+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  September 21 | | | | 1950 - Provincetown, Massachusetts. At 9:52 a.m. an M.I.T. research | | associate and Air National Guard Major M. H. Ligda observed the radar | | tracking of a UFO during an M.I.T. tracking of a flight of two USAF | | F-84 or F-86 jet fighters. The object's speed was calculated as 22 | | miles/minute (1,200 mph), and it executed a turn of 11-12 Gs | | acceleration during the one-minute observation. (Sources: Project | | Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 809; Don | | Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; J. Allen Hynek, Hynek UFO | | Report, p. 139; UNICAT, case 275). | | | | 1952 - A silver spherical UFO was tracked by RAF jets over the North | | Sea during the NATO Operation Mainbrace. An attempted intercept by | | three jets and a total of six air crew members failed. (Sources: | | Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 258; | | Richard Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a | | Coverup, 1941-1973, p. 403). | | | | 1954 - Two weathermen with a theodolite watch a delta-shaped object, | | larger than balloon, maneuver thru sky over Durban, South Africa and | | ten o'clock in the morning. (Source: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. | | 1954: September, p. 34). | | | | 1954 - At one o'clock in the morning in Barstow, California two local | | policemen, four U.S. Marine Corps police, and a California highway | | patrolman watched a reddish-orange ball of light giving off sparks. A | | smaller orange ball of light make a zigzag descent and then hovered. | | Their sighting lasted a total of 20 minutes. (Sources: Project Blue | | Book files counted in official statistics, case # 3222; Don Berliner, | | Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: | | September, p. 34). | | | | 1958 - A circular, flat object, seven meters in diameter and two | | meters thick, was seen by a woman from her home at three o'clock in | | the morning, hovering 1.5 meters above the ground in Sheffield Lake, | | Ohio. It made a sound like a jet and was aluminum in color. It | | wobbled and emitted gray smoke before rising up again and taking off | | into the night sky. (Sources: NICAP UFO Investigator, November 1958, | | p. 2, December 1958, p. 5; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A | | Century of Landings, case 471; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. | | 113). | | | | 1961 - On this day at around five o'clock in the afternoon the | | passengers and crew of two Boeing 707 airliners, a BOAC flight and | | a Pan Am flight, witnessed a bright white UFO with a halo while | | flying over the Pacific Ocean northeast of Midway Island.  (Sources: | | NICAP UFO Investigator, November 1961, p. 1; Robert Gribble, MUFON | | UFO Journal, September 1991, p. 11). | | | | 1962 - A fishing boat captain, S. A. Guthrie, and a deck hand sailing | | west-southwest of Biloxi, Mississippi in the Gulf of Mexico sighted | | two UFOs at 7:37 p.m. The objects were red and black with orange | | streaks. One was as big as the Moon and the other somewhat smaller. | | They arced across the sky for 13 minutes. (Sources: Project Blue Book | | files counted in official statistics, case 8133; Don Berliner, | | Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1966 - Eight members of the Royal Canadian Air Force saw a bright | | object that flew down at high speed in Summerside, Prince Edward | | Island, Canada. It stopped abruptly, remained at ground level for 20 | | minutes, then flew away straight up. There was radar-visual | | confirmation of the UFO over a missile site. NORAD was alerted and | | jet interceptors were scrambled. (Sources: NICAP UFO Investigator, | | November 1966, p. 4; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Here and Now, p. | | 111; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case | | 799; Richard Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology | | of a Coverup, 1941-1973, p. 413). | | | | 1967 - At 12:30 a.m. Jose M. Edrosa was driving home to Granoliers, | | Spain when between the towns of Santa Coloma and La Roca in Barcelona | | province he saw a very bright "casserole" shaped object on the | | ground. Near it were several small beings with large heads, who were | | approaching the UFO. At that point his car "reared" and Sr. Edrosa | | became panic stricken, fleeing on foot. Unnerved by the experience, | | he was hospitalized for an extended period of time. (Sources: | | Vicente-Juan Balester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type I UFO Events in | | Spain and Portugal, case 50; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: | | Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-97, citing Alberto Adell). | | | | 1967 - At 10:30 p.m. a fiery light thought to be a UFO was seen at | | ground level in some woods in Winsted, Connecticut by two witnesses, | | Pasko and Ellis. Circular ground marks were found later at the site. | | (Source: APRO Bulletin, November-December 1967, p. 4). | | | | 1968 - At around two a.m. a truck driver on the Barcelona-Puigcerda | | road near La Llagosta, Barcelona, Spain saw a landed egg-shaped | | object standing vertically on end. It was brightly lit, and near it | | he saw a small being. He did not stop, but reported the incident at | | the next service station near the village. (Source: David F. Webb & | | Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-68, | | citing FSR Special Bulletin # 4). | | | | 1968 - At three a.m. in La Escala, Gerona, Spain Sr. Ballesta, age | | 52, saw two beings with frightful yellowish faces, wearing tight | | black clothes, that came out of an object that resembled a buoy. | | (Sources: Vicente-Juan Balester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type I UFO | | Events in Spain and Portugal, case 78, citing Stendek, August 1972, | | p. 30; Vicente-Juan Balester Olmos, FSR, May 1973, p. 19). | | | | 1968 - In Coaticook, Quebec, Canada two young girls reported they saw | | a "Martian" on the roof of the local high school. By 9:30 p.m. a | | crowd of some 50 people had assembled to see what was going | | on. Shirley Green said that she saw a "green face with no nose, mouth | | or hair," and that the strange man emitted intermittent sparks. In a | | nearby field the grass had been burned in a circle 42 feet in | | diameter, and some tracks were found. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted | | Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-98 | | (A0983), citing Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science, issue # | | 54). | | | | 1968 - At 10:30 p.m. a dark disc-shaped object with a series of | | square windows, rotating clockwise, moved slowly and silently through | | the skies over Linton, Indiana.  It was half the size of a pea at | | arm's length, and its lights were large, three-quarters the height of | | the object itself. (Source: Francis L. Ridge, NICAP investigation | | files, October 21, 1968). | | | | 1970 - A round object with a halo hovered over St. Jean, Switzerland | | at 9:15 p.m., and then vanished. It left behind a faint contrail. | | (Source: Tova Bratt, FSR Case Histories, February 1972, p. 12). | | | | 1972 - Three witnesses were driving in Rougemont, Quebec, Canada at | | 12:30 a.m. when they witnessed a Saturn-shaped disc making pendulum | | movements in the sky, then landing on Mount Rouge. The object | | was 100-150 feet in diameter and had a row of oval windows. The | | driver, Mr. G. Poisson, flashed his car headlights at the UFO, and | | the object responded by diving and coming straight at them, passing | | only 30 feet overhead. (Sources: Wido Hoville, Canadian UFO Report, | | Spring 1974; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle | | Interference, p. 55; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the | | Fifth Kind, p. 40). | | | | 1972 - At 5:40 a.m. in Santa Isabel, Cordoba province, Argentina Sr. | | Teodoro Merlo, age 56, a maintenance worker at the Ika-Renault car | | factory, unlocked and entered a company washroom and was surprised to | | encounter a "man" nearly eight-feet tall sitting on the long | | washbasin. The being's complexion was very pallid, and he had a bald | | head with high, pointed ears. The giant wore a very tight-fitting, | | dark blue one-piece garment. He noticed the uniform was glove-tight | | at the wrists, and that the being held his right forefinger below his | | nose. The figure suddenly vanished unaccountably from the washroom, | | in which the temperature was abnormally high. Lights in the building | | went on and off by themselves. Sr. Merlo later suffered eye | | irritation, repeated headaches, and back pain in his lumbar region | | for eight days. The witness reported that he again saw the face of | | the entity in a mirror on the bus the next day. (Sources: Oscar A. | | Galindez, FSR, August 1975, p. 11; UNICAT, case # 576; David F. Webb | | & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1972-26 | | (A1169); Stendek, December 1973, p. 15). | | | | 1974 - In Huntsville, Ontario, Canada Oscar Magocsi, a Hungarian-born | | radio technologist, claimed he encountered a landed disc-shaped | | object and came in contact with its occupants for the first time. | | They were human in appearance and said they called themselves "the | | Psycheans". He claimed to have been given a ride in their craft, | | flying over Lake Ontario, and was then transported to other worlds. | | At 9:20 p.m. in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada four teenage girls had a | | ten minute close encounter with a UFO that caused them some lasting | | physiological effects. (Sources: (1) John Colombo, UFOs over Canada: | | Personal Accounts of Sightings and Close Encounters, p. 214; (2) | | CUFOS case files, letter dated October 20, 1974). | | | | 1978 - A 12-year-old boy in Marcos Paz, Buenos Aires province, | | Argentina photographed a UFO during the day with a Kodak instamatic | | camera. The image in the newspaper shows a black body between some | | iron bars. (Source: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, December | | 1978, p. 15, citing Cronica, October 1978, p. 7). | | | | 1978 - At 7:40 p.m. a young man was walking near a field in Cosenza, | | Calabria, Italy when the area was suddenly illuminated by a bright | | light and he could no longer see his surroundings. Shortly later, he | | saw an oval-shaped object resting on the ground on top of a nearby | | hill. A human-like figure stood by the object. It wore two | | antennae-like protrusions on its head. Frightened, he began to | | run away but fell down while four humanoids approached him, making | | huge, bizarre, bounding-like jumps. Next, he fainted, and when he | | awoke he again saw that the four 5-foot-tall entities were closer, | | wearing buttoned jackets, backpacks, and helmets with antennae. Their | | hands appeared to be shaped like pincers. This frightened him and he | | fainted again, and when he finally woke up sometime later everything | | had vanished. Coincidentally, at around the same time (8:00 p.m.) a | | bright light approached an Italian Air Force F-104 jet over Piacenza, | | Emilia-Romagna, Italy. It disappeared after three minutes. (Sources: | | Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, October 1979, p. 17; David | | F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case | | A1971; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 136, | | citing Paolo Fiorino, UFO Universe, October-November 1991). | | | | 1980 - The pilot and four passengers onboard a Piper Aztec airplane, | | including Wendy and Michael Gannon, witnessed two red UFOs for nine | | minutes while flying over Crewe, Cheshire, England at 8:00 p.m. The | | objects had a hazy round outline, and an apparent size of 1.25 | | degrees. The top one approached to within 450 meters distance, and  | | hovered for three minutes. When accelerating a red glow was visible | | from the rear. During the encounter they experienced radio | | interference on their VHF mobile transceiver. (Sources: Richard F. | | Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 191; UNICAT, case | | # 401, citing S. R. Cleaver). | | | | 1980 - A female credit manager in Lima, Ohio briefly observed a vivid | | orange to red object that appeared through an opening in the clouds. | | It resembled the bottom view of an Army tank, with runners on two | | sides. It went back up through the clouds. (Source: John Timmerman, | | CUFOS Newsletter, November 1980, p. 2). | | | | 1986 - A huge Ferris-wheel shaped object was seen spinning in the sky | | at 7:50 p.m. as it crossed above the M1 motorway in Markfield, | | Leicester, England. It flew off to the east. (Source: Larry Hatch, U | | computer database, case 14459; FSR, March 1990). | | | | 1989 - In Voronezh, Russia as many as 40 children, including some | | young boys named Lukin, Levchenko, and Borise watched a large sphere, | | five meters in diameter, land in a park at 8:30 p.m. Two tall | | humanoids wearing silvery outfits and large black boots briefly | | emerged. A smaller headless robot-like entity with small knobs on its | | chest also accompanied them. Landing traces were reportedly found, | | including a 60-foot wide circle in which there were four depressions | | arranged in a diamond pattern. Each imprint was two inches deep and | | six inches in diameter. Holes in the ground looked as though someone | | had taken soil samples. The event was widely publicized around the | | world, although the facts of the case were greatly distorted. | | (Sources: Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles Of The Soviet Union, p. 44, | | citing Silanov; MUFON UFO Journal, December 1989; Richard Hall, The | | UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 492; Larry Hatch, U | | computer database, case 14943, citing Rivista Info UFO). | | | | 1989 - At 8:15 p.m. a V-shaped craft or flying wing with red lights | | flew over Mount Vernon, Indiana headed toward St. Louis, Missouri. | |  The FAA couldn't ID it. (Source: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog | | of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case 108, citing Francis L. Ridge). | | | | 1990 - At 11:20 a.m. a kite-shaped UFO dove into a clearing in some | | woods in Luton, Bedfordshire, England. It was seen from a bus through | | the trees on and off for the next 5-6 minutes. (Source: Timothy Good, | | The UFO Report 1992, p. 130). | | | | 1990 - At 5:30 p.m. police and militia pursued a Saturn-shaped UFO | | with shining portholes on its rim that hovered over an old airport | | near Frunze, Kyrgistan. The UFO seemed to be rotating, and emitted a | | coherent cone of yellow light. When it touched down to the ground it | | set fire to a meadow, leaving behind four burned spots 135 feet | | in diameter. (Source: Michael Hesemann, UFOs: The Secret History, p. | | 291; Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 68). | | | | 1994 - In the middle of the afternoon in Iasi, Romania a domed | | disc-shaped object hovered over a soccer match. It had a glowing | | halo, and was accompanied by a luminous orange sphere. (Source: | | Lumieres dans la Nuit, Issue # 328). | | | | 1995 - Many calls were received by the Sheriff department in | | Concordia, Kansas at around 9:00 p.m. reporting two circular spheres | | with rotating centers. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO | | Reporting Center, Seattle). | | | | 1996 - In Joshua Tree, California a disc-shaped object 65 feet in | | diameter hovered silently at only 200 feet close to witnesses for | | four minutes. It then moved off to the northeast hugging the terrain. | | (Source: Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup website, volume 1, number 34). | | | | 1997 - In Manoa Valley, Michigan at two o'clock in the afternoon a | | gray disc-shaped object hovered, then shot up vertically into the | | sky. It made no sound. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO | | Reporting Center, Seattle, September 1997 webpage). | | | | 1998 - At 2:00 a.m. a slow-moving, V-shaped UFO displaying red | | and white rapidly flashing lights, was seen passing overhead by | | several citizens and police between Nantwich and Crewe, Cheshire, | | England. Air traffic control at Manchester International Airport said | | they had nothing on radar. (Source: Curt Sutherly, UFO Mysteries: A | | Reporter Seeks the Truth, p. 204). | | | | 1998 - Extension Forest Hills, Bayamon, Puerto Rico. On the night | | that Hurricane Georges struck Puerto Rico Iris Rodriguez was outside | | her home doing some washing when the winds began to pick up strength. | | She went back inside her house at 8 p.m., and soon after she looked | | out her window and noticed a bright sphere of light making triangular | | movements in the sky. The sphere descended lower in the sky and | | hovered above a neighbor's home. A few moments later a bright white, | | oval-shaped hole appeared in the center of the red light. Then a | | figure became visible inside the white light. The figure moved back | | and forth, apparently looking out. The witness described the figure | | as tall, thin, and man-like. It wore a tight-fitting gray colored | | outfit and his skin appeared to be also gray or pale. As the wind | | from the approaching hurricane grew stronger the witness lost | | interest in the object and its occupant, and eventually lost sight of | | it. On the same night Gerardo Mendez of Bayamon, Puerto Rico had gone | | out to pick up some trash bins in order to secure them from the wind. | | Suddenly from behind a nearby tree a strange creature jumped out. It | | was described as short, hunched over, with a snout-like nose, thick | | black hair, and round black eyes. It had thin but strong legs, large | | pointy ears, and sharp fang-like teeth. The creature quickly hopped | | by the witness, stopping briefly to stare at him. It then hopped into | | the nearby woods and was gone from view. That same night others saw | | speeding red balls of light over different parts of the island. | | (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1998, cases | | #3157 and #3324, citing Jorge Martin, Evidencia OVNI #18 & #19). | | | | 1999 - At 7:15 p.m. two people in Post Falls, Idaho witnessed a fiery | | ball of light that was seen on the side of the Interstate 90 highway | | for approximately 20 mins near the Idaho-Washington | | border.(Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | Seattle, September 1999 webpage). | | | | 1999 - At 8:49 p.m. a cylindrical object was seen flying to the west | | over Everett, Washington. It changed form to a boomerang shape and | | became transparent, and changed course to the south. (Source: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 1999 | | webpage). | | | | 2001 - A metallic cigar-shaped object was seen hovering near Offutt | | AFB in Omaha, Nebraska for five minutes. (Source: Peter Davenport, | | National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2001 webpage, | | report uploaded October 12, 2001). | | | | 2007 - A 37-year-old service technician in Spencerville, Ohio stepped | | outside for a cigarette before going to bed at 1:50 a.m. and sighted | | a pair of lights just over the horizon. It was a dark cigar-shaped | | object with two lights at both ends, larger than a normal aircraft, | | and it made no sound as it moved west-northwest | | overhead. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | Seattle, September 2007 webpage, reported on September 22, 2007). | | | | 2007 - An undisclosed witness had an apparent abduction experience | | with missing time beginning in the predawn morning hours in | | Lexington, Kentucky. He reported to the National UFO Reporting Center | | that while out walking the dog at 4:30 a.m. the small dog "who never | | barks" began to growl and spasm uncontrollably. Then a white light | | appeared and a sensation of warmth came over him, and the witness was | | knocked to the ground. When he awoke it was early afternoon, he was | | in a different location, his clothes were tattered, and he had | | several sore spots on his body including his anus.  At first he | | thought he must have been the victim of an automobile hit and run, | | but to his dismay his arms and legs had various burn marks of unknown | | cause, and he suspects the cause may have been UFO related. The | | report form lists the shape of the UFO as a disc. (Source: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2007 | | webpage, encounter was reported on September 23, 2007). | | | | 2007 - At 4:13 p.m. a father and son in Bastrop, Texas were playing | | catch with a baseball when a silver, cigar-shaped object appeared out | | of nowhere and hovered 1000 feet in the sky.It had two wings in front | | and two wings in the back. It backed up, came forward, then went up | | and down in a controlled pattern, and then quickly disappeared into | | thin air. The sighting lasted 45 seconds. (Source: Peter Davenport, | | National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2001 | | webpage, reported on November 21, 2007). | | | | 2007 - Three reports of triangular craft were made from Ohio between | | 8:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. At 8:00 p.m. in West Chester, Ohio a | | triangular craft with an array of bright lights glided silently near | | the treeline. At 8:25 p.m in Deer Park, Ohio an observer witnessed a | | triangular object with hundreds of bright yellow lights near | | Cincinnati. At 9:00 p.m. a "really big" craft was seen in Evendale, | | Ohio that came close but remained silent the whole time. (Source: | | Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September | | 2001 webpage, reports uploaded October 8, 2007). | | | | 2007 - A couple were traveling north on Highway 371 near Bisti | | badlands in San Juan County, New Mexico at 10:34 p.m. when they saw a | | bright white cigar-shaped craft near the ground about 100 yards off | | the east side of the road. They slowed their vehicle down and the | | craft took off very quickly. It shot up very vertically and left | | behind no traces. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting | | Center, Seattle, September 2007 webpage, reported on September 22, | | 2007). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 24 September 2009). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: aluminum colored UFOs; anima | | l reaction: dog growls and spasms; cigar or cylinder-shaped UFOs; coh | | erent light beam; delta-shaped UFO; disc-shaped UFOs; domed discs; sm | | oke, fog or mist; giant humanoids, landings; levitation; luminous UFO | | s; maneuvering UFOs; missing time; multi-year reports from England an | | d Ohio; nautical UFOs; Nordic human looking Ufonauts; orange UFOs; pe | | ndulum motion; physiological effects: eye irritation, facial skin red | | ness, headaches, backaches; pointed ears; radar tracking of UFO; radi | | o interference; Saturn-shaped UFOs; short humanoids; short humanoid w | | ith large pointed ears; silent UFOs; spheres; tall thin humanoid; tel | | epathy; unintelligible language; triangular maneuvers; triangular UFO | | s; vertical ascent; V-shaped UFOs; wobbling motion; zigzag maneuvers. | | | | © Donald A. 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