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| [On This Day] |
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|  Encounters with Aliens on this Day |
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|  August 30 |
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| 1910 - A long black object circled buildings in downtown Manhattan |
| around Madison Square Park in New York City, New York making an |
| engine sound at 8:45 p.m. There were hundreds of witnesses. (Source: |
| John Keel, FSR,  May 11, 1970; John Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. |
| 120; Ralph Blum, Beyond Earth: Man's Contact with UFOs, p. 60). |
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| 1944 - At 9:30 p.m. a big orange moon-shaped object flew overhead at |
| low altitude in Gardouch, Haute-Garronne, France. Great heat was felt |
| when the object turned white. It flew off to the north. (Sources: |
| Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 165; Richard Hall, From Airships to |
| Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th |
| Century (1900-1946), p. 23). |
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| 1950 - At 1:30 p.m. three local employees of the Air Force Base at |
| Sandy Point, Newfoundland, Canada including Kaeel and Alexander |
| sighted a dark, barrel-shaped object with a pole extending down from |
| it into the water. The object flew very slowly at 3-5 mph just |
| 15-20-feet above the water for five minutes. (Source: Don Berliner, |
| Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). |
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| 1954 - North Bay, Ontario. At 5:25 a.m. Sgt. Durdle of the R.C.A.F. |
| saw a brilliant, circular object fly across Lake Nipissing toward the |
| Royal Canadian Air Force base. An oblong canister was hung down from |
| the central section, which supported a long cone with a spinning |
| globe on top. When the object tilted he was able to see |
| regulator-looking devices inside the machine through a vertical |
| lighted slit. Six brilliant appendages that looked like necklaces |
| hung from the craft. Sgt. Durdle woke up four other Air Force men, |
| who observed the object spiraling away. (Sources: Harold Wilkins, |
| Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 227; Jacques Vallee, Passport to |
| Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 140). |
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| 1957 - At noon in San Rafael, Honduras a large cigar-shaped object |
| was seen over the mountains, emitting flashes from one end. Earth |
| tremors were felt at the time. The object spiraled out of |
| sight.(Source: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: |
| UFOs: A History. 1957: August-September, p. 56). |
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| 1957 - At 12:30 in the afternoon two engineers in a boat on the |
| Atlantic Ocean near Sea Isle City, Cape May County, New Jersey |
| watched a metallic cylinder hovering for three minutes with |
| binoculars. It moved off to the southwest. (Source: Loren E. Gross, |
| The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: |
| August-September, p. 61). |
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| 1957 - At 10:10 p.m. the crew of two separate airliners flying over |
| Chesapeake Bay near Norfolk, Virginia, a Capital Airlines flight and |
| a Northwest Airlines DC-6, sighted a bright object that flew at great |
| speed, then stopped abruptly. The UFO was confirmed on their airborne |
| radars and ground radar. (Sources: Gordon D. Thayer in Edward U. |
| Condon (editor), Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. |
| 128; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 29). |
| |
| 1962 - At 11:00 p.m. three men walking down a street in Itapirito, |
| Minas Gerais State, Brazil saw a domed disc-shaped object 150 feet |
| away. It was aluminum colored and ten feet in diameter. A little man |
| or robot was next seen walking toward them. He was one meter tall, |
| had a small head and short arms, and looked like the "Michelin" tire |
| man. His upper body was luminous. After the being had walked to with |
| 30 feet it vanished before their eyes. Two of the witnesses ran, one |
| stayed behind; the UFO took off but came back and the third witness |
| suffered from temporay paralysis. He reportedly suffered from |
| headaches for the next month. (Sources: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, |
| HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0541, citing Walter |
| Buhler, SBEDV Bulletin, 1975, issue no. 21). |
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| 1964 - At around 10 p.m. a man and a woman driving between Tipton and |
| Bennett, Iowa sighted an eighty-foot long cigar-shaped object |
| that hovered at 500 feet altitude. When it climbed, their car radio |
| went blank, and the car's engine lost power. (Sources: NICAP UFO |
| Investigator, p. 22; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle |
| Interference, p. 22). |
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| 1965 - In La Blanquilla, Nueva Esparta, Venezuela a spinning, |
| top-shaped object with openings through which an orange light was |
| visible was observed taking off with a "foggy" trail. (Sources: APRO |
| Bulletin, January-February 1966; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: |
| A Century of Landings, case 690; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, |
| October 1966, p. 30). |
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| 1965 - On this night two people driving on the Pan-American Highway |
| near near Arequipa, Peru saw “a strange being, a Martian, who |
| resembled a shrub,” who was only 31 inches tall, and had one golden |
| colored eye in its head, but also had “other smaller eyes located |
| along its body.” A few seconds later, they saw a flying saucer pass |
| overhead. (Sources: Gordon Creighton, The Humanoids: FSR Special |
| Edition No. 1, p. 43; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue |
| of Humanoid Reports, case 1965-44 (A0658) citing a newspaper source). |
| |
| 1965 - M. A. Lilly, N. Smith, and T. Nastoff of Urbana, Ohio sighted |
| a low flying, small white ball of white at 10:30 p.m. while driving |
| near the fairgrounds. The sphere was between 5 and 8 feet in diameter |
| and trailed by a three-foot light. It hit the road 100 feet in front |
| of the witnesses' car, bounced and flew away. The sighting lasted 3-4 |
| seconds. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official |
| statistics, case # 9864; Lloyd Mallan, Science & Mechanics, December |
| 1966, p. 30; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 152; Don Berliner, |
| Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). |
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| Urbana, Ohio Project Blue Book UFO Unknown - 1965 |
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| [Sketch of Urbana, Ohio sighting 1965 (Project Blue Book UFO |
| Unknown)] |
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| 1967  - Two newspaper delivery cyclists, Jones and Hollander, had |
| come to a bridge in Crewe, Cheshire, England at 8:30 a.m. when they |
| saw a hovering domed disc-shaped UFO. It had a transparent dome with |
| an antenna, an elliptical body, and an undercarriage with three dark |
| circles and many wires or tubes that were evident. A very well |
| documented report.At 8:55 p.m. two witnesses in a residential |
| neighborhood at Shrewbridge Crescent in Nantwich, Cheshire, England |
| viewed in the sky what they described as a yellow elongated rugby |
| ball with a dome through binoculars. It was as bright as the full |
| moon, and estimated to be half a mile away, at 25 degrees elevation. |
| It flew in an arc, hovered, and then went in front of a dark cloud, |
| behind another low cloud. It made a sound like a turbojet.  A shiny |
| white cigar-shaped object was seen by five witnesses in Sandbach, |
| Cheshire, England at 9:00 p.m. It was brighter than the moon and had |
| blurry edges, but appeared to be solid. It flew from south to |
| northwest low in the sky, and went in front of a black cloud. It was |
| viewed for 30 seconds and made no sound. (Source: Roger H. Stanway & |
| Anthony Pace, UFOs Unidentified Undeniable, p. 8 & 28). |
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| 1969 - Between 7:00 and 7:30 p.m. a delta-shaped UFO rose from behind |
| the North Railway Station In Bucharest, Romania and flew off behind |
| some city buildings. (Source: Ion Hobana & Julien Weberbergh, UFOs |
| from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 179). |
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| 1970 - At 11:30 a.m. a seven-year-old girl in Vincennes, Indiana saw |
| a metallic disc in the east-northeastern sky hovering over Wheatland |
| Road and reported it to her parents. Her father went outside and also |
| saw the object. He re-entered the house to get his 7x50 binoculars, |
| and when he emerged the object had moved closer. He described it as |
| about a quarter of a mile away, looking like "a garbage can lid with |
| a piece of watermelon on top" (more like a squared-off "coning |
| tower") and about 30 feet in diameter. The man believes that |
| others should have seen it, too, because it was so low. He, his wife, |
| and daughter observed it for a minute and a half before it left in a |
| swooping dive to the north-northeast. (Sources: Francis Ridge, |
| Regional Encounters, p. 39). |
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| 1970 - On this date at 9:30 p.m. a shooting incident occurred in |
| Itatainia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil involving a patrol guard and a |
| rectangular UFO, resulting in lasting physiological effects. The |
| guard, 31-year-old Almiro de Freitas, was on guard duty at the Do |
| Funil hydroelectric dam when he encountereda one meter long |
| rectangular object with elliptical portholes at close range. |
| Panicked, he shot several times at the UFO. He was blinded and |
| paralyzed when struck by a beam of energy from the object. He was |
| overcome by heat and a prickling sensation, and went blind. He did |
| make a slow recovery. (Sources: O Globo, September 16, 1970; FSR, |
| September-October 1970, p. 23; APRO Bulletin, September-October 1970; |
| Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case # |
| 441; Irene Granchi, Phenomenes Spatiaux, December 1970, p. 23; |
| UNICAT, case # 487, citing Ted Phillips, MUFON UFO Conference |
| Proceedings 1985, p. 119). |
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| 1971 - In Southampton, England at 6:10 a.m. a man named R. Seaman |
| sighted an object that first appeared as a halo, then narrowed into |
| an ellipse. It tilted to the right, at which point the witness saw |
| two bright points of light on its lower right edge. It sped away and |
| was lost to view went it passed the morning Sun. (Source: BUFORA |
| Journal, January 1972, p. 16). |
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| 1977 - At midnight two college students, Rocco Cerullo and Michael |
| Giovanelli, were walking from Sturno, Avelino, Italy to Frigento when |
| they saw three red lights symmetrically arranged in the midst of some |
| shrubbery overhanging the road. They also heard an intermittent |
| "beep-beep" sound. Continuing on foot to a nearby quarry, they saw a |
| figure over two meters tall, wearing a silvery tight fitting coverall |
| and a helmet. Where the eyes should have been there were two blinking |
| orange lights. The young men fled back to Sturno, where they found |
| three other friends, and all of them drove back to the area in a car. |
| When they got there, all five saw the strange being advancing and |
| withdrawing, with mechanical movements, on a steep slope. Oddly, it |
| seemed to stand at a slant, perpendicular to the slope. Frightened, |
| they decided not to drive the car any further into the abandoned |
| quarry, which appeared lit up as if by a halo. Instead, they sped |
| back to Sturno, returning again with two more witnesses. The humanoid |
| was still there, coming and going with emissions of intermittent |
| light from its helmet. When one of the parties flashed a light on the |
| figure, it emitted sounds like "radio signals." It then approached |
| the car and the sounds ceased. It came to about 15 feet away and |
| beckoned, as though indicating for the witnesses to follow. Finally, |
| at about 3:30 a.m., it emitted a blinding light from its helmet and |
| disappeared. The outline of an object with portholes had been seen |
| further down the slope. After the flash, the men fled back to the |
| village. When they again returned both the humanoid and the object |
| were gone. That next morning trampled bushes were foundin the quarry, |
| along with three holes in the ground that were arranged in an |
| isosceles triangle. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: |
| Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1977-48, citing Francesco |
| Izzo). |
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| 1977 - At 8:30 p.m a number of independent witnesses in Healdsburg, |
| California watched a huge lighted object with multicolored lights |
| maneuvering over the area. One of the lights appeared to detach |
| itself from the larger craft, and then descended close to the |
| witnesses' vehicle. The smaller object was described as having |
| several lighted windows and two beams of light. One of the witnesses |
| claimed to be able to see a humanoid figure with a frog-like head |
| looking out from one of the windows. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, |
| Humanoid Contact Database, case # 916, citing Jacques Vallee, |
| Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact, p. 71).  |
| |
| 1978 - At 11:30 p.m. a 38-year-old couple driving in a pickup truck |
| on Highway 38 in Nisula, Michigan had a close encounter with a |
| cone-shaped object with body lights that flew low overhead. |
| Their truck stalled for one minute when the UFO was overhead. It |
| could be restarted by turning the ignition key. The cone-shaped UFO |
| was silent, and had two red lights and one white light. (Sources: |
| Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, December 1978, p. 15; |
| Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, |
| p. 257; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, |
| p. 73; UNICAT, case # 144). |
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| 1981 - There were two dramatic abduction events which occurred in San |
| Diego County, California on this evening separated by just a few |
| minutes. At 10:30 p.m. Mr. Santoro, a reserve police officer was |
| driving near the town of Alpine, California when he encountered a |
| huge dark, disc-shaped object hovering 15 feet above the roadway. The |
| witness's vehicle suddenly stopped on its own accord. There was a |
| bright flash, then moments later two small Grey humanoid beings |
| approached and took him from his vehicle. He found himself back in |
| his vehicle 15 minutes later and saw the dark disc rising rapidly |
| into the sky, shining a beam of white light towards the ground. The |
| witness fired four shots at the object and then drove home at high |
| speed. Magnetic cassette tapes in the witness's vehicle had been |
| partially erased. In El Cajon, California a 27-year old computer |
| engineer was abducted at 10:35 p.m. A luminous object illuminated the |
| interior of his car. The luminous object then circled his car, and |
| the witness fired a pistol at the object and attempted to flee the |
| scene. He was badly frightened by the experience, and discovered that |
| he had a memory loss and could not account for 30 minutes of his |
| time. Red dots like puncture marks were found on his wrists, |
| suggesting that he had been abducted as well. His digital watch was |
| also damaged. (Sources: (1) San Diego Tribune, July 1,1987; Robert |
| Gribble MUFON UFO Journal, August 1991, p. 19; Albert S. Rosales, |
| Humanoid Contact Database, case # 695, citing Bob Gribble; (2) MUFON |
| UFO Journal, November 1982, p. 13; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: |
| The Measure of a Mystery, case 56; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, |
| Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 27 & 155, citing investigator |
| M. Podell). |
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| 1982 - At 11:55 p.m. a battleship gray, disc-shaped object estimated |
| to be 200 feet in diameter chased a car in Derry, Pennsylvania with a |
| single male occupant. It kept moving in front of the vehicle, pacing |
| it at 40 feet altitude. The bottom of the object had a dark black |
| door, and the UFO had amber lights around its perimeter. It made a |
| high-pitched "whoop-whoop" sound. (Sources: Doris Graziano, APRO |
| Bulletin, June 1984, p. 8; MUFON UFO Journal, October 1983). |
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| 1991 - Four children in Granum, Alberta, Canada at about 10 p.m. |
| observed an oval object hovering over the town. Some of the time it |
| moved very fast, and at other times it floated in place. It had blue, |
| red, and green lights that flashed intermittently. Later a "long |
| black thing" streaked across the sky. (Source: Timorthy Good, Alien |
| Update, p. 232). |
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| 1991 - On the same night as the Alberta sighting in Blairsville, |
| Pennsylvania at 11:15 p.m. two women driving on Route 22 had an |
| encounter with a triangular UFO hovering low to the ground along the |
| roadside. It had solid white light beams along its outer structure |
| and horizontal light beams inside the triangle; in between it |
| appeared transparent. (Sources: Stan Gordon, PASU Data Exchange, |
| January 1992; Timorthy Good, Alien Update, p. 232). |
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| 1993 - Outside of Mimet, Bouches-du-Rhone, France a 4.5 meter long |
| ovoid object sitting on the highway rose and shot off rapidly to the |
| south when a car approached. Nothing was seen on radar. (Source: |
| Phenomena, issue 18). |
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| 1995 - A thin silent cigar-shaped UFO passed over the witness's house |
| in Rio Claro, San Paulo State, Brazil at five o'clock in the morning. |
| It gave off multi-colored rays of lights in all directions and made |
| no sound. (Source: Boletim CEPEX, issue 25). |
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| 2000 - In Gull Lake, Ontario, Canada a sphere 40-70 feet in diameter |
| was sighted at 11:05 p.m. It had 40 to 50 red lights and three blue |
| lights, and flew at between 200 to 300 feet in altitude. It made no |
| sound. There were reported blackouts in two nearby towns. The same or |
| a similar report was made to the UFO Reporting Center from Minden, |
| Ontario. (Source: Geoff Dittman, 2000 Canadian UFO Survey, case # |
| 158, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup; Peter Davenport, National |
| UFO Reporting Center, case uploaded May 14, 2002). |
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| 2001 - At 8:30 p.m. in Calumet, Wisconsin witnesses saw three |
| flashing lights flying in a row. The lights were flashing in |
| sequence: first two flashes, then a pause, then three flashes, |
| another pause, four flashes, pause, and then it repeated. The front |
| light was amber, and the others were white. At first, it looked like |
| the lights were all connected, but using binoculars it looked like |
| only the front light was attached to the next segment, and the other |
| segments were separate.The object was cigar-shaped and had some sort |
| of windows in it. Suddenly the rear lights split apart, flying off in |
| different directions. (Sources: George Filer, MUFON UFO Journal, |
| October 2001, p. 11; George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's |
| Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 121). |
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| 2002 - At 9:05 p.m. a triangle-shaped aircraft with white lights was |
| sighted hovering low in a field off Route 1 South in Dover, Delaware. |
| (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2002 |
| webpage).  |
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| 2003 - At 12:15 a.m. four elliptical, illuminated objects each |
| surrounded by haze or a halo were sighted in Merrick, Nassau County, |
| New York. They proceeded to individually dive, climb, and zigzag. The |
| sighting lasted about 45 minutes. That night a very large, slow |
| moving, wing-shaped craft flew over a campsite near McGregor in |
| northern Minnesota with 10 witnesses gathered around a camp fire at |
| 11:55 p.m. It was chased a few minutes later by three military |
| F-15's. It reportedly had four white lights and four red lights. |
| (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, August 2003 |
| webpage).  |
| |
| 2008 - At 10 p.m. a dark triangle object flew silently overhead in |
| Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada. It went towards the east, and made |
| no sound. (Source: Geoff Dittman, 2008 Canadian UFO Survey, case # |
| 644, citing Para Research). |
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| 2009 - A married couple had gone camping at Unicoi State Park, |
| Georgia on this night and had gotten up at around 4:00 a.m. to use |
| the restrooms at a facility on the campsite. It was very dark out, |
| except for the light from her lantern and the lights from the |
| building. After the wife started to walk back to her tent, she |
| stopped because she sensed that their was someone close behind her. |
| She turned around and saw three Grey humanoid beings standing there. |
| At first she thought they were other campers, but when one of them |
| turned to look at her she realized that they were not human. For one |
| thing, their arms were too long and their bodies were too thin. Their |
| skin also had a pale, glossy look, and they had very large heads and |
| lumps covering the tops of their scalps. They had huge black eyes |
| that seemed to stare right through her. She estimated that they were |
| about five feet tall. the one that saw her began to slowly approach, |
| but she ran away, and got back to her tent and found her husband. |
| When he asked her what was wrong, all she could say was, "There's |
| some [expletive deleted] aliens back there!" After he had finally |
| calmed her down, he told her to stay in the tent and he walked back |
| to see, but he found nothing. Throughout the rest of the night they |
| kept waking up and had a fitful night; the husband reported that he |
| saw a shadowy figure moving about outside their tent, but he didn't |
| hear any footsteps. He also looked up and saw the top cover of the |
| tent move, and if someone had pulled it aside to look in at them from |
| above. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, 2009 Humanoid Sighting Reports |
| database, citing MUFON's UFO reporting website, |
| http://mufoncms.com).  |
| |
| 2010 - At 6:30 a.m. a black, oval-shaped object with visible heat |
| waves radiating from it was sighted over the I-5 freeway in |
| Silverlake, Los Angeles County, California. At 11:00 a.m. a |
| disc-shaped object with a pulsing outer band and a transparent center |
| was sighted over Plant City, Florida. At 3:00 p.m. a shiny metallic, |
| upside down cone-shaped object was seen over the Jersey Shore in |
| Manahawkin, Ocean County, New Jersey. (Source: Peter Davenport, |
| National UFO Reporting Center, August 2010 webpage, report uploaded |
| November 21, 2010).  |
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| Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 23 August 2012). |
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| Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. |
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| Themes: abductions; aircraft UFO encounters; angel hair; barr |
| el-shaped UFO; "beep-beep" sound; car pacing; cigar-shaped UFOs; delt |
| a shaped UFO; disc-shaped UFOs; domed discs; domed oval; EM effect: m |
| agnetic casette tapes erased; Grey UFOnauts; hovering; Michelin man; |
| missing time; multicolored UFOs; multi-year reports from California a |
| nd Pennsylvania; nautical UFOs; physiological effects: blindness, hea |
| daches, heat sensation, paralysis, and prickling sensation; radar vis |
| ual confirmation; silver metallic UFOs, sensation of heat; spheres; t |
| all humanoid with blinking orange eyes; top-shaped UFO; triangular UF |
| Os; vehicle electrical system interference effects; zigzag maneuvers. |
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| © Donald A. Johnson |
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