Encounters with Aliens on this Day
January 29
1950 -- Mr. Quintana of Denver, Colorado saw a silvery green ovoid object hovering about 15 meters above a slope on South Table Mountain. It landed slowly in a small ravine. Then it shot upward at very high speed. Its diameter was about 20 meters, and it had a revolving middle band. A greenish light flashed under it, and the witness felt a rush of air and a pungent smell. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 194, citing Flying Saucers, July 1959).
1952 - Several bright discs, each estimated to be three feet in diameter, followed a B-29 Superfortress flying 30 miles west-southwest of Wonsan, Korea. (Source: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 15).
1953 -- Hearing a commotion in his barn, a farmer in Conway, South Carolina observed an object about seven meters long and four meters wide at treetop level. It was light gray in color and lit up inside. It resembled an egg sliced in half lengthwise. The witness fired his gun at the object. Numerous livestock died "mysteriously" in the area after the sighting. At 2:00 p.m. four huge metallic discs, each the size of a B-36 bomber, flew over Malibu Beach, California at a speed in excess of 1,000 mph. At five minutes before midnight an F-94 jet interceptor and two other fighter aircraft reported seeing a dark gray, oval-shaped UFO flying over Presque Isle, Maine. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 202; Fate Magazine, June 1953, p. 12, citing Los Angeles Examiner; Project Blue Book files; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 219).
1954 - A married couple was driving six miles south of Santa Ana, California in the afternoon when their car radio quit and the engine missed as a disc-shaped UFO passed low over their car. (Sources: APRO Bulletin, March 1954; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 2).
1962 - A Royal Dutch Air Force F-86 jet interceptor was chased by a UFO over the eastern Netherlands. The event was witnessed by six members of the military and the UFO was detected by ground and airborne radar. (Source: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 122).
1968 - A woman living alone in an isolated cabin on Keats Island,
British Columbia had for several days witnessed mysterious lights
and unknown objects maneuvering over some nearby hills and a nearby
lake. On this afternoon two men dressed in neatly pressed, apparently
new dark coveralls, and claiming to be from the public water company,
visited her. The men acted nervous and seemed surprised that she lived
there alone. They finally left disappearing down a nearby footpath.
They seemed to have no obvious means for getting on or off the island,
and she completely disbelieved their story that they were from the public
utility. (Sources: Peter Guttilla, Saga UFO Report, Summer 1974;
John Magor, Our UFO Visitors; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database
1968, case #1079).
1979 -- In the early morning hours a married couple in Bissoe
Truro, Cornwall County, England were awakened at around two a.m.
to find their bedroom lit up brightly. One of the witnesses looked out
the window and was amazed to see a bright hovering oval-shaped craft.
Inside could be seen two human-looking men with long wavy blond hair.
The UFO glided silently away and then shot away at high speed. (Source:
Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1979, case 1435, citing
Bob Boyd, Plymouth UFO Research Group).
1987 - At 5:43 a.m. several Mozambican laborers working in Zimbabwe reported seeing a large, brightly lit balloon-shaped object passing over Chimanimani, Zimbabwe. The witnesses were able to see two men inside the craft. One was dressed in blue and the other in white. The witnesses interpreted the object as "witch doctors" traveling from South Africa. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1987, case # 1050, citing Cynthia Hind, MUFON Symposium Proceedings 1987).
Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 13 September 2004)
Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database.