+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  October 9 | | | | 1951 - At 1:42 p.m. CAA Chief Aircraft Communicator Roy Messmore at | | Hulman Municipal Airport in Terre Haute, Indiana sighted a round | | silver object that flew directly overhead. The UFO reached the | | horizon in 15 seconds. A very similar incident happened three minutes | | later near Paris, Illinois (15 miles NW) and was also listed as | | "unidentified" for several years, but was eventually reclassified. | | (Source: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1954 - A mailman in Huy, Belgium saw a cigar-shaped object land. Two | | silhouettes "approximately human" in appearance were seen on board | | the craft. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight | | Line Mystery, p. 154; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 221). | | | | 1954 - Between Montaren and Serviers, France, 1 kilometer from "Le | | Mas Blanc," Dr. Fabre, Mr. Court, and six others saw an orange oval | | object oscillating in midair. It was very bright and "fiery," and | | came very low to the ground. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia, p. 221). | | | | 1954 - Some men out hunting in Dreux, France saw a luminous sphere | | take off and fly toward the southwest. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying | | Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 153; Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia, p. 221). | | | | 1954 - In Soubran, France several local people saw a luminous, | | spherical object land in a pasture. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying | | Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 154; Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia, p. 221). | | | | 1954 - In Rinkerode, Germany Willi Hoge, a projectionist, was | | returning home in the evening when he saw four occupants of an object | | that had descended to ground level 70 meters from the road he was on. | | Seeing a blue light at first, he thought that an airplane had made an | | emergency landing. However, the cigar-shaped object was wingless. | | There were four humanoid beings wearing some type of rubber coveralls | | working under it. They were about 1.2 meters tall and had very large | | chests and oversized heads; their legs were short and thin. (Source: | | Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 221). | | | | 1954 - Near the Landeforet pool in Beauvain, France Christopher | | Carette saw a fiery sphere flying at treetop level for ten seconds. | | It had a protuberance or dome on top, and was estimated to be about 4 | | meters in diameter. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the | | Straight Line Mystery, p. 152; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, | | p. 221). | | | | 1954 - As he was driving near Carcassonne, France at around 4 o'clock | | in the afternoon, Jean Bertrand saw a bright, metallic sphere ahead | | on the road. The top half appeared to be made of transparent plastic, | | and two humanlike figures were seen standing inside. It took off | | quickly, flying away to the east. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying | | Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 145; Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia, pp. 221-222). | | | | 1954 - Pournoy-la-Chetive, France. Four children--Gilbert Calda, age | | 12; Daniel Hirsch, age 9; J. P. Hirsch, age 5; and Robert Maguin, age | | 16--were roller skating at 6:30 p.m. when they saw a luminous object | | near the cemetery. It was round, about 2.5 meters in diameter, on | | stood on three legs. A dwarf, about 1.2 meters tall, dressed in | | black, having a face covered with hair and large eyes, came out and | | shone a blinding light at them. It said something in an unknown | | language. The children ran away, but looked back in time to see the | | object flying away high in the sky. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying | | Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 154; Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia, p. 222). | | | | 1954 - Mr. Barrault was riding his bicycle in Lavoux, France at seven | | o'clock in the evening when he suddenly saw a figure in a diving suit | | aiming a double beam of light at him. The individual had boots | | without heels and very bright eyes. It walked along the road for | | about a minute and then went into the forest. The witness was | | paralyzed and was unable to movethroughout the incident. The entity | | had a hairy chest and two lights, one above the other, in front of | | him. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line | | Mystery, p. 153; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 222). | | | | 1954 - Briatexte, France. At 8:30 p.m. on Route N631 at "La Caiffe," | | a technician named J. P. Mitto was returning from Toulouse with two | | other friends when they saw two small figures cross the road in front | | of their car and jump into a pasture. The beings were about the | | height of 11-year-old children and crossed only five meters in front | | of them. Stopping immediately, the witnesses saw a large convex disc | | take off vertically. It was about six meters in diameter, orange in | | color, and was literally "sucked up" into the sky. Brown oily spots | | were found at the landing site. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia, p. 222). | | | | 1954 - In Beirut, Lebanon at 10:15 p.m. the local company | | representative of a German firm, Max Favell, saw an white flying | | object land. It took off vertically, spinning, and was lost from | | sight. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 222). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 20 April 2004). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: Cigar-shaped UFOs, disc-shaped UFOs, dwarf humanoids, human l | | ooking UFOnauts, landings, oily residue, orange UFOs, oval-shaped UFO | | s, paralysis, spherical UFOs, tripod landing gear, vertical ascents. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+