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|  Encounters with Aliens on this Day |
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|  January 30 |
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| 1897 - A mystery airship with an immense artificial bright light was |
| sighted in the early evening by several "sober observers" in |
| Hastings, Nebraska. It was estimated to be 12 meters in length, and |
| perhaps 800 feet in the air. Days later it was seen 40 miles south of |
| Invale, Nebraska. (Sources: Omaha Bee, February 2, 1897; Philip Rife, |
| It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 3; Loren E. Gross, Charles Fort, the |
| Fortean Society, and UFOs, p. 9). |
| |
| 1944 - On this day several 30-cm amber "foo-fighter" balls followed |
| some US fighter planes of the 415th Squadron flying southwest of |
| Landau, Germany. They were chased away. (Source: SOS-OVNI France, |
| Phenomena, issue 12). |
| |
| 1953 - Research chemist Wells Alan Webb and two other witnesses were |
| traveling on Highway 80 seven miles east of Yuma, Arizona when a |
| nocturnal light appeared and spun in the sky over a mechanic in a |
| plane; the UFO then accelerated up into the sky. (Source: Charles |
| Maney & Richard Hall, The Challenge of Unidentified Flying Objects, |
| p. 152; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 51; Otto Binder, What We |
| Really Know About Flying Saucers, p. 54). |
| |
| 1956 - At 9:30 p.m. in Lamar, nine miles east of Holdenville, |
| Oklahoma a low flying, 120 foot long ovoid object illuminated an |
| area 15 acres in size; it then pursued four witnesses in a car for 16 |
| minutes. (Source: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the |
| Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1956: January-April, p. 20). |
| |
| 1958 - At 11:45 p.m. a lawyer, his wife, and their nephew felt an |
| electric shock at a point 220 miles north of Arequipa, Peru heading |
| towards Lima. Several seconds later the headlights and engine of |
| their car failed. An inverted mushroom-shaped object was then |
| observed, about 15 feet in diameter, descending from the sky. It |
| hovered for about eight minutes at a 150-foot altitude, glowing red. |
| A truck and a bus were also affected by the presence of the UFO. |
| (Source: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, |
| case 90, citing Charles Maney & Richard Hall, The Challenge of |
| Unidentified Flying Objects). |
| |
| 1959 - A truck driver driving this night on U.S. Route 52 near New |
| Richmond, Ohio saw a bizarre gray "ugly" creature with tentacles |
| crossing the road ahead of the truck. Two hours later, just across |
| the border in Covington, Kentucky a woman reported seeing a strange |
| grayish creature with a lopsided chest, ugly tentacles, and rolls of |
| fat running in a bent over fashion. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, |
| Humanoid Contact Database 1959, citing Bigfoot: Tales of Unexplained |
| Creatures, UFOs, and Psychic Connections). |
| |
| 1965 - Sid Padrick, age 52, was walking on the beach in Manresa |
| Beach, Santa Cruz County, California just before 2.00 a.m. when he |
| heard a sound and saw a large dark disc-shaped object that approached |
| from the Pacific Ocean. He started to run from it, but heard a voice |
| frpm it saying, “Do not be frightened, we are not hostile.” It |
| descended to within two feet of the beach. Mr. Padrick was invited by |
| the voice to come onboard, which he did. The UFO, which bore no |
| lights, was shaped like a 50 foot sphere with top and bottom cut off, |
| and surrounded by a horizontal flange. The witness entered through a |
| brilliantly lit antechamber, and was met by a young man dressed in a |
| tight fitting, bluish white two piece uniform, continuous with the |
| boots. The UFO occupant identified himself as "Zeeno" and said that |
| he came from a planet invisible to us, as it is always behind one of |
| the planets we can see. He further explained that their society had |
| no sickness, vice or crime. Padrick saw on a TV screen another such |
| vessel, identified as their “navigating craft.” He was taken for a |
| ride to a spot in the mountains and brought back to the beach |
| after two hours. (Sources: Major Damon B. Reeder, U.S. Air Force for |
| Project Blue Book; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of |
| Humanoid Reports, case # 1965-10 (A0620), citing Paul Cerny; John |
| Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 228; George D. Fawcett, Flying |
| Saucers, August 1965, p. 58 & October 1966, p. 30). |
| |
| 1965 - A triangular UFO was spotted about 8:30 p.m. by Chad Rayfeld, |
| a 17-year-old high school senior, and several friends in Newport |
| News, Virginia. They estimated it was three times bigger than an |
| automobile, very bright, and moving fast across the James River in |
| the direction of Richmond. At the base of the triangle was an orange |
| light with a white light at the leading apex. The triangle made no |
| noise, and was visible for about 20 minutes. (Sources: Newport News |
| (VA) Daily Press, January 31, 1965; Project Blue Book files; J. Allen |
| Hynek personal case files). |
| |
| 1967 - At 7:05 a.m. in Lander, Wyoming Mr. J. Kenney, an ex-Air Force |
| man, sighted a long, thin cigar-shaped object that flew to the |
| northeast for 15 seconds. There was an intense blue light the entire |
| length of the object. (Source: NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1967, |
| p. 4). |
| |
| 1967 - At 7:30 p.m. CST nine people in Granite City, Illinois |
| reported sighting a cup-shaped object with a dome on top. (Source: |
| Gilbert L. Bernier, UFO-INFO, April 1967, p. 12). |
| |
| 1967 - At 8:04 p.m. CST Delton Schwanz, a commercial pilot with 29 |
| years experience and a past U.S. Air Force serviceman, was driving |
| with his wife Della and children Robert, Roger and Diane five miles |
| southwest and 20 miles west of Crosby, North Dakota when they saw a |
| bright white, sharply outlined lozenge-shaped object in the western |
| sky. It had a length to width ratio of 4:1 and an elevation of |
| 15°-20°. It momentarily stopped, then moved in level flight to the |
| left, making a smooth climb in the southwest and dropping white |
| "strips" of light that descended vertically. It disappeared to the |
| south at azimuth 170° by ascending to about 30°-45° elevation. Two |
| other men were independent witnesses, driving by car west of Crosby |
| near the intersection of Highways 5 and 85, where they reported |
| seeing a large white light moving rapidly from west to south and |
| dropping a "piece" of the object, then vanishing suddenly. (Sources: |
| J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, pp. 64-65; Willy Smith, UNICAT, |
| case # 315). |
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| 1968 - At two o'clock in the morning a security guard in Cinco Picos, |
| The Azores experienced radio interference, then had a close encounter |
| with a saucer-shaped object and two humanoids. The guard shined his |
| flashlight at the disc; he was gassed and fainted; this was followed |
| by 10 minutes of missing time. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer |
| database, case # 8073; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 93). |
| |
| 1968 - At 11:30 p.m. in Torres, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil a luminous  |
| object rose from the sea and descended onto the beach. Next, three |
| stiff-walking figures appeared. There was also telepathy reported. |
| (Sources: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 8182, |
| citing Charles Garreau, Soucoupes Volantes, Vingt-cinq Ans |
| d'Enquetes, p. 141; GEPA Phenomenes Spatiaux, December 1968). |
| |
| 1970 - Two policemen in Mrewa, Zimbabwe saw three shiny metallic |
| oval objects hovering near their cruiser at 9:30 p.m. The headlights |
| went out during the sighting, which ended when the objects moved away |
| at high speed. The headlights did not come back on until 10 minutes |
| after the objects had gone. (Sources: Eileen Buckle, FSR, |
| September-October 1970, p. 33; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving |
| Vehicle Interference, case 288, citing FSR, Vol . 16, No. 5). |
| |
| 1971 - On this night a witness named Nicolae watched a nocturnal |
| light that maneuvered for ten minutes around a central point in the |
| sky over the city of Predeal, Romania. (Source: Ion Hobana & Julien |
| Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 271). |
| |
| 1971 - At 8:00 p.m. in Canelinha, Santa Catalina, Brazil a dog began |
| behaving frantically, and then the witness's lantern went out. Next, |
| a beam of light levitated the observer and that was his last |
| conscious memory. He woke up the next morning at 8:00 a.m. after 12 |
| hours of missing time. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, |
| case # 9771; citing FSR, January 1973). |
| |
| 1973 - A strange light with a cone on top was seen by a single |
| eyewitness from Benowa Estate, Nerang, Queensland, Australia at 3:45 |
| a.m. (Source: J. Bernard Delair, The UFO Register (volume 5), case # |
| 39, citing Adelaide Sun Mirror, February 4, 1973). |
| |
| 1979 - At 7:29 a.m. a young man named Patrick, a previous UFO |
| abductee, was driving in Quitman, Texas when he experienced either an |
| abduction or teleportation experience that included five minutes of |
| unexplained missing time. He found himself in Gilmer, Texas, a |
| distance of 30 miles away from his last known location. He also had a |
| strange cut on his arm. (Source: Richard C. Niemtzow, MUFON UFO |
| Journal, September 1979, p. 3). |
| |
| 1981 - At around 1 p.m. three photographs were taken of a giant |
| daylight cloud-cigar shaped UFO north of Florence, Arizona with a |
| Kodak Instamatic camera. There were six military witnesses. The whole |
| object could not fit into a single frame. Its apparent size was |
| compared to a 12" ruler at arm's length. (Source: APRO Bulletin, May |
| 1981, p. 1). |
| |
| 1983 - Four witnesses were driving in a car down a road in the |
| countryside near Olkusz, Katowice, Poland at around 9 p.m. when they |
| had a close encounter with a cylinder of light, which became a |
| glowing ovoid object. During the encounter they noticed that the |
| surrounding scenery appeared strange and altered. After the |
| experience all observers were very tired. (Source: Bronislaw |
| Rzepecki, FSR, March 1988). |
| |
| 1984 - At 9:00 p.m. nine oil platform workers in a swampy area 50 |
| miles west of Miami in Dade County, Florida watched a 200 foot in |
| diameter domed disc-shaped object with a huge red glow and a silver |
| dome, engage in a high speed vertical descent and then hover for 10 |
| seconds. It then changed color from orange to a metallic chrome |
| color, then back to orange. It also had dozens of flashing lights. |
| It instantaneously moved away to the east. (Source: Robert Gribble, |
| International UFO Reporter, March 1984, p. 7). |
| |
| 1989 - In the predawn hours in the ocean off Shagwong Point, Long |
| Island, New York a fishing boat's radar system and other electronics |
| failed when it was approached by a light on the sea or hovering just |
| above the water less than a mile away. A diamond shaped UFO estimated |
| to be 150 feet in size was then seen as it moved toward the boat, |
| turned west, and then finally south, making a slight humming sound. |
| There were three witnesses on board and the incident lasted several |
| minutes. (Sources: Philip J. Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. |
| 31; Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1991, p. 215, citing the UFO |
| Newsclipping Service). |
| |
| 1989 - At 9:40 p.m. a witness in Blenfleet, Essex, England spotted a |
| 300-foot long "bus" in the sky at 900 feet altitude. It had two rows |
| of windows, and it moved slowly and silently through the sky. |
| |
| 1989 - Three witnesses in Battle Mountain, Nevada saw a delta-shaped |
| object in the sky with a red light at 5:00 p.m. (Source: Paul |
| Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case # 16, |
| citing the UFO Newsclipping Service). |
| |
| 1990 - On this night, from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada a |
| woman church minister claimed she was taken onboard an alien craft |
| that left Earth's gravity. Her next memory was of being inside a huge |
| "Embryo Fertilization Room." Small beings were working on people on |
| tables. Although celibate, she was Impregnated, and later had a |
| miscarriage. (Source: John F. Schuessler, UFO-Related Human |
| Physiological Effects, p. 103, citing a private communication; Lorne |
| Goldfader, Enigma, St. Louis UFO Study Group, October 1990). |
| |
| 1991 - In Virginia, Minnesota three witnesses watched a triangular |
| UFO with mulicolored lights for 30 minutes as it hovered 600 feet off |
| the ground. (Source: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO |
| Reports, 1988-94, case # 1023, citing William I. McNeff). |
| |
| 1993 - At 7:45 p.m. two teenagers in Oceanside, San Diego County, |
| California watched an ovoid object approach them from the Pacific |
| Ocean. The object stopped over them, then continued on to the east. |
| It had a triangular shape inside or on the side of the object that |
| was spinning. (Source: UFO Newsclipping Service, March 1993). |
| |
| 1995 - At 8:29 p.m. in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania the County Emergency |
| Agency supervisor received a call regarding a triangular ship in the |
| sky that was seen emitting three beams of light. (Source: Peter |
| Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle). |
| |
| 1995 - At 8:00 p.m. in Olympia, Washington a young girl reported |
| seeing several reptilian or lizard-like humanoids with bright red |
| eyes standing outside her bedroom window. Her father went to |
| investigate but saw nothing. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid |
| Contact Database, case #2340, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO |
| Reporting Center, Seattle). |
| |
| 1995 - At 11:30 p.m. two witnesses had a close encounter with a white |
| disc-shaped object in Pierceland, Saskatchewan, Canada. The |
| disc-shaped object had windows and "legs" and moved slowly over a |
| field, close to the witnesses. (Source: Frank Ducks, 1995 Canadian |
| UFO Survey, case # 11, citing the National Research Council). |
| |
| 1997 - The abductee received a telepathic warning in advance that she |
| would be taken from her home in San Bernardo, Santiago Province, |
| Chile. At 10:00 p.m. the young woman was abducted for three hours. |
| Her fetus was reportedly taken, and she was found all wet when she |
| was returned. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # |
| 17866). |
| |
| 2000 - A huge black triangular object hovered silently above a crab |
| fishing boat at 11:15 p.m. while the fisherman was engaged in hauling |
| up a line of traps off Farlon Island near San Francisco, California. |
| The man was onboard his 25 foot boat with his dog but had no other |
| witnesses around, when he was hit by a beam of white light from the |
| craft, which caused him fall backwards into the boat's cabin. He |
| grabbed his Rugger 10-22 rifle and fired 100 rounds of .22 caliber |
| ammunition at the bottom of the craft, trying to shoot out the light. |
| While grabbing a second magazine clip he saw a hatch open up on the |
| bottom of the object and two men leaned out, shouting "Stop shooting |
| at us you idiot." He also heard a hissing sound like air escaping |
| from a punctured tire. The object then moved off to the south. A |
| helicopter then appeared and hovered over the boat. The chopper was |
| flat black in color, and it was silent with no markings on it. As the |
| chopper hovered a flash of light was again directed at the boat. He |
| last saw the triangle gain altitude and disappear towards the south. |
| The helicopter was last seen heading towards the Golden Gate Bridge. |
| It is uncertain if what the witness allegedly encountered was a |
| secret U.S. government project, or something even more strange. |
| (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, |
| January 2000 webpage, report uploaded February 2000, p. 16; UFO |
| Magazine (USA), May 2000, p. 16, citing Filer's Files). |
| |
| 2004 - At 9:30 p.m. witnesses in Willard, Missouri saw a orange |
| sphere moving slowly across the sky in repeated figure eight |
| patterns. It disappeared completely after 15 minutes.(Source: Peter |
| Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Jan. 2004 |
| webpage). |
| |
| 2006 - Around two o'clock in the morning two friends awoke to a low |
| humming sound, and a clattering noise against all the windows of the |
| country house they occupied in Bragg Creek, Alberta, Canada. They |
| looked outside and saw 20 or more tiny blue lights in the sky. They |
| quickly picked up a video camera and began to film. The lights |
| were high in the sky, and maneuvered freely in all directions, at |
| times hovering together, one on top of the other. This continued for |
| about an hour. They then noticed the objects getting much larger as |
| they slowly descended to earth. They claimed they managed to get one |
| or two close ups on video, but the quality was not great. The |
| ridge about 1 ½ miles to the north then began to emit a day-like |
| glow. Most of the objects were now no longer visible, but the humming |
| sound had become almost deafening. Suddenly a strong wind began to |
| blow out of the north, and the light on the ridge pulsated along the |
| horizon, while clouds of smoke appeared to rise up slowly from each |
| of six lit up areas. One of them next tried to make a phone call to a |
| neighbor, but the phone was not working and instead made an unusual |
| buzzing sound. They both leaned out the window to get a better view. |
| Soon after, they heard a very eerie howl, not like any coyote they |
| had ever heard, and almost like a siren but not as perfect. It was |
| followed by a loud blood curling scream, definitely unhuman. A warm |
| strong breeze next came out of the north, and it had a smell like |
| burning plastic. A security light outside kept turning on, and they |
| heard crashing and banging against the house, followed by a |
| scratching along the walls on every side. Both of the witnesses then |
| saw a tall, very pale humanoid figure with glowing eyes that |
| ran across the driveway. Petrified, they shut themselves inside but |
| continued to listen intently. When they next looked out the window |
| they could see the smoke puff up from the illuminated hilltops again, |
| and once again saw tiny blue lights that shot up into the sky, |
| hovered briefly, and began to get smaller as they flew to a high |
| altitude in the sky, where they remained visible for a long time. |
| (Sources: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, |
| Jan. 2006 webpage, report uploade Feb. 14, 2006; Geoff Dittman, 2006 |
| Canadian UFO Survey, case # 31; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact |
| Database 2006, citing NUFORC).  |
| |
| 2007 - At 9:25 a.m. a disc-shaped UFO was sighted over Interstate 270 |
| N in Rockville, Maryland. At 6:44 p.m. CST a smaller object slowly |
| merged with a larger disc-shaped object over Round Lake, Illinois. |
| Then both vanished in a second as it shot up vertically from |
| approximately a mile above the earth into outer space. In Quincy, |
| California at 10:50 p.m. a tri-colored cylinder-shaped object was |
| seen flying at about 500 feet altitude. It disappeared into the |
| mountains 5-10 miles away. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO |
| Reporting Center, Seattle, Jan. 2007 webpage). |
| |
| 2008 - Just after midnight a crescent-shaped object with red, green, |
| and white lights was sighted in the sky to the east of Denver, |
| Colorado. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, |
| Seattle, Jan. 2008 webpage, report uploaded February 14, 2008). |
| |
| 2009 - At about nine oclock on a clear sunny day in San Diego, |
| California, when the witness looked out the window of the train he |
| saw two silver disc-shaped objects side by side very close together |
| in the sky. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, |
| Seattle, Jan. 2009 webpage, report uploaded March 19, 2009). |
| |
| 2012 - The witness was driving on Interstate 95 near exit 26 in |
| Waltham, Massachusetts at 8:55 p.m. At the time there were |
| construction crews working on both sides of the highway. He next saw |
| a rectangular craft in the sky flashing red and white lights at about |
| the height of a street light. It stretched across the three left |
| lanes of the highway. The craft did not move and appeared dark with |
| flashing lights and a couple of dome-shaped windows. It made |
| absolutely no noise. It had a narrow beam of light that was directed |
| down at the state troopers. The sighting lasted 30 seconds. Half an |
| hour later, driving on the opposite side of the highway, the witness |
| noted that the construction crews had gone, but the state troopers |
| were still there, looking confused. (Source: Peter Davenport, |
| National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Jan. 2009 webpage, report |
| uploaded March 19, 2012). |
| |
| Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 29 January 2013). |
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| Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. |
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| Themes: abductions invo |
| lving pregnancies, car pursuit, cloud cigar UFO, creature reports, di |
| sc-shaped UFOs, Grey UFOnauts, humanoids with glowing red eyes, hummi |
| ng sound, levitation, luminous ovoid UFOs, maneuvering UFOs, missing |
| time experiences, multi-year reports from Brazil and California, oval |
| or ovoid UFOs, radar knocked out by UFO, red UFO, reptilian humanoid |
| s, triangular UFOs, vehicle EM interference effects, vertical ascent. |
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| © Donald A. Johnson |
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