March 15 th has been designated World Contact Day after an organization called the International Flying Saucer Bureau declared the first World Contact Day On march 1953 . Exactly 60 years later, UFO contact groups once again unite under the same flag on March 15 to internationally and collectevely try and make peaceful contact with extraterrestrial beings. The year 2013 marks 60 years since the first World Contact Day and the World UFO Day organization decided to make World Contact Day a whole week long instead of the usual day to celebrate the fact that it was 60 years ago and Ending with the biggest contact attempt on March 22, ET Contact Day.
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
World Contact Day is also a kind of “unofficial” anniversary of the mysterious “Men in Black,” who appeared to Alfred K. Bender shortly after the first Contact Day in 1953. These strange characters threatened him and told him to stop talking about UFOs, and thus was born the legend of the Men in Black…
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TODAY’S OTHER BIRTHDAYS
- born 15th March 1941 – Mike Love, American musician (The Beach Boys)
- Born 1943 – David Cronenberg, Canadian film actor, director and screenwriter
- Born 15th March 1947 – Ry Cooder, American guitarist and singer
- Born 15th March 1943 – Sly Stone, American musician (Sly & the Family Stone)
- Born 15th March 1952 – Howard Devoto, British musician (Buzzcocks, Magazine, and Luxuria)
- born 15th March 1955 – Dee Snider, American singer (Twisted Sister and Desperado)
- Born 15th March 1963 – Brett Michaels, American musician (Poison)
- born 15th March 1975 – will.i.am (William James Adams Jr.), American rapper, producer, and actor (The Black Eyed Peas)
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