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| [On This Day] |
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|  Encounters with Aliens on this Day |
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|  January 23 |
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| 1950 - At 4:40 a.m. a U.S. Navy P2V3 patrol plane flying from the |
| Kodiak Naval Air Station in Alaska spotted two orange lights rotating |
| about a common central point, which maneuvered in the sky. (Source: |
| MUFON UFO Journal, September 1978, p. 7). |
| |
| 1959 - A bright silver object was sighted as it arced across the sky |
| in the Panama Canal Zone. It was tracked by US radar. (Source: |
| Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 119, citing New York Times, |
| January 23, 1959). |
| |
| 1964 - An underwater submarine object (USO) was seen at around 9:00 |
| p.m. at the Northeast point at Groote Eylandt in the Northern |
| Territory, Australia. Large lights in the water made a compass go |
| haywire. A shadow in the center of the lights rotated clockwise, |
| causing the lights to pulsate. (Source: Ivan Sanderson, Invisible |
| Residents, p. 112; Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, |
| p. 204). |
| |
| 1965 - Williamsburg, Virginia - At 8:40 a.m. cars stalled near the |
| intersection of US Highway 60 and State Route 614. A 31-year-old |
| businessman named Mains, whose car had stalled, observed a |
| mushroom-shaped object hovering over a nearby field about four feet |
| off the ground, 500 feet away. It was metallic gray and about 75-80 |
| feet tall. There was a red-orange glow coming from the near side, and |
| a bluish glow from the far side. Soon the object rose slightly and |
| then accelerated horizontally speeding off towards the west, making a |
| noise like a vacuum cleaner. The sighting duration was 25 seconds. |
| (Sources: J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, pp. 177-178; Mark |
| Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 138, |
| citing Project Bluebook; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume |
| II:  A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 249 & 314; UNICAT, case # 283). |
| |
| 1966 - More saucer nests were discovered in crushed reeds in |
| Cooktown, Queensland, Australia. (Source: Jacques Vallee,  The |
| Invisible College, p. 52). |
| |
| 1966 - Two witnesses who wished to remain anonymous reported to NICAP |
| that they were changing a tire near Essex, California at 11:45 p.m. |
| when they saw a disc-shaped object land 200 yards away from them. |
| Upon closer investigation they found the object to be 75-100 feet in |
| diameter and 25 feet in height. A door slid open and a seven-foot |
| tall being appeared. He called to them by name, and conversed with |
| them via telepathy. He said his race was from another star and that |
| 400 American citizens are actually from his race. (Source: David F. |
| Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case |
| 1966-05). |
| |
| 1967 - Another abduction by aliens occurred to Betty Andreassen and |
| four other members of her family in South Ashburnham, Massachusetts. |
| The abduction involved a medical exam with instruments used during |
| the exam, communication, and psychological aftereffects. (Source: |
| Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, |
| p. 529). |
| |
| 1968 - At 12:45 a.m. a luminous object landed in Copahue, Neuquen |
| province, Argentina and stayed on the ground for four hours. It was |
| watched by several witnesses who were too afraid to approach. It |
| finally rose vertically, and left behind a large burnt area. |
| (Sources: Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, February 1973, p. 14; |
| APRO Bulletin, July-August 1968, p. 7; Lumieres dans la Nuit, March |
| 1968). |
| |
| 1968 - A college yearbook photo editor from Laurentian University in |
| Sudbury, Ontario took 12 photos with a 35mm camera using tri-X film |
| with five other witnesses at 7:15 p.m. The images showed a slightly |
| off-centered, luminous domed disc-shaped object. Another photograph |
| of a luminous UFO was taken by a married couple, Mr. & Mrs. Wood,  in |
| Old Haversham, Northamptonshire, England at 5:25 a.m. (Source: (1) |
| Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science, Spring 1968, p. 7, citing |
| Sudbury Star, January 24, 1968; (2) David Abbott, FSR, July-August |
| 1968, p. 5). |
| |
| 1968 - At 10:00 p.m., five miles from White Rocks, Utah, a woman |
| named Chapman spotted a blue half dome-shaped object that moved |
| slowly, then changed color to red and moved away very fast! It then |
| maneuvered over the Uintah Mountains. (Source: Frank Salisbury, The |
| Utah UFO Display, p. A-59). |
| |
| 1971 - A brilliant ovoid object flew from east to west over Lerida, |
| Spain for five minutes at 8 p.m. It left a zig-zag contrail. (Source: |
| Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 124, citing Courrier Catalan). |
| |
| 1973 - On this evening a teenage girl driving on Interstate 85 in |
| Gaffney, South Carolina noticed that the radio reception of her car |
| radio was mysteriously blocked. Then she noticed a yellow oval-shaped |
| object with "white lights blinking on and off and going around on its |
| bottom". The UFO followed the traffic on I-85. (Sources: Rodger |
| Painter, Gaffney Ledger, February 2, 1973; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA |
| Vehicle Interference Project Report, case # 63). |
| |
| 1974 - The entire village of Llandrillo, Wales heard a loud explosion |
| that was preceded by violent shaking of the ground. Running outside, |
| many people saw blue and orange lights floating in a circle around |
| Cader Mountain east of the village. Police and RAF personnel were in |
| the area quickly and cordoned off access to a supposed crash site on |
| the barren hilltop. A nurse, telephoned by the police, was on her way |
| up the mountain to the crash site with her daughters when she saw |
| something sitting on the ground ahead of her. It seemed to be intact |
| and was very large, circular and glowed orange. She and her daughters |
| got to within a few hundred feet of teh object when the police and |
| military showed up and told her to leave. According to UFO researcher |
| Tony Dodd, a retired military man using the name of "Robert Prescott" |
| told him that he and some others had been assigned to transport two |
| crates from the crash site to the top secret military weapons |
| research facility at Porton Down near Salisbury, England. According |
| to Prescott, military personnel opened the crates and found two |
| humanoid bodies about 5 to 6 feet tall, and so very thin they were |
| almost skeletal in nature. Other units allegedly transported live |
| aliens from the "crash" site. (Sources: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid |
| Contact Database 1974, case # 3925, citing CSETI; Nicholas Redfern, |
| Cosmic Crashes). |
| |
| 1976 - At 1:30 a.m. in Lompoc, California a nurse driving not far |
| from Vandenburg Air Force Base had a close encounter with a 50 foot |
| long ovoid UFO. Her car radio went wild, and she felt like she had |
| been hypnotized. Near Vandenburg AFB (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer |
| database, case # 12150, citing MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 273). |
| |
| 1976 - At 5:15 p.m. a 17-year-old witness had gotten off the bus in |
| Bolton, Lancashire, England and was returning home to her housing |
| development. She then saw an object with two lights, one amber and |
| the other red, over the Rumsworth Reservoir. The object suddenly |
| streaked toward her and came to hover directly over her. The metallic |
| looking UFO was about 25 feet in diameter and shaped like an octagon, |
| with one amber light and a flashing red light. It had a curved base |
| and a flat top. It rotated on its axis, and the witness's teeth |
| vibrated as if ultrasonic sound waves were emanating from the object, |
| causing her pain in her mouth. Also, pressure on her shoulders |
| knocked her down, and she attempted to scream but was unable to. She |
| ran home terrified. Later under hypnosis it was revealed that she had |
| suffered a 45 minute period of missing time and could vaguely recall |
| an abduction experience. She could only recall being inside a room |
| with a tall blond or albino woman who wore a long gown. She was told |
| by this woman “not to be afraid” and felt that information was being |
| inserted into her brain at high speed. She was also given several |
| apocalyptic messages.(Sources: Jenny Randles, FSR, May 1976, p. 32; |
| Bolton Evening News, January 24 & 27, 1976; John F. Schuessler, MUFON |
| UFO Journal, November 1982, p. 3; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact |
| Database 1976, case # 518, citing Jenny Randles, Alien Contacts and |
| Abductions). |
| |
| 1977 - This humanoid encounter began at 12:30 a.m. when a penetrating |
| sound and bright lights coming from the sky awoke the villagers of |
| Santa Rosa, Lara State, Venezuela. A circular UFO with intense |
| multicolored flashing lights, emitting waves of heat, circled the |
| small community and landed on the banks of the Turbio River, causing |
| panic. Two small human like figures, walking stiffly, could be seen |
| moving about inside the object "slowly and in a robot like fashion" |
| for the next five minutes. When a crowd of people armed with |
| flashlights approached, the object took off when someone shone a |
| flashlight on the object's interior. It left behind a 12 foot wide |
| burn mark, landing gear imprints, and a "greasy granular material" on |
| the ground. (Sources: Mark da Silva, FSR, June 1977, p. 13; David F. |
| Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case |
| 1977-03 (A1703); Jerome Clark & William R. Corliss, UFO Calendar |
| 1999). |
| |
| 1978 - A dark brown hat-shaped object was seen hovering over the |
| beach in Colares, Para State, Brazil at 11:30 p.m. It had two legs |
| that were visible, looked transparent, and had a bottom that |
| reflected a greenish blue light. Its estimated distance was 400 |
| meters, and it was in view for 10 minutes. At 11:53 |
| p.m. a reddish-yellow light flew over Belem, Para, Brazil from north |
| to south at 900 feet altitude. It traveled at a medium speed 1000 |
| meters away, with a trajectory curving to the left. It made no sound, |
| and the duration of the sighting was one minute. On the same day an |
| object was filmed with a Canon Super 8 movie camera in Rio |
| Laranjeira, Para, Brazil using Extachrome film. It looked like a |
| fried egg or a domed disc. (Source: Bob Pratt, Operacion Prato, pp. |
| 24 & 45). |
| |
| 1978 - At 7:40 p.m. a 48-year-old carpenter named Senecal and one |
| other witnessed a distinct disc-shaped object that hovered over |
| Toledo, Ohio for five minutes. It had windows and a structure on top. |
| It shot away to the south. Total duration of sighting was 10 minutes. |
| (Source: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, March 1978, p. 3). |
| |
| 1978 - On the same day a Mrs. Grusheski had a close encounter with a |
| UFO in Hilltown, Adams County, Pennsylvania. (Source: George M. |
| Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 774, citing Doylestown |
| Daily Intelligencer, January 24, 1978). |
| |
| 1979 - A dentist and three students were traveling by car late at |
| night on the barren plain of Toquilla, Casanare province, Colombia |
| when suddenly their motor engine stalled. They then saw two metallic |
| objects land nearby and three men wearing tight-fitting silvery |
| outfits and large helmets came out. There was a sudden whirlwind that |
| surrounded their vehicle and they could no longer see the figures or |
| the objects. When the "whirlwind" went away the figures and objects |
| were no longer there. They had "disappeared like magic". (Sources: |
| Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1979, p. 15 and April |
| 1979, p. 15, citing La Provincia, January 26, 1979 and Cronica, |
| January 25, 1979; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of |
| Humanoid Reports, case A2195, citing Cronica). |
| |
| 1979 - A gray cigar-shaped object with portholes and green and orange |
| lights, circled the hills and bay of Stanraer, Dumfries, Scotland. |
| (Source: Jenny Randles, Flying Saucers and How to See Them, p. 100). |
| |
| 1981 - At two o'clock in the morning Dario Mazzaglia, a farmer in Los |
| Acantilados, Buenos Aires province, Argentina observed flames in |
| the distance, and then saw an ovoid UFO with a reddish-orange glow |
| hovering low over the ground for more than a minute. It made |
| a whistling sound on takeoff. Burnt grass was found at the landing |
| site later, with the roots burnt 3 cm below the surface. Three |
| circular landing gear marks were located around the burn. |
| Electromagnetic effects included interference with the radio and |
| vehicle headlights. (Source: UNICAT, case # 606). |
| |
| 1987 - Three witnesses watched a blue ovoid object hover over houses |
| in Gig Harbor, Washington at 9:30 p.m. (Source: Bob Gribble, UFO |
| Reporting Center, case # 1212). |
| |
| 1988 - A massive "footprint-shaped" or peanut-shaped UFO was seen |
| over Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England at 12:45 a.m. It had many |
| tinted-glass portholes, and flew slowly. (Source: Timothy Good, The |
| UFO Report 1990, p. 20). |
| |
| 1989 - At eight p.m. a polygon-shaped object descended over a power |
| plant in Andebu, Norway and hovered for 2 minutes. It shot up |
| vertically when it left. At 8:30 p.m. in Sande, Norway two people |
| watched a 7 meter long dark object with lights and windows that moved |
| slowly towards a house. It had sharp edges.  (Source: Inforespace, |
| issue 83). |
| |
| 1989 - Two women, aged 64 and 42, saw a disc-shaped object hover 90 |
| feet overhead in Gainesville, Florida at five a.m. for five minutes. |
| It was 10 feet in diameter and made no sound. (Sources: Bob Gribble, |
| UFO Reporting Center; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # |
| 15283). |
| |
| 1989 - A 73-year-old couple in Greens Fork, Indiana sighted a UFO |
| shaped like sperm whale without the tail at 9:30 p.m. The couple were |
| the parents of a woman newspaper reporter who reported their |
| sighting. The object moved slowly and low overhead until out of view. |
| There was also a smaller satellite object that was yellow in color. |
| (Source: Francis Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 119). |
| |
| 1991 - A manta-ray shaped object was sighted maneuvering in the sky |
| over the city of Great Houghton, South Yorkshire, England at 1:20 |
| a.m. (Source: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 141). |
| |
| 1993 - A 34-year-old adult driving with two children in Charlestown, |
| Rhode Island drove under and past a slow-moving, large, lighted, |
| silent domed disc-shaped object with a flat bottom. They stopped to |
| watch as a second object with blinding lights appeared and then moved |
| off, drifting to the northwest. (Source: Jerold R. Johnson, MUFON UFO |
| Journal, July 1994, p. 12). |
| |
| 1995 - At 6:15 a.m. a metallic disc-shaped object was sighted from |
| Seattle hovering low over Puget Sound to the west. It made noises, |
| then streaked away. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting |
| Center). |
| |
| 1997 - A green oval-shaped object with six windows passed over |
| Littleton, New Hampshire from Vermont across the Connecticut River at |
| 6:50 p.m. After a few minutes it took off over the mountains. |
| (Sources: Manchester Union Leader, March 3, 1997; Michael David Hall, |
| UFOs: A Century of Sightings, p. 332).  |
| |
| 1998 - A father and son driving between Holstein |
| and Heartwell, Nebraska at 6:05 p.m. witnessed a glowing triangular |
| object hover for 6-7 minutes; it then turned on end and flew off to |
| the south. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, |
| Seattle, Jan. 1998 webpage). |
| |
| 2000 - There were three sightings in California reported on this day. |
| At 11:05 a.m. in Petaluma in Sonoma County a metallic disc was seen |
| that was about as wide as it was tall. It was about the size of a pea |
| at arm's length. In Covina in Los Angeles County a lighted object |
| moved from west to east across a cloudy sky at 6:30 p.m. It made no |
| sound as it flew. Finally, twenty minutes later in Fontana in San |
| Bernardino County a saucer-shaped UFO hovered for a few minutes, |
| spinning at a high rate of speed. It was completely illuminated by a |
| self-luminous glowing light, and it moved slowly over city after |
| hovering. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, |
| Seattle, Jan. 2000 webpage, reports uploaded on Feb. 16, 2000). |
| |
| 2001 - A huge silver cylindrical object with "falling leaf motion" |
| was seen over Vancouver, British Columbia at nine o'clock in the |
| morning. (Source: Geoff Dittman, 2001 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 31, |
| citing UFOBC). |
| |
| 2001 - A driver in Salisbury, North Carolina felt a strange presence |
| while driving at 8:00 p.m., and looked up to see a saucer directly |
| above the car. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting |
| Center, Seattle, Jan. 2001 webpage, report uploaded Oct. 11, 2005). |
| |
| 2008 - At 3:30 p.m. a photograph of a “phantom UFO” was taken by a |
| woman showing the object flying over a lake, Lago Menendez in the Los |
| Alerces National Park, Chubut province, Argentina next to the |
| Torrecillas Glacier. (Source: Luis Burgos, www.ufoinfo.com, citing |
| Inexplicata). |
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| Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 28 December 2009). |
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| Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. |
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| Themes: cigar-shaped UFOs |
| , communication via telepathy, crash and military retrieval of UFO wr |
| eakage and humanoid bodies, domed discs, luminous UFOs, missing time, |
| multi-year reports from Argentina, octagonal UFO, ovoid UFOs, pendul |
| um motion, photographs and motion picture film, physiological effect: |
| teeth vibrated, radio interference, sensation of heat, silvery unifo |
| rms and helmets, tall humanoid, underwater submarine object (USO), ve |
| hicle EM ignition interference, vertical ascent, very thin humanoids. |
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| © Donald A. Johnson |
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