Encounters with Aliens on this Day
April 26
1948 - A flying humanoid was spotted on this morning in St. Louis, Missouri and reported to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper by a Mrs. Dolezal. (Sources: St. Louis Post Dispatch, April 26, 1948; Kansas City Star, April 29, 1948).
1954 - What first appeared to be a flaming ring made sharp turns
in the sky over a school in Newburyport, Massachusetts at around
3:30 p.m. It resolved into a solid silver, disc-shaped object with a dark
center and protruding top. It made an intense roaring sound that lasted
five seconds. It left a bright white tail in descent, and flew off rapidly
to the southeast. At 8:35 p.m. 15 balls of light in a V-formation buzzed a
University of Georgia professor of aeronautics and four other witnesses in
Athens, Georgia. (Sources: (1) Richard Hall, The UFO
Evidence (Volume 1), p. 66; UNICAT database, case 773, citing Project
Blue Book; (2) Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics,
case 2983; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple
UFO, p. 59; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: January-May,
p. 79).
1959 - Luis Da Silva had seen a red colored disc in the sky before he went to bed in Sao Paulo, Brazil and when he awoke at midnight he felt a compulsion to go out into his garden, where he found a note telling him to return the next night at 1:30 a.m. He did so, and a circular UFO appeared at a low altitude, perhaps 100 meters. He felt paralyzed and unable to move. In a spiral a man descended from the UFO but did not quite touch the ground. He wore a helmet and was clad in plastic looking clothing, with gloves that looked transparent like glass. He told Da Silva to return again on Thursday at 2:05 a.m. and then re-ascended in a spiral to his craft. On Thursday the same sequence of events occurred, but this time three entities descended, one at a time. The last of these asked Da Silva for a sheet of paper, and he inscribed upon it a message consisting of undecipherable markings. (Source: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1959-07, citing Dr Walter Buhler, SBEDV).
1964 - An interesting photograph was taken this day in Burgh le
Marsh, Cumbria, England. A Mr. Templeton took a photograph of a
little girl holding a nosegay of flowers in the early afternoon. Not seen
at the time was what appears to be the image of a man standing behind her,
dressed in a white spacesuit. (Sources: Flying Saucer Review,
November-December 1964, p. 11; Gordon Creighton, FSR,
September-October 1970, p. 29).
1964 - At 12:30 p.m. Orlando Gallegos observed a bright, metallic, egg-shaped object about 70 meters away, on the ground, north of La Madera, New Mexico. Blue flames appeared to circle the base of the machine, which was silent and about the length of a telephone pole. Scorch marks and four imprints were found, according to Police Capt. Martin Vigil. Also on the same day, a thirty-foot wide silver, inverted bathtup-shaped UFO was sighted near Truth of Consequences, New Mexico by a Mr. Mitropolis. It was seen a quarter of a mile to the east, flew up over a mountain, then down out of sight near the Caballo Reservoir. (Sources: (1) Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 598; NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1964, p. 5; (2) Flying Saucers, June 1965, p. 10).
1966 - A young man was driving his car in Follansbee, West Virginia at 11:30 p.m. when he saw a silent UFO shaped like two bowls glued together. It flew at 30 meters altitude, ahead of his car. He estimated the diameter of the object at 10 meters. He drove away as quickly as he could without looking back. (Source: Jacques Vallee: Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 766).
1967 - At 8:30 p.m. a Miss Roberts of St. Catherines,
Ontario saw a blindingly red object ascend into the sky, then turn
a green color. It next shot beams of light at a dog on the ground, and
made an exit with erratic maneuvers. In nearby Waterloo, Ontario at
9:00 p.m. a Mr. Dorscht saw an oil-drum shaped cylinder descend from the
sky, extend six legs, and then land on his farm. The 1.5 meter tall object
left behind six landing imprints in the ground after it departed.
(Sources: (1) NICAP UFO Investigator, June 1967, p. 3; Richard H.
Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 337;
(2) Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings,
case 837, Ted R. Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO
Sightings, case 272).
1969 - On this evening David Arychuk was out walking his dog in Calgary, Alberta when he saw a circular object with three pulsating red lights around the top, 200 yards away from him. The UFO was about 30 feet in diameter and 20 feet high, and cream-colored with a pitted surface. He smelled a rather nauseating odor of "sweet bitterness" that was in the air. One hundred yards away stood two humanoid beings, "taller than normal," wearing dark clothing. David yelled out "Hey you!" and they walked around behind the UFO. His dog refused to go on and was shivering from fright. By the time David came back to the site with his stepfather the UFO was gone, but the odor was still present the next day. (Sources: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-44, citing investigator William K. Allan; John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants and Critters, p. 49).
1969 - Sr. Robler's watch stopped when he drove his car under a
luminous red, cone-shaped UFO on a highway between Ibiuna and Sao Paulo,
Brazil in Sao Paulo State at 4:30 a.m. (Sources: Hans Bemelmens,
FSR, January-February 1970, p. 17; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA
Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 52).
1974 - Forty-one year old Oscar Patero failed to return from a short business trip that he embarked upon on this day. Five or six days later he was found rain soaked and covered with ticks on a thousand foot mountain near Colatina in the state of Espiritu Santo, Brazil, which was over 900 kilometers from his home. He said that a light appeared at around 11:30 p.m. just before he crossed a bridge while driving between Catanduva and Julio de Mesquita, Sao Paulo, Brazil. In fact, his car was found there. Under hypnosis he revealed that he had been taken aboard a UFO and been given a physical exam, but he resisted giving any further details except to say that a tall, fair-haired and blue-eyed young man was one of the aliens. The man was described as about 5 feet 8 inches tall with a small nose and small ears. He revealed that this was actually his second UFO encounter, because he had given a ride to this same individual previously on the night of his first encounter. (Sources: Gordon Creighton, FSR, November 1975, p. 15, citing O Dia, May 29, 1974; Jenny Randles, Time Storms: Amazing Evidence for Time Warps, Space Rifts, and Time Travel, p. 81; Irene Granchi, UFO Abductions and Reports from Brazil, p. 171; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1320, citing Walter Buhler; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 186B).
1975 - A UFO dove at spectators who had stopped to watch it
along the side of a highway in Gerena, Sevilla, Spain, causing the
witnesses to panic. The six witnesses got back into their cars and drove
away, but were chased for two miles. The red, elongated or ovoid object
came so close that the drivers were dazzled by the light. When they pulled
into a filling station for santuary the light finally shot off rapidly to
the east. The incident lasted approximately eight minutes. (Sources:
Charles Bowen, Saga UFO Report, December 1976, p. 80, citing I.
Darnaude; Lumieres dans la Nuit, April 1976).
1984 - At around 11:00 a.m. a humanoid wearing an odd helmet was seen in the woods west of Macomer, Sardinia, Italy by two children. There was an odd silence that permeated the encounter, which lasted only a couple of minutes. A disc-shaped object rose from the forest floor, then flew off to the east-northeast. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 14138, citing CISU).
1985 - A shiny sphere was sighted over a farm near Gomoab, Namibia, Africa at around 8 p.m. The next morning a 15-meter deep well was found dry. (Source: Cynthia Hind, UFO Afri News, July 1991).
1992 - At 1:30 a.m. a green glowing disc-shaped object, ringed
with portholes and estimated to be 100 meters in diameter, was sighted
flying over the residential area of Macae, Rio de Janeiro State,
Brazil. It made a sonic boom as it flew off toward the east.
(Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, cse 15714, citing Causistica
Brasileira de 1992, issue # 8).
2000 - At around 2:00 a.m. several residents living on the slopes of a hill in Tocopilla, Antofagasta Province, Chile saw a strange looking entity climb rapidly up the side of a steep hill. It moved up a practically vertical cliff using reptilian like movements, and seemed to expand as if it possessed dark wing-like membranes on its back, which may have helped propell it up the cliff. Once it reached the summit witnesses began hearing strange growling and screeching sounds coming from the top. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case HC # 3644, citing Paranigma Chile).
2004 - A very fast, low flying cigar-shaped object with four
diamond shapes on the bottom was seen flying over Longmont,
Colorado at 9:00 p.m. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO
Reporting Center, April 2004 archived webpage).
Written by Donald
A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 22 April 2007).
Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database.