1999: January UFO & Alien Sightings

1999: January UFO & Alien Sightings

January 1999 serves as a compelling archive for unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), marked by a diverse array of global reports ranging from “time-slip” experiences in Australia to bizarre entity encounters in Surrey, England. As the world approached the turn of the millennium, these sightings reflected a growing trend in high-profile witness testimony, involving everything from metallic robot-like beings to massive humanoid figures appearing on mountainsides. This collection documents the most notable alien sightings and unexplained events of January 1999, bridging the gap between localized encounters and the broader move toward modern disclosure.

Date:  early 1999
Location: Surrey, England
Time: 2300
Summary: The young witness woke up lying in an unfamiliar room paralyzed, unable to speak and surrounded by thin, greenish looking humanoids with red bulbous eyes. The green humanoid opposite to her was holding something in his hand, that looked small, pink, and meaty, reminded her of what a tumor might look like. She also noticed other “objects” nearby, but she could not make them out. Terrified she tried to scream and move but was unable to. Soon she found herself back in her bedroom. She had trouble sleeping after the experience. (Information discovered later indicated that indeed a tumor had been removed from the witness).
Source: UFOs and Aliens among us

Date: early 1999
Location: England, exact location not given
Time: evening
Summary: Geoff Evans (involved in other encounters) was at work when three beings appeared in front of him, although they appeared in a translucent or spiritual form, it was as if they were almost physical. It was obvious that they wanted him to be aware of what was happening. Standing directly in front of him was a small human looking being and standing by his side were two “grays”. The male human was slightly smaller than the witness and was wearing a white gown. He seemed petite and had long blond hair that came to just above the shoulders. This being raised his hands so that his palms were facing the witness and an intense tingling or energy sensation entered his abdomen and he found himself having an image from somewhere else. It was another female human he had seen during some encounters but she was sitting on a chair in a room talking to someone and looked agitated about something. Then it stopped and he found himself still standing with the three beings. Then they vanished and he was left wondering why he was shown an image of the female alien.
Source: Geoff Evans, Journal of Alternative Realities # 9

Date: early 1999
Location: Sydney, North Shore, Australia
Time:  late night
Summary: Laura woke up one night and attempted to look out her bedroom window. She could usually notice lights on the stairwell of the block of flats across the road, but this night the lights were not visible. There was mist everywhere. Laura wiped a section of the window, as there was condensation on it. She then noticed that a figure was blocking the stairwell lights, a round black ball shape with a vertical band around the center, which protruded out, just hovering there. It was level with her window view, as she looked at it, it moved off to the right. She ran out of her room to the balcony door to open it and get a better look. Laura doesn’t know if she opened the door, apparently she found herself standing in the lounge-room away from the door and wondered what had happened. She immediately went in and checked on her son. She noticed dawn was breaking and wondered where the time had gone; it was pitch back one minute and dawn the next. The next day someone mentioned to her that she had five small evenly spaced holes between her eyes; it took three days for them to go away. After they went away she woke up one day with four evenly spaced holes between her eyes in a square formation. Since this event took place she is having instances of possibly getting out of bed, getting dressed and going places during the night, but doesn’t know for sure.
Source: Karen Burden, AUFORN NSW

Date: January 1999
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Time: late night
Summary: Eva Trent had fallen asleep when she awoke to a buzzing sound. Opening her eyes she was horrified to find two strange creatures standing on either side of her bed. The entity to her right was about 7-8-feet tall, weighed about 300 pounds, had apparently no clothing and seemed to have either crocodile or snake type skin. The creature to her left was identical in appearance but smaller in height and weight. They seemed to be communicating in a chirping manner. Each of the entities eyes glowed. Eva quickly discovered that she was unable to move. As she stared at the two creatures she found that either one or both were giving her instructions telepathically. The nature of this was seemingly for her to create mentally visual scenes of various kinds and then “they” proceeded to distort that particular pleasant scene in a perverse manner. Apparently the creatures were intent not only to observe her emotional reaction, but also possibly to feed off the energy that was produced. After awhile Eva began to mentally resist the mind manipulation and began to pray earnestly. A short time later she fell back to sleep. The next morning the witness found 5 of her music tapes grossly distorted as if extreme heat had been applied. However no evidence of fire or odor was present.
Source: Graham Conway

Date: January 1999
Location: Karlovo, Orlov region, Russia
Time: night
Summary: Several workers among them V Beriozina, a brick plant worker suddenly saw a column of smoke resembling a cloud. As they turned to obtain a better look, the “cloud” changed into the figure of a man of about 2 meters in height wearing a silvery suit. Then a blue light patch appeared under his feet, the figure started moving slowly along it, leaning a bit forward, like a slow motion picture. A crowd began to gather but nobody had the courage to approach it and watched the spectacle from about 50 meters or so. Then another cloud appeared near the man’s figure and a woman’s figure appeared and also began to walk like the man, leaning forward. One of the witnesses turned to notice standing on a nearby coal hill, another figure; different from the first but dress the same. This figure was very much like an old man from the local settlement. Somebody surmised that he had dressed accordingly for a joke. But soon they realized that he stood silently among the crowd of onlookers. Soon all three figures vanished suddenly, rising into the clouds and disappearing in the sky.
Source: NLO Journal # 44, November 1 1999

Date:   January 1999
Location:   Mount Etna, Sicily, Italy
Time:  Night         Duration:  Several minutes
Altitude:  High altitude (mountain slope)   Distance:  Observed from the base of the mountain       Shape: Massive humanoid figure
Features: Appeared as a giant glowing figure walking amidst the volcanic activity.
Summary:  During a period of volcanic unrest, multiple witnesses reported seeing a gargantuan humanoid figure appearing to walk through the lava flows on the slopes of Mount Etna. The figure vanished as suddenly as it appeared, leaving no physical trace.
Source:  International UFO Reporter (IUR)

Date: January 1999
Location: Near Ponce, Puerto Rico
Time: night
Summary: A tall hairy Bigfoot type creature with glowing red eyes came upon a couple in a lovers lane area and telepathically entices or orders a young woman to jump from a nearby cliff of which she does but luckily survives. (Obviously someone or something wanted to cause harm to the young woman, to what end?).
Source: Paranormal Bigfoot, quoting Scott Corrales

Date: January 1999
Location: Near Kokomo, Indiana
Time: night
Summary: Two women were driving on a country road north of Kokomo that was lined with thick, tall bushes. Suddenly one of the witnesses realized that her friend’s face was contorted with fear, and she was silent. She only pointed out the window in front of the car. At this point the vehicle engine shut off and the car was just coasting with the headlights very dim. There was a line on both sides of the road were beings with only their heads and shoulders showing above the 10 ft bushes. They had no features. They did not emit light to illuminate the darkness around them. They were very tall above the bushes and had very wide shoulders and the heads and shoulders were much larger than a human’s. Stunned the witness immediately said, “They want to communicate. I am stopping.” But her friend became violently hysterical at that comment, so they coasted on. The car engine started again once they coasted by the beings. The beings had lined the road on both sides for about 50 ft, or more. One of the women locked herself up in her room for two days and would not talk to anyone after the incident.
Source: UFOs About.com Paranormal Archive

Date:   January 1 1999
Location:  Seoul Korea
Time:  07:30
Summary:  we’re driving to my mother’s house for holiday.. and we saw something in the sky.(we are family) that time , sunrising… and l thought the thing was missile or rocket. but the object is sphere and has long tail(10 times more), one time the light(looks like a fire) cover the object and the object appear again.. that’s not a airplane crash or something.. and that flying in parallel and disappear to north-east.. and I didn’t heard anything about missile or rocket that day.. what was that ? I don’t know..
Source:  National UFO Reporting Center

Date:   January 1 1999
Location:  Puerto Ordaz, Bolivar Venezuela
Time:  01:35
Summary:  It was a light in a rounded shape, high speed , across a big area, we saw the oval shape because of full moon. I have knowledge that the same object was saw a different time in different cities of Venezuela , also somebody took a video and videotape the UFO. Duration: 3 min
Source:  For more information email me at rarraiz@edelca.com.ve my name is CONCETTA FERLA.

Date: January 1 1999
Location: Passa Tempo, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Time: 0200A
Summary: A young girl, Jacqueline Aparecida Silva was coming home after a party and as she approached the front porch she saw a short figure wearing luminous clothing standing in a corridor. It seemed to be wearing a stripe shirt. Terrified she began screaming waking up her neighbors who searched the area but found nothing.
Source: Antonio Faleiro, Brazil

Date: January 1 1999
Location: Cerro De Las Chacarillas, Chile
Time: 0300A
Summary: Approximately 25 witnesses watched a large bright white light that began to grow in size in the middle of the mountain. It turned red and then orange in color and then it transformed itself into two huge figures; that of a man & a woman that were holding hands and appeared to be at least 25 meters in height (A record for humanoid encounters.) They moved down the mountain using movements resembling those of someone walking down a flight of steps. The area has been the site of numerous bizarre light phenomena in the past and present.
Source:Osvaldo Murray, Año Cero

Date:  January 7 1999
Location:  Crawley, West Sussex England
Time: 0600A
Summary: Lindsey Knott reported seeing flash like bursts of lights in her room then finding herself onboard a round object with low continuous windows. She saw control panels located at the center of the craft that were manned by two gray metallic robot-like creatures and two dark hooded beings. She also met the apparent leader, described as human-like, tall, blond shoulder length hair, pale eyes, very pale skin, and wearing a dark blue jump suit. The night after the incident she awoke to find her room very warm and cloying. The air appeared distorted and fuzzy; she also saw more flashes of light. She suffered from headaches, and toothaches after the incident and also felt a little bit paranoid.
Source: UFO Abduction Raw Data Page, UFO Watch

Date:   January 8 1999
Location:  Palmer, Alaska
Time:  22:45
Summary:  At abt. 10:45 PM Alaska;A Flash of light (like a flash from a camera)lighted up the sky; then I would say about a minute after a boom sounded that shook the house. On Jan. 8, 1999 at approx. 10:45 PM (Alaska Time) I had retired to bed and my husband was watching TV downstairs; I noticed a bright Flash through my blinds and I wondered what it was but just shrugged it off as possibly being a big truck with high beams on coming up from the neighbor’s house across the street. At the same time my husband noticed a bright flash that lighted up the whole back yard; he shrugged it off too. Then we both felt that rumbling feeling that you feel with a earth quake and then a big boom like an explosion of some kind. It was so loud it literally shook the house, I yelled; what was that and we looked out the window thinking one of our neighbors houses had blown up! About 11:05 PM the same night my neighbor called and said his daughter called him with a report on the radio that a “Meteor” just crashed at mile 143 on the Parks Hwy. (Heading North); I called some friends in Eagle River, AK. (35 miles from us) and they seen the Flash and felt the Boom Too! My daughter called me and she had just heard on the radio that the State Troopers wanted anyone that could pin-point the impact area to please call them and that they wanted to reassure people that it was not a missile! That’s about it; we’re trying to get some information about it now and no one seems to know anything and it is Now Jan.9,1999 at 9:00AM Duration: 2 min.
Source:  National UFO Reporting Center

Date:   January 8 1999
Location:   Copper Center, Alaska
Time:  22:45
Summary:  Bright white flash covering a larger area in the sky, Driving home from a trip from Anchorage. Clear cloudless night. See above description. I am a retired U of A Asst. Professor
Source:  National UFO Reporting Center

Date:   January 9 1999
Location:  Tijuana Mexico
Time:  02:39
Summary:  A white flash of light moving east to west stopped for one second in the shape of a green rectangle with round corners. Then It proceeded to travel, very quickly, vertically and to the east back into a white flash. The visibility that night was very clear due to a Santa ana condition. While working outside close to the border on the U.S. side, I observed a white flash traveling from the east to west over the southern hills of Tijuana. It looked similar to a meteor. Although, it stopped in the shape of a rectangle with round corners. It had a bright green color emitting from it, but it was also “fuzzy” looking. Then after about a second, it traveled at an angle vertically and to the east back into a white flash. It was very interesting, because I listen to Art Bell and a listener called stating that there was UFO activity in the skies over Tijuana. I disproved that statement due to the fact I work outside near Tijuana and I hadn’t seen a thing. Well, now I think I believe it. I would rather not be exact on what I do or my background. I am a college graduate, military veteran, and a pilot. Duration: 2 to 3 seconds
Source:  National UFO Reporting Center

Date:   January 9 1999
Location:  Cancun Mexico
Time:  22:00
Summary:  there was only one. it could have been a satellite but it slowed down then made a quick change in direction. it was traveling south along the coast of cancun, mexico and then it slowed a bit and started traveling west. then vanished very quickly. i was with 3 other people but it was hard for me to see and i didn’t want to loose it so i didn’t point it out. we were walking along the beach at the same time. i didn’t expect anything out of the ordinary to happen. when it did, it surprised me. but by the time that that happened it was gone. since my story is pretty sketchy i will leave it up to you if you want to contact me.
Source:  National UFO Reporting Center

Date: Jan. 9, 1999
Location: Cava Dei Tirreni, Italy
Time: 10:30 PM.
Summary:  A black disc-shaped object, 10 meters in diameter, hovered over houses in the town. The UFO circled the town twice, then flew away.
Source: Hatch, Larry, *U* computer database

Date:   January 9, 1999
Location: Melbourne VIC, Australia
Time:  21:20
Duration: 5 seconds            Shape:  Triangle             
Summary: UFO type object sighting report – Approx 1 Sep 1999, not 100% when as I didn’t think much about it at the time. I was walking home from work at around 9:40 pm EST Melbourne Australia time. I was walking up Swanston Street toward the train station and an unidentified object streaked across the sky. It was travelling easterly and was like a large yellow ball of flame with a bright blue centre and had a yellow streak of light behind it. It was simply awesome and I have never seen anything like it. No sound was emitted. I have seen falling stars before, but nothing like this. This thing was comparatively huge and had a much lower trajectory.The object was visible for about 5 seconds, heading in an easterly direction. I just happened to mention it to a work college the next day, and amazingly he saw the same object but at a totally different location about 20 miles away. He claimed he also saw its shape after it had burned out its flame and its light grey color. This is the most bizzare observation of a UFO type object I have ever seen. Cheers Dave 9 September 1999
Source:   

Date:   January 13 1999
Location:  Karachi Pakistan
Time:   23:50
Summary:  suddenly i see a silver white lights slip north to south very fast and light is disappeared
Source:  National UFO Reporting Center

Date:   January 15 1999
Location:  Calgary Canada, AB
Time:  17:00
Summary:  We saw the saucer shaped object move slowly across the sky, much slower than an airplane would. Also there was no noise like an airplane would make.
Source:  National UFO Reporting Center

Date:   January 15 1999
Location:  Stevenage, Herts England
Time:  23:57
Summary:  Driving home past railway station . Saw ball of light rise up, travel horizontally for approx 100 yards then unsteadily zig zag until finally rise directly up with fire ‘trailing’ off until disappeared. Myself and my husband were coming home from a party (i had not been drinking!) as we passed parallel to the station i noticed a ball of light rising up. I thought this might be a flare or something similar, then as it moved horizontally, almost in line with the fly over connecting the station to the main side of town , i said to my husband it must be a bike or someone walking across the bridge. I Slowed right down and then it became apparent that the light was above the bridge and much higher than it had first appeared. the light (about the size of a football in relation to us on the ground) then started zigzagging jerkily in a north easterly direction for a further 600 yards (approx) then rose more quickly and disappeared . At this point fire ‘dropped’ away from the base of the ball not large amounts, it was just trailing off for a second before it disappeared.
Source:  National UFO Reporting Center

Date: Jan. 16, 1999
Location: Whitehorse, Yukon
Time: 9:00 PM.
Summary:  A large orange ball of light flew in a zig-zagging motion across the sky and then out of sight.
Source: The 1999 CANADIAN UFO SURVEY, an analysis of UFO reports

Date:  January 19 1999
Location: Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
Time: 0130A                          Duration: Brief/Unknown
Altitude:    Hovering (low level)            Distance:                         Shape: Bright, hovering object
Features: Accompanied by an “undescribed entity” standing next to the craft.
Summary: The lone witness was sleeping when he suddenly woke up to feel a presence. He looked out the window to see a hovering bright object and an undescribed entity standing next to it. No other information.
Source: 1999 Canadian UFO Survey, Quoting UFO BC

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