Encounters with Aliens on this Day
February 26
1951 - Ladd AFB, Alaska. At 7:10 a.m. USAF Sgt. J. B. Sells watched a dull gray metallic object, estimated to be 120 feet long and 10-12 feet thick. The UFO hovered, puffed smoke, and sped away after about 90 seconds. (Source: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns).
1954 - Architect R.M. Pierce, Marine Engineer George Avery and one other witness sighted a silver flying disc at 2:30 p.m. in Newburyport, Massachusetts. It had a white trail and made a loud roaring noise for 30-60 seconds. (Source: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns).
1966, Hanna City, Illinois - An oval object about 15-20
feet in diameter came within three meters of a car around 8:00 p.m. There
was interference on the car radio as it passed nearby. The object was
glowing red with a dome on top and it made a strange "signal-like"
noise. It eventually moved off to the north. (Sources: Jacques Vallee,
Passport to Magonia; A Century of Landings; Mark Rodeghier, UFO
Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 165, citing Vallee).
1968 - An unidentified man in Phoenix, Arizona was
awakened at one a.m. by a sharp knock on his door. "I saw a man standing
in my room at some distance...wearing dark clothing...I couldn't see his
face...he was slender and not tall, perhaps five feet nine. He changed
position a few times...and then he was gone." (Sources: David F. Webb and
Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, citing John A.
Keel, Strange Creatures from Time and Space; Albert S. Rosales,
Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case 39).
1968 - A huge,
hairy creature was seen drinking from a pond in Curbarsi, Barcelona
province, Spain during the daytime. Upon discovery by the owners of
the property the creature fled. It matched the description by a passing
motorist of a large hairy biped seen crossing the road several days
earlier in Hostalrich. (Sources: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher,
HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, citing FSR,
July-August 1968; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case
40).
1971 - At 10:30 p.m. Mr. Robert Milcher, age 18, and a 10-year-old boy in Brooksville, Florida saw a hovering UFO at least 50 feet in diameter. It had red lights and a searchlight like beam, which responded to their flashlight signals. Inside a lighted dome were 6-10 occupants dressed in green coveralls standing around a control panel. They waved at the witnesses. The two boys felt a numbness and stinging sensation in their arms and wrists. When the UFO departed, it emitted a sound like a swarm of bees. (Source: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-11, citing William H. Lefevre, Florida UFO Study Group).
1973 - Helene, age 14, was riding the family snowmobile near McWaters, Quebec with her two brothers and seven other teenaged friends, all on snowmobiles, when at around 9 p.m. a giant "headlight" rose from behind them and flew over, illuminating the entire landscape. After it had gone, all the boys went off on a race, leaving Helene behind. The brilliant light source then reappeared and flew back over her. She estimated it was 60 feet in diameter. Suddenly its light went out, and Helene thought it must have been a plane that had crashed somewhere behind her. She turned her snowmobile around and drove back about 150 meters, then got off and walked toward a very large dark bulk that she could make out among some trees. When she was about 50 feet from it a small, cold hand came from over her shoulder and seized her by the chin, attempting to drag her backwards. Thinking it must be her younger brother playing a joke, she broke free and pushed her attacker back so that he fell down into the snow. Turning to face him, she saw a childlike figure smaller than her 13-year-old brother sitting in the snow. She ran back to her snowmobile and grabbed a flashlight, and turned it on the person who was now walking slowly toward her. She saw it was a being less than four feet tall, clad in a dark, close fitting uniform with a "plated" surface, and wearing a helmet covering the head down to the chin. A visor on the helmet reflected the light from the flashlight, and the being's enormous eyes shone brightly in the light, like those of a cat. Terrified, Helene dropped the flashlight, ran to the snowmobile, and fled on it. She was joined by the other snowmobilers, who were returning for her. Her left arm was paralyzed, so she was taken to a doctor at Rouyn, who gave her a sedative. The next day several people went out to the landing site, where they found a large patch of snow melted down to the ground. It was 50 feet in diameter and shaped like a donut. Next to it were the footprints of two small bipeds, a few yards away from each other. The tracks were short and wide with a large protruding great toe. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-84, citing Jean Ferguson, Les Humanoides).
1979 - Ernaldo Camusoni, age 49, was clearing an overgrown field at the entrance to a farm in Serodino, Santa Fe province, Argentina late in the evening after 8 p.m. when everything became illuminated behind him, turning the darkness into day. When he turned around he saw an approaching object land 40 meters away from him. He tried to make out what the object looked like, but the light emanating from it was too intense to capture much detail. The shape was like a truncated cone. As he approached the object, he saw a strange luminous figure emerge from the rear of the craft. The figure appeared to be robot-like in nature, lacking any arms, and it did not move its body when it walked. Its head appeared to be of normal size, but it had what appeared to be a trunk-like object coming from the area of the face. It wore a very shiny outfit. The robot entity walked towards the witness, approached to within three meters, and stood silently, seemingly observing the witness. Camusoni didn't feel afraid, but did feel curiosity towards the strange entity. Apparently the creature did not want to communicate since it suddenly wheeled around, returning to the object and disappeared behind it. The craft then rose up and disappeared at high speed towards the south, making a rushing sound. The whole encounter lasted five minutes. Ground traces were found the next day. (Source: UNICAT database, case #601, citing Oscar Alemanno, Quarta Dimension).
1983 - A mother and daughter named O'Driscoll, driving near the
frozen White Pond in Kent Cliffs, Putnam County, New York at around
8 p.m. saw a silent, multi-colored 200-300 foot wide boomerang-shaped
object with many lights, at a minimum distance of 100 meters, which seemed
to respond to their thoughts. It had a criss-cross lattice structure and
tubes on its underneath side. Their car radio experience RF interference.
Another independent witness that night saw probably the same object, a
V-shaped array of 50 lights with the colors amber, red, and blue. (Sources:
J. Allen Hynek and Philip Imbrogno, Night Seige, p. 8; UNICAT database,
case 209, citing J. Allen Hynek; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters
of the Fifth Kind, p. 156).
1994 - A witness in a residential area of Rosyth, Fife, Scotland
took two photographs of a saucer-shaped object before he was temporarily
paralyzed and frozen in place. The object hovered close by for 15 minutes.
(Sources: UFO Newspaper Clipping Service, June 1994; Larry Hatch, U computer
database, case 16318).
1997 - A man was driving to work near Lee, New Hampshire when he saw four balls of white light zigzag in unison over some nearby power lines. They then hovered about 50 feet from the ground looking a little blurry. The witness continued driving east on the road and ten minutes later saw the same lights again over a bog. At this point he began to hear voices inside his head. Now having stomach pains, he heard the voices warn him against studying UFOs. He then asked several questions, which the voices answered. When he came upon some large pine trees there was a blinding flash of orange light, and he felt his vehicle being lifted up. He then apparently lost consciousness. He woke up an hour later inside his vehicle. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, case # 2800, citing ISUR).
2000 - Three disc-shaped objects, estimated to be three times
the size of 747s, were sighted flying in a V-shaped formation over Waterford,
Ontario. They made a 90 degree turn together. The sighting lasted
two minutes. (Source: Geoff Dittman, 2000 Canadian UFO Survey, case 34).
Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 24 February 2007).
Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database.