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October 4 1954 – There are 41 UFO and humanoid reports on this date in UFOCAT, including six CE-III reports. One report is from Tel Aviv, Israel and one of the humanoid reports is from Salta, Argentina. The rest are from France, which was at the center of a massive wave of UFO sightings. Below…

May 14 1909 – On this night a witness named Egenes reported that a cigar-shaped object directed five beams of light at a ship’s bridge off the coast of Blyth, Northumberland, England. It then shot away a mile to another ship, and did the same thing again. (Source: Carl Grove, FSR, November 1970, p. 17).…

March 30 In 1897 in Denver, Colorado a mysterious light was seen flying through the night sky. (Source: New York Herald, April 12, 1897). In 1947 at 11:00 a.m., Mrs. J. E. Harp of Lutz, Florida her seven-year-old daughter Sandra, and her mother Mrs. W. H. Brown saw several flying discs while driving. The discs…

 March 28 1897 – The majority of the population of Omaha, Nebraska observed an object arriving from the southeast at 10:30 p.m. It looked like a huge light, flew northwestward slowly, came to low altitude. A crowd gathered at a street corner to watch it. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings,…

March 23 1905 – On or about this night a small red sphere of light, accompanied by two white lights which danced about it, paced in front of an automobile being driven by a man named Jones in Egyryn, Wales. There was also a female passenger in the car, also with the last name of…

March 12 1950 – On this night a featureless four-meter wide disc circled a ranch in Falfurrias, Texas at 300 meters altitude for a few minutes. It flew off in a southwesterly direction toward Mexico. (Source: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950 Supplement, p. 17). 1954 – A torpedo shaped UFO was seen on…

 Encounters with Aliens on this Day  June 23 1947 – A large shiny silver ball hovered for several minutes over a mountain in Clayton, Georgia and then zoomed away. There were two witnesses named Cantrell and Pepper. (Source: Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon 1947-1987, p. 1). 1952 – Grid area CV 4, Korea. Information came…

  July 23 1909 – An airship flew over a school for several minutes during the lunch hour in Kelso, Otago County, New Zealand. The airship hovered over the school for several minutes. It approached from the Blue Mountains and first circled over the school; it was shaped like a boat, and had a figure of…

1948 – At 4:50 p.m. two Kirtland Air Force Base Sergeants on a fishing trip with their families to San Acacia Dam, New Mexico saw a group of seven aluminum circular, possibly spherical, objects approach from the south at 20,000 feet and pass overhead at 1,500 mph. They shifted from a V formation to an…

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,…