Encounters with Aliens on this Day
January 13
1957 - Two men, West and Liddell, watched as a forty meter in diameter fluorescent oval-shaped object nearly touched down on the grass in Balfour, New Zealand at 3:10 a.m., but it jumped away as the two men approached. It changed to a bluish-white sphere with a dark red center. It cleared a fence, and then vanished. (Source: Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 106).
1958 - At 6:30 p.m. in Casino, New South Wales, Australia Brian Crittendon, age 21, was chased by a dome-shaped object that emitted a narrow light beam toward the ground. He was so frightened that he drove home on a flat tire, followed for five kilometers by the object, which was about 50 meters away from him and 10 meters above ground. It overtook his car at a speed in excess of 100 km/h. Radio interference was noted but the UFO made no noise. There was an independent witness to the UFO. (Sources: Michael Hervey, UFOs in the Southern Hemisphere, p. 49; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 457; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 89).
1959 - A witness driving alone in Bygholm, Denmark saw
a stationary object ahead in the sky. After about five seconds the object
moved toward the car and passed over it at a height of 100 meters. The
car's engine stopped at this point but the headlights were not affected.
The object, which now changed color from yellow-green to yellow-white,
moved quickly away into the west. (Source: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports
Involving Vehicle Interference, case 97, FSR, Vol. 5, No. 5)
1959 - At 7:00 a.m. Robert Collins, while driving a pick-up truck
near Greenville, Pennsylvania, noticed lights in the sky he thought
were a plane making an emergency landing. The lights eventually coalesced
into a single bright light. This light then hovered over his truck for
several minutes. His truck's engine, lights, and radio failed at this
point. The light, which was too bright for Mr. ColIins to discern any
structure, departed quickly to the west and out of sight in 30 seconds.
The truck then could be restarted. (Source: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports
Involving Vehicle Interference, case 98, citing Coral & Jim Lorenzen,
UFOs: The Whole Story)
1967 - Nine-year old Freddie Amos woke up at 1:30 a.m. in his farmhouse in Iola, Kansas to see a round object hovering motionless low over an adjoining field. It was 25 feet in diameter, had a dome on top, short wing-like protrusions, and three wheels on its underside. There were red lights on the ends of the "wings," and a blue light on top of the dome. A man stood inside the dome looking out, and another man was visible sitting behind a console behind him. The man standind wore a "crinkly" green uniform that covered him entirely; his face was in shadow and his facial features could not be seen. This "terrible" man frightened the boy although he could not say why. He got back into bed but continued to watch the object, which circled his house and hovered again for five minutes back in its original position before flying off. In the morning some of their cows were found to have broken through the fence around their pasture. One had broken her leg. A pond in the pasture near the site continued to remain unfrozen although the temperatures were well below freezing. This encounter occurred during a minor concentration of UFO sightings at nearby locales. (Source: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-7, citing Mary Conger for NICAP; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, case 26).
1979 -- On this evening a farmer in Viterbo, Italy spotted a large fiery red sphere descend and land in a nearby pasture. The sphere changed color to a bright orange, then it began to dim revealing a two-meter wide metallic sphere. A small man wearing a silvery white suit emerged from the object and walked around the object, frequently bending down as if he was picking things up. The witness ran away from the scene. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, citing BUFORA Journal, Vol. 8, No. 3).
2000 - Late on this night in Jacksonville, Florida a woman suddenly awoke to find herself being dropped onto her bed by a non-human looking entity. Close to her face she saw a huge head on a thin body. At the same time she felt a puff of breath coming from the entity's open mouth. She sensed that the being was surprised that she had woken up. Although terrified, she still fell asleep. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case # 3441, citing South Florida Skyscan).
Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 16 November 2005).
Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database.