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| [On This Day] |
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|  Encounters with Aliens on this Day |
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|  April 8 |
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| 1897 - A dark bulk with a narrow, rectangular shape and illuminated |
| windows flew over a dairy farm in the western part of Iowa after |
| midnight. It was 30 to 35 feet long and 6 or 7 feet wide. Over the |
| rectagular shaped was a cigar-shaped bag, about the same length but |
| 10 feet thicker in width. The two horses of a carriage being driven |
| by a dairy farmer spooked at the sight of the craft and bolted, |
| throwing the man into a ditch. The object rose vertically on its |
| departure. (Source: Philip Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 5). |
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| 1950 - At 2:00 a.m. Mr. Earl Baker, a metal worker in Kokomo, Indiana |
| was awakened by his dog and observed an object outside his bedroom |
| window only 60 meters away hovering at a low altitude. It was a gray |
| metallic disc, five meters in diameter and 15-feet thick. It was |
| shaped like a top with a kind of "conning tower" turret on top. It |
| had three ports on the rim giving off a blue light. It was |
| oscillating, spinning slowly, and had three portholes shining with a |
| blue-white light. It hovered for about 2 minutes and then left toward |
| the north at high speed. (Source: Project Blue Book files counted in |
| official statistics, case #706; Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The |
| Coming of the Saucers, p. 166; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO |
| Unknowns). |
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| 1950 - Later that day shortly before noon near Amarillo, Texas, David |
| Lightfoot, age 12, and his brother Charles saw a disc land behind a |
| hill. They were able to walk up to it and touch it. It was the size |
| of a car tire, about 30 cm high, with a rounded top that rotated. It |
| had a pivot between the base and the top. It took off very fast. The |
| faces and arms of the boys later became red with welts. (Sources: |
| Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Jacques |
| Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 194). |
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| 1950 - On the same day two disc-shaped objects buzzed a house in San |
| Francisco, California. They stopped in mid-flight, then went up and |
| around like playing a game of tag. (Source: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A |
| History. 1950: April-July, p. 13). |
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| 1952 - A CBS-TV staff engineer named Smith saw a copper red disc with |
| sharply defined edges fly "unbelievably fast" between Pear Blossom |
| and Big Pine, California. It made no sound as it flew and left no |
| contrail. (Source: Edward Sullivan, Civilian Saucer Intelligence--Los |
| Angeles files, letter dated April 9, 1952). |
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| 1953 - At 7:55 p.m. Lt. D. J. Pichon, pilot of a USAF F-94B jet |
| interceptor, watched a bright blue light descend, accelerate, and |
| then fly parallel to his F-94 over Fukuoka, Japan. The object |
| increased its speed and blinked out after 45 seconds. (Source: Don |
| Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). |
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| 1954 - In Chicago, Illinois Lelah Stoker sighted a white, domed disc |
| with a humanoid suspended beneath it over Lake Michigan at 4:30 p.m. |
| It skimmed above the surface of the lake in all directions. She |
| called in another tenant of the building, Mr. Boruszak, who also saw |
| the object. She called the Coast Guard to report it. The object |
| diminished in size till it was no bigger than a piece of newspaper, |
| as it descended and landed. The human figure, now on the ground, was |
| short and wore a tight-fitting, green, one-piece suit that covered |
| even the head. He walked up and down the lakefront until the Coast |
| Guard search boat had passed. Then the UFO enlarged and rose up |
| again; the suspended "pilot" entered it, and it took off very, very |
| fast with no sound. The sighting lasted 30 minutes. (Sources: Don |
| Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; David F. Webb & Ted |
| Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-06; citing |
| Project Blue Book). |
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| 1956 - At 11:45 p.m. near Exauroux, France two brothers, ages 18 and |
| 20, saw a red ball of light come down to their left and hover at tree |
| height. It then left at fantastic speed. Three additional witnesses |
| reported it independently. The object was a disc about 7.5 meters in |
| diameter, with a red dome, and rotating fins under it. It emitted a |
| yellow-orange glow. It moved away extremely quickly. (Source: Jacques |
| Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 253 (case |
| 380)). |
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| 1966 - At 11:40 p.m. at Daniels Park near Denver, Colorado six |
| teenagers heard footsteps on the roof of a park shelter where they |
| were sitting and talking. They next saw a big humanoid figure pass in |
| front of a landed light in a nearby field. Four domed football shaped |
| objects maneuvered around in the sky, making a pulsating sound. When |
| they tried to flee the area in their car the car's engine wouldn't |
| start. (Source: Timothy Green Beckley, Flying Saucers, March 1967, p. |
| 24). |
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| 1967 - Four college students saw a greenish fluorescent glow on the |
| ground 180 feet away from their car while driving in the morning |
| eight miles outside of Banner Elk, North Carolina. Their radio |
| experienced interference and their car's engine quit. The glow came |
| from an object, apparently on the ground, which flew up and passed |
| nearby and then flew away. Three imprints in the shape of an |
| equilateral triangle were found in the ground. (Sources: Ted |
| Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 269; |
| Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 33; |
| George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, March 1972, p. 6). |
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| 1968 - At a hospital in Magill, South Australia the hospital staff |
| saw a circular craft in the sky that was flashing red, white, and |
| green lights. The hospital's ship-to-shore radio was effected during |
| the sighting. (Source: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern |
| Hemisphere, p. 181). |
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| 1972 - In Talavera la Real, Badajoz, Spain at 12:30 a.m. four people |
| watched an orange ball of light in a 1.5 meter column of white smoke. |
| A Ferris wheel of fireworks rose up, then flew off fast towards the |
| northwest. (Source: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 |
| Type I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 154). |
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| 1977 - A domed disc-shaped object flew around two witnesses in Cedar |
| Springs, Michigan at two o'clock in the morning, hovering and |
| flashing over some nearby trees. Ring ground marks were found on the |
| ground. (Source: CUFOS files, report dated April 10, 1977). |
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| 1978 - A low flying oval-shaped object with an estimated diameter of |
| 3.5 meters hovered over a garage at around 6:00 a.m. for 15-20 |
| seconds in Saint-Laurent, France at a distance of 500 meters from the |
| witness and an altitude of 50 meters. (Source: Pierre Delval, |
| Ouranos, issue number 24 (1978), p. 31). |
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| 1981 - The complete failure of an aircraft's electronics, including |
| the transponder, DME, navigation equipment, and two-way radios, |
| occurred when a bullet-shaped UFO passed within 500 feet of an |
| airplane being flown by Mr. Dennis, a flight instructor, while flying |
| over San Luis Reservoir, Merced County, California at 3:00 a.m. The |
| electronics recovered after the UFO had gone. The object was |
| described as 35-50 in length, with a pulsating orange front end, and |
| having a blue ring perpendicular to the craft. The object was said to |
| be whirling, and made an instantaneous 90 degree turn. (Sources: |
| J.Allen Hynek, International UFO Reporter, January 1982, p. 6; UNICAT |
| database, citing Tom Page, case 34; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO |
| Encounters, p. 43). |
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| 1982 - An 80-foot wide boomerang shaped object, with a convex curved |
| rear end, paced a car being driven by two teenagers west of Escanaba, |
| Michigan at 11:45 p.m. The UFO followed as close as 30 feet altitude, |
| and the two girls feared capture. (Source: Fred Merritt, |
| International UFO Reporter, September 1982, p. 4). |
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| 1993 - Prison guards and police in Lebanon, Ohio sighted a nocturnal |
| flying object with small lights around it at 2:20 a.m. There were |
| four calls to the Ohio Highway Patrol of UFO sightings at around 2:30 |
| a.m. as well. (Source: UFO Newsclipping Service, July 1993). |
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| 1993 - A cloud of dust was seen in the desert near Interstate 15 in |
| Sloan, Nevada by police at 10:40 a.m. Then a huge silver disc rose |
| from the ground and flew off. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer |
| database, case 16021). |
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| 1994 - On an overcast dawn at 6:10 a.m. a saucer-shaped object rose |
| from the ground of a farm in Melbourne, Florida, then temporarily |
| hovered at 30-50 feet before flying off. It had twelve white lights |
| and six red lights on it, which had the appearance of headlights, |
| except that these soft lights did not cast beams. There was one red |
| light between every white light. The object was five times larger |
| than a car. Its distance from the two witnesses, a man and a woman in |
| their seventies, was estimated to be 1200 feet. the UFO made no |
| sound. (Source: Melvin H. Tennis, MUFON field investigation database, |
| case 950403E). |
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| 1994 - A silent, dull metallic saucer-shaped UFO with diamond-shaped |
| windows and big red lights crossed Route 20 in Quiet Dell, West |
| Virginia at 11:40 p.m. Cheryl, the witness, said her car made a |
| screeching sound while the engine faltered, the lights dimmed, and |
| the car's digital clock had its setting erased. (Source: Bob Teets, |
| West Virginia UFOs: Close Encounters in the Mountain State, p. 160). |
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| 1996 - A 39-year-old man in Thomasville, North Carolina had a close |
| encounter with a disc-shaped object on a partly cloudy night at 9:15 |
| p.m. The object had a bluish-green, cone-shaped beam projecting from |
| it. The beam was narrow at the top, but had a three foot diameter at |
| the bottom towards the ground, although it did not seem to be |
| illuminating the ground. The bottom of the disc had an inner circle |
| of many red lights. Inside were four rocket-like cones, giving off a |
| red glow. The UFO came within 10 feet of the witness. The UFO made no |
| sound. (Source: Robert Hair, MUFON field investigation database, case |
| 970408E). |
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| 1996 - At 9:30 p.m. local time a high altitude UFO zigzagged through |
| the sky at very high speeds over Americana, Brazil. (Source: Boletim |
| CEPEX, issue number 27). |
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| 1999 - A brilliant sphere some three meters in diameter flew over |
| Hartford, Connecticut at 5:30 a.m. It had glowing lights that |
| illuminated the low clouds overhead, as it flew at a low altitude, |
| hugging the terrain as it went. (Source: George Filer, Filer's Files |
| Internet news list, volume 9, number 15). |
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| 2000 - A yellowish orange cigar shaped UFO approached Gandhi |
| International Airport in New Delhi, India at 11:55 p.m. It flew at a |
| high altitude, halted over a cargo terminal, hovered, descended, |
| wobbled, then vanished. (Source: UFO Magazine (USA), July 2000, p. |
| 25). |
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| 2004 - There were multiple reports from Rochester, Indiana on this |
| night to the National UFO Reporting Center. One report was of a very |
| large disc-shaped object with six lights that went on and off in 20 |
| second intervals. The other report was of an independent sighting of |
| yellowish orange lights in the southern sky. The object in question |
| may have been around 200 feet in width. At about the same time, at |
| 10:00 p.m. in Leiters Ford, Indiana another report came in of a UFO |
| with yellowish beams of light. The beams were peculiar because the |
| never seemed to touch the ground. (Source: Peter Davenport, National |
| UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Washington, April 2004 webpage |
| archive). |
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| Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 4 April 2006). |
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| Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. |
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| Themes: aircraft UFO encounte |
| rs, blue lights, car pursuits, disc-shaped UFOs, domed discs, EM vehi |
| cle ignition interference, ground marks: triangular imprints, landing |
| s or near landings, metallic UFOs, multi-year reports from Indiana an |
| d Michigan, nautical UFOs, UFOnauts in green uniforms, physiological |
| effects: "sunburn", radio interference, red spheres, top-shaped UFOs. |
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