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| [On This Day] |
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|  Encounters with Aliens on this Day |
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|  October 1 |
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| 1948 - At 9:00 p.m. an aerial encounter occurred on this day over |
| Fargo, North Dakota between an F-51 fighter plane and a somewhat |
| flattened white circular unidentified object, blinking on and off. |
| The UFO made a head-on approach toward the F-51, then veered off, |
| next made a 180 degree turn, then out climbed the performance |
| aircraft, rising straight up until out of sight. Its close turns |
| were tighter than could be made by the fighter plane. The encounter |
| lasted 27 minutes. (Sources: Edward J. Ruppelt, True Magazine, May |
| 1954; Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. |
| 59; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 33; UNICAT, |
| case # 532). |
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| 1954 - There are 26 UFO and humanoid reports recorded in UFOCAT for |
| this day. There is one from the Assam region of India, two are from |
| Italy, and the remainder are from France, which appears to have been |
| at the center of a massive wave of UFO sightings. Notice how the humanoid cases |
| tend to occur at intersections of the major great circle routes |
| described by four or more points on a straight line. Below are some |
| of the more interesting reports on this day: |
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| 1954 - A woman in Dhubri, Assam, India reported to police that she |
| had seen a luminous disc leaving a long trail in the sky. It landed |
| in a field, and then took off again. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, |
| Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 132; Passport to Magonia: A |
| Century of Landings, p. 214, case 169). |
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| 1954 - At 1:00 p.m. two bricklayers, Sebastiani and Buratto, |
| approached a cigar-shaped object in Blanzy, Saone-Loire department, |
| France that was sitting on the ground. It was three meters long, 80 |
| cm wide, and it took off from the ground with a whistling sound. The |
| pointed section of the object was yellow, the rest brown. From the |
| fore part, two appendages extended to the ground. (Source: Jacques |
| Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 214, case |
| 170). |
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| 1954 - At 4:00 p.m. a man and his dog in Bry, Nord department, France |
| were "paralyzed" and frozen in place when a luminous white object |
| dove toward them, then climbed back into the sky. (Source: Jacques |
| Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 214, case |
| 171). |
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| 1954 - Two young men in Jussey, Haute-Saone department, France saw a |
| luminous white disc moving in the sky at 7:00 p.m. It dove to the |
| ground and two very tall beings, dressed in white, emerged from it |
| and made gestures. The witnesses ran away in fear. (Sources: Jacques |
| Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 214, case 173; |
| Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet |
| des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 104). |
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| 1954 - Near St. Jean d'Angely, France two businessmen, Messrs. Estier |
| and Phelippeau, who were driving back from Royan at eight o'clock at |
| night, saw a little man crossing the road in front of their car. When |
| they stopped the car the figure disappeared into the woods. (Sources: |
| Sud-Ouest, October 2, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A |
| Century of Landings, p. 214, case 174; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis |
| Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees |
| en France, p. 105). |
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| 1954 - Mechanic Ernest Delattre, age 19, was riding home on his motor |
| scooter between Lormaison and St-Crepin-Ibouvillers, France at eight |
| o'clock when a brilliantly illuminated egg-shaped object landed on |
| the left side of the road 15 meters away. He saw short, dark shapes |
| "like potato bags" moving about the object. He sped up, saw the |
| object, the size of a small bus, taking off while its color changed |
| from orange to blue and then to grayish-blue. The witness fainted |
| while telling his story. Two persons in neighboring villages |
| independently reported observing the object. (Note: Vallee lists the |
| date as October 2nd but Figuet & Ruchon believe the correct date is |
| October 1st.) (Sources: Jacques |
| Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 215; Michel |
| Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des |
| rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 104). |
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| 1954 - At 8:30 p.m. several inhabitants of St-Michel-sur-Meurthe, |
| France saw a cigar-shaped object in the sky with very bright white |
| lights fly towards the north. (Source: Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis |
| Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees |
| en France, p. 106). |
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| 1954 - In Branges, near Louhans in Saone-Loire department, France. |
| While coming home at night around 10:00 p.m., Gilbert Prudent and one |
| other witness saw a lighted object on the side of the road. It had a |
| flat section and a sort of large "mushroom" on top (domed disc). As |
| he approached it, the object became dark and took off vertically with |
| a soft whistling sound. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to |
| Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 214, case 175; Michel Figuet & |
| Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres |
| rapprochees en France, p. 105). |
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| 1954 - Returning home from work in Bergerac, Dordogne department, |
| France fireman Jean Dufix, age 26, saw an oval light in the sky at 10 |
| o'clock. He first took it to be a shooting star, but later he was |
| alarmed when his yard looked to be ablaze. Rushing outside, he saw a |
| disc rise from the ground with a whistling sound. It flew off, became |
| luminous again, and then shot off at a fantastic speed. His neighbor, |
| Jean Labonne, age 61, also saw the disc resting on three legs in the |
| yard. They estimated the disc was three meters (10 feet) in diameter. |
| (Sources: Le Figaro, October 6, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to |
| Magonia: A Century of Landings , p. 214, case 176). |
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| 1964 - At 12:50 p.m. a 24-foot diameter dark disc-shaped object |
| passed over an industrial plant in Danvers, Massachusetts. It flew |
| under a cloud at 2,500 altitude, at an estimated speed of 300 mph. |
| (Source: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, pp. 21, |
| 330). |
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| Danvers, Massachusetts Daylight Disc - 1964 |
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| [Sketch of Danvers, Massachusetts Daylight Disc - 1964] |
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| 1965 - Three school students, Santos Vallejos, Antonia Aparti, and |
| Adela Sanchez were walking to General San Martin School, Aguas |
| Blancas, Salta province, Argentina when they were attacked by small |
| creatures with greenish skin. The children ran away, and arrived at |
| the school in a state of terror. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to |
| Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 706, citing CODOVNI). |
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| 1967 - Valeriano Ruiz Fontes, a 28-year-old radio technician, |
| observed an illuminated object at 10:30 p.m. in Tibidabo, Barcelona, |
| Spain which he first took to be a large Jeep. However, It was |
| hovering just above the ground about 700-800 yards away. It was about |
| 14 feet long, with half a dozen oval illuminated windows, and had on |
| top a square turret. Near the UFO were four people of normal stature |
| wearing dark uniforms and bright helmets. Two of the beings climbed |
| up the turret, manipulating or fixing some fittings there, while the |
| other two were examined the underside of the object. After watching |
| for about half an hour, the external lights were extinguished, |
| showing only the illuminated portholes. The object then rose |
| vertically with no noise to about 500 feet, showing yellow, red |
| orange, and a triangle of blue-green lights, and took off at |
| extremely high speed. (Sources: Antonio Ribera, FSR, May 1968, p. 26; |
| David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, |
| case # 1967-101 (A0879)). |
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| 1973 - On this night three teenagers in Anthony Hill, Tennessee saw a |
| huge, hairy, robot-like creature that walked mechanically with its |
| hand upraised. It had a large round head. An egg-shaped UFO was also |
| seen at the same time. This occurred during a thunderstorm, and |
| imprints were later found at the site. (Source: David F. Webb and Ted |
| Bloecher: HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-27; David |
| F. Webb, 1973, The Year of The Humanoids). |
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| 1975 - At around 8:00 p.m. two teenagers, Michio Hikawa and Takashi |
| Furuya, were parked in a car at a scenic spot in Japan's Southern |
| Alps near Hakushu, Japan when Furuya became agitated about a group of |
| children resembling beggars near the car. Hikawa didn't see them. |
| Among the figures Furuya saw were some resembling girls, about one |
| meter tall, dressed in white. Pointing them out to his companion, |
| Hikawa still was unable to see them, and turned on the car's |
| headlights. When this happened the figures faded away, but their car |
| was abruptly pulled backwards several times by an unseen force, |
| eventhough the hand brake was on. Frightened, the two teenagers left |
| the area. Hikawa suggested that the figures may have been "spacemen", |
| and the pair returned to the scene later, where the same mass |
| displacement effects occurred to the car again. Again fearful, the |
| pair drove home. The car subsequently malfunctioned and required |
| repairs, the result of a broken piston. Peculiar "hoof like" marks |
| were observed on a window in the car following the encounter. There |
| were no reports of UFOs seen. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, |
| HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1975-44, citing Jun Ichi |
| Takanashi for APRO). |
| 1977 - At 7:00 p.m. two brothers were hunting in an uninhabited area |
| near a quarry west of Libau, Manitoba, Canada when they saw a UFO |
| that looked like an inverted bowl with two long extensions. It |
| was 75-100 feet wide, 25 feet high, and 1/2 a mile away at 500 feet |
| altitude. It made a humming noise, and moved away slowly. (Sources: |
| Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, December 1977, p. 2; |
| UNICAT, case # 188). |
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| 1987 - Marysville, Indiana. At 7:50 p.m. a black rectangular object |
| was witnessed by a lone witness for 10 minutes while driving in a |
| rural area. The UFO flew silently to the southwest, then toward the |
| northwest, and finally further to the southwest. (Source: Francis L. |
| Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 112). |
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| 1992 - Three men were in the backyard of a home in Clare, South |
| Australia at 7:00 p.m. when they saw, at a low altitude in the |
| northwestern sky, two lights travelling to the northeast. It resolved |
| into a cigar-shaped object that was thicker in the middle, with a |
| hazy glow surrounding it. It continued to fly to the northeast and |
| was lost from sight behind some trees. |
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| 1993 - A large white ball of light flew from north to south over |
| Nutter Fort, West Virginia at 7:00 p.m. It followed a car to |
| Stonewood, then shot away quickly. (Source: Bob Teets, West Virginia |
| UFOs: Close Encounters in the Mountain State, p. 162). |
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| 1995 - An orange disc-shaped object hovered over a house in |
| Vacaville, California for a minute at 9:00 p.m., at only 100 feet |
| altitude. At 10:30 p.m. an extremely bright disc-shaped object flew |
| over a house in Austin, Texas heading north. It was the "size of a |
| volleyball at arms length," and had a green tinge on top. (Source: |
| Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle). |
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| 2000 - At 11:15 p.m. two objects were sighted over Jones Beach on |
| Long Island in Nassau County, New York. A diamond-shaped UFO landed |
| on the beach. It directed an intense red beam, then a blue-colored |
| beam, at the witnesses' car, which caused the car with the three |
| occupants to be lifted into the air. (Sources: Larry Hatch, U |
| computer database, case 18144, citing George Filer, Filer's |
| Files;Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, report |
| uploaded December 2, 2000). |
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| Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 30 July 2009). |
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| Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. |
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| emes: aircraft UFO encounters, cigar-shaped UFOs, disc-shaped UFOs, d |
| omed discs, huge robot-like humanoid, humming sound, landings, lumino |
| us white UFOs, oddly shaped short UFOnauts, ovoid UFOs, paralysis, re |
| ctangular UFO, short humanoids, very tall humanoids, whistling sound. |
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| © Donald A. Johnson |
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