Encounters with Aliens on this Day
February 19
1951 - Twelve witnesses flying in an airliner, including two men name Bicknell and Merrifield, while flying near Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania sighted a 200 foot long bullet shaped UFO at 7:20 a.m. At one end of the object was a square-cut, vertical fin. The body of the craft was a dull silver cover, but at intervals along the fuselage were dark vertical bands. The object hovered over Mount Kilimanjaro for several minutes, then moved away fast towards the east at an estimated speed of 1,000 km per hour. They took a photograph of it. (Sources: Nairobi Sun Post, February 25, 1951; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, case 9; J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, Volume 6 (1975), p. 36; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Cynthia Hind, UFO Afri-News, January 1990).
1952 - A reddish-orange fireball zig-zagged for 15 minutes over Corona, California shortly after 6:00 p.m. In addition to zigzagging the ball of light swooped up and down. There were three witnesses. The case was listed as an unknown by Project Blue Book. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2364; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: January-May, p. 18).
1967 - At 4:30 p.m. Mrs. Lambert and Mrs. Rigel watched a gun-metal gray blunt oval shaped disc, about 25 feet in diameter with a rough bottom, hovering at 20 feet altitude over a plaza in Hollywood, Florida. It had a row of revolving green lights, a row of yellow windows, and an antenna. The heads of people could be seen looking out from inside the windows of the craft. (Sources: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0789; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume 2: A Thirty Year Report, p. 328).
1975 - A woman driving in Orbak, Denmark reported that
at 7:19 p.m.--the same moment that a large circular object descended behind
her car--the engine and lights failed completely. The object gave off
a blue luminescence and the witness felt a sensation of increased heat
in its presence. After a few moments the object abruptly vanished and
the car could be started. The witness became physically ill after the
sighting. (Source: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference,
case 378, citing MUFON UFO Journal, August, 1976)
Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 21 November 2005).
Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database.