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| [On This Day] |
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|  Encounters with Aliens on this Day |
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|  May 9 |
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| 1909 - At 11:00 p.m. a Mr. Cole sighted a large ovoid object over the |
| city park in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England. It flashed its |
| searchlight nine times, and then flew off quickly toward |
| Peterborough. At 11:20 p.m. a witness named Boville in Shoeburyness, |
| Essex, England said a torpedo-shaped airship flew silently to the |
| west toward Southend-on-Sea. It hovered for four minutes, and emitted |
| two strong beams. (Source: Carl Grove, FSR, November-December 1970, |
| p. 10). |
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| 1949 - Sgt. Putnam sighted two flat 25-foot diameter silver discs in |
| the sky over Tucson, Arizona at 2:30 p.m. They flew at a speed in |
| excess of 750 mph in a smooth and steady banked trajectory. A Project |
| Blue Book "unknown." (Source: Project Blue Book files counted in |
| official statistics, case 384). |
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| 1952 - At 12:10 a.m. a ghostly domed saucer circled the powerplant in |
| Mishawaka, Indiana. It flew off quickly toward St. Joseph Airport. |
| (Sources: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 2154, citing Project |
| Blue Book; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: August, p. 16). |
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| 1952 - Two F-86 pilots saw a round, silver object flying north from |
| George AFB, California at 10:20 a.m. A Project Blue Book "unknown." |
| At 12:30 two more UFOs were seen moving with the current or breeze at |
| a slow speed. They were silver metallic in color, with a dark spot in |
| the center, and at certain angles gave off a glare. (Sources: Project |
| Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 1194A & 1194B; |
| Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns; Michael Hall, Captain |
| Edward J. Ruppelt: Summer of the Saucers -- 1952, p. 100). |
| |
| 1954 - At 1:10 a.m. five observers with binoculars north-northwest of |
| Linden, Michigan spotted a glowing ovoid flying to the northwest. It |
| was glowing with distinct colored bands, none on the rim. (Source: |
| Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing APRO Bulletin, July 1954). |
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| 1955 - At 12:05 p.m. four witnesses in Arroyo Seco Canyon, California |
| watched many 2-foot white silver saucers circle and flip over near |
| Mount Wilson. (Source: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the |
| Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1955: January-June, p. 60). |
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| 1956 - A small disc flew in and out of a larger disc at a low |
| altitude in Jacksonville, Florida shortly after 11:00 p.m. They made |
| no noise. Two girls, Joan Frost and Gertie Wynn, while waiting for a |
| bus, saw two pulsating lights flying horizontally and disappearing. |
| Fifteen minutes later the lights were seen again, stopping at the |
| zenith, merging, and diving to an altitude of only 50 meters. It |
| seemed that the disc-shaped objects had separated and the girls were |
| in fear of being abducted when the bus arrived, and they ran to the |
| vehicle in terror. (Sources: Leonard Stringfield, CRIFO Newsletter, |
| July 1956, p. 3; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of |
| Landings, case # 382, citing APRO Bulletin, March 1959; Richard F. |
| Haines, Project Delta, p. 86). |
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| 1958 - At 1:05 p.m. an airline pilot for Philippines Airline saw a |
| bright, shiny metallic object fall and spin through the sky for 90 |
| seconds while flying over Bohol Island, The Philippines. A Project |
| Blue Book "unidentified" case. (Sources: Project Blue Book files |
| counted in official statistics, case # 5800; Dominique Weinstein, |
| Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 30). |
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| 1961 - At 7:45 a.m. several observers watched a shiny saucer-shaped |
| object hover over Bains Kloof Mountain Pass near Wellington, Western |
| Cape, South Africa. It hovered for a minute of two, then wobbled, and |
| then shot off toward the east. (Sources: Larry Hatch, U computer |
| database, citing FSR, volume 7, number 4; newspaper clipping dated |
| May 9, 1961). |
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| 1962 - At 3:30 a.m. several motorists on Highway 35 near Bahia |
| Blanca, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina had a close encounter with |
| three low level UFOs that pursued them for at least eight minutes. |
| (Source: Uriondo Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, December 1972, |
| p. 9). |
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| 1964 - At eleven o'clock in the morning three children, John Owens, |
| Cheryl Glunt, and Bernie Montello, saw a silvery dome-shaped object |
| arrive from the south and land in a field next to a reservoir, 150 |
| meters away in the farming town of Mogadore, Ohio. The object's |
| estimated diameter was 3 meters. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to |
| Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 603; Ray Palmer, Flying |
| Saucers, June 1965, p. 17). |
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| 1964 - At 10:20 p.m. Mr. J. R. Betz, a U.S. District Court |
| reporter, sighted three light green crescent-shaped objects, half the |
| apparent size of the moon, as they flew quickly in tight formation |
| over Chicago, Illiniois from east to west. They were oscillating in |
| size and color. A Project Blue Book "unknown." (Sources: Project Blue |
| Book files counted in official statistics, case 8788; Don Berliner, |
| Australasian UFOlogist, April 1999, p. 51; Jay Rath, The I-Files: |
| True Reports of Unexplained Phenomena in Illinois, p. 89). |
| |
| 1967 - In a field that belonged to Mr. Maillotte, the mayor of |
| Marliens, France, a depression was discovered and blue powder was |
| found in small trenches radiating from the area. A formidable weight |
| seemed to have rested at the spot. No radioactivity was found at the |
| site. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of |
| Landings, case 841, citing France Soir, May 12, 1967; M. Roger |
| Perrinjaquet, Flying Saucer Review, September-October 1967, p. 14). |
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| 1967 - On this evening two witnesses in Champaign, Illinois saw a |
| white-lit object that changed color to red as it flew rapidly from |
| north to south. The object circled the airport, turned on a bright |
| light, made turns, and hovered. It then moved south, passing over the |
| witnesses, who followed it at speeds over 90 mph. (Source: NICAP |
| files, letter from witness). |
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| 1967 - In Beloit, Wisconsin at 9:05 p.m., which is about 200 miles |
| north-northeast of Champaign, a woman named Vance heard a hissing |
| sound, then saw an object with flashing blue, red, green, and yellow |
| lights. The object "swayed, jumped" and shot out of sight (Sources: |
| NICAP files, citing The Daily News, May 10, 1967). |
| |
| 1968 - At 10:30 p.m. there was a radar-visual confirmation case from |
| Ste. Assise, Seine-Marne, France. A nocturnal light curved all over |
| the sky near a military radio center. Radar trace records were kept. |
| The object left to the southwest after 45 minutes. (Source: Lumieres |
| dans la Nuit, December 1968). |
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| 1971 - A black cone-shaped object was photographed over the |
| Vermillion River Observatory in Illinois at 11:15 a.m. (Sources: |
| Sherman Larsen case investigation files, report dated January 17, |
| 1972; Skylook, March 1972, p. 5). |
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| 1972 - Police and a separate witness in the Mojave Desert near Arvin, |
| California sighted a bright yellow disc that flew to the east shortly |
| before dawn. (Source: NICAP UFO Investigator, December 1972, p. 4). |
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| 1974 - The main witness and six others were returning home late at |
| night on Highway 57 near Mount Vernon, Indiana when they all spotted |
| a large object hovering close to the ground. The object approached |
| and hovered over their vehicle giving off heat. All the passengers |
| inside except for the principal witness became sick and passed out. |
| He then felt as if he was being drawn upwards and also passed out. He |
| next became aware of a bright white light around him and several |
| figures looking down at him. The beings called him by his name, and |
| then he passed out again. The aliens were described as five feet |
| tall, with light skin, huge almond shaped eyes, and a small lower |
| jaw. They were also apparently very strong. The man believes that his |
| aging process had slowed down subsequent to the abduction. On the |
| same night in nearby Evansville, Indiana a Mr. Oscar Jordan had a |
| close encounter of the first kind with a UFO. (Sources: (1) Albert S. |
| Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1974, case # 1844, citing Francis |
| L. Ridge, Regional Encounters; (2) Oscar A. Jordan, Saga UFO Report, |
| October 1974, p. 78). |
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| 1976 - A 22-year-old couple saw a rectangular object in the |
| northwestern part of the sky over the town of Braine-le-Comte, |
| Belgium at 10:30 p.m. In the middle portion of the object protruded |
| something like a funnel. It flew off to the north, describing a large |
| circle in the sky as it did so. (Source: Rudy de Groote, UFO Register |
| (Volume 8), 1977, p. 32, citing the Gazzette Antwerpen). |
| |
| 1979 - A power failure occurred in the predawn hours in Choconta, |
| north of Bogota, Colombia. Ten to fifteen discs were sighted by |
| numerous observers for 15 minutes. Eight of them buzzed the telecom |
| satellite station. (Source: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, |
| August 1979, p. 2). |
| |
| 1980 - At 7:00 a.m. a Peruvian Air Force Sukhoi-22 warplane was |
| scrambled to intercept a UFO flying near the Mariano Melgar AFB, near |
| La Joya, Arequipa Province, Peru. It fired on the round object, but |
| the UFO zipped off unharmed. (Source: Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, |
| p. 324; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 43). |
| |
| 1980 - Red balls of light the size of lemons climbed up, across, and |
| down telephone lines in Bargersville, Indiana then went up another |
| pole on a clear evening at 9 p.m. A dog whined and barked as more red |
| balls of light moved across a woman's back and the hair on her head. |
| The balls of light made no noise (Source: John Timmerman, CUFOS News |
| Bulletin, October 1980, p. 3). |
| |
| 1982 - A hat-like UFO was photographed near Taisetsuzan National |
| Park, east-southeast of Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan. There is a |
| mountain backdrop in the photograph. (Source: Jenny Randles, Flying |
| Saucers and How to See Them, p. 74). |
| |
| 1983 - At 3:00 a.m. Robert and Janine Lorent in Sambreville, Belgium |
| sighted a three meter diameter metallic inverted dish-shaped object |
| with a rotating lower part. It was silent when first noticed, then a |
| white beam of light turned on. There was a red light also on the |
| lower part, and small white lights below row portholes, when it began |
| making a purring turbine noise. Their close encounter lasted six |
| minutes. (Source: UNICAT, case # 624, citing Michel van Der Elst, |
| Inforespace, June 1985, p. 19). |
| |
| 1985 - At 4:30 a.m. a man had stopped his motorcycle by the side of |
| the road in Lowton, England to have a smoke. He became aware of a |
| humming sound coming from the adjacent field. When he walked closer |
| to the field, he saw a silvery glow coming from a depression in the |
| field. Two figures suddenly appeared, and when he started to flee he |
| heard a voice say, "Do not be afraid." The beings were both human |
| looking, and of similar appearance. They both had blond, shoulder |
| length hair parted in the middle, and were wearing what looked like |
| blue ski suits. The female was about five feet tall, and the male |
| somewhat shorter. Each had an egg-shaped implement attached to a belt |
| around their waist. The woman did all the talking, and she explained |
| that they were from "the third solar system." She also said they use |
| the Earth's magnetic field and gravity for propulsion. After the |
| conversation was finished, both beings walked to the silvery glow in |
| the field. Moments later the humming sound increased and the glow |
| brightened. Then a craft shaped like a football and the size of two |
| large buses lifted off from the hollow in the field. It hovered for a |
| few seconds, then silently shot away at incredible speed. (Sources: |
| Jenny Randles, Alien Contacts and Abductions, p. 150; Larry Hatch, U |
| computer database, case # 14120; Albert S. Rosales, 1985 Humanoid |
| Sightings Report Database, case # 1587, citing Peter Hough & Jenny |
| Randles, Mysteries of the Mercy Valley). |
| |
| 1986 - A witness from Danville, Pennsylvania called the UFO Reporting |
| Center in Seattle to report a missing time episode involving three |
| family members associated with an unexplained power failure that |
| occurred at 9:30 p.m. An injury the witness had suffered was also |
| reportedly healed miraculously. Multiple abduction experiences were |
| suspected. (Source: Bob Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, case # 1086). |
| |
| 1988 - At 3:00 a.m. a 34-year-old woman driving in Waltham, |
| Massachusetts had a close encounter with a red ball of light (BOL) |
| larger than 3 car lengths. Initially she saw it through the |
| windshield. The intensity of the light dimmed and brightened |
| considerably about every 5 seconds. There was a whooshing sound. The |
| encounter lasted about half a minute. (Source: Joe Nyman, MUFON field |
| investigation files, case # 881011). |
| |
| 1990 - In Dneprodzerzhinzk, Ukraine three-meter diameter red discs |
| were seen flying on top of a local mountain at 11:00 p.m. A saucer |
| came down and landed in a fuel-dump; the same thing happened again on |
| the next day. There were traces and EM effects. (Source: Larry Hatch, |
| U computer database, case # 15172, citing Richard F. Haines, |
| JUSA-CISAAF Translations, p. 306). |
| |
| 1990 - At 4:30 a.m. a woman in Gulf Breeze, Florida saw an intense |
| blinking light over the Santa Rosa Bay from her window. She observed |
| a total of six UFOs over the next hour. (Source: Paul Ferrughelli, |
| Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case 907, citing UFO |
| Newsclipping Service). |
| |
| 1995 - At 9:10 p.m. in Vista, San Diego County, California an |
| elliptical disc-shaped object, half the apparent diameter of the |
| Moon, moved very slowly to the west in the sky, then stopped and |
| vanished in place. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # |
| 16809, citing NUFORC). |
| |
| 1999 - A 10:30 p.m. a huge silent V-shaped or delta-shaped object |
| passed over three scared teenagers driving on Highway 99 in White |
| Rock, British Columbia. It had "headlights". (Sources: Geoff Dittman, |
| 1999 Canadian UFO Survey, case 70; Curt Sutherly, UFO Mysteries: A |
| Reporter Seeks the Truth, p. 207).  |
| |
| 2003 - Observers watching the waves in Ocean Beach, San Diego County, |
| California noticed a low flying, silent triangular craft one mile |
| south of Cliff House at 1:30 a.m. A witness said, "We first thought |
| it was a Stealth F-117, but I've seen them before and they are quite |
| loud." (Source: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: |
| Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 63). |
| |
| 2004 - Mary E. Spitz, a former Army Captain, reports she was driving |
| to her mother's house in Pennsylvania on Mother's Day at 10:10 p.m. |
| when she saw a triangular UFO with three blinking white lights and |
| one flashing red light in the center. It flew in very low, and |
| started following her car. "I was alone and very scared after I |
| sighted it in the the town of Martin's Corner," she stated. It was |
| only 100 yards above her car, and followed on Highway 340 and then |
| some country roads to her mother's house in Wagontown, Pennsylvania. |
| It then hovered low over a field for 10 minutes, before flying off to |
| the east. It was about 50 feet on each of the three sides.(Source: |
| George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports |
| of UFO Sightings, p. 103, citing John Schuessler, MUFON). |
| |
| 2005 - A 48-year-old witness in Carlisle, Pennsylvania reported that |
| his dog became fearful of a glowing chevron-shaped UFO. He was |
| sitting on his front porch at 3:00 a.m., not able to sleep, and his |
| dog was with me. Suddenly, the dog became very agitated and seemed to |
| want back in to the house. The witness next saw the silent V-shaped |
| object in the partly cloudy sky. He also felt a tingling feeling on |
| his head and hair. The incident lasted three minutes. (Sources: Peter |
| Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2005 webpage, report |
| uploaded May 24, 2005; Joan Woodward, NICAP NISD04 database of animal |
| reaction cases, www.nicap.org). |
| |
| 2005 - At 11:25 p.m. a gray disc-shaped object with lights around its |
| rim was seen for 20 minutes by two witnesses in northern Quebec. It |
| was slowly flying northeast past the town of Kuujjuaq, Quebec, |
| Canada. (Source: Geoff Dittman, 2005 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 33, |
| citing HBCCUFO). |
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| 2008 - At 9:35 p.m. a square craft passed right over a couple's car |
| at about tree top height from them. They were driving on Interstate |
| 75 about half an hour away from Naples, Florida in a stretch of road |
| with no exits nor lights on a clear night. The craft appeared in |
| front of them and came right over the car at tree top level. The |
| object was square in shape and had four lights, one on each corner of |
| the craft. It made no sound as it moved past them. (Source: Peter |
| Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, May 2008 webpage, report |
| made May 13, 2008 and uploaded on June 12, 2008). |
| |
| 2008 - At 10:05 MDT in Gun Barrel, Boulder County, Colorado a dark, |
| disc-shaped object with no markings flew over. At 10:30 p.m. PDT a |
| triangular object with red lights on the corners moved slowly from |
| northwest to southeast over the Walmart parking lot in canyon |
| country, Santa Clarita, California. (Source: Peter Davenport, |
| National UFO Reporting Center, May 2008 webpage, reports uploaded |
| June 12, 2008). |
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| 2011 - A mile-long dark object with a V formation of lights was |
| sighted in Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada at 2:10 a.m. |
| (Source: Chris Rutkowski, 2011 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 318). |
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| Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 7 May 2014). |
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| Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. |
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| Themes: abductions; animal reac |
| tions: dog fearful, dogs barked and whined; blue uniforms; car pursui |
| ts; contact and communication; daylight discs; domed discs; fly-bys; |
| hissing sound; humming sound; missing time; multi-year reports from B |
| elgium, England, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania and southern Califor |
| nia; Nordic-type UFOnauts; physiological effects: sensation of heat, |
| tingling sensation; silver UFOs; unusual ground marks, V-shaped UFOs. |
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| © Donald A. Johnson |
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