+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  August 6 | | | | 1860 - Red objects with a green tint were seen flying in formation | | over Norfolk, Virginia, moving erratically with an "undulating | | motion, rising and subsiding." (Sources: Baltimore Sun, August 6, | | 1860; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. & Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of | | the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 71). | | | | 1947 - In Media, Pennsylvania at 6:00 p.m. an ex-U.S. Air Force pilot | | and two others saw a hovering saucer-shaped object. It shot away at | | an estimated 725 km/h, emitting a slight hiss and flames. Many | | observers in nearby Philadelphia, Pennsylvania sighted a "giant | | firecracker" in the sky at 10:30 p.m. flying at several hundred mph. | | The FBI inverviewed many of these witnesses. (Sources: (1) Richard H. | | Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume I, p. 33; (2) Bruce S, Maccabee, MUFON | | UFO Journal, December 1977, p. 10; NICAP UFO Investigator, February | | 1978, p. 4, citing FBI files). | | | | 1947 - In Robert Lee, Texas a disc maneuvered in the sky at 10:00 | | p.m, then flew away. It came back 15 minutes and maneuvered for | | another 30 minutes, changing its shape to the appearance of a cigar. | | (Source: Kenneth Arnold & Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. | |  137). | | | | 1952 - At 8:30 a.m. a dark circular object hovered for thirty minutes | | over the U.S. Haneda Air Force Base near Tokyo, Japan. It was tracked | | on radar as its blip hovered, then shot away at 300 knots, and in the | | process divided into three evenly spaced radar targets. (Source: | | Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 1827). | | | | 1952 - A U.S. Air Force radar installation in Port Austin, Michigan | | picked up several large flying objects that flew at speeds in excess | | of 1200 knots. The UFOs were in vicinity of Gore Bay, Ontario, | | Canada. (Sources: U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in | | official statistics, case # 1845; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion | | Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 277). | | | | 1952 - At around 9 p.m. an orange colored flying sphere struck the | | chimney of a house in West Lumberton, North Carolina, breaking it, | | and fell into the back yard. The object was eight feet long and stood | | six feet high. A little man only 30 inches tall was standing beside | | it. When the witness, Mr. J. Allen, asked him if he was hurt, he and | | the craft vanished with a loud noise. (Sources: Lumberton (NC) | | Robesonian, August 7, 1952; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: | | Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0196, citing Lumberton | | Robesonian). | | | | 1953 - At Barbers Point Naval Air Station near Pearl Harbor, Hawaii | | 75 radar blips on screen at various times around five p.m., hovering | | and maneuvering. Nocturnal lights and ovoid shaped objects were | | sighted, and possibly a figure was seen inside one of them. (Source: | | Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 63). | | | | 1954 - In Santa Fe, New Mexico a brilliant white ball of light left a | | luminous trail as it flew over. There was TV and aircraft radio | | interference reported, but an amateur radio was not effected. | | (Source: Harold T. Wilkins,  Flying Saucers Uncensored, pp. 226, | | 237). | | | | 1954 - Starting at 10 p.m. a DC-3 flying over the ocean at Baranagua | | Bay, Parana State, Brazil was continuously buzzed by an orange | | fireball for two hours. It would turn blue on acceleration. Jets were | | scrambled and gave chase, where upon it shot off to the southeast. | | (Source: UNICAT, case # 559, citing Olavo T. Fontes). | | | | 1955 - A UFO witness watched an extremely brightly lit UFO over | | Cincinnati, Ohio for less than 10 seconds. He later suffered from | | red, irritated eyes. (Sources: CRIFO Orbit, September 1955, p. 2, | | Leonard Stringfield, Situation Red: The UFO Siege, p. 148; T. Scott | | Crain, Jr., Flying Saucers magazine, June-July 1971, p. 7, Otto | | Binder, What We Really Know About Flying Saucers, p. 85). | | | | 1961 - In Meekatharra, Western Australia beginning at 3:30 a.m. 12 | | white metallic disc-shaped objects flew over the countryside in pairs | | for six hours. They left an angel hair residue, a snowy-white mesh | | like material. (Sources: APRO Bulletin, 19620101; Thomas M. Olsen, | | The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case # 123; Richard F. | | Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 41). | | | | 1963 - In Caracas, Venezuela a huge brilliant disc hovered and | | maneuvered by a TV station and tower at 10:00 a.m.; it then shot away | | extremely fast. (Source: APRO Bulletin, March-April 1964, p. 3). | | | | 1963 - On this evening in Sanford, Florida UFO investigator Orville | | Hartle saw a UFO with 13 other witnesses. The object appeared in the | | northeastern sky first as a red, then a white moving light. The UFO | | engaged in gyrations, pulsated, moved up-and-down, back-and-forth, | | and once emitted a flare of green-white light. The sighting lasted | | several minutes. (Sources: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume | | I, p. 141; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers magazine, | | September-October 1970, pp. 6-7). | | | | 1965 - At 2:00 a.m. a UFO landed in the San Bernardino area of | | Caracas, Venezuela. It created a "scorched area 10 meters wide" in a | | cornfield. Three beings emerged from the craft, but when a farmer | | approached they "whipped back into it" and took off at once. (Source: | | Gordon Creighton, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 41, | | citing the London Evening News). | | | | 1965 - (1) Shortly after 11:00 p.m. cows in a pasture in Ambleside, | | Cumbria, England panicked when a fiery red cigar-shaped object with | | illuminated windows flew over, making a groaning noise. (2) That same | | evening at 10 p.m. EDT a maneuvering disc-shaped object caused an | | animal reaction in West Homestead, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. | | (Sources: (1) Gordon Creighton, FSR, November 1970, p. 28; (2) Center | | for UFO Studies case files, report dated August 11, 1976). | | | | 1966 - At 2:20 a.m. in rural Bellingham, Massachusetts a couple heard | | a hissing sound for several minutes. One got out of bed, looked out, | | and saw a multicolored disc-shaped object hovering at 500 feet, then | | depart at high speed. The 35-year-old female witness reportedly heard | | a "hum", then the object "came from behind the barn", hovered over a | | tree near their home, and finally shot off to the northeast. (Source: | | Morton Schafer, MUFON field investigation files, case # 881202). | | | | 1966 - At 2:00 p.m. a man and his family near Kelly Air Force Base in | | Cameron County, Texas observed a dark object hovering near their | | isolated house. It had a square "door" emitting a yellow light. Three | | children saw a dwarf through the opening. He was dressed in shiny | | black coveralls. The object left slowly with a soft humming sound. | | (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, | | case 786; Jacques Vallee, Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact, p. | | 66). | | | | 1967 - Again in the San Bernardino area of Caracas, Venezuela (see | | report above from 1965), at 2:00 a.m. Pedro Riera was awakened by | | someone shaking his bed. When he focused his eyes he saw in front of | | him a small humanoid being with a disproportionately large head, | | wearing a "rubber suit." He jumped out of bed and grabbed the little | | man, but the dwarf wriggled free and went out the second floor | | window. Riera looked out and saw a round, multicolored, luminous | | object so brilliant that he had to close his eyes. In the morning he | | found deposits of a rust-like substance, and small footprints in this | | "rust" on the pavement below his balcony. Several neighbors had also | | observed the UFO. (Sources: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: | | Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1967-72, citing Jose Schael | | Guillermo; APRO Bulletin, September-October 1967, p. 13). | | | | 1967 - Antonio Neri Perez and several other people in Hidalgo, Mexico | | saw three glowing, red discs take off from a field near his house. | | (Sources: Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs Over the Americas, p. 65; | | Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case | | 865). | | | | 1967 - On this afternoon at 3:30 p.m. in Wyoming Flats, Luzerne | | County, Pennsylvania six men reporting witnessing a shiny, metallic | | disc only three feet in diameter. It made a buzzing sound and | | descended from above some power lines, and landed giving off a red | | glow. It shot back up into the sky after a short while, flying east. | | A five-foot wide circular burned area was found, but a local farmer | | said he had burned some brush there. (Source: NICAP case files, | | citing a newspaper clipping dated August 9, 1967). | | | | 1967 - Again in Mexico at 8:10 p.m. control tower operators at Mexico | | City's international airport, and thousands of other ground | | witnesses, watched 10 yellow-red-orange objects change formation, | | then pass over the airport. (Source: Richard H. Hall) | | | | 1968 - At 9:30 p.m. four young men were outside near St. Gertrude, | | Quebec, Canada when they heard their dog barking furiously. They | | heard a creaking sound and saw a four foot tall luminous figure jump | | out of a hedge nearby. The figure had large shoulders and long arms | | that hung down. It vanished quickly in plain sight in front of the | | witnesses. (Sources: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue | | of Humanoid Reports, case A2094, citing Wido Hoville; John Brent | | Musgrave, UFO Occupants & Critters). | | | | 1972 - Two teenaged sisters at home at 10:00 p.m. in Christies Beach, | | South Australia heard a beep-beep noise, then saw a group of 3 or 4 | | white lights lighting up the ground in an empty lot next door. The | | lights flew off to the east. (Source: Keith Basterfield, UFO Research | | South Australia, case # SA72033). | | | | 1972 - At 8:45 p.m. in Liverpool, England an iridescent object hung | | stationary in the sky for three minutes. It then veered rapidly to | | the west, and hovered again for another two minutes. It left | | a contrail when it moved, and red flames shot from the rear end of | | the object. If finally flew away at 11:03 p.m. towards the west. | | (Source: Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, October 1972, p. 29). | | | | 1972 - On this night in a heavily wooded area near Beaver Lake, | | Alberta, Canada a man felt compelled to go to a campsite where he was | | convinced he would see a UFO. The main witness and two other men who | | accompanied him waited at the site for several hours before they saw | | a light travel across the lake and descend behind some nearby trees. | | Shortly later they heard heavy footsteps of someone approaching | | through the trees. Frightened, they ran to their car and began to | | drive away when a giant creature resembling an octopus with large | | tentacles appeared, apparently trying to grab them. The three men got | | out of the car and struggled with the creature, but soon got back | | into the car and drove away, stopping at a field outside the forest. | | They then went back, but the creature had disappeared by then. | | (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 181, | | citing John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants and Critters, p. 14). | | | | 1974 - In Basella, Lerida, Spain a man and a woman watched a | | low-flying disc-shaped object, only 1.5 meters in diameter, follow | | the local river road at 6:40 p.m. It had running lights, and made a | | sound like an electric motor. (Source: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, | | Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, p. 52 (case | | 197)). | | | | 1975 - In Maubege, Nord, France a white sphere with portholes was | | seen by three independent witnesses at 9:10 p.m. It may have landed, | | leaving behind possible landing traces on the ground. It flew off to | | the south. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, December 1975). | | | | 1976 - At around ten o'clock in the morning Freddy Chiasson, age 52, | | his wife Claire, and their two sons Morris and Rony were driving | | across Gaspesian Park, Quebec, Canada in a thick fog, heading toward | | Matane. Suddenly, a beam of red light coming from the sky struck the | | road ahead of their car. Despite the thick fog, this beam had very | | sharp edges, and formed a circle 6 inches in diameter where it struck | | the road. It paced their car for several miles, always staying the | | same distance ahead, then broke up into several “sections” which shut | | up into one another, like a collapsible telescope, and rose back | | upwards in a coherent light fashion. They then saw a dazzling white | | light to their left, which the witness estimated to be a half mile | | away. This light approached them and stopped over the road some | | distance ahead of them. Mr. Chiasson stopped the car. They then felt | | a very strong sensation of heat, and the car’s headlights and radio | | went out. Next the car's motor died, and it could not be re-started. | | They could smell a peculiar “acid” odor that irritated their nasal | | passages.  | | | | They got out of their car and walked through the fog toward the | | fuzzy, intense light ahead. When they reached it, they found that it | | came from an oval, scallop shell-like object that was wider than the | | road and resting on legs. It was about 40 feet wide, 15 feet high, | | and made of a dull metal with four square circumferential windows | | three feet wide, out of which light was pouring. They could hear a | | dull sound, like wood rubbing on wood at regular intervals. Mrs. | | Chiasson approached the windows and let out a scream when she | | confronted a large face in the window with big round eyes. The sight | | made Mr. Chiasson feel like vomiting. All four family members ran | | back to their car, which still could not be started. After a few | | minutes the two youths again walked through the thinning fog toward | | the object, followed by their father. When they had got to within ten | | paces they could see that the light inside had gone out. Two beams | | of blue-green light appeared, coming from behind the UFO toward the | | witnesses. Mr. Chiasson felt sick, his eyes watered, and he vomited. | | Then the light rays went out, and they saw two beings standing or | | floating beside the object. They were about seven feet tall, bald, | | and looked very ugly to the witnesses because their appearance filled | | them with feelings of terror. They wore brown khaki uniforms, like a | | police officer's but closer fitting, and were holding tubes about a | | yard long. The beings were stocky with wide shoulders, which were | | “too high” and round bodies. Their square-chinned, straw yellow faces | | had big, round eyes without eyelids and thick red lips. Neither Mr. | | Chiasson nor his sons saw noses or ears, and they may not have had | | any. They stood still, but turned their heads as if examining the | | witnesses. After this confrontation which seemed to last for minutes, | | the three male witnesses fled back to the car, where Mr. Chiasson | | vomited again. After this there was a burst of light in front of them | | followed by another wave of unbearable heat that made them all crouch | | down in the car. This intensified for a short while, and then | | gradually passed. When they got up they could see that there was | | nothing ahead of them, and the fog had practically dissipated. The | | car could be started at this point. At the place where the UFO had | | been there was a slight luminous vapor. For about ten hours | | afterwards, all four of the Chiassons suffered from intense itching. | | (Sources: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid | | Reports, case 1976-92 (A1634), citing Jean Ferguson, Les Humanoides, | | p. 224). | | | | 1978 - Antonis Coulouris was driving his truck on a country road | | between Agia Marva and Lefkohori, Greece at night when he suddenly | | saw several "giant humanoids" caught by the truck's headlights. | | Terrified, he put the truck in reverse to get away and drove about 60 | | meters until the engine stopped functioning. The lights went out and | | it felt like something was shakinghis truck. For 15 seconds he tried | | to turn on the engine with no success, but after that the shaking | | stopped and the engine again functioned normally. (Source: Albert S. | | Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing Makis Nodaros). | | | | 1978 - Several reports were received by the police from the public in | | Billinghurst, England of a UFO in the sky, so a police cruiser was | | dispatched. On arrival at 9:35 p.m. Officer Page saw a triangular UFO | | hovering motionless in sky as clouds passed by. After a short while | | it flew away toward the west. (Source: Gary Heseltine, UFO Magazine, | | July 2003, p. 8). | | | | 1987 - Late in the evening, on the road between Barcis and Cimolais, | | Italy a car with three occupants encountered a red beam of energy and | | the car's engine stalled. What happened next was even more | | inexplicable, because the car with the three witnesses aboard seemed | | to have been instantaneously transported several miles to San | | Daniele. (Source: Jenny Randles, From Out of the Blue, p. 95). | | | | 1990 - An object like a shiny dime shot straight up in the air in | | Evansville, Indiana at 1:40 p.m. (Source: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer | | Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case #  961, citing Francis L. | | Ridge, MUFON Indiana). | | | | 1993 - Ed Walters took three photos of a silver tank or disc-shaped | | object moving low over the ocean in Pensacola, Florida. The object | | suddenly lurched forward, leaping several hundred feet into the air. | | A black spot could be seen making erratic movements, and a thumping | | noise was heard. (Source: Ed Walters, UFOs are Real: Here's the | | Proof, p. 33). | | | | 1995 - A motorist had a close encounter with a UFO in Michigan | | involving physiological effects when at 10:30 p.m. a huge disc-shaped | | object hovered over the road 15 miles southeast of Kalamazoo. The | | witness felt pain after the event, and the close encounter left him | | with marks on his skin. The incident reportedly lasted five minutes, | | but it is not known for certain if any missing time was involved. | | (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17352; Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center). | | | | 2001 - Two stationary cone-shaped objects were observed over Berwick, | | Northumbria, England at 3:08 a.m. One was below the other, and they | | were extremely bright. (Source: British Ministry of Defense, 2001 | | reports, case 141). | | | | 2002 - A circular or disc-shaped craft was seen on Montour Ridge, | | Northumberland, Pennsylvania at 5:30 in the morning by a farmer and | | also three fisherman on the Susquehanna River. It was above the | | powerlines on top of the mountain; it was round and very still over | | the lines. Suddenly, it shot away and was gone. (Source: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2002 archived | | webpage). | | | | 2003 - Photographs were taken of a stationary saucer or cigar-shaped | | object seen over North Bay, Ontario, Canada at 12:32 a.m. It made a | | humming sound, became "wavy" and disappeared. There were three | | witnesses and the incident lasted from five to six minutes. (Source: | | Geoff Dittman, Canadian UFO Survey 2003, case # 383). | | | | 2004 - Round object was seen changing shape and speed over Brampton, | | Ontario, Canada at 10:20 p.m. It made an S turn, then rapidly | | accelerated out of sight. (Source: Geoff Dittman, Canadian UFO Survey | | 2004, case # 551). | | | | 2005 - At 1:30 p.m. a spherical object was sighted 100 feet over the | | ocean from a boat off Newport Beach, California. The came closer to | | the boat stopped and hovered for 10 minutes, then reversed and went | | back in the same direction and at the same speed it had come, and | | disappeared from sight. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO | | Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2005 archived webpage, report | | uploaded September 2, 2005). | | | | 2006 - A man was driving in a remote area of Tapiola, Michigan at | | 11:30 p.m. when a square metallic craft overtook and hovered above | | his vehicle. The witness sped up to 80 mph but his car kept slowing | | down. He came to a sharp curve and the craft was still over him, so | | he tried to drive faster after taking the turn, but the car continued | | to slow down until it finally came to a complete halt. He and his dog | | got out of the vehicle and ran into some bushes to hide. He next saw | | many lights shining through the brush that were maybe a thousand | | yards distant, and there were about 50 “figures” moving about among | | the lights. There was a "cocoon"-shaped object about 12 feet long, | | and there were body lights on this object. The activity reminded him | | of an ant colony. Apparently the creatures noticed him, because he | | saw three creatures coming toward him into the brush. These were | | somewhat human-like with normal sized heads, but had very long legs | | and very long arms and large torsos. He did not see the eyes, for | | they were back lit by the light coming from behind them. The man and | | his dog ran further from the area and hid again. The beings appeared | | to search for him but gave up. From his new location he saw two more | | cocoon-like crafts, with numerous creatures moving around them. | | (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2006, citing | | National UFO Reporting Center). | | | | 2007 - Fifteen to twenty cigar-shaped objects with red and blue | | lights were sighted over Texarkana, Arkansas at 10:20 p.m. There were | | also numerous bright white lights appearing and disappearing. A | | second independent report was filed at 10:45 p.m. from ten miles | | south of the city, reporting inexplicable bright lights and moving | | objects. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | Seattle, August 2007 archived webpage, reports uploaded August 7 & | | 14, 2007). | | | | 2008 - In Val-des-Monts, Outaouais County, Quebec, Canada at 10:15 | | p.m. an object was sighted that first traveled in a straight line | | with no flashing lights, and then became very bright, next "jumped" | | up and came down, repeating this up and down motion for 45 seconds, | | and finally just faded away. (Source:Peter Davenport, National UFO | | Reporting Center, report uploaded August 12, 2008). | | | | 2009 - At 10:22 p.m. an extended family of 19 saw three orange-red | | lights flying in a triangle formation over Litchfield, South | | Carolina. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | report uploaded August 27, 2009). | | | | 2013 - A West Coast man was “freaked out” after coming face to face | | with a UFO that was parked on the road outside the entrance to | | Shantytown. Matthew Robert, a mechanic from Rutherglen, New Zealand | | reported that at 8:45 p.m. he and three other cars were confronted by | | a night-time visitor on Rutherglen Road, south of Greymouth. | | | | When the car-shaped object suddenly lifted into the sky in a blinding | | light, he and the other drivers left in such a hurry they left skid | | marks on the road. "I was changing a CD as I was driving and when I | | looked up, I saw what looked like a car without its lights on, | | stopped in the middle of the road outside Shantytown. I slammed on my | | brakes and my eyes were still trying to focus, when suddenly the | | thing just lit up and shot into the sky," Mr. Robert said. "When I | | came to my senses I noticed that there were three other cars that had | | stopped on the other side of the road as well. It's weird that no one | | else has come forward because those people obviously would have seen | | the same thing I did." He reports that immediately following the | | incident he lost all cellphone reception, his vision was blurry, and | | his eyes were watery for about an hour afterwards. | | | | Mr. Robert was driving into Greymouth at the time to pick up his | | partner, Charlotte Rose, from work at the hospital. He arrived there | | wide-eyed and agitated. Ms. Rose said he was visibly shaken. "I just | | looked at him and I could tell something bad had happened, he was | | freaked out and his eyes were watery," Ms Rose said. Mr. Robert hoped | | the witnesses from the other cars would also come forward and confirm | | what he saw. One vehicle was a Mitsubishi Chariot, and another a | | Honda Accord. He did not have a description of the third vehicle. "I | | know people are going to think that it's crazy, but I know what I | | saw." (Source: Nikki-Leigh Wilson, Greymouth Star, New Zealand, | | August 7, 2013). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 8 August 2013). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: angel hair residue; animal re | | actions: cows panicking, dog barking; black uniform; giant humanoids; | | humming sound; multi-year reports from Quebec, Pennsylvania and Vene | | zuela; paralysis; physiological effects: blurry eyes, conjunctivitis, | | nausea and vomiting, pain, skin marks; radar visual confirmations, r | | ed UFOs, sensation of heat, shape changing UFOs, short humanoids, sho | | rt luminous humanoids, short humanoids with long arms, small disc-sha | | ped UFOs; spheres; tentacled creature; triangular UFOs; up-and-down m | | otion; vehicle EM ignition system and cellphone interference effects. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+