+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | | July 3 | | | | 1947 - There are 35 unexplained UFO, USO (unidentified submarine | | object), and humanoid reports for this day in UFOCAT, including the | | alleged discovery of the famous Roswell debris field by Mac Brazel on | | a ranch near Corona, New Mexico and the discovery of a crashed disc | | by Barney Barnett in an arroyo near Magdelena, New Mexico. A cluster | | of three reports came from around Cincinnati, Ohio between 10:30 a.m. | | and 5:30 p.m. A cluster of another three reports came from Prince | | Edward Island, Canada at 5:45 p.m. including the sighting of a black | | cigar-shaped object in Charlottetown. There was a third cluster of | | sightings from Sonoma County, California where a forest fire lookout | | in Fort Ross saw what looked like a burning ship sink slowly into the | | Pacific Ocean where no ship was reported missing. There was a fourth | | cluster of three sightings between Baltimore, Maryland and | | Washington, DC. | | (Sources: Larry Hatch, U Computer database, case 782; David F. Webb & | | Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT, case A2038; Cincinnati (OH) Post, July 3, 1947; | | Cincinnati (OH) Enquirer, July 9, 1947; Windsor (ON) Daily Star, July | | 5, 1947; Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 | | UFO Sighting Wave, p. 6); Baltimore Sun, July 6, 1947). | | | | 1947 - Harborside, Maine - John F. Cole, an astronomer, watched a | | series of objects that gave off a roaring noise at 2:30 in the | | afternoon from Harborside, south of Brooksville, Maine. The objects | | were in the north and were proceeding northwest at a high speed. He | | estimated their diameter at 100 feet. Calling the report an | | "unusually well-supported incident," the Air Force had no | | explanation. However, years later the Air Materiel Command publicly | | explained the event as "birds or insects". This sighting was also one | | of the 1947 cases investigated by the FBI. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, | | Anatomy of a Phenomenon, pg. 51; Donald Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top | | Secret, pg. 89). | | | | 1947 - In the village of Mendon, Vermont at 9:00 p.m. Mrs. Spieski | | sighted a cylindrical UFO, shaped like a flashlight with a white head | | and green body. It flew at a moderate speed over a meadow at low | | altitude, heading toward the southwest. (Sources: Ted Bloecher; | | Rutland (VT) Herald, July 9, 1947). | | | | 1949 - A blue-green fireball was sighted at dawn north of Vaughn, | | Montana. It lit up the sky from horizon to horizon. At 10:40 a.m. 200 | | spectators watched three identical disc-shaped objects fly over an | | air show being held in Longview, Washington. Another disc-shaped | | flying object was sighted in Astoria, Oregon at 1:00 p.m. At 3:00 | | p.m. in Sterling State Park on the shore of Lake Erie in Michigan, | | Mr. D. Swarz was watching 2 AT6 airplanes when his attention was | | drawn to a metallic disc high above moving rapidly in opposite | | direction. The object went south over the western end of Lake Erie | | and was gone in 11 seconds. (Sources: Edward Sullivan, CSI-Los | | Angeles letters from witnesses; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top | | Secret, p. 86; newspaper clipping datelined Astoria, OR July 5, 1949.) | | | | 1955 - Mrs. Wesley Symmonds was driving near Stockton, Georgia when | | she saw four "bug-eyed" creatures near the road. They were small | | beings with thin arms, wide shoulders, large eyes, and pointed chins. | | Two were turned away from the witness; one was bending over with | | something like a stick in its hand; and the fourth one was facing her | | with its right arm raised. It had bulging eyes, a sort of cap, no | | visible mouth, a long pointed nose, a chin that came to a sharp | | point, and long thin arms with claws. (Sources: Leonard Stringfield, | | Inside Saucer Post...3-0 Blue, Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A | | Century of Landings, p. 249-250). | | | | 1960 - An Argentinean Air Force Captain photographed a cone-shaped | | UFO between Yacanto and Cordoba, Argentina at 4:30 p.m. There was a | | mystery fall of ice from the sky in Portage, Pennsylvania. (Source: | | FSR Case Histories, December 1973, p. 17; George Eberhart, A | | Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 788). | | | | 1961 - An object resembling a hovercraft was seen at fifteen minutes | | after minute in Ryde, England. It had five windows through which a | | bright orange light was shining, and it hovered about 20 meters above | | the trees. It left suddenly at high speed. (Source: Passport to | | Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 520). | | | | 1965 - At their base on Deception Island in the South Shetland | | Islands, Antarctica two Chilean scientists, Barrera and Perisse, | | witnessed, tracked with a theodolite, and photographed a bluish-green | | lighted object that zigzagged and caused strong radio frequency | | interference beginning at 7:14 p.m. Another electromagnetic effect | | was that the UFO registered on their magnetograph tapes and | | variometers. Photographs were taken. The blue-green lighted object | | was seen zig-zagging. There was a government coverup. (Sources: La | | Razon, July 6, 1965; NICAP UFO Investigator, September 1965, p. 2; | | Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious Business, p. 281; UNICAT, case | | 11; BUFORA Journal, May-June 1965, p. 18; Richard H. Hall, The UFO | | Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 315-316). | | | | Deception Island, Antarctica Close Encounter - 1965 | | | | [Sketch of Deception Island UFO - 1965] | | | | 1967 - An 8-mm home movie was made at 1:00 a.m. in Buckhorn, Ontario | | when a family saw 15 lights darting about in the sky. Mr. Denniss | | shot a few feet of film in the direction of flight. On the film is a | | red, round luminous object, flattened slightly on the top. They next | | saw three lights traveling in a triangle formation. (Source: Skylook, | | January 1968, p. 7). | | | | 1968 - Around midnight a man driving in a car in Colle Orlando, Italy | | had a tall humanoid jump onto the roadway from an embankment in front | | of him. The being wore blue overalls, had long hair, and a bright | | light shone from his chest. The being easily jumped over the car, | | laughed, then jumped to a hill where a small red disc was hovering. | | (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, 1968, case 99, | | citing ITACAT). | | | | 1976 - Two 14-year-old girls, Ms. Chapman and Ms. Perry, in Mawman, | | England heard a hissing sound around 10 o'clock at night. They then | | saw a flying humanoid as big as a man, with glowing red eyes. It | | looked like "a big owl with pointed ears." (Source: David F. Webb and | | Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT, case A1641, citing Fortean Times, August 1976, | | p. 17). | | | | 1999 - A couple driving between Oostende and Bruges, Belgium saw a | | triangular object hovering seven meters above a field. It was silver | | and black with lights in each corner, and had a pulsating red light | | in the center. When one of them tried to photograph it the craft | | approached them. They panicked and drove off. (Source: UFO Magazine | | (USA), November 1999, p. 29). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 19 June 2009). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: blue uniforms, disc-shaped U | | FOs, flying humanoid, glowing red eyes, hissing sound, low level UFOs | | , metallic UFOs, motion picture film, photographs, procession of obje | | cts, roaring sound, short humanoids, tall humanoids, triangular UFOs. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | | < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+