1969: April UFO & Alien Sightings

Date: April or May 1969
Location: Gulf of Mexico
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Summary: The event occurred while the “British Grenadier” was sailing through the Gulf of Mexico. The UFO (like an arrowhead) appeared directly above the ship at exactly noon on the first day. It just seemed to appear as nobody saw it arrive and it remained above the ship for the next 3 days. E-M effects
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Date: April 1969
Location: Bonar Spain
Time: Late afternoon
Summary: An unknown shepherd from a nearby town saw an object like an inverted plate at very low level.
Source: Ballester 1976 p24 case 108 citing David Lopez
Evaluation; Appears to be only a rumour

Date: April 1969
Location: Bath Ohio
Time: Morning
Summary: Children coming into school saw a white light in the sky as they got off their school bus. The light was still there at break time, moving about. The children were later told to stay indoors as the school principal and superintendent had seen the object land. Three marks were found in the field.
Source: Swords 2005 p75 citing John Timmerman

Date: April 1969
Location: Bossburg Washington
Time:
Summary: A woman saw and reported to the police two large bipeds by the trash cans at the corner of the Williams Lake Road and the Bossburg-Newport Highway.
Source: Green 1973 p204
Evaluation: Untraced anonymous report

Date: April 1969
Location: Washington
Time: 1100
Summary: Mrs Betty Peterson of Kettle Falls was driving south on Highway 395 when a black bipedal creature came over the bank as if from the river and crossed the road. It was accompanied by a similar but shorter creature. Both, however, appeared to be over 2m tall.
Source: Green 1973 p205

Date: April 1969
Location: Lake Ribbon Creek Canada
Time: 1200
Summary: Three men out camping saw, about 100m away, a creature like a gorilla sat on its haunches. After about 5 minutes the thing got up, its teeth chattering, and walked away on two legs.
Source: Steenburg 1993 p113 citing John Green

Date: April 1969
Location: Balizac France
Time: late night
Summary: The witness was sleeping alone in a room with a fireplace and recalls suddenly awaking and seeing several short white figures standing near the fireplace. She hid under the covers. The next morning she woke up and found a peculiar injury or scar on her ankle. No other information.
Source: Joel Mesnard, Mufon Journal # 309

Date: April 1 1969
Location: West Hope North Dakota
Time: 2100
Summary: Rosemary Lee and others saw an object with a greater angular diameter than the full moon. It was red in flight but yellow while hovering and landing. It was the shape of a large light bulb, 3m long, 2.5m wide and gave off yellow flames from the centre of its base. The chief of police and an investigator went to the area next day where they found plastic looking strips lying on the snow in a tear drop fashion. Material when placed in a jar turned to a paper like substance. They were originally covered with a slimy substance which also soaked between 20-30 cm into the snow. The material and photos of the site were sent to NICAP.
Source: Phillips 1975 p64 case 660 citing CUFOS citing Vince Conway
Evaluation: Crash of a hot air balloon)

Date: April 3, 1969
Location: Southern UK
Time: 7:38 P.M.
Summary: Bright fireball meteor traveling south-southeast to north-northwest, leaving long trail, sparks.
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Date: April 4 1969
Location: MoretonHampstead England
Time: 0400
Summary: Mr Hunter, a university librarian and his wife Gemma, a publicity executive, were driving through the moorland mist about 800m from Moretonhampstead, travelling from Exeter to Yelverton along a winding road when saw lights, like car headlights, coming straight towards them at high speed. Fearing a collision the couple pulled over and their car landed in a ditch. No car passed them and when they tried to restart the battery was flat. A garage mechanic who examined the battery said it appeared to be have been drained off all its energy.
Source: Green 1973 p63

Date: April 4 1969
Location: Thurlaston England
Time: 2245
Summary: Mr and Mrs Neale had just gone to bed when they saw a very white “star” low on the horizon, through their bedroom window. It was pulsating irregularly and moving up and down. Mrs Neale went to the window for a better view and looking down and to the right saw a stationary, bright red, domed object, taller than it was wide, somewhat resembling a pillar box,. It appeared to be on the ground about 220m away. Mrs N returned to bed and they both sat watching the star for 30 seconds, when they saw the red object rising into the sky at 15 degrees elevation to the south east, soon becoming lost to view beyond the window. It then had the appearance of a slightly elongated triangle, the smaller angle ahead in flight. Immediately the bright star disappeared to the south-west at very high speed, disappearing from view in 2-3 seconds at level height. No traces were found.
Source: UFOlog 58 p2 citing investigation by the Stratford on Avon UFO Group

Date: April 5 1969
Location: Near West Nyack New York
Time: 1900
Summary: The two witnesses were parked in a remote area when they saw a light approach; they got out of the car and saw a large oval shaped craft with lights around its edge and a beam of light shining from its center. A memory lapse occurred, with one witness vaguely recalling the object landing and shining a beam of light towards them. Later one of the witnesses remembered being inside a circular room lying on a white Formica table. He was surrounded by several humanoids described as being five-foot tall with play gray skin, large round heads, and large black eyes, these beings were well built and wore tight fitting gray green coveralls. One being who appeared to be the examiner wore a turtleneck garment and peered intently into the witness face. At one point one of the witnesses remembered struggling and thought it felt that he had been ripped to pieces and then reassembled again.
Source: Thomas E Bullard, UFO Abductions The Measure of A Mystery

Date: April 10 1969
Location: Ouro Preto Minas Gerais Brazil
Time: 2200
Summary: During a spate of UFO observations in various parts of Brazil, student Marco Antonio von Kruger noticed interference on his TV; glancing out a window, he saw a “vague shape in movement” and heard garbage cans being overturned; next day, he found the garbage cans had been “investigated.” At about the same time, a worker returning to his home not far from the student’s residence observed an enormous round object hovering near the ground from which were emitted “strange measured, muffled sounds.”
Source: FSR Case Histories # 6

Date: April 12 1969
Location: Between Bridgeworth & Shrewsbury England
Time: 1830
Summary: A ex-schoolmistress, exercising her dog in some fields, observed on the far side of a hedge, a top-shaped object about 3 meters high, which was resting on gray colored legs. Around the object she saw 3 beings about the size of 11-year old children; they had pear shaped heads, were dressed in black outfits with white belts, and appeared to lack hands. Nevertheless, they seemed to be collecting samples, which they placed on the side of the object; the samples seemed to disappear into the solid craft. The woman’s dog fled at the outset of the sighting.
Source: Roger Stanway & Anthony Pace

Date: April 14, 1969
Location: Hill City, KS
Time: 2330
Summary: Edwin H Bohl Jnr of Logan was driving, with his family on US24 east of Hill City when they saw an object with multi-coloured lights come down to within 25m of the highway at 45 degree angle from his car. The car engine died and they sat there for three minutes as the object hung in silence and then moved away slowly and soundlessly to the east, following the highway towards Stockton.
Source: Ulysses, Kans., News, April 24, 1969; CUFOS report, dated as April 19

Date: April 15 1969
Location: Pichidangui Chile
Time: 2300
Summary: 6km from this town a man saw a sort of melon-shaped object on the ground. It gave off a light, which was violet at first and then turned white. His car’s engine and electrical system failed.
Source: Jacques Bonabot citing LDLN 118 p6 citing Pablo Petrowitsch

Date: April 16 1969
Location: Paradise California
Time: 2355
Summary: Robert L Behme of Magalia, a writer and photographer, was driving between Paradise and Stirling City through a thickly wooded area when, as they rounded a curve, their lights caught what looked like a man in a fur suit crossing the road ahead. The figure turned toward the car and then walked off into the woods with a limp. It appeared to be over 1.8m tall, covered with short black hair with white patches and a blurry white, hairless face. Mrs Behme returned to the site the next day but there were no traces.
Source: Byrne 1975 p55 citing letter from Mrs Behme to George Haas

Date: April 19 1969
Location: Hill City Kansas
Time: Evening
Summary: Two people saw a multi-coloured at a location 8km east of here. As the thing came within 30m of their car, the vehicle’s engine failed. The thing hovered at 25m altitude for three minutes and then moved slowly away, after which the car started without trouble.
Source: Rodeghier 1981 p46 citing CUFOS files

Date: April 1969
Location: HARWOOD ISLAND(NEW SOUTH WALES : AUSTRALIA
Time: 1930
Summary: A woman out walking saw and heard a patch of sugar cane rustling violently, though there was no wind. A powerful beam of light swept the area, and when it hit the witness, she felt as though she was being lifted off the ground towards the source of the beam. The light then went out and she found herself still on the ground. She now saw that the beam had come from a helmet shaped object about 15m away, hovering 60cm above the 1,2m tall cane. The thing had a shiny grey surface, and portholes from which a mixture of pale yellow, pinkish red and green light shone, illuminating its surface. From its top came a thin smoke trail. The cane movement had now become gentle, but less than a minute later the agitation became violent again, there was a whistling sound and the thing just disappeared. at 2000hrs. a woman and her daughter fishing downstream from the Harwood Bridge saw a brilliant red light with a whitish trail hovering above the bridge. After a few seconds it just disappeared. The first witness thought that the corn was flattened by the event but did not verify this.
Source: Chalker 1996 p125 Basterfield 1981 p94 :citing investigation by Bill Chalker

Date: April 20 1969
Location: Itaucu, Goias, Brazil
Time: afternoon
Summary: 25-year old Adelino Roque was on his way to the local Serradinho ranch on his horse when suddenly a bright beam of light originating from somewhere above struck him. Soon he found himself inside what appeared to be a dark drum-like object totally silent and moving at what appeared to be a very excessive speed through the sky. He could not remember anything after that and woke up next to he River Paranaiba lying on top of rock and miles from his original location. Meanwhile his horse had been found earlier tied up at another ranch, apparently unharmed. Roque also appeared to be unharmed except for a strange bruise on his side. He did not remember seeing any entities or hearing any one talking to him during the time he had been gone. Soon after this experience, Roque began neglecting his work and began drinking heavily and apparently fell in love with his 17-year old niece. A month later Roque again was reported missing this time along with his niece. On June 12, both Roque and his niece were found dead under unusual circumstances, some said apparently poisoned.
Source: Willy Silva, Revista Brasileira Ovni

Date: April 20 1969
Location: SOUTH WAYNE WISCONSIN
Time: 2300
Summary: Robert and Wilma Phillips were driving to their home near South Wayne along State 11 from Monroe when, as they rounded a turn in the road, they noticed a bright yellow-orange light in the sky to their right, about 800m away. They stopped. They stopped to watch and the object moved down to within 30m of their car. The thing appeared to be shaped like an inverted ice cream cone, but as it came closer, they saw the cone was a stream of bright lights coming from a kettle drum shaped contraption, 6m diameter, 3-3.5m thick. Through the open window of their car they could hear a high pitched sound above the croaking of the frogs. The couple began to cautiously drive away and as they did so, the object tilted so that its flat top moved to the front, becoming somewhat deeper as it did so and it began to follow them from a distance of 30m from the road to their right and at an altitude of 6m. It continued to follow them for 6.5km. When they reached the drive of their farm they decided to keep on driving, so as not to attract the thing to their farm where their four teenage and two small children were. They proceeded to the outskirts of South Wayne village, where the object stopped, turned and moved up and away to the north, disappearing in seconds. The experience lasted 10 to 15 minutes. Though they encountered no other cars during the period of the close encounter, several people saw the object as it left the area.
Source: Geneva Saalsaa in Flying Saucers 65 p7

Date: April 21 1969
Location: RIO DE JANEIRO BRAZIL
Time:
Summary: A large number of people, including physician Dr Decio N Perez saw three intensely luminous objects spinning very rapidly and very low over the point where the Rio-Petropolis motorway joined the Avenida do Brasil.
Source: Walter Buhler in FSR Case Histories 6 p12 citing O Dia 22 April 1969

Date: April 21 1969
Location: PENARANDA SPAIN
Time: 2200
Summary: Pablo Jimenez Sanchez, a trader, and his wife Nemesia were driving between Penaranda and Macotera on their way to Valladolid, when they saw three lights on the ground to the right of the highway. One was a very powerful intermittent light and the other two were green. They were located on the extremities of an object 20m wide. When they got within 65m of the object they stopped and switched off their lights, at which the object rose up at great speed and in 10 seconds travelled some 8km, where it disappeared into the rain. Pablo was described as “balanced, sincere and extrovert”.
Source: Ballester 1976 p24 case 109 citing investigation by the Charles Fort Group

Date: April 22 1969
Location: Hammond Canada
Time: 2030
Summary: A defence department employee, who did not want his name to be used, was driving along a deserted section of the Russell Road, with his wife and 15 year old son, in a rainstorm when they saw an object in a field. It was 1.5m above the ground, about 60m away. They stopped the car and saw the thing take off across a 20 acre field of swamp and bush and hover above the high tension wires, rising and falling with them. It was a pinkish coloured disc shaped object surmounted by a cupola, about 10m in diameter, with two huge spotlights, which lit up the fields, and many windows through which red lights could be seen. The object then left and wires and moved over the car, lighting it up like day and emitting a heavy humming sound. The family dog, which was sat on the floor of the car, leapt up into the seat in terror.
Source: Saucers, Space and Science 56 p9 + UFO Investigator IV, 11 p4 both citing Ottawa Citizen 24 April 1969 citing investigation by Dr Bruce McIntosh
Bray 1979 p22 citing Case N6910941 National Research Council list of Non-Meteoric Sightings
UFO Chronicle 3 p16 citing an unspecified issue of Topside

Date: April 23, 1969
Location: Silver Spring, MD
Time:
Summary: Dogs, cats and horses reacted to object
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Date: April 24 1969
Location: Berwick Nova Scotia Canada
Time: night
Summary: There were several reports of a “phantom” 18 ft tall, “a tall, very dark form,” either walking or floating about at 20 mph. large numbers of cars were assembling at Berwick to observe the monster. No other information.
Source: Humcat, quoting newspaper source

Date: April 24 1969
Location: GREENACRE (NEW SOUTH WALES : AUSTRALIA
Time: 1930
Summary: A woman and her 11 year old daughter were taking a taxi past Roberts Park, when their attention was caught by a large light 30m above the ground. They got the taxi driver to stop and they got out. The light came from an object like two soup bowls rim to rim, 10m in diameter, with a steady red light on top. In a transparent front section, illuminated by a blue glow, they could see a humanoid figure operating some controls, a second was pointing at them, and a third seemed to be walking towards a back door. All were wearing black tight fitting clothing which appeared to cover their faces. The taxi driver seemed terrified and insisted that they were only watching the floodlights. He drove them to a taxi rank and then drove off before they could pay their fare. Investigators were unable to trace him. A group of boys playing under floodlights in the park seemed to be oblivious of the craft’s presence.
Source: Chalker 1996 p126
Basterfield 1997 p 169 citing David Reneke + UFO Research New South WalesNewsletter 31
Basterfield 1980 p40 case 36 cites above

Date: April 26 1969
Location: IBIUNA (SAO PAULO : BRAZIL
Time: 0430
Summary: Mareal Robler, an industrialist, was driving down the main Ibiuna-Sao Paulo Road when, as he came down a hill and round a bend to the railway bridge at km48, he was amazed to see, standing on the ground between a small general store and the deserted police post, an object about 4m in diameter. :The thing’s lower part was a bright luminous blood red, and was shaped like the inverted base of a slightly tapering cone. On top of this was a dome with a sort of metallic looking frame cutting it into four pieces, which gave off a brilliant light, preventing Mareal seeing anything inside. This light, however, did not illuminate the surroundings at all. Very alarmed Mareal drove off. When he reached Sao Paulo he found that his brand new Rolex Oyster watch had stopped at the time he had passed the object and the watchmaker said it had subject to an intense electromagnetic field.
Source: Hans Bemelmans in FSR 16,1 p17

Date: April 26 1969
Location: Calgary Alberta Canada
Time: evening
Summary: David Arychuk, walking his dog, saw 200 yards away a circular object with 3 pulsating red lights around the top. It was about 30 ft in diameter and 20 ft high, cream-colored with a pitted surface. A rather nauseating smell, of “sweet bitterness” was in the air. 100 yards away were 2 beings, “taller than normal,” in dark clothing. David yelled out “Hey you,” and they walked around the UFO. The dog refused to go on, and was shivering from fright. By the time David brought his stepfather, the UFO was gone, but the odor was still present the next day.
Source: William K Allan

Date: April 27 1969
Location: TABER (ALBERTA : CANADA
Time: 0200
Summary: Randy Russell (17) and three other boys were driving home to their farms with the radio on when a bright, glaring, white light, with a yellow aura ,appeared above the treetops. The thing became V shaped as it swooped down to the road, hesitated for a moment as it reached the truck and then veered off to the east-north-east, leaving a vapour trail. They could detect an unusual nauseating odour but there were no other traces.
Source: Saucers, Space and Science 56 p14

Date: April 28 1969
Location: FARNWORTH near BOLTON (LANCASHIRE now GREATER MANCHESTER : ENGLAND
Time: Evening
Summary: Elaine H (13) of Little Hulton was exercising her dog on Plodder Lane, a dried up stream bed by the side of the Golf Course, accompanied by her boyfriend Peter R when they saw a circular object, large enough to hold a man, with three red lights on top and a green one on the side. The thing was emitting a buzzing noise. It appeared to land on the golf course. The dog became terrified and the couple began to walk away and as they did so, a second, similar, object passed overhead silently at higher altitude. Other dogs in the area began to howl and whine. Police were informed but nothing was found. When investigators met Elaine she refused to go to the area and would not go out at night at all. Peter refused to meet the investigators at all.
Source: FSR 18,1 p27 citing Bolton Evening News 29 April 1969 Investigation by Arthur Tomlinson and Bill Skellon