+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  March 1 | | | | 1950 - A metallic disc hovered over Chihuahua Airport in Mexico at | | five kilometers altitude during the day, then shot off quickly toward | | the south. (Sources: newspaper clipping dated March 5, 1950; | | Inforespace, December 1975). | | | | 1950 - Military and civilian radars tracked a UFO flying at between | | 40,000 and 80,000 feet near Knoxville, Tennessee. At 11:15 a.m. | | Stuart Adcock, a Knoxville radio amateur with experience in radar | | technology, called the local FBI agent, Mr. Robey, to report that he | | had detected an object using a surplus military radar set. The object | | was circling at at altitude of about 40,000 feet over Oak Ridge | | nuclear facility. Mr. Adcock reported another detection the next day. | | No planes were scheduled in the area at the time. The US Air Force | | suggested that the visual sightings may have been due to a mirage. | | (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; | | Bruce Maccabee, UFO-FBI Connection, p. 169). | | | | 1953 - A case of spontaneous human combustion occurred on this day on | | Highway 291 in Greenville, South Carolina to a victim named Wood. | | (Sources: George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 450; | | Fate magazine, July 1953, p. 6). | | | | 1954 - The Castle-Bravo H-Bomb test occurred this day at 6:40 a.m. on | | Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. The explosion and energy release | | was much stronger than expected. Castle Bravo was the most powerful | | nuclear device ever detonated by the United States (and just under | | one-third the energy of the most powerful ever detonated), with a | | yield of 15 megatons of TNT. That yield, far exceeding the expected | | yield of 4 to 6 megatons, combined with other factors and led to the | | most significant accidental radiological contamination ever caused by | | the United States. Radioactive fallout from the detonation—intended | | to be a secret test—poisoned some of the Bikini islanders on their | | return, as well as the crew of the Daigo Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon | | No. 5"), a Japanese fishing boat, and created an international | | incident nearly severing diplomatic relations with Japan. The irony | | of the name "Lucky Dragon" of the fishing boat was not lost on any of | | the newspapers reporting the incident at the time. (Sources: Larry | | Hatch, U computer database; Gerard DeGroot, The Bomb: A Life (London: | | Jonathan Cape, 2004)). | | | | 1954 - Three daylight discs were spotted over Carrasco Airport in | | Montevideo, Uruguay at 2:30 p.m. They were swinging back and forth in | | a falling leaf motion. (Sources: Coral E. & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The | | Whole Story, p. 55; Richard Hall, UFO Reports from the Files of the | | CIA, p. 15). | | | | 1958 - At 8:30 p.m. two ten minute sightings of the same UFO occurred | | 10 minutes apart in the Kunashir Islands, Japan and the Soviet Union. | | (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 5367). | | | | 1962 - At 10:40 p.m. EDT a single witness in Salem, New York reported | | a 40 cm x 10 cm flying gold box that slowly crossed the horizon in | | 3-4 minutes. Mrs. L. Doxsey, 66, saw a gold-colored box, 12-14 inches | | x 3-4 feet, fly straight and level across the horizon. (Sources: | | Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 7823; | | Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 103; Larry Hatch, U computer | | database, case # 6099). | | | | 1963 - On this day a photo of a flying saucer was taken over the Diet | | Building, Tokyo, Japan by a Mr. Hagiwara. (Source: Yusuke J. | | Matsumura, Flying Saucers magazine, October 1965, p. 67). | | | | 1966 - A man by the name of Quemby had a close encounter with a domed | | disc in Kelowna, British Columbia. (Sources: Vancouver Sun, March 2, | | 1966; James Moseley, Saucer News, June 1966, p. 30; Charles Bowen, | | Flying Saucer Review, May-June 1966, p. 33). | | | | 1967 - DeWitt Baldwin was raccoon hunting at night in the woods near | | Eden, New York when he heard a noise like buzzing bees around 1:30 | | a.m. He flashed his flashlight on a gold colored, unlighted | | saucer-shaped object that had landed on the ground. A sliding door | | opened and a man emerged, dressed in a black, tight-fitting suit and | | wearing a helmet with goggles. He asked the witness some questions, | | such as what he was doing there at that hour and where he had been | | born. He then took Baldwin's gun, looked at it and then handed it | | back. Baldwin claimed the humanoid broke the muzzle of the gun while | | examining it. Baldwin said, "He wasn't white and he wasn't black. He | | talked very plainly and with no accent. He had black curly hair." He | | told me he would be back, walked up to the saucer, got in and seconds | | later zipped off out of sight. No footprints or landing imprints were | | found in the snow where the object had rested. (Source: James | | Sipprell & James M. Reed, NICAP case investigation files; David F. | | Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case | | 1967-22, citing NICAP). | | | | 1967 - Four bright domed discs flew from north to south over | | Valparaiso, Chile on this day. They had flashing red and blue lights. | | There were many witnesses. (Sources: Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs over | | the Americas, p. 59; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 7597). | | | | 1967 - At 7:25 p.m. a white glowing ovoid maneuvered silently near | | some homes in Sharon, Massachusetts, leaving a white luminous trail. | | (Source: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 345; | | Raymond E. Fowler, Casebook of the UFO Investigator, p. 164). | | | | Sharon, Massachusetts - 1967 | | | | [Sketch for Sharon, Massachusetts - 1967] | | | | 1967 At 7:30 p.m. in Toledo, Ohio a disc-shaped object with flashing | | red & green lights was seen by two married couples, Mr. & Mrs. Keitl | | and Mr. & Mrs. Hiner. The UFO hovered briefly, and then suddenly | | zoomed out of sight; it did this several times over the course of 20 | | minutes. (Sources: Toledo Record, March 5, 1967; APRO Bulletin, | | May-June 1967, p. 10). | | | | 1967 - In Poland, Indiana at 10:10 p.m. four people in a car were | | chased to their home for several miles by a dark domed disc. The UFO | | then hovered outside their house. (Source: Francis L. Ridge, Regional | | Encounters, p. 21, citing Don Worley). | | | | 1969 - A white nocturnal light maneuvered in front of a drive-in | | movie screen in Hectorville, South Australia on this evening. | | (Source: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 183). | | | | 1972 - A two-meter wide spinning, luminous ball of light hung over a | | factory in Boussois, France at 6:30 p.m. It moved off toward the | | northwest in jumps. It was back again the next night, and again the | | following night. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, August 1972). | | | | 1973 - For three hours many observers including police witnessed a | | procession of at least 40 white objects with red and blue lights fly | | over Saylors Lake in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania beginning at 7:25 p.m. | | At 9:50 p.m. more than 200 observers reported seeing a 1000-foot long | | cone-cylinder; with a metal grating and triangular lights on the | | underside, at Highland Reservoir, Pennsylvania. (Sources: (1) | | Stroudsburg (PA) Pocono Record, March 2, 1973; Stan Gordon case | | files; NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1973, p. 1; APRO Bulletin, | | January-February 1973, p. 6; (2) Larry Hatch, U computer database, | | case # 10389; MUFON UFO Journal, issue 239). | | | | 1974 - At 7:45 a.m. a huge cigar-shaped object glowed red over a | | vineyard in Epernay, Marne, France. There were three witnesses: | | Daniel Legrand, age 24, Michel Frappard, age 39, and Mr. Paillard, | | 39.  It had a dome on its underside. It suddenly vanished. (Sources: | | Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet | | des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 464, citing L'Union de | | Reims, March 2, 1974; APRO Bulletin, March-April 1974, p. 3; Lumieres | | dans la Nuit, issue # 135; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # | | 11165). | | | | 1974 - Starting at 7:20 p.m. on the island of Corsica in the | | Mediteranean Sea, a round orange scintilating light flew to-and-fro | | over a NATO military base for an hour, then flew south to the town of | | Solenzara, Haute-Corse, France. (Sources: Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis | | Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees | | en France, p. 464, citing Nice-Matin, March 3, 1974; Lumieres dans la | | Nuit, issue # 135; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 11167). | | | | 1974 - At 6:30 p.m. a single witness, Mr. Blandiniere, watched a  | | luminous cigar-shaped object with tapered ends for 10 minutes in the | | countryside of Saint-Jean-du-Falga, Ariege, France. At a farm in | | Lapenne, Ariege, France at 7:45 p.m. two strong one-meter | | light-beams, 12 meters apart, were seen over a hill about 500 meters | | away. A blue glow illuminated the countryside. There were five | | witnesses: Mrs. Corbalan, her young son Gerard, 19-year-old Odile, | | 22-year-old Mr. Corbalan, and Mr. Guy Monserat.(Sources: Michel | | Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des | | Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 464, citing La Depeche, March 3, | | 1974; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 136; Larry Hatch, U computer | | database, cases # 11166 & 11168). | | | | 1974 - A woman and her invalid husband were sitting on their front | | porch enjoying the spring weather on this afternoon near Millington, | | Tennessee when something in the sky caught their attention. They saw | | five saucer-shaped objects about two feet in diameter that moved at a | | low altitude slowly through the sky. They floated leisurely over a | | field across the road from their house and settled down in the midst | | of a herd of cows some five hundred yards away. Only one cow paid any | | attention to the small discs. It acted offended by the intrusion and | | turned and walked towards one of the mini UFOs. The object rose up, | | flew over the cow, and settled down again behind the cow. Each time | | the cow attempted to approach it would simply rise up, pass over the | | cow and settle down on the other side. The woman's husband became | | upset. He went and got his rifle and started hobbling out toward the | | field. The wife saw one of the objects fly very close to her | | husband's head and then rejoin the others as they flew away. By that | | time her husband had reached the fence and was standing still. His | | hands were down at his sides, the rifle clutched in one of them. When | | she got to him he was icy cold and shivering. All he could say was | | that one of the objects had "flashed" him with a bright light. She | | helped him back up to the house and he went inside to lie down on a | | daybed. He stayed there the rest of the day and said nothing more. | | The next morning the woman looked out and saw the cow lying dead next | | to a pond. Two weeks later her husband also died. The doctor said he | | had died of a heart attack. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid | | Contact Database 1974, citing Bob Pratt). | | | | 1974 - At eight o'clock in the evening three observers saw a nearby | | hillside illuminated by a bright yellow light in Vesta Community, | | Virginia. A red luminous object was then seen ascending from the | | site. The object, about the size of a Volkswagen, hovered | | approximately 300 feet above the hill and went through a series of | | right angle turns, then headed south toward Stuart, Virginia. Billy | | Wayne Plasters and Richard N. Clifton drove to the landing site by | | truck and observed the silhouette of a "big, tall, heavyset man" | | approach from a lighted area. They called out and got no answer. | | Frightened, they jumped back into their truck and fled. The light on | | the hillside disappeared a few minutes later. Next day, patches of | | charred vegetation were found at the site covering a large area. | | Other people in the vicinity reported seeing strange lights that same | | night, and hearing unexplained noises. (Sources: Center for UFO | | Studies files; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of | | Humanoid Reports, case 1974-07, citing Nancy Lindsay, The Stuart | | Enterprise). | | | | 1974 - On the same night a flat, disc-shaped object with many lights | | on its rim was seen spinning in the sky, in a counter-clockwise | | direction, over St Louis, Missouri. (Source: NICAP UFO Investigator, | | April 1974). | | | | 1975 - Several witnesses in Oporto, Portugal at 8:15 p.m. viewed a | | cone-shaped object at 400 meters altitude for 30 minutes through | | binoculars; the object changed in brightness. (Source: Larry Hatch, U | | computer database, case # 11695, citing PORTUCAT, case # 153). | | | | 1976 - On this afternoon a group of boys in Oldham, Cairo Mill, | | Greater Manchester, England watched a saucer with a transparent dome | | fly in and out of the clouds for a minute. The dome was reportedly | | revolving. (Source: Delair J Bernard, Northern Network News, 1976, | | volume 26, number 7). | | | | 1978 - At 8:00 p.m. a man named Folger in McKinney, Kentucky had a | | close encounter with round gray object with a square top and a | | window. The UFO hovered at just 200 feet altitude, and had colored | | lights. It shot away fast. (Sources: Stanford (KY) Interior Journal, | | March 2, 1978; UFO Newsclipping Service, issue # 106). | | | | 1978 - At 9:00 p.m. a cigar-shaped object with a dome flew toward the | | east, then turned toward the northeast as it flew through the sky in | | Sterling Heights, Michigan at 9 p.m. It had colored portholes that | | flashed light. (Source: NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1978). | | | | 1978 - There were also multiple reports of nocturnal lights and close | | encounters from several independent witnesses in Pittsburgh, | | Pennsylvania on this night, between 9:20 and 10:00 p.m. (Sources: | | CUFOS files; Pittsburgh (PA) Post-Gazette, March 4, 1978). | | | | 1985 - Three silent, teardrop-shaped objects flew quickly over the | | city of Randburg, South Africa in a V formation, heading toward the | | northeast. (Source: Cynthia Hind, UFO Afri News, July 1990). | | | | 1985 - At shortly after midnight a bluish-white light entered a house | | in California through the ceiling. Landed outside in the yard was a | | wedge-shaped craft. Two seven-foot tall beings entered the house | | wearing blue uniforms and domed helmets. The witness was paralyzed | | and abducted, and remembers being inside a blue shaft of light. | | (Source: Richard J. Boylan, Close Extraterrestrial Encounters, p. | | 130). | | | | 1986 - Many cars pulled over on I-5 near Payne Field, Everett, | | Washington at around 8:30 p.m. to watch nine large disc-shaped UFOs | | drop NLs. The display lasted for nearly an hour before the | | objects shot straight up and departed. No explanation was given by | | the U. S. Air Force when inquiries were made. At about the same time, | | a private pilot flying over Snoqualmie Pass, Washington encountered | | two amber spheres for one minute duration; there was radio static on | | his two-way radio during the encounter. (Sources: (1) Robert Gribble, | | UFO Reporting Center, case 1089; Paul Ferrughelli, case 736; Computer | | Catalog of UFO Reports, 1986-94, citing MUFON UFO Journal; (2) | | Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 192). | | | | 1988 - Watching TV in Johnstown, Pennsylvania at 7:50 p.m., a witness | | and two friends saw a bright light in the valley, so they went | | outside for a better look. The object, described as a white oval, | | remained stationary and silent for another five minutes before it | | "took off like streak of lightning.  It just disappeared." Later that | | same evening, a football-shaped object with a white light at the | | front end and a red light at the tail was sighted by a woman over a | | farm in Westmoreland, Pennsylvania at 9:40 p.m. It had a reflecting | | surface on the leading side of the bottom of the object (reflecting | | white light). The white light flashed while moving, but not while | | hovering. Her sighting lasted 10 minutes. (Source: Stan Gordon, MUFON | | investigation files, cases # 880931 & 880932). | | | | 1989 - Many police personnel and others at 10 locations, centered on | | De Kalb County, Alabama reported UFOs. Sightings started in Fyffe, | | Alabama at 8:00 p.m. At 10:10 p.m. police from six agencies and a | | fire chief reported sightings in Geraldine, Alabama, and took | | one poor-quality photograph. At 11:30 p.m. the highway patrol in Fort | | Payne reported sighting the Fyffe UFO. (Sources: UFO Magazine, June | | 1990, p. 26; UFO Newsclipping Service; Larry Hatch, U computer | | database, case # 15316). | | | | 1989 - At 8:03 p.m. a mother and daughter in Union City, Ohio spotted | | a huge metallic triangle craft, halfway between the car and their | | house (1/8th of a mile away). It was described as gigantic, 500 feet | | in length, and making a low rumbling sound. It terrified them when it | | moved toward them. The close encounter lasted 10 minutes. (Source: | | Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p 120). | | | | 1990 - On this night a woman ran out into 11 inches of fresh snow in | | her front yard in Otter Tail County, Minnesota to see a hovering | | disc-shaped craft. The disc ascended into a larger hovering object | | that appeared suddenly. She then suffered a blackout and was | | apparently abducted. She vaguely recalled being taken onboard by | | tall, blond, Nordic type beings who predicted that a catastrophe | | would befall Earth between the years 2000 and 2011. She also believes | | that an implant was inserted into her head through one of her | | nostrils. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1990, | | case # 2330, citing Don Worley, UFOs: Alien Encounters 1995). | | | | 1994 - In Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia at 8:00 p.m. a | | single observer with a telescope observed a silent "dartboard shaped" | | saucer that hovered, and then descended to the horizon; it changed | | colors as it did so. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case | | # 16322, citing Colin O. Norris, Australian UFO Flying Saucer | | Research, Adelaide, S. Australia). | | | | 1995 - At 9 p.m. a cigar-shaped object with windows appeared in the | | sky and looked to be slowly surveying a farm in Sedalia, Missouri. It | | had a bright light in front and several small lights in the rear of | | the object. A lady saw the object hovering over a farm less than an | | eighth of a mile away; it had windows along its side, and gave off a | | faint hum. She reported it was "bigger than a blimp." After five | | minutes of hovering, it left towards the southwest. (Sources: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center 1995 Report; Francis L. | | Ridge, Chronology of UFO Reports, case #1995-009, www.nicap.org). | | | | 1996 - At 7:30 p.m. in Trois-Bassins, Réunion, on the shore of | | the Indian Ocean a six-meter long luminous glowing tube was seen at | | 100 m altitude. It flew slowly to the east at 30 km/h over the | | mountains. It was absolutely silent. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, | | issue 337). | | | | 1996 - At 10:15 p.m. a big orange ball of light (BOL) dimmed and | | reappeared in Bath, Illinois. It blinked and then shot off fast. | | (Source: Jay Rath, The I-Files: True Reports of Unexplained Phenomena | | in Illinois, p. 49, citing NUFORC, March 1996 webpage). | | | | 1996 - In Bothell, Washington UFO investigators pursued an ovoid UFO | | for 10 minutes at 8:00 p.m. It had lights in the middle and on the | | ends. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17638, | | citing NUFORC, March 1996 webpage). | | | | 1998 - An object that left a trail of sparks flew over the Badger | | Army Ordnance ammunition plant outside Lodi, Wisconsin from east to | | west at 2:20 a.m. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting | | Center, Seattle, March 1998 webpage archive). | | | | 2000 - At 9:00 p.m. a V-shaped object that looked a little like a | | plane, but was fatter and shorter, was reported in Springfield, Ohio. | | It had many lights on the bottom, and it hovered on the side of Route | | 4 without making any noise. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO | | Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2000 webpage). | | | | 2001 - A low-flying upright symmetrical disc-shaped craft, rotating | | like a wheel, moved slowly and silently over the town of Clarion, | | Pennsylvania and continued east-northeast. It was in view for about a | | minute. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | Seattle, March 2001 webpage, report uploaded December 7, 2006). | | | | 2003 - A witness driving on I-75 near Naples, Florida at 6:22 a.m. | | saw a low flying triangle with white lights at each apex. It was | | travelling to the west and passed by in 3 minutes. It made no sound. | | (Source: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: | | Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 63). | | | | 2005 - At 3:30 a.m. a large, slow moving triangular shaped object | | that seemed to suddenly disappear was seen in Palatka, Florida. | | (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, | | March 2005 webpage, report uploaded November 11, 2005). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 13 August 2013). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: abductions, aircraft UFO encounters, black un | | iforms, blue uniforms, cigar-shaped UFOs; communication with UFOnaut | | in English, death associated with a UFO close encounter, disc-shaped | | UFOs, domed discs, human-looking UFOnaut, multicolored UFOs, multi-ye | | ar reports from Ohio and Pennsylvania, Nordic looking UFOnauts, pendu | | lum motion, prediction of world catastrophe, procession of objects, R | | F interference, tall UFOnauts, tall heavy-set humanoid, triangle UFO. | | | | © Donald A. 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