Encounters with Aliens on this Day
July 5
1933 - A huge circular object dropped down into the center of a formation of RAF fighter aircraft over Sussex, England. Two of the planes suffered engine failure and were forced to make emergency landings. One pilot suffered burns to his face and hands after his airplane passed close by the object. (Source: Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century, p. 16).
1947 - There are 59 UFO reports from across the United States and one from Canada recorded for this day in UFOCAT. The geographical distribution of the UFO sightings is similar to the day before, but with many more reports from California and the Great Lakes. The majority of these reports were of flyovers by daylight discs. For a map showing the distribution of these reports, including hypothesized great circle routes or flight paths with four of more reports falling along the same line, click here.
1947 - At 8:00 a.m. two discs zoomed in from the west over Sacramento, California. One banked sharply and headed north. According to one witness, it "seemed to stand on one edge as it turned." Both objects left vapor trails. (Source: Ted Bloecher, citing the Sacramento Bee, July 7, 1947).
1947, Albuquerque, New Mexico - Five discs flew toward the east over the city at 9 o'clock in the morning; one circled back over the city. In the afternoon five witnesses saw a sphere maneuver in-and-out of clouds. (Source: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave; Albuquerque Journal, July 6, 1947).
1947 - In Augusta, Maine at 1:15 p.m. local time, two witnesses, including the program director of WRDO Radio, saw twelve discs flying rapidly in a straight line toward Bangor in a north-northeasterly direction. (Source: Daily Kennebec Journal, July 7, 1947).
At 1:00 p.m. in 1947 a party of surveyors in Payette, Idaho saw four silvery discs that each had a dark line in the center fly toward the northwest at an estimated speed of 800 km per hour. They were lost in the clouds at an estimated altitude of 8,000 feet. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 862).
1947 - In clear sky at 3:00 p.m. in Anaconda, Montana a man saw six silvery objects fluttering as they flew toward the east. A woman, an independent witness, also saw the same three fluttering objects disappear over the horizon. Both witnesses called the police. (Source: Jan Aldrich, A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 80).
1947 - at 7:00 p.m. in daylight skies over Neapolis, Ohio a TWA flight crew saw a propeller-shaped object rotating slowly as it flew beneath the airliner. It was flying at an estimated speed of 200 mph. (Source: Ted Bloecher, newspaper clipping dated July 6, 1947).
1965 - On this day at six o'clock in the morning a 41-year-old man named Andersson took a photograph of a flying disc-shaped object coming out of the Russian River near Kenai, Alaska. (Sources: Anchorage Daily News, August 3, 1965; APRO Bulletin, November-December 1965).
1966 - On this night in Chaclacayo, Peru several people reported seeing a very small creature leaving a luminous trail, quietly walking along the streets, while the children and adults in the neighborhood panicked. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 778).
1967 - One hundred people in Clifton, England claimed to have seen a silvery disc-shaped object, about ten meters meters long, land in the area. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case 852).
1968, North Adams, Massachusetts - A green light larger than a star was seen moving slowly through the sky. Through binoculars it looked like a green ball with a reddish trail. When an airplane approached it, the object "blinked out" and then reappeared after the plane was gone. (Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs Interplanetary Visitors, pg. 353).
North Adams, Massachusetts - 1968
1972 - At 1:30 a.m. a landed UFO started a grass fire when it took off in King William's Town, South Africa. The object resembled a "sailor's cap." Some witnesses in a car attempted to pursue the object but it accelerated out of sight. At 9 p.m. an orange fireball made a huge arc through the sky and then came to hover over some trucks at the Witput railway station in Kraankuil, South Africa. At 10:15 p.m. a huge flying sphere hovered only seven meters in front of a car in Vryburg, South Africa. It changed colors from red to green, gave off sparks, turned yellow, and was gone in a huge flash. (Sources: FSR, November-December 1972, p. 15; newspaper clipping, July 7, 1972; Data-Net Report, August 1972, p. 18).
1976 - At 9 o'clock in the morning two brothers, 8-year-old Andy and 6 year-old Joel Rygh were playing in Gitchie Manitou Park, Iowa when they heard "strange noises followed by a grunting sound and then a whistle." When they looked in the direction of the noises they saw a seven-foot tall man standing behind a bush. He was wearing a shiny blue uniform. When the whistling sound became louder the boys ran to get their brothers Chris, age 11, and Tom, age 9. All four boys then saw a pulsating glowing domed object emerge from behind a large tree 50 yards away. The object was "about the size and shape of a large haystack." It hovered with a humming sound for five seconds, and then sped away. Small oak trees that the craft hovered over were later found defoliated. (Source: Pat Miller, Sioux Falls (SD) Argus-Leader, August 15, 1976).
1978 - On this night a bell-shaped UFO hovered just outside an apartment window in Forest Park, Georgia only five or six feet away. It was about 12 feet in diameter and made no noise as it moved silently over the next apartment complex. (Source: Edward Walters, UFOs are real: Her's the proof, p. 126).
1980 - A large silent sphere dropped to the surface of Lake Navsjon north of Naveksvarn, Sweden at 11:50 p.m. It changed colors while on the surface of the lake. (Source: AFU Sweden).
1984 - A disc with an orange halo hovered over a park in Cape Girardeau, Missouri at 9:38 p.m. at an estimated altitude of 1,000 feet. It winked out after fifteen seconds. (Source: APRO Bulletin, February 1985, p. 8).
1991 - A twenty-foot diameter crop circle was found in a wheat field in Medina, New York. (Source: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, case 1109).
1996 - Taking a break from work at 3:10 p.m., a 32-year-old woman in Mounds View, Minnesota stepped outside her workplace to do some bird watching when she saw a gray sphere high in the sky that traveled quickly across the sky for about two minutes. It was lost from view when still about 50 degrees above the northwest horizon. (Source: Greg C. Lang, MUFON case investigations file, case no. 961109bC).
1999 - When the witness turned the light on outside her shed in Ross, Tasmania she noticed an orange glowing rectangular structure 200 meters away beyond some trees. It was about the size of a house and was surrounded by vapor. It rose, tilted at an angle, and then just faded from view. There were no traces at the site. (Source: Keith Roberts, Tasmania UFO Information Centre, November 1999 web page).
2000 - At around 4 p.m. Robert Taylor, age 22, remembers being abducted near McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey. He found himself inside a very misty room surrounded by a green aura. There were soft "chairs" and a long table in the center of the room. He met several aliens described as about six feet tall, with very long thin arms and legs. The humanoids emitted a strange humming sound. He suffered from bizarre physiological aftereffects soon after the incident. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, citing UFO Watch).
Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 29 October 2009).
Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database.