+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  January 10 | | | | 1953 - At 3:45 p.m. northwest of Sonoma, California two military | | witnesses with high credibility and training, named McNab and Hunter, | | saw a UFO make 90-degree and 180-degree turns and full stops, rise | | vertically, then shoot off toward the northwest. (Sources: J. Allen | | Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 115; Project Blue Book files counted | | in official statistics, case # 2326; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, | | p. 38; MUFON UFO Journal, issue 237). | | | | 1957 - Six witnesses in Stafford, England including a man named | | Roestenberg sighted a cigar-shaped object moving toward the southwest | | at 4:35 p.m. It left behind an orange trail twice its own length. | | When a jet plane approached it rose vertically and vanished into the | | sky. The duration of the sighting was five minutes. (Sources: Richard | | F. Haines, CE5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 170; Flying | | Saucer Review, January-February 1957, p. 9). | | | | 1961 - At 12:14 p.m. a Polaris missile launched from Cape Canaveral, | | Florida was paced by a UFO. Its radar signal was so strong that the | | radar tracking locked onto the UFO instead of the missile.The UFO | | stayed on the radar screen for several minutes. (Source: William R. | | Corliss & Jerome Clark, UFO Calendar 1999; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's | | and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, | | p. 411). | | | | 1961 - At 9:12 p.m. a bright red disc-shaped object was sighted near | | Benjamin, Texas by two men in a light plane. It followed their Beech | | Debonair airplane, zigzagged, and then landed. The pilot was | | interviewed by the US Air Force. (Sources: Dominique Weinstein, | | Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 32; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. | | 43; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., UFOs: A New Look, Washington DC: NICAP, | | p. 24). | | | | 1967 - A gray 30-foot long ovoid UFO with a blue halo flew only 25 | | feet above a car on a road in Bruceville, Indiana at 8:30 p.m. It had | | lights on its rim and made no sound as it flew. It show away toward | | the southeast. The sighting lasted two minutes. (Source: Francis L. | | Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 19). | | | | 1973 - At one a.m. in Quarouble, France a glowing box shone a strong | | beam of light. It made some complex maneuvers, ascending into the | | sky, then flew off toward the southeast. (Source: Lumieres dans la | | Nuit, issue 126). | | | | 1975 - On this night three teenagers named Jones, Symms, and Dencie | | were driving by Lake Erie in St. Thomas, Ontario when a blue light | | came and hovered over their car, and then followed it along road. | | They made a sharp turn in their car, and the UFO made an even sharper | | turn. The car then stalled, and the radio went off as the light drew | | closer. It then flew off toward the west. (Source: London (Ontario) | | Free Press, January 10, 1975). | | | | 1976 - Near the shore of the ocean in Merville, Normandy, France a | | witness named Masseron heard a voice repeating "LPX LPX..." at around | | ten p.m. and saw a 1.5 meter long ovoid object standing on the | | ground. A black being stood nearby. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, | | June 1978). | | | | 1978 - A 25-year-old man name Price observed two irregularly shaped | | bright yellow objects in the night sky while driving near Grafton, | | New South Wales, Australia at around 4:00 a.m. One of the objects | | approached and appeared to slowly move down a mountainside. It seemed | | to periodically issue a "shower of sparks". This initial sighting | | lasted for about 20 minutes. The man then drove on but had difficulty | | recollecting the next part of his journey. Some 30 minutes later he | | observed a very bright object that looked like a "chicken coop" at a | | place called Bakers Creek Falls, near Armidale, New South Wales. The | | object was on the ground, stationary for 10 minutes, and then it | | moved. It was a very large elongated object with "portholes", | | hovering over the ground. He took photographs but they only show a | | blurred yellow shape. | | | | Mr. Price next got out of his car and set off walking into the | | paddock to try to get closer to the object. However, as he got nearer | | the object appeared to retreat into an extensive fog. The witness | | advanced and saw the fog retreating out of the ravine. Suddenly the | | movement of the fog stopped and returned along its original path | | towards him. It quickly enveloped him, reducing visibility to less | | than 10 feet. The fog was accompanied by a sound similar to a vacuum | | cleaner. Then the fog quickly dissipated along with the sound, | | leaving the witness alone. He returned to his car in the morning and | | noticed two "shockwaves" one minute apart, as if the whole area was | | suddenly shaken, and then normality. The witness could not recollect | | up to an hour of the journey despite traveling on a twisting and | | turning road, which presumably required the driver's constant | | attention. (Sources: ACOS Bulletin, September 1978, p. 27; Thomas E. | | Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 248; Mark | | Moravec, PSIUFO Phenomena) | | | | 1978 - On or before this day at 4:20 p.m. a married couple named | | Blakemore encountered a black cylindrical UFO with a turret at the | | rear in Blandford, Dorset, England. The UFO emitted a cloud of fog or | | smoke, radiated beams of light, and then ascended into the sky. | | (Source: D. N. Mansell, Awareness, July 1978, p. 4, citing the | | Yeoville Gazette, January 13, 1978). | | | | 1978 - Mr. Gould, age 52, was chopping wood just north of his house | | in South Middleton, Massachusetts at 2:30 p.m. when he spotted a | | white-suited figure standing on a path about 90 feet away. The figure | | was described as four and a half feet tall with broad shoulders and | | arms that hung down its sides. It wore a square helmet with two round | | eyeholes and gray gloves, each with three digits. The witness spoke | | English and French at the figure but got no reaction. After awhile | | the witness drove back home and on his way there spotted a large | | egg-shaped object on a slope in a partially wooded area. The object | | was dark gray in color and had bubble like windows. Ground traces | | were found. (Source: David F. Webb, FSR, June 1981, p. 24; David F. | | Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case | | A1906, citing Raymond E. Fowler; MUFON UFO Journal, issue #143; | | Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. | | 491). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 12 September 2004). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: aircraft encounter, beams of light, black humanoid, blue UFO | | , cigar-shaped or cylindrical UFOs, fog or smoke, humanoid with broad | | shoulders, maneuvering UFOs, missing time, multi-year reports from E | | ngland and France, ovoid UFOs, radar-visual confirmation, UFO pacing | | ballistic missile, vacuum cleaner sound, vehicle EM ignition interfer | | ence effects: engine and lights died; vertical ascent, white uniform. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+