+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  April 16 | | | | 1897 - At 12:30 a.m. in Bay City, Michigan a large object was sighted | | high in the sky. It gradually descended and was estimated to be | | around 50 to 70 feet in length. It had a red light at each end, that | | gave the conical shaped craft a dull red glow. It moved at a rapid | | pace, then slowed. (Sources: Lucius Farish newspaper files; Saginaw | | (MI) Courrier Herald, April 16, 1897). | | | | 1897 - Shortly before 3:00 a.m. police heard a drumming noise in | | Saginaw, Michigan and then spotted a 30-foot long cigar-shaped | | airship with something hanging down ten feet below it. It flew at a | | speed of 25 miles per hour to the south, and carried red and yellow | | body lights. (Sources: Lucius Farish newspaper files; Saginaw (MI) | | Evening News, April 17, 1897; Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with | | Roswell, p. 7). | | | | 1897 - While working in his field in Downs Township, Illinois farmer | | Haney Savidge saw an aerial craft land near him. Six people emerged | | from it and spoke to him for a few minutes before leaving. (Source: | | Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 22, | | citing Chicago Times-Herald, April 17, 1897). | | | | 1897 - On that night there was a sudden flash in the sky over Logan, | | Ohio and then a 40-foot long dark shape flew over the town slowly. | | Witnesses thought they could hear voices coming from the object. Some | | followed it three miles south of town in a buggy. The craft descended | | to about 50 feet altitude, then rose swiftly and flew out of sight. | | (Source: Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 8). | | | | 1897 - On the same night a man named Williams in Greenville, Texas | | came upon a landed airship. He described it as an "immense | | cigar-shaped vessel" with large wings, and having a "sidewheel like a | | steamboat" in front, with a fish tail at the rear. He claimed it was | | 75 feet long and 30 feet wide, and he encountered three men | | performing repairs on the craft. (Source: Philip L. Rife, It Didn't | | Start with Roswell, p. 39, citing the Dallas Morning News, April 19, | | 1897). | | | | 1952 - At 10:26 p.m. a U.S. Air Force captain and his neighbor in | | Shreveport, Louisiana saw a bright white object make a fast approach, | | reverse direction, then change shape from a flat circular object to a | | thin lens. It also changed color from pink to red. Its speed was | | estimated at 1285 mph, and showed a red exhaust tail after making its | | turn. It was ten times brighter than the brightest star. (Source: J. | | H. Tessier, UNICAT computer database case #812, citing Blue Book; | | Project Blue Book Report # 6, April 30, 1952). | | | | 1953 - The crew of a Maritime Central DC-4 flying near Chatham Royal | | Canadian AFB, New Brunswick sights an eight meter in diameter | | metallic disc at 3:34 p.m. that is heading toward their aircraft. The | | UFO passed underneath at 300 knots, just under the nose of the | | aircraft. (Sources: Don Ledger, Maritime UFO Files, p. 37; Dominique | | Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 21). | | | | 1956 - On U.S. Route 1 in Henderson, North Carolina just before dawn, | | two government employees saw for a few seconds a large, top-shaped | | object passing over their car. It was as large as the road and made | | no sound. (Sources: Project Blue Book; Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia, p. 253). | | | | 1956 - Two police officers, Perkins and Williams, in Lexington, | | Kentucky sighted a small, pale-red light in the western sky at 11:55 | | p.m. They drove closer to get a better look. After 5 minutes the | | object disappeared; it left a glow in the sky for a few seconds. The | | object appeared to change shape, from round to ellipse, and then back | | to a circle again. (Sources: Lexington Herald, April 17, 1956; | | Alexander Mebane, CSI-NY News, June 1956, p. 8). | | | | 1960 - A brilliant vertical cylinder or pole-shaped object rose | | slowly over the shore of Napier, New Zealand at 5:50 p.m. It turned | | horizontal and then darkened. It finally flew to the northeast | | and out to sea. (Source: APRO Bulletin, July 1960). | | | | 1966 - At 7:55 p.m. an elongated elliptical object hovered over | | Highway 16 in Sherborn, Massachusetts. It had bright red lights | | affixed to each end, and blue lights along its length. At 10:44 p.m. | | in Weston, Massachusetts police were called to investigate two | | reports of an object resembling a dirigible or blimp-shaped UFO | | carrying bright lights. (Source: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: | | Interplanetary Visitors, p. 337). | | | | Weston, Massachusetts - 1966 | | | | [Sketch for Weston, Massachusetts - 1966 sighting] | | | | 1967 - A fast moving, glowing ovoid UFO stopped and landed in | | Boraure, Venezuela on this day. It took off and flew away when | | approached. (Sources: Jim and Coral Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, | | p. 60; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, | | case 835). | | | | 1968 - At 12:10 p.m. Henry Ford II sighted a very large UFO while | | flying onboard the Ford Motor Company Jet Star near Austin, Texas. | | (Source: Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., UFOs: A New Look, p. 1; Donald E. | | Keyhoe, Aliens from Space…The Real Story of Unidentified Flying | | Objects, p. 177). | | | | 1972 - In Trujillo, La Libertad, Peru a man had his eyesight | | impaired, and others reported that headaches were caused by the close | | approach of a saucer-shaped UFO. (Source: Jane Thomas, FSR, July | | 1972, p. 24, citing Cronica, April 16, 1972). | | | | 1974 - A metallic ovoid UFO approached a car on a highway in Mitcham, | | South Australia at 6:00 p.m. It revolved slowly, and had four lights | | on its dome. (Source: NICAP UFO Investigator, July 1974). | | | | 1974 - At around 12:50 a.m. a classic Italian CE-III case that has | | defied explanation occurred in Santa Maria del Tempio, Casale | | Monferrato, Piemonte district, Italy. Mauro Bellingeri and his wife | | had just arrived home when a luminous disc-shaped object came out of | | the sky at them, and then stopped over their house 40 feet up. The | | craft had a central ring of revolving red, green, and yellow lights | | that revolved around the cabin. The object made no sound as it | | hovered there. The couple could see a round, clear, dome-shaped cabin | | on the upper portion of the object that was 30 feet wide and six feet | | high. Inside the cabin there were three seated beings who were | | visible, wearing fishbowl or globe-shaped helmets. After several | | minutes of just hanging silently in the sky, 4-5 jets of flame were | | emitted from the underside of the craft, and the outer rim began to | | turn more rapidly. The object started making a whistling sound. With | | a strong blast of air that nearly knocked the witnesses down, the | | object then took off and flew away. (Sources: Renzo Cabassi, FSR, | | February 1977, p. 23; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher: HUMCAT: Catalogue | | of Humanoid Reports, case # 1974-17 (A1317); Vicente-Juan Ballester | | Olmos, A Catalogue of 200 Type-1 UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, | | case # 187; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A | | Thirty-Year Report, pp. 18, 373, 460, 489; UNICAT, case 51; John | | Wallace Spencer, World Atlas of UFOs, p. 106). | | | | 1977 - An object consisting of two spherical lights that flickered | | back and forth between orange and deep red appeared to hover over | | Bushey, Watford, England. It approached and then suddenly vanished. | | (Source: D. N. Mansell, Awareness, October 1977, p. 18). | | | | 1979 - At 11:30 p.m. in Bedarrides, Vaucluse, France a red sphere, | | the size of a car, descended fast and then landed. Flashes white and | | red lights. It left behind ground traces at the landing site. There | | were at least two witnesses, and the incident lasted five minutes. | | (Sources: Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1979; Jean-Luc Rivera, UFO | | Newsclipping Service, July 1979, p. 12). | | | | 1990 - A young man drove his wife to work in South Chicago, Illinois | | and then saw a silver, oval-shaped craft in the sky at around 7:30 | | a.m. The silver, domed oval object was hovering near an intersection | | in the city; it was motionless, and made a whooshing sound. He | | felt odd, developed a headache, nausea and neck pain. There was no | | missing time associated with this close encounter. (Source: Frances | | Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 133). | | | | 1992 - On this evening the Current Affair TV film crew filmed a red | | UFO as it hovered over the Gulf Breeze, Florida Three Mile Bridge. | | (Source: Ed Walters, UFOs are Real: Here's the Proof, p. 13). | | | | 1993 - In Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire, England a witness reported that | | a one-foot in diameter, glowing ovoid object was just outside the | | window of the house at 2:30 a.m. It was very bright, and some psychic | | effects resulted from the close encounter. (Source: UFO Newsclipping | | Service, March 1994). | | | | 1993 - At 9:20 p.m. a deputy sheriff and others observed a 200-300 | | foot wide flying boomerang or V-shaped UFO in Bayport, Florida. The | | UFO was pulsing as it hovered, then "hauled ass." (Sources: Leonard | | Sturm, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1996, p. 20; Richard F. Haines, | | CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 80). | | | | 1995 - In Tacoma, Washington at 10:10 p.m. two white or light gray | | discs moved quickly from south to north over the clouds in a steady | | trajectory. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | Seattle). | | | | 1996 - In Tonto Hills, Arizona, a couple that had observed a large | | diamond-shaped craft land previously in the same area back in | | February observed a similar large craft landing nearby them. It was | | white, diamond shaped, and had green and red lights around it. Three | | humanoid entities (not described) were seen walking around it as if | | searching for something. Their sighting lasted for 15 minutes. Note: | | There is a Tonto Basin in central Arizona, but there is no town or | | locality named "Tonto Hills". (Source: Albert S. Rosales, 1996 | | Humanoid Contact Report Database, case # 2812, citing Jim Ossipov & | | Myron K. Olson). | | | | 1997 - On a farm in Zagorje, Slovenia a 15 meter black sphere with a | | halo and portholes hovered near the ground at 6:45 p.m. Footprints | | were later found at the site, about size 9 in shoe size. (Source: | | Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 2, number 16). | | | | 2003 - Two orange lights flew in a corkscrew pattern together from | | south to north over Victoria, British Columbia at 2:40 a.m., and then | | went west. (Source: Geoff Dittman, 2003 Canadian UFO Survey, case # | | 148, citing UFOBC). | | | | 2004 - There was no sound coming from a triangle-like craft seen near | | Fort Benning, Georgia by a mother and daughter. At 10:20 p.m. a | | 47-year-old woman was driving home from Columbus with her 16-year-old | | daughter when they thought they saw a military helicopter from the | | Fort. Upon getting closer the mother thought it resembled more of a | | Stealth Bomber with a triangle shape. They slowed down and rolled | | down their car windows, which revealed there was no sound coming from | | the craft. Near Ellerslie, in Harris County, Georgia, they then | | observed the dark triangle hovering at a relatively low altitude. It | | had blinking red and green lights at the rear, and it was projecting | | a spotlight beam with an adjacent blue light under each wing. The | | daughter became a little concerned and said they needed to get out of | | there, get home, and tell her dad. The mother reported to the MUFON | | investigator that she had observed a similar triangular craft before, | | along with her older daughter, but had never reported it (Source: | | George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports | | of UFO Sightings, p. 95, citing field investigator Dan Worsham and | | Tom Sheets). | | | | 2007 - At 10:00 p.m. a gray triangle object outlined with many lights | | flew silently overhead New Westminster, British Columbia. (Source: | | Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 200, citing | | HBCCUFO). | | | | 2008 - A close encounter with a large Moon-sized, spherical object | | near the witness' car was reported in Ontario, Canada (city not | | given); it scared the witness, then vanished. (Source: Geoff Dittman, | | 2008 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 212). | | | | 2009 - A large, metallic, cylindrical object was seen over Saint | | Augustine Beach, Florida at 5:00 p.m.; it hovered for about a minute | | and then disappeared. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO | | Reporting Center, April 2009 webpage archive, report uploaded May 12, | | 2009). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 18 April 2014). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: aircraft UFO encounters; cylind | | rical UFOs; daylight discs; domed discs; domed ovoids; fishbowl helme | | ts; ground traces; low flying UFOs; ellipsoid or ovoid UFOs; physiolo | | gical effects: impaired eyesight, headaches, nausea, neck pain; red s | | pheres or cones; shape changing UFOs; top-shaped UFOs; triangle UFOs. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+