+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  May 3 | | | | 1945 - In the predawn hours a US Army Air Force B-24 bomber flying | | over Fala Island in the Truk Atoll, the Pacific Ocean encountered | | two objects with red circles of light, changing color from cherry-red | | to orange to white lights, and then back to cherry again; they | | followed aircraft for over an hour while the bomber performed evasive | | maneuvers; there were no airborne radar returns picked up from the | | objects. On this evening five orange spheres flying in a triangular | | formation were sighted by a 415th NFS fighter pilot east of | | Pfalzerwald, Germany. (Sources: (1) Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO | | Encounters, p. 8; (2) Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A | | Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century | | (1900-1946), p. 25: Keith Chester, Strange Company: Military | | Encounters with UFOs in World War II, p. 163). | | | | 1950 - At 3:00 p.m. several girls in Savoyeux-Haute, Haute-Saone | | department, France saw a large cylindrical object fly rapidly from | | the south to the north shooting silvery rays. At 4:30 p.m. four discs | | were sighted by numerous observers in Neuville-sur-Sarthe, Sarthe | | department, France flying at a low altitude slowly toward the the | | horizon. They left a trail of smoke. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, | | issue 211). | | | | 1952 - At dawn in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia at least 13 | | witnesses, including pilots and the RAAF, witnessed a huge "flying | | submarine" with flashing lights. It was reported to be huge, three | | times larger than an airliner. (Sources: Michael Hervey, UFOs over | | the Southern Hemisphere, p. 45; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. | | 1952: January-May, p. 68; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # | | 2147). | | | | 1952 - On this day two bright discs played tag in the sky over | | Warragul, Victoria, Australia. They then joined together, merged into | | one object, then vanished. (Sources: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. | | 1952: January-May, p. 69; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # | | 2146). | | | | 1952 - On this evening three men in Chestertown, Maryland heard a | | strange whooshing noise. Looking up, they saw a black speck, high in | | the sky, moving back and forth. It went straight up out of sight. | | (Source: Edward Sullivan, Civilian Saucer Intelligence/Los Angeles | | investigation files, letter from E. Mifflin dated May 5, 1952). | | | | 1956 - At 7:32 a.m. several observers including a Ground Observer | | Corp member, watched two saucers circle in the sky over Pueblo, | | Colorado and then "wink out". (Sources: Project Blue Book files, | | report dated May 3, 1956; Alexander Mebane, CSI-New York News, June | | 1956, p. 8; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: | | UFOs: A History. 1956: May-July, p. 2; MUFON UFO Journal, issue # | | 277). | | | | 1961 - On or about this date a hemispherical craft with portholes was | | sighted resting on a road in Union Mills, Indiana. The time was ten | | o'clock in the evening. It took off when a car came close to it. Its | | estimated diameter was four meters, height 2.5 meters, and it bore | | "fluorescent lights." (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: | | A Century of Landings, case 518; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. | | 147). | | | | 1965 - On this day in Monte Grande, Entre Rios, Argentina a | | 37-year-old man named F. Martinez claimed to have had a visitation by | | and communication with two small alien beings, about three feet tall. | | The witness was transformed intellectually, with subsequent psychic | | contact, and two cases of healing. (Source: Gordon Creighton, The | | Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 40; David F. Webb & Ted | | Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0628, citing | | Charles Bowen, The Humanoids, p. 112). | | | | 1967 - At 6:30 a.m. EDT in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania a gray | | metallic-appearing disc paced ahead of a car being driven by a Mrs. | | Smyth on the Schuylkill Expressway near Roxborough. The top section | | of the craft was revolving and a row of windows was visible around | | the center. A vapor stream was produced, which changed to red sparks. | | The object shot up into the overcast, and when it did so the witness | | experienced jaw pain at that moment. (Source: APRO Bulletin, May-June | | 1967, p. 12; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A | | Thirty-Year Report, pp. 268, 338). | | | | 1968 - During the evening hours of the night of May 2nd-3rd Miss | | Shane Kurz, a 19-year-old woman, had watched a luminous cigar-shaped | | object in the sky for two hours from her home in Westmoreland, New | | York. It moved in her direction, stopped, then shot straight upward | | into the sky, turning red in color as it did so. At four o'clock in | | the morning her mother came into her room and found her lying on top | | of her bedsheets with her robe and slippers on; both were covered | | with dried mud, as were her legs. Earlier in the night her mother had | | found her missing from her bedroom and the door open. | | | | Ms. Kurz stayed out of school for the next two days because of | | depression and recurrent nightmares. Her eyes were causing her pain, | | and two reddish ring-shaped marks appeared on her lower abdomen. Her | | menstrual cycle stopped after this incident and did not return again | | for a year. Later under hypnosis she remembered that she went | | outdoors in response to hearing her name called, and saw a saucer | | with windows and a revolving rim hovering close to the ground. It | | approached her and lifted her inside with a beam of light, after | | which she found herself in a bare white room. A man shorter than her, | | with no nose, wearing what looked like a dark "motorcycle jacket" and | | another being, a "doctor" in a long coat, forced her onto an exam | | table. He inserted a long needle into her navel. A third being, the | | "leader," next entered the room. The UFOnauts all had very | | "penetrating" eyes with no pupils. They said to her, "We've watched | | you. You're the one. We want you as a mate." He also said that they | | came "from very, very far." The others went out and the leader | | proceeded to undress her and then rape her. He told her she would not | | remember. She was floated down to the ground again by a light beam. | | (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968; David F. | | Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case | | 1968-26, citing Hans Holzer, The Ufonauts). | | | | 1969 - On this day in the city of Osasco, Sao Paulo, Brazil a man | | photographed a saucer-shaped object. It made rapid maneuvers in all | | directions; a door on the craft opened and a strong beam of light | | came out. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 8834, | | citing FSR Case Histories, issue # 7). | | | | 1971 - At 10:10 p.m. in Stara Cervka, Slovenia an eight-meter long | | egg-shaped object landed on three legs for five minutes. It spiraled | | upward on takeoff. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # | | 9805, citing FSR, volume 30, number 3 and FSR, v24, #3). | | | | 1973 - Many observers in the towns of Pitten and Wingene, West | | Flanders, Belgium witnessed a large red globe at 4:30 p.m. | | accompanied by tornado like winds. (Source: J. Bernard Delair, UFO | | Register, volume 5 (1974), case # 236, citing J. Bonabot). | | | | 1973 - On this night at 9:45 p.m. Mrs. Sigrid Karlsson and her son | | Robert saw an object illuminated by a red light hovering over their | | neighbor's house in Mantorp, Ostergotland, Sweden. It looked like two | | saucer plates, separated by a row of broad windows, and it made a | | loud hissing sound. Robert thought he could see two men inside. As it | | got closer, its light became yellow-white. (Sources: UFO Information | | Sweden, May 1973, p. 2; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: | | Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1973-91 (A1202), citing | | Canadian UFO Report, #20, 1975; John Magor, Our UFO Visitors, p. | | P16). | | | | 1975 - At 1:30 a.m. a witness in Ashton, Adelaide, South Australia | | had a close encounter with a blue-green cone-shaped UFO that was | | making a humming sound. It had light beams and flew off to the west. | | (Source: Keith Basterfield, UFO Research South Australia, case # | | SA75008). | | | | 1975 - While flying over Lake Tequesquitengo at 1:34 p.m. near Mexico | | City, Mexico Antonio Santos Montiel, the pilot of a Monteil Piper | | PA-24, felt a strange vibration, and saw a domed disc three meters in | | diameter pacing him to his right. There was another identical looking | | craft on his left. A third disc approached his airplane head on, and | | he felt a jolt, as if his plane was being lifted. The Mexico City Air | | Trafffic Control radar showed the UFOs making sharp turns. (Sources: | | Richard F. Haines, case investigation, report dated August 3, 1975; | | FSR, February 1976, p. 32; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO | | Encounters, p. 50; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence Volume II: A | | Thirty-Year Report, pp. 121, 243). | | | | 1975 | | Lake Tequesquitengo, Mexico Close Encounter with Possible Levitation | | | | [1975 Lake Tequesquitengo, Mexico Close Encounter with Possible | | Levitation] | | | | 1975  - At 9:15 p.m. Alois Olenick, 48, was driving westward on | | Mogford Road to a nearby store in southern San Antonio, Texas when he | | saw an amber-colored object rise up from a grove of trees 900 yards | | away. It then approached his 1959 Chevrolet pickup truck, dropping in | | altitude, and the main light on the front of the object changed from | | amber to a blindingly bright, cherry-red light. When it was directly | | over him it beamed a spotlight on him, and at the same time his | | truck's lights and engine died, and his truck was nearly buffeted off | | the road by a strong wind. "When the craft got directly over the top | | of my pickup," Olenick said, "my lights went completely out and my | | engine was dead." | | | | He got out and saw a globular craft with two conical protrusions on | | either side that could have been a central ring (making an overall | | Saturn shape). The bottom was of "highly polished metal" with a | | reddish glow. When the UFO tipped at a 37-40 degree angle toward him, | | he could see that the top half was transparent and that it contained | | two humanoid occupants, visible by a reddish internal light. They | | were 5-feet tall or less, with bald heads, large pointed ears, long | | noses, and slit-like eyes. Their skin appeared smooth and grayish in | | complexion. They seemed to be handling controls. He said, "They | | appeared to be just as interested in me as I was in them. One of the | | occupants, the one farthest away from me, appeared to be the pilot | | and had his hands on what looked like controls. He was looking up and | | away from me. The other occupant looked directly at me...and appeared | | to be observing me. I got a good look at both of them. They weren't | | human beings like we see here." | | | | There was no sound of a motor coming from the object, but there was | | a shriek of wind like a cyclone below the craft. Then the UFO turned | | its lights off and took off staight up, with a gust of wind that | | buffeted his pickup, and vanished almost instantly. There was an odor | | "like burning copper or electrical wiring" (he was a sheet metal | | worker) that persisted inside the truck for some time. His eyes were | | affected, and he had to wear dark glasses after the effect for some | | while as a result. (Sources: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: | | Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1975-23 (A1404), citing Gary | | Graber, Skylook, February 1976, p. 3; Richard H. Hall, The UFO | | Evidence Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 382, 461-462, 490). | | | | 1975 - At 11:00 p.m. on the highway N165 west of Quimper, Finistere, | | France a 6-meter diameter sphere with portholes followed a car | | west at 200 meters altitude. It hid when the car approached towns but | | came back. It tracked the car for 20 minutes. (Source: Larry Hatch, U | | computer database, case # 11249, citing Jean-F. Boedec, Les OVNI en | | Bretagne: Anatomie d'un Phenomene, p. 55). | | | | 1977 - At 3:55 a.m. police in Hainault Forest, England took an | | emergency telephone call. The caller said that some strange UFO was | | over the forest near the small lake. Two policemen were directed to | | the scene. Arriving, they proceeded along the lake road and noticed a | | "large bright red light" across on the eastern shore. They stopped, | | exited their vehicle, and then observed a "bell tent" shaped thing, | | about 300 yards distant. This object pulsated continuously from dull | | to very bright red for the next 2 to 3 minutes. The UFO seemed to be | | hovering silently. Then, as they watched apprehensively, the object | | appeared to "dissolve on the spot". Because the thing was no longer | | visible, the officers somewhat reluctantly decided to go across the | | lake and investigate the spot. As they were doing this, one of them | | looked up and briefly saw a thin, large, white crescent shape hanging | | in the sky. This "apparition" also dissolved on the spot. Reaching | | the location of ground zero, as best they could tell, they found | | nothing at all, except a strong smell of burning. No cause could be | | determined. A report was immediately made to the local UFO | | investigator [The Essex Hotline], and field investigator Barry King | | came out and interviewed the officer that very night. In daylight, | | one large bush was found to have damage: it was flattened in the | | center and slightly burned. The gorse bush appeared to have had a | | very heavy weight set on top of it, and the result was to break | | almost all of the limbs, including snapping off the central branch. | | The pattern of breakage was to displace the branches into an outward | | radiating splay. No radiation nor magnetic anomalies were found. | | (Sources: Barry M. King, FSR, August 1977, p. 8; Gary Heseltine, UFO | | Magazine (UK), July 2003, p. 7; Mke Swords, | | www.nicap.org/waves/1975fullreport.htm). | | | | 1977 - At 9:20 p.m. on a clear night a 29-year-old woman in Wilcox, | | Elk County, Pennsylvania sighted a large silver sphere near a power | | plant that had many lights in the middle and was not revolving. It | | directed a spotlight down, and after 10 minutes shot straight up. | | There was some kind of animal reaction. (Source: Allan Hendry, | | International UFO Reporter, June 1977, p. 3). | | | | 1979 - A 65-year-old woman named Karlsson had a close encounter with | | an oval-shaped object in Undenas, Karlsborg Municipality, Vastra | | Gotaland County, Sweden at 9:00 p.m. It was first seen weaving in and | | out silently between the trees. It hovered as the witness ran back | | toward her house, and then shot straight up at very high speed, | | making two dull explosions like sonic booms. (Source: Acke Svensson, | | FSR, December 1983, p. 5, citing UFO-Sverige). | | | | 1986 - Two witnesses in Bellingham, Washington reported seeing | | five V-shaped objects that flew in formation, from north to south, | | and crossed the sky from horizon to horizon in 10 seconds. (Source: | | Robert Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, case # 1084). | | | | 1990 - On this night the public in Chester, England reported seeing | | strange lights in the sky to police. At 1:00 a.m. two police officers | | in Backford, near Chester, saw a multicolored (green, red and blue) | | UFO wobbling in sky, and they watched in amazement. (Source: Gary | | Heseltine, Police Reports of UFOs, case 147, citing Chester Tonight, | | May 3, 1990). | | | | 1992 - At around midnight three witnesses, members of the Boggs | | family, in Fordland, Missouri had a close encounter with a dark | | flying object (estimated to be 8 feet wide by 20 feet long in size) | | with square windows. At first, 14-year-old Robbie saw a line of | | bright lights that hung over a slight rise in the pasture, less than | | 100 yards from their farm house, and maybe ten feet above the ground. | | Both ends of the line appeared to curve away, giving the impression | | that the lights were attached to an oval structure of some sort. It | | flew slowly but directly over their heads at no more than 25 feet. | | Although they could see the outline of the lights, the object itself | | was invisible. The UFO then moved on away from the house, passing | | between two trees with only a few feet to spare. The trees were | | undisturbed by the proximity of the object. A pole light on the far | | side of the driveway went out as the UFO approached, the | | photoelectric switch apparently triggered by the brightness of the | | object's lights. The object was just beyond this yard light when all | | of its own colored lights went dark, to be replaced by a single white | | light shining from the rear. At this same moment the sound that had | | been coming the the UFO ceased. Surprisingly, the family did not stay | | outside to watch the UFO depart. They expressed surprise themselves | | at that fact, that when the colored lights went out they only could | | recall turning away and going back into the house. (Source: Francis | | Ridge, www.nicap.org/920503fordlanddir.htm, citing Amateur UFOlogy | | News, volume 4,  number 9) | | | | 1995 - At 4:05 a.m. a trucker driving on Interstate 90 near | | Amsterdam, New York sighted a domed disc while driving. It had a very | | bright, white light, so he could clearly see both the lower disc | | portion and the dome. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO | | Reporting Center, 1995 report). | | | | 1996 - Police in Nayarit, Mexico reportedly fired a hail of bullets | | at a creature on this night. Apparently unharmed, it turned about to | | glare at them with "fiery red eyes" set in a humanoid face. The | | entity then jumped over a meter high fence and got away. (Source: | | Albert S. Rosales, 1996 Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, case # | | 3532, citing Virgilio Sanchez-Ocejo). | | | | 1997 - A couple returning from work at 1:30 a.m. in Meilleraye de | | Bretagne, Loire-Atlantique, France saw a point more luminous than | | stars. It approached at high speed and the witnesses could see that | | its shape was round; it passed just above them and then flew away to | | the south. Air displacement was heard. (Source: GEIPAN, case 251). | | | | 2000 - At 2:54 a.m. Rene Ruiz, a 55-year-old man from Orlando, | | Florida, found himself inside a huge craft surrounded by blinding | | lights and looking at something resembling an X-ray machine. He also | | encountered several 6-foot tall humanoids, who had large oval-shaped | | heads and skin that was grayish in color. However, there was one | | being who was different; Rene described him as short with a huge head | | and light blue in color. After lossing recollection of what happened | | next, Mr. Ruiz found himself back in his home. Subsequently, his body | | turned a sickly yellow jaundiced color, and he suffered from constant | | nausea with frequent vomiting. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, 2000 | | Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, case # 3828, citing UFO Abduction | | Raw Data Page, UFO Watch). | | | | 2002 - In Alvear, La Pampa Province, Argentina several young men were | | walking home at midnight along a deserted road when out of nowhere a | | female figure with long black hair appeared in front of them, wearing | | a light flowing gown. The strange figure was very pale and appeared | | elderly. It repeatedly asked for assistance from the men in an urgent | | tone. Terrified, the men ran from the area and later returned with | | other witnesses, but could find no trace of the strange apparition. | | (Source: Albert S. Rosales, 2002 Humanoid Contact Database, citing | | Fabio Picasso). | | | | 2003 - At 3:30 a.m. a man was sitting on his back porch in North | | Richland Hills, Texas looking out at the horse pasture behind his | | home. The pasture held several horses but he could not see them | | because they were at the other end of the field. He heard what | | sounded like the horses kicking a metal sheet and squealing loudly. | | He also heard dogs barking in the distance. Just as he strained to | | look over to the horse shed everything became completely quiet. The | | witness started to feel scared by the eerie silence, and as he | | stepped off his porch he started to hear a low whirring sound. He | | next saw a light beam flash on the ground in the middle of the | | pasture. The source was a black craft, hovering about 100 feet above | | the ground. It was shooting flashes of light at the ground from a pod | | on the right end of the craft. The craft had a multicolored mist or | | hot looking gas on the bottom of it, on the left side was what looked | | like a red rectangular window. Inside he could see movement, but at | | that moment he began to feel sick. The craft appeared to be about 50 | | feet long with a dull blue light on the top. After five minutes the | | whirring sound faded and the craft hovered silently for another two | | seconds before it zipped straight up and out of sight without a | | sound. He then noticed that the electrical power seemed to be off in | | the neighborhood. (Sources: Albert S. Rosales, 2003 Humanoid Contact | | Database, citing Peter Davenport, NUFORC; Joan Woodford, | | www.nicap.org NSID04 cases, citing NUFORC). | | | | 2004 - At 8:30 p.m. a witness and son in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France saw | | for the second time several yellow and green balls moving in the sky. | | The BOLs were ten times larger than a star, and were coming together | | fast. The sighting had a 15 minute duration.(Source: GEIPAN, case | | 391). | | | | 2006 - At 10:35 p.m. a woman coming home from work on rural roads in | | Franklin, Indiana sighted a triangle shaped object with three lights, | | one on each apex, and one in the middle, hovering over the Union | | Elementary School in Union Township. She stopped the car and got out | | to observe. It was estimated to be 1500 feet in the air, and made | | absolutely no sound as it hovered. It appeared to be a deep black in | | color, darker than the night sky, and almost seemed to absorb any | | light; the lights did not appear to illuminate anything under it. It | | was near the restricted military airspace for Camp Atterbury, located | | 20 miles south. She watched until the craft slowly moved off to the | | northwest. (Source: Peter Davenport, NUFORC, May 2006 webpage, | | reported May 4, 2006 and uploaded May 15, 2006). | | | | 2006 - In Chilliwack, Fraser Valley, British Columbia a very large, | | silent, dark pyramid-shaped object was sighted at 10:45 p.m. by six | | witnesses. It was slow moving. The sighting lasted two minutes. | | (Source: Geoff Dittman, 2006 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 192). | | | | 2007 - At 4:23 a.m. a metallic object descended at odd angle and | | landed in a wooded area in Biglerville, Adams County, Pennsylvania. | | It stayed there for about 20 minutes before disappearing quickly. No | | further details. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting | | Center, May 2007 webpage, report uploaded June 12, 2007). | | | | 2007 - At 9:30 p.m. a triangular craft was seen hovering over | | Abingdon, Harford County, Maryland, moving very slowly and silently | | over a residential neighborhood. It had one row of 3-4 lights lit up | | on one side of the craft.(Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO | | Reporting Center, May 2007 webpage, report uploaded June 12, 2007). | | | | 2010 - A witness walking on the South campus of the University of | | Nebraska in Omaha, Nebraska reported being chased by a diamond-shaped | | UFO at 9:17 p.m. The witness reported being frightened, and | | sheltering by running into the South campus building. "It was a | | beautiful looking ship but really horrible when they were approaching | | towards me," the witness wrote. The event lasted four minutes. | | (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2010 | | webpage, reported May 3, 2010 and uploaded May 12, 2010). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 30 April 2014). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: abductions; aircraft | | encounters; animal reactions: dogs barking and horses squealing; appa | | rition; cherry-red color; cigar-shaped, cylindrical, or fuselage-shap | | ed UFOs; dome-shaped or hemispherical UFO; Grey UFOnauts; hissing sou | | nd; landings; missing time; multi-year reports from the Bretagne regi | | on of France, Pennsylvania, and Sweden; occupants; odor or burning or | | copper or electrical wiring; physiological and psychological effects | | : jaw pain and eye sensitivity; radar-visual confirmation; rape, sexu | | al encounter with UFO occupants; triangle UFOs; vapor; vehicle igniti | | on EM interference; vertical ascent; whirring sound; whooshing sound. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+