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| [On This Day] |
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|  Encounters with Aliens on this Day |
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|  August 18 |
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| 1947 - Two silver round flat disc-shaped objects, described as |
| looking like "skeet targets", passed beneath a United |
| Airlines transport plane flying at 8,000 feet near Mountain Home Army |
| Air Base, Idaho at around noon. The objects flew off to the south, at |
| a speed estimated at 900 miles per hour. There were two witnesses on |
| board the aircraft. (Sources: Boise (Idaho) Statesman, August 20, |
| 1947; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 10; Jan |
| Aldrich, Project 1947 Research Notes from Bordentown, New Jersey |
| talk, April 16, 2005). |
| |
| 1947 - At 8:15 p.m. in Sorrento, Louisiana a photograph was taken by |
| a Mr. Hofard of at least 78 torpedo-shaped UFOs, glowing brightly and |
| moving silently low over the trees. (Source: Harold Wilkins, Flying |
| Saucers on the Attack, p. 73). |
| |
| 1952 - Three policemen in Fairfield, California sighted a UFO at |
| 12:50 a.m. The object changed color and intensity like a diamond, and |
| flew in different directions during the 30-minute sighting. (Sources: |
| Project Blue Book reports counted in official statistics, case # |
|  1920; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: August, p. 42; Kevin |
| Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 278; Don |
| Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). |
| |
| 1953 - In the early evening on or about this day Salvador Villanueva, |
| a taxi cab driver, was trying to repair his broken down car out in |
| the country near Ciudad Valles, Mexico when he was joined by two |
| short, human looking men. They were only about four and a half feet |
| tall, and they wore one-piece gray garments made out of corduroy |
| that covered even their feet. They also had on wide, shiny black |
| belts, metal collars, and small black shiny boxes connected to the |
| collars on the back of their necks. Under their arms they carried |
| football-style crash helmets. Because it was raining he invited them |
| to shelter inside his taxi, where they had a conversation that |
| lasted all night. They spoke Spanish with a strange accent. The |
| spokesman eventually told him they were from another planet, which |
| Villanueva scarcely believed, but he accompanied them to their craft. |
| While walking there he noticed that the mud puddles did not get their |
| feet wet, and that their belts glowed whenever the mud was repelled. |
| The UFO was disc-shaped and looked like two soup plates joined at the |
| rim, with a shallow dome on top with portholes. It rested on the |
| ground on three spheres that acted like landing gear. He was invited |
| inside, but declined to go. The two men climbed up some stairs to get |
| aboard. Glowing white, the vessel zigzagged upwards, and then shot up |
| vertically, making only a faint whistling sound. A 40-foot circle of |
| broken bushes was left behind at the landing spot. It's possible the |
| presence of the UFO may have caused his car to malfunction. (Sources: |
| David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, |
| citing APRO Bulletin, April 1955; Jacques Vallee, Passport to |
| Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 116, citing Flying Saucer |
| Review, March 1962). |
| |
| 1954 - A brilliant metallic sphere was witnessed at 6:30 p.m. by a |
| witness while driving between the towns of Coire and Chur, |
| Switzerland. The sphere maneuvered in the western sky toward Ilanz at |
| three kilometers altitude, making sudden turns. It finally shot |
| straight up into the sky and was gone. At 8:00 p.m. a reddish yellow |
| disc seen over the town of Stein-Saeckingen, Switzerland for 12 |
| minutes. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, cases # 3518 & |
| 3519; unsourced newspaper clipping dated August 25, 1954). |
| |
| 1957 - In Shelbyville, Indiana at 9:00 p.m. a three-meter long ovoid |
| rose up 30 meters over a cornfield. It had lights on its periphery, |
| and made a clanking noise. (Source: Gray Barker, Flying Saucers |
| magazine, February 1958, p. 46; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of |
| the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: August-September, p. 34). |
| |
| 1962 - At 5:00 p.m. on the island of Bermuda radio station owner Mr. |
| M. Sheppard, and chief announcer Mr. A. Seymour, sighted three |
| dull-white, egg-shaped objects at 5:00 p.m. The objects wavered as |
| they moved through the sky for 20 minutes. (Sources: Project Blue |
| Book files counted in official statistics, case # 8364; Richard Hall, |
| The UFO Evidence, p. 113; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO |
| Unknowns). |
| |
| 1963 - A silvery disc-shaped UFO was seen by two young boys in Fort |
| Kent, Aroostook County, Maine at 12:30 p.m. The boys' parents agreed |
| that they must have seen something unusual. The disc passed from |
| north to south, emitting a hum intermittently. (Sources: St. John |
| Valley Times, August 29, 1963; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. |
| 141; APRO Bulletin, March-April 1964, p. 6). |
| |
| 1964 - Major D.W. Thompson and First Pilot Lt. J. F. Jonke were |
| flying a U.S. Air Force C-124 transport plane 200 miles over the |
| Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Dover, Delaware. At 12:35 a.m. they |
| sighted a round, blurry, reddish-white object that appeared to be on |
| a collision course with their C-124 from ahead and below. The |
| airplane evaded the object. The sighting lasted two minutes. |
| (Sources: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 33; Don |
| Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Don Berliner, Australasian |
| Ufologist, April 1999, p. 52). |
| |
| 1965 - In Noblesville, Indiana at 10:50 p.m. the engine and radio of |
| a car with two occupants inside died when a top-shaped object with a |
| dome and body lights hovered over the car. The close encounter lasted |
| for four minutes. (Source: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume |
| II:  A Thirty-Year Report, p. 249). |
| |
| 1966 - Three hunters, E. Beucomo, J. Zapata and J. Ramos, observed a |
| strange glow in the forest near Barinas, Venezuela and discovered a |
| very large, egg-shaped object, hovering stationary two meters above |
| ground. It had large, circular openings emitting a multicolored |
| light, and it made a whistling sound. The hunters ran away. (Source: |
| Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case |
| 786). |
| |
| 1968 - At 13:23 p.m. in a forest 47 kilometers west-southwest of |
| Cluj, Romania, three photographs were taken of a silvery hat-shaped |
| object, 42-50 meters in diameter, with a structure similar to the Rex |
| Heflin photographs from Santa Ana, California in 1965. The |
| photographer was a 45-year-old man, along with his girlfriend, and |
| there were two other  witnesses. It flew overhead at an estimated |
| height of 600 meters, moving from northeast to southwest, and then |
| reversed direction. The object finally accelerated and shot upward |
| out of sight. The sighting lasted two minutes. (Sources: Florin |
| Gheorghita, FSR, November 1969, p. 12; Richard H. Hall, The UFO |
| Evidence, Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, p. 287). |
| |
| 1971 - At 6:40 a.m. a glowing white cigar, the size of a railroad car |
| and tapered at one end, flew over in Sutherlands, South Australia. It |
| had no wings or protuberances, and flew to the east on an even course |
| at an estimated speed of 200 mph. (Source: A. Jenke, Australian FSR, |
| February 1972, p. 21). |
| |
| 1972 - Raimundo Alvarez and Pancho Torres, two masons, were working |
| on a roof drain at around two o'clock in the afternoon in Istapalapa, |
| Mexico when they heard a humming sound. Next they noticed that all |
| ordinary daytime sounds had eerily ceased, creating a "stifling" |
| silence. About 50 yards away from them Alvarez saw two strange, |
| eight-foot tall figures, dressed in bright silvery clothing |
| resembling fish scales. When they got closer the two men could see |
| that the beings were unusually broad shouldered and slender. They had |
| round heads that were bright silver in color, with two round bumps in |
| place of eyes, small ears, no visible mouths or noses, hands with |
| four digits, and large webbed feet like those of ducks. They "seemed |
| to float in air" while walking. The beings started to approach the |
| witnesses, but just then a woman carrying a milk can came around the |
| corner of the house, and the two creatures "flew" toward her. A great |
| deal of dust arose from the ground; the two entitiesvanished into it |
| and were not seen again. (Sources: APRO Bulletin, November-December |
| 1973, p. 5; FSR, November 1973, p. 30; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, |
| HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1972-19 (A1162), |
| citing FSR, Volume 19, # 6). |
| |
| 1975 - Two men, Bernard Gregory, age 19, and Patrick Labonne, age 22, |
| were camping in a clearing in Villeneuve Loubet, Alpes Maritimes |
| Department, France. At around 2:30 a.m. Bernard suddenly felt uneasy, |
| and saw four luminous "forms". He called Patrick, who also saw them. |
| Both men felt they were being observed. Afraid, they woke the rest of |
| their friends. Suddenly all six of them saw a huge light and then a |
| red cloud that ascended into the sky and transformed into a black, |
| compact cigar-shaped object. The being-like forms were described as |
| about 1.75 m in height, each with two eyes in the upper part. The |
| forms were white in color, and they moved very slowly, like on |
| rollers. As the witnesses walked away they looked back, and saw two |
| of the forms in a tree. At this point the witnesses attempted to |
| approach the beings, but were prevented by an "invisible" barrier. |
| After the gray compact cigar-shaped object left, the grass at the |
| site was found to be desiccated, and matted down in a spiral fashion. |
| A white, oval-shaped stain resembling chalk was also found, but |
| disappeared with the morning daylight. During the incident the |
| witnesses noticed there was an unusual silence in the area, but dogs |
| were heard barking in the distance. (Sources: Lumieres dans la Nuit, |
| May 1977; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid |
| Reports, case #  A1624; Alain Gamard, UFO Register, volume 7 (1978), |
| p. 44; Albert S. Rosales, 1975 Humanoid Contact Database, citing Eric |
| Zurcher, "Les apparitions d'humanoides", Gesag 71, ADEPS Bulletin, |
| issue 13). |
| |
| 1975 - At 6:50 a.m. in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin a silver |
| domed-disc with a transparent cupola on top, hovered 10 feet over a |
| farm, making a buzzing noise. The silhouette of an occupant was seen |
| inside the transparent dome. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, |
| HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case #  A1410, citing |
| Wisconsin Rapids Daily Telegram, August 19, 1975).  |
| |
| 1978 - A large glowing disc-shaped UFO was seen in a forest near |
| Gravigny, Eure department, France at 10:30 p.m. It flashes red, |
| slowly ascended vertically slowly, and then made a quick 90-degree |
| turn, finally shooting off to the south. (Source: Lumieres dans la |
| Nuit, March 1979). |
| |
| 1978 - A 60-foot in diameter domed disc, with an antenna with a red |
| light on top of it, was seen in close vicinity in Port Crane, New |
| York at 11:15 p.m. It had an arrow-like projection of light. It |
| hovered for 30 seconds at 45 feet above the ground, |
| causing TV interference and setting off the buzzing of a magnetic |
| detector.  (Sources: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, |
| December 1978, p. 13; UNICAT, case # 136, citing IUR). |
| |
| 1980 - A large double cube-shaped object was seen on the ground of a |
| Baltic Island off Estonia in the early evening. It had a sweeping |
| beam of light. It reportedly polymorphed into a domed saucer-shaped |
| object. (Sources: Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing Andre |
| Liljegren, AFU Sweden, issue # 24). |
| |
| 1981 - Mrs. Schmidt and her three children saw a 25-foot octagon |
| hover 100 feet over their driveway in Sandstone, Minnesota. It was |
| silent, and had red and green flashing lights. (Sources: Pine City |
| Courier, September 3, 1981; John F. Schuessler, MUFON UFO Journal, |
| November 1982, p. 4). |
| |
| 1987 - Many people witnessed a disc-shaped object in Corydon, Indiana |
| at 11:45 p.m., including the main witness, a 36-year-old woman. The |
| UFO was black with a bulging center, and it had a bottom section with |
| multiple orange, red and blue lights. It was described as being very |
| large, and estimated to be about 400 meters away at an altitude of |
| 800 feet. Its speed was slow, except when it took off. (Source: James |
| Delehanty, field investigator, MUFONCD-Rom case file database, case # |
| 881002). |
| |
| 1993 - A girl was riding her bicycle on this day in Odense, Denmark |
| when she observed a large hovering object with four large windows on |
| one level and another window on a second level. Behind the windows |
| several figures could be seen moving around. As the object turned she |
| saw three bright lights below. Nearby a normally placid pony behaved |
| very uneasy during the encounter. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, |
| Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 1608, citing Tony Dodd, UFO |
| Magazine (UK), January 1994, quoting UFO-Nyt). |
| |
| 1993 - A glowing UFO hovered over Wood Lake, British Columbia at 9:00 |
| p.m. It dropped sparks, moved, then stopped and hovered, and |
| finally continued on after five minutes. (Source: UFO Newspaper |
| Clipping Service, November 1993). |
| |
| 1993 - At 11:00 p.m. a young Hispanic woman phoned her neighbors and |
| asked them to come over to her house outside Dallas, Texas |
| immediately, because there were something strange going on in the |
| house. One of her neighbor's, Jill, grabbed her camera and headed for |
| the house. When Jill arrived the entire family was in a state of |
| terror and extreme agitation. Two of the young females in the |
| household were cowering in a corner of the living room, holding on to |
| each other. The friend who called her sat in a chair curled into a |
| semi-fetal position, rocking back and forth. She then pointed to the |
| backyard. Jill looked out through a sliding glass door that led to |
| the backyard and saw a creature with glowing red eyes, only 15 feet |
| from the door. The being seemed to be scanning the house from left to |
| right and top to bottom. Jill began snapping photos through the |
| sliding glass door. At the same time the Hispanic woman heard a long |
| ringing sound in her ears. Eventually the being disappeared. Another |
| family member reported seeing similar beings going through doors, |
| windows and walls the same day and two days prior. An anomalous image |
| did appear on the developed film. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, |
| Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 2742, citing Internet |
| Sightings). |
| |
| 1995 - In Stockport, England a glistening triangular shaped object |
| vanished at 1:30 a.m., then two orange nocturnal lights maneuvered |
| all over the sky for the next 10 minutes. (Source: UFO Newsclipping |
| Service, January 1996; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # |
| 17374). |
| |
| 1995 - At 11:00 p.m. a triangle-shaped object with fireballs and |
| various flashes was seen in Revin, Ardennes, France. Video was taken |
| of the phenomena for seven minutes. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer |
| database, case # 17375, citing Banque OVNI, issue 95). |
| |
| 1995 - On this night a luminous 40-foot in diameter disc-shaped craft |
| with a row of dark windows around the center rim, hovered near a |
| radio tower in Barranquitas, Puerto Rico, causing a fluctuation in |
| the radio station's power. Two children reportedly encountered a |
| four-foot-tall being with red eyes and a spiny crest on its back in a |
| nearby  park. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database |
| 1995, case # 2184, citing Jorge Martin, UFO Magazine). |
| |
| 1999 - At 4:10 a.m. in Izmir, Turkey a man first observed a huge, |
| oval-shaped craft, almost one kilometer in length, over the city; it |
| suddenly vanished. Then a small gray egg-shaped object with small |
| windows landed in his garden. Several small Grey humanoids exited the |
| object and stared at the witness. One of them approached him and |
| slowly took his hand; the beings skin felt very soft. The humanoid |
| then tried to pull the man's hand gently, in an attempt to escort him |
| onboard the landed craft, but the witness refused to go. However, he |
| reported that he felt at peace during the encounter. (Sources: Peter |
| Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 1999 web |
| page; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 3608, |
| citing NUFORC). |
| |
| 1999 - At 10:05 p.m. in Nineveh, Pennsylvania two witnesses watched |
| as two large 30-meter long triangular objects hovered at only 30 |
| meters altitude, only 40 meters away from them. The craft had clearly |
| lit windows, and flew silently. They went off to the north. (Source: |
| George Filer, Filer's Files, Volume 9, # 34, citing NUFORC). |
| |
| 2006 - At 1:18 a.m. in Black Point, Nova Scotia, Canada a witness |
| first observed a simple blue nocturnal light in the sky. Several |
| minutes later he observed a slow-moving disc-shaped object flying |
| just over his neighbor's house, where it hovered for several |
| minutes.(Source: Geoff Dittman, Canadian UFO Survey 2006, case # 526, |
| citing ufoinfo.com). |
| |
| 2007 - A brief entry of a landing and report of humanoids is |
| contained in the British Ministry of Defence database of UFO reports |
| for 2007. Case # 52 reports that an object or objects were seen near |
| Streatham in London, England and that the object or objects |
| then landed. "A person was seen and then more people were seen. A lot |
| of phenomena." (Source: British Ministry of Defence, case # |
| 2007-052). |
| |
| 2008 - A wingless silver cigar-shaped object stopped in the air over |
| the ocean off of Cape Breton near Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada at 7:50 |
| p.m.; it then disappeared. There were three witnesses and the |
| sighting lasted for four minutes. (Source: Geoff Dittman, Canadian |
| UFO Survey 2008, case # 611). |
| |
| 2009 - Camped on the top of a ridge outside of Sedro Wooley, |
| Washington at around 1:00 a.m., a man who had previously seen a |
| multi-colored UFO many times in the area late at night took out his |
| binoculars and sighted an oval-shaped disc with blinking red, blue, |
| and green lights. It was making a low-pitched, humming sound, and was |
| hovering over a small clearing on the ridge. Through the binoculars |
| he saw what appeared to be a porthole, and through the porthole he |
| could see a humanoid being wearing some sort of a helmet. Frightened, |
| the man decided to climb down off the ridge and go home. (Source: |
| Albert S. Rosales, 2009 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing |
| Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2009 archived |
| webpage). |
| |
| 2009 - In Bagshot, Surrey, England a married couple reported that at |
| 9:45 p.m. they observed an orange-colored,  diamond or mitre |
| hat-shaped object moving across the sky, silently.(Source: Peter |
| Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2009 webpage, report |
| uploaded December 12, 2009). |
| |
| 2010 - At around 8:00 p.m. in Evansville, Indiana a witness reported |
| to the UFO Reporting Center that he had a close encounter with an |
| eight-inch wide flying disc, only 20 feet away from him, which |
| floated across the ground and then rose up into the sky. (Source: |
| Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2010 webpage, |
| report uploaded November 21, 2010). |
| |
| Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 17 August 2012). |
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| Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. |
| |
| Themes: abduction at |
| tempt, aircraft UFO encounters, disc-shaped UFOs, domed discs, electr |
| omagnetic effects, feeling at peace emotional response to Greys sugge |
| sts manipulation of emotions; Grey UFOnauts, low-level UFOs, multi-ye |
| ar reports from England, France and Indiana, ovoid UFOs, photographs |
| of hat-shaped UFO, reddish-white UFO, red-eyed creatures, short UFOna |
| uts, triangular UFOs, wavering motion, UFO on collision course with a |
| ircraft, UFO reports over the Atlantic Ocean, vehicle ignition system |
| interference effects, vertical ascent, whistling sound, white UFOs. |
| |
| © Donald A. Johnson |
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