+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  February 17 | | | | 1949 - Alain Berard saw a large, bright object land near his farm in | | France with a flash of green lightning. It then became dark. As he | | approached the craft, the witness saw three figures with stocky short | | legs, apparently without heads. Frightened, he fired a gun at them | | three times. A moment later the object took off vertically. (Source: | | Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 193, | | citing Oltre il Cielo, Volume I). | | | | 1953 - At 10:04 p.m. five airmen of the US Air Force 754 AC&W Squad | | in Port Austin, Michigan picked up a clear and steady radar return at | | a distance of 9 miles. The slow moving light changed color from red | | to pink to pale white to white and then back to red. An explanation | | of the sighting was changed to "Venus" in the Air Force files in | | 1963. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official | | statistics, case # 2419; Project Blue Book Report #10, report dated | | February 27, 1953; UNICAT, case # 760; Richard Hall, The UFO | | Evidence, p. 41). | | | | 1956 - Multiple radar sets at Orly Airport, Paris, France tracked an | | unknown blip for four hours beginning at 10:50 p.m. It was twice the | | size of and airliner, and made 2,000 mph bursts of speed. A visual | | sighting of the object was briefly made by a pilot landing at the | | airfield. (Sources: Alexander Mebane, Civilian Saucer Intelligence-NY | | Newsletter, February 1956, p. 6; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO | | Encounters, p. 17; Jimmy Guieu, Flying Saucers Come from Another | | World, p. 260). | | | | 1956 - In Anderson, South Carolina at 4:15 p.m. several thousand | | frantic birds took off and flew off >S, some died in the process. A | | silvery wheel-shaped UFO was sighted by a separate witness. (Sources: | | Anderson (SC) Independent, February 21, 1956; Leonard H. Stringfield, | | CRIFO Orbit, April 3, 1956). | | | | 1960 - A grayish black Saturn-shaped disc with exhaust cruised the | | tops of the hills in New Martinsville, West Virginia. A | | lighter-colored ring on the object emitted smoke from rear end. | | (Source: Bob Teets, West Virginia UFOs: Close Encounters in the | | Mountain State, p. 82). | | | | 1967 - At 1:05 a.m. in Dorchester, Massachusetts a metallic domed | | disc-shaped object with 4-5 purple lights around its perimeter | | hovered at treetop level over a rest home for the elderly before | | moving away. At 6:55 p.m. in Lawrence, Massachusetts a dazzlingly | | bright V-shaped object, with a variety of body lights, hovered low | | over the interstate highway for three minutes. The witness drove | | under it. There were a series of other, similar reports close by at | | Methuen and Andover at about the same time. (Source: Raymond E. | | Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 344; Richard Hall, The UFO | | Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 328). | | | | Dorchester, Massachusetts Low Level Domed Disc - 1967 | | | | [Sketch of Dorchester, Massachusetts UFO - 1967] | | | | 1969 - A woman in Flinders Park, South Australia heard a whirring | | sound coming from outside that woke her at 2:50 a.m. She looked out | | the window and saw an unusual object in a nearby field. A man emerged | | from the shadows and walked around the object. The figure was very | | tall and lean with light colored hair. He wore white coveralls. He | | walked several times around the object. The witness then ran to get | | other witnesses but when she got back the UFO and tall figure were | | gone. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1969, | | case #1309, citing Keith Basterfield). | | | | 1974 - At ten p.m. a 10 meter long cigar-shaped object appeared over | | a vineyard in a rainstorm in Montreal-d'Aude, Aude department, | | France. It had four blazing lights on display as it moved up a road. | | (Source: Jean-Claude Bourret, The Crack in the Universe: What You | | Have Not Been Told about Flying Saucers, p. 86). | | | | 1975 - At 9 p.m. Sheriff Richard Egebakken, as well as four other | | Wheatland County and state officials, observed a bright round object | | hovering near the Harlowton, Montana nuclear missile base. The object | | made rapid darting movements, and bobbed up-down. (Source: Richard H. | | Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 175). | | | | 1976 - A truck driver driving between Tarraleah and Berridale, | | Tasmania saw a bright cigar-shaped object ahead and to his left at | | around four o'clock in the morning. It was low to the ground. The | | light had maintained its position relative to his truck for some | | time, so the driver woke up his companion. The driver estimated the | | object was about one kilometer away and 300 meters in altitude. The | | two men tried a transistor radio, but it emitted only static until | | the end of the sighting. They estimated the object to be 10 meters in | | diameter with a dome on top. After being paced for 60 kilometers, | | they stopped to change drivers. When they did this the UFO dropped | | down to within 300 meters of their truck, then hovered nearby. As | | they started driving again, the UFO moved across the road and paced | | them again at varying distances until sunrise. A small orange light | | accompanied the main object during the latter half of the sighting. | | (Sources: Richard Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, October 1976, p. 19; Mark | | Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 392, | | citing ACOS Bulletin, June 1976) | | | | 1977 - During the day a teacher and two canteen workers at Broad | | Haven school in Pembrokeshire, Wales watched a silvery yellow | | cigar-shaped object glide over a field emitting a loud humming sound. | | Before it left the area, a human-like figure was seen briefly to step | | out of the object and then go back inside. (Source: Albert S. | | Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, case # 1386, citing J. A. | | Brooks, Ghosts and Legends of Wales). | | | | 1978 - Three school teachers, Mr. Moreno, Mr. Aguilar and Mr. | | Coronado were on their way back to the town of Cocula, Mexico from a | | late dinner, when around 2:00 a.m. they noticed bright flashes of | | green, red and white light coming from a nearby hill. They stopped | | their vehicle and got out to get a better look. They walked towards | | the lights, which appeared to be about 300 meters away. The light | | seemed to dim the closer they got to it. When they were about 20 | | meters from it, they noticed that it was now an opaque egg-shaped | | object, about 15 meters in length. It appeared to have three | | antenna-like protrusions on top. The UFO now gave off a fluorescent | | white glow. Curious, the three men continued to approach even closer, | | and began to surround it. Suddenly, one of the men noticed something | | moving very close to him and signaled the other two. All three of | | them then saw a short "robot like" humanoid in a freshly dug ditch, | | and it appeared to be still digging. The being was wearing a tight | | fitting silvery outfit with a round helmet. The little man simply | | ignored the trio and kept digging. Frightened all three men ran | | across the field, got back into their vehicle, and drove away at high | | speed. The next day they returned to the site and found numerous | | ground traces, including the ditch. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, | | Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 3507, citing J. J. Benitez, El | | Arbol y La Serpiente). | | | | 1994 - A 10-year-old boy in Barking, London, England witnessed a | | domed object with reddish-orange lights underneath at 11:30 p.m. It | | hovered silently at 300 feet altitude. (Source: UFO Newsclipping | | Service, July 1994). | | | | 1997 - At 9:00 p.m. a 68-year-old woman was outside saying farewell | | to her son-in-law in La Grange, Georgia when she noticed a | | disc-shaped object in the southern sky.  As it got closer, she saw | | three white objects moving in unison and "floating." No one else was | | outside or driving by while objects were in view. Ten minutes later | | three female witnesses in Franklin, Georgia were outside when they | | saw a multicolored spherical object approach at a rapid (but not | | incredible) speed, then slow down near one house, then speed up again | | and depart out of sight.(Source: John Thompson, MUFON case files, | | cases # 970610E and 970217E). | | | | 1997 - A 46-year-old man in Biloxi, Mississippi was cleaning his | | carport 1t 2:30 p.m. when he heard the sound of jets and looked up. | | He also saw three disc-shaped objects in the sky. He went and got his | | binoculars, and when he returned there were now four objects with | | multicolored lights. The UFOs slowly moved across the sky and went | | out of sight. The sighting lasted seven minutes. (Source: J. R. | | Gillia, MUFON case files, case # 970514bC). | | | | 1999 - In Campinas, Sao Paolo state, Brazil Gley Freitas observed a | | large oval-shaped object on the ground. Next to the object stood two | | tall humanoids, wearing tight-fitting outfits and helmets. Afraid, | | the witness did not get any closer. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, | | Humanoid Contact Database 1999, citing Thiago Luiz Ticchetti, | | EBE-ET). | | | | 2004 - A dark triangular flying object with three lights, one at each | | end, flew over Phillipsburg, New Jersey at 7:00 p.m. (Source: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Feb. 2004 webpage). | | | | 2007 - At 2:52 a.m. a triangular craft was sighted over the Burke | | Lakefront Airport in Cleveland, Ohio. It had white lights on the | | sides, and a red light shimmering in the bottom middle. (Source: | | Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Feb. 2007 webpage, | | report uploaded Feb. 24, 2007). | | | | 2008 - At 11:50 a.m. a photograph of two “phantom UFOs” was taken in | | the vicinity of the Uruguay River from Gualeguaychu, Entre Rios | | Province, Argentina. The photo shows clear, sharp images. (Source: | | Luis Burgos, www.ufoinfo.com, citing Inexplicata). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 23 February 2010). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: cigar-shaped UFOs, disc-shaped | | UFOs, domed discs, humming sound, inside UFO occupant, landing, mult | | i-year reports from France, oval-shaped UFO, radar visual confirmatio | | n, RF interference, short headless humanoids, short robot-like humano | | id, tall humanoids, triangular UFOs, vertical ascent, whirring sound. | | | | © Donald A. 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