Encounters with Aliens on this Day
March 5
At 7 a.m. on this date in 1950 twenty witnesses watched a 25-foot-wide, extremely bright UFO maneuver in the sky over Gering, Nebraska. It appeared to change shape as it flew offtoward the southeast. In the afternoon a metallic flying disc trailing some kind of ribbon hovered, darted about, and jumped into some clouds over Houston, Texas. It left flying toward the east. That night in Bloomfield, New Mexico a dark, five-foot diameter disc paced a car. When the driver stopped the car the object circled the car, then sped away at a high speed. (Sources: newspaper clippings, March 10, 1950 and March 27, 1950; Loren Gross, UFOs: A History, 1950: January-March, pp. 31-32).
1971 - Gilbert Camus, a radio technician, was driving to his shop in Savigny, Jura department, France at 1:10 a.m. He was between Trenal and Condamine when he noticed lights ahead on the right side of the road. As he approached, he saw that these were on a line of 8 bluish luminescent rectangles on the ground in a marshy meadow beside the road. Above them he could distinguish, in the moonlight a flattened hemispherical dome, apparently of dark metal, about 25 feet high and 50 feet wide.
When he got closer to the object he saw three "animals" on all fours climbing up the road bank. Their heads were level with his windshield so they "must have been of great stature." Their heads were shaped like an ant's with "a rounded lobe flanked by two other lobes swelling out like cheeks." He saw no faces. In the meadow he could see about 20 more of these beings, some upright and others on all fours. His car had just passed them when it filled with a bluish white light from behind, as if a "ray" had been projected at him. He lost control of the car, which spontaneously slowed down to about 12 mph, then recovered its initial speed when he reached the outskirts of Condamine. Later, when he took off his clothes he found on his shirt, below the belt line, several golden yellow rectangles about 1" by 2". These disappeared after a few minutes. Three days later similar chocolate brown rectangular marks appeared on his undershirt, and these persisted through 3 or 4 washings.
The paint began to come off his car when he washed it. Most surprisingly, he found himself cured of a liver ailment, which until then had been giving him excruciating headaches. A semi-elliptical imprint was found in the meadow the next day about an inch deep, with a long axis of about 36 feet. Inside the circle dandelions, abundant elsewhere in the meadow were absent, and where it crossed a drainage ditch the ice in the ditch had melted, and the water still seemed warm. At the edge of the woods beside the ground marks a large tree branch was freshly broken off. In the snow were footprints like those of "shoes without heels", some as big as 16" long. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1971-39, citing M. Tyrode and Fernand Legarde).
1976 - A 23-year-old woman in Redmond, Oregon first saw
an object high in the sky at 9:25 p.m., which then dropped down to an
altitude of only 75 feet. The object was disc-shaped, about 26 feet in
diameter, and had red and white lights revolving around its exterior.
Two light beams were directed from the object to the ground. The radio
in her car went dead when the object came near, and although the woman
kept driving, the radio did not work again until two miles down the road.
The object did not follow the car. (Source: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports
Involving Vehicle Interference, case 395, citing CUFOS)
1977 - At 11:00 p.m. Lonnie Stites and his wife, Deborah, were driving their pickup truck around a bend in the road in McNatt, Missouri when "the whole area lit up like a football field light was turned on, and a very bright light was shined on our windshield." He saw a man of normal height or slightly smaller stature standing alongside the road. He was human looking, but dressed in green coveralls with square glasses and a tight green cap over his ears. He was "waving us down." Up on the hill was another figure carrying what appeared to be "a ball of electricity about the size of a basketball." The second figure was walking away from an object that looked like a water tank, about 10 feet across and 10 to 15 feet tall, with red lights going around it. The UFO was about 50-60 feet from them. Mrs Stites said that she saw two people on the hillside carrying "basketball sized lights," and that the UFO at one point flew over the truck. They turned the truck around and drove away in great fear. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-11, citing Monte Blue Skelton & Bob Pratt).
Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 22 November 2005).
Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database.