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| [On This Day] |
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|  Encounters with Aliens on this Day |
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|  August 5 |
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| 1927 - At 9:30 in the morning while climbing in the Humbolt Range of |
| the Altai Mountains in Mongolia, explorer Nicholas Roerich and seven |
| companions saw a huge, shiny, flying oval-shaped object that |
| reflected the sunlight. It flew from north to south, then changed |
| direction and flew off to the southeast. The UFO was in view for |
| several minutes and was examined through binoculars. Witnesses of the |
| daylight UFO included members of the mountaineering expedition, |
| Mongols, and Buriat lamas. The lamas believed it was the "Sign of |
| Shambala." (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 22; |
| J. Allen Hynek, International UFO Reporter, January 1982, p. 10). |
| |
| 1950 - On this day one of the most famous UFO movies of all time was |
| shot in Great Falls, Montana. The 16mm film was shot by Nick Mariana |
| and was witnessed by his secretary, Virginia Raunig. It shows |
| aluminum colored discs, "like two new dimes", hovering in the sky at |
| a distance of two miles. It was sent to the U.S. Air Force for |
| analysis, but when it was returned Mr. Mariana claimed many frames |
| from the first part of the film, those showing the best closeup |
| images of the objects, had been deleted. The existing film consists |
| of 280 frames of 16mm film. The UFOs first hovered, then moved |
| smoothly at very high speed (400 mph) in an arch beind a water tower. |
| The objects estimated diameter was 50 feet. (Sources: Richard F. |
| Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 138; UNICAT, case |
| 310; Edward U. Condon, Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying |
| Objects, p. 407). |
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| 1952 - Another famous case, a radar-visual confirmation, occurred in |
| Japan on this day. A UFO hovered over the Haneda U.S. Air Force base |
| near Tokyo and had several ground military witnesses in addition to |
| radar tracking. It looked like a dark shape with a light, and it flew |
| at 330 knots, then hovered, then performed a variety of maneuvers. It |
| was tracked by airborne radar for 90 seconds.The UFO moved off at |
| extreme speed, and then divided into three parts. (Sources: Project |
| Blue Book, case # 1827; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, pp. 21, 84; |
| Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 95; Donald E. |
| Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, p. 160; Otto Binder, What We |
| Really Know About Flying Saucers, p. 54; Kevin D. Randle, Invasion |
| Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 277). |
| |
| 1952 - At 5:10 a.m. an airline pilot named Quinn, flying a DC-3 for |
| PAGA Airlines between Lima and Hueca, Peru, took a photograph of |
| three saucer-shaped objects flying in V formation which maneuvered |
| around his plane. (Sources: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: |
| August, p. 24; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 18). |
| |
| 1955 - Buzancy, Ardennes, France - At 2:30 p.m. Messrs. Coisin and |
| Mahieu saw five brown, disc-shaped craft come down from the sky and |
| fly back up again at a high rate of speed. One of them flew under the |
| others. Two discs appeared to land 300 meters away near the German |
| cemetery. The others flew away toward the south at tremendous speed. |
| (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, |
| p. 250). |
| |
| 1955 - A photograph of a spherical UFO was taken at a school in |
| Anchorage, Alaska by a man named G. Henning. (Sources: Max Miller, |
| Saucers, May 1956, p. 1; J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, Volume 6, |
| 1975, p. 43). |
| |
| 1955 - At 2:30 p.m. Messrs. Coisin and Mahieu saw five brown, |
| disc-shaped machines coming down in Buzancy, Ardennes, France. They |
| maneuvered at great speed. One of them flew under the others, then |
| two discs appeared to land 300 meters away near the German cemetery. |
| The others flew away toward the south at tremendous speed. (Source: |
| Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case |
| 369). |
| |
| 1962 - On a highway between Las Armas and General Pirana, Argentina |
| in Buenos Aires province at 1:45 a.m., Sr. P. Atilli had his truck's |
| engine fail in the presence of a glowing orange, cigar-shaped UFO. |
| The object was 25 meters long and 300 meters away, and gave off |
| flashes of violet and green light. It shot off toward the |
| west. (Sources: Uriondo Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, December 1972, p. |
| 10; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. |
| 19). |
| |
| 1963 - Shortly after midnight in Wayne County, Illinois a car with |
| several teenagers was followed for 10 miles between Wayne City and |
| Mount Vernon by white light. The UFO made a humming sound as it |
| followed them. The car radio went crazy and the engine stalled as the |
| object passed over, and the witnesses felt a sensation of cold when |
| the UFO passed within 100 feet. Multiple independent witnesses. |
| (Sources: Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth |
| Kind, p. 179; Flying Saucer Review, November-December 1963, p. 24; |
| Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 26). |
| |
| 1967 - At two o'clock in the afternoon three teenagers in Porthmadog |
| near Mount Snowdon, Wales witnessed a metallic, 10-foot long, beer |
| keg-shaped object flying low and hugging the rough terrain in a |
| silent flight up and down the mountains. (Source: FSR, February 1978, |
| p. 30). |
| |
| 1967 - In Duhamel, Alberta, Canada four rings created by pressure |
| from a heavy force or object were found in a pasture and were |
| believed to have been caused by a landed UFO. The smallest measured |
| 31.75 feet in diameter and the largest 36.25 feet. (Source: Gene |
| Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science, Spring 1968, p. 5). |
| |
| 1967 - At 11:30 p.m. two men, Ronald Sherven and Robert Bodine, saw a |
| glowing, white flying object head from the west towards the east, |
| north of Sawyer, North Dakota. The UFO was hidden from view by a |
| hill, but suddenly appeared again over the cemetery, came down to |
| ground level, and then sped away to the north. (Sources: NICAP UFO |
| Investigator, October 1967, p. 3; Jacques Vallee, Passport to |
| Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 864, citing NICAP). |
| |
| 1969 - On this day two cops among several civilians witness a UFO |
| over Camarthen, Wales, U.K. It was spherical and silvery in color. |
| The second officer saw it later than the first. It was confirmed not |
| to be RAF aircraft. (Source: Gary Hezeltine, Police Reports of UFOs, |
| p. 35, from a newspaper clipping dated August 6, 1969). |
| |
| 1969 - (1) At 3:30 a.m. a U.S. Marine Corp Colonel named Brandmeyer |
| driving on Route 161 had a close encounter with a small intense light |
| over a wooded area near New Baden, Illiniois. The light made a sharp |
| turn, approached, drew alongside, and then paced his car for a few |
| minutes. (2) That night, at 10:15 p.m., a metallic UFO approached a |
| car 15 miles northwest of Raleigh, North Carolina on Highway 50, |
| being driven by a Mrs. McWhite with one passenger. The car headlights |
| dimmed, and their was interference on the car radio. Both were |
| okay and the lights and radio functioned properly againafter the UFO |
| left, about 30 seconds later. (3) Two and a half hours later, at |
| 10:45 p.m. Mountain Time, five woman driving fourteen miles west of |
| Ponoka, Alberta, Canada had a similar UFO close encounter with |
| electromagnetic effects; the driver was a 38-year-old woman named |
| Scott, and the incident lasted much long, about an hour. (Sources: |
| (1) Jay Rath, The I-Files:  True Reports of Unexplained Phenomena in |
| Illinois, p. 48, Skylook, August 1970, p. 4; (2) NICAP UFO |
| Investigator, October 1969, p. 3; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports |
| Involving Vehicle Interference, p. ; (2) John Brent Musgrave, field |
| investigation case files, report dated September 19, 1969).  |
| |
| 1970 - Around 4:30 a.m. between Plasencia and Bejar, Caceres, Spain a |
| man was driving through a forest when he sighted a brightly lit, |
| yard-wide sphere in the sky that stopped, descended vertically into a |
| clearing in the forest, and then darkened. At 10:45 p.m. a UFO in |
| Cazalla de la Sierra, Seville, Spain caused the furious barking of |
| two dogs. What appeared before the four witnesses was a |
| two-dimensional illuminated 2 m by 1 m rectangle, hovering in the sky |
| only ten meters away, perpendicular to the ground, which blocked the |
| view of the vegetation behind it. It vanished when a gun was pointed |
| in its direction. (Source: (1) Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, |
| Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 131, |
| citing Manuel Osuna Llorente, and (2) case 132; UNICAT, case # 472, |
| citing Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, OVNIs: El Fenomeno Aterrizaje, |
| p. 105; Stendek, December 1970, p. 18). |
| |
| 1970 - A 17-year-old teenager named Sivaraman left home at 7 p.m. to |
| attend an evening class in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He experienced |
| missing time, and when he woke up 12 hours later, he was 140 miles |
| away from his home. (Source: Ahmad Jamaludin, Summary of Unidentified |
| Flying Objects and Related Events in Malaysia, p. 44). |
| |
| 1972 - Shortly after midnight five independent witnesses had a close |
| encounter with a cone of light, two miles south of Evant, Texas. It |
| was between 100 and 500 feet away, and the sighting lasted five |
| minutes. (Source: newspaper clipping, August 24, 1972; DataNet, |
| January 1973, p. 9). |
| |
| 1972 - At 10:50 p.m. a driver in Yankallila, South Australia saw an |
| object like a white cloud just above the telephone lines to the east. |
| It was oblong shaped, with a hazy outline, and it was travelling at |
| the same speed as the car, which was 80 km/h. It was lost from sight |
| to the west. (Source: Keith Basterfield, South Australia UFO |
| Reports - Project 1947 Website, citing UFORSA). |
| |
| 1974 - At 8:20 p.m. nine witnesses northwest of Bully-les-Mines, Pas |
| de Calais, France spotted a brilliant, lens-shaped disc hovering over |
| an electric pylon. It rose, wobbled, and then vanished. The entire |
| incident lasted five minutes. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue |
| 144). |
| |
| 1974 - An apparent abduction attempt that was thwarted by two other |
| UFOs occurred shortly after dusk in Maracaibo, Venezuela. Two |
| peasants in their twenties, named Sr. Chiaka and Sr. Monteil, were |
| returning home when they were blinded by a round object in the sky |
| that was "flattened at the sides, and of a silvery color." They found |
| themselves paralyzed and unable to move as the object landed. Two |
| humanoid beings, who were more than two meters tall, emerged from the |
| craft, wearing "lead colored clothing like the skin of sardines." |
| They also had on blue colored goggles and dark belts. They approached |
| the witnesses slowly, making gestures, while a whistling sound came |
| from their machine. What happened next was completely bewildering. |
| Two other UFOs descended from the sky "and took the first UFO and its |
| occupants in tow." The witnesses were then able to move again, and |
| made their escape. (Sources: La Razon, August 6, 1974; David F. Webb |
| & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-39; |
| FSR, April 1975, p. 33). |
| |
| 1975 - At 6:15 a.m. a 5 meter in diameter disc-shaped object was |
| sighted in Brussels, Belgium. It tilted, then "hid" in clouds near |
| the center of the city at low altitude. (Source: Lumieres dans la |
| Nuit, April 1977). |
| |
| 1976 - Amidst a series of cattle mutilation incidents, at 4:00 a.m. |
| two workers at the Sterling, Colorado feedlot saw three human-like |
| figures glide over one of the feedlot fences. The ground had been |
| muddy at the time but no footprints were found anywhere near the |
| fence. (Source: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of |
| Humanoid Reports, case A1488, citing Dorothy Aldridge, Colorado |
| Springs Gazzette Telegraph). |
| |
| 1976 - At 9:15 a.m. PDT the firelook at Satus Peak on the Yakima |
| Indian Reservation in Washington State again reported seeing mystery |
| ghost lights. (Source: Greg Long, Examining the Earthlight Theory: |
| The Yakima UFO Microcosm, p. 130). |
| |
| 1976 - At ten o'clock in the morning the Chiasson family were driving |
| in the Gaspesie Provincial Park in Quebec when they encountered a |
| thick fog. The vehicle's lights and engine failed, and the car's |
| interior began to feel very hot. A red light beam struck the road in |
| front of car, and it was then that they saw a 40-foot wide, |
| scallop-shell shaped object sitting on legs. The craft had windows, |
| and through the windows they could see seven-foot tall entities |
| inside that had big eyes. (Source: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, |
| HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1634, citing Jean |
| Ferguson). |
| |
| 1977 - A red disc-shaped object hovered at 30 meters altitude for |
| about a minute on this night in Reguengo do Fetal, Leiria, |
| Portugal, and then it took off fast. (Sources: PORTUCAT, case 182; |
| Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 12279). |
| |
| 1978 - (1) On an overcast day at 11:30 a.m. a group of witnesses on a |
| boat on Lake Crescent, Tasmania encountered a 30-meter long, dark |
| brown cigar-shaped object, half a meter wide and only a meter or two |
| above the water. It moved away quickly. (2) That evening on Lake |
| Sorell, Tasmania the area was illuminated by a flying object. A |
| nocturnal light maneuvered back and forth for 30 minutes, then faded |
| away. (Sources: (1) Xenolog, December 1978, p. 19; Larry Hatch, U |
| computer database, case # 12755; (2) Allan Hendry, International UFO |
| Reporter, August 1978, p. 2). |
| |
| 1978 - At one p.m. a large, dark cigar-shaped object with a white |
| spot flew toward the northwest over Gatwick International Airport in |
| England. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 12756, |
| citing FSR). |
| |
| 1978 - At 11:15 p.m. a TV director and another 40-year-old man had a |
| close encounter with a whirring, gray triangular object while driving |
| two miles southeast of Laurie, Missouri on Highway 5. Their close |
| encounter lasted three minutes. (Sources: Allan Hendry, International |
| UFO Reporter, September 1978, p. 8; UNICAT, case 572, citing IUR). |
| |
| 1979 - Waynesburg, Pennsylvania: two cops in a police helicopter |
| reported that a two-foot wide disc-shaped object passed them at 4:05 |
| p.m. It flew slowly at first, then sped up. Their helicopter could |
| not catch up with it. (Source: MUFON UFO Journal, September 1979, |
| p. 13). |
| |
| 1980 - At around 1:00 a.m. a 130-meter in diameter disc-shaped |
| object descended to the ground at the Oktyabriski oil field in |
| Russia. It flew off to the north, but it left a big hole with |
| vitified sand glass walls: 20 tons of sand were reportedly missing. |
| (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #  13506, citing |
| FSR). |
| |
| 1981 - At 10:30 a.m. a shiny white round object shot straight up when |
| chased by an Indian Air Force jet near Guwahati, India. (Source: |
| Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 44; MUFON UFO |
| Journal, February 1984). |
| |
| 1981 - At 10:30 p.m. a cone of light maneuvered at 20 meters |
| altitude, only 30 meters away from three young witnesses in |
| Bruscarella, Italy. The UFO had orange beams of light, and cause an |
| electrical power outage. The witnesses watched a large disc-shaped |
| object with three bright lights land in a field. Another man reported |
| seeing three human-like figures dressed in black exit the object and |
| walk around. A scorched area on the ground was found where the object |
| had landed.(Sources: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT, case 155; Albert S. |
| Rosales, citing UFO Pavia). |
| |
| 1983 - In the mountains of Cerros Colorados, Argentina on Highway 74 |
| on this night truck drivers encountered a gigantic disc-shaped UFO |
| radiating flashing lights of various colors; it was seen at 400 |
| meters for 3 minutes, then vanished as it sped away at a staggering |
| speed. (Source: Jane Thomas, FSR, December 1983, p. 9, citing Tiempro |
| Argentina, August 9, 1983). |
| |
| 1986 - Vibration caused a house to shake in St. Petersburg, Florida |
| at 4:30 a.m. There was also radio interference and the house lights |
| flickered. Outside a low flying disc-shaped UFO passed overhead, |
| flying very fast to the southeast. (Source: Robert Gribble, UFO |
| Reporting Center, case # 1146). |
| |
| 1987 - On this night in Gainesville, Florida a huge, silent circular |
| disc-shaped object stopped 100 feet over an observer. (Source: |
| Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 198). |
| |
| 1990 - At 3:45 a.m. the Martens family of Owens Sound, Ontario |
| awoke to see "dancing lights" that were apparently disturbing their |
| cattle. The lights were yellowish-orange in color and looked like |
| their were connected to something very large. The lights gradually |
| changed to a deep "crimson red", and began revolving around each |
| other. Some kind of green haze or fog formed, and the object suddenly |
| vanished. That same night one son had a nightmare about a "shining |
| angel", in the house, and the eldest daughter saw a brightly lit |
| being in the house, who almost blinded her with light. (Source: |
| Albert S. Rosales, 1990 Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, addition |
| # 2820, citing Barry Arnold). |
| |
| 1992 - At 1:45 p.m. a United Airlines Boeing 747 crew flying 50 miles |
| northeast of George AFB in San Bernardino County, California sighted |
| a 50 foot-long object looking like the fuselage of a Lockheed SR-71. |
| (Source: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 47, citing |
| Jan Aldrich). |
| |
| 1993 - In Dunajska Streda, Slovakia about 10 children saw two strange |
| looking humanoids with large cucumber-like heads in a field at 10:30 |
| p.m. They were wearing all silver clothing. They glided over the |
| field and disappeared from sight. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, |
| Humanoid Contact Database 1993, citing Dr. Milos Jesensk). |
| |
| 1993 - At sometime after two o'clock at night, the daughter of a UFO |
| investigator watched two silent helicopter-shaped craft hover outside |
| her bedroom window in the town of Baca in the San Luis Valley of |
| Colorado. A beam of red light passed from one helicopter to the |
| other. (Source: Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 186). |
| |
| 1995 - On this day in Turin, Italy Mr. Rohner, a MUFON-CES member, |
| saw a luminous triangle-shaped craft while on vacation in the city. |
| At 10:55 p.m. a 35-year-old couple in Dortmund, Germany saw the sky |
| brighten, and then sighted a huge 20-meter triangular object with |
| 8-10 circular yellow-orange radiators. It sounded like a transformer, |
| flew from north to south, made an abrupt turn to the southwest |
| at 150-200 m altitude, and 10 minutes later was seen again. (Source: |
| Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 36). |
| |
| 1997 - Taxi driver Ramon Velazquez Luna had just dropped off a fare |
| at 12:45 a.m. and was driving on the Villa de Reyes highway in San |
| Luis Potosi, Mexico when he began to see whitish orange lights |
| following him. The lights turned off and then appeared this time in |
| front of his taxicab. The lights then disappeared into a nearby |
| field. Approaching the village of Chirimoya, he noticed what appeared |
| to be a "power plant," well lighted, on the side of the road. |
| Confused by their presence, he stopped his cab and noticed that the |
| lights were oval shaped. Quickly a fog-like smoke approached the |
| vehicle, causing him to get scared and drive away. As he drove away |
| he saw a strange vehicle on the side of the road nearby, and it had |
| several large headless dark humanoid figures milling around it. The |
| figures seemed to be signaling Luna to stop his vehicle. When he |
| arrived at his destination he noticed that he had almost three hours |
| he could not account for. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid |
| Contact Database 1997, citing Ruben Manrique, Contacto OVNI). |
| |
| 2002 - At 10:00 p.m. a triangular shaped object, large and with |
| exterior lights, was sighted near the water in West Vancouver, |
| British Columbia. It rose vertically. Starting at around 11:15 p.m., |
| many triangle crafts, with lights, were seen flying at tree top level |
| and hovering between Martinsville and Mooresville, Indiana for 15 |
| minutes. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, |
| August 2002 web archive). |
| |
| 2006 - At around 11:00 p.m., while night hunting for wild boar, three |
| men in Bonaire, Georgia came upon a stand of oak trees alongside a |
| field where they had just run their dogs, and saw some lights coming |
| from the woods. They decided to investigate and walked into the woods |
| approximately 60 yards before they heard a loud whooshing sound. |
| Their dogs then tucked their tails and began whining. When the men |
| tried to get a closer look the lights dimmed, and another whooshing |
| sound was heard. The men then saw two small green “midgets” run from |
| behind a tree toward what appeared to be a large “concrete mixer” |
| with lights on it. Later on, after waiting awhile and drinking a |
| beer, the men ran back up the hill with their dogs. The light and the |
| object had gone, and there was an eerie silence throughout the woods, |
| so that even the insects were completely quiet. The next day, the men |
| returned to the spot and found nothing out of the ordinary. Later |
| that next evening one of the men went to feed his dogs and found that |
| “Judo,” his best hunting dog, was sick and would not eat anything. He |
| claims the dog died later that week without any apparent reason. |
| (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2006, citing |
| National UFO Reporting Center). |
| |
| 2009 - In Valrico, Florida a cigar-shaped object with no wings was |
| sighted following a commercial jet airliner at 5:30 p.m. Two hours |
| later a line of orange lights was observed appearing and disappearing |
| in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO |
| Reporting Center, reports uploaded December 12, 2009 and August 27, |
| 2009). |
| |
| Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 25 July 2012). |
| |
| Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. |
| |
| Themes: abduction, aerial UFO encounters, barrel-shaped |
| UFO, car UFO encounters and pacings, cigar-shaped UFOs, crop circles |
| , disc-shaped UFOs, distance to UFO 300 meters, EM vehicle ignition a |
| nd electrical system interference effects, fog or smoke, glowing UFOs |
| , human-looking aliens, landings or near landings, metallic UFOs, mis |
| sing time, multi-year reports from Florida and Wales, mystery helicop |
| ters, oval-shaped UFO, red beams of light, sensation of cold, sensati |
| on of heat, silver uniforms, tall humanoids, tall headless humanoids. |
| |
| © Donald A. Johnson |
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