+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  December 23 | | | | 1950 - In Point Loma, California on this date in 1950 seven teardrop-shaped | | flying objects maneuvered near a weather balloon. Several navy | | personnel, including one using a theodolite to view the object, | | watched the UFO turn toward the W and fly away out over the Pacific | | Ocean. (Source: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: | | August-December, p. 68). | | | | 1959 – At a few minutes after midnight in Oakdale, California several | | witnesses sighted a seven-meter wide, bowl-shaped disc. Shadows were | | seen moving about inside the craft. (Source: APRO Bulletin, | | January-February 1960). | | | | 1975 – Three 19-year-old girls driving together in Goodridge, | | Minnesota noticed a bright light in the sky, and their car's engine | | and lights failed. The light came closer and they saw it was an | | orange colored object, flat on top and round on the sides. It also | | had several flashing yellow lights and appeared to be 20-30 feet in | | diameter. After passing only 25 feet from the car, it suddenly | | vanished, whereupon and the car's lights and engine spontaneously | | came back on by themselves. (Sources: Warren (Minnesota) Sheaf, | | December 31, 1975; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle | | Interference, case 391). | | | | 1978 – Three important UFO sightings occurred on this date. Dr. | | Palumbo, the director of the meteorological institute at the | | University of Naples in Naples, Italy saw a luminous object travel | | from the east to the west at a high rate of speed. It left no trail | | behind. At ten o’clock in the evening a luminous 12-meter diameter | | disc was sighted over a road in Albinia, Tuscany, Italy. It moved off | | over some woods, and then turned and flew away toward the north. | | There was extensive news coverage of both sighting reports. In the | | state of Maldonado, Uruguay on a beach between the cities of | | Piriapolis and Funta del Este a reporter, Sr. L. Rengger, saw a giant | | V-shaped formation of yellow lights. A couple of the lights pursued | | his car, and one of the two crossed the road in front of his car at | | an estimated 300 meters altitude at a distance of 500 meters. | | (Sources: (1) Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, February 1979, | | p. 14, citing La Nacion December 24, 1978; (2) Lumieres dans la Nuit, | | issue 216; (3) Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1979, p. | | 13, citing La Razon, December 27, 1978). | | | | 1979 - A 27-year-old salesman traveling on Highway 57 in Fullerton, | | California had a daytime close encounter with a UFO at around 3:30 | | p.m. (Source: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, January 1980, | | p. 5). | | | | 1986 - Two police constables, Jim Begg and Tom Murphy, saw a bright | | orange moving light over Armadale, Edinburgh, Scotland on this | | evening. (Source: Gary Heseltine, Police Reports UFO Database, case | | 125, citing the West Lothian Courier, January 1988, p. 17). | | | | 1987 – Ed Walters photographed three oval-shaped UFOs at 5:55 a.m. | | from his home in Gulf Breeze, Florida. He had the impression that | | they wanted to be photographed, according to his account of the | | incident. (Source: Edward Walters, Gulf Breeze Sightings, p. 86). | | | | 1989 – Two witnesses observed two boomerang-shaped UFOs pass low over | | the Seneca Nuclear Power Plant in Warren, Pennsylvania. Either the | | same two objects flew back over the plant from the opposite | | direction, or two more similar craft flew overhead in reverse | | direction. (Source: John L. Micklow, MUFON case investigation files, | | case #900308). | | | | 1992 – At 8:20 p.m. in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil a glowing | | craft landed near a thicket on the outskirts of Passa Tempo. Several | | witnesses watched it then take off and move away to the east at a low | | altitude. It made no sound as it flew. (Source: UBPDV, Causistica | | Brasileira de 1992, p. 14). | | | | 1994 – John, a 45-year-old man residing in the Clyde Canal area of | | Lothian county in Scotland was watching television when he noticed | | electrical interference on the TV set. He then noticed a | | “human-looking alien” standing inside his house. His next memory was | | aboard a disc-shaped UFO. After the experience he had a set of small | | red puncture marks on his neck, as if a cluster of needles had been | | stuck into his skin. (Source: Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret | | History of Scotland’s UFO Phenomenon, p. 49). | | | | 1998 - At 5:20 p.m. two people at the Grand Canyon in Coconino | | County, Arizona witnessed a flying object shaped like a stingray | | approach from the south. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO | | Reporting Center, Seattle, Dec. 1998 webpage). | | | | 2000 - At  4:30 p.m. a silver cigar-shaped object was sighted | | travelling low, and moving at great speed in Zumbrota, Minnesota. It | | was seen by a witness while driving on US Hwy 52 in southeastern | | Minnesota. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | Seattle, Dec. 2000 webpage, report uploaded January 17, 2004). | | | | 2003 - At Gasport, New York at 2:30 a.m. EST a bright light shot | | across the sky from the horizon up. It made several right angle | | movements. Next, a silent, boomerang shaped object flew over Borger, | | Texas at 1:40 a.m. CST. At 4:56 a.m. MST a triangle-shaped object | | with four different multicolored lights flew across the Denver | | skyline and was viewed from Superior, Colorado (Boulder County). | |  (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, | | Dec. 2000 webpage). | | | | 2004 - At 10:06 p.m. a red disc-shaped object with body lights on the | | underneath side flew along the highway, then over cars in Sioux | | Lookout, Ontario, Canada. There were three witnesses, and the | | sighting reportedly lasted ten minutes. (Source: Geoff Dittman, 2004 | | Canadian UFO Survey, case # 870, citing HBCCUFO). | | | | 2007 - On this evening a dark silent object hovered for awhile over | | Bridport, England. It shone a light beam down. It was difficult to | | focus upon because it looked blurry. (Source: British Ministry of | | Defence, case # 95 for 2007). | | | | 2007 - At 1:30 p.m. CST a dark disc-shaped object was spotted among | | the clouds over Chicago, Illinois. It stay still long enough for the | | witness to make a three minute long video recording of it. At 6:45 | | p.m. EST a disc-shaped, blue and white light flew low and fast over | | Bowie, Maryland. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting | | Center, Seattle, Dec. 2007 webpage, reports uploaded March 4, 2008). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 23 December 2009). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: boomerang-shaped UFOs, disc-shape | | d UFOs, EM television and vehicle ignition interference, human-lookin | | g alien, luminous UFOs, missing time, multi-year reports from Califor | | nia and Scotland, physiological effects, teardrop-shaped UFOs, UFO ov | | er roadway, UFOs over nuclear facility, vanishing UFO, yellow lights. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+