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| [On This Day] |
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|  Encounters with Aliens on this Day |
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|  February 17 |
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| 1949 - Alain Berard saw a large, bright object land near his farm in |
| France with a flash of green lightning. It then became dark. As he |
| approached the craft, the witness saw three figures with stocky short |
| legs, apparently without heads. Frightened, he fired a gun at them |
| three times. A moment later the object took off vertically. (Source: |
| Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 193, |
| citing Oltre il Cielo, Volume I). |
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| 1953 - At 10:04 p.m. five airmen of the US Air Force 754 AC&W Squad |
| in Port Austin, Michigan picked up a clear and steady radar return at |
| a distance of 9 miles. The slow moving light changed color from red |
| to pink to pale white to white and then back to red. An explanation |
| of the sighting was changed to "Venus" in the Air Force files in |
| 1963. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official |
| statistics, case # 2419; Project Blue Book Report #10, report dated |
| February 27, 1953; UNICAT, case # 760; Richard Hall, The UFO |
| Evidence, p. 41). |
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| 1956 - Multiple radar sets at Orly Airport, Paris, France tracked an |
| unknown blip for four hours beginning at 10:50 p.m. It was twice the |
| size of and airliner, and made 2,000 mph bursts of speed. A visual |
| sighting of the object was briefly made by a pilot landing at the |
| airfield. (Sources: Alexander Mebane, Civilian Saucer Intelligence-NY |
| Newsletter, February 1956, p. 6; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO |
| Encounters, p. 17; Jimmy Guieu, Flying Saucers Come from Another |
| World, p. 260). |
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| 1956 - In Anderson, South Carolina at 4:15 p.m. several thousand |
| frantic birds took off and flew off >S, some died in the process. A |
| silvery wheel-shaped UFO was sighted by a separate witness. (Sources: |
| Anderson (SC) Independent, February 21, 1956; Leonard H. Stringfield, |
| CRIFO Orbit, April 3, 1956). |
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| 1960 - A grayish black Saturn-shaped disc with exhaust cruised the |
| tops of the hills in New Martinsville, West Virginia. A |
| lighter-colored ring on the object emitted smoke from rear end. |
| (Source: Bob Teets, West Virginia UFOs: Close Encounters in the |
| Mountain State, p. 82). |
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| 1967 - At 1:05 a.m. in Dorchester, Massachusetts a metallic domed |
| disc-shaped object with 4-5 purple lights around its perimeter |
| hovered at treetop level over a rest home for the elderly before |
| moving away. At 6:55 p.m. in Lawrence, Massachusetts a dazzlingly |
| bright V-shaped object, with a variety of body lights, hovered low |
| over the interstate highway for three minutes. The witness drove |
| under it. There were a series of other, similar reports close by at |
| Methuen and Andover at about the same time. (Source: Raymond E. |
| Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 344; Richard Hall, The UFO |
| Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 328). |
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| Dorchester, Massachusetts Low Level Domed Disc - 1967 |
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| [Sketch of Dorchester, Massachusetts UFO - 1967] |
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| 1969 - A woman in Flinders Park, South Australia heard a whirring |
| sound coming from outside that woke her at 2:50 a.m. She looked out |
| the window and saw an unusual object in a nearby field. A man emerged |
| from the shadows and walked around the object. The figure was very |
| tall and lean with light colored hair. He wore white coveralls. He |
| walked several times around the object. The witness then ran to get |
| other witnesses but when she got back the UFO and tall figure were |
| gone. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1969, |
| case #1309, citing Keith Basterfield). |
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| 1974 - At ten p.m. a 10 meter long cigar-shaped object appeared over |
| a vineyard in a rainstorm in Montreal-d'Aude, Aude department, |
| France. It had four blazing lights on display as it moved up a road. |
| (Source: Jean-Claude Bourret, The Crack in the Universe: What You |
| Have Not Been Told about Flying Saucers, p. 86). |
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| 1975 - At 9 p.m. Sheriff Richard Egebakken, as well as four other |
| Wheatland County and state officials, observed a bright round object |
| hovering near the Harlowton, Montana nuclear missile base. The object |
| made rapid darting movements, and bobbed up-down. (Source: Richard H. |
| Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 175). |
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| 1976 - A truck driver driving between Tarraleah and Berridale, |
| Tasmania saw a bright cigar-shaped object ahead and to his left at |
| around four o'clock in the morning. It was low to the ground. The |
| light had maintained its position relative to his truck for some |
| time, so the driver woke up his companion. The driver estimated the |
| object was about one kilometer away and 300 meters in altitude. The |
| two men tried a transistor radio, but it emitted only static until |
| the end of the sighting. They estimated the object to be 10 meters in |
| diameter with a dome on top. After being paced for 60 kilometers, |
| they stopped to change drivers. When they did this the UFO dropped |
| down to within 300 meters of their truck, then hovered nearby. As |
| they started driving again, the UFO moved across the road and paced |
| them again at varying distances until sunrise. A small orange light |
| accompanied the main object during the latter half of the sighting. |
| (Sources: Richard Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, October 1976, p. 19; Mark |
| Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 392, |
| citing ACOS Bulletin, June 1976) |
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| 1977 - During the day a teacher and two canteen workers at Broad |
| Haven school in Pembrokeshire, Wales watched a silvery yellow |
| cigar-shaped object glide over a field emitting a loud humming sound. |
| Before it left the area, a human-like figure was seen briefly to step |
| out of the object and then go back inside. (Source: Albert S. |
| Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, case # 1386, citing J. A. |
| Brooks, Ghosts and Legends of Wales). |
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| 1978 - Three school teachers, Mr. Moreno, Mr. Aguilar and Mr. |
| Coronado were on their way back to the town of Cocula, Mexico from a |
| late dinner, when around 2:00 a.m. they noticed bright flashes of |
| green, red and white light coming from a nearby hill. They stopped |
| their vehicle and got out to get a better look. They walked towards |
| the lights, which appeared to be about 300 meters away. The light |
| seemed to dim the closer they got to it. When they were about 20 |
| meters from it, they noticed that it was now an opaque egg-shaped |
| object, about 15 meters in length. It appeared to have three |
| antenna-like protrusions on top. The UFO now gave off a fluorescent |
| white glow. Curious, the three men continued to approach even closer, |
| and began to surround it. Suddenly, one of the men noticed something |
| moving very close to him and signaled the other two. All three of |
| them then saw a short "robot like" humanoid in a freshly dug ditch, |
| and it appeared to be still digging. The being was wearing a tight |
| fitting silvery outfit with a round helmet. The little man simply |
| ignored the trio and kept digging. Frightened all three men ran |
| across the field, got back into their vehicle, and drove away at high |
| speed. The next day they returned to the site and found numerous |
| ground traces, including the ditch. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, |
| Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 3507, citing J. J. Benitez, El |
| Arbol y La Serpiente). |
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| 1994 - A 10-year-old boy in Barking, London, England witnessed a |
| domed object with reddish-orange lights underneath at 11:30 p.m. It |
| hovered silently at 300 feet altitude. (Source: UFO Newsclipping |
| Service, July 1994). |
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| 1997 - At 9:00 p.m. a 68-year-old woman was outside saying farewell |
| to her son-in-law in La Grange, Georgia when she noticed a |
| disc-shaped object in the southern sky.  As it got closer, she saw |
| three white objects moving in unison and "floating." No one else was |
| outside or driving by while objects were in view. Ten minutes later |
| three female witnesses in Franklin, Georgia were outside when they |
| saw a multicolored spherical object approach at a rapid (but not |
| incredible) speed, then slow down near one house, then speed up again |
| and depart out of sight.(Source: John Thompson, MUFON case files, |
| cases # 970610E and 970217E). |
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| 1997 - A 46-year-old man in Biloxi, Mississippi was cleaning his |
| carport 1t 2:30 p.m. when he heard the sound of jets and looked up. |
| He also saw three disc-shaped objects in the sky. He went and got his |
| binoculars, and when he returned there were now four objects with |
| multicolored lights. The UFOs slowly moved across the sky and went |
| out of sight. The sighting lasted seven minutes. (Source: J. R. |
| Gillia, MUFON case files, case # 970514bC). |
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| 1999 - In Campinas, Sao Paolo state, Brazil Gley Freitas observed a |
| large oval-shaped object on the ground. Next to the object stood two |
| tall humanoids, wearing tight-fitting outfits and helmets. Afraid, |
| the witness did not get any closer. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, |
| Humanoid Contact Database 1999, citing Thiago Luiz Ticchetti, |
| EBE-ET). |
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| 2004 - A dark triangular flying object with three lights, one at each |
| end, flew over Phillipsburg, New Jersey at 7:00 p.m. (Source: Peter |
| Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Feb. 2004 webpage). |
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| 2007 - At 2:52 a.m. a triangular craft was sighted over the Burke |
| Lakefront Airport in Cleveland, Ohio. It had white lights on the |
| sides, and a red light shimmering in the bottom middle. (Source: |
| Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Feb. 2007 webpage, |
| report uploaded Feb. 24, 2007). |
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| 2008 - At 11:50 a.m. a photograph of two “phantom UFOs” was taken in |
| the vicinity of the Uruguay River from Gualeguaychu, Entre Rios |
| Province, Argentina. The photo shows clear, sharp images. (Source: |
| Luis Burgos, www.ufoinfo.com, citing Inexplicata). |
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| Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 23 February 2010). |
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| Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. |
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| Themes: cigar-shaped UFOs, disc-shaped |
| UFOs, domed discs, humming sound, inside UFO occupant, landing, mult |
| i-year reports from France, oval-shaped UFO, radar visual confirmatio |
| n, RF interference, short headless humanoids, short robot-like humano |
| id, tall humanoids, triangular UFOs, vertical ascent, whirring sound. |
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| © Donald A. Johnson |
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