+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  October 31 | | | | 1952 - At 7:40 p.m. in Fayetteville, Georgia on highway 85 USAF Lt. | | James Allen watched an 80 foot long orange, blimp-shaped object. It | | flew at treetop level and crossed over Allen's car. As Lt. Allen's | | car passed underneath it his radio went completely dead. The UFO | | hovered for 20 seconds, then climbed up at a 45 degree angle and | | climbed out of sight at a tremendous speed in 30-40 seconds. The | | sighting lasted one minute. (Sources: U.S. Air Force Project Blue | | Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2200; J. Allen | | Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 191; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports | | Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 1; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook | | UFO Unknowns; UNICAT, case # 290). | | | | 1953 - At Logansville, Ohio at 7:30 p.m. a huge, Ferris wheel shaped | | object with many multicolored lights appeared in the sky. It's | | apparent size was 30 cm at arms length. It flew rapidly to the west, | | and turned and shot off to the south. (Source: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: | | A History. 1953: August-December, p. 39). | | | | 1954 - Mr. P. Petit and his employee, Mr. Tillier, with shop owner | | Mr. Pecquet, saw an oval object on the ground in Corrompu, Somme, | | France. When it took off the lights of a tractor went out. It | | measured about 4.5 meters (15 feet) in length and emitted a bright | | light similar to a welder's torch. It came back, turned, and flew off | | toward the southwest. It reportedly made the same noise as a swarm of | | bees. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of | | Landings, p. 240, case 323; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving | | Vehicle Interference, p. 5). | | | | 1957 - At midnight in Longchaumois, France a businessman and his wife | | saw a large, lighted object with openings, which hovered, came to | | ground level, and took off with a great increase in brightness as it | | flew away at very high speed, but without noise. (Source: Jacques | | Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 261, case 416, | | citing Aime Michel). | | | | 1957 - That evening in Lumberton, North Carolina a car engine failed | | as a UFO was observed. (Sources: Charlotte Observer, November 4, | | 1957; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 74; Mark | | Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 8). | | | | 1958 - At 3:50 p.m. an elliptical, aluminum object was first spotted | | flying at two kilometers altitude in Caledon East, Ontario but it | | quickly descended to just four meters above the ground. It flew | | up-and-down by sudden jumps at the ground level, less than 200 meters | | away, for five minutes. It had a red light at one end that changed to | | a fiery color, then the object exploded. The witness ran. (Source: | | Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 473, | | citing US Air Force ATIC). | | | | 1959 - Two brothers with the last name of Hawkins were followed for | | 95 kilometers between Marton and Matamata, New Zealand by a luminous | | object that looked like a large street lamp. The UFO maneuvered | | around their car when they stopped near Oningaiti, New Zealand and it | | ascended vertically at daybreak. The incident began at 4:15 a.m. and | | continued until the break of day. (Source: Peter Rogerson, World-Wide | | Catalog of Type 1 Reports, in the Merseyside UFO Bulletin, citing | | Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1960, p. 17). | | | | 1963 - At 4:15 a.m. Jim Davidson saw an object about three meters | | long in Daylston, Victoria, Australia with orange and red lights. It | | approached his pickup truck, flew ahead of him, then flew off and | | seemed to land behind a hill. Two other witnesses independently | | reported a maneuvering light. (Sources: Sylvia Sutton, Flying Saucer | | Review, March-April 1964, p. 29; NICAP UFO Investigator, January | | 1964, p. 3; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of | | Landings, case 585). | | | | 1963 - At two p.m. a farmer, Sr. Issuo Oikiti, another adult, and a | | child saw a luminous object resembling a huge aluminium ball near the | | Peropava River in Iguape, Sao Paulo state, Brazil. It "writhed and | | struggled" in the air, hit a palm tree, changed direction while | | spinning, crossed to the other side of the river, and plunged into | | the water. The water seemed to boil after the object fell into the | | water. (Sources: APRO Bulletin, January-February 1964, pp. 1-2; Jim & | | Coral E. Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p. 53; Ivan T. Sanderson, | | Invisible Residents, p. 74; Otto Binder, What We Really Know About | | Flying Saucers, p. 149; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A | | Century of Landings, case 586). | | | | 1967 - At 9:30 p.m. a blue bell-shaped UFO directed an energy beam of | | some kind at a car being driven by a man named Spargo in Boyup Brook, | | Western Australia and halted its movement. (Sources: Hugill Joanna, | | FSR, July-August 1968, p. 15; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving | | Vehicle Interference, p. 38). | | | | 1967 - On a clear night over Arkhara, Amur, Russia an airliner crew | | saw a luminous round object hovering at 11:25 p.m. It was also seen | | by a second airliner. It did not show up on ground radar, although | | the sighting lasted ten minutes in total duration. (Sources: Felix | | Zigel, unpublished manuscript of Soviet UFO reports, case 119; | | Lumieres dans la Nuit, April 1981). | | | | 1971 - At 5:30 p.m. a silent, 25 meter diameter metallic saucer | | stopped 50 meters over a tractor northeast of Pelotas, Rio Grande do | | Sul, Brazil. The bottom of the object was revolving. The UFO tilted, | | then shot off toward the north. (Source: Phenomenes Spatiaux, | | September 1973, p. 27). | | | | 1971 - At 8:30 p.m. a witness out for a walk in Tinley Park, Illinois | | saw three lights in the sky that got closer together, very low in | | sky. A lot of dogs started barking wildly at the time. The UFO leaned | | toward the witness, 200 feet away, revealing a disk silhouette. The | | witness got scared, then it backed away, and floated out of sight. | | (Source: Jay Rath, The I-Files: True Reports of Unexplained Phenomena | | in Illinois, pp. 86-87, citing NUFORC). | | | | 1973 - At around 1:30 a.m., while they were driving to Tostado from | | Reconquista, Santa Fe Province, Argentina on Route 98, Alphonzo L. | | and his wife saw, about 400 meters away something that looked like a | | railway car, but with a double row of small windows. It was weakly | | illuminated by a yellowish light. Inside it they could make out a | | group of humanoid beings of tall stature, moving around in a hurried | | manner. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of | | Humanoid Reports, case # 1973-109 (A1600), citing Dr. Roberto | | Banchs). | | | | 1976 - At about 6:00 p.m. the witness was being driven back home by | | her husband on his motorcycle, and was going west on Figueroa Avenue | | in Los Angeles, California. As they drove in front of a hotel, she | | looked up and saw a metallic disc-shaped craft, shooting up from | | behind the buildings. The object remained at a height of 100 feet as | | it traveled in a straight line, occasionally dipping by 30 feet. | | Rounding a curve, the sun shone on the object, and it appeared to | | turn transparent. Inside, she was able to see three or four human | | like figures. Two of them were looking at her, and they were leaning | | over a console or platform. She commented that the men looked very | | handsome. She gave them the peace sign, but they did not respond, | | displaying no emotion just curiosity. The couple attempted to follow | | the object but eventually lost sight of it. (Source: Albert S. | | Rosales, 1976 Humanoid Contact database, case # 3578, citing NUFORC). | | | | 1976 - Woody Polston's abduction occurred on this night from a | | campsite in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. He made contact with | | a big cylindrical kind of disc-shaped object, then a second huge | | craft. He watched the two craft for 2-3 minutes before he entered | | a semi-conscious state, followed by his alien abduction experience | | for the next 12 hours. After the abduction he was plaged by | | nightmares, and his watch was affected. The watch was 10 hours slow. | | (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid | | Reports, case # A2142, citing R. Leo Sprinkle). | | | | 1978 - A group of ten youngsters were sitting around chatting in a | | field in Loose Valley, near Maidstone, Kent, England at around | | midnight. After about 45 minutes of talk a boy named Will leapt to | | his feet and began slapping his head, saying that there was a bee in | | his hair. He looked absolutely terrified. A girl named Dorothy and | | another witness then saw a tall, thin figure wearing a hat, "dancing" | | behind him. Will said later that it was as if a terrifically loud | | buzzing was coming up through the top of his head. However, only one | | other person present, Rachel, heard any buzzing. Partially satisfied | | that they had stumbled on a bee's nest they moved a distance away. As | | they moved Dorothy and Will saw a ring outlined in the grass that | | enclosed where they had been sitting. Eventually it started to rain, | | so the group headed for Rachel's house. As they left one of the young | | men turned around and saw the same thin black figure walk across the | | opening between some trees to where they had been sitting. | | | | Later, while sitting in Rachel's bedroom, one of the young men looked | | at Will and saw an amorphous black blob drop out of his hair onto the | | bed. He was the only one who saw this. A few seconds later a black | | shape started whizzing around the room. The main movement was from | | bottom left to top right and getting larger during its flight. This | | created a great fright among those present. Altogether four witnessed | | this strange phenomenon. Later on the girls slept in a room together, | | and Rachel and Dorothy again saw a black blob in the curtains during | | the night. Upon awakening, one of the young men saw the thin black | | figure silhouetted against some wardrobe doors. (Source: Albert S. | | Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing Fortean Times | | Magazine On-line). | | | | 1981 - Shortly after 9 p.m. a huge, bright, round object was observed | | flying at 180 meters altitude through the sky in Marcos Juarez, | | Cordoba, Argentina. It was witnessed by Pedro Heslop of Austral | | Airlines and Alberto Paracampo of Aerolineas Argentinas, pilots | | of commercial flights coming in for landings. (Sources: Joe Graziano, | | APRO Bulletin, March 1982, p. 6; Richard H. Hall, UFO Evidence, | | Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 125). | | | | 1981 - A UFO near Parnarama, Maranhao State, Brazil emitted an | | intense glare that caused the witness to feel an electric shock, | | increased body heat, loss of speech, paralysis and weight loss. | | (Source: John F. Schuessler, UFO-Related Human Physiological Effects, | | p. 96, citing El Comercio, Quito, Ecuador, November 4, 1981). | | | | 1983 - An F-5E interceptor was scrambled by the Brazilian Air Force | | as many witnesses in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil reported a silvery spot | | maneuvering over city at 5:10 p.m. The official explanation was | | balloon, but UFO researchers in Brazil don't accept it as plausible. | | (Source: Irene Granchi, APRO Bulletin, July 1984, p. 1). | | | | 1983 - Police officer Hamel and several other witnesses observed an | | octagon-shaped ovoid at 8:30 p.m. low over trees and buildings in | | Rochester, New Hampshire. It made a humming noise as it hovered | | and maneuvered for 60 minutes. (Source: Doris Graziano, APRO | | Bulletin, September 1984, p. 7). | | | | 1984 - At 8:45 p.m. the entire staff of radio station WVIP saw a | | brilliant, 100-yard-wide triangle flying over Mount Kisco, New York, | | going north. Ms. Bellatoni, a news reporter, had just left the Mount | | Kisco police station when she saw a solid object with more than 12 | | lights in a V-formation. One dozen more people watched it with her. | | Mr. Wescon, a 44-year-old engineer, watched the 12 or more lights in | | the V-formation fly over his location; it had steady red and white | | lights. When the object stopped to hover, its lights began to flash. | | (Source: J. Allen Hynek, Philip J. Imbrogno, and Bob Pratt, Night | | Seige: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, pp. 150-158). | | | | 1987 - A hovering object was seen on Halloween night over Wytheville, | | Virginia It shot off and broke sound barrier, rattling windows in | | homes in the town. (Source: Danny B. Gordon, Don't Look Up!  The Real | | Story Behind the Virginia UFO Sightings, p. 40). | | | | 1989 - A woman named Iva Gospina, who had previously witnessed | | various UFOs maneuvering over the area of Brovary, Kiev region, | | Ukraine, woke up in the early morning hours around three a.m. feeling | | apprehensive, and suspecting someone had broken into her apartment. | | She checked around the apartment and found her family sleeping, and | | everything else seemed in order. She then looked out the window, and | | noticed to her surprise a short woman wearing a tight-fitting black | | suit standing at her door. The woman had long straight white hair | | down to her shoulders; there also appeared to be a small black dog | | standing next to the woman, but since it was dark the witness could | | not see any other details. Still feeling apprehensive, she walked | | back into the living room and attempted to sleep on the couch. | | Suddenly, a large luminous yellow circle slowly entered through the | | closed blinds of the window. Three figures, similar to people, then | | appeared standing on her carpet. The figures wore diver’s suits | | similar to cosmonauts or robots, and were approximately 140-150 cm in | | height. Two of them wore diving suits similar in color to frosted | | glass, and the third wore a golden, scaly suit. The yellow light was | | now arranged in a semi-circle above the figure’s heads. The beings | | stood quietly without moving or speaking. In a state of panic she | | mentally commanded the figures to depart. Immediately they vanished, | | and the luminous yellow circle floated slowly out the window. The | | room became absolutely dark again. Iva stood up and rushed to the | | window, feeling some regret that the figures had left, and she yelled | | out for them to return in despair, thinking that she had lost a | | unique chance in her life to communicate with extraterrestrial | | beings. Later that night as she attempted to sleep she heard and | | “felt” a large figure enter her room and stand over her. She then | | felt completely paralyzed and was unable to move, and couldn’t even | | open her eyes from fear. Again she panicked and mentally commanded | | the alien to leave. The next morning she learned from her neighbors | | that a red luminous object had been seen hovering over the area. She | | then believed that the three aliens who had entered her apartment had | | come in peace, and she regretted panicking during her contact | | experience. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, 1989 Humanoid Sighting | | Reports database, citing UFO Ukraine, Interesting Newspaper D-8 | | block, Kiev, issue # 8, 1999). | | | | 1989 - On this night a local bookkeeper, X. Saidov, spotted a large | | dazzling object descending towards the ground in Mezhriybaza, | | Uzbekistan. After the object landed, a tall, robot-like being wearing | | a silvery suit emerged from the object. Terrified, Saidov was unable | | to move, and apparently next lost consciousness. Waking up later, he | | found himself in a desert-like location standing among the sand | | dunes. He could see hills and pyramids around him. He saw a man and | | woman exit one of the pyramids, but he remained paralyzed, and felt | | the ground under him become soft. He soon lost consciousness again. | | Later, he found himself standing next to his car close to the | | village. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, 1989 Humanoid Sighting Reports | | database, citing UFOFORUM, Russia). | | | | 1989 - On this evening a couple was watching several hovering orange | | lights in a "W” formation in Greenville, South Carolina, and decided | | to videotape them. Later, while playing back the results, they | | discovered a small, two-foot tall humanoid figure running past their | | bedroom window on the SW corner of the house. The figure appeared to | | be holding his arms up to his face. (Sources: MUFON UFO Journal, | | February 1990; Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, | | 1988-94, case # 150, citing Current Affair TV show; Albert S. | | Rosales, 1989 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 509, | | citing Strange Magazine, issue # 6). | | | | 1990 - An employee at a local forestry preserve was doing some work | | at the pheasant hatchery in County Tipperary, Ireland at 6:30 p.m. | | when he noticed a yellowish light fall into the forest area. He | | rushed over to the site in his truck, thinking that it might have | | been a plane crash. Arriving there, he saw no trace of an aircraft, | | but did see a 5-foot-tall man sitting on a wooden railing that | | surrounded that part of the forest. The man had long hair and wore | | brand new, large jeans and a checkered shirt. Questioning the man, | | the witness was told that he was just there to help the poplar trees | | in the forest. He acted in a strange fashion and proceeded to explain | | to the witness in very scientific terms ways the method to cure and | | correct tree disease. The witness felt that this last part of the | | experience had a dream-like quality to it. He last saw the short man | | walk off into the forest and disappear. Later the witness saw a | | bright light zigzagging over the forest. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, | | 1990 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 335, citing Diane | | Tessman, UFO Universe, Winter 1993). | | | | 1992 - On this evening a witness driving a pickup truck on a rural | | road on Gaither Mountain, Arkansas saw, standing by the roadway, a | | short gray-skinned humanoid with a large head and huge black eyes | | only 15 feet away. The witness apparently blacked out and experienced | | at least 30 minutes of missing time. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, 1992 | | Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 272, citing Francis L. | | Ridge, UFO Intelligence Newsletter, 4-1993). | | | | 1995 - At 7:00 p.m. in Tacoma, Washington a witness called the UFO | | Reporting Center to report a bright ball of light landing in a nearby | | field. Two hours later a second witness saw a nocturnal light zigzag | | through the sky and shoot off into the distance. (Source: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle). | | | | 2001 - At 4:00 a.m. a well defined blue object, which was fat at both | | ends but slim in the middle, was seen over Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, | | England. (Source: British Ministry of Defense, case 2001-173). | | | | 2001 - Derek Holmes, age 66, spotted a round, white airborne object | | with curved edges while driving while driving home on Bonsall Moor, | | Cromford, Derbyshire, England at 10:32 p.m. Slowing down, he looked | | but could not find a safe place to stop on the narrow road to capture | | the brilliant image on filme. Despite having a camera with him in the | | car, he was too slow to get a photo. The size of the light went down, | | as if someone hit a dimmer switch, and it went yellow. It moved into | | the distance and then disappeared. (Source: George A. Filer & David | | E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. | | 136). | | | | 2001 - A huge triangular-shaped object with a white light in the | | center was seen traveling at a high speed across rainy sky at 8:30 | | p.m. in Ozaukee, Wisconsin. The witnesses saw rain pelting off the | | back of the UFO as it flew off, and then disappeared. (Source: UFO | | Magazine (USA), February 2002, p. 20). | | | | 2006 - A black triangular UFO with 3 lights on it was seen at 9:30 | | p.m. in Hetton-le-Hole, Tyne and Wear, England. (Source: British | | Ministry of Defense, case 2006-56). | | | | 2007 - Four objects in triangular formation, flying south, were | | observed over Winnipeg, Manitoba. (Source: Chris Rutkowski, 2007 | | Canadian UFO Survey, case # 705). | | | | 2008 - A V-shaped formation made up of approximately 8-10 lights flew | | over St. Marys, West Virginia at midnight. At 2:00 a.m. a bright, | | flashing disc-shaped object see overhead in Jeffersonville, Indiana; | | this sighting lasted for about an hour. A triangular object, flat, | | with an orb-shaped compartment in the back of the craft, was then | | seen over Flemingsburg, Kentucky at 2:30 a.m. (Source: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2008 | | webpage, reports uploaded October 31, 2008 and January 10, 2009). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 30 October 2012). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: blimp or oval-shaped UFOs; buzzing sounds; ca | | r pacings; disc-shaped UFOs; exploding UFO; landings; Grey humanoid; | | maneuvering UFOs; missing time; multi-year reports from Argentina, Br | | azil and England; orange UFOs; oval of blimp-shaped UFOs; physiologic | | al effects: electric shock, increased body heat, loss of speech, para | | lysis, weight loss; silent UFOs; silvery uniforms; thin black humanoi | | d seen inside a "fairy ring"; triangular UFOs; vehicle EM ignition in | | terference effects; watches affected, vertical ascent; zigzag motion. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+