+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  July 4 | | | | 1947 - There are 73 UFO reports from across the United States and one | | report from Canada recorded for this day in UFOCAT. The majority of | | the reports fall in a swath from the Pacific Northwest down through | | the Mississippi River Valley. Most of these sightings were of | | flyovers by daylight discs, although there was one humanoid report | | from Fort Worth, Texas. | | | | 1947 - The retrieval of UFO wreckage and bodies allegedly occurred on | | this day from a crash site near Corona, New Mexico. The bodies were | | taken later to Roswell AFB, New Mexico and then flown to Carswell AFB | | in Texas. According to the relatives of witnesses who shared details | | about the alien humanoid bodies, they had baldheads, small sunken | | eyes, small noses, no ears, long forearms, and only four long slender | | fingers on each hand. (Source: Patrick Huyghe, Field Guide to | | Extraterrestrials: A complete overview of alien life forms based on | | actual accounts and sightings, p. 22). | | | | 1947 - At noon while flying between Tonopah and Austin, Nevada and | | cruising at an estimated 10,000 feet altitude, Mr. Harris and his | | passenger sighted five circular objects flying below his airplane. | | They were shiny and reflected sunlight. He tried to catch up to them | | but could not. (Source: Nevada Daily Free Press, July 7, 1947). | | | | 1947 - A young woman driving in the afternoon on the outskirts of | | Fort Worth, Texas saw a 25-foot diameter flying disc. She got out of | | her car and waved. The object tipped and the human-appearing | | occupants waved back to her, and then the disc flew away in silence. | | (Source: Brinsley Le Poer Trench, Mysterious Visitors, p. 91). | | | | 1947 - At 1:05 p.m. a police officer at police headquarters in | | Portland, Oregon saw five flying discs, two going south, three flying | | to the east at high speed. They were oscillating around a central | | vertical axis. Minutes later two police, both pilots, saw three more | | discs trailing one another. Then four patrolmen reported seeing 3-6 | | "chrome hubcaps" flying over the city. At about the same time a | | highway patrolman in Milwaukee, Oregon watched two or three shiny | | white saucers fly quickly toward the northwest. (Sources: Thomas | | Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, p. 2; | | Oregon Journal, July 5, 1947). | | | | 1947 - Also that day four silent discs passed the summit of Mount | | Jefferson in Oregon flying at a high rate of speed. In Troutdale, | | Oregon a V-shaped object flew toward the northeast over the Columbia | | River. It made dipping motions during its flight, and was observed | | through binoculars by three men. In Vancouver, Washington 20-30 round | | objects flew toward the west and south in straight-line formations. A | | low humming sound was heard. North of Craig, Montana a string of | | twelve plate-shaped objects flew over a couple while they were out | | fishing on a bridge at 3:00 p.m. (Sources: Project Blue Book files | | counted in official statistics; The Oregonian, July 5 & 6, 1947; | | International UFO Reporter, Winter 1998; Wyoming State Tribune, July | | 6, 1947). | | | | 1947 - At 5:30 p.m. at the residential area of Greenwood Lake in | | north Seattle, Washington Mr. Larson sighted a round white object | | descend vertically, then make a ninety-degree turn and proceed | | horizontally flying toward the south. Two more people at the nearby | | University of Washington campus also saw the UFO, as did 21 more in | | the Lake City area of the city. One of the witnesses in the Lake City | | area took a photograph. (Source: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A | | preliminary report on the 1947 UFO sighting wave, p. 82; Ted | | Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, p. 257; Seattle | | Post-Intelligencer, July 8, 1947). | | | | 1947 - At 11:00 p.m. an orange ball of light, "as big around as a | | barrel," which resolved itself into a disc, frightened Ms. M. Voigt | | of Edgerton, Wisconsin. The UFO flew fast across the sky but was back | | again for ten minutes, when it then suddenly vanished. (Source: | | Madison Capital-Times, July 7, 1947). | | | | 1957 - A disc with brightly illuminated windows followed a REAL | | airliner flying between Campos and Victoria, Brazil. (Source: NICAP | | UFO Investigator, September 1957, p. 11) | | | | 1959 - The crew of a USAF RB-66 aircraft sighted a group of 16 cream | | colored oval-shaped objects flying at 36,000 feet altitude over the | | China Sea. (Source: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. | | 31). | | | | 1969 - Ossipee, New Hampshire - The principal witness was fishing in a | | boat at about 7:00 in the morning when he heard a big splash behind | | him. He swung around and looked up to see a silver oval shaped object | | about 30 feet in diameter, 300 feet above him. The UFO made a humming | | sound as it rose to about 3000 feet and hovered. There was a second | | witness to the UFO. (Source: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs Interplanetary Visitors, | | pg. 356). | | | | 1969 - At eight o'clock in the evening Mauricio Gnecco saw a | | yellowish red light moving in the sky over Anolaima, Colombia. When | | he signaled to it with a flashlight it approached to within 150 feet | | of his house. It was a Saturn-shaped UFO, yellow-orange in color, and | | had two bent, blue and green legs. It appeared to land on a nearby | | hill. Arcesio Bermudez, an adult, went to the landing site and | | approached to within 20 feet of the craft. He saw a being inside the | | object whose upper body looked normal, but whose lower half--from the | | waist down--resembled a luminous letter "A". The object then "blinked | | on," rose and disappeared. Two days later Sr. Bermudez became very | | ill, and within a few days he died of gastroenteritis. (Source: David | | F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case | | 1969-41, citing John Simhon for APRO). | | | | 1969 - The witness and her father had gone to a local racetrack in | | Eau Claire, Wisconsin and at around 10:30 p.m. she was sitting by | | herself on the top bleachers when she had a feeling she was being | | watched. She looked to her right and saw a UFO hovering about 1,000 | | feet away. She described it as an oval-shaped craft, with a | | transparent rectangular section in the center. She saw inside this | | transparent part the silhouettes of several men staring at her. At | | one point she briefly looked away, and when she looked back the | | object had disappeared. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact | | Database 1969, case # 3174, citing Minnesota MUFON). | | | | 1970 - Sequoyah Trueblood was sitting by his pool at his townhouse in | | Laurel, Maryland, watching his children swimming with his wife | | sitting next to him. Without knowing why, he felt compelled to leave. | | He got up, went into the house, changed his clothes, packed a small | | bag, drove to the airport and took a plane to Oklahoma City. A friend | | then drove him to Norman, Oklahoma. He felt strange and wanted to lie | | down, so went to lie down in his friend's bedroom. He was lying down | | relaxing when he saw a vortex of swirling lights "like a rainbow" | | into which he was sucked. Mr. Trueblood then found himself standing | | in a beautiful garden surrounded by hedges. He felt wide awake. In | | front of him he saw a silvery saucer-shaped craft and a shimmering | | small silver being standing on steps that came down from the bottom | | of the craft. The being had a grayish complexion and had a large | | baldhead with large eyes. The witness sensed that the being was | | "androgynous," neither male nor female. The being communicated | | telepathically and told him that he had been sent to take him because | | "they" wanted to talk to him. He agreed to go and walked up the | | steps. Once inside the craft he heard no sound, but through a small | | window he could see the moon, the sun, and "millions of stars" go by | | in an instant. Soon the craft was hovering over a beautiful white | | city in what he believed was another planet or universe. He next | | found himself down on the ground. The people in the city appeared to | | be both male and female, wore white robes, and were fair skinned with | | "hair that was glowing like the color of sunlight." The small being | | then took him down a street lined with beautiful white buildings | | three stories tall to a clearing in the woods that seemed like a | | park. There were a number of people there, and a male said to him | | that if he would "pay attention." The people told him that they did | | not need food, for the air they breathed was converted into what was | | needed to sustain life. A leader figure told him that he had been | | brought here to show him the potential of the human race. Soon he | | asked to be returned, and was taken back into the craft, through the | | vortex, and found himself back in bed. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, | | Humanoid Contact Database 1970, citing John E Mack, M.D, Passport to | | the Cosmos). | | | | 1975 - At five minutes after midnight a 70-foot diameter domed disc | | was seen near Mountain Lakes, New Jersey sweeping the ground with a | | bright beam of light near highway 46. It then flew off toward the | | northeast. There was radio interference noted at the time. (Source: | | Skylook, September 1975, p. 3). | | | | 1975 - Nine teenagers were at a campground in Kentucky on this night. | | Debbie and Nan Kitley, ages 16 and 17, had gone back out to their | | pickup truck to talk on the CB radio. The lights on the truck and the | | CB radio went dead when four bright lights descended over them. They | | both had a memory lapse about what happened next. (Source: Thomas E. | | Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery. Volume 2: | | Catalogue of Cases, case 195, citing 1984 MUFON UFO Proceedings, p. | | 168). | | | | 1976 - On this morning in Mawman, England a young girl and her sister | | saw a man perched in a tree nearby who had legs "bent backwards like | | a bird." It had red glowing eyes and a gray body. It saw them and | | rose straight up through the trees. (Source: David F. Webb and Ted | | Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of humanoid reports, case A1642). | | | | 1976 - At 12:45 p.m. a huge disc-shaped object hovered for a long | | time over Bilbao, Spain. It flew back over the city and surrounding | | area several times, then made a ninety-degree turn and flew off | | toward the south. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case | | 11764). | | | | 1978 - At 3:15 p.m. in Santa Paula, California a small domed | | disc-shaped object, about 3-4 feet in diameter with rotating parts on | | top, made a head-on pass at two witnesses in an airplane. (Source: | | International UFO Reporter, August 1978, p. 4). | | | | 1978 - At 11:30 p.m. at Mount Etna, Italy three red objects, one a | | domed disc ten meters in diameter, landed behind a mountain. Five or | | six "Nordic" looking beings with long blond hair emerged from the | | craft, wearing uniforms that looked like diving suits. The four | | witnesses were paralyzed and could not move during the event. | | (Source: International UFO Reporter, August 1978, p. 2). | | | | 1981 - At 9:20 p.m. a star-like object flew in a sine-wave pattern | | across in sky in Shazhou County, China. Fire lookouts at the Sopelia | | Tower station on the Yakima Indian Reservation in Washington State | | reported seeing mysterious balls of light at 10:15 p.m. (Sources: | | Wendelle Stevens & Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, p. 223; Greg | | Long, Examining the Earthlight Theory: The Yakima UFO Microcosm, p. | | 134). | | | | 1987 - On this Fourth of July holiday two adult women in Pensacola, | | Florida were outside in the evening setting off sparklers when they | | spotted a light in the sky. It first appeared to be flying south but | | it then turned in their direction and approached, coming to within 30 | | feet of them. Both ran into their house screaming. (Source: Rex | | Salisberry, MUFON case investigation files, case 890704). | | | | 1989 - An abduction attempt took place on this evening in a park near | | Kiev, Ukraine on the banks of the Dnieper River. Two women, Vera | | Prokofiyevna, a retired factory employee, and her friend Alexandra | | Stepanovna, an engineer, together with Alexandra's six-year-old | | daughter, were out strolling in the park. At twilight they approached | | the river and suddenly saw what they took to be a boat with three | | beings on board. The beings looked very pale and had identical faces, | | like identical twins. The had long blond hair, big eyes, and were | | wearing collarless silver shirts that looked like nightgowns. They | | bluntly told the women they were from another planet, so far away | | that your minds "cannot fathom it." They went on to say that everyday | | they take a person from Earth to their world. "We will take you. Our | | ship is nearby; we will show it to you." They spoke Russian with a | | strange accent that Prokofiyevna described as "ancient" rather than | | foreign. They then surrounded the three, preventing them from | | leaving. The women started begging them not to take them because they | | had children and families. | | | | Behind some trees they saw the craft. It was silvery colored like | | their clothing and looked like a huge barrel with a circular antenna | | on top of it. The little girl began crying and the women reacted to | | this with deep anguish. They were then told, "well, we won't take | | you, we will find others." They went inside the craft by using a | | ladder with three steps. The ladder withdrew inside, the door | | automatically closed once the beings were aboard, and the craft took | | off without making any noise or causing any disturbance of the air or | | the sand beneath it. Soon it was high in the sky and looked like a | | small star. (Source: Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet | | Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, pp. 37-39, citing investigation by Dr. | | Alexander F. Pugach). | | | | 1994 - At midnight at homes in Caille, France television sets and | | electric lights flickered and went out when a metallic, | | parasol-shaped UFO flew twisting maneuvers through the night sky. | | (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 327). | | | | 1998 - At 10:23 a.m. an object in the sky over Waikiki, Hawaii made | | erratic maneuvers in the sky, moving in circles with up-and-down | | motions. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | July 1998 web page). | | | | 2000 - Several reports were received between 10:00 p.m. and 11:30 | | p.m. from various locales in King and Pierce Counties, Washington | | State reporting the sighting of at least one red UFO hovering above | | the clouds, for an average of ten to fifteen minutes at a time. | | (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, July 2000 | | web page). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 28 July 2004). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: abductions an | | d abduction attempts; communication; death of human being apparently | | caused by close encounter with a UFO; disc-shaped UFOs; domed discs; | | EM radio frequency interference; flying humanoid; human-looking UFO o | | ccupants, especially blond "Nordic" UFO occupants; humming sounds; in | | side UFO occupants; missing time; oscillating or dipping motions whil | | e in flight; orange UFOs; otherworldly journey; Saturn-shaped UFOs; U | | FOs in vicinity of water; UFO responding to light signal; V-shaped or | | boomerang-shaped UFOs; sine-wave, up-and-down, and zigzag maneuvers. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+