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|  Encounters with Aliens on this Day |
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|  August 1 |
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| 1946 - At 6:00 p.m. three military witnesses including the pilot |
| named Puckett, flying in a twin engine C-47 transport 40 miles north |
| of Tampa, Florida at 4,000 feet altitude, sighted a cylinder-shaped |
| UFO with luminous portholes that flew in front of the plane. The |
| cylinder was about twice the size of a B-29, and approached to within |
| 1,000 yards. It covered 75 miles in three minutes and appeared on a |
| collision course with the aircraft. The stream of fiery exhaust from |
| the craft was about half the length of the unknown object. (Sources: |
| NICAP files, report dated July 24, 1957; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying |
| Saucers: Top Secret, p. 102; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 23; |
| UNICAT, case # 669). |
| |
| 1947 - At 8:30 p.m. three dark metallic domed discs flew over the |
| mountains of Areches, Savoie, France heading east-northeast. They |
| made no sound, and had rotating rims. (Source: Phenomenes Spatiaux, |
| June 1968). |
| |
| 1948 - On this morning everyone on a Air France airliner flying over |
| the South China Sea from Hong Kong to Saigon, Vietnam saw a huge |
| metallic cigar-shaped object flying south, and then make a 90-degree |
| turn into the clouds. Later that day at Clark Field in the |
| Philippines American military observers also sighted a wingless |
| cigar-shaped object with a row of lights. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, |
| Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 54; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers are |
| Real, p. 72). |
| |
| 1949 - In Tampico, Mexico in the State of Veracruz a torpedo-shaped |
| UFO zipped over the countryside. It was described as looking like a |
| "4th of July sparkler." (Source: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. |
| Volume 2: 1949, p. 18) |
| |
| 1951 - Three witnesses including police from Beausoleil, France in |
| the Alpes-Maritime viewed a transparent bubble in the sky at nine |
| o'clock in the evening. Two human-looking occupants of the |
| transparent sphere watched the street and the crowd below. The bubble |
| flew off towards the north-northeast. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, |
| issue 175). |
| |
| 1952 - At 1:14 a.m. two brilliant red lights hovered together and |
| maneuvered for five minutes over Lancaster, California. Witnesses |
| included sheriff deputies. One light swung in a pendulum motion, the |
| other shot off to the southeast. (Sources: Don Berliner, Project |
| Bluebook UFO Unknowns; US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted |
| in official statistics, case #1771). |
| |
| 1952 - At ten o'clock in the morning in Afton, New York UFOs first |
| appeared near the position of the Sun and then dispersed across the |
| sky. Scattered disc-shaped objects were seen in the skies for the |
| next two hours. At 10:10 a.m. a large group of UFOs described as |
| looking like "70 white ping pong balls" passed across the sky in |
| Sidney, New York flying from the southwest to the northeast. |
| (Sources: Tiffany Thayer, Doubt, 1953, p. 206; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: |
| A History. 1952: August, p. 17; and UFOs: A History. 1952: |
| November-December, p. 13). |
| |
| 1955 - Joseph Whaley, age 20, was cutting the grass along Highway 118 |
| in Bronwood, Georgia when he saw a six-foot “gorilla” come running |
| towards him. It was covered with shaggy gray hair and had tusk like |
| teeth, and it grunted like a pig. Whaley struck at it with his scythe |
| and then ran to this jeep, but it pursued him and clawed at him, |
| ripping his shirt and scratching his shoulder. It moved “in a |
| lumbering and slow moving” manner. (Sources: Atlanta Constitution, |
| August 3, 1955; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of |
| Humanoid Reports, case # 1955-14 (A0376)). |
| |
| 1955 - Mr. Sheneman had just driven home from Willoughby, Ohio and |
| was preparing to go into his house at around 9:00 p.m. He got out of |
| his car and saw a circular object with a red light on it. The UFO |
| came down fast, hovered, and emitted two beams of light. The witness |
| fled toward his house while the object appeared to pursue him less |
| than 70 meters above the ground. The domed disc was estimated to |
| measure about 30 meters in diameter. His wife and their two children |
| saw it fly away. (Sources: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), |
| p. 114; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, |
| p. 250). |
| |
| 1955 - On this night two tourists in a car in Salon, near Arles, |
| France saw a lighted object dive toward them and hover 30 meters |
| above the road. The disc-shaped object flew around the car and flew |
| away without making a sound. The witnesses went straight to the Arles |
| police. (Source: Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 250). |
| |
| 1962 - A large metallic oval-shaped object surfaced 300 meters away |
| from three fisherman in two boats off of Le Brusc, France in the |
| Mediterranean Sea. They first believed it was a foreign submarine. |
| About a dozen "frogmen" emerged from the water and climbed aboard. |
| The fishermen called out but the figures ignored them, except the |
| last three, who turned to look at the fishermen. The very last one |
| waved. Then the craft rose out of water, and suspended itself |
| effortlessly above the waves, as red and green lights came on and a |
| white light beam like a searchlight played toward the witnesses. The |
| beam was extinguished, the red and green lights went out, and the |
| object, now glowing an orange color and clearly oval in shape, rose a |
| further 20 meters into the air and began to rotate, its light |
| becoming more intensely red. At last, it moved silently in a graceful |
| arc above the fishermen, and disappeared rapidly into the night |
| sky. (Sources: Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1971; FSR Case |
| Histories, April 1973, p. 14; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: |
| Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1962-5 (A0537), citing LDLN |
| Lecture Series III, number 5). |
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| 1965 - At around seven p.m. a 15-year-old boy named San Roman Nunez |
| in Lima, Peru watched a saucer-shaped UFO descend and land nearby. A |
| 3.5 foot tall being emerged from the object. It was "greenish" with |
| hair covered with green lights, and "looked like a toad." The boy |
| fled. (Sources: Gordon Creighton, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition |
| No. 1, p. 41; John A. Keel, Strange Creatures From Time and Space, p. |
| 150). |
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| 1966 - At 12:30 a.m. EDT citizens and police in College Park, Lanham, |
| Bowie, Seat Pleasant, and elsewhere around Prince Georges County, |
| Maryland saw maneuvering, fast-moving lighted objects. When a police |
| officer approached a hovering object that had pulsating red, green, |
| and white lights, it began a series of maneuvers, descended almost to |
| the ground, then sped away "like a shot." Before it sped away, the |
| object emitted a strange multi-colored light beam that moved rapidly |
| to the ground, which was also observed by another police officer. |
| Andrews AFB denied to a County police dispatcher that they had any |
| unknown objects on radar, but the dispatcher said a control tower |
| operator had acknowledged seeing a fast-moving lighted object, and he |
| later learned that Andrews did indeed have a UFO on its radar but |
| would not admit it officially. (Source: NICAP UFO |
| Investigator, August-September 1966, p. 4.) |
| |
| 1966 - At 12:30 a.m. CDT Kathy Palmer, age 14, looked out the window |
| of her home in Springfield, Missouri before going to bed and saw a |
| luminous object bearing red and blue lights on the lawn. It was about |
| six feet long, ovoid shaped, and four feet wide by four feet high, |
| and it made a "rattling" sound. From a square hatch two 5-foot tall |
| slender occupants emerged, who either had "large heads" or wore |
| helmets. They walked about for three minutes, apparently |
| communicating with each other, and examined some bicycles. Then they |
| returned to the craft and it took off. The total duration of the |
| encounter was about 30 minutes in all. At the landing site the grass |
| was matted down, and there was a white substance which proved to be |
| calcium phosphate. (Sources: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: |
| Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1966-31, citing Patricia Rudig |
| for NICAP; Ted R. Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO |
| Sightings, p. 43, case # 685). |
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| 1966 - At 7:45 p.m. several young witnesses in Rushville, Indiana |
| reported seeing an unidentified object at low altitude. (Source: |
| Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case |
| 785).  |
| |
| 1967 - The wife and daughter of a pastor in Chester, Pennsylvania saw |
| three red, metallic, saucer-shaped objects with domes and portholes |
| at 9:00 p.m. Two were in the northern sky, and a third approached |
| from the north, brightened and changed color to white as it neared. |
| It then flew at tree-top level and hovered at low altitude close to |
| the witnesses. Finally, it climbed fast and disappeared. The object |
| was estimated to be about the size of a two-engine plane. (Source: |
| WXUR News report, copy in NICAP files.) |
| |
| 1968 - At 1:57 a.m. a cigar-shaped UFO flew by Fribourg, Switzerland |
| and a disc exited from a square doorway in the craft. It flew around |
| and then re-entered the larger craft. Both a camera and a tape |
| recorder experienced EM interference effects during the sighting. |
| (Source: Gillieron, UFODOC, case E004). |
| |
| 1971 - At 11:35 p.m. a married couple driving in a car between |
| Gladstone and Rockhampton in Queensland, Australia witnessed a circle |
| of lights near a river. What should normally have been a two hour |
| trip took them only 40 minutes. They have amnesia about what happened |
| after sighting the lights in the sky, and an unusual oily residue and |
| marks were found on their car. A possible UFO abduction involving |
| time loss, a probable translocation, and levitation are suspected. |
| Hypnotic regression failed due to the main witness having a violent, |
| shaking, fearful reaction to re-envisioning the event in memory. |
| (Source: Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery. |
| Volume 2: Catalogue of Cases, case 241; MUFON UFO Journal, August |
| 1980, p. 3). |
| |
| 1971 - At ten p.m. local time a domed oval-shaped UFO, illuminated by |
| lightning flashes during a nighttime thunderstorm west of |
| Westminster, Maryland, was seen by a family of seven people |
| maneuvering over the countryside for 20 minutes. It had a |
| bubble-shaped, transparent dome on top. (Source: APRO Bulletin, |
| July-August 1971, p. 4). |
| |
| 1974 - At 2:30 a.m. a four meter long, luminous ovoid object flew |
| fast over the beach at Canet-Plage, France. It stopped and hovered in |
| place for three hours. It had portholes through which figures could |
| be seen inside the craft. It left by shooting off toward the west. It |
| was witnessed by a married couple named Rassin. (Source: David F. |
| Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case |
| A1611, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 146). |
| |
| 1974 - On this evening in Albemarle, North Carolina a round, orange |
| object, bigger and brighter than the full Moon, hovered for 15 |
| minutes above the tree tops, and then sped away. (Source: George D. |
| Fawcett, FSR, January 1975, p. 31; Saga UFO Report, April 1975, p. |
| 50). |
| |
| 1974 - John E. Justice had just left his job at the Ohio Masonic Home |
| for the aged in Springfield, Ohio and was driving home when he heard |
| a voice tell him "let go the steering wheel." Justice ignored this |
| instruction and the order was repeated, calling him "friend." Justice |
| did so, and the car continued down the long drive of its own accord. |
| The voice, somewhat guttural in tone, came from the passenger seat to |
| his right, and Justice could see the seat was depressed, as though |
| someone was sitting in it. He asked if he would be harmed, and was |
| told, "Friend, I would not harm a hair on your head." Justice then |
| asked what he wanted and got no reply. He was told that the voice was |
| that of a "spaceman," and he had been in the UFO Justice and another |
| witness had seen a few nights earlier. Justice was then told that he |
| would be able to see him when he left the car, and was told to look |
| above the power lines ahead. He then observed a figure suspended ten |
| feet in the air in front of his car. It was perfectly human in |
| appearance, a male figure of large build, about 6' 6" tall, holding |
| its arms outstretched in front. The being wore a tight fitting, |
| silvery outfit with a belt, gloves, and short boots. He was very |
| handsome, and illuminated by a strange light. Justice was told that |
| he would be visited again. The figure passed from view and Justice |
| took control of the steering wheel and continued home, very shaken by |
| the experience. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: |
| Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1975-38 (A1851), citing Jack |
| Rockel). |
| |
| 1976 - At 4:30 a.m. a 20-year-old woman heard a noise and looked out |
| her bedroom window in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to see two beings of |
| average height. She could not see any facial details. A white light |
| went out from these beings toward the east. She heard a loud voice |
| talking in an unintelligible language. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted |
| Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1976-29 |
| (A1486), citing Richard Heiden, report dated June 22, 1977). |
| 1976 - In New Haven, Connecticut around 6:00 p.m. a man told police |
| he had been buzzed by a round silver, dish-shaped object, which froze |
| his car as he was driving on Route 63 between Bethany and New Haven. |
| When the UFO passed overhead the engine of his car died and the car |
| came to a stop. When he tried to leave the vehicle, he said, the door |
| wouldnt budge and he began to feel “tingly”. Eventually he too |
| became paralyzed. While this was going on, an object which he felt |
| might have taken his picture, appeared below the low flying disk. |
| Finally it flew off. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact |
| Database 1976, citing MUFON of Connecticut). |
| |
| 1977 - At around two o'clock in the morning, a man and a woman in |
| Steuben, New York who had been involved in a previous UFO encounter a |
| week earlier had another encounter with aliens. They watched six or |
| seven humanoid beings with glowing green belts, similar to those they |
| had seen the week before. Two of them had glowing gray belts, and one |
| of the witnesses saw two normal sized human figures that glowed a |
| silvery white instead of green. After observing them for an hour they |
| woke a third witness, who saw only blue-green lights. When they shone |
| a flashlight beam on one of the figures it disappeared, but |
| re-appeared when the light beam was removed. It gradually became very |
| foggy, so at 4:30 a.m. they went to bed, but the first two witnesses |
| thought they could hear the sound of a woman screaming three times, |
| and then a door slamming. They experienced headaches and ringing in |
| their ears. The third witness, who heard a noise like someone |
| chiseling rock and a high-pitched chirping sound, did not suffer from |
| a headache. They saw no UFOs that night, but there were |
| other reported sightings in the area on subsequent nights. (Sources: |
| Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, September 1977, p. 7; David |
| F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, |
| case 1977-42 (A1747), citing field investigator Douglas Dains for |
| CUFOS). |
| |
| 1978 - A 12-year-old son of a prominent local doctor encountered an |
| unusual humanoid creature not far from a mine in an isolated area |
| near Lewiston, California. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid |
| Contact Database 1978, case # 917, citing Jacques Vallee, |
| Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact). |
| |
| 1978 - A six-month-pregnant woman in Clarksville, Tennessee had been |
| taking a nap around 10:00 p.m. when she woke up to see a large craft |
| hovering outside the upstairs window, over a nearby wood shack. Her |
| husband saw the object too. She fainted but then heard a voice in a |
| thick Middle Eastern accent that told her to open her eyes. When she |
| did eyes she was confronted by a tall creature resembling an insect, |
| thin and white in color, wearing a dark outfit. It communicated with |
| her by using telepathy. There were several other similar creatures |
| wearing jumpsuits standing in the room. Their heads were large and |
| rounded. The witness conducted a mental conversation with the leader, |
| and asked it several questions about its origin. The witness suddenly |
| panicked and screamed and began to faint, and some of the creatures |
| began backing away. But moments later a long needle was painfully |
| inserted into her belly. She then passed out, and awoke later to see |
| the taller creature talking to the others. At one point the witness |
| claimed she saw several helicopters flying around the hovering craft. |
| (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # |
| 3201, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, |
| Seattle). |
| |
| 1983 - Two young men were driving a truck in Urbanopolis, Minas |
| Gerais State, Brazil at eight o'clock in the evening when they felt a |
| sensation of cold and increasing atmospheric pressure, heard buzzing, |
| and saw a small reddish ellipsoidal light beam strike their truck |
| from above. It dragged the truck back from accelerating when the |
| driver attempted to drive faster. (Source: Antonio Silva Faleiro, |
| APRO Bulletin, December 1984, p. 3). |
| |
| 1986 - At 10:30 p.m. two men in their thirties, Long and Jandura, |
| were fishing from a boat on Banksons Lake, Michigan when they had a |
| close encounter with a completely silent 300 foot long triangular |
| object that was only 200 feet above the lake. The object had a |
| brilliant steady white light and three blinking red lights, and there |
| was some type of movement between the lights. The men felt heat |
| coming from the object and became very shaky and scared. They |
| also experienced some temporary physiological effects: eye damage, |
| conjunctivitis, and a swelling and discoloration of the skin. The UFO |
| flew off to the north-northwest after 15 minutes.(Sources: MUFON UFO |
| Journal, October 1986, p. 7; Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 319; |
| UNICAT, case # 659, citing Virginia Tilly). |
| |
| 1995 - On this night in Portslade, East Sussex, England a huge yellow |
| cigar-shaped object hovered over the town for a minute, then simply |
| vanished in place. (Source: UFO Newsclipping Service, October 1995). |
| |
| 1999 - In Calgary, Alberta, Canada two witnesses observed a formation |
| of eight silver disc-shaped objects high in the sky for 10 minutes. |
| They were originally motionless, but then began moving west except |
| for one, which headed north. (Source: Geoff Dittman, Canadian UFO |
| Survey 1999, case # 129, citing Alberta UFO Study Group). |
| |
| 2001 - At 6:00 a.m. EDT a farmer in Wayne, West Virginia encountered |
| a square flying object, about the size of tire (3 feet wide), that |
| was hovering inside his barn. It was black with gray markings, and |
| floated for a few seconds before it flew out the barn door. A cow had |
| been poked by a needle in one of its ears, and its eye had a broken |
| blood vessel. (Source: George A. Filer, MUFON UFO Journal, October |
| 2001, p. 11). |
| |
| 2001 - At 7:00 a.m. EDT a cigar-shaped object was seen moving slowly |
| above the tree line in Hagerstown, Maryland for two minutes. It |
| emitted a bright object  from one end that shot into the sky. |
| (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, |
| August 2001 webpage, report uploaded August 12, 2001). |
| |
| 2001 - Five geography students camping oin a deserted beach in |
| Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil, including Luis Carlos Prima, reported |
| seeing a large disc-shaped object about 10 meters in diameter land on |
| the beach at around two o'clock in the morning. The students had been |
| sleeping when a very strong wind suddenly woke them up. The wind was |
| so strong that it began to disconnect the ground ties of their tent |
| from the sandy ground. Thinking it was a storm, they ran out and were |
| confronted by the huge disc, which had numerous bright lights on its |
| top and windows in the center. A small door quickly opened and two |
| short humanoids came out. The UFO and the humanoids were about 200 |
| meters away from the witnesses. The little men seemed to be |
| collecting ground samples when they became aware of the presence of |
| the students. They ignored them and after several minutes reboarded |
| the craft, which took off at high speed. Deep ground traces were |
| found at the landing site. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid |
| Contact Database 2001, citing Thiago Luiz Ticchetti, EBE-ET). |
| |
| Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 31 July 2009). |
| |
| Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. |
| |
| Themes: cigar-shaped or torpedo-shape |
| d UFOs; disc-shaped UFOs; domed discs; human-looking UFOnauts; low-le |
| vel UFOs; multi-year reports from France, Maryland and Ohio; nautical |
| UFO (UFO seen emerging from sea); ovoid UFOs; portholes; red UFOs; s |
| ensation of cold; sensation of heat; short humanoids; vegetation and |
| ground sampling and collecting behavior; physiological effects: eye d |
| amage, conjunctivitis, and a swelling and discoloration of the skin; |
| short humanoids; silent UFOs; telepathy; translocation or time distor |
| tion; transparent spheres; triangular UFOs; UFOs diving at witnesses. |
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| © Donald A. Johnson |
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