+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  July 29 | | | | 1947 - Hamilton Air Base, California At 2:50 p.m. PDT the Assistant | | Base Operations Officer, Capt. William Rhyerd, and Ward Steward, an | | ex-B-29 pilot, watched for unknown length of time while two round, | | shiny, white objects with estimated 15-25 foot diameters, flew 3-4 | | times the apparent speed of a P-80, also in sight. One object flew | | straight and level; the other weaved from side-to-side like an escort | | fighter. (Source: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1948 - James Toney and Robert Huggins, both employees of a rug | | cleaning firm in Indianapolis, Indiana saw a shiny aluminum object, | | shaped something like an airplane's propeller, with 10-12 small cups | | protruding from either blade, at 9:38 a.m. Its estimated size was 6-8 | | feet long and 1.5-2 feet wide. The object glided across the road a | | few hundred feet in front of their vehicle and apparently came down | | in a wooded area. The sighting lasted a few seconds. (Sources: | | Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case no. 185; | | Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1952 - There are 39 unexplained UFO reports recorded in the UFOCAT | | database for this day. Most are lacking any detail and so fall into | | the category of "insufficient information." All but five come from | | the United States. | | | | 1952 - At 1:30 a.m. radar operators on the ground in Osceola, | | Wisconsin witnessed several clusters of up to 10 small radar targets | | and one large target. The small targets moved from southwest to east | | at 50-60 knots (60-70 mph), following each other. The large object | | moved at 600 knots (700 mph). One hour total time. The pilot of a | | F-51 Mustang in flight confirmed a visual sighting of one of the | | targets. (Source: Condon Committee investigation files; Don Berliner, | | Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1952 - Sidney Eubank went to the Enid, Oklahoma police station and | | told Sergeant Vern Bennell that an enormous disc had buzzed his car | | as he drove between Bison and Waukonis on Highway 81. The rush of air | | made the car leave the road while the object flew west very fast. | | (Sources: NICAP investigation files, reported dated July 30, 1952; | | Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 134; Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 199). | | | | 1952 - At 12:30 p.m. USAF personnel near Ennis, Montana were alerted | | that UFOs were coming from the direction of Seattle, Washington and | | headed toward their position. Twelve of them saw two to five flat | | disc-shaped objects fly over. One hovered for 3-4 minutes, while the | | others circled it. The sighting lasted 30 minutes. (Sources: Project | | Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case no. 1747; Don | | Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1952 - Langley AFB, Virginia. At 2:30 p.m. USAF Captain D.G. Moore, | | of military air traffic control, sighted a UFO coming toward the air | | base that flew at an estimated speed of 2,600 mph below an altitude | | of 5,000 feet. It was in sight for two minutes. Twenty minutes later | | Captain Moore and electronics technician W. Y. Hope tracked a UFO on | | radar moving away. The object stopped for two minutes, then moved | | away again very, very fast. Total duration four minutes. (Sources: | | Kevin Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol; p. 275; Don | | Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1952 - At 3:44 Herbert Mitchell and his employee in Merced, California | | sighted a dark, discus-shaped object, trailed two lengths behind by a | | silvery light. It tipped on its side, dove, hesitated, and then | | circled very fast. They watched it for two minutes. (Sources: Project | | Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case no. 1738; Don | | Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1952 - In Wichita, Kansas at 12:35 p.m. USAF shop employees Douglas | | and Hess saw a bright white circular craft with a flat bottom at the | | Municipal Airport. The object flew very fast, and then hovered 10-15 | | seconds over the Cessna Aircraft Co. plant. Their sighting lasted | | five minute sighting. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in | | official statistics, case no. 1739; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook | | UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1955 - In Columbus, Nebraska at 10:45 p.m.Morrice Raymond watched | | four orange flashing lights and one whIte flashing light move up and | | down like yo-yos for 5-6 minutes. (Source: Don Berliner, Project | | Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1957 - Flight CAL 841 over Cleveland, Ohio at 10:31 p.m. Capital | | Airlines Captain R. L. Stimley and First Officer F. J. Downing | | sighted a large, round, yellow-white object that dimmed once, and | | then crossed the bow of their airliner. They gave chase but were | | unable to catch it. Their sighting last eight minutes. (Sources: | | Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case no. | | 4847; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1957 - In Oldsmar, Florida at 11:45 a.m. witness E. E. Henkins | | observed a pale yellow fireball glide into the water and explode. It | | was viewed for approximately one minute. (Sources: Project Blue Book | | files counted in official statistics, case no. 4848; Don Berliner, | | Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1962 - Mr. and Mrs. M.O. Barton of Ocean Springs, Mississippi saw a | | bright cherry-red, diamond-shaped object at 11:20 p.m. that flew | | slowly, hovered, and then made fast half-loops for ten minutes. | | (Source: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1965 - At 4:20 a.m. a washtub-shaped object flew over North Weymouth, | | Massachusetts performing irregular maneuvers. It was watched through | | binoculars and glowed orange, red and silver. At one point during the | | sighting two smaller silver objects criss-crossed over top of it. | | (Source: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 333). | | | | North Weymouth, Massachusetts - 1965 | | | | [image] | | | | 1965 - Alain Bressol of Grouzies, France observed a large, | | disc-shaped object in a field near Monsempron-Libos. It flew away at | | high speed toward the south. (Sources: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue | | no. 78; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, | | p. 311 case 663). | | | | 1968 - Four people driving in La Atalaya, Argentina at 3:15 at night | | saw an object that looked like an upside down washbasin. It was 30-40 | | feet wide and glowing on the underside. As it flew low over the road, | | the headlights and engine of the witnesses' car failed. After the | | object had landed about 250 meters from the car, the headlights came | | back on. The object remained on the ground for 45 minutes while the | | motorists watched. (Source: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving | | Vehicle Interference, case 244, citing FSR Case Histories, Supplement | | No. 13) | | | | 1968 - Two witnesses at 1:30 a.m. saw a snow-white glowing object | | apparently land near a deserted grass airport in Barnstable, | | Massachusetts on Cape Cod. When they drove past the area, a sound | | like a large swarm of locusts was heard emanating from the field. The | | airfield had closed at sunset. (Source: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: | | Interplanetary Visitors, p. 354). | | | | Barnstable Airport, Massachusetts - 1968 | | | | [image] | | | | 1970 - At 3:00 a.m. an unknown craft emerged from the ocean along the | | coast of Alcocebre, Spain and loses itself in the sky. A cylinder | | that had been discovered on the ocean bottom the previous day had | | gone. (Source: FSR Case Histories, August 1971, p. 6). | | | | 1970 - In Old Forge, New York several people noticed an ovoid, | | metallic, and fairly large object which began following their car at | | 10:25 p.m. While it followed, the car radio was inoperative due to | | heavy static. (Source: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle | | Interference, case 292, citing UFOLOG, No. 83, 1971) | | | | 1971 - A green metallic object, self-luminous but also apparently | | reflecting sunlight, was seen in the sky over Nedlands near Perth, | | Western Australia at 9:50 a.m.. It left behind a trail. (Source: | | Data-Net Report, January 1972). | | | | 1972 - A silent disc-shaped object rose from behind some trees at | | night in Tyler, Texas. It had red, green, and blue lights on the | | underside. It maneuvered at a low altitude. (Source: Glenn McWane, | | The New UFO Sightings, p 46). | | | | 1973 - Two witnesses were driving near Ottawa, Ontario at around 9 | | p.m. when they noticed a bright globe of light descend and pass near | | them. They could see three humanoid figures through three oblong | | shaped portholes. The object then flew over the car and left. | | (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1973, case # | | 14, citing John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants and Critters). | | | | 1978 - At 12:25 a.m. the Green Bay, Wisconsin lighthouse keeper | | reported that he had seen a UFO heading westbound at high rate of | | speed. It had an irregularly flashing white light and red lights. At | | 2:40 a.m. a U.S. Coast Guard craft near Apostle Island, Wisconsin on | | Lake Superior saw a large, yellow-white oblong object. There were | | five separate sightings reported of the object. Witnesses also | | reportedly saw the Aurora Borealis and several meteors. (Source: | | Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, August 1979, p. 14) | | | | 1978 - On this day in 1978 a 15-year-old boy and his grandfather spied an | | eight-foot tall hairy creature by the river in Little River, Texas. | | They were working in a nearby field when they saw the Bigfoot-like | | creature. It left footprints 14" long and 9" wide. A Sheriff measured | | the footprints left behind. (Source: UFO Newsclipping Service, | | September 1978, p. 17). | | | | 1986 - At 11:50 p.m. a very bright nocturnal light was reported over | | the lake at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. A larger object was seen | | hovering over the light, and a cloud. (Source: Robert Gribble, | | National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, case 1179). | | | | 1990 - At two o'clock in the morning a man woke up in his bedroom in | | Columbus, Ohio to find a small humanoid standing in the bedroom. He | | could only recall having his tooth drilled and an "implant" possibly | | having been inserted. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact | | Database 1990, case # 1851, citing Francis J. Ridge, Regional | | Encounters: The Filter Center Files). | | | | 1990 - At 4:30 a.m. in Ottawa, Ontario a woman--whose roommate had | | witnessed a large light maneuvering over the area on July 1--woke up | | in her 16th floor apartment to see a 4-foot tall being in the | | bedroom. A dim light illuminated the being, which the witness | | described as small in stature and dark gray in color. His head was | | bend down as if adjusting something on his chest. He had a child-like | | body. Behind his head was a fog-like mist. The being wore a smooth | | suit with a square buckle on the front of a larger belt-buckle. Shiny | | neon like light shone from the buckle, which changed color to blue, | | the inside to the buckle was black. The witness was not afraid and | | went back to sleep. Ten minutes later she saw the being again | | standing about 10 feet away from her. She then fell back to sleep | | again and did not see the being depart. (Source: Peter Davenport, | | National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, July 1990 webpage). | | | | 2001 - At three a.m. an object larger than 10 meters in diameter was | | seen on the grounds of the local football field in Quedas do Iguacu, | | Parana, Brazil. The two witnesses including Rubem Bastos de Brito | | reported seeing several short bizarre creaturesmoving around the | | object. After about 20 minutes the object shot away into the sky. | | (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2001, citing | | Thiago Luiz Ticchetti, EBE-ET). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 24 May 2006). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: buzzing sound; disc-shaped UFOs; erratic maneuvers; | | inside occupants; landings; multicolored UFOs; multi-year reports fr | | om California, Massachusetts and Texas; nautical UFOs; pendulum motio | | n; rush of air caused by passing UFO; vehicle EM effects; white UFOs. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+