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| [On This Day] |
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|  Encounters with Aliens on this Day |
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|  January 11 |
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| 1948 - Two U.S. Air Force transport pilots, Helton and Pargoe, flying |
| over Hartford, Connecticut in the afternoon observed a red |
| disc-shaped object that flew at high speed, dove at a 45 degree |
| angle, and had a blue center. The Air Force explained the report as a |
| daytime meteor. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # |
| 1294; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History, 1948, p. 13; Dominique |
| Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 10). |
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| 1953 - A huge reddish-orange glowing ovoid object buzzed and |
| then circled the town of Kerrville, Texas at around 6 p.m. causing |
| odd TV and radio interference. (Source: Charles Maney, Challenge of |
| Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 190; Larry Hatch, U computer |
| database, case # 2947). |
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| 1958 - At 7:30 a.m. a U.S. Navy P2V-5F with a crew of four flying |
| north of Adak Island, Alaska sighted a formation of three lights |
| flying at 900 knots and picked them up on radar. The radar targets |
| then merged into a single blip.The sighting lasted five minutes. |
| (Source: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: |
| A History. 1958: January-February, p. 19; Dominique Weinstein, |
| Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 30). |
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| 1963 - At 11:00 p.m. Antonio De Luca, a 43-year-old farmer in San |
| Pietro Vernotico, Sardegna, Italy was awakened by restless farm |
| animals and went out to calm them. Fifteen minutes later he saw a |
| domed disc-shaped object land in a small square in the village, went |
| towards it, and became paralyzed and unable to move when he got to |
| within 10 meters of it. The translucent upper dome showed two dark |
| figures moving about inside. Two minutes later the craft, 4.5 meters |
| long and 1.5 meters high, ascended in the direction of Brindisi, and |
| emitted a vertical beam of green light. (Sources: FSR, |
| September-October 1970, p. 28; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A |
| Century of Landings, p. 290, case 558). |
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| 1965 - At 4:10 p.m. several witnesses in Washington, D. C. reported |
| seeing 12-15 white oval-shaped objects that moved in and up-and-down |
| oscillating path as they flew along. The sighting lasted three |
| minutes. Jet interceptors wereobserved in pursuit. (Sources: Donald |
| B. Hanlon, Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1966, p. 14; Frank |
| Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious Business, p. 128; Gordon I. R. Lore, |
| Jr. & Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in |
| Perspective, p. 171; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II:  A |
| Thirty-Year Report, p. 76). |
| 1965 - The Seaside (Oregon) Signal on January 12, 1965 noted that |
| Mrs. Paul Zimmerman Gearhart and her two sons saw a triangular UFO |
| which came slowly out of the southeast and then "suddenly plunged |
| into the sea some miles offshore" at Tillamook Head, Oregon. It left |
| two trails of fire behind. (Source: Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible |
| Residents, p. 42). |
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| 1966 - Beginning at 6:20 p.m. EST, police and citizens reported first |
| a brilliant light source, then later a bright egg-shaped object that |
| hovered at low altitude over Wanaque Reservoir, New Jersey. It flew |
| in circular patterns over the reservoir, occasionally making abrupt |
| changes in altitude and other vertical maneuvers. Sightings by up to |
| a hundred independent witnesses continued for more than an hour. |
| (Sources: NICAP UFO Investigator, Jan.-Feb. 1966, p. 3; New York |
| Journal-American, Jan. 12, 1966). |
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| 1966 - Six people were driving to a scout hall in Myerstown, |
| Pennsylvania at 7:40 p.m. when the headlights of their car repeatedly |
| dimmed out and came back on. The radio also had heavy static. They |
| proceeded to the scout hall without further incident. On the return |
| trip, they saw a silent disc-shaped metallic UFO approach the car, |
| swerve to the right, and parallel the car for several minutes. The |
| glowing object hovered for five minutes over an open field while they |
| watched, then "got a tremendous burst of speed" and left nearly |
| instantaneously towards the northwest. There was no electrical |
| interference when the UFO was actually in view. (Sources: J. Allen |
| Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 89; UNICAT, case # 375; Mark Rodeghier, |
| UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 160, citing Project |
| Bluebook). |
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| 1967 - Mrs. Park McDaniel was outside her home during the day in |
| Point Pleasant, West Virginia when she saw what she first took to be |
| a small plane approaching. As it drew closer she saw that it was |
| man-shaped and had wings. The creature swooped low over her house and |
| circled above a nearby building before going out of sight. (Sources: |
| David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid |
| Reports, case 1967-5, citing John A. Keel; Albert S. Rosales, |
| Humanoid Contact Database 1967, case 24). |
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| 1967 - That same night in Aveyron, Basses Pyrenees, France a farmer |
| sighted a "shell" shaped object taking off from his farm. The man |
| then proceeded to chase a ball of light in his car. The nocturnal |
| light stayed 150 yards ahead of him until his engine died and his |
| lights went out, when he then noticed a "saucer shaped" object |
| descend. The saucer was slightly bigger than a Peugeot car, 9-12 feet |
| above the ground, and came down about 60 feet away. The top of the |
| object had two transparent cupolas in each of which he could see a |
| helmeted figure, human like and dressed in green and white coveralls. |
| He felt a wave of heat and a temporary sensation of paralysis. He |
| watched a nearby road sign vibrating near the oval object. With a |
| whistling sound the UFO rose to 50 meters altitude then dropped back |
| again to near ground level. Becoming brilliantly yellow-white, it |
| finally took off at tremendous speed. As it did so his lights came |
| back on and he was able to start the car normally. Several days later |
| the witness experienced trouble sleeping, followed by some weeks of |
| excessive sleepiness. The area had been the site of repeated UFO |
| incidents for a year. (Sources: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, |
| HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-6, citing G. |
| Canouges, J. Chasseign, Fernand Legarde, & F. Dupin de la Gueriviere; |
| Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, case 25; Mark |
| Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 182, |
| citing FSR, volume 17, no. 1). |
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| 1969 - At 8:20 a.m. a weatherman at the Sibiu Meteorological Station |
| in Romania tracked a disc-shaped object with a theodolite for 40 |
| seconds. It flew toward the northeast against the wind in a clear |
| sky. (Source: Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the |
| Iron Curtain, p. 175). |
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| 1971 - At 2:50 a.m. a government official and three members of his |
| family witnessed 16 ball-shaped objects as they flew over Kuusamo, |
| Oulu province, Finland in an eschelon formation. They made no sound |
| at all. (Sources: UFO Information Sweden, February 1971; Mrs. K. |
| Smith, BUFORA Journal, August 1971, p. 27). |
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| 1973 - At around 2:00 a.m. two people watched a mushroom-shaped |
| object landed next to a barn in Fort Erie, Niagara County, Ontario, |
| Canada. A very low flying maneuvering light also paced a car occupied |
| by a single eyewitness driving between Thorold and Stone, Niagara |
| County, Ontario. (Source: Thorold News, January 11, 1973; J. Bernard |
| Delair, UFO Register, volume 5 (1974), cases 45 & 48). |
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| 1976 - At 5:55 p.m. a 14-year-old boy was walking through the falling |
| snow to a friends house in Hamden, Connecticut when he saw a large |
| glowing figure floating, near some sumac bushes 400 feet away. The |
| figure was seen in profile from the waist up. There was no |
| discernible face, and the back of the head was flat and corrugated. |
| The glow from the head extended above the bushes that were 7-8 feet |
| high, and extended about 9 inches from the body, with a less luminous |
| silvery outer glow that extended another 9” beyond that. The teen ran |
| to a friends house; then they got two other friends, and armed |
| with a 22-caliber rifle he returned to the site. When they |
| encountered the figure again one of them shone a flashlight on it, |
| and it fell backwards behind a ridge. When the flashlight was pointed |
| away the figure rose up again, and remained in view for 3-4 seconds |
| before slowly ducking back behind the ridge. When it came up a third |
| time, he shot at it twice with the .22 aiming over its head; it |
| slowly descended for the third and last time. One of the |
| witnesses was unable to see the being. (Sources: David F. Webb & Ted |
| Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1976-17 |
| (A1446), citing James P. Barrett, APRO; CUFOS files, report dated |
| February 29, 1976). |
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| 1978 - At 9:35 p.m. a noisy disc-shaped object with a "rear spoiler" |
| and headlights followed two 15-year-old teens in Mytchett, Surrey, |
| England. It had portholes and flew overhead. (Source: FSR, June 1978, |
| p. 25). |
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| 1978 - A group of witnesses in South Middleton, Massachusetts had a |
| close encounter with a battleship gray ovoid or elongated UFO at 4:30 |
| p.m. (Source: David F. Webb, FSR, June 1981, p. 24 citing Ray |
| Fowler). |
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| 1979 - Nightly appearances of flying discs over the city of Sorocaba, |
| Sao Paulo State, Brazil began on this evening and continued for the |
| next 10 nights. The objects emitted different colored lights and were |
| seen by several thousand city residents. (Source: Jane Thomas, UFO |
| Newsclipping Service, April 1979, p. 14, citing La Razon, January 12, |
| 1979). |
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| 1979 - On this night a short humanoid about 80 cm tall, wearing a |
| helmet with two luminous antennae, approached a witness in Fortaleza, |
| Ceara State, Brazil and touched him on the arm, burning him. The |
| being wore a silvery suit and blue boots, and apparently arrived in a |
| gray-colored object about 15 meters in diameter with lighted windows. |
| (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, citing Antonio |
| Faleiro). |
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| 1991 - At 10:45 p.m. an ABC-TV film crew videotaped a red UFO over |
| Gulf Breeze, Florida during a skywatch. (Sources: Bruce S. Maccabee, |
| 1991 MUFON Symposium Proceedings, p. 249; Ed Walters & Bruce |
| Maccabee, UFOs are Real: Here's the Proof, p. 13). |
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| 1992 - An abductee drove into a black void on Interstate 90 near |
| Issaquah, Washington at around 9:00 p.m. resulting in an undisclosed |
| length of missing time. (Source: UFO Newsclipping Service, August |
| 1993). |
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| 1998 - A juvenile sighted a domed disc-shaped UFO hovering over his |
| house in Barnegat, New Jersey on this night. It had alternating green |
| and yellow lights around its rim. On top there was a glass dome and a |
| pilot-like figure apparently wearing some type of helmet could be |
| seen inside. Frightened, he ran inside his house but could still see |
| the disc hovering outside. A strange symbol was also seen on the side |
| of the disc. It also had an antenna on top and other markings on the |
| bottom right under the rim lights. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, |
| Humanoid Contact Database 1998, case #3154, citing MUFON). |
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| 2001 - A widespread power outage accompanied by radio interference |
| occurred in Sao Vicente, Sao Paulo State, Brazil at 3:30 a.m. when a |
| large disc-shaped object flew over, heading southeast toward the sea. |
| (Sources: Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, volume 6, no. 4, citing Praia |
| Grande Picares; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #  18157). |
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| 2004 - An egg-shaped object, glowing a yellowish amber color, moved |
| up and down in the sky over West River, Maryland at 3:28 a.m., and |
| then started zigzagging sideways. The duration of the sighting was |
| two minutes. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, |
| Seattle, January 2004 webpage). |
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| 2005 - At around one o'clock in the morning several disc-shaped UFOs |
| flew about 200 feet from a witness's car while driving on Interstate |
| 10 from Albuquerque, New Mexico to El Paso, Texas. The close |
| encounter lasted two minutes. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO |
| Reporting Center, Seattle, January 2005 webpage, report uploaded |
| January 19, 2005). |
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| Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 29 December 2009). |
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| Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. |
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| Themes: aircraft UFO encounters, disc-sh |
| aped UFOs, domed-discs, green light beam, human-looking UFOnauts, ins |
| ignia on UFO, missing time, Mothman, multi-year reports from Brazil, |
| nautical UFO: UFO seen entering ocean, ovoid UFOs, paralysis, power o |
| utage, radio and TV interference, red UFOs, sensation of heat, vehicl |
| e EM ignition interference effects, winged humanoid, whistling sound. |
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| © Donald A. Johnson |
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