+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  January 20 | | | | 1951 - At 8:26 p.m. the control tower in Sioux City, Iowa warned the | | Mid-Continental Airlines DC-3 flight to watch for an approaching | | unidentified aircraft. The crew saw a bright light that quickly | | closed with them. They saw that it was cigar-shaped with no wings, | | and it paced their aircraft for a short while before shooting out of | | sight. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official | | statistics, January 1951; Edward Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified | | Flying Objects, p. 118; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. | | 14). | | | | 1966 - At 12:30 a.m. a blindingly bright oval-shaped UFO hovered over | | a car eleven miles west of Katanning, New South Wales, Australia. It | | made a buzzing sound like swarming bees and caused a temporary | | paralysis of the four witnesses inside the vehicle. (Sources: Charles | | Bowen, Flying Saucer Review, September-October 1966, p. 32: Richard | | Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume 2): A Thirty Year Report, pp. 198 & | | 267) | | | | 1967 - In 1967 in Methuen, Massachusetts three teenaged girls saw a string | | of red lights moving low to the ground about 500 feet away. As they | | drove nearer, the object connected with the lights swung around to | | reveal a trapezoid shape with two red and two white lights and a | | metallic body. The object was now hovering at 100-300 feet altitude | | and as it moved to the side of the road, the engine, radio and | | headlights of the girls' car suddenly failed. The generator light | | continued to pulse, however. The object abruptly shot away to the | | southwest at 6:45 p.m. and everything in the car worked normally | | again. Later that evening another group of three witness observed the | | same object 15 minutes later. (Sources: Raymond Fowler, UFOs: | | Interplanetary Visitors, Jericho, NY, 1975, p. 343; Mark Rodeghier, | | UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 183, citing Fowler). | | | | Methuen, Massachusetts Close Encounter 1967 | | | | [image] | | | | 1969 - In 1969, at Weymouth, Massachusetts near an abandoned ammunition | | depot, an object was sighted which looked like a white dish inverted | | upon a dish with a dark ring around its perimeter. It had a dome on | | top and one red and two amber lights on its leading edge. It moved up | | and down a few times before moving out of sight around 10:30 p.m. | | (Source: Raymond Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, Jericho, NY, | | 1975, p. 355). | | | | Weymouth, Massachusetts UFO January 20, 1969 | | | | [image] | | | | 1988 - The four member Knowles family was driving on the Nullabor | | Plain west of Mundrabilla in Western Australia at around 4:30 a.m. | | when their car started being paced by a mysterious light. It followed | | them for nearly 90 minutes. The close encounter took a dramatic turn | | when the UFO buzzed the car from behind and somehow lifted it from | | the road. The car was airborne a few feet above the ground for a | | short period, then was dropped back onto the highway surface, causing | | the tires to pop. The UFO had a bright yellow light in the center and | | looked like the sketch below. The "egg-cup" shaped object then flew | | off. The car had dents and scratches on the roof, and their luggage | | that had been strapped to the roof was gone. An ash residue was also | | found inside the car. (Sources: Pat Delgado, FSR, June 1988, p. 1; | | Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume 2): A Thirty Year Report, pp. | | 30, 205, 276). | | | | K | | nowles family 1988 Close Encounter, Nullabor Plain, Western Australia | | | | [image] | | | | 1993 - At two a.m. a witness in McLarenvale, South Australia reported | | waking up to a loud humming sound in the house and bright lights. | | Then he saw a white humanoid figure standing in his bedroom. (Source: | | Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 1689, | | citing Tasmanian UFO Report 1994). | | | | 1996 - Hildo Lucio Galindo of Jardim Andere, Varginha, Brazil opened | | his bathroom window at eight o'clock in the morning and caught sight | | of a short creature with oily brown skin, crouched in a nearby | | alleyway. It had very small hands with three exceptionally long | | fingers. It ran away when Hildo cried out. The creature had no hair | | or clothing and was between four and five feet tall. Later that | | morning several calls came into the local fire department about a | | "wild animal" on the loose on the north side of the park. When the | | fire department arrived they found the military was already on the | | scene. According to some witnesses a group of children had thrown | | stones at the strange creature and it made a soft buzzing sound, like | | a bee. The creature was reported to have been captured by the | | military and put in a wooden box with a white plastic or canvas | | cover, and driven away in an Army truck. | | | | Around the same time local residents heard three shots and saw | | soldiers come out of the woods carrying two campaign sacks. One sack | | held something motionless, and the other contained something living. | | Sources said that the soldiers had shot a creature in the chest, | | killing it instantly. Others saw Army trucks near the woods while | | still others saw two F-5 jet aircraft fly over the area at low | | altitude. | | | | Reportedly, a total of eight creatures were reported to have been | | captured that day. One was dead, two were injured, and five were | | supposedly taken alive and unhurt. Earlier that same morning, at 1:30 | | a.m., two farm workers in the same general area had spotted a group | | of agitated animals running from the area. Upon investigating they | | saw a metallic gray submarine-shaped object hovering some five meters | | above the ground. It looked to be trembling like a curtain, and was | | emitting a smoke or fog. Military witnesses later admitted that this | | was the object that had later crashed. | | | | Cont: In the afternoon at around one p.m. three girls were walking past a | | plot of vacant land when they spotted another bizarre looking | | creature. It was only about 80 cm tall, and had brown skin, bulging | | red eyes, bulging veins, enormous feet, and three protruding lumps on | | its head. The being was unclothed and its body seemed covered with an | | oily substance. The girls panicked and ran away to tell others. Soon | | units of the local fire department arrived and apparently took the | | creature away. The residents learned of the rumor that a similar | | creature had been captured earlier. The small creature emitted a | | strange buzzing like sound. Others saw strange cigar-shaped objects | | flying low over a field. It was rumored that the military later took | | the creature to the nearby city of Campinas, Brazil. (Source: Albert | | S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, cases # 2795 and #2373, | | citing Ubirajara Franco Rodrigues and Brazilian UFO Report # 6). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 16 November 2005). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database | | | | Themes: bedroom visitation, cigar, fuselage, or submarine shaped U | | FOs, disc-shaped UFOs, domed discs, humming sound, military retrieval | | of live and dead humanoids, multicolored UFOs, multi-year reports fr | | om Massachusetts, ovoid UFOs, paralysis, short humanoids with oily sk | | in and red eyes, up-and-down motion, vehicle EM interference effects. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+