Jan. 3, 1496: Leonardo da Vinci tests a flying machine
(unsuccessfully).
Jan. 3, 1892: J. R. R. Tolkein born in South Africa.
Jan. 3, 1907: Actor Ray Milland born in Wales. His notable
weird films include The Uninvited (1944), Panic in Year Zero! (1962), X: The
Man with the X-ray Eyes (1963), Daughter of the Mind (1969), Frogs (1972), The
Thing with Two Heads (1972), Terror in the Wax Museum (1973), Escape to Witch
Mountain (1975), Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby (1976), The Uncanny
(1977), Cruise into Terror (1978), Battlestar Galactica (1978), The Darker Side
of Terror (1979), The Attic (1980), Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land
(1983), Sherlock Holmes and the Masks of Death (1984), and The Sea Serpent
(1984).
Jan. 3, 1924: British Egyptologist Howard Carter finds
sarcophagus of Tutankhamun.
Jan. 3, 1924: The first missing persons alert is telecast in
New York City.
Jan. 3, 1948: A disc-shaped object crosses the sky over the
coast of Vaasa, Finland.
Jan. 3, 1958: Witnesses report a UFO sighting at Old
Westbury, Long Island, N.Y.
Jan. 3, 1966: A U.S. Army colonel deemed an expert on
missiles and rockets watches several bright UFOs maneuvering over Los Altos,
Calif., at an estimated 1,000-1,200 miles per hour.
Jan. 3, 1967: Motorists report losing control of their car
when a dome-shaped UFO hovers overhead, at New Richmond, Indiana.
Jan. 3, 1975: Dr. Harley Rutledge and his wife report a
brief nocturnal sighting of a semi-convex, self-illuminated with a dim yellow
light on top at Cape Girardeau, Mo.
Jan. 3, 1979: Shortly before midnight, a couple driving
through fog near Mindalore, South Africa, see a gray cone-shaped craft with
four legs standing beside the roadway. The report that five or six 1.5-meter-tall
humanoids dressed in white coveralls emerged from the craft, made high-pitched
vocalizations, then reentered the UFO and flew off with a "buzzing
sound."
Jan. 3, 1979: While driving on Okeechobee Road north of
Miami, Florida, Filiberto Cardenas and three friends suffer sudden engine
failure. Cardenas and another man exit the car in time to see a large luminous
UFO descending, whereupon they suffer "lost time."
Jan. 3, 1984: Three women in Port Washington, Wis., watch an
ovoid UFO with three visible portholes flying low over Lake Michigan.
Jan. 3, 1988: Several "very bright lights" in the
sky pace a car driving through Grimsby, England, for nine minutes, then shoot
straight up and out of sight at high speed.
Jan. 3, 1989: Disgraced televangelists Jim and Tammy Bakker
return to TV in the U.S., miraculously forgiven by thousands of viewers whom
they earlier bilked for millions of dollars.
January 3, 1994: A cone-shaped UFO approaches a house in
Ecouis, France, shining a light on the dwelling before it flies off to the
southeast.
Jan. 3, 1998: Several "cyclops-looking" humanoids
disembark from a delta-shaped UFO in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, snatching a pet parrot from the yard of a
private residence.
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