+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  July 14 | | | | 1925 - A married couple, Mr. & Mrs. Slagle, witnessed a 200 foot long | | "comet" with illuminated windows on side make a hissing sound as it | | flew over Akron, Ohio at 9:45 p.m. It then shot up vertically into | | the sky at an incredible speed. (Sources: Flying Saucers magazine, | | January 1962, p. 13; Jerome Clark, Saga UFO Report, October 1975, p. | | 48; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 362, citing UFO Register, | | volume 9 (1978). | | | | 1934 - On a clear evening a perfectly circular, vividly white | | disc-shaped object hovered directly over a French tourist in the New | | Forest, north-northeast of Ringwood, Dorset, England at 8:30 p.m. A | | blue halo formed around the object for one minute, and then the UFO | | changed color from white to yellow to orange to red, whereupon it | | took off at high speed with a rushing sound. (Sources: Paul Faiveley, | | Phenomenes Spatiaux, June 1972, p. 22; Larry Hatch, U computer | | database, case 416; Jean-Claude Bourret, The Crack in the Universe, | | p. 61; Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue | | of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), citing Jerome | | Clark). | | | | 1947 - At 10:30 a.m. in Syracuse, New York a 13-year-old boy saw a | | long, featureless cigar-shaped object hovering over an orchard only | | 100 meters away. At 1:00 p.m. in Wilkesboro, North Carolina a buzzing | | noise was heard and then a disc shot through the sky fast at an | | altitude of 1500 meters. At 7:20 p.m. a small disc flew over a farm | | south of Idaho Falls, Idaho flying on an irregular course, low and | | slow. It tilted, then flew away to the southwest making an odd sound. | | (Sources: (1) Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1167, citing the | | National UFO Reporting Center; (2) Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. | | 1947 (Volume 5), p. 25; Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary | | Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 107). | | | | 1951 - At the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico on this morning | | an oval-shaped object flying near a B-29 was viewed from the ground | | through a telescope during a rocket launch, and then tracked on | | airborne radar by two jets. The radar confirmed the visual sighting | | of a fast-moving UFO. Motion picture footage was allegedly obtained, | | but subsequently lost. (Sources: Donald Keyhoe, True Magazine, | | December 1952; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. | | 48; Richard Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology | | of a cover-up 1941-1973, p. 400). | | | | 1952 - At 7:40 p.m. a group of three engineers in Hillandale, Alabama | | watched a round glowing object descend to the north, then make an | | instant reversal in direction and head south. At 8:00 p.m. a famous | | sighting occurred over Chesapeake Bay near Norfolk, Virginia by two | | pilots named Nash and Fortenberry. The men were flying a DC-4 | | aircraft for Pan American Airways when they sighted six luminous | | reddish-orange disc-shaped objects that were joined by two brighter | | discs. They were each estimated to be 100 feet in diameter, and they | | suddenly flipped on edge, revealing a flat, coin-like shape. They | | made a sharp turn, blinked off and on in unison, and then flew off in | | formation as the disappeared in the distance. (Sources: (1) Loren E. | | Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952 (Volume 8), p. 71; (2) Project Blue Book | | files counted in official statistics, case 1444; Dennis Stacy, Field | | Guide to UFOs, p. 40; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of | | Multiple UFO, p. 67). | | 1959 - A group of Aboriginal hunters reported the landing of a red | | glowing object on a hill on Prince of Wales Island, Queensland, | | Australia. Other hunters saw a similar object near Karumba Lodge. | | (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, | | case 492, citing Australian Flying Saucer Review, January 1960; Peter | | Rogerson, World-Wide Catalog of Type 1 Reports, citing Flying Saucer | | Review, September-October 1962, p. 24). | | | | 1959 - A light followed a Brazilian Air Force B-26 bomber plane for | | one hour as it flew from Pampulha to Belo Horizonte, Brazil. All the | | time it was changing colors. (Sources: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft | | UFO Encounters, p. 32; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. | | 120; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, p. 256). | | | | 1963 - A 200-foot-long torpedo-shaped craft flew over Parkstone, | | Dorset, England at 300 feet. It made a whistling sound and shot off | | to the west at a tremendous speed. The sighting lasted three minutes. | | (Sources: Orbit, 1963, Volume 4, p. 17; Ray Palmer, Flying Saucers | | magazine, August 1964, p. 9). | | | | 1964 - A close encounter occurred on this evening in Tallulah Falls, | | Georgia. Miss P. Upton came running home nearly hysterical. While | | riding bicycles, she and a friend saw a low-flying object that | | terrified them. A strong unpleasant smell also was reported. | | (Sources: Fate magazine, November 1964, p. 66; Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 616). | | | | 1965 - A bright silver disc-shaped object was seen for two minutes | | over Brisbane, Queensland, Australia at 10:00 p.m. It moved slowly | | from east to west. (Source: Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern | | Hemisphere, p. 155). | | | | 1971 - At 8:30 p.m. an ovoid UFO flew overhead in Gulf Breeze, | | Florida heading west. A nocturnal light exited and returned. It | | briefly stopped over a "ship" that was offshore in the Gulf of Mexico | | that subsequently submerged. (Source: APRO Bulletin, | | September-October 1971, p. 4). | | | | 1972 - At 6:45 p.m. nocturnal lights were seen maneuvering in the sky | | over Chartres, France by three airmen. One flew off to the east; | | another was a neon-colored disc. Radio interference was experienced | | for 30 minutes. The event was not reported to authorities. (Source: | | Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1973). | | | | 1972 - At around 11:00 p.m. a silent UFO hovered over a house for 15 | | minutes in Corvallis, Oregon. It was watched by three women in their | | twenties. It shot straight up at a terrific speed when it left. | | (Source: Glenn McWane, The New UFO Sightings, p. 44). | | | | 1977 - A daylight disc was observed flying over West Springfield, | | Massachusetts by a woman at around 11:00 o'clock in the morning. | | (Source: Center for UFO Studies files). | | | | 1982 - In Easley, South Carolina what looked like a "water tank" in a | | nearby field flew away when the witness's car headlights hit it. | | (Source: APRO Bulletin, January 1983) | | | | 1999 - Three men were walking home from a local pizza parlor | | in Virgilio, Sicily, Italy at 11:45 p.m. when they spotted a bright | | red spherical object descend slowly from the sky at a 60 degree | | angle. It had a weak yellow light on its upper section. It was about | | 200 meters away above a nearby rooftop when first spotted. The object | | halted six meters above the ground and hovered. Through an opening | | on top of the craft a vaguely human-shaped figure was visible. | | Suddenly, the craft shot up and disappeared over the rooftops. Five | | days later, at around 2:30 in the afternoon, the main witness was | | returning home when he saw a white vehicle parked in front of his | | house, occupied by two men. Soon after entering his home the two men | | knocked on his door. They proceeded to ask the witness several | | questions about the UFO he had seen, and basically harassed him with | | threatening remarks. He described them as very tall, about 40 years | | old, wearing white shirts and gray pants. They appeared to have | | nametags on the shirts, which they quickly covered. (Source: Albert | | S. Rosales, 1999 Humanoid Sightings Report Database, citing CUN | | Italy). | | | | 1999 - At 11:15 p.m. a taxi driver in Mastic, Suffolk County, New | | York was driving some passengers through town when they witnessed a | | metallic domed disc that was hovering at 150 m altitude. After he | | dropped off his passengers he noticed that the UFO was still there, | | hovering in the same spot, when the taxi made the return trip. | | (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 18102, citing | | Filer's Files, volume 9, number 31). | | | | 2000 - On this night a woman had just returned to her house in | | Rennes, France when she saw a disc-shaped object surrounded by bright | | lights descend overhead and land in her garden. Two figures came out | | of the object. They had oval-shaped heads, bulging eyes, and large | | "cauliflower-like" ears that stuck out the side of their heads. The | | humanoids were wearing red colored combination suits. They spoke to | | the witness and she fell to the ground and went into a deep sleep. | | When she awoke the beings and the object were gone. (Source: Albert | | S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, citing GREPI). | | | | 2000 - At 11:30 p.m. an orange, dome shaped object flew over | | Thibodaux, Louisiana at tree level. Although orange in color, it | | occasionally turned white as it flew by. (Source: Peter Davenport, | | National UFO Reporting Center, July 2000 archived webpage). | | | | 2003 - An animal reaction case was reported from Orting, Washington | | on this night. All dogs in the area whined loudly at around 1:30 a.m. | | Two strange lights were sighted in the sky. One was round and gray, | | and traveled in a circular pattern; the other was a white triangular | | object, which bobbed up and down. (Source: Peter Davenport, National | | UFO Reporting Center, July 2003 archived webpage). | | | | 2008 - A double set of pinpoint reddish orange steady lights was | | viewed at 200 feet distance in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at 10:00 | | p.m. for a minute and a half. It was definitely a craft, according to | | the witness. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | report uploaded August 12, 2008). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 20 July 2012). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: daylight UFOs; dis | | c-shaped UFOs; domed discs; landings; multi-year reports from Dorset, | | England and Queensland, Australia; vertical ascent, whistling sound. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+