+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  January 3 | | | | 1948 - A disc-shaped object shot across the sky from west to east in | | 30 seconds over the coast of Vaasa, Finland. (Source: Project Blue | | Book files, case 99; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1289; | | Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1948, p. 1). | | | | 1953 - At one o'clock in the afternoon a metallic dome shaped UFO | | maneuvered five feet above a hayfield in Santana dos Montes, Minas | | Gerais State, Brazil. Two 5.1 foot tall men jumped out. They had a | | shining ball on each of their square-toed shoes. There was a third | | occupant visible in the hatchway of the craft. One of the men had a | | cylinder that it pushed into ground, and withdrew. They then got back | | into the craft and it flew away. The witness, Sr. M. Ramos Bessa, had | | a severe headache after his close encounter. (Source: Coral & Jim | | Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 143). | | | | 1955 - At 7:25 a.m. two people in a car in Melbourne, Victoria, | | Australia saw a flying object approach to within 70 meters of them | | after their vehicle was stalled. On that same day in Vienna, Austria | | six silver discs flew overhead, leaving a trail of red vapor. Some | | citizens were panicked. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia, p. 248; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4260; Mark | | Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 30, | | citing Vallee). | | | | 1958 - At 4 o'clock in the afternoon a nuclear physics college | | student, Mr. Delacy, shot 90 seconds of 8 mm movie film of nine | | silver globes over Diamond Head on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. | | (Source: Project Blue Book files; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book | | Unknowns). | | | | 1959 - At 1:30 p.m. a six-foot long shining cigar-shaped object flew | | over Adelaide, South Australia. It gave off a red glow. It was | | followed shortly by a six-foot square object, spinning and shining | | brightly in the daytime sky. At 8:00 p.m. another cigar-shaped UFO | | hovered over Dover, Ohio at 40 meters altitude. It was large, silent, | | and had red, green and white lights on its surface. At about the same | | time or shortly after eight p.m. a round orange object flew south of | | Rochester, New York. It made a crackling noise as it flew. A | | nocturnal light exited from the larger craft, and flew off quickly to | | the west. (Sources: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern | | Hemisphere, p. 164; Loren Gross, The fifth horseman of the | | Apocalypse: UFOs: A History, 1959: January-March, p. 4; NICAP UFO | | Investigator, March 1959, p. 5). | | | | 1963 - An airplane being flown over the state of Cordoba, Argentina | | had a close encounter with a UFO. The UFO projected a beam of light | | at the aircraft, and one of the plane's four engines quit working. | | (Source: UFO Nachrichten (Germany), February 1966, citing a newspaper | | clipping). | | | | 1966 - On this evening Mr. Staver, a rocket expert, watched a group | | of nocturnal lights maneuver in the sky over Los Altos, California, | | then shoot off to the west at an estimated 1,200 mph. (Sources: NICAP | | UFO Investigator, February 1966, p. 2; Frank Edwards, Flying | | Saucers - Here and Now, pp. 58, 97). | | | | 1967 - At two o'clock in the morning a woman professional secretary | | driving down a road in New Richmond, Indiana had a close encounter | | with a bright, domed disc-shaped UFO. She described the object as | | looking like an inverted mushroom; it hovered over her car as she | | drove for 10-15 minutes. Her forward motion slowed, and she could not | | make her car accelerate to get out from under the UFO. The object | | finally made an odd maneuver in the sky and flew away. (Source: | | Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. | | 199, 454). | | | | 1967 - On this day in 1967 a strange little man entered the county | | courthouse in Athens, Ohio and asked for directions. He was | | fascinated with a ballpoint pen, as if he had never seen one before. | | (Source: Hans Holzer, The UFOnauts, p. 288). | | | | 1968 - At five o'clock in the morning Ms. Emma Grimble, an early | | riser, was sweeping the upper hallway of her guest house home in | | Ashtabula, Ohio when she heard a commotion downstairs near the | | tenant's mailboxes. Yelling "Get away from those mailboxes!" she | | rushed downstairs but was dumbfounded to see two little men, greenish | | yellow in color, clambering around the boxes and attaching themselves | | to the wall by "suction cups on their hands and feet." They glistened | | like metal, possibly wearing flexible, tight fitting metallic | | clothing. At her appearance the two little creatures rushed out the | | front door. She heard quite a loud scrambling around, as if there may | | have been five or six of them. (Sources: David F. Webb and Ted | | Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-11, citing | | D. L. McCulty, Saucer News; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact | | Database 1968, case 24). | | | | 1971 - On this night three small, fuzzy, round objects moved near a | | bridge and hovered over it as a car approached in Aberdeen, | | Washington. The engine of the car stopped, the radio had heavy | | interference, but the headlights remained on. The three objects, | | which were only about two feet in diameter, then rose slightly and | | drifted down the river quite slowly. The car could then be restarted. | | (Sources: APRO Bulletin, May-June, 1971; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports | | Involving Vehicle Interference, case 304, citing APRO) | | | | 1973 - At 10 p.m. on this night in Blacksburg, South Carolina on | | Highway 43 a metallic domed disc chased a car at a very low altitude. | | The car's headlights dimmed during the sighting. (Source: newspaper | | clipping dated February 9, 1973; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports | | Involving Vehicle Interference, case 325, citing UFO Register 1974). | | | | 1975 - There were several close encounter reports on this day for | | 1975 in Tasmania, over the English Channel, in Argentina, and in the | | U.S. Midwest. At 8:30 p.m. in Cape Girardeau, Missouri physicist | | Harley Rutledge and his wife had a close encounter with a 20-foot in | | diameter, semi-convex glowing domed disc, that rose from behind some | | trees. There was a dim yellow light coming from its dome. (Source: | | Harley D. Rutledge, Project Identification, p. 195). | | | | 1977 - At 9:30 a.m. a 24-year-old woman and her young sister were | | doing the wash next to their rural home that was near Carapito Beira | | Alta, Portugal. They saw on top of a nearby hill a strange looking | | bulky figure that was dark and motionless. It resembled an | | eight-foot-tall box with a round head on top and legs that appeared | | too thin towards the bottom. A strange sound, resembling several dogs | | barking into a microphone, seemed to emanate from the figure. The two | | witnesses became afraid and locked themselves in their house. They | | next heard a sound like someone was dragging something outside on the | | sand path that encircled their house. The sound stopped at the edge | | of a nearby pine grove. This was too much for the 24-year-old woman, | | who suffered a nervous collapse. Investigators found a small | | radioactive spot at the foot of the hill, plus other ground traces in | | evidence. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, | | case # 107, citing Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos & Fernandez Peri, | | Enciclopedia de Los Encuentros Cercanos con Ovnis). | | | | 1978 - The Stovold family was driving between Cadnam and | | Fordingbridge, in Hampshire, England in the late afternoon when they | | spotted a turreted disc-shaped object hovering just 300 feet over the | | heath a short distance away. It had lights on the top of its dome. | | (Source: D. N. Mansell, Awareness, July 1978, p. 4). | | | | 1979 - At 11:15 p.m. a couple was crossing a roadway in Mirabello, | | Italy when they noticed a red beam of light on the ground. They got | | into their car and drove closer to get a better look. As they | | approached they perceived a strong burning smell, an odor like burnt | | human hair. The light resembled a pulsating vertical bar, red in | | color encircled by a round halo. As they got even closer they saw a | | human like figure walk in front of the light, and moments later a | | second figure walked from the opposite direction. As a result of the | | intense cold the witnesses had to leave the area. As they drove away | | they observed a similar but larger light on the ground in front of a | | nearby orchard. The light slowly pulsated. Again the witnesses had to | | leave because of the cold weather. (Sources: Albert S. Rosales, | | Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case 1555; Maurizio Verga, ITACAT | | Italian UFO Catalogue). | | | | 1979 - Mindalore, South Africa | | | | [Sketch of 1979 Mindalore, South Africa sighting] | | | | 1979 - There were two incidents involving missing time or abductions | | on this day. The first occurred in Mindalore, South Africa. A man and | | a woman were driving in foggy conditions near a mine at 11:50 p.m. | | They saw a gray cone-shaped craft with four legs that had landed, and | | then experienced a 20-minute lapse of time, but they did recall | | witnessing humanoids associated with the craft. (Source: Cynthia | | Hind, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1979, p. 3). | | | | 1979 - The second experience also occurred while driving. Mr. | | Filiberto Cardenas, age 45, was driving on Okeechobee Road just north | | of Miami, Florida with three family friends when the car engine | | suddenly failed. He and another man got out of the car to check under | | the hood when a large luminous object emitting a humming sound | | descended over the vehicle. The witness vanished in plain sight of | | the others, apparently taken up into the object by a beam of light. | | | | He was found dazed two hours later and 16 miles away from the | | original location by a police officer. Later he recalled being taken | | up and blacking out. He found himself onboard the object and three | | human-like beings all dressed in tight-fitting white suits took him | | to an ocean front setting where they opened a "lock" on a rock and | | entered through a tunnel beneath the sea. The beings were of average | | height, wearing outfits that covered their heads with winged | | snake-like emblems on their chests. | | | | They spoke to the witness in Spanish and mainly spoke about coming | | wars and disasters. He was led to a seat made out of stone and given | | a liquid to drink that tasted like honey. A huge door then opened in | | front of him and several persons came out. Cardenas began feeling a | | strong pressure in his chest and at this point an individual | | approached him and told him he was welcomed. The individual appeared | | totally human and spoke with a South American accent. Indeed this man | | told Cardenas that he was from earth but had lived with | | extraterrestrials for a while now. | | He was then taken through a corridor into what appeared to be a great | | city. He then entered a small room where he was suddenly sucked into | | the wall, which then flipped over and became a bed. Paralyzed, he was | | unable to move and noticed several figures moving around him. As a | | light blinded him something was inserted into his ear. From the wall | | there emerged what looked like several arms ending in suction cups | | that covered his body. He felt no pain but could not move. | | | | After the examination he was taken to another room. There he saw a | | tall seat and on it was a tall man wearing a cape; he also saw | | numerous consoles and monitors. He was shown images of three pyramids | | joined by a thin ray of light. Cardenas apparently slept several | | times and was awakened and given several tablets to eat. In another | | room he saw several human like figures wearing gray coveralls. In | | another room he saw a large gathering of people in what he thought | | was a "party". | | | | Soon he was taken into another room where he saw a large rocket-style | | ship in which he was taken along with three other humans. He was made | | to sit on a suction-like seat. After a short trip he was made to exit | | and given something to eat. He last saw the object disappear into the | | distance. He was found disoriented by a police officer in an isolated | | section of the city. A medical exam found 108 tiny pricks on his | | body. Days after the encounter he suffered from severe sweating, | | extreme thirst, extreme temperature changes, and a strong sulfur like | | smell followed him, he also suffered from memory loss, decreased | | sexual appetite and strange time altering episodes. (Sources: Miami | | Herald, January 5, 1979; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The | | Measure of A Mystery; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database | | 1979, case 458, citing Virgilio Sanchez-Ocejo; Cynthia Hind, MUFON | | UFO Journal, March 1979, p. 3; John F. Schuessler, UFO-Related Human | | Physiological Effects, p. 84). | | | | 1980 - In Van Nuys, California a huge, domed disc-shaped object | | dropped from the sky at 8:30 p.m. to just 50 feet above the car | | containing three female witnesses. It tilted, then shot up. Two more | | discs then joined it. (Source: Ann Druffel, MUFON UFO Journal, | | December 1981, p. 14). | | | | 1984 - At 4:14 a.m. an ovoid UFO flew low over Lake Michigan and was | | sighted by three women in Port Washington, Wisconsin. The UFO had | | three portholes. (Sources: Donald R. Schmitt, International UFO | | Reporter, March-April 1984, p. 3; UNICAT, case # 1). | | | | 1986 - On a farm in Roseville, Placer County, California at 8:15 p.m. | | a 300-foot in diameter disc-shaped object flew right overhead, then | | made a fast 90 degree turn and was gone. The house and barn both | | shook as a result. (Source: Robert Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, | | case # 1037). | | | | 1988 - Some very bright lights in the sky paced a car for several | | miles around 5 p.m. in Grimsby, England. It was seen for nine minutes | | before it departed by shooting straight up. At 9:30 p.m. an ovoid | | flying object was seen over southern Leeds, England, then an airplane | | appeared in the sky. The UFO zig-zagged toward the plane, causing a | | near collision, then was gone. (Source: Timothy Good, The UFO Report | | 1990, pp. 11-12). | | | | 1994 - A cone-shaped UFO approached a house in Ecouis, France at | | 11:45 p.m. shining a yellow light on it. It then flew away to the | | southeast. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 322). | | | | 1995 - In the town of Molenbeek, Brabant, Belgium at 3:50 a.m. a very | | luminous orange triangular UFO with a yellow center, passed overhead | | at 50 meters altitude. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, | | case # 17046, citing Banque OVNI Reports, issue # 95). | | | | 1995 - At 8:30 p.m. east of Rishon Letzion, Israel two nine-foot-tall | | giants in metallic suits were seen glowing in the desert. The depth | | of the impression of their 8 km long tracks in the ground indicated | | their weight was more than a metric ton. (Sources: Larry Hatch, U | | computer database, case # 17049; FSR, volume 41, number 1; Michael | | Hesemann, UFOs: The Secret History). | | | | 1995 - At 5:00 a.m. a woman and her neighbors in Gladstone, Oregon | | witnessed a triangular craft with white and blue lights. She and her | | neighbors witnessed a total of five aerial craft. They also reported | | military jets in the area. At 6:00 p.m. that evening in Marysville, | | Washington a young man saw a similar large triangular craft with blue | | and white lights moving slowly in the night sky. It finally streaked | | off to the north. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting | | Center, Seattle). | | | | 1998 - In Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania a number of cyclops looking | | humanoids exited from a delta-shaped UFO and took a pet parrot from | | the yard of a home in the city. (Source: Cynthia Hind, UFO Afri News, | | July 1998). | | | | 1998 - Also on this day a huge silver disc-shaped UFO followed a car | | in Traunstein, Bavaria, Germany. The lights on the rim of the craft | | were rotating. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # | | 18008, citing Phenomena, issue 38). | | | | 2000 - A 16-year-old girl in Stockbridge, Georgia awoke at 4:15 a.m. | | to see a short alien being standing next to her hed.  The undescribed | | being seemed surprised that she woke up and was holding one of her | | legs. She suddenly received a mental image of a flying object with | | five beings aboard in her backyard. Three days earlier her mother and | | brother had also seen beings in their rooms as well, according to the | | source. (Sources: Albert S. Rosales, 2000 Humanoid Sighting Reports | | database, case # 3564, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting | | Center, January 2000 archived webpage). | | | | 2002 - At 7:15 p.m. two witnesses driving in in Dubuque, Iowa  had a | | close encounter with a domed disc-shaped craft. The UFO had light | | blue flashing lights, was saucer-shaped with a dome-like top on it, | | and it behaved as if it wanted them to stop, according to the main | | witness. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | Seattle, January 2002 webpage, report uploaded January 11, 2002). | | | | 2004 - On this day a metallic disc-shaped object hovered a few | | thousand feet above a yacht anchored offshore of Santa Monica, | | California. Those aboard took a photograph of the object. The | | estimated size of the UFO, base on the length of the yacht, was 30 | | feet. A few moments later the craft darted away. (Source: Preston | | Dennett, UFOs over California: A True History of Extraterrestrial | | Encounters in the Golden State, p. 213). | | | | 2009 - At 9:25 p.m. three dark orange or reddish orange colored | | objects were seen flying in a triangular pattern over Davie, Broward | | County, Florida. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting | | Center, Seattle, January 2009 webpage, report uploaded January 10, | | 2009). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 2 January 2013). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: abductions; bul | | ky humanoid; car buzzings and pacings; cigar-shaped UFOs; crackling n | | oise; disc-shaped UFOs; close encounters with domed discs; EM vehicle | | ignition interference; human looking short UFOnauts; missing time; m | | ulti-colored UFOs; multi-year reports from California, England and Oh | | io; multiple UFOs; physiological effects: memory loss, severe headach | | e, thirst, unconsciousness;red beam of light; red vapor; short humano | | ids; silent UFOs; silver UFOs; triangular UFOs; very large humanoids. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+