Encounters with Aliens on this Day
January 22
1961 - An electronics professor at Bordeaux University and three school teachers observed an elongated, glowing, orange object in Cestas-Gazinet, France at 6:30 p.m. Interference with their car's ignition was noted. One witness was said to have felt a slight indisposition and to have heard or somehow perceived the word "ZEMU" repeated twice. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 515; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 111, citing Vallee).
1969 - A dark oval object with a central light on the top and bottom and four white lights around the edge moved in a side-to-side swaying motion over Lexington, Massachusetts at 9:50 p.m. (Source: Raymond E. Fowler, case report dated January 25, 1969; Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors).
1969 Lexington, Massachusetts
1971 - Stewart and Lyle Leppke of Peabody, Kansas were doing their early morning farm chores when they observed a lighted object in the cattle lot. When they flashed their light on it, they saw a diminutive figure less than two feet tall moving about near a UFO with small windows that was hovering just above the ground. They immediately went to the house to tell their mother who called the sheriff; but the UFO had departed by the time the sheriff got there. The boys said the object hovered a few feet off the ground, and when it departed it tipped to one side and then sped rapidly up and away. (Source: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-03, citing a newspaper source).
1971 - At 9:05 p.m. Richard Williams, his wife, and son were driving toward Willard, Ohio from the north when they saw a low flying object that "looked like a bat" coming toward their car. "On the middle of each wing there seemed to be a rocket or a jet engine, and it had red and white lights on each wing and on the tails." They thought at first it was a plane crashing. It was 25-30 feet in diameter and came to within 100 feet off their car and then took off toward the east. There was a transparent "cockpit" in the front of the object, through which could be seen the movements of some kind of humanoid creature, silhouetted by a flashing light behind it. Multiple reports of UFO sightings this night came from Tiro, Sandusky, and other sections of Huron County, Ohio around the same time. (Source: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-04, citing a newspaper source).
Willard, Ohio Close Encounter 1971
1993 - Several students at the local Camp Crame elementary school in Quezon City, Philippines were burning some wood in a wooded area next to a tamarind tree, when a gigantic black figure with a tail and two horns appeared. The students panicked and some seemed to go into a trance and started speaking in an unfamiliar language or tongue. The figure appeared to vanish in plain sight. The incident was interpreted as a "demonic" manifestation and possession. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 572, citing Fortean Times, issue # 68).
2003 - The witness had just left work and was driving home when he reached a place by a small lake in Prospect, Connecticut at 10:03 p.m. He noticed someone walking along the road so he flashed on his high beams. He then saw the figure walk out from the side of the road, stop in the center for a second, then continue across. It was grayish in color and it was walking on two legs, but it ambulated like an ape walks, swaying as it walked erect. The feet were small with brownish-black areas on the side. When it reached the other side it stopped and looked at the witness, waving its skinny arms. Lights appeared behind it. The man described the creature as around six feet tall, with large, foot-long pointy ears. The eyes were dark black with no apparent nose. Although the weather was cold, the witness did not see any condensed breath come from its small mouth. The mouth had a red silver strip on top. As the witness drove by he looked back to see the creature still standing by the road, and the woods behind the creature suddenly lit up like day. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2003, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle).
Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 19 November 2005).
Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database