+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  July 9 | | | | 1946 - At 2:30 p.m. a UFO that looked like a silvery thermos bottle | | flew over Jarna, Sweden. There were six more reports of cigar-shaped | | objects and eleven reports of fireballs rocketing over Sweden at | | about this time. | | | | 1946 - At 3:35 p.m. a fast, bright red, cigar-shaped 'rocket' cast | | shadows as it flew over Turku, Finland from south to north. (Source: | | Loren E. Gross, Mystery of the Ghost Rockets, p. 7) | | | | 1947 - There are 24 UFO reports recorded for this date in the UFOCAT | | database, all from North America. To view a map showing the | | distribution of these reports, click here. | | | | 1947 - At 5:40 a.m. a farmer out plowing his fields in Kincardine, | | Ontario, Canada saw five disc-shaped objects criss-cross the sky | | three times in different formations. The objects were silent and had | | no lights. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #  1094; | | Loren E. Gross, UFOs, A History. 1947, p. 44). | | | | 1947 - Two small saucers were seen over Albuquerque, New Mexico on | | this day. One hovered, the other shot up and than both shot away | | toward the south. (Source: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary | | Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 27). | | | | 1947 - At 5:30 a.m. a shiny gray disc whizzed through the sky over | | Springfield, Illinois. Its estimated speed was 500 mph moving in a | | southerly direction. It dipped below the tree line and came back up | | again. (Source: Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case | | 788). | | | | 1947 - At 12:15 p.m. a huge flat black disc over Boise, Idaho | | executed a series of staircase maneuvers for 45 seconds. Motion | | picture filming was attempted, but resulted in poor quality images. | | (Sources: Boise Idaho Daily Statesman, July 10, 1947, UNICAT, case # | | 721, Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case 794). | | | | Boise, Idaho UFO with Staircase Maneuvers - 1947 | | | | [Sketch of Boise, ID UFO from 1947 with Staircase Maneuvers] | | | | 1947 - At eight o'clock in the evening a one-meter diameter disc flew | | over Llano, Texas heading toward the southwest. It appeared to be | | spinning, and it possibly landed remotely. (Source: Jan Aldrich, | | Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. | | 98, citing Austin American). | | | | 1951 - At 1:40 p.m. a white, disc-shaped UFO, spinning clockwise, | | confronted an F-51 over Dearing, Georgia with head-on passes several | | times. Pilot Kinmon said he felt the air disturbance as the UFO | | barrel-rolled around the airplane for 10 minutes. (Source: Richard | | Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 239). | | | | 1952 - At 12:45 p.m. a luminous white airfoil without a trailing edge | | glided through the sky over Colorado Springs, Colorado for 12 | | minutes. (Source: Project Blue Book files counted in official | | statistics, case 1405). | | | | 1952 - A large silver disc hovered over a tire factory in Miami, | | Oklahoma at 1 o'clock in the afternoon. It had a halo of smoke around | | its rim. It descended to a low, nearby spot, then rose up and shot | | away toward the south. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, | | case 2300). | | | | 1952 - An aluminum colored disc maneuvered with flips and up-and-down | | motion over Kutztown, Pennsylvania at 6:30 p.m. Observers took three | | poor-quality photographs of the object. (Source: Project Blue Book | | files counted in official statistics, case 1409). | | | | 1953 - A disc swooped down over the Sheppard AFB hospital building in | | Texas. It was glowing and moved very fast. It headed off toward the | | south. (Source: Project Blue Book files counted in official | | statistics, investigation report dated July 12, 1953). | | | | 1955 - A perfectly round, gray-white disc paced a pleasure boat for | | six minutes nine miles west of Newport Beach, California at 1:32 p.m. | | It was surrounded by a "haze of fumes." It suddenly rose upward in a | | zigzag motion and flew into a cloudbank. (Sources: Project Blue Book | | files counted in official statistics; Morris Jessup, The UFO Annual, | | p. 225). | | | | 1959 - An interesting parapsychological experiment closely tied to | | the UFO phenomenon was conducted on this day in Washington, DC by the | | Central Intelligence Agency and U.S. Naval Intelligence. It was held | | at an office in a government building at the corner of 5th and K | | Streets (quadrant of the city not given). According to Lt. Colonel | | Robert Friend, the officer in charge of Project Blue Book at the time | | and who was present at the session, telepathic communication was | | attempted through a psychic channeler who was also a military | | officer. | | | | Colonel Friend was invited to attend a meeting with this officer, and | | was given the following background information. A Canadian woman, | | Mrs. Swan, had come to their attention through the Canadian | | government. The Canadians had conducted an extensive investigation | | into Mrs. Swan's claims of contact with the aliens. With two Naval | | Intelligence officers present, she went into a trance and they asked | | her scientific and technical questions to which a woman of her | | education could not possibly know the answers. Yet as questions were | | put to her, she was able to answer quickly and easily, apparently | | with telepathic help from purported extraterrestrials. According to | | the report, the aliens represented an organization called the | | "Universal Association of Planets," and this group had a project | | monitoring Earth. The investigation took an unexpected turn when the | | woman informed one of the Naval officers that "they" were willing to | | answer questions directly through him, a Navy commander and | | intelligence officer--with no prior experience in telepathic | | communications. He took over, attempting to write down the answers to | | questions put to him by his associate Naval officer. | | | | The word traveled back quickly to Washington officials and a very | | skeptical CIA. Nevertheless, there was no strong reason to totally | | disbelieve the report of this respected Navy commander and his | | partner. | | | | A meeting was arranged to be held in the security portion of a | | Washington government building. When trance state contact was | | achieved, several questions were put to him, and answers came back | | quickly. "Do you favor any government group or race?" and "Would | | there be a third world war?" Both were answered "No." The officials | | present then asked to see a spaceship. The commander, still in a | | trance, told the group to look out the window and they would have | | proof. They did promptly and a dark saucer-shaped object was seen | | hovering in the sky "at approximately 1400 hours." | | | | They hurriedly made calls to the Washington radar center to confirm | | the presence of the object. They were told by the radar operators | | that they were experiencing a strange type of technical difficulty | | with their equipment, and radar was blocked for that quadrant of the | | sky over Washington. During the question and answer exchange the | | answer to one question indicated that the UFOs acknowledged | | difficulty in slipping through our radar net undetected. A number of | | other questions were put to the psychic, including whether Catholics | | were the chosen people. They were told that they were not. A | | follow-up contact session was attempted that same day with only | | limited success. It was indicated by the few answers that the | | Commander received that "this was not the right time" [emphasis | | added]. (Sources: Don Elkins, Secrets of the UFOs, p. 34; Robert | | Emenegger, UFO's, Past, Present and Future, pp. 55-62). | | | | 1962 - A clear photograph of a gray cloud with three lights was taken | | at 11:10 p.m. by Dr. Taylor, an atmospheric scientist at the Cape | | Hallet Station in Antarctica. The cloud and lights moved toward the | | northeast at a low altitude. Other sightings of UFOs occurred that | | night at both the Chilean and Argentine Bases on the Palmer | | Archipelago in Antarctica. (Sources: Coral E. Lorenzen, UFOs: The | | Whole Story, p. 234; Brad Steiger, Strangers from the Skies, p. 39). | | | | 1965 - Miss Zielonka, age 30, witnessed a three-meter long metallic | | object take off from the ground in Moyeuvre, Moselle, France at 12:30 | | in the afternoon. The object flew south toward Metz. (Sources: | | Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # | | 652, citing the Paris Journal, July 12, 1965; Michel Figuet & | | Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres | | Rapprochees en France, p. 257). | | | | 1965 - At 3:00 p.m. at Santa Maria Island Airport on the Azores, | | airport clocks stopped and compasses spun wildly when a white | | cylindrical UFO flew over, flying toward the northeast against the | | wind. Later in the evening at 9:10 p.m. EDT, six witnesses saw a | | white nocturnal light that maneuvered in the sky over the Beckford | | Power Plant north of Cincinnati, Ohio. (Sources: (1) BUFORA Journal, | | September-October 1965, p. 18; (2) APRO Bulletin, January-February | | 1966). | | | | 1967 - At 10:25 p.m. two boys shone a spotlight on a red and white | | UFO "fluttering across" the Susquehanna River near Harrisburg, | | Pennsylvania. It approached them with a sideways motion and beamed a | | white light at them. Making a humming sound, it backed up and | | disappeared. (Source: NICAP case investigation files, report dated | | July 12, 1967). | | | | 1968 - At 11:30 p.m. two girls met a "man from another world" who | | tried to talk to them in La Plata, Argentina. He was six feet tall, | | had red hair and blue eyes, and wore a one-piece coverall uniform and | | a green visor that emitted flashes of light. The girls fled inside | | their house. Marks of four fingers were found on the door to their | | house. (Sources: FSR, January-February 1970, p. 30; David F. Webb & | | Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0948). | | | | 1968 - Three hours after the Argentine humanoid contact, at 9:35 p.m. | | PDT in Long Beach, California a diamond-shaped, grayish-white hazy | | mass was seen hovering under the full moon in the southeastern sky. | | At 10:05 p.m. it moved 55 degrees in a horizontal line due west. Ten | | minutes later it moved back to the first spot it had occupied. Five | | oval-shaped objects with clear edges maneuvered around it. (Source: | | Ann Druffel, Proceedings of the Center for UFO Studies Conference: | | 1976, p. 65). | | | | 1970 - At 11:10 p.m. in Evillers, France a sphere, the apparent size | | of the full Moon, was observed hovering below a black cloud. It had a | | crescent-shaped object above it. The presence of the UFOs was | | accompanied by a power outage in the area. (Source: Lumieres dans la | | Nuit, June 1972). | | | | 1971 - At 7:30 p.m. several people on the Williams farm in Marrawah, | | Tasmania, Australia viewed a 16-foot wide, white glowing object low | | over some pastures for ten minutes. It changed colors. (Source: FSR | | Case Histories, October 1971, p. 14). | | | | 1973 - Senora Mabel Gorchs de Veron was crossing the central Plaza | | Colon at 6:30 p.m. in Mar del Plata, Argentina when she observed a | | bright green light that made her look up. One hundred meters above | | here was a circular object about 10 meters (33 feet) in diameter, | | emitting a blue glow. It had a dome on the upper past and a row of | | small windows around it, through which a dim light came from the | | inside. There were some "strange figures" looking out from these | | windows. The domed craft remained motionless for several seconds | | until a commercial aircraft flew by. The UFO followed it for a few | | moments before flying out over the sea. A newspaperman and a group of | | office employees of the Argentine National Airline also observed the | | UFO. Later that evening, at 7:15 p.m. Sr. Nahuel Villegas succeeded | | in seeing some shadows moving around inside the same or similar | | object while looking through his telescope at 200x magnification. The | | object was at a higher altitude, and remained in the sky for four | | hours, during which it was seen by hundreds of witnesses. (Sources: | | Fenomenologia, no. 21, citing personal communication from Sr. Daniel | | Veron; La Nacion, July 11, 1973; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, | | HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-75 (A1593), citing | | Banchs and Veron). | | | | 1974 - At one o'clock in the morning an ellipse-shaped UFO with rows | | of lights along the side approached a police car on a road near | | Kingston, New York. It responded to the police spotlight by beaming a | | bright light into the car. It then sped away. (Source: J. Allen Hynek | | Center for UFO Studies case files). | | | | 1974 - A huge bullet-shaped object hovered over the port of East | | London, South Africa at 11:50 p.m. It had portholes along the sides | | of the craft. Electrical power fluctuated in the area at the time of | | the incident. At about the same time or approximately twenty minutes | | earlier, at 10:30 p.m. European Time, a dark disc blocked out the | | stars over Le Luc, France. It had very bright beams of light that | | were directed onto trees and a hill. It flew silently toward the | | south. (Sources: Cynthia Hind, UFO Afri News, January 1990; Lumieres | | dans la Nuit, January 1977). | | | | 1977 - A dull silver saucer-shaped UFO hovered off to the left side | | of a road in Flat Rock, Michigan at 2:30 a.m. It was only about 200 | | feet above and the ground and 150 feet from the road. It had many red | | and green lights around its rim, and a beam of light illuminated the | | ground for two minutes. The object floated away over the treetops | | moving toward the southwest. (Source: J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO | | Studies case files). | | | | 1978 - An object descended from the sky to within a few kilometers of | | the witness in General Alvear, Argentina. It moved away at a very low | | altitude. (Source: Stendek, December 1978, p. 13). | | | | 1978 - Two young men were walking along the railroad tracks on the | | outskirts of Butler, Ohio when they heard a noise from the bushes | | ahead. The youths saw a huge seven foot tall figure with large red | | glowing eyes. One of the witnesses panicked and ran home, the second | | remained transfixed by the creature and was unable to move. The being | | was apparently beckoning to the young man to approach. The entity was | | described as having a huge round head, large red eyes and was making | | an unusual growling noise. The witness was finally able to flee the | | area. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, | | case # 1829, citing Ron Schaffner, UFO Ohio Yearbook 1979). | | | | 1981 - First there was a whistling sound, and then a white sphere | | descended over a garden in Villemoirieu, Isere department, France at | | 12:50 a.m. The object shot off to the south-southwest very fast. | | (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 216).  | | | | 1993 - A domed disc-shaped object, looking like a Mexican sombrero | | with light all the way around its rim, was seen by several witnesses | | in Bishopstone, England at 7:00 p.m. (Source: UFO Newsclipping | | Service, January 1994). | | | | 1995 - At least a dozen witnesses saw a huge triangle-shaped object | | and four discs at low altitude in Gravois Mills, Missouri at 11:45 | | p.m. Bizarre looking humanoid figures were also seen on the ground. | | (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17304, citing | | Actaeon Advisor). | | | | 1996 - A triangular-shaped UFO landed in a field in Chillan, Chile. | | It left three circular indentations in the ground 1.7 meters apart | | and 10 cm across. That same day, while visiting the "Julia Set" crop | | formation opposite the Stonehenge megaliths in England, two friends | | of author Lucy Pringle became ill with nausea, fatigue, and memory | | problems. The symptoms persisted for three days following the visit. | | (Sources: Phenomena, issue no. 33; Lucy Pringle, Crop Circles: The | | greatest mystery of modern times, p. 37). | | | | 1999 - An unidentified flying object was seen over some trees in | | Mentor, Ohio at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The object was spinning | | and changing colors, and split into two spheres. (Source: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, July 1999 web page). | | | | 2002 - At 12:15 a.m. a strange noise coming from a hovering, | | triangular light bothered the dogs in the neighborhood in Brookhaven, | | Pennsylvania. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting | | Center, July 2002 web page). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 29 October 2009). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: Cigar-shaped, bullet-shaped a | | nd cylindrical UFOs; UFO departure toward the south; disc-shaped UFOs | | ; small UFOs; EM effects on clocks, compasses, and electric power; fo | | g, smoke or haze surrounding UFOs; governmental telepathic contact wi | | th aliens; humanoids of normal human stature; light beams (especially | | in response to light signals from witnesses); multi-year reports fro | | m the same region of Argentina; photographs; triangular UFOs; vertica | | l motion; very tall humanoid with red glowing eyes; zigzag maneuvers. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+