opening became visible from which a red light shone. Then two very tall human like figures emerged. The figures wore tight-fitting black diving suits and wide bright belts. The figures walked slowly towards the wall, and the two boys could now see bright shiny eyes but no other facial features. One of the humanoids banged on the wall several times, and then both walked to the center of the yard. One of them then pulled out a long thin object from a sack he was wearing on his side and pointed it at the wall, and a long thin beam of light came from the device and hit the wall several times; at one point the beam turned white. Moments later both figures walked back to their craft. At this point the teens ran to tell their families and so did not see the object depart. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7280",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1976, case # 637, citing J. J. Benitez, La Quinta Columna" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/29/1976",
  "desc" : "A man was walking his dog in a local park in Toronto, Ontario at around 10 p.m. when a fluorescent bluish green light descended from the sky and enveloped him. He then saw something resembling a television screen in front of him. Soon images of apparently extraterrestrial figures appeared and communicated with the witness. His dog was terrified during the encounter and the witness suffered from general malaise afterwards. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7281",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1973, citing John Musgrave, UFO Occupants and Critters" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/29/1977",
  "desc" : "On this evening on Mosqueiro Island, near Colares, Para State, Brazil Benedito Campos and his 17-year-old wife Silvia Mara were at home when they spotted an oval-shaped, silvery object emitting a greenish beam, like a searchlight, towards the room where they were lying in bed. Curious, they approached a small window and as they did, the beam shot in through the window and made straight for Silvia, throwing her into some sort of benumbed, trance-like state. Silvia, who was pregnant at the time, then fainted. Two humanoid entities then entered the house, carrying something resembling a gold flashlight; again the beam struck Silvia, this time hitting her in the left arm at wrist level. Benedito ran to a neighbor's house and was also briefly paralyzed by a light beam. Both husband and wife were later taken to a local hospital, were they both recovered. However, Benedito suffered from depression after the incident. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7282",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 138; Albert S. Rosales, 1977 Humanoid Contact Database, case # 3779, citing Daniel Rebisso Geise" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/29/1978",
  "desc" : "At 11:15 p.m. in Woolston, Warrington, Cheshire, England a bell-shaped UFO with a bright light on top caused car radio interference in a vehicle being driven near some railway tracks by Ms. J. Fletcher, a woman in her twenties. The UFO had rings of light circling its base, and three bumps on the bottom. It hovered, tilted at an angle, descended, and moved away to the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7283",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jenny Randles, International UFO Reporter, November 1986, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/29/1980",
  "desc" : "On this evening in Middletown, Orange County, New York a triangle-shaped object hovered silently at tree top level. It was seen again 15 minutes later, when it shined four light beams down on witnesses in a car. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7284",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, January 1981, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/29/1983",
  "desc" : "At 4:40 a.m. two police constables saw a large structured object with two rows of lights maneuvering over hills while driving along the A59 Highway on Blubberhouses Moor, North Yorkshire, England. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7285",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Devereax, Earth Lights Revelation, p. 109; Gary Heseltine, Police Reports of UFOs, case # 117, citing the Yorkshire Post" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/29/1990",
  "desc" : "At 1:15 a.m. a huge, bright orange ball with the top third cut off was seen Elizabethtown, North Carolina. In Morganton, North Carolina at 10:19 p.m. two oval lights connected by bar hovered 300 feet off the ground, making a whining sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7286",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, cases 972 & 986; citing UFO Newsclipping Service" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/29/1990",
  "desc" : "At 8 p.m. a 44-year-old woman in Argos, Indiana witnessed a strange, dark, delta-shaped object with multicolored lights. It made no sound as it maneuvered through the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7287",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "K. O. Learner, MUFON Field Investigation case files, 940401J; Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 138" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/29/1993",
  "desc" : "A huge, totally silent, triangular object with red and yellow lights glided overhead as a copule drove in their car for more than two miles from Bedford to Mount Kisco in Westchester County, New York at 9:30 p.m. It was at very close range; The close encounter lasted for five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7288",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 1993 webpage, reported uploaded January 28, 1999" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/29/1994",
  "desc" : "A 20 meter in diameter domed disc-shaped object landed in a meadow in St. Germain-en-Montagne, Jura, France at 7:30 p.m, and was seen by two observers. It had portholes around the dome; no traces were found at the landing site. The landing lasted three minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7289",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 329" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/29/1996",
  "desc" : "At 6:40 p.m. a huge white sphere flew fast over Dannemois, Essonne, France from northwest to southeast. At 6:45 p.m. a green triangle-shaped object hovered over a highway in Sermaises, Loiret, France, pivoted in place, and then flew off to the north. It was also seen in Etampes and Etrechy. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7290",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, cases # 17476 & 17477, citing Banque OVNI Reports, p. 96" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/29/2000",
  "desc" : "A powerful-sounding, mystery triangle-shaped craft hovered low over a farmhouse in Unadilla, New York at 11:50 p.m. The vibrations it caused were so strong that they knocked over objects inside the house. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7291",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2000 webpage, report uploaded August 16, 2002" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/29/2002",
  "desc" : "A witness named Ed reported that on the evening of October 29, at about 5:20 p.m., he sighted two triangle-shaped object flying over his home, located 15 miles southeast of Spokane, Washington. Ov the hills to the east he first noticed a very bright light on an object heading WSW. It had a bright white headlight, and what looked like normal red and green navigation lights on the wing tips, a white strobe light on the bottom, and dim white lights on the underside corners. He also heard what sounded like a muted jet aircraft engine sound. However, what seemed out of place was the extremely bright, single headlight on the nose, not the normal landing lights. Within a minute he saw a second similar craft with three dim lights in the corners, and no discernable fuselage. He contacted Fairchild AFB and talked with the Public Affairs officer, who basically said that unless an unidentified aircraft appeared on their radar, \"we don't care!\" He added, \"I just want to emphasize that the B-2 and the F-117 fighter have a distinctive 'saw-tooth' pattern to the trailing edge of their wings. The craft which I observed appeared to have a perfectly straight trailing edge--just like a triangle and was at least as large as the B-2.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7292",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, pp. 60-61" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/29/2002",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. three objects with rotating rings of light were sighted over Montreal, Quebec, Canada. They descended one at a time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7293",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2002 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 448" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/29/2004",
  "desc" : "Odd lights were seen, most likely on a large, slow moving cigar-shaped craft, north of Indianapolis, Indiana at 11:45 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7294",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2004 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/29/2007",
  "desc" : "At 6:50 a.m. a triangle-shaped object with red and green lights, and a very bright red, slowly pulsating light, was seen over Sterling Heights, Michigan. It made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7295",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2007 webpage, report uploaded November 28, 2007" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/29/2007",
  "desc" : "At 8:53 another triangular object with three lights was seen flying over Bedford, Westchester County, New York. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7296",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2007 webpage, report uploaded November 28, 2007" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/29/2009",
  "desc" : "At 8:15 p.m a very large, silent, rectangular craft with four lights was seen moving slowly across the sky in Centerville, Montgomery County, Ohio. At 8:45 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. there were two reports of 5-8 lights that appeared in the sky in New Vienna, Clinton County, Ohio. They were golden colored, and appeared one after another. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7297",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2009 webpage, report uploaded December 12, 2009" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/30/1950",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. in Paignton, Devonshire, England a cigar-shaped object dropped from the sky, then ejected two disc-shaped objects. All three craft flew off to the north. The witnesses were two men named Cove and Clark. The sighting lasted two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7298",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: August-December, p. 47; newspaper clipping dated November 1, 1950" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/30/1954",
  "desc" : "Two UFOs were seen by hunters in Muro Lucano, Italy. One touched the ground 50 meters away. It was rhomboid in shape, and a cylinder was hanging from the bottom. A peculiar sound could also be heard. The object shifted its position and the cylinder hit trees, bouncing three times. The craft then gained altitude and flew away, leaving a bluish trail. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7299",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 240, case 322" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/30/1954",
  "desc" : "Twenty eight kilometers north of Tapas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil at 11:35 p.m. four lights approached, then surrounded a car until the four witnesses drove away. The UFO changed color from white to blue to violet to orange to red. When the round lights on the object changed color they saw the shape was that of either a dome or sphere. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7300",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UNICAT, case # 558 citing Olavo T. Fontes" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/30/1957",
  "desc" : "A 19-year-old couple, Moyer and Pulju, were driving ten miles north of Casper, Wyoming at 9:00 p.m. when they encountered 50-foot wide, silvery sphere or disc just over the road that caused electromagnetic effects on their car. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7301",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Casper (WY) Tribune-Herald, November 5, 1957; Alexander D. Mebane, \"1957 Saucer Wave in the US,\" in Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 237; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/30/1959",
  "desc" : "A domed disc hovered over a queue of shoppers in the city of Aubagne, Bouches-Rhone, France at 6 p.m. Twenty human-looking occupants were visible inside the transparent dome, and appeared to be laughing at them. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7302",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 125" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/30/1966",
  "desc" : "Two couples driving on Route 38 in Cherry Hill, New Jersey at 2:30 a.m. saw a carrot-shaped object 400 feet long, hovering 50 feet over the roof of the RCA industrial plant, 400 feet away from the highway. It was in a horizontal position, and had huge running lights and windows. A ramp came down from the craft to the plant roof, and they could see figures moving about on the roof. They watched them for 10 minutes before leaving. A truck driver who also saw the object drove his truck into a telephone pole he was so excited. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7303",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, May-June 1967, p. 11; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1966-47 (A0741), citing Michael Campione, Richard Heiden, and John Keel" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/30/1967",
  "desc" : "At around nine o'clock in the evening a businessman was driving toward Boyup Brook, Australia when his car failed completely and stopped, although he did not recall feeling any deceleration. He found a strong light beam aimed at him from a mushroom-shaped craft, ten meters in diameter. He had no recollection of starting the car again after the departure of the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7304",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 892, citing FSR, July-August 1968" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/30/1967",
  "desc" : "Approaching his home in Melfort, Saskatchewan, Canada at 9:00 p.m. Donald Marshall saw a light beyond it. When he got closer he saw that it was an object with a large rectangular lighted panel that hovered 12 feet off the ground, 200 feet away. The rectangular lighted panel was about 4 feet high and 16 feet long. It appeared to be a large window in the object whose shape was not clearly seen, but was perhaps 50 feet long. A bright spotlight came on, and he saw then three small humanoid figures, the size of ten-year-old children, coming from the machine. They moved very fast, wore green uniforms, and some type of headgear. They disappeared into the darkness, and the craft took off slowly at about 5 mph. It moved at first into a gully, breaking some trees, where it remained for another 3 or 4 minutes. The total time during which Marshall observed the object was 18-19 minutes. Broken trees were found near the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7305",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science, Winter 1968, p. 4; Saucer News, December 1968, p. 25; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1967-106 (A0884), citing R. Meizeka, Saskatchewan UFO Bulletin" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/30/1969",
  "desc" : "At around 10 a.m. a man and a woman, Clinton and Chapin, saw an egg-shaped flying object with a flat bottom, the size of VW Beetle, in a mountainous area of Redding, California. It was seen as it landed in a steep, wooded canyon. The minimum distance to the object was only 60 feet. It took off fast, causing the trees to sway, and zoomed up into the sky. Ground marks were found at the landing site: there was an 10 foot oval-shaped depression, 1-2 inches deep. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7306",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, October 1977, p. 5; Paul C. Cerny, MUFON UFO Journal, April 1978, p. 6; International UFO Reporter, March 1978, p. 36; UNICAT, case # 181" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/30/1975",
  "desc" : "At about 10:10 p.m. a KC-135 U.S. Air Force tanker returning from a refueling mission, flying at a speed of 200 knots, and an altitude of 2000 feet, sighted at least two nocturnal lights and mystery 'choppers' around and over the Wurtsmith AFB in Oscoda, Michigan, a Strategic Air Command base. The objects breached security areas, and hovered over the nuclear weapons site. Base personnel thought they saw the running lights of a low flying craft they thought was a helicopter, except that it hovered and moved up-and-down erratically near the base perimeter. One white light was pointed downward, and two red lights were visible near the trailing edge. Airman Michael J. Myers, an air policeman on duty near the main gate, saw several unidentified lights near the western edge of the base. The object turned north and appeared to lose altitude. Between 10:15 and 10:25 p.m. base security police at the back gate of Wurtsmith reported to the command post that an unidentified \"helicopter\" with no lights had come over the back gate and hovered at a low altitude over the weapons storage area. Radar was also tracking low-flying objects intruding into the base, and the incoming KC-135 confirmed seeing two UFOs that sped away each time it attempted to close for identification. The UFOs flew away at 1,200 mph. One shot away to the west, the other went north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7307",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 89-90; UNICAT, case # 617; Lawrence Fawcett & Barry J. Greenwood, Clear Intent: The Government Cover-up of the UFO Experience, p. 41; International UFO Reporter, April 1978, p. 36" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/30/1976",
  "desc" : "A married couple was driving with Maggy Carof and they were just turning onto the D-50 highway in Cernoy-en-Berry, Loiret, France at noon when Ms. Carof saw a short being standing on the edge of the highway, about 200 yards away. It was about the stature of a 12-year-old child. The being was wearing a blue gray cape with a white collar, and a black cap like that of a Pierrot. This figure then disappeared “progressively,” beginning with the right side. An immediate search of the area showed nothing. The witness’s dog, which was in the car, moaned at the moment of the observation, and was sick for the rest of the day. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7308",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1976-13 (A1648), citing Maggy Carof" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/30/1976",
  "desc" : "A PTA meeting was in progress at a school in El Abrojal, Uruguay at 10 p.m. when a yellow, illuminated rectangular flying object was seen on the ground. There was an immediate failure of the electrical system at the school, which was based on 12V batteries, and a sudden blast of hot air was felt by the several witnesses, including the main witness, Isabel Cardozo de Alvez. At the same time a red sphere of light was seen by a man and a woman, Silva and Camargo, in a residential area of the city. Its close approach caused a loss of consciousness for five minutes. Afterwards, their physiological effects were: sleepiness, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, and eye irritation (photopthalmia). ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7309",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UNICAT, cases # 514 & 515, citing CIOVI" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/30/1977",
  "desc" : "Mrs. Pauline Coombs, her mother, and her four children were driving back to their Ripperston Farm home near Dyfed, Pembrokeshire, Wales at around three o'clock in the afternoon when her mother called their attention to a white disc-like object over their car. It flew in from the direction of the sea. Curious, the women drove in the direction of the shoreline and then crossed two fields to get to the ocean's edge. Several hundred yards offshore is a rock outcrop called Stack Rocks, rising up 80 to 100 feet from the water. They could not see the UFO but they did see two humanoid figures walking about on the rocks. They were dressed in silvery outfits, similar to a frogman's wetsuit. Their heads or helmets were extremely large and rectangular in shape, rounded at the corners, and with no observable features. They appeared to be looking for something. A \"door\" appeared on the right hand face of the rocks, sliding alternately open and shut like the door of a dumbwaiter. One of the figures entered this doorway and appeared to descend a stairway, disappearing in the darkened interior, and then reappearing once again. The stairway was not visible to the viewers. On his final descent the door closed and disappeared from view. To the left side of the rocks the second figure appeared to \"walk\" out over the water's surface, finally disappearing behind the left side of the rocks. The display had lasted for 15 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7310",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-54, citing Randall Jones Pugh, BUFORA" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/30/1977",
  "desc" : "At around 7:00 p.m. Martha Throne was driving with her husband to Sonora, California when suddenly a cloud of blue smoke engulfed their car. The car stopped and its lights went out. She lost consciousness and then woke up with several humanoids carrying her to a landed oval-shaped craft standing on legs. The Grey humanoids had flat noses, and were wearing coverall type suits. A blanket was put over her head but she was reassured by means of mental telepathy that she would be all right. She was then placed on a table in a shiny room, where she was examined by two humanoids while others nearby attended to other duties. Her watch as well as her husband's stopped just after 7 p.m. and never ran again. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7311",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Sonora Daily Union Democrat, November 22, 1982; John F. Schuessler, UFO Related Human Physiological Effects, p. 77; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, case # 484, citing Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of the Mystery" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/30/1978",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. Sebastiana Francelina de Jesus, his older brother, and a younger cousin were traveling by Jeep on their way to a local farm in Carmo Da Cachoeira, Minas Gerais, Brazil when suddenly an unknown force halted the vehicle in its tracks, then pulled it backwards into the mud on the side of the road. All this occurred while a torrential rain was falling. The Jeep was hopelessly mired in the mud. As the three witnesses attempted to dislodge it a very large object emitting an intense rotating light suddenly appeared. The UFO flew over them at very low altitude and then descended to hover a few meters away from the witnesses. The light from the object was so bright that it temporarily blinded the three young people. The older man nearly fainted from fright.<br/><br/> Two bright rotating beams of light illuminated the area around them and the interior of the Jeep. They could also hear a steady droning noise coming from the object. After awhile they began to hear what seemed to be human voices coming from the object, but the voices spoke in an unknown language. The terrified witnesses began screaming for help because they began to feel a bizarre effect: all three felt as if they were \"floating.\" They also described the feeling like \"they were growing in size.\" Finally the UFO began to move away, throwing numerous rocks and debris up into the air. As it sped away from view a small spherical orange-yellow light followed the craft. The witnesses then felt their environment return to normal. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7312",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing Ubirajara Franco Rodrigues" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/30/1981",
  "desc" : "In a forested area in Worthing, West Sussex, England a large colored disc-shaped object, half red, half white, with the two colors flashing alternately and transposing positions when flashing, passed over two witnesses in a car at 7:30 p.m. The craft had two exhaust ports emitting sparks; it rose in the air, came toward the car, and left toward the sea. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7313",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joe Graziano, APRO Bulletin, March 1982, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/30/1989",
  "desc" : "Observing stars with a telescope and binoculars at 9:15 p.m., two witnesses in Fort Walton Beach, Florida saw a group of lights hovering. Insects were silent as the dark object with a \"X\" of lights on the underside was seen hovering 100 meters away. After about five minutes, the object moved slowly away toward the swamp, going out of sight behind some trees. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7314",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dan Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, February 1990, p. 17; Donald M. Ware, MUFON Field Investigation case files, case # 891103; Joan Woodward, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/30/1990",
  "desc" : "A domed object with portholes which directed light beams toward the ground was seen at 9:30 in Mount Airy, North Carolina for three minutes. Animal reaction: dogs howled and rubbed their ears. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7315",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 135; Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case # 987, citing UFO Newsclipping Service" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/30/1993",
  "desc" : "At 1:00 a.m. a neighbor observed a yellow light hovering in a garden in Noeux les Mines, Pas de Calais, France. It was just 0.6 meters off the ground. A dog barked for 30 minutes during the sighting. Traces of crushed vegetation were found: a first line of 8m x 40 cm, and a second line of 10m, and a circle on the 2 lines. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7316",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "GEIPAN, case # 156" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/30/1994",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m two driving in a car on the shore of Lake Geneva, near La Blecherette, Lausanne, Switzerland observed an array of 23 nocturnal lights that rotated over Lake Geneva. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7317",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 328" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/30/1994",
  "desc" : "At 1:45 a.m. a couple in a car in the commune of Sélestat, Bas-Rhin department, France observed a luminous disc-shaped object with revolving lights around the rim; it hovered only 5-6 meters above their car. Further on down the road they encountered another object in front of their vehicle: an equilateral triangle-shaped object, 10 meters on a side. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7318",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "GEIPAN, case # 191" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/30/1994",
  "desc" : "A 40-foot long tractor trailer-shaped flying object with lights, at 40-50 feet altitude, was sighted in Paterson, New Jersey at 5:45 p.m. It reportedly chased police helicopters during a drug raid. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7319",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, February 1995; Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case # 1935, citing MUFON New Jersey" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/30/1995",
  "desc" : "A veterinarian reported a dead cow on the Dugan Ranch north of Monte Vista, Colorado. The tongue had been removed, and the whole left side of the muzzle was missing below eye, and had been cut away. The animal was still warm to the touch, but the wound seemed to be days old. No cause of death was determined. Herd afraid. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7320",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Christopher O'Brien, Enter the Valley, p. 312" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/30/1998",
  "desc" : "On this evening in Baca Grande, Colorado a woman heard some small objects hitting her house. She looked out a window and saw several four-foot-tall hooded figures running around her yard. Later she also reported seeing something resembling a \"hairy pig\" running past the house. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7321",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case #3137, citing Christopher O'Brien" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/30/1998",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. a foot-long, oval-shaped object entered a woman's home in Alamosa, Colorado through her back door. It slowly headed up the hallway toward her. She described the anomaly as being \"milky-looking\" with a chrome band. It abruptly vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7322",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Christopher O'Brien, Christopher O'Brien case files, case # 573" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/30/2000",
  "desc" : "A huge, round, solid blue light, engulfed in haze or fog was seen by a woman driving on Highway 982 in Latrobe, Pennsylvania at 6:27 p.m. It shot off at high speed into the clear sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7323",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Stan Gordon case files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/30/2000",
  "desc" : "A witness from Pearl, Mississippi reports that at 8:30 p.m. \"three of us saw a triangle-shaped  craft fly, hover, and then take off very quickly - all this with no sound.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7324",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, October 2000 webpage, report uploaded May 24, 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/30/2004",
  "desc" : "In Saskatoon, Saskachewan, Canada at 2:10 p.m. a yellow flying object crossed sky, stopped, changed shape and color, then ascended into outer space. At 8:00 p.m. a blue, cigar-shaped object with rows of lights flew ahead, dashed right and back, and then resumed its flight over Watson Lake, Yukon Territory, Canada. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7325",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, cases 767 & 768" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/30/2004",
  "desc" : "A witness reported sighting a black triangle moving at tremendous speed to the south at 9:44 p.m. while standing on the corner of Poway Road and Gate Lane in Poway, California. The object was in sight for just 2 seconds. It had an equilateral form with seven bright, yellow-white lights. There were no lights on its trailing edge, and it was silent. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7326",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, pp. 100-101, citing Melvin Podell, MUFON" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/31/1952",
  "desc" : "At 7:40 p.m. in Fayetteville, Georgia on highway 85 USAF Lt. James Allen watched an 80 foot long orange, blimp-shaped object. It flew at treetop level and crossed over Allen's car. As Lt. Allen's car passed underneath it his radio went completely dead. The UFO hovered for 20 seconds, then climbed up at a 45 degree angle and climbed out of sight at a tremendous speed in 30-40 seconds. The sighting lasted one minute. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7327",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2200; J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 191; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 1; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; UNICAT, case # 290" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/31/1953",
  "desc" : "At Logansville, Ohio at 7:30 p.m. a huge, Ferris wheel shaped object with many multicolored lights appeared in the sky. It's apparent size was 30 cm at arms length. It flew rapidly to the west, and turned and shot off to the south. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7328",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: August-December, p. 39" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/31/1954",
  "desc" : "Mr. P. Petit and his employee, Mr. Tillier, with shop owner Mr. Pecquet, saw an oval object on the ground in Corrompu, Somme, France. When it took off the lights of a tractor went out. It measured about 4.5 meters (15 feet) in length and emitted a bright light similar to a welder's torch. It came back, turned, and flew off toward the southwest. It reportedly made the same noise as a swarm of bees. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7329",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 240, case 323; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/31/1957",
  "desc" : "At midnight in Longchaumois, France a businessman and his wife saw a large, lighted object with openings, which hovered, came to ground level, and took off with a great increase in brightness as it flew away at very high speed, but without noise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7330",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 261, case 416, citing Aime Michel" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/31/1957",
  "desc" : "That evening in Lumberton, North Carolina a car engine failed as a UFO was observed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7331",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Charlotte Observer, November 4, 1957; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 74; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/31/1958",
  "desc" : "At 3:50 p.m. an elliptical, aluminum object was first spotted flying at two kilometers altitude in Caledon East, Ontario but it quickly descended to just four meters above the ground. It flew up-and-down by sudden jumps at the ground level, less than 200 meters away, for five minutes. It had a red light at one end that changed to a fiery color, then the object exploded. The witness ran. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7332",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 473, citing US Air Force ATIC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/31/1959",
  "desc" : "Two brothers with the last name of Hawkins were followed for 95 kilometers between Marton and Matamata, New Zealand by a luminous object that looked like a large street lamp. The UFO maneuvered around their car when they stopped near Oningaiti, New Zealand and it ascended vertically at daybreak. The incident began at 4:15 a.m. and continued until the break of day. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7333",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Rogerson, World-Wide Catalog of Type 1 Reports, in the Merseyside UFO Bulletin, citing Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1960, p. 17" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/31/1963",
  "desc" : "At 4:15 a.m. Jim Davidson saw an object about three meters long in Daylston, Victoria, Australia with orange and red lights. It approached his pickup truck, flew ahead of him, then flew off and seemed to land behind a hill. Two other witnesses independently reported a maneuvering light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7334",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Sylvia Sutton, Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1964, p. 29; NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1964, p. 3; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 585" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/31/1963",
  "desc" : "At two p.m. a farmer, Sr. Issuo Oikiti, another adult, and a child saw a luminous object resembling a huge aluminium ball near the Peropava River in Iguape, Sao Paulo state, Brazil. It \"writhed and struggled\" in the air, hit a palm tree, changed direction while spinning, crossed to the other side of the river, and plunged into the water. The water seemed to boil after the object fell into the water. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7335",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, January-February 1964, pp. 1-2; Jim & Coral E. Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p. 53; Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 74; Otto Binder, What We Really Know About Flying Saucers, p. 149; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 586" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/31/1967",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. a blue bell-shaped UFO directed an energy beam of some kind at a car being driven by a man named Spargo in Boyup Brook, Western Australia and halted its movement. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7336",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Hugill Joanna, FSR, July-August 1968, p. 15; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 38" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/31/1967",
  "desc" : "On a clear night over Arkhara, Amur, Russia an airliner crew saw a luminous round object hovering at 11:25 p.m. It was also seen by a second airliner. It did not show up on ground radar, although the sighting lasted ten minutes in total duration. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7337",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Felix Zigel, unpublished manuscript of Soviet UFO reports, case 119; Lumieres dans la Nuit, April 1981" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/31/1971",
  "desc" : "At 5:30 p.m. a silent, 25 meter diameter metallic saucer stopped 50 meters over a tractor northeast of Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The bottom of the object was revolving. The UFO tilted, then shot off toward the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7338",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Phenomenes Spatiaux, September 1973, p. 27" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/31/1971",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. a witness out for a walk in Tinley Park, Illinois saw three lights in the sky that got closer together, very low in sky. A lot of dogs started barking wildly at the time. The UFO leaned toward the witness, 200 feet away, revealing a disk silhouette. The witness got scared, then it backed away, and floated out of sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7339",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jay Rath, The I-Files: True Reports of Unexplained Phenomena in Illinois, pp. 86-87, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/31/1973",
  "desc" : "At around 1:30 a.m., while they were driving to Tostado from Reconquista, Santa Fe Province, Argentina on Route 98, Alphonzo L. and his wife saw, about 400 meters away something that looked like a railway car, but with a double row of small windows. It was weakly illuminated by a yellowish light. Inside it they could make out a group of humanoid beings of tall stature, moving around in a hurried manner. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7340",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1973-109 (A1600), citing Dr. Roberto Banchs" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/31/1976",
  "desc" : "At about 6:00 p.m. the witness was being driven back home by her husband on his motorcycle, and was going west on Figueroa Avenue in Los Angeles, California. As they drove in front of a hotel, she looked up and saw a metallic disc-shaped craft, shooting up from behind the buildings. The object remained at a height of 100 feet as it traveled in a straight line, occasionally dipping by 30 feet. Rounding a curve, the sun shone on the object, and it appeared to turn transparent. Inside, she was able to see three or four human like figures. Two of them were looking at her, and they were leaning over a console or platform. She commented that the men looked very handsome. She gave them the peace sign, but they did not respond, displaying no emotion just curiosity. The couple attempted to follow the object but eventually lost sight of it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7341",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1976 Humanoid Contact database, case # 3578, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/31/1976",
  "desc" : "Woody Polston's abduction occurred on this night from a campsite in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. He made contact with a big cylindrical kind of disc-shaped object, then a second huge craft. He watched the two craft for 2-3 minutes before he entered a semi-conscious state, followed by his alien abduction experience for the next 12 hours. After the abduction he was plaged by nightmares, and his watch was affected. The watch was 10 hours slow. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7342",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A2142, citing R. Leo Sprinkle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/31/1978",
  "desc" : "A group of ten youngsters were sitting around chatting in a field in Loose Valley, near Maidstone, Kent, England at around midnight. After about 45 minutes of talk a boy named Will leapt to his feet and began slapping his head, saying that there was a bee in his hair. He looked absolutely terrified. A girl named Dorothy and another witness then saw a tall, thin figure wearing a hat, \"dancing\" behind him. Will said later that it was as if a terrifically loud buzzing was coming up through the top of his head. However, only one other person present, Rachel, heard any buzzing. Partially satisfied that they had stumbled on a bee's nest they moved a distance away. As they moved Dorothy and Will saw a ring outlined in the grass that enclosed where they had been sitting. Eventually it started to rain, so the group headed for Rachel's house. As they left one of the young men turned around and saw the same thin black figure walk across the opening between some trees to where they had been sitting.<br/><br/> Later, while sitting in Rachel's bedroom, one of the young men looked at Will and saw an amorphous black blob drop out of his hair onto the bed. He was the only one who saw this. A few seconds later a black shape started whizzing around the room. The main movement was from bottom left to top right and getting larger during its flight. This created a great fright among those present. Altogether four witnessed this strange phenomenon. Later on the girls slept in a room together, and Rachel and Dorothy again saw a black blob in the curtains during the night. Upon awakening, one of the young men saw the thin black figure silhouetted against some wardrobe doors. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7343",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing Fortean Times Magazine On-line" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/31/1981",
  "desc" : "Shortly after 9 p.m. a huge, bright, round object was observed flying at 180 meters altitude through the sky in Marcos Juarez, Cordoba, Argentina. It was witnessed by Pedro Heslop of Austral Airlines and Alberto Paracampo of Aerolineas Argentinas, pilots of commercial flights coming in for landings. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7344",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joe Graziano, APRO Bulletin, March 1982, p. 6; Richard H. Hall, UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 125" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/31/1981",
  "desc" : "A UFO near Parnarama, Maranhao State, Brazil emitted an intense glare that caused the witness to feel an electric shock, increased body heat, loss of speech, paralysis and weight loss. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7345",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John F. Schuessler, UFO-Related Human Physiological Effects, p. 96, citing El Comercio, Quito, Ecuador, November 4, 1981" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/31/1983",
  "desc" : "An F-5E interceptor was scrambled by the Brazilian Air Force as many witnesses in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil reported a silvery spot maneuvering over city at 5:10 p.m. The official explanation was balloon, but UFO researchers in Brazil don't accept it as plausible. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7346",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Irene Granchi, APRO Bulletin, July 1984, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/31/1983",
  "desc" : "Police officer Hamel and several other witnesses observed an octagon-shaped ovoid at 8:30 p.m. low over trees and buildings in Rochester, New Hampshire. It made a humming noise as it hovered and maneuvered for 60 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7347",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Doris Graziano, APRO Bulletin, September 1984, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/31/1984",
  "desc" : "At 8:45 p.m. the entire staff of radio station WVIP saw a brilliant, 100-yard-wide triangle flying over Mount Kisco, New York, going north. Ms. Bellatoni, a news reporter, had just left the Mount Kisco police station when she saw a solid object with more than 12 lights in a V-formation. One dozen more people watched it with her. Mr. Wescon, a 44-year-old engineer, watched the 12 or more lights in the V-formation fly over his location; it had steady red and white lights. When the object stopped to hover, its lights began to flash. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7348",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek, Philip J. Imbrogno, and Bob Pratt, Night Seige: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, pp. 150-158" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/31/1987",
  "desc" : "A hovering object was seen on Halloween night over Wytheville, Virginia It shot off and broke sound barrier, rattling windows in homes in the town. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7349",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Danny B. Gordon, Don't Look Up!  The Real Story Behind the Virginia UFO Sightings, p. 40" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/31/1989",
  "desc" : "A woman named Iva Gospina, who had previously witnessed various UFOs maneuvering over the area of Brovary, Kiev region, Ukraine, woke up in the early morning hours around three a.m. feeling apprehensive, and suspecting someone had broken into her apartment. She checked around the apartment and found her family sleeping, and everything else seemed in order. She then looked out the window, and noticed to her surprise a short woman wearing a tight-fitting black suit standing at her door. The woman had long straight white hair down to her shoulders; there also appeared to be a small black dog standing next to the woman, but since it was dark the witness could not see any other details. Still feeling apprehensive, she walked back into the living room and attempted to sleep on the couch. Suddenly, a large luminous yellow circle slowly entered through the closed blinds of the window. Three figures, similar to people, then appeared standing on her carpet. The figures wore diver’s suits similar to cosmonauts or robots, and were approximately 140-150 cm in height. Two of them wore diving suits similar in color to frosted glass, and the third wore a golden, scaly suit. The yellow light was now arranged in a semi-circle above the figure’s heads. The beings stood quietly without moving or speaking. In a state of panic she mentally commanded the figures to depart. Immediately they vanished, and the luminous yellow circle floated slowly out the window. The room became absolutely dark again. Iva stood up and rushed to the window, feeling some regret that the figures had left, and she yelled out for them to return in despair, thinking that she had lost a unique chance in her life to communicate with extraterrestrial beings. Later that night as she attempted to sleep she heard and “felt” a large figure enter her room and stand over her. She then felt completely paralyzed and was unable to move, and couldn’t even open her eyes from fear. Again she panicked and mentally commanded the alien to leave. The next morning she learned from her neighbors that a red luminous object had been seen hovering over the area. She then believed that the three aliens who had entered her apartment had come in peace, and she regretted panicking during her contact experience. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7350",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1989 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing UFO Ukraine, Interesting Newspaper D-8 block, Kiev, issue # 8, 1999" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/31/1989",
  "desc" : "On this night a local bookkeeper, X. Saidov, spotted a large dazzling object descending towards the ground in Mezhriybaza, Uzbekistan. After the object landed, a tall, robot-like being wearing a silvery suit emerged from the object. Terrified, Saidov was unable to move, and apparently next lost consciousness. Waking up later, he found himself in a desert-like location standing among the sand dunes. He could see hills and pyramids around him. He saw a man and woman exit one of the pyramids, but he remained paralyzed, and felt the ground under him become soft. He soon lost consciousness again. Later, he found himself standing next to his car close to the village. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7351",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1989 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing UFOFORUM, Russia" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/31/1989",
  "desc" : "On this evening a couple was watching several hovering orange lights in a \"W” formation in Greenville, South Carolina, and decided to videotape them. Later, while playing back the results, they discovered a small, two-foot tall humanoid figure running past their bedroom window on the SW corner of the house. The figure appeared to be holding his arms up to his face. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7352",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, February 1990; Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case # 150, citing Current Affair TV show; Albert S. Rosales, 1989 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 509, citing Strange Magazine, issue # 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/31/1990",
  "desc" : "An employee at a local forestry preserve was doing some work at the pheasant hatchery in County Tipperary, Ireland at 6:30 p.m. when he noticed a yellowish light fall into the forest area. He rushed over to the site in his truck, thinking that it might have been a plane crash. Arriving there, he saw no trace of an aircraft, but did see a 5-foot-tall man sitting on a wooden railing that surrounded that part of the forest. The man had long hair and wore brand new, large jeans and a checkered shirt. Questioning the man, the witness was told that he was just there to help the poplar trees in the forest. He acted in a strange fashion and proceeded to explain to the witness in very scientific terms ways the method to cure and correct tree disease. The witness felt that this last part of the experience had a dream-like quality to it. He last saw the short man walk off into the forest and disappear. Later the witness saw a bright light zigzagging over the forest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7353",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1990 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 335, citing Diane Tessman, UFO Universe, Winter 1993" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/31/1992",
  "desc" : "On this evening a witness driving a pickup truck on a rural road on Gaither Mountain, Arkansas saw, standing by the roadway, a short gray-skinned humanoid with a large head and huge black eyes only 15 feet away. The witness apparently blacked out and experienced at least 30 minutes of missing time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7354",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1992 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 272, citing Francis L. Ridge, UFO Intelligence Newsletter, 4-1993" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/31/1995",
  "desc" : "At 7:00 p.m. in Tacoma, Washington a witness called the UFO Reporting Center to report a bright ball of light landing in a nearby field. Two hours later a second witness saw a nocturnal light zigzag through the sky and shoot off into the distance. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7355",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/31/2001",
  "desc" : "At 4:00 a.m. a well defined blue object, which was fat at both ends but slim in the middle, was seen over Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7356",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "British Ministry of Defense, case 2001-173" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/31/2001",
  "desc" : "Derek Holmes, age 66, spotted a round, white airborne object with curved edges while driving while driving home on Bonsall Moor, Cromford, Derbyshire, England at 10:32 p.m. Slowing down, he looked but could not find a safe place to stop on the narrow road to capture the brilliant image on filme. Despite having a camera with him in the car, he was too slow to get a photo. The size of the light went down, as if someone hit a dimmer switch, and it went yellow. It moved into the distance and then disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7357",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 136" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/31/2001",
  "desc" : "A huge triangular-shaped object with a white light in the center was seen traveling at a high speed across rainy sky at 8:30 p.m. in Ozaukee, Wisconsin. The witnesses saw rain pelting off the back of the UFO as it flew off, and then disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7358",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), February 2002, p. 20" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/31/2006",
  "desc" : "A black triangular UFO with 3 lights on it was seen at 9:30 p.m. in Hetton-le-Hole, Tyne and Wear, England. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7359",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "British Ministry of Defense, case 2006-56" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/31/2007",
  "desc" : "Four objects in triangular formation, flying south, were observed over Winnipeg, Manitoba. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7360",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 705" ]
},
{
  "date" : "10/31/2008",
  "desc" : "A V-shaped formation made up of approximately 8-10 lights flew over St. Marys, West Virginia at midnight. At 2:00 a.m. a bright, flashing disc-shaped object see overhead in Jeffersonville, Indiana; this sighting lasted for about an hour. A triangular object, flat, with an orb-shaped compartment in the back of the craft, was then seen over Flemingsburg, Kentucky at 2:30 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7361",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2008 webpage, reports uploaded October 31, 2008 and January 10, 2009" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/1461",
  "desc" : "A fiery rod or cylinder hovered for 15 minutes over the town of Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France. It suddenly spiraled and twisted upward and was gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7362",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Data-Net Report, May 1970; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/1885",
  "desc" : "A huge disc-shaped object was seen in Edirne, Turkey at 9:30 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7363",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Charles Fort, Book of the Damned, p. 275; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers Are Real, p. 59; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 227; Flying Saucers, November 1973, p. 36" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/1948",
  "desc" : "A UFO was tracked by U.S. Army radar at Goose Bay Base, Labrador, Canada on this day. It was moving at a high rate of speed, in excess of 600 mph. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7364",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 33; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume I, p. 83" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/1954",
  "desc" : "At 6:30 a.m. Rosa Lotti Dainelli, age 40, was walking into Cennina, Toscana, Italy carrying her stockings and shoes, and a bunch of carnations on her way to visit the cemetery, when she suddenly observed an object, shaped like double cone with a common base, resting vertically on a grassy space. Two small seats were visible inside the lower cone. From behind the object appeared two dwarfs, each about one meter tall, who approached her with friendly expressions, the older one laughing. They wore a sort of gray, tight fitting, one-piece coverall that covered their feet, short gray cloaks, and doublets with shiny buttons; on their heads were reddish helmets with what looked like leather earflaps. They were speaking in an unintelligible language that sounded like Chinese, ‘liu, lai, loi.” Their mouths showed strong, rather protruding white teeth. Approaching Sr. Dainelli, they abruptly snatched the carnations from her and one of her stockings, wrapped the flowers in the stocking, and then threw them into the “spindle” shaped UFO. Then one of them took out a brown wrapped circular object, carrying it in the crook of its arm. Lotti ran away, and when she looked back, after running 100 yards, she saw that the little men were still there. A stonemason, R. Berti, saw the object, which he described as a luminous “rocket,” rise up into the air. A deep hole in the ground was later found at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7365",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Sergio Conti, FSR, September-October 1972, p. 11; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-123 (A0331); UNICAT, case # 615; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 241, case # 324" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/1954",
  "desc" : "At 3:30 p.m. a farmer in Modigliana, Emilia-Romagna, Italy named Adelmo Monti saw a “dark spot” just over the ground, about 500 meters away from him. The object had an apparent diameter of one meter and was surrounded by a number of small cylinders. Monti observed a “very tiny, hard to make out figure” to one side of the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7366",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0332; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 1567, citing Maurizio Verga, ITACAT" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/1954",
  "desc" : "A fisherman, G. Seenza, was on the Dese River in Mogliano Veneto, Treviso, Italy on this foggy night placing nets in the water. He noticed a greenish light through the thick fog. Because there were no houses in the area, Sr. Seenza began shouting in order to make contact with the people he thought were associated with the light. When he got no reply he decided to get closer. Seenza sighted a mushroom-shaped object that had landed on the river bank. The object was emitting a green light and around it there were several small stocky beings. They were moving back and forth in an erratic manner. Seenza shouted again and made gestures so as to be noticed, but was unsuccessful. Then suddenly, the object silently took off straight up. Some beams of silver colored light emanated from the object’s “stem” illuminating the surrounding area. The object made aerial maneuvers and then disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7367",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 1568, citing Maurizio Verga, ITACAT" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/1954",
  "desc" : "At 10:40 p.m. taxi driver Gonzalo Rubinos Ramos' cab broke down in Ordenes, La Coruna, Spain. He saw a strange white spherical object take off, estimated to be six meters in diameter, while at the same time all the dogs in the area were barking. Other witnesses nearby reported seeing the UFO, estimated to have been 400 meters away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7368",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 15, citing Oscar Rey; UNICAT, case # 437" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/1954",
  "desc" : "At 11:45 p.m. a red ovoid object buzzed a man on a motorcycle at a low altitude on a road near Bucine, Tuscany, Italy. It had a blinding light that illuminated the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7369",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Italian UFO database" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/1955",
  "desc" : "An 800 foot long cigar-shaped object was seen during the middle of the day over the Mojave Desert in California and then a second object, disc shaped, appeared suddenly and joined it quickly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7370",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers -- Serious Business, p. 41; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 185" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/1957",
  "desc" : "On this morning in 1957 a South African Air Force Sabre jet pilot pursued a high altitude, hovreing craft over Johannesburg, South Africa. It was seen from the ground by several hundred witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7371",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1958, p. 4; UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 410" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/1957",
  "desc" : "Four men working as an oil rig crew watched a red egg-shaped object hover over an oil field near Ballinger, Texas at around 2 a.m. then sail away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7372",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: October-November, p. 86" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/1957",
  "desc" : "A glowing egg-shaped object, one meter in diameter, maneuvered through a cemetery in Youngstown, Ohio at 3:00 a.m. at a low altitude, follows a road, and then turned before flying away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7373",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: October-November, p. 86" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/1962",
  "desc" : "A man on a roof in Woburn, Massachusetts watched an ovoid object flying at an estimated 2000 feet altitude at two o'clock in the afternoon. It had a three meter long tube hanging down, and was making a clicking noise four times a minute. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7374",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, January 1963, p. 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/1966",
  "desc" : "A disc-shaped object was sighted by a Mr. Clerico at 6:45 a.m. in LaPoint, Utah in Unitah County. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7375",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Frank Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, case A31" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/1966",
  "desc" : "In Point Pleasant, West Virginia a national guardsman saw a large brownish man-shaped figure on the limb of a tree. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7376",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John A. Keel, FSR, July-August 1968, p. 13; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-50, citing John Keel" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/1966",
  "desc" : "A huge, circular object with two tiers of four windows that were emitting a bright yellowish-green light, was watched over Newfields, New Hampshire at 8:00 p.m. by a family of three. A very intense beam of light from the UFO knocked the mother down. She reported having an eye inflamation and pain as a result, which caused her to make a visit to her doctor. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7377",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/1968",
  "desc" : "At 4:00 a.m. a Filipino farmer north of Baras in Rizal province, the Philippines saw a red light come down and land 100 yards away from him, making a hissing sound like an arc welder. He approached with a flashlight and encountered a white object, the size of a VW Beetle, on small wheels. It had six big exhaust tubes in the rear and a transparent canopy. There were two \"ordinary Caucasian\" looking pilots in the craft wearing white coveralls or flightsuits, with earphones on their heads.. The craft took off vertically without making as much noise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7378",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Colonel Aderito De Leon, APRO Bulletin, September-October 1969, p. 4; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 206, David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-77 (A0999), citing APRO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/1968",
  "desc" : "A second encounter in the Philippines occurred two hours later when another farmer walking to Baras felt something land behind him. He apparently witnessed the same craft, with the wheels, because his description of the object and its occupants was identical. He ran to the mayor of the town and reported his close encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7379",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Colonel Aderito De Leon, APRO Bulletin, September-October 1969, p. 4; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 207, David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-78 (A1000), citing APRO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/1968",
  "desc" : "A third close encounter of the third kind in the Philippines was made that same day by another farmer, bicycling near the site of the first reported incident at 11:00 a.m. He saw the same \"strange car\" downhill from his location. As he coasted down toward the object on his bicycle he saw two men; one was outside the object \"looking around\" and was \"very tall\" and looked to be a normal Caucasian, the other man was inside the object. Both wore white coveralls and what appeared to be earphones. He stopped 20 yards past the object, looked back, and saw that the man outside the object was watching him. He couldn't decide whether he should go back to speak to him, but while he was thinking this the man got into his vehicle. With a roar, the craft moved up the hill and then ascended silently into the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7380",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Colonel Aderito De Leon, APRO Bulletin, September-October 1969, p. 4; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 207, David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-79 (A1001), citing APRO; BUFORA Journal, September 1969, p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/1968",
  "desc" : "A large orange, domed disc-shaped object approached a car with five soldiers in Los Monegros, Zaragoza, Spain at 4:30 a.m. and then landed nearby. The car engine and radio stopped running and all watches stopped. After the UFO took off and car and watches operated normally again. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7381",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Antonio Ribera, FSR, January 1969, p. 34; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 43; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 252" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/1968",
  "desc" : "In the early morning, pre-dawn hours a French physician living in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department of southern France, \"Doctor X\", was awakened by the sound of his 14-month-old son crying. His son was standing in his crib pointing at the window. Behind the shutter a very bright light could be seen moving. After the child had gone back to sleep, the doctor went out onto the balcony of his house, located on a hillside, and he saw two glowing discs in the sky, silvery white on top and bright red underneath. Each had a tall antenna on top and one on either side, and they were directing a narrow beam of white light towards the ground below.<br/><br/> The two objects slowly drew closer and merged into a single object, about 200 feet in diameter and 50 feet thick. The single object then approached the doctor, and tilted 90 degrees so that the beam of light struck him. He then heard a loud bang, and the object evaporated into a whitish cloud that dissipated with the wind. A thin thread of light rose high into the sky before vanishing as a white dot, and exploding like a firework.<br/><br/> A few days earlier the doctor had accidentally cut a vein in his leg while chopping wood, and a decade earlier he had stepped on a landmine in Algeria, leaving his right side partially paralyzed. After this close encounter incident he found that the swelling and pain from his leg injury had vanished, and the chronic after effects of the injuries he had sustained in the Algerian war improved dramatically in the days that followed.<br/><br/> Also a few days after the encounter, the doctor and his son each developed a strange, reddish, triangular mark on the abdomen, and this mark recurred in successive years. Strange paranormal phenomena began to take place around the doctor and his family, including poltergeist activity and unexplained disturbances in electrical circuits. The doctor began to have mysterious meetings with a strange, nameless man he called \"Mr. Bied.\" He would hear a whistling noise inside his head and would feel guided to walk or drive to a certain location where he would meet the man, who would discuss his UFO experience and paranormal matters. Mr. Bied caused him to experience apparent teleportation and time travel, including a distressing episode with alternative landscapes on a road that he knows does not exist. The stranger also once visited the doctor at his home accompanied by a three foot tall humanoid with mummified skin, which remained motionless while its eyes darted quickly around the room. The doctor experienced uncontrolled levitation on at least one occasion. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7382",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John Wallace Spencer, World Atlas of UFOs, p. 207" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/1969",
  "desc" : "Luminous rectangular windows appear in the sky at 10:30 p.m. over Riom, Puy-de-Dome, France and vanish as if going through a tunnel. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7383",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 106" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/1971",
  "desc" : "At 5:30 p.m. two young men driving near Karlskoga Airport, Orebro, Sweden experienced physiological effects when a disc-shaped object hovered and maneuvered near them. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7384",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "GICOFF Sweden, November 1971, p. 9; UFO Nachtrichten, August 1972" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/1973",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. the first in a series of humanoid encounters happened near Goffstown, New Hampshire. Florence Dow heard a thump on her front veranda, and saw a motionless figure wearing an old black coat with a wide brimmed hat pulled down over the face. The figure appeared to be covered with masking tape. It motioned to her with a gloved hand. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7385",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 322; David F. Webb, 1973 - Year of the Humanoids, p. 73; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1973-65 (A1274" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/1973",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. a disc-shaped craft maneuvered over two small towns in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. Many calls were made to the police about ape-like creatures seen in Midland, Pennsylvania. Stan Gordon, the local UFO investigator, reported that there were over 100 witnesses. A 42-foot diameter ring of flattened grass with several triangular holes was found. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7386",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald Worley, Proceedings of the 1973 CUFOS Conference, p. 294; Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, p. 96 (case 637)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/1973",
  "desc" : "On this night a round object with red and green blinking lights around its circumference hovered near a car in Morehead City, North Carolina. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7387",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Carteret County (NC) News-Times, November 8, 1973; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 344" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/1975",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. in Barcelonnette, Alpes-Haut-Provence, France a ball of light hovered over a mountain, then jumped across the valley and stopped over a second mountain; finally, it just fades away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7388",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, December 1975" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/1977",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m. Orlando Fontenelle Trindade, a 40-year-old fisherman, saw a light flying north at medium speed while fishing in the river in Colares, Para State, Brazil. The light then moved toward his boat. A reddish-yellow light was next seen at 20 meters above the water, when near the first light it stopped. It was visible toward the sea until 5:30 a.m. On another boat a blue light was seen over the ship's mast at 1:00 a.m. After spinning 15 revolutions it turned toward sea and slowly went away. It also was visible until 5:30 a.m., and its calculated distance at closest approach was 300 meters. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7389",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Pratt, Operacao Prato, www.theblackvault.com, pp. 23-24" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/1977",
  "desc" : "At 7:00 p.m. a very bright reddish light, semi-circular in form, with the upper half red emitting very bright blue flashes of light, was observed over Colares, Para State, Brazil. When it changed its flight direction, it was no longer emitting rays of light. At 7:15 p.m. Antonio Acacio de Oliveira sighted a reddish-yellow light that was blinking blue that momentarily disappeared. When an FAB helicopter took off, the light returned and followed helicopter over the Bay. It then climbed away at a high rate of speed.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7390",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Pratt, Operacao Prato, www.theblackvault.com, p. 25" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/1978",
  "desc" : "Two men in their late twenties, Harmon and D'Ambrosio, reported having a missing time experience of about an hour in length, associated with a UFO sighting in Indian Lake, Hamilton County, New York starting at 5:30 p.m. There were also physiological effects. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7391",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions:  The Measure of a Mystery.  Volume 2, case # 18, citing P. Mazzola" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/1980",
  "desc" : "At 5:30 p.m. two witnesses driving in a car in Hovsta, Sweden encountered an ovoid object that descends only 12 meters away from them. The car engine dies and the vehicle shakes. Two figures were seen moving inside a window in the craft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7392",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Andre Liljegren, AFU Sweden Newsletter, issue 22" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/1980",
  "desc" : "A deputy sheriff on routine patrol in Lucky Point, Indiana had stopped to rest at 9:00 p.m., and was standing next to his police patrol car when he noticed a large, black, triangular-shaped craft hovering at an angle about 200 feet away. The craft had large rectangular windows on its side, and five humanoids could be seen standing inside from the waist up. The beings were \"Greys\", having gray-colored skin with large heads, slim necks and slim bodies. No other features could be seen. As the police officer stood watching in amazement he received a telepathic message. The message asked him, \"Why do you hate the Iranians?\" He thought to himself that he did not hate anybody. At that moment one of the figures turned and faced the others, and as this happened the object suddenly shot straight up and disappeared at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7393",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Francis L Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 78; Albert S. Rosales, 1980 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 1846" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/1981",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. a seven meter in diameter dome or hemisphere-shaped object hovered at 35 meters altitude in St. Fiacre, Seine-Marne, France. It illuminated the ground with a beam of light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7394",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 212" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/1982",
  "desc" : "A man in Phoenix, Arizona reported that he had had a UFO abduction on this night, at around 11:15 p.m. He recalled lying naked on an exam table made out of something resembling leather. He was in a dimly lit room, with a door that opened with a swooshing sound. He saw a four-foot six-inch tall creature, slender, with long thin arms, and with six fingers on each hand. The being had a large bulbous head with slightly bulging eyes. There were other similar beings in the room while the witness was being examined. He could not remember any additional details. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7395",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1982 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 3827, citing UFO Abductions Raw Data Page, UFO Watch" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/1983",
  "desc" : "A cylindrical object with an \"eye\" or window, 14 feet long, was seen maneuvering and tumbling low to the ground over a neighborhood in Spring Valley, California at 9:40 a.m. by a 15-year-old teenager. The lights and an electric fan went off once or twice during the sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7396",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, June 1984, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/1983",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. a fiery ball was seen humming and lighting the area around Vale das Velhas, Minas Gerais State, Brazil. A man was levitated by the UFO, but a second witness pulled the first witness away from an apparent abduction. Nevertheless, he was sick for a full year after the event. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7397",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next? p. 50" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/1989",
  "desc" : "A man out walking on an overcast night in Sunapee, New Hampshire saw four lights which wobbled from side-to-side and blinked in no pattern at &;00 p.m. They stopped, then moved slowly. When he got home he called his son-in-law, who also saw them below the treetops, and was joined by his wife. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7398",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vail Leach, MUFON field investigation case files, case # 900721" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/1995",
  "desc" : "Rafael Tapia was returning home on his bicycle in San Pablo de las Nazas, Jalisco, Mexico at 11:50 p.m. and as he got near a neighbor's house heobserved, not more than 10 meters away, a bizarre creature. At first, because of the darkness Tapia thought it was a dog, but as he passed to within 3 meters of the creature he realized that it was a very short, man-like figure with huge glowing red eyes. The strange figure turned around and stared at him. It then scrambled down a grassy embankment and disappeared from sight. Stunned, Rafael ran to where the creature had gone, and flung a couple of rocks in its direction. Then he reboarded his bicycle and pedalled home. The creature wore a type of tight-fitting, high-collared coverall. Earlier that same day another witness had seen an elongated metallic object that flew at a low altitude and then descended into a field. UFO investigators recorded strange magnetic disturbances in the area. Five days earlier, on October 27, a house under construction in the town burned down as a result of a powerful wave of heat that appeared to come from an unknown in the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7399",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1995 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing Contacto OVNI" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/1998",
  "desc" : "On this night a truck driver driving outside Bologna, Italy saw a bright light approach his vehicle. Suddenly his engine stalled. A period of missing time ensued. A second witness in the area remembered being struck by a beam of light and losing consciousness for two hours. A third man reported seeing two \"Grey\" beings enter his bedroom and perform some type of operation on one of his wife's knees, apparently inserting some kind of implant. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7400",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1998 Humanoid Contact Database, citing CUN On-Line" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/1999",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon two men, Jose Freira and Cid Moreira, were fishing in the river at Benito Goncalves, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil when they observed a strange flying object approaching their location. The object hovered about three meters above the water on the other side of the river. It was round with small windows around its circumference. Behind the windows they could see two figures wearing helmets with antennas on the right sides of the helmets. The craft hovered over the river for four minutes, and then disappeared from sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7401",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1999 Humanoid Contact Database, citing Thiago Luiz Ticchetti, EBE-ET" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/2002",
  "desc" : "Journalists in Yining, Xinjiang, China photographed a bright ball of light with \"yellow, blue and pink lights.\" It hovered for several hours, changing sizes several times. At 6:00 a.m. it enlarged, then disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7402",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), February 2003, p. 22, citing Filer's Files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/2002",
  "desc" : "In Perth, Western Australia a rectangular-shaped object with three lights, two on either side that were always visible, turned red for 10 seconds. The sighting happened at 11:50 p.m. local time, and lasted for 90 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7403",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2002 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/2002",
  "desc" : "Hundreds of people saw a silvery UFO flying rapidly over the cities of Cachoeirinha, Canoas, and Gravatai, Rio Grande do Sol, Brazil. The same day, at 4:35 p.m., a silver metallic UFO was spotted by Eduardo Enderle Oliveira on the South Atlantic shore in the town of Praia do Cassino, Rio Grande do Sol, Brazil. It was a metallic fuselage or cigar-shaped object with no wings, and was seen by several beachgoers. It flew at a high altitude and had a brilliant gleam (reflecting sunlight); as it departed it seemed to diminish in size to a brilliant sphere. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7404",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "O Globo, November 19, 2002; Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 7, number 48 (November 26, 2002), www. ufoinfo.com/roundup/; George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 125" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/2002",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. a witness in Grenade sur L'Adour, Landes, France saw a ball of fire having several flashing lights. It made several comings and goings, and disappeared after 30 seconds. This observation also was made by pilots. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7405",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "GEIPAN, case # 369" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/2002",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. a triangle-shaped UFO flew across the sky toward the mountains in Arroyo, Puerto Rico and was sighted by multiple witnesses. The sighting lasted 30 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7406",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2002 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/2002",
  "desc" : "Silently gliding boomerang or V-Shaped objects were seen in several cities on this night, from Wilmington, North Carolina at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Williamsburg, Virginia at 9:45 p.m. EST, to Las Vegas, Nevada over the Bellagio Hotel at 9:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. There were four chevron-shaped objects over Wilmington, which had an orange glow. The object in Williamsburg glided slowly over the city, then vanished instantly. One side of the \"V\" was shorter than other. It had 7 pale yellow lights on one side and 5 on the other; the lights were oblong shaped, not circular.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7407",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2002 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/1/2008",
  "desc" : "At 7:15 a U-shaped or V-shaped gray object was sighted over Indianapolis, Indiana. There was also a smaller spherical object near the larger craft; and there were no lights or sounds on either. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7408",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2008 webpage, report uploaded January 10, 2009" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/2/1885",
  "desc" : "Scutari, Albania (then called Uskudar, a part of Ottoman Turkey). At dawn a luminous object circled the harbor at an altitude of 56 meters for 90 seconds. It illuminated the entire town with a bluish-green glow. It made several circles above the ferryboat pier then plunged into the sea. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7409",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ivan Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 34; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 181" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/2/1951",
  "desc" : "At 7:15 a.m. an American Airlines DC-4 passenger plane was followed by a bright green glowing cigar shaped object east of Abilene, Texas. The object paced the airliner for about one minute. It then burst into pieces that looked like red fireballs, which scattered in all directions. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7410",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald E. Keyhoe, Aliens from Space…The Real Story of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 204" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/2/1951",
  "desc" : "Later that same night, two forest observers were driving in a canyon 50 kilometers north of the Mojave Desert in California when they saw around 11 p.m. a disc-shaped flying object in the southwest sky. They estimated the diameter to be about 30 feet. It was blue-green in color, with well-defined edges, but surrounded by a glow of same color. Stopping their jeep, they signaled to the object, which approached to within a few meters, then flew away, seeming to play with them. Eventually it vanished \"like a magician's trick.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7411",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Donald E. Keyhoe, Aliens from Space…The Real Story of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 204; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 196" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/2/1954",
  "desc" : "A green disc landed on a farm near Viomenil-Bataille, France at 6:15 a.m. It left no physical traces, but there were independent witnesses to the event, who reported seeing a second disc fly over heading quickly to the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7412",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 125" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/2/1954",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 a.m. Maurilio Braga Godoi left the Santo Amaro, Brazil streetcar terminal and started to walk home. The area was deserted at that hour, and when he arrived at a street corner he was surprised to see a large circular object sitting in an empty lot between two houses. The UFO was 90 to 120 feet in diameter and surrounded by a strange bluish-red or violet glow. Curious, he decided to investigate and approached. He soon realized it was much larger than he originally thought and became somewhat apprehensive. It was like nothing he had ever seen before and he thought about going to the police to report it. He felt like running but felt rooted to the ground. He tried to call for help but no sound would come from his mouth. This strange sensation persisted for awhile but finally left him. Godoi noticed that there was an open sliding door in the object, and he went in. He saw a large circular room illuminated by a soft light. He saw no lamps. There was no one in sight and the craft seemed to be deserted. At the center was an oddly shaped table and on it were charts and maps. One of these was a map of the South American continent and it had a glowing or phosphorescent quality. Upon closer examination he noticed little mushroom-shaped symbols scattered about the map.<br/><br/> He had just finished scrutinizing the map when he looked up and confronted three men. They seemed normal in appearance except that they were less than five feet tall. They had dark brown skin, short black hair, and were dressed in one-piece garments like an overall, which were light gray in color. Each wore a belt around his waist which appeared to support an object that Godoi worried might be a weapon. They made no move toward Godoi, but stood staring at him, occasionally conversing among themselves in an unknown language. He noticed that the \"K\" sound was repeated quite often at the beginning of words more than other sounds.Bynowhisfear had returned and he tried to converse with them to convince them that he meant no harm, but they were expressionless and continued to stare at him intently. He suddenly became aware that, without intention, he was backing out of the craft, literally dragging his feet backwards one step after another. They made no attempt to stop him. When he reached the door he jumped to the ground and started to run away. When about 30 feet away he turned to look back and saw that the craft was now hovering about 30 feet above the ground, having at the bottom center a spinning \"screw without end.\" The UFO climbed silently at high speed with a violet glow around its edges. The witness was examined by several psychiatrists in Sao Paulo who concluded that he showed no signs of mental illness. The case is listed as an \"unknown\" by the Brazilian Air Force. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7413",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, pp. 198-199" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/2/1957",
  "desc" : "Five kilometers west of Canadian, Texas military and civilian witnesses reported seeing a submarine-shaped object at 3:30 a.m. It was red and white, two or three times as long as a car, and at ground level. It was about three meters in height. A figure was seen standing near this object, and there was something else that witnessed to a white signal flag. When a car stopped in the vicinity, a flash of light from the object coincided with the sudden failure of the car's headlights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7414",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 418" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/2/1957",
  "desc" : "Beginning at 10:50 p.m. in Levellend, Texas \"...a number of motorists and police officers in different localities encountered at close range a luminous egg-shaped object estimated at about 200 feet in length. Several reports confirmed that when the object passed at close range car engines and lights failed. One report described how two men driving a truck watched as the object came near. The lights and engine failed, then the object passed directly over the vehicle with a sound like thunder and a rush of wind. The truck rocked from the blast and a lot of heat was felt. Later there were reports of apparently the same luminous object on the ground and taking off in other areas near Levelland. Reports of vehicle interference followed a similar pattern, with engines and lights returning to normal on the departure of the object.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7415",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 419" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/2/1966",
  "desc" : "In Parkersburg, West Virginia Mr. Woodrow Derenberger, a travelling salesman, saw a dark object ahead of him on the road. It was flat on the bottom and rounded on top. As he stopped the object came to within 20 cm of the road surface, and a man of dark complexion, dressed in a shirt and ordinary trousers that were both shiny blue in color, came out. He smiled at the witness who then thought that he received a telepathic message. The message described a hypothetical \"other world\" and suggested that the observation be reported to authorities. The man also promised to return. Several people who drove by the witness reported seeing a man speaking to him, as well as a strange vehicle nearby. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7416",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 804" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/2/1966",
  "desc" : "During the evening Mrs. Mark deFriend, age 32, saw an object at ground level in front of her car in El Campo, Texas on this rainy night. It would leave the road and fly over the fields from time to time. The greenish-blue object flew back in front of her car, and then was lost to sight behind some trees. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7417",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 803" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/2/1967",
  "desc" : "A woman working in her kitchen late on this night in Point Pleasant, West Virginia heard a loud squeaking sound coming from outside. She looked out and saw a huge shadow spread across the grass, and then a figure described as tall, man-shaped, and gray in color appeared. It glided quickly across a field and disappeared into the woods. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7418",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, case # 1405, citing John A. Keel, The Mothman Prophecies" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/2/1967",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. two 23-year-old Navajo Indians, Guy Tossie and Willy Begay, were driving south of Ririe, Idaho when they were blinded by a flash of white light. Their car engine stalled and came to a stop and immediately ahead of them, hovering just five feet off the ground, they saw a domed disc-shaped UFO 6-8 feet in diameter and perhaps three feet thick. On top was a transparent bubble dome, occupied by two small entities. The dome flipped open and one of the occupants floated out and to the ground, then approached the car. Through the UFO's flashing lights the men were able to see that the being was no more than three feet tall, and bald with ears set up high on his head. His facial skin looked scarred and wrinkled, \"like a cantaloupe.\" His eyes were round and showed no pupils, and his mouth had lips so thin as to be barely visible. They saw no nose. He was wearing tight fitting coveralls and carried a pack on his back.<br/><br/> To their horror, the being opened the car door and seated himself behind the wheel. Both of the men slid over to the right as far as they could as the car was towed, or driven, off the highway and out into a field of wheat stubble. As soon as the car's motion stopped a terrified Tossie jumped out of the right side of the car, and began running to the farmhouse of William Hammon a quarter of a mile away. As he ran, he found his shadow preceding him, as though a bright light were shining on him from behind. In the car, Begay cowered in the right side of the front seat as the little being attempted to communicate with him, twice saying something incomprehensible in a high, chirruping voice. Getting no response, the being got out of the car and joined the second being, and then the two floated into the UFO which took off and zig-zagged into the sky as it departed.<br/><br/> At the Hammon farmhouse Tossie banged on the door screaming for help. The farmer and Bob his son admitted him, and it took a period of time to calm him sufficiently to get his story. By the time they accompanied him back to the field the object had departed and Begay was found in a state of near shock in the front seat. The farmer had to escort the youths by car their fear was so great. There were attendant sightings in the area, and cattle had been reportedly \"spooked\" on several farms that night. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7419",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-112, citing Cpl. Thomas Harper & C. Reed Ricks, NICAP" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/2/1968",
  "desc" : "During a thunderstorm, a medical doctor in southern France was awakened at 3:55 a.m. by his crying 14-month-old son. He saw two luminous objects outside his house, and observed them coming close together and merging into one, about 180 meters away from his window. A vertical beam of light was aimed at him for a second as the object tilted, and then the display vanished with a flash, leaving a slowly dissolving cloud. Persistent nightmares and various physiological phenomena, including identical triangular shaped red marks appearing on both the father's and son's lower abdomens, were later recorded. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7420",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, citing Aime Michel" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/2/1971",
  "desc" : "A famous UFO close encounter leaving physical evidence occurred on this day at a farm one mile northeast of Delphos, Kansas. Sixteen-year-old Ron Johnson was tending the family sheep with his dog at around seven p.m. when he saw a mushroom-shaped UFO appear in the night sky. The object was covered with multicolored lights on its metallic surface. It hovered only a few feet above the ground only 75 feet away from him in a sheep paddock. Ron estimated the craft's diameter at 6-8 feet. The teenager tried to get a closer look but under the brilliant luminance he was not able to make out any additional details. He described the craft as making a loud sound, \"like an old washing machine which vibrates.\" The glow from the bottom of the UFO increased as it began to shoot up into the sky. Ron was temporarily blinded by the brightness of the craft as it ascended. After he regained his sight and composure, he ran back to the family house to alert the others. The bright glow was now high in the sky, as it began to vanish from sight altogether.<br/><br/> Three family members came running around the side of the house to get a glimpse of the unusual object. They were shocked to see a glowing ring on the ground, right under where the craft had hovered. Ron’s mother touched the surface of the ground around the glow, and said it \"felt strange, like a slick crust, as if the soil was crystallized.\" Her fingers went numb, like she had been given a local anesthetic. Seeing nothing else of the craft, the family finally went to bed for the night.<br/><br/> (Continued.) At dawn the family returned to the sight of the glowing ring and to their surprise, it was still there. The inside and outside of the ring were damp from a rain shower, but the ring itself was completely dry. The ring had a crusty appearance, as though the rain had simply run off. Slightly over a month later, after a snow fall, the white ice had melted both inside and outside of the ring, but the ring itself maintained the snow drift. Investigators experimented with the ring by removing snow from a section of it and pouring water on the exposed part. The soil would not allow water to pass through.<br/><br/> Further experimentation showed the ground under the ring to be dry to a depth of one foot. The ring itself was composed of a whitish substance, which was sent for laboratory analysis. The lab findings found that there were fibers in the soil of an organism called Actinomycetales actiniomycete nocardia, which is an intermediate organism between bacteria and fungus, and is “often found together with a fungus of the order Basidomycetes, which may fluoresce under certain conditions...” One possible interpretation is that high-energy stimulation triggered the spectacular growth of the Nocardia and of an existing fungus, and caused the latter to fluoresce. Phosphorous may also have been baked out of the soil and may have been the substance that numbed Mrs. Johnson’s fingers when she touched the ground. The experience of Ron Johnson is still considered one of the best documented \"ground trace\" UFO cases on record. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7421",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted R. Phillips, FSR Case Histories, February 1972, p. 4; Ted R. Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 494; Clancy D. Tull, APRO Bulletin, March-April 1972, p. 8; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume II): A Thirty Year Report, p. 264" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/3/1949",
  "desc" : "U.S. Air Force Captain W. Donnelly sighted a flight of four disc-shaped object north of Rosarita Beach, Baja California, Mexico. The objects had a cavorting flight formation. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7422",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Edward Sullivan, CSI/LA investigation files, letter dated April 6, 1952; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume I, p. 20" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/3/1953",
  "desc" : "A very large, 300-foot diameter disc-shaped object zoomed by a RAF Vampire reconaisance jet from West Malling RAFB, Kent, England at 10:00 a.m. The encounter lasted 30 seconds. Radar returns were picked up from the same or another UFO at 1439 hours. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7423",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, p. 35; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 22" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/3/1954",
  "desc" : "Oued Beth, Morocco. Maroc Presse reported that one of its employees, Mr. E., the driver of a delivery truck and \"a man of sane judgment and excellent eyesight,\" observed an object flying over the Beth River. \"I am positive it was not an aircraft or any known machine but a circular, flat craft which had the appearance of copper. It flew normally for some time, and then it suddenly flipped over. Therefore, I was able to see the whole disc and was amazed when it came down into a field where it landed on edge, very gently. Almost immediately it rose into the sky at great speed, resumed its horizontal position and was soon lost to sight.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7424",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 241; Maroc-Presse, November 4, 1954" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/3/1954",
  "desc" : "At 6:00 a.m. a reportedly reliable witness encountered a thick fog in Palavas, Herault, France. Inside was a hovering blue, disc-shaped UFO. It stayed stationary a short while, and then shot straight up at an extremely fast speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7425",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4122, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 223" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/3/1954",
  "desc" : "Two dwarf humanoids wearing metallic suits with helmets were seen in a thick fog at 6:30 a.m. at a farm in Mareil-sur-Loir, France. They glided over ground. There is the possibility that the two witnesses experienced an episode of missing time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7426",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4123, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 224" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/3/1954",
  "desc" : "At 6:30 a.m. in Burleson, Texas a witness named McDowell saw a 10-foot diameter disc-shaped object with a red-orange glow. It flew silently with trails of white sparks for more than two minutes. It was gone in a sudden burst of speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7427",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1954: November-December, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/3/1957",
  "desc" : "A large number of reports around Levelland, Texas which began the night before continued in the early morning hours. They described a low-flying ovoid or cigar-shaped object, over 60 meters long, equipped with a bright light, and which interfered with car and truck ignition and electrical systems. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7428",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 136" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/3/1957",
  "desc" : "At 3:00 a.m. at the Stallion Missile Test Site on the White Sands, New Mexico proving grounds an Army patrol in a jeep saw an orange, \"apparently controlled,\" luminous object on the ground near the site of the first A-bomb explosion. It was first seen as a sun-like source 50 meters above ground, and it then descended to ground level after three minutes, landing several kilometers away at the northern end of the testing grounds. Two U.S. Army witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7429",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 420" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/3/1967",
  "desc" : "Carlos Spini and another man in San Jeronimo, Argentina saw a luminous, blue, circular object land nearby as they were examining some cows in a pasture. It took off when they approached it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7430",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon Creighton, FSR, May-June 1971, p. 29; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 895" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/3/1968",
  "desc" : "Two 15-year-old boys in Houston, Texas sighted a domed disc-shaped object with black dots, possibly windows, at 4:15 p.m. \"Angel hair\" residue was found in the aftermatch of the sighting, the \"…substance is fibrous, elastic, relatively strong, somewhat sticky, and white in color.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7431",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP files, sighting a newspaper clipping December 19, 1968" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/3/1971",
  "desc" : "Trudy Van Riper was awakened at around four o'clock in the morning by her cats \"growling and carrying on\" on her ranch near Austin, Texas. When she opened the door they ran inside and hid under the living room couch. When she looked out the window, she saw an \"elliptical moon\" object lighting up her backyard and part of the pasture beyond. Going to the front door, she discovered a strange little vehicle that had landed on her lawn, which resembled a Volkswagen without fenders or doors. From the top emerged three small men dressed in dark garments, one of whom communicated with her telepathically, saying, \"Are there any pigs in that field? They are hungry.\" Then she saw, near the men, two peculiar looking creatures covered with fuzzy hair, but standing erect. She retreated back inside her house, and when she looked out again the object was airborne, and the \"moon\" was gone. Later she learned that several pigs had been lost at a nearby farm. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7432",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1971-31; Fate magazine, December 1972, p. 100" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/3/1973",
  "desc" : "Sr. Rincon Castillo received telepathic messages to go to a certain isolated area near a lagoon, 150 kilometers south of Santa Fe de Bogota, Colombia; at 8:00 p.m. After arriving there he was then instructed to go to a clearing in the woods. There he was told he would find a metallic sphere, which he did. The sphere was small and covered with tiny holes. It suddenly started shooting bright beams of light in different directions. The whole area was next illuminated by a bright glow, and two huge, saucer-shaped objects appeared and flew directly overhead. Both were dripping water and were emitting a strong heat wave. They were silent and had three rotating white spheres on the bottom, and were emitting multicolored lights. The objects then descended out of sight and dimmed their lights. After that, two tall humanoid figures wearing uniforms and helmets with transparent visors approached Castillo from the woods and told him not to be afraid. The two figures took him to a nearby clearing, where a flying craft now appeared overhead, shooting down a beam of yellow light that surrounded both the witness and the humanoids. He was then transported inside the object where he saw two more tall, smiling entities. The beings removed their helmets; they had handsome human features, and shoulder length, blond hair. Some of the men wore tight fitting silvery outfits with orange boots and gloves, while others wore brown outfits. The witness was given information about upcoming Earth changing events, and was given an extensive tour onboard the craft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7433",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "BUFORA Journal, 1973, p. 60; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1277; Albert S. Rosales, 1973 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 1213, citing Enigma, issue # 30" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/3/1973",
  "desc" : "Mr. N. Hearn reported a close encounter with a UFO while driving on the golf course in Lewisville, Texas at 9:10 p.m. Buffeting of his vehicle was caused by turbulence from the UFO. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7434",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lewisville Leader, November 7, 1973; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 60" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/3/1973",
  "desc" : "On this night witnesses in Industry, Pennsylvania reported to the local police the sighting of a large, dark, hairy creature with glowing green eyes. This occurred during heavy UFO activity in the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7435",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1973 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 1873, citing Paul G. Johnson & Joan L. Jeffers, The Pennsylvania Bigfoot" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/3/1975",
  "desc" : "Dick Jackson, age 56, awoke late at night around two o'clock in the morning in Bokoelia, Florida and stepped outside his trailer home. The next thing he recalls, he found himself standing beside a domed object, with steps leading up to a door. He climbed the steps and was invited in. The interior was a single round compartment, 24 feet in diameter and 8 feet high, with a small control panel. There were eight crewmembers inside, but only one spoke to him. This man was five feet tall, stocky and of dark complexion, and elderly looking. He wore brown coveralls with no shirt. Speaking in English, he told Mr. Jackson that they came from the planet \"Planteh.\" They have been preparing \"a neighboring planet\" for colonization by Earth people, and Jackson was asked to help then recruit colonists; perfect health was offered to him in return for his assistance. After 90 minutes of conversation Jackson left the craft, which took off with great speed. Then he found himself in his trailer. He told his 16-year old son of the experience. The case appears to have episodes of distorted reality or missing time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7436",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1975-42, citing Frazier Moore, Fort Myers News-Press" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/3/1975",
  "desc" : "At 11:45 p.m. the two witnesses, Christian Talbot and Susan Mondor, were driving on an old dirt road in Saint-Dominique-de-Bagot, Quebec, Canada on a very bright starry night. They heard a strange noise and their vehicle engine abruptly stalled. Out of nowhere a strange figure then approached the vehicle very quickly. Both witness could only catch a glimpse of the stranger, described as somewhat \"caveman\" in appearance, with dark hair and a beard, pointy ears, and \"demonic\" facial features. The top half of its body was greenish and the bottom half was pale white. This strange creature ran by the car and disappeared into the woods. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7437",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1975 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing Marc Leduc, CASUFO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/3/1977",
  "desc" : "Ivan De Oliviera, age 36, was on the river in Colares, Brazil at 1:30 a.m., when he witnessed a very bright blue flying light at great distance, which stopped two meters above the water in the navigation channel. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7438",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Pratt, Operacao Prato, p. 26" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/3/1978",
  "desc" : "A red UFO hovered and pulsed near Brooke High School in Bethany, West Virginia for five minutes beginning at 7:00 p.m. It made a low humming sound. Three separate cops plus many other independent witnesses saw the fireball and two 300 foot long objects. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7439",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted Spickler, MUFON UFO Journal, January 1979, pp. 9-10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/3/1980",
  "desc" : "A  cigar-shaped UFO hovered at 100 meters altitude, causing TV interference in Orebro, Sweden at 10:00 p.m. It had a row of yellow windows. The TV was alright after the UFO left. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7440",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 12920; Andre Liljegren, AFU Sweden, issue 22" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/3/1980",
  "desc" : "A private pilot flying near Ozona, Texas at 6:50 p.m. saw a bright, elongated glowing object that flew at great speed. The EM effects experienced included the plane's engine stopping temporarily, and the cabin lights dimming. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7441",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Walter Andrus, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1990, p. 22; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 51" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/3/1980",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. two people driving in a vehicle southeast of Sterling City, Texas witnessed a shape changing UFO in the middle of US Highway 87. The UFO jumped up to avoid a collision with their car. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7442",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, November 1990" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/3/1986",
  "desc" : "On this day three UFOs was seen by two witnesses entering Lake Trasimeno off Castiglione del Lago, Italy. water. The three objects flew in a triangle formation, with many spherical satellite bodies that were brightly lit and blue in color. The formation descended to a low altitude, and appeared to be about five meters in size. Having reached the lake, the objects dived perpendicularly into the water. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7443",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Carl Feindt, UFOs and Water, p. 20" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/3/1989",
  "desc" : "On this night in Whitefield, Greater Manchester, England two witnesses observed a luminous, golden cigar-shaped UFO with a small dome on one end. It appeared to have \"fluid inside.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7444",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14984; Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1991, p. 233" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/3/1989",
  "desc" : "At 11:55 p.m. a man observed a blue, teardrop or football-shaped light pass low and fast over his property in North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. It was the size of a TV set. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7445",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Wayne Willis, MUFON field investigation case files, case # 900307" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/3/1993",
  "desc" : "At 6:40 p.m. a 300-foot wide, disc-shaped object with an \"X\" on the bottom was seen in Warsaw, Benton County, Missouri. The five witnesses reported that it moved extremely slowly over the lake on a clear night. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7446",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "T. David Spencer, MUFON UFO Journal, June 1996, p. 16; Duane Bedell, MUFON field investigation case files, case # 950404S" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/3/1993",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon in Shanghai, China crowds of witnesses watched a white saucer-shaped object spinning over the city for five minutes. It gave off silver feams of light. It finally split into two parts and flew off to the east and west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7447",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 16581; MUFON UFO Journal, December 1994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/3/1996",
  "desc" : "Fifty people on the beach in Eforie Nord, Constanta, Romania at around 1 p.m. watched three red balls in a constant triangle formation for three minutes; each BOL vanished one-by-one. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7448",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17478, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 1, number 38" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/3/1996",
  "desc" : "According to a case report filed by Margaret DeHarpporte, a MUFON Field Investigator, an abduction occurred on this night in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. It involved two young girls. No further details are available. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7449",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Margaret DeHarpporte, MUFON" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/3/1998",
  "desc" : "In Stewartstown, Coos County, New Hampshire a man and a women, age 18, sighted a dark gray triangle craft fly over at 9:00 p.m. It had a red light at the apex and three strobing white lights down the center line to the base. It was the size of a house, and was estimated to be five miles away at 22.5 degrees elevation, indicating an altitude of about 10,000 feet. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7450",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Sandra B. Black,MUFON field investigation case files, case # 980402SE" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/3/1999",
  "desc" : "On this day three men saw a huge flying object in Strzlecki Crossing, South Australia; one man suffered a bleeding from nose after the encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7451",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Keith Basterfield, citing The Sunday Mail, March 2000, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/3/2007",
  "desc" : "A tube-shaped object was seen hovering in the sky over St. John, New Brunswick, Canada at 12:30 p.m. It was stationary at first, then shot off to a distance. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7452",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 716, citing ufoinfo.com" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/3/2007",
  "desc" : "A small white and blue rectangular object was sighted flying in the sky over Grand Rapids, Ohio at 2:30 p.m. It scared a dog and a boy. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7453",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, November 2007 webpage, report uploaded November 28, 2007" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/3/2007",
  "desc" : "A craft with a tan \"X\" on the bottom was seen from Portland, Oregon at 7:12 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7454",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, November 2007 webpage, report uploaded November 28, 2007" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/4/1867",
  "desc" : "In the middle of the afternoon a large number of black discs in groups and separately passed rapidly through the sky over Chatham, England. The procession continued for more than 20 minutes. Several groups passed silently overhead, then vanished leaving a brown, smoke-like vapor. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7455",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jerome Clark, International UFO Reporter, Spring 2003, p. 20" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/4/1952",
  "desc" : "At six o'clock in the morning, over a hospital in Laval, Mayenne department, France a brilliant cigar-shaped UFO changed color and then change shape into a disc-shaped object, then back into a cigar shape, and then faded away. The sighting lasted five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7456",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Luminieres dans la Nuit, issue # 131" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/4/1954",
  "desc" : "At 6:30 a.m. a six-meter wide diameter disc was seen spinning in the sky over a farm in Le Sourn, Morbihan department, France. It flew toward the south, making multiple landings and emitting beams of light. The farm animals were frightened by it. The incident lasted 30 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7457",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4129, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 125" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/4/1954",
  "desc" : "At quarter past three in the afternoon on the island of Sardinia a domed disc-shaped UFO, estimated to be 15 meters in diameter, was observed on the roadside in Nuoro, Italy near Monte Ortobene. It had grates on the bottom. After eight minutes it took off vertically making a noise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7458",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Alberto Perego, FSR Case Histories, June 1973, p. 5; Maurizio Verga, ITACAT, Italian UFO Catalogue" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/4/1954",
  "desc" : "On this evening Jose Alves was fishing on the river in Pontal, Sao Paulo state, Brazil when he saw a luminous object come \"wobbling\" down from the sky. It was 3-4 meters (10-15 feet) in diameter, and it looked like \"two washbowls joined together.\" It came down and hovered six feet above the ground and only a few feet away from the witness. Three small dwarfish men with dark skin and wearing white uniforms with \"skull caps\" emerged from the disc. They collected foliage and a sample of the river water in a metal tube. They then jumped back in the craft. The UFO rose vertically, making no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7459",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4136, citing Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 146; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 50; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-126 (A0338), citing Olavo T. Fontes, APRO Bulletin, July 1957, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/4/1954",
  "desc" : "On or about this date, at night in the Amacuro Delta, Venezuela Fernando de Moya, age 39, was hunting from his launch, when he saw a luminous sphere hovering six feet above the ground. The two Indians with him fled in terror, but he approached and saw two three-foot tall figures with round heads andlarge eyes running back and forth to the sphere. They ran making little jumps, and picking up various things. They entered through one of two windows in the UFO. When they saw De Moya, they jumped into the object, which ascended vertically. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7460",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-127 (A0338), citing APRO Bulletin, November 1954; Leonard H. Stringfield, Inside Saucer Post...3-0 Blue, p. 68" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/4/1971",
  "desc" : "In Austin, Texas Trudy Van Riper was awakened by her cats growling at four o'clock in the morning. Outside a pasture was illuminated by a UFO that looked like an \"elliptical moon.\" In her front yard a vehicle had landed on the lawn, looking like a VW Beetle without fenders. Three small men emerged, and communicated with her telepathically, \"Any pigs in that field? We are hungry.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7461",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1131, citing Trudy Van Riper, Fate, December 1972" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/4/1975",
  "desc" : "At 6:50 p.m. a red disc-shaped object flanked by two nocturnal lights stopped in place, then descended slowly into some woods near Lussault-sur-Loire, France. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7462",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, February 1977" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/4/1994",
  "desc" : "At 8:10 p.m. an orange glowing hat-shaped disc was sighted over some trees in Louhans, Saone-Loire department, France. It ascends vertically into the clouds, but was seen again that same evening between nine o'clock and eleven o'clock. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7463",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 329" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/4/1999",
  "desc" : "A triangular shaped flying object was photographed over Col de Vence, Alpes-Maritime department, France on this day. There is very good detail on the enlargements. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7464",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, December 1999, p. 24" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/5/1950",
  "desc" : "At 11:55 a.m. Fairchild Aircraft illustrator Don Patrick in Oak Ridge, Tennessee saw a translucent pear or bean-shaped object, light gray with a dark core, fly through the sky for 5-10 minutes with rapid, darting movements. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7465",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #829; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/5/1954",
  "desc" : "La Coruna, Spain. Gonzalo Rubinos Ramos, whose car had broken down, saw a large, shining disc rise 150 meters away with a slight noise like an explosion. It flew away at fantastic speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7466",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 328, citing Le Parisien, November 8, 1954" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/5/1954",
  "desc" : "In La Roche-en-Brenil, France at 10:10 a.m. Raymond R. saw a craft that made a noise like a large transformer and gave off an orange light, land in a pasture. Three men in dark coveralls were standing nearby. One was holding a sort of box, \"which emitted a beam of light three meters long.\" The other two were holding objects that looked like weapons. Another witness fled and felt pricklings on his face as he ran. Four photographs of the scene were taken. Traces included a whitish substance and a circle three meters in diameter where the ground had an ashlike appearance. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7467",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 329; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 445" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/5/1956",
  "desc" : "A huge round object with sharply outlined edges passed overhead in Malvern, South Africa at 8:30 p.m. The flying object made no sound as it flew into a cloud. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7468",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4816, citing Flying Saucer Review, Volume 3, No. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/5/1957",
  "desc" : "A brilliant white ovoid object moving at a high rate of speed was sighted by the crew of the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Sebago, 200 nautical miles south of New Orleans in the Gulf of Mexico. Three radar contacts were made with the UFO between 5:10 and 5:20 a.m. It was clocked moving at 1,020 mph. It was seen by four crew members as it moved horizontally through the sky from south to north and disappeared behind some clouds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7469",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "New Orleans Times-Picayune, November 6, 1957; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 86; Michael David Hall, UFOs: A Century of Sightings, p. 253" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/5/1957",
  "desc" : "New Castle, Indiana. An object looking like \"a big meat platter\" was seen at close range by Mrs. Jasper Barlow and her two children, who were inside their car. It had a flickering light on the bottom. There was no ignition interference noted. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7470",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 422, citing Alexander Mebane" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/5/1957",
  "desc" : "New York, New York. In Van Cortland Park in New York City at 4:30 a.m., Frank C. was talking with a bus driver when they both saw a metallic disc-shaped UFO in the park, about 400 m away. It was spinning and making a soft whirring sound. On top was a fixed dome with portholes. The object was hovering at tree height. A yellow light from the craft suddenly illuminated the area, and it flew off \"like a shooting star. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7471",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 262-263" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/5/1957",
  "desc" : "Three railroad men watched two silvery ovoid UFOs pass overhead at high speed in East St. Louis, Illinois at 11:45 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7472",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 165" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/5/1957",
  "desc" : "At 5:30 p.m. a man in Scotia, Nebraska heard a noise similar to that of a helicopter and perceived a \"burning\" odor. He saw a balloon-like, elongated object that came to ground level, did not touch the ground, but rose again and disappeared. The witness was \"paralyzed\" during the observation. The object appeared to have generated thick smoke. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7473",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 263" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/5/1957",
  "desc" : "At 6:20 p.m. an object variously described as silver or orange, and saucer or ovoid shaped, was seen over a wide area for a ten minute period around Dauphin, Manitoba. At 6:40 p.m. a shiny silver UFO hovered over Winnipeg, Manitoba and was seen shifting from left to right and back again in the sky. It shot off toward the southwest when RCAF planes approached. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7474",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 165" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/5/1966",
  "desc" : "On this night Mrs. Kathleen glanced out the kitchen door of her house in Arlington, Indiana and saw a lighted object, which moved toward her and hovered 50 feet away, some 20-30 feet up in the air. It was as big as a house and Saturn-shaped. In the middle of the object were brightly lit windows. Mrs. Kathleen could see in these windows a man and two women, who appeared to be on different floors. The man, muscular in build, was manipulating something like a steering wheel and was staring directly at her, which frightened her. One of the women who was on the lower level handed him a small object \"like a cup of coffee.\" After about three minutes the object began to move westward, then rose steeply emitting a multicolored exhaust. It moved off at a speed greater then a jet. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7475",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-52 (A0746), citing Don Worley" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/5/1967",
  "desc" : "Truck driver Karl Farlow told police that at 11:30 p.m. his lights and radio blacked out, although his diesel engine continued to work, when he saw a three-meter long egg-shaped object 15 meters away at Fordingbridge, England. Moments later, a white Jaguar sports car came from the opposite direction and its engine stalled and headlights failed. The UFO, emitting a green light and showing a whitish dome under its lower surface, hovered between the two vehicles for two minutes and left at a high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7476",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 896" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/5/1968",
  "desc" : "There was a report of a UFO that scorched the earth in Clare, South Australia on this day. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7477",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 182" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/5/1969",
  "desc" : "There were two cases of UFO reports involving animal reactions and burnt landing traces from New Zealand on this day. In the first a horse was reported to be panicked on a farm in Kaharoa, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. Later three circles of burnt grass were found, and the third circle straddled a paddock fence. In Puketutu, Waikato, New Zealand some cattle and a dog were reported to be agitated, while later a burnt circle was found on a small island in a pond. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7478",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Data-Net Report, January 1970, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/5/1971",
  "desc" : "Two railroad men were dazed and incoherent in South Johnstone, Queensland, Australia after their close encounter at ten p.m. with a ball of fire, which burnt a sugar cane field. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7479",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted R. Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 495, citing Evening Advocate; ACOS Bulletin, June 1977, p. 21" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/5/1990",
  "desc" : "There are 92 UFO reports recorded for this day from Europe, all but seven occurring in France. Most occurred between 6:20 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Ordinarily such a large number of reports would suggest a meteor shower or a satellite re-entry as the cause, but many of the descriptions do not fit such explanations. At 5:25 p.m. a triangular UFO with luminous jet streams coming out of one edge flew over Kelheim, Bavaria, Germany. Ninety minutes later a Russian space station re-entry occurred over France and Germany. There are two reports from that time period of objects making a buzzing or purring noise. At 7:00 p.m. in Chissay-en-Tourain, France a dark triangular UFO flew over making a buzzing noise. At the same time in Anguleme, France a surgeon saw a formation of lights that made a purring sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7480",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 35; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issues 304, 305, and 306" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/5/1990",
  "desc" : "At 7:00 p.m. in St. Germain, Aube, France during this intense regional wave of UFO reports that coincided with a Russian satellite re-entry, numerous witnesses watched a large delta-shaped object flying at a low altitude. It shone several beams of light towards the ground. A man-like figure was seen moving around inside a cabin-like structure. It flew towards the northeast and vanished. Please bear in mind that satellite re-entries are predictable in advance and could serve as the perfect cover for covert aerial activity. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7481",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1990, case # 2362, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/5/1990",
  "desc" : "Later this night Rudolph Bauer, a local artisan residing in Leipzig, Germany, reported seeing a short metallic robot-like entity equipped with antennas, who flew soundlessly over the area. It disappeared while moving at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7482",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1990, case # 2442, citing Ulrich Magin" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/5/1991",
  "desc" : "Two MUFON investigators, Weatherford and Morrison, photographed a structured UFO in Gulf Breeze, Florida with a curved shape above a blazing red light on the bottom. There were multiple witnesses, and the object was viewed through binoculars. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7483",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "The Islander Pensacola, November 15, 1991; Gary Watson, in Timothy Good (ed.), Alien Update, p. 239" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/5/2000",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. a red cylindrical UFO, the shape of a 44 gallon drum, with a white band around the middle, was sighted floating in water nearWoody Point, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia just 20 meters away from the witness. It was steady in the water despite the fact that the ocean at the time was quite choppy. The object silently sped off above the water, then shot up, and was gone from view in 5-10 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7484",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Sheryl Gottschall, UFO Research Queensland website" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/5/2003",
  "desc" : "At 8:35 p.m. an oval-shaped UFO came up from a pasture in Mabank, Texas and darted toward the witness' car. It had a yellow glow around it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7485",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, November 2003 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/5/2004",
  "desc" : "Approximately 15 oval-shaped UFOs were spotted in Santa Ana, California at 10:50 a.m. moving slowly in unison, making different patterns in the sky, and reflecting at different times in the sunlight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7486",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, November 2004 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/5/2007",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m. a hovering saucer-shaped object with a beam of light, along with a possible creature sighting, was reported in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7487",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 719, citing ufoinfo.com" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/6/1954",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 a.m. in the morning Alberto Perego watched about 100 white spots traveling in the sky over Rome, Italy with short white trails. They flew in formations of two, three, four, seven, and twelve for over a two hour period. They often would form lozenge-shaped formations of four objects ov V-shaped formations of seven. They executed curves, and an \"angel hair\" residue fell to the ground. On the same day several unknown radar blips were tracked over England for a two hour period. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7488",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Alberto Perego, Flying Saucers, March-April 1970, p. 17; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 37" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/6/1957",
  "desc" : "North of Seoul, South Korea a barrel-shaped object, bluish-white and luminous, was seen close to the ground in the morning. Its reflection could be seen in a pool of water. It rose and vanished \"like a light switched off.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7489",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 433" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/6/1957",
  "desc" : "At a few minutes after midnight two men, Martinez and Gallegos, were driving near Santa Fe, New Mexico when an ovoid object came down and hovered over their car, making a humming sound. After a minute the UFO shot away. Both the car's clock and a wristwatch stopped. , 12:10 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7490",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Alexander Mebane, 1957 Saucer Wave in the US , in Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 246; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 12; Santa Fe New Mexican, November 6, 1957; APRO Bulletin, November 1957, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/6/1957",
  "desc" : "At 4:50 a.m. in Springfield, Ohio two cars stalled at the same time. A blue light was seen in the sky for 10 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7491",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Marietta Times, November 6, 1957" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/6/1957",
  "desc" : "At 5:40 a.m. Richard Kehoe was driving near the beach in Playa del Rey, California when his car engine stopped, and so did three other cars. He and the other witnesses got out of their cars and observed an egg-shaped object wrapped in \"a blue haze\" on the beach. The object seemed to be resting on two metal rings. Two men of below average height got out of the craft and asked them questions about their identity, what time it was, etc. They looked to be normal human beings, although their skin was an olive complexion. They wore black leather pants, white belts, and light-coloured jerseys. They went back inside the craft, which left rapidly, and the cars could then be started. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7492",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 178; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 431" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/6/1957",
  "desc" : "A man in Lake County, Ohio reported to the U.S. Air Force that at 6:30 a.m. he saw a UFO so bright that his eyes could not stand to look directly at it. It appeared to land on a nearby ridge, and then took off again silently . It was round and much larger than a plane, had an \"odd color,\" and left no trail. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7493",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 429" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/6/1957",
  "desc" : "In Knoxville, Tennessee at 6:30 a.m.12-year-old Everett Clark saw a strange object on the ground and four human-looking occupants, two men and two women who spoke in a language he thought sounded similar to German. They went back inside the craft in a manner the witness was not able to comprehend, because he saw no door. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7494",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 428" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/6/1957",
  "desc" : "At 6:00 p.m. in Boerne, Texas a civilian source reported to the U.S. Air Force that an oval object, about 5 meters long was seen hovering four meters above the ground. It was bright orange in color, similar to glowing coals. The witness went to call his family, but the object had vanished when he returned. The case was listed as a Project Blue Book unidentified report. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7495",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 426" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/6/1957",
  "desc" : "In Everittstown, New Jersey that same evening John Trasco saw a brilliant, egg-shaped object hovering in front of a barn. He was next confronted by a one-meter tall being with a putty-colored face and froglike eyes. He thought the dwarf said in broken English: \"We are peaceful people, we only want your dog. \" The little man, who was dressed in a green uniform with shiny buttons, and wore what looked like a green tam-o-shanter cap with gloves that had shiny objects at the tips of each finger, fled when Mr. Trasco turned down his request. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7496",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 427" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/6/1957",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. two domed discs were sighted by two people driving on US highway 40 in New Castle, Delaware. The UFOs beamed down a light beam onto the highway, and the witnesses felt a vibration. One of the object came back three times, then went away quickly toward the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7497",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1954: November-December, p. 11" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/6/1957",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. near Baskatong Lake, Quebec 180 km north of Ottawa Jacques Jacobson and three of his friends saw a bright, yellowish-white sphere that was hovering over a hilltop about four kilometers away. From the top and bottom of the object came cones of light that illuminated the countryside and the clouds. Radio reception was blocked throughout the observation, except for a very powerful signal at one shortwave wavelength, modulated, but not in Morse code. The object rose slowly toward the south. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7498",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Alexander Mebane, 1957 Saucer Wave in the US, in Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 248; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 425" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/6/1957",
  "desc" : "Twenty-eight year old Olden Moore, a plasterer, was driving home in Montville, Ohio at 11:30 p.m. when he suddenly noticed an object looking like a bright meteor split into two pieces, one of which went straight up. The other got larger while its color changed from bright white to blue-green. It hovered 60 meters above a field and came down to the ground making a soft whirring sound, landing 150 meters away. After watching it for 15 minutes Moore walked up to the object, which he found to be shaped like a \"covered dish\" 15 meters in diameter and five meters high, with a cone on top about 3 meters tall. It was surrounded by haze or fog and pulsated slowly. Holes, footprints and radioactivity were later found at the site by Civil Defense Director Kenneth Locke. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7499",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 430" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/6/1958",
  "desc" : "At 3:00 p.m. in Shawbridge, Quebec several silver points of light flew in pairs and large groups. Jet aircraft pursued them but could not catch up. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7500",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 42" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/6/1967",
  "desc" : "At 6:15 a.m. in Burnley, England a car's electrical system was damaged by a close encounter with a pulsating yellow disc-shaped UFO. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7501",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, March-April 1968, p. 33" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/6/1967",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. a couple in Kazan', Russia saw a red, Saturn-shaped object that hovered for many minutes, spinning on its axis. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7502",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 323" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/6/1971",
  "desc" : "A glowing saucer-shaped object followed a couple driving home in Pickaway County, Ohio at 1:00 p.m., and them circled their farm for 45 minutes. It finally left by spiralling up into the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7503",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, December 1971, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/6/1971",
  "desc" : "On this day three 30-meter wide pyramids hovered over some old abandoned mines in Coarsegold, California. They had red lights blinking on top and a beam of light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7504",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, December 1971, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/6/1972",
  "desc" : "During an evangelist church service in Paya, the Domican Republic, a UFO passed over the house where the service was being held and lit up everything inside, causing everyone to panick. A strange looking being entered the building, took the paster by the hand, and reportedly healed a woman of stomach cancer. She said that she felt a sensation of cold from the alien's touch. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7505",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, January 1982, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/6/1973",
  "desc" : "After a month of very heavy UFO activity in the Gulf States and throughout the eastern United States, a fisherman had a close encounter with an unidentified submerged object in the Pascagoula River in Mississippi sometime after 9:00 p.m. on this evening. It was a bright metallic object submerged four to six feet below the surface of the water, and emitted an amber beam 4-6 inches in diameter. It was moving at 4-6 knots, and the fisherman reported that he repeatedly had to beat it away from his boat with an oar. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7506",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "newspaper clipping dated November 8, 1973" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/6/1975",
  "desc" : "A domed disc landed on three legs in Merxheim, France at 10:00 p.m. The dome on the craft opened, and the head and shoulders of an occupant was seen partially emerging from it. The dome closed and the UFO rose up into the air, then took off toward the east-southeast ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7507",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #11518" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/6/1976",
  "desc" : "A cattle mutilation was discovered on a ranch northeast of Canby, Minnesota. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7508",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 605" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/6/1978",
  "desc" : "Another cattle mutilation was discovered northwest of Cave Springs, Arkansas. A calf had been killed, and the eyes, tongue, and sexual organs had been removed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7509",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 374" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/6/1982",
  "desc" : "A brilliant round, intense light was seen in the sky over Lombard, Illinois at 3:45 p.m. There appeared to be very small airplanes circling this huge unmoving object. The witness, D. Keogh, called the nearby Adler Planetarium, but got the usual \"run around.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7510",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/6/1988",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. a silent, mysterious low-flying \"airplane\" and a mushroom-shaped disc were sighted in Vittsjo, Sweden. Television interference and flashing lights were reported at the same time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7511",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "AFU Sweden case file catalogue, case 34" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/6/1989",
  "desc" : "Early in the pre-dawn hours a significant and well-documented abduction case occurred on this day in Kansas, perhaps one of the most persuasive cases on the objective reality of the UFO abduction phenomenon to be reported. Two women, \"Susan\" and \"Jennifer,\" were driving back from a business conference in Colorado to St. Louis, Missouri on this night. At 12:40 a.m. they had reached a point on Interstate I-70 near Goodland, Kansas when they started to notice some persistent, multicolored flashing lights that were maneuvering slowly over the fields alongside the highway. They stopped their vehicle several times to get a better look. On one of these occasions a ball of light descended near their vehicle and hovered over a nearby field. They then saw a cone of soft, multicolored light directed towards the ground from under the object. They also noticed strange \"black waves\" resembling heat waves that were approaching their vehicle.<br/><br/> They finally drove away experiencing several types of emotions and feelings. Upon reaching their destination they realized that, according to their time checks and their careful records of the amount of fuel their vehicle had consumed, they had lost track of two hours of their time. Later, under hypnosis by clinical hypnotherapist John Carpenter and interviewed separately, both of the witnesses recalled identical details from their abduction experience. One of them reported floating silently upwards towards a bright object overhead. She found herself in a circular room encircled by windows and panels and lit up by a diffuse pinkish white light. She encountered several five foot tall slender \"Grey\" humanoids with large hairless heads and tiny pointed chins. They had huge slanted dark eyes and white skin. The beings communicated with her using telepathy and seemed to glide across the floor gracefully. The witness saw no apparent clothing. She felt calm as one of the beings touched her forehead, she then watched her friend undergo some type of physical examination on a nearby table. The second woman recalled very similar details, also reporting seeing the first witness on an adjacent table. Their sketches of the humanoids were also very similar. One of the women reported experiencing a series of nose bleeds after the incident. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7512",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John S. Carpenter, MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 282; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2285; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case # 738, citing John Carpenter" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/6/1990",
  "desc" : "A delta-shaped object hovered and maneuvered about in the sky south of Deniliquin, New South Wales, Australia at 11:30 p.m. Then two of the objects were seen: one landed in a field, and the other buzzed a car. Both UFOs were completely silent. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7513",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 138" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/6/1991",
  "desc" : "At 3:30 a.m. a shiny crescent-shaped UFO was chased by a taxi and police east from the city of Beit She'an, Israel. It flew at an estimated 600 meters altitude, hovered, maneuvered, and made turns around itself. It finally disappeared at dawn around six a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7514",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, Alien Update, p. 239" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/6/1992",
  "desc" : "In Carbondale, Colorado at four o'clock at night a 100-foot in diameter disc-shaped object hovered over the town, then flew off over Mount Sopris. There were two separate, identical accounts of the sighting. A large disc-shaped object was also observed over Muncie, Indiana at 5:45 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7515",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, January 1993; Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1988-1994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/6/1994",
  "desc" : "In Uffheim, France at 12:10 a.m. a 15 meter in diameter bowl-shaped object hovered and then followed a car. There were over 40 separate witnesses to the event, but no news coverage. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7516",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 330" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/6/1994",
  "desc" : "Three unblinking orange lights were seen flying in a wedge-shaped formation by Christopher O'Brien while driving on US highway 285 near Antonito, Colorado at 11:15 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7517",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 269" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/6/1997",
  "desc" : "A large unidentified object with two small red lights and two white lights was reportedly seen flying only 150-200 feet over a barn in Kentwood, Michigan. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7518",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/6/1999",
  "desc" : "At 6:03 p.m. a triangular object passed overhead in Matawan, New Jersey. It was illuminated by pale orange lights. It moved extremely slowly, heading toward the southwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7519",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/6/2001",
  "desc" : "At 8:03 p.m. a cluster of small lights was seen between two larger red lights over the M62 highway in Rochdale, England by a police woman. The red lights oscillated between various shades of color. They hovered for ten seconds, then shot off at a high rate of speed. There was no sound. There was broken cloud cover at the time, with a light rain. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7520",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (UK), July 2003, p. 11" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/6/2002",
  "desc" : "A bright light moved erratically through the sky at great speeds at Sharm Ash Shaykh on the southern tip of the Sinai Pennisula in Egypt. The acceleration and deceleration of the light was incredible. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7521",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/7/1954",
  "desc" : "In Monte Ortobene, Sardinia, Italy a motorcyclist saw a disc-shaped machine land near the road. He tried to turn too sharply and fell off his motocycle 50 meters away from it. A taxi driver stopped to observe the object, which gave off a soft whirring sound and soon took off. Farmers on the other side of the mountain saw it fly away. The disc, about 15 meters in diameter, was made of a silvery, rough metal. It supported a dome and showed several portholes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7522",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 242" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/7/1957",
  "desc" : "Truck driver Malvin Stevens, age 48, was driving to Memphis when, about 23 km northwest of Meridian, Mississippi he saw an object that appeared to have two propellers at either end and a third one on top. Getting out of his truck, he saw three little men about 1.30 meters tall, wearing gray uniforms. They had \"pasty white faces.\" They seemed friendly and willing to talk, but he was unable to understand their \"chattering.\" \"I stood there for what seemed like an eternity.\" They got back into the machine and it took off straight up. There was no vehicle ignition interference. An eight-year-old girl from Honse, Mississippi independently reported a round object crossing the sky toward the south. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7523",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 434" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/7/1998",
  "desc" : "Fifteen people, including members of a Puerto Rican UFO investigation group, were on a night vigil on Monte Briton, Puerto Rico when one of the them began to feel ill. Seven members of the group then accompanied their ill friend down to the nearby road. As they reached the road they were stunned to see seven short gray humanoids staring at them. The beings had unusually large heads. Terrified, one of the group managed to blurt out over a cell phone what they were witnessing. The humanoids then apparently used telepathy to tell the group not to approach any closer. At the same time they all became paralyzed. After three minutes the beings walked into the woods and disappeared and the seven were able to move again. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7524",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case #3553, citing Federico Alvarez, UFOSICPR" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/8/1954",
  "desc" : "At 1:00 a.m. a man in Croydon, London, England was  outside looking after his rabbits when a small disc-shaped object flew over. The next day he became sick to his stomach and ended up in the hospital. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7525",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jenny Randles, Alien Contacts and Abductions, p. 70" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/8/1954",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 a.m. a crowd of about 150 people jumped barriers to get closer to a luminous craft that had landed in the stadium in Monza, Italy. The object rested on three legs and had a dome emitting a blinding white light and supported an antenna. Two small figures dressed in white and gray, wearing transparent helmets, were seen. They spoke with guttural sounds. One of them had a black face with sort of trunk. When a man sicced a boxer dog onto the dwarfs, the animal turned around and bit him. The object rose with a shrill sound and vanished rapidly. Probable fabrication according to Italian researchers on the Project 1947 list. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7526",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 237; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 242, case 331" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/8/1954",
  "desc" : "At 6:00 p.m. a number of people in the Vacheresse Forest in Voussac, France reported seeing a luminous sphere land at the edge of the forest and then become dark. The next morning, an investigation disclosed that an area 4 or 5 meters in diameter had no leaves, while the ground elsewhere was covered with them. The earth seemed to have been dug up. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7527",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 238; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 243, case 332" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/8/1954",
  "desc" : "At dusk in La Tessoualle, France Andre Chaillou felt pricklings in his hands, \"in spite of his gloves,\" when a blue disc came close to his motorcycle and his electrical system failed. He was unable to move or articulate a word for several minutes. As soon as the blue light was turned off, he started again and went near the light when it reappeared 200 meters away. He saw the object, a cone 5.5 meters in size, rise vertically with a soft whistling, then fly horizontally to the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7528",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 243, case 333" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/8/1956",
  "desc" : "A UFO flap covering the states of North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota began on November 8, 1956. The sightings occurred during nearly every hour of the day and night and continued until December 2, 1956. More than 85 separate sighting reports from some 60 different localities were received from this three state area. Due to the unusually large number of reports, it was possible in some instances to determine that the same UFO or UFOs were seen in widely separate places. At other times the sighting reports suggested that a large number of different objects were aloft at the same time.<br/><br/> The flurry of UFO reports began with a sighting in Dickinson, South Dakota. Farmer Laudie Dvorak was driving into his farmyard about 8:30 p.m., on this date when he glanced up and saw what at first appeared to be a falling star, off to the north. But in a few seconds it seemed to be \"right in front of me.\" He thought it might be an airplane, but it wasn't. \"It went too fast,\" Dvorak said, \"even for a jet - maybe 800 to 1000 miles per hour. It was just a streak through the buttes as it approached from the north and traveled in a southerly direction.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7529",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Gribble, Looking Back November 1956, National UFO Reporting Center website" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/8/1956",
  "desc" : "While the UFOs were busy over the northern Plain States they surprised a few people in southern Florida as well. About nine a.m. on November 8th, several witnesses in Coco Beach, Florida observed two UFOs move in behind an F-100 jet fighter. Through 7x50 binoculars, and also with the naked eye, they watched as the jet moved across the sky at about 1250 miles per hour. The UFO came up fast and the jet pilot made a tight turn, but couldn't catch the object. It was learned later that the same object was seen earlier pursuing a rocket launched from Cape Canaveral.<br/><br/> About two hours after the UFO pursued the jet and rocket, a mysterious object which apparently played tag off the tip of Florida for several minutes before shooting into space at 4000 miles per hour was reported by a Pan American World Airways radar expert. Donald Freestone said he picked up the UFO while testing weather radar equipment in the FAA shops at Miami International Airport. Surprised by the unexpected target return on the screen, he called fellow employees. Six of his colleagues confirmed the finding. None knew what it was. \"I didn't believe in such things before,\" said Freestone. \"But after this happened, I got some books and read up on it. Now I'm convinced it was something that is out of our experience, so far as aircraft is concerned.\"<br/><br/> Freestone said the UFO was \"four to five times larger than any aircraft observed in the past.\" It appeared to be egg-shaped or oval-shaped, and to have a double pattern resembling an hourglass or figure eight. The radar expert said he was working on a Bendix RDR-lA weather radar which FAA uses in some planes to spot bad weather ahead. It is capable of \"seeing\" storms and thunderstorms 150 miles in the path of planes. With the radar at \"zero tilt\" - that is, pointed straight out, Freestone first saw the UFO. \"It appeared at approximately 65 miles southwest of Miami, at an altitude of between 7000 and 8000 feet. It disappeared and reappeared several times. I found that by turning the antenna tilt up, it could be brought back on the screen. It disappeared once at 70 miles and reappeared at about 55 miles, then moved back to 70 miles. The speed was estimated at 550 to 650 miles per hour.\"<br/><br/> \"It then moved in to 50 miles and remained stationary for two to three minutes. Then it began going off in the south-southwest direction it had come from. One time it was noticed that the target moved 20 miles in about six sweeps or rotations of the antenna, which rotates at a speed of 20 times a minute. (Calculations indicate that this showed a flying speed of about 4000 miles per hour.) The object was last observed at about 100 miles from Miami, still moving south-southwest. It was on the radar screen for about 20 minutes from 11:15 a.m. to 11:35 a.m. From the returns the target appeared fairly large, being four to five times larger than any normal aircraft. It had a definite shape and moved on a definite course. Homestead Air Force Base, south of Miami, Florida was placed on an \"alert status.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7530",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Gribble, Looking Back, November 1956, National UFO Reporting Center website" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/8/1957",
  "desc" : "In Edinburgh, Scotland fourteen people, including Mrs. Maty Home, reported to the police that a disc-shaped object followed their truck, dived toward it, came within 20 meters of them, and then left toward the sea, leaving a double vapor trail. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7531",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 435" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/8/1957",
  "desc" : "At 2:00 a.m. a cigar-shaped object, 70 meters long, was observed less than seven meters above the ground in Sloanville, New York. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7532",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 437" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/8/1957",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 p.m. Hank Mollohan and eight other persons saw an elongated object land in Holly, West Virginia. It was 12 meters long and had several portholes from which fire and smoke appeared to be coming. It swung at low altitude and then dropped to the ground. People seemed to be moving around outside the landed UFO, but the witnesses were driven away by a hard rain. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7533",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Alexander Mebane, \"1957 Saucer Wave in the US,\" in Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 265; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 436" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/8/1957",
  "desc" : "On the same night Paul Rutledge saw an object 16 meters long flying over his garage in Waterloo, Iowa. The top part was bright and there were two figures visible inside. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7534",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Alexander Mebane, \"1957 Saucer Wave in the US,\" in Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 265; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 438" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/8/1959",
  "desc" : "On this morning a cigar-shaped UFO followed a gasoline tanker truck for miles in Austin, Texas. It dropped down and sprayed the highway with fog. Later, it was realized that the driver had experienced approximately 40 minutes of missing time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7535",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch,U computer database, case # 5860, citing Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: October-December, p. 34" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/8/1967",
  "desc" : "On this night a humanoid creature described by police as a \"mini-skirted\" vampire reportedly terrorized locals on the beach along the Amazon River in Manaus, Brazil. Several people who were attacked described the creature as looking like a blond haired woman with sharp pointed teeth, wearing a mini-skirt and black stockings. Two small round marks were said to have been found near the jugular vein of a child that was bitten. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7536",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, case # 3031, citing Jacques Bergier for INFO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/8/1968",
  "desc" : "At 8:05 p.m. a metallic looking lenticular disc \"like two round basins placed face to face\" Swooped down over the town of Taguatinga, Brazil near Brasilia. It had lights and portholes around the rim and the lower portion was spinning. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7537",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Walter Buhler, FSR Case Histories, April 1971, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/8/1973",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m. a motorist driving on I-10 east of Blythe, California observed a circular object in the sky with red, green, and amber lights that moved up-and-down and side-to-side. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7538",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Fontana (CA) Herald-News, November 9, 1973" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/8/1973",
  "desc" : "Joan Scofield reported that her family dog was greatly agitated when her family of six observed two low flying, brilliant red lights that flew over their home in Falmouth, Nova Scotia and circled back at 6:15 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7539",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald Ledger, Maritime UFO Files, p. 97; Joan Woodward, NICAP Category 4 - Animal Effects Cases, p 5, case 19" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/8/1974",
  "desc" : "Jose Maria Cravero and another aviator observed a UFO at close range close to Talavera Air Base near Badajoz, Spain three days earlier. On this night Sr. Cravero returned to the site and witnessed a strange, evasive human-looking entity walking along the side of the road near the UFO landing site. The being had slanted eyes, no nose, and was wearing a brown jacket, black trousers, and what looked like a \"Roman helmet\" on his head. The body was tall and slender, but he could tell no further details about the beings arms or legs. Cravero was impressed by the furtive, evasive nature of the being. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7540",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon Creighton, FSR, March 1975, p. 32; Ted Bloecher, 1975 MUFON UFO Conference Proceedings, p. 62; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1974-52" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/8/1975",
  "desc" : "Two F-106 fighter jets were scrambled out of Malmstrom Air Force Base in Great Falls, Montana at 7:45 Z. At 2:53 a.m. local time a visual sighting of at least one low level noctural light was made by the Sabotage Alert Teams on the ground. The radar target was at 300 feet altitude, and the weather station reported no anomalous propagation. Targets would turn out their lights whenever the jets approached. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7541",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "US Air Force Air Command Center report dated November 8, 1975; Richard Sigismonde, International UFO Reporter, March 1983, p. 7; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 132; UNICAT, case # 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/8/1975",
  "desc" : "At 1:00 a.m. campers in the Catskill Mountains, New York had an abduction experience with one hour of missing time. Campers at the Pepactin Reservoir in Ulster County first saw a luminous \"sled\" with hoops on top descend. \"Rabbits\" approach tent (screen memory?). 60 min missing time.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7542",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "11/8/1975",
  "desc" : "On November 1st a mineralogist walking near Vauchingnon, France happened upon some peculiar tracks in the grass of the prairie. These circular tracks were six inches across and nearly an inch deep, as if made by a heavy biped taking long strides, which ran for some distance. He wanted to photograph them, but because it was getting late in the afternoon he decided to come back later. He returned with a friend on this afternoon. Before they located the tracks they saw two quasi-human figures about five feet tall, dressed in dark blue or black, emerge from a copse of woods 50 meters away. These beings had very long arms and were taking extraordinarily long strides. They began to ascend a very steep slope, and the mineralogist's friend ran after them, but the beings climbed the slope so quickly that they easily escaped from view and were lost in some bushes ont he hill. The main witness reported that no human athlete, in his opinion, could have duplicated their performance. A few seconds later a white station wagon with dark painted windows came into view on a little traveled road further up the slope, then took off again at high speed. Immediately afterwards, a small blue car did exactly the same thing. Although the bushes blocked their view, the witnesses believed that these two vehicles had picked up the humanoids. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7543",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Blocher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1975-63, citing Joel Mesnard & Hean Marie Bigorne" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/8/1975",
  "desc" : "At 8:20 p.m. Strategic Air Command reported a UFO 20 miles southeast of Lewistown, Montana. It was an orange-white, disc-shaped object. NORAD radar was unable to get a height check. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7544",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Fund for UFO Research report, p. 100" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/8/1976",
  "desc" : "At 3:30 p.m. an engineer was driving with three other people in Givet, Ardennes, France when they spotted what appeared to be a landed, domed, disc-shaped object. It was hovering on three legs 30 meters away. It had a flat bottom and a transparent dome or cupola which showed the \"busts\" of two large heads. They stopped the car to observe the object, but were hit by a blast of heat as the object departed. The object had been hovering just above the ground, never quite touching down, although it did have rectangular footplates. The grass was crushed over an eight meter diameter area, and the sighting has lasted no more than five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7545",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1976-12, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 76" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/8/1976",
  "desc" : "A close encounter occurred in North Belmont, North Carolina at 8:45 p.m. Two 14-year-old girls reported a 25 foot in diameter disc-shaped object with flashing red lights and a steady white light, making a beeping noise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7546",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, December 1976, p. 11" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/8/1979",
  "desc" : "On this day a round, silvery object with flashing lights was seen by two women at a bus stop in Pentland Hills, Borders, Scotland. It briefly hovered, then shot off at high speed toward Dechmont Law. At 5:50 p.m. five women in Livingston watched a circle of lights that slowly rotated. At 7:50 p.m. a dome shaped UFO was seen at 400 meters distance in Bellsquarry, Livingston, Lothian, Scotland. It glowed white with pulsating blue and red lights on either side. The two witnesses watched it for several minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7547",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland's UFO Phenomenon, pp.12-13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/8/1981",
  "desc" : "At around 3 p.m. a 15 meter long metallic ovoid landed 15 meters away from six teenagers in Praglia, Liguria, Italy. The six boys were racing dirt bikes near a lake when one of them fell and hit his head. Two of the boys went to assist him, when suddenly a bright green light was seen descending over the surface of the lake. Inside the light appeared to be a gray metallic, oval-shaped craft that descended on telescopic like landing gear near the witnesses. A door became visible, and a tall, human-looking UFOnaut emerged. His arms seemed to be extended up into the air. He wore losse fitting, silvery coveralls. His arms appeared to be very long, and his feet resembled oval appendages. The being seemed to have no neck, and a triangular shaped head with normal looking eyes. The humanoid proceeded to walk towards the lake, and then to walk on the surface of the water. A few moments later he walked back into the object, which took off at high speed, disturbing the surface of the lake. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7548",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1981 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 1523; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14312, citing Maurizio Verga, ITACAT" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/8/1981",
  "desc" : "At 6 p.m. Mrs. A. S. Carew witnessed a cone-shaped object that flew horizontally from northeast to southwest in Mtepatepa, Zimbabwe. A smaller shape was ejected from the front of the larger object, then another and another. Several explosions were heard later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7549",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Cynthia Hind, UFO AfriNews, June 1989, p. 32" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/8/1993",
  "desc" : "The witness recalled being transported from her bedroom in Merced, California late on this night in a beam of light to a huge triangular craft. Once inside she was taken to an exam by several short Grey humanoids with large black almond-shaped eyes. The beings took flesh samples from her legs and back, leaving scoop marks. She was returned safely to her bedroom. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7550",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 1695, citing UFO Newsclipping Service, issue # 295" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/8/1994",
  "desc" : "A silver cigar-shaped object with two rectangular windows was sighted north of Bradshaw, West Virginia at 11:15 a.m. by several witnesses. It made a roaring sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7551",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "West Virginia UFO Newsletter, issue 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/8/1995",
  "desc" : "A man in Manson, Washington reported encountering two humanoid figures in his apartment at 11:40 a.m. The beings pointed a flashing device at the witnessed, then disappeared by walking through the wall. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7552",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1995 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 2140, citing Peter Davenport, NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/8/1995",
  "desc" : "On this night Mr. J. Curran of Polbeth, Bathgate, Lothian, Scotland watched and videotapted as an orange circle in the sky polymorphed into a delta-shaped UFO, then back into a sphere. Photometric analysis suggests that the circle showed an out-of-focus object. Later, John S., age 45, of West Lothian, Scotland saw what looked like \"a new type of ship. It looked like a giant Frisbee\" between the Forth Canal and the Clyde Canal. The occupants were like the Greys, except their eyes were rounder. He had previously been involved in an abduction experience. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7553",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland's UFO Phenomenon, pp. 30, 51" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/8/2004",
  "desc" : "On this evening Terry McDonald, driving home in Crane River, Manitoba, Canada had a bright light closely following his truck. His truck engine intermittently lost power over the course of one kilometer. A Kenora, Ontario resident saw a saucer-like object hovering only 18 meters above the ground. He observed the saucer for nearly an hour before it moved fairly slowly across the treetops. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7554",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 47, citing Chris Rutkowski, and Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case 783" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/8/2004",
  "desc" : "A man named Triguez was staying overnight at his grandmother's house in Lavaderos, Hormigueros, Puerto Rico when he awoke at four a.m. and looked out the window to see a strange oval-shaped craft on the ground in a nearby field. The craft appeared crystal like in appearance and had small lights around the edges. It emitted a strange sound and greenish flashes of light. He observed the object for awhile, and then noticed an opening in the object which had become visible, from which he briefly saw a figure descend down what appeared to be steps. He could not make out any other details. The craft soon vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7555",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 2004 Humanoid Contact Database, citing Lucy Guzman, http://www.ovni.net" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/8/2009",
  "desc" : "A missing time case from Rubidoux, Riverside County, California was reported to the National UFO Reporting Center. It occurred overnight and lasted for two hours. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7556",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, November 2009 webpage, report uploaded December 12, 2009" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/9/1953",
  "desc" : "At 11:45 p.m. a large red, cigar-shaped or cylindrical object hovered in the sky over Omaha, Nebraska. Several satellite objects orbited around it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7557",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 136; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: August-December" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/9/1954",
  "desc" : "Phillip Molava, age 13, living at an orphanage in Shirley, Surrey, England at the time, had been mysteriously losing baby rabbits from his locked rabbit hutch, so he was keeping watch on it by night. At around 1:00 a.m. he noticed a small, white, discus-shaped object floating toward him at about five mph. It had no lights and no markings, and was only as big as a large plate. As it flew low over him, he jumped up trying to grab it, but could not quite reach it and it flew away. The next day, or perhaps a day later, he felt almost paralyzed all day, and was in the infirmary. That night, he was awaked in his bed when he saw a misty mass, as wide as the bed, form at the foot of the bed. It passed up the bed toward his head, “freezing” his body with cold as it passed. Then it stopped, and three figures materialized from the mist at the foot of his bed. They next moved up to him, two on one side, one on the other, and bent over him. He had the feeling they were going to help him, to “make me at ease with myself.” They were dressed in black, or dark, robes, like the habits worn by monks, so he could not see their faces, and could not describe their hands. He tried to speak to them, but they did not answer. He had no memory of their departure. The next day he felt well again. The rabbits were shortly afterwards taken from him by the orphanage. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7558",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Janet & Colin Bord, FSR, November 1978, p. 16; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-36, citing Janet & Colin Bord" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/9/1954",
  "desc" : "At 6:00 a.m. a 25 meter in diameter disc-shaped object tilted, 50 meters over a field in Inchy, Nord department, France. It then rose vertically and vanished as the witnesses approached. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7559",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 129" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/9/1954",
  "desc" : "Two villagers in Bois de Villers, Belgium reported the landing of a two-meter-high \"flying egg\" in a pasture. Screams seemed to be emanating from it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7560",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 251; Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 334" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/9/1954",
  "desc" : "A nine meter long, bullet-shaped cigar hovered at 30 meters altitude over a farm in Froberville, Seine-Maritime department, France. Two observers ran beneath it. The object then made a whistling sound, brightened, and shot up into the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7561",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 260" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/9/1954",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m. a house in Damascus, Ohio was shaken by some outside force. Next, the witness looked out and observed a 30 meter long, glowing metallic ovoid object hovering over a nearby school. When a jet circled the area, the UFO vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7562",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Walter N.Webb, NICAP case files; APRO Bulletin, March 1955" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/9/1956",
  "desc" : "A long, narrow, fuselage-shaped object with a series of bright orange lights was sighted by an airman flying over Destin, Florida at 6:00 p.m. in a U.S. Air Force RF-84F aircraft from the 3242rd reconaisance squadron. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7563",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 28; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: November-December, p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/9/1957",
  "desc" : "At 1:00 a.m. a civilian driving his car home from work in Lake City, Missouri observed a hovering object 16 meters long. It had an elongated shape, and hovered 50 feet above the ground. His car engine died as he neared the object's position. When the object left the performance of the engine returned to normal. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7564",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 439" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/9/1957",
  "desc" : "In Bedford, Indiana a UFO was seen by a Mr. Merry at 9:10 p.m. His car stalled, and his head was covered with burns following the close encounter. On the same night just south of the same town a woman named Baxter also had her car stopped by a domed saucer, which rose from the ground, hovered, and then flew off over the hills. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7565",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Frank Edwards, Fate magazine, March 1958, pp. 27 & 32; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: November 7-12, p. 66" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/9/1962",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. a V-shaped, glowing object split up into six similar objects over Pharr, Texas and quickly dispersed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7566",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, report uploaded April 16, 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/9/1967",
  "desc" : "Miss Dianne Marable and Mrs. Pearl Robins, nurses, were driving home to Tennessee Ridge and had reached Erin, Tennessee at 11:40 p.m. when they noticed a luminous object in the sky, which they first mistook for the moon. It approached and landed 50 feet in front of them, covering the entire highway. It was dome shaped, in part a fiery orange- yellow color, and in part ash black. Inside the object they could see five dark greenish creatures, four feet tall, \"milling about some type of machinery.\" After five minutes of watching it, they began to approach more closely but the object then swiftly rose up. It traveled a short distance beside their car, then it landed again in a field. The two women again tried to approach it by driving up a gravel road when its lights when out. They could no longer see it, though they could see a bright red light in the sky. The young women then drove home, where they discovered they had experienced 30 minutes of missing time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7567",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Budd Hopkins, field investigation case report filed with CUFOS, April 23, 1979; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-110, citing Budd Hopkins; Thomas E. Bullard, MUFON 1981 Conference Proceedings, p. 48" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/9/1968",
  "desc" : "A homemaker saw a large disc-shaped object hovering over the house in Lakeland, Florida. Several human-like figures could be seen through some lighted portholes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7568",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1968 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 2408, citing Brad Steiger & Joan Whritenour, The Flying Saucer Invasion" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/9/1968",
  "desc" : "A couple in Lorain, Ohio was awakened at 5:45 a.m. by a loud thump on the roof of their trailer. The bump was followed by the sound of something moving near their bedroom window. When they looked out the window, they saw a huge face staring down at them. The creature’s two front paws or hands were resting on the windowsill. The husband lept out of bed and frantically searched for his gun, but by the time he located it the creature was gone from the window. Running on two legs, it dashed around the east side of the house, weaving from side to side, and crossed two streets before disappearing into the woods. The creature stood about six-feet tall. Its front side was grayish brown, and the rest of the body was a darker shade of the same color. According to the couple, it resembled “a large bipedal lion of around 600 pounds.” ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7569",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1968 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 2900, citing Jerome Clark & Loren Coleman, Creatures of The Goblin World" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/9/1968",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. in El Salto, Santiago, Chile two young sisters, Afrodit and Eugenia Lovazzano El-Far, 12 and 9 years of age respectively, were playing on a Sunday night in front of their home when they saw a large ball of fire approaching from the nearby mountains. It came suddenly to a stop in front of the girls. Afrodit saw it first as she was on her bicycle, and noticed the red light suddenly appear from behind the mountain, resembling a brilliant star. The red light seemed “gelatinous” in nature and soon changed to a sphere with a greenish tint. Both girls could now clearly see what appeared to be a small “woman” inside the luminous sphere. The strange entity had a large mouth, which seemed to be moving constantly, apparently calling the girls; it also had a pair of large pointed ears. Moments later, the small woman exited the sphere and approached Afrodit, who tried to run but was unable to move due to a strong “pulling” force. It pulled her by her blouse and suspended her in midair. When Eugenia reached the kitchen door the force seemed to release Afrodit, who suffered from earaches, hoarseness, and what appeared to have been scratches on her waist area. It was later determined that a third girl, 12-year-old Monica Patricia Lagos also saw the bizarre incident, which she described as a ball of fire that floated around over the ground and then disappeared in a flash. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7570",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1968 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing http://www.toc.cl/articulo_013.htm" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/9/1969",
  "desc" : "In one of a series of incidents involving Stella Lansing, she produced the following account by a 9-year-old of an encounter on this night from Palmer, Massachusetts. “We went riding in the car and I saw lights. We flashed to it and it flashed back. We clapped the light on it and it began to come closer. We saw a black man about eight feet tall and I saw something like a wolf, but it was not a wolf. It had a strange body, two and a half feet long. It had three fingers and a face.” ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7571",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Berthold Schwarz, FSR, 19720105; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-55 (A1069)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/9/1973",
  "desc" : "A fleet of discs, 9-11 objects in a V-formation, flew over the western shore of Mobile Bay, Alabama. They moved at a speed higher than the speed of normal conventional aircraft, and had a pale yellow (or gold) transparency. There were three witnesses; the main witness was a 29 year old repeater. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7572",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert D. Boyd, A Comparative Unit, p. 248; UNICAT, case # 473; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 189; Dwight Connelly, Skylook, May 1976, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/9/1978",
  "desc" : "An acorn-shaped domed UFO with flashing red lights landed at Oil Field Centre No. 24 in the Kuwait desert at 12:50 a.m. The UFO caused EM effects including the disruption of all telecommunications and the malfunction of the pumping station electrical equipment. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7573",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, January 1979, p. 1; Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, February 1979, p. 15, citing Cronica, November 14, 1978; Richard Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, January 1979, p. 5; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 300, 351" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/9/1978",
  "desc" : "During a spate of other close encounters in the area, including a car pacing, a 24-year-old taxi driver named Wright spotted a bizarre humanoid shape crossing Sugarloaf Road in Risdon Vale, Tasmania, Australia at 3:15 a.m. A green shape drifted out into road, shaped like a four-foot tall triangle, 2.5 feet wide at its base. The taxi's radio abruptly quit, accompanied by a high-pitched squeaking noise. The shape was described as green in color about one and a half meters tall and 3/4 meters wide at the base, it tapered to a narrow top. The shape drifted out into the road and at the same time the taxi radio emitted a high-pitched squeal as the driver broke hard stopping only 5 meters from the shape. At five feet away the triangle figure vanished into thin air. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7574",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, September 1979, p. 8; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, A1988; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vechicle Interference, p. 73" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/9/1978",
  "desc" : "At 8:45 p.m. three military Coast Guardsmen, including the main witness named Valentino, were driving near the ocean five miles west of Silvi Marina, Abruzzi, Italy when they were buzzed by a one-meter in diameter, intense red ball of light that caused radio interference. The UFO first rose up from the surface of the seea at a 45 degree angle, flew straight at them for 250-300 meters. The light then shot up into the sky, and then zoomed off to the east. The UFO was not seen on radar, but was also witnessed by two fishermen. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7575",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, February 1979, p. 15, citing La Razon, November 12, 1978; Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, October 1979, p. 18; Lumieres dans la Nuit, December 1981, p. 34; UNICAT, case # 114, citing Maurizio Verga" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/9/1979",
  "desc" : "During the day an unusually bright light in sky split into two equally bright objects over Easterhouse, Glasgow, Scotland. They moved around the sky before reuniting, then vanished into thin air. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7576",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland's UFO Phenomenon, p. 65" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/9/1979",
  "desc" : "On this evening Robert Taylor, a forestry worker, was walking his dog in Dechmont Law, Scotland when he came across a large ovoid or spherical object on tripod landing gear in a woodland clearing. This UFO dropped two 1.5 foot naval mine-shaped objects with protruding spikes, which floated up to him and attached to his trousers leg. They began to drag him towards the landed craft. This was accompanied by a suction noise and a pungent odor,and at this point he passed out and remained unconscious for the next 40 minutes. He came to face down on the ground, and experienced a choking odor in the air, a blinding headache, a burning sensation on his chin, itching on his left thigh, and he felt extremely weak. After a few minutes he managed to crawl to his pickup truck and drive home. Ground traces were found at the landing site. He suffered lasting physiological effects including headaches, itching, thirst, and general weakness. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7577",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, 19800701; Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, 19800815; Fate magazine, June 1983, p 68; Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland's UFO Phenomenon, p. 2; Patrick Huyghe, Field Guide to Extraterrestrials, p. 98; Jenny Randles, Little Giant Encyclopedia of UFOs, p. 93; UNICAT, case # 338; John F. Schuessler, UFO-Related Human Physiological Effects, p. 88" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/9/1988",
  "desc" : "At 9:35 p.m. a 35-year-old woman driving home in Maylene, Alabama spotted a bright light \"new to the area;\" she became curious and stopped her car. A light from behind the trees rose up and crossed over her car, and the witness could see a structured, 40-foot wide disc-shaped craft. The woman next found herself driving home again, and she reports having had a brief out-of-body experience during the encounter. The entire incident lasted ten minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7578",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jeff & Karen Ballard, MUFON field investigation case files, case # 890712; Dan Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1989, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/9/1989",
  "desc" : "A shiny metallic rectangular UFO flew very low over Proveshenia Prospekt, Petrograd, Russia on this night. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7579",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1991, p. 233" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/9/1990",
  "desc" : "A woman and her two children encountered humanoids in their bedroom in Ann Arbor, Michigan at around two a.m. Possible abduction. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7580",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Shirley Coyne, Michigan MUFON" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/9/1991",
  "desc" : "A strange looking, cube-shaped object was observed by airport personnel at Dyce Airport, Aberdeen, Scotland at 12:15 p.m. It was viewed through binoculars, and was definitely not a conventional aircraft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7581",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland's UFO Phenomenon, p. 105" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/9/1991",
  "desc" : "A man was riding around on some back roads in Daviston, Alabama on this night when he saw a bright light in the trees about 150 yards away. He next saw the light come out of the trees and then noticed a round but flattened \"cloud\" that emerged behind the light. The cloud was following the bright light and they both flew over the witness and his vehicle. The light and cloud lit up the road around him, and the vehicle's engine then went completely dead. The next thing he remembers was traveling further down the same road and noticing a white ball and two clouds behind him. Upon reaching home his family noticed that he smelled like \"burnt cinnamon.\" He also found reddish purple stains on his hands that he could not explain. His vehicle had two splotches, 4-5 inches long and wide, on the front driver's side. He soon developed health problems a few weeks after the incident, and he noted that he had experienced a time loss. Later, under hypnosis, he recalled that the bright light had really been a saucer-shaped vehicle. He had attempted to grab his shotgun during the abduction, but was prevented by a four-foot tall Grey humanoid who took him onboard the object. Inside the craft his eyes were examined and apparently an implant was removed from behind one of them. The being who was smaller and brown in color performed the surgery. Following that he was taken to an upper floor inside the craft, and there he encountered humans in military style coveralls. One was apparently a flag rank officer. There he lost consciousness while he was being examined again. On waking up, he found himself being helped by an athletic looking young soldier with short cropped hair. The next thing he remembers was being escorted back to his vehicle by the Grey alien. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7582",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1991 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 2644, citing John C. Thompson" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/9/1992",
  "desc" : "Mrs. Melitta Walter was sitting in her living room in Magdeburg, Germany at 8:30 p.m. when she heard a very deep humming sound coming from outside her house. When she looked out the window she observed a bright shining, flat cylindrical craft slowly flying over the roof. It was only about 50 meters away and at about 20 meters altitude. The witness could see several man-like occupants moving behind a large, wide illuminated window. She described the object as a flat cylinder with position lights on the left, right and back. Within a minute the object vanished behind the wall of her house. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7583",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases - Europe, p. 42" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/9/1995",
  "desc" : "At 7:00 p.m. Ada Arroyo, director of a local nursing home in Caguas, Puerto Rico, heard a scream similar to those made by a lamb being slaughtered, coming from outside. She went outside on the patio and saw a strange hairy figure, grayish in color, covering its body with a pair of wings. It had a flattened, vulpine face, with enormous red eyes. The creature held her gaze with its mesmerizing eyes before taking off into the air, quickly vanishing from sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7584",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Scott Corales, Fate magazine, October 1998; Albert S. Rosales, 1995 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 3260, citing Scott Corrales" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/9/1996",
  "desc" : "Alessandro Boscolo and two friends were driving home near Isola Verde, Italy when Boscolo stopped his vehicle to relieve himself. He soon noticed that the whole area around him was completely illuminated, as if the full Moon was overhead. Having got back into the vehicle with his two friends, they saw that the light was coming from a very bright source in a nearby field, and they next noticed movement coming from some nearby trees. Suddenly, three to four short Grey beings, with large oval-shaped heads, scampered with amazing speed towards the light source on the field. Frightened, Boscolo and his friends drove away from the scene at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7585",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1996 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 3510, citing El Dragon Invisible, CUN" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/9/2002",
  "desc" : "A family in Arkansas City, Kansas observed an immense boomerang-shaped craft at 9:30 p.m. It was silent, lightless, with a shape that blocked out the stars behind it as it flew by. They later saw the same object flying to the southeast, directly over their house. Their dogs barked frantically during the fly-over. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7586",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (US), February 2003, p. 22" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/9/2004",
  "desc" : "A bunch of disc-like lights were seen hovering on top of a Greyhound Bus traveling on Hwy 6 from Ericksdale to Ashern in Manitoba, Canada. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7587",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Wtichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 47, citing Chris Rutkowski" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/9/2005",
  "desc" : "A diamond-shaped craft was seen over Sleights, North Yorkshire, England at 8:30 p.m. The object had an unusual powerful, white/yellow, rotating beacon/searchlight at its rear. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7588",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "British Ministry of Defense, case # 2005-118" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/9/2006",
  "desc" : "At 4:30 p.m. a witness in Kosse, Limestone County, Texas reported seeing a pen-shaped or oblong metallic cylinder-shaped object puff out a cloud, and then try to hide behind it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7589",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, November 2006 webpage, report uploaded December 7, 2006" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/9/2007",
  "desc" : "Two rows of 6-8 dull orange disks in a shallow V shape appeared to be fixed to the bottom of a boomerang or chevron-shaped object flying silently over Frisco, Texas as 8:30 p.m. The sighting lasted under 30 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7590",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, November 2007 webpage, report uploaded November 28, 2007" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/10/1957",
  "desc" : "At 1:25 a.m. Mrs. Leita Kuhn observed a very large, lighted object 20 meters above the ground in Madison, Ohio. It was so brilliant that she had to close her eyes. It was over 10 meters wide, three to four meters thick, with a dome on top. The witness had to consult a physician several days later because of serious eye and skin irritation. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7591",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 440" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/10/1966",
  "desc" : "At 3:30 a.m. a disc-shaped object landed at the local military airport in Fubara, Italy. It carried flashing police type lights on its top and bottom. From the object emerged four men or pilots (not described) who walked around the ground briefly then returned to the object. The object then circled the area and left. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7592",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Maurizio Verga, ITACAT: Italian UFO catalogue" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/10/1982",
  "desc" : "At 9:45 p.m. a man walking home in Vegas De Coria, Spain heard a loud wailing sound as he approached his house. He looked around, and noticed a strange black lump on the ground nearby. He walked towards it and as he got near the thing began to grow larger until it became a huge, dark man-like figure that approached him making a strange \"swishing\" sound. The frightened witness retreated and grabbed two stones from the ground. He then screamed and the figure stopped, turned, and left. He then saw a bright flash and the figure vanished. The figure was described as completely black, almost two-meters tall, and wearing a black cape. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7593",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 605, citing J. J. Benitez, La Quinta Columna" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/11/1956",
  "desc" : "At around 10 pm. in the town of Vaddo, near Stockholm, Sweden a car's engine and headlights died when a gray, elliptical flattened sphere came down over the road in front of the vehicle and landed nearby. There were two witnesses inside the car, Mr. Edberg and Mr. Sjoberg. A three-sided piece of metal about the size of a matchbox was found at the landing site. Metalurgical analysis revealed that it was 94.86% tungsten. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7594",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 49" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/11/1960",
  "desc" : "On this night four witnesses in Warminster, England, including among them three men in the British military, saw an object that seemed about to land, but then took off again. It flew off toward the north, leaving a trail of sparks and blinding them by its brilliance. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7595",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 511" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/11/1965",
  "desc" : "A UFO was seen on the ground near a farm gate in Mogi Guacu, Sao Paulo state, Brazil at around 9 p.m. by a woman and her grandson. Two dwarfs were beside the object, picking up leaves and twigs, and examining a mare that stood docile by the fence. A green colored beam then made a sound like an explosion, causing the two witnesses to flee in panic inside their farmhouse. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7596",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Flavio Pereira, APRO Bulletin, September-October 1966, p 8; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 244, citing investigation by Dr. Olavo T. Fontes; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 192" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/11/1966",
  "desc" : "On this night a married woman named Kathleen saw a Saturn-shaped UFO with many brightly lit windows from her kitchen window in Arlington, Indiana. The UFO was only 50 feet away. A muscular looking man and two women were seen inside the craft. The man stared directly at the witness. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7597",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0746, citing APRO investigation by Donald Worley" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/11/1973",
  "desc" : "On this evening in Greenville, South Carolina a three-foot-tall dwarf dressed in light brown coveralls got into a cab and told the driver to take him to Greasy Corners, a local intersection. The dwarf's head was featureless except for goggles or large eyes. He wore gloves and gold boots with gold buttons on the chest. The being paid for the fare with a dollar bill, which had the backside of the bill colored yellow. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7598",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-71; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/11/1978",
  "desc" : "A woman was driving through a wooded area in Savigny Le Sec, Cote D'Or, France at 12:15 a.m. when she saw a long light gray object on the ground nearby. About ten short figures were walking around the object. The beings had large bright eyes, large noses, no necks and wore light gray coveralls. The witness became frightened and drove away from the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7599",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 1722, citing Denys Breysse, Project Becassine" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/11/1978",
  "desc" : "Late in the evening four witnesses traveling by car near Bragg Creek, Alberta on a snowy night noticed a bright white light approaching their vehicle. As it got closer they could see that it was a huge object resembling a hovercraft. It had numerous lighted square windows. One witness was able to see several human-like figures standing behind the windows. At one point the witnesses became disoriented and there appears to have been some time loss. One of the witnesses heard what appeared to be music coming from inside the craft. No other sound was detected. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7600",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 860, citing W. K. Allan, FSR" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/11/1995",
  "desc" : "Zacapa, Guatemala - During a spate of bizarre animal killings in the area, Alicia Fajardo encountered a strange winged creature on her property at around one o'clock in the morning. She described it as about four feet tall, with large bat-like wings, huge oval-shaped eyes, and a large mouth with huge protruding fangs. It was covered with dark hair and had a tail and claw-like feet. The creature flew away in an upward spiral emitting a strange humming sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7601",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, case # 2565, citing Jorge Martin, Evidencia OVNI, issue #12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/11/1995",
  "desc" : "On this night in El Rosario, Puerto Rico farmer Elliot Feliciano fired his gun at a large creature that jumped the fence surrounding his home. He described the creature as between 3 to 4 feet tall, endowed with large eyes, and having what appeared to be wings. Others reported a brilliant, round object flying over the area. A large goat was also found dead and mutilated in the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7602",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, case # 3143, citing Scott Corrales" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/12/1885",
  "desc" : "Cape Race, Atlantic Ocean - A huge sphere of fire was observed rising out of the ocean by witnesses aboard the ship \"Siberian.\" It rose to an altitude of 16 meters, flew against the wind, and came close to the ship, then \"dashed off\" toward the southeast. The sighting lasted five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7603",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 181; Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 27" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/12/1953",
  "desc" : "At 5 p.m. two silver discs exited a solidary white cloud in the sky, hover over the river bed in Ojai, California and then vanish. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7604",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, March 1954; Larry Hatch, U computer database" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/12/1954",
  "desc" : "A fisherman watched a three meter wide transparent globe descend at eight o'clock in the morning, stop and hover momentarily, and then dive into the canal in Arqua'Polesine, Italy leaving behind a cloud of vapor. At eleven o'clock that same morning a Brazilian priest working at the Vatican's Castel Gandolfo mountain residence in Italy had a close encounter with two UFOs. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7605",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Verga Maurizio, ITACAT Italian UFO Catalogue; Alberto Perego, FSR Case Histories, June 1973, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/12/1954",
  "desc" : "A spherical UFO hovered for a long period over Louisville, Kentucky. U.S. Air Force jets chased it over Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio. It was also observed from the ground through a theodolite. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7606",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 134" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/12/1955",
  "desc" : "A clearly defined disc-shaped object flew over the Thames River at Goring, Oxfordshire, England, shooting sparks. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7607",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Nachtrichten, July 1957" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/12/1958",
  "desc" : "A brilliant blue glowing disc with two domes flew low over a main highway in Caracas, Venezuela at five o'clock in the morning. It made a sound like a jet. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7608",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, May 1959" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/12/1963",
  "desc" : "On this night off the Argentine Coast of the South Atlantic, a UFO followed the Argentine Navy ship \"Punta Medanos.\" Electronic interference was reported at the time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7609",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, September 1965, p. 6; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious Business, p. 120" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/12/1966",
  "desc" : "On this night a domed disc-shaped object with portholes hovered over Fort Ontario, New York and was witnessed by a radar operator. It shot straight up until it was gone from sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7610",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 152" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/12/1966",
  "desc" : "During the day five men digging a grave in a cemetery in Clendenin, West Virginia saw something that looked like \"a brown human being\" that flew from some nearby trees and maneuvered low over their heads. It was in sight for about a minute. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7611",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John A. Keel, FSR, July-August 1968, p. 13; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-53 (A0747), citing John Keel" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/12/1967",
  "desc" : "At nine o'clock in the morning an ovoid object came down slowly into a field of maize in Centeno, Santa Fe province, Argentina, its major axis vertical. It gave out orange bursts of flame, and disappeared behind some trees. No landing traces were found. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7612",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, December 1973, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/12/1976",
  "desc" : "Jose Maria Trejo and Juan Carrizosa Lujan were on sentry duty at Talavera La Real Air Force Base in Badajoz, Spain when at 1:45 a.m. they heard a very loud, penetrating whistle that continued for five minutes, stopped, and then started again. When it stopped the second time they saw a light in the sky in the direction of Badajoz, “like a flare,” which lit up a wide area beneath it. After about 20 seconds it vanished. A third sentry, Jose Hidalgo, joined them and accompanied by a guard dog they went to search the fuel stockpile area. They had gone about a thousand feet when they experienced a localized “whirlwind,” which alarmed them and caused them to load their rifles. Then they heard a sound like branches being broken in the direction of some nearby eucalyptus trees, so they released the guard dog. The dog charged off toward the trees, but after a few seconds came staggering back and whimpering. Four more times they ordered the dog to go to the trees, but each time he came back in the same manner. Then Trejo glimpsed a green light out of the corner of his eyes, and when he turned around he saw a luminous humanoid figure at least ten feet tall, only 50 feet away. The thick, luminous figure seemed to consist entirely of small points of light, and more intense around its periphery. The small head appeared to be covered by a helmet. The arms seemed to be crossed, and legs and feet could not be seen. Trejo tried to fire his rifle, but was unable to because he felt a sudden sensation of weakness, and collapsed to the ground. The other two men then caught sight of the entity and fired at it. Between the two of them they fired 40-50 shots. At the instant the firing began the apparition vanished. The other two men helped Trejo to his feet, and at this time all three heard the whistle again, coming from the direction of the eucalyptus trees. It lasted for 10-15 seconds and then ceased. At dawn 50 men searched the area. They found nothing. Particularly mystifying was the fact that they could not find a single spent cartridge case. Moreover, the adobe wall of the base, which was just behind where the being stood and should have been pockmarked with bullet holes, showed not a single bullet pockmark. A few days after the incident Trejo lost his vision, and then fell unconscious. He was hospitalized, but his hospital tests showed nothing abnormal. About two weeks later he again lost his vision for about 15 minutes. He was hospitalized for a month and during that time suffered from severe headaches. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7613",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Juan Jose Benitez, FSR, February 1978, p. 3; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1976-99 (AA1686), citing Juan Jose Benitez; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 231; Patrick Huyghe, Field Guide to Extraterrestrials, p. 118" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/12/1976",
  "desc" : "At 6:15 p.m. James Howard, age 15, and his friend Brian Hollis, age 14, observed an object with pulsating red, green, and blue lights, which stopped in the air and descended into some nearby woods in Tarboro, near Edgecombe, North Carolina. They were alarmed and ran home. Looking back, they saw a nine foot tall milky white figure wearing a diamond shaped red helmet, who came floating out of the woods about 150 yards away from them. Under the helmet its head appeared to be blackish gray, and its short legs seemed to have no feet. It stopped and seemed to look at the boys, then floated on and disappeared behind a nearby billboard. The entire incident lasted about 15 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7614",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1976-76, citing MUFON" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/12/1978",
  "desc" : "At 1:30 a.m. in Saluzzo, Piedmonte, Italy a yellow and red domed disc-shaped object swooped down over the roadway and illuminated a car and the surrounding area, causing the car tape deck to stop working. It had four legs or landing gear appendages. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7615",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, October 1979, p. 18; Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1981; UNICAT, case 115" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/12/1978",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. three red spherical UFOs approached Rome, Italy from the sea. One descended and crossed the flight path of incoming airliners. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7616",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1979, p. 13, citing Cronica, December 11, 1978; Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, October 1979, p. 18; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 154 & 351" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/12/1981",
  "desc" : "At 6:00 p.m. NATO jets were scrambled from the Hortiati NATO Air Base in Macedonia, Greece in pursuit of UFOs tracked on military radar. UFOs played hide-and-seek with them, disappearing and then reappearing 45 minutes later. UFOs were also seen and reported in the villages of Kalokorio, Mihaniona, and Laina, as well as the cities of Gianitsa and Edessa. At 6:45 p.m. objects shaped like flaming parachutes, emitting powerful lights, hung in the sky over the city of Edessa, Greece for 30 minutes. Most city residents saw them, including some with binoculars. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7617",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek, International UFO Reporter, January 1982, p. 11" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/12/1987",
  "desc" : "In Ringsted, Denmark an observer spotted a short child-like figure in a field at 8:20 p.m. Upon closer investigation he also saw a three meter in diameter glowing ball float up and then spin into the sky at high speed. The witness felt the short figure may have entered the ball shaped craft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7618",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14570, citing SUFOI News, issue 11; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1987, case # 2500, citing Jan Aldrich, Project 1947" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/12/1995",
  "desc" : "Tim Edwards and his family photographed a pencil-shaped object in the western sky from Highway 17 in Hooper, Saquache County, Colorado at dusk. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7619",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Christopher O'Brien, Enter the Valley, p. 311" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/12/1995",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. three poor quality Polaroids of a domed ovoid object near the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama were taken by a fisherman. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7620",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 17138" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/12/2006",
  "desc" : "The pilot of a Boeing 767 observed a fast moving light cross in front of his aircraft while flying over Gagetown, New Brunswick, Canada at 10:06 p.m. The aircraft's tactical collision avoidance system was triggered by the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7621",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2006 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 685" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/13/1833",
  "desc" : "On this date in 1833 a series of incidents involving a luminous aerial object and the fall of mysterious jelly-like substances were reported in New York, New Jersey and Ohio. At dawn in West Point, New York, a woman milking her cow saw a luminous object descend \"with a sposh\" sound. She discovered a flattened, jelly-like transparent mass. By 10:00 in the morning it had sublimed and disappeared. The same kind of jelly-like substance was found on the ground in Newark and Rahway, New Jersey. In Poland, Ohio a luminous object in the northeastern sky, at dawn, hovered for nearly an hour. It was described as very brilliant, and was shaped like a \"pruning hook.\" Earlier, at a short time after 2:00 a.m., a luminous object was also seen in the sky at Niagara Falls, New York. It was shaped like a square table, remained stationary in the sky, and emitted rays of light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7622",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon Lore, Jr. and Harold H.Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, pp. 60-61" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/13/1939",
  "desc" : "In 1939 a building foreman drove past a deserted farm in the early morning in Brockworth, England and heard a high-pitched humming sound. He looked and saw a gray, bell-shaped object hovering over a nearby field. It had dark windows on its side, and a curtain of green light underneath, which retracted upwards as if solid. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7623",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO reports in the Early 20th Century, p. 17" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/13/1952",
  "desc" : "At both Opheim Army Base and Glasgow AFB in Montana in 1952, an unidentified flying object was picked up on radar between 2:20 and 2:43 a.m. There was visual confirmation of the UFO by military personnel near Opheim. According to Earl Oksendahl, a qualified and reliable weather bureau witness, at 2.43 a.m. five glowing objects in formation made a 90 degree turn overhead, and then flew to the southwest. The two outside objects seemed to bank. They were oval shaped, 30-50 feet in diameter, had no trail, no exhausts, and made no noise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7624",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 2220; UNICAT, case # 752; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: November-December, p. 22; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 76" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/13/1953",
  "desc" : "At 7:00 p.m. 2 RAF pilots in Southend, Essex, England saw an orb and a disc in the sky. They noticed that orb the was actually also disc shaped when it banked sideways. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7625",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 62" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/13/1954",
  "desc" : "At 3:30 a.m. near the local airport in Berck, Pas-de-Calais, France, Mr. Davril saw a craft shaped like a round hut 300 meters away. It took off without making any noise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7626",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 336" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/13/1954",
  "desc" : "At the intersection of Routes N28 and N319 in Buchy, Seine-Maritime, France Mr. R. L. of Rouen saw a luminous craft take off while he feIt pricklings and was paralyzed. The engine of his car slowed down but did not stall. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7627",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paris-Normandie, November 15, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 337" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/13/1954",
  "desc" : "Curitiba, Parana State, Brazil - At 3:30 a.m. Mr. Cheminot, a Brazilian railway employee, saw three short beings in tight fitting, luminous coveralls examining the railroad tracks with a lantern. When they saw him, they entered a lens-shaped craft, which rose rapidly into the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7628",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, pp. 109-110; Gordon Creighton, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 33; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-129 [A0343]; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 338" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/13/1957",
  "desc" : "In 1957 a UFO exploded over the State Hospital in Crownsville, Maryland at 9:10 in the morning. Fragments were recovered and sent to the US Air Force for analysis. On this same date a UFO was seen high in the sky east of Port Broughton, South Australia. It drifted slowly toward the northwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7629",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1958, p. 5; Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 160" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/13/1960",
  "desc" : "In the year 1960 in La Londe, France a domed disc-shaped UFO was spotted sitting on railroad tracks at 2:45 a.m. It made no sound, and shafts of orange light periodically shot out from the object. It rose vertically, folded its landing gear, and shot off straight up. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7630",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 512" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/13/1965",
  "desc" : "Two odd looking craft were seen floating or hovering near the surface of the ocean at the southern tip of New Zealand. Two fisherman, Mr. R. D. Hanning, age 41, skipper of the fishing vessel Eleoneai, and Mr. W. J. Johnson made the sighting. They had set out from Bluff, the port of Invercargill, New Zealand, to tend pots in the area of Stewart Island, the southernmost part of New Zealand. At 11:30 a.m. they were about half a mile off Rugged Islands when they saw a strange craft come out of the water. Its tapered structure rose about 15 feet above the water and measured 5 feet high at the top and 12 feet at the water line. Then, about 30 feet away, a second box-shaped object, about 10 feet long and 5 feet high, was seen. There was no sign of any periscope or railing and nothing but the 'tower' and 'box' were visible. The water was smooth and the objects were in clear view 300 yards away. After 10 seconds there was suddenly a great surging of water and both object vanished beneath the surface. Both men were rather startled at this display and in fact were somewhat frightened by it. They hung around for a few minutes, decided not to wait any longer, and steamed off. The water at the spot where they had made the sighting was about 30 fathoms deep to a sandy bottom. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7631",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Otago Daily Times, November 18, 1965; Henk J. Hinfelaar, Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1966, p. 29; Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 56; Carl Feindt, www.waterufo.net/item.php?id=330" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/13/1965",
  "desc" : "In the late evening in Mogi-Guacu, Sao Paulo State, Brazil Sr. Dario Filho, his wife, his grandson, and a bank director saw an object land 100 meters away, flashing a beam of light towards the sky. Two policemen on the scene also observed the incident. Near the object were two dwarves. One of them wore coveralls, while the other had on a gray shirt and brown trousers. By what seemed an optical effect, a third being with a flat, squarish head, wearing something like a surgeon's apron, was also seen near them. The object and the creatures were very brightly lit. The incident lasted 30 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7632",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, September-October 1966, p. 8; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 244, citing Olavo T. Fontes; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 716" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/13/1967",
  "desc" : "A man and woman were driving down a road in Winterfold Forest in Cranleigh, England at half an hour past midnight when they encountered a heavy fog and were required to stop. A face suddenly appeared in the car window, and an arm reached up to the roof of their car. As they hurriedly drove off they could see the face and arm attached to a dark, conical body, but they saw no legs. They also reported the odor of burnt food at the time of their encounter with the entity. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7633",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Charles Bowen, Flying Saucer Review, January 1968, p. 15). Later that evening an EM effects UFO close encounter was reported in Arnheim, The Netherlands. (Source: Flying Saucer Review, January 1968, p. 33" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/13/1971",
  "desc" : "At 2:00 a.m. a lemon-colored sphere was seen by a railway signalman 50 feet above the ground in Saxilby, Lincolnshire, England. A second identical object appeared, and the two hovered together, making no sound. The lights were estimated to be half a mile away. They vanished like a light switch being turned off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7634",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mrs. K Smith, BUFORA Journal, August 1971, p. 23" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/13/1971",
  "desc" : "In the desert of Lucerne Valley, California three men were out on a hunting trip. At 5:15 p.m. they saw a large, yellowish-white light land in the distance, and a smaller light approach their campsite. In the ensuing minutes they heard twigs snap, and were startled by a loud unintelligible cry. They left their campsite in haste. Returning to the site during the daytime with UFO investigator Anne Druffel, they found three 12\"-14\" circular imprints arranged in a triangle 12 feet apart. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7635",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ann Druffel, NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1972, p. 2; Data-Net Report, February 1972, p. 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/13/1972",
  "desc" : "Four witnesses had a close encounter of the second kind with a noisy UFO three miles southeast of Anderson, Shasta County, California. The incident occurred at 6:10 p.m., lasted ten minutes, scared animals, and left physical traces. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7636",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Redding (CA) Record-Searchlight, November 15, 1972; William M. Murphy, FSR Case Histories,  February 1973, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/13/1973",
  "desc" : "In an apparent abduction attempt, in 1973 a UFO hovered over a car and \"tall, thin, green occupants\" tried to stop it on highway 1470 two miles east of Poteet, Texas. Paint peeled from the car due to something dripping from the UFO. Other reports of nocturnal lights seen flying in the sky that evening came from California, Yugoslavia, and Spain. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7637",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Austin Evening Statesman, November 14, 1973; David Webb, 1973: Year of the Humanoids, p. 20" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/13/1974",
  "desc" : "In 1974, close encounters occurred in Norwalk, Connecticut, Antigo, Wisconsin, and Rockford, Illinois. A cattle mutilation case occurred south of Olney, Texas on the same day as a humanoid report from Antigo, Wisconsin. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7638",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George Eberhart, A Geo-Bilbliography of Anomalies, p. 359" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/13/1975",
  "desc" : "On this night in 1975 a number of multi-colored nocturnal lights were reported in the midwestern and southern United States. Sparkling white, red, and yellow lights flew in formation erratically in Whitewater, Wisconsin. Red, green, and white lights were sighted in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, moving up-and-down and diagonally. In Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin bright white lights that dimmed, disappeared, and then re-appeared were sighted. In Mobile, Alabama a UFO, changing colors, moved across the horizon. A round silver object was seen moving slowly in the northwest sky in Orlando, Florida. It suddenly disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7639",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "CUFOS News Bulletin, February 1976, p. 13." ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/13/1976",
  "desc" : "In Chandlers Ford, England, a couple saw a silver-suited man near a supermarket, seven miles away from another CE-3 report. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7640",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Leslie Harris, FSR, February 1977, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/13/1977",
  "desc" : "At eleven o'clock at night in Fox-Amphoux, Var department, France a young couple in their twenties, driving on highway D 561, observed a disc-shaped light in the sky over the hills between Fox-Amphoux and Aups. After driving several kilometers the couple again saw it, now larger and blinking, at the crossroads of Logis d'Amphoux; it seemed to be above the nearby town of Fox. They pulled their car to the side of the road and watched it for 15 minutes. Next they saw, about 200 meters behind them along the road, a small point of light near the ground, as though someone were carrying a flashlight. They turned around and drove back toward the light and observed, about 30 to 50 meters away, an unstable, two-dimensional image of a human-like entity of a phosphorescent white color, with no visible arms or legs and no features on its head. It was about five-foot eight inches tall, \"advancing and retreating,\" and fading in and out. They compared the form to a TV image. The couple associated the lights seen earlier with the figure, became frightened, and drove off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7641",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, April 1980; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1977-56, citing Alain Prigent" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/13/1977",
  "desc" : "At 11:35 p.m. two Air Force security police officers at Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota were checking out a report of trespassers at a restricted nuclear weapons storage site, when they noticed a bright light hovering above a nearby hill. One of the men remained in the patrol vehicle as the second investigated the source of the light. As the officer approached the area he observed a human like figure wearing a shiny green metallic uniform and a helmet with visor. The witness ordered the figure to stop, but it continued walking towards the source of the light. As the officer pointed his M-16 at the figure the being suddenly turned around and pointed an object at the officer. This was followed by a bright flash of light from the object, and then the M-16 carbine exploded causing burns to the hands of the officer. As the injured officer hid, the other officer arrived and he observed two similarly clad figures; he challenged both but they refused to stop, so he then fired his weapon, striking both. They were seen to fall, but 15 seconds later both stood up and fired several flashes of light at the officer, who was able to take cover and was unhurt. He then followed the two intruders and saw them enter a landed disc-shaped craft. The object then emitted a brilliant flash of green light, and disappeared into the sky. Later investigation revealed that several components to one of the nuclear warheads were missing. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7642",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1977 Humanoid Contact database, case # 1208, citing Enigma, issue # 43, also Leonard Stringfield). On this evening in Silverton, England, in 1978,a large pulsating light buzzed four men in a car, forcing the driver to stop the car. In Espanola, New Mexico, a mutilated cow was discovered. The rectum and udder had been removed with surgical incisions. (Sources: UFO Newsclipping Service, January 1979, p. 11; Richard Hall, Zetetic Scholar, Volume 50, p. 48" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/13/1980",
  "desc" : "A hamburger-shaped disc hovered for three minutes in the late afternoon over Poole Harbour, Dorset, England, making a humming sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7643",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 13584, citing FSR" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/13/1981",
  "desc" : "Another radar-visual encounter occurred in Greece in 1981. UFOs returned for the second night to the Hortiati NATO Air Base, were picked up on radar, and witnessed by police in Thessaloniki. NATO jets were scrambled to intercept the unknowns, again without success. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7644",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Iinternational UFO Reporter, January 1982, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/13/1982",
  "desc" : "A farmer walking a mule at 9:30 p.m. in Arrolobos, Spain saw a dark figure walk toward him. The witness yelled, asking who he was. The figure replied in a low guttural voice \"Don't you know me?\" It then ran down a bank and disappeared. It was described as tall, muscular, and wearing a black outfit. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7645",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1982, citing J. J. Benitez" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/13/1989",
  "desc" : "In 1989 Hungarian Air Force training flights were paced by orange UFOs near Kecskemet, Hungary. The UFOs were not picked up on radar. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7646",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, December 1990." ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/13/1991",
  "desc" : "In 1991, at about 5:30 p.m., a couple driving a car in Douglas, Georgia saw a silver, triangular-shaped UFO with rounded corners. It emitted an arc of white light. A second identical triangle then appeared, and the two UFOs circled a nearby lake. The UFOs moved erratically, sometimes at a slow speed, sometimes very fast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7647",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON Investigation Files Database, case 930404J; Jerold R. Johnson,  MUFON UFO Journal, November 1993, p. 17; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 107" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/13/1993",
  "desc" : "A farmer in Forest Grove, Oregon a half an hour past midnight on this day in 1993 was putting goats and chickens away in a barn, when he heard noises from the bushes. He found one of his goats dead with puncture wounds and with internal organs missing. He then saw a short, hairy biped run into the woods. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7648",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case #2661" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/13/1998",
  "desc" : "In Maybrook, New York an 11-year-old boy awoke at 1:30 a.m. and saw three bizarre figures in the shape of bowling pins standing in the hallway about five feet from his bedroom doorway. They stood there staring at the witness. The figures glowed a white color, but did not illuminate anything around them. No eyes or mouths could be seen. The witness apparently encountered similar looking creatures the year before. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7649",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/13/1998",
  "desc" : "At 7:10 p.m. north of the city of Helsinki, Finland two people heard and saw something resembling a bolt of lighting come from the sky. Strange vibrations lasting five minutes followed, and then all became quiet. After another two minutes the witnesses heard a very loud noise with no apparent cause, and this sound diminished before ceasing entirely. Then from their first floor balcony the witnesses saw three strange beings enter their backyard. The beings moved around the yard in every direction. One of them carried a purple blinking light and another of the beings climbed up one of their trees. The witness then made some noise and the humanoid in the tree came down and then they all left. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7650",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, citing Chucara Quebec" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/13/1999",
  "desc" : "Andre Marquetti and Jair Picerni were jogging in the local park in Cachoeira de Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil on a very sunny afternoon at around 2 p.m. As they ran near a clearing they spotted a “classic” disc-shaped object with a transparent dome on top on the ground. Stunned, they stood still and watched it for awhile, and when they attempted to run away they found they could not move. They then noticed a figure exit the craft, who completely ignored them and walked around the object. Five minutes later the humanoid being re-entered the object, which then rose up slowly and disappeared from sight. Soon afterwards the two men were able to move again. Both suffered from headaches and nausea for a week after the incident. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7651",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1999 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing Thiago Luiz Ticchetti, EBE-ET" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/13/2000",
  "desc" : "A black triangle was spotted over a highway in the dark night sky in Denton, Texas at 6:30 p.m. Three ovoid-shaped flying objects, making a ringing noise, were observed for 10 minutes in Canyon, California at 12:01 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7652",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Nov. 2000 webpage, reports uploaded December 2, 2000" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/13/2001",
  "desc" : "In Beaverlodge, Alberta, Canada two children saw a white, domed disc-shaped object flying through the sky at 5:00 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7653",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2001 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 337, citing UFOBC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/13/2001",
  "desc" : "Tracie and Jim Austin-Peters had a close up sighting of a massive triangle-shaped craft in Studio City, California at 6:45 p.m. The sighting was made by a couple who had started a cable access UFO/paranormal TV show. The UFO was estimated to be at only 200 feet altitude, flying very low and very slow over a major, busy, metropolitan area, and was completely silent. It had white lights underneath, and at one point stopped and hovered, then turned, and was gone in 6 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7654",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Preston Dennett, UFOs over California: A True History of Extraterrestrial Encounters in the Golden State, p. 212, citing the MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 428" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/13/2002",
  "desc" : "At 1:20 a.m. at the Burger King parking lot in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, patrons noticed a big, black sphere hovering in mid air in their rearview mirror. They got out of their car and again saw it hovering. After a moment, it just vanished.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7655",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/13/2002",
  "desc" : "At 6:15 p.m. in Hacienda Heights, Turnball Canyon, California a huge round orange object with lots of red and white lights around it was sighted. It was round like an upside- down bowl, and was charcoal gray with red lights around the rim. It emitted white light beams as if it was looking for something, and was as big as a hot air balloon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7656",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 136" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/13/2002",
  "desc" : "At 7:00 p.m. in San Pedro, California a set of 7-10 flashing red lights in a triangular shape were sighted moving silently and slowly to the south. Small planes were seen in the same area of the sky at the same time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7657",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Nov. 2002 webpage; George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 62" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/13/2002",
  "desc" : "At 7:10 p.m. a huge triangle was seen moving toward a busy intersection in Bloomington, Indiana. It was flying in a southeast direction, and had two red lights, one on each tip of the trailing edge. There was an amber light in the center of craft that was constantly changing shape. It was too fast and low for a blimp, according to the witness. Its estimated altitude was only 20 feet. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7658",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 101" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/13/2002",
  "desc" : "A mother and daughter in Flint, Michigan observed a disc-shaped object hovering over their house at 10:35 p.m. It was estimated to be 50 feet in diameter and had many white and red lights. It flew to the west slowly for two minutes, just above the treeline, making a humming noise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7659",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (US), February 2003, p. 22, citing Filer's Files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/13/2004",
  "desc" : "At 9:55 p.m. a fast, flickering, ball of red and white lights was seen in the northern sky, by a witness traveling on Interstate 57 near Peotone, Illinois. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7660",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Nov. 2004 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/13/2007",
  "desc" : "At 6:50 p.m. and again at 7:10 p.m. there were two reports of a huge low flying triangular craft that was seen in San Diego, California. It was reported to be larger than a stealth bomber. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7661",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Nov. 2007 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/14/1953",
  "desc" : "In 1953, two disc-shaped objects bank and fly over New Orleans, Louisiana at 6:10 p.m.On the same date, a photographer using infrared film with a red filter obtained a photo of a disembodied globe of light ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7662",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren Gross, UFOs: A History: 1953, p. 47.) Source: Leonard Stringfield, CRIFO Newsletter, May 1954" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/14/1954",
  "desc" : "On this date in 1954, a well-known UFO vehicle ignition interference case occurred in Forli, Italy. Two tractors, one diesel powered and the other powered by a gasoline-combustion engine, were driving down a farm road in the evening when a red beam of light from a dark flying object overhead swept the field, hitting both vehicles. The tractor with the gas-powered engine stalled but the diesel tractor did not. The beam of light was seen for over an hour by a large number of witnesses throughout the countryside. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7663",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight-Line Mystery, p. 211." ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/14/1954",
  "desc" : "On the same day in La Spezia, Italy at 7:45 p.m. a bright cigar-shaped object landed in a farmer's field. Three dwarf humanoids wearing metallic \"diving suits\" emerged from the craft, speaking among themselves in an unintelligible language. When the farmer became convinced that the humanoids were intent on stealing some of his rabbits, he attempted to shoot at them with his shotgun, but the gun suddenly felt heavy, failed to fire, and he was unable to move or speak, and suddenly felt so weak that he dropped the gun. The dwarfs took the rabbits, and the paralysis wore off when the UFO took off. At about the same time but in the Eastern US time zone, around 2:00 p.m., in Frederick, Maryland, another electro-magnetic interference effect case occurred. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7664",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case 339; Project Blue Book" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/14/1955",
  "desc" : "In 1955, Dr. Leslie Ward of Redlands, California, was flying with a passenger over Desert Hot Springs from Phoenix, Arizona. He saw what he first thought was an airliner and blinked his lights twice as a recognition signal. The fiery globe flipped its lights out twice in answer. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7665",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Morris Jessup, The UFO Annual, p. 349" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/14/1957",
  "desc" : "Two years later, at Tamaroa, in southern Illinois, there was another occurrence of an electro-magnetic interference case. Mrs. John Riead, wife of Tamaroa's justice of the peace, said she heard \"a sputtering noise\" and observed a bright, moon-shaped object appear over the trees bordering US Highway 1, which had \"a sort of a tail or ray extending down from it as it moved along.\" The UFO was accompanied by five or six loud booms and three brilliant flashes. Then the lights in her home went out. Electric power in a four-mile wide area was interrupted for about ten minutes. Service was restored when workmen closed an open circuit breaker, although investigation could find no apparent cause. In Oporto, Portugal at 7:30 p.m., several witnesses watched a big UFO send down a beam of light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7666",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Alex Mebane, in Aime Michel's Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 269; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, investigation files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/14/1964",
  "desc" : "In 1964, at the Adhara Observatory in San Miguel, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, astronomers watched a nocturnal light move to the east, then back to the west to follow the Echo-II satellite. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7667",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Flying Saucer Review, September 1966, p. 31" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/14/1964",
  "desc" : "Menominee Falls, Wisconsin - At 9:40 p.m. Dr. G.R. Wagner, M.D. and two girls sighted three dim, reddish lights that flew through a 160 degree arc in the sky in 5-6 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7668",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/14/1966",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. Mr. Newell Partridge was sitting at home in Salem, West Virginia when suddenly the TV blacked out. A fine herringbone pattern appeared on the tube, and simultaneously the TV began making a loud whining noise, winding up to a high pitch as if on a musical scale. He said it sounded like a generator winding up. Outside on his front porch his dog Bandit began wailing. Partridge picked up a flashlight and went outside to investigate. The dog was sitting on the end of the porch, howling down toward the hay barn in the bottom. Partridge shined his light in that direction and it picked up two red circles, or eyes, which looked like bicycle reflectors. There was something about the eyes that was difficult to explain. The eyes were huge and plainly visible at a distance of 150 yards. As soon as the flashlight picked out the \"eyes\" Bandit snarled and ran toward them. A \"cold chill\" swept over the man and he felt a wave of fear, which kept him from following the dog. That night he slept with a loaded gun beside his bed. The next day he went looking for his dog with some neighbors. They found tracks. At the approximate position of the \"eyes\" he found a large number of dog tracks. The tracks were going in a circle, as if the dog had been chasing his tail. Then the tracks vanished, the dog was never seen again. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7669",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John A. Keel, The Mothman Prophecies" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/14/1967",
  "desc" : "In 1967, at 6:00 a.m., a luminous dome hovered low above the ground, then shot away quickly in the city of Liepaya, Latvia. The light from the UFO was so brilliant that it was painful to look at. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7670",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Felix Zigel, unpublished manuscript, p. 110" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/14/1967",
  "desc" : "Orlando Gonzales and two other people in Barinas, Venezuela saw an oval-shaped object, 1.5 meters high, resting in the middle of a highway, 80 meters away from them. It took off by shooting straight up. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7671",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case 897" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/14/1968",
  "desc" : "Three miles outside Zafra, Spain a man driving his car on the highway at 11:45 p.m. saw a motionless human-shaped being, over 6 feet tall, only 30 meters away. Its arms were longer than normal, it wore a glowing green suit, and its face was hidden by a helmet with a black visor. The car engine died and the driver's watch stopped. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7672",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-1 UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, p. 92" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/14/1968",
  "desc" : "Around 4:30 in the afternoon at Pelican Lake, Utah two hunters saw a silver sphere hovering in the sky with a hanging tube about 3-4 feet in diameter. The sphere had a yellowish-white light on top and bottom, and the tube seemed to be spinning. The UFO sucked up the tube rapidly, then disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7673",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Frank Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, Appendix case 71" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/14/1971",
  "desc" : "Another close encounter with a farm tractor occurred in La Chapelle, France at 1:30 in the early morning. A flying disc made a sharp 90 degree turn to follow the tractor. It shot down beams of light, then made a 180 degree turn and flew off to the NE. A brighly lit object stopped in mid-flight in Biloxi, Mississippi near a military base at 5:30 p.m. local time. The UFO hovered about 200 feet above the ocean and about 700 yards away from the two military witnesses. The base Ops received more than 50 phone calls about the UFO. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7674",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon Creighton, FSR, May 1972, p. 4; Ed Walters, UFOs are Real: Here's the Proof, p. 115" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/14/1973",
  "desc" : "In 1973 in a rural part of Greensboro, North Carolina, 9 people watched a blue ovoid UFO that made the trees rustle at 6:30 p.m.. They watched it for several minutes and noted that their dogs were upset by its presence. Later that evening, at 8:30 p.m., they saw it again and it was spitting out turquoise, amber, and white colors from a band around its middle. The case is listed as having EM interference effects. A UFO abduction is reported to have occurred in Kirkwood, Missouri to Robert Baez, although no details are available. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7675",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Arlan Andrews, Skylook, February 1974, p. 7; George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, citing Steve Erdmann, Beyond Reality, January 1976, p. 25." ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/14/1976",
  "desc" : "In 1976, Ms. Joyce Bowles, 42, and Mr. Edwin Pratt, 58, were driving near Winchester, England to pick up the woman's son and girlfriend from a farm at 8:50 p.m. when they notice an orange glow in the sky. They turned down a narrow lane and immediately their car began to \"shudder and shake as though it were coming to pieces.\" The car was pulled diagonally off the road. When the car came to rest they saw a glowing, orange, 15-foot-long cigar-shaped object about 5 yards in front of their car, hovering 12-18 inches from the ground. They were both badly frightened and the driver turned off the engine.<br/><br/> The UFO appeared to have jets beneath it from which a vapor was issuing. In the top left portion of the craft was a window, through which they could see the heads of three men. A 6 foot tall man with a slim build, wearing a silvery suit, emerged by passing through the side of the object. He had long blonde hair, a dark beard, and his skin was pale. Just as he approached the woman noticed a \"whistling noise.\" Reaching the car, the man bent over, placed one hand on the roof, and looked inside. His eyes were pink \"like an albino rabbit,\" and were so penetrating that when the woman looked away she could still see spots of light as an after-effect. She also felt that the man transmitted some kind of influence that caused them to remain calm. The being stood at the side of the car for 2 minutes, then moved away to the rear of the vehicle. He did not reappear, and when they again looked forward the UFO had disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7676",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Leslie Harris, FSR, February 1977 (Vol. 22, No. 5), p. 3." ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/14/1978",
  "desc" : "In 1978 a 51-year-old farmer in San Donato di Tagliacozzo, Italy saw a dark, beige, three meter wide disc on the ground. Humanoids were seen inside the craft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7677",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Maurizio Verga, ITACAT database; Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1981, p. 34." ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/14/1980",
  "desc" : "At 6:30 p.m. two students saw a flat cylindrical UFO hovering over an athletic field in Heidelberg, Germany. The object had powerful headlights with a pinkish glow, and smaller red and yellow lights. It approached the witnesses and stayed over them for 10 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7678",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Illobrand von Ludiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 42." ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/14/1990",
  "desc" : "In 1990 there were two reports of cylinder-shaped UFOs from this day. A police report was filed that at 5:20 p.m. a brilliant, one meter long cylinder flew east to west over a microwave transmission center in Behshahr, Iran. It flew silently and slowly, at a low altitude. About three hours later that evening, at 6:30 p.m. local time, a reddish orange blimp was sighted in Montpellier, France flying at an estimated one kilometer altitude. The object turned to a yellow color when it accelerated, leaving to the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7679",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, July 1991;Lumieres dans la Nuit, volume 307" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/14/1995",
  "desc" : "A swarm of at least 24 randomly blinking lights flew over Highway 17 in Saguache County, Colorado at 6:30 p.m. They flew to the southwest in the western sky, at an altitude estimated to be less than 1000 feet. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7680",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Christopher O'Brien, Enter the Valley, p. 311" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/15/1896",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. a telegraph lineman in Suisun City, California saw a \"powered balloon\" flying into the wind. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7681",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. & Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 191; Loren E. Gross, The UFO Wave of 1896, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/15/1947",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 a.m. 47,000 people in a new football stadium in Managua, Nicaragua saw several silver saucers descend, spin and hover for several seconds; then they shot straight up and away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7682",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 121" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/15/1948",
  "desc" : "South of Nevada, Missouri a witness first heard a whirring sound at 4 p.m., then saw a large disc-shaped object hovering. Two small objects dropped from the disc and flew away to the southwest. The disc then flew off toward the northeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7683",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1358, citing Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1948, p. 95" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/15/1952",
  "desc" : "during the Korean War, two Americans flying in a T-6 aircraft over Pyongyang Sector CT 7943 at 1:07 p.m. local time saw a 10 foot diameter silver sphere below their plane. It flew north for 5 miles, then made a 180 degree turn to the south and climbed in altitude. When the plane banked toward the UFO, it banked into a left-hand orbit around the aircraft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7684",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Haines, Advanced Aerial Devices during the Korean War, p. 57; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 19; UNICAT, case # 753). Also in 1952, a elliptical blue-white light was spotted from an Air Force B-47 bomber over Wichita, Kansas at 20:25 p.m. It had an orange or red tail, and moved erratically. The case is listed as a Project Blue Book \"unknown.\" At 6:45 p.m. a ring of colored lights, rotating counter-clockwise, was sighted at 400' altitude north of Frederica, Delaware. (Sources: Project Blue Book, case 2224; Loren Gross, UFOs: A History 1952: November-December, p. 23" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/15/1954",
  "desc" : "In Augusta, Maine 10 gold circular objects flew slowly in a vertical V formation at a low altitude at four o'clock in the afternoon. The civilian witness was named Gallant, and the sighting lasted three minutes. This is a Project Blue Book case classified as \"unidentified\". ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7685",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 3326; Don Berliner, The Blue Book Unknowns, p. 24" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/15/1957",
  "desc" : "In 1957, at 2:00 in the afternoon, cars stalled when their drivers attempted to approach a 200' diameter metallic UFO hovering 300' over an aerodrome in Cachoeira, Brazil. East of Viking, Minnesota, at 11:45 that night, a parked car was buffeted by a flying disc, 100 yards away. The occupants of the car heard and felt tapping underneath the car. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7686",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP files; Loren Gross, UFOs: A History 1957 (Volume 9), p. 22" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/15/1959",
  "desc" : "The witness, a young man who was on leave from the Army, had been driving on U.S. highway 99 near Marysville, California with two friends when he suddenly found himself onboard a hovering, bluish-white craft. His two friends had apparently been put to sleep and were not disturbed. The witness was taken by six four-foot tall humanoids with large human like eyes to a room that had many instruments, and was given a medical examination. The beings wore silvery gray outfits with a dark triangle-like insignia on their chest. They glided above the floor instead of walking. The witness was later deposited back in his vehicle unharmed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7687",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1959, case # 196, citing Nick H. Edwards, CUFORN Bulletin, November-December 1988" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/15/1963",
  "desc" : "Peter Valko and Jim Keosian ran toward a strange object that appeared about to land in Bloomingdale, New Jersey, but it \"vanished.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7688",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 587" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/15/1966",
  "desc" : "Two duck hunters in a boat offshore of Beverly, Massachusetts saw a cigar-shaped object hovering over the Beverly Farms area around 7:15 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7689",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ray Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 342." ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/15/1966",
  "desc" : "Newell Partridge was sitting at home at 10:30 p.m. in Salem, West Virginia when suddenly the TV blanked out. A very fine herringbone pattern appeared on the tube, and at the same time the set started making a loud whining noise, increasing to a high pitch, peaking and then breaking off, as if on a musical scale, sounding like a generator winding up. Outside on his porch, his dog Bandit began wailing. Partridge picked up a flashlight and went out in the yard to investigate. The dog was sitting at the end of the porch, howling down toward the hay barn in the bottom. Partridge shined the light in that direction, and it picked up two red circles or eyes, which looked like bicycle reflectors. There was something about the eyes that was difficult to explain. They were huge and plainly visible at a distance of 150 yards. As soon as the flashlight picked out the eyes his dog Bandit snarled and ran toward them. A \"cold chill\" swept over the man and he felt a wave of fear, which kept him from following the dog. That night he slept with a loaded gun beside his bed. The next day he went looking for his dog with a friend. They found tracks, and at the approximate position of the \"eyes\" he found a large number of dog tracks. The tracks were going in a circle, as if the dog had been chasing its tail. Then the tracks vanished, the dog was never seen again. At around 11:30 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Steve Mallette and Mr. and Mrs. Roger Scarberry reported that their car was followed in Point Pleasant, West Virginia around 11:30 p.m. by a gray \"bird-like creature\" six to seven feet tall and with a ten foot wingspan. When the car headlights struck the creature its eyes, about two inches in diameter, glowed red. It finally scurried into a field and disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7690",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UPI press dispatch in the Cleveland Press, November 16, 1966; APRO Bulletin, November-December 1966, p. 10; John A Keel, FSR, July 1968, p. 7; John Keel, The Mothman Prophecies, p. 59" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/15/1967",
  "desc" : "At 3:30 p.m. a slender delta-shaped object, shiny and metallic in appearance, was sighted by a BEA pilot at high altitude in flight over Florence, Italy. It had a notch in its shortest edge. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7691",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1968, p. 3; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 36" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/15/1969",
  "desc" : "Three people in Corral de Bustos, Argentina observed a luminous object approach their car at great speed around 2:30 a.m.. As it passed over the road close to the car the car tachometer needle fell to zero rpms. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7692",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 48" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/15/1969",
  "desc" : "The witness was at his window in Nancy, France at 5 p.m. awaiting the arrival of some pigeons that he customarily fed. He spotted a transparent cupola with two heads visible inside that was behind a nearby chimney. He initially had no reaction, but when he turned back to look out the window a short time later he saw the UFO fly slowly from behind the chimney. It was a gray metallic disc with a transparent dome on top. It had many lights resembling car headlights visible around its circumference. He exclaimed, “But it’s a saucer!” and heard a voice whisper outside his ear: “Yes, it is a saucer, do not be afraid, it was necessary that you see it.”<br/><br/> The two beings inside the dome then looked at themselves, and then turned their heads towards the witness while smiling at him. Their heads then disappeared from inside the objec, and at that same moment two other UFOs, identical to the first, also with visible figures inside transparent domes fly over the roofs about 70 meters above him. The first object joined the other two and all three flew towards the north. The witness tried to notify his neighbors but found himself in a kind of stupor with his face and hands swollen and a red bump on his forehead. A red scar on his forehead was still visible when last examined by investigators in 1978. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7693",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1969, case # 2418, citing M. Figeut and Ruchon, OVNI Dossier" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/15/1973",
  "desc" : "On this night in 1973, a UFO was seen from the air near Managua, Nicaraugua by helicopter and airline pilots, and was also seen by ground observers. It had blue and green flashing lights, and was tracked on radar. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7694",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p.038-18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/15/1973",
  "desc" : "A bus driver in Catavi, Bolivia reported encountering a little man no more than 30 centimeters in height at the house of a family named Siles. He explained that the little humanoid spoke four languages and was interested in meeting \"important officials\". He ate raw meat, carrots and the family kept him in a small cage. Another local woman reported seeing two strange humanoids when she looked inside one of the windows of the Siles family. She described the being as having elongated heads with fish-like eyes. They wore shiny metallic, silvery outfits. When the beings spoke they appeared to emit an \"electronic\"' buzzing sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7695",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1969, citing La Razon, Buenos Aires, November 1973, Fabio Picasso" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/15/1974",
  "desc" : "At 5:30 p.m. a woman was tending to some animals on her farm near Castelleale, Emilia-Romagna Province, Italy when she noticed that some of the chickens and rabbits were acting panicky, running around strangely, and staring upwards. She glanced up and saw on top of her house, at roof top height, a \"man in a spacesuit\" sitting on a 0.6 meter wide box-like object that was swinging back and forth, apparently looking for something. The man was described as tall, heavy set, and wearing a shiny one-piece uniform with green, red, and white markings and large square boots. He wore a helmet with a visor that covered his face. He appeared to be dark complexioned. The man sat on the object, holding a rod like device rocking slowly to and fro. He then moved slowly towards the east where a vivid white light hovered. When she saw the light she immediately felt a wave of heat coming from it. The humanoid then flew slowly towards a nearby cemetery, followed closely by the bright light. He appeared to circle the area several times before disappearing from sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7696",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Verga Maurizio, ITACAT database; Albert S. Rosales, 1974 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 796, citing Gianfranco Lollino, FSR, Volume 32, issue 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/15/1975",
  "desc" : "a disc-shaped UFO rose from the sea near a large radio antenna in Marseille, France. It circled, then made a 90 degree turn to the south and flew out to sea.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7697",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "11/15/1975",
  "desc" : "Also in 1975, a red flying object approached a car driven by a Mrs. Prichard with three passengers in Pacific, Missouri, then ejected several white balls of light (BOLs). The metal of the car was magnetized after the encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7698",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, September 1976; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 66." ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/15/1978",
  "desc" : "A circular green object was sighted by military fighter pilots while flying over eastern Washington State. Also, a brilliant green ovoid UFO was sighted that night near the ocean shore in Innisfail, Queensland, Australia. The witness was a 24-year-old man named O'Brien. He described the UFO as being only 100 feet away from him and having blurred edges. As he watched, the glow surrounding the object became elongated. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7699",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 42-07; Australian Centre for UFO Studies Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1978-1982, p. 10." ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/15/1978",
  "desc" : "An electronics worker in his twenties was driving his car in East Islip, New York on this same night at 6 p.m. when a flash of light led to a period of unconsciousness. Later than night he recalled in flashbacks that five beings came to his car and pushed down the window. They then took him somewhere, examined him and walked him through a strange, unusual environment. His next conscious memory was of sitting by the road nowhere near his car. His clothes were in disarray, his shoes untied, and his shirt buttoned improperly. At first his memory was so impaired that he could not even remember the name of his wife or his telephone number. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7700",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Budd Hopkins, \"UFO Abductions: The invisible epidemic,\" in MUFON Symposium Proceedings 1981, p. 45" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/15/1989",
  "desc" : "In Gulf Breeze, Florida on this date in 1989, in the evening around 9 p.m., a beige colored cigar-shaped object was sighted. In was estimated at 20-40 feet long, and disappeared behind some trees. On the same night, in Shoreline Park, Florida, an unusual circular depression was found in tall grass. It had a clockwise swirl. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7701",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, case 0208" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/15/1990",
  "desc" : "In 1990, south of Rosedale, Oklahoma, at about 6 a.m. a silent 35-foot diameter disc was encountered at a very low altitude. It had white lights on the side, and the rim was spinning. It emitted a blue beam of light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7702",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, February 1993). On this night in 1991 a group of coon hunters in Marshall, Arkansas saw a tremendously large boomerang-shaped UFO, the size of three football fields. It had bright pulsating white lights. Three large red lights separated from the UFO and flew away. The men fled in fear. Also on this night at about 8 p.m. a West Virginia coal miner was driving on US highway 460 in Tazewell, Virginia. He saw a silent metallic ovoid UFO, 40-50 feet in length, glide into a cloud. (Sources: Timothy Good, Alien Update, p. 240; Bob Teets, West Virginia UFOs: Close Encounters in the Mountain State, p. 139" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/15/1993",
  "desc" : "In 1993, near Baltimore, Maryland, on US highway 74, a house-sized ovoid UFO nearly ran a car with a single witness off the road at 7:45 p.m. After buzzing the car the UFO hovered, then shot up into the sky. Earlier that afternoon, in Gulf Breeze, Florida, Ed Walters videotaped a UFO lurching up into a cloud. In Matthews, North Carolina, a driver reported that another silent UFO dropped down in front of his car at about 5:15 p.m. It hovered, then moved off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7703",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON case investigations database, case 931216E; Ed Walters, UFOs are Real: Here's the Proof, p. 41; UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/15/1993",
  "desc" : "In what seemed like a dream-like state, late on this night a woman whose home is near Dallas, Texas found herself in an unknown location with three short, gray-skinned humanoids who were \"talking\" to her, probably using telepathy to communicate. These Grey beings were about three to four feet tall, and told her that Armageddon would not be what most people think it will be. At the same time, there were several tall beings standing off to the side, and they seemed \"in charge,\" quietly observing everything. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7704",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1993 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 2977, citing Amy Lynn" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/15/1994",
  "desc" : "At 8:45 p.m. a large, silent, diamond-shaped object hovered over a house south of Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia. It passed over woods, and then roared away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7705",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 203" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/15/1997",
  "desc" : "At 4:00 a.m., a ring of color was spotted in the sky over a farming area in Lockport, New York. Once in awhile it seemed to move. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7706",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center website, November 1997 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/15/1997",
  "desc" : "In the late afternoon two boys in Siracusa, Sicily, Italy photographed a shiny metallic disc making erratic stops and maneuvers. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7707",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17619, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Volume 2, Issue # 48" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/15/1999",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon at 4:15 p.m. some campers in the Sangre de Christo Mountains in Saguache County, Colorado found two freshly mutilated dead cows. One was missing its head, while the other had its tongue missing. Nearby were four elk legs and haunches with no head, neck or torso. In Del Norte, Colorado Keith C. saw a strange, bright, multi-colored light that was remaining motionless over the Sangre de Christo Mountains. The light appeared to be pulsating and did not rise with the planets and stars. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7708",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Christopher O'Brien, Christopher O'Brien case files, cases 613 & 614" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/15/2001",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. in Boyne City, Michigan, a huge diamond-shaped UFO with an elongated bottom, a light on each end, and an orange light in the middle, flew toward the northwest. In five minutes it came back heading southwest. When over the city all the lights started to spin around, and the light on the right side veered off from the main body.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7709",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George Filer, MUFON UFO Journal, January 2002, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/15/2002",
  "desc" : "On this day in Lonquimay, La Araucania Province, Chile a circular scorched imprint 30 meters in diameter was found on the ground. There were burned patches in the grass, and scorched tree trunks. Inside were four smaller circles, equidistant apart, that were not scorched but free of snow. The radiation level was high. The Chilean military bars entry to the site by civilians. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7710",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (US), March 2003, p. 22, citing Filer's Files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/15/2004",
  "desc" : "An octagonal shaped object with a yellow flashing light was observed moving quickly through the sky in Drummondville, Quebec. It was high in sky, and turned abruptly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7711",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 802, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/15/2005",
  "desc" : "A beagle reacted to the movement in the sky of white, glowing oval-shaped UFO in Martinez, California at 2:30 a.m. according to the witness, a 49-year-old woman. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7712",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, November 2005 webpage, report uploaded December 16, 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/16/1952",
  "desc" : "A 41-year-old farmer named N. Ferrari in Castelfranco Emilia, Italy saw a 20 meter wide plate-shaped disc hovering at 9:30 a.m. It had a five meter long cylinder rotating on the top and bottom of the object and made a sound like an electric motor. The plates separated and three human-appearing occupants were visible inside. They wore rubber suits with masks. They spoke something like \"Verren…firg…unch\", and then the craft went straight up. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7713",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Solas Boncompagni, UFO in Italia, Volume I, (Periodo 1907-1953), p. 157; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0205, citing S. Boncompagni" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/16/1953",
  "desc" : "At shortly after ten o'clock in the morning a huge silver sphere was seen following some jet aircraft in the San Fernando Valley. In Reseda, California some \"angel hair\" residue was seen falling to the ground after the UFO flyby. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7714",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "ed jets. Lockheed investigation. (Sources: Leonard H. Stringfield, Inside Saucer Post...3-0 Blue, p. 49; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 100; Donald E. Keyhoe, The Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 227; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, case 35" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/16/1957",
  "desc" : "A blinding object, red and yellow, twice landed first near the Jockey Club, then near the Rural Exhibition in Bage City, Brazil at 10:30 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7715",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 441" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/16/1963",
  "desc" : "On this evening in Saltwood, England four teenagers, among them painter John Flaxton and another named Hutchinson, saw a moving star turn into a reddish-yellow glow that came toward them while they were walking on a country road. It next disappeared behind some trees. Shortly thereafter they saw a bright, golden light some 15-20 feet wide that was seen 80 meters away, floating three meters above the ground, and a dark man-sized figure with wings like a bat and no head came toward them. They fled in terror. There was flattened bracken, and two-foot long footprints. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7716",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 588; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0576, citing Waveney Girvan, Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1964, p. 11" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/16/1966",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. in Point Pleasant, West Virginia Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Wamsley and Mrs Marcella Bennett were driving to the house of Ralph Thomas, when they saw a big red light maneuvering over the \"TNT\" dump area. When they arrived and got out, a \"big gray thing bigger than a man, with glowing red eyes\" rose up from the ground. They ran into the house, but the creature shuffled onto the porch and peered into windows. It was gone by the time police arrived. Mr. & Mrs. Steve Mallette and Mr. & Mrs Roger Scarberry reported that their car was followed about midnight by a gray \"bird like creature\" 6-7 feet tall with a 10 foot wingspan. When the car headlights struck its eyes, which were two inches in diameter, they glowed red. It finally scurried into a field and disappeared.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7717",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, cases 1966-54 and 55, citing John A. Keel" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/16/1967",
  "desc" : "At 5:00 p.m. Mrs. Quick and another woman in Storrington, England saw a flickering light and a deep-red, glowing object at ground level. A dark figure, seven to ten feet tall, was seen approaching it. The tall being appeared to glide rather than walk. It vanished suddenly, and the UFO also disappeared suddenly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7718",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 898" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/16/1967",
  "desc" : "Farm manager Alan Pool, age 43, saw an object, six meters in diameter and 1.5 meters high, with round and square windows, land in a field in Yerecoin, Western Australia with a whining noise at 6:30 p.m. It took off and vanished, leaving no trace. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7719",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 899" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/17/1955",
  "desc" : "At 6:10 a.m. in St. Louis, Missouri Mr. J. A. Mapes sighted twelve round, flat objects flying in a four-deep formation. They were silver on top and dark on the bottom. They tipped in pitched and rolled as they flew by. They were in sight for 45 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7720",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/17/1962",
  "desc" : "At nine o'clock in the evening Mr. F. L. Swindale, a college graduate and ex-USMC Captain, saw three bright star-like lights approach, hover and bounce in the sky over Tampa, Florida. After 11-15 minutes they faded away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7721",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/17/1966",
  "desc" : "At 1:30 a.m. Margaret Marchute saw on the ground in Collegeville, Pennsylvania a luminous object that seemed to be made of polished metal. After about half an hour a red flame shot upward from the object, then two very bright lights approached it from the distance. When these were near it something like a luminous balloon sprang up from it and hovered in the air. At this point she could see 3 or 4 figures moving about the large object on the ground, which was pulsating from dim to bright. They were dressed in a \"gold shiny material.\" She watched them for about two hours before going to bed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7722",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-56, citing NICAP" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/17/1966",
  "desc" : "In Gaffney, South Carolina police patrolmen A. G. Huskey and C. Hutchins rounded a corner and saw a dark, spherical machine with a flat rim land in front of their patrol car at four o'clock in the morning. They estimated it was seven meters in diameter and about twenty feet above the ground. Hutchins described it as being spherical, like a ball, with a wide, flat rim around it. There were no lights or portholes visible on it. It was completely dark, reflecting a dull gold color in the headlights of the police car. A small doorway opened noiselessly on the underside of the sphere and a short ladder dropped down. A small man dressed in a shiny gold suit emerged. White light poured out of the opening, but neither man could see anything in the interior. The small being descended the ladder and walked slowly and deliberately toward the two police officers. When the figure reached a point about fifteen to twenty feet from the two men, it stopped.<br/><br/> \"He didn't move stiffly,\" officer Hutchins said. \"He moved just like anybody else, but kind of slow...like he was taking his time. He wasn't scared of us or anything like that.\" In appearance, the humanoid was about the size of a twelve-year-old boy, maybe four feet tall. He wore no helmet or headgear and was dressed in a gold suit with no buttons or zippers. His costume was shiny, like metal, in the reflection of the headlights, but it was not self-luminous. The humanoid asked numerous questions and ignored the witnesses when they asked any questions. Hutchins could not remember seeing the feet of the creature. It was standing on high grass and the feet must have been hidden. Both men could not really remember the full context of the \"conversation\". Hutchins claimed the alien spoke perfect English. \"Didn't have any accent or anything. He acted like he knew exactly what he was saying and doing...didn't make any quick moves or false moves. He just stood there and talked to the witnesses.\" He wanted to know why both men were dressed alike. His speech was very precise. He pronounced each work very carefully. When asked where he was from, he just laughed. The meeting was brief, perhaps only two or three minutes. Then, Hutchins say, the creature announced, \"I...will...return...in...two...days.\" He turned, walked slowly back to the ladder and climbed into the object. The door closed quietly and the craft began to make a soft whirring sound like an engine with a muffler on it. The object rose slowly and vanished into the sky. A local councilman found numerous footprints at the site where the little man had stood. There was no return visit by the alien. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7723",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-57, citing John A Keel; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 805" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/18/1951",
  "desc" : "near Washington, D.C. The crew of a Capital Airlines DC-4, Flight 610, and Andrews AFB Senior air traffic controller Tom Selby witnessed an unidentified object with several lights at 3:20 a.m. It followed the DC-4 for about 20 minutes and then turned back. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7724",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/18/1952",
  "desc" : "Nello Ferrari, 41, a farmer from Castelfranco, Italy found himself flooded with a reddish light on this morning when a large plate-shaped object flew ten meters above him. The 20-meter diameter disc was golden to copper in color. At the center of the bottom surface was a cylindrical section, about five meters wide, made up of a rapidly rotating part that produced a noise similar to an electric motor. On the upper surface was a transparent turret inside which three occupants were visible. The beings looked directly at him. They looked to be normal humans in appearance, and wore rubber coveralls and transparent facemasks. They spoke a few words, which were not understood. A loud metallic noise was heard; and the top part of the object lowered itself toward the lower plate. The sound gained intensity, and the craft flew up vertically at very high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7725",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Il Tempo, July 12, 1963; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 201" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/18/1954",
  "desc" : "At six o'clock in the morning a 12-year old girl in St. Maudan, Cotes-Nord, France saw a UFO looking like \"a glowing boat\" land in a nearby field. Three hairy dwarf humanoids emerged from the object and began to gather apples from the nearby orchard. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7726",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dan la Nuit, issue #325; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4177; Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 225" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/18/1957",
  "desc" : "In Maracaja, Brazil Farmers Joao Ernani and Pedro Zilli heard a strange humming sound at 10:30 a.m., then saw two aluminum-colored discs 200 meters away. Near them were six men of average height and slim build, dressed in \"dark gray suits glued to their bodies.\" The discs were only about 3.5 meters wide, and hovered one meter above the ground. They rose with a sharp whistling sound, while coconut trees below them bent over double. Three more discs rose from behind the trees, and then all five flew away toward the Atlantic Ocean. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7727",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 443" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/18/1957",
  "desc" : "An hour and a half later Mrs. Cynthia Appleton, age 27 and mother of two, saw the figure of a man appear near her fireplace in Aston, England at three o'clock in the afternoon at the same time that a whistling sound became audible. He was tall and fair, wore a tight-fitting plastic garment, and seemed to communicate with her through telepathy, indicating he was looking for titanium and was coming from a world of peace and harmony. He suddenly disappeared. Mrs. Appleton had subsequent contacts with similar entities. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7728",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 442" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/18/1959",
  "desc" : "At 6:25 a.m. in Crystal Springs, Mississippi Mr. J. M. Porter witnessed a row of red lights that flew slowly through the sky, and then sped up incredibly fast. His sighting lasted from 5-6 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7729",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/18/1961",
  "desc" : "A strange flying object streaked across the skies above the Theodore Goff farm on the afternoon of the 18th and left behind it a mysterious substance that defied explanation. The strange, seemingly metallic substance, came off the UFO in thin fibers and settled to earth, draping itself like a finely-knit shroud over Goff's fields, trees, machinery, and power lines. The farm is located near Chadron, Nebraska.<br/><br/> \"It was about three o'clock,\" Goff related, \"and I had been working in my shed. I came outside and happened to look up and see this strange ball flying through the air. It was kind of rough and seemed to be rolling as it sped through the air. It was going faster than any airplane I ever saw and it just disappeared from sight when it got out of the sunlight. It made absolutely no noise.\"<br/><br/> \"Big chunks of it broke off and these fibers began settling down on everything. The ball was about as big around as a tractor tire, four feet in diameter or so and it came out of the southwest going northeast. At first I thought it was an airplane but when I really looked, I just didn't know what to think. It's hard to say how high up it was, maybe a thousand feet or more. The fibers cannot be seen with the naked eye except when they are in direct sunlight. Then, and only then, can you see them glistening ghostlike in the sun. They can be felt on the skin like spider webs, but they are much smaller in diameter than a spider web. A human hair seems like a rope compared to the fibers.\"<br/><br/> \"I didn't really notice the fibers much that day, but the next morning my fields and trees just glowed with the stuff when the sun hit them. You can pick one up, but you can't really tell if you have one unless the sun hits it just right. It's the strangest stuff I ever saw.\" Attempts to break the weird strings were to no avail. They seemingly could not be broken apart, but, when a hot cigarette was applied to one of the strings, it did break. The string did not, however, burst into flame or seem to burn. \"They're so fine you just can't tell when you've got one,\" Goff said. \"You can feel it, but you can't see it.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7730",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Gribble, Looking Back November 1961, National UFO Reporting Center website" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/18/1966",
  "desc" : "On this night in Point Pleasant, West Virginia police captain Paul Yoder and B. Enochs saw a huge bird-like creature, with big red eyes, in the \"TNT\" dump area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7731",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-59, citing John A. Keel" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/18/1973",
  "desc" : "On the previous evening Enrique Castillo of Fulanos de Tal, Colombia was again summoned telepathically to go to an isolated area for possible contact with \"extraterrestrials.\" Hours went by, when at around three o'clock in the morning numerous illuminated objects appeared, one of which detached itself from the rest and slowly approached him in a zigzag fashion. It performed an astonishing series of maneuvers before landing on three supports about 60 meters away. The other lights disappeared. This craft was quite different from the one he had previous encountered, of a rather peculiar shape. A metallic ladder emerged, leaving a narrow, illuminated opening from which a human shaped silhouette could be seen. Castillo started to approach the craft but a deep voice ordered him to stop, and then beckoned him to approach slowly. Soon a human looking alien named Cyril, whom he had met on a previous occasion, met him at the doorway. He invited Castillo to walk up the six steps of the ladder. When Castillo extended his hand to greet him, he stepped back and motioned him to stop between the last step and the door. A very bright blue flash of light shone briefly, bathing Castillo's body. He understood that the blue light was part of a sterilization system.<br/><br/> On board were two other very different beings with \"avocado-shaped heads\", dressed in one-piece, ample overalls. They smiled constantly. He went to greet them, but they just bowed without extending their hands. The little men were bald, with pale skin, seemingly completed coated with a film of oil. They were about 1.5 meters (4 feet) tall, well proportioned, with large normal eyes and normal ears, a large \"Greek\" nose, and prominent jaws. Cyril declared that these creatures came from Mercury. Castillo was incredulous because he knew there were immense temperatures contrasts on that planet. But he was told, \"you would be astonished by the civilizations that have flourished there.\" Via a spiral stairway Castillo was taken to the second level, which he found rather cramped. Cyril announced that the craft was on its way to the \"mother ship.\" One of the other beings took Castillo to a closet on the first floor and gestured to him to put on a uniform, which stretched to fit him perfectly.<br/><br/> A gigantic craft came into view. A hatch opened, from which came an intense light. Inside the mother ship Castillo was led through several passageways and in one area he noticed an emblem, in high relief, of a winged serpent holding what looked like an egg. Inside this object Castillo also encountered toilet facilities. In the hall Castillo claims to have encountered yet another thoroughly unbelievable being, a giant man no less than three meters tall. His features were remarkably similar to those of a common terrestrial. His skin was grayish, his hands hairy with normal fingers, shaped at the tips like spatulas. He was dressed in a dull gray uniform. At one point Castillo boarded a smaller craft accompanied by Cyril and the two smaller humanoids. It took them on a ride to different places apparently on earth. Later back aboard the mother ship Castillo claims to have seen a robot, with some human features, and for the first time, women who wore tight-fitting suits and had decidedly feminine features. \"Their golden hair framed the most beautiful faces I had ever seen,\" Castillo enthused. They were as tall as the men, perhaps 1.75 meters. Eventually Castillo was returned to an area not farm from Bogota, Columbia. He had been away for about 26 hours. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7732",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1973, citing Timothy Good, Unearthly Disclosure" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/18/1973",
  "desc" : "On this evening four girls between the ages of 14 and 24 years old were accompanied as they drove from Tracy, Quebec toward Montreal by a luminous white flying ball of light. It was perhaps the size of a watermelon. It sometimes flew ahead of them and sometimes behind them, at a considerable distance. They passed through a cloud of red dust that obscured their vision, and shortly after emerging from the cloud they had to swerve to avoid a little man wearing dark clothing and a lappet helmet, who was standing on the white line in the middle of the road. He appeared to be sweeping with push-broom. He was short in stature and they could not see his face. After passing the \"sweeper\" they saw a car and three dark clad people beside the road. There were several other UFO sightings in this part of Quebec the same evening. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7733",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-114, citing Claude MacDuff and Marc Leduc" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/18/1982",
  "desc" : "Late at night Andreas Schneider sighted a maneuvering disc-shaped object over Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands. He lost consciousness and had an out-of-body experience, feeling that his \"astral\" body was taken into the object. Inside he encountered several short beings with wrinkly rough gray skin and huge heads. The beings communicated by using telepathy and told Schneider they were from the planet \"Humo.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7734",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1982, case # 3180, citing S.I.B. Betelgeuse" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/18/1993",
  "desc" : "At 1:00 a.m. Ms. Kimmy Martin awoke with a start in Baca Chalets in the San Luis Valley of Colorado. She looked out into the gloomy night and felt somebody was watching her. Then something moved on her porch outside, and a group of Grey alien looking creatures peered in the window at her. She was not sure if they were really physically there or some form of apparition. Not frightened by their presence, she watched them for almost an hour, while they watched her. Finally she told the beings to go away and let her sleep, and the 20 or so visitors then trooped away obediently. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7735",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 2546, citing Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/19/1954",
  "desc" : "P. J. Gunn, an assistant professor of art at Oregon State University and an ex-U.S. Navy aviation cadet, sighted a bright white light hovering over Corvallis, Oregon at 4:15 p.m. It remained stationary for 8.5 to nine minutes, then crossed 20 degrees of sky in 3-3.5 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7736",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/19/1964",
  "desc" : "Approximately 1,400 miles east of Tokyo, Japan over the Pacific Ocean (34.92 N, 164.08 E) several military personnel sighted a bright white, unidentified flashing light. The light traveled from horizon to horizon in 20 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7737",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/19/1967",
  "desc" : "In 1967, a brightly lit object hovered over a field, and then landed at Gull Lake, near Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada. A large circular burned area was found at the landing site. At the same time John Keel saw a nocturnal light hovering over the \"TNT\" area north of Point Pleasant, West Virginia. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7738",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space and Science, March 1968, p. 6; Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 301; (2) John Keel, FSR, July 1968, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/19/1968",
  "desc" : "In 1968, shortly after five p.m., a disc, red and bluish in color, hovered in the sky southwest of Meriden, Connecticut. The five witnesses viewed the object thru a telescope, and it moved slowly from side to side as it hovered. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7739",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Meriden (CT) Morning Record, November 20, 1968). Later that evening a UFO was detected on radar at the Cumbica AFB in Brazil at 8:45 p.m. At 11:00 p.m. four college students in Pirassununga, Brazil saw a blue disc approach within 30 meters of the car, at which point their car engine failed. After ten minutes the UFO moved off down the road in front of the car and they were able to restart it and continue. However, their car nearly ran down three tall figures standing in the road who were dressed in pale-blue spacesuits. (Sources: Walter Buhler, FSR Case Histories, April 1971, p. 13; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/19/1973",
  "desc" : "A truck engine stalled in Sidrolandia, Brazil on this night in 1973. Farmer Joao Rodrigues Terra and his farmhand Djalma Da Silva Faques were driving to the farmer's house when they observed a a bright orange oval-shaped object 12 meters in diameter emerge from a strange, low white cloud. It flew at only one meter above the ground and came to within 30 meters. It had a dome on top and bottom. The surface was shiny and metallic with a luminous fan-shaped beam directed from the top, upwards. The UFO continually changed colors. They had trouble starting their pickup truck, and then could only creep along as the UFO paced them only 30 meters away for the next ten minutes. Faques, the passenger, observed the UFO closely and could clearly see a small human figure inside. The truck functioned normally after the object sped away, but its new battery failed three days later and could not be recharged. (Sources: David Webb, 1973 -Year of the Humanoids, case 73-46D; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-76; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume 2: A Thirty Year Report, p. 255). On this night in 1975 in Oak Brook, Illinois, a boy saw a domed disc hovering near his home. The UFO had a red light on top and two clear lights on the side. That same night a red oval-shaped UFO followed a car in Saint Thomas, Pennsylvania. It hovered, and then disappeared. . ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7740",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "CUFOS News Bulletin, February 1976, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/19/1978",
  "desc" : "In 1978 a group of oil company technicians made a motion picture of a UFO in Kuwait, but the film came out blank when developed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7741",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II, p. 154, citing The Guardian, November 24, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/19/1980",
  "desc" : "In 1980 an attorney in Sedalia, Missouri observed a cigar-shaped object in the early morning hours. The description was the same as an object seen in Huntsville earlier that night. That night, driving near Longmont, Colorado, an art teacher and his wife encountered an intense blue beam of light and felt the rear wheels of their car lifted off the pavement. They then experienced an hour of missing time. Under hypnosis they recounted being abducted and submitting to a medical exam. The wife, who was two months pregnant, discovered a rectangular mark on her lower abdomen immediately after the experience. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7742",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joe Graziano, APRO Bulletin, May 1981, p. 6; Richard Sigismonde, FSR, December 1983, p. 21" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/19/1982",
  "desc" : "At 11:10 p.m. a 36-year-old nurse on her way to work noticed a green light over a field directly ahead of her, south of Temperanceville, Virginia and not far from the NASA facility at Wallops Island. She stopped her car and looked in the direction of the light, and noticed that it was on a circular silvery grayish object that was shining a bright shaft of light onto the field. In the center of the object she could see a large bubble like window illuminated by a soft white light. Inside the window she could see three dark human-like figures moving around, visible from the waist up. The object then moved slowly towards her car flying over it, making a humming sound like a generator. It flew towards the bay and disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7743",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Grattan, MUFON UFO Journal, October 1983, p. 16; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1982; case #222" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/19/1992",
  "desc" : "In Moscow, Maine at 6:20 in the morning on this date, a 25-30-foot diameter saucer hovered three feet above the ground, only twelve feet away from the witness. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7744",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, June 1993" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/19/2001",
  "desc" : "A V-shaped bank of lights flew from north to south over Augusta, Tennessee at 5:30 a.m. It made no sound, and the rear lights where offset a little from a straight line. That night, at 11:45 p.m., five bronze lights, each elliptical in shape and all the same size, flew over Maplewood, Minnesota in a V-formation. They made no sound. The witness was aware of the Leonid meteor shower, and said these lights could not have been meteors. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7745",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George Filer, MUFON UFO Journal, January 2002, p.17" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/20/1959",
  "desc" : "In 1959, at 4:15 a.m. in Adelaide Hills, South Australia a flat object with a large bubble on top was seen just before sunrise. It reflected light from the Moon, and appeared to skim above the waves on the ocean. It flew to the North, and was seen again over the city. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7746",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 169." ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/20/1960",
  "desc" : "A gruesome case classified as spontaneous human combustion occurred on this date in 1960 in Grassy Creek, Kentucky. The burned bodies of four men and a youth were found in a car. Molten metal from the car's roof had dropped on the cremated bodies. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7747",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Coral Lorenzen, APRO Bulletin, July 1963, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/20/1966",
  "desc" : "In Campbells Creek, West Virginia on this day in 1966, six teenagers saw a gray man-sized creature with red eyes flying over the area. On this evening in Union City, New Jersey two women saw a UFO described as looking like a silver pumpkin. It had an antenna. Roof lights of their apartment building reflected off the bottom of the object. Across the Ohio River from West Virginia in Gallipolis, Ohio William Watson's German shepherd dog disappeared. It was found dead a week later in the center of an isolated field. The knee-high grass around the dog's body was pressed flat in a perfect circle 20 feet in diameter. Every bone in the dog's body was crushed, and no blood was in evidence. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7748",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) John Keel, FSR, July 1968, p. 13; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-60, citing John Keel; (2) James Moseley, Saucer News, March 1967, p. 31; (3) John Keel, FSR, July 1968, p.14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/20/1967",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. east of Roosevelt, Utah a UFO was sighted with pulsating, rotating green, red, and amber lights. The object had a shadowy round shape below the lighted area. It moved slowly at first, then very fast, and made several maneuvers. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7749",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Frank Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, Appendix case no. 58" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/20/1968",
  "desc" : "The Milakovic family was driving down their farm road in Hanbury, England at 5:30 p.m. when they noticed rabbits fleeing. They then noticed a landed domed disc with white, amber, and green lights and a transparent dome in a field to the left. The brilliant object rose from the field and hovered above a house. It appeared to \"quiver like a jelly.\" Several human-looking figures were seen walking around on the deck of the craft, bent down. The UFO left with jerky movements, and the bright lights from the craft hurt their eyes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7750",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Wilfred Daniels, FSR, January 1969, p. 2; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 922; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 29" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/20/1969",
  "desc" : "On Molokai Island in the Hawaiian Islands at 6:26 a.m. a US Marine Corps flight crew heard a strange sound on 255.4 MHz UHF radio frequency at the same time that a bright light flew by, changing color from green to red to white. It then disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7751",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 50-10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/20/1970",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. a classic saucer-shaped UFO was seen spinning in the sky over Matlock, England. It had eight red lights on the bottom, and moved behind a cloud. During that same day, in Scunthorpe, England a silver dome-shaped UFO was seen circling in the sky over the town, and then flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7752",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U database, case no. 9199; FSR, January 1971, p. 31" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/20/1975",
  "desc" : "The police chief of Camilla, Georgia reported that a big, round UFO hovered just 80 meters above his police station at two a.m. It had bright lights on the top and bottom. It flew away slowly to the southeast and was in view for three minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7753",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon 1947-1987, p. 73" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/20/1978",
  "desc" : "In 1978 at six o'clock in the evening GMT, a mushroom-shaped UFO, bigger than a double-decker bus, with a blue flashing light on top, hovered over a car near Rowlands Castle in Great Britain. It shot off, circled around, and hovered over the car again for an additional ten seconds. Later that night, at 9:30 p.m. local time, a UFO was seen landing remotely in Los Rios, a suburb of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. At the same time there occurred an electrical power failure. Two three-meter tall conical shaped beings or robots are seen approaching a residence containing five female witnesses, when two or three normal sized beings run in front of a passing car. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7754",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newspaper Clipping Service, January 1979, p. 11; Leonte Objio, APRO Bulletin, January 1982, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/20/1979",
  "desc" : "South of Laborie, France a witness stopped his car at a certain spot at 6:30 p.m. He reported it was quite possible he felt compelled to do so. He then saw a diamond-shaped UFO hovering and maneuvering in front of him at a low altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7755",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1981" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/20/1987",
  "desc" : "In 1987 in Gulf Breeze, Florida at 4:00 p.m. Ed Walters photographs a disc-shaped object outside his home. He then receives a telepathic message in Spanish telling him, \"No photographs!\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7756",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ed Walters, Gulf Breeze Sightings, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/20/1989",
  "desc" : "On this date in 1989 at an army base near Tarnaszentmaria, Hungary a disc is followed moving through some nearby woods at night. A beam of light from the object struck a soldier. Ten-foot tall figures are seen in the forest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7757",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1991, p. 234" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/20/1992",
  "desc" : "In Fordland, Missouri in the hour just before dawn on this date in 1992, a deer hunter was waiting next to a large tree for a deer to approach. He saw a dim glow in the brush on the far side of a creek. He then saw a four-foot tall glowing man-like figure emerge from the brush. It moved stiffly, like a robot, never turning its head or arms, and it glowed with an off-white color. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7758",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, case # 1447" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/20/1992",
  "desc" : "At seven p.m. a red triangle was seen maneuvering above the hills of Elkins, New Hampshire by a 42-year-old woman resident. It was in sight for nine minutes, and made no sound. Later that same night, on US highway 101 near Ventura, California two women were abducted from their car by large mantis-shaped, insectoid beings. One was given a medical exam; the other was guarded while the exam took place. The abduction lasted for a total of 145 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7759",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert W. Heslop, MUFON field investigation case files, case 960508S; UFO Newspaper Clipping Service, February 1994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/20/1995",
  "desc" : "A fast moving domed disc was seen in the morning at 8 a.m. over Mount Summit, Indiana for less than a minute. It was shiny and reflected the sunlight. It shot away and was gone in 4-5 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7760",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Francis Ridge, UFO Intelligence Newsletter" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/20/2002",
  "desc" : "At 5:45 p.m. a silent, triangular shaped object was sighted over Merritt, British Columbia. As the witness watched over a two minute period there was an accumulation of shimmering red lights in the three apexes of the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7761",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, November 2002 webpage archive" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/21/1949",
  "desc" : "An F-80 fighter pilot flying over Akita, Japan saw a rectangular-shaped UFO flying at 500 mph. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7762",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, November 1949 report" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/21/1950",
  "desc" : "In 1950, Canadian government engineer Wilbert B. Smith met with US scientist Robert J. Sarbacher, and was told that it is the secret opinion of the US military that \"flying saucers exist.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7763",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John Colombo, UFOs over Canada: Personal Accounts of Sightings and Close Encounters, p. 210" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/21/1952",
  "desc" : "Shortly after 9:00 p.m. a UFO flew in a zigzag pattern over Fort Benning, Georgia. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7764",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, November 1952 report" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/21/1952",
  "desc" : "At a place called \"La Butte\" on Belle-Ile, France a luminous sphere was seen at a low altitude. It seemed to be spinning and its color changed from orange to white. It oscillated to the left and right, then took off toward the southwest, according to Mr. Gauci the witness. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7765",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 201-202" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/21/1954",
  "desc" : "At noon in Teignmouth, Devon, England 20 golden spheres raced across the sky in formation, causing a huge wave of radar blips. They flew off to the south out to sea. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7766",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 4182, citing FSR" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/21/1954",
  "desc" : "On this night a round-shaped UFO buzzed an airliner flying over the Paraiba River near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. There were more than 16 witnesses onboard, and the passengers panicked. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7767",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 26; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers - Top Secret, p. 224; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1989, p. 23" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/21/1956",
  "desc" : "On this night in 1956, six Civil Air Patrol members and a service station attendant who was fixing their car's flat tire watched a rectangular-shaped object fly in the southeast sky near Carlstadt, New Jersey. It glowed orange. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7768",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Morris K. Jessup, The UFO Annual, p. 337" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/21/1961",
  "desc" : "On this night in 1961 six to eight crescent-shaped objects were seen entering an isolated cloud over Adelaide Hills, South Australia around 6:15 p.m. They did not re-emerge. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7769",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 171" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/21/1961",
  "desc" : "That same evening at 7:30 p.m. EST in Oldtown, Florida two witnesses, C. Locklear and Helen Hatch, watched a round, reddish-orange object ascend straight up into the night sky. It faded away after 3-4 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7770",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/21/1966",
  "desc" : "At 10:15 p.m. Richard West called police to report that a \"batman\" was sitting on the roof of the house next to his home at an undisclosed location in West Virginia. The being was six feet tall and had a wingspan of six to eight feet, with great big red eyes. It flew straight up, like a helicopter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7771",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John A. Keel, UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse, p. 167; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-61, citing John Keel" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/21/1967",
  "desc" : "An Aer Lingus airliner, flying at 10,000 feet to Dublin, Ireland above Falkirk, Scotland, saw a brightly illuminated white object with a contrail. There was no radar contact of the UFO by Scottish Air Traffic Control. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7772",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dermot Butler, Conspiracy of Silence: UFOs in Ireland, p. 24" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/21/1968",
  "desc" : "A woman was on a bus that stopped for a while in Macedo, Sao Paulo State, Brazil. At 9:30 p.m. she saw at the bus station there, about 40 yards away, a domed metallic UFO the size of a small car, which was hovering only a few feet above the ground. Around the rim of the craft were a row of changing lights that gave the impression of it rotating, and beneath it a patch of violet light was cast onto the ground. A door in the object was open, with three steps below it, and standing in front of the UFO were three six-foot tall figures of human appearance, wearing skin-tight, shiny black coveralls and shiny black boots. The suits were one-piece, with hoods covering the heads, so that only the face was left exposed. One of the men was carrying a cylinder 2 feet long and 3 inches thick, with a thinner tube of aluminum like material coiled around it in a spiral. Facing the beings was a crowd of about 20 people, including three police officers, who had their guns drawn, and two police cars were parked nearby. After a short while a beam of silver light shot forth from the cylinder and the people closest to the beings were paralyzed, while the others felt dazed as if in a faint. The UFOnauts calmly walked back to their craft, which they then boarded, and the craft took off and rapidly climbed out of sight. The duration of the entire incident was about 15 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7773",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Nigel Rimes, FSR, March 1969, p. 6; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1968-82, citing Walter Buhler" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/21/1969",
  "desc" : "On this night a security guard at a local power station in Urubupunga, Brazil reported encountering two tall robot-like humanoids that communicated in a shrill-like electronic voice. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7774",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1969, citing GEPUC Brazil" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/21/1970",
  "desc" : "A domed disc-shaped object was sighted spinning over Matlock, England at 8 p.m. It had red lights on the bottom and two white lights. It went behind a cloud. At 9:00 p.m. in Bull Bridge, England a police headquarters office worker and her boyfriend, Burnham and Pidcock, saw a round domed disc with a white light one-hour after three teenagers also saw it. It flew off in the direction of Ambergate. At 11:32 p.m. a red glowing bowl-shaped disc flew from south to north, then to the south, then back to the north again over Hackney, England. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7775",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Matlock Mercury, November 28, 1970; FSR Case Histories, February 1971, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/21/1974",
  "desc" : "At 5:30 p.m. 14-year-old Lance Edwards was walking home at dusk in Plattonville, Louisiana when he saw two bright luminous objects flying low over some nearby houses. He pursued them, running down a farm road, and came upon one of the objects resting on the ground at the edge of a woods. Its brightness dazzled him so that he had to cover his eyes. Having the feeling that someone was watching him, he turned and saw a strange figure just behind him. He his astonishment he turned run, but ran straight into the figure and was knocked to the ground. He picked himself up and took off running again, thoroughly frightened. The figure was small, reaching only to Lance's chest, but was stocky. It had no neck and had a \"pushed in\" nose similar to a Pekinese. The color of its skin was \"bluish\" like \"a bruise.\" The teen reported the encounter immediately to his father, who took him to the sheriff's office where a complete report was made. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7776",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-55, citing Sheriff Frank Theriot" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/21/1975",
  "desc" : "On this night a shining round object with a blinking light moved quickly from north to south in the eastern sky from Forest Grove, Oregon. At 3:00 a.m. the fifth UFO abduction occurred to a UFO abductee in Garden Grove, California. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7777",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 67; (2) FSR, October 1976, p.19; Alvin H. Larson, Proccedings of the 1976 CUFOS Conference, p. 141-142" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/21/1978",
  "desc" : "Lufthansa and TWA airliner crews flying over Newfoundland both reported sighting a domed disc that was emitting moving beams of light. It had landing gear and antennae. At 5:30 a.m. a UFO hovered over a water tower for 30 minutes at the Al Sabriyah Oil Field in Kuwait. At 6:00 p.m. a Puma helicopter pilot and several other witnesses on the ground in Miradj, Iran reported sighting a big yellow light and changed color to red, then vanished above the witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7778",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 42; International UFO Reporter, January 1980, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/21/1981",
  "desc" : "In the middle of the afternoon an eight-meter wide red disc, giving off a weak blue glow, flew at treetop level west of Naveksvarn, Sweden towards the east. Photographs were taken. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7779",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "AFU Sweden" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/21/1985",
  "desc" : "A photograph was taken of a UFO over Port Chester, New York. It showed only seven lights in a circle. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7780",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek, Philip Imbrogno and Bob Pratt, Night Siege: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, p. 21" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/21/1986",
  "desc" : "On this evening several witnesses in Stamford, Connecticut saw a number of nocturnal lights and beams of light appear in the sky. A seventy-foot long ovoid object skimmed over treetops and buzzed a car, then vanished. Later that night in Culver City, California a huge silent manta ray shaped object flew in a southerly direction. It faded in and out of visibility. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7781",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, cases 1197 and 1092" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/21/1993",
  "desc" : "At 9:30-9:45 p.m. a woman in Greensburg, Pennsylvania went outside because her dogs were barking and she saw a triangular object hovering at sixty feet altitude, making a high-pitched humming sound. It was shaped more like an arrowhead with lights, and scared the witness. An hour later in the same county, at 10:30 p.m. at Bovard Tunnel, Pennsylvania a triangle pursed a vehicle, making a humming sound. Fifteen minutes later, 4 miles east of Greensburg, Pennsylvania the same of similar triangle was seen, reportedly making a high-pitched hum. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7782",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, cases 1755 & 1756" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/21/1995",
  "desc" : "Two observers in a residential area of Memphis, Tennessee noted a weird \"glider\" in the sky with 9 lights on each wing; it retracted and folded its wings. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7783",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/21/1999",
  "desc" : "In Criderville, south of Lima, Ohio two witnesses driving on Interstate 75 saw a plain silver sphere flying silently low in a fog. Lights followed it randomly. The sphere and the trailing lights flew to the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7784",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 18126, citing Filer's Files; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, November 1999 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/21/2002",
  "desc" : "In Vinita, Oklahoma at 3:30 p.m. a bright cigar-shaped object hovered in the sky, then sped off at very high rate of speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7785",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, November 2002 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/21/2003",
  "desc" : "A transparent V-shaped object was sighted briefly in Barnesville, Ohio at 8:30 p.m. The object distorted the visible night sky, yet you could see through it and it was boomerang shaped, very fast, and silent. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7786",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, November 2003 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/21/2004",
  "desc" : "At 12:15 a.m. a bright, white and orange triangle-shaped object was seen on Highway 1 South, St. John, New Brunswick, Canada. It was moving at first, stopped and hovered for a minute, then vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7787",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 809, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/21/2005",
  "desc" : "A diamond-shaped craft was seen by two witnesses between Magog and Stanstead, Quebec, Canada in the dark at 6:45 p.m. It was described as like a light shaped like a window hovering in a field, about 50 yards away. It took off fast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7788",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "2005Canadian UFO Survey, case # 108, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/21/2006",
  "desc" : "A long, bright, white cigar-shaped object rose from the desert in Elmo, Utah and shot off into the western sky at 7:50 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7789",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, November 2006 webpage, report uploaded December 7, 2006" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/21/2008",
  "desc" : "A formation of separate lights was encountered on a back road country road in Newark, Ohio at 10:38 p.m. They were extremely luminous, \"beyond anything manmade,\" and caused electronic and mechanical vehicle engine failure, according to the witness… ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7790",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, November 2008 webpage, report uploaded March 19, 2009" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/22/1944",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. a spherical object followed a plane from the RAF IX Squadron west-southwest of Trondheim, Norway for three minutes. It made a violent acceleration and deceleration. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7791",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 website; Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 24; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/22/1952",
  "desc" : "A cigar-shaped object flew rapidly to the northeast over Orleans, Loiret department, France at 8:40 a.m. It made two stops, then shot away to the south. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7792",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 131" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/22/1954",
  "desc" : "At 9:45 p.m. a radio operator at the Santa Maria Air Force Base, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil saw a huge, dark disc-shaped object about 30 meters in diameter hovering at treetop height. With four other persons he watched it for several hours, sometimes glowing softly, sometimes coming down almost to the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7793",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, July 1957; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 51; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 342" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/22/1957",
  "desc" : "At 4:00 p.m. a shop owner in Gesten, Denmark saw a pyramid-shaped, luminous, transparent object fly fast across the road. It was over 250 meters away, but he could clearly see two figures who looked like human beings, sitting one behind the other aboard the craft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7794",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 444" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/22/1961",
  "desc" : "Mr. and Mrs. Vagle were driving in Grafton, Wisconsin with their son at 7:00 p.m. when they saw a red light in the sky and stopped. Lights in the sky then joined together. Next, they sighted a large cigar-shaped object hovering at a sharp angle over a plowed field; it had a bright white light on each tip and the lower one was blinking. It also had square ports or windows along the side. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7795",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jay Rath, The W-Files: True Reports of Wisconsin's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 70" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/22/1962",
  "desc" : "Rodolfo Padin was driving with a male companion on a highway near Monte Leon, Santa Cruz State, Argentina at 2:20 a.m. Beside the road at a distance of 70 meters was a metallic oval-shaped object with a central transparent dome, the size of a car, surrounded by mist. Three small entities, short in stature but of human appearance, were seen moving around inside the craft. They wore metallic suits. The object rose very slowly, then made a slow oblique ascent. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7796",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 0550, citing El Dia, January 2, 1966; UNICAT, case # 547, citing Roberto Banchs, OVNIS y sus Ocupantes, p. 25" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/22/1965",
  "desc" : "A UFO engaged in falling leaf maneuvers over Wiesbaden, Germany at 10:35 p.m. for 10 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7797",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Nachtrichten, February 1971" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/22/1966",
  "desc" : "At ten a.m. a deer hunter named Bresee in Roaring River State Park, Missouri saw a disc-shaped object rise from a valley about 300 feet away, emitting a humming sound. Physical traces included some burn damage to a tent as well as to a treetop. Photographic evidence was submitted. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7798",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, p. 44 (case 92)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/22/1966",
  "desc" : "At 4:20 p.m. eight witnesses on the 17th floor of the office building at 750 Third Avenue in New York City, New York watched a rectangular, cushion-shaped object fly south over the United Nations and the East River. It hovered for several minutes, bobbing like a ship, and reflected sunlight with a golden glint. It shot up vertically, stopped, and sped off to the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7799",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, January-February 1967, p. 4; UNICAT, case # 710, citing James E. McDonald, 1968 Congressional Hearings, p. 54; Dennis Stacy, Field Guide to UFOs, p. 104" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/22/1966",
  "desc" : "At 6:25 p.m. two U.S. Coast Guard pilots on a training flight 10 miles off the coast of New Hampshire saw a white rocket appear one mile away. It disappeared, then rose vertically in front of them only 100 feet away. There was radar confirmation of the object from Pease AFB. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7800",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 342" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/22/1968",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. a dozen witnesses in Fleury-d'Aude, France saw a lens-shaped object surrounded with a blue glow land briefly in a field. It suddenly took off and was lost to sight at the horizon. It made a noise similar to that of a jet and emitted flashes as it descended and took off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7801",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 923, citing France Soir, November 24, 1968" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/22/1968",
  "desc" : "At 6 p.m. off the coast of Biloxi, Mississippi a domed disc-shaped object descended, hovered briefly over a shrimp boat, shone a beam of light down on the boat, then shot straight up out of sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7802",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 13, 381" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/22/1968",
  "desc" : "Mr. C. Jones was driving down Highway 91 between Newton and Albany, Georgia at 8:10 p.m. when he encountered an orange oblong light 120-150 feet wide that hovered at 75 feet altitude. His car engine and headlights died. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7803",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, November 1968, p. 5; NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1969, p. 8; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 44; UNICAT, case # 288" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/22/1975",
  "desc" : "At 5:50 p.m. two men, Auman and Andrews, who were flying at 4,000 feet altitude 15 miles north of Walterboro, South Carolina saw a white ball of light above them but under the cloud ceiling at 20,000 feet. The UFO came in from coast, crossed in front of and above their plane, made a slight wobble, then a sharp turn, and finally accelerated away to the southwest. The bright white UFO was seen above the Savannah River Nuclear Plant during this encounter, that lasted for 4-5 minutes. Jacksonville ATC confirmed three reports by pilots in the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7804",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Arlan K. Andrews, report filed with J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies; Skylook, January 1976, p. 19; Rense.com, citing Larry Fawcett & Barry Greenwood, Clear Intent: The Government Cover-up of the UFO Experience; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 39" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/22/1976",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. a man named Czornoh driving near Rockford, Michigan briefly encountered an oblong, greenish object 60 feet long that descended toward the ground. It was surrounded by haze, with a reddish colored backside, and moved behind some trees, causing radio interference. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7805",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 69" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/22/1977",
  "desc" : "Between 1:00 a.m. and 5:18 a.m. there were repeated sightings of reddish yellow lights flying over Belem, Para State, Brazil at low altitudes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7806",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Pratt, Operacao Prato, pp. 33-34" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/22/1977",
  "desc" : "Newspaper reporters and police sighted a UFO in La Aurora, Uruguay at 11:00 p.m. The UFO came from the southeast, passed low over a house in a zigzag motion, and disappeared into the northwestern sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7807",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Van Der Velde, APRO Bulletin, May 1982, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/22/1978",
  "desc" : "A car was buzzed by a UFO in Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia on this night, causing the car's speedometer needle to spin wildly and then break. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7808",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, October 1982" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/22/1978",
  "desc" : "In Cascas, Peru a multi-colored UFO appeared at a party honoring the Virgin of the Rosary. It gave off red, violet and white lights for 15 minutes. After the initial surprise, the partygoers enthusiastically applauded the UFO during the show. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7809",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1979, p. 13, citing Cronica, November 24, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/22/1978",
  "desc" : "Elsie Oakensen was driving in Weedon, Northamptonshire, England at 5:30 p.m. when a gray egg-timer shaped object with green and red lights began pacing her car. She saw spots of pure white light on the road coming from the UFO.  After half a mile the car engine and headlights failed. The daylight darkened and she next experienced 15 minutes of missing time; her next conscious memory was of her driving the car in 3rd gear but she had no memory restarting it. Four women saw the same object two hours later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7810",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 74" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/22/1985",
  "desc" : "In the predawn hours of the morning a witness saw a silent delta-shaped object that hovered over homes in DeForest, Wisconsin. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7811",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Gribble, National UFO Reporting Center, case 1059; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 368" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/22/1985",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. police phone lines in Manhasset, New York were swamped with calls reporting a silent, delta-shaped UFO with blinking lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7812",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Gribble, National UFO Reporting Center, case 1052" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/22/1989",
  "desc" : "At two a.m. a married couple in Mirecourt, Vosges, France reported the observation of two superimposed cylinders, 10 times larger than a plane, with red lights, an orange light, and surrounded by flames. No noise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7813",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "GEIPAN, case # 46" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/22/1989",
  "desc" : "Soviet Air Force pilots reported a large disc-shaped object with five beams of light while flying over Borisov, Belarus. There were reportedly unspecified physical effects on the pilots. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7814",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 46, citing 1990 MUFON UFO Conference Proceedings" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/22/1990",
  "desc" : "A delta-shaped object was seen over a pier in St. Osyth, Essex, England at 12:30 a.m., and a fat boomerang-shaped object was seen going east at 2:30 a.m. There were a total of four witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7815",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 139" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/22/1993",
  "desc" : "There were several reports on this date from France.  A large flattened cylinder hovered over a refinery in Vanville, Seine-Marne, France at four o'clock in the morning. At 9:50 a.m. university mathematics students watched an orange ball, estimated to be 120 meters in diameter, rise and fall over buildings on campus in Versailles, Yvelines, France. A large plain sphere flew to the south-southwest in Villiers-en-Biere, Seine-Marne, France at 4:50 p.m. and curved its trajectory to the southwest. At the same time another glowing orb 120 meters in diameter descended into a forest west-northwest of Maisse, Essonne, France. At 5:00 p.m. a huge orange sphere flew over Rochefort-en-Yveline, Yvelines, France heading northeast, then curved to the east following the A10 highway. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7816",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Banque OVNI Reports" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/22/1993",
  "desc" : "An abduction, rated as a high-reliability report, occurred at 12:53 a.m. in Vancouver, British Columbia. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7817",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 1993 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 330" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/22/1993",
  "desc" : "At 11:07 a.m. a charcoal colored cigar-shaped object was seen flying over Gloucester, Massachusetts at an estimated 18,000 feet altitude, zig-zagging downward. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7818",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case # 1617" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/22/1993",
  "desc" : "On this evening in southern Vermont, one of the four men who had earlier been abducted during a rafting trip on the Allagash River in Maine (one of the 'Allagash 4' investigated by Raymond Fowler) saw a large triangular object with lights while out hunting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7819",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case # 1618" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/22/1993",
  "desc" : "At 9:45 p.m. hunters in Udell, Pennsylvania put their spotlight on a boomerang-shaped object in a field, which rose and moved. It was 60 feet long, and made a humming sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7820",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Anomaly Zone, January 1994, p. 3; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 84" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/22/1994",
  "desc" : "At 9:09 p.m. a La Veta Pass, Colorado family called UFO investigator Christopher O'Brien to report a \"flying triangle\" that had just flown over their house. They insisted that it wasn't a \"stealth aircraft,\" and claimed it was silent. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7821",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 276" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/22/1996",
  "desc" : "A huge yellow-green globe hovered over the Han-gang River west of Seoul, Korea and flew off to the west. TV film footage was made and shown on Korean television. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7822",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1997" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/22/2000",
  "desc" : "At 5:15 p.m. in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho a bright orange-yellow colored object, described as two stories high and with structure underneath, hovered above the observer and did not move away when the witness got closer. The sighting lasted 7 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7823",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, November 2000 webpage, report uploaded December 9, 2000" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/22/2002",
  "desc" : "At 8:50 p.m. several hundred witnesses observed the overflight of a ring-shaped UFO over the port city of Santos, Sao Paulo State, Brazil. It had alternating yellow, white and blue lights. It flew toward the southwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7824",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 125" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/22/2002",
  "desc" : "Tim Edwards reported that his daughter, Brandy Edwards, and their cousin, Sashay Rauter, first noticed a very bright tube of intense white light 30 degrees above the horizon, while driving four miles past Wilkerson Pass on Highway 24 in the South Park Basin, Colorado at 5:30 p.m. \"The UFO was 2 to 3 times brighter than the illuminated vapor trails [by the setting sun] in the area, and clearly not diffused...the object didn't appear to move during the duration of the sighting, staying in a fixed horizontal position.\" He then stopped and videotaped it from two locations: on Highway 24 40 miles east of Buena Vista, Colorado, and again about 30 miles east of it. It had the apparent size of something one-quarter of an inch long held at arm's length. Other objects were observed around the main object, but they were not real clear with the naked eye and they didn't have binoculars. \"As close as I could tell, the object was 40 to 50 miles away, which would have put it over Buena Vista, Colorado or west of it. In the video it appears that a plasma field or something was surrounding the object and two barbell-shaped objects are with it and staionary in conjunction with it.\" The video did not show the intense white cigar in it, but rather a red and tan colored envelope. The object graduatlly diminished and disappeared before their eyes.  ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7825",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, pp. 126-127; Christopher O'Brien, Christopher O'Brien's case files, case # 654" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/22/2003",
  "desc" : "A darting circular-shaped object was seen at 6:25 p.m. in Ronkonkoma, New York that shot straight up, followed by a red light circling the area at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7826",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, November 2003 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/22/2003",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. a bright cylindrical-shaped object exploded and crashed into the river in New Carlisle, Quebec, causing a big splash. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7827",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2003 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 615; Carl Feindt, waterufo.net" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/22/2003",
  "desc" : "A huge white cigar-shaped object hovered over a front yard of a home in North Ridgeville, Ohio for an extended period of time, beginning at 9:00 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7828",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, November 2003 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/22/2006",
  "desc" : "A circular disc-shaped object with a bluish tint, and blinking very brightly, was sighted next to Interstate 15 just north of Scipio, Utah at 7:30 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7829",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, November 2006 webpage, report uploaded December 7, 2006" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/22/2007",
  "desc" : "A black chevron or boomerang shaped object with circling lights, estimated to be about 100 yards long, flew over Wellington, Florida at 12:45 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7830",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, November 2007 webpage, report uploaded November 28, 2007" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/22/2008",
  "desc" : "At 12:48 a.m. a gigantic flying boomerang or V-shaped object with a dozen faint white lights on the front edge was seen flying north to south over Waverly, Ohio at a tremendous speed, making no noise.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7831",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, November 2008 webpage, report uploaded January 10, 2009" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/23/1896",
  "desc" : "Several observers in Stockton, California witnessed a fast moving, bright light in the sky that had exited from a shadowy ovoid object at 10:10 p.m.; it dips low near buildings in the city. There were several other reports this evening from Antioch, Chico, Lathrop, Oakland, San Francisco, and San Jose, California. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7832",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Stockton (CA) Daily Independent, November 24, 1896; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 164, citing Loren E. Gross, The UFO Wave of 1896, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/23/1948",
  "desc" : "An aerial encounter with a red UFO involving radar and visual confirmation occurred over Germany on this night at 10:20 p.m. Two U.S. Air Force Captains flying in a F-80 fighter, and a 1st Lt. from the 23rd Fighter Squadron on the ground at Furstenfeldbruck AFB saw the reddish star-like object to the east moving south over Munich at 200-500 mph, turning slightly southwest and then southeast. Captain Slater in the F-80 called the Racecard DF Radar Station which tracked the unidentified target at 27,000 feet and 30 miles to the south of Munich, climbing to 40,000 feet at 40 miles south of Munich, then circling around in a high speed ascent. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7833",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers Are Real, p. 162; Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 68; Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 237;  Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/23/1950",
  "desc" : "At 3:20 p.m. a disc-shaped UFO flew from the southwest to the northeast near Maxwell Air Force Base, then performed a flip over the city of Montgomery, Alabama. A second disc flew from the southwest to the northeast, then two more flew from the south to the north at a high rate of speed. town. There were three witnesses, and the entire event lasted nine minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7834",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: August-December, p. 58" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/23/1953",
  "desc" : "The famous Kinross Air Force Base disappearance of an F-89 fighter plane occurred on this date. An F-89 was scrambled from Kinross AFB at 6:41 p.m. to pursue a UFO over Lake Michigan and the Upper Pennisula of Michigan. The radar blips of the UFO and the jet merged into one near Soo Locks and Keeneenaw Point, Michigan then the jet disappeared and the UFO flew away. An extensive air search and rescue found no trace of the missing aircraft, with the two airmen named Moncla and Wilson. The radio communication between the pilot and Air Traffic Controllers has never been released. The massive search and recovery effort went on for an extensive period of time, and failed to find any wreckage. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7835",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Sault Ste. Marie Evening News, November 24, 1953; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 13; UNICAT, case # 670; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 406; UNICAT database, case # 670" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/23/1954",
  "desc" : "At around five o'clock in the evening two young shepherds, M. G. and P. T., age 12, were returning to their flock in Colcerasa, Macerata, Italy when they noticed that the sheep had moved from were they had left them and that their sheep dog was barking. M. G. observed three “dark colored, animal like creatures” moving between some bushes and a couple of bonfires that the shepherds had lit earlier. They also saw what looked like a small barrel, 60-70 centimeters wide by 1.5 meters long. The edges of the object were flattened. M. G. was unable to view the beings clearly; they stood approximately 35 cm tall and had rather disproportionately large, flat-topped heads. They appeared to be dressed in dark shiny suits, as if made out of plastic. The creatures quickly retreated into the object, which quickly took off producing a hissing sound. When the object had reached an altitude of 20 meters it expelled a large fireball. This exploded just before touching the ground, and a strong gust of wind struck both boys. The object sported something like “antennae” situated on its forward section, which vibrated when the object lifted off. The craft zipped rapidly in an easterly direction and disappeared from view to the left of Mount La Cesa. Both boys ran home to relate what they had just seen. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7836",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 1602, citing Maurizio Verga, ITACAT" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/23/1954",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon three 10-year-old girls returning from school in Torpo, Norway--Anne & Tora Storedal and Tora Moy Hauge--found themselves being followed by a flying saucer. It came down to hover only 3 or 4 feet away from them. It was round, about 10 feet in diameter, and the bottom was black, trimmed with yellow spots which could have been lights, with a number of small, \"red jags.\" The upper part was a transparent dome, and a man who was operating controls was visible inside. He wore black trousers, a black jacket, and immense red goggles over his eyes. He stared at one of the girls. When the craft rose it collided with a high-tension power line with a shower of sparks, and the girls ran away. They noticed a smell \"like fried sausages.\" A \"streak\" was found in the snow, apparently left by the craft having brushed the surface of the snow covered ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7837",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-132 (A0345), citing Oddvar J. Larsen, CSI-New York" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/23/1957",
  "desc" : "In the desert 30 miles west of Tonopah, Nevada Joseph Long's car engine died at 6:10 a.m. He then heard a high-pitched whining sound and saw to his right four large, metallic Saturn-shaped craft resting on the ground 400 meters away. The objects were 50 feet in diameter, with a dome in the center and a rotating ring on the edge. He walked up to within 50 feet of the objects during the next 20 minutes, when the four objects slowly rose up and left the area, at which time he returned to his vehicle and the car engine could be restarted. The humming sound increased in pitch when the objects took off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7838",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; J. Allen Hynek,  The Hynek UFO Report, p. 182; UNICAT database, case # 286, citing Hynek; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 445; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 186; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 13; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/23/1958",
  "desc" : "At 11:35 p.m. Julio M. Ladaleto, an engineer, stopped when his car hit a can rolling on the road in Cojutepeque, El Salvador. He then observed an object about 35 meters away. It was shaped like a lamp shade with an upper transparent sphere emitting a bluish, pulsating light, 12 meters diameter, seven meters high, and resting on three half-spheres. An very tall occupant, 2.5 meters in height, was photographed by the witness as the crossed the road and appeared to inspect the craft. The UFOnaut wore a blue coverall and luminescent heelless boots, and had a bald head. The observation lasted 10 minutes, after which the object took off with a whining sound, sparks and smoke. The following day, before he had revealed anything about the case, Ladeleto was contacted by strange \"newsmen\" who appeared to know all the details of it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7839",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 476; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 151" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/23/1961",
  "desc" : "In Sioux City, Iowa at  9:30 p.m. F. Braunger saw a bright red \"star\" fly straight and level for 15 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7840",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 7742; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/23/1965",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. a man named Quigley sighted a flourescent, blue cluster of lights tinged orange on the sides, about a mile away in the sky over Adelaide, South Australia. When he signaled with a flashlight a second time it moved closer. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7841",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 174" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/23/1967",
  "desc" : "Two UFOs with lights blinded a man while he was driving his truck at dusk in Ivangrad, Yugoslavia. One object hung close to ground for 15 minutes, then took off vertically. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7842",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, November-December 1967, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/23/1969",
  "desc" : "For 15 minutes beginning at 12:30 a.m. four witnesses watched and viewed through a telescope a glowing ovoid object over Kauri Mountain, New Zealand that moved up-and-down, side-to-side, and hovered. It departed by shooting straight up. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7843",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, March 1970, p. 32" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/23/1972",
  "desc" : "A class of college student observed a silent, wingless, dull-gray fuselage-shaped object fly over a forest in Acheres, Yvelines, France at 8:45 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7844",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 9766, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 123" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/23/1973",
  "desc" : "A torpedo-shaped object flew quickly through the sky near the locks at Brunel Ward, Huntsville, Ontario. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7845",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Huntsville Forester, November 29, 1973" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/23/1975",
  "desc" : "A one-meter in diameter disc was spotted just over the highway D786 in Treguier, France. It  followed a car west, but turned back quickly to the east when the car approached the town. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7846",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 11555, citing Jean Claude Bourret, La Nouveau Defi des OVNI, p. 164" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/23/1975",
  "desc" : "A domed disc-shaped object with three white lights and a smaller blinking red light in the center was sighted by a young couple in Chicago, Illinois at 4:50 p.m. on a clear evening. It hovered motionless for a few seconds, dropped down, hovered again, then moved to the east, hovered a third time, and finally moved rapidly off to the northwest. It made no sound and the witnesses were confident it was not a plane or helicopter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7847",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Fred Merritt, on-site case field investigation" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/23/1976",
  "desc" : "A lounge owner and a bartender watched a large domed object as it hovered over trees in Kenner, Louisiana on a clear night, flashing red, green, and white lights. The dome was three times the size of a helicopter, and it passed over their car at 3:30 a.m. It hovered for two minutes over the trees, then moved slowly toward Moisant Airport in the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7848",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, January 1977, p. 5; UNICAT, case # 233" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/23/1977",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. in the village of Colares, Para State, Brazil 35-year-old Anotnio Ferreira witnessed an \"airship,\" red on the bottom, gray metallic on the top, and oval-cylindrical in shape. It was estimated to be 1500 meters distant, and it moved in small wavy pulsing actions, spinning as it went. At the same time 34-year-old pilot Ivaldo Viegas Pantoja was flying from Colarfes and spotted the dull metallic \"airship\" when his plane was at 60 meters altitude, and the UFO was at only 30 meters, 3000 meters away. It was small, perhaps only 1.5 meters in size, and going from southeast to east at 100 km/h. He reported being frightened by his encounter with the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7849",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Pratt, Operacion Prato, p. 34" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/23/1978",
  "desc" : "At 6:30 p.m. a fluorescent, wedge-shaped UFO flew silently over an oil field in Abu Dhabi, UAE. There were 11 oil workers as witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7850",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, MUFON UFO  Journal, January 1979, p. 5, citing UPI; APRO Bulletin, January 1979, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/23/1978",
  "desc" : "In the early evening a silver triangular object with two yellow lights paced a \"Tristar\" airliner from Heathrow Airport, Kent, England. It came back several times during the three minute encounter, and was tracked on radar. There were several independent witnesses. At 7:15 p.m. a man in Whitstable, Kent, England making weather observations at his home saw a silver, plate-shaped UFO, within a block of light gray vapor. The UFO was glistening silver, and emerged from the front of the mist. It showed great acceleration, and left a vapor trail. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7851",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) D. N. Mansell, Awareness, April 1979, p. 11; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 42; (2) UFO Newsclipping Service, January 1979, p. 11, citing Whitstable Times, November 24, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/23/1978",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. a cigar-shaped UFO flew over Gois, Coimbra, Portugal very rapidly to the north, radiating an orange glow. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7852",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "PORTUCAT, case 236, citing Diario de Coimbra" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/23/1990",
  "desc" : "A giant cigar-shaped object flew rapidly and silently to the north over Vumba, Manicaland, Zimbabwe. A flame was emitted from the rear end of the object. It had blinking and steady lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7853",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Cynthia Hind, UFO AfriNews, issue 4, July 1991" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/23/1991",
  "desc" : "On this day a hunter in Riga, Latvia shot at a UFO at close range, which changed color from gray to white and then dematerialized. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7854",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard F. Haines, JUSA-CISAAF Translations, p. 150" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/23/1992",
  "desc" : "A couple driving on an isolated road at 1:30 a.m. near the town of San German, Puerto Rico saw tall thin being walking on side of road. He was walking towards them, and was described as having a large head, which was covered by a black helmet, wide shoulders, and very long arms. At eye level there was a rectangular opening in the helmet, and they could see two large almond-shaped eyes. Around his neck was a golden colored collar. The startled witnessed decided to turn back and take another look, but the humanoid figure had already vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7855",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, case # 285, citing Jorge Martin, Enigma, issue # 58" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/23/1994",
  "desc" : "Six children in Plancher-les-Mines, France watched a silver domed disc maneuver, then hover low over a field. On the dome was a porthole, and inside a human-like head could be seen looking out. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7856",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 330" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/23/1995",
  "desc" : "Several independent witnesses reported watching a disc-shaped object flashing at low altitude over Lugo, Leon, Spain at 8:30 p.m. No figures were visible in its large, clear windows. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7857",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17155" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/23/1996",
  "desc" : "David L., a local cab driver, was taking several passengers home from a pub in Hallbankgate, Cumbria, England at around 1:40 a.m. when he observed a large green ball of light with a white ring around. The ball of light dropped from the sky and then hovered in some woods at a nearby farm. Later, after driving another group of passengers from the pub, he came up a hill and saw a tall figure emerging from a gate in a field on his right hand side. The figure wore a silver suit with some kind of helmet on his head. It was carrying what appeared to be a \"white sheet\" in front of him that he was not holding, but seemed to be stuck to his hands. Both David and his two passengers were extremely frightened and did not stop, driving quickly away from the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7858",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case # 3127, citing British UFO Research Association" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/23/1996",
  "desc" : "At around 7 p.m. a witness in Indianapolis, Indiana drove under a large metallic top-shaped UFO at 300 feet altitude. It hovered silently. At 8:45 p.m. in Stockton, California--100 years to the night after the first airship sighting there--a large rotating sphere was seen by witnesses in four cars. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7859",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing Francis L. Ridge, UFO Intelligence Newslatter, Volume 10 Issue 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/23/2000",
  "desc" : "Several high-quality witnesses in Atlanta, Georgia reported sighting waves of disc-shaped objects that flew against the wind and above the clouds in formations of two to twelve from 9:30 p.m. to 9:45 p.m. At least 50 UFOs were sighted moving toward the north-northeast for a total of about 15 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7860",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, November 2000 archived webpage; George Filer, Filer's Files, 2000, issue # 49" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/23/2003",
  "desc" : "At 6 p.m. from Berkeley, California a huge illuminated object with flashing lights moved smoothly over the Bay Bridge toward Oakland. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7861",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, November 2003 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/23/2007",
  "desc" : "Very bright underwater lights were seen in the ocean off East Falmouth, Massachusetts at 11:30 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7862",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, November 2000 archived webpage, report uploaded March 4, 2008" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/23/2007",
  "desc" : "A triangular craft, with two horizontal level beams of lights, like \"headlights,\" was seen from I-380, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, near the Eastern Iowa Airport at 11:03 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7863",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, November 2000 archived webpage, report uploaded November 28, 2007" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/24/1896",
  "desc" : "Many witnesses in Red Bluff, California witnessed a light maneuvering in the sky for several minutes at 7:00 p.m. In Visalia, California several observers saw a \"vessel\" in the sky moving at the speed of a train; it moved up-and-down and left-and-right, and departed quickly to the northwest. At 11:30 p.m. two witnesses in Tacoma, Washington watched a flying object beam vari-colored rays of light in all directions. It then flew to the southeast and examined the Mount Rainier mountain peak. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7864",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Oakland Tribune, November 25, 1896; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. & Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, pp. 8-9; Loren E. Gross, The UFO Wave of 1896, p. 21, 26" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/24/1951",
  "desc" : "At 3:53 p.m. a milky white object looking like a small Northrop flying wing (V-shaped with no fuselage or tail) hovered in the skies over Mankato, Minnesota. It flew over two Air National Guard F-51 fighter aircraft being flown by pilots W. H. Fairbrother and D. E. Stewart . A Project Blue Book \"unidentified\" case. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7865",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1013; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 14; Jay Rath, The M Files: True Reports of Minnesota's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 43" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/24/1952",
  "desc" : "Annandale, Virginia. 6:30 p.m. Witness L. L. Brettner reported seeing a round, glowing object that flew very fast, made right angle turns, and reversed course during a 1 hour sighting. There was also a second witness but the information about his or her sighting is missing from the file. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7866",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: November-December, p. 42" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/24/1954",
  "desc" : "A woman astronomer named Marley, with a telescope in Southampton, England saw a small white disc-shaped object fly to the south at 12:15 a.m., and then suddenly turn 180 degrees to fly off rapidly to the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7867",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1954: November-December, p. 29" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/24/1957",
  "desc" : "Army Captain Kohrtz in Kortedala, Goteborg, Sweden at 3:30 p.m. watched with binoculars as an ovoid flying object spiraled upwards towards the Moon, glowing on one side. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7868",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, Volume 1, Number 3; Karl Gosta Rehn" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/24/1959",
  "desc" : "At 1:00 p.m. Mrs. Sperring in New Ferry, Cheshire, England watched a silver domed disc with a yellow illuminated dome. It was spinning, and had flashing lights. It flew off to the north-northeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7869",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 5866; FSR, March 1960" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/24/1960",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 a.m. in Defiance, Ohio a physics professor driving in a car, and his passenger, watched a silent 30-meter in diameter black disc-shaped object that flew off to the northwest. It had clearly defined edges. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7870",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 54" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/24/1965",
  "desc" : "James Allen Aldridge and his family heard a loud blast outside their mobile home trailer in Cooper City, Florida and saw a flash in the western sky at 18:45 p.m. Aldridge went to his barn to check on his stock and there he saw a man about five feet tall, with wide shoulders and a narrow waist. He shouted at the man but got no response. His dog was shaking with fright at the sight of the strange figure. Aldridge then drove off to get the police, but when they returned they could find no one. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7871",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1965-67, citing local police and a newspaper source dated November 25, 1965" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/24/1966",
  "desc" : "At 7:15 a.m. Mr. Thomas Ury was driving home when the \"Mothman\", a bird-like creature six feet tall and with a ten foot wingspan, circled over his car. He sped up to 70-75 miles per hour but the creature kept up with his car. He had been close to the area of the TNT dumpsite in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. That same night Mary Myer, a newspaper reporter, saw the red eyes of \"Mothman\" when she visited the abandoned power plant in Point Pleasant, West Virginia where it had been seen before. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7872",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UPI, November 25, 1966; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, cases 1966-63 and 1966-62 (A0756); John A. Keel, FSR, July-August 1968, p. 13; John A. Keel, The Mothman Prophesies, p. 68" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/24/1967",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 p.m. Sr. Ugo Battaglia, a radio technician, and his 14-year-old assistant Carlos Alberto do Nascimento, were in an eighth floor apartment building repairing a phonograph in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil when they heard a high-pitched sound. They looked out a window facing the coastal hills and saw a brilliant metallic disc-shaped object. It landed on a hill opposite the apartment building. The UFO struck and shattered a tree as it came down. Underneath at either end was a red light, and on top was a spinning cupola with slat windows. Three men clad in white coveralls came out of the UFO, which hovered just above the ground. They walked around it side by side with their arms hanging by their sides. After about five minutes they returned to the disc and disappeared underneath it. The two witnesses continued their work and left the building at 2:55 p.m., noticing that the disc was still in the same spot, but by the time they reached a nearby corner the UFO was no longer in view. They had not seen it depart. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7873",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Irene Granchi, APRO Bulletin, November-December 1967, p. 3; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-117, citing Irene Granchi, APRO; John A. Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 139; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 474" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/24/1967",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 a.m. EST a witness named King in Tuscumbia, Missouri observed a silver banded, cone-shaped UFO that flew silently toward the east, then circled 360 degrees three times before heading back to the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7874",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted R. Phillips, FSR Case Histories, December 1971, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/24/1968",
  "desc" : "On this evening five teenagers in Southall Ridge, near Ripley, West Virginia saw a 150 foot in diameter domed disc over a house. It landed in a nearby field, and was shot at. It dodged bullets from a .22 caliber rifle. The first bullet made a \"whomp\" sound, like it had hit a solid object, but the later bullets had no reported effect. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7875",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Teets, West Virginia UFOs: Close Encounters in the Mountain State, p. 87; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 123" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/24/1970",
  "desc" : "At seven o'clock in the evening a compact \"cloud\" UFO emitting rays from the top was seen by hundreds in Belo Horizonte, Brazil during a time when part of the city experienced a power outage. At the same time Moyses Santos, a resident of the city, found himself surrounded by half a dozen three-foot tall beings in his room \"who went around touching and upsetting everything.\" They floated about in the air, and had a translucent quality. They \"looked like ice.\" When they got near a table lamp, they \"lit up in many lights.\" One of them handed Santos a piece of paper on which he drew a flying saucer, without knowing why. The being then took the paper back. Finally they disappeared by passing through the walls. He went outside in time to see the UFO above the city, flooding the area with brilliant light. Other sightings occurred about the same time in several Brazilian cities. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7876",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Irene Granchi, APRO Bulletin, November-December 1970, p. 3; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1970-19, citing Irene Granchi, APRO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/24/1970",
  "desc" : "That same evening two men in Centralia, Illinois had nearly identical experiences with a UFO while driving home. At 5:45 p.m. Sam Alli saw a glowing white-and-yellow globe hovering in the sky. It was fuzzy at first but then became perfectly clear. It began to move in circles, then rapid spurts. It slowed to a complete stop when he turned into his driveway. The second witness, Larry Peterson, next reported a similar experience. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7877",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Skylook, January 1971, p. 1; Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, August 1971, p. 21; Jay Rath, The I-Files: True Reports of Unexplained Phenomena in Illinois, p. 56" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/24/1973",
  "desc" : "A photograph of a domed ovoid UFO was taken at 5:00 p.m. in the Piedmont region of Italy. A 23-year-old man named Contin took the photo of the object in Susa, Italy as it was making seemingly impossible maneuvers. Jets were later seen chasing the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7878",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon Creighton, FSR, October 1974, p. 27" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/24/1974",
  "desc" : "According to the Spanish Air Force, at 7:50 p.m. a light descended from 8,000 to 6,000 feet and paced a Fokker F-27 IB aircraft for one minute while flying between Tenerife and Las Palmas in the Canary Islands. The UFO disappeared when the airplane turned toward the light. The visual sighting lasted for three minutes, while radar returns were recorded at 8:20 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Independent witnesses included a Spanish Air Force Lt. Colonel and his daughter driving in a car. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7879",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, UNICAT database, case 821" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/24/1974",
  "desc" : "On the same night a circular object paced a private aircraft flying over Shabbona, Illiniois. It suddenly tipped and shot away. The EM effect included a magnetic compass deflection.  ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7880",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 50, citing MUFON UFO Journal, November 1989" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/24/1976",
  "desc" : "A cone-shaped object with a light followed a truck on a highway in New Albany, Indiana at 10:30 p.m. It went away when other vehicles approached, but reappeared when they were gone and was seen for more than an hour. It left by departing toward the east. There were 13 witnesses to the close encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7881",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, January 1977, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/24/1977",
  "desc" : "At 10:10 p.m. a UFO came out of the southwest, flying over a ranch following some high tension power lines in the town of La Aurora, Uruguay.  It changed colors and caused radio interference. There was a 10 minute power failure in the city of Salto. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7882",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Van Der Velde, APRO Bulletin, May 1982, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/24/1978",
  "desc" : "Sr. Gordillo and three friends were out hunting in the pre-dawn hours around 3:30 a.m. in a wooded hilly region near the River Guadiamar in Gerena Guadiamar, Sevilla province, Spain when they all saw a red light on the ground in a nearby eucalyptus grove. They all carried bright lanterns and continued looking for game. They  crossed the river, and temporarily forgot about the red light for a few minutes. They then noticed that the light was now in a nearby clearing in the woods. Two of the witnesses approached the area, while the others remained behind. The two men saw, partially hidden by some trees, a large bowl-shaped or jug-shaped craft with a red light on top and numerous multicolored lights on the front; it rested on two shiny silvery legs. Next to the object stood a tall, heavy set human-like figure, who appeared to be wearing a large round black helmet with a glass visor over the face. His clothing was silvery and he wore large boots. The being walked slowly back and forth in front of the object, at one point approaching the witnesses briefly. It made low humming noises. The men became frightened and left the area. Large footprints were found at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7883",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, September 1979, p. 1; Lumieres dans la Nuit, September 1979; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Enciclopedia De Los Encuentros Cercanos Con Ovnis & UNICAT database case # 485, citing Stendek, volume 37, number 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/24/1978",
  "desc" : "Sr. D'Ambros, age 61, had gone into a nearby woods at 11:45 a.m. near Gastagh, Italy to gather some firewood and had sat down on a log to rest. He was horrified to suddenly see two strange looking beings looking at him. The beings were hovering very close to the ground. They were described as a meter tall and thin with large pointed ears. One was shorter than the other. They had yellowish skin, large smooth and bald elongated heads, long pointed noses and large mouths with two long pointed fangs. They were clad in dark, tight fitting coveralls that started below the knee and extended up to their necks. They also had huge hands and feet with extremely long fingers and nails. The shorter of the beings approached the witness and began making sudden \"sliding\" moves around him, never touching the ground. The witness screamed for help and asked who they were but they only answered him with mumbling sounds. The taller creature now approached and attempted to take the witness's pruning axe from him. After a brief struggle the creatures fled into the woods. The witness chased after them but lost sight of them. He then came upon a clearing where a solid, metallic disc-shaped craft with a dome on top rested on four legs. He saw a pair of long hands close a small trap door on the dome, then the disc took off silently and at high speed emitting a burst of red flame from its bottom. During the same time other independent witnesses had watched a similar object maneuvering over the area. Ground traces found in the area included a 12-foot wide burnt circle, with vegetation whirled counterclockwise, U-shaped imprints 20 cm long and 3 cm deep, and uprooted bushes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7884",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Antonio Chiumiento, International UFO Reporter, May 1983, p. 8; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2176, citing IUR; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 492" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/24/1981",
  "desc" : "Dale Spurlock saw a red pulsating domed disc at treetop level while driving 10 miles south-southwest of Marshall near Darco, Texas at 9:30 p.m. It was seen near a small lake and some power lines, and had four colored lights--a row of red, blue, green, and amber lights--at the base of the dome. It made no sound as it passed left to right just above the tress, and then hovered. The object tilted, and two strong headlights from the front of the UFO shown directly down on his pickup truck. The object was revolving counterclockwise, and left towards the east. The truck's electrical system (alternator and battery) was damaged. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7885",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John Combest, International UFO Reporter, May 1982, p. 5; Richard H. Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, February 1984, p. 14; UNICAT database case # 027, citing John Combest; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 205, 374 & 383. Sketch courtesy of Richard H. Hall" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/24/1987",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. a woman and two teenagers driving in Gulf Breeze, Florida saw a multicolored disc-shaped object pacing them at a distance. The 30 foot in diameter object then stopped and hovered over some woods. The witnesses stopped to watch it. It was spinning and had a row of windows. A small red ball of light was emitted from the underside of the UFO. Next, the disc moved laterally, and finally ascended out of sight. The sighting lasted five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7886",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Boots Eckerd, MUFON field investigation case files, case # 890406; Dan Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1989, p. 17" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/24/1988",
  "desc" : "A witness saw a six-foot tall humanoid figure near Hunge, Sweden at 9:00 p.m. It wore a tight-fitting diver's suit and a helmet. It suddenly vanished into thin air as the witness approached it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7887",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1988, case #  2374, citing Andre Liljegren, AFU Newsletter, issue # 34" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/24/1989",
  "desc" : "Weathermen in Papa, Hungary observed four 50 meter wide orange balls of light at 10:00 p.m. One shot off at 2,600 mph. Military jets were scrambled to chase the UFOs, and there was radar confirmation of the sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7888",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1991, p. 234" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/24/1990",
  "desc" : "At 2:45 a.m. a police inspector in Hendale, England saw a bright light split into a number of blue and white objects, which flew south. At the same time two police officers saw a UFO over the Bristol Channel. The UFO appeared on radar. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7889",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gary Heseltine, Police Reports of UFOs, case # 143, citing The Sun Independent, November 25, 1990" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/24/1990",
  "desc" : "At 6:15 p.m. a driver together with children in the car in Comeray, France sighted a red football-shaped object surrounded by an orange glowing waves.It flashed once every second. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7890",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15417; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 307" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/24/1990",
  "desc" : "At 11:37 p.m. a silent red UFO was photographed in Gulf Breeze, Florida by three observers with 35 mm cameras and two more witnesses with video cameras. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7891",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case # 978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/24/1991",
  "desc" : "On this evening in North Port, Florida a former WW II fighter pilot and his neighbor saw a cylindrical UFO pass over a house. It was not well lit, it flew faster than a jet, and made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7892",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, Alien Update, p. 242, citing Sun Times, November 27, 1991" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/24/1993",
  "desc" : "In Harlowton, Montana near Malmstrom Air Force Base witnesses reported a 6-7 hour long event that began at around 7 p.m., during which a triangle-shaped UFO, flying discs, and an immense cylindrical object were observed clearly at close range and through binoculars. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7893",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, November 1993 webpage, report uploaded September 12, 1999" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/24/1995",
  "desc" : "A local resident of Toa Baja, Puerto Rico reported encountering a short, four-foot tall creature on this evening, shortly after nearby residents also reported seeing a saucer-shaped object crossing the skies. Around the same time several heifers were found dead, lying in a perfect row in the middle of a lonely road. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7894",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1995 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 3287, citing Scott Corrales, Chupacabras and Other Mysteries" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/24/1996",
  "desc" : "During a very stormy night in Houston, Texas a woman was having trouble falling sleep and was very restless. At around 2:00 a.m. she started feeling very strange, as if in some sort of a trance. There was a window right above her bed, and it felt as if something was pulling her from inside. At the same time some kind of appartition appeared on the upper part of the closet door directly across from the window. It appeared to be a reddish figure with wings, or something on either side of its body, that was moving up and down. She also saw a shadow pass by the window to the left of the bed. The creature then vanished. Her husband did not see or experience anything. A week after the incident, the witness suffered a nervous breakdown. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7895",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1996 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 2649, citing UFO Sightings in New Mexico and the World" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/24/2004",
  "desc" : "At two o'clock in the morning a V-shaped orange glowing object was sighted in Yuma, Arizona that moved straight up until it became impossible to see. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7896",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, November 2004 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/24/2004",
  "desc" : "At 7:40 p.m. a bright orange light was seen in Houston, British Columbia descending slowly, following the contour of the mountain. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7897",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 813, citing HBCCUFO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/24/2009",
  "desc" : "A witness in Tracy, California reported seeing a red and blue \"V\" shaped object flying through the sky and emitting a bright LED-like light. At 6:10 p.m. EST another witness in Raleigh, North Carolina observed a V-shaped object with white and red flashing lights moving slowly over Falls Lake.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7898",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, November 2009 webpage, reports uploaded December 12, 2009" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/25/1949",
  "desc" : "In 1949 a cloud cigar-shaped object was sighted by three witnesses driving between Edna and Inez, Texas at 2:30 p.m. It flew off rapidly to the south toward Edna. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7899",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Kenneth Arnold & Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 145" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/25/1954",
  "desc" : "On this evening in Calcerosa, Sicily, Italy two 12-year-old boys, G. Marziano and P. Santucci, watched three 1.2-foot-tall beings with very large heads and gray skin enter a small sphere concealed 10 meters away from them, behind some bushes. The UFO had two propellers in front that started spinning. The object took off with a hissing sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7900",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 136; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, case 343, citing Oltre Cielo" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/25/1954",
  "desc" : "A weatherman and an air traffic controller watched two luminous objects hover over the Cordoba, Argentina airport for two hours starting at 5:25 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7901",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p.  119; Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Orbit, June 1955, p. 1; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1954: November-December, p. 29" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/25/1955",
  "desc" : "State Senator S. T. Taylor reported seeing a dirigible-shaped object in La Veta, Colorado with a fat front, tapered toward the tail, which was luminous green-blue and jellylike. It first appeared overhead diving at a 45 degree angle, then reduced the angle to 30 degrees. The object was seen for 5 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7902",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/25/1956",
  "desc" : "At 4:30 a.m. near Hot Springs, South Dakota a USAF fighter jet from the 54th Fighter Squadron made three passes at a brilliantly lit UFO that was bobbing up and down. On the third pass the UFO was picked up on radar by the 740th ACW squadron. East of Pierre, South Dakota on highway 34, two police officers sight a UFO that plays a game of cat-and-mouse tag with their patrol car. At around 7 p.m. on the same day Mary Whelan was walking a colt on her farm in Reading, Minnesota when it was spooked by six disc-shaped objects that flew over in a semi-circle. Others horses were also frightened when these UFOs made 5-6 more passes in formation following the same maneuver. The discs gave off a green light as they flew past. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7903",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Minneapolis Star, November 28, 1956; Leonard Stringfield, CRIFO Newsletter, January 1957, p. 2; Jay Rath, The M-Files: True Reports of Minnesota's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 47" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/25/1957",
  "desc" : "In 1957, at 4:15 p.m., an odd round cloud observed in Indianapolis, Indiana became a rectangular object with sharp edges, and then faded away. In Mogi Mirim, Brazil all lights failed in the city at around 10 p.m. as a UFO flew overhead. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7904",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren Gross, UFOs: A History 1957 (Volume 9), p. 45); Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 75" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/25/1964",
  "desc" : "On this date in 1964, a famous UFO humanoid case lasting several hours was thoroughly documented by UFO investigator Ted Bloecher. Two women in New Berlin, New York watched the entire operation for four hours, beginning shortly after midnight. A luminous, disc-shaped object landed on a hill at a distance of 3,800 feet away from their house. Their dog became frightened. Ten to twelve 7'-8' tall men exited the craft and appeared to engage in repair activity, working underneath the disc. They appear to be unsuccessful in their repair activities at first, until a second disc landed, presumably to lend assistance. The UFO occupants wore dark close-fitting suits. Ground marks left at the site formed equilateral imprint triangles, 4.6 meters and 6.1 meters on a side. The UFOs made a humming or droning noise when they took off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7905",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Schwarz Berthold E. Schwarz, UFO Dynamics: Book I, p. 163; Ted Bloecher, Skylook, July 1975, p. 3, Ted Bloecher, FSR, October 1974, p. 21; UNICAT, case # 699; APRO Bulletin, April 1975, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/25/1966",
  "desc" : "In 1966, while driving home in the morning daylight at 7:15 a.m. on Highway 62 in Point Pleasant, West Virginia Mr. Ury, 25-years-old, became yet another \"Mothman\" witness. The bird-like creature, six feet tall with a ten-foot wingspan, circled his car as he drove down the highway. He increased his speed to between 70-75 miles per hour but the creature easily kept up with his car. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7906",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John Keel, FSR, July 1968, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/25/1968",
  "desc" : "On this date in 1968, at just after 6 p.m. on Highway 174 outside of the town of Marcellus in upstate New York, a mother and her small son saw a domed-disc UFO with a red blinking light on top. As it approached to within 100 feet of their car the engine lost power and the radio filled with static. Their dog cried, clawed to get under the seat, and covered its eyes and ears with its paws. The UFO moved away then, but continued to pace them down the road. Once more it made a pass at the car, and again the engine lost power and the radio wouldn't work. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7907",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 40; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 44" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/25/1968",
  "desc" : "At 8 p.m, a light approached a residential area in Rossville, Georgia and was witnessed by three men. The object, triangular in shape with bulging sides, appeared to descend as it approached to an altitude of 200 feet, and then flew directly overhead. It had amber lights around edge, and was completely silent. It was estimated to be about the size of two cars in length. It flew off to the southwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7908",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP case investigation files, field investigator K. Dammer" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/25/1968",
  "desc" : "Also in 1968, at 10:30 that night in Curico, Chile a two-meter wide disc landed on four legs. Three dwarf humanoids emerged, while a fourth was seen inside the craft. One of the beings scratched dirt from the ground, but no traces were found at the sight. The UFO made a pendulum movement during its departure. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7909",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jader Pereira, Les Extra-Terrestres, p. 222" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/25/1968",
  "desc" : "At perhaps the same time (10:30 p.m. EDT) a yellowish-white, glowing vertical cigar hovered silently 1/4 mile offshore from Dennis, Massachusetts. It hung in the sky about 200 feet above the water. An investigating policeman confirmed the sighting by the three intial witnesses. There was a total of seven independent witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7910",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 355" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/25/1970",
  "desc" : "Four men near a railway line saw a brightly lit disc come down through the clouds in Tunstead, England at 6:53 a.m. The principal witness hid behind a tree as the UFO hung motionless in the sky for seven minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7911",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, August 1971, p. 26" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/25/1975",
  "desc" : "On this night in a field nine miles west of Goodridge, Minnesota, a disc-shaped object eight feel in diameter was seen in a field. It rose off the ground, then relanded. The witness's car stalled, and later required major tune-up repair work. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7912",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 66" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/25/1978",
  "desc" : "While participating in a trans-Atlantic crossing during a yatch race, the skipper of the yatch \"Salamandre\" watched a very shiny white disc come down to right above the boat. The greenish-blue color surrounding the object was so brilliant that it was blinding. The UFO shot off at astonishing speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7913",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newspaper Clipping Service, May 1979, p. 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/25/1978",
  "desc" : "That night in Trier, Germany at 10 p.m. an abduction by UFO occupants occurred. A metallic, ovoid UFO with a flashing red light hovered over a car with a German couple and a nineteen-year-old American woman named Owens. The car's occupants experienced over 90 minutes of missing time. The principal abductee, the wife of an American soldier stationed in Germany, was levitated aboard the UFO. She was five months pregnant at the time. She had no memory of the abduction prior to hypnosis. During hypnosis she recalled that the aliens had huge, baldheads, and deep-set eyes. They had a greenish colored skin, with a roughness like mummy wrapping. Their hands had four fingers, and were twice the length of human fingers. Dark triangular objects with pale yellow lights were seen over Heathrow Airport and in Ducklington, England that day and evening. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7914",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Jane Thomas (translator), UFO Newspaper Clipping Service, April 1980, p. 14 citing The Independent, January 22, 1980; (2) UFO Newspaper Clipping Service, April 1979, p. 11, citing the London Sunday Express, January 11, 1979" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/25/1980",
  "desc" : "A cone-shaped UFO was seen in 1980 at 10:30 p.m., three miles away from three witnesses in Minocqua, Wisconsin over Lake Tomah. The UFO flickered with red, green and white lights. It was joined by and circled by a second UFO. The objects made no sound, but did cast reflections in the lake waters. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7915",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, May 1981, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/25/1986",
  "desc" : "Many UFO reports were received from Wakefield, Rhode Island during the evening. A UFO at low altitude directed beams of light at cars on US Highway 1. Two silent discs paced a truck on SR 671 northeast of Winchester, Virginia at 11:10 that night. They stayed parallel to the driver's side of the vehicle, and then veered away. A radar target passed close to an airliner near the city of Magadan, Russia. It turned right over Shelekhov Bay, and achieved a top speed of 3000 kilometers per hour when it crossed the Kamchatka shoreline, where it was lost from radar screens 150 kilometers off shore. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7916",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Gribble, UFO Reporting Center; MUFON Journal, November 2001, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/25/1987",
  "desc" : "In 1987 an abduction occurred in Okaloosa County, Florida not far from the town of Destin. A woman reported that her 5-year-old son was apparently taken aboard a UFO that night. He had been sleeping on the couch late that night, when he told his mother that a short, robot-like entity approached him and he was levitated up and into a hovering, disc-shaped object that was in a clearing in some nearby woods. He remembered being medically examined. He also reported that his throat hurt when he tried to talk about the experience. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7917",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 200; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1987, case #58, citing Donald M. Ware, MUFON" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/25/1990",
  "desc" : "A Navy technician sighted a dull silver-gray wingless fuselage flying from north to south at airliner speed in Milton, Florida at 12:40 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7918",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughilli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case 1405" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/25/1992",
  "desc" : "In 1992 another abduction occurred. This time it was in Baca Grande, Colorado in the San Luis Valley, at 10:30 p.m. The last memory that the 40-year-old female witness had was turning off the heat in her pickup truck. Two hours later she awoke to an orange beam of light, with her truck that was now freezing inside. She had two hours of unaccounted for missing time, her watch had stopped, and her nose was bleeding. There were 2 independent witnesses of a UFO in the area that night. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7919",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 36" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/25/1996",
  "desc" : "In Adelaide, South Australia at 1:25 a.m. multiple callers reported sighting a number of \"soft white balls of light\" coursing to the east and then changing direction to the west. The lights changed direction again, and sped off in a northwesterly direction. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7920",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Glennys Mackay, Queensland UFO Network website" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/25/1996",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. multiple callers reported a number of intense bright orange fireballs traveling fast over Canberra, A.C.T., Australia. When last seen, the lights were headed to the northwest. At 11:15 p.m. many witnesses, including the entire local police force of Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia watched at least four intense bright-orange \"fireball\" type lights over the city, before the objects headed off in a westerly direction. At least 10 photographs were taken of the objects, and one of the police officers succeeded in getting the object on video film. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7921",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Glennys Mackay, Queensland UFO Network website" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/25/1998",
  "desc" : "San Fernando Cebu Island, The Philippines - At three o'clock in the morning a man noticed a small strange-looking object hovering over a dead tree in some woods. There was a sudden flash of light and large balloon-shaped object with three illuminated triangular windows became visible. Inside the window he could see the head of a being with bright, crystal blue eyes. He heard a loud thundering voice speaking at him in an unknown language. Some of it sounded like: \"arc-ha-an rha-ehn-raxh ehn.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7922",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, a998 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing UFO Sightings in New Mexico and the World" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/25/1998",
  "desc" : "At 5:00 a.m. a soldier at the Moron de la Frontera Air Force Base in Sevilla, Spain was on guard duty near special hangars 1, 5, 6 and 9, accompanied by his German shepherd guard dog, when he heard a metallic scraping sound coming from nearby. He released his dog loose to go check, then loaded his weapon, and fired two shots into the air. Suddenly from out of some nearby woods a two-meter tall humanoid figure appeared. Because it was dark the soldier could not make out any features, except that the humanoid had glowing green eyes. He challenged the figure but it did not move, then he fired at it with his rifle, once, without any apparent effect. He then ordered the dog to attack, but when the dog approached it started howling in pain and slunk away. He fired at the humanoid again, but it just remained standing, staring at him. He took a few steps towards the figure which then raised one hand up, crouched down, and disappeared into the brush. The soldier conducted a search but failed to find anything. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7923",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1998 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 3457, citing Jose Manuel Garcia Bautista" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/25/1999",
  "desc" : "At 4:23 p.m. Maria de Jesus was outside washing some clothes in her yard in Coari, Amazonas State, Brazil when she felt something moving nearby. When she turned around, she was confronted by a short creature about 1.20 meters in height, with large black eyes. It was wearing metallic clothing and holding a cane-like instrument in his left hand. The humanoid being began gesticulating towards her, when she screamed in fear. This startled the humanoid, who then seemed to levitate and disappear behind a nearby stonewall. A large ball of fire appeared a few seconds later from behind the stone wall, and shot up into the sky at very high speed. The encounter lasted for about three minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7924",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1999 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing  Thiago Luiz Ticchetti, EBE-ET" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/25/1999",
  "desc" : "At 10:10 p.m. in Pemberton, British Columbia four witnesses watched orange lights in the northwest sky, moving slowly. The lights wandered in the sky for four minutes. There were 4-6 lights in a \"X-shape.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7925",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 1999 Canadian UFO Survey, case 246, citing UFO-BC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/25/2000",
  "desc" : "In Ellisville, Mississippi a witness reported seeing a long, triangle-shaped object with lots of lights moving in the sky at 8:45 p.m., and making no sound when it flew. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7926",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, November webpage." ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/25/2002",
  "desc" : "Fourteen-year-old Amy saw a slow flying equilateral triangle in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. It was medium gray (not black), silent, and flying toward the east-southeast lower than the normal landing pattern. She saw it for three seconds, and it gave her \"the chills\" seeing it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7927",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 61" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/25/2003",
  "desc" : "Two witnesses in Creston, British Columbia briefly saw some blue lights in the sky at 9:20 p.m., then felt they had had a missing time experience. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7928",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2003 Canadian UFO Survey, case 616, citing HBCCUFO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/25/2004",
  "desc" : "A triangular UFO with red and blue lights was sighted flying over Ottumwa, Iowa at 5:00 a.m. The lights appeared to be rotating in a clockwise pattern. The object was completely silent as it flew. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7929",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, November 2004 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/25/2005",
  "desc" : "A man was having a late dinner with his family in Wichita, Kansas at 10:30 p.m. when he saw three lights on the horizon. In a flash they grew into a large, nearly blinding light source. He went outside and walked in the direction of the lights, and could see a cigar-shaped object moving up and down in a vertical motion. He had two dogs, and one was barking uncontrollably, while the other--a normally more aggressive dog--was whimpering and hid under the back deck. As he stood watching the UFO , a man about five feet tall approached him. The man spoke to him in a foreign language which he was certain was German. He could not remember anything after that point. The next morning he woke up on his bed. His family had gone and his entire body felt sore, particularly below the waist. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7930",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/25/2005",
  "desc" : "At sometime around 4 a.m. a 14-year-old witness in Leesport, Pennsylvania was asleep in his bed when he suddenly awoke and caught a brief glimpse of what looked to be an alien face. The figure was standing by a dresser next to his mirror, and was between 4-5 feet tall with large black eyes. As soon as he saw the alien's face he pulled his blanket over his face. Moments later, while hiding under the blanket, he heard shuffling noises on the carpet and also what sounded like plastic tubes being slapped against a hand. The last sound he heard was a loud clapping noise. After daylight had broken he finally had the courage to pull off his covers and go to the bathroom, but by now everything seemed to be back to normal. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7931",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2005, citing UFO Magazine (USA), December 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/26/1943",
  "desc" : "Approximate year. During World War Two, on a bombing mission over Bremen, Germany crew members of the United States 8th Air Force reported that green \"rings of flame 2 or 3 feet in diameter\" corkscrewed through their formation, as if floating. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7932",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 website on aerial encounters" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/26/1950",
  "desc" : "On this day in 1950, two airmen flying over the Sussex, England coastline saw a silver-blue disc flying south. The object \"tumbled over\" and disappeared into some clouds at a terrific speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7933",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Awareness, April 1979, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/26/1954",
  "desc" : "On this night in 1954, an object with four reddish-yellow lights forming a rectangle circled over Millville, New Jersey. Shortly afterward a searchlight caught the object, revealing it to be a huge disc. As soon as the light touched it, the UFO sped up and swiftly disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7934",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 232" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/26/1962",
  "desc" : "In 1962 at 1:00 a.m., just southeast of Abra Grande, Argentina in the province of Santiago del Estero, two men driving a tractor-trailer truck loaded with coal watched a lit-up \"railway car\" near some railroad tracks that run parallel to the road project a brilliant beam of light on the road. When they got closer they made out that it was some type of unknown craft emitting phosphorescent flashes. Making no sound it rose up into the air to a height of some 50 meters, then landed again beside the road. Throughout their entire journey to Clodomira the object kept jumping ahead of them. When the first lights of the city came into sight the object broke off pursuit and climbed into the sky at a terrific speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7935",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Oscar Uriondo, FSR Case Histories (Supplement 12), December 1972, p. 10, citing El Liberal, November 28, 1962" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/26/1964",
  "desc" : "The witness, an eight-year-old child at the time, reported that he and his family experienced the total electrical failure of their family car in Adams, Wisconsin on this night when they had a close encounter experience with a single bright, stationary light. At the same time, \"trees looked like they were transparent.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7936",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek, UNICAT database, case # 38, citing Frontiers of Science, January 1982, p. 13; Ray Rath, The W-Files: True Reports of Wisconsin's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 61" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/26/1965",
  "desc" : "In 1965 in a wide area from St. Paul, Minnesota to the Wisconsin border, blue lights in the sky, power failures, and electro-magnetic effects on cars were reported. At 8:00 p.m. many residents of Totem Town, St. Paul, Minnesota saw strange objects flying overhead, emitting blue and orange flashes. Some reported that their house lights went out when the objects passed overhead. One person in a car said that his headlights and radio had failed as the objects passed nearby. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7937",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, December 1965, p.1; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 156, citing Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 12, No. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/26/1966",
  "desc" : "In St. Albans, West Virginia a woman saw \"Mothman\" standing on her front lawn. She described the creature as about six feet tall with a \"funny little face\" with \"big red eyes that popped out.\" She screamed and ran inside her house. In Lowell, Ohio during the afternoon Marvin Shock and three others reported seeing four \"giant birds\" that stood 4-5 feet tall and had 10-foot wing spreads and bills 5-6 inches long. They kept them in sight for two hours. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7938",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John A. Keel, FSR, July 1968, p. 13, David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, cases 1966-62 and 64, citing John Keel" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/26/1968",
  "desc" : "Two Air Traffic Controllers at Bismark, North Dakota airport, Watts and Wilhelm, watched two bright lights in the sky engage in sudden maneuvers. The first  one was northbound at 45 degrees elevation above the horizon, the second one was southbound at 30 degrees elevation. The Great Falls radar confirmed erratic targets. The second object made a 180 degree turn to join the first object, then hovered in the sky, finally departing toward the northeast. The entire incident lasted more than five minutes. Their were other independent witnesses, including the crew of a Capital Aviation flight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7939",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 38;  APRO Bulletin, November-December 1968, p. 5; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 13, 119, & 243" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/26/1969",
  "desc" : "An 18-year-old man named Oram sighted a cigar-shaped UFO hovering over the gasworks in East Ham, Essex, England in clear skies at 8:35 a.m. He experienced visions and received a telepathic message to \"keep quiet\" about his close encounter experience. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7940",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Charles Bowen, FSR, March 1970, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/26/1972",
  "desc" : "On this evening a yellow delta-shaped UFO flew over L'Ancresse in the English Channel Isles for 10 minutes heading south.  A faint hum was heard when the object was overhead, which then zig-zagged through the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7941",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, January 1973, p. 30, citing a newspaper source" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/26/1973",
  "desc" : "Two raccoon hunters spotted a large reddish orange sphere across the field north of Lincoln, Missouri at 9:30 p.m. Their dogs ran away, past some cattle, and jumped into their truck and refused to get out. When the hunters drove away the UFO silently paced their truck for half a mile on Highway 65, near some power lines. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7942",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted R. Phillips, Skylook,  February 1974, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/26/1974",
  "desc" : "Mike Grivoski, a teenager in Minneapolis, Minnesota saw a large orange luminous ball crossing the sky in the evening and ran for his Polaroid camera. He snapped one photograph. His father also saw the object, which was as bright as the full moon. The photo, however, showed five small lights, each with a dashed trail leading across the picture. Later that night Mike was awakened by the noise of someone in his bedroom. He saw a \"creature\" with heavy brow ridges, jowls, and large pointed ears removing the photograph from a drawer. When he sat up, the creature dropped the picture and ran out the door. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7943",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-77, citing Mike Douglas & Kevin Randle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/26/1974",
  "desc" : "A loud 110 decibel roar was followed by the sighting of a two-meter wide sphere or ovoid near the ground in a garden in La Plata, Buenos Aires province, Argentina at around 11:30 p.m. On the ground was found a 3.4 meter diameter ring plus numerous equilateral triangular marks that were one meter on a side. The grass and a tree top was burnt, and a silvery powder residue made up of Calcium Oxide was found. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7944",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Inforespace, June 1976; Roberto E. Banchs, UNICAT database, case # 587" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/26/1980",
  "desc" : "A witness driving in a car near Bentwaters RAF Air Base in Suffolk, England at around 2:00 p.m. saw a black ball in the sky being chased by two jet aircraft. It stopped in the sky, then shot straight up. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7945",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jenny Randles, From Out of the Blue, p. 133" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/26/1984",
  "desc" : "A UFO seen at 6:15 p.m. by Mr. & Mrs. Hoel in Gloucester, Massachusetts seemed to respond to their comments while flying over Magnolia Bay. The  dark triangular object, 150 feet wide, with a canopy underneath, flew at 125 feet altitude and passed over Magnolia Bay and surrounding trees. It made a low droning sound, and seemed to be made of a non-reflective material. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7946",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Doris Graziano, APRO Bulletin, June 1985, p. 8, citing the Gloucester Times; John Melesciuc, MUFON UFO Journal, February 1986, p. 11" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/26/1993",
  "desc" : "At 7:45 p.m. a witness driving in Riverside, California reported seeing an object whirl around in the sky, then land about 200 feet from his car. A door opened on the top of the craft and several persons came out. They appeared to be normal looking humans. He heard them talking, and when they apparently noticed him they entered the craft and left. The witness believes that what he saw was a crashed alien spacecraft recovered by the U.S. military and now being manned by the government. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7947",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 2839, citing UFO Sightings in New Mexico and the World" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/26/1999",
  "desc" : "A glowing silver cigar-shaped object traveled very quickly up and down the beach in the Bethwells Beach area in Auckland, New Zealand at 11:30 p.m. It was seen by several witnesses and seemed to dematerialize and reappear a number of times; It finally hovered low over the water 200 meters away from shore. A dog started barking at the object, and the dog's owner, who felt a static charge emanating from the object, then became frightened. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7948",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Frola, Australasian Ufologist, January 2001, p. 47; UFO Magazine (USA), March 2000, p. 17" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/26/2003",
  "desc" : "A soft humming noise was first heard in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England at 9:00 p.m. Then the witness saw some hovering spherical objects that were then chased away by military aircrafts. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7949",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National  UFO Reporting Center, November 2003 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/27/1944",
  "desc" : "Two Lieutenants, Giblin and Cleary, pilots of the U.S. Army Air Force 415TH NFS, saw a huge orange sphere while flying a P-70 over Speyer, Germany on this night. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7950",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 23; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 7 citing Aeronautical Magazine, February 1986" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/27/1950",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 a.m. six elliptical UFOs flew over Evansville, Wisconsin in a loose echelon formation at a speed of 500 mph and at an altitude of 10,000 feet, making a sound like helicopters. They were seen by Mr. B. Blair, a commercial airline pilot in flight at that time. At 9:08 p.m. a bright light made a sharp turn toward a DC-3 transport plane over Bakersfield, California at 9:08 p.m., flew parallel to it for a short while, then pulled ahead and to the left at a speed of over 200 mph. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7951",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Edward Sullivan, letter dated April 1952; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 34; Richard Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 180; Jay Rath, The W-Files: True Reports of Wisconsin's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 68; (2) Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: August-December, p. 60" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/27/1952",
  "desc" : "In Albuquerque, New Mexico at 12:10 p.m. a pilot and a crew chief of a U.S. Air Force B-26 bomber reported seeing a series of black smoke bursts (4-3-3-4-3), similar to antiaircraft fire, which was seen over a 20 minute period. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7952",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2249; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/27/1954",
  "desc" : "At 10:15 a.m. a green colored cylindrical object hovered over Red Square in Moscow, Russia for more than 25 minutes. It was estimated to be about 250 meters in length. It rose into the sky like a jet, and flew off toward the northwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7953",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 133; Ion Hobana and Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 282" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/27/1954",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. about a hundred people in Kariambkam, Madras, India saw the passage of a UFO described as “a flying boat” with a brilliant light on the back. The object then approached the ground and performed a vertical landing. Three people wearing “western” suits emerged and made hand gestures to the locals, who panicked and ran to their houses. The object remained on the ground for five minutes and took off in a vertical ascent, disappearing at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7954",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, citing Michael David Hall, UFOs: A Century of Sightings" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/27/1957",
  "desc" : "A huge, brilliant, white domed disc-shaped object with a halo hovered low over Herefordshire, England at 9:30 p.m. It then flew off to the southwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7955",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: November 13-30, p. 89, citing Flying Saucer Review" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/27/1960",
  "desc" : "A red UFO maneuvered all over the sky in huge circles over Chula Vista, San Diego County, California at 7:30 p.m. for 20 minutes. It looked like a ball with a long antenna rod attached, and a flashing white light ran back and forth along the rod. The UFO made several dashes at terrific speeds, and was watched through binoculars by seven witnesses. It made no sound. The sighting lasted between 20 and 30 minutes. A Project Blue Book \"unknown\". ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7956",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 7133; Lloyd Mallan, Science & Mechanics, December 1966, p. 30; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 91" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/27/1966",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 a.m. Miss Connie Carpenter saw the \"Mothman\" in New Haven, West Virginia. Mothman, a tall winged figure in gray, was standing on the golf course on this morning. It unfolded its ten foot wide wings and flew directly at her windshield. She saw its red eyes. It then veered off and disappeared from sight. After the encounter her eyes were red, swollen, and itchy for two full weeks. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7957",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John A. Keel, FSR, July-August 1968, p. 8; John A. Keel, The Mothman Prophesies, p. 16; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-66, citing John A. Keel" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/27/1966",
  "desc" : "Later that same night in St. Albans, West Virginia, 13-year-old Sheila Cain and her sister were walking home when they saw the Mothman creature standing by the road. It was seven feet tall, and was gray and white in color with big red eyes. They screamed and ran home, and it flew low over their heads as they ran. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7958",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John A. Keel, FSR, July-August 1968, p. 13; John A. Keel, The Mothman Prophesies, p. 71; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-67, citing John A. Keel" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/27/1968",
  "desc" : "A luminous round object with body lights hovered over Belcourt, North Dakota at 7:00 p.m. It shone a red light beam to the ground. When a police officer shined a spotlight at it, it immediately blinked out. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7959",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1969, p. 8; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 13, 173 & 381" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/27/1974",
  "desc" : "Dora Ellen Afelbaum was driving home near Dallas, Texas in her new car on Thanksgiving night when she saw a light following her. She stopped the car and rolled down her window, thinking it may be a helicopter, but she heard no sound. The light then moved ahead of her and she saw what appeared to be dogs, then a \"human like form\" running toward the light. Suddenly the light, the animals, and the figure vanished. There were others cars on the highway but none stopped, and no one else appeared to have witnessed the incident. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7960",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-78, citing letter from Dora Afelbaum to Fate, February 1977" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/27/1975",
  "desc" : "Mr. And Mrs. Henry Vidal and their five-year-old son were en route to Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Mexico at around 2:30 a.m. when they saw a bright object approach them at high speed. Glowing different colors, it hovered silently ahead of their car, which had slowed down to a crawl despite all attempts by Mr. Vidal to speed up. The object was cone-shaped and the bottom appeared to rotate rapidly, \"like a drill.\" It was so large and so close that it filled most of their windshield, and remained in position near their slowly moving car for what they thought was 15 minutes, after which it rapidly climbed away and disappeared from view. They reached the town of Culiacan at 7:00 a.m., about two and a half hours late, and the missing time could not be accounted for.  After they returned to their home in Santa Ana, Mrs. Vidal began to have a series of nightmares in which she dreamed she had been abducted by a UFO. In another dream she was levitated from her bed by a group of shadowy, small entities using some bright fluorescent lights. Her husband, awakened by her cries, awakened his wife, and she had scratches on her arms and legs that she could not account for. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7961",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1975-64 (1804), citing Dr. Alvin H. Lawson" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/27/1975",
  "desc" : "A round or disc-shaped object, yellow in color, approached to within 100 feet of two hunters on Peters Mountain, West Virginia at around 6:00 p.m. It blinked on-and-off, then shot away as three U.S. Air Force jets entered the airspace, but reappeared after the jets had gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7962",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Teets, West Virginia UFOs: Close Encounters in the Mountain State, p. 20" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/27/1975",
  "desc" : "Two men, Marquis and Rindahl, were driving on a road nine miles east of Goodridge, Minnesota when they were approached from ahead by a silent glowing red object at 7:15 p.m. It approached to within half a mile at 200 feet altitude, then landed.  The driver turned the car around but the engine began to stall, and the vehicle subsequently required an extensive tune up before it would run right. A second driver reportedly also saw the UFO. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7963",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Middle River (MN) Record, January 7, 1976" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/27/1978",
  "desc" : "At 11:20 p.m. all clocks in the village of Figueira da Foz, Portugal stopped for one hour and then started again when a UFO flew over. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7964",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, July 1979" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/27/1979",
  "desc" : "At 4:30 a.m. at least seven witnesses observed a 42-foot long ovoid UFO hovering right over the Sheraton Hotel in Norwich, Connecticut. It hovered tilted, and was completely silent. Finally, it shot off to the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7965",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lawrence Fawcett, International UFO Reporter, January 1980, p. 4; UNICAT, case # 72" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/27/1979",
  "desc" : "At 5:15 p.m. a 13-year-old girl saw a large cigar-shaped object with several white lights on it approach at an oblique angle and land in a field in Porcie-Amblagnieu, Isere department, France. It made a whistling sound. A very tall man like figure wearing a shiny silvery outfit got out and stood next to the object. The witness became frightened and ran home. The grass had been flattened at the landing site, swirled in a spiral pattern bending toward the top of a slope. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7966",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UNICAT database, case # 405, citing GEPAN Technical Note # 8; Lumieres dans la Nuit, December 1979; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case #  1735, citing Denys Breysse, Project Becassine" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/27/1979",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. a circular object gave off intense blue flashes of light while it hovered over a busy traffic intersection in Madrid, Spain. Two police cars were sent to the intersection, and experienced radio interference while the UFO hovered above them for the next three hours. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7967",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newspaper Clipping Service, February 1980, p. 10; Pretoria News, November 29, 1979" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/27/1980",
  "desc" : "A group of four driving to a hospital in central Kansas arrived at the hospital much sooner than they had planned. They encountered a green beam of light off to the side of highway and ahead of them at two o'clock in the morning. It was coming from a huge flying object, \"as big as a city block,\" that was cone-shaped with peach, green, and white colored lights. Somehow it had caused them to be transported closer to their destination, according to the witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7968",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, International UFO Reporter, November 1986, p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/27/1982",
  "desc" : "At 5:00 o'clock in the morning in Palatine, Illinois in the suburbs of Cook County, there was a vehicle encounter between three police officers and a domed disc-shaped object 30 feet in diameter, which emitted a light beam toward the ground. It began when a luminous object with brilliant illumination brightly illuminated a police patrol car, then changed direction when pursued. The white domed disc was later seen to the east, with a light beam extended toward the ground, as it descended behind the tree line.  The entire episode lasted about three minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7969",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, International UFO Reporter, March 1983, p. 10; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 188 & 315; UNICAT, case # 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/27/1982",
  "desc" : "At 6:00 a.m. two hunters in a deer blind in Castroville, Texas saw a multi-colored V-shaped object nearly over their heads, moving very slowly toward the west. It would stop, drop suddenly several thousand feet, move laterally very fast, then turn without banking. It never made a sound. It disappeared from view just at sunrise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7970",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Elmer J. Romigh,  MUFON Field Investigations Database, case 931235J" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/27/1983",
  "desc" : "A bedroom visitation with paralysis occurred on this night to four-year-old Robbie Tomey in his home in the suburbs of Indianapolis, Indiana. He reported that a little man with a big head had been in his room in the predawn hours. He had lights around his head, and the boy was unable to move. The entity spoke without moving its mouth, and \"he told me he wanted to take Casey [his brother].\" He left through the closet. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7971",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case # 195M, citing Budd Hopkins, MUFON UFO Conference Proceedings 1984, p. 179" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/27/1995",
  "desc" : "Two small silent triangle shaped objects with blue beams of light flew over Dubai in the Persian Gulf at 6:15 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7972",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newspaper Clipping Service, December 1995" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/27/1998",
  "desc" : "At dusk a woman driving in Mount Clemens, Michigan saw an intense white ball of light (BOL) come directly at her at high speed. It made no sound and there was no time to avoid a collision. It hit the car with a slight \"thump\", leaving behind a gray residue where it struck. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7973",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mike Swords, www.nicap.org 1998 Chronology" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/27/2000",
  "desc" : "At 7:00 p.m. a 22 meter wide saucer-shaped craft was sighted over a house in a neighborhood in Dalton, Georgia. It tilted and rose, then flew slowly to the southwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7974",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, November 2000 archived webpage, report uploaded December 2, 2000" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/27/2002",
  "desc" : "In Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia three witnesses saw four silver ovals in a diamond formation. They heard a snap noise, and a white flying triangle with rounded corners and dark ovoid highlights appeared out of nowhere. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7975",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 66" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/27/2004",
  "desc" : "A huge disc-shaped object accompanied by other smaller craft came over the witness's apartment building in Gardena, California at around one o'clock in the morning. It seemed to be close, and could change direction and speed in the blink of an eye.  It had lights and was very quiet, making no noise at all. The sighting lasted 30 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7976",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, November 2004 archived webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/28/1942",
  "desc" : "On this night a cigar-shaped object flew over Turin, Italy. It was 200-300 feet in length and flew at an estimated 500 mph. It had four red lights spaced at equal distances along its body. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7977",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Keith Chester, Strange Company: Military Encounters with UFOs in World War II, p. 34" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/28/1950",
  "desc" : "On this night a huge green luminous ball dove three kilometers toward a Stratocruiser airliner flying over British Guinea, and was sighted by the entire airliner crew. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7978",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 211; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/28/1952",
  "desc" : "At 4:00 p.m. a motion picture film crew filmed a disc-shaped object at MGM Studio L2 in Culver City, California. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7979",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, January-February 1968, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/28/1952",
  "desc" : "At 7:40 p.m. an odd fireball moved too slowly to be a meteor, then zigzagged for 20 minutes. It's estimated altitude was 50,000 feet; \"not a star\" according to the witness, who was flying over Delta, Utah in a U.S. Air Force T-33 trainer. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7980",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: November-December, p. 44" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/28/1953",
  "desc" : "On this day two men, Pedro Serrate and Francisco Teixeira, were duck hunting on the Baia dos Patos, near the city of Pedras Negras in Maranhao State, Brazil when a disc-shaped UFO hovered over and then alighted on the bay, only 15 feet away from one of them. The dark blue hull was like two “basins” put together; 16 feet long, 8 feet high, and 6 feet wide. Around the perimeter was a three foot rim of transparent glass. It had two curved pipes or tubes that were pouring out water, and behind the hull was a sort of rudder three feet long. Sr. Serrate could see four young human looking men and two young women sitting in a row inside the craft. They all had red hair with pinkish faces, and the women had long hair. All of them wore dark blue uniforms. When then noticed that they were watched, the craft took off at a fantastic speed, and disappeared from sight within seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7981",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "O Cruzeiro newspaper, November 13, 1954; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 196; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1953-13 (A0223), citing J. Escobar Faria and Richard Hall" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/28/1954",
  "desc" : "At 2:00 a.m. in the city of Petare, Venezuela two men had a violent encounter with three hairy dwarfs. They first saw a luminous sphere on the ground with a hatch door open. Out of it came three hairy dwarfs wearing loincloths. They were about three feet tall with clawed fingers. The dwarves fought with the men, who reported that they appeared to have phenomenal strength. At one point one of the man attempted to stab one of the creatures with a knife, but the blade glanced off as if the creature’s body was made of steel.  There was a blinding light and the creatures and the craft were gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7982",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "newspaper clipping dated November 30, 1954; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 52 & 103; APRO Bulletin, November 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 344; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-135).<br/><br/> On that same night in 1954 in Palmarito, Venezuela a group of peasants saw a sphere land and discharge three very short dwarfish men. When they re-boarded and the object flew away, they reported the craft left behind a slightly visible trail in the sky. (Sources: Coral E. Lorenzen and Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 63; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 239; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-134" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/28/1954",
  "desc" : "Also in 1954 at 12:45 p.m. five miles east of the city of Manila in the Philippines, two 39-year-old men, one of them a doctor with a degree in physics, watched an orange domed disc maneuver through the sky. The craft was about 70 feet in diameter, and had five evenly spaced yellow portholes. The body of the object itself was flecked with red streaks, and it made no sound as it moved. The UFO reversed direction and was gone in three seconds. Listed as a Project Blue Book “unknown” case. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7983",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case number 3341; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case # 61; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 59" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/28/1956",
  "desc" : "A strange customer in John Whitworth's shop in Biggelswade, England, someone with a very high forehead, told him that he could see a flying saucer if he would go to a certain spot on this night. Whitworth went there and did see a hovering object like a humming top, with lighted portholes. Just one year later the visitor returned and told him he would again have a contact this time, at another spot. Whitworth went with a crowd of others, including a BBC recording van, and was disappointed. Later he received a telephone call, “in an unearthly voice,” which reproached him for bringing the others. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7984",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1956-12, citing Flying Saucer Review, Volume 4, issue # 3, July 1958, p. 24" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/28/1963",
  "desc" : "Two men witnessed a UFO landing in Alta Gracia, Cordoba Province, Argentina at 10:00 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7985",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon Creighton, Flying Saucer Review, January-February 1966, p. 25" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/28/1966",
  "desc" : "At 5:15 a.m. a man named Nipper driving between Lennox and Valdosta, Georgia near the town of Sparks saw a luminous object land on the road; his car engine stalls, and his radio goes dead. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7986",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mona Darden, Fate magazine, June 1967, p. 66; Michael A. Persinger, Space-Time Transients and Unusual Events, p. 59" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/28/1966",
  "desc" : "On this night two 17-year-old teenagers, a man and a woman, were driving on Highway 1300 in El Campo, Wharton County, Texas when they were pursued by a UFO. They first observed a dark, red object land by the side of the road, and later it took off and started following their car. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7987",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Houston Tribune, January 19, 1967; APRO Bulletin, January-February 1967, p. 3; Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p. 24; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case # 807; Flying Saucers, February 1968, p. 23" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/28/1967",
  "desc" : "At 2:18 a.m. farmer Wilson Gusmao, who had been involved in previous humanoid encounters, was awakened in Alexania, Goias State, Brazil by a telepathic voice that called his name. He got out of bed and upon raising the curtain he noticed a huge bright light resting on the ground about 100 meters from his house. He attempted to wake up his wife but to no avail. He also attempted to get his brother in law to wake up, but with the same negative results. Walking to the living room he could now clearly see a landed object encased in a bright blue glow that was about five meters in diameter. He left a written note to his wife, telling her that he was going to check a landed \"spacecraft,\" grabbed a flashlight, and walked outside. It was raining very heavily at the time that Wilson approached the UFO, getting to within three meters. A bright beam of light then struck Wilson around the waist, causing him to levitate closer to the object and completely paralyzing him. A door now opened and Wilson could see the inside of the craft clearly. He saw four humanoids, all dressed in tight-fitting coveralls. They wore a belts with large buckles that had what looke like \"piano keys\" on them. The beings stared at Wilson intently. Wilson somehow felt inferior when the humanoids watched him. He described them as human looking with long blond hair. Their skin appeared porcelain-white, as if they had never been exposed to any sunlight. The leader of the group conversed with Wilson and gave him several messages dealing with nuclear armaments on Earth. Wilson was to have later contacts along with members of the Brazilian defense establishment including General Uchoa. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7988",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 895, citing Methodios Kalkaslief; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, citing Revista Brasileira de OVNIS" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/28/1967",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 a.m. a Brazilian highway patrolman saw an immense object near Americana, Sau Paulo State, Brazil \"as high as a 15-story building, apparently made of aluminum and with enormous rivets on it.\" It descended and hovered 50 yards from the ground. It carried searchlights too bright to look at, and made a loud humming sound that made the patrolman's head ache. His police car would not start and its lights went out, as well as the lights in the police booth, but they came back on as soon as the object departed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7989",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, September-October 1968, p. 5; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-118, citing Methodios Kalkaslief & Dr. Max Berezavsky" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/28/1967",
  "desc" : "At 7:15 p.m. three witnesses in Rockport, Maine had a close encounter with a row of 8-10 blinking white lights, and a parallel upper row of yellow lights, that seemed to be attached to a curved surface of a flying object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7990",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p." ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/28/1967",
  "desc" : "At 10:20 p.m. near High River, Alberta, Canada a car radio began fading in and out and the headlights and dashboard lights dimmed. The witness then saw a bluish-green, elongated object to his left. It was quite fuzzy and no details could be made out. He stopped the car and heard a noise like a \"jet motor,\" only very loud. The object continued traveling on a straight line towards the east and disappeared, whereupon the lights and radio then started operating properly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7991",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, January-February 1968, p. 5; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 226, citing CUFOS" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/28/1968",
  "desc" : "At 9:56 a.m. local time Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base (RTAFB) in Nakhon Phanom, Thailand Ground Control Approach (GCA) reported two low flying and slow moving objects approximately 13 nautical miles (NM) south of the base. Contact with the UFOs was lost when the objects were 9 NM west of the base. Sightings were confirmed by radar. The Nakhon Phanom Command Post was informed that the sightings \"definitely were not ghosts.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7992",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "www.nicap.org, citing Dan Wilson" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/28/1968",
  "desc" : "On this night students from the local Recoleta de Montevideo School in Lima, Peru reported encountering a strange short humanoid with an egg-shaped head and a blinking light on its chest area, and what appeared to be a long antenna like protrusion on its back. It appeared to have duck-like feet, and it was shorter than a 7-year-old boy. A priest and a teacher also reported seeing the creature. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7993",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1968 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing Fabio Picasso" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/28/1971",
  "desc" : "On this day in Canoga Park, California a nocturnal light was seen skimming the ground. Later investigation revealed three 38\" diameter imprints in an 18 foot triangle, and  a burnt bush at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7994",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, p. 79, case # 497" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/28/1971",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. a 52-year-old man had a close encounter with a red light in Sedalia, Missouri, which was seen through falling snow. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7995",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted Phillips, Skylook, January 1972" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/28/1972",
  "desc" : "At 12.30 a.m. Alfonso Rey, age 62, was watching television in his home in Tres Arroyos, Buenos Aires province, Argentina when the TV picture went out. When he got up to check the TV he noticed a tall being seated in an armchair at the opposite end of the room, wearing a blue-green metallic coverall uniform, with helmet, boots, and a black belt with a box attached. The being stood up, and was at least 6.5 feet tall. Sr. Rey asked the being what he wanted, but got no reply. Rey touched the being's hand, which felt cold and abnormally soft, \"like foam rubber\". He could not describe the facial features except for the eyes, which \"seemed to emit a silvery light.\" Sr. Rey went into the kitchen, followed by the strange visitor, and he noticed that his refrigerator was not running normally. Sr. Rey also noticed that his visitor seemed to be walking on air. Next the being pressed some buttons on his belt apparatus, which caused an amber light to come on. Then he walked to the backdoor, and looking up at the sky pressed other buttons on his belt. The being went outside into the yard, then vanished into thin air. That afternoon, at 4:20 p.m. several patrons of a bar reported witnessing a similar looking stranger in the bar at the corner of Calle Alsina and Calle Pringles, in Tres Arroyos. Their descriptions matched those provided by Sr. Rey. They said the stranger walked into the bar's bathroom and did not emerge. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7996",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, FSR Case Histories, issue #14, April 1973, p. 11; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1972-35 ( A1180)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/28/1972",
  "desc" : "In La Sarre, Abitibi, Quebec at 10:30 a.m. a nine-year-old boy, Mario Mercier, was alone on an ice skating rink on a sunny day when he observed a white, spherical cloud-like UFO land in a snowy field 700 feet away.  Three four-foot tall, square-shouldered beings emerged, wearing black suits and black square-shaped helmets. One of them carried a small black \"kettle\" that he proceeded to fill with snow. He then walked to the Mercier family chicken house, and was about to enter when the boy cried out. He then turned toward Mario, who attempted to hide inside the rink's hockey net. The UFOnaut walked back, and with one of the others, was seen to \"climb\" or levitate into the \"cloud.\" The UFO rose vertically swiftly. A 10 foot circle of blackened grass was left behind, with rectangular tracks in snow. It was two years before grass would grow again at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7997",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jean Ferguson, UFO-Quebec, January 1976, p. 9; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1972-40 ( A1181); John Brent Musgrave. UFO Occupants and Critters, p. 51" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/28/1974",
  "desc" : "A pilot, Hugo W. Feugen, flying over Shabonna, Illinois at 12:10 a.m. had a close encounter with a 120 foot wide disc-shaped object, with a dull silver color, that was flying parallel to his Aeronca Champ airplane. His magnetic compass began rotating counter-clockwise at 4-5 rpm. The circular object paced his aircraft for 10 seconds, then suddenly tipped and shot away. It was out of sight in less than one second. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7998",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Skylook, April 1975, p. 5; Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 58; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 121; Richard F. Haines, A Preliminary Report of 64 Pilot Sightings Involving EM Effects on Aircraft, p. 38" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/28/1975",
  "desc" : "At 3:30 a.m. an orange-red luminous disc-shaped object was encountered in Mosciano Sant' Angelo, Abruzzi, Italy under some electric power lines, moving slowly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_7999",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Maurizio Verga, ITACAT, case 75" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/28/1975",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. a UFO in Arendal, Norway caused lasting physiological effects for two 75-year-old witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8000",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "CUFOS files, report dated December 2, 1975" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/28/1977",
  "desc" : "Miguel da Silva Moreira, age 31, in Vila Mosqueiro, Para state, Brazil witnessed red-yellow lights in the sky emitting blue rays in all directions at 7:30 p.m. From a  bigger object came two small lights moving in opposite directions. Three minutes later five more came, and flew off to the northeast. There were several other independent reports of the same phenomenon that night from Belem and Colares. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8001",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Pratt, Operacao Prato, pp. 37-39" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/28/1978",
  "desc" : "A woman sleeping in a caravan trailer in Channel, Tasmania, Australia was disturbed by noises outside at two o'clock in the morning. She went out to investigate and saw two short, squat humanoid figures nearby. The upper half of the creatures was white, and they were wearing some type of head cover. They seemed to be moving their arms. The witness became frightened and went back inside. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8002",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 47, citing Keith Roberts, TUFOIC Tasmania" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/28/1978",
  "desc" : "At 4:00 a.m. a witness driving in Holmes Chapel Junction, Cheshire, England experienced bad radio static, then had a close encounter with a large metallic object with a large light in front, which approached the car and emitted two beams, one angled 45 degrees up, the other angled 45 degrees down. The UFO had a bevelled bottom and a fin-like tail. There was no trouble with the car engine. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8003",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Cashman, Project 1947 EM Effects Catalog website" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/28/1978",
  "desc" : "On this morning Mr. & Mrs. K. in Keddie, Plumas County, California had a close encounter with a UFO that involved a lapse of time of 30 minutes experienced by the witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8004",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, March 1979, p. 3; Cynthia Hind, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1979, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/28/1978",
  "desc" : "At 3:15 p.m. in Tome-Acu, Para State, Brazil 26-year-old Luiz Gomes Freitas de Vale had a close encounter with a bright gray, metallic oval-shaped UFO, which after buzzing him rose vertically at great speed, and then maintained a horizontal position. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8005",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Pratt, Operacion Prato, p. 56" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/28/1978",
  "desc" : "At 6:00 p.m. in Walsden, West Yorkshire, England a witness reported having a close encounter with a neon-blue disc-shaped object that was low and close for two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8006",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jenny Randles, Alien Contacts and Abductions, p. 88" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/28/1978",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. a Mr. Helin had a close encounter with a UFO in Vase, Sweden that lasted 10 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8007",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Information Sweden, March 1979, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/28/1978",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. a very bright, multi-colored, pencil-shaped object flew directly over the highway in Lathrop, Michigan, positioning itself above vehicles. It had orange, green, and blue colored lights. Tire-like things appeared to be wrapped around it, and it made no noise. Suddenly, it lit up the ground for five seconds and shot away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8008",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mike Nelson, Menominee Herald, December 15, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/28/1980",
  "desc" : "Police constable Alan Godfrey, age 31, was on routine patrol in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England when at 5:05 a.m. he encountered a metallic disc with a dome on top and a row of five windows, blocking the road ahead. He fetl attracted to it, and alternately frightened and secure while he sat in his patrol car. When he attempted to alert headquarters to its presence he found that his radio would not work. He then sketched the craft. The domed metallic disc had the rowof windows, was luminous, and had additional lights on top and bottom. The central section was spinning; bushes beneath it were agitated. Abruptly, he found himself one hundred yards farther down the road than he had been, and the UFO was gone. He had a vague recollection of getting out of his car and looking for the object, and hearing a voice, and he had 15 minutes of missing time. When he returned to the car it would not start.<br/><br/> Later, under hypnosis, Godfrey recalled that he lost consciousness after a beam of light from the object struck him. Then he felt himself floating into the craft and meeting a human-like being named Joseph. The UFO occupant was six feet tall, and friendly in demeanor; Joseph had a thin nose, a beard, and mustache. He wore a skullcap and was clad in a robe, making him look something like a Biblical prophet. A large black dog accompanied him. The room also contained eight metallic robots, each about three and a half feet tall, with headgear like lampshades, which were making a sort of murmuring chatter. Whenever they touched Godfrey, beeping sounds emanated from them. Joseph directed Godfrey to a bed. He thought about resisting, but instead lay down on the bed, where a beam of light from the ceiling shone down on him. Communicating by telepathy, Joseph touched his head, and Godfrey lapsed into unconsciousness for a while. The robots removed Godfrey's shoes and studied his toes. Meanwhile, instruments were placed on his arms and legs , which caused him discomfort to the point of sickness. There was a sickly odor that permeated his nostrils, and he closed his eyes from time to time. Joseph asked him questions, but Godfrey would refuse to tell investigators what they were. The alien told Godfrey that they had met before, apparently when Godfrey was a child. After the incident, he had a split in the sole of his boot, and a bruise on his foot. EM effects were the failure of two different radio systems (UHF and VHF). Three other cops saw a bright light moving toward Todmorden at the time of Godfrey's abduction experience. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8009",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jenny Randles, FSR, August 1981, p. 4; UNICAT, case # 786; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 561-562; John Wallace Spencer, World Atlas of UFOs, p. 115; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions:  The Measure of a Mystery.  Volume 2: Catalogue of Cases, case # 102; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 386, citing Janet & Colin Bord, Modern Mysteries of Britain, and Jenny Randles, The Pennine UFO Mystery" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/28/1981",
  "desc" : "On this evening Deputy Sheriff Hendsbee, his wife, and four others in other cars had a close encounter with a blinding light on State Route 43 in Madison, southwest of Starks, Maine. It  paced the sheriff's car and prevented their passage, forcing a detour onto SR 148. The incident lasted more than 20 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8010",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Maine Telegram, December 1, 1981; Michael Kimball, Yankee magazine, April 1982, p. 76; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, 19911121; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 199; UNICAT, case # 482" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/28/1989",
  "desc" : "In Evansville, Indiana a security guard at 1:30 a.m. saw a slow moving orange ball that later had a steady red light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8011",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, citing MUFON Indiana" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/28/1990",
  "desc" : "A woman driving in Norwood, Massachusetts on a clear day at 11:35 a.m. saw an object descend over an airport runway, hover, then move over a nearby hill, and finally fly out of view. The object was described as a gray oval-shaped object, perhaps 20 feet in diameter, which made no sound. She concluded that psychic interaction between her and the object caused the UFO's maneuvers. The encounter lasted 3 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8012",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Morton Schafer, MUFON field investigation case files, case # 901203" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/28/1995",
  "desc" : "A military security camera and several witnesses saw discs and other smaller objects maneuver over the military arsenal in Lugo, Leon, Spain beginning at 8:30 p.m. for 28 minutes. Photos and video documented the event. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8013",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17157" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/28/1995",
  "desc" : "On this night near Vega Baja, Arecebo, Puerto Rico Jesus Medina Montes reported that he found half of his herd of steers with several bizarre wounds on their backs. Some of the cows also had a viscous slime around their necks. Later that night, Irene Mercado and her nine-year-old niece reported seeing a large creature shaped like a bird that fluttered away while making a loud noise with its mouth. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8014",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1995 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 3288, citing Scott Corrales, Chupacabras and Other Mysteries" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/28/1996",
  "desc" : "Southwest of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo State, Brazil a luminous flying object paced an Orion aircraft for several minutes, then zipped away rapidly to the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8015",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Volume 1, issue 43; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17494; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 48" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/28/2000",
  "desc" : "Several witnesses in Oakville, Ontario, Canada first saw six chevron or V-shaped craft fly and land behind a hill at around nine o'clock in the morning.  They went closer to see better and saw eight of the objects, three of them already on the ground. All of the craft appeared to be damaged. Four beings, with light brown skin and large oval-shaped eyes, came out of one of the objects and seemed to inspect their craft. When they turned around and saw the witnesses there next was a loud, piercing noise, causing the witnesses to lose consciousness. When they recovered consciousness, all of the craft had gone, and they discovered several puncture wounds in their skin. After the experience their watches were all four hours behind the correct time. One of the witnesses subsequently suffered from nightmares, when she dreamed she saw similar looking beings inserting needles into her body. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8016",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case # 3621, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Nov. 2000 webpage, report uploaded December 20, 2000" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/28/2000",
  "desc" : "A domed disc-shaped object flew over North Miami Beach, Florida at 6:42 p.m., heading to the west. Three or more nocturnal lights followed the disc, which had both steady and blinking lights on its top. The sighting lasted approximately 40 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8017",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George Filer, Filer's Files, 2000, issue 48; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 18150" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/28/2002",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 a.m. a large, black, flying wing was seen low over a field near a highway south of St. Cloud, Minnesota during the daytime. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8018",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, November 2002 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/28/2002",
  "desc" : "In Niles, Illinois Walter Lawrence witnessed a formation of four cylindrical or cigar-shaped UFOs at 3:30 p.m. which were seen north-northeast of O'Hare International Airport for 45 seconds. They hung in the sky, made no sound, then three of them shot off rapidly to the east. The fourth went south and was lost from view in the haze. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8019",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 126, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/28/2006",
  "desc" : "At 6:42 p.m. three metallic disc-shaped objects were seen flying at low altitude over Montreal, Quebec, travelling at slow speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8020",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2006 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 695, citing HBCCUFO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/28/2008",
  "desc" : "A glowing, silvery-colored cylinder was seen in the sky during the daylight hours in Skokie, Illinois at 3:40 p.m. The sighting lasted eight minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8021",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, November 2008 webpage, report uploaded January 10, 2009" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/28/2009",
  "desc" : "At 10:52 p.m. a black, triangular UFO with orange lights flew over Petersburg, a small central Illinois town in Menard County. It had three brownish-orange circles with a dark center which appeared in a triangular formation for 10 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8022",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, November 2009 webpage, report uploaded December 12, 2009" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/29/1896",
  "desc" : "Over a hundred witnesses in Tulare, California watched an airship descend, then rise, and finally shoot off to the west toward Hanford, California. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8023",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The UFO Wave of 1896, p. 23" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/29/1950",
  "desc" : "Between 5:00 and 11:00 p.m. radar targets were detected from Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Fighter planes were, scrambled but saw nothing. However, at 7:00 p.m. there were Geiger counter detections in the restricted area of Oak Ridge that indicated an abnormal increase in alpha and gamma ray radiation that could not be attributed to any known source. Officials in charge of Oak Ridge security held a two-day meeting to discuss the \"operational difficulties\" of the early warning radar of the Air Defense Command at Knoxville. AFI was asked to investigate the situation and set up a separate radar set. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8024",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bruce Maccabee, UFO-FBI Connection, p. 178" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/29/1954",
  "desc" : "At 6:00 a.m. in Moze-sur-Louet, Maine-et-Loire, France a beam of light from the sky searched back and forth, then struck and gave an electric shock to a bicyclist. It then shocked him a second time, but no object was seen. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8025",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4196, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 132" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/29/1954",
  "desc" : "At seven p.m. a single witness saw a luminous object that had landed in a wheatfield in St. Martin-d'L-Place, Maine-et-Loire, France at the same time as a power outage. A 1.2 meter (4 foot) tall humanoid was seen standing next to it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8026",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4197, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #325" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/29/1954",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. an orange cigar-shaped object flew toward the northeast from Bourbon-L'Archambault, Allier, France. It stopped in midair, then shot back toward the southwest into the clouds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8027",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4198, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #128" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/29/1956",
  "desc" : "A milky green saucer-shaped object was seen by two men from a Capital Airlines flight northeast of Hickory, North Carolina. It was between 60 and 100 feet in diameter, and remained motionless for awhile, and then began moving. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8028",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 28" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/29/1957",
  "desc" : "At 5:10 p.m. a small, 18 cm in diameter luminous ball circled very low over a road two miles north of Glencoe, Ontario. It then flew over a fence. It was seen by a single witness, a Mrs. Alderman, for approximately one minute. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8029",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "C. W. Fitch, APRO Bulletin, July 1963, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/29/1960",
  "desc" : "At 6:38 p.m. two crew members of a USAF T-33 trainer sighted a white light flying south of Kyushu, Japan. The object slowed down to pace the Lockheed jet trainer, and followed the plane for 10 minutes without making any sound. The case is listed by Project Blue Book as unexplained. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8030",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 7134; Lloyd Mallan, Official Guide to UFOs, p. 36; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 92; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 32, citing Don Berliner" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/29/1965",
  "desc" : "On this evening Kevin Davis, 12, and Gary Jardine, 10, saw an object with a blinking red dome fly over the Cooper Creek area and come to ground level in Springhill, Nova Scotia, Canada. They observed portholes and a long bar with fingerlike devices emerging from an opening. Snow was blown away and bushes were flattened during the near landing. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8031",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, January-February 1966; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 718; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 263" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/29/1967",
  "desc" : "At around 2:00 a.m. Percy McBride saw a flashing flying object, the size of a station wagon with two aerials, arrive from the east and land in the woods near Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada for 15 minutes. It made a clicking sound and a noise similar to six radio receivers tuned to different stations. It had a square, boxlike protuberance supported by a pole underneath. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8032",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, January-February 1968; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 901" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/29/1968",
  "desc" : "At 4:10 a.m. two pilots flying over Mangamahu, New Zealand, Harding and Peddie, sighted three large red lights at each corner of a triangular formation of lights traveling together. No solid form was seen. They split up, one flew behind a ridge, the second hovered at ground level, and the third moved above the second light. Then the first light came back and the three formed a triangle again. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8033",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1969, p. 3; APRO Bulletin, March-April 1969, p. 1; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 83; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 36" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/29/1968",
  "desc" : "At dusk two women driving in Halfway Hollow in Duchesne County, Utah sighted three silver discs that were joined by three more. One moved, flashed red, and then disappeared. Two more came and joined the formation, and two flashed red lights. Another UFO flashed red and then disappeared. They made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8034",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Frank Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, Appendix case A72" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/29/1969",
  "desc" : "Two men in their twenties were driving between Gines and Sevilla, Spain when at 7:10 p.m they spotted a domed disc-shaped object that flew toward the southeast at treetop level. It had a blue glow that turned on and off, and it flew at a moderate speed. The sighting lasted two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8035",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 120, citing investigator Manuel Osuna Llorente" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/29/1970",
  "desc" : "A 17-year-old named Arai sight five or six discs flying in formation over Tatebayasi City, Japan and one of the objects was seen to land in a cemetery. It left burns on the ground and imprints arranged in a triangle, with sides measuring 4.7 meters x 3.9 meters x 4.2 meters. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8036",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Takao Ikeda, FSR Case Histories, June 1972, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/29/1973",
  "desc" : "At 11:15 p.m. Mr. & Mrs. Dotson sighted a silent flying triangle with rounded corners, and flashing a red light in the bottom center with two blue lights on the wings. It moved slowly and paced their car on Route 252 in Paoli, Pennsylvania. The UFO may have had a 100 foot wingspan. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8037",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "King of Prussia (Pennsylvania) Today's Post, December 3, 1973; J. Bernard Delair, The UFO Register, volume 5 (1974), case # 1065" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/29/1973",
  "desc" : "At 6:00 p.m. a blinking white light approached a car in Waukesha, Wisconsin being driven by a Ms. Beckman, with her child as a passenger. The UFO came from the east, stopped at 500 feet altitude, then moved away quickly to the left. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8038",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Skylook, February 1974, p. 5, citing The Waukesha Freeman" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/29/1975",
  "desc" : "On this night a silvery cylinder with bright lights hovered overhead for one minute In New Rochelle, New York, then came down to 200-300 feet above ground, before ascending again. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8039",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "CUFOS News Bulletin, February 1976, p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/29/1977",
  "desc" : "Mr. McLean, a UFO investigator, got an anonymous phone call reporting a UFO landing. He drove to the location at 10:20 a.m., located 16 miles from the city of Gisborne in the Waimata Valley, New Zealand. He noticed a large domed UFO that suddenly approached to within 200 feet of him, and it emitted a blue beam of light that hit a dead tree, causing the sheep in the area to panick and scatter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8040",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Xenolog, March 1978, p. 10; Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 164; Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 293; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 204" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/29/1977",
  "desc" : "Late in the evening a woman was driving her daughter along a lonely stretch of road near Coldstream, England when suddenly a seven-foot tall, dark, hooded figure leaped out of some bushes along the side of the road. The figure jumped directly in front of the car. The witness slammed on the brakes but the figure suddenly vanished in plain sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8041",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, January 1979, p. 25; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, case # 759, citing Northern UFO News, issue # 50" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/29/1977",
  "desc" : "On this night three Soviet scientists on a camping trip near Serpokhov, a city south of Moscow, Russia woke up when they heard peculiar voices speaking in a language they did not recognize. The voices continued talking for the next half hour, at the end of which an 80-foot, lightbulb-shaped UFO suddenly shot up from the ground and disappeared into the clouds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8042",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, citing Jerome Clark" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/29/1978",
  "desc" : "At 12:45 a.m. a woman heard someone banging on the window of her terrace in Naples, Italy. When she went to investigate she saw two humanoid figures about one meter (3.3 feet) in height, wearing round luminous helmets and wearing dark loose fitting uniforms. The little men moved about in quick graceful movements. She yelled for her son but the figures suddenly vanished in plain sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8043",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing Chris Aubeck, Return to Magonia; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A2177" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/29/1978",
  "desc" : "In the early afternoon a metallic gray domed disc halted directly over car in Brindisi, Apulia, Italy. Two witnesses in the car got out and fled. The UFO then shot away to the northeast over the Adriatric Sea. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8044",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 212" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/29/1982",
  "desc" : "In Botucatu, Sao Paolo State, Brazil Joao Valeiro da Silva was awakened at 1:50 a.m. by indigestion and a noise in his backyard. He opened the door and went outside where a brilliant beam of light fell on him and he was confronted by three beings, each about six feet tall, who were wearing blue, tight-fitting coveralls with holes for their eyes and mouth. They approached him, holding their palms up as if showing they carried no weapons. Despite the friendly gesture the witness fainted. Nobody missed him until early morning when his brother, Simeon, awoke at 5:00 a.m. and discovered him missing and signs of a struggle. His family found Joao lying outside, nude and unconscious, alongside his clothing in a rumpled pile. They rushed him to a hospital where he recovered two hours later. Although Joao did not remember being taken onboard a craft, he found himself seated on a circular seat in what resembled a well-lighted hospital-like operating room, and the same beings who had confronted him at his door appeared again. They wore clothing, which looked as if it were made of rubber material, and talked to each other in an unintelligible language as they led him to a wall bearing an outline of a human form. The beings would look at the drawing and then at him, as if comparing the two. Then they left the room by passing through a wall. A naked female who looked human then entered the room. She had long hair, was deeply tanned or dark skinned, and looked to be about 20 years old. She carried a Y-shaped instrument about a foot long. As she grasped his head and touched his cheek with the device he lost consciousness. He had a mark on his cheek, a scratch on his chest and an arm, and his wristwatch had stopped at 4:20 a.m. An interview with his family disclosed a \"sickly smelling oily substance\" had covered his nude body. Da Silva also complained that his genitals \"were burning\". da Silva had been troubled by poltergeist activity before the abduction, but it ceased. He later had several other adbuction experiences. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8045",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, November 1983, p. 2; FSR, October 1984, pp. 22-25; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions:  The Measure of a Mystery, case 132; Jenny Randles, Alien Contacts and Abductions, p. 142; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 562" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/29/1989",
  "desc" : "From 5:24 p.m. until 8:39 p.m. two members of the Gendarmerie, driving in their patrol car just south of the city of Eupen, Belgium, found themselves in the middle of a cat and mouse game with a UFO. The policemen described it as \"a dark solid mass in the shape of an isosceles triangle.\" It carried three blinding white lights in each corner and had a pulsating red light in the center. Throughout the three hour incident they were in constant communication with their headquarters in Eupen. Greatly to their relief, the dispatch officer informed them that he too had seen the triangular object and that additional sightings were being reported by patrols in nearby communities. Indeed, 150 eyewitness accounts were gathered that night. Several witnesses mentioned hearing a sound that reminded them of a ventilator. One policeman reported that he had also noticed \"something at the back of the craft that was turning round, like a turbine.\" At 7:00 p.m. a close encounter occurred in nearby Voeren, Belgium, and at 7:10 p.m. two witnesses in Herbesthal, Belgium saw a dark delta-shaped object fly between and over houses. They could not actually see the surface of the craft it was so dark. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8046",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Ronald D. Story, The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters, p. 101; MUFON UFO Journal, July 1990, p. 3; UNICAT, case # 238; Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 31; (2) Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 300; (3) Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1991, p. 47" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/29/1991",
  "desc" : "In Larkspur, California at 11:00 p.m. a 35-year-old man watched as sticks or beams of light appeared to drop down from a jagged circular configuration in the sky. One stick pattern was pale red, the other green. As it approached it took on a starfish appearance. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8047",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, 19921119, field investigator Virgil Staff, case 912911W" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/29/1993",
  "desc" : "At 10:20 p.m. a square shaped object with four lights, one in each corner, passed low (400 feet altitude) over the heads of a four-man oil drilling rig crew four miles southwest of Aztec, New Mexico. It made no sound, and moved slowly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8048",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1994; Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 200" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/29/1993",
  "desc" : "Near the Eisenhower Tunnel in Colorado a couple were driving on a flat, straight portion of the highway when they noticed a bright red star-like light moving slowly across the sky at around 11:00 p.m. The light stopped and shot straight down below the horizon. Moments later the same object approached their car and then began pacing them, positioning itself directly overhead. The object paced their car for ten miles, and then shot away out of sight. A short while later they started hearing static on their car radio and when they looked behind they saw a fast approaching bright reddish-white light. The UFO quickly closed with their vehicle and now could be made out as a glowing white, disc-shaped craft. The driver accelerated to 90 mph but the object kept pace. As he watched in the rear view mirror a figure appeared at the front of the object. The figure was very thin and had a large head with huge slanted eyes. The being's body was dark but its eyes were a bright yellow color. At this point the driver heard a voice in his head telling him that he would not be harmed, that \"they\" were only interested in studying him and his female companion. A period of \"missing time\" occurred shortly thereafter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8049",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 1837, citing Phillip J. Imbrogno, UFO Universe, Winter 1995" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/29/1995",
  "desc" : "At 10:22 p.m. UFO investigator Colman captured a 13 minute long video of a hexagon-shaped UFO with a dome in Lothian, Scotland, showing a blast or other disturbance underneath. There were also rectangular and delta shaped objects seen during this period. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8050",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland's UFO Phenomenon, p. 34" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/29/1998",
  "desc" : "At around three a.m. a witness noticed a small, strange object hovering above a dead tree in a wooded area of San Fernando, Cebu Island, the Philippines. There was a sudden flash of light, and a large balloon-shaped object with three illuminated triangular windows became visible. Inside the window he could see a humanoid being with bright, crystal blue eyes. He heard a thundering voice speak to him in an unknown language; some of it sounded like \"arc-ha-an rha-ehn-raxh ehn.\"  ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8051",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1998 Humanoid Sighting Reports database" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/29/1998",
  "desc" : "At 7:55 p.m. a shiny, silvery triangular object with dim lights flew just above the trees in West Memphis, Arkansas. Its nose turned up, but it kept a level trajectory. Planes reportedly circled the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8052",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Nov. 1998 webpage; Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 3, no. 49" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/29/2000",
  "desc" : "In Sherwood, Oregon a witness reported seeing a very low flying, quite large object at 3:46 a.m. with five big bright white lights arranged in a V shape, evenly spaced. There were no strobes or colored flashing lights on the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8053",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Nov. 2000 webpage, report uploaded Dec. 2, 2000" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/29/2000",
  "desc" : "On this day a hairy humanoid reportedly attacked an angler in a wooded area near Sampacho, Cordoba State, Argentina, and in the nearby village of Holmberg several students saw a hairy humanoid with sharp claws that scared them. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8054",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 2000 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 3649, citing OVNICOR" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/29/2000",
  "desc" : "In Newark, Ohio an 11-year-old boy reported to the police that he had seen a five-meter wide, silent round gray object with lights, just over trees at 5:50 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8055",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 18151, citing Filer's Files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/29/2002",
  "desc" : "Three disc-shaped lights flew through the sky over a 10 minute period in Mount Wolf, York County, Pennsylvania beginning at 10:00 p.m.; a fourth appeared, all flew a pattern. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8056",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Nov. 2002 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/29/2003",
  "desc" : "In Limmerick, Pennsylvania a slow moving triangle-shaped object with three lights was sighted at 8:36 p.m. It stopped in mid-air, rotated, and shot off in the other direction. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8057",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Nov. 2003 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/29/2004",
  "desc" : "At 9:10 p.m. Bill Bean witnessed a very large white disc-shaped object from his home in Woodlawn, Baltimore County, Maryland that hovered, then tilted downward in the southeast sky. It hovered at an estimated altitude of 5000 feet and was in view for a little less than a minute. It appeared to be very big, and the white part was very bright with black edges. Suddenly, it shot to the south, and rode the clouds like a speedboat. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8058",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 29" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/29/2006",
  "desc" : "A huge triangular UFO with white lights in each corner plus a large red light in the center was sighted north of Salisbury, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. A misty light trail was seen at the rear of the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8059",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Nov. 2006 webpage, report uploaded Dec. 7, 2006; Australian UFO Research Network, report dated Dec. 13, 2006" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/29/2007",
  "desc" : "In Granisle, British Columbia, Canada at 6:00 p.m. a thin \"blacklight-colored\" cigar-shaped object was seen moving across the sky near an odd, stationary dome-shaped cloud which had been present in the sky for at least an hour. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8060",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 742, citing HBCCUFO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/29/2008",
  "desc" : "At 10:20 p.m. a huge boomerang or V-shaped object was observed flying very fast among the clouds in Waverly, Ohio. It made no sound, and had white lights along its front edge. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8061",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Nov. 2008 webpage, report uploaded January 10, 2009" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/30/1880",
  "desc" : "A procession of numerous objects flew over the Palermo Observatiory in Sicily, Italy at 8:30 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8062",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p. 213; Desmond Leslie & George Adamski, Flying Saucers Have Landed, p. 46; Ray Palmer, Flying Saucers, November 1973, p. 36" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/30/1896",
  "desc" : "In Anderson, Shasta County, California several independent witnesses saw an airship fly over emitting beams of light; horses panicked during the overflight as the unknown craft flew off to the southwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8063",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The UFO Wave of 1896, p. 25" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/30/1952",
  "desc" : "Air Traffic Control operators at Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia had radar trackings similar to those of July 26, 1952. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8064",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2253; Project Blue Book Report #9, report dated January 31, 1953; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book UFO Unknowns; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: November-December, p. 46" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/30/1956",
  "desc" : "At 8:00 p.m. in Kettering, Northhampton, England a disc-shaped object with a hole in the center flew by at jet speed, shooting off to the northeast. It made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8065",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 4842, citing Flying Saucer Review" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/30/1956",
  "desc" : "At 12:48 p.m. U.S. Air Force aerial navigator Maj. D. D. Grimes saw an unidentified object fly at an estimated 100 feet altitude over water from Charleston AFB, South Carolina. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8066",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 4543; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/30/1956",
  "desc" : "Driving on Highway 61 three miles south of Petersburg, Indiana a Mr. Malott had a close encounter with a small UFO flying at low level at noon CST. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8067",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Orbit, February 1957, p. 1; Thomas M. Olsen, Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case # 84" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/30/1957",
  "desc" : "At 2:11 p.m. three U.S. Coast Guardsmen in New Orleans, Louisiana saw a round object turn white, then gold. It then separated into three parts and turned red. The sighting lasted 20 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8068",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 5445; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/30/1958",
  "desc" : "A retired Navy man reported seeing 6 to 8 classic disc-shaped objects fly over Cleveland, Ohio at 7:40 p.m. in a crescent formation. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8069",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1959; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1958: November-December, p. 19" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/30/1964",
  "desc" : "A male witness driving in a car in Terryville, Connecticut saw an extremely bright object land in the nearby woods at 11 p.m. Burnt area, landing marks, and radioactivity found at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8070",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, July 1965, p. 2; John G. Fuller, Incident at Exeter, p. 36" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/30/1965",
  "desc" : "Police constable Edward Pinnock on foot patrol in Warminster, England during the middle of the afternoon saw a bright silver ball hurtle through the sky, like a \"giant plate of light that lit up the whole horizon with a glare.\" It appeared to be spinning. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8071",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gary Heseltine, UFO Magazine (UK), July 2003, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/30/1965",
  "desc" : "In Cornwallis, Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia, Canada at 3:30 a.m. at least one UFO landed, leaving behind left ground traces. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8072",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1966, p. 4; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 59" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/30/1966",
  "desc" : "At 4:35 P.M. a disc-shaped object with a blinking red light hovered for 30 seconds near a Cessna 150 light airplane being flown by a Mr. Hockenberry over New Kingston, Pennsylvania. It then shot straight up until it was gone from sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8073",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Pittsburgh NICAP Subcommittee report, Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 35; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 118" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/30/1966",
  "desc" : "Taylorsville, Indiana - At 5:55 p.m. an egg-shaped object zoomed towards the driver of a car \"like a meteorite,\" then slowed to an approach speed of 60 mph. The engine and headlights of the witness's car slowly faded and died as the UFO came near. The object was metallic and had three red and three green flashing lights. It gave off a buzzing sound like an electric transformer. The object passed by the stalled car and increased in altitude to between 500-1000 feet, then flew away towards the northeast. The car could then be restated. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8074",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 180, citing CUFOS; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 250" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/30/1966",
  "desc" : "A young woman was changing a tire on a lonely road near Brooksville, Florida on this night when she was approached by a huge hairy biped creature with large green eyes and encased in an eerie greenish glow. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8075",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1966 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 1578, citing John Keel, Fortean Times, issue # 51" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/30/1968",
  "desc" : "On this day an industrialist driving in Palencia, Spain saw a landed UFO on the roadside; the observer wants to remain anonymous. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8076",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case # 94, citing ABC, December 8, 1968" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/30/1968",
  "desc" : "At 6:20 p.m. two teenagers, Sylte and Walker, in Renton, Washington took seven photographs of a 55-foot wide UFO that was 40 feet thick with portholes. All dogs in the area were barking at the time. They sent their photos to Dr. G. Allen.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8077",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "11/30/1969",
  "desc" : "Thirteen miles southeast of Quincy, Illinois on State Highway 96, three people saw an object shaped like a rounded triangle. It came very low and close to their car and suddenly lifted the car 10 feet off the road. The motor and lights continued running, but the steering was out until the UFO left the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8078",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 287, citing UFOLOG, No. 68, 1970; Walt Andrus, Skylook, January 1970, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/30/1972",
  "desc" : "Coming over a rise in the road in Murray Bridge, South Australia 19-year-old mechanic named Maxwell had the motor and lights die. They came back on, then sputtered several times. A diamond shaped object with the top cut off was sitting on the ground 45 meters away in a paddock. The car radio made a noise like a \"computer on TV\", with a constant beeping rhythm. The object made a vertical takeoff. Three holes were later found in the soil at the site of the landing. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8079",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Keith Basterfield, UFO Research South Australia, citing investigator A. Seer; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 253; Keith Basterfield, UFO Research Australia, March 1982, p. 26" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/30/1973",
  "desc" : "Military radar tracked a UFO near the Torino-Caselle Airport in Turin, Italy; a business pilot named Ricardo Marano and others saw a disc-shaped object with glowing blue-red colored rings hovering 365 meters over the end of the runway. It darted back and forth in the sky, so he gave chase in his Piper aircraft. The object zigzagged away at 5,000 km/hour. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8080",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Phenomenes Spatiaux, December 1973, p. 15; APRO Bulletin, June-July 1975, p. 1; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 38; Richard H. Hall,  The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 17, 121, 243" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/30/1974",
  "desc" : "At 6:10 p.m. Jacques M. was driving a car following that of Pierre Errecoundo and Maggy Carof, on a UFO hunting expedition in Grosscourt, Oise, France. It was after dark and the cars were using their headlights. Jacques suddenly saw a man at least eight feet tall in the light of his car's headlights, standing by the roadside. This being was milky white in color, as if wearing a tight white coverall, and his round head was without hair or facial features. Panic-stricken, Jacques drove on past; then, reconsidering, he turned around and drove back. He followed the same route but he saw nothing more of the man. Meanwhile Pierre, noticing that Jacques was no longer following him, had gone back to look for him. He saw a white headlight beam and a red light pass in front of him in the distance, apparently on the road, but silently, and it disappeared before reaching an intersection. Then Jacques showed up in his car. When they compared their stories and retraced his route, it was discovered that Jacques could only account for eight of the 11 minutes he had been gone. He was therefore interviewed later under hypnosis. In a hypnotic trance he recalled that he had gotten out of the car and watched the being for 3.5 minutes, and had felt that he was benevolent. He also said that there had been a big yellowish white light in the field, which \"quickly disappeared.\" The being suddenly vanished, after which the witness returned to his car and to his conscious recollection of events. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8081",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-79 (A1613), citing Maggy Carof & Jean Luc Rivera" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/30/1977",
  "desc" : "In Costilla County, Colorado a 3-year-old cow was found dead and mutilated near the San Pablo Wilbert Maestas Ranch. A helicopter had been seen in the vicinity with bright revolving lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8082",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Christopher O'Brien case files, citing Sheriff report and Valley Courier, December 6, 1977" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/30/1978",
  "desc" : "At round 6 a.m. six to nine bright nocturnal lights rose from the sea off the shore of Ventimiglia, Liguria, Italy, and then flew away. There were several witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8083",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 212" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/30/1979",
  "desc" : "At 3:25 a.m. four police officers from Rickmansworth, England in two separate patrol cars chased a long luminous cigar-shaped object at 500 feet altitude for over two hours. The object flew off toward the southeast. A balloon cover story was later released to explain their sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8084",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gary Heseltine, UFO Magazine (UK), July 2003, p. 9; Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing FSR" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/30/1979",
  "desc" : "A peasant named Santiago was weeding a palm grove near La Palma, Oaxaca state, Mexico at around 5 p.m. when eight very tall armed men approached him. They had apparently come from a nearby hovering disc-shaped object, which was emitting a green light. The men wore green goggles, had communicators, and carried what appeared to be \"machine guns.\" They all had very dark complexions. They spoke to the witness in Spanish and ordered him to cut off his penis with his machete. The witness apparently wandered the rest of the night in shock and was given medical treatment in the morning. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8085",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2227; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case # 323, citing Robert E. Bartholomew, UFO Lore" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/30/1979",
  "desc" : "On the same night a couple staying in a beachfront cabin in El Combate, Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico saw a bright, multicolored oval-shaped object hovering above the water ½ mile off shore. It appeared to emit some type of fog or vapor; the object then began blinking its lights on and off. The witnesses lost interest for a short time and left their viewing point and and went back to watching television.  A few minutes later an intense white light flooded their living room from outside. Looking out, they could see some kind of luminous flat platform approaching the shoreline, and on top of the platform stood a four-foot-tall man. He wore a one-piece white outfit with gloves and boots, a very wide belt, and a large helmet with a dark visor that completely covered his face. The source of the white light was a luminous white sphere directly on top of the platform, which emitted some type of multicolored smoke. Upon seeing this the couple screamed, causing the platform and its occupant to return back to the hovering object offshore. At this point the witnesses returned back inside and did not see the object depart. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8086",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case # 70, citing Jorge Martin, Enigma, issue # 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/30/1982",
  "desc" : "In Botucatu, State of Sao Paolo, Brazil Joao Valeiro da Silva was awakened at 2:00 a.m. by a noise in his backyard. He opened the door and was confronted by two strange little men and a woman, each about three feet tall, and wearing brilliant blue coveralls. They approached him, holding their palms upward as if to show they carried no weapons. Despite the friendly gesture the witness fainted, and nobody missed him until early next morning when his brother Simeon awoke early at 5:00 a.m. and tiptoed into his room to borrow some antacid medicine. He noticed Joao was missing and what looked like signs of a struggle, so he awakened the household. His family found Joao lying outside, nude and unconscious, and alongside him was his clothing in a rumpled pile. They rushed him to hospital where he recovered two hours later. Although Joao did not remember being taken onboard a craft, he remembered that he found himself in a hospital-like operating room, and the same small beings were there that had appeared at his door. They wore clothing that looked it was made from a rubber material. They talked to him and led him to a wall bearing an outline of a human form. The beings would look at the drawing and then at him, as if comparing the two. Then they left. A naked girl then entered the room. She had long hair, was tanned or dark, and carried an instrument about a foot long. When she grasped his head he lost consciousness. An subsequent interview with his family disclosed that a \"sickly smelling oily substance\" had covered his nude body. Da Silva also complained that his genitals \"were burning\". ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8087",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1982, citing Gray Barker's UFO Annual 1983" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/30/1989",
  "desc" : "At 9:20 p.m. a delta-shaped object passed low over a road south of Plombieres, Belgium. It had two large lights in front, and was silent. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8088",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1991, p. 45" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/30/1989",
  "desc" : "In Pensacola, Florida at 6:30 p.m. a huge glowing object was filmed at it hovered over the Gulf of Mexico, then moved west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8089",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case 218, citing UFO Newsclipping Service" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/30/1989",
  "desc" : "Driving on Highway 98 near Gulf Breeze, Florida at 9:45 p.m. a 50-year-old woman saw a dark arrowhead-shaped object in the sky. She parked her car to watch. The object rapidly and silently descended and hovered near power substation, then its bright lights came on. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8090",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dan Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, May 1990, p. 21, citing Carol and Rex Salisberry, case # 900422B" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/30/1989",
  "desc" : "Two very large triangular objects, 100 feet above the ground, were encountered in the Midway area of Gadsden county, Florida at 10:00 p.m. They caused unspecified electromagnetic effects on the car. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8091",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case 219, citing UFO Newsclipping Service" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/30/1992",
  "desc" : "A 62-year-old man in Valley View, South Australia first heard a rushing wind noise, then saw a huge half-oval shaped UFO at tree top level. It was orange/copper in color and had a black underside. It stopped 100 meters away. There were three flashing exhaust vents underneath the craft, which was rotating counter-clockwise, 5-6 exhaust vents in the rear of the object, and two rudders. It climbed away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8092",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Keith Basterfield, UFO Research South Australia, case SA92035" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/30/1994",
  "desc" : "Guards at a factory in Guiyang, Guizhou, in southern China described a close encounter with a UFO at 3:30 a.m. It had two very brilliant spotlights, changing colors from yellow to green to red. It passed through the area making a noise like a locomotive engine. There was large scale tree damage, over an area of 160 square meters of forest, having cut through some trees that were three meters tall, yet leaving some trees that were interspersed untouched. One worker was reportedly thrown several meters through the air during the close encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8093",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Dong, UFO Magazine, April 2000, p. 38; Lynn Picknett, Mammoth Book of UFOs, p. 156" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/30/1995",
  "desc" : "At 9:04 a.m. a huge rectangular object with several red and white \"V\" stripes on it crossed within 330 meters of an Airbus 330 airliner flying near Orly Airport in Paris, France. It had 5-6 \"exhaust pipes\" on the rear. It then vanished. The sighting was brief and lasted no more than 6 seconds. There was an occurrence of anomalous radar echoes in the Central European surveillance area on this day. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8094",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 47; Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 109" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/30/1998",
  "desc" : "At retired U.S. Air Force man in Cross Lanes, West Virginia sighted a silver disc-shaped object swaying in the sky above a Boeing 727 airliner. He then witnessed a military jet come to chase the object, which then shot straight up and was gone in a flash. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8095",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #18071, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 3, number 48" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/30/2000",
  "desc" : "At 6:45 p.m. in Galway, New York two lights were seen moving in a circular motion, just above the trees, for several minutes. They then became erratic in their movements. The sighting lasted a total of 5 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8096",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Nov. 2000 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/30/2000",
  "desc" : "A farmer on his farm southeast of Lincoln, Nebraska heard his dogs barking loudly at around 7:00 p.m. He looked outside and noticed a very bright light in one of his fields, so he decided to walk out there with his dogs. However, the dogs were afraid and refused to follow him. As he got closer to where the lights were located they suddenly turned off, and he decided to go back to the farm home. When he got back his dogs acted aggressively toward him, as if they didn't recognize him. He then ran upstairs to the second floor and used his binoculars to search the field. He could now see a lighted disc-shaped object on or near the ground, and he was able to see what looked like lighted windows on the object. Next, he noticed movement in a thicket near the disc, and suddenly a figure moved quickly from the thicket to the object. Shortly after this the object brightened and took off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8097",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 18152; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case # 3490, both citing Filer's Files, issue # 49" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/30/2004",
  "desc" : "A diamond-shaped object was observed hovering in the sky in North Bay, Nipissing County, Ontario, Canada at 5:00 a.m. It then dashed towards the front of a house, and then suddenly vanished. It had candle-like white lights with a purple hued. The sighting lasted 5 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8098",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 825, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "11/30/2008",
  "desc" : "At 3:30 a.m. a rectangular flying object with strobing multi-colored lights moved over three witnesses in a car in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and then hovered for awhile. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8099",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Chris Rutkowski, 2008 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 936" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/1/1953",
  "desc" : "On this day in 1953, some gardeners in Strasbourg, France watched a brilliant disc move back and forth in the sky. It shot off to the south at a very high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8100",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren Gross, UFOs: A History 1953, p. 056" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/1/1956",
  "desc" : "In Valley City, North Dakota at 1:20 a.m. in 1956, a round, reddish UFO caused interference on a police radio while being observed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8101",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/1/1957",
  "desc" : "In 1957 at 6:00 a.m. a huge cigar-shaped object with 8 shimmering lights on its side moved slowly through the morning sky in Yokohama, Japan. Later that same day a US Air Force plane circled at a low altitude as a 1 meter in diameter disc hovered above it. The disc vanished in plain sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8102",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren Gross, UFOs: A History 1957 (Volume 10), pp. 1,4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/1/1958",
  "desc" : "One year later, a wingless fuselage circled slowly at a high altitude east of Grants, New Mexico at 2:30 in the afternoon. Earlier that day, at 2:07 a.m., a round, white glowing object moved back and forth for 90 minutes new Lake Elsinore, California. The observers signaled the UFO with a flashlight, and it approached to within 10 feet, pacing their truck and emitting a high-pitched hum. They then saw a \"well built\" man run across the road in front of them. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8103",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 90" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/1/1966",
  "desc" : "At 6:35 p.m. in Middleboro, Massachusetts an apparently oval-shaped object dove in front of the witness's car on Highway 25. It carried two large bright red pulsating lights. It stopped to hover silently over some woods just off the road. A curved shaped could be seen behind the lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8104",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 342" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/1/1971",
  "desc" : "In 1971 on this night in Minnesota more than 15 police and sheriff deputies in five towns, centered on Excelsior, Minnesota sighted a glowing sphere. The object changed color from red to green. It was sometimes silent and sometimes reported to be humming. One photograph was taken as it hovered over Chanhassen, Minnesota a few minutes before midnight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8105",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jay Rath, The M-Files: True Reports of Minnesota's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 40" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/1/1973",
  "desc" : "In 1973, Mr. Marjapori was loading gravel at French Lake in Annandale, Louisiana at eight o'clock in the morning when he spotted a silver, cone-shaped UFO. The large end of the cone was revolving, and it was emitting silver streaks from the short end. It shot away to the southeast at a very high speed. At 7:00 that evening a shiny, silver cigar-shaped object descended and paced a car with a mother and daughter in Sugar Grove, Ohio. The UFO had a red light on one end, a green light on the other, and a pulsating white light in the center. It fixed a beam of light on the car and pursued it for 15 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8106",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Newspaper Clippings file, December 6, 1973; Geri Wilhelm, Skylook, February 1974, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/1/1974",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. three persons in a parked car near Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada observed several bright lights that looked like they were on the perimeter of a large, dark flying object. The object hovered at a low altitude and moved up and down. On several occasions a light approached their vehicle at high speed and stopped about 20 feet away. These shooting lights were quite bright but dimmed upon stopping, then disappeared. The occupants of the vehicle felt a cold sensation when the lights approached. One of the witnesses saw two human-like figures walking near their car. They were wearing silvery outfits with face masks and helmets. Each helmet had a single antenna. As the UFO left the witnesses felt a strong rush of air and something strike their vehicle. At that moment they felt a strong sensation of heat. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8107",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1974, case # 2745, citing MUFON Canada, quoting the Canadian military" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/1/1978",
  "desc" : "In 1978 at 1:40 a.m., a small dark disc with a luminous underbody, estimated to be about 1.5 meters in diameter, flew slowly along the coast heading south in Giulianova, Italy. About four hours later, in Milan, Italy the entire electrical system of a car failed when a luminous, orange and green saucer-shaped UFO flew overhead. The object circled the car then rose vertically. The car functioned without trouble after the UFO left the scene. At 7:15 that same morning a silver triangle with yellow lights flew from the west to the east over Ruislip, England. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8108",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Lumieres dans la Nuit and ITACAT; (2) Awareness, April 1979, p. 11" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/1/1981",
  "desc" : "On this night in 1981 a bullet-shaped object, a sphere, and several nocturnal lights were sighted flying to the north over Hessdalen Valley, Norway toward Trondheim. According to John Spencer, this report was the first of a four-year wave of reports from the Hessdalen Valley. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8109",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John Spencer, UFO Encyclopedia, p. 143" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/1/1987",
  "desc" : "In the pre-dawn hours on this morning in 1987 on the outskirts of Ilkley Moor, West Yorkshire, England ex-constable and UFO abductee Mr. Spencer photographed a little man on the moors south of town. The ufonaut ran to a disc-shaped craft and took off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8110",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jenny Randles, Flying Saucers and How to See Them, p. 108" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/1/1989",
  "desc" : "On this evening in 1989 a 51-year-old man and two other witnesses saw a UFO maneuver at about 600 feet altitude in Indianapolis, Indiana. It was escorted by what looked like four black, Huey-model helicopters. All five craft moved slowly into the distance until out of sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8111",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Norma Croda, MUFON case investigation database, case # 900823" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/1/1991",
  "desc" : "Three young farm hands were playing cards late at night in a small shack on a farm in Laboulaye, Argentina when a bright light outside caught their attention. Frightened, they looked out and saw a huge luminous object resting nearby on the ground. About 15 small humanoid figures were walking about near the object. The beings wore helmets with lights on them, resembling those worn by miners, and seemed to be wearing small capes on their shoulders. The UFO and the short humanoids stayed in the area most of the night. The next morning a circular ground trace was found at the landing site. A dog reacted during the incident. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8112",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1991, case # 2764, citing Carlos Iurchuk, FAO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/1/1992",
  "desc" : "In 1992, in the town of Iaeger, McDowell county, West Virginia at 4:00 p.m., David Church saw a delta-shaped UFO fly overhead very slowly at about 250 feet altitude. It moved backwards, with the pointed end toward the rear. It had many multi-colored lights on the underside, lit up like a Christmas tree. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8113",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Teets, West Virginia UFOs: Close Encounters in the Mountain State, P. 67" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/1/1993",
  "desc" : "In 1993 at 8:45 p.m. in Baca Ranch, Colorado author and UFO investigator Christopher O'Brien videotaped 7 or 8 aircraft--probably helicopters--escorting a large unblinking flying sphere. Mr. O'Brien and another witness watched with the aid of night vision goggles as the objects maneuvered around and over the Sangre de Cristo mountains. An unblinking craft, escorted by three helicopters, was sighted an hour later near Gunnison, Colorado. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8114",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 202; (2) Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, case 1636" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/1/1994",
  "desc" : "In 1994 at 8:30 a.m., a Mr. Becker sighted a square-shaped UFO with a small dome on top in Leopoldshoefe, Germany. It had red, orange, violet, and green lights on its bottom, and it moved very slowly, making no noise, at approximately 70 meters altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8115",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases-Europe, p. 36" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/1/1996",
  "desc" : "According to Michael Hesemann, on this date in 1996 the Space Shuttle mission STS-80 filmed a UFO maneuvering in Earth orbit. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8116",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hesemann, UFOs: The Secret History" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/1/1996",
  "desc" : "Late at night two coon hunters and their hunting dogs were parked on Leonard Road six miles south of Bethel, Ohio waiting for the right time to set their dogs loose. They released them and followed them into a harvested cornfield. As they approached the nearby power lines the dogs got very quiet, which was very uncommon for these dogs. When one of the hunters stepped into a clearing he was shocked to see a silvery saucer-shaped craft with a transparent cupola sitting on the ground. Nearby stood three humanoids wearing coverall uniforms. The beings were described as \"Greys,\" short with slanted black eyes. One of them was slightly taller and had a much bigger head. As both the hunters and their dogs watched, the three humanoids ran to their saucer and entered through an open hatch. The object then rose straight up into the air and vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8117",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 2474, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Volume 1, # 41" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/1/2001",
  "desc" : "In 2001 at 9:20 p.m. near Tucumcari, Texas many people witnessed a brightly lit object move across the sky chased by F-16 fighters. The UFO changed directions several times. According to the witnesses, the jets fired missiles at the UFO and hit it, causing it to explode in the air. According to NORAD they witnesses the re-entry of a Russian satellite. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8118",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine, April 2002, p. 20, citing Filer's Files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/2/1896",
  "desc" : "On this day in 1896 an airship descended from the sky 15 miles north of Pacific Grove, California and landed on the Pacific Ocean. Three human occupants aboard guided it to shore and then hid it in the woods, according to the two witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8119",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "San Francisco Call, December 3, 1896; Philip Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 31; Jerome Clark, The Unidentified, p. 141" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/2/1950",
  "desc" : "A pearl white, spinning, glowing disc-shaped object closely paced a jeep along a road in Nanyuki, Kenya at 10:45 a.m. It reportedly made a buzzing noise like bees. This case is listed as a Project Blue Book \"unknown.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8120",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 845; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/2/1950",
  "desc" : "At around 9:00 p.m. a brilliant UFO maneuvered over Ellenton, South Carolina for ten minutes, the future site of the Savannah River hydrogen bomb production facility, not yet constructed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8121",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History - 1950 (volume 3), p. 62" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/2/1956",
  "desc" : "At 9:45 p.m. a luminous ovoid object maneuvered in the sky, descended, and then ascended to a somewhat higher altitude in Forest Lake, Minnesota. The witness, Mr. Moffett, chased it in his car. The UFO flew to the east slowly, then turned toward the south and flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8122",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Orbit, March 1957, p. 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/2/1962",
  "desc" : "A bright, light-bulb shaped object flew in toward the east, then angled off toward the north before it \"arched\" its way into a lake. It was seen by residents of twelve cities between Akron, Ohio and Syracuse, New York. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8123",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 226, citing the Conneaut News Herald" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/2/1965",
  "desc" : "A close encounter with electro-magnetic effects happened in El Paso, Texas on this day. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8124",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers -Serious Business, p. 266" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/2/1967",
  "desc" : "At 9:30 p.m. a bullet or cone-shaped UFO hovered for two hours over the Baneasa airfield in the Bucuresti province of Romania. It then flew off to the north. There were many high quality military observers. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8125",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ion Hobana and Julien Weberbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 176" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/2/1973",
  "desc" : "A luminous disc-shaped object maneuvered over the city of Brussels, Belgium shortly after midnight, flashing and glowing. It then faded in intensity to a bright star. It stayed visible for 75 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8126",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, July 1974, p. 32" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/2/1973",
  "desc" : "A box-shaped object approximately 8 feet in diameter was sighted by some fishermen in Bonneville Carteret, Normandy, France at 5:30 in the morning. It directed a beam of light upon their fishing nets. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8127",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Courier Ouest, December 7, 1973; Roland Godefroy, Phenomenes Spatiaux, December 1973, p. 19; FSR, July 1974, pp. 32-33" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/2/1973",
  "desc" : "At 6:00 p.m. several teenagers in Levittown, Pennsylvania observed a UFO with lights \"flying funny\" up and down the Delaware River. It had three flashing red lights, and made no sound. It next hovered in the sky for one minute, then vanished in the clear sky. At 6:35 p.m. several city residents of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania watched a UFO over the Linden Avenue area of the city, including some who viewed it through binoculars. It looked like an acorn, with a green bottom. It was blinking slowly and was surrounded by a gray mist or haze. At 11:25 p.m. a cartographer and his wife saw UFO with four blinking white lights and a red light in the center while driving in northeast Philadelphia on Interstate 95. The object had a rectangular-shaped bottom, and a hat-shaped side view; it flew to the north, met up with a cluster of lights, and then flew off towards Bristol. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8128",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, December 3, 1973; J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, volume 5 (1974), cases #1088, 1090 & 1092; Matthew Graeber, Fate, May 2002, p. 27" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/2/1973",
  "desc" : "At 7 p.m. a strange, robot-like creature about four feet tall, with large round glowing eyes 18 inches wide, was seen in Korning Wood, Quebec, Canada at a distance of about 200 feet from the house of the witness. It possessed a large round head, long arms, and a bright red glow that emanated from behind its head. It disappeared behind the observer's house. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8129",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1973, citing Marc Leduc, CASUFO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/2/1973",
  "desc" : "A 150 foot wide disc hovered in front of the car of a Mr. & Mrs. Gerard while driving on the interstate highway near Wilsonville, Oregon this evening. The object spun in a circular motion, and traveled up the I-5 freeway. It had circular portholes two to three feet deep, one inverted C-shaped area with no lights, and a blue light on top. It went behind a hill and was gone from view. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8130",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, volume 5 (1974), case #1174" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/2/1974",
  "desc" : "Stephen Jenkins of Croydon, Greater London, England woke up at 3 a.m. to hear clearly audible footsteps on the stairs. Two beings appeared on the landing. Their body texture was \"something like closely compressed pulpy leaves.\" Their faces were reddish, with yellow eyes with hard black pupils. Around them was a translucent, faintly luminous \"box like structure.\" In a moment they were gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8131",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-73, citing Stephen Jenkins, The Undiscovered Country" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/2/1974",
  "desc" : "Driving home near Frederick, Wisconsin at 10:30 p.m. William Bosak, a 69-year-old farmer, noticed something parked on the opposite side of the road ahead. Slowing down to look, his headlights illuminated an object with a curved, transparent front, behind which could be seen a figure visible from the waist up, with arms upraised over his head, as if in terror. The figure seemed to be a little taller than a tall man, and had a square face with hair \"sticking straight out from the sides.\" It had long, narrow ears that stuck straight out, brown furry arms, and a hairy torso. The eyes were large and protruding. Frightened, Mr. Bosak sped up past the object, which was surrounded by a kind of fog. As he passed, the car \"darkened, as if in shadow,\" or his headlights dimmed, and the witness heard a soft whooshing sound. No ground traces were found at the site the following day. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8132",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-58, citing Dewey Berscheid, Edward E. Lightner, and Jerome Clark; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 375; APRO Bulletin, February, 1975" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/2/1975",
  "desc" : "There were five separate reports of unmarked black helicopters flying around missile sites and nearby towns in Carter, Conrad, Fairfield, Great Falls, Montana and at the Fort Benton J-5 Missile Site in Chouteau County, Montana. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8133",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Roberta Donovan, Mystery Stalks the Prairie, pp. 47-51; Great Falls Tribune, December 5, 1975" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/2/1975",
  "desc" : "Sandra Larson awoke at four o'clock in the morning to find two beings standing beside her bed in Fargo, North Dakota. They were the same type she had seen on August 26th: about six feet tall, brown vinyl like bodies with metallic looking arms, and mummy-like heads bandaged up in tape (with the eyes remaining visible). They floated her out through the bedroom wall to a field several blocks away, where they took her onboard a UFO. When she was taken from the craft they were in a desert landscape with white sand, lit by a celestial body resembling the moon. She was taken into a square building where a humanoid--she thought of him as a scientist--interrogated her using telepathy. Then she was taken home, again floating through a closed door into her house. She thought about taking a bath, and the entities asked her what \"soap\" was; she took them to her basement and gave them a cup of laundry detergent. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8134",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1975-60 (A1437), citing Jerome Clark, UFO Report, August 1976, p. 21; David F. Webb, Proceedings of the 1976 CUFOS Conference, p. 270" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/2/1977",
  "desc" : "A Waimata Valley, New Zealand farmer had awakened at three a.m. when he heard his dogs barking in the kennels. When he went outside he saw a 50-foot in diameter saucer-shaped object on the ground, about 100 feet away from his house. It was red in color and he could see it had two open doors or ports. Near his dog kennel were two silver-suited humanoid figures of slight build, about 4 feet 8 inches tall; they were carrying off one of his dogs, which appeared to be unconscious. He got his gun and opened fire on the creatures, hitting one. They dropped the animal and the figure that was hit staggered off into the bushes while the second one entered the object, which then took off. The dog was comatose for a few minutes, but later recovered. Friends visiting the farmer later found him in a state of shock, fearful that they would return for retribution. Footprints were found at the site. The incident also occurred during a rash of UFO sightings in the area. The next evening there were reports of hovering objects in Invercargill and Gore Matura, New Zealand at 10:20 p.m. and shortly after 11:00 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8135",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, June 1978, p. 2; Xenolog, March 1978, pp. 6-13; UNICAT, case # 166; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-69 (A1772), citing David Conway, Gisborne Aerial Phenomenon Research Group" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/2/1977",
  "desc" : "Five 45-foot in diameter domed discs hovered over Roseville, Michigan at 12:20 a.m. Three more discs joined them. Two figures were seen inside each dome. All flew away to the northwest after a couple of minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8136",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/2/1977",
  "desc" : "A close encounter occurred in North Charleston, South Carolina at 9:30 a.m. with a disc-shaped UFO that caused gravity effects. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8137",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "North Charleston (SC) Banner, December 7, 1977; APRO Bulletin, July 1978, p. 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/2/1977",
  "desc" : "A Ms. Crowl had a  close encounter with a UFO in Elysburg, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8138",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Shamokin (PA) News-Item, December 3, 1977" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/2/1977",
  "desc" : "On this day there were also a series of unexplained booms or skyquakes heard all along the eartern seaboard of the United States from South Carolina to New Jersey. The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory recorded reports from Asbury Park, Belmar, Farmingdale, Haledon, Hammonton, Hazlet, Howell, Long Branch, Mount Holly, Ocean County, Old Bridge, Oyster Creek, Point Pleasant, Red Bank, Toms River, and Wall Township, New Jersey as well as Charleston and other parts of South Carolina.  The earliest report in the day appears to have come from Charleston, South Carolina at 9:30 a.m. and the last report may have been at 3:45 p.m. in New Jersey. The Oyster Creek, New Jersey skyquake was heard near a nuclear power plant, which caused some concern. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8139",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dallas (TX) Times-Herald, December 17, 1977; New York Times, December 20, 1977; George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 800-821, citing U.S. Naval Research Laboratory" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/2/1978",
  "desc" : "A nine minute long videotape was made of a luminous object over Roanne, France on this evening. The luminous round object appeared over the tops of mountains, traced a big circle, and then remained still for several minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8140",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1979, p. 13, citing Cronica, December 4, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/2/1978",
  "desc" : "A photograph was taken of a disc-shaped object in Abu Dhabi, UAE by four young men, one named Salimeen. According to the report there were also physiological effects on the witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8141",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, January 1979, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/2/1978",
  "desc" : "Thirty-one year old Emilio Carrascosa Atienza saw an intense white light land 200 meters away from his car while he was driving in Chiva, Valencia, Spain at 11:00 p.m. Its brightness decreased as he approached the spot in his car. He then heard a penetrating foreign voice on his car radio, and next two reddish-orange balls of light appeared near the horizon before winking out. Dr. Willy Smith of the UNICAT project rated the witness as highly reliable. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8142",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 139; UNICAT, case # 502, citing Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, OVNIS y la Ciencia, p. 76" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/2/1979",
  "desc" : "While stopped for gas at night on the Corso Europa highway in Genoa, Italy F. Zanfretta, age 27, was approached by a tall figure with an oval-shaped head who wore a loose fitting windbreaker. At the same time a fog like mist surrounded the gas pumps and the figure ordered Zanfretta to accompany him. Zanfretta obeyed, and he was eventually taken onboard a craft which had landed in a wooded area near Marzano. While flying over the area he was reportedly shown the earth from outer space, looking like a marble free-floating in space. The occupants of the craft also showed him numerous photographs of friends and others, whom he did not know. He was also shown a large glass cylinder filled with a blue liquid, inside of which floated a huge hairy ape-like \"Bigfoot\" creature. In another container he saw a horrible creature resembling a prehistoric pterodactyl. In yet a third container he saw a large toad-like creature. While onboard the craft he met a tall green-colored reptilian like humanoid who called himself \"Dargos\", whom he had met on a previous occasion. The tall humanoid reportedly offered Zanfretta a transparent sphere that contained a rotating golden pyramid as proof of their existence, but Zanfretta refused to accept it. Allegedly, local residents reported a power outage near Marzano on this night. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8143",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, citing CUN Genova; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2228" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/2/1982",
  "desc" : "A silent object beamed three lights down at 8 a.m., then followed a car in Bury St. Edmonds, Suffolk, England. There followed an RAF investigation of the incident. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8144",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, Alien Contact, p. 38" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/2/1987",
  "desc" : "At 3:00 a.m. Ed Walters heard some strange voices outside his home in Gulf Breeze, Florida speaking Spanish. Thirty minutes later his dog started barking, so he went out on his porch to check and when he pulled a blind he saw a four foot tall Grey humanoid being with large almond-shaped eyes looking at him. The being wore wome type of shield over its eyes, chest, and lower body and was holding a lighted rod in its right hand. The creature turned around and ran towards a nearby open field. Ed Walters chased the creature, and was suddenly struck by a blue beam of light. He was unable to move his legs and fell to the ground, as if the beam was holding him down. When he was finally able to move, he ran back to the house and grabbed his camera and his gun. He photographed a large, bowl-shaped craft with darkened portholes and an illuminated orange ring on the bottom. He could also see a beam of blue light shining down from it onto the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8145",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 239; Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 204; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A2234; Albert S. Rosales, 1987 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 358, citing Donald Ware, Walt Andrus, and Charles D. Flannigan" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/2/1988",
  "desc" : "A brilliant light was first seen lakeside in Shelton, Mason County, Washington State by four witnesses at 7:00 p.m. Next, four dark boomerang or V-shaped craft, from 75 feet to 300 feet in width, passed slowly overhead at low altitude. They were as big as Boeing 747 airliners, according to the observers. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8146",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1989" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/2/1990",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. an Air Force officer observed a dark ovoid object move through the sky slowly at low altitude in Taillades, Vaucluse, France. Lights on the surface of the object changed position. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8147",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 307" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/2/1993",
  "desc" : "At 4:45 a.m. a flat-bottomed disc-shaped object flew over the witnesses' house in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at 150 feet altitude, making a whooshing sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8148",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Francis L. Ridge, UFO Intelligence News" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/2/1999",
  "desc" : "A large shining cylindrical object with a flaming orange tail moved over Shanghai, China on this day, \"scooting\" above skyscrapers in the city. It made front page news, and was viewed by hundreds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8149",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine, March 2000, p. 17; April 2000, p. 33" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/2/2000",
  "desc" : "A witness in Selden, New York viewed a large, dark, silent triangular object with dim steady red lights at the triangle vertices at 10:50 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8150",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, December 2000 webpage, report uploaded December 9, 2000" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/2/2001",
  "desc" : "In Torquay, Devonshire, England a disc-shaped object the size of a small room was observed at 6:15 p.m. It was spinning on its own axis. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8151",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "British Ministry of Defense, case 2001-185" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/2/2002",
  "desc" : "At 6:00 a.m. a woman in La Grange, Georgia saw a stationary blinking light through pine trees that flashed every 8 seconds. Her husband and two associates saw a triangular craft zip silently across the sky at 6:25 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8152",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 62" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/2/2003",
  "desc" : "A bright, multi-colored, pulsating cigar-shaped object was observed near Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico at 9:00 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8153",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, December 2003 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/2/2008",
  "desc" : "In Oakland, Pennsylvania a flying disc-shaped object hovered at 12:40 p.m., then began to glide across the sky without making any noise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8154",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, December 2008 webpage, report uploaded January 10, 2009" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/3/1952",
  "desc" : "In 1952 at 10:10 p.m. in the city of Bordeaux, France a long, bright cigar-shaped UFO moved slowly in the sky, then suddenly shot away, leaving a blue trail. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8155",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 131" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/3/1953",
  "desc" : "In 1953 at 6:02 p.m. Eastern Standard Time jets were scrambled from North Truro, Massachusetts in response to a radar bogey. Ground radar showed rapid changes in the UFO’s speed and altitude. At 7:35 p.m. a pulsating orange ovoid object was seen over Bellmore, New York. It made a sudden, ninety-degree turn and shot away at over 1800 miles per hour. Unidentified radar returns were also reported that day at Holloman AFB, New Mexico and Ellington AFB, Texas. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8156",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, December 1953, cases 2, 3 and 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/3/1954",
  "desc" : "On this morning in 1954 in the town of Montebuono, Italy a 10 meter long cigar-shaped object passed overhead at 40-meters altitude. It had a large porthole on its side. It abruptly changed direction and shot straight up into the sky and away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8157",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Verga Maurizio, ITACAT - Italian UFO Catalogue" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/3/1956",
  "desc" : "In 1956 a disc paced a transport plane over Baltimore, Maryland for a short while, then broke away, spinning counterclockwise. The plane attempted to follow the UFO but was unable to keep up. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8158",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Orbit, February 1957, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/3/1957",
  "desc" : "In 1957 at 7 p.m. in Ellensburg, Washington a truck engine reportedly missed but did not stall in the presence of a UFO. Many residents of the Menastash Ridge area of Ellensburg saw a \"strange ball of fire\" for 20 minutes. A truck driver reported that the light hovered over his truck, causing the motor to cough and sputter. His engine did not stop completely, however, so he drove away. The night was misty, but the object was so bright that it lit up the sky as if it were daytime. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8159",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP investigation files, Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 85, citing Schopick" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/3/1959",
  "desc" : "In 1959 on a cloudy night on a farm near Chatton, New Zealand a disc flew in around 9:45 p.m. flying toward the northeast, stopped and then circled for 45 minutes. It gave off a bright glow around its rim. It was finally lost from sight behind the clouds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8160",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History, 1959, volume 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/3/1960",
  "desc" : "In 1960, a man and his grandson were out duck hunting early in the morning near Atlantic City, New Jersey. They were sitting in a duck blind at around 6 a.m. when they saw a 20-meter wide disc approach to within 100 meters of their position. It glowed red and lit the ground, and moved with a jerky motion “like a bouncing ball.” It changed color from red to purple as it rose vertically into the sky, then flew off toward the southwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8161",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, September 1961, p. 53" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/3/1967",
  "desc" : "On this day in 1967 three important UFO cases occurred. In the middle of the afternoon, airline crews and others near Cape Kamennyy, Russia watched a luminous sphere in the sky drop a red fireball and emit beams of light.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8162",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "12/3/1967",
  "desc" : "About one-and-a-half hours earlier, at around 2:30 a.m. Central Standard Time, a famous UFO abduction case occurred in Ashland, Nebraska. Mr. Herbert L. Schirmer, a 22-year-old police officer and military veteran, noticed a glow in a nearby paddock while driving his patrol car along a highway. He pulled in to investigate, then his patrol car engine and lights died. He noticed a silver disc about 30 feet in diameter, surrounded by a brilliant orange glow. He remembered that he tried to send a two-way radio message, but an orange and red beam directed at him made it impossible for him to move. He remembered being taken aboard the craft by four aliens about 4.5 to 5 feet tall with slanted eyes. They used language and telepathy to communicate with him. He experienced temporary amnesia for about 30 minutes, followed by headaches and other physiological effects. The case was thoroughly investigated by the Air Force sponsored University of Colorado UFO study, headed by Edward Condon, with mixed conclusions. Hypnosis was used to enhance memory recall, and the two psychological experts called in to evaluate the case developed opposite opinions. One believed the case was a hoax and Mr. Schirmer was a pathological liar, the other felt that Schirmer was totally sincere and found his account convincing. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8163",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP Investigator, March 1968, p. 3; APRO Bulletin, November-December 1967, p. 3; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 39; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 173" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/3/1967",
  "desc" : "That same night in Barcelona, Spain a “cactus-like” entity with four appendages—presumably two arms and two legs—was sighted. It left deep footprints in the soil. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8164",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos investigation files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/3/1973",
  "desc" : "There were three close-encounter cases and numerous reports of nocturnal lights reported on this night in 1973 as well. A 26-year-old woman driving along Route 322 at 9 p.m. in Logan, New Jersey, in Gloucester County, first noticed a red glow, then a hamburger-shaped disc with a red light on top and a green light on the bottom. The UFO made a hissing sound, and emitted bright white jets of light from the sides when the object moved, like rocket thrusts. At 11:30 p.m. in Horton Bay, Michigan a glowing, mushroom-shaped UFO was seen over a highway intersection. It made no sound, and “just disappeared.” On that same night on a farm between Lincoln and Cole Camp, Missouri a farmer reported that a low flying UFO frightened his livestock. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8165",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Woodbury (NJ) Daily Times, December 5, 1973; Petoskey (MI) News Review, December 4, 1973; Warrensburg (MO) Star-Journal, December 11, 1973" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/3/1978",
  "desc" : "A brightly lit globular shaped object was seen flying at a low altitude over Leme, Brazil on this night. Several moving figures could be seen moving inside through a large opening. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8166",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing GEPUC Brazil" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/3/1979",
  "desc" : "On this night in 1979 in the province of Guadalajara, Spain veterinarian Dr. A. Cuesta was driving between Humanes and Yunque de Henares when a UFO began pacing his car and followed him for several kilometers. The craft positioned itself only 15 meters above his car, and emitted a blinding light, causing him to lose control and drive off the highway. On the same night at 10:25 p.m. in Clay County, Nebraska two teenage girls were driving west of Fairfield on highway 73 when they sighted a metallic domed disc-shaped UFO pursue their car for about five minutes at a distance of 400 meters. The UFO was about 10 meters in diameter. Their sketches of the object appear remarkably similar to those drawn by the two abductees in the Buff Ledge, Vermont case from 1968. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8167",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1980, p. 13, citing Mundo Diario, December 5, 1979; APRO Bulletin, April 1980, p. 6, citing Hastings Daily Times, December 14, 1979" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/3/1980",
  "desc" : "One year later, at 10:30 p.m. on Highway 57 in McLain, Mississippi Mr. and Mrs. Lowrey had the FM radio of their car quit, the car’s headlights dim, and the car heater quit when a luminous, blue-white ball of light came briefly over the right side of the car’s hood. They estimated the light to be about a foot in diameter and only a meter away. The seat belt alarm also came on during the encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8168",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, January 1981, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/3/1990",
  "desc" : "In 1990 at 6:20 p.m. two dark triangle-shaped objects with rounded corners flew over the city of Noirmoutier on the French coast in sequence, flying south to north. Both have a red area in the center. At 9:10 p.m. a large metallic triangular raft with large lights flew low over the city of Cuincy, France. At 11:20 p.m. in Jozsa, Hungary a car with a single occupant stalled when it passed a short humanoid standing on the side of the road. The driver experienced twenty minutes of missing time. When the witness recovered consciousness, the car was facing in the opposite direction on the highway with no apparent damage. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8169",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issues 307, 308, and 326" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/3/1994",
  "desc" : "In 1994 at 11:00 o’clock in the evening two witnesses near the Garden State Parkway in Eatontown, New Jersey observed a silent, triangular-shaped craft in the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8170",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, citing MUFON New Jersey" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/4/1949",
  "desc" : "A 23-year-old man named Restier was driving home from Barra Mansa to Volta Redonda, Brazil at around 5:00 a.m. when he saw a 15-meter diameter disc land near the highway. Two beings came out, who looked human and were 1.65 meters tall but acted robotic in many ways. He claimed he went with them on an otherworld journey, during which he was put into a tub of liquid for the duration. After what seemed like three days he was returned, but the elapsed time had actually been four months (the return date was April 14th, 1950). ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8171",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0155, citing Walter Buhler, SBEDV Bulletin, April 1968, p. 15; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 157" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/4/1952",
  "desc" : "At 8:48 p.m. an F-51 pilot, Lt. Robert O. Arnold, flying out of the Laredo, Texas Air Force Base chased a glowing bluish-white object that made extremely tight turns. He had a near collision with the lighted object when it made a head-on pass at his plane. The UFO flew at extreme speeds, and there was a possible crash and subsequent retrieval of the UFO. The incident lasted seven minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8172",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 42; UNICAT database, case 754; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: November-December, p. 53; Richard Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 404; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 19" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/4/1954",
  "desc" : "On this night a waiter saw a circular object in a pasture in Caselle di Nogara, Italy. It remained stationary for several minutes, and was about 50 meters away. It was blue with symmetrical openings which emitted a bright red light. The witness got a rifle and fired twice at a very tall figure that emerged from the turret on the craft. Immediately, a very strong wind was felt and the craft took off amidst a reddish glow. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8173",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-137, citing Vallee)." ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/4/1954",
  "desc" : "At six o'clock in the morning in the city of Coronel Pringles, Argentina Sr. E. Aguirre Zavala, an employee of a commercial firm, observed a very bright disc come down to just 20 inches above the ground, where it remained suspended. In the middle of this disc there moved about a strange looking figure, which seemed to be a dwarf with an enormous head. The UFO rose up shortly afterward after emitting a very bright light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8174",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-136, citing a newspaper source" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/4/1966",
  "desc" : "At the Gallipolis, Ohio airport in the middle of the afternoon five pilots saw what at first appeared to be an airplane. Instead it was a flying humanoid. It was a winged figure about 300 feet up in the sky, and flying at 70 mph without flapping its wide wings. The creature had a long neck and was turning its head from side to side as it flew. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8175",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-70, citing John A. Keel, The Mothman Prophesies, p. 77" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/4/1970",
  "desc" : "In the middle of the afternoon a lens-shaped cloud quickly encircled a private plane flying from the islands of Bimini to Andros in the Bahamas. Inside the cloud was a glowing circular tunnel that extended vertically upward. Both of the passengers experienced a sensation of weightlessness during the experience. A green mist surrounded the plane when it finally broke free, and the plane had been moved much closer to Palm Beach, Florida. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8176",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Center for UFO Studies files, letter from B. Gernon; Jenny Randles, Time Storms: Amazing Evidence for Time Warps, Space Rifts, and Time Travel, p. 53" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/4/1971",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. an extremely bright, luminous disc hovered and spun over the city of Campinas, Sao Paulo State, Brazil. It was seen by hundreds as it passed over the town at low altitude. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8177",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon Creighton, FSR Case Histories, August 1972, p. 13, citing a newspaper clipping" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/4/1972",
  "desc" : "A pilot and his friend saw a white light hover over Waltham, Massachusetts, and then make rapid V-shaped descents and ascents. When it approached the witnesses, they were able to see that it was pancake shaped, covered with lights, and had a central dome on top. They also heard a humming sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8178",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 359" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/4/1975",
  "desc" : "On this evening a man was alone in his leather shop in Arizona when two human looking beings entered. One was male and the other female. He had seen the male before. They were both nearly human in appearance, except they had yellow colored eyes, high cheeks, flat noses, and wide thin mouths. The man was also bald, and the woman appeared to be wearing a wig. While the man was over 6 feet tall, the woman was somewhat shorter. Their skin seemed translucent it was so pale, and their fingers were exceptionally long, especially the middle one, but their legs were unusually short. Feeling strangely unable to resist them, he went with them into his back room and undressed. The woman went over his body with a small metallic device, then undressed and had sexual intercourse with the witness, making animal sounds during the process. At one point he was told by the beings that they had lost the will to resist evil, so they needed to interbreed with humans. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8179",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "letter in CUFOS dated March 11, 1978; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A1629; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1975, case # 2231, citing B. Ann Slate & William McCall" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/4/1978",
  "desc" : "On this night a woman named Isabel D. saw a brightly illuminated blue-greenish rail in her backyard in Mendoza, Argentina. When she stepped on it she felt intense cold, but at the same time it was like she was in an intense energetic state. She then saw two figures of milky white color. She fell into her swimming pool, and bruised her left ear, eye, and waist. When she recovered she found her left eye bruised and violet rectangular marks behind her left ear and on her waist. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8180",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1995; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing John Schuessler, UFO Related Human Physiological Effects; Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, November 1979, p. 11, citing Radiolandia, September 21, 1979" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/4/1979",
  "desc" : "Lilli Karlsson, a young woman, was taking a walk about an hour after midnight in the Brevik Hills of Vastervik, Sweden when she suddenly became paralyzed and unable to move. Nearby, she could see a luminous object hovering close to the ground. Two five-foot tall thin humanoids appeared from behind the object. She heard them talking in an unintelligible language, and she believed that they were discussing her. She also heard a voice that told her not to be afraid. One of the beings approached and stretched out its hand to her, but she remained paralyzed. They continued to talk between themselves as they walked back to their craft. A thin cloud of smoke came from under the object and enveloped the object, causing it to disappear. When the craft was gone the paralysis went away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8181",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2229; FSR, January 1981, p. 6, citing Vasterviks Times, September 22, 1980; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case #324, citing Robert E. Bartholomew, UFO Lore" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/4/1988",
  "desc" : "A man was stopped at a traffic light at 2:00 a.m. in Carmel, Indiana in suburban Indianapolis when he saw a silent bright light approach, zig-zag, move away, return, then go out of sight. The fuses in his car were blown during the incident. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8182",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Field Investigation Database, case 900815, field investigator Francis L. Ridge" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/4/1988",
  "desc" : "At 5:25 a.m. in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania a 23-year-old corrections officer was driving, then saw a 75-foot diameter silvery oval disc with blinding white lights near some power lines. The object manuevered, hovered, and made a humming sound. The UFO emitted a silvery white trail when it flew away, departing by shooting straight up into the sky. The officer saw another automobile nearby; inside was another witness who appeared terrified and disoriented, and a possible abductee. Potassium cloride dust was found on the cars, and the two witnessed experienced burns on their faces and blurred vision. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8183",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Leslie, Varnicle, MUFON UFO Journal, May 1989, p. 10; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 31, 176, 272; MUFON UFO Field Investigation Database, case 890104, field investigator Stan Gordon" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/4/1990",
  "desc" : "In Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil a silent reddish orange ball of light three meters in diameter was watched by three men in a truck at 7:30 p.m. It zig-zagged as it rose, then changed shape to an oval only one meter in diameter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8184",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next? p 242; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 203" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/4/1991",
  "desc" : "After experiencing persistent trouble with his farm vehicle, a 65-year-old farmer living in Bekes, Hungary was doing chores on the farm around noon when he heard noises coming from the pig sty. He went to check and suddenly felt a powerful odor and suffocating heat, and he passed out. When he recovered 45 minutes later he was sitting inside in his work chair. He left the room and heard a buzzing sound in his head and then began seeing black rings in front of his eyes. The rings turned into a red sphere. He felt forced to follow it. He began doing odd chores around the house and as he did so everything felt lightheaded and every time he touched something he received an electric shock. The red sphere followed him where ever he went. At four p.m. he went back to feed the pigs and when he was finished he turned around and saw a human-shaped, greenish figure standing in front of a door. The figure was of normal height and bright green in color. The farmer walked back to his house, noticing that all the farm animals were acting agitated. He went to bed, but moments later the black rings and the red sphere returned. Later that night he went back out into the yard and again came face to face with the greenish figure. After a few minutes the being rose into the air, leaving behind a V-shaped trail that became fog-like and disappeared. He heard a booming voice say, three times, \"I will come back!\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8185",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1991, case # 331, citing Gabor Tarcali, Hungarian UFO Network" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/4/1992",
  "desc" : "In the suburbs of Winston Salem, North Carolina an adult watched a child walk to the school bus stop at 8:05 a.m. Beyond the woods and above some houses she saw a multi-colored domed disc-shaped object, perhaps 16-20 feet in diameter, moving in the sky. It made a humming noise. It appeared to hide beyond the furthest house, then hover over the house, and approached to within 75 feet of the child. The indicent lasted about five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8186",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON field investigation database, case 920202E, field investigator Barbara Thompson; UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1993" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/4/1995",
  "desc" : "A husband and wife in Manchester, England woke up late in the night to the sound of their young daughter crying hysterically. They tried to move but found themselves paralyzed. At that moment the bedroom curtains lit up brightly and there was a whooshing sound from outside. The husband was eventually able to move and got up to look out the bedroom window. He saw a glowing object on the road, surrounded by a number of men wearing boiler suit coveralls who appeared to be digging up the garden. When they were both able to move they went to check on their daughter and found that she was alright. They then went back to sleep. The next morning there was no evidence of any digging having occurred in their garden. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8187",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, case # 3451, citing Peter Hough & Moyshe Kalman, The Truth About UFO Abductions" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/4/2004",
  "desc" : "Orange flashes in the sky in Burlington, Indiana were followed by the appearance of several objects at 8:30 p.m. One object that flew over the witness was triangular in shape with three red illuminated areas like tips. The outer points were brightest, fading into black at the center. The color was like a piece of red hot metal. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8188",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), February 2005, p. 72, citing National UFO Reporting Center" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/4/2006",
  "desc" : "A multicolored object was sighted over Hicksville, New York in Nassau County at 12:25 p.m. It made security alarms go off and left behind a cloud of bluish fog. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8189",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, December 2006 webpage, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/5/1557",
  "desc" : "Above Tubingen, Germany fiery clouds circled in the sky around seven o'clock in the morning, from which emerged \"large, tall and wide\" hat-shaped objects. The glow cast upon the ground was yellow and \"bloody\". The hat-shaped flying objects were multicolored: black, red, blue, and green. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8190",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 33; Jacques Vallee, Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/5/1737",
  "desc" : "An astronomer in Sheffield, England saw a dark red, luminous cloud that emitted intense beams of light (solid light). The light beams moved slowly, then stopped. He suddenly felt so hot that he had to remove his shirt outdoors. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8191",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of Phenomenon, p. 9; Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/5/1945",
  "desc" : "On this fateful day six U.S. Army Air Force planes, which took off from Fort Lauderdale Naval Air Station, Florida disappeared into the Atlantic Ocean Bermuda Triangle. Flight 19, a formation of five TBM avengers became disoriented while flying northeast from Fort Lauderdale, and made increasingly frantic radio calls announcing they were lost and calling for assistance. A huge rescue search operation caused more aboard a Martin Mariner sea rescue plane to be lost. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8192",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Miami Herald, December 6, 1945; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 293; Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 125; Vincent H. Gaddis, Invisible Horizons, p. 175" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/5/1948",
  "desc" : "Flying east of Las Vegas, New Mexico a C-47 pilot and two others saw a huge luminous green fireball at 9:27 p.m., which appeared to maneuver. The same night 12 green fireballs seen traveling rapidly north to south by security guards at military installations from 1930 to 2330 hours, including guards at Sandia Base, New Mexico where atomic bombs were being assembled. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8193",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 73; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 11; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 398; (2) Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 48; Bruce Maccabee, UFO-FBI Connection: The Secret History of the Government's Cover-Up, p. 70" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/5/1950",
  "desc" : "A postman in the farming community of Newbliss, Monaghan County, Ireland watched at 1:00 p.m. as 8 \"table knives\" passed over at high altitude, weaving up and down. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8194",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: August-December, p. 62" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/5/1950",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon a disc-shaped object was seen over the post office for 60 seconds in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. It flew to the east, then turned and flew off to the northwest. A separate witness saw it and reported it flew off to the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8195",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: August-December, p. 63" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/5/1957",
  "desc" : "At 12:10 p.m. a spinning disc-shaped object was sighted flying south by two railroad men in Jackson, Mississippi. After five minutes there was a big flash on the horizon, and a fireball appeared there, then shrank. In Tulsa, Oklahoma a doctor and a second witness watched a circular object hover at 10:30 p.m. for five minutes, then shoot off to the northwest. It had a glowing front edge.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8196",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: December, pp. 21-22" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/5/1962",
  "desc" : "A woman named Chapman had a close encounter with a UFO in Irlam, Greater Manchester, England at 6:45 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8197",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Orbit, April 1962, p. 26" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/5/1963",
  "desc" : "Several hundred witnesses at a seaside resort in Carrasco, Montevideo, Uruguay saw an oval UFO, described as metallic-aluminum in appearance, hovering in the clear morning sky. The object \"balanced gently in the air.\"  ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8198",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume 1, p. 141" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/5/1966",
  "desc" : "At 2:00 a.m. a dark disc-shaped object with lights around the rim passed over a car in a snowstorm in the mountains of Col d'Uzes, Gard, France. It flew at an estimated altitude of 150 meters, a speed of 300 kilometers per hour, and made no discernable sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8199",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, November 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/5/1966",
  "desc" : "Several witnesses had a close encounter with a UFO in Lakewood, New Jersey on this day. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8200",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ocean County (NJ) Citizen, December 6, 1966; John A. Keel, Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1967, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/5/1968",
  "desc" : "A cluster of flashing lights appeared just at dusk over Watts Bar Lake south of Kingston, Tennessee, and then moved skyward. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8201",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Knoxville (TN) News-Sentinel, December 10, 1968" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/5/1969",
  "desc" : "While flying from Toronto Island Airport south over Lake Ontario a light was seen by two witnesses oscillating up and down, and was visible for 15 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8202",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 37; Data-Net Report, March 1970, p. 11" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/5/1970",
  "desc" : "An older couple in their sixties were driving over a bridge on Highway 2 at 6:45 p.m. just outside Everett, Washington when they saw a deep red light near the surface of the river. The light passed over them and their car motor sputtered as it did so, the speed dropping from 40 mph to 5-10 mph. The light continued in a straight line to the north, then rose vertically at a high rate of speed. The car functioned normally afterwards. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8203",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dr. Donald A. Johnson case investigation files; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, citing APRO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/5/1971",
  "desc" : "At 3:00 a.m. a funnel-shaped object followed a car through a forest south of Michery, Yonne, France. It eetours around a copse of woods, then made some sharp turns. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8204",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1973" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/5/1971",
  "desc" : "Paulo Caetano Silveira's fourth \"contact\" experience occurred near the bridge over the Rio Carangula outside Itaperuna, Brazil at 7:00 p.m. He was invited inside the UFO and heard its occupants \"jabbering\" with each other unintelligibly, although he never observed their lips move. He did understand their message that they were on a mission of peace, preparing people for eventual contact. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8205",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Walter Buhler, UFO Encounters: FSR Special Edition No. 5, p. 21; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-34, citing Dr. Walter Buhler" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/5/1973",
  "desc" : "In the pre-dawn hours a red disc-shaped object was seen over some marshes at a low altitude near Nimes, Gard, France. At dawn 65 bulls of the breed that supplies the French bull rings were found drowned in the river. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8206",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "South China Morning Post, December 22, 1973; FSR, July 1974, p. 33" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/5/1973",
  "desc" : "At 5:30 p.m. a mother and her four teenage daughters first saw a flash of green light, then they saw a lime-green, domed cupcake-shaped object in a snow-covered soybean field while driving southwest of Underwood, Iowa. A search showed no landing traces in the snow. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8207",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON field investigation case file, field investigator Elmer Kral" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/5/1973",
  "desc" : "On this night a basketball coach and two other men in a car near Carnegie, Oklahoma drove toward some flashing lights, and saw a being on the roadside with green flashing lights on his shoulders. The being approached the car. He wore \"blood red pants\" and a welder's type mask with a red flashing light on top. Another man reported seeing the being and a glowing white light down a side road. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8208",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Humanoid Report Catalogue, case 1973-79; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids; Tulsa World, December 6, 1973" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/5/1975",
  "desc" : "An object that looked like a Ferris wheel on its side was sighted in Clarkston, Georgia on this night. It had yellow and amber colored lights spinning around it as the object moved forward. On that same night another flying object with two large clear lights in front, and a red light in the rear was encountered in Montville, New Jersey. A string of lights connected the three large lights and would change colors from red to green to brown to yellow. The UFO moved erratically, in rapid short spurts ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8209",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "CUFOS News Bulletin, February 1976, pp. 11 & 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/5/1976",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 a.m. a 150-foot diameter disc zigzagged over an electrical power station for about an hour in Solleftea, Vasternorrland, Sweden. It had diffuse lights on its underside. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8210",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, April 1977, p. 2, citing Nya Norrland, December 6, 1976" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/5/1979",
  "desc" : "At 5:55 p.m. three groups of six orbs exited a cigar-shaped object over Ansted, West Virginia. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8211",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, January 1980, p. 4; APRO Bulletin, May 1980, p 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/5/1984",
  "desc" : "Several hundred witnessed a bright ovoid object fly east over Imperia, Alpes-Maritime, France and Genova, Italy at 11:30 a.m. giving off bursts of flashing light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8212",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, May 1985; MUFON UFO Journal, April 1985" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/5/1987",
  "desc" : "At 3:00 p.m. a cylindrical UFO flew dangerously close to an aircraft on landing approach, then followed the aircraft and hovered near the airport in Indianapolis, Indiana. The witness was driving east when he saw the prop plane as it broke through clouds at 4600 feet on landing approach. The vertical cylinder hovered at only 3-4 meters. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8213",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 112" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/5/1988",
  "desc" : "A gray cigar-shaped object zigzagged over Gulf Breeze, Florida at 4:55 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8214",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case # 475, citing UFO Newsclipping Service" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/5/1989",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon in Green Bay, Wisconsin a house was shaken violently. The woman witness photographed a silver disc-shaped object emitting balls of light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8215",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ed Walters, UFO Abductions at Gulf Breeze, p. 285" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/5/1993",
  "desc" : "At 7:20 p.m. several white ovoid UFOs with counter-clockwise orbiting satellite balls of light covered a four-lane highway in Arras, Pas d' Calais, France for 15 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8216",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 322" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/5/1994",
  "desc" : "At 3:50 a.m. two female witnesses, sleeping outdoors in Morphett Vale, South Australia, saw a disc-shaped object crossing the sky from east to west. It had no lights and made no sound. The UFO appeared to be spinning. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8217",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Keith Basterfield, South Australia UFO Reports - Project 1947 Website, citing UFORSA, case 94027" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/5/1994",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. a large circular object, making no engine sounds, hovered 70 meters away from the witness in Sumter, South Carolina. It produced a light that made no shadows. After a short while hovering it began climbing at a steep rate. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8218",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, December 1994 webpage, entry posted January 28, 1999" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/5/1996",
  "desc" : "A black, silent triangular UFO stopped over Belleville-sur-Saone, Ain, France at 9:30 p.m., and then turned toward Brou; rises in altitude and shoots toward the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8219",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1977" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/5/1999",
  "desc" : "Mr. & Mrs. Vinsant of Birmingham, Alabama awoke to bright white lights illuminating their farmyard. The lights climbed into the sky. Two minutes later they heard a loud explosion. Mr. Vinsant walked outside and saw a large oval-shaped object with lights rotating around its circumference, that was hovering over a nearby mountain. It made no sound, and hovered over the mountain for 90 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8220",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer, MUFON UFO Journal, January 2000, p. 17; UFO Magazine (USA), March 2000, p. 16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/5/1999",
  "desc" : "On this evening at 10 p.m. Maria Alice Medina was sitting on her verandah in Pato Branco, Parana, Brazil drinking some coffee when she observed a short (1.20 meter tall) humanoid approach her. The being wore silvery coveralls and blue boots. His head was bald and he had large black eyes. The humanoid attempted to communicate with her by emitting strange sounds, but Maria was not able to understand. He then turned around and walked away into some nearby woods. Soon afterwards she saw a bright light rise from the woods and shoot up into space. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8221",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1999, citing Thiago Luiz Ticchetti" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/5/2000",
  "desc" : "Two witnesses in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota reported sighting a dark, triangular object with amber light fly over the city at 7:40 p.m. The craft had a smooth and continuous flight path except for a momentary jog or \"twitch\" to the left from the object's flight path. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8222",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Craig R. Lang, MUFON Minnesota" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/5/2003",
  "desc" : "At 5:43 p.m. in Orillia, Ontario two orange balls of light were seen chasing each other, and then flew quickly into a cloud bank. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8223",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2003 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 632" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/5/2004",
  "desc" : "Beginning at 10:20 and continuing for two hours, a bright shining object emitted multicolored beams of light over the city of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8224",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), February 2005, p. 73, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/5/2004",
  "desc" : "Four lighted chevron-shaped objects silently glided over Terre Haute, Indiana heading south at 4:25 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8225",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), February 2005, p. 72, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/5/2004",
  "desc" : "At 7:15 p.m. in Acton, Ontario two oval-shaped lights hesitated, then flew over a house, moving off very quickly. At 10:00 p.m. in Strathroy, Ontario a slow moving diamond-shaped or triangle-shaped craft flew low overhead; it made no sound and had bright white lights on its tips and scrolling blue and red lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8226",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, cases # 833 & 834" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/5/2004",
  "desc" : "Driving west on Interstate 88 in Bainbridge, Chenango County, New York a witness spotted a disc-shaped object hovering above a field at 9:35 p.m. It was silver gray in color with blinking yellowish orange lights evenly spaced all the way around it. It was estimated to be about 8 stories above the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8227",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), February 2005, p. 72, citing National UFO Reporting Center" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/5/2006",
  "desc" : "A disc-shaped object was sighted over High Prairie, Alberta, Canada at 6:00 p.m. It had two reddish orange lights on the outside of the middle of the craft, and three orange lights around the back.The craft made no noise and was estimated to be 10 to 18 feet wide. The witness estimated the object was only 75 metres away, and at an altitude of 50 to 75 meters high. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8228",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, December 7, 2006; Geoff Dittman, 2006 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 699" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/6/1952",
  "desc" : "At 5:25 a.m. five blue objects buzzed a B-29 flying at 5000 mph off the Louisiana coast, then merged with a huge object that was a half-inch blip on radar screen. The huge object shot away at 9,000 mph. The entire incident lasted ten minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8229",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "James McDonald, UNICAT database case # 672, citing Radar Meteorological Proceedings, November 1970, p. 17; Aime Michel, The Truth about Flying Saucers, p. 95; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 70; Gordon D. Thayer, in Edward U. Condon (ed.), Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 148; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 161" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/6/1957",
  "desc" : "At around one o'clock in the afternoon a metallic looking object hovered low over the horizon in Salvador, Bahia state, Brazil. It split in half. One half descended while heading to the south, while the other half hovered in place. That same day in the Tumacacori National Monument in Arizona, a disc-shaped object with a dome maneuvered over the mountains for five minutes at 5:15 p.m. It had a red glowing bottom. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8230",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: December, pp. 22 & 23" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/6/1958",
  "desc" : "A disc-shaped object passed very low over the city of Bari, Apulia, Italy at about 11:00 p.m. A power blackout occurred over the entire city. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8231",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing Charles Garreau, Soucopes Volantes Vingt-cinq Ans d'Enquetes (Third Edition), p. 78" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/6/1966",
  "desc" : "Two adults, one a high school teacher, were driving near the local TNT dump site on this night when they saw a giant gray man-like figure with glowing red eyes in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8232",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John A. Keel, FSR, July-August 1968, p. 13; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-71 (A0765)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/6/1971",
  "desc" : "Following a pre-arranged date with some mysterious entities, the well known stage psychic Uri Geller and physicist Andrijah Puharich drove to the appointed place near Tel Aviv, Israel around 10:00 p.m. There they saw a bluish light pulsating over a small square of open field. Geller felt an irresistible attraction towards the light. They left the car and heard a cicada-like electronic noise. Geller remembered asking Puharich and another witness, named Iris, to wait there and he set off towards the pulsating light. As he approached it he felt like he was entering some sort of trance. Everything became completely silent around him and he felt like he had entered some type of \"vacuum.\" The very air had changed quality. He then remembered seeing a strange \"building\" or UFO having no discernible shape whatsoever. Soon a shapeless dark figure parted from the strange building and approached him, then put something in his hand. Geller felt a sudden feeling of fear and ran back to Andrijah and Iris. Before he reached them he realized what was in his hand: it was the very same pen that had mysteriously vanished from their experiment box. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8233",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Andrijah Puharich, Uri Geller; David F. Webb, Proceedings of the 1976 CUFOS Conference, p. 270; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1135" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/6/1973",
  "desc" : "Beginning at around 7:45 a.m., an airliner was delayed from landing three times because of nocturnal lights and radar returns from all over the area of Pisa, Italy for 30 minutes. One of these lights flew off rapidly to the northwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8234",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 134" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/6/1973",
  "desc" : "At 6:45 p.m. in the mountains five kilometers southeast of Fabregues, France two teenagers discovered a 12 meter wide disc-shaped object resting on four legs on the ground. It had a bright dome or \"blister\" on top. A door in the craft opened and a ladder unrolled. The witnesses fled and the UFO took off, making a humming sound. It pursued the witnesses for awhile, then flew off to the southwest. Four imprints were found in the ground at the landing site. They were arranged in a 1.3 meter square with a central burn mark. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8235",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "newspaper clipping dated December 22, 1973; Fred I. Merritt, Leg-Mark Catalog; Ted R. Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 714; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 134; J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, volume 5 (1974) case 1120, citing the Saga UFO Report" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/6/1973",
  "desc" : "A burglar alarm went off in a house in La Selva Beach in Santa Cruz, California around 5 a.m. Appliances in house started operating and kept rhythm with the lights flashing on a UFO outside; the freezer in particular surged when the lights on the UFO became intense. Deputy sheriffs came in response to the burglar alarm call and also saw the lights from the craft, which were red, blue, green and orange. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8236",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "James A. Harder, APRO Bulletin, November-December 1973" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/6/1976",
  "desc" : "John Brady and Ronald Pullman were driving home to Milford, Delaware at 3:30 a.m. and were at a place called Slaughter Neck when they saw two tall figures in an adjacent cornfield, about 100 yards away. The two giant humanoid figures were maybe 8 or 9 feet tall, and standing close together as though they were hugging. They appeared to be of a pine green color. No traces could be found the next day. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8237",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Milford Chronicle, December 9, 1976; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1976-80 (A1512" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/6/1976",
  "desc" : "At 5:30 a.m. a married couple were heading west on Sterling Road in Davie, Florida to drop off his two children, ages 4 and 1 ½ years, at a local daycare center. As he was passing a bicyclist he noticed a fireball in the northwest sky falling fast. After a minute the husband pulled over and shut off the car, to say a prayer because he thought he had seen an airplane crashing. He sat there for several minutes, then he and his wife observed a huge dull, grayish metallic object that was heading slowly towards them. The object was immense, made no sound, nor emit any smoke or exhaust that could be noticeable from thermal fluctuations of the air around it. The object appeared to be oblong or cigar-shaped, more than 250 feet long and more than 30 feet high. There seemed to be some sort of whitish light atop and a light at each end, front and rear but not white.<br/><br/> As it approached their vehicle his wife leaned her upper body out of the window to look up at it, while he watched it from behind the windshield inside. As they kept asking what it was, he noticed that the entire interior of the car had become illuminated. He then also noticed that his four-year old daughter leaning on the back window looking up. He then looked at his interior light and saw that it was not lit. He again looked out his side window and it was still pitch black outside the car. He did his best to get a fix on the structure of the craft, that was now less than 50 feet from them. The surface did not appear to be metallic at all, but it had a rough, sandy texture similar to that of shark skin. He could not locate any seams on it or anything that would suggest conventional construction methods.<br/><br/> The object became stationary and they sat staring at it for minutes. Then he saw a small, child-like figure fun in front of the headlights from the left. It started to climb over the metal road barrier, but hesitated and turned toward him. It wore no shoes, belt, tools, weapons, or any other accessories. His first thought was to jump out and grab the being to throw it in the car trunk, but a mental voice told him not to move or he would be harmed. He tried to lift his arm and was horrified because it looked like it was cut off where the light ended inside the car. He looked again at the small figure again and had the thought that he could easily overpower it. A voice again warned him that the stretch cloth suit the figure was wearing carried 40,000 volts of piezo-electrical current. The small being then hopped over a fence and entered a field of a horse farm. His last memory of the incident was of looking behind his car and seeing a somewhat different shaped object about one mile south of his location, moving slowly at first but then accelerating so fast that it appeared to just vaporize. He then drove off without speaking another word to his wife, and at the daycare center they realized that they had been at the site for over 40 minutes. He also lost his eyesight for almost two days after the incident. The witness also claims that, after several years of nightmares, he discovered that the occupants of the craft he had seen were from a parallel universe. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8238",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1976, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/6/1977",
  "desc" : "Along the coast of Tatapouri, New Zealand a red disc-shaped object came in over the land from the direction of the sea and followed a car with three female passengers along Highway 35 for a mile until they stopped the car, causing the car headlights to dim during its pursuit. The car's new battery had no water remaining in it after the close encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8239",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, June 1978, p. 2, citing Spaceview April 1978; Xenolog, March 1978, p. 16; UNICAT database, case 167, citing IUR" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/6/1978",
  "desc" : "In the isolated taiga in the Amur region of Siberia between the rivers Urkan and Tyndoy, a metallic UFO shaped like a mushroom was found on this day, apparently having crashed. Its diameter was about 5.5 to 6 meters and it was about 3.0 meters in height. It reportedly weighed 720 kg. It was transported to Novosibirsk, Russia where it was hidden in the Akademgorodok region. The body of a short dwarf-like humanoid was found inside, which was delivered for autopsy to the scientific research institute in Novosibirsk. When first discovered the humanoid allegedly still had shown vital signs, and it stayed in a coma-like state for two weeks before dying. A segmented aperture was found on the side of the disc where apparently other crewmembers had escaped out through an escape pod. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8240",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing Anton \"Cade\" Belousov, Soviet X Files List" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/6/1978",
  "desc" : "At 6:30 a.m. three lights in a triangular pattern were seen in the sky over Avezzano, Abruzzi, Italy at the same time that a delta-shaped object was spotted on the ground. EM effects were noted. At the landing site on some farm land there were later found some burnt areas and deep ground marks in the soil. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8241",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 212" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/6/1978",
  "desc" : "Mrs. Pilar Martinez de Arregui opened the windows in her home in Alegria de Alava, Spain at 12:40 a.m. in order to relax after a long day, as her husband slept in the nearby bedroom. She spied a strong orange light reflected from the glassware inside the house. She investigated and found that the source of the light was in a nearby field, but the light had gradually disappeared. Temporarily forgetting about the mystery light, Pilar began doing some housework, when a second more powerful orange flash of light again brought her attention outside. She saw a orange sphere object approaching from the sky at very high speed. Afraid, she ran and turned off all the lights in the house. Outside the object had now landed some 100 meters from the house. The craft was oval in shape appeared to balance itself just above the ground. Crouching behind her window she peered out and noticed a light like a flashlight that was being carried by two tall and very corpulent humanoid figures. Pilar noticed that the humanoids wore tight-fitting one-piece coveralls, very light in color. They had just appeared standing next to the landed object; they had not emerged from any opening, they had just sudden appeared. Both beings began approaching the house. For several minutes she watched them move around through partially opened blinds. Finally, she decided she would bathe and then go to bed. Later, feeling nervous, she got up from bed and looked again to see the object rise and emit a sharp whirring sound. It quickly disappeared from view. Investigators found unusual tracks at the landing site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8242",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing Iker Jimenez, Encuentros: Historia de Los OVNI en Espana" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/6/1978",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. a 26-year-old night watchman, Fortunato Zanfretta, was patrolling a housing development in Marzano Di Torriglia, Genova, Italy when he noticed some moving \"torch lights\" coming from a nearby courtyard. He tried to radio his headquarters but the two-way radio would not work. Armed with a pistol and a flashlight he entered the courtyard to search the area. He was suddenly pushed from behind and fell. He got up and was confronted by a huge, three-meter tall reptilian \"creature.\" The witness was by now terrified and he dropped his flashlight and ran towards the car. He then saw a bright yellow, triangular shaped craft take off from behind a house. He called for help and was later found unconscious at the site by the other guards. Later, under hypnosis, he recalled being taken into a very bright room by giant beings that put a painful helmet on his head. The beings were described as green skinned with yellow triangular eyes, red veins on their heads, and pointed ears. He suffered from persistent headaches after the event. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8243",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Luciano Boccone, UNICAT database, citing International UFO Reporter, November 1979, p. 13; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1997; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 139, citing Paolo Fiorino, UFO Universe, October-November 1991" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/6/1978",
  "desc" : "A security guard at the local hydroelectric plant in Marimbonda near Fronteira, Brazil was at his guardhouse on top of the dam at 10:30 p.m. when he noticed some lights shining down on the water surface. He went out to investigate and noticed a luminous circular object approach from across the river. The object came closer and began to hover close to the ground near the power station. The guard could see a door and a small window on the UFO. The window opened and a human face looked out at the witness. The craft's door then opened and three tall men came out. These men wore shiny metallic blue coveralls and all had very long, smooth black hair. The beings approached the guard and spoke to him in an unintelligible language. He panicked and tried to fire a warning shot into the air with his revolver, but it jammed. One of the men then went inside the UFO and came back out holding a black box and handed it to one of the others. After that the witness was able to understand the beings and was told they were here on a \"research and study mission.\" At one point one of the men started collecting stones from the ground and the witness protested. The men then put away the box and calmly walked back into their craft, which left silently and at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8244",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dr. Walter Buhler, FSR, Vol. 25 # 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/6/1989",
  "desc" : "A couple driving in the farm community of Blyton, Illinois saw some yellowish orange lights pace their car for several miles at about 7:00 p.m., blinking out whenever there was oncoming traffic, then turning back on. Finally, all the lights blinked out and were gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8245",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Poe Clark Poe, MUFON Field Investigations Database, case # 900743" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/6/1991",
  "desc" : "At 9:45 p.m. a large oval UFO was observed by the Yates family a few dozen feet above the Teynham Church in Teynham, Kent, England. Something shot off from it, then lots of different beams of light started flashing. The object had an oval on top with red, yellow, green and blue lights on the bottom. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8246",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, September 1993, citing the East Kent Gazette, January 12, 1992; Timothy Good, Alien Update, p. 243" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/6/1991",
  "desc" : "Israeli police and the IDF followed a boomerang-shaped UFO from Beth Shean, Israel to the Jordanian border on this evening. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8247",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hesemann,  UFOs: The Secret History" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/6/2001",
  "desc" : "A retired French gendarme sighted a multi-colored revolving triangle in the sky over Mouscron, Belgium. It had blue lights in the three corners, and a brilliant yellow light at the bottom. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8248",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michel Bougard, Inforespace, June 2002, p. 40" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/6/2001",
  "desc" : "A gigantic flaring light descended over La Florida, Bio Bio, Chile and was visible for hours hovering above and outside San Ramon Hill. The object was reported to be \"as large as a stadium.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8249",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), April 2002, p. 20, citing Filers' Files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/7/1872",
  "desc" : "At King's Sutton in Banbury, England an object resembling a haystack flew on an irregular course at one o'clock in the morning. Sometimes flying very high, sometimes very low, it was accompanied by fire and dense smoke. It produced much the same effect as a tornado, felling trees and walls. It vanished suddenly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8250",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/7/1896",
  "desc" : "A large airship flew over the small town of Camptonville, Yuba County,California and landed nearby at 9:00 p.m. Five men went out to investigate, and found the ship with its sole occupant, a bearded man who appeared to be deaf and mute. Some written communication was attempted, in response the man produced an \"alphabet\" and spelled out a message saying he lived in the Montezuma Mountains with his wife and two children. He declined to answer any further questions, so the five men left. The craft was seen flying off the next day. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8251",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "San Francisco Examiner, December 8, 1896; Jerome Clark, The Unidentified: Notes toward Solving the UFO Mystery, p. 142; Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/7/1951",
  "desc" : "At 8:15 a.m. an Atomic Energy Commission guard named Collins at the Oak Ridge Nuclear Research Facility in Tennessee sighted a \"canvas colored\" square object, estimated to be 20 feet wide, that moved up and down twice. The case remained unexplained by the Air Force. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8252",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1021; Project Grudge Report #3, January 1952, p. 31" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/7/1951",
  "desc" : "A pilot trainer and his student, flying in an aeronca 65CV airplane over Torrance, California sighted a shiny metallic football-shaped object in the sky at 10:21 a.m. The object seemed to be stationary at first, then it moved away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8253",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/7/1954",
  "desc" : "A 26-year-old man riding a bicycle near a farm in Gainchurizqueta, Irun, Spain saw an object land nearby. It came from the sea on a north to south flight path, and passed within six meters. It was round, three meters in diameter, with a headlight and four fins. Traces: ground marks and metallic samples. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8254",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/7/1954",
  "desc" : "At 1:15 p.m. a weather officer in Cape Province, South Africa using a theodolite, saw a white, semi-circular, flat object with a dome fly from west to east, then turned north. The sighting lasted seven minutes. A Project Blue Book \"unidentified\" case. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8255",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 3356" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/7/1957",
  "desc" : "Two disc-shaped objects maneuvered and circled in the sky over Brisbane, California at 7:10 p.m. One flew off to the west, one flew south toward Moffett Field. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8256",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: December, p. 24" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/7/1966",
  "desc" : "On this night four women driving on Route 33 near Gallipolis, Ohio--the town just across the Ohio River from Point Pleasant, West Virginia--saw a brownish silver humanoid flying creature with glowing red eyes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8257",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John A. Keel, FSR, July-August 1968, p. 13; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-72, citing John Keel" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/7/1967",
  "desc" : "On this evening near El Paso, Texas William C. Collins observed an unidentified object hovering about 200 feet in the air. There appeared to be a humanoid figure onboard the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8258",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1968, p. 3; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-121, citing a newspaper source" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/7/1970",
  "desc" : "After finding huge mysterious footprints on their property in Vader, Washington three days before, a family watched a very bright object approach their house at 7:15 a.m. It seemed to have a central dome with a revolving ring around it and was deep orange in the center. The craft tilted slightly to one side, hovered briefly over some nearby power lines, then brightened while making a low sweep over the area. Two of the witnesses saw what appeared to be a gray colored \"shape\" drop from the object and scurry away into the woods before the UFO departed. Later that week a mysterious dark \"prowler\" was seen peering through windows. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8259",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1970, case #1480, citing Loren Coleman, Mysterious America" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/7/1972",
  "desc" : "A married couple named Willis saw a cylindrical light hovering while driving in Port Elizabeth, New Jersey at 8:50 p.m. It moved into some nearby woods as their car approached. Ground traces and a missing plug of earth were found in the woods, at the suspected landing site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8260",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Atlantic City Press, December 13, 1972; Data-Net Report, March 1973, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/7/1977",
  "desc" : "In Tatapouri, New Zealand a red, disc-shaped object came over land from the direction of the sea at 7:30 p.m. It followed a car with three people inside. The headlights on the car dimmed but did not go out during the sighting, which ended when the UFO veered off into the sky. When the witnesses arrived home, they found the car's battery had no water in it, even though it had been serviced only two days prior to the sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8261",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 416, citing Spaceview, first quarter, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/8/1957",
  "desc" : "At 5:15 p.m. three U.S. military witnesses in Morocco, driving in the desert between Tiflet and Monor, sighted an elongated aerial object. It ascended into the sky, descended, then made a second ascent. Large and distant, the object shot off toward the south. This case is listed in the Project Blue Book files as case number 61 for the month of December, but is considered \"explained\" by the US Air Force as contrails. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8262",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/8/1957",
  "desc" : "Later that day in Svea, Minnesota at four o’clock in the afternoon, a ten-meter diameter red disc roared through the sky, flying at only six meters above the ground. It was seen by many witnesses at it lit up the ground, moved through some woods, and then climbed into the sky, shooting away toward the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8263",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "newspaper clippings, December 12, 1957" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/8/1957",
  "desc" : "At the same time in Bonanza, Oregon two people claimed to have seen a luminous disc hovering over some hills at six kilometers altitude. It suddenly shot away toward the southwest at 800 kilometers per hour. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8264",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History: December 1957, p.26" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/8/1957",
  "desc" : "At 5:30 p.m. near Woodward, Oklahoma Mr. and Mrs. Martin were driving through some woods with their child and were nearing a hill when a domed, disc-shaped UFO flew nearby and temporarily took control of their car. The UFO was described as about 16 meters in diameter with portholes around the rim. The electrical system of their 1954 Dodge Coronet failed when the UFO approached. They felt a hot blast of air and heard a high pitched sound at the same time. The car restarted by itself when the UFO flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8265",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek investigation files; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 86" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/8/1957",
  "desc" : "At nine o’clock in the evening the engine and headlights of two cars traveling between Coulee City and Soap Lake, Washington died when a huge, fiery UFO flew overhead from north to south. Strangely, the dome lights came on inside both cars during the engine and headlight failures, even though they weren't turned on. The cars remained stalled until the object had passed out of sight. There were eight witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8266",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 75; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 87, citing Schopick" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/8/1965",
  "desc" : "In 1965 in Beckington, Wiltshire, England a phantom automobile, shaped like a Land Rover but without wheels, passed the witness’s car. It made a whining noise, then vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8267",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U database, case #7027" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/8/1966",
  "desc" : "At 6:30 a.m. Charles Hern and his wife were walking their dog in Cheshire, Ohio when they noticed a red light on the opposite bank of Kyger Creek. Several short men could be seen moving about. Two other witnesses joined them, and then red and orange lights began flashing on and off. A beam of light seemed to be constantly directed at the water. Finally the lights went out and a bright greenish light came on. Then the craft shot up into the air and disappeared into the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8268",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, November-December 1966, p. 10; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0767; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1966, case # 1398, citing John Keel, The Mothman Prophecies, p. 83" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/8/1975",
  "desc" : "In Tranmere, South Australia a mother and daughter heard a strange noise at 2:45 a.m. The next morning they discovered that something had apparently landed on and crushed some of their strawberry plants. They found two 0.9-meter diameter areas in which the plants were flattened and swirled in a counter-clockwise direction. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8269",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1976, p. 19" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/8/1975",
  "desc" : "A photograph of a metallic, domed disc was taken at two o’clock in the afternoon by a man in Nagoya, Japan. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8270",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Wendell Stevens and Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, p. 319" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/8/1975",
  "desc" : "At 5:30 p.m. in Palais-sur-Vienne, France a huge ball of light was seen hovering by some high tension electrical power lines. The light vanished after several seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8271",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1976" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/8/1975",
  "desc" : "In a pasture in Cascade County near Simms, Montana nocturnal lights were seen to have landed near the carcass of a dead calf two nights in a row. On this, the second night, the calf’s carcass was later found mutilated. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8272",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Messengers of Deception, p. 183" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/8/1975",
  "desc" : "On this night in the Siskiyou Mountains of California five young men witnessed a greenish cloud-shaped object slide over a cut in a mountain low over the tops of tree stumps in a clear cut area. Inside the greenish glow they could see the outline of a man. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8273",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul C. Cerny, UFO case investigation files; San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle, April 4, 1976" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/8/1978",
  "desc" : "In 1978 a seven-meter diameter domed disc hovered over a road in Portegrandi, Italy at 1:30 a.m. It had four windows on its side and emitted rays of light. At 2:45 a.m. on a road in Catanzaro, Italy three policemen saw a luminous domed object tilt over the roadway. It shot away from them when they hit it with a spotlight. Later that evening at 11:30 p.m. two young men were walking along a mountainside path in Milanere, Torino, Italy when they sighted a bluish white light among the trees. One of the men approached the pear-shaped light and he suddenly vanished. The bright light then took off into the sky. The other man went for help and a rescue party searched for the missing man. He was found unconscious, cold, and weak. He had been missing for thirty minutes. Light bothered his eyes, and a scar was found on his leg. All that he could remember was seeing three to four figures with large pumpkin shaped heads standing in front of the light. He was paralyzed, and vaguely remembered odd lights and sounds and the feeling of being touched. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8274",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issues 212, 214; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 137, citing Paolo Fiorino, UFO Universe, October-November 1991" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/8/1981",
  "desc" : "In 1981 an enormous UFO shaped like an orange ball, and estimated to be 750 feet in length, made a number of turns in the sky south of Reserve, New Mexico at 7:30 p.m. and then executed a ninety-degree turn near Luna Mountain. The five witnesses said they saw a jet aircraft chase the UFO out of sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8275",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, June 1982, p. 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/8/1989",
  "desc" : "At 4:30 a.m. a security guard name Arias was patrolling the Colonial Palms shopping mall in Miami, Florida just south of the city when he encountered three very tall beings standing in the parking lot area. The humanoids were described as being at least seven feet, five inches tall, thin, with large heads and huge cat-like eyes. The guard ran to the closest payphone and dialed the emergency number. A police unit was dispatched but a search of the immediate vicinity failed to find anything. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8276",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1991, p. 234; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case # 447, citing Miami Herald" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/8/1989",
  "desc" : "In 1989 a number of nocturnal lights were seen over the city of San Diego, California for about 30 minutes. One UFO buzzed a pickup truck. The witnesses said it had an octagon shape with a V-shape at the rear edge of the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8277",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1991, p. 235" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/8/1999",
  "desc" : "According to UFO Magazine published in England, a 15-meter by 6-meter crater was found near a dam in Guyra, New South Wales, Australia. Apparently a mysterious flying object struck the dam at a 45-degree angle and then skidded before sinking into the mud. The police in the area set up a one-mile wide exclusion zone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8278",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (UK), May 2000, p. 70" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/8/1999",
  "desc" : "On this same day at 7:45 in the morning, an executive in Mexico City, Mexico videotaped an oval-shaped UFO with the telescopic zoom lens of his video camera. The object reflected the morning sunlight, and after four minutes it emitted a bright beam of light from its center. The color of the light changed from yellow to red to white. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8279",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer, MUFON UFO Journal, January 2000, p.19, citing J. Rense" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/9/1954",
  "desc" : "On this evening Sr. Da Costa e Rosa, a farmer living in Linha Bela Vista, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil heard a sound something like a sewing machine, and saw a cream-colored object \"shaped like a tropical helmet\" hovering just above the ground. A broad-shouldered man with pale skin was inside the craft. Another was outside examining a fence, while a third was closer to the farmer. Da Costa dropped his hoe, and this third man, with a smile, picked it up and gave it back to him. All three men were broad shouldered, with very pale skin, slanted eyes, and long blond hair. They wore light brown coveralls fastened to shoes without heels. After plucking a few plants, the men returned to their craft, which rose into the air slowly for 30 feet and then shot off at a high speed. The witness had never previously heard about flying saucers. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8280",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 52; Gordon Creighton, FSR, May-June 1970, p. 30; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-139 (A0351), citing Donald Hanlon, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 20" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/9/1955",
  "desc" : "A bluish white elongated UFO was sighted by a married couple from a terrace of an apartment building in Boonton, New Jersey at 7:00 p.m. as it slowly descended toward the ground above the Empire State Building and the New York City skyline. After several seconds it \"blinked out as if lights had been turned off.\" At 7:30 p.m. a luminous green, bullet-shaped UFO was seen from the New Jersey Turnpike as it flew to the west. It had two round portholes that gave off a white light. It was in full view before it vanished. \"It was there and then it wasn't,\" said the witness. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8281",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Alexander Mebane, Civilian Saucer Intelligence New York Newsletter, February 1956, p. 29 & January 1956, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/9/1960",
  "desc" : "At 8:30 p.m. in Carignan, France a dog was seen barking at a glowing UFO resting in a park. Three witnesses observed it from separate locations. It appeared to be an oval-shaped, self-luminous craft, four meters in diameter. Inside the glowing object vague shadows were seen moving about. It took off toward the north. A circle of yellowed grass was found at the site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8282",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magoina: A Century of Landings, case 513; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0506, citing Ouranos, August 1961" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/9/1962",
  "desc" : "A young man named Candau in Bologna, Italy saw a circular object 18 feet in diameter land 30 feet away from him. Two men emerged from the object, speaking an unintelligible language, and gestured to him. They wore yellow coveralls with wide belts. They re-entered craft and it departed making a strange sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8283",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magoina: A Century of Landings, case 552" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/9/1965",
  "desc" : "A major military operation took place on this night to recover a bronze colored, bullet or acorn-shaped object, 12 feet long and 10 feet in diameter, that came down in the woods near Kecksburg, Pennsylvania at 4:50 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8284",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UNICAT database, case 787, citing Stan Gordon, MUFON Journal, February 1991, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/9/1973",
  "desc" : "A 20 meter in diameter cone-shaped object with metallic antennae was seen in the sky over Mont Ste. Victoire, Bouches-Rhone, France by an aerospace worker at 10:45 a.m. It tilted at an angle, rose in the sky, then shot off toward the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8285",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, June 1975" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/9/1978",
  "desc" : "Police in Reggio di Calabria, Sicily, Italy watched a multi-colored object with intermittent flashing lights at 6:00 a.m. When spotlighted the UFO seemed to enlarge, then emitted a beam down onto the police car. Five lights came on aboard the object. When the police spotlight was turned off, the lights on the UFO went off as well. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8286",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 175 & 351; Larry Hatch, U computer database, citingLumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 214" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/9/1992",
  "desc" : "Nocturnal lights were videotaped over a school in Sidney, Maine for three minutes at 9:30 a.m. The shape of the object or objects behind the lights was indistinct, but there was a loud hum associated with the sighting. The lights zigzagged. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8287",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, January 1993" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/9/1993",
  "desc" : "At 7:15 p.m., just after dark, the witness saw a UFO settle down on a snowy field just across the road from her house in Walpole, New Hampshire. Several undescribed \"aliens\" exited the object and appeared to jump across the field with large leaps. They approached the witness house, and then looked in a window. The frightened witness hid. The beings then returned to their \"ship\" and apparently left. No traces were found at the landing site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8288",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 2650, citing UFO Sightings in New Mexico and the World" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/9/1995",
  "desc" : "At 7:50 p.m. a man who wishes to remain anonymous reported seeing a brilliant object descend from the sky and appear to enter a nearby man-made lake behind an apartment complex in Hialeah Gardens, Florida. Armed with his flashlight, he approached the site and saw two beings swimming in the water. They had large heads and bright luminous eyes that appeared to be blinking. The witness briefly illuminated the creatures with the flashlight, and reported that their eyes seemed to flare up. He quickly ran away and called the police. It is not known if the police found anything. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8289",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, personal investigation, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 2137" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/9/1996",
  "desc" : "Plinio Bragatto, a 74-year old laborer, was on his way home after work in Governador Valadares, Mina Gerais, Brazil when he made a brief stop to buy some beers. He walked on from the mart and stopped to sit on a rock in order to drink one of the beers. At 6:30 p.m. he heard a loud sound coming from behind him. When he turned around he saw a large metallic oval-shaped craft land in a field close to him. It landed on several leg-like protrusions.<br/><br/> Once the object had landed a door opened, and a ladder or escalator of some sort was lowered to the ground. Next a two-meter tall humanoid figure stepped out. The being approached Bragatto and, in a peculiar language that sounded like Spanish, invited the witness to come inside. The witness agreed and was escorted inside. Once inside he noticed that the interior had a metallic bluish sheen to it. Still speaking in the peculiar language that the witness was somehow able to understand, the humanoid told Bragatto that they were going to take him to their \"native planet.\" He was given the impression that the planet was Mars. There was a total of three humanoids aboard, two men and a woman. He described them as closely resembling humans. They wore loose fitting gray outfits with several golden medallions hanging from around their necks. The hair on their heads grew from the middle of their heads back, and they had large ears and mouths that made them somewhat ugly.<br/><br/> Before leaving, Bragatto was given a medical examination by the beings. His stomach area was probed with several needle-like instruments. On the way to the being's home planet he was given a fruit resembling a \"Mamey\" and something resembling an empanada. He was also given a bitter-tasting beverage. In turn he offered the humanoids a beer, which they accepted. Arriving on the surface of the other world, the witness was greeted by several similarly appearing beings. The \"planet\" was beautiful in appearance and he saw numerous buildings that appeared to be made of a nylon-like material. One being now approached him and told him it was time to go, that eight hours had already passed. On his was back to the craft the witness saw a huge television screen that showed strange holographic like images, including dinosaur like animals.<br/><br/> When he asked them when they would be returning to Earth, he was then told \"We will return when the storms are less intense, since we have already lost five of our aircraft as a result of lighting.\" Around four o'clock in the morning he was returned to Brazil, but he found himself in an unfamiliar field. He followed a nearby path and reached a village that was more than 800 kilometers from his home town. He went to the police and told them what had happened. A police officer conducted an investigation and reportedly found a circular ground mark at the field where Bragatto was supposedly dropped off by the aliens. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8290",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 3592, citing CIPFANI" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/10/1896",
  "desc" : "At 6:00 p.m. in 1896, in both Battle Mountain and Elko, Nevada a strange light was seen flying to the west. Moving too slowly to be a meteor, it suddenly shot straight up through the atmosphere. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8291",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/10/1952",
  "desc" : "On this day in 1952 the Civilian Aeronautics Administration issued its report explaining the radar blips recorded over Washington, D.C. in July and August as temperature inversions. Ironically, on that same day unidentified bogeys appeared on radar screens over at least three US air bases. At 9:20 a.m. a UFO appeared on the radarscope at Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina. It stayed in position eight miles south of the base for eight hours. At Ladd AFB near Fairbanks, Alaska Project Blue Book explained a brief sighting by two airmen as a meteor. But at 7:15 p.m. an F-94 fighter jet with a two-man crew flying near Odessa, Washington had a UFO encounter that was not so easily explained. They sighted a large round, white UFO and obtained a radar lock on the target. The UFO reversed direction almost instantly, did a chandelle in front of the jet, rushed head-on toward them, then stopped, and pulled up. Even though they were flying at 600 mph they were unable to close with the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8292",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Doubt Magazine, 1953, p. 206; Project Blue Book case files; UNICAT case 687, citing James E. McDonald, Proceedings of the 1968 U.S. Congressional House Armed Services Committee, p. 67" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/10/1953",
  "desc" : "In 1953, two rings of white smoke appeared over Seymour, Indiana. These unusual smoke rings had lights around the perimeter. They seemed to stand in place, then made abrupt turns. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8293",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953, p. 57" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/10/1954",
  "desc" : "In Lisbon, Portugal at around 2:45 p.m. local time a witness reported seeing a flying silver ball expelling a blue flame for 10 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8294",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Victor Lourenco, PORTUGAT UFO computer catalog, case #25, citing Noticias" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/10/1954",
  "desc" : "Several daylight disc sightings and two humanoid encounters, one at night, occurred in Venezuela on this date in 1954. A photograph of five objects was taken in El Tigre. At 6:30 p.m. a doctor driving with his father in Floresta, Venezuela stopped his car to watch two little men run into some bushes. Shortly afterward they saw a luminous, disc-shaped object take off from behind the bushes at a high speed and dart off into the sky with a sharp \"sizzling\" sound. Later that same night in Chico-Cerro de las Tres Torres, Venezuela two hunters, Lorenzo Flores and Jesus Gomez, saw a luminous object \"like two washbowls put together.\" It was three meters wide and hovering just two feet off the ground. Flames emanated from the base of the object. Four hairy dwarfs, three feet tall, emerged and grabbed Gomez and tried to drag him toward their craft. Flores struck one with his gun butt, but it had no effect and felt like striking rock. The wooden rifle butt cracked from the impact. Gomez fainted from fright, and both young men were scratched and bruised. When they told their story to the police it was obvious that their shirts had been shredded into ribbons. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8295",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Coral Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion From Outer Space, p. 49; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-141, citing APRO Bulletin, January 1955" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/10/1956",
  "desc" : "Three teenagers sighted a round, silver football that hovered silently over a Railroad Station in Tsurumi, Japan for a couple of minutes, then shot straight up. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8296",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Y. Matsumura, APRO Bulletin, January 1957" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/10/1957",
  "desc" : "At 6:00 p.m. a glowing white cigar-shaped object with a red trail, estimated to be 100 meters long, was sighted from the Boso Peninsula in Japan. It shot off to the south at 1,100 km/h. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8297",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, January 1958" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/10/1957",
  "desc" : "In 1957, a pilot reported seeing three luminous objects cross the sky at 20,000 feet altitude in Bogotá, Colombia. At 1:00 p.m. in Jabuticabal, Brazil a four-meter long \"watermelon\" landed in a field, only 20 meters from a farmer. The grass was crushed at the landing site. In Barra do Pirai, Brazil at 10 p.m., a 10-meter wide luminous disc descended low over a roadway. When a truck turned on its headlights it shot away extremely fast. At 8:45 p.m. three crewmembers of a Mexicana Airline flight reported witnessing a round UFO emitting rays of light near Lagos, Mexico in the state of Queretaro. It departed by shooting straight up into the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8298",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 30; Loren Gross, UFOs A History. 1957 (Volume 10), pp. 34-36" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/10/1963",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. two airmen on the ground at RAF Cosford, England watched a dome-shaped object land behind a hangar, then search the ground and area with a green light beam. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8299",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, p. 25, citing Flying Saucer Review, volume 10, number 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/10/1967",
  "desc" : "Many independent witnesses at 7:30 a.m. in the city of Bucharest, Romania observed a sphere with many antennae hovering over a factory for 15 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8300",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 180; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 115; NICAP UFO Investigator, volume 4, number 12; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 8028" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/10/1968",
  "desc" : "On this day in Olleros de Pisuerga,Spain a deltoid object was observed along the roadside, emitting a strong yellow and green light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8301",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, A Catalogue of 200 Type-I Events from Spain and Portugal, p. 22, case 96; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 8554" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/10/1968",
  "desc" : "This event took place about one-quarter mile from the hydroelectric dam on Lake Secession, near Abbeville, South Carolina at 12:30 a.m. A man was alone in his lake front cottage when he heard a whirring, dynamo sound coming from outside. He also saw an amber-colored flashing light reflecting off the trees outside, so he walked outdoors and saw a disc-shaped UFO directly overhead, not more than ten feet up. The craft was silvery metallic looking, saucer shaped with a smaller dome on top, 35 feet in diameter, about 10 feet high, and it had four sets of lights which bathed the surrounding area in amber light. The witness was terrified and unable to move. After hovering overhead, the craft backed away some 20 feet and descended to where it was almost at eye level with the witness, who was standing on a deck on stilts above the lake, 8 feet off the ground. The dome had a round porthole, but he could not see if there was anyone or anything inside. Nevertheless, he \"knew\" that someone was there and was looking at him. The craft next rose up, coming directly forward and hovering overhead again. The experience lasted an estimated five minutes, although there were gaps in his memory as to what exactly happened next. The craft finally sped off effortlessly about 200 yards, and hovered momentarily over the lake. It then sped off at a 45 degree angle into the sky towards the southwest at a tremendous speed, quickly vanishing from sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8302",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1968 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/10/1972",
  "desc" : "A witness in Skelton, West Virginia reported observing a 10 foot wide or large glowing sphere descend slowly to the ground at 9:30 p.m. A shallow 8 foot crater was found at the landing site the next day. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8303",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 9670; MUFON UFO Journal, issue 236" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/10/1973",
  "desc" : "B. R. Arroyo was driving in his car around 2:00 a.m. when he was paced by an ovoid UFO at low altitude near Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico for two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8304",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "D. N. Mansell, The UFO Register, volume 5 (1974)" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/10/1973",
  "desc" : "Also on this day in 1973, two 11-year-old boys in Chula Vista, San Diego County, California spotted a flying saucer from their school classroom. The bottom of the object was \"real shiny like it was glowing.\" In Watsonville, Santa Cruz County, California early that morning at 5:50 a.m. a UFO with red lights on top and silver lights on the bottom moved gradually north after remaining stationary for 10 minutes. The UFO was viewed through binoculars, and reportedly had a wide red band that rotated around the middle of the craft's body ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8305",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted Phillips, newspaper clippings, Chula Vista Star & Watsonville Register, dated December 13, 1973" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/10/1973",
  "desc" : "About four hours later (6:20 p.m. local time) in Ouzoues-sur-Loire, France a 50-year-old couple, several other witnesses, and gendarmes watched a silent, 5 meter tall cone-shaped UFO only 20 meters from the ground fly away toward the southwest. Two hours after that, at about 8:30 p.m. in Hochries, Germany near the Austrian-Bavarian border, Friedrich Lennartz, age 33, and Peter Zettel, age 29, had a close encounter of the second kind when a multi-colored, ovoid UFO responded to a red signal rocket they had fired to get the UFO's attention. The UFO had been hovering near a mountain ski resort with the pointed end up. Its size was estimated as nine meters in diameter and 12-14 meters tall. The top portion looked like a yellow dome. Four rows of colored lights (red, green, blue, and white) rotated counterclockwise around the lower portion. They experienced loud static on their short wave radio as the UFO changed color to a dazzling red, made a 90-degree turn, and sped toward the witnesses, traveling 5-6 kilometers in 10 seconds. It hovered close to their mountain for two more hours as their dogs whimpered to be let into the cabin. The UFO then shot upward at a steep angle at \"breakneck speed.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8306",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume 2: A Thirty Year Report, p. 47" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/10/1975",
  "desc" : "A mutilated dead calf was found on a ranch near Seguin, Texas while silent helicopters were reported the night before. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8307",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lawrence Fawcett & Barry Greenwood, The UFO Coverup, p. 103" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/10/1976",
  "desc" : "In 1976 two humanoid encounters occurred in Europe. At 1:30 a.m. in Ponte de Lima, Portugal, a 2-meter tall dark figure, wearing a one-piece robe that fell to the ground in a straight, featureless line, and having no signs of arms or legs, glided over the street in front of two school teachers, a married couple in their fifties. Their dog hid behind them, then retreated. The figure was in view for five minutes, the entire time it took them to walk to the man's sister's house. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8308",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT case 1810, citing Joaquim Fernandes, Insolito magazine, May 1978, pp. 14-16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/10/1976",
  "desc" : "A complex abduction scenario occurred that evening in central France. Antonia (last name withheld), 68, was driving to her home near Limoges. She had entered a small woods that was strangely illuminated by a white light. When she turned a corner in the road that light became a lenticular mass of brilliant light about 30 feet wide and 10 feet high, resting on the road ahead. When 20 meters from it she stopped and tried to back up. Instead the car was pulled forward onto the right shoulder of the road. In the midst of the light she felt her head forcibly turned to the right. She perceived an arm appear that described an arc through the air from front to back. All at once the lights went out, and her car motor and headlights died. She heard a slight click, and a sound like a sliding door opening. Two white luminous rectangular shapes about a meter in height seemed to appear in front of the hood of her car. She then felt two electric shocks running from head to toe, and lost consciousness.<br/><br/> She awoke to the sound of a pistol-shot and something striking against her car. She thought she heard a voice say in French, \"Oh, we have killed her!\" Her outside mirror on the driver side had been broken off. She tried to get out of the car but had no sensation in her legs. The sensation in them began to return, but her feet were slewed over toward the right side of the car, where they had not been before. Looking around, she realized the car was now about 100 meters beyond the place she had lost consciousness. She turned on her headlights, and saw a metallic gray flying saucer hovering motionless 3 meters above the road, 3-4 meters ahead of her. It had two lights sunk into the lower portion, and also two darker 8\" squares, and was at least 30 feet wide. Her car engine suddenly started up spontaneously. Immediately the UFO's lights went out and it silently took off. She felt the car buffeted with a shock wave as it left. Antonia drove home, arriving 55 minutes later that she should have. Her dogs shunned her, and she could not sleep that night.<br/><br/> (Continued.) In the morning she discovered a tear in her skin between her vagina and anus. On washing out her genital area she found that her vagina was stuffed with an earth-like substance. A vaginal infection subsequently resulted from this. Her memory of the event, including the missing time, gradually returned. For two weeks she suffered from insomnia, and vivid images repeatedly came into her mind.<br/><br/> She recalled being in a circular room, dark except at the center. There was no visible source for the light. In front of her, suspended from the two ends by metal pipes from the ceiling, was a green table in the shape of a half-cylinder, convex side up, about five feet long. She was forcibly placed and twisted about into various extreme and painful positions upon this \"vaulting horse\" (\"cheval d'arcon\"). Two figures stood looking at her. Not very tall, they wore close-fitting coveralls. One had a narrow, black mustache, wore a black skullcap, and his uniform had an \"officer's collar.\" They had elongated, slanted eyes. The one with the cap smiled \"tenderly\" at her; the other looked evil and malevolent. She could also hear others \"murmuring\" that she could not see. She remembered seeing a hand holding an instrument like a toy windmill, a spiral vane on a stick that had sparkling points of light. In the dark wall were visible two dimly lit, small portholes, less than 8 inches in diameter. Later, she felt herself standing, being moved about as if someone was dressing her, then being thrown down onto something hard.<br/><br/> When Antonia had her car's mirror replaced, the mechanic was surprised to observe that her car was strongly magnetized. The investigator, who spent a great deal of time working with the abductee, rejects fabrication or psychopathology as explanations for her experience. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8309",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1869, citing Revue des Soucoupes Volantes #5, February 1978, pp. 5-11" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/10/1977",
  "desc" : "At 12:30 a.m. in Pontecchio Marconi, Italy a dome-shaped UFO flew slowly at ground level 80 meters away. It had odd looking lights on its top. At 8:00 a.m. in Legnano, Italy a single witness in a car reported that a bright red ovoid object hovered in a upright orientation just half a meter above the ground, only 20 meters away. It then paced the car for two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8310",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Maurizio Verga, ITACAT" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/10/1977",
  "desc" : "A complex abduction case with one hour of missing time happened near Limoges, France at 6:30 p.m. The percipient was driving in a car when it experienced EM ignition interference effects. This was followed by an episode of lost time; what was recalled was an abduction with a physical exam by several humanoids. The witness recovered consciousness in the car, and the car restarted itself. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8311",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 317" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/10/1977",
  "desc" : "A 22-year-old man was out walking his dog in Shotton, Clwyd, Wales at around midnight when his dog drew his attention to a tall white figure standing behind a fence. The figure was about eight feet tall and wearing a padded \"space suit\" that was self-luminous; it also wore a visor. The being walked stiffly with one arm raised. The man ran home as quickly as he could, followed by his dog. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8312",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1977 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 395, citing Janet & Colin Bord, Modern Mysteries of Britain" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/10/1978",
  "desc" : "In 1978 at 6:00 a.m., a round, luminous UFO approached a car with a married couple and their little son in Baena, Spain. It hovered over their car and paced it for several miles. The witnesses went to the police, who saw the object hovering over a hilltop. The object remained visible until broad daylight. At the same time, in Peage, France, a luminous UFO, about five meters in diameter and with an antenna, followed a man out walking at only 15 meters above the ground. Several others also saw it. At 7:20 a.m., a silver, triangular shaped object with yellow lights swooped down over a car in Comner, England, causing the two occupants to panic and the driver to swerve off the road. They described the craft as bigger than a \"Hercules\" C-5A military transport plane. It was totally silent, and flew off to the east. Later that evening two reporters in Fontanales on the Grand Canary Islands saw three UFOs at a high altitude. They gave off white, yellow, blue and red flashes of light, and were seen for several hours. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8313",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Cronica, December 12, 1978; Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1979, p. 13; (2) Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1979; (3) UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1979, p. 13; (4) D. N. Mansell, Awareness, April 1979, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/10/1979",
  "desc" : "On this evening in 1979 a fireball or missile flew in over the Grays Harbor, Washington area from the sea, executed a 180-degree turn, and headed west. It crashed in a clear-cut forest near Elk River, on the south side of the bay. Many witnesses told of a military roadblock in the area over the next two days, including what looked like National Guard or Army trucks. One former Navy SEAL reported encountering active Navy SEALs at a lunch counter in town during this same time period. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8314",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, March 1980, p. 7; Donald A. Johnson, 1988 on-site investigation" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/10/1979",
  "desc" : "In Caravac de la Cruz, Spain, at 10:00 p.m., a UFO with blue lights and a light green hue approached a family in their car at a low height. The driver stopped and signaled with his headlights. The UFO responded by flashing its lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8315",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Heiden, UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1980, p. 13, citing Ya, December 12, 1979" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/10/1979",
  "desc" : "Elaine Kaiser was abducted from her bedroom in Rhode Island on this night. She saw a white light and lost consciousness. Under hypnosis she remembered flowing up a beam of light into a semi-circular room, aboard a craft. A being gave her a smock and she put it on without resistance, and then lay down on a table, while an unknown man laid on another table nearby. Instruments connected her to the man, and something like a blood transfusion occurred. A giant being in a black metallic suit relieved her pain by passing a had in front of her face. He told her telepathically that he came from 2.4 million light years away. Several months later she thought she recognized this same man in a crowd. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8316",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery (Volume 2), pp. C-58-59, citing Pontiac (MI) Oakland Press, August 22, 1982" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/10/1980",
  "desc" : "At 1:30 a.m. two witnesses from Hollywood in a boat watched a cloud-cigar maneuver erratically for five minutes over the San Pedro Channel offshore of Los Angeles, California, giving off a pink glow. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8317",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, issue 162" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/10/1982",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. two observers in Bacup, Lancashire, England sighted a UFO that looked like two semicircles of white light connected by two bars of red light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8318",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jenny Randles, Science and the UFOs, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/10/1982",
  "desc" : "A rocket cigar-shaped object with windows, looking very much like the one seen by Chiles and Whitted in 1948, was witnessed by UFO investigator Paul Cerny on SR36 west of Mineral, Tehama County, California, as it sailed by heading to the southwest at 8:15 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8319",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Cerny, MUFON UFO Journal, issue 179" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/10/1984",
  "desc" : "In Nice, Alpes-Maritime, France a 10-year-old girl reported seeing two rose-pink ovoid UFOs at 3:30 p.m. in clear skies. The objects were flying from south to north in a straight line. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8320",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 305" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/10/1987",
  "desc" : "In 1987, in Oriole Beach, Santa Rosa county, Florida some kids saw what looked like an \"extra streetlight\" glide behind some trees and houses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8321",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ed Walters, Gulf Breeze Sightings, p. 339" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/10/1988",
  "desc" : "At 6:00 p.m. many people in Nottingham, England witnessed a 300-foot long object hovering at low altitude, making a faint humming noise. The authorities had no explanation for it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8322",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, volume 33, issue 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/10/1989",
  "desc" : "In 1989, at 11:24 p.m. while driving in Concord, New Hampshire a couple saw a 70 foot long silver, cylindrical object hovering low overhead as they crossed a bridge on the Merrimack River. It had white lights on the ends and a blue light on top, and 3 portholes. The object moved to one side, and then rose out of sight fast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8323",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Cheryl Powell, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1990, MUFON case file # 900722" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/10/1991",
  "desc" : "In Raleigh, North Carolina two witnesses in a residential neighborhood observed a glowing \"blimp\" at 4:15 a.m. with a flat bottom and ends. Both had seen flying saucers before in 1963 and 1984. At 11:45 a.m. a silver triangle-shaped object was seen hovering at 2500 feet over Iron Station, Lincoln County, North Carolina, making a humming sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8324",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) MUFON UFO Journal, issue 297; (2) UFO Newsclipping Service; Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case # 1218" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/10/1992",
  "desc" : "In 1992, in Elizabethtown, South Australia at 2:00 a.m., a 5-year-old child awoke to see a short being with thin legs, no arms, and a large head that had glowing colored light emanating from it, standing at the foot of the bed. The being apparently vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8325",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert Rosales, Humanoid Contact database, Case #2611" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/10/1997",
  "desc" : "Ricardo Alfonso was driving to work at Taos Elementary School in Taos, New Mexico at 6:30 in the morning on this day in 1997 when he saw a silvery, metallic object hovering over a nearby field. He stopped his truck to investigate, and hid behind a bush for a few minutes until the craft disappeared. As he pondered what had happened a bright beam of light hit him, and several \"little men\" appeared around him. He lost consciousness. When he awoke he was face down in the field, completely naked with bruises on his body. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8326",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert Rosales, Humanoid Contact database, Case #2481, citing UFO Sightings in New Mexico and the World" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/10/1998",
  "desc" : "At 7:50 p.m. a triangular object with a bright light in each corner and a flashing red beacon in the middle was sighted in Hesston, Kansas at 7:50 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8327",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, December 1998 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/10/2001",
  "desc" : "A multi-colored triangular flying object that had lights on the sides and at the apexes was sighted from Blairgowrie, Orkney Islands, UK at 11:00 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8328",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "British Ministry of Defense, case # 2001-187" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/10/2001",
  "desc" : "At 5:30 p.m. EST a husband and wife had gone for a walk before dinner in a new development in a wooded area near their home in Hooksett, New Hampshire. They suddenly saw a terrifying large glowing white object hovering above the trees and making no noise at all. They could hear nothing as it glided through the tree tops slowly. They were both very startled, and the wife wanted to run, but the husband said, \"run where?\" When they got home they called the police to report it, as well as talked to their neighbors to see if they had seen it as well.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8329",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "12/10/2001",
  "desc" : "An orange, saucer-shaped, misty looking object was seen in Placentia, Orange County, California at 5:45 p.m. It was actually more oval shaped, but with saucer like edges, and seen at a 45 degree angle elevation from the ground. It looked almost transparent with two red and white lights on the top and bottom. It moved slowly to the west and decended as it moved. The witnesses followed it in their car for about five minutes until they could no longer see it; it went lower than the trees and the neighboring houses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8330",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, December 2001 webpage, report made December 10, 2001 and uploaded March 11, 2003" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/10/2003",
  "desc" : "A black, cigar-shaped object was spotted in the early morning over Sanders, Arizona. The witness was driving to work in the early morning in the twilight just before dawn. He first saw a light in the sky as he was driving east. It got as bright as Venus, and then dimmed altogether; what was left, hanging motionless in the sky, was a greyish black cigar-shaped vehicle with a bump on the top. The witness continued to watch it as he pulled into the parking lot at his place of employment, and kept watching it for a few more minutes while it never moved. The color was odd for an airplane as well, because it black/grey and did not reflect light. It also made no noise whatsoever. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8331",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, December 2003 webpage, report made at 10:45 a.m. December 10, 2003 and uploaded December 19, 2003" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/10/2007",
  "desc" : "An orange, oval-shaped object zig-zagged as it \"swam\" through the air over Maple Ridge, British Columbia at 3:00 p.m. PST, flashing a light. About an hour later, at 7:00 p.m. EST a cigar-shaped object with a  bright light was seen zigzagging above Winder, Georgia. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8332",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 758, citing UFOBC; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, December 2007 webpage, report uploaded January 21, 2008" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/10/2007",
  "desc" : "In San Jacinto, Riverside County, California a black, pointed, shadowy object turned out the lights and turned off the electronics in a truck at 8:45 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8333",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, December 2007 webpage, report uploaded March 4, 2008" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/11/1950",
  "desc" : "The crew of Northwest Air Lines flight 802 sighted two white flashes, followed by a dark cloud that rose higher in the sky, and then split in two. The sighting occurred ten miles northwest of Gulcana, Alaska at 10:13 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8334",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/11/1953",
  "desc" : "At around 1 p.m. a huge white disc-shaped UFO with brilliant beams of light was seen over Marcillat-en-Combraille, Allier department, France. It shot up and away, leaving behind a red crescent-shaped object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8335",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: August-December, p. 61" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/11/1954",
  "desc" : "On this morning a young girl, Miss Frassinetti, saw a luminous barrel hovering vertically over a nearby field in Predale, Casina, Italy. She said that a \"man\" was watching her through a window in the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8336",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Maurizio Verga, ITACAT: Italian UFO Catalogue; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0354" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/11/1954",
  "desc" : "At 5:00 p.m. farmer Pedro Morais of Linha Bela Vista, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil first noticed a disturbance among his chickens in the farmyard. He then saw a UFO shaped like an \"enormous polished brass kettle\" with a rectangular structure on top, making a sound like a sewing machine, hovering in the air with an oscillating motion. Two small humanoids \"enveloped in a kind of yellow sack from head to toe\" were standing in a nearby field. As he approached, one ran toward him, the other raised its arm. The first one knelt down and plucked a tobacco plant from the field, then both jumped into the craft, which vanished within a few seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8337",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald Hanlon, FSR Special Report #1: The Humanoids, p. 34; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 53; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 171; Gordon Creighton, FSR, May-June 1970, p. 30; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-142 (A0355), citing Donald Hanlon & Coral Lorenzen; Jader U. Pereira, Les Extra-Terrestres, p. 80, citing O Cruzeiro, January 15, 1955" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/11/1957",
  "desc" : "An orange circular or crescent-shaped object moved erratically through the sky over Lockbourne AFB, Ohio. It was sighted by the crew of a U.S. Air Force F-86 from the 87th FIS and tracked by ground radar moving at a speed of Mach 1.5. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8338",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 30" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/11/1958",
  "desc" : "On this day a fuselage-shaped object had landed on the sea ice on McMurdo Sound near Mount Erebus, Antarctica. It was supported by girder-like structures. A thirty-year-old U.S. Navy man named R. Benson saw two thin Grey beings, who were walking in slow circles near the craft, their long arms dangling to the ice. They had very long faces. His radio quit working. He did not file an official Navy report of his encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8339",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1543, citing Yvonne Durfield, Ideal UFO Magazine, March 1978, p. 44" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/11/1963",
  "desc" : "At 7:00 a.m. in McMinnville, Oregon Dr. W. W. Dolan, a professor of mathematics and astronomy, and dean of the faculty of Linnfield College watched a bright, star-like light slow, hover, dim and flash for one minute. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8340",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/11/1965",
  "desc" : "Charles Jones, who claims to be psychic and has frequently reported UFO sightings ever since 1947, was driving home between Sheridan and Lamong, Indiana at 1:05 p.m. when he saw a lighted object come down through the low clouds. It was shaped like a cigar, but with the rear end cut off on a bevel, and it bore a red and white blinking light. The front had a transparent surface and through it Jones could see a very stockily built, six-foot tall occupant. The being appeared to be hiding his face from the witness. He wore a tight-fitting headpiece, continuous with the coveralls, that obscured the hair and ears. Jones did however observe one eye, which he said was larger than normal sized and set more toward the side of the head. The face also had a wide nose and jowls. The complexion of the face was dark bronze, and the entity was wearing a one-piece brown coverall. The object was less than 60 feet off the ground and approximately 150 feef from the left side of the road, traveling north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8341",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Janet Bord, FSR, May-June 1972, p. 20; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1965-68" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/11/1973",
  "desc" : "A 54-year-old woman spotted an eleven-meter wide yellow dome-shaped object with striped dark bars from her residential neighborhood of Frameries, Hainaut, Belgium at 5:45 a.m. The object flew in front of the witnessat 12 meters altitude. It had 4 or 5 bars and small red and blue lights slowly flashing underneath every two seconds, plus two headlights. At 6:30 p.m. a luminous white disc-shaped object hovered in place over Dilbeek, Brabant, Belgium for a few minutes. It then swung silently around to show its edge, at the end of which flashed two red lights. The UFO climbed into the sky, leaving toward the northeast. There were three adult witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8342",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michel Bougard, SOBEPS News, May 1976, pp. 30-31" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/11/1973",
  "desc" : "At 6:30 p.m. an oval-shaped object with a tower or antenna on top, pulsated red over a pasture, a quarter of a mile north of Calvert, Texas. It was sighted by a mother and daughter named Smitherman, who reported it made a whooshing sound, took off fast, then landed again behind some trees. It left behind some landing traces on the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8343",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Calvert (TX) Tribune, December 20, 1973" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/11/1975",
  "desc" : "At 11:30 p.m. Bud Le Duc was driving home from Toppenish, Washington when his headlights fell on three very tall men standing beside the road. One of them jumped--in one bound--to the middle of the roadway, a distance of about 15 feet, and the leap appeared to happen in slow motion. The man then slowly raised both his arms above his head. Le Duc swerved his car and passed within two or three feet of him. The man was between seven and eight feet tall and very thin, with long arms and matted reddish, shoulder-length hair. His very long face had a long pointed nose and pallid white skin. The upper lip was pulled back to show teeth, while the lower lip was very thin. He wore a black one-piece garment with white bands at the wrists and ankles and a patch of white at the neck. He also had on black boots. The other two men were dressed in a similar manner. The man in the road held something reddish purple in his left hand, \"with a wire on it.\" Le Duc kept driving, but shortly afterwards saw an elongated luminous object behind his truck, which blinked on and off several times. Soon a bright light illuminated his truck's cab and surroundings, and stayed with the truck until Le Duc reached his home. Another source, UFO investigator Greg Long, reported that at the same time that Le Duc had this encounter with the strange men on the road, the apparition of a very close friend who had been recently killed in a car accident appeared to be sitting in the passenger seat. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8344",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David W. Akers and William Vogel for CUFOS, report dated December 17, 1975; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1975-62 (A1439), citing David W. Akers" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/11/1978",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon a police trooper in Avellino, Italy took a photograph of a round, possibly disc-shaped object that was directing an intense beam of energy at the ground. The photograph, taken from a highway patrol car, shows a black dot on white background. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8345",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newspaper Clipping Service, March 1979, p. 14, citing Cronica, December 12, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/11/1978",
  "desc" : "A taxi driving on a road near the town of Navelli, Abruzzi, Italy was forced to brake at 10 p.m. when two luminous globes were blocking the road ahead. The engine of the vehicle then died. Two humanoids glided across the surface without touching the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8346",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Maurizio Verga, ITACAT: Italian UFO Catalogue" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/11/1978",
  "desc" : "On this night in Arembepe, Brazil a tall human-like figure with light colored skin, dark hair, and wearing a tight fitting silvery suit and boots was seen coming out of a metallic basin-shaped object about 12 meters in diameter that had landed in a field. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8347",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing Antonio Faleiro, Brazil" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/11/1979",
  "desc" : "At 2:00 in the afternoon a 64-year-old husband and wife, \"Melvin\" and \"Naomi\", were at their mountain home near Lake Isabella, 35 miles from Bakersfield, California watching television when both suddenly passed out. Their memories returned only partially, but they seemed to have had 48 hours of missing time with an abduction aboard a UFO. The wife remembered being in some kind of operating room, lying naked on top of the examination table and unable to move. She saw her husband trying to enter the room but was prevented by a panel that rose from the floor and blocked him. The husband recalled being in a room with a Grey, faceless woman, five-foot ten inches tall who communicated with him via telepathy and refused to release him. Both remembered feeling cold and hearing the sound of an engine. Other partial memories included a man and a woman entering their house, and the feeling of being watched and threatened by an unseen presence. The couple was found incoherent and suffering various burns and other injuries that they never fully recovered from. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8348",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Howard Ford, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1982, p. 11; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of A Mystery, case 54" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/11/1994",
  "desc" : "Two observers in Tiete, Sao Paolo State, Brazil watched a luminous greenish sphere land nearby them at 11:00 p.m.. Two humanoid figures appeared next to the object. They were described as 1.20 meters tall, with very pale skin and four-fingered hands, large staring eyes, and two small holes for a nose. One of the witnesses directed a flashlight at the figures, and a beam of light from the object immediately disabled it. The beings and the object then left. Crushed grass was found at the scene. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8349",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1994, case # 2364, citing Brazilian UFO Report, Vol. 1, No. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/11/2000",
  "desc" : "Three formations of UFOs, 25-30 in each, flew slowly at high altitude over Zurish, Switzerland on this evening. They had various golden-yellow and green lights. The formations were in an irregular pattern something like an elongated egg shape. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8350",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), April 2001, p. 21" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/12/1948",
  "desc" : "A silent green fireball flew over Bernal, New Mexico toward the west for 2.2 seconds at a low altitude, then ascended. It was seen by Dr. La Paz, a meteor expert who later prepared a report on these anomalous green fireballs. He concluded that what he saw was not a meteor. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8351",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, December 1948; Richard M. Dolan, UFO’s and the National Security State: Chronology of a cover-up 1941-1973, p. 398" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/12/1955",
  "desc" : "In 1955 there were three UFO reports from London, Hertfordshire, and West Sussex, England. At 6:45 a.m. an observer in the Beckenham neighborhood of London felt the urge to look up, and then watched a golden colored disc streak across the sky. At 4:40 p.m. a bright silver disc curved down and then flew back up into the clouds over Hitchin, England. It then shot away to the southwest very fast. Twenty minutes later a 25-foot wide golden disc streaked across the sky in Horsham, England heading toward the south. It flew at an estimated altitude of 2500 feet and vanished quickly from sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8352",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing Gavin Gibbons, The Coming of the Spaceships, pp. 128-130" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/12/1967",
  "desc" : "A woman, Mrs. Rita Malley, was driving down a rural road in North Lansing, New York with her infant daughter when she noticed that she was being followed by a multi-colored, domed disc-shaped object. The saucer hovered directly over her car, a Ford Mustang, and the engine stalled. At the same time she heard a weird chorus of voices informing her of the approaching death of a friend. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8353",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Syracuse Herald-Journal, December 21, 1967; Lloyd Mallan, Official Guide to UFOs, p. 69; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 39" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/12/1968",
  "desc" : "On this evening at 18:04 p.m. in Franois, France nine witnesses saw strange figures moving around in front of a light on the ground alongside the highway as they drove by. The light source wasn’t there when they checked back later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8354",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Tyrode, FSR Case Histories, December 1970, p. 7, citing LDLN" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/12/1972",
  "desc" : "In 1972 in Huaco, San Juan Province, Argentina four men watched three glowing red, oval-shaped objects zigzag over the Rio Huaco valley, heading toward the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8355",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Oscar A. Calindez, Stendek, March 6, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/12/1973",
  "desc" : "At 9:15 a.m. the witness was alone at home with her young daughter and had just stepped out onto her patio in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico when she saw a bright oval-shaped craft hovering at a high altitude overhead. It appeared to be rocking back and forth. She went back inside the house and she next heard a loud humming sound, which stopped for a few moments, then started again. She then saw through her kitchen window a strange being standing 15 feet away. He was of normal height, but wore a bright, tight-fitting uniform and a black helmet. His skin was reddish bronze in color and he seemed not to have a mouth or a nose. His eyes were two round holes that stared at the witness intensely. A yellowish beam of light illuminated the man from an unknown source in the sky. The witness felt like she going into a trance, and began receiving telepathic messages from the being. At one point she felt compelled to go to the front of the house, where she saw a floating box about three inches long and very shiny, it seemed to have had a calming effect on her. After the incident she went into a fit of hysterics. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8356",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1973, case # 271, citing Robiou Lamarche, Manifesto OVNI En Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo Y Cuba" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/12/1976",
  "desc" : "On this morning around 7:20 a.m. at a factory in Meylan, France Mr. Hermann, a 38-year-old security guard, saw a 5.5' tall luminous green human form appear about 20 meters away from him. It stood in the center of a circular orange-yellow spot. It seemed to be wearing a helmet. Mr. Hermann’s neck muscles were paralyzed, but he was able to run outside. When he returned it was gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8357",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Edmond Thomas, Ouranos, October 1977, p. 11; David Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1649" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/12/1978",
  "desc" : "Ms. Adele Holzer was in her car driving to work at 8 a.m. when she saw a hemispherical white disc in Burghausen, Bavaria, Germany. More puzzled than afraid, she pulled off to the side of the road, and saw a \"row of shining green ports along its periphery.\" Then, she thought to herself, \"If I could only see its bottom,\" and it suddenly turned exposing the underneath. She said there were three spheres on its bottom surface, the middle one being larger. It possessed a bright orange spot at its center. As the UFO hovered over some nearby trees, six beams of green light shot from it and she felt slightly paralyzed by one of them. She lost track of time as the object hovered over her. When the light beams went out the object rose silently up into the sky. Her watch had stopped at 08:01 a.m. and her car's ignition key, that she believed had been in her hand the entire time, was bent. She later told investigators she felt \"somebody was trying to get into telepathic contact with her.\" She claimed to have been given a message saying that they had friendly intentions and wanted to stop us from destroying the Earth. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8358",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing Michael Hessemann" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/12/1978",
  "desc" : "At 10:15 p.m. a motorist in Marzocca, in the Tuscany region of Italy, experienced engine failure, the lights of his car died, and the car’s cassette tape player stopped working. He then saw a luminous flying object that emitted a beam of light onto his car. When the object departed the car’s lights came back on and the tape deck resumed playing. On the same night a photograph of a domed disc with a neon glow was taken near an oil field by a Dubai government official in the United Arab Emirates. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8359",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-year Report, p. 352; Richard Hall, The MUFON UFO Journal, January 1979, p. 5 citing The Arab Times" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/12/1978",
  "desc" : "At 11:45 p.m. Alfonso Marinelli was traveling in his new Mercedez near Navelli, in the Abruzzi region of Italy when his engine suddenly quit. He then noted two bright lights approaching slowly in his direction. As the lights approached Marinelli was able to make out two short human-like figures. The figures wore silvery suits, resembling those of astronauts. The suits were luminous, and both figures wore huge oval-shaped helmets. The front of the helmets had black visors. Over the chest the figures had what appeared to be straps with a bright round light on the center. The figures rose off the ground to a height about 90 cm and in flew over the witness vehicle, quickly disappearing from sight. Marinelli was soon able to start his car's engine and drove away from the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8360",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing Archivio S.U.F." ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/12/1979",
  "desc" : "At 11:45 p.m. a multi-colored disc passed by fast a residential neighborhood in Romans, France at a low altitude, spinning as it went. It left behind a luminous trail. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8361",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, February 1980" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/12/1983",
  "desc" : "A triangular flying object was sighted over Byron, Illinois by three men. It moved erratically and made no sound. It had blinking red and white lights. Its erratic path was detected on FAA radar at the Greater Rockford, Illinois airport. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8362",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, September 1984, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/12/1987",
  "desc" : "On this day six odd looking humanoid beings were sighted on the ground near a nuclear power plant in Malvezi, France in a restricted area. They were overheard speaking in an unintelligible language. They flew away on flying sleds. Later that night United Airlines flight 1405 reported that two UFOs, each with two rows of lights, approached the airliner at a rapid speed 50 miles east of Fort Wayne, Indiana. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8363",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, December 1988, p. 22; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 45" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/12/1988",
  "desc" : "In 1988 four people on a lonely road in Wisbech, England were buzzed by a disc-shaped UFO at around 7:40 p.m. Many police cars and helicopters were seen combing the nearby fields later that night. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8364",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 31" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/12/1993",
  "desc" : "In North Somercotes, Lincolnshire, England at 4:30 p.m. many people reported sighting several silent delta-shaped UFOs and lights hovering over nearby roads. Television sets reportedly changed channels without cause. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8365",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/12/1997",
  "desc" : "At a sleepover in Lubbock, Texas, two girls reported that they saw flashing lights in their room at two o’clock in the morning, followed by the blankets being thrown off their bed. They saw a number of tall, thin figures that “spoke” to them, followed by an episode of missing time. When they awoke they found strange triangular marks on their bodies. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8366",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, case # 3575, citing NUFORC" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/12/2001",
  "desc" : "At 6:07 p.m. in Carlisle, England a retired military pilot saw a large, bright object in the western sky. It moved rapidly toward the east at a high speed. It was disc-shaped with a \"teardop-shaped aura\". He estimated it was moving at Mach 3 when it vanished abruptly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8367",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), April 2002, p. 21" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/13/1954",
  "desc" : "Three gray discs performed acrobatics over farmland in Campinas, Sao Paulo state, Brazil at dusk. One peeled off from the others, diving low over the roof of a woman's house, where it dropped a liquid substance \"like silver rain.\" Chemical analysis revealed that the metallic material collected at the site was 90% tin with some other alloys. Jacques Vallee believes this case may provide clues to the propulsion system employed by the vehicles. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8368",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, in Peter Sturrock, The UFO Enigma, p. 242" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/13/1959",
  "desc" : "A brilliant cone giving off flares descended into the ocean near La Orchila Island in the Dependencias Federales chain of islands belonging to Venezuela. The witnesses were three crewmen aboard the ship SS Dorthemaersk. After the object submerged the sea became brilliant with many bright colors and very turbulent at that spot. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8369",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p. 50" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/13/1961",
  "desc" : "At 5:05 p.m. over Washington, D.C. three people witnessed a sharply defined diamond-shaped object that had a brownish-orange glow centered beneath it in a diamond shape, one-third the total size of the object. It pulsated rapidly and made no sound. The sighting lasted three minutes. A Project Blue Book unexplained case. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8370",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 7754; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 101; Lloyd Mallan, The Official Guide to UFOs, p. 28" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/13/1965",
  "desc" : "On this night Sr. Jaime, the police commissioner's son in Estacion Palavecino, Entre Rios province, Argentina was blinded for a while and unable to speak as result of the close encounter he had with a spherical UFO that changed colors in front of him. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8371",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, December 1973, p. 18, citing La Razon, December 14, 1965" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/13/1966",
  "desc" : "At around one o'clock at night In a rural area of Rowley, Massachusetts an orange-red glowing oval object with a halo of light around its perimeter descended and approached two witnesses before silently going behind a road embankment. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8372",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 343" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/13/1966",
  "desc" : "At 3:53 p.m. Mrs. Elsie Vargo and her daughter were out driving the delivery of newspapers in rural Strongsville, Ohio when they saw a low flying \"batwing\" shaped object cross the road at 100 feet altitude and about 100 feet away. It then turned toward them, terrifying the girl. It was about the size of an automobile and bright silver in color, with a bubble cupola or dome on top. It carried an antenna bearing a flashing red light. Inside the dome was a small human form dressed in black and wearing a helmet. Mrs Vargo did not see where the object went. It made no sound and there was no interference with the car's radio. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8373",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-74, citing Richard Straka & E. J. Neff, Cleveland Ufology Project" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/13/1967",
  "desc" : "At 2:00 a.m. near Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, the lights of a car dimmed and the motor sputtered. The driver pulled to the side of the road and opened the hood. He then noticed a dome-shaped object hovering 150 yards away. It was metallic, had lights around the edge, and was about 50 feet high. He felt the battery of the car — it was warm. He got back in and watched the object, which rocked back and forth 10-15 feet but stayed over the road. During the next hour the car body began to heat up and even his hair got hot. His flashlight also wouldn't work. Finally the object shot straight up and disappeared from view in two to three seconds. The headlights came back on, but the motor could only be started with difficulty. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8374",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 39, citing CUFOS; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 251" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/13/1971",
  "desc" : "A young man, T. McClintock, was walking home from a late evening piano lesson when he saw three red pulsating lights over the shore in Muchalls, Scotland. One of the lights seem to follow him. The light swooped very low, almost at ground level, and he then saw a figure dressed in a long robe in the middle of the road. It seemed to be glowing and blocking the road. When he stepped one yard towards the figure it suddenly vanished. He then ran the rest of the way home, frightened and totally confused. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8375",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland's UFO Phenomenon, p. 116; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1971, case # 338, citing SPI, May-June 1989" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/13/1973",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. a tall cone-shaped object with lights hovered at 30 meters altitude over a road in Haisnes-lez-la-Bassee, Pas-de-Calais, France. It shot away very fast toward the west, making no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8376",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 728, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 136" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/13/1973",
  "desc" : "Three 16-year-old boys saw a silver disc hovering 20 feet over the Braden River in Florida. It extended a tube into water. They took two photographs of the UFO. The UFO then retracted its tube while making a clanking sound, buzzed their car, and changed colors from bluish-green to reddish-orange. Three odd rocks, about a half inch in diameter, of iron pyrite were found near the site. Later that night in Cabana Colony, Florida Mr. & Mrs. McGhee saw a flying object as big as a 4-5 houses, that dipped down behind a neighborhood gas station, changing colors from yellow to orange to red. It stayed around for awhile, according to the couple. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8377",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) St. Petersburg (Florida) Times, December 23, 1973; 1974 MUFON UFO Symposium Proceedings, p. 52; Dwight Connelly, Skylook, November 1975, p. 26; (2) West Palm Beach (Florida) Weekday, January 2, 1974" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/13/1977",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. an orange-red, disc-shaped object descended over a paddock in Leitchville, Victoria, Australia. It then emitted three smaller objects that operated independently. One of these zigzagged, abruptly shot up to higher elevation, then descended again. The UFOs appeared to signal back and forth. Soil and grass samples collected from a circle of burnt grass found on the ground reveal the burn marks were caused by an electrical discharge. No electrical power lines are located near the paddock where the ground traces were discovered. The sighting lasted 30 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8378",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, March 1978, p. 6; Adelaide News, December 15, 1977; Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 163; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 415" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/13/1977",
  "desc" : "An unexplained animal mutilation was discovered this day in Blue Springs, Missouri. A calf had been killed and mutilated with surgical incisions. The right ear and tail had been removed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8379",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, Zetetic Scholar, 1980, p. 50, citing Blue Springs Examiner, December 21, 1977" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/13/1978",
  "desc" : "Shortly after two people saw a luminous mass descend close to the ground and then take off at high speed towards Puglia, Italy two soldiers on guard duty at the Brindisi Air Force Base saw a UFO with pulsating lights maneuver and hover near them. As the object was leaving a strange being shot up from the ground skywards, quickly disappearing from sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8380",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1971, case # 2351, citing Edoardo Russo" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/13/1978",
  "desc" : "UFOs were seen for thirty minutes over several cities in Chaco province, Argentina on this evening. In Resistencia a newspaper photographer took a nighttime photograph of a UFO that changed color several times as it flew toward the south-southwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8381",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1979, p. 14, citing La Razon, December 13, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/13/1979",
  "desc" : "Two helmeted humanoids in silver suits were seen near a factory located between Lan Xi and the Xim An River in Zhejiang province, China. They were 200 meters away, and stood beside a highway. They had square objects like boxes and \"thermos bottles\" slung over shoulders. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8382",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Shu Jia Lin, APRO Bulletin, January 1986, p. 1" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/13/1995",
  "desc" : "On this morning near the Urbanizacion Country Club, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico Mrs. Carmen Vazquez, accompanied by her 5-year-old daughter, was on her way home when the little girl pointed out something in the sky. Looking up she saw a shiny metallic oval shaped craft flying slowly overhead and head off towards nearby El Yunque Mountain. According to the little girl, the object had numerous windows and inside she was able to see several gray-colored figures with huge black eyes looking down from the windows at their car. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8383",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1995, case # 2571, citing Jorge Martin, Evidencia OVNI, issue # 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/13/1996",
  "desc" : "At 1:00 p.m. a Colombian Air Force pilot videotaped six silver disc-shaped UFOs exiting from a cloud and moving toward Bogota, Colombia in two groups. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8384",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, March 1997" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/13/2000",
  "desc" : "At 9:45 p.m. a man driving on the Mount Lindsey highway in MacLean, Queensland, Australia saw eight lights about 200 meters away pacing his car. He stopped, and when he did the lights also stopped moveing. Each light was 10-20 meters across and round in shape. They followed him silently for eight kilometers, and when he arrived home he was quite scared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8385",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Sheryl Gottschall, UFO Research Queensland website, archived reports for 2000" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/13/2000",
  "desc" : "The witness awoke at 3:55 a.m. in Lake LaBerge, Yukon, Canada to find her bedroom lit up by a series of flashing lights outside her bedroom window, which were accompanied by musical tones. She had headache throughout the next day. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8386",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, UFO Research Manitoba, 2000 Canadian UFO Survey webpage, case 248, citing MUFON Yukon" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/14/1943",
  "desc" : "A pilot over Naples, Italy had a dogfight with a bright light that climbed much faster than his aircraft, a RAF Beaufighter with the 255th fighter squadron. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8387",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 website, citing A. Roberts" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/14/1950",
  "desc" : "A group of teardrop-shaped UFOs was picked up on multiple radar units for ten minutes near the Oak Ridge Nuclear facility in Tennessee at around 4 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8388",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bruce S. Maccabee, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1978, p. 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/14/1953",
  "desc" : "In 1953 in England at 5 p.m. GMT many city residents saw a dagger-shaped object with many bright colors pass over Exmouth, Devon handle-end first. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8389",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George Gibbons, The Coming of the Space Ships, p. 139" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/14/1954",
  "desc" : "Three gray disc performed aerobatics over the city of Campinas, Sao Paulo state, Brazil on this afternoon in 1954. One of the UFOs peeled off, dove low over the roof of a local woman's house, and dropped a liquid substance \"like silver rain.\" Chemical analysis revealed that the solidified material was 90% tin with other alloys. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8390",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact, p. 49" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/14/1963",
  "desc" : "Two men driving at 1:00 a.m. in France, Messrs. Muller and Immelman, found the countryside suddenly illuminated all about them and saw an object 15 meters in diameter flying toward their car. The UFO had intensely bright orange and blue lights and emitted sparks as it approached. They stopped the car and jumped out as it dove as them five or six times, at one point hovering for two minutes just 15 meters above them, making a humming sound. It then flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8391",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 296; Flying Saucer Review, May 1964, p. 27" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/14/1970",
  "desc" : "Waking up in his house at 1:30 a.m., a man in Bucharest, Romania saw a vivid red light in the sky and heard a pulsating, humming sound. He ran to his window and saw a policeman running toward his car, which suddenly started. A whitish-blue sphere of pulsating light was hovering over the car, then it suddenly disappeared. The whole event lasted less than one minute. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8392",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from behind the Iron Curtain, p. 271; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 303, citing Hobana and Weverbergh" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/14/1971",
  "desc" : "Yates and Schiller in Waikerie, South Australia saw a six-foot tall humanoid with a \"lumpy\" body and surrounded by an aura of light float through some trees, 20 meters away. The creature had large pointed ears, a nose like a dog, and no eyes or mouth that were visible. This happened at 11 o'clock at night. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8393",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Keith Basterfield, case investigation files #S037" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/14/1973",
  "desc" : "At 9:43 p.m. in Paso Robles, California a solid red beam of light from a black cone-shaped UFO hit the ground, throwing up dirt. The cone then moved into an amber sphere that began to emit a vapor of some kind. The sphere then took off at a sixty-degree angle up into the sky. Two six-foot tall \"robots\" with crinkly skin were seen on the ground where the beam had hit. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8394",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ann Druffel, Skynet." ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/14/1978",
  "desc" : "At least nine separate close encounter events occurred on this date around the world. The first three occurred in Italy. At four o'clock in the morning a four-meter wide cone-shaped object was seen hovering only three meters from the ground in Rome. It had a row of illuminated portholes, and three beams of light came from its bottom. At 4:30 in the afternoon in San Vito del Normanni, Italy a witness reported seeing flying spheres in the sky for 15 minutes; one of the objects descended to the ground. An hour and ten minutes later, a red dome-shaped object was sighted on the ground in Mogoro, Italy. The object was bright enough to illuminate the clouds and the surrounding area, and it produced a smoke that didn't dissipate with the wind. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8395",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Xenolog, March 1979, p. 22; Lumieres dans la Nuit, numbers 214 and 240" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/14/1978",
  "desc" : "That same pre-dawn night in New England a Dublin, New Hampshire resident driving in Hancock saw a green, cigar-shaped object traveling at high speed at treetop level flying toward the east, from the area of Highway 101 toward Hancock. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8396",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, February 1979, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/14/1978",
  "desc" : "In Brewer, Maine a local resident named John felt an overwhelming compulsion to go out. He got dressed, got in his car, and drove away leaving his young daughter alone at home at 1:30 a.m. John drove in a daze along Route 9E, a very desolate stretch of road. All of a sudden his car's motor went completely dead and he coasted to a stop. His battery wasn't dead because his headlights remained on. He tried unsuccessfully to re-start the car. He then heard a very loud crackling noise. He turned to his right and slightly ahead of his car was a huge, long dark rectangular object, about 50 feet from the road. It was hovering 30 feet above the ground. As soon as John saw it a rectangular portion on the front end lit up and shone a soft green light through his front windshield. John felt a strange tingling sensation, like \"pins & needles.\" He also felt himself sink into a trance. He remained fully aware but could not move a muscle. Strangely, his initial fear upon sighting the huge object had disappeared, and he now felt calm and unafraid. The soft green light abruptly changed color to a reddish pink and began pulsating first slowly, then faster and faster. He then heard a voice say: \"Do not be afraid. We will not harm you. We are from the 17th star.\" The lights then slowed down and John heard the voice say, \"We will return.\" He felt a strong conviction that this statement was true. The lighted rectangle suddenly blinked off, and John heard a strange clicking sound again. The UFO then backed away and rose at an angle. On his way home he felt very cold. The next morning he noticed his skin peeling around his nose, forehead, and from the back of his ears. He suffered severe headaches after the incident. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8397",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1998; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing Raymond E. Fowler, UFO Testament" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/14/1978",
  "desc" : "In Illinois in the early evening hours two close encounters occurred. At 5:30 p.m. two 12-year-old girls in Park Ridge who were tobogganing in the city park saw a saucer-shaped object with a row of flashing red lights on the top and bottom and flashing yellow lights in between. It had 3 balls on the bottom. It hovered for 20 minutes, and then made a semi-circle in the sky before leaving. On Highway 116 in London Mills at 7:00 p.m. a tubular-shaped craft hovered and circled a car being driven by two teenage girls. The craft circled the car \"close enough to have touched it.\" It had two parallel tubes and one perpendicular tube but no windows. It took off fast toward the east. The father of one of the girls, Ralph Brashear, reported the incident to the police. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8398",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, pp. 543 & 549; Park Ridge (IL) Herald, December 21, 1978; London Mills (IL) Times, December 21, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/14/1978",
  "desc" : "In Sarandi del Yi, Uruguay, a UFO with bright red lights suddenly appeared and started to circle the car driven by Mr. La Bandera and his two passengers. It circled at a distance of only 10 meters (33 feet). It changed color to a deep green when it crossed the highway and made a steep climb into the sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8399",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1979, p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/14/1978",
  "desc" : "Finally, in Pomeroy, Washington a large UFO paced a car with three women inside. The object had two transparent blue lights and followed them to one of their homes. It circled around their car once, and then sped off to the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8400",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies; Pomeroy East Washingtonian, December 21, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/14/1997",
  "desc" : "In Saguache County, Colorado in the San Luis Valley a witness reported seeing a large triangular craft hovering over a field at 3:00 a.m. It moved slowly over the house and then over some grain silos. It then came back over the house and shone a beam of whitish blue light out of its center. Something like a small figure was taken up inside the beam. Lights around its edge flashed in rhythm when it left. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8401",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, case # 2874, citing Christopher O'Brien" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/14/1997",
  "desc" : "Noel Chandler of Hart Canyon, New Mexico had seen a round glowing UFO over his horse shed in the evening of December 13th. Also, for several of the preceeding nights he would hear three loud thumps on the house, but when he checked all around outside no cause could be found. While in bed this night at 2:30 a.m. he became aware of a bluish white light beam from an outside source. Next a figure appeared but with no real distinguishing features, except it had very large eyes--about the size of horse's--a small mouth, and small nostril-like holes. He found he was unable to move or talk. He heard a voice in his head that told him that \"they\" were here to collect a sperm sample. Soon a tube with a ball on the end, about 1/2 inches in diameter and six inches long, appeared and scanned his body. The tube was placed over his pubic hair just above the penis on the left side. A needle was then inserted and his left testicle was drawn up into his groin. He felt no real discomfort or pain. The needle and tube were removed and taken into a floating sphere. Moments later another form came down from the light, like floating in a horizontal position. It was a female with funny-looking hair on her head. The needle and tube came out of the sphere and she inserted it into her navel. Then, telepathically, she informed him that their society was dying out because they could not reproduce. They were increasingly becoming sterile, but by introducing new blood lines and clones they were hoping to regenerate their society. Their gestation period is reportedly only three to four months. Soon the bluish light started to \"close in\" at the bottom and the beings were gone. However, a strange smell lingered. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8402",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, citing Aztec UFO: Oral History" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/15/1950",
  "desc" : "Ground radar tracked an unidentified flying object over the Oak Ridge Nuclear Research Facility in Anderson County, Tennessee at 11:45 p.m. The object was sighted visually as well and described as teardrop shaped. The sighting lasted 10 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8403",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: August-December, p. 67" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/15/1953",
  "desc" : "At one o’clock in the morning a terrified growling dog alerted the witness to a presence outside the house in Sherbrooke, Quebec. There was a knock on the door heard next. Checking outside the witness could see a 100-meter wide UFO flying off. Crushed bushes were discovered at the landing site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8404",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case no. 121" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/15/1954",
  "desc" : "On this day in 1954 a man had a close encounter with three aliens in Brazil. While fishing in the river in Campo Grande in the state of Mato Grosso del Sol, he saw a small sphere revolving around a larger sphere, about two meters above the ground. The larger object had landing gear shaped like three round balls. Three human-looking occupants who were small in stature got out. They had with them a luminous basket and a metal tube with a cone-shaped end. They used these tools to collect soil samples. On the same day a Royal Australian Navy pilot reported that two UFOs paced his aircraft. The UFOs appeared on radar. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8405",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 195, citing an investigation by Olavo T. Fontes; Richard M. Dolan, UFO’s and the National Security State: Chronology of a cover-up 1941-1973, p. 408" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/15/1956",
  "desc" : "While out gathering Christmas trees around 11:00 o’clock in the morning in Derry, New Hampshire, a Mr. Horne saw a two-foot tall, green colored dwarf, with a high forehead, large floppy ears, and short arms and legs. The texture of the creature’s skin was course, like the skin of an elephant. The dwarf made a screeching noise when approached. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8406",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Walter N. Webb case investigations, report dated November 4, 1964" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/15/1957",
  "desc" : "A UFO photograph was taken in Misawa, Japan and sent to the US Air Force Project Blue Book. Project Blue Book did not provide an evaluation of the photo. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8407",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, December 1957, case 89" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/15/1961",
  "desc" : "A Mr. Torri took a photograph of a UFO in Riccione, Italy at 10:40 a.m. The photograph was published in an Italian newspaper. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8408",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Roberto Pinotti, Flying Saucers, January-February 1966, p. 55" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/15/1965",
  "desc" : "In 1965 a phantom automobile was seen in the Cotswold Hills in Avon county, England at around midnight. A vehicle shaped like a Land Rover, but without wheels, passed a car, and then vanished in a puff of smoke. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8409",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 7030, citing Arthur Shuttlewood" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/15/1967",
  "desc" : "At 1:00 a.m. three men driving to Saxon, Wisconsin on Highway 2 saw a rapidly spinning sphere with a white light on the top and bottom, and red and green lights around the middle. The object approached at low altitude, and then hovered over a nearby field. While hovering a smaller sphere discharged from the bottom, and it in turn discharged a smaller sphere, which then discharged a yet smaller sphere. These small spheres hovered momentarily one beneath the other, then returned to their original positions within each other and into the original object, which then sped out of sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8410",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, Jan.-Feb. 1968, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/15/1968",
  "desc" : "Shortly after midnight one of several UFOs in the sky swooped down and paced a car with five teenage hunters inside near Coorong, South Australia for over two minutes. It came close to the car several times before speeding away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8411",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 183" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/15/1968",
  "desc" : "In Macon, Georgia a teenage couple, Mr. Thornton and Miss Churchill, saw a dark cigar-shaped UFO with a bright dome on top at around eight o’clock in the evening. The dome had rotating red, green, and white lights. The UFO appeared to fall from the sky, stopped, tilted, righted itself, then dimmed and brightened. It shot out beams of light. Bright green flashes went out from it several times. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8412",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mrs. Frank Abbott, NICAP case investigation files, report dated February 17, 1969" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/15/1971",
  "desc" : "A round, silver disc-shaped object was sighted by a Mrs. H. Parker in Bridgewater, Tasmania at 6:20 a.m. It had a brightly reflective surface that flashed like a mirror over a river. After two minutes the object turned slowly to reveal an oval, disc-shaped appearance. It rose up, hovered for a minute, and was gone over a hill. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8413",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Australian Flying Saucer Review, December 1972, p. 12, citing the Tasmanian UFO Investigation Centre" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/15/1973",
  "desc" : "In 1973, on a highway in Le Gua, France a near collision occurred between a car and a 15-meter long silver cloud shaped UFO at around eleven o’clock in the morning. The UFO was heading in a southerly direction, but made an instantaneous ninety-degree turn and shot off toward the east. At 7:20 p.m. on a highway in Chateauneuf-sur-Loire, France a green ball of light dropped from the sky. At the same time a car’s engine and radio died. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8414",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 134, and December 1975" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/15/1975",
  "desc" : "On a farm near La Neuvelot, France at 11:00 p.m. a five-meter in diameter disc landed in a field. It rose up fast and shot away toward the west-southwest. At the same time there were several unexplained nocturnal lights in the sky.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8415",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)"
},
{
  "date" : "12/15/1976",
  "desc" : "At 9:20 p.m. on this evening in 1976 in Holland, Massachusetts, a cigar shaped UFO hovered stationary in the sky for a few moments. The figures of three or four beings could be seen through oval-shaped windows in the craft. The object disappeared in a bright red flash after another 7-8 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8416",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, February 1977, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/15/1977",
  "desc" : "At 8:45 p.m. a domed disc illuminated the area of Saint Ciers du Taillon, France like day, then flew away. It came back again the same site 20 minutes later. That same night a blindingly bright light came up close to a French Navy Nord-262 transport plane with three crew members aboard and followed it, circling it for five minutes. The UFO did not appear on ground radar at the naval base in Lorien, in Morbihan department, France. Also that night mysterious booms were reported up and down the eastern Atlantic shoreline of the United States at around 10:30 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8417",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1981; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 41 citing J. Troadec; Washington Post, December 17, 1977" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/15/1978",
  "desc" : "There were a series of close encounter UFO incidents in Italy on this date in 1978. In Torrebruna, Italy a man driving his car shortly after midnight saw a lighted UFO hovering just above the roadway. He blinked his headlights and the object descended and landed on the road ahead of him. The car's radio then stopped working. He got out of his car and approached the object and a door opened up. He then entered and found himself in a circular brightly illuminated room crammed full of instrument panels. He did not see any occupants. After a few minutes the witness left the object and saw it depart at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8418",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing Chris Aubeck, Return to Magonia; Lumieres dans la Nuit, numbers 214 and 240" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/15/1978",
  "desc" : "At 12:15 p.m. two young boys were playing in a yard in Catania, Italy on the island of Sicily, near a large TV antenna. The sky darkened and then a large disc-shaped craft approached and tilted at an angle, just above the TV antenna. The object emitted multicolored rays of light and had an open hatch in its center section. A bright beam of light shot out of the opening and a strange, 1.5 meter tall “monster” descended within the beam. The being was described as \"ugly\" with two large eyes and two antenna-like protrusions on its head. A second similar being reportedly descended carrying a \"laser\" type gun and shot at a rock causing it to burn and explode. He was seen to bend down, touch the ground, and then spill a black liquid on it. Moments later a beam of light transported the beings back into the craft. The craft then shot away at high speed. Ground traces were reportedly found. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8419",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Maurizio Verga, ITACAT - Italian UFO Catalogue" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/15/1978",
  "desc" : "At 5:45 p.m. a luminous orange sphere, about two meters in diameter, passed low over houses in a residential area of Macomer, Italy on the island of Sardinia. At 6:30 p.m. several witnesses in Collegno,Torino, Italy spotted a bizarre human-like figure about 1.60 meters in height, wearing a rose-colored coverall and without facial features. It moved around in a field at very high speed and then remained immobile, leaning against a wall for more than 30 minutes. The witnesses were afraid to approach the figure. Some thought it was a prank and summoned the authorities. As the police arrived the strange figure suddenly ran through an opening in the wall at incredibly speed and quickly disappeared from sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8420",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing Chris Aubeck, Return to Magonia" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/15/1978",
  "desc" : "Back on the island of Sicily at 11:45 p.m. a witness named Capuzello saw two, two-meter tall beings exit from a saucer-shaped craft that had landed on a road in Licodia Eubea, Italy. They spoke some kind of unintelligible language that sounded like gibberish. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8421",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issues 214 and 240; Maurizio Verga, ITACAT -Italian UFO Catalogue" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/15/1978",
  "desc" : "At 11:50 p.m. a truck driver in Ragusa, Italy suddenly experienced radio interference and stopped to fix it. He then saw two very tall humanoids standing only five meters away. They were dressed in black, tight-fitting coveralls and helmets. They helmets had short protuberances like antennae on the sides and they had transparent face plates. Inside human-like faces could be seen. Two bright beams of light were emitted from their helmets that illuminated the cab of the truck. The beings came closer and uttered unintelligible sounds, then turned and left. Seconds later the witness saw a dome-shaped craft take off with a bright flash. A strong smell of sulphur was noticed in the vicinity. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8422",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 153" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/15/1980",
  "desc" : "In 1980 over 40 people in the southeastern part of London, England saw a UFO hover, divide into pieces, re-group, dart a short distance, and then shoot straight up. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8423",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, p. 76" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/15/1981",
  "desc" : "At dusk in 1981 in Aksaray, Nigde province, Turkey a bright light shaped like a \"flying tray\" hovered some 200 to 300 meters from a car, performed maneuvers in the sky for a few minutes, then shot away toward the southwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8424",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Haluk Egeman Sarikaya, International UFO Reporter, January 1983, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/15/1981",
  "desc" : "In San Luis del Palmar, Corrientes Province, Argentina at 3:30 a.m. 42-year-old Ruben Meneses was driving a dump truck on a dirt road at 3:30 a.m when he had a close encounter with a brilliant object that approached his truck. The truck began to vibrate, and hefelt a tingling sensation all over his body. He was unable to move as the truck was lifted up into the air and seemed to become transparent. Meneses then blacked out. He later awoke sitting confused in his truck at a location about 55 miles from where he had been, and did not remember how he got there. He was hospitalized in a state of confusion, shock, and disorientation. When he awoke he also had a vague memory of a humanoid encounter.Later under hypnotic regression he remembered being taken inside a room with mirror like walls, where he was made to lie down on a cot-like bed. He saw three short thin humanoids with dark gray skin, extremely long arms and thick wrinkles on their foreheads. The little beings communicated with Meneses using telepathy. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8425",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 271; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1981, case # 3461, citing Eduardo Alfredo Lopez" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/15/1983",
  "desc" : "In 1983 Mr. Coventry in Glasgow, Scotland reported seeing a fog at 6:25 a.m. in which all sounds stopped. A gray flying object the shape of a railroad car, but with a convex curved roof, then appeared, making crackling and humming sounds. The UFO had three porthole-shaped windows in the side, and what appeared to be a yellow smoke swirled around in the interior of the object. It shot up into the sky and was gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8426",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The secret history of Scotland’s UFO phenomenon, p. 88" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/15/1991",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. on a farm in Catlett, Fauquier County, Virginia a woman with multiple abduction experiences reported being abducted by aliens again in 1991, this time for 70 minutes. A curious feature of this abduction event was that when she was returned she noticed that the aliens had put her earrings back on backwards. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8427",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, January 1994, citing USA Today" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/15/1994",
  "desc" : "At around 3:00 a.m. Miss Myrna Rodriguez had been in a deep sleep at her home in La Playa Guayanilla, Puerto Rico when she had the sudden sensation that her body was being lifted up, apparently floating away from the bed. She awoke with a start and found herself unable to move. When she looked around she found herself surrounded by four short humanoids, two on each side of her body, who were apparently somehow holding her up in mid-air without any means of support. The beings were short and thin, with huge, round hairless heads, small pointed ears, and large, dark, slanted eyes. They had what appeared to be mole-like marks under their eyes, and their noses and mouths were almost indistinguishable. They had thin bodies with long skinny arms. They all wore dull silvery uniforms. The beings next began touching her with their delicate hands all around her stomach and chest area, at the same time talking to themselves in a low murmur like chatter. The witness was alarmed to see that the beings somehow had suceeded in opening her chest area, without causing her any pain or discomfort. They seemed to be checking her internal organs, including her heart, which she saw moving as it pumped blood through her body. During the whole experience she felt a sense of joy and peace, and was convinced that the beings were benevolent and were there to help. She eventually floated gently back to her bed where she was able to move and immediately checked her stomach and chest area for any scars, but found none. The beings had vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8428",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1994, case #  2099, citing Jorge Martin, Evidencia OVNI, issue # 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/15/1995",
  "desc" : "At 10:30 p.m. a big rectangular object with many lights maneuvered in the sky at the same time that three lights were seen on the road in La Spezia, Italy. The big UFO flew away to the west, leaving a bright trail in the sky. An electrical power outage occurred in the area at the same time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8429",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 17168" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/15/1998",
  "desc" : "There were many UFO reports in the early dawn hours and on this evening in 1998, earlier in the evening than the normal hours for the Geminid meteor shower. At 5:30 a.m. at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey near New York City, a man working at the airport felt a strange compulsion to go outside. When he did he saw a huge, wedge-shaped craft with lights over the George Washington Bridge. At the same time he heard a message, apparently through his normal hearing. At nine o’clock in the evening a dark equilateral triangle-shaped craft outlined by lights passed silently over Bethelem, Pennsylvania. It flew from the east to the west at a very slow speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8430",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case 3930, citing CAUS; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/15/1999",
  "desc" : "A disc with green flashing lights pulsating around its middle rim section approached the beach on North Island in New Zealand from the ocean traveling at a speed of 200 knots. It flew low, at an estimated altitude of only 50 meters, and accelerated away making a deep buzzing noise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8431",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), April 2000, p. 17, citing Filer’s Files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/15/2001",
  "desc" : "In 2001 there were many reports of a circular glowing object circling the metropolitan area of Toluca, Mexico at around 3:00 a.m. The object was reportedly viewed through binoculars. At 7:20 p.m. an amber colored, low flying triangle moved through the sky over Greensboro, North Carolina toward the southeast. Within its structure it had many \"translucent spheres or orbs interchanging within it.” In flew off in the direction of Fayettesville. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8432",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 17848, citing UFO Roundup; UFO Magazine (USA), April 2002, p. 21, citing Filer’s Files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/15/2003",
  "desc" : "At six p.m. a circular object flew over the coconut trees for about four minutes in Baling, Kedah State, Malaysia, and then disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8433",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Dec. 2003 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/15/2003",
  "desc" : "At 10:05 a.m. a witness reporting seeing star-like lights during the daytime over San Francisco Bay, California that moved \"super fast\" and stopped, and then zigzagged behind a cloud. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8434",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Dec. 2003 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/15/2005",
  "desc" : "At 9:45 a.m. a large triangle of white lights with one red light in the middle, was seen standing stock still low in the sky over the Santa Barbara freeway in Santa Barbara, California. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8435",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Dec. 2005 webpage, report uploaded Dec. 16, 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/15/2005",
  "desc" : "A black triangle-shaped object was sighted from Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland at 9:15 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8436",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "British Ministry of Defence, case # 125 for 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/16/1950",
  "desc" : "An unidentified object landed on the surface of Lake Michigan near Grand Haven, Michigan at 11:45 p.m. making the surface glow. It then sank beneath the surface. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8437",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: August-December, p. 67" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/16/1952",
  "desc" : "In Gisborne, New Zealand at ten o’clock in the evening some “angel hair” residue fell from a fast moving, luminous blue object that made erratic maneuvers in the sky and flew off quickly towards the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8438",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: November-December, p. 68" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/16/1953",
  "desc" : "At the test launch of a V-2 rocket at Point Mugu, California many ground observers watched a huge, fast moving white disc fly off toward the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8439",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: August-December, p. 64" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/16/1954",
  "desc" : "Taking a rest stop while driving along the Pan-American highway near San Carlos del Zulia, Venezuela, Jesus Paz left his two friends in their car and walked off a short distance to relieve himself. They heard him screaming and then saw him fall unconscious. A small hairy dwarf ran off from the spot to a flat, shiny hovering UFO. The machine shot off with a loud whistle. Jesus Paz had deep scratches on his body from the creature. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8440",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 55" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/16/1957",
  "desc" : "Mrs. Mary M. Starr, a long-term resident of Old Saybrook, Connecticut and a graduate of Yale University with two degrees, was in the habit of spending all but two or three winter months in a two story beach house situated only a few hundred feet from Long Island Sound. At the beginning and end of the tourist season her home is the only building occupied in the vicinity, and marshy ground surrounds her property on three sides. On this night Mrs. Starr was awakened from a sound sleep sometime between two three a.m. by bright lights passing her bedroom window, which faces north. She looked out her east window and saw a fuselage-shaped craft coming to a stop just 10 feet from the hourse. It was 20 to 30 feet long, dark gray or black, with brightly lit square windows. The object hovered motionless, just five feet above the ground. It had no wings, fins, or other external structure.<br/><br/> Behind the lighted windows were two humanoid forms that passed each other, walking in opposite directions. They appeared to be wearing yellow jackets, and each had his right hand raised. She thought at first they might be stewards, carrying trays, except that their heads were unusual. They were square or rectangular and a reddish orange in color. Their feet were out of view below the portholes. Then a third man entered from the left, and Mrs. Starr leaned forward to try to see his face more clearly. As she did so the portholes faded and the entire object began to glow with scintillating brilliance. Immediately, there rose from the nearer end a kind of antenna, about six inches long. It oscillated and sparkled. For almost five minutes the glow and the sparking continued, then the antenna lowered and the object began to move to the right, back in the direction from which it had come. It made a very sharp right-angle turn. Mrs. Starr thought it would hit her blue spruce but it did not. It had by now turned a dull bluish gray again, and instead of portholes small circular lights outlined the entire rim. It's shape now appeared to be oval, and as it dipped or \"undulated\" to follow the contour of a shallow depression just beyond the garden, she saw that it was very shallow in depth. Over the marsh it tilted steeply and shot up into the sky at the speed of a jet taking off, but in complete silence.<br/><br/> Except for the figures, she had seen nothing inside the object. The men could not have been more than four feet tall at the most, given the size of the object as determined by occlusion of nearby objects. The U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book recorded the case as \"little men in cigar.\" Project Blue Book filed a newspaper article on the case, but did not investigate. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8441",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Civilian Saucer Intelligence Newsletter, July 15, 1959; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 451; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 77" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/16/1957",
  "desc" : "Later that same night at around 8:45 p.m. an aluminum colored, disc-shaped UFO followed a train near Chrockatt de Sa in Minas Gerais State, Brazil for ten minutes, maneuvering back and forth from side to side of the train. It had a bright orange light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8442",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: December, p. 53" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/16/1965",
  "desc" : "In Chineham, Basingstoke, England at 7:45 p.m. two police officers, J. Harwood and B. Gibbons, sighted a tadpole-shaped UFO with a large green dome on top and a red flaming tail two to three times its length. It passed overhead at an extreme speed. There were low lying clouds at the time and the UFO passed under the clouds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8443",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gary Heseltine, UFO Magazine (UK), July 2003, p. 5, citing R. Chapman" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/16/1967",
  "desc" : "A man driving with his girlfriend late at night in Winterfold, Surrey, England had stopped his vehicle outside a deserted mansion in order to clean the windshield. His girlfriend meanwhile remained in the car. He noticed an acrid smell. He got back into the car and then noticed a strange figure looking at them from nearby. The humanoid was about four foot six inches tall and had a luminous, oblong-shaped head. Furthermore, the odor seemed to be coming from his direction. The figure approached and put an arm on the roof of the car. At this point the man and woman drove away at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8444",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, case # 1640, citing Fortean Times, issue # 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/16/1977",
  "desc" : "On a highway just north of Uzes, France at 10:00 p.m. witnesses on two separate motorbikes both had their bikes stall in the presence of a Saturn-shaped UFO with a red ring around it. The UFO crossed over highway D979 going east, then flew away to the west. At 11:25 p.m. in La Aurora, Uruguay there was a great flash in the northeastern sky, followed by a UFO gyrating downward as if out of control. Huge sparks fell to the ground, and the UFO descended as if going to land, but then suddenly rose up into the sky at tremendous speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8445",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1978; Bob Van Der Velde, APRO Bulletin, May 1982, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/16/1978",
  "desc" : "At 2:30 a.m. in Francavilla, Italy a college coed saw an ovoid UFO surrounded by a white mist. She was standing in her living room by a balcony overlooking the sea when she noticed a gaseous form, white in color with two pulsating lights, a red one at one end, a green one at the other end. It descended onto the surface of the sea and became a very bright flourescent white light that reflected off the surface of the water. She attempted to wake her parents but they continued to sleep. She next noticed two short figures standing in the garden at the adjacent apartment. They were very thin with large squarish heads and large feet. Both were wearing dark gray tight-fitting uniforms. They turned a corner moving as if in slow motion and in a limping manner, disappearing down an alleyway. Moments later the bright white light, now very near the breakwater, vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8446",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 218; Maurizio Verga, ITACAT - Italian UFO Catalogue" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/16/1978",
  "desc" : "Over Calama, near the city of Antofagasta in northern Chile at shortly after midnight, a Chilean Air Force jet sighted and tried to intercept a huge luminous rectangular flying object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8447",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 42 citing the MUFON UFO Journal, December 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/16/1978",
  "desc" : "In Caracas, Venezuela in the early morning, predawn hours five UFOs emitted different colors, made a semi-circular turn, and then hovered over a mountain for several minutes before finally shooting away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8448",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1979, p. 14 citing Cronica, December 16, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/16/1978",
  "desc" : "At 5:30 a.m. at McCarran Airport in Las Vegas, Nevada a married couple and a child saw a disc-shaped object with glowing white lights. The UFO made several falling leaf movements. An airline pilot flying in the vicinity also reported that a UFO streaked by his airliner although the UFO did not appear on radar. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8449",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Las Vegas (Nevada) Sun, December 17, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/16/1978",
  "desc" : "On this night on a road one-mile south of Abington, Indiana the witnesses’s car engine and radio went dead when a UFO appeared coming over the trees only ten feet above the ground. The aluminum colored UFO was shaped like a trapezoid with rounded corners, with two lights in the front and two on the bottom. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8450",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richmond (Indiana) Paladium Item, January 1979, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/16/1978",
  "desc" : "In Saltillo, Mexico in the state of Coahuila a flying object exploded in the night, lighting up the sky with a violet color. The explosion was reportedly heard over a 1,000 square kilometer area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8451",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1979, p. 14 citing La Razon, December 22, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/16/1981",
  "desc" : "In the evening on this day in 1981 a disc with a white band in the middle appeared over Nigde, Turkey. The same or a similar object was seen over the city on multiple subsequent nights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8452",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jerold R. Johnson, MUFON UFO Journal, February 1994, p. 18" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/16/1992",
  "desc" : "A man awoke on this night at 5:30 a.m. in his bedroom in Scotland and felt compelled to go to window. He saw a tall, tannish-gray being only two meters away. A powerful sense of fear overcame him, and he believed that the alien had come for his girlfriend, still asleep in the bed. He next experienced a loss of memory as to what happened next, and they both felt ill. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8453",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, case 2860, citing A. Brough" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/16/1996",
  "desc" : "Two skiers at Stevens Pass in Washington watched an orange colored disc-shaped UFO appear in the sky during the evening. Over the next two minutes they then sighted two more of the objects. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8454",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Francis L. Ridge, UFO Intelligence Newsletter" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/16/1997",
  "desc" : "On this night in Riachao De Jacuipe, Brazil a witness saw a bright light in a nearby field that increased rapidly in size as it approached. viewing through a pair of binoculars, the witness saw a humanoid silhouette within the light. It was without any features, and appeared to be silvery metallic in color, and emitting an orange beam of light. It and the light suddenly disappeared. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8455",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, citing Antonio Faleiro, Brazil" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/17/1949",
  "desc" : "On this evening in 1949 two witnesses aboard a ferry in Puget Sound bound for Victoria, British Columbia from Seattle, Washington saw a nocturnal light zigzagging in the sky toward the northwest. It spiralled up into the night sky. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8456",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing Loren Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949 (volume 2), p. 61" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/17/1952",
  "desc" : "At 4:15 p.m. six people sighted two discs maneuvering over the coast and the city of San Diego, California. The objects moved at slow to very high speeds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8457",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/17/1953",
  "desc" : "In Marseilles, France at 6:10 a.m. a huge white disc with a blue fringe flew off toward the southeast at an extremely fast speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8458",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: August-December, p. 68" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/17/1953",
  "desc" : "At 2:37 p.m. transair chief pilot Ulf Christiernsson and airline mechanic Johansson saw a nearly round, slightly elliptical UFO with a metallic shine flying close to the speed of sound in the opposite direction from their aircraft, while they were flying over Hassleholm, Sweden. The object was in sight for ten seconds. This case is a Project Blue Book unknown, but the possibility of the object having been a Russian drone was not fully discarded at the time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8459",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 121; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2838; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 22; UNICAT, case # 769 citing Project Blue Book" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/17/1954",
  "desc" : "At 5:00 p.m. on a country road in Bersaillin, France in Jura department, a woodsman sighted a very bright light on the road, coming from a dark craft some 80 meters away. When the light became brighter the man felt an intense wave of heat and he thought that he would die. After a short while the light moved away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8460",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case 355; Jacques Vallee, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 20" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/17/1956",
  "desc" : "At 3:20 p.m. at Itazuke AFB in Japan a brownish-golden colored UFO was sighted from the air by a pilot and co-pilot. It flew at a high rate of speed and was tracked on radar. Radio interference between the warplane and the base was also noted at the time. On that same night a humanoid encounter occurred in the United States. At about 9 p.m. in Conashaugh, Pennsylvania Ms. M. Carow, a 68-year-old woman, went out in her backyard with a flashlight and was surprised to see two dwarves. One was three feet tall, the other one three and a half feet tall. Both wore tight silver suits and helmets. The shorter one was stocky but the taller one was slender. She shone her flashlight on them for three minutes before they walked away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8461",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; NICAP UFO Intestigator, August 1957; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, 104; UNICAT, case # 802; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 28, citing International UFO Reporter; (2) Berthold E. Schwarz, FSR, September-October 1969, p. 16, citing Pike County Dispatch, April 17, 1958" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/17/1958",
  "desc" : "Fornells de Minorca, Baleares Islands, Spain. Mr. Galvez, a 55-year-old retired artillery sergeant was motorcycling on this Mediterranean Island when he observed a missile-shaped UFO 2.5 meters long flying only ten meter above some pine trees. It made a buzzing sound. There were some other witnesses nearby, according to Mr. Galvez. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8462",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, p. 27, citing Eduardo Buelta as the field investigator" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/17/1959",
  "desc" : "On this day at eight o’clock in the morning four children on a school bus in Haverhill, Massachusetts saw a flash in the sky, then watched a silver, domed disc land in a field. A door in the craft opened and a humanoid occupant exited. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8463",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: October-December" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/17/1962",
  "desc" : "A cylindrical object with two vertical projections was seen from Norfolk Island, New South Wales, Australia travelling from north-northeast to south-southwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8464",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 88" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/17/1962",
  "desc" : "In Milan, Italy at 2:20 a.m. Mr. Rizzi, a 37-year-old night watchman, heard a whistling sound and saw a silver metallic domed disc hovering just above the ground. The object was four or five meters wide and had a windowed turret on top. A three foot tall little man emerged from a door in the bottom of the craft. It pointed a finger at the witness who felt paralyzed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8465",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Corrier Milan, December 19, 1962; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 554; Leonard G. Cramp, Piece for a Jig-Saw, p. 124" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/17/1963",
  "desc" : "On or about this night in 1963 in Sauce Viejo, Argentina a railroad worker, Mr. C. Tulio Gallardo, saw lights appear outside his railroad coach at the same time that his radio and carbide lamp died. A luminous entity entered the coach, tore up the newspaper the witness had used to shield his eyes, grabbed an oilcan, and then left. Other passengers on an incoming train saw the entity leaving. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8466",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Flying Saucer Review, January-February 1966, p. 25, citing La Gaceta, December 17, 1963" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/17/1970",
  "desc" : "At 5:10 a.m. in the town of St-Vit in Doubs, France several motorists saw a red disc descend low over some railroad tracks. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8467",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 126" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/17/1971",
  "desc" : "At eight o’clock in the evening in Newark, Nottinghamshire, England a motorist’s car engine stopped but his car’s headlights stayed on. The driver then saw a huge gray sphere in the nearby field. He then saw a light move across the road and saw that the sphere had gone. The car could the be restarted. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8468",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 52" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/17/1975",
  "desc" : "In the city of Americana, in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil 16-year old Mr. Salles de Andrade encountered an intense beam of light while walking home at night and woke up the next day in a thicket, 28 kilometers away. He had no recollection for the time that he had been missing, but he had strange marks on his forehead and arms, and experienced headaches. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8469",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, August 1976, p. 19" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/17/1977",
  "desc" : "Shortly after four o’clock in the afternoon in Kenyon, Rhode Island a huge domed disc dropped silently toward the ground over a meadow and stopped, an estimated 400 feet above the ground. It had a small dome on the top of the object and three square windows. When the disc turned to a vertical position both cars in the vicinity stalled. The UFO gave off a bluish-white glow, and the witnessed experienced skin burns and rashes as a result of the intense light, and eye irritations after the encounter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8470",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald R. Todd, APRO Bulletin, July-August 1978, p. 4; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 72" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/17/1977",
  "desc" : "On that same night at 11:30 p.m. in St-Nazaire, Loire-Atlantic department, France a flaming disc-shaped UFO flew to the south and out to sea. The same or a similar object continued to hover offshore. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8471",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, March 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/17/1978",
  "desc" : "At 4:30 a.m. off the coast of Catania, Italy located on the Mediterranean island of Sicily, two people witness a small ovoid object take off from the sea in small, multiple jumps heading toward the west. At 7:00 a.m. in San Cataldo, also in Sicily, several independent witnesses watched a luminous disc land and take off again. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8472",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 214" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/17/1978",
  "desc" : "On the same night as the Sicily UFO landing, on the shoreline of Saint Ewe in Cornwall County, England a red mushroom-shaped UFO was seen at a low altitude, with a shaft of light reaching to the ground. The UFO was estimated to be 100 feet in diameter and had icy blue discs of light around the rim. A snowy white mist, apparently generated by the UFO concealed the ground beneath the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8473",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, February 1979, p. 13, citing the Dublin, Ireland Independent, December 24, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/17/1982",
  "desc" : "In 1982 at five p.m. at a military base in Malmby, Sweden Captain Bergstrom of the Swedish Army was out jogging and saw a huge “flying bus” with two other metallic disc-shaped objects escorting it. The three objects glided down to land in a clearing behind some trees. Two other witnesses watched the objects change color as they landed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8474",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Doris Graziano, APRO Bulletin, November 1984, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/17/1987",
  "desc" : "In 1987 Ed Walters took several photographs of a disc-shaped UFO with lights at one o’clock in the morning in Gulf Breeze, Florida. An abduction of Mr. Walters may have occurred the same night. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8475",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Edward Walters, Gulf Breeze Sightings, p. 73" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/17/1996",
  "desc" : "In 1996 a single witness reported that a flat-topped disc-shaped object hovered overhead in Redmond, Washington at 2:30 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8476",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Francis L. Ridge, UFO Intelligence Newsletter" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/17/1997",
  "desc" : "In both Burlington and Colchester, Vermont witnesses called the UFO Reporting Center in Seattle, Washington to report that a large object passed overhead at 11:45 a.m. going toward the northeast. One person said that their radio was effected and didn’t work for ten minutes, the object estimated that the UFO was moving at 3,000 miles per hour. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8477",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/17/1999",
  "desc" : "Roberto Gomes Misson reported to the local police that on this evening he had encountered two one-meter tall humanoids on the road next to his house in Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. They were standing next to a huge hovering disc-shaped object. The object was about 15 meters (50 feet) in width and emitted red, blue, and orange lights. The police reportedly found ground traces at the landing site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8478",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1999, citing Thiago Luiz Ticchetti, EBE-ET" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/17/2000",
  "desc" : "At 10:35 a.m. a 50 foot wide saucer-shaped object was seen by a mother and daughter on the ground east of Blanca, Colorado on the Trinchera Ranch in the San Luis Valley. A humanoid was seen outside of the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8479",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Christopher O'Brien, Christopher O'Brien case files, case # 640" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/17/2000",
  "desc" : "At 6:00 p.m. a glowing yellow disc-shaped object was seen for 12 minutes north of San Francisco Bay in Sebastopol, California. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8480",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Dec. 2000 webpage, report uploaded Dec. 20, 2000" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/17/2001",
  "desc" : "A low flying, slow moving Saturn-shaped UFO flew to the south over the river at 7:30 p.m. in Brevard, Florida. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8481",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), April 2002, p. 20, citing Filer’s Files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/17/2001",
  "desc" : "Two bright blue lights were seen on a cigar-shaped craft that flew over St. Georges, Manitoba, Canada at 7:18 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8482",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Dec. 2001 webpage, report uploaded May 24, 2005" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/17/2005",
  "desc" : "At 5:45 p.m. a slow moving, silent  triangular object with red lights was seen in Hockinson, Washington State. It was flying low to the ground and was quiet bright from a distance. It was in view for 90 seconds. At 9:30 p.m. a dark triangle-shaped object with V-shaped lights flew over the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Florida for three minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8483",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Dec. 2005 webpage, reports uploaded February 14, 2006" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/18/1933",
  "desc" : "At ten o'clock in the morning hundreds of witnesses in Onkerzeele, Belgium watched a Fatima like solar apparition, with sparks and flames from a dancing \"Sun\". ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8484",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing SOS-OVNI France, Phenomena magazine, issue # 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/18/1950",
  "desc" : "At 8:39 a.m. a circular light changed shape and brilliance as it hovered over Oak Ridge AEC Laboratories, Tennessee. It faded to a star, then flew away to the northwest. There was radar confirmation of the sighting from the nearby McGhee Air Force Base. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8485",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bruce S Maccabee, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1978, pp. 11, 15" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/18/1954",
  "desc" : "At 3:45 a.m. several hundred people, including sentries guarding the Catete Palace in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil witnessed a yellow glowing ovoid object that slowed from a high speed and stopped in just three seconds, and then hovered for 20 minutes. It illuminated the surface of the water in Guanabara Bay, and finally climbed up at an oblique angle, and was gone in 4-5 seconds. Two small jets of exhaust were seen flowing from the lower part of the object while it was accelerating. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8486",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UNICAT, case 557, citing Colonel Adil de Oliveira, Brazilian Government report dated October 1956; APRO Bulletin, July 1957" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/18/1957",
  "desc" : "A huge flying saucer flew over Oacoma, South Dakota at 5:40 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8487",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Max Miller, Saucers, March 1958; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 5385" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/18/1957",
  "desc" : "A white light source glided overhead in Sarasota, Florida. There were many witnesses and TV interference was noted at the time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8488",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, pp. 75, 147; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, December 1967, p. 24" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/18/1966",
  "desc" : "At 4:40 p.m. a 23-year-old man at the eastern shore of Lake Tiorati in Bear Mountain State Park, Orange County, New York looked up and saw a silver-brown domed disc-shaped object in the western sky at 45° elevation, heading northeast. It was wobbling and noiseless. He was able to take a photograph of the object before it disappeared over and behind a fire tower on a 1,320 foot hill about half a mile away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8489",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP case investigation files; J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, pp. 239-245" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/18/1968",
  "desc" : "A man and woman in their late twenties were driving together in a car five miles north of Wairakei, New Zealand at around 11:45 p.m. when they drove by a tall being around six feet tall. The man wore a shiny dark blue or black loose fitting one-piece suit that was tucked in at the boots. The being also wore gloves, a belt, and a cylindrical helmet with a clear visor. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8490",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Anthony J. Brunt, FSR, July-August 1969, p. 29" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/18/1975",
  "desc" : "At 7:45 a.m. a \"dah-dit\" noise accompanied the slow ascent of an eight-meter wide, gray domed disc over a residential area of Ancy, France. The object had square shaped windows. It flew away toward the southeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8491",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1976).<br/><br/> A aircraft flying near Maelifelli, Iceland on this day in 1976 picked up a clear radar image of a UFO at a distance of 100 miles and flying at 18,000 feet altitude. They tracked the UFO for one minute as it rushed below and passed their plane at a speed of 3,600 miles per hour. (Source: International UFO Reporter, March 1977, p. 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/18/1976",
  "desc" : "At 12:55 a.m. on Soda Springs Mountain Road in Caribou County, Idaho three police officers had a close encounter with a 30-foot diameter oval-shaped UFO. The object was devoid of seams or windows, and had the bulk of three to four cars. It emitted a light green light and hovered only 60 feet away from them. It made no sound when hovering, but made a whistling \"wind\" sound when in motion. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8492",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies case investigations file, December 1976; International UFO Reporter, February 1977, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/18/1976",
  "desc" : "Twenty-two hours later at 10:30 p.m. six witnesses, twenty miles south of Miami, Florida watched an oval glow with a disc-shaped object inside fly to the south, passing over their heads at only 150 feet. The object turned and flew away to the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8493",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies case investigations file, December 1976; International UFO Reporter, February 1977, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/18/1977",
  "desc" : "In Guadalajara, Spain a 34-year-old man, Mr. Miguel Herrero Sierra was driving his pickup truck down a road at a few minutes past midnight when the vehicle’s lights, engine, and radio suddenly died. He pulled to the side of the road but couldn't find anything wrong with the car. He decided to wait in the truck for help. A man dressed in a diver’s suit approached and told him through telepathy to come aboard a hat-shaped UFO, under which there was a cylindrical chamber that extended to the ground. Inside the object was a 14-meter wide circular room with smooth walls. Mr. Herrero stayed inside for approximately three hours, communicating telepathically with the occupants of the craft. He was released later, and discovered that he had a small puncture wound on his arm, as if they had taken a blood sample from him although he did not recall them doing so. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8494",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1978, p. 15, citing Cronica, January 26, 1978; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1977-57" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/18/1977",
  "desc" : "On the same night, at four o’clock in the morning Central Standard Time, three 16-year-old girls saw a frightening monster while driving 15 miles north of Zoto del Marina, Mexico. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8495",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "letter from one of the witnesses to the J. Allen Hynek, Center for UFO Studies, dated August 9, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/18/1980",
  "desc" : "Several witnesses on a farm in Colesburg, Eastern Cape, South Africa watched an odd glowing cloud-like object with a hazy funnel of light that reached downward to the ground for five minutes on an otherwise clear night. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8496",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Cynthia Hind, MUFON UFO Journal, May 1981, p. 8" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/18/1980",
  "desc" : "On the same night on a farm in Sao Jose do Rio Preto, Brazil, four men and women watched farm animals (cows and horses) panic and run from a 10-inch wide flying silver sphere that flew around for 30 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8497",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Cynthia Newby Luce, MUFON investigation files database, case #931248J" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/18/1988",
  "desc" : "At 2:45 a.m. four gendarmes in Le Vigan, Gard, France traveling in two vehicles observed a strange form hovering low ahead of them, composed of superimposed red luminous rectangles. The object was 7-8 meters above the center of the road. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8498",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "GEIPAN, case # 24" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/18/1992",
  "desc" : "Several people at the local Dairy Queen in Iaeger, West Virginia saw a large diamond-shaped UFO with a squared back fly over toward the southwest at 7:10 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8499",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Teets, West Virginia UFOs: Close Encounters in the Mountain State, p. 61, citing field investigator D. Church" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/18/1996",
  "desc" : "Two witnesses in Eugene, Oregon saw a nocturnal light zigzagging at a high altitude and making ninety-degree turns at 4:30 a.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8500",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/18/1997",
  "desc" : "In Oxnard, California at 10:50 p.m. a large cigar-shaped object followed the power lines; continuing on, it went out to sea. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8501",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Dec. 2007 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/18/2001",
  "desc" : "Two gray plumes of smoke were first seen in the sky over Stockport Railway Station in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. A gray triangular object was then witnessed in the sky. Later that evening, at 8:00 p.m., a circular red light was seen high up in the sky moving quickly. It slowed down, accelerated, and then wobbled from side to side. At 8:50 in Crawley, West Sussex, England an object looking like a rounded triangle was sighted. It was longer at one point, with a giant light in the center. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8502",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "British Ministry of Defence, cases 189-199 for 2001" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/18/2004",
  "desc" : "Several strange lights were seen from Cau-Cau, Horcon, Chile starting at 8:30 p.m., engaging in complex maneuvers. A dot was first seen, then a vertical line that turned to the left. Contrails left in the wake of the objects and their irregular, sudden maneuvers suggested they were not conventional aircraft. Photographs were reportedly taken. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8503",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Scott Corrales, ufoinfo.com, report dated December 31, 2004" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/18/2005",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. a farmer in Knox, Indiana had a close encounter with a saucer-shaped craft hovering over his nearby field. It was about 50 feet in the air. It had a red and blue light, and made no sound. After hovering for three minutes it flew off to the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8504",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Dec. 2005 webpage, report uploaded February 14, 2006" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/19/1954",
  "desc" : "UFOs shot through the sky over Vienna, Austria. There were many reports including several from police witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8505",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 122" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/19/1954",
  "desc" : "On the same night in Cartaya, Huelva Province, Spain a circular craft landed 50 meters away from two witnesses. As the witnesses walked towards it the UFO rose up to a very high altitude and flew away toward Portugal, making a great deal of noise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8506",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Newspaper clipping dated December 20, 1954" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/19/1954",
  "desc" : "At eleven o’clock in the evening Mr. Parra, an 18-year-old resident of Valencia, Venezuela watched a disc-shaped UFO land and six three foot tall humanoids disembarked and set about collecting vegetation samples. When he attempted to approach he was paralyzed. The UFO left behind ground traces. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8507",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Newspaper clipping dated December 21, 1954" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/19/1962",
  "desc" : "Verbania, Italy. At 7:15 a.m. three men in a boat saw two classic-shaped discoid objects fly over the lake known as Lago Maggiore at only 20 meters altitude. The UFOs rose vertically and flew off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8508",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 555" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/19/1969",
  "desc" : "In 1969 a car with its male driver was lifted up off the highway for a short distance in Quincy, Illinois ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8509",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Skylook, May 7, 1971" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/19/1969",
  "desc" : "In Saddle River, New Jersey police officers watched several pairs of UFOs fly over slowly from the west to the east at 11 o’clock at night. They viewed the lighted objects through binoculars. They described the UFOs as having an X-shaped arrangement of lights on the bottom. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8510",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Data-Net Report, March 1970, p. 11, citing Ringwood Herald" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/19/1973",
  "desc" : "A famous well-investigated close encounter of the third kind report occurred on this night in Vilvoorde, Belgium. A 28-year-old man awoke at 2:00 a.m. and saw in the yard behind his house a short entity about 1.1 meters tall dressed in a luminous green space suit and helmet. The being carried a device with a long handle and a base that looked similar to a vacuum cleaner. He walked up the side of a wall. The domed disc UFO was about six meters in diameter, and had an insignia shaped like a black circle with a diagonal lightning flash through it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8511",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jean-Luc Vertongen, FSR, April 1975, p. 13, citing Inforespace" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/19/1973",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. later that night two large square objects hovered, maneuvered, and made a loop in the sky over Charmeil Airport, France. They flew away and came back briefly, then left going toward the east. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8512",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 136" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/19/1973",
  "desc" : "Red and blue lights moved through the sky, stopped, and then reversed direction abruptly over the city of Grand Island, Nebraska at 9:45 p.m. local time. On the same night a photograph of a UFO was taken in Chilton, Texas. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8513",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Elmer Kral, MUFON field investigation files, report dated December 19, 1973; (2) J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register (Volume 5), 1974, case 1144, citing Saga UFO Report" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/19/1976",
  "desc" : "At two o’clock in the morning in Bourke, New South Wales, Australia. Mr. Mann, 26-years-old, suffered lasting physiological effects from a UFO. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8514",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Australian Centre for UFO Studies, case investigation files, report dated April 7, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/19/1976",
  "desc" : "On this night in Salters Point, Western Australia two men, Brennan and Gibbs, heard a whirring sound and then sighted a two-foot wide disc-shaped UFO that flew behind a house at only 30 feet altitude. It then shot away toward the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8515",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, February 1977, p. 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/19/1976",
  "desc" : "At 6:20 p.m. in Concord, California a 53-year-old man sighted a nocturnal light zigzagging toward the north, then circle and reverse direction. It moved at a slow speed at first, then sped up, and finally shot away to the west. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8516",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies, case investigation files, December 1976" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/19/1978",
  "desc" : "In Montebello di Bertona, Italy at 6:00 a.m. a single witness reported that a UFO shaped like a cylindrical “space capsule” landed and then lifted off again. It had rotating lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8517",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 216" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/19/1978",
  "desc" : "At 6:00 a.m. local time a silver wing-shaped UFO hung over Flattop Mountain south of Alamosa, Colorado for about three hours. It was viewed through binoculars and seen by several Mountain Bell Telephone employees. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8518",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Alamosa Valley Courier, December 20, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/19/1979",
  "desc" : "At 7:00 a.m. a white, egg-shaped UFO—one meter in diameter—landed in an upright orientation in a yard in Lunel, France. It was then seen moving down the driveway at ground level by three witnesses. That same night southwest of Gainesville, Florida a large bright disc chased a car down a road, hovered over a house, then shot away at a high rate of speed heading south. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8519",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, April 1980; MUFON UFO Journal, March 1980" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/19/1981",
  "desc" : "At 8:10 p.m. two witnesses in Oliveto Lucano, Italy saw a two-meter wide spinning luminous ball of light fly over a church at 20 meters altitude and move off behind some buildings in the town. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8520",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Italian UFO Catalogue" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/19/1981",
  "desc" : "That same night at 10 p.m. in Aguas Claras, Brazil a car was stalled by a UFO. A bullet shaped UFO sat on the roadway in front of the stalled car. It rose up, then came back and followed the car into town. There were two witnesses in the car and other independent witnesses to the event. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8521",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, February 1987; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #13812).<br/><br/> Early in the afternoon on this date in 1996 a silver gray metallic object struck the top of a Boeing-757 cockpit belonging to a Chinese Southern Airlines aircraft on a flight between Beijing and Wuhei, China cracking the outer windshield. The plane made an emergency landing. (Sources: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 48, citing J. Trainor, UFO Roundup" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/19/1998",
  "desc" : "On this night a roaring sound awoke a man in Stra, Italy to the close presence outside his home of a bright aerial object with several windows. The UFO was about 10 meters in diameter. Two three-foot tall beings were seen outside the craft. They wore gray coveralls and moved in a mechanical manner. Landing traces found at the site consisted of a circle with three holes arranged in an equilateral triangle. The sides of the triangle were 4.1 meters in length. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8522",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted R. Phillips, case investigation files, C005, citing M. Verga" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/19/1999",
  "desc" : "On this night in Copenhagen, Denmark a large, red, luminous bowl-shaped UFO with a tail like a parabola flew across the sky from the northwest to the southeast in 3 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8523",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), March 2000, p. 17" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/19/2001",
  "desc" : "A four minute long videotape was shot at 1:20 p.m. in Nezahualcoyotl, Mexico of a dark, domed ovoid object. It had a peculiar knob shape on the bottom of the object. It shot off with extreme acceleration. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8524",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 17849, citing J. Trainor, UFO Roundup" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/19/2001",
  "desc" : "The second sighting of a triangular-shaped UFO was made by a witness in Mouscron, Belgium an 10:10 a.m. This daylight sighting was of a triangular-shaped wedge with three blue lights in the corner, and yellow light in the center, and a red light on the side. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8525",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Michel Bougard, Inforespace, June 2002, p. 40" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/20/1954",
  "desc" : "At 3:00 a.m. on this day in Valencia, Venezuela an employee of the Barbula Sanatorium saw a luminous UFO on the ground but decided not to report it until another employee, three hours later, saw the same craft. It took off soon after the second witness spotted it ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8526",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case 357; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 52" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/20/1958",
  "desc" : "At 12:55 a.m. two policemen, Officers Arboreen and Talada of the Dunellen Township police department in Middlesex County, New Jersey, watched in amazement as a glowing red, football-shaped UFO came directly at their police cruiser. The UFO came to an abrupt stop a short distance away, pulsated while hovering, and then shot straight up into the sky and was gone. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8527",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP case investigation files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/20/1958",
  "desc" : "Not far from Domsten, Sweden Hans Gustavsson, age 35, and Stig Rydberg, 30, saw something strange in the woods near the village of Haganas and stopped their car to observe it. They discovered that it was a disc about five meters wide, set on tripod landing gear. Next they were suddenly attacked by four gray-colored creatures described as \"fluid\" in appearance, but one of the men reached the car and blew the horn for help. The beings then fled and the craft took off, emitting \"paralyzing vibrations.\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8528",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case 478" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/20/1958",
  "desc" : "On that same day at four o’clock in the afternoon in France, or nine hours later, a disc-shaped UFO was seen near the ground in Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dome department. The 20-meter diameter object caused some damage on the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8529",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Computerized catalogue, case # 2802, citing Quincy; Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case 477" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/20/1959",
  "desc" : "At 2:20 a.m. on a clear night with the full Moon high in the sky, eight disc-shaped craft maneuvered and seemed to be playing tag over the shoreline in Redondo Beach, California. They were bright yellow and bronze in color. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8530",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 5875, citing Loren Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse. UFOs: A History, 1959 (volume 4), p. 56" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/20/1965",
  "desc" : "A 15-year-old youth named Burns was driving home in his pickup truck in Herman, Minnesota at 11:45 p.m. when a glowing green disc-shaped UFO suddenly appeared, hovering six feet over the road. The object made a whistling sound while the truck’s engine stalled and its headlights died. The object began to glow red and rose straight up into the air, giving off sparks. The witness lost consciousness. When he awoke, he found that his truck had been turned around and was resting in a roadside ditch. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8531",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Flying Saucer Review, November-December, 1966; Gordon I. R. Lore, Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 50; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 157" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/20/1968",
  "desc" : "Seven people saw a domed disc with an antenna move back and forth over a school in Havelock, New Zealand at 11:20 in the morning. The UFO was in sight for ten minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8532",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP files, citing a newspaper clipping dated December 20, 1968" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/20/1970",
  "desc" : "A humanoid figure about 90 centimeters (three feet) in height was seen floating up into a transparent round object on this night in Itaperuna, Brazil. Two other beings of the same stature were seen inside the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8533",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1970, citing Revista Brasileira OVNIs" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/20/1971",
  "desc" : "Mr. da Silva e Souza, 60, saw an intense blue-lighted object on the ground near the airport in Itaperuna, Brazil. The UFO was about eight feet long, transparent, ovoid shaped, and was illuminated from within by a blue light. A short humanoid, less than a meter tall, walked around the craft once, and then seemed to float up into the air and enter the craft from above, feet first. There were two other short beings seated inside. The craft then flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8534",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jean-Claude Bourret, The Crack in the Universe: What you have not been told about flying saucers, p. 118, citing a report from the Brazilian Air Force" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/20/1973",
  "desc" : "Two men, Klinn and Wagner, sighted a huge, yellowish glowing blob over Pacific Palisades, California at 2:15 a.m. It had flashing lights forming a triangle. They watched it through a 16x telescope. Forty-five minutes later a huge cigar-shaped UFO with four or five along the side and an appendage appeared in the sky, followed by a domed disc. The entire event lasted 82 minutes, until 3:37 a.m. when the lights went off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8535",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Flying Saucers, December 1974, p. 10" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/20/1973",
  "desc" : "In the afternoon Mrs. Brooker saw a cone-shaped UFO with flashing lights ascend vertically “very, very fast” leaving behind a trail of smoke in the eastern sky over Norman, Oklahoma. That same day a cattle mutilation was reported having occurred two miles east of Concordia, Kansas. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8536",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Norman Transcript, December 21, 1973; Kansas City Times, December 22, 1973" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/20/1973",
  "desc" : "That night three teenage girls sighted an oval-shaped object with portholes while driving on a highway eight miles east of Casino, New South Wales, Australia. The UFO made sharp maneuvers, circled the city, flew up high in the sky and came back down to a low altitude. It changed color from red to green to white, and was surrounded by a blue haze. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8537",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richmond River (NSW) Express, January 4, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/20/1976",
  "desc" : "There were thirteen UFO reports in the early morning hours from various provinces of Spain, including Granada, Malaga, Valencia, Murcia, Alicante, Melilla, and Cadiz. At 1:50 a.m. several witnesses watched a metallic appearing object radiate luminous rays of light and light up the sky with an intense luminosity in Malaga, Spain. A few minutes later yellow, red, and bluish green balls of light flew over Valencia, Alicante, and Almeria. Objects flew rapidly toward the south or southwest. At 2:00 a.m. an enormous blue violet ball of light flew over Malaga at high speed. Ten minutes later a triangular or cone-shaped UFO, pale blue in color, flew from the north to the south over Murcia. A huge ovoid object, blue violet in color, was also seen flying in the same direction over Algeciras, Spain at about the same time. On the same day the Sloop Rippe disappeared mysteriously in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida, southeast of Fort Lauderdale. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8538",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Sanchez de Medina Fermin, Stendek, June 1978, pp. 2-4; George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 411, citing Richard Winer" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/20/1978",
  "desc" : "At five o’clock in the morning three people on the balcony of their house south of the city of Sorrento, Italy watched a huge sphere low in the sky over the shoreline of the Mediterranean. It made an odd noise like radio static, and vanished. Less than three hours later at 7:20 GMT a silver triangle-shaped object crossed the sky at a high altitude flying from west to east over the town of Yarnton, Oxfordshire, England. At eight p.m. that evening an orange ovoid object left a dark mass near the ground for 30 minutes in the town of Tarranto, Italy. The two witnesses fled in terror. Radio interference was experienced at the same time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8539",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issues 216 and 240; D. N. Mansell, Awareness, April 1979, p. 12, citing Data Research" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/20/1978",
  "desc" : "Several luminous UFOs zigzagged over Caracas, Venezuela in the early morning hours. They were seen by dozens of witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8540",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1979, p. 14, citing La Razon, December 20, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/20/1979",
  "desc" : "A huge diamond-shaped object was seen low in the sky at 9:45 p.m. by several witnesses outside Des Moines, Iowa. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8541",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, February 1981" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/20/1983",
  "desc" : "A witness driving in Riverside, California at 5:30 p.m. had his car buzzed by a 7” wide sphere that had pegs protruding from it. It flew by the car at eye level. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8542",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, December 1983, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/20/1985",
  "desc" : "On this night a red ovoid object rose from a quarry in Meliden, Wales into the clouds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8543",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Paul Devereax, Earth Lights Revelation, p. 73" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/20/1992",
  "desc" : "At 7:10 p.m. two independent male witnesses, one with field glasses, watched a multi-colored, disc-shaped UFO fly from the northeast over a lake in East Holden, Maine. It flew south over a highway and “went down behind some trees near the Holdbrook School.” ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8544",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Arnold Dunning, MUFON field investigation files, case #930306E" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/21/1955",
  "desc" : "From her bedroom window in Washburn, Maine Mrs. Jacobs watched a reddish-orange glare resolve into a golden domed elliptical saucer at eleven o’clock at night. In the lower part of the dome she could see figures moving about, like people \"walking in front of a light.\" The experience made her feel nauseous, and at the same time she had a definite feeling of being watched. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8545",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Otto Binder, What We Really Know About Flying Saucers, p. 19; Project Blue Book cases counted in official statistics, case no. 3893; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, p. 71" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/21/1957",
  "desc" : "In 1957 in Bryson City, North Carolina a 20-meter-long cigar-shaped object flew slowly to the east, then circled the valley at around nine o’clock in the evening. It had a very distinct outline. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8546",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History, 1957: December, p. 63" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/21/1957",
  "desc" : "At 6:30 p.m. Mrs. Mendonca and five other persons in Ponta Poran, Brazil saw a light in the southern sky, which later appeared as two spherical objects coming closer to them on an oscillating course. One of the UFOs hovered close to their car while the other circled. They were shaped like a sphere surrounded by a flat ring, and chased the car for two hours over the deserted road. The estimated diameter of each was five meters. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8547",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 452" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/21/1961",
  "desc" : "At 4:35 p.m. two cloud cigars maneuvered within sight of an airliner and then paced the DC-4 aircraft near Aso-san, Japan. One of the objects emitted a ball of light. The pilot, Mr. Matsumura, took photographs. That night at 9:45 local time in Lafayette, Indiana a 2.5 meter diameter disc dove at a car being driven by a twenty-year-old man named Hislope and then flew away. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8548",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Yusuke J. Matsumura, Flying Saucers, October 1965, p. 29; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 213; Indiana Journal, December 28, 1961" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/21/1962",
  "desc" : "Color motion pictures were taken of a UFO near Angel Falls, Venezuela—the world’s tallest water fall—on a cloudy afternoon at 12:15 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8549",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1963, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/21/1964",
  "desc" : "A gunsmith had a close encounter with a beehive-shaped UFO in rural Fisherville, Virginia. At five o’clock in the afternoon Mr. Burns was driving east on highway Route 250 east of Staunton when a 125-foot wide, beehive-shaped UFO slowly crossed the roadway ahead of him, causing his car to stall. As the metallic looking UFO descended it narrowly missed hitting some power lines. There was a bluish glow from the bottom. As it left, it rose to about 200 feet in altitude, tilted slightly, then disappeared quickly into the northeast. The car could then be restarted. Geiger counter tests showed abnormally high radioactivity in the area. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8550",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Donald B. Hanlon, Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1966, p. 14; Gordon I. R. Lore and Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 171; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 136; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume II): A Thirty Year Report, p. 3" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/21/1967",
  "desc" : "A ship enroute from Auckland, New Zealand to Guam was sailing past the Loyalty Islands at 11:33 a.m. when crewmembers sighted a beam of light like a powerful searchlight extending vertically upward from some clouds on the horizon. The beam extension was 35 degrees of arc in length. The beam seemed to emanate from a small cloud a few degrees above the horizon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8551",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "William R. Corliss: Remarkable Luminous Phenomena in Nature, p. 283" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/21/1971",
  "desc" : "At around 11 p.m. a disc-shaped UFO along the roadside of Highway 116 in Mossoro, Brazil in the state of Rio Grande do Norte shot sparks from a tube for ten minutes. It then ascended into the sky and flew off toward the ocean. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8552",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon Creighton, FSR Case Histories, August 1972, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/21/1977",
  "desc" : "A green glow was first seen by a married couple in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky at shortly after one o’clock at night. This was followed by the sighting of a 12-foot-long ovoid UFO moving at a low altitude, at an estimated distance of only 75 feet. The UFO ascended slowly, then show away fast into the nearby woods. That same night there were several reports of mystery booms being heard in Burlington, Atlantic, and Bergen Counties in New Jersey. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8553",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Leonard Stringfield, MUFON UFO Journal, January 1978, p. 9; Francis Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 63; George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, pp. 808, 811, and 820, citing the US Naval Research Laboratory" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/21/1978",
  "desc" : "In 1978 there were a series of UFO reports from throughout Argentina. At shortly after two o’clock in the morning several witnesses in Resistencia, Argentina saw 6-7 objects moving in formation through the sky at great speed. The UFOs were radiating a bright, light blue light but made no sound. Power outages were reported throughout the city. At 2:45 a.m. a very large glowing disc-shaped UFO headed a formation of three other craft that flew from north to south at an estimated 1000 meters altitude in La Rioja, Argentina. They reportedly lit up the sky like day. Each object was white in color with a green halo, and they left behind a bluish trail. A truck driver said his truck’s radio stopped working at the time. Ten minutes later a giant light was observed in the western sky in Santa Fe, Argentina. It was blue and green in color, and spewed fiery particles, resembling “an airplane on fire.” Smaller objects surrounded it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8554",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1979, pp. 14-15, citing La Razon, December 22, 1978 and El Independencie, December 22, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/21/1981",
  "desc" : "In the evening on this day in 1981 a Turkish Army captain and several townspeople watched a silent glittering ovoid object illuminate a large engine factory complex with a bright green colored light in Aksaray, Turkey. It flew at an estimated 800 to 1000 feet altitude, and shot away to the southwest. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8555",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Sarikaya Haluk Egeman, International UFO Reporter, January 1983, p. 9" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/21/1982",
  "desc" : "Two UFO car pursuits occurred in the same twenty-four hour period on opposite sides of the globe. At 1:50 p.m. an orange light followed a car down a highway in Maddington, Western Australia. The UFO would hide when the car slowed down, then come back and pace the car when the driver sped up. In Penthereaz, Switzerland at 9:00 p.m. a small glowing sphere followed a car for ten minutes and lit up the vehicle’s interior. The luminous ball was estimated to be only 12 centimeters in diameter. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8556",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Australian Center for UFO Studies; Bruno Mancusi, SWICAT Swiss UFO catalogue" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/21/1992",
  "desc" : "On this night in 1992 a domed, disc-shaped UFO directed a red beam of light into the river in Garland, McDowell County, West Virginia. According to the 15-year-old teenager who witnessed this, when the red beam turned off the high-pitched noise coming from the object stopped. There were also several other discs present in the sky at the same time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8557",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bob Teets, West Virginia UFOs: Close Encounters in the Mountain State, p. 75, citing investigation by D. Church" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/21/1999",
  "desc" : "At 6:45 a.m. an ovoid UFO was seen zigzagging in the sky between Toledo and Salkum in Washington State. At 5:00 p.m. another light was seen zigzagging through the sky over Portland, Oregon. At 8:00 o’clock in the evening a brightly colored disc was seen hovering and changing colors over Lakewood, Colorado. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8558",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, WA" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/22/1941",
  "desc" : "At 2:15 p.m. a gleaming aluminum or chrome colored disc-shaped object sped silently across the skies of Utica, New York from west to east. It disappeared in 10 seconds. There were two independent witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8559",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. & Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 141" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/22/1944",
  "desc" : "Two huge orange glowing spheres followed a U.S. Army Air Force warplane from the 415th NFS at 10,000 feet altitude over Hagenau, France in the Bas-Rhine region. The pilots names were McFalls and Baker. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8560",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Kenneth Arnold & Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 126; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 7; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 23; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. & Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 116" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/22/1959",
  "desc" : "Kenneth Lindsey was walking along a road near Modesto, California at around 11:50 at night when he saw a bright, orange bowl-shaped object descend to about 20 feet above the road, extending across the entire roadway. \"On it I could see shadows which appeared to be moving, but I could not distinguish what they were.\" After two minutes it rose again into the air. There were others in the neighborhood who also saw the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8561",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1959-14, citing Coral Lorenzen, APRO Bulletin, January 1960" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/22/1962",
  "desc" : "At three a.m. a large fiery disc was observed on the runway by two control tower operators and the flight crews of two aircraft at Ezeiza Airport, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The UFO rose to 10 meters altitude, hovered a short while, then flew off toward the northeast. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8562",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 33" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/22/1966",
  "desc" : "At 12:45 a.m. EST a frosty white UFO with a central bright spot, shaped like an ellipse and making a humming sound, swung in a pendulum motion over Cuttingsville, Vermont. The street lights went off and on three times during the sighting. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8563",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, case files, report dated December 27, 1966; Raymond E Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 343" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/22/1967",
  "desc" : "Six teenagers observed a silver, saucer-shaped object with a pointed top hovering over Holmes County, Ohio. The UFO was about ten meters in diameter. A wave of heat was felt when it passed overhead. The duration of the encounter was two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8564",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, June 1968, p. 19; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 903" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/22/1971",
  "desc" : "A married couple name Castillo had a bright light pace their car in Osuna, Sevilla province, Spain. There was heavy radio interference on the car radio, and their dog in the car became quite excited. They then saw a strange object hovering by the side of road, rocking back and forth and making a shrill whistling sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8565",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 52; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, p. 151" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/22/1972",
  "desc" : "Two men in a vehicle saw a tall thin, glowing figure standing on the roadway as they drove around a curve in Kauhajoki, Finland at two o'clock in the morning. The beam of the car headlights appeared to curve upon striking the figure. It disappeared into a field. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8566",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, January-February 1973, p. 13" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/23/1950",
  "desc" : "In Point Loma, California on this date in 1950 seven teardrop-shaped flying objects maneuvered near a weather balloon. Several navy personnel, including one using a theodolite to view the object, watched the UFO turn toward the W and fly away out over the Pacific Ocean. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8567",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: August-December, p. 68" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/23/1959",
  "desc" : "At a few minutes after midnight in Oakdale, California several witnesses sighted a seven-meter wide, bowl-shaped disc. Shadows were seen moving about inside the craft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8568",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, January-February 1960" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/23/1975",
  "desc" : "Three 19-year-old girls driving together in Goodridge, Minnesota noticed a bright light in the sky, and their car's engine and lights failed. The light came closer and they saw it was an orange colored object, flat on top and round on the sides. It also had several flashing yellow lights and appeared to be 20-30 feet in diameter. After passing only 25 feet from the car, it suddenly vanished, whereupon and the car's lights and engine spontaneously came back on by themselves. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8569",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Warren (Minnesota) Sheaf, December 31, 1975; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 391" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/23/1978",
  "desc" : "Three important UFO sightings occurred on this date. Dr. Palumbo, the director of the meteorological institute at the University of Naples in Naples, Italy saw a luminous object travel from the east to the west at a high rate of speed. It left no trail behind. At ten o’clock in the evening a luminous 12-meter diameter disc was sighted over a road in Albinia, Tuscany, Italy. It moved off over some woods, and then turned and flew away toward the north. There was extensive news coverage of both sighting reports. In the state of Maldonado, Uruguay on a beach between the cities of Piriapolis and Funta del Este a reporter, Sr. L. Rengger, saw a giant V-shaped formation of yellow lights. A couple of the lights pursued his car, and one of the two crossed the road in front of his car at an estimated 300 meters altitude at a distance of 500 meters. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8570",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "(1) Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, February 1979, p. 14, citing La Nacion December 24, 1978; (2) Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 216; (3) Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1979, p. 13, citing La Razon, December 27, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/23/1979",
  "desc" : "A 27-year-old salesman traveling on Highway 57 in Fullerton, California had a daytime close encounter with a UFO at around 3:30 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8571",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, January 1980, p. 5" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/23/1986",
  "desc" : "Two police constables, Jim Begg and Tom Murphy, saw a bright orange moving light over Armadale, Edinburgh, Scotland on this evening. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8572",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gary Heseltine, Police Reports UFO Database, case 125, citing the West Lothian Courier, January 1988, p. 17" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/23/1987",
  "desc" : "Ed Walters photographed three oval-shaped UFOs at 5:55 a.m. from his home in Gulf Breeze, Florida. He had the impression that they wanted to be photographed, according to his account of the incident. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8573",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Edward Walters, Gulf Breeze Sightings, p. 86" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/23/1989",
  "desc" : "Two witnesses observed two boomerang-shaped UFOs pass low over the Seneca Nuclear Power Plant in Warren, Pennsylvania. Either the same two objects flew back over the plant from the opposite direction, or two more similar craft flew overhead in reverse direction. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8574",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John L. Micklow, MUFON case investigation files, case #900308" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/23/1992",
  "desc" : "At 8:20 p.m. in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil a glowing craft landed near a thicket on the outskirts of Passa Tempo. Several witnesses watched it then take off and move away to the east at a low altitude. It made no sound as it flew. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8575",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UBPDV, Causistica Brasileira de 1992, p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/23/1994",
  "desc" : "John, a 45-year-old man residing in the Clyde Canal area of Lothian county in Scotland was watching television when he noticed electrical interference on the TV set. He then noticed a “human-looking alien” standing inside his house. His next memory was aboard a disc-shaped UFO. After the experience he had a set of small red puncture marks on his neck, as if a cluster of needles had been stuck into his skin. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8576",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland’s UFO Phenomenon, p. 49" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/23/1998",
  "desc" : "At 5:20 p.m. two people at the Grand Canyon in Coconino County, Arizona witnessed a flying object shaped like a stingray approach from the south. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8577",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Dec. 1998 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/23/2000",
  "desc" : "At  4:30 p.m. a silver cigar-shaped object was sighted travelling low, and moving at great speed in Zumbrota, Minnesota. It was seen by a witness while driving on US Hwy 52 in southeastern Minnesota. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8578",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Dec. 2000 webpage, report uploaded January 17, 2004" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/23/2003",
  "desc" : "At Gasport, New York at 2:30 a.m. EST a bright light shot across the sky from the horizon up. It made several right angle movements. Next, a silent, boomerang shaped object flew over Borger, Texas at 1:40 a.m. CST. At 4:56 a.m. MST a triangle-shaped object with four different multicolored lights flew across the Denver skyline and was viewed from Superior, Colorado (Boulder County). ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8579",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Dec. 2000 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/23/2004",
  "desc" : "At 10:06 p.m. a red disc-shaped object with body lights on the underneath side flew along the highway, then over cars in Sioux Lookout, Ontario, Canada. There were three witnesses, and the sighting reportedly lasted ten minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8580",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 870, citing HBCCUFO" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/23/2007",
  "desc" : "On this evening a dark silent object hovered for awhile over Bridport, England. It shone a light beam down. It was difficult to focus upon because it looked blurry. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8581",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "British Ministry of Defence, case # 95 for 2007" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/23/2007",
  "desc" : "At 1:30 p.m. CST a dark disc-shaped object was spotted among the clouds over Chicago, Illinois. It stay still long enough for the witness to make a three minute long video recording of it. At 6:45 p.m. EST a disc-shaped, blue and white light flew low and fast over Bowie, Maryland. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8582",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Dec. 2007 webpage, reports uploaded March 4, 2008" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/24/1903",
  "desc" : "A priest named Ivanku Petrovszky saw a glistening ball of light illuminate the countryside in Szuhabaranka, Hungary. The object landed and shadowy figures returned to it. A man who had gone to a well at the same time was never seen again. The case of his disappearance was closed ten years later but still unsolved. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8583",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 255, citing the UFO Report Annual 1983, p. 43" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/24/1944",
  "desc" : "A red ball of light climbed to the altitude of a Beaufighter from the 415TH NFS squadron while it was flying over Karisruhe, Germany on this night. The two man crew, Baker and McFalls, watched the light pace their aircraft for awhile and then climb away from them. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8584",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p 126; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. and Harold Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 117" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/24/1953",
  "desc" : "Ten silverly oval-shaped objects were sighted flying horizontally over El Cajon, California at 8:04 a.m. Two Navy F-9F Panther jets attempted to catch up with them but failed. The UFOs were flying at 50,000' altitude at a speed in excess of 400 knots. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8585",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #2840; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: August-December, p. 71; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 22; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 184" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/24/1960",
  "desc" : "A domed disc, estimated to be 20 feet in diameter, was seen near a mountain top in Durango, Colorado at midnight. It had a ring of lights around its rim. It pulsated and was in view for 15 minutes. A dog panicked in an agitated reaction, and later died. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8586",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Durango Herald, December 28, 1960; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case 117, citing APRO Bulletin, January 1961, p. 1; John A. Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 163; Kenneth Larson, Flying Saucers, March 1970, p. 13: Otto Binder, What We Really Know About Flying Saucers, p. 160" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/24/1963",
  "desc" : "At 7:25 p.m. in Rowarth, Cheshire, England a farmer named Chandler had his car battery die while a UFO flew by. His cows also became ill. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8587",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Orbit, April 23, 1963; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 21" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/24/1965",
  "desc" : "At 6:36 p.m. a yellow colored flying object with three bright spotlights was sighted by 13 young women working at a factory as it flew from the northwest to the west over Gifu prefecture, Japan. It kept changing its speed and apparent size as it flew. Fourteen minutes later a disc shaped object with a flat bottom and two spotlights flew toward the northeast on a horizontal trajectory. It was seen for four minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8588",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Y. J. Matsumura, Flying Saucers, October 1966, p. 39" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/24/1967",
  "desc" : "On this evening a couple driving near Tucson, Arizona saw a blob of red light. The engine and headlights of their car then quit. The light came near the car, passed overhead, and moved away to the south. The engine and lights both came back on as it departed. Two minutes before this sighting, both witnesses had seen a star-like object fall to earth. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8589",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 230, citing CUFOS" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/24/1970",
  "desc" : "Two independent sets of photographs showing luminous balls of light in motion were taken on this night in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Three teenagers--Larsh, Neal, and Sellars--took a photograph of two lights in parallel motion at 10:00 p.m. They had had sightings of similar phenomena earlier in the week and were prepared to take a time exposure on this night. They made their photograph using a Pentax camera on a tripod. The two lights were also seen by another resident, Hjalmar Bowlby, earlier that same evening. Remarkably, they weren't the only ones who were able to catch an image of a UFO using a camera that night. At 10:35 p.m. Jerry Mozer, also of Alamogordo, New Mexico took a photo of a luminous point in motion, making an abrupt change of course resulting in a \"buttonhook\" effect on the image. Both photographs are reproduced below. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8590",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Alamogordo Daily News, December 31, 1970 and January 3, 1971; Data-Net Report, February 1971, p. 21" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/24/1972",
  "desc" : "The Romanian ship Maldoveanu while in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Chidley, Labrador, Canada sighted a UFO at 3:00 a.m. The object continually changed shape and color, from round to oval, and from red to yellow to a bluish white. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8591",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ion Hobana and Julien Weverberg, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 279" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/24/1975",
  "desc" : "A huge disc covered the entire N19 highway in Bar-sur-Aube, France. It vanished at 8:10 p.m. when a car approached. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8592",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1976" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/24/1975",
  "desc" : "At 10:00 p.m. power circuit breakers were tripped four times when a glowing ball of light came down near the ground in Ploubazlanec, Cotes-du-Nord, France. A 0.2 meter area of burnt grass was found at the site were it apparently touched down. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8593",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jean-F. Boedec, Les OVNI en Bretagne: Anatomie d'un Phenomene, p. 75" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/24/1989",
  "desc" : "At 5:50 p.m. a man in Sambreville, Belgium took a ten minute video of a round white shape in the sky. It could be seen moving and rotating slowly. An hour later, at 6:50 p.m., a woman made another videotape, this time of a luminous globe in the sky over Nimy, Belgium. The videotape shows a white ball with a black ring around it and plasma. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8594",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 303; Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1991, p. 56" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/24/1989",
  "desc" : "At 11:00 p.m. a Russian L29 Trainer flying between Chelyabinsk and Korkino, Russia sighted a yellowish white cigar-shaped object flying at 8000 meters altitude. It vanished when the pilot attempted to approach. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8595",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 61; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 46" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/24/1992",
  "desc" : "Twenty civilian witnesses and police southwest of Monroe, Louisiana watched a silent, boomerang shaped UFO with bright beams of light pass over cars in a forested area at 6:00 p.m. and bounce up and down for six minutes. The object was videotapted by one of the witnesses, a 39-year-old man. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8596",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "W. L. Garner, Jr., MUFON UFO Journal, November 1993" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/25/1945",
  "desc" : "During a blizzard a silver, domed object with a square base landed on the sea off the coast of Ireland. It was surrounded by purple lights, and made a whirring noise. Two beings with squarish shaped feet and wearing diver suits were seen walking on the surface of the water. The craft rose off the surface of the sea and landed in a field on a nearby island, crushing two cows when it came down. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8597",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0129, citing Northern Network News, December 1976" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/25/1960",
  "desc" : "A disc-shaped flying object and three nocturnal lights exchanged green beams of light in the sky over Cottonwood, Minnesota at 11:45 p.m. The nocturnal lights then entered the saucer-shaped craft through a hatch. The disc flew off toward the north. Pendulum motion was also reported. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8598",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, November 1962, p. 2; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, p. 3-071" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/25/1963",
  "desc" : "A fisherman in Libreville, Gabon witnessed the landing of a unusual craft on this night, from which a terrifying creature emerged. It was humanoid in shape, spoke sounds he could not understand, left footprints in the sand, and then went back to the machine and flew off. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8599",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 296" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/25/1966",
  "desc" : "Three objects rose from a field with a screaming hi-pitched noise, maneuvered, then paced a car at three a.m. near a farm two miles south of Monroe, Oregon. A blast of wind from the UFOs knocked one of the five witnesses against a car. Flattened grass was found at the landing site. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8600",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Project Report, case 036-06, citing NICAP; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 11239; APRO Bulletin, November-December 1966, p. 6; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 71" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/25/1967",
  "desc" : "Gary Lambert, a college student from Omaha, Nebraska was driving home at Christmas during the night when he saw a dimly outlined object with a row of lights hovering over an underpass on the highway between Ashland and Lincoln. His sighting precipitated a number of vivid dreams that night, in which he believes he had been \"contacted\" by the beings aboard the UFO. He also believes that he may have experienced an actual abduction, the memory of which was erased from his mind. There were no details or other evidence of an abduction that the witness was able to provide. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8601",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-125, citing NICAP & Condon Committee" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/25/1970",
  "desc" : "A V-shaped formation of 10 silver-gray circular objects was seen in the sky over Braintree, Massachusetts at four o'clock in the morning. They were silent, and appeared twice over the area within a five minute period. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8602",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 357" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/25/1971",
  "desc" : "In Tooligie Hill, South Australia a red ball of light was sighted by neighbors on this night. The next day Mr. Habner found a 2.2 meter diameter ring, 45 cm wide and 10 cm deep in his wheat field. The wheat was swirled in a counter-clockwise direction around the ground mark. Soil samples revealed nothing abnormal. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8603",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Data-Net Report, June 1972, p. 16; Ted Philips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, citing Adelaide News, May 5, 1972" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/25/1973",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. a three-meter wide dome hovered over a field at a farm in Les Riveaux, Allier department, France. Two glowing tubes protruded from the object, and the witness was levitated. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8604",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, August 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/25/1978",
  "desc" : "At 4:30 a.m. a three-meter long, oddly shaped UFO was seen at a low altitude over Cicagna, Liguria, Italy. It had what looked like iron claws on one end of the object. The UFO fired a beam of light, then shot off toward the south. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8605",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 216" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/25/1978",
  "desc" : "A fleet of six UFOs was seen by Peruvian fishermen over the Caynarachi River in the San Martin department, Peru on this night. They first noticed a brightly illuminated rhomboid object that passed over from south to north. It was followed by five more objects in formation. The UFOs had yellow, amber, and violet lights. The men fled in fright. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8606",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1979, p. 13, citing Cronica, December 26, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/25/1978",
  "desc" : "Two huge UFOs came screaming over Lake Arrowhead in San Bernardino county, California at 7:18 p.m. They made a sound similar to ambulances. There were two sets of independent witnesses to the fly-by, for a total of five witnesses. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8607",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 112, citing Mountain News & Mountaineer, December 28, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/25/1987",
  "desc" : "A very intense, pink or reddish-orange light lit up the whole lake in Coon Rapids, Minnesota at 10:00 p.m. The UFO was first seen above the trees along the shorline. It then went down to the lake level and turned off all illuminated like a light turned off with a switch. At least 16 holes were discovered in the ice on the lake the next day. The holes were between one and five inches in diameter and were within 200 feet of where the first witness had been standing. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8608",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "William McNeff, MUFON Field Investigations Database, case 910902" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/25/1992",
  "desc" : "On this night at 9:00 p.m. a dark disc-shaped object with pairs of green and orange lights located at four places around the underside of the object was seen over a lake in Springfield, Missouri by a boy and a girl, age 10. The UFO left behind a white smoke trail when it moved away ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8609",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lisa Dusenberry, MUFON Field Investigations Database, case 930606J" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/25/1999",
  "desc" : "A dark delta-shaped or V-shaped object was sighted over a rest stop on Interstate 44 in Mount Vernon, Missouri on this evening. The four witnesses woke up 20 minutes later at home, 26 kilometers away. They had no recollection of how they got there. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8610",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 18129, citing UFO Roundup, volume 5, number 2; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, December 1999 web archive" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/26/1953",
  "desc" : "A kite-shaped or diamond-shaped object turned towards a T-6 aircraft flying over Grid Area CS in Korea at 4:25 p.m. It was orange in color and seemed translucent, with what appeared to be sparks extending a short distance behind it The object was estimated to be six feet long and a foot and a half in thickness. The military pilot got to within 600 and 800 feet distance from it. The duration of the sighting was five minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8611",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard F. Haines, Advanced Aerial Devices Reported During the Korean War, p. 61" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/26/1957",
  "desc" : "At 8:40 p.m. an amateur astronomer sighted a neon-colored, glowing ovoid object over Sheffield, Alabama. The object was first seen flying to the northwest. It turned to the west, W, circled overhead, then shot off toward the north. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8612",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: December, p. 69" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/26/1965",
  "desc" : "At 3:15 p.m. In County Waterford in Cappoquin, Ireland several clear photos were taken by two single women of a luminous disc with a flame coming from the rear of the object. The photos published in London newspapers. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8613",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith, Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1966, p. 4" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/26/1967",
  "desc" : "A newlywed couple, Mr. & Mrs. Clerici spotted an unknown light in the sky at four o'clock in the morning while driving near Catamarca, Argentina that would change color from purple to green from time to time. The object followed them as they drove in their car for a few minutes, frightening the witnesses, and then ascended into the air. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8614",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, July-August 1968, p. 7" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/26/1976",
  "desc" : "At 7:30 p.m. an ambulance driven by two men named Banks and Schofield was paced for 22 minutes by two oval-shaped objects through the mountains 25 miles northwest of Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada. The UFOs would dart back-and-forth in the sky. The river used his dome light and siren to signal them. The UFOs flashed light back at them for a few seconds, then skipped off over the trees. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8615",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 69" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/26/1984",
  "desc" : "Three small discs zig-zagged in the sky over the shoreline at Hexam, New South Wales, Australia at 2:30 a.m. They were joined by a cigar-shaped object. The head and upper torso of a figure was reportedly seen inside one of the discs. All object flew off to the east toward an Air Force Base. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8616",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 14203" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/26/1985",
  "desc" : "On this night best-selling author Whitley Streiber claims he was abducted again on this night from his cabin in Orange County, New York. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8617",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Whitley Streiber, Communion, p. 9; Jenny Randles, Little Giant Encyclopedia of UFOs, p. 106" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/26/1991",
  "desc" : "The 21-year-old witness in Bekes, Hungary had heard a very loud voice in his room on the night of December 4, 2001, telling him \"you will meet us soon.\" This was repeated for 11 nights in a row. He could not locate the source of the voice. On this night he was returning home from the movies when he caught sight of a hovering shiny gray disc-shaped object over the courtyard. He was suddenly compelled to walk under the object and a beam of light descended on him from the bottom of the craft, and he was apparently brought up inside the beam. He found himself inside the object looking out a window at his courtyard. Two four-and-a-half-foot tall beings stood in the room with him. The beings were human-like except they had large heads and eyes. They had long arms ending in hands with three digits. One of the beings communicated with the witness telling him that they had been watching him for three years and that they travel via inter-dimensional portals. A beam of green light hit the witness on his forehead and after that he only had vague memories of traveling to a moon-like planet and of seeing pyramids from above. He later found himself in his courtyard suffering from a terrible headache and feeling dizzy. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8618",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 326; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1991, case # 330, citing Gabor Tarcali, Hungarian UFO Network; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 15612" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/26/1996",
  "desc" : "Nur-a-Shamat Camp, Israel - Daoud Ahmad awoke a one o'clock in the morning feeling thirsty and tried to get out of bed, but two short creatures quickly pounced upon him and beat him. Each had only one eye and they were remarkably strong. They wore black leathery clothes, and had Mohawk style haircuts. After they beat him he lost consciousness. He was taken to a local hospital where he was treated. He also recalled that the beings had only three fingers on each hand. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8619",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case # 3411, citing Israeli UFO Investigation Group" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/26/1999",
  "desc" : "In Troup County, Georgia an ovoid object zig-zagged at high speed near ground level, and pulled up to avoid a pickup truck whose headlights had just been turned on. The object approached to within 200 meters, turned a dull red color, then dimmed to near invisibility. It left a trail of sparks and ashes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8620",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Magazine (USA), March 2000, p. 16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/27/1954",
  "desc" : "Alerted by some children to the presence of a UFO around ten o'clock in the morning, Elizabeth Klarer ran to a nearby hill in Mooi River, South Africa. Twenty yards away was a domed disc-shaped object, about 60 feet in diameter, that silently descended to 10-12 feet above the ground. It had a flat hull rotating around a flattish dome, which contained portholes. In one of the porthole windows she saw a man \"with a thin face, aquiline nose, and high cheekbones,\" who looked at her with hypnotic intensity. Then, with a blast of hot air, the craft rose and shot away at tremendous speed. Ms. Klarer had a contactee experience 18 months later. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8621",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Cynthia Hind, Fate, August 1969; John Wallace Spencer, World Atlas of UFOs, p. 146; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-146 (A0359), citing Cynthia Hind" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/27/1963",
  "desc" : "A shiny white object was seen on the ground at Bank's Stables, Epping, England at four o'clock in the afternoon. It was about 3.5 meters long, a meter in height, and had something like a windshield more brilliant than the rest of the craft. When it took off it flew horizontally for 30 meters and was hidden from view. Grass was flattened over a circular area, and four ground marks were found suggesting imprints from landing gear. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8622",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 593" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/27/1969",
  "desc" : "In the early hours after midnight Miss Mary Smith and her mother were in their parked car near Atlanta, Georgia talking. They were parked along the side of the road in the suburbs, and it was about two a.m. when her mother first noticed a black, saucer-shaped flying object with a flat bottom hovering some distance away. The bottom opened slowly and from it descended a “plastic bubble” with a glowing light inside. It drifted downward, and then separated into three glowing, arrow-shaped objects that came to rest in a parking lot across the street. Shortly afterwards they saw three dark humanoid forms at the spot. They looked like men with wide shoulders and narrow hips, but with arms shorter than normal. One was much larger than the others. All three were “sweeping furiously” with tools like lawn rakes over a spot about nine feet in diameter. What they swept up was put into a basket-shaped container in the center. At one point the larger figure chased after something to the edge of the street and caught it in his hand, picking it up and running back to put it in the basket. When two teenaged boys drove up in a car and saw the beings they drove into the parking lot. The figures then abruptly vanished. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8623",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-57, citing Ted Phillips for MUFON" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/27/1977",
  "desc" : "Two very bright cones of bright light moved rapidly through the sky over Charlotte, North Carolina at 10:45 p.m., tracked by a Charlotte Police helicopter and appearing on radar. Allan Hendry, the investigator at the time for the Center for UFO Studies, suggested a prank balloon might be the explanation, but the UFO was too bright and emitted an energetic ball of light. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8624",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Charlotte Observer, December 31, 1977; APRO Bulletin, February 1978, p. 1; Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, March 1978, p. 8; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 41" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/27/1980",
  "desc" : "Bentwaters AFB, England - A famous close encounter landing with radar confirmation, and a possible encounter with humanoids occurred in the early morning hours between Bentwaters and Woodbridge RAF/USAF Bases. The case involved many military personnel, including the base commander, Colonel Halt. A nocturnal light had been sighted repeatedly over several nights prior to this encounter. On the night in question a 12 foot wide cone-shaped object was encountered near the ground outside the west gate of the Bentwaters base. According to several of the military witnesses, the UFO shone light beams into the nuclear weapons storage area, them landed or hovered quite close to the ground in the forest outside the base. A USAF security patrol outside the back gate of RAF Woodbridge likely had the closest encounter. The UFO they saw hovered at treetop level, and was described as being round with a red light on top and several blue lights underneath. It was surrounded by a yellow mist. It landed in a field, illuminating the ground, then shot up. Larry Warren, one of the military enlisted men present, claims that UFO occupants were seen on this occasion. At the same time, in nearby Martlesham in Suffolk county, a nocturnal light followed a car and then shot up into the air, causing a herd of cows to stampede. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8625",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 26, 77, Jenny Randles, From Out of the Blue, p. 16; Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 15; Michael David Hall, UFOs: A Century of Sightings, p. 320; Peter Brookesmith, UFO: The Complete Sightings, p. 123" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/27/1991",
  "desc" : "On this evening five young witnesses watched a large silvery sphere land in a field very close to them in Longwy, France. Two human looking figures with blue eyes emerged from the sphere. They wore gray coveralls, and one figure was carrying something resembling a transparent cylindrical canister. That humanoid proceeded to walk around the object and collect various plant and soil samples, placing them inside the canister. After awhile the humanoids re-entered the sphere, which then rose up silently and shot away at high speed. Ground traces were found. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8626",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1991, citing Ecol # 91, Denys Breysse Project Becassine" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/28/1952",
  "desc" : "A semi-circular cloud maneuvered and veered about in the sky over Beverly, Massachusetts at 6:00 p.m. It then rose vertically and was gone from sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8627",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: November-December, p. 73" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/28/1954",
  "desc" : "Traveling by car to Mendoza on Route # 143, a concert pianist and six others traveling together saw a brilliant glow at the side of the road near San Rafael Moreno, Argentina at 3:30 a.m. It was a luminous object about 100-200 meters away in a nearby field, and it was emitting a bluish light like that from a welding torch. According to the description by Professor Maria Luisa de Amaya, it had the form of two deep dishes placed together rim to rim. They could not make out any structural details. The witnesses stopped their car and got out, then walked toward the object. When they were about 50 meters away they noticed two human figures next to it. The beings were of normal height, wearing dark one piece diver's suits, with their heads covered with a kind of cowl. One of the humanoids was crouching next to the object. After he got up, the two individuals entered the UFO through a rectangular door. The object began to emit smoke from its central region and rose up vertically, stopping a few meters from the ground and throwing out two flickering red lights. Alarmed, the witnesses rushed back to their car and took off driving at high speed. The object pursued them for 20 minutes, until by the first light of dawn they could no longer see it. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8628",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Oscar A Uriondo, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1979, p. 10, David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-38, citing Roberto Banchs" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/28/1958",
  "desc" : "On this afternoon in Portglenone, Ireland a two-meter wide black flying object cut an oak tree in two, three meters above the ground and did not stop. The tree in question was 70 cm wide and 13 meters tall. The event was observed by a farmer named Bennett. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8629",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Flying Saucer Review, May 1959, p. 7; APRO Bulletin, March 1959; Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case 479" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/28/1964",
  "desc" : "A 17 meter in diameter domed disc was spotted on the ground in Auckland, New Zealand at about 9:00 p.m. It had two rows of intense lights on the body of the craft, and a green light on the dome. The two female witnesses, Ms. Bender and Ms. Quinn, saw a door in the object open before they left. The sighting duration was four minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8630",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 629, citing Spaceview; Bruce Cathie, Harmonic 33, p.105" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/28/1967",
  "desc" : "At four o'clock in the morning on the Andalgala highway in Catamarca Province, Argentina Mr. & Mrs. Clerici watched a flying object that changed color from purple to green from time to time. The couple became frightened when the object followed them for a few minutes, then it ascended into the air. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8631",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, August 1973, p. 10, citing La Razon newspaper, December 29, 1967" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/28/1968",
  "desc" : "The witness had been in Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia the area back in 1950 and at that time had experienced a peculiar incident, which left him with a scar. He returned to the site in December 1968 and saw a disc-shaped craft 40 feet in diameter and 10 feet high, and met its human looking occupant, who walked around the side of the object. The man had long hair, stood about 5' 6\" tall, and wore silver colored shoes. The witness spoke with him in English for about three minutes, learning that the UFO occupant claimed to be from Saturn. The man seemed to be in a hurry to get away. He boarded, after which the craft rose off the ground and hovered momentarily at 15 feet before moving off and disappearing in the distance. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8632",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "FSR, May-June 1969, p. 33; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-83, citing Dr. N. Lindtner, UFO Investigation Center, Sydney" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/28/1971",
  "desc" : "Three witnesses in a Boeing 727 airliner and Air Traffic Controllers reported several groups of red balls of light that jumped and maneuvered all over the mountainous area of San Martin de los Andes, Neuquen Province, Argentina beginning at 11:45 p.m. for the next 35 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8633",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "APRO Bulletin, May 1972; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 9455; Phenomenes Spatiaux, issue # 37" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/28/1978",
  "desc" : "At 11:48 p.m. security guard Fortunato Zanfretta was out on patrol of a housing complex in Marzano di Torriglia, Italy when he suddenly yelled over his radio that he had lost control of his vehicle, because it was speeding down a mountain road on its own accord. The car finally stopped and Mr. Zanfretta got out to investigate a strange light hovering nearby. He was later found incoherent next to his car. His pistol had been fired six times, and giant footprints were found at the site. Under hypnosis, he recalled that he had being taken onboard a UFO by giant humanoids and examined with strange devices. He was asked several questions by them and was told that they would be back soon. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8634",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 140, citing Paolo Fiorino, UFO Universe, October-November 1991" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/28/1978",
  "desc" : "A luminous object surrounded by a red halo flew over L'Aquila, Italy on this night. It stopped several hundred meters over an electrical generating plant, according to two power plant technicians, and the generator stopped for five minutes while the central power plant instruments went \"haywire.\" Several had to be adjusted. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8635",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newspaper Clipping Service, April 1979, p. 14, citing La Razon newspaper, December 30, 1978; Lumieres dans la Nuit, February 1979" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/28/1978",
  "desc" : "On or about this date at about 4:30 a.m. three men,  employees of a power company, were driving a company truck toward a bridge on the Rio Segundo between Arroyito and Transito, Cordoba Province, Argentina when they were approached by an intense light from a hill and suddenly found themselves teleported 15 kilometers further away from the bridge to the town of Transito. They believed no time had passed because their cigarettes were the same length as they had been when they neared the bridge. At some point, the men spotted a domed UFO, described as a flattened rhombus 25 meters in diameter that was revolving, and one of them apparently signaled the occupants of the craft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8636",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jane Thomas, UFO Newspaper Clipping Service, April 1979, p. 14, citing Cronica newspaper, December 29, 1978; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2000; MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 133" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/28/1988",
  "desc" : "A very controversial case occurred on this day over Puerto Rico near Cabo Rojo, east of Betances in Mayaguez province. According to two male witnesses on the ground, at 7:45 p.m. two US Air Force F-14 fighter jets tried to intercept a very large triangular metallic looking UFO with brilliant yellow lights on the right tip and red lights on the left tip. The UFO veered to left, turned back, and then reduced speed. Both jets disappeared inside the UFO! The UFO then split into two and rose straight up vertically. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8637",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Philip J. Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 30; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 148; Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next? p. 222; FSR, July 1991;  Jerome Clark, UFOs in the 1980s. The UFO Encyclopedia, Volume 1, p. 187" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/28/1991",
  "desc" : "There was both airborne radar contact and visual confirmation of an echelon formation of three objects that flew over London, Ontario, Canada at 12:40 a.m. The case is rated as a high reliability unknown by the Canadian UFO Survey group. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8638",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 192" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/28/1993",
  "desc" : "Witnesses in Willow Creek, Humboldt County, California reported that a UFO hovered silently over Berry Summit at 8:30 p.m. It had a square of lights on the bottom of the craft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8639",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newspaper Clipping Service, February 1994" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/29/1954",
  "desc" : "At 9:00 p.m. a red oval-shaped object was seen on the ground near a river in Bru, Gironde, France, 50 meters away from witnesses. The main witness, a Mr. Gamba, tried to approach it but was unable to move. The object rose up into the air, and as it did it changed color from white to red. Traces found at the site showed that the ground had been dug up, and some small trees had been cut. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8640",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 20; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 358, citing Sud Quest, December 31, 1954" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/29/1954",
  "desc" : "In Bergamo, near Clusone, Italy a cigar-shaped object was seen hovering 25 meters from the ground at midnight. Several figures could be seen inside a transparent compartment. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8641",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jimmy Guieu, Flying Saucers Come from Another World, p. 240; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #326" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/29/1967",
  "desc" : "Coming home from a basketball game in Breese, Illinois at 9:30 p.m., four teenagers watched a motionless bright light in the sky and got out of their car. They felt an intense heat, and heard a humming sound. The sensation of heat became very strong, even in the car. The UFO left after 10 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8642",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Skylook, April 1969, p. 11;  Jay Rath, The I-Files: True Reports of Unexplained Phenomena in Illinois, p. 52" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/29/1974",
  "desc" : "Multiple reports of a UFO with bright colored lights came about the same time that a family of four called the Lumberton County Sheriff's dispatcher to report seeing a humanoid figure wearing \"a silver and black suit with some sort of helmet\" in the Forest Acres area of Lumberton, North Carolina. The figure would jump into bushes and vanish when observed. The callers sounded sober, according to dispatcher Fred Barnes. Four deputies checked the woods around Forest Road and Barker Ten Mile Road but found nothing.  ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8643",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Ted Bloecher, CUFOS case files, report dated June 5, 1975; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1974-60, citing Lee Spiegel" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/29/1980",
  "desc" : "Shortly after 9 p.m. Betty Cash, age 52, was driving through a pine forest on a rural road near her home in Dayton, Texas with her friend Vickie Landrum, age 57, and Landrum's grandson, six-year-old Colby. They watched as a brilliant diamond-shaped object descended over the road directly in front of them, spitting flames from its underside. Betty Cash slammed on the brakes and brought the car to a halt about 150 feet away from the UFO. They immediately felt an intense heat inside the car and heard a loud roaring sound. They got out of the car and stared at the blinding light and a metallic structure as big as the 200 foot-tall water tower in Dayton. It was shaped like a diamond with a blunt top. The UFO seemed to be struggling to climb above the treetops, and it was emitting blasts of fire and a continuous roar that reminded the women of a shrill welding torch, only much louder. After ten minutes the object rose above the trees, tilted onto one side, and began moving off slowly toward the south. They then saw up to 23 large, Chinook style helicopters show up in the sky, apparently in pursuit of the object.<br/><br/> (Continued.) On the drive home Betty and Colby said they suffered headaches and later nausea, and over the next several days experienced bouts of vomiting, diarrhea, and skin burns. Betty Cash also lost most of her hair, and on January 2, 1981 was admitted to Houston's Parkway General Hospital as a burn patient. She spent four of the next five weeks in the hospital.<br/><br/> Cash and Landrum contacted the state police and nearby military bases, but no one could or would provide them with an explanation. Cash was advised to contact John F. Schuessler, a NASA contractor and employee of McDonnell Douglas Aircraft, who was a project manager for the Space Shuttle Flight Operation, and is now the Director for MUFON. Schuessler and NASA physicist Alan Holt interviewed the witnesses, who took them to the encounter site. Where the UFO came down over the highway the yellow line had swiggled from the melting heat. \"A roughly 20-foot circle of the road surface appeared to have melted and then resolidified,\" said Schuessler. Trees in the vicinity were blackened twenty feet above the ground on the side facing the road.<br/><br/> Schuessler also found five other witnesses who had observed the same or a similar UFO the same night. Another eight witnesses, including a Dayton police officer, claimed to have seen the swarm of helicopters but not the UFO. For the next several years Schuessler tried without success to identify the helicopters and where they came from, but there were unconfirmed rumors that the helicopters came from a Texas Air National Guard base.<br/><br/> Health problems continued to plague Betty Cash, Vicky Landrum and Colby. Cash moved to Birmingham, Alabama where, as Dr. Bryan McClelland said in an interview, \"The illness that she suffered after her exposure was an absolute classic radiation injury in which she lost skin and hair, then had diarrhea and vomiting. She could not have made it up. Vicky Landrum has subsequently died. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8644",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "John F. Schuessler, MUFON case investigation files; Randy Fitzgerald, Reader's Digest" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/29/1992",
  "desc" : "A woman arriving home from work in a residential area of Chicago, Illinois was confronted by eight faceless men in her parking lot at about 7:00 p.m. They carried hand-held devices like black flashlights. One spoke in a computer-like voice. She developed a blinding headache, and then lost consciousness. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8645",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, case # 1046, citing Ann B. Livingston" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/29/1994",
  "desc" : "Two witnesses driving in a car at 7:30 p.m. in Plerin, France observed flashing blue lights, occurring successively and changing place. They tried to approach but were stopped by a luminous barrier 1.5 meters above the ground. They also felt a sensation of heat. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8646",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "French GEIPAN database, case 194" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/29/1994",
  "desc" : "A woman decided to take a short cut home on a dirt road through a wheat field in Lacrosse, Washington at 9:45 p.m.  She had a close encounter with three black, wedge-shaped flying objects, with lights on their leading edge, that passed in front of her car.  The objects were about 20 feet long and emitted strong beams of light. They made a humming sound as they flew along very low and slowly, then turned and flew off to the north. The event frightened her badly. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8647",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gerald Rowles, MUFON Field Investigations Database, case 950106S;  T. David Spencer, MUFON UFO Journal, June 1996, p. 16" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/29/1996",
  "desc" : "Two men out trapping in the woods in Hartsburg, Missouri at around 7 p.m. witnessed a silent, black triangular object overhead. It had 3-4 white strobe lights, and also blue and red lights. It made no sound. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8648",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Francis L. Ridge, UFO Intelligence Newsletter; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17508" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/29/2005",
  "desc" : "Several large glowing orange balls of light came up from horizon east of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada at around 8:15 p.m. They stopped in the sky, then circled, then dropped from view. A photograph was taken. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8649",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Geoff Dittman, 2005 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 133, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/30/1953",
  "desc" : "On this day in Johannesburg, South Africa a disc-shaped object followed a car on a road into an outlying town. On the same day a blue disc-shaped object flew over Bentwaters RAF Airbase in Suffolk County, England. It made crackling sounds, flashed and hissed as it went over. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8650",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, cases # 3236 & # 3237, citing Harold Wilkins,  Flying Saucers Uncensored, pp. 136 & 65" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/30/1954",
  "desc" : "A man was walking along a path near a local church in Sommaprado, Italy at 6:30 a.m. when he heard a sound like a motor. He looked around but did not see anything, but moments later he heard the noise again. This time he saw a shiny brass colored cigar-shaped object hovering nearby. It had a \"bump\"  or dome in the middle and six rotor blades, three in front and three in the rear. The rear of the object was transparent and inside he could see two short beings dressed in black and wearing large helmets. The beings looked human with olive colored skin and black hair. They looked at the witness and smiled at him. The frightened witness fell to the ground and watched as the object departed at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8651",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Maurizio Verga, ITACAT; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 4251; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 1564, citing ITACAT" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/30/1957",
  "desc" : "On this night George Chowanski, an auto mechanic living in Drakestown, New Jersey was alerted by the barking of his dog and heard a whirring sound similar to that of an electric shaver. A lighted object was observed by Mr. Chowanski and his wife as it came to within 60 cm of the ground. Two figures got out of the bottom of the object, walked around a clearing, and one of them picked up something before returning to the craft, which then took off. The encounter lasted two minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8652",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 453; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 88" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/30/1966",
  "desc" : "At 3:03 a.m. two luminous objects paced a Canadian Pacific Airlines plane at 35,000 feet over the Pacific Ocean for seven minutes while flying from Lima, Peru to Mexico City, Mexico. It emitted light beams up, then down, and then climbed and shot away. There were five witnesses on board the aircraft. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8653",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Frank Edwards, UFOs--Here and Now!, p. 128; John Magor, Canadian UFO Report, March 1969; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 9, 118 & 322" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/30/1966",
  "desc" : "Driving through Emerson, Arkansas on a foggy night, Dr. Galloway and his wife saw a UFO at 8:15 p.m. ahead of their car and to the left. It was seen through trees, and was pulsating regularly from dull red to bright orange every two seconds. It gave off no flame and made no discernable sound. At a distance of one mile the UFO brightened to blinding white and woke up their two children. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8654",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Gordon Creighton, FSR, January 1971, p. 29; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 808; UNICAT case # 668, citing Edward Condon, Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 277" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/30/1972",
  "desc" : "Ventura Maceiras, a 73-year-old gaucho, was sitting near his shack in Tres Arroyos, Buenos Aires, Argentina with his dog and his cat when his transistor radio failed. He then heard a loud humming noise, \"like angry bees,\" and looked up to see an object 70 to 80 feet in diameter hovering overhead. It was some 10-12 meters over a grove of eucalyptus trees, and it was emitting a powerful light. An enormous \"wheel\" was spinning around this object, which at first was reddish orange in color and then became purple. In its upper portion he could see a spherical cabin with two windows, and in one window was visible from the waist upwards a figure wearing dark gray clothing made of inflated \"rolls,\" joined together, similar to our astronaut's space suits. On this being's head was a helmet with a transparent visor and a tube that ran to a box on his back.<br/><br/> With a shower of sparks, the UFO tilted toward Sr. Maceiras, and he could now see a second occupant with identical features and clothing. Their eyes were slanted and their mouths were mere slits, and their faces were very flat. Behind them he could see a small flag or insignia showing a crowned seahorse followed by symbols resembling \"S C Y\" against a blue background. There was also a long instrument panel bearing \"a lot of instruments and clocks.\"<br/><br/> A powerful flash of light came from the underpart and completely enveloped the cat while temporarily blinding the witness. The humming grew louder, and the UFO changed color again to a blue-green, then moved away, sinking to a height of only 12-20 feet above the ground. It moved off toward the main road, leaving a strong odor like \"sulphur or arnica.\" Maceiras was not frightened---in fact he called out to the occupants of the object to come down and share his mate. After the encounter, his cat disappeared, to return only after 48 hours, her back still showing burn marks. She now shunned the site of her misfortune. The tops of the eucalyptus trees at the site were scorched. Maceiras himself experienced severe physiological aftereffects: diarrhea, nausea, hair loss, and severe headaches, all lasting about two weeks. He also had some trouble speaking, and his eyes watered for a few days. Six weeks after the event he was feeling better and in fact felt rejuvenated, and he began cutting a new set of teeth in his upper gums. These effects were to continue. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8655",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Pedro Romaniuk, FSR, July 1973, p. 10; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, citing Pedro Romaniuk" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/30/1977",
  "desc" : "near Keith, South Australia - A white, oval light about 27 feet in diameter paced a car 30 meters away. The two witnesses, a brother and sister, reported that as they slowed their car to 8-15 km/h, the engine began misfiring. They then stopped and the light continued on its course. After it was gone, the car could be started again and driven with no difficulties. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8656",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 418, citing UFO Research (South Australia) Newsletter, July-August, 1978" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/30/1978",
  "desc" : "A man was walking through the Plaza Garibaldi in Viareggio, Italy on this night when suddenly he heard a whistling sound and saw an object land close by. The craft seemed metallic and was shaped like a missile. A being described as a metallic robot briefly stepped out, and its body gave off an intense heat. Moments later the creature re-entered the UFO, which disappeared at high speed towards the sea. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8657",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 1554, citing Maurizio Verga, ITACAT; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 13037, citing ITACAT" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/30/1979",
  "desc" : "At 1:30 a.m. laborer Sebastiano Pannitteri suddenly woke up in his bedroom in Catania, Sicily, Italy and observed a strange phenomenon. The electrical power seemed to be out and he heard his brother-in-law's dog growling outside. Looking out the window, he saw a luminous white mass approaching, and within the light he could see a human like figure. Stunned, he went to the window and saw the back of a very tall figure wearing a very tight-fitting luminous white coverall that accentuated its musculature. The head was round and was either bald or covered with a white helmet. The being's shoulders and chest area appeared wider than normal. He had what looked like several black dots on his upper back. His arms were at his sides. The figure seemed to move slowly at first, but after five minutes it appeared to glide quickly, disappearing over a nearby wall. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8658",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, citing Archivio CUN" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/30/1982",
  "desc" : "A green beam of light shone into a house on this night in Mirassol, Brazil and a noise was heard coming from the bedroom by the young man who lived there. He next saw three humanoid beings emerge from the room: two wore white coveralls and helmets, while the third had no helmet and had red hair and dark skin. They asked him if he was afraid as they walked by, and he said no. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8659",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1982, case # 793, citing Irene Granchi" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/30/1984",
  "desc" : "At about 10:00 p.m. a 30 foot long X-shaped object paced a car for 20 minutes along a highway in Martinsburg, West Virginia. There were five lights on the bottom of the craft and it made a humming noise. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8660",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Robert Gribble, National UFO Reporting Center, case number 1147" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/30/1994",
  "desc" : "A police officer and others sighted a large glowing ovoid hovering over Buckhannon Mountain in Upshur County, West Virginia at 9:20 p.m. Small nocturnal lights exited and returned from the object. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8661",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "West Virginia UFO Newsletter, issue number 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/30/1994",
  "desc" : "Three passengers in a truck reported their vehicle had engine problems when they witnessed an ovoid object hovering at a low altitude in the desert in Alturas, Modoc County, California at 9:30 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8662",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 16642, citing Francis L. Ridge, UFO Intelligence Newsletter" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/30/1995",
  "desc" : "A huge cigar-shaped object hovered over the ocean off Gosford, New South Wales, Australia on this night. Beams of light came down from the object into the water, causing the surface of the sea to roil. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8663",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 207" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/30/2003",
  "desc" : "A hovering object with a circle of lights was seen in a field in Tatum, New Mexico at around 9:30 p.m. It shot straight up and stopped twice in the sky, then the lights went out and the object vanished. The sighting lasted 45 seconds. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8664",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, December 2003 webpage" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/31/1953",
  "desc" : "Two marines at the Quantico Marine Corps base in Virginia observed the landing of a round UFO that throbbed and pulsated, emitting red lights. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8665",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 210; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case 122" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/31/1954",
  "desc" : "At ten minutes after midnight, four men in a forest in Camaqua, Brazil in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, saw a 30-meter wide disc stop and hover silently one meter above the ground. A human looking occupant got out of the craft and walked around it with a lamp of some kind. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8666",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Felipe Machado Carrion, Phenomenes Spatiaux, December 1971, p. 32" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/31/1958",
  "desc" : "Two men in their late 40s, Srs. Salas and Acosta, watched a cylindrical object with a pointed end shoot straight up in the sky at 11:55 p.m. in Umbrete, Sevilla province, Spain. A moment later, when one of them opened the door of the truck in which they had been driving, a second object-two meters long-shot up from the ground. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8667",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, FSR, July-August 1971, p. 11" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/31/1971",
  "desc" : "On this evening in 1971 in Tulancingo, Mexico in the State of Hidalgo, Sra. Ochones saw a domed disc land 50 meters away, making a “sizzling” sound. A door opened in the craft and several beings emerged from a red illuminated interior. They wore white coveralls with tight-fitting hoods, and spent a short period of time collecting soil samples. The ground marks at the landing site included 3 leg marks and 2 skids. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8668",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Saga 1973 UFO Special, p. 32" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/31/1972",
  "desc" : "In Veteli, Finland in 1972 a dark form appeared at 7:30 p.m. and a “force field” threw a girl a distance of three meters. Another girl witnessed the event. Five hours later, at 11:30 p.m. on a highway in Hinojos, Spain a fiery square-shaped flying object flew close to the ground and lit up the surrounding terrain. The headlights in two cars, carrying a total of four witnesses, died. The car with the gasoline-powered engine also stalled, but the diesel-powered engine of the other car kept running. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8669",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Lumieres dans la Nuit, April 1975 and issue 133" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/31/1973",
  "desc" : "At 7:00 a.m. on highway 347 between Lens and La Bassee in Pas-de-Calais, France Mr. Liefooghe had a close encounter with two UFOs. He came upon a disc-shaped object on the road, and he watched a cigar-shaped UFO land in a vertical position. He did not stay around but came back later with investigators, who found ground marks and small footprints. At five a.m. CST another cigar-shaped object with two small wings approached a home in La Grange, Illinois rapidly from the west. The object was self-luminous and appeared solid, and passed low over the treetops. At 4:20 p.m. Pacific Standard Time a photograph of a luminous UFO was taken in Spokane, Washington and the event was witnessed by two families. At 10:30 p.m. Mountain Standard Time, on a highway near a farm east of Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada a man saw a bright light in his rearview mirror. It looked like the revolving light on a train, except there were no railroad tracks in the vicinity. He then noticed an eight-foot tall giant running in a ditch alongside the truck at speeds up to 60 mph. The being touched the hood and roof of the truck before being out-distanced. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8670",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "newspaper clipping dated January 1, 1974; La Grange (Illinois) Suburban Life, January 5, 1974; Gert Herb case investigation files; John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants and Critters, p. 20" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/31/1976",
  "desc" : "On this night in Bristol, Wales, UK Ken, an off-duty policeman, was driving home after his work shift and was passing the entrance gate of a research facility when he saw an 8 to 9 foot tall \"spaceman\" being. The being was wearing a one-piece suit and a helmet with a black visor over his eyes. Ken had no idea what he was looking at, so he drove straight home, arriving there in a state of shock. Although he told his wife, who did not believe him, he did not make an official report because he feared professional repercussions. The next day, he learned from reading the local newsapaper that two other people reported seeing a \"spaceman\" looking into their car in Chilcomb, near Winchester, England after their car engine failed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8671",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "http://www.colinandrews.net/UFO-PoliceSergeant-SilburyHill.html" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/31/1978",
  "desc" : "In the early morning hours of this day in 1978, at shortly after midnight, a famous motion picture film was taken by a news crew while flying off the eastern coast of South Island, New Zealand near the town of Kaikoura. The luminous UFO was seen by everyone on board the aircraft and was tracked by radar at the same time. It was somewhat cone shaped, and was not a Japanese shrimp fishing boat, as claimed by debunkers. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8672",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "International UFO Reporter, July 1979, p. 6; APRO Bulletin, May 1980, p. 2" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/31/1978",
  "desc" : "There were several other UFO reports from around the world on this day, from Brazil, England, Scotland, Italy, Switzerland, and Florida. In Mirrasol, Sao Paulo State, Brazil a man was walking home around 11:00 p.m. when he heard a noise and noticed a light approaching from behind while crossing the street. He stepped aside, thinking that it was a car, but he then realized that it was a huge yellowish light that was attached to the bottom of a large flying object. He was suddenly struck by a beam of light and lost consciousness. Later, he found himself inside the object, next to a corridor. He next noticed three short humanoid creatures who spoke among themselves in a strange incomprehensible language. The beings wore helmets and coveralls and their faces were covered in a green light. Their eyes resembled two simple holes, lacking eyelids or eyebrows. He apparently then blacked out again, and arrived home at 3:30 a.m. without any further recollection of the event. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8673",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Walter K. Buhler, Guilheme Pereira, and Ney Matiel Peres, UFO Abduction at Mirassol" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/31/1978",
  "desc" : "In Posada, Italy at one o’clock in the morning, a 3-meter in diameter glowing sphere appeared over a marsh. It had dark triangular spots that moved back and forth on the surface of the object. In Bayford, England Mr. and Mrs. Mason sighted a cigar-shaped object at 7:00 p.m. moving silently through the sky from the west to the east. The UFO had a long body with lots of tiny lights. Before losing sight of it two strong lights came on, one in the middle and one at the end. At the same time a silver triangle crossed the sky from west to east in Carlisle, England in Cumbria. Two minutes later a triangle with a grayish hue crossed the sky from west to east in Edinborough, Scotland, and three minutes after that another huge triangle was seen flying in the same direction over Hull, England. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8674",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Italian UFO Catalogue; UFO Newsclipping Service, February 1979, p. 13 citing the Hertfordshire Mercury, December 31, 1978; D. N. Mansell, Awareness, April 1979, p. 12" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/31/1978",
  "desc" : "One hour after the multiple UFO flyovers in Great Britain, at three p.m. EST three men saw a silver disc hovering only one block away from one of their residences in Homestead, Florida. Mr. Betancourt, age 37, described the UFO as being between 40-50 feet in diameter and having no visible engine or wings, and making no noise. It hovered over a neighbor’s backyard for about 30 seconds before flying off. At 10:00 p.m. European time in Zermatt, Switzerland two people witnessed a luminous round object over the alpine glacier, brightly illuminating the ice. Later that night, at 2:30 a.m. the next morning, a big electrical power outage occurred in the city. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8675",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Dade News-Leader, January 3, 1979; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 13046" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/31/1980",
  "desc" : "Near Sacramento, California the main witness, John, was driving on California Highway 5 heading toward Sacramento. Shortly after 10:00 p.m. he spotted a large, dark object coming toward him and moving slowly, left to right. The object passed him, but when he looked behind him it was no longer in sight. \"I have to see what this is,\" he thought to himself and he intended to pull over at the same time that he started to feel groggy and his truck's engine began sputtering. He experienced a period of missing time, and the next thing he remembered was that he felt he had just awakened from sleep, although he was driving with both hands on the steering wheel. It struck him as odd that all the holiday traffic was gone and no other vehicles were on the roadway. Thinking only a few minutes had passed, he called his girlfriend to tell her about his unusual experience, and was surprised that she was angry with him because he had been out of touch for nearly three hours. It was already 1:00 a.m. on New Years Day.<br/><br/> (Continued.) In 1992 John underwent hypnotic regression, and was able to remember some of what had happened to him during his missing time episode. He remembered being led somewhere by hand, and having no control. Whoever was leading him seemed to have all the control. John became very agitated as they wanted him to look at something and he didn't want to. Becoming even more agitated and crying, he remembered that the aliens were showing him tanks and he didn't want to be there. John could not bear to look at what was being shown to him, and it took two more hypnotic regression sessions to get through his block and remember what he had been looking at. John described a small baby floating in some type of hearvier-than-water fluid. Tearfully, he described one of \"them\" saying this particular baby was his and that he had to show it some love. John recalled, \"They are saying, I am here for a reason, there are a number of them telling me it's my child, to love it, to feel love for that baby. I need to connect; they tell me it will help the baby feel part of something. I can't believe this is happening!\" After showing John \"his baby\", the beings escorted him to another romm he described as \"clean, sterile and bright, with a long table in the middle.\" John began crying again and said, \"I'm telling them I don't want to do this again.\" He recalled the aliens telling him that they were just going to take a sample. He became more agitated and repeated twice, \"It's not right what they are doing...it's not right!\" ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8676",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1980 Humanoid Reports, citing Yvonne Smith, Yvonne@ysmith.com." ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/31/1982",
  "desc" : "In Kent Cliffs, New York in the lower Hudson River Valley a police officer and his wife spotted a delta-shaped UFO making a faint, low frequency hum at 11:54 p.m. The colored lights on the object switched off and three bright white lights lit up the ground. He was able to shoot some movie film of the UFO, but the images are of low quality. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8677",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "J. Allen Hynek & Phil Imbrogno, Night Siege: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/31/1984",
  "desc" : "In Level Green, Pennsylvania in the UFO hotspot of Westmoreland County, two residents of the community heard a tapping sound on one of their house windows at 6:10 p.m. They saw what looked like an eye-like orb peering in through the window. It turn and flew away, but repeated the performance one more time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8678",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "MUFON UFO Journal, June 1985" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/31/1989",
  "desc" : "After 11:00 p.m. Victor Seminskiy was walking home from a local farm to the hamlet where he lived in Artyemovka, Kharkov region, Ukraine when he saw a UFO descending over him. He next felt the air squeezing him, as if in a vacuum, and he saw an extremely bright light envelope him and a lattice-like structure surround him. He was next pulled up into the UFO, and the next thing he remembers he was unexpectedly next to his house. He thought that only 15 minutes had passed, but he had actually been missing for two hours. Most of his memory of the abduction experience had apparently been repressed or erased, but the witness refused any hypnotic regression to aid him in recovering his memories of the experience. Victor's wife reportedly confirmed the experience. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8679",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1989 Humanoid Contact Sighting Reports, citing Vladimir S. Mantulin, Kharkov Anomalous Phenomena Research Group" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/31/1990",
  "desc" : "In the middle of the afternoon in Taszar, Hungary an aircraft mechanic was approached by a strange man and woman riding in a totally black van with blacked out windows. The strangers seemed to be human, but were also able to read the witness's mind. The strangers left, but later that night the witness was approached by a reddish-yellow light the size of a football, at a height of about 2.5 m. Terrified, he first two shots at the object, which quickly vanished from sight. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8680",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1990 Humanoid Contact sighting reports, citing Kriston Endre, RYUFOR Foundation Hungary" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/31/1990",
  "desc" : "In Karaganda, Kazakhstan local resident Maksim Abramtsev was at home watching the New Years Eve celebrations on television when he glanced out the window and saw the strange face of an unknown entity staring in the window at him. Afraid, he jumped up and ran outside into the street. There he saw several \"men\" or humanoids walking toward a globe-shaped object. The object was hovering low over the ground, and Maksim felt a strong fear after watching this scene, and ran and hid behind the door on his porch. Moments later, the globe ascended into the air, flying low over the ground, then stopped and hovered in the air for a brief moment before shooting away at high speed. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8681",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, 1990 Humanoid Contact sighting reports, citing Industrialnaya Karaganda newspaper, May 18, 1991" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/31/1992",
  "desc" : "A woman walking outside her home in San Antonio, Texas saw a huge, gray metallic disc drop straight down from the clouds. It made a buzzing noise. It altered its shaped to that of a sphere with four legs and landed. Under hypnosis it was revealed that she experienced an abduction aboard the craft, in which she was given a medical exam by pale, human-looking men. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8682",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, case #1678, citing Karla Turner; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 316" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/31/1993",
  "desc" : "An object that looked like a globe on a pedestal followed two people in a car for several kilometers near the shoreline in Yanchep, Western Australia at around one o’clock in the morning, before flying off. The same or a similar object was seen in Brazil that day. At 1:40 a.m. local time a huge, silent, light bulb shaped UFO with bright lights and a flat bottom, flew over the city of Quixada, Ceara State, Brazil. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8683",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1994; Boletim CEPEX" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/31/2000",
  "desc" : "A bedroom visitation of possibly a holographic figure occurred at four o’clock in the morning in Kingsville, Texas. The witness reported that a humanoid figure and a blue light passed through a skylight and materialized inside the bedroom. The figure and the blue light disappeared at the same time. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8684",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case #3516, citing Filer’s Files" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/31/2001",
  "desc" : "In the evening of this day in Pasadena, Texas a man reported seeing a huge rectangular object, an estimated 300 meters in length, about ten miles away. The UFO hung vertically in the sky at only a few hundred feet altitude, and had several white lights inside a red rectangular outer rim. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8685",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "George A. Filer, MUFON UFO Journal, February 2002, p. 14" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/31/2002",
  "desc" : "At 1:30 p.m. in Buena Park, California a silver disc was seen hovering in an upright position. The disc then leveled out and moved quickly off to the southeast. It made no sound.",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8686",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, December 2002; George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 6" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/31/2006",
  "desc" : "In Nobsa, Dicho, Boyaca Province, Colombia three men named Guio, Barragan, and Zarate witnessed a football-shaped object through binoculars beginning at 3:30 p.m.. The object changed colors from yellow to black to white. It spun on its axis and became orange-colored, and then another object showed up. A photo was taken at 4:30 p.m. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8687",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Scott Corrales, www.ufoinfo.com, report dated January 22, 2007" ]
},
{
  "date" : "12/31/2010",
  "desc" : "In Boca Raton, Florida at 7:40 p.m. a close encounter occurred with a flashing, egg-shaped object hovering on its side. One-fourth of the object was lit up, resembling a cockpit flashing with white light. It first glided straight for 300 feet, then hovered in one spot. The encountered reportedly lasted 10 minutes. ",
  "source_id" : "Johnson_8688",
  "source" : "Johnson",
  "ref" : [ "[Johnson](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/calendar.html)", "Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, December 2010, report uploaded January 5, 2011" ]
}
] }