+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  January 11 | | | | 1948 - Two U.S. Air Force transport pilots, Helton and Pargoe, flying | | over Hartford, Connecticut in the afternoon observed a red | | disc-shaped object that flew at high speed, dove at a 45 degree | | angle, and had a blue center. The Air Force explained the report as a | | daytime meteor. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # | | 1294; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History, 1948, p. 13; Dominique | | Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 10). | | | | 1953 - A huge reddish-orange glowing ovoid object buzzed and | | then circled the town of Kerrville, Texas at around 6 p.m. causing | | odd TV and radio interference. (Source: Charles Maney, Challenge of | | Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 190; Larry Hatch, U computer | | database, case # 2947). | | | | 1958 - At 7:30 a.m. a U.S. Navy P2V-5F with a crew of four flying | | north of Adak Island, Alaska sighted a formation of three lights | | flying at 900 knots and picked them up on radar. The radar targets | | then merged into a single blip.The sighting lasted five minutes. | | (Source: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: | | A History. 1958: January-February, p. 19; Dominique Weinstein, | | Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 30). | | | | 1963 - At 11:00 p.m. Antonio De Luca, a 43-year-old farmer in San | | Pietro Vernotico, Sardegna, Italy was awakened by restless farm | | animals and went out to calm them. Fifteen minutes later he saw a | | domed disc-shaped object land in a small square in the village, went | | towards it, and became paralyzed and unable to move when he got to | | within 10 meters of it. The translucent upper dome showed two dark | | figures moving about inside. Two minutes later the craft, 4.5 meters | | long and 1.5 meters high, ascended in the direction of Brindisi, and | | emitted a vertical beam of green light. (Sources: FSR, | | September-October 1970, p. 28; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A | | Century of Landings, p. 290, case 558). | | | | 1965 - At 4:10 p.m. several witnesses in Washington, D. C. reported | | seeing 12-15 white oval-shaped objects that moved in and up-and-down | | oscillating path as they flew along. The sighting lasted three | | minutes. Jet interceptors wereobserved in pursuit. (Sources: Donald | | B. Hanlon, Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1966, p. 14; Frank | | Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious Business, p. 128; Gordon I. R. Lore, | | Jr. & Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in | | Perspective, p. 171; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II:  A | | Thirty-Year Report, p. 76). | | 1965 - The Seaside (Oregon) Signal on January 12, 1965 noted that | | Mrs. Paul Zimmerman Gearhart and her two sons saw a triangular UFO | | which came slowly out of the southeast and then "suddenly plunged | | into the sea some miles offshore" at Tillamook Head, Oregon. It left | | two trails of fire behind. (Source: Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible | | Residents, p. 42). | | | | 1966 - Beginning at 6:20 p.m. EST, police and citizens reported first | | a brilliant light source, then later a bright egg-shaped object that | | hovered at low altitude over Wanaque Reservoir, New Jersey. It flew | | in circular patterns over the reservoir, occasionally making abrupt | | changes in altitude and other vertical maneuvers. Sightings by up to | | a hundred independent witnesses continued for more than an hour. | | (Sources: NICAP UFO Investigator, Jan.-Feb. 1966, p. 3; New York | | Journal-American, Jan. 12, 1966). | | | | 1966 - Six people were driving to a scout hall in Myerstown, | | Pennsylvania at 7:40 p.m. when the headlights of their car repeatedly | | dimmed out and came back on. The radio also had heavy static. They | | proceeded to the scout hall without further incident. On the return | | trip, they saw a silent disc-shaped metallic UFO approach the car, | | swerve to the right, and parallel the car for several minutes. The | | glowing object hovered for five minutes over an open field while they | | watched, then "got a tremendous burst of speed" and left nearly | | instantaneously towards the northwest. There was no electrical | | interference when the UFO was actually in view. (Sources: J. Allen | | Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 89; UNICAT, case # 375; Mark Rodeghier, | | UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 160, citing Project | | Bluebook). | | | | 1967 - Mrs. Park McDaniel was outside her home during the day in | | Point Pleasant, West Virginia when she saw what she first took to be | | a small plane approaching. As it drew closer she saw that it was | | man-shaped and had wings. The creature swooped low over her house and | | circled above a nearby building before going out of sight. (Sources: | | David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid | | Reports, case 1967-5, citing John A. Keel; Albert S. Rosales, | | Humanoid Contact Database 1967, case 24). | | | | 1967 - That same night in Aveyron, Basses Pyrenees, France a farmer | | sighted a "shell" shaped object taking off from his farm. The man | | then proceeded to chase a ball of light in his car. The nocturnal | | light stayed 150 yards ahead of him until his engine died and his | | lights went out, when he then noticed a "saucer shaped" object | | descend. The saucer was slightly bigger than a Peugeot car, 9-12 feet | | above the ground, and came down about 60 feet away. The top of the | | object had two transparent cupolas in each of which he could see a | | helmeted figure, human like and dressed in green and white coveralls. | | He felt a wave of heat and a temporary sensation of paralysis. He | | watched a nearby road sign vibrating near the oval object. With a | | whistling sound the UFO rose to 50 meters altitude then dropped back | | again to near ground level. Becoming brilliantly yellow-white, it | | finally took off at tremendous speed. As it did so his lights came | | back on and he was able to start the car normally. Several days later | | the witness experienced trouble sleeping, followed by some weeks of | | excessive sleepiness. The area had been the site of repeated UFO | | incidents for a year. (Sources: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, | | HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-6, citing G. | | Canouges, J. Chasseign, Fernand Legarde, & F. Dupin de la Gueriviere; | | Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, case 25; Mark | | Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 182, | | citing FSR, volume 17, no. 1). | | | | 1969 - At 8:20 a.m. a weatherman at the Sibiu Meteorological Station | | in Romania tracked a disc-shaped object with a theodolite for 40 | | seconds. It flew toward the northeast against the wind in a clear | | sky. (Source: Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the | | Iron Curtain, p. 175). | | | | 1971 - At 2:50 a.m. a government official and three members of his | | family witnessed 16 ball-shaped objects as they flew over Kuusamo, | | Oulu province, Finland in an eschelon formation. They made no sound | | at all. (Sources: UFO Information Sweden, February 1971; Mrs. K. | | Smith, BUFORA Journal, August 1971, p. 27). | | | | 1973 - At around 2:00 a.m. two people watched a mushroom-shaped | | object landed next to a barn in Fort Erie, Niagara County, Ontario, | | Canada. A very low flying maneuvering light also paced a car occupied | | by a single eyewitness driving between Thorold and Stone, Niagara | | County, Ontario. (Source: Thorold News, January 11, 1973; J. Bernard | | Delair, UFO Register, volume 5 (1974), cases 45 & 48). | | | | 1976 - At 5:55 p.m. a 14-year-old boy was walking through the falling | | snow to a friend’s house in Hamden, Connecticut when he saw a large | | glowing figure floating, near some sumac bushes 400 feet away. The | | figure was seen in profile from the waist up. There was no | | discernible face, and the back of the head was flat and corrugated. | | The glow from the head extended above the bushes that were 7-8 feet | | high, and extended about 9 inches from the body, with a less luminous | | silvery outer glow that extended another 9” beyond that. The teen ran | | to a friend’s house; then they got two other friends, and armed | | with a 22-caliber rifle he returned to the site. When they | | encountered the figure again one of them shone a flashlight on it, | | and it fell backwards behind a ridge. When the flashlight was pointed | | away the figure rose up again, and remained in view for 3-4 seconds | | before slowly ducking back behind the ridge. When it came up a third | | time, he shot at it twice with the .22 aiming over its head; it | | slowly descended for the third and last time. One of the | | witnesses was unable to see the being. (Sources: David F. Webb & Ted | | Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1976-17 | | (A1446), citing James P. Barrett, APRO; CUFOS files, report dated | | February 29, 1976). | | | | 1978 - At 9:35 p.m. a noisy disc-shaped object with a "rear spoiler" | | and headlights followed two 15-year-old teens in Mytchett, Surrey, | | England. It had portholes and flew overhead. (Source: FSR, June 1978, | | p. 25). | | | | 1978 - A group of witnesses in South Middleton, Massachusetts had a | | close encounter with a battleship gray ovoid or elongated UFO at 4:30 | | p.m. (Source: David F. Webb, FSR, June 1981, p. 24 citing Ray | | Fowler). | | | | 1979 - Nightly appearances of flying discs over the city of Sorocaba, | | Sao Paulo State, Brazil began on this evening and continued for the | | next 10 nights. The objects emitted different colored lights and were | | seen by several thousand city residents. (Source: Jane Thomas, UFO | | Newsclipping Service, April 1979, p. 14, citing La Razon, January 12, | | 1979). | | | | 1979 - On this night a short humanoid about 80 cm tall, wearing a | | helmet with two luminous antennae, approached a witness in Fortaleza, | | Ceara State, Brazil and touched him on the arm, burning him. The | | being wore a silvery suit and blue boots, and apparently arrived in a | | gray-colored object about 15 meters in diameter with lighted windows. | | (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, citing Antonio | | Faleiro). | | | | 1991 - At 10:45 p.m. an ABC-TV film crew videotaped a red UFO over | | Gulf Breeze, Florida during a skywatch. (Sources: Bruce S. Maccabee, | | 1991 MUFON Symposium Proceedings, p. 249; Ed Walters & Bruce | | Maccabee, UFOs are Real: Here's the Proof, p. 13). | | | | 1992 - An abductee drove into a black void on Interstate 90 near | | Issaquah, Washington at around 9:00 p.m. resulting in an undisclosed | | length of missing time. (Source: UFO Newsclipping Service, August | | 1993). | | | | 1998 - A juvenile sighted a domed disc-shaped UFO hovering over his | | house in Barnegat, New Jersey on this night. It had alternating green | | and yellow lights around its rim. On top there was a glass dome and a | | pilot-like figure apparently wearing some type of helmet could be | | seen inside. Frightened, he ran inside his house but could still see | | the disc hovering outside. A strange symbol was also seen on the side | | of the disc. It also had an antenna on top and other markings on the | | bottom right under the rim lights. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, | | Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case #3154, citing MUFON). | | | | 2001 - A widespread power outage accompanied by radio interference | | occurred in Sao Vicente, Sao Paulo State, Brazil at 3:30 a.m. when a | | large disc-shaped object flew over, heading southeast toward the sea. | | (Sources: Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 6, no. 4, citing Praia | | Grande Picares; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #  18157). | | | | 2004 - An egg-shaped object, glowing a yellowish amber color, moved | | up and down in the sky over West River, Maryland at 3:28 a.m., and | | then started zigzagging sideways. The duration of the sighting was | | two minutes. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | Seattle, January 2004 webpage). | | | | 2005 - At around one o'clock in the morning several disc-shaped UFOs | | flew about 200 feet from a witness's car while driving on Interstate | | 10 from Albuquerque, New Mexico to El Paso, Texas. The close | | encounter lasted two minutes. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO | | Reporting Center, Seattle, January 2005 webpage, report uploaded | | January 19, 2005). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 29 December 2009). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: aircraft UFO encounters, disc-sh | | aped UFOs, domed-discs, green light beam, human-looking UFOnauts, ins | | ignia on UFO, missing time, Mothman, multi-year reports from Brazil, | | nautical UFO: UFO seen entering ocean, ovoid UFOs, paralysis, power o | | utage, radio and TV interference, red UFOs, sensation of heat, vehicl | | e EM ignition interference effects, winged humanoid, whistling sound. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+