+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  May 17 | | | | 1909 - At 10:00 p.m. many witnesses in Belfast, Northern Ireland | | observed a silent cigar-shaped flying object with a light that | | flashed several times. It rose higher and shot away to the east. | | (Source: Carl Grove, FSR, November-December 1970, p. 17). | | | | 1947 - Between 8:30 and 9:00 p.m. Field Engineer Savage in Oklahoma | | City, Oklahoma saw a frosty white, round and flat object, with a | | diameter to thickness ratio of 10:1. It was estimated to be the size | | of a B-29 (140 feet wingspan) traveling north at a 350° heading at | | between 10,000 to 18,000 feet moving at three times the speed of a | | jet, making a slight swishing sound. (Sources: Oklahoma City Times, | | June 26, 1947; NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1978, p. 3; APRO | | Bulletin, December 1977, p. 8; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, May | | 1992, p. 19). | | | | 1950 - At three o'clock in the morning four oil men in Hay Creek, | | Wyoming watched two saucers over an oil field for two hours. The | | object had lights and flames around its rim. It made dives | | and maneuvers.(Source: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: | | April-July, p. 45). | | | | 1950 - On this night a military witness reported that a saucer-shaped | | object landed at the Amarillo, Texas airport for five minutes. Its | | touchdown set the grass on fire. It took off and flew to the west. | | There was an OSI investigation. On the same night a dark, "absolutely | | solid smoke ring" sped through the clouds of Timperley, Cheshire, | | England. It was the size of a plane. (Source: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A | | History. 1950: April-July, pp. 44 & 47). | | | | 1955 - At McDill Air Force Base, Florida a disc appeared at 7:00 p.m. | | as a large, square glowing object. It was at an estimated 30,000 feet | | altitude. It made 90 degree turns for 3 minutes, and then left by | | shooting straight up. (Source: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of | | the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1955: January-June) | | | | 1956 - At 6:30 p.m. several people in South Bay, New York including | | witnesses named Winchell, Green and Harris observed a metallic | | saucer-shaped craft with a rim hovering over nearby East Mountain | | from the eastern shore of Lake George. It was silent. (Sources: | | Alexander Mebane, Civilian Saucer Intelligence New York Newsletter, | | June 1956, p. 9, citing Glens Falls Post Statesman, May 18, 1956; | | Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A | | History. 1956: May-July, p. 28). | | | | 1956 - A man by the name of Meyer reported a formation of twenty | | silvery gray discs flying in close formation at a low altitude over | | Ada, Oklahoma at 10:22 p.m. The sighting lasted less than three | | minutes. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official | | statistics, letter dated May 24, 1956; Flying Saucer Review, July | | 1956, p. 27; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple | | UFO, p. 185). | | | | 1956 - On the same day a Sasquatch was sighted by a man named Hunt | | along Highway 1 in Flood, British Columbia, Canada. (Source: George | | Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 21, citing the Toronto | | Globe, July 6, 1957). | | | | 1957 - At 7:45 a.m. two observers in Roswell, New Mexico saw a shiny | | white disc in the sky fly to the east against the wind; it made a 90 | | degree turn to the north tilted on a slant. (Source: APRO Bulletin, | | September 1957). | | | | 1958 - At 11:45 p.m. two men in a boat in Fort Lauderdale, Florida | | watched as an orange fireball flared up and sped away when a | | spotlight was shone at it. (Sources: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, | | p. 12, 121; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: | | UFOs: A History. 1958: May-July, p. 28). | | | | 1959 - Three crocodile hunters saw a huge football-shaped object 100 | | meters away from them while hunting in Cooktown, Queensland, | | Australia at 4:30 a.m. The object spewed forth a 50 meter wide band | | of vapor. Two of the hunters stood up to get a better look. One of | | the two later died, and the other suffered some severe physiological | | aftereffects from the encounter. (Sources: Bill Chalker, The Oz | | Files, p. 101; Keith Basterfield, UFO Research Australia, March 1982, | | p. 24). | | | | 1960 - At 6:30 p.m. two men herding donkeys in Taboleiro de Nazare, | | Ceara State, Brazil were chased by a huge round object at low | | altitude for about 20 minutes. It pursued them for 18 kilometers, | | keeping same distance. Finally, after it flew away by climbing very | | quickly out of sight. Ten minutes later a luminous green ball of | | light was spotted along the coastline in Acarau, Ceara State, Brazil. | | It stopped offshore, then followed the coastline to the southeast. | | Another light followed along after it a short time later. (Sources: | | (1) Peter Rogerson, World-Wide Catalog of Type 1 Reports, case 939, | | citing APRO Bulletin, September 1960; (2) Larry Hatch, U computer | | database, case 5923, citing Flying Saucer Review). | | | | 1964 - At 9:00 p.m. a fiery object, maneuvering at low altitude, was | | seen from Massillon, Ohio. It was sighted from Wooster and | | Smithville, Ohio at 9:10 p.m., then from Lawrence and Burbank at 9:25 | | and 9:30 p.m. It flew erratically with a whirring sound and changes | | of color, apparently interfering with police radio. It went down | | toward the northwest, appearing ready to land. Abnormal radioactivity | | was allegedly found at the landing site. (Source: Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case # 605, citing Akron | | UFO Research Society). | | | | 1965 - On this evening a luminous UFO zigzagged over Brisbane, | | Queensland, Australia. (Source: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the | | Southern Hemisphere, p. 154). | | | | 1966 - At 3:10 a.m. an aircraft design engineer in Mentor, Ohio saw a | | bluish-white object pickup 10 smaller objects in groups, brightening | | each time a pick-up was made, then dimming. The parent object then | | turned to the west and accelerated away. At 4:00 a.m. on US Highway | | 26 near Warm Springs, Ohio seven small nocturnal lights circled a | | large UFO; 4 entered, 3 left, returned and then entered | | again.(Sources: Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, May 1991, p.16). | | | | 1966 - At 6:40 p.m. a Boeing engineer in Arabi, near New Orleans, | | Louisiana was among the witnesses who saw two discs flying off each | | wingtip of an airliner. The outer discs lagged briefly during a turn | | by the airliner. (Source: NICAP report form; Colorado UFO Study | | files). | | | | 1967 - At 10:00 p.m. a stream of lights seen in the sky in Kamyshin, | | Volgograd, Russia were actually windows on a huge cigar-shaped UFO | | that flew from the northeast to southwest, and was lost from view as | | it ascended up into space. Major Y. B. Popov, of Novosibirsk, | | together with Junior Lieutenant A. S. Nikitenko and several local | | residents saw a cascade of lights rushing across the night sky from | | the northeast in even rows. The lights were located on the surface of | | a very large cigar-shaped object; the impression was that of an | | ocean-going vessel. (Source: Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the | | Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 189). | | | | 1967 - At 8:30 p.m. in Rural Hall, North Carolina witness Red Ledford | | observed a round, orange-colored object, similar in size to a small | | aircraft, which zigzagged back-and-forth for five minutes over a jet | | that was heading northeast. (Sources: Don Berliner, Australasian | | Ufologist, April 1999, p. 54;  Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, | | Volume II. A Thirty-Year Report, p. 339, UNICAT, case # 716). | | | | 1968 - At 8:45 p.m. Jose Da Silva, the driver of a VW minibus, and | | three passengers were listening to the radio under a light rain while | | driving between Florianopolis and Lagune, Santa Catalina State, | | Brazil when they suddenly heard a whirring sound and noticed a | | diffused light over the road. Suddenly the van rose up in the air | | about 50 centimeters and stayed there for a moment before coming down | | and again rising up in the air before it was set down on the road | | again, this time more slowly. The four men then noticed an intensely | | luminous circular object hovering overhead at about 100 meters | | altitude. Frightened, they watched from the van while the UFO hovered | | above them. They described the object as only about two meters in | | diameter with several porthole-like windows on its lower part. | | Through the portholes shadows or sillouhetted figures were visible | | moving about inside. A reddish light emanated from the top of the | | object. The UFO remained motionless for a few minutes, and then | | tilted at an angle and disappeared towards the ocean. After the | | incident all four men suffered from nausea and vomiting. One of the | | men also lost all the hair from his eyebrows. Da Silva, who before | | the incident had had an abundant head of hair, became bald in less | | than a year. A circular burnt area was found on the roof of the | | minibus. (Sources: Inforespace, February 1976; Albert S. Rosales, | | Humanoid Contact Database, citing Cuarta Dimension # 20). | | | | 1968 - At 7:00 p.m. many onboard a ferryboat in Canal de Chacao, | | Chile watched a luminous object slow, stop, and make curves in its | | flight to the north until gone. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue | | 117). | | | | 1968 - Three photographs of luminous UFOs were taken by Dr. Gabriel | | Alvial at the University of Chile's El Inferniello Observatory, in | | the Andes Mountains, Chile. The scientific research facility involved | | with this photographic case has been set up in the high Andes | | primarily as a Cosmic Ray measuring installation. The operators of | | the observatory apparently began observing a "series of luminous | | phenomena" months before. The objects were mobile but also stopped | | and hovered. One of the images can be viewed at | | http://www.nicap.org/images/680517andes.pdf (Sources: Prof. Gabriel | | Alvial. "Unusual Photograph from 14,000 Feet Andean Observatory", | | Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1969; "From a Laboratory in the | | Cordilleras Comes Documented Cases", INFO Journal, 1 (4), Spring | | 1969; APRO Bulletin, May-June 1968, p. 8; J. Antonio Huneeus. " A | | Historical Survey of UFO cases in Chile", MUFON 1978 Symposium). | | | | 1969 - On this night a married couple in Graz, Austria viewed a white | | disc-shaped object through binoculars. It hovered and zoomed up and | | around for three hours. Dogs barked. (Source: Ernst Berger, MUFON UFO | | Journal, July 1976, p. 13). | | | | 1977 - In Tranent and seven surrounding towns in Lothian, Scotland, | | shortly after nine p.m., a domed disc-shaped object and other objects | | were seen in the skies on a clear evening. One of the witnesses was a | | 13-year-old boy named McKenzie. The UFOs generally flew off to the | | east. The sightings lasted at least 20 minutes. (Source: FSR, | | November 1978, pp. 30-31). | | | | 1977 - In the village of Icoaraci, near Belem do Para, Para State, | | Brazil two fiery balls of light were seen in the sky at 9:30 p.m. One | | was green, and the other was red, and they came from opposite | | directions and collided causing a tremendous flash and a sound like | | thunder. The sky filled with a pink smoke, which slowly dissipated | | after 20 minutes. (Source: Otto Raymundo, MUFON UFO Journal, July | | 1977, p. 8). | | | | 1977 - A SWAT team witnessed a "flying Xmas tree" soar over the city | | of Memphis, Tennessee at 3:30 a.m. It was silent, and seen just 35 | | feet over twin electrical power towers. It was the length of a | | football field, and 50-75 yards wide. (Source: Bob Pratt, MUFON UFO | | Journal, issue 289; UNICAT, case # 549). | | | | 1978 - At 8:30 a.m. at a farmhouse in Emilcin, Poland just | | eight-tenths of a kilometer from the scene of Jan Wolski's humanoid | | encounter the day before, a mother was preparing breakfast while her | | two children, Adas and Agnieska, played outside. She heard a sound | | like thunder which seemed to be coming from the ground. A short time | | later her son Adas came inside to tell her that he had seen a | | box-shaped aircraft, like "a little house," fly low over their barn. | | It then vanished by shooting up vertically with a sound like thunder. | | Adas said that the object was flying with its smallest wall forward, | | and there was a square window in this side with rounded corners | | through which he could see a pilot. On the edges of the side, he | | said, were moving, swaying black rods, like the feelers on a snail. | | (Sources: Xenolog, December 1978, p. 2; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid | | Contact Database 1978, citing Timothy Good, Alien Base). | | | | 1979 - At 12:25 a.m. William Herrman saw a UFO from his home in | | Summerville, South Carolina and felt the urge to get in his car and | | follow it to a remote location. Everything became silent, and the | | object descended from the sky, and pulled him inside the craft by | | means of a blue beam of light. He then lost consciousness. When he | | woke up he was on a exam table. He was medically examined by short, | | light skinned beings, with large heads and oval-shaped eyes. They | | wore red, tight-fitting coveralls and pullover boots, and their | | leader had an emblem like a winged serpent on his chest. They | | conversely extensively. He was then taken on a journey and allowed to | | view a larger vessel in flight and people on the surface looking up | | at the craft. He was eventually returned to the same field as his | | first abduction experience. (Sources: Thomas E. Bullard, UFO | | Abductions:  The Measure of a Mystery.  Volume 2: Catalogue of Cases, | | case # 191B, citing Wendell Stevens; Columbia (SC) State, June 28, | | 1981; Albert S. Rosales, 1979 Humanoid Sighting Reports, case # | | 2258). | | | | 1989 - Two women in their twenties driving in a car in Pittsburgh, | | Pennsylvania at 2:57 a.m. had a close encounter with a white ovoid | | object with red beacons flashing on the sides. It made no sound, and | | vanished in sight. (Source: Dan Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, December | | 1989, p. 5, MUFON case file # 890719). | | | | 1991 - At 8:00 p.m. a near collision occurred between a Boeing 707 | | airliner and a disc-shaped object over Ji Yong, 260 miles from | | Chengdu, Sichuan province, China. The airliner dropped in altitude | | and extinguished its lights to avoid a further encounter. (Sources: | | Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 57; Dominique Weinstein, | | Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 46). | | | | 1994 - At 9:30 p.m. a huge bright light with lots of little lights, | | chased by second smaller light, was sighted in Monte Vista, Colorado. | | As the smaller object closed in on larger one, the larger one turned | | from white to red, and then made a 45 degree turn to the west. It | | made a pinging bullet sound as it flew. (Source: Christopher O'Brien, | | The Mysterious Valley, p. 240, citing the Valley Courier). | | | | 1998 - At 1:30 p.m. at La Veta Pass, Colorado on US Highway 160 a | | silver colored, cigar-shaped object was observed over the Sangres de | | Cristo Mountains during a thunderstorm. The UFO flew in and out of | | the clouds for several minutes before becoming obscured by the storm. | | (Source: Christopher O'Brien case files, case 548). | | | | 2000 - In the pre-dawn hours, in a dream-like state a local woman in | | Independence, Missouri remembered seeing a bright light overhead | | through her bedroom skylight window. She next remembered lying down | | on a table and a figure was at her head on the right side over her | | shoulder; another figure was at her feet on her right side. They | | seemed to be pulling or tugging at something that felt like a rope | | going through her body from her right shoulder to her right hip area. | | She felt very uncomfortable and her chest hurt. She woke up in her | | bed, and noticed a bright light shining in the skylight, and what | | appeared to be a plane at first that was traveling south to North. | | The object had a tail with a red flashing light and two wings with | | red and green lights on the ends. The wings were very thin, and right | | next to the tail, unlike a normal airplane. The body of the object | | was long with a squared off nose. The strange craft had two very | | bright large white lights underneath it at the front, shining | | directly towards the ground. No noise was heard. (Source: Albert S. | | Rosales, 2000 Humanoid Sighting Reports, case # 3785, citing Missouri | | MUFON). | | | | 2001 - At 9:45 p.m. a Ph.D., his wife and their three children in | | Ames, Iowa witnessed a huge, silent triangular craft with bright, | | blinking, strobing and pulsing white lights. The craft took three | | minutes to cross the sky. Using binoculars, they checked details on | | the huge, nearby object. (Source: George A Filer & David E. Twichell, | | Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 75, citing | | NUFORC). | | | | 2004 - A woman was cleaning house in Culloden, West Virginia on this | | evening when she spotted a black figure run past her window. She | | looked outside and could not see anyone. She resumed her cleaning, | | but again saw another figure run by the window, this one not as dark | | as the first. Ten minutes later she was in the kitchen when she was | | blinded by a bright flash of light that came in through both of her | | back windows. She then closed her curtains. The next day her dogs | | were acting strangely and there was a local power outage in the area. | | (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2004 | | archived webpage, citing Donnie Blessing, MUFON Ohio). | | | | 2008 - At 12:30 a.m. a V-shaped object flew low over the city of | | Chilliwack, Fraser Valley, British Columbia. (Source: Geoff Dittman, | | 2008 Canadian UFO Survey, case 259, citing UFOBC). | | | | 2008 - At noon a metallic cigar-shaped object was sighted over | | Carrollton, Texas traveling north at an incredible rate of speed for | | 20 seconds. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | May 2008 archived webpage, report uploaded June 12, 2008). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 18 May 2014). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: abductions, d | | isc-shaped UFOs, hovering UFOs, inside occupants, lasting physiologic | | al injuries and death caused by UFO, levitation, multi-year reports f | | rom Brazil and Queensland, temporary physiological effects, triangula | | r and V-shaped UFOs, pinging sound, whirring sound, zigzag maneuvers. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+