+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  November 21 | | | | 1949 - An F-80 fighter pilot flying over Akita, Japan saw a | | rectangular-shaped UFO flying at 500 mph. (Source: Project Blue Book | | files counted in official statistics, November 1949 report). | | | | 1950 - In 1950, Canadian government engineer Wilbert B. Smith met with US | | scientist Robert J. Sarbacher, and was told that it is the secret | | opinion of the US military that "flying saucers exist." (Source: John | | Colombo, UFOs over Canada: Personal Accounts of Sightings and Close | | Encounters, p. 210). | | | | 1952 - Shortly after 9:00 p.m. a UFO flew in a zigzag pattern over | | Fort Benning, Georgia. (Source: Project Blue Book files counted in | | official statistics, November 1952 report). | | | | 1952 - At a place called "La Butte" on Belle-Ile, France a luminous | | sphere was seen at a low altitude. It seemed to be spinning and its | | color changed from orange to white. It oscillated to the left and | | right, then took off toward the southwest, according to Mr. Gauci the | | witness. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of | | Landings, pp. 201-202). | | | | 1954 - At noon in Teignmouth, Devon, England 20 golden spheres raced | | across the sky in formation, causing a huge wave of radar blips. They | | flew off to the south out to sea. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer | | database, case # 4182, citing FSR). | | | | 1954 - On this night a round-shaped UFO buzzed an airliner flying | | over the Paraiba River near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. There were more | | than 16 witnesses onboard, and the passengers panicked. (Sources: | | Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 26; Donald E. Keyhoe, | | Flying Saucers - Top Secret, p. 224; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO | | Journal, November 1989, p. 23). | | | | 1956 - On this night in 1956, six Civil Air Patrol members and a service | | station attendant who was fixing their car's flat tire watched a | | rectangular-shaped object fly in the southeast sky near Carlstadt, | | New Jersey. It glowed orange. (Source: Morris K. Jessup, The UFO | | Annual, p. 337). | | | | 1961 - On this night in 1961 six to eight crescent-shaped objects were seen | | entering an isolated cloud over Adelaide Hills, South Australia | | around 6:15 p.m. They did not re-emerge. (Source: Michael Hervey, | | UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 171). | | | | 1961 - That same evening at 7:30 p.m. EST in Oldtown, Florida two | | witnesses, C. Locklear and Helen Hatch, watched a round, | | reddish-orange object ascend straight up into the night sky. It faded | | away after 3-4 minutes. (Source: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO | | Unknowns). | | | | 1966 - At 10:15 p.m. Richard West called police to report that a | | "batman" was sitting on the roof of the house next to his home at an | | undisclosed location in West Virginia. The being was six feet tall | | and had a wingspan of six to eight feet, with great big red eyes. It | | flew straight up, like a helicopter. (Sources: John A. Keel, UFOs: | | Operation Trojan Horse, p. 167; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: | | Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-61, citing John Keel). | | | | 1967 - An Aer Lingus airliner, flying at 10,000 feet to Dublin, | | Ireland above Falkirk, Scotland, saw a brightly illuminated white | | object with a contrail. There was no radar contact of the UFO by | | Scottish Air Traffic Control. (Source: Dermot Butler, Conspiracy of | | Silence: UFOs in Ireland, p. 24). | | | | 1968 - A woman was on a bus that stopped for a while in Macedo, Sao | | Paulo State, Brazil. At 9:30 p.m. she saw at the bus station there, | | about 40 yards away, a domed metallic UFO the size of a small car, | | which was hovering only a few feet above the ground. Around the rim | | of the craft were a row of changing lights that gave the impression | | of it rotating, and beneath it a patch of violet light was cast onto | | the ground. A door in the object was open, with three steps below it, | | and standing in front of the UFO were three six-foot tall figures of | | human appearance, wearing skin-tight, shiny black coveralls and shiny | | black boots. The suits were one-piece, with hoods covering the heads, | | so that only the face was left exposed. One of the men was carrying a | | cylinder 2 feet long and 3 inches thick, with a thinner tube of | | aluminum like material coiled around it in a spiral. Facing the | | beings was a crowd of about 20 people, including three police | | officers, who had their guns drawn, and two police cars were parked | | nearby. After a short while a beam of silver light shot forth from | | the cylinder and the people closest to the beings were paralyzed, | | while the others felt dazed as if in a faint. The UFOnauts calmly | | walked back to their craft, which they then boarded, and the | | craft took off and rapidly climbed out of sight. The duration of the | | entire incident was about 15 minutes. (Sources: Nigel Rimes, FSR, | | March 1969, p. 6; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of | | Humanoid Reports, case # 1968-82, citing Walter Buhler). | | | | 1969 – On this night a security guard at a local power station in | | Urubupunga, Brazil reported encountering two tall robot-like | | humanoids that communicated in a shrill-like electronic voice. | | (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1969, citing | | GEPUC Brazil). | | | | 1970 - A domed disc-shaped object was sighted spinning over Matlock, | | England at 8 p.m. It had red lights on the bottom and two white | | lights. It went behind a cloud. At 9:00 p.m. in Bull Bridge, England | | a police headquarters office worker and her boyfriend, Burnham and | | Pidcock, saw a round domed disc with a white light one-hour after | | three teenagers also saw it. It flew off in the direction of | | Ambergate. At 11:32 p.m. a red glowing bowl-shaped disc flew from | | south to north, then to the south, then back to the north again over | | Hackney, England. (Sources: Matlock Mercury, November 28, 1970; FSR | | Case Histories, February 1971, p. 1). | | | | Matlock, England UFO - 1970 | | | | [] | | | | 1974 - At 5:30 p.m. 14-year-old Lance Edwards was walking home at | | dusk in Plattonville, Louisiana when he saw two bright luminous | | objects flying low over some nearby houses. He pursued them, running | | down a farm road, and came upon one of the objects resting on the | | ground at the edge of a woods. Its brightness dazzled him so that he | | had to cover his eyes. Having the feeling that someone was watching | | him, he turned and saw a strange figure just behind him. He his | | astonishment he turned run, but ran straight into the figure and was | | knocked to the ground. He picked himself up and took off running | | again, thoroughly frightened. The figure was small, reaching only to | | Lance's chest, but was stocky. It had no neck and had a "pushed in" | | nose similar to a Pekinese. The color of its skin was "bluish" like | | "a bruise." The teen reported the encounter immediately to his | | father, who took him to the sheriff's office where a complete report | | was made. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of | | Humanoid Reports, case 1974-55, citing Sheriff Frank Theriot). | | | | 1975 - On this night a shining round object with a blinking light | | moved quickly from north to south in the eastern sky from Forest | | Grove, Oregon. At 3:00 a.m. the fifth UFO abduction occurred to a UFO | | abductee in Garden Grove, California. (Sources: George Eberhart, A | | Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 67; (2) FSR, October 1976, p.19; | | Alvin H. Larson, Proccedings of the 1976 CUFOS Conference, p. | | 141-142). | | | | 1978 - Lufthansa and TWA airliner crews flying over Newfoundland both | | reported sighting a domed disc that was emitting moving beams of | | light. It had landing gear and antennae. At 5:30 a.m. a UFO hovered | | over a water tower for 30 minutes at the Al Sabriyah Oil Field in | | Kuwait. At 6:00 p.m. a Puma helicopter pilot and several other | | witnesses on the ground in Miradj, Iran reported sighting a big | | yellow light and changed color to red, then vanished above the | | witnesses. (Sources: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. | | 42; International UFO Reporter, January 1980, p. 6). | | | | 1981 - In the middle of the afternoon an eight-meter wide red disc, | | giving off a weak blue glow, flew at treetop level west of | | Naveksvarn, Sweden towards the east. Photographs were taken. (Source: | | AFU Sweden). | | | | 1985 - A photograph was taken of a UFO over Port Chester, New York. | | It showed only seven lights in a circle. (Source: J. Allen Hynek, | | Philip Imbrogno and Bob Pratt, Night Siege: The Hudson Valley UFO | | Sightings, p. 21). | | | | 1986 - On this evening several witnesses in Stamford, Connecticut saw | | a number of nocturnal lights and beams of light appear in the sky. A | | seventy-foot long ovoid object skimmed over treetops and buzzed a | | car, then vanished. Later that night in Culver City, California a | | huge silent manta ray shaped object flew in a southerly direction. It | | faded in and out of visibility. (Source: Bob Gribble, UFO Reporting | | Center, cases 1197 and 1092). | | | | 1993 - At 9:30-9:45 p.m. a woman in Greensburg, Pennsylvania went | | outside because her dogs were barking and she saw a triangular object | | hovering at sixty feet altitude, making a high-pitched humming sound. | | It was shaped more like an arrowhead with lights, and scared the | | witness. An hour later in the same county, at 10:30 p.m. at Bovard | | Tunnel, Pennsylvania a triangle pursed a vehicle, making a humming | | sound. Fifteen minutes later, 4 miles east of Greensburg, | | Pennsylvania the same of similar triangle was seen, reportedly making | | a high-pitched hum. (Source: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalogue of | | UFO Reports, 1988-1994, cases 1755 & 1756). | | | | 1995 - Two observers in a residential area of Memphis, Tennessee | | noted a weird "glider" in the sky with 9 lights on each wing; it | | retracted and folded its wings. (Source: Peter Davenport, National | | UFO Reporting Center). | | | | 1999 - In Criderville, south of Lima, Ohio two witnesses driving on | | Interstate 75 saw a plain silver sphere flying silently low in a fog. | | Lights followed it randomly. The sphere and the trailing lights flew | | to the north. (Sources: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # | | 18126, citing Filer's Files; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting | | Center, November 1999 webpage). | | | | 2002 - In Vinita, Oklahoma at 3:30 p.m. a bright cigar-shaped object | | hovered in the sky, then sped off at very high rate of speed. | | (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, November | | 2002 webpage). | | | | 2003 - A transparent V-shaped object was sighted briefly in | | Barnesville, Ohio at 8:30 p.m. The object distorted the visible night | | sky, yet you could see through it and it was boomerang shaped, very | | fast, and silent. (Source:Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting | | Center, November 2003 webpage). | | | | 2004 - At 12:15 a.m. a bright, white and orange triangle-shaped | | object was seen on Highway 1 South, St. John, New Brunswick, Canada. | | It was moving at first, stopped and hovered for a minute, then | | vanished. (Source: Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # | | 809, citing NUFORC). | | | | 2005 - A diamond-shaped craft was seen by two witnesses between Magog | | and Stanstead, Quebec, Canada in the dark at 6:45 p.m. It was | | described as like a light shaped like a window hovering in a | | field, about 50 yards away. It took off fast. (Source: 2005Canadian | | UFO Survey, case # 108, citing NUFORC). | | | | 2006 - A long, bright, white cigar-shaped object rose from the desert | | in Elmo, Utah and shot off into the western sky at 7:50 p.m. (Source: | | Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, November 2006 | | webpage, report uploaded December 7, 2006). | | | | 2008 - A formation of separate lights was encountered on a back road | | country road in Newark, Ohio at 10:38 p.m. They were extremely | | luminous, "beyond anything manmade," and caused electronic and | | mechanical vehicle engine failure, according to the witness… | | (Source:  Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, November | | 2008 webpage, report uploaded March 19, 2009). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 21 November 2012). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: animal reaction: dogs barking; beams of light; | | cigar-shaped UFOs; domed disc-shaped UFOs; humming sounds; luminous | | UFOs; Mothman; multi-year reports from Brazil, England and Ohio; oran | | ge UFOs; ovoid UFOs; photographs; rectangular UFOs; red UFOs; short s | | tocky humanoids; spheres; tall robot-like UFOs; triangular or arrowhe | | ad-shaped UFOs; UFOs changing colors; vertical ascent; zigzag motion. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+