Encounters with Aliens on this Day
January 3
1948 - A disc-shaped object shot across the sky from west to east in 30 seconds over the coast of Vaasa, Finland. (Source: Project Blue Book files, case 99).
1955 - At 7:25 a.m. two people in a car in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia saw a flying object approach to within 70 meters of them after their vehicle was stalled. On that same day in Vienna, Austria six silver discs flew overhead, leaving a trail of red vapor. Some citizens were panicked. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 248; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4260; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 30, citing Vallee).
1958 - At 4 o'clock in the afternoon a nuclear physics college student, Mr. Delacy, shot 90 seconds of 8 mm movie film of nine silver globes over Diamond Head on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. (Source: Project Blue Book files; Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns).
1959 - At 1:30 p.m. a six-foot long shining cigar-shaped object flew over Adelaide, South Australia. It gave off a red glow. It was followed shortly by a six-foot square object, spinning and shining brightly in the daytime sky. At 8:00 p.m. another cigar-shaped UFO hovered over Dover, Ohio at 40 meters altitude. It was large, silent, and had red, green and white lights on its surface. At about the same time or shortly after eight p.m. a round orange object flew south of Rochester, New York. It made a crackling noise as it flew. A nocturnal light exited from the larger craft, and flew off quickly to the west. (Sources: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 164; Loren Gross, The fifth horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History, 1959: January-March, p. 4; NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1959, p. 5).
1963 - An airplane being flown over the state of Cordoba, Argentina had a close encounter with a UFO. The UFO projected a beam of light at the aircraft, and one of the plane's four engines quit working. (Source: UFO Nachrichten (Germany), February 1966, citing a newspaper clipping).
1967 - At two o'clock in the morning a woman secretary driving down a road in New Richmond, Indiana had a close encounter with a bright, domed disc shaped UFO. Her car would not accelerate to get out from under the UFO. The object finally made an odd maneuver in the sky and flew away. (Source: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 199).
On this day in 1967 a strange little man entered the county courthouse in Athens, Ohio and asked for directions. He was fascinated with a ballpoint pen, as if he had never seen one before. (Source: Hans Holzer, The UFOnauts, p. 288).
1968 -- At five o'clock in the morning Ms. Emma Grimble, an early riser, was sweeping the upper hallway of her guest house home in Ashtabula, Ohio when she heard a commotion downstairs near the tenant's mailboxes. Yelling "Get away from those mailboxes!" she rushed downstairs but was dumbfounded to see two little men, greenish yellow in color, clambering around the boxes and attaching themselves to the wall by "suction cups on their hands and feet." They glistened like metal, possibly wearing flexible, tight fitting metallic clothing. At her appearance the two little creatures rushed out the front door. She heard quite a loud scrambling around, as if there may have been five or six of them. (Sources: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-11, citing D. L. McCulty, Saucer News; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case 24).
1971 - On this night three small, fuzzy, round objects moved near
a bridge and hovered over it as a car approached in Aberdeen, Washington.
The engine of the car stopped, the radio had heavy interference, but the
headlights remained on. The three objects, which were only about two feet
in diameter, then rose slightly and drifted down the river quite slowly.
The car could then be restarted. (Sources: APRO Bulletin, May-June,
1971; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference,
case 304, citing APRO)
1973 - At 10 p.m. on this night in Blacksburg, South Carolina on Highway 43 a metallic domed disc chased a car at a very low altitude. The car's headlights dimmed during the sighting. (Source: newspaper clipping dated February 9, 1973; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 325, citing UFO Register 1974).
1975 - There were several close encounter reports on this day for 1975 in Tasmania, over the English Channel, in Argentina, and in the U.S. Midwest.
1977 - At 9:30 a.m. a 24-year-old woman and her young sister were doing the wash next to their rural home that was near Carapito Beira Alta, Portugal. They saw on top of a nearby hill a strange looking bulky figure that was dark and motionless. It resembled an eight-foot-tall box with a round head on top and legs that appeared too thin towards the bottom. A strange sound, resembling several dogs barking into a microphone, seemed to emanate from the figure. The two witnesses became afraid and locked themselves in their house. They next heard a sound like someone was dragging something outside on the sand path that encircled their house. The sound stopped at the edge of a nearby pine grove. This was too much for the 24-year-old woman, who suffered a nervous collapse. Investigators found a small radioactive spot at the foot of the hill, plus other ground traces in evidence. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, case # 107, citing Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos & Fernandez Peri, Enciclopedia de Los Encuentros Cercanos con Ovnis).
1979 -- At 11:15 p.m. a couple was crossing a roadway in Mirabello, Italy when they noticed a red beam of light on the ground. They got into their car and drove closer to get a better look. As they approached they perceived a strong burning smell, an odor like burnt human hair. The light resembled a pulsating vertical bar, red in color encircled by a round halo. As they got even closer they saw a human like figure walk in front of the light, and moments later a second figure walked from the opposite direction. As a result of the intense cold the witnesses had to leave the area. As they drove away they observed a similar but larger light on the ground in front of a nearby orchard. The light slowly pulsated. Again the witnesses had to leave because of the cold weather. (Sources: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case 1555; Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Italian UFO Catalogue).
1979 - Mindalore, South Africa
1979 - There were two incidents involving missing time or abductions on this day. The first occurred in Mindalore, South Africa. A man and a woman were driving in foggy conditions near a mine at 11:50 p.m. They saw a gray cone-shaped craft with four legs that had landed, and then experienced a 20-minute lapse of time, but they did recall witnessing humanoids associated with the craft. (Source: Cynthia Hind, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1979, p. 3).
1979 - The second experience also occurred while driving. Mr. Filiberto Cardenas, age 45, was driving on Okeechobee Road just north of Miami, Florida with three family friends when the car engine suddenly failed. He and another man got out of the car to check under the hood when a large luminous object emitting a humming sound descended over the vehicle. The witness vanished in plain sight of the others, apparently taken up into the object by a beam of light.
He was found dazed two hours later and 16 miles away from the original location by a police officer. Later he recalled being taken up and blacking out. He found himself onboard the object and three human-like beings all dressed in tight-fitting white suits took him to an ocean front setting where they opened a "lock" on a rock and entered through a tunnel beneath the sea. The beings were of average height, wearing outfits that covered their heads with winged snake-like emblems on their chests.
They spoke to the witness in Spanish and mainly spoke about coming wars
and disasters. He was led to a seat made out of stone and given a liquid
to drink that tasted like honey. A huge door then opened in front of him
and several persons came out. Cardenas began feeling a strong pressure in
his chest and at this point an individual approached him and told him he
was welcomed. The individual appeared totally human and spoke with a South
American accent. Indeed this man told Cardenas that he was from earth but
had lived with extraterrestrials for a while now.
He was then taken
through a corridor into what appeared to be a great city. He then entered
a small room where he was suddenly sucked into the wall, which then
flipped over and became a bed. Paralyzed, he was unable to move and
noticed several figures moving around him. As a light blinded him
something was inserted into his ear. From the wall there emerged what
looked like several arms ending in suction cups that covered his body. He
felt no pain but could not move.
After the examination he was taken to another room. There he saw a tall seat and on it was a tall man wearing a cape; he also saw numerous consoles and monitors. He was shown images of three pyramids joined by a thin ray of light. Cardenas apparently slept several times and was awakened and given several tablets to eat. In another room he saw several human like figures wearing gray coveralls. In another room he saw a large gathering of people in what he thought was a "party".
Soon he was taken into another room where he saw a large rocket-style ship in which he was taken along with three other humans. He was made to sit on a suction-like seat. After a short trip he was made to exit and given something to eat. He last saw the object disappear into the distance. He was found disoriented by a police officer in an isolated section of the city. A medical exam found 108 tiny pricks on his body. Days after the encounter he suffered from severe sweating, extreme thirst, extreme temperature changes, and a strong sulfur like smell followed him, he also suffered from memory loss, decreased sexual appetite and strange time altering episodes. (Sources: Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of A Mystery; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case 458, citing Virgilio Sanchez-Ocejo; Cynthia Hind, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1979, p. 3).
1984 - At 4:14 a.m. an ovoid UFO flew low over Lake Michigan and was sighted by three women in Port Washington, Wisconsin. The UFO had three portholes. (Source: Donald R. Schmitt, International UFO Reporter, March-April 1984, p. 3).
1988 - Some very bright lights in the sky paced a car for several miles around 5 p.m. in Grimsby, England. It was seen for nine minutes before it departed by shooting straight up. (Source: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 11).
1994 - Cone-shaped UFO approached a house in Ecouis, France at 11:45 p.m. shining a yellow light on it. It then flew away to the southeast. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 322).
1998 - In Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania a number of cyclops looking humanoids exited from a delta-shaped UFO and took a pet parrot from the yard of a home in the city. (Source: Cynthia Hind, UFO Afri News, July 1998).
Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 16 November 2005).
Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database.