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| [On This Day] |
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|  Encounters with Aliens on this Day |
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|  April 24 |
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| 1897 - A man in Louisville, Kentucky heard a buzzing noise, looked |
| up, and saw a cigar-shaped craft 200 feet up. He could see the form |
| of a man standing at the stern. "He looked at me, and I waved my hat. |
| Two other men were sitting in the helm." (Source: Louisville Courier |
| Journal, April 25, 1897). |
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| 1909 - At 9:20 in the morning a white ovoid shaped flying object was |
| seen in the skies over Florence, Italy. Two men dressed in white |
| suits were seen inside. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, |
| case # 254). |
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| 1949 - A high speed, maneuvering object was tracked with a theodolite |
| by five government contractors from General Mills as it sped through |
| the sky. They were at a missile range near Arrey, New Mexico at 10:20 |
| a.m. It looked like a featureless, whitish featureless ellipse, and |
| its length was 2.5 times its width. After 60 seconds it disappeared |
| in a sharp vertical climb. (Source: Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, |
| p. 238). |
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| 1950 - At 12:30 a.m. three men watched a crescent-shaped object |
| maneuver through the sky over Ansonia, Connecticut. The object looked |
| like a half-moon with a squared off end, and was sighted by two |
| policemen and a restaurant proprietor. It moved unevenly thru the |
| sky. (Source: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. |
| 33). |
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| 1950 - Later, at 10 p.m. in Abbiate Guazzone, Italy, Sr. Bruno |
| Facchini heard and saw sparks coming from a dark, hovering object. |
| Nearby stood a man dressed in tight fitting clothes and wearing a |
| helmet who seemed to be making repairs. Three other men were seen |
| near the craft. When the work was finished, a trapdoor through which |
| light had been shining was closed and the thing took off. The witness |
| time to note many details about the craft and its occupants. |
| (Sources: Antonio Giudici, Flying Saucer Review, April-May 1975, p. |
| 30; Solas Boncompagni, UFO in Italia, Volume I, (Periodo 1907-1953), |
| p. 120; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, |
| p. 195). |
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| 1964 - Dairy farmer Gary T. Wilcox saw a shiny, egg-shaped object, |
| about eight meters long and six meters wide, in his pasture in Tioga |
| City, New York at around ten o'clock in the morning. He spoke in |
| English to two short male occupants, 1.2 meters tall, wearing |
| seamless clothing and hoods, and carrying trays. (Source: Jacques |
| Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 195). |
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| 1964 - Police officer Lonnie Zamora was parked watching for speeders |
| on the main highway south of Socorro, New Mexico at 5:45 in the |
| afternoon when he saw an whitish metallic ovoid object land in the |
| desert behind a rise. He drove his police cruiser over the rise and |
| saw an ovoid object with four legs resting in a gully. Two four-foot |
| tall beings in white spacesuits stood next to the landed UFO. They |
| turned in his direction and then went inside the UFO. A loud roar was |
| heard during a vertical takeoff as the object emitted a flame from |
| the bottom. The foliage in the area was scorched black, and there |
| were four holes in the ground surrounding the burned area. The case |
| was personally investigated by Dr. J. Allen Hynek for Project Blue |
| Book. Everyone, except UFO debunker Phillip Klass who visited Socorro |
| four years later, regards the testimony of Mr. Zamora as highly |
| credible. A married couple saw the object north of the city at 5:30 |
| p.m. before it landed, and seven other witnesses saw it flying south |
| of Socorro shortly before 6:00 p.m. (Sources: Project Blue Book, case |
| 8766; Thomas M. Olsen, Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting |
| Reports, pp. 92-97; Ray Stanford, Socorro Saucer in a Pentagon |
| Pantry, Austin, Texas: Blueapple Books, 1976). |
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| Socorro, New Mexico Landing & Occupant - 1964 |
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| 1966 - At 3:30 a.m. Mr. Tom M. Lasseter, an architect, was camping |
| near the Pedernales River in Texas when he was awakened by a |
| fluttering sound and observed a glowing white disc that was at |
| treetop level 60 meters away. It was seven meters in diameter and had |
| a row of lights. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A |
| Century of Landings, case 764). |
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| 1966 - Thirty minutes later, at 5:00 a.m. Eastern time, Mrs. Kalnicki |
| saw a multicolored domed disc with blinking red lights on its rim |
| move between two apartment buildings in Dorchester, Massachusetts. It |
| had a yellow light on top, and emitted a humming noise.There were a |
| total of five witnesses, and the sighting lasted 12 minutes. (Source: |
| Walter Webb, case files report #63; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange |
| Effects from UFOs, p. 46; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: |
| A Thirty Year Report, p. 320; Raymond E. Fowler, Casebook of a UFO |
| Investigator, p. 173). |
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| Dorcester, Massachusetts - 1966 |
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| [] |
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| 1966 - At 6:10 p.m. two men in Ashby, Massachusetts saw an object |
| dive within 30 meters of their car. It was silent, had a bright blue |
| light on top, suddenly accelerated, and was lost to sight toward Mt. |
| Watatic. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of |
| Landings, case 763). |
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| 1969 - On this night there were several reports of an 18-foot-tall |
| phantom either walking or floating along at 20 mph in Nova Scotia. |
| The tall shadowy figure consisted of a very dark humanoid form. A |
| large numbers of cars had assembled at Berwick, Nova Scotia to |
| observe the monster. (Source: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: |
| Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-31, citing an unnamed |
| newspaper source). |
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| 1970 - A Soviet supersonic bomber allegedly disappeared without a |
| trace in the area of Olekminsk, Russia on April 24, provoking a |
| widescale search involving 150 aircraft. Many of the pilots reported |
| seeing large unidentified craft hanging high in the sky, far out of |
| missile range. Soviet reconnaissance planes were sent up, scouring |
| and photographing every square kilometer of the terrain in a |
| fruitless search for the bomber's wreckage. (Source: Albert S. |
| Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1970, citing Branton's War in |
| Heaven File). |
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| 1971 - Mrs. F, a woman from Greenacre, New South Wales, Australia and |
| her 13-year-old daughter were going home by taxi at 7:30 p.m. On |
| passing Roberts Park they saw an object hovering over the lighted |
| field where youths were playing football. The field lights formed a |
| king of "ceiling" over the field and is unlikely that had they looked |
| up, the players could have seen anything. The object was "football |
| shaped," the interior light being "the brightest blue imaginable." |
| The top portion of the UFO was transparent and the bottom was a |
| greenish metallic "like gun metal" color with three large transparent |
| portholes. The object was tilted downward at an angle revealing three |
| tall humanoid figures, over six feet tall, in the transparent upper |
| half of the UFO. One of the occupants pointed down at the witness and |
| then turned toward a rectangular, lighted area. Mrs F. asked the |
| cabbie, a Greek immigrant, to stop the taxi, but he accelerated away |
| and drove them straight to her home without stopping. He left in a |
| frightened state without collecting his fare. (Source: David F. Webb |
| and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case |
| 1971-15, citing Keith Basterfield). |
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| 1972 - At two o'clock in the morning Mrs. Taylor, an elderly woman |
| suffering from insomnia, was up late in her apartment in Manchester, |
| England when she saw out her window, above a tall factory chimney, a |
| glowing yellowish white ball-shaped UFO. A figure wearing boots |
| emerged from the sphere. The object eventually seemed to dissolve |
| "within itself." She watched the humanoid for a period of two hours, |
| and it gave her the impression of an "astronaut landing on the moon." |
| (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid |
| Reports, case 1972-08, citing Roy Dutton, Joan Nesltrop for BUFORA; |
| Peter Rogerson). |
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| 1977 - At around one o'clock in the morning Mrs. Pauline Coombs, age |
| 31, and her husband Billy, age 36, were watching television at their |
| Ripperston farm near Dale, Pembrokeshire, Wales when they saw a |
| silver suited figure at their window. Pauline saw it first, but said |
| nothing to her husband until he saw it himself. "It must have been |
| over seven feet tall," because it was too tall to see its face." It |
| was quite wide--about three feet--and surrounded by a luminous glow. |
| It was wearing a box-shaped helmet that framed a dark squarish area |
| in which no face was visible. They called Randall Jones Pugh, the |
| BUFORA investigator, and the police immediately, but the figure had |
| gone before either arrived. Mrs. Coombs and her family had been |
| involved in several other close encounter incidents prior and after |
| this encounter. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: |
| Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-23, citing Randall Jones |
| Pugh, BUFORA). |
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| 1980 - Two roofers working in the late evening at 9:00 p.m. sighted a |
| bright yellow disc-shaped UFO rise vertically from Lake Norman |
| Reservoir, not far from a nuclear power plant in Rutherford County, |
| North Carolina. It made a loop in the sky and flew away. (Sources: |
| George D. Fawcett, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1980; UFO Magazine |
| (USA), June 1990, p. 33). |
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| 1984 - Radar visual confirmation. At 7:10 p.m. a 1000 foot long |
| cigar-shaped object followed a KC-135 USAF tanker aircraft through a |
| U-turn over the mountains of Chimayo, New Mexico while separate |
| nocturnal lights cavorted about in the sky. Radar blips were tracked |
| at the time. (Source: MUFON UFO Journal, November 1984). |
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| 1989 - At 10:45 p.m. several witnesses, including 53-year-old A. D. |
| Golovatskaya, watched a fiery green elongated craft fly low over the |
| rooftops of Kharovsk, Russia. It had a blunt nose and a fish-shaped |
| tail. The craft was silent and appeared to be made of crystal. Four |
| figures wearing silvery, tight-fitting uniforms were seen inside the |
| object, two in the rear and two at the front apparently operating |
| some controls. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database |
| 1989, case # 668, citing V.D. Musinskiy, FSR, Volume 35, No. 3). |
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| Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 30 June 2005). |
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| Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. |
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| Themes: blue UFOs, disc-shaped UFOs, domed discs, human-loo |
| king occupants, humming sound, multi-year reports from New Mexico and |
| Italy, mystery aircraft disappearance, nautical UFO: seen rising fro |
| m lake, nuclear facility, occupants wearing white clothing, ovoid or |
| football-shaped UFOs, radar-visual confirmation, short humanoids, sil |
| ver suits, spheres, tall humanoids, very tall shadowy phantom figure. |
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