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|  Encounters with Aliens on this Day |
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|  March 1 |
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| 1950 - A metallic disc hovered over Chihuahua Airport in Mexico at |
| five kilometers altitude during the day, then shot off quickly toward |
| the south. (Sources: newspaper clipping dated March 5, 1950; |
| Inforespace, December 1975). |
| |
| 1950 - Military and civilian radars tracked a UFO flying at between |
| 40,000 and 80,000 feet near Knoxville, Tennessee. At 11:15 a.m. |
| Stuart Adcock, a Knoxville radio amateur with experience in radar |
| technology, called the local FBI agent, Mr. Robey, to report that he |
| had detected an object using a surplus military radar set. The object |
| was circling at at altitude of about 40,000 feet over Oak Ridge |
| nuclear facility. Mr. Adcock reported another detection the next day. |
| No planes were scheduled in the area at the time. The US Air Force |
| suggested that the visual sightings may have been due to a mirage. |
| (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; |
| Bruce Maccabee, UFO-FBI Connection, p. 169). |
| |
| 1953 - A case of spontaneous human combustion occurred on this day on |
| Highway 291 in Greenville, South Carolina to a victim named Wood. |
| (Sources: George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 450; |
| Fate magazine, July 1953, p. 6). |
| |
| 1954 - The Castle-Bravo H-Bomb test occurred this day at 6:40 a.m. on |
| Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. The explosion and energy release |
| was much stronger than expected. Castle Bravo was the most powerful |
| nuclear device ever detonated by the United States (and just under |
| one-third the energy of the most powerful ever detonated), with a |
| yield of 15 megatons of TNT. That yield, far exceeding the expected |
| yield of 4 to 6 megatons, combined with other factors and led to the |
| most significant accidental radiological contamination ever caused by |
| the United States. Radioactive fallout from the detonation—intended |
| to be a secret test—poisoned some of the Bikini islanders on their |
| return, as well as the crew of the Daigo Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon |
| No. 5"), a Japanese fishing boat, and created an international |
| incident nearly severing diplomatic relations with Japan. The irony |
| of the name "Lucky Dragon" of the fishing boat was not lost on any of |
| the newspapers reporting the incident at the time. (Sources: Larry |
| Hatch, U computer database; Gerard DeGroot, The Bomb: A Life (London: |
| Jonathan Cape, 2004)). |
| |
| 1954 - Three daylight discs were spotted over Carrasco Airport in |
| Montevideo, Uruguay at 2:30 p.m. They were swinging back and forth in |
| a falling leaf motion. (Sources: Coral E. & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The |
| Whole Story, p. 55; Richard Hall, UFO Reports from the Files of the |
| CIA, p. 15). |
| |
| 1958 - At 8:30 p.m. two ten minute sightings of the same UFO occurred |
| 10 minutes apart in the Kunashir Islands, Japan and the Soviet Union. |
| (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 5367). |
| |
| 1962 - At 10:40 p.m. EDT a single witness in Salem, New York reported |
| a 40 cm x 10 cm flying gold box that slowly crossed the horizon in |
| 3-4 minutes. Mrs. L. Doxsey, 66, saw a gold-colored box, 12-14 inches |
| x 3-4 feet, fly straight and level across the horizon. (Sources: |
| Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 7823; |
| Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 103; Larry Hatch, U computer |
| database, case # 6099). |
| |
| 1963 - On this day a photo of a flying saucer was taken over the Diet |
| Building, Tokyo, Japan by a Mr. Hagiwara. (Source: Yusuke J. |
| Matsumura, Flying Saucers magazine, October 1965, p. 67). |
| |
| 1966 - A man by the name of Quemby had a close encounter with a domed |
| disc in Kelowna, British Columbia. (Sources: Vancouver Sun, March 2, |
| 1966; James Moseley, Saucer News, June 1966, p. 30; Charles Bowen, |
| Flying Saucer Review, May-June 1966, p. 33). |
| |
| 1967 - DeWitt Baldwin was raccoon hunting at night in the woods near |
| Eden, New York when he heard a noise like buzzing bees around 1:30 |
| a.m. He flashed his flashlight on a gold colored, unlighted |
| saucer-shaped object that had landed on the ground. A sliding door |
| opened and a man emerged, dressed in a black, tight-fitting suit and |
| wearing a helmet with goggles. He asked the witness some questions, |
| such as what he was doing there at that hour and where he had been |
| born. He then took Baldwin's gun, looked at it and then handed it |
| back. Baldwin claimed the humanoid broke the muzzle of the gun while |
| examining it. Baldwin said, "He wasn't white and he wasn't black. He |
| talked very plainly and with no accent. He had black curly hair." He |
| told me he would be back, walked up to the saucer, got in and seconds |
| later zipped off out of sight. No footprints or landing imprints were |
| found in the snow where the object had rested. (Source: James |
| Sipprell & James M. Reed, NICAP case investigation files; David F. |
| Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case |
| 1967-22, citing NICAP). |
| |
| 1967 - Four bright domed discs flew from north to south over |
| Valparaiso, Chile on this day. They had flashing red and blue lights. |
| There were many witnesses. (Sources: Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs over |
| the Americas, p. 59; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 7597). |
| |
| 1967 - At 7:25 p.m. a white glowing ovoid maneuvered silently near |
| some homes in Sharon, Massachusetts, leaving a white luminous trail. |
| (Source: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 345; |
| Raymond E. Fowler, Casebook of the UFO Investigator, p. 164). |
| |
| Sharon, Massachusetts - 1967 |
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| [Sketch for Sharon, Massachusetts - 1967] |
| |
| 1967 At 7:30 p.m. in Toledo, Ohio a disc-shaped object with flashing |
| red & green lights was seen by two married couples, Mr. & Mrs. Keitl |
| and Mr. & Mrs. Hiner. The UFO hovered briefly, and then suddenly |
| zoomed out of sight; it did this several times over the course of 20 |
| minutes. (Sources: Toledo Record, March 5, 1967; APRO Bulletin, |
| May-June 1967, p. 10). |
| |
| 1967 - In Poland, Indiana at 10:10 p.m. four people in a car were |
| chased to their home for several miles by a dark domed disc. The UFO |
| then hovered outside their house. (Source: Francis L. Ridge, Regional |
| Encounters, p. 21, citing Don Worley). |
| |
| 1969 - A white nocturnal light maneuvered in front of a drive-in |
| movie screen in Hectorville, South Australia on this evening. |
| (Source: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 183). |
| |
| 1972 - A two-meter wide spinning, luminous ball of light hung over a |
| factory in Boussois, France at 6:30 p.m. It moved off toward the |
| northwest in jumps. It was back again the next night, and again the |
| following night. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, August 1972). |
| |
| 1973 - For three hours many observers including police witnessed a |
| procession of at least 40 white objects with red and blue lights fly |
| over Saylors Lake in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania beginning at 7:25 p.m. |
| At 9:50 p.m. more than 200 observers reported seeing a 1000-foot long |
| cone-cylinder; with a metal grating and triangular lights on the |
| underside, at Highland Reservoir, Pennsylvania. (Sources: (1) |
| Stroudsburg (PA) Pocono Record, March 2, 1973; Stan Gordon case |
| files; NICAP UFO Investigator, April 1973, p. 1; APRO Bulletin, |
| January-February 1973, p. 6; (2) Larry Hatch, U computer database, |
| case # 10389; MUFON UFO Journal, issue 239). |
| |
| 1974 - At 7:45 a.m. a huge cigar-shaped object glowed red over a |
| vineyard in Epernay, Marne, France. There were three witnesses: |
| Daniel Legrand, age 24, Michel Frappard, age 39, and Mr. Paillard, |
| 39.  It had a dome on its underside. It suddenly vanished. (Sources: |
| Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet |
| des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 464, citing L'Union de |
| Reims, March 2, 1974; APRO Bulletin, March-April 1974, p. 3; Lumieres |
| dans la Nuit, issue # 135; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # |
| 11165). |
| |
| 1974 - Starting at 7:20 p.m. on the island of Corsica in the |
| Mediteranean Sea, a round orange scintilating light flew to-and-fro |
| over a NATO military base for an hour, then flew south to the town of |
| Solenzara, Haute-Corse, France. (Sources: Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis |
| Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees |
| en France, p. 464, citing Nice-Matin, March 3, 1974; Lumieres dans la |
| Nuit, issue # 135; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 11167). |
| |
| 1974 - At 6:30 p.m. a single witness, Mr. Blandiniere, watched a  |
| luminous cigar-shaped object with tapered ends for 10 minutes in the |
| countryside of Saint-Jean-du-Falga, Ariege, France. At a farm in |
| Lapenne, Ariege, France at 7:45 p.m. two strong one-meter |
| light-beams, 12 meters apart, were seen over a hill about 500 meters |
| away. A blue glow illuminated the countryside. There were five |
| witnesses: Mrs. Corbalan, her young son Gerard, 19-year-old Odile, |
| 22-year-old Mr. Corbalan, and Mr. Guy Monserat.(Sources: Michel |
| Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des |
| Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 464, citing La Depeche, March 3, |
| 1974; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 136; Larry Hatch, U computer |
| database, cases # 11166 & 11168). |
| |
| 1974 - A woman and her invalid husband were sitting on their front |
| porch enjoying the spring weather on this afternoon near Millington, |
| Tennessee when something in the sky caught their attention. They saw |
| five saucer-shaped objects about two feet in diameter that moved at a |
| low altitude slowly through the sky. They floated leisurely over a |
| field across the road from their house and settled down in the midst |
| of a herd of cows some five hundred yards away. Only one cow paid any |
| attention to the small discs. It acted offended by the intrusion and |
| turned and walked towards one of the mini UFOs. The object rose up, |
| flew over the cow, and settled down again behind the cow. Each time |
| the cow attempted to approach it would simply rise up, pass over the |
| cow and settle down on the other side. The woman's husband became |
| upset. He went and got his rifle and started hobbling out toward the |
| field. The wife saw one of the objects fly very close to her |
| husband's head and then rejoin the others as they flew away. By that |
| time her husband had reached the fence and was standing still. His |
| hands were down at his sides, the rifle clutched in one of them. When |
| she got to him he was icy cold and shivering. All he could say was |
| that one of the objects had "flashed" him with a bright light. She |
| helped him back up to the house and he went inside to lie down on a |
| daybed. He stayed there the rest of the day and said nothing more. |
| The next morning the woman looked out and saw the cow lying dead next |
| to a pond. Two weeks later her husband also died. The doctor said he |
| had died of a heart attack. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid |
| Contact Database 1974, citing Bob Pratt). |
| |
| 1974 - At eight o'clock in the evening three observers saw a nearby |
| hillside illuminated by a bright yellow light in Vesta Community, |
| Virginia. A red luminous object was then seen ascending from the |
| site. The object, about the size of a Volkswagen, hovered |
| approximately 300 feet above the hill and went through a series of |
| right angle turns, then headed south toward Stuart, Virginia. Billy |
| Wayne Plasters and Richard N. Clifton drove to the landing site by |
| truck and observed the silhouette of a "big, tall, heavyset man" |
| approach from a lighted area. They called out and got no answer. |
| Frightened, they jumped back into their truck and fled. The light on |
| the hillside disappeared a few minutes later. Next day, patches of |
| charred vegetation were found at the site covering a large area. |
| Other people in the vicinity reported seeing strange lights that same |
| night, and hearing unexplained noises. (Sources: Center for UFO |
| Studies files; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of |
| Humanoid Reports, case 1974-07, citing Nancy Lindsay, The Stuart |
| Enterprise). |
| |
| 1974 - On the same night a flat, disc-shaped object with many lights |
| on its rim was seen spinning in the sky, in a counter-clockwise |
| direction, over St Louis, Missouri. (Source: NICAP UFO Investigator, |
| April 1974). |
| |
| 1975 - Several witnesses in Oporto, Portugal at 8:15 p.m. viewed a |
| cone-shaped object at 400 meters altitude for 30 minutes through |
| binoculars; the object changed in brightness. (Source: Larry Hatch, U |
| computer database, case # 11695, citing PORTUCAT, case # 153). |
| |
| 1976 - On this afternoon a group of boys in Oldham, Cairo Mill, |
| Greater Manchester, England watched a saucer with a transparent dome |
| fly in and out of the clouds for a minute. The dome was reportedly |
| revolving. (Source: Delair J Bernard, Northern Network News, 1976, |
| volume 26, number 7). |
| |
| 1978 - At 8:00 p.m. a man named Folger in McKinney, Kentucky had a |
| close encounter with round gray object with a square top and a |
| window. The UFO hovered at just 200 feet altitude, and had colored |
| lights. It shot away fast. (Sources: Stanford (KY) Interior Journal, |
| March 2, 1978; UFO Newsclipping Service, issue # 106). |
| |
| 1978 - At 9:00 p.m. a cigar-shaped object with a dome flew toward the |
| east, then turned toward the northeast as it flew through the sky in |
| Sterling Heights, Michigan at 9 p.m. It had colored portholes that |
| flashed light. (Source: NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1978). |
| |
| 1978 - There were also multiple reports of nocturnal lights and close |
| encounters from several independent witnesses in Pittsburgh, |
| Pennsylvania on this night, between 9:20 and 10:00 p.m. (Sources: |
| CUFOS files; Pittsburgh (PA) Post-Gazette, March 4, 1978). |
| |
| 1985 - Three silent, teardrop-shaped objects flew quickly over the |
| city of Randburg, South Africa in a V formation, heading toward the |
| northeast. (Source: Cynthia Hind, UFO Afri News, July 1990). |
| |
| 1985 - At shortly after midnight a bluish-white light entered a house |
| in California through the ceiling. Landed outside in the yard was a |
| wedge-shaped craft. Two seven-foot tall beings entered the house |
| wearing blue uniforms and domed helmets. The witness was paralyzed |
| and abducted, and remembers being inside a blue shaft of light. |
| (Source: Richard J. Boylan, Close Extraterrestrial Encounters, p. |
| 130). |
| |
| 1986 - Many cars pulled over on I-5 near Payne Field, Everett, |
| Washington at around 8:30 p.m. to watch nine large disc-shaped UFOs |
| drop NLs. The display lasted for nearly an hour before the |
| objects shot straight up and departed. No explanation was given by |
| the U. S. Air Force when inquiries were made. At about the same time, |
| a private pilot flying over Snoqualmie Pass, Washington encountered |
| two amber spheres for one minute duration; there was radio static on |
| his two-way radio during the encounter. (Sources: (1) Robert Gribble, |
| UFO Reporting Center, case 1089; Paul Ferrughelli, case 736; Computer |
| Catalog of UFO Reports, 1986-94, citing MUFON UFO Journal; (2) |
| Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 192). |
| |
| 1988 - Watching TV in Johnstown, Pennsylvania at 7:50 p.m., a witness |
| and two friends saw a bright light in the valley, so they went |
| outside for a better look. The object, described as a white oval, |
| remained stationary and silent for another five minutes before it |
| "took off like streak of lightning.  It just disappeared." Later that |
| same evening, a football-shaped object with a white light at the |
| front end and a red light at the tail was sighted by a woman over a |
| farm in Westmoreland, Pennsylvania at 9:40 p.m. It had a reflecting |
| surface on the leading side of the bottom of the object (reflecting |
| white light). The white light flashed while moving, but not while |
| hovering. Her sighting lasted 10 minutes. (Source: Stan Gordon, MUFON |
| investigation files, cases # 880931 & 880932). |
| |
| 1989 - Many police personnel and others at 10 locations, centered on |
| De Kalb County, Alabama reported UFOs. Sightings started in Fyffe, |
| Alabama at 8:00 p.m. At 10:10 p.m. police from six agencies and a |
| fire chief reported sightings in Geraldine, Alabama, and took |
| one poor-quality photograph. At 11:30 p.m. the highway patrol in Fort |
| Payne reported sighting the Fyffe UFO. (Sources: UFO Magazine, June |
| 1990, p. 26; UFO Newsclipping Service; Larry Hatch, U computer |
| database, case # 15316). |
| |
| 1989 - At 8:03 p.m. a mother and daughter in Union City, Ohio spotted |
| a huge metallic triangle craft, halfway between the car and their |
| house (1/8th of a mile away). It was described as gigantic, 500 feet |
| in length, and making a low rumbling sound. It terrified them when it |
| moved toward them. The close encounter lasted 10 minutes. (Source: |
| Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p 120). |
| |
| 1990 - On this night a woman ran out into 11 inches of fresh snow in |
| her front yard in Otter Tail County, Minnesota to see a hovering |
| disc-shaped craft. The disc ascended into a larger hovering object |
| that appeared suddenly. She then suffered a blackout and was |
| apparently abducted. She vaguely recalled being taken onboard by |
| tall, blond, Nordic type beings who predicted that a catastrophe |
| would befall Earth between the years 2000 and 2011. She also believes |
| that an implant was inserted into her head through one of her |
| nostrils. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1990, |
| case # 2330, citing Don Worley, UFOs: Alien Encounters 1995). |
| |
| 1994 - In Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia at 8:00 p.m. a |
| single observer with a telescope observed a silent "dartboard shaped" |
| saucer that hovered, and then descended to the horizon; it changed |
| colors as it did so. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case |
| # 16322, citing Colin O. Norris, Australian UFO Flying Saucer |
| Research, Adelaide, S. Australia). |
| |
| 1995 - At 9 p.m. a cigar-shaped object with windows appeared in the |
| sky and looked to be slowly surveying a farm in Sedalia, Missouri. It |
| had a bright light in front and several small lights in the rear of |
| the object. A lady saw the object hovering over a farm less than an |
| eighth of a mile away; it had windows along its side, and gave off a |
| faint hum. She reported it was "bigger than a blimp." After five |
| minutes of hovering, it left towards the southwest. (Sources: Peter |
| Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center 1995 Report; Francis L. |
| Ridge, Chronology of UFO Reports, case #1995-009, www.nicap.org). |
| |
| 1996 - At 7:30 p.m. in Trois-Bassins, Réunion, on the shore of |
| the Indian Ocean a six-meter long luminous glowing tube was seen at |
| 100 m altitude. It flew slowly to the east at 30 km/h over the |
| mountains. It was absolutely silent. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, |
| issue 337). |
| |
| 1996 - At 10:15 p.m. a big orange ball of light (BOL) dimmed and |
| reappeared in Bath, Illinois. It blinked and then shot off fast. |
| (Source: Jay Rath, The I-Files: True Reports of Unexplained Phenomena |
| in Illinois, p. 49, citing NUFORC, March 1996 webpage). |
| |
| 1996 - In Bothell, Washington UFO investigators pursued an ovoid UFO |
| for 10 minutes at 8:00 p.m. It had lights in the middle and on the |
| ends. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17638, |
| citing NUFORC, March 1996 webpage). |
| |
| 1998 - An object that left a trail of sparks flew over the Badger |
| Army Ordnance ammunition plant outside Lodi, Wisconsin from east to |
| west at 2:20 a.m. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting |
| Center, Seattle, March 1998 webpage archive). |
| |
| 2000 - At 9:00 p.m. a V-shaped object that looked a little like a |
| plane, but was fatter and shorter, was reported in Springfield, Ohio. |
| It had many lights on the bottom, and it hovered on the side of Route |
| 4 without making any noise. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO |
| Reporting Center, Seattle, March 2000 webpage). |
| |
| 2001 - A low-flying upright symmetrical disc-shaped craft, rotating |
| like a wheel, moved slowly and silently over the town of Clarion, |
| Pennsylvania and continued east-northeast. It was in view for about a |
| minute. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, |
| Seattle, March 2001 webpage, report uploaded December 7, 2006). |
| |
| 2003 - A witness driving on I-75 near Naples, Florida at 6:22 a.m. |
| saw a low flying triangle with white lights at each apex. It was |
| travelling to the west and passed by in 3 minutes. It made no sound. |
| (Source: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: |
| Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 63). |
| |
| 2005 - At 3:30 a.m. a large, slow moving triangular shaped object |
| that seemed to suddenly disappear was seen in Palatka, Florida. |
| (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, |
| March 2005 webpage, report uploaded November 11, 2005). |
| |
| Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 13 August 2013). |
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| Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. |
| |
| Themes: abductions, aircraft UFO encounters, black un |
| iforms, blue uniforms, cigar-shaped UFOs; communication with UFOnaut |
| in English, death associated with a UFO close encounter, disc-shaped |
| UFOs, domed discs, human-looking UFOnaut, multicolored UFOs, multi-ye |
| ar reports from Ohio and Pennsylvania, Nordic looking UFOnauts, pendu |
| lum motion, prediction of world catastrophe, procession of objects, R |
| F interference, tall UFOnauts, tall heavy-set humanoid, triangle UFO. |
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| © Donald A. Johnson |
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