+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  August 13 | | | | 1909 - At 11:00 p.m. a top-shaped object was observed through a night | | glass as it moved in a northerly direction over Glen Innes, New South | | Wales, Australia. Its lower portion was lighted while the upper | | portion was dark, and as the body of the object revolved a light kept | | turning on to the terrain beneath. (Source: Richard H. Hall, From | | Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the | | Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 8, citing Bill Chalker, The Oz | | Files, p. 31). | | | | 1917 - A luminous globe was seen spinning through the clouds by over | | 18,000 witnesses who had assembled at Fatima, in the Cova da Iria, | | Portugal to see another monthly apparition of the "Lady in Blue", | | thought to be the Virgin Mary by Roman Catholic faithful. The sky | | turned rainbow colors including pink, yellow, and blue. There was a | | perceived lowering of the temperature, and angel hair residue. | | (Source: Jacques Vallee, The Invisible College, p. 145). | | | | 1942 - Sixty-eight UFOs were seen over the Capitol in Washington, | | D.C. on this night around 11:00 p.m. Photographs were taken, and | | a big CAA investigation followed. (Source: Richard F. Haines, Project | | Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 126). | | | | 1947 - Mr. A. C. Urie and his two sons were fishing in the Snake | | River Canyon near Twin Falls, Idaho at about one p.m. when they saw a | | sky blue, seven-meter wide inverted plate-shaped flying object 100 | | meters away and 25 meters above the ground. Treetops under it were | | spinning wildly, although the object itself did not appear to spin. | | It made a swishing sound. There was a red flame visible on one side | | of the top. According to the FBI investigative report of this case, | | at about 1:00 p.m. Mr. Urie "sent his boys to the (Salmon) river to | | get some rope from his boat. When he thought they were overdue he | | went outside to his tool shed to look for them. He noticed them about | | 300 feet away looking in the sky and he glanced up to see what he | | called the flying disc. This strange object was flying at high speed | | along the canyon which is about 400 feet deep and 1,200 feet across | | at that point. It was about seventy-five feet above the floor of the | | canyon (and so more than 300 feet below the edge of the canyon) and | | moving up and down as it flew. It seemed to be following the contours | | of the hilly ground beneath it. Urie, who said he was at about the | | same level as the UFO, so that he had a side view, estimated it was | | about twenty feet long, ten feet wide and ten feet high, with what | | appeared to be exhaust ports on the sides. It was almost hat shaped | | with a flat bottom and a dome on top. | | | | Close Encounter at Snake River Canyon near Twin Falls, Idaho - 1947 | | | | [Image] | | | | Its pale blue color made Urie think that it would be very difficult | | to see against the sky, although he had no trouble seeing it | | silhouetted against the opposite wall of the canyon. On each side | | there was a tubular shaped fiery glow, like some sort of exhaust. He | | said that when it went over trees they didn't sway back and forth, | | but rather the treetops twisted around, which suggests that the air | | under the object was being swirled into a vortex. He and his sons had | | an excellent view of the object for a few seconds before it | | disappeared over the trees about a mile away. He thought it was going | | 1,000 miles an hour. (Sources: NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1978, | | p. 4; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. | | 192). | | | | 1952 - While flying over Tokyo, Japan at 9:45 p.m. USAF Marine Corps | | pilot Major D. McGough sighted an orange light that flew a left orbit | | at 8,000' and 230 mph. It then spiraled down to no more than 1,500 | | feet altitude, remained stationary for 2-3 minutes more, and went | | out. An attempted interception was unsuccessful. (Source: Don | | Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Kevin Randle, Invasion | | Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 278). | | | | 1956 - At Bentwaters RAF Base in Suffolk, England radar returns at | | 9:20 p.m. showed a large unidentified craft moving in excess of 4,000 | | mph. The crew of a C-47 confirmed a visual sighting of a blur of | | light moving at high speeds. Both air and ground radars confirm | | fantastic maneuvers were performed. (Sources: James E. McDonald, FSR, | | March 1970, p. 10; John W. Spencer, World Atlas of UFOs, p. 86; | | Michael D. Hall, UFOs: A Century of Sightings, p. 242; Illobrand von | | Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 12). | | | | 1959 - Two women at a lake near Ogden Dunes, Indiana saw a glowing | | domed disc at six o'clock in the morning. The object was 20 meters in | | diameter, and hovered and maneuvered 15 meters over the lake for | | two minutes. (Sources: Gary (IN) Post-Tribune, August 14, 1959; Loren | | E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. | | 1957: August-September, p. 29). | | | | 1959 - At around 4:00 p.m. a pilot flying a Cessna 170 between Hobbs | | and Albuquerque, New Mexico encountered three round, gray UFOs that | | circled his aircraft just southeast of Corona, New Mexico and caused | | his compass to spin. Compass deviation. The pilot reported the | | incident and was later interrogated by the U.S. Air Force.(Sources: | | NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1965, p. 5; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA | | Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 23). | | | | 1959 - At 9:30 p.m. six woman travelling by car through a rural area | | near Freeport, Texas saw a bright UFO pass low in front of their car, | | causing the car's engine and headlights to die. The UFO landed in a | | wooded area. Dense underbrush prevented approaching landing site. | | (Sources: APRO Bulletin, September 1959; Richard Hall, The UFO | | Evidence (Volume I), p. 75; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A | | Century of Landings, case 277). | | | | Corning, California Close Encounter August 13, 1960 | | | | [image] | | | | 1960 - At 11:50 p.m. a red colored, cigar-shaped UFO in Tehama | | county, California twice approached a police car at close range. | | Police officers Scott and Carson were 18 miles north of Red Bluff and | | east of Corning, California on Hoag Road when they first encountered | | the UFO. It had red lights at both ends, and one of the red lights | | swept the ground like a searchlight. They experienced heavy static on | | their police radio, and the UFO swerved to avoid their spotlight. | | There were at least two other independent witnesses to the UFO that | | night. (Sources: San Francisco Chronicle, August 16, 1960; Gordon I. | | R. Lore, Jr. & Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs | | in Perspective, p. 162; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), | | p. 61; APRO Bulletin, September 1960, p. 1; Mark Rodeghier, UFOs | | Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 18; Hynek J Allen Hynek, | | The Hynek UFO Report, p. 92). | | | | 1963 - In St. Gallen, Switzerland at 8:04 p.m. A. F. Schelling | | watched a fireball become a dark object after four minutes of flight, | | and then a bigger glow a minute later, and finally explode. The same | | witness had another sighting (not described in the Project Blue Book | | file) on the next day.. (Source: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO | | Unknowns). | | | | 1963 - At 9:30 p.m. a family and their housekeeper saw an elliptical | | object on the ground near Molasses Pond, Ellsworth, Maine for almost | | an hour. The craft had body lights along its length, and there were | | rays that shone upward from each end occasionally. (Source: Walter | | Webb case files, case # 38;Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 141). | | | | 1963 - A chemist in Honolulu, Hawaii at 11:30 p.m. saw a round red | | object pass overhead from the southwest to the northeast. The UFO | | "traveled across the sky at great speed making two sharp turns at the | | same speed." (Source: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 141). | | | | 1965 - As he drove away after dropping off his two daughters Mr. | | Ryerson noticed two unusual "persons" walking along the side of the | | road next to a bean field. His two teenagers, Ellen Grace Ryerson, | | age 16, and Laura Jean Ryerson, 13, in Renton, Washington approached | | these two very unusual beings, while walking next to the bean field | | at seven o'clock in the morning. The little men were grey colored | | "like stone", had no hair, and had large bulging eyes. The first | | “person” was described as like a gnome and wrinkled. He wore a funny | | little hat. He was dancing and jumping around in front of the other | | being as they approached. He was making a cackling sound that the | | girls thought sounded like laughter. The other being was | | approximately 5 feet tall. He had a very unusual head. His face was | | gray but the back of his head had a bulbous extension with veins | | showing through it. It pulsated. On the rest of his cranium there | | were large pores and this part of his head was white. His eyes were | | described as like a frog’s eyes. In his mouth he had a little pipe, | | and he was blowing on it and making a shrill sound. The taller one | | wore shiny clothes, like satin. Both beings wore sleveless purple | | vests over white coveralls. Ellen feared that they were going to grab | | her, so she yelled at her sister to run. The girls fled, and when | | they looked back after running 50 feet the beings had completely | | vanished. (Sources: Jerome Clark, Flying Saucer Review, March-April | | 1966, p. 10; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of | | Humanoid Reports, case 1965-32 (A0643), citing Jerome Clark; Leneesa | | Garouttee, Alternate Perceptions (electronic version), February | | 2005). | | | | Renton, Washington Humanoid Encounter - 1965 | | | | [Image] | | | | 1965 - David G., age 14, and his father and sister were sitting in | | their yard at four o'clock in the afternoon in Waverly, Iowa when | | they heard a high-pitched whining sound and saw an aluminum object | | 15-20 feet in diameter, looking like “two saucers glued together,” | | descend slowly from the sky. It disappeared behind a hill a third of | | a mile away, and the young man walked over to the hill to | | investigate. When about 150 yards from the site, he saw a humanoid | | being 3.5 feet tall, with a baldhead, peeking out from behind a tree. | | He did not see the figure leave, but a minute or so later he saw a | | “blur” and heard a rush of air. At the landing site, in an old | | quarry, he found a 15-20 foot circle of burnt glass, within which | | were three indentations of 5” x 12” and an inch deep. The encounter | | lasted about a minute and occurred during a minor wave of reports | | from Iowa and elsewhere. (Sources: Ralph DeGraw, APRO Bulletin, | | January-February 1975, p. 9; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: | | Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1965-33 (A0644), citing Ralph | | DeGraw). | | | | Lynn, Massachusetts Landing August 13, 1965 | | | | [Image] | | | | 1965 - At 12:55 p.m. EDT two bakers saw a slow moving, red tinged | | white globe glide noiselessly over their bakery in Lynn, | | Massachusetts. The UFO then descended into an area of some electrical | | power line pylons, one mile away. (Source: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: | | Interplanetary Visitors, p. 333). | | | | 1967 - At about four o'clock in the afternoon Inacio De Souza, age | | 41, and his wife Maria were approaching their home at Santa Maria, | | Brazil near the town of Crixas Pilar de Goias, when they saw three | | figures "playing about" on the landing strip of the owner of the | | Fazenda. The beings were as tall as young children, had no hair and | | were wearing skin-tight clothing of a pale yellow color. At the end | | of the landing strip was a landed UFO having the shape of an inverted | | washbasin. De Souza, carrying a .44 caliber carbine, fired a shot at | | the nearest being. Just then a beam of green light came from the UFO | | and struck De Souza on the head and shoulders, knocking him | | unconscious. The three entities entered the object, which then took | | off vertically at a high speed with a sound like buzzing bees. De | | Souza incurred a circular burned patch six inches in diameter, and he | | was also diagnosed with leukemia by a physician, from which he died | | less than two months later. (Sources: APRO Bulletin, March-April | | 1969, p. 1; Coral E. Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 169; | | David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, | | case 1967-75, citing Dr. Olavo T. Fontes, Jader Pereira & F. Carrion; | | Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 223). | | | | 1970 - At 11:50 p.m. a car being driven by a man named Maarup in | | Haderslev, Denmark was engulfed by a bluish-white cone of light from | | a metallic gray disc. His car's engine, lights, and two-way radio | | died. The light was so brilliant it hurt his eyes and felt heat | | coming from the UFO. He took three photographs before the object made | | a rapid upward departure. (Sources: Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, | | p. 281; MUFON UFO Journal, September 1976). | | | | 1972 - At 1:00 a.m. in Yauco, Mayaguez Province, Puerto Rico 20 | | lights emerged from an oval-shaped cloud, and entered a closely | | similar cloud nearby. They failed to reappear. A photograph was taken | | of the phenomenon. (Sources: Stendek, March 1973; Awareness, October | | 1977, p. 13). | | | | 1972 - An officer reported that a cigar-shaped object was seen | | traveling in the sky at 3:00 p.m. near Gatwick Airport, England. It | | flew from the northeast to southwest with the rear end of the object | | enveloped in smoke. The smoke or mist eventually obscured the object. | | After 70 seconds the smoke cleared to reveal the object had vanished. | | (Source: Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, October 1972, p. 29). | | | | 1975 - Sgt. Charles L. Moody, age 32, was driving through the desert | | near Alamagordo, New Mexico at 1:20 a.m. when he encountered a | | metallic, disc-shaped UFO. He remembers a high-pitched sound coming | | from the object and that his car wouldn't start. He then experienced | | a lapse of time or memory loss of an hour and a half. He later was | | able to recall an abduction by two Grey aliens about 4 feet 8 inches | | tall, with large eyes and heads, slit mouths, and wearing | | tight-fitting coveralls. The abduction experience involved a medical | | exam on a table, telepathy, and a message. (Sources: Coral E. | | Lorenzen & Jim Lorenzen, Abducted! Confrontations with Beings from | | Outer Space, p. 38; David F. Webb, Proceedings of the CUFOS | | Conference: 1976, p. 267). | | | | 1977 - A 2.2 meter ovoid object landed in a field in Houetteville, | | Eure department, France at one o'clock in the morning. Ground traces | | werefound later during a large scale investigation. (Source: Lumieres | | dans la Nuit, May 1978). | | | | 1978 - Viewed thru binoculars. A silent metallic cylindrical object | | with a turbine wheel at the rear end was viewed through binoculars | | for two minutes over Villaverde del Rio, Sevilla province, Spain at | | 1:00 a.m. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1979). | | | | 1982 - At 9:30 p.m. cones maneuvered and joined a large cigar with a | | row of lights along the side, over the town of Abram in Greater | | Manchester, England. There were reported EM effects. There were many | | witnesses to this event, which lasted for 20 minutes. (Source: Jenny | | Randles, Science and the UFOs, p. 89). | | | | 1982 - At 10:45 a.m. a professional videographer filming the Tacoma | | Dome in Tacoma, Washington noticed something zip by very fast. The | | videotape shows a dark, domed disc (similar to the McMinnville 1950 | | photographs) moving fast, and it extends and contracts in flight. | | Bruce Maccabee analyzed the images. (Source: Donald A. Johnson, MUFON | | UFO Journal, December 1982, p. 3). | | | | 1986 - At 12:30 a.m. in Syracuse, Ohio an air traffic controller and | | two other witnesses observed red, green and white nocturnal | | lights flashing in the sky  for 45 minutes. The airport radar | | confirmed that there were numerous objects hovering and maneuvering | | in the vicinity. (Source: Bob Gribble, National UFO Reporting Center, | | Seattle, case # 1148). | | | | 1986 - At 7:50 p.m. in Indianapolis, Indiana a silent metallic | | hamburger-shaped domed disc was seen by three witnesses from the | | sixth floor of a hospital. It flew from north to south at a low | | altitude. Later, it flew above an airliner, seemingly evading | | detection by the occupants of the airliner. When it passed above the | | airliner, it tipped up on one edge and reflected sunlight. It had a | | pale green haze that was visible along one side. As a special note, a | | UFO abduction occurred near this location six weeks later on | | September 30, 1986. (Sources: Mark Rodeghier, International UFO | | Reporter, November 1986, p. 13; Francis L. Ridge, Regional | | Encounters, p. 97, citing John Timmerman). | | | | 1989 - An 84-year-old man in Mansura, Louisiana went into his | | backyard at 10:30 a.m. and saw a small yellow oval or disc-shaped | | object close by at ground level. He called a second, female witness, | | who watched from the back door of the house. The 3-foot wide object | | hovered and moved about at ground level for approximately five | | minutes, 30 feet away, circled a tree, then flew off vertically and | | was quickly gone from sight. It made no sound as it flew, and left | | some ground traces on the lawn. (Sources: Hal Price, MUFON Field | | Investigations Database, case 890806; Dan Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, | | December 1992). | | | | 1991 - At two a.m. in Maguayo, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico Mrs. Camacho | | encountered two four-foot-tall Grey entities in her garden. They had | | large skinny heads and narrow chins. They also apparently had no | | noses, no lips, and slit-like mouths. They took leaves from the plant | | Monsterosa deliciosa. They mumbled some form of unintelligible | | gibberish. The witness was unable to move during her encounter, which | | lasted about two minutes. (Source: Jorge Martin, in Timothy Good | | (editor), Alien Update, p. 23; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact | | Database 1991, case #659, citing Timothy Good & Jorge Martin). | | | | 1991 - Four men staying at a local guest house near Victoria, Entre | | Rios, Argentina were alerted to two maneuvering lights in the sky at | | 10 p.m. One was yellow and the other red, and they first moved up and | | down, then in a triangular pattern. One of the lights then descended | | onto the road near the guesthouse. Two dark human-like figures | | emerged from the landed object and appeared to float above the ground | | moving around back and forth. Although they were human-like, their | | heads were slightly larger than normal. Suddenly the light | | illuminating the object turned off, and a white bowl-shaped object | | could be discerned. A few of the witnesses were not able to see the | | figures completely, and only saw their arms and legs. Later that same | | evening a man reported that he had been abducted, and awakened in a | | nearby garden as a blue beam was being retracted into a departing | | UFO. (Sources: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1991, | | case # 1466, citing Roberto Banchs, Cuadernos De Ufologia, Volume 15, | | Number 2, 1993; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 312). | | | | 1992 - On this morning at around 9 a.m. a woman was sitting at her | | dining room table in Salem, Oregon facing the living room with the | | kitchen to her left, when she caught sight of something outside her | | kitchen window. It was a short hairless greenish-gray figure that | | walked quickly into her kitchen. It stopped and stood briefly by a | | kitchen storage cabinet. She attempted to communicate with the | | creature telepathically, but it suddenly vanished. The figure had an | | elongated head and what appeared to be large "eyelids" drawn over the | | eyes. Her dog did not seem to react to the intruder. Twenty minutes | | later when she sat down again at the dining room table a greenish | | three-fingered hand touched her wrist quickly from behind her. The | | touch was very painful, almost like an "electric shock", and then the | | alien hand vanished. Two days later the witness noticed a round red | | mark on her wrist. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact | | Database 1992, case # 1355, citing Linda Moulton Howe, Glimpses of | | Other Realities, Volume I). | | | | 1994 - From Charron Island in Montreal, Quebec, Canada a white | | disc-shaped object "moved in silence between 6,000 and 8,000 meters" | | altitude at 10:30 p.m. It was seen by two witnesses. (Source: Frank | | Ducks, 1994 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 90). | | | | 1994 - At 11:00 p.m. several witnesses including police in Salisbury, | | North Carolina watched nocturnal lights hover, orbit, and dance in | | the sky for two hours. A light in the distance was seen dropping red | | dots. They finally scattered in four directions. (Source: UFO | | Newsclipping Service, October 1994). | | | | 1995 - At 12:45 a.m. a starlike object zig-zagged eight times during | | its descent over Rennes, Ile-Vilaine department, France. It seemed to | | enlarge as in descended. A dark mass was perceived at low altitude, | | but was lost from view behind some trees. On the same night there was | | an occurrence of anomalous radar echoes in the Central European | | surveillance area. (Sources: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 334; | | Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 109). | | | | 1998 - Several people in Surrey, British Columbia observed a bright | | white disc "drop out of the sky" and hover nearby for about 30 | | seconds. No sound was heard, and it disappeared at a high rate of | | speed. Many telephone reports were received by the RCMP. (Source: | | Geoff Dittman, 1998 Canadian UFO Survey, case #71). | | | | 2000 - A saucer-shaped object was observed moving erratically around | | a cloud in Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada at 8:15 p.m. Central Time. | | (Source: Geoff Dittman, 2000 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 136). | | | | 2002 - At one a.m. two silvery luminous objects flew silently over a | | RV park in Waterville, Nova Scotia, Canada. At 2:15 a.m. at Cow Bay, | | Nova Scotia, Canada a huge triangular-shaped object blocked out stars | | as it flew very slowly at 15 km/hour towards the northwest. Its flat | | side was forward as it flew, and it was absolutely silent. Electrical | | disturbances were also reported. (Source: Geoff Dittman Geoff, 2002 | | Canadian UFO Survey, cases # 344 & 345, citing Don Ledger). | | | | 2003 - A black boomerang-shaped object passed low and fast over | | Napoleonville in southern Louisiana at 7:25 p.m. It made no sound as | | it flew. The sighting was brief, lasting about six seconds. (Source: | | Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2002 | | archived webpage). | | | | 2005 - The pilot of an Air France airliner reported sighting a UFO 10 | | miles west of Gatwick Airport, Sussex, England. The object was | | estimated to be 1-2 metres in length. It had a yellow color and was | | cylindrical in shape. It was definitely not shaped like a balloon. | | (Source: British Ministry of Defense, case 2005-071). | | | | 2006 - At 1:35 a.m. in Chatham, Ontario multiple disk-like objects | | were seen shooting beams of white light back and forth to one | | another. (Sources: Peter Davenport National UFO Reporting Center, | | Seattle, August 2006 archived webpage, report posted October 30, | | 2006; Geoff Dittman, 2006 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 504). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 2 July 2008). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: aircraft encounters, blue be | | am of light, blue UFO, compass deflection, dancing nocturnal lights, | | disc-shaped UFOs, death possibly caused by ray from UFO, EM vehicle i | | gnition interference effects, exploding UFO, green beam of light, fog | | or smoke used to hide UFO, ground traces, high pitched whining sound | | , landings, multi-year reports from near Gatwick Airport, Grey humano | | ids, orange light, radar visual confirmation, radio frequency interfe | | rence, red flame, sensation of heat, short humanoids, silent UFOs, sw | | ishing sound, tripod landing gear, vertical ascent, yellow coveralls. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+