Encounters with Aliens on this Day
January 26
1958 - A very bright object landed before numerous chemical workers in Shimada City, Japan at 4 p.m. They reported beings falling from the sky without parachutes. They wore strange suits and spoke an unknown language. (Sources: Flying Saucer Review, May-June 1958; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 458; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0458).
1967 - Three women saw an oblong, gray and red object, with prongs of various colors was seen over Jamaica, Queens borough, New York at 1:30 a.m. Parts of the UFO seemed to move independently. The sighting lasted more than two hours. (Sources: NICAP New York case investigation; Condon Committee UFO Study).
1967 - On this morning, about a week after seeing a large metallic sphere hovering above a highway near Charleston, West Virginia, Tad Jones was driving along the same highway at the same time when he came upon a man standing on the roadside in the same spot where the sphere had hovered. Thinking that it was a hitchhiker Tad slowed down and called to him. The man did not reply but merely waved him on. He described the man as very tanned, wearing a blue coat, and a blue cap with a visor. He was holding a box in his hand. It appeared to be some kind of instrument with a dial on it, like a clock, and a wire ran from it to his other hand. A later check with the local gas company proved negative as far as it being one of their men. Furthermore, no such instrument described by Jones was in use anywhere by any of their employees. He saw the same man again the next day, but drove on. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, case # 3096, citing John Keel, The Mothman Prophecies).
1967 - A Methodist minister was driving on Route 185 near Coffeen, Illinois at 9:00 p.m. when he saw an object that was flat on the bottom and rounded on top cross the road in 100 meters in front of him. It made no noise and moved slowly. He estimated that it was 20 meters in length and three meters in height. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 812, citing USAF Air Technical Intelligence Center).
1968 - Two men in River Bann, Derryvore, Ireland saw a disc land in a field. Several entities emerged and placed probes into the hides of several paralyzed cows in the field. The UFO then took off and showered a fog-like substance that caused a tingling sensation, and the UFO then disappeared into a cloud. (Source: Jenny Randles, Little Giant Encyclopedia of UFOs).
1969 - On a farm southeast of Fernley, Nevada while milking cows at five o'clock in the morning a young man named Schade saw a red glowing sphere moving slowly, ten meters above the ground, a quarter of a mile away. The object hovered, the emitted white mist. Each time it stopped moving the light went out. Finally, the UFO ascended with a jerky motion toward the west and Reno. (Sources: Mark Massingill, NICAP case file, report dated February 24, 1969; Data-Net Report, October 1971, p. 5).
1972 - At three a.m. Norman Chastain was out fishing late at night in the St. Johns River near Blount Island, Florida when he saw something like "half a ball" with orange and blue flashing lights. It came "directly toward my boat" and hovered noiselessly overhead at 150 feet. He turned off his light and the object slowly moved off. He had drifted to the shore and with his spotlight he could see in the nearby woods "the darndest looking human-like creature one could ever imagine." Waht he saw was a humanoid creature about five feet tall, with pointed ears, large eyes, and a sharp chin. Next a brilliant white light hit him that paralyzed him until dawn. He noticed an "overpowering stench" in his clothes and hair, and threw away his clothes. Three nights later he smelt the same odor again, and in the morning found a fungus like growth similar to "a cluster of several flesh colored heads looking at me;" he said they "had teeth, big eyes, a wide mouth, and pointed ears," and looked "like the devil looking creature" he saw on Blount Island. (Sources: Lloyd Brown, The Jacksonville Journal, January 28, 1974; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1972-05, citing Jacksonville Journal).
2003 - Anatoly Yurevich awoke in the middle of the night in Karaganda, Kazakhstan to the sounds of footsteps, then saw a two foot tall creature standing at the side of his bed. It was very heavy set, perhaps weighing as much as 115 kilos (250 lbs.). His dog hid under the bed blankets shaking with fear. The creature touched his knee and then pulled on the blanket. It then vanished in full view. After a couple of minutes the witness felt a severe pain in his lower abdomen. His dog growled for 20 minutes after the incident, after which he was able to go back to sleep. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2003, citing RU.UFO Guest book entries).
Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 13 September 2004).
Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database.