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| [On This Day]                                                         |
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|  Encounters with Aliens on this Day                                   |
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|  December 19                                                          |
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| 1954 – UFOs shot through the sky over Vienna, Austria. There were     |
| many reports including several from police witnesses. (Source:        |
| Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 122).                   |
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| 1954 – On the same night in Cartaya, Huelva Province, Spain a         |
| circular craft landed 50 meters away from two witnesses. As the       |
| witnesses walked towards it the UFO rose up to a very high altitude   |
| and flew away toward Portugal, making a great deal of noise. (Source: |
| Newspaper clipping dated December 20, 1954).                          |
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| 1954 – At eleven o’clock in the evening Mr. Parra, an 18-year-old     |
| resident of Valencia, Venezuela watched a disc-shaped UFO land and    |
| six three foot tall humanoids disembarked and set about collecting    |
| vegetation samples. When he attempted to approach he was paralyzed.   |
| The UFO left behind ground traces. (Source: Newspaper clipping dated  |
| December 21, 1954).                                                   |
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| 1962 – Verbania, Italy. At 7:15 a.m. three men in a boat saw two      |
| classic-shaped discoid objects fly over the lake known as Lago        |
| Maggiore at only 20 meters altitude. The UFOs rose vertically and     |
| flew off. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of  |
| Landings, case 555).                                                  |
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| 1969 - In 1969 a car with its male driver was lifted up off the highway for  |
| a short distance in Quincy, Illinois (Source: Skylook, May 7, 1971).  |
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| 1969 – In Saddle River, New Jersey police officers watched several    |
| pairs of UFOs fly over slowly from the west to the east at 11 o’clock |
| at night. They viewed the lighted objects through binoculars. They    |
| described the UFOs as having an X-shaped arrangement of lights on the |
| bottom. (Source: Data-Net Report, March 1970, p. 11, citing Ringwood  |
| Herald).                                                              |
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| 1973 – A famous well-investigated close encounter of the third kind   |
| report occurred on this night in Vilvoorde, Belgium. A 28-year-old    |
| man awoke at 2:00 a.m. and saw in the yard behind his house a short   |
| entity about 1.1 meters tall dressed in a luminous green space suit   |
| and helmet. The being carried a device with a long handle and a base  |
| that looked similar to a vacuum cleaner. He walked up the side of a   |
| wall. The domed disc UFO was about six meters in diameter, and had an |
| insignia shaped like a black circle with a diagonal lightning flash   |
| through it. (Source: Jean-Luc Vertongen, FSR, April 1975, p. 13,      |
| citing Inforespace).                                                  |
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| 1973 – At 11:00 p.m. later that night two large square objects        |
| hovered, maneuvered, and made a loop in the sky over Charmeil         |
| Airport, France. They flew away and came back briefly, then left      |
| going toward the east. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 136).    |
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| 1973 – Red and blue lights moved through the sky, stopped, and then   |
| reversed direction abruptly over the city of Grand Island, Nebraska   |
| at 9:45 p.m. local time. On the same night a photograph of a UFO was  |
| taken in Chilton, Texas. (Sources: (1) Elmer Kral, MUFON field        |
| investigation files, report dated December 19, 1973; (2) J. Bernard   |
| Delair, UFO Register (Volume 5), 1974, case 1144, citing Saga UFO     |
| Report).                                                              |
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| 1976 – At two o’clock in the morning in Bourke, New South Wales,      |
| Australia. Mr. Mann, 26-years-old, suffered lasting physiological     |
| effects from a UFO. (Source: Australian Centre for UFO Studies, case  |
| investigation files, report dated April 7, 1978)                      |
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| 1976 – On this night in Salters Point, Western Australia two men,     |
| Brennan and Gibbs, heard a whirring sound and then sighted a two-foot |
| wide disc-shaped UFO that flew behind a house at only 30 feet         |
| altitude. It then shot away toward the west. (Source: International   |
| UFO Reporter, February 1977, p. 2).                                   |
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| 1976 – At 6:20 p.m. in Concord, California a 53-year-old man sighted  |
| a nocturnal light zigzagging toward the north, then circle and        |
| reverse direction. It moved at a slow speed at first, then sped up,   |
| and finally shot away to the west. (Source: J. Allen Hynek Center for |
| UFO Studies, case investigation files, December 1976).                |
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| 1978 - In Montebello di Bertona, Italy at 6:00 a.m. a single witness  |
| reported that a UFO shaped like a cylindrical “space capsule” landed  |
| and then lifted off again. It had rotating lights. (Source: Lumieres  |
| dans la Nuit, issue 216).                                             |
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| 1978 - At 6:00 a.m. local time a silver wing-shaped UFO hung over     |
| Flattop Mountain south of Alamosa, Colorado for about three hours. It |
| was viewed through binoculars and seen by several Mountain Bell       |
| Telephone employees. (Source: Alamosa Valley Courier, December 20,    |
| 1978).                                                                |
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| 1979 – At 7:00 a.m. a white, egg-shaped UFO—one meter in              |
| diameter—landed in an upright orientation in a yard in Lunel, France. |
| It was then seen moving down the driveway at ground level by three    |
| witnesses. That same night southwest of Gainesville, Florida a large  |
| bright disc chased a car down a road, hovered over a house, then shot |
| away at a high rate of speed heading south. (Sources: Lumieres dans   |
| la Nuit, April 1980; MUFON UFO Journal, March 1980).                  |
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| 1981 – At 8:10 p.m. two witnesses in Oliveto Lucano, Italy saw a      |
| two-meter wide spinning luminous ball of light fly over a church at   |
| 20 meters altitude and move off behind some buildings in the town.    |
| (Source: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Italian UFO Catalogue).               |
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| 1981 – That same night at 10 p.m. in Aguas Claras, Brazil a car was   |
| stalled by a UFO. A bullet shaped UFO sat on the roadway in front of  |
| the stalled car. It rose up, then came back and followed the car into |
| town. There were two witnesses in the car and other independent       |
| witnesses to the event. (Sources: MUFON UFO Journal, February 1987;   |
| Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #13812).                       |
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| Early in the afternoon on this date in 1996 a silver gray metallic    |
| object struck the top of a Boeing-757 cockpit belonging to a Chinese  |
| Southern Airlines aircraft on a flight between Beijing and Wuhei,     |
| China cracking the outer windshield. The plane made an emergency      |
| landing. (Sources: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p.   |
| 48, citing J. Trainor, UFO Roundup).                                  |
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| 1998 – On this night a roaring sound awoke a man in Stra, Italy to    |
| the close presence outside his home of a bright aerial object with    |
| several windows. The UFO was about 10 meters in diameter. Two         |
| three-foot tall beings were seen outside the craft. They wore gray    |
| coveralls and moved in a mechanical manner. Landing traces found at   |
| the site consisted of a circle with three holes arranged in an        |
| equilateral triangle. The sides of the triangle were 4.1 meters in    |
| length. (Source: Ted R. Phillips, case investigation files, C005,     |
| citing M. Verga).                                                     |
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| 1999 – On this night in Copenhagen, Denmark a large, red, luminous    |
| bowl-shaped UFO with a tail like a parabola flew across the sky from  |
| the northwest to the southeast in 3 minutes. (Source: UFO Magazine    |
| (USA), March 2000, p. 17).                                            |
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| 2001 – A four minute long videotape was shot at 1:20 p.m. in          |
| Nezahualcoyotl, Mexico of a dark, domed ovoid object. It had a        |
| peculiar knob shape on the bottom of the object. It shot off with     |
| extreme acceleration. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case |
| 17849, citing J. Trainor, UFO Roundup).                               |
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| 2001 – The second sighting of a triangular-shaped UFO was made by a   |
| witness in Mouscron, Belgium an 10:10 a.m. This daylight sighting was |
| of a triangular-shaped wedge with three blue lights in the corner,    |
| and yellow light in the center, and a red light on the side. (Source: |
| Michel Bougard, Inforespace, June 2002, p. 40).                       |
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| Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 29 September 2004).      |
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| Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database.                           |
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| Themes – car pursuits, coverall uniforms, dis                         |
| c-shaped UFOs, domed discs and ovoids, early morning close encounters |
| , glowing objects, humanoids, lasting physiological effects, levitati |
| on, multicolored UFOs, multi-year UFO reports from Italy, noisy UFOs, |
|  police witnesses, roaring sound, short one-meter tall UFOnauts, squa |
| re-shaped UFOs, triangular ground mark pattern, triangular wedge-shap |
| ed UFO, vertical ascent, videotape, whirring sound, zigzag maneuvers. |
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