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| [On This Day] |
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|  Encounters with Aliens on this Day |
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|  January 18 |
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| 1950 - A slow moving disc-shaped or spherical UFO moved through the |
| sky over Summit, New Jersey at 7 p.m. It was reddish-orange in color, |
| and gave off a steady light. (Source: Edward Sullivan, CSI-Los |
| Angeles case files, letter dated 1952 from W. Wilkinson). |
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| 1954 - A cigar-shaped object circled the town of Setif, Algeria at a |
| high altitude. It left a blue smoke trail as it flew off toward Saint |
| Arnaud in the east, where it was also seen. (Sources: Richard Hall, |
| UFO Reports from the Files of the CIA, p. 17; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A |
| History: 1954: January-May, p. 18). |
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| 1956 - A 50-meter wide glowing object dove into the ocean north of |
| Maiqueta, Venezuela on this night. A large-scale search of the area |
| found nothing. (Source: APRO Bulletin, July 1956). |
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| 1957 - At 10:00 a.m. many people in Campo Quijano, Argentina |
| witnessed a metallic ovoid UFO land on the slopes of the mountain |
| Cerro Negro. It was viewed through binoculars, and was visible for |
| seven hours. (Sources: Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, |
| supplement 12, December 1972, p. 9; Larry Hatch, U computer |
| database). |
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| 1960 - Two men driving in a car, Haley and Baker, at 10:55 p.m. in |
| Lakota, North Dakota had their car's headlights dim as a UFO flew |
| nearby. The object flew off towards a field approximately 1.5 |
| kilometers from the highway. (Sources: Grand Forks (ND) Herald, |
| January 21, 1960; USAF Project Blue Book files counted in official |
| statistics; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle |
| Interference, p. 17). |
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| 1966 - Near Fetebrogh, New Jersey the lights of a Volkswagen car |
| failed as an object with pulsating lights appeared nearby. This |
| object then began to make a pass at the car, so the witness drove |
| away quickly. (Source: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle |
| Interference, case 162, citing Allen L. Erskine, Why Are They |
| Watching Us?) |
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| 1966 - Two surveyors were working near the China Lake Naval Ordnance |
| Depot in Kern County, California at 4:55 p.m. when a black, humming |
| UFO came straight at them. It passed directly overhead at an |
| estimated 150 feet. It trailed a "wake" behind it like a jet dumping |
| fuel. They noticed that the object had some kind of field effect on |
| their theodolite, moving its setting west by 5 level gradations. |
| (Source: J. Allen Hynek, International UFO Reporter, March 1982, p. |
| 7). |
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| 1967 - At midnight a flash in the sky was noted shortly before a |
| power outage in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Fifteen minutes later a |
| lighted reddish orange domed disc was sighted on the opposite bank of |
| the Green River from four witnesses. When they drove in get help a |
| red glowing object buzzed their car. (Source: Raymond E. Fowler, |
| Casebook of a UFO Investigator, p.173). |
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| Williamst |
| own, Massachusetts Close Encounter with Electrical Interference- 1967 |
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| [Sketch of Williamstown, Massachusetts UFO - 1967] |
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| 1967 - In Shamokin, Pennsylvania a disc-shaped UFO approached at a |
| low altitude, emitted two beams of light downward, turned, then rose |
| suddenly into the sky and joined a second UFO. Both sped away |
| horizontally. (Source: Mount Carmel (PA) Item, January 19, 1967). |
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| 1968 - At 7:30 p.m. in Umbrete, Spain a brilliant, turtle-shaped |
| domed disc flew over an olive grove. It was estimated to be 1.2 |
| meters in length, and was at an altitude of only 200 meters above the |
| trees. It was lost from sight behind some trees. (Source: Jacques |
| Vallee, Data-Net Report, March 1971). |
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| 1971 - At ten o'clock in the morning in Campo Quijano, Argentina a |
| metallic ovoid-shaped UFO landed on the slopes of Cerro Negro. It was |
| seen by many witnesses and viewed through binoculars. A domed UFO |
| with a beam of light was sighted in Quincy, Illinois at seven p.m. |
| (Sources: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 9230; Data-Net |
| Report, July 1971). |
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| 1974 - A six-meter long UFO rose vertically in response to light |
| signals flashed at it by three witnesses in Landivisiau, France. It |
| changed shape to a sphere, then left by rising vertically into the |
| sky. (Source: Jean-F. Boedec, Les OVNI en Bretagne: Anatomie d'un |
| Phenomene, p. 74). |
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| 1977 - A UFO witness in Bussieres-Saint-Georges, France was thrown |
| into some bushes when three glowing balls of light flew overhead at |
| one a.m. The witness had 75 minutes of missing time, and the incident |
| was followed by many days of persistent headaches. (Source: Lumieres |
| dans la Nuit, issue 317). |
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| 1979 - A two-meter wide orange disc-shaped UFO mades two passes over |
| two witnesses in Metzeral, France at five p.m.. The UFO made a |
| buzzing sound and had lights at both ends. Both witnesses' eyes hurt |
| after the close encounter. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, July |
| 1979). |
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| 1979 - At 11:30 later that same night in Lusiana, Italy a witness's |
| car engine died when an ovoid UFO landed nearby. A door in the craft |
| opened and two humanoids emerged. They reportedly had vibrating |
| antennae-like ears or antennae on the sides of their heads. (Source: |
| Maurizio Verga, ITACAT: Italian UFO Catalogue; David F. Webb and Ted |
| Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2274). |
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| 1982 - In the Hessdalen Valley of Norway a luminous metallic ovoid |
| flew over telephone lines at 7:30 p.m. in a mining area. Magnetic |
| anomalies were recorded. (Source: International UFO Reporter, |
| November-December 1983, p. 7). |
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| 1983 - Two hundred people, including school students, a boys soccer |
| team, their coaches, and two detectives witnessed two triangles of |
| light fly over Cardiff, Wales at dusk. (Source: Philip Imbrogno, |
| Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 26). |
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| 1985 - On this evening around 8 p.m. a green glowing disc crossed a |
| road in Waldeslust, France at a low altitude. There was a plasma glow |
| surrounding the object. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 306). |
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| 1989 - The family of a retired USAF non-commisioned officer was |
| awakened by their dog at 3:57 a.m. They saw 6-8 objects over their |
| own land and some nearby property for the next hour and |
| three-quarters. The objects would vanish at times when jet aircraft |
| flew over. The event continued and the lights were still present when |
| the family left for work andschool that morning. (Source: MUFON field |
| investigation files, case 890603). |
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| 1991 - At 3:30 p.m. 15 people on a bus in Czestochowa, Poland saw a |
| spherical UFO ascend between two buildings. One witness saw humanoids |
| on the balcony of an apartment building. Later that night in Krakow, |
| Poland at 10:45 p.m. another spherical UFO with an appendage was |
| sighted over the city. A possible UFO landing site with burnt traces |
| was found in Batovice. In Murowana, Poland a 30-meter long cigar |
| shaped UFO at 10:50 p.m. shooting out a stream of glowing gas. At |
| eleven o'clock in Skarzysko-Kamienna, Poland a yellowish-red colored |
| cigar shot off extremely fast while it offloaded smaller objects that |
| fly away in different directions. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, |
| issues 309 & 326). |
| 1992 - Several witnesses on a bus in Col de Vence, France saw an |
| intensely red, Saturn-shaped object skim over the nearby |
| mountaintops. The ring around the UFO was sharply defined. (Source: |
| Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 312). |
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| 2000 - A shiny spherical object was seen at 6000 feet altitude over |
| the Puerto Belgrano Navy Base, Argentina at 12:45 p.m. A powerful |
| whirlwind developed at ground level directly below the object. |
| Weather station reported that the atmospheric conditions at the time |
| were not conducive to the natural formation of such winds. (Source: |
| UFO Magazine (USA), May 2000, p. 17). |
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| 2000 - A oval-shaped UFO was sighted in Dayton, Nevada at 6:15 p.m. A |
| bright light shone straight out of object, and it was surrounded by |
| smoke or a fog-like cloud. A similar phenomenon was reported at the |
| same time in Crescent City, California. The witness saw a bright |
| light beam that looked like the spotlight from a police helicopter. |
| He noticed a blue trail of smoke from the object. (Source: Peter |
| Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle). |
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| Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 28 December 2009). |
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| Compiled from the UFOCAT database. |
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| Themes: cigar-shaped UFOs, domed discs, car buzzin |
| gs, cigar-shaped UFOs, fog or mist, humming sound, missing time, mult |
| i-year reports from France, ovoid UFOs, Saturn-shaped UFOs, spherical |
| UFOs, vehicle EM interference effects, witnesses traveling in a bus. |
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| © Donald A. Johnson |
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