Encounters with Aliens on this Day
August 5
1927 - At 9:30 in the morning while climbing in the Humbolt Range of the Altai Mountains in Mongolia, explorer Nicholas Roerich and seven companions saw a huge, shiny, flying oval-shaped object that reflected the sunlight. It flew from north to south, then changed direction and flew off to the southeast. The UFO was in view for several minutes and was examined through binoculars. Witnesses of the daylight UFO included members of the mountaineering expedition, Mongols, and Buriat lamas. The lamas believed it was the "Sign of Shambala." (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 22; J. Allen Hynek, International UFO Reporter, January 1982, p. 10).
1955, Buzancy, Ardennes, France - At 2:30 p.m. Messrs. Coisin and Mahieu saw five brown, disc-shaped craft come down from the sky and fly back up again at a high rate of speed. One of them flew under the others. Two discs appeared to land 300 meters away near the German cemetery. The others flew away toward the south at tremendous speed. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 250).
1955 - A photograph of a spherical UFO was taken at a school in Anchorage, Alaska by a man named G. Henning. (Sources: Max Miller, Saucers, May 1956, p. 1; J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, Volume 6, 1975, p. 43).
1962 - On a highway between Las Armas and General Pirana, Argentina in Buenos Aires province at 1:45 a.m., Sr. P. Atilli had his truck's engine fail in the presence of a glowing orange, cigar-shaped UFO. The object was 25 meters long and 300 meters away, and gave off flashes of violet and green light. It shot off toward the west.Uriondo Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, December 1972, p. 10; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 19).
1963 - Shortly after midnight in Wayne County, Illinois a car with several teenagers was followed for 10 miles between Wayne City and Mount Vernon by white light. The UFO made a humming sound as it followed them. The car radio went crazy and the engine stalled as the object passed over, and the witnesses felt a sensation of cold when the UFO passed within 100 feet. Multiple independent witnesses. (Sources: Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 179; Flying Saucer Review, November-December 1963, p. 24; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 26).
1967 - At two o'clock in the afternoon three teenagers in Porthmadog near Mount Snowdon, Wales witnessed a metallic, 10-foot long, beer keg-shaped object flying low and hugging the rough terrain in a silent flight up and down the mountains. (Source: FSR, February 1978, p. 30).
1967 - In Duhamel, Alberta, Canada four rings created by pressure from a heavy force or object were found in a pasture and were believed to have been caused by a landed UFO. The smallest measured 31.75 feet in diameter and the largest 36.25 feet. (Source: Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science, Spring 1968, p. 5).
1967 - At 11:30 p.m. two men, Sherven and Bodine, saw a glowing, white flying object head from the west towards the east, north of Sawyer, North Dakota. The UFO was hidden from view by a hill, but suddenly appeared again over the cemetery, came down to ground level, and then sped away to the north. (Sources: NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1967, p. 3; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 864).
1976 - Amidst a series of cattle mutilation incidents, at 4:00 a.m. two workers at the Sterling, Colorado feedlot saw three human-like figures glide over one of the feedlot fences. The ground had been muddy at the time but no footprints were found anywhere near the fence. Source: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1488, citing Dorothy Aldridge, Colorado Springs Gazzette Telegraph).
1976 - At 9:15 a.m. PDT the firelook at Satus Peak on the Yakima Indian Reservation in Washington State again reported seeing mystery ghost lights. (Source: Greg Long
1976 - At ten o'clock in the morning the Chiasson family were driving in the Gaspesie Provincial Park in Quebec when they encountered a thick fog. The vehicle's lights and engine failed, and the car's interior began to feel very hot. A red light beam struck the road in front of car, and it was then that they saw a 40-foot wide, scallop-shell shaped object sitting on legs. The craft had windows, and through the windows they could see seven-foot tall entities inside that had big eyes. (Source: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1634, citing Jean Ferguson).
1993 - In Dunajska Streda, Slovakia about 10 children saw two strange looking humanoids with large cucumber-like heads in a field at 10:30 p.m. They were wearing all silver clothing. They glided over the field and disappeared from sight. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, citing Dr. Milos Jesensk).
1993 - At sometime after two o'clock at night, the daughter of a UFO investigator watched two silent helicopter-shaped craft hover outside her bedroom window in the town of Baca in the San Luis Valley of Colorado. A beam of red light passed from one helicopter to the other. (Source: Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 186).
1997 - Taxi driver Ramon Velazquez Luna had just dropped off a fare at 12:45 a.m. and was driving on the Villa de Reyes highway in San Luis Potosi, Mexico when he began to see whitish orange lights following him. The lights turned off and then appeared this time in front of his taxicab. The lights then disappeared into a nearby field. Approaching the village of Chirimoya, he noticed what appeared to be a "power plant," well lighted, on the side of the road. Confused by their presence, he stopped his cab and noticed that the lights were oval shaped. Quickly a fog-like smoke approached the vehicle, causing him to get scared and drive away. As he drove away he saw a strange vehicle on the side of the road nearby, and it had several large headless dark humanoid figures milling around it. The figures seemed to be signaling Luna to stop his vehicle. When he arrived at his destination he noticed that he had almost three hours he could not account for. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, citing Ruben Manrique, Contacto OVNI).
Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 4 October 2004).
Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database.