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| [On This Day] |
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|  Encounters with Aliens on this Day |
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|  July 30 |
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| 1909 - At 3:00 a.m. several farmers in Greendale, New Zealand heard a |
| rumbling sound. Horses out to pasture were spooked by an airship that |
| flew low overhead. It had lights in the front and rear. (Source: |
| Lumieres dans la Nuit, Issue 181). |
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| 1909 - At 5:00 a.m. in the Waikaia Valley north of Gore, New Zealand |
| two men witnessed a shell-shaped domed disc descend through the mist |
| with a wobbling motion. Two human appearing occupants could be seen |
| inside the clear dome. It circled, it ascended upwards, and flew off |
| toward Otakarama. It had a yellow glow. (Sources: Xenolog, December |
| 1975, p. 12; Paul Norman, FSR, April 1977, p. 15; Richard Hall, From |
| Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the |
| Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 7) |
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| 1947 - Mr. Ostrom, a 66-year-old man driving an Army truck on Route |
| 95 one mile north of Tamarack, Idaho a 4:00 p.m. when he saw a silver |
| sphere approach and hit the roof of his truck, and then bounce off. |
| At the point of contact a small surface area of the metal roof, about |
| the size of a silver dollar, had melted. (Sources: Kenneth Arnold & |
| Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 168; Ted Bloecher, Report |
| on the UFO Wave of 1947, case 853). |
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| 1950 - USAF jets were scrambled to chase a disc-shaped UFO seen over |
| the Hanford Atomic Energy Commission plant in Washington State. The |
| object was tracked on radar. (Sources: Donald E. Keyhoe, Aliens from |
| Space, p. 4; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: |
| Chronology of a cover-up 1941-1973, p. 399). |
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| 1950 - A ten-foot long long glowing cylinder appeared to explode when |
| it flew into the propeller of DC-3 over Williamsville, Illinois. |
| There was no damage to the aircraft. (Source: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A |
| History. 1950: April-July, p. 80). |
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| 1952 - At ten o'clock in the morning a white round object was seen |
| flying slowly over San Antonio, Texas. After 20-30 minutes it sped |
| away. A Project Blue Book unexplained case. (Sources: Project Blue |
| Book files counted in official statistics, case 1758; Loren E. Gross, |
| UFOs: A History. 1952: July 21st-July 31st, p. 64; Kevin D. Randle, |
| Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, p. 276). |
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| 1957 - In Galt, Ontario at 10:30 a.m. a young man named Galt |
| witnessed a silvery disc-shaped object descend close to ground near a |
| power transmission station. It made a humming sound, and flames came |
| from underneath the object. Dogs reacted by barking furiously. At the |
| landing site the ground and vegetation were burned and charred. Large |
| claw-like impressions were also found. (Source: Gordon I. R. Lore, |
| Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 51). |
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| 1962 - On this day near Cruz Alta, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil on the |
| road to Pasnembi two men, Sr. Lombero and Sr. Garoup, were driving |
| down the road to Pasnembi when their car engine stalled. By the side |
| of the road was a 40 meter long (130 foot) oval-shaped object, |
| "resembling a great bottle with two necks, one at each end." Two |
| human-looking men stood at each end of the object, exchanging light |
| signals. After ten minutes they got into the object and it took off |
| at great speed. (Sources: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: |
| Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0533, citing Flying Saucer |
| Review, November-December 1962, p. 25; Jacques Vallee, Passport to |
| Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 538; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports |
| Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 19). |
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| 1965 - At five o'clock in the afternoon the two McClintock children, |
| attracted by the barking of a dog, saw a luminous disc-shaped object |
| resting on tripod landing gear, and observed it for one hour. The |
| landing occurred in Goonumbla, New South Wales, Australia eight |
| kilometers away from the radio telescope located there. The disc had |
| rods protruding from the top and bottom. (Source: Jacques Vallee, |
| Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 665). |
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| 1965 - Hundreds of people from Puerto Monte, Chile in two separate |
| locations observed an unidentified flying object that landed for five |
| minutes. It emitted a blinding purple light. (Source: Jacques Vallee, |
| Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 666). |
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| 1976 - On a clear evening shortly after 9:00 p.m. two very large, |
| brown cigar or "sausage" shaped UFOs were sighted from a British |
| Airways Trident II airliner near the Portuguese Coast, 64 kilometers |
| south of Lisbon, Portugal. The UFOs were seen by three crew members |
| as well as picked up on radar. (Sources: John Wallace Spencer, World |
| Atlas of UFOs, p. 106; Omar Fowler, FSR, November 1976, p. 3). |
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| 1978 - In Norway on a farm between the towns of Hageltjern and |
| Hageland in Hordaland province a small disc, described as a 0.4 meter |
| in diameter extremely bright circular object, landed at 1:00 a.m. and |
| scorched the earth and vegetation. (Source: MUFON UFO Journal, |
| February 1980). |
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| 1982 - At 10:10 p.m. a small glowing, transparent figure was seen |
| among the branches of a tree on the property of a nearby house in |
| Mendoza, Argentina. It was dressed in a robe, had a very small head |
| and a triangular shaped body. There was a sizzling sound and the |
| smell of smoke, and the being faded away. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, |
| Humanoid Contact Database 1982, case # 1167, citing Gray Barker). |
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| 1984 - In Leslie, South Carolina a 18 meter long silver cigar-shaped |
| object followed a fence line in a pasture at around 9:00 p.m., making |
| a light whirring noise. It had lights on the side. Traces were found |
| on the ground in the pasture. (Source: Doris Graziano, APRO Bulletin, |
| February 1985, p. 8). |
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| 1986 - At 11:00 p.m. two discs flew slowly overhead in Bangor, |
| California making a soft high-pitched sound. They first flew north to |
| south, then turned and sped off to the east. (Sources: Larry Hatch, U |
| computer database, case # 14407; Bob Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, |
| case # 1138). |
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| 1990 - At 11:00 p.m.  a glowing ovoid landed in Ferrere, Piedmonte, |
| Italy radiating four beams of energy, and left a large circular ring |
| on the grass. The incident lasted 15 minutes, and there was an |
| independent witness. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case |
| # 15223, citing CISU). |
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| 1993 - A truck driver in West Winfield, New York saw a cylindrical |
| object hovering over a field at 3:00 a.m. Complex crop circles were |
| found later. (Source: UFO Newsclipping Service, October 1993). |
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| 1998 - At 11:30 p.m. a man driving in a car in Ernfold, Saskachewan, |
| Canada saw a silver topped disc fly by heading fast to the south. It |
| had a gray bottom and was silent. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer |
| database, case # 18059, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Volume 3, |
| Number 32). |
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| 2002 - At 12:04 a.m. a cylindrical craft with faint lights on both |
| ends zigzagged through the sky over York, Pennsylvania, speeding off |
| and disappearing in about one minute. Beginning at 12:20 a.m. an |
| unexplained triangular object was seen darting around and pinwheeling |
| about in the night sky for two hours over Marstons Mills, Cape Cod, |
| Massachusetts. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting |
| Center, Seattle, July 2002 webpage). |
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| 2008 - A bright white light turned to red as it sped up, slowed down, |
| and zigzagged across the sky in New London, Minnesota at 11:43 p.m. |
| (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, |
| July 2008 webpage, report uploaded August 12, 2008). |
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| Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 31 July 2009). |
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| Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. |
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| Themes: animal reactions: dogs barked and horses spoo |
| ked; apparition; cigar-shaped or cylindrical UFOs; small disc-shaped |
| UFOs; domed discs; human looking UFOnauts; humming sound; landings an |
| d landing traces; ovoid UFOs; rumbling sound; sizzling sound; tripod |
| landing gear; vehicle ignition system interference; zigzag maneuvers. |
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| © Donald A. Johnson |
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