+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  May 9 | | | | 1909 - At 11:00 p.m. a Mr. Cole sighted a large ovoid object over the | | city park in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England. It flashed its | | searchlight nine times, and then flew off quickly toward | | Peterborough. At 11:20 p.m. a witness named Boville in Shoeburyness, | | Essex, England said a torpedo-shaped airship flew silently to the | | west toward Southend-on-Sea. It hovered for four minutes, and emitted | | two strong beams. (Source: Carl Grove, FSR, November-December 1970, | | p. 10). | | | | 1949 - Sgt. Putnam sighted two flat 25-foot diameter silver discs in | | the sky over Tucson, Arizona at 2:30 p.m. They flew at a speed in | | excess of 750 mph in a smooth and steady banked trajectory. A Project | | Blue Book "unknown." (Source: Project Blue Book files counted in | | official statistics, case 384). | | | | 1952 - At 12:10 a.m. a ghostly domed saucer circled the powerplant in | | Mishawaka, Indiana. It flew off quickly toward St. Joseph Airport. | | (Sources: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 2154, citing Project | | Blue Book; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: August, p. 16). | | | | 1952 - Two F-86 pilots saw a round, silver object flying north from | | George AFB, California at 10:20 a.m. A Project Blue Book "unknown." | | At 12:30 two more UFOs were seen moving with the current or breeze at | | a slow speed. They were silver metallic in color, with a dark spot in | | the center, and at certain angles gave off a glare. (Sources: Project | | Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1194A & 1194B; | | Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns; Michael Hall, Captain | | Edward J. Ruppelt: Summer of the Saucers -- 1952, p. 100). | | | | 1954 - At 1:10 a.m. five observers with binoculars north-northwest of | | Linden, Michigan spotted a glowing ovoid flying to the northwest. It | | was glowing with distinct colored bands, none on the rim. (Source: | | Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing APRO Bulletin, July 1954). | | | | 1955 - At 12:05 p.m. four witnesses in Arroyo Seco Canyon, California | | watched many 2-foot white silver saucers circle and flip over near | | Mount Wilson. (Source: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the | | Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1955: January-June, p. 60). | | | | 1956 - A small disc flew in and out of a larger disc at a low | | altitude in Jacksonville, Florida shortly after 11:00 p.m. They made | | no noise. Two girls, Joan Frost and Gertie Wynn, while waiting for a | | bus, saw two pulsating lights flying horizontally and disappearing. | | Fifteen minutes later the lights were seen again, stopping at the | | zenith, merging, and diving to an altitude of only 50 meters. It | | seemed that the disc-shaped objects had separated and the girls were | | in fear of being abducted when the bus arrived, and they ran to the | | vehicle in terror. (Sources: Leonard Stringfield, CRIFO Newsletter, | | July 1956, p. 3; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of | | Landings, case # 382, citing APRO Bulletin, March 1959; Richard F. | | Haines, Project Delta, p. 86). | | | | 1958 - At 1:05 p.m. an airline pilot for Philippines Airline saw a | | bright, shiny metallic object fall and spin through the sky for 90 | | seconds while flying over Bohol Island, The Philippines. A Project | | Blue Book "unidentified" case. (Sources: Project Blue Book files | | counted in official statistics, case # 5800; Dominique Weinstein, | | Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 30). | | | | 1961 - At 7:45 a.m. several observers watched a shiny saucer-shaped | | object hover over Bains Kloof Mountain Pass near Wellington, Western | | Cape, South Africa. It hovered for a minute of two, then wobbled, and | | then shot off toward the east. (Sources: Larry Hatch, U computer | | database, citing FSR, volume 7, number 4; newspaper clipping dated | | May 9, 1961). | | | | 1962 - At 3:30 a.m. several motorists on Highway 35 near Bahia | | Blanca, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina had a close encounter with | | three low level UFOs that pursued them for at least eight minutes. | | (Source: Uriondo Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, December 1972, | | p. 9). | | | | 1964 - At eleven o'clock in the morning three children, John Owens, | | Cheryl Glunt, and Bernie Montello, saw a silvery dome-shaped object | | arrive from the south and land in a field next to a reservoir, 150 | | meters away in the farming town of Mogadore, Ohio. The object's | | estimated diameter was 3 meters. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 603; Ray Palmer, Flying | | Saucers, June 1965, p. 17). | | | | 1964 - At 10:20 p.m. Mr. J. R. Betz, a U.S. District Court | | reporter, sighted three light green crescent-shaped objects, half the | | apparent size of the moon, as they flew quickly in tight formation | | over Chicago, Illiniois from east to west. They were oscillating in | | size and color. A Project Blue Book "unknown." (Sources: Project Blue | | Book files counted in official statistics, case 8788; Don Berliner, | | Australasian UFOlogist, April 1999, p. 51; Jay Rath, The I-Files: | | True Reports of Unexplained Phenomena in Illinois, p. 89). | | | | 1967 - In a field that belonged to Mr. Maillotte, the mayor of | | Marliens, France, a depression was discovered and blue powder was | | found in small trenches radiating from the area. A formidable weight | | seemed to have rested at the spot. No radioactivity was found at the | | site. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of | | Landings, case 841, citing France Soir, May 12, 1967; M. Roger | | Perrinjaquet, Flying Saucer Review, September-October 1967, p. 14). | | | | 1967 - On this evening two witnesses in Champaign, Illinois saw a | | white-lit object that changed color to red as it flew rapidly from | | north to south. The object circled the airport, turned on a bright | | light, made turns, and hovered. It then moved south, passing over the | | witnesses, who followed it at speeds over 90 mph. (Source: NICAP | | files, letter from witness). | | | | 1967 - In Beloit, Wisconsin at 9:05 p.m., which is about 200 miles | | north-northeast of Champaign, a woman named Vance heard a hissing | | sound, then saw an object with flashing blue, red, green, and yellow | | lights. The object "swayed, jumped" and shot out of sight (Sources: | | NICAP files, citing The Daily News, May 10, 1967). | | | | 1968 - At 10:30 p.m. there was a radar-visual confirmation case from | | Ste. Assise, Seine-Marne, France. A nocturnal light curved all over | | the sky near a military radio center. Radar trace records were kept. | | The object left to the southwest after 45 minutes. (Source: Lumieres | | dans la Nuit, December 1968). | | | | 1971 - A black cone-shaped object was photographed over the | | Vermillion River Observatory in Illinois at 11:15 a.m. (Sources: | | Sherman Larsen case investigation files, report dated January 17, | | 1972; Skylook, March 1972, p. 5). | | | | 1972 - Police and a separate witness in the Mojave Desert near Arvin, | | California sighted a bright yellow disc that flew to the east shortly | | before dawn. (Source: NICAP UFO Investigator, December 1972, p. 4). | | | | 1974 - The main witness and six others were returning home late at | | night on Highway 57 near Mount Vernon, Indiana when they all spotted | | a large object hovering close to the ground. The object approached | | and hovered over their vehicle giving off heat. All the passengers | | inside except for the principal witness became sick and passed out. | | He then felt as if he was being drawn upwards and also passed out. He | | next became aware of a bright white light around him and several | | figures looking down at him. The beings called him by his name, and | | then he passed out again. The aliens were described as five feet | | tall, with light skin, huge almond shaped eyes, and a small lower | | jaw. They were also apparently very strong. The man believes that his | | aging process had slowed down subsequent to the abduction. On the | | same night in nearby Evansville, Indiana a Mr. Oscar Jordan had a | | close encounter of the first kind with a UFO. (Sources: (1) Albert S. | | Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1974, case # 1844, citing Francis | | L. Ridge, Regional Encounters; (2) Oscar A. Jordan, Saga UFO Report, | | October 1974, p. 78). | | | | 1976 - A 22-year-old couple saw a rectangular object in the | | northwestern part of the sky over the town of Braine-le-Comte, | | Belgium at 10:30 p.m. In the middle portion of the object protruded | | something like a funnel. It flew off to the north, describing a large | | circle in the sky as it did so. (Source: Rudy de Groote, UFO Register | | (Volume 8), 1977, p. 32, citing the Gazzette Antwerpen). | | | | 1979 - A power failure occurred in the predawn hours in Choconta, | | north of Bogota, Colombia. Ten to fifteen discs were sighted by | | numerous observers for 15 minutes. Eight of them buzzed the telecom | | satellite station. (Source: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, | | August 1979, p. 2). | | | | 1980 - At 7:00 a.m. a Peruvian Air Force Sukhoi-22 warplane was | | scrambled to intercept a UFO flying near the Mariano Melgar AFB, near | | La Joya, Arequipa Province, Peru. It fired on the round object, but | | the UFO zipped off unharmed. (Source: Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, | | p. 324; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 43). | | | | 1980 - Red balls of light the size of lemons climbed up, across, and | | down telephone lines in Bargersville, Indiana then went up another | | pole on a clear evening at 9 p.m. A dog whined and barked as more red | | balls of light moved across a woman's back and the hair on her head. | | The balls of light made no noise (Source: John Timmerman, CUFOS News | | Bulletin, October 1980, p. 3). | | | | 1982 - A hat-like UFO was photographed near Taisetsuzan National | | Park, east-southeast of Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan. There is a | | mountain backdrop in the photograph. (Source: Jenny Randles, Flying | | Saucers and How to See Them, p. 74). | | | | 1983 - At 3:00 a.m. Robert and Janine Lorent in Sambreville, Belgium | | sighted a three meter diameter metallic inverted dish-shaped object | | with a rotating lower part. It was silent when first noticed, then a | | white beam of light turned on. There was a red light also on the | | lower part, and small white lights below row portholes, when it began | | making a purring turbine noise. Their close encounter lasted six | | minutes. (Source: UNICAT, case # 624, citing Michel van Der Elst, | | Inforespace, June 1985, p. 19). | | | | 1985 - At 4:30 a.m. a man had stopped his motorcycle by the side of | | the road in Lowton, England to have a smoke. He became aware of a | | humming sound coming from the adjacent field. When he walked closer | | to the field, he saw a silvery glow coming from a depression in the | | field. Two figures suddenly appeared, and when he started to flee he | | heard a voice say, "Do not be afraid." The beings were both human | | looking, and of similar appearance. They both had blond, shoulder | | length hair parted in the middle, and were wearing what looked like | | blue ski suits. The female was about five feet tall, and the male | | somewhat shorter. Each had an egg-shaped implement attached to a belt | | around their waist. The woman did all the talking, and she explained | | that they were from "the third solar system." She also said they use | | the Earth's magnetic field and gravity for propulsion. After the | | conversation was finished, both beings walked to the silvery glow in | | the field. Moments later the humming sound increased and the glow | | brightened. Then a craft shaped like a football and the size of two | | large buses lifted off from the hollow in the field. It hovered for a | | few seconds, then silently shot away at incredible speed. (Sources: | | Jenny Randles, Alien Contacts and Abductions, p. 150; Larry Hatch, U | | computer database, case # 14120; Albert S. Rosales, 1985 Humanoid | | Sightings Report Database, case # 1587, citing Peter Hough & Jenny | | Randles, Mysteries of the Mercy Valley). | | | | 1986 - A witness from Danville, Pennsylvania called the UFO Reporting | | Center in Seattle to report a missing time episode involving three | | family members associated with an unexplained power failure that | | occurred at 9:30 p.m. An injury the witness had suffered was also | | reportedly healed miraculously. Multiple abduction experiences were | | suspected. (Source: Bob Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, case # 1086). | | | | 1988 - At 3:00 a.m. a 34-year-old woman driving in Waltham, | | Massachusetts had a close encounter with a red ball of light (BOL) | | larger than 3 car lengths. Initially she saw it through the | | windshield. The intensity of the light dimmed and brightened | | considerably about every 5 seconds. There was a whooshing sound. The | | encounter lasted about half a minute. (Source: Joe Nyman, MUFON field | | investigation files, case # 881011). | | | | 1990 - In Dneprodzerzhinzk, Ukraine three-meter diameter red discs | | were seen flying on top of a local mountain at 11:00 p.m. A saucer | | came down and landed in a fuel-dump; the same thing happened again on | | the next day. There were traces and EM effects. (Source: Larry Hatch, | | U computer database, case # 15172, citing Richard F. Haines, | | JUSA-CISAAF Translations, p. 306). | | | | 1990 - At 4:30 a.m. a woman in Gulf Breeze, Florida saw an intense | | blinking light over the Santa Rosa Bay from her window. She observed | | a total of six UFOs over the next hour. (Source: Paul Ferrughelli, | | Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case 907, citing UFO | | Newsclipping Service). | | | | 1995 - At 9:10 p.m. in Vista, San Diego County, California an | | elliptical disc-shaped object, half the apparent diameter of the | | Moon, moved very slowly to the west in the sky, then stopped and | | vanished in place. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # | | 16809, citing NUFORC). | | | | 1999 - A 10:30 p.m. a huge silent V-shaped or delta-shaped object | | passed over three scared teenagers driving on Highway 99 in White | | Rock, British Columbia. It had "headlights". (Sources: Geoff Dittman, | | 1999 Canadian UFO Survey, case 70; Curt Sutherly, UFO Mysteries: A | | Reporter Seeks the Truth, p. 207).  | | | | 2003 - Observers watching the waves in Ocean Beach, San Diego County, | | California noticed a low flying, silent triangular craft one mile | | south of Cliff House at 1:30 a.m. A witness said, "We first thought | | it was a Stealth F-117, but I've seen them before and they are quite | | loud." (Source: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: | | Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 63). | | | | 2004 - Mary E. Spitz, a former Army Captain, reports she was driving | | to her mother's house in Pennsylvania on Mother's Day at 10:10 p.m. | | when she saw a triangular UFO with three blinking white lights and | | one flashing red light in the center. It flew in very low, and | | started following her car. "I was alone and very scared after I | | sighted it in the the town of Martin's Corner," she stated. It was | | only 100 yards above her car, and followed on Highway 340 and then | | some country roads to her mother's house in Wagontown, Pennsylvania. | | It then hovered low over a field for 10 minutes, before flying off to | | the east. It was about 50 feet on each of the three sides.(Source: | | George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports | | of UFO Sightings, p. 103, citing John Schuessler, MUFON). | | | | 2005 - A 48-year-old witness in Carlisle, Pennsylvania reported that | | his dog became fearful of a glowing chevron-shaped UFO. He was | | sitting on his front porch at 3:00 a.m., not able to sleep, and his | | dog was with me. Suddenly, the dog became very agitated and seemed to | | want back in to the house. The witness next saw the silent V-shaped | | object in the partly cloudy sky. He also felt a tingling feeling on | | his head and hair. The incident lasted three minutes. (Sources: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2005 webpage, report | | uploaded May 24, 2005; Joan Woodward, NICAP NISD04 database of animal | | reaction cases, www.nicap.org). | | | | 2005 - At 11:25 p.m. a gray disc-shaped object with lights around its | | rim was seen for 20 minutes by two witnesses in northern Quebec. It | | was slowly flying northeast past the town of Kuujjuaq, Quebec, | | Canada. (Source: Geoff Dittman, 2005 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 33, | | citing HBCCUFO). | | | | 2008 - At 9:35 p.m. a square craft passed right over a couple's car | | at about tree top height from them. They were driving on Interstate | | 75 about half an hour away from Naples, Florida in a stretch of road | | with no exits nor lights on a clear night. The craft appeared in | | front of them and came right over the car at tree top level. The | | object was square in shape and had four lights, one on each corner of | | the craft. It made no sound as it moved past them. (Source: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2008 webpage, report | | made May 13, 2008 and uploaded on June 12, 2008). | | | | 2008 - At 10:05 MDT in Gun Barrel, Boulder County, Colorado a dark, | | disc-shaped object with no markings flew over. At 10:30 p.m. PDT a | | triangular object with red lights on the corners moved slowly from | | northwest to southeast over the Walmart parking lot in canyon | | country, Santa Clarita, California. (Source: Peter Davenport, | | National UFO Reporting Center, May 2008 webpage, reports uploaded | | June 12, 2008). | | | | 2011 - A mile-long dark object with a V formation of lights was | | sighted in Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada at 2:10 a.m. | | (Source: Chris Rutkowski, 2011 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 318). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 7 May 2014). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: abductions; animal reac | | tions: dog fearful, dogs barked and whined; blue uniforms; car pursui | | ts; contact and communication; daylight discs; domed discs; fly-bys; | | hissing sound; humming sound; missing time; multi-year reports from B | | elgium, England, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania and southern Califor | | nia; Nordic-type UFOnauts; physiological effects: sensation of heat, | | tingling sensation; silver UFOs; unusual ground marks, V-shaped UFOs. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+