+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  March 17 | | | | 1903 - On this evening a father and daughter observed a glowing 100 | | foot long cigar shaped object with two rows of four equally spaced | | windows. It was hovering just behind some trees over a farm in | | Helmer, Indiana. As the man ran toward the object it moved away, and | | zigzagged across the sky at great speed, accelerating away toward the | | west. (Sources: Coral E. Lorenzen & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole | | Story, p. 14; Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary | | Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 5, | | citing Jerome Clark). | | | | 1950 - Six bluish white disc-shaped objects turned in the sky over | | Ankara, Turkey on this day. They next shot straight up into the sky | | and vanished from sight. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 211). | | | | 1950 - Six to twelve black octagon-shaped objects were seen from the | | air over Little Rock, Arkansas at 4:30 p.m. The object made a sharp | | sudden turn to the southwest. (Sources: Project Blue Book files | | counted in official statistics, March 1950 report; Richard F. Haines, | | Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 179). | | | | 1966 - A glowing ovoid object descended slowly over Barra de Tijuca, | | Brazil at 1:50 a.m. It circled Pt. Marisco, and then flew off the the | | west. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database) | | | | 1966 - Mr. Ward saw an object 12 meters in diameter and 7 meters high | | over Harrow, Ontario, Canada. It emitted a pulsating white light, and | | landed in a field. It had a revolving section on it with portholes. | | (Sources: Ray Palmer, Flying Saucers, August 1966; Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 729, p. 323; | | Data-Net, May 1970). | | | | 1966 - A police officer in Milan, Michigan observed an object in the | | southwestern sky at midnight. He thought it was a plane about to | | crash, although no sound was audible. He tried to contact the police | | headquarters, but his radio transmitter did not work properly. The 16 | | meter wide object, which now had colored lights spinning around its | | periphery, came to within 25 meters of the patrol car, followed it | | for a kilometer, then flew off toward the northwest. The object was | | described as being like a "very huge pie" lighted with red, blue, and | | white lights spinning completely around it. The witness had been a | | policeman for 10 years, and had never seen anything like it before. | | (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, | | case 730; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, | | case 166; Lloyd Mallan, The Official Guide to UFOs). | | | | 1969 - At 2:45 a.m. a retired army general had become stranded along | | a dirt road near Barra da Tijuca, Brazil after his car engine had | | quit. Moments later he saw a light rising above a nearby hill and | | felt a strong compulsion to walk towards it. After a short walk he | | came upon an object with translucent walls that gave off a dazzling | | light. Despite the translucent appearance the object seemed to be | | made of some metallic substance. Part of the surface of the object | | flung itself back, and three human-like figures stood in the opening, | | one a woman. The witness was invited inside by one of the men, who | | informed him that the other two were also humans. After a short ride | | in the craft he was told that time, as we conceive of it, doesn't | | exist. He was eventually released back to his vehicle, which could | | quickly be started again without any difficulty. (Source: Albert S. | | Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1969, case # 1483, citing Irene | | Granchi, International UFO Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3). | | | | 1969 - Mr. Herbert Lancaster told police that a saucer-shaped UFO | | landed in front of his car at a crossroads in Lincoln, Nebraska on | | this night and "turned off" his car's engine. A human-appearing | | occupant, "an ordinary average guy," was seen peering out from a | | window inside the craft. After a short while UFO "took off at high | | rate of speed." (Source: Lincoln Star, March 18, 1966; David F. Webb | | & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-27, | | citing the Lincoln Star). | | | | 1972 - On this night in Loveland, Ohio police officer Johnson's | | headlights picked up an animal lying on the road. As he opened his | | car door it rose up on its hind legs and showed itself to be a | | leathery skinned biped with a frog like face. It was three to four | | feet tall, like the creature seen by Officer Williams two weeks | | before. It stepped over the guardrail and went down the embankment of | | the river. Officer Johnson took out his service revolver and fired a | | shot at it, but missed. (Source: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, | | HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1972-39, citing Richard | | Mackey & Ron Schaffner). | | | | 1974 - At 3:30 a.m. Cristobal Munoz Romero, a driver for the | | President of the Cadiz, Spain City Council, was driving through a | | foggy area five kilometers from the Rota Naval Airbase near Sanlucar | | de Barrameda when he saw a metallic white light above and to the | | right of his car. It advanced to within 10 meters of the road and | | then, seconds later, he saw the silhouette of a human looking being | | more than 2 meters tall next to the road. The being appeared to be | | wearing a diver suit from which projected a bright, cylindrical, | | solid like coherent beam of light from the front part of the collar. | | The light could lengthen and shrink. As the car passed by the entity | | the engine began to fail and the automobile was "shaking like a leaf" | | in a very strong wind. The witness sped up and, in fear, quickly left | | the site. (Source: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue | | of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-08, citing Vincente-Juan Ballester | | Olmos, Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, | | case 361). | | | | 1992 - In Ipigua, Sao Paulo state, Brazil birds were seen fleeing | | from a farming area at 5:30 p.m. Next a 12-meter in diameter metallic | | disc rose up from ground, and a palm tree was seen bending and | | swaying away from the direction of the UFO when it took off. A | | circular depression resembling a "saucer nest" was left in the | | vegetation. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 17660, | | citing Boletim CEPEX, issue # 28). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 29 November 2005). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT database. | | | | Themes: coherent light beam, discs, shor | | t lizard-like or amphibian humanoid creature, human looking UFOnaut, | | multi-colored UFOs, multi-year reports from the Rio de Janeiro and Sa | | o Paulo regions of Brazil, saucer nest, tall humanoid, vehicle EM int | | erference effects, vertical ascent, zigzag maneuvers and sharp turns. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+