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| [On This Day] |
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|  Encounters with Aliens on this Day |
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|  January 1 |
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| 1937 - At around noon on this day a gondola-shaped object, the color |
| of gun metal, crossed the path in front of a aircraft flying near the |
| Virginia-North Carolina border (Source: Richard Hall, From Airships |
| to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th |
| Century (1900-1946), p. 17). |
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| 1952 - On this night at the North Bay RCAF Base in Nipissing, |
| Ontario, Canada Warrant Officer W. J. Yeo and Airman Crandell |
| observed a strange craft in the sky at a NORAD installation. The UFO |
| swung like a pendulum in the sky. (Source: newspaper clipping dated |
| April 16, 1952). |
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| 1953 - At 9:45 p.m. in Lewis and Clark County, northwest of Craig, |
| Montana a disc with illuminated windows was seen over the Missouri |
| River for ten seconds. It was estimated to be about 10 meters in |
| length and flew at 3,600 miles per hour. Fifteen minutes later a |
| bright object hovered in the sky over the northwest horizon of |
| Calgary, Alberta for ten minutes. It too shot away at a high speed |
| with fantastic acceleration. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer |
| database, citing Loren Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953 (volume 1), p. 2) |
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| 1957 - At 2:10 a.m. a F-86D USAF pilot flying near Guam in the |
| Pacific Ocean sighted a UFO that remained unexplained by Project Blue |
| Book. At four o'clock in the morning in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand two |
| people in Rissington saw a huge luminous cigar hovering low over the |
| horizon, and shooting beams of light in several directions. (Sources: |
| Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 4577; |
| Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, A |
| History, 1957: January-March 22, p. 3). |
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| 1958 - A photograph of a brilliant light making a ninety-degree turn |
| and then shooting away was taken at Trindade Island in the Atlantic |
| Ocean at 7:70 a.m. (Source: Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The |
| Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 172). |
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| 1961 - Mr. Pisani, a government topographer, had just passed a truck |
| on the Andean Highway between La Victoria and El Vigia, Venezuela on |
| a clear day when he witnessed a flying disc of polished blue steel |
| swoop down very close to the hood of the truck and lift it about a |
| meter into the air. The truck overturned onto a sandbank, causing |
| minor injuries to the driver. (Sources: Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying |
| Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. |
| 185, citing H. Gonzalez; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A |
| Century of Landings, case 514). |
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| 1964 - On this day in 1964 many residents of Shanghai, China saw a large |
| cigar-shaped object flying over the city. Chinese Air Force MIG jet |
| fighter aircraft were scrambled to intercept the unknown object, but |
| were unable to catch up with it. The populace were told by officials |
| that what they had seen was a U.S. missile. (Source: John W. Spencer, |
| World Atlas of UFOs, p. 131). |
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| 1966 - At 6:23 a.m. thirty sky watchers in Tokyo, Japan sighted a |
| huge bow-shaped, dark brown UFO, its length ten times the apparent |
| diameter of the Moon. It hung over the northern horizon for eight |
| minutes. At 6:40 a.m. a second huge stick-like craft was seen that |
| blew forth a mass of white clouds behind it. A bright flash of light |
| was seen high in the sky that day in Aitape, Papua New Guinea. It was |
| visible for five minutes and left behind a smoke trail. (Sources: Y. |
| J. Matsumura, Flying Saucers, October 1966, p. 39; Michael Hervey, |
| UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 156). |
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| 1968 - Mr. Kakizawa of Yokohama, Japan took a photograph of a UFO at |
| 4:45 a.m. (Source: George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, October 1968, |
| p. 16). |
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| 1970 - Cowichan District Hospital, Vancouver Island, British Columbia |
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| 1970 - From the second floor of the Cowichan District Hospital on |
| Vancouver Island, British Columbia five nurses saw a silver metallic |
| Saturn-shaped UFO. It was about 50 feet in diameter and hovered close |
| by with a "necklace of lights" around the rim. At 5:00 a.m. they |
| could clearly see two tall male figures inside the craft wearing |
| tight-fitting dark coveralls. (Source: APRO Bulletin, |
| January-February 1970, p. 1). |
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| 1971 - At 6:30 a.m. a mini-bus driver near Newport, Monmouthshire, |
| Wales saw an object in the sky above the road. The cigar-shaped |
| object turned at an easy angle and traveled toward Newport. One of |
| her passengers also saw it. (Source: Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, |
| August 1971, p. 26). |
| |
| 1971 - A one hundred foot diameter spherical UFO, bright as the Moon, |
| wobbled as it hung in the sky south of Alamogordo, New Mexico after 3 |
| a.m. It sent out bright orange objects that then landed on the side |
| of the Sacramento Mountains. "It kicked the objects out...fast...and |
| they flew right to the ground." (Source: Alamogordo Daily News, |
| January 3, 1971). |
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| 1971 - At 11:00 p.m. in Kosice, Slovakia a woman reported being taken |
| aboard a UFO together with her friend and her cat. They were all |
| brought from her apartment through a window in a trance-like state |
| and delivered into an otherworldly environment where everything |
| appeared to be made out of ice. There she met three beautiful female |
| humanoids who wore silvery spacesuits. The beings paralyzed them and |
| loaded them onto a wagon-like sledge. The woman awoke the next day |
| with pain all over her body and with no further recollection of the |
| event. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1971, |
| citing Dr. Milos Jesensky). |
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| 1972 - At 4:30 a.m. a 25 meter long cigar-shaped object hovered over |
| a power station in the town of Nedre Leirfoss in Sor-Trondelag, |
| Norway. It made a rumbling sound, ejected flames, and shot away. |
| (Source: Contact U.K.) |
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| 1973 - At 12:15 a.m. on a highway in the state of Los Lagos, Chile a |
| married couple had their car engine stall the moment a UFO flew over |
| their car. The disc-shaped UFO had a green light and a flashing red |
| light. Their car engine came back on by itself after the UFO had |
| gone. (Sources: newspaper clipping, January 3, 1973; FSR, May-June |
| 1973, Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. |
| 55; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume II): A Thirty Year Report, |
| p. 254). |
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| 1973 - At sea off the coast of Mauratania, several crewmembers aboard |
| the SS Wilhelm Kohle sighted two silver discs at 9:15 a.m. flying at |
| a high altitude and heading toward the northwest. (Source: J. Bernard |
| Delair, UFO Register (Volume 5), 1974, case 1). |
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| 1973 - A domed disc-shaped UFO was sighted in Tres Arroyos, Argentina |
| at 10 p.m., and figures could be seen on board working behind an |
| instrument panel. (Source: Christian Vogt, Phenomenes Spatiaux, June |
| 1973, p. 22). |
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| 1975 - Four soldiers at a military base saw a luminous yellow-white |
| cone-shaped object descend at a high rate of speed at 6:25 a.m. and |
| hover near their car in Quintanaortuno, Spain. The object went dark. |
| Soon four more UFOs appeared, forming a row "emitting jets of white |
| light downward." Traces were found and photographed at the site. |
| (Sources: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO |
| Events in Spain and Portugal, case 199; Skylook, April 1975, p. 1). |
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| 1976 - Three witnesses watched a 15-meter long football-shaped object |
| hover 800 meters above a road at one o'clock in the morning in Marle, |
| France then shot straight up in the sky fast. (Source: Lumieres dans |
| la Nuit, January 1979). |
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| 1977 - There were several UFO reports on this day from France and |
| Portugal. A pink glowing sphere hovered in the sky for six minutes in |
| Creysseilles, France at 1:30 a.m., then flew away to the east toward |
| the Mezayon Valley. At seven p.m. a luminous yellow-orange ovoid |
| hovered in the sky for five minutes over Saint-Donat in Drome |
| department, France. It drifted toward the southwest and was gone by |
| eleven p.m. At 7:50 p.m. in Chabeiul, also in Drome, France a |
| lenticular metallic disc with flames coming from the bottom made a |
| 180-degree turn and flew off toward the south. The witness's eyes |
| were sore from the glare of the light. At 8:00 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. |
| Perez had a close encounter with a ten-meter long ovoid object in |
| nearby Valence, France that chased their car. They also complained of |
| eye pain and conjunctivitis as a result of the encounter, and a watch |
| of theirs had stopped working. The UFO made a reappearance 40 minutes |
| later. At nine p.m. in Leca de Palmeira, Oporto Province, Portugal a |
| TV crew filmed a UFO. It made a sound like an electric motor. At ten |
| p.m. a luminous hemisphere-shaped object, about .65 meters in |
| diameter, maneuvered and glowed among trees in Eyragues, France in |
| Bouches-Rhone department. Broken branches were found later in the |
| area. (Sources: Michel Figuet and Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier |
| dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 637; |
| Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1979; International UFO Reporter, |
| February 1977, p. 2; Lumieres dans la Nuit, September 1977; Victor |
| Lourenco, PORTUCAT computer catalogue). |
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| 1977 - Late on this night in New Canaan, Connecticut a young witness |
| remembers being floated through his house downstairs against his |
| will. Terrified, he saw a being shorter than him that floated beside |
| him at the same time. He tried to grab the wall and banister but |
| could not get a firm hold. His next memory was of being in the |
| driveway being floated down the road surrounded by several |
| gray-colored figures. He tried to get away but his legs just cycled |
| aimlessly in mid-air. He had vague memories of being in a dark room |
| with a metallic floor with some "people" that were involved in a |
| project, which calmed him down and made him feel good. This was all |
| he could remember. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact |
| Database 1977, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, |
| Seattle). |
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| 1978 - Santa Monica, California |
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| 1978 - Mr. Hallstrom witnessed a metallic domed disc with a clear |
| dome and several windows over Santa Monica, California at 1:07 p.m. |
| (Source: J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies, case investigation |
| files, report dated January 18, 1978). |
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| 1998 - At four o'clock in the morning a man in Huelo, Hawaii, who had |
| earlier that night seen some lights moving out the sky over some |
| nearby fields, was awakened when he felt some type of "knock" in his |
| head, perhaps some form of telepathic communication. He looked out |
| his window to see a multicolored UFO emitting multicolored light |
| beams in his direction. He woke up his friend and they both saw a |
| figure standing in the bedroom. Terrified, they hid under the covers |
| and when they looked again a few moments later the figure had |
| vanished. The craft, however, was still outside outside but a little |
| further off, and stayed visible until sunrise. The figure was |
| described as tall, with a huge head and large staring eyes. (Source: |
| Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, citing Peter |
| Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle). |
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| 2001 - At shortly after midnight several motorists reported sighting |
| five discs flying along the western shore of North Island, New |
| Zealand near New Plymouth. One of the UFOs paced a car, hovering 100 |
| feet overhead of the vehicle, causing radio static. The UFO changed |
| color from orange to violet as it flew. After several minutes the |
| UFOs formed into a linear formation and flew off rapidly to the |
| south. A silent orange object was videotaped over Deception Bay, |
| Queensland, Australia that evening, moving from the southeast to the |
| northwest. The video appears to show a dozen windows on the object. |
| (Sources: UFO Magazine (USA), April 2001, p. 20; Sheryl Gottschall, |
| UFO Research Queensland website). |
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| Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 10 September 2004) |
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| Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. |
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| Themes: abduc |
| tion, aircraft encounters, bedroom visitations, car pursuits, cigar-s |
| haped UFOs, disc-shaped UFOs, domed discs, early morning UFO sighting |
| s, hovering UFOs, human-looking UFOnauts, metallic UFOs, multi-year r |
| eports from the Far East, orange UFOs, paralysis, pendulum motion, ph |
| otographs, short humanoids, tall UFOnauts, UFOs seen near shorelines. |
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