+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  October 10 | | | | 1935 -  A military witness at Nobby's Head, Newcastle, New South | | Wales, Australia took a photograph of a circular flying object at ten | | p.m. The object, seen revolving on its vertical axis, had clearly | | visible details, and flew off to the north. (Source: Bill Chalker, | | The Oz Files, p. 35). | | | | 1944 - A bicyclist in Alghult, Sweden reported that on this evening a | | beam of light from a luminous flying sphere struck the small | | generator used on the bicycle to generate electricity for the | | headlamp.  The UFO hovered over some nearby woods, then vanished. | | (Source: Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary | | Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century, p. 24). | | | | 1951 - A cigar-shaped object crossed the sky ten miles east of St. | | Croix, Wisconsin. It made a slight dive, levelled off, then | | accelerated out of sight. (Source: Project Grudge Report #3; January | | 31, 1952; Project Blue Book, October 1951; Richard Hall, The UFO | | Evidence, p. 56). | | | | 1952 - At 6:30 p.m. three enlisted men at Otis AFB, Massachusetts | | watched a blinking white light swing in the sky like a pendulum for | | 20 minutes. It then shot straight up. (Sources: Project Blue Book | | files counted in official statistics, case # 2155; Don Berliner, | | Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1954 - On or about this day a large group of farmers in Mahallat, | | Iran witnessed a luminous hemispherical object land. It emitted | | multi-colored beams of light. The central part of the object appeared | | to be metallic. The object suddenly shot straight up and was soon | | gone from sight. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A | | Century of Landings, p. 223, case 224). | | | | 1954 - At around 2:00 a.m. in Epoisses, Côte-d'Or, France between | | Epoisses and Toutry, Daniel Grapin and Francois Bolatre, two | | topographers, saw a luminous sphere 3.5 meters in diameter on the | | ground near Route N454. The encounter lasted four minutes. (Sources: | | Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 223, | | case 225; Jimmy Guieu, Flying Saucers Come from Another World, p. | | 208; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier | | Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 141). | | | | 1954 - At 4:30 a.m. a bulging ovoid object was seen on the road ahead | | in Cavanac, Aude, France. It gave off sparks, and took off vertically | | making no noise during its ascent. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer | | database, case 3845). | | | | 1954 - In the predawn hours four beings 1.2 meters tall were busy | | underneath a blue cigar-shaped object hovering 1.5 meters over a | | field in Rinckerode, Lower Saxony, Germany. The witness was a | | 42-year-old man named Hogl. They had thin legs, broad chests, large | | heads, and they wore rubber suits.They re-entered the craft via a | | ladder; the object then tilted to one side, and shot up and away at | | an angle. (Source: Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. | | 47). | | | | 1954 - At 6:15 a.m. Michel Toutain was bicycling in | | Marville-Moutier-Brule, Eure-et-Loir department, France when he saw a | | red ball of light above which was a greenish circular disc resembling | | the cover of a washbasin, four meters in diameter. Inside the green | | dome he could see that there were four dark silhouettes. He was | | unable to advance towards the object, stopped by some unseen force. | | (Source: Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier | | Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 141, citing La | | Gazette Francaise, October 16, 1954). | | | | 1954 - At 6:30 a.m. Roger Thiriet, a jailer in the Ecouvres detention | | center, was riding his motorcycle in Charmes-la-Cote, | | Meurthe-et-Moselle, France when he suddenly saw an aluminum-colored | | object shaped like a plate, with a dome on top and two portholes. It | | was about two meters in diameter and one meter high. It took off | | immediately. (Sources: France Soir, October 21, 1954; Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 223, case 227). | | | | 1954 - At 2:02 p.m. a math professor, Mr. Bon, observed a silvery | | disc about seven meters in diameter rise silently from a point about | | 250 meters to the side of the road in St-Germain-de-Livet, Calvados, | | France. Spinning, it dove towards the ground from an altitude of | | about 800 meters, then flew off horizontally at a dizzying speed. | | (Sources: France Soir, October 14, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 223, case 228). | | | | 1954 - In the evening at Saillat-sur-Vienne, Haute-Vienne, France | | Mssr. Roger Gayout and his family saw a very bright object come very | | close to the ground. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the | | Straight Line Mystery, p. 162; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A | | Century of Landings, p. 223-224, case 229). | | | | 1954 - Quarouble, Nord, France. At 11:30 p.m. a second landing with | | occupants was witnessed here by Marius Dewilde and his four-year-old | | son. A disc, six meters in diameter and about one meter tall, landed | | again on the railroad tracks. Seven little men about one meter tall | | emerged from the craft and spoke in an unknown language. The craft | | then vanished without noise or smoke. Traces larger than the first, | | and symmetrical, were observed. Dewilde refused to report the case to | | the authorities. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the | | Straight Line Mystery, p. 158; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A | | Century of Landings, p. 223, case 226). | | | | 1956 - At 10:30 p.m. three balls of light flew from north to south | | over Villamassargia, Sardegna, Italy and then circled an arriving 60 | | foot long cigar-shaped object. There were several witnesses, and the | | sighting lasted 30 minutes. (Sources: Flying Saucer Review, | | March-April 1963, p. 3; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for | | Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, p. 82; Richard F. Haines, Project | | Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 45). | | | | 1957 - At 2:30 in the afternoon Mrs. Edward Yeager, who lived in a | | trailer on the Duanesburg Church Road in Schenectady, New York near | | Mariaville, saw a circular UFO go down behind a hill. Two minutes | | later it flew up again and was very bright. The next day she was | | feeding her animals and the animals ran away when the same or a | | similar object came down within two meters of the ground. Two dark | | little men came out of the craft and went into the woods. The object | | remained there for two minutes, then left. A search for the occupants | | proved futile. A bus driver was reported to have seen two craft land | | in a nearby field at the same hour. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport | | to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 259, case 409; Flying Saucer | | Review, May 1958 & FSR, July-August 1970, p. 35; David F. Webb & Ted | | Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0432). | | | | 1957 - Quebracoco, Brazil. On this night a naval officer, Miguel | | Espanhol and another man, were driving to Ceres, Goias State, Brazil | | when they saw a bright object that illuminated the countryside and | | flew down to ground level as their truck stalled. It was oval or | | saucer-shaped, over 150 meters in diameter and 40 meters deep, with a | | dome supporting a long "aerial" with a red light on top. The bright | | light went off and the witnesses saw seven childlike beings, with | | long hair and luminous suits, who looked down at them for about three | | minutes. The craft flew south and released a smaller disc, which flew | | north. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of | | Landings, p. 259; O Cruzeiro, May 17, 1958; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, | | Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 110). | | | | 1962 - Several one meter wide balls of light maneuvered around houses | | in Jacksonville, Florida at around eight o'clock in the evening. | | (Source: APRO Bulletin, November 1962, p. 1). | | | | 1962 - A blue flash in the woods caused a tractor to stop running in | | Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires province, Argentina at 8:00 p.m. A | | nocturnal light lifted off from the ground and headed out to sea, | | leaving behind ground marks. (Source: Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case | | Histories, December 1972, p. 10). | | | | 1966 - At 5:20 p.m. six witnesses in Newton, Illinois saw a metallic | | oval-shaped object or football with a tail appendage come down over | | some power lines. It made a whirling sound, and shot away at terrific | | speed. (Sources: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 238; UNICAT, | | case 252; George Kocher, UFO's: What to Do? (Rand Corporation | | document), p. 18).  | | | | 1966 - A person contacted the National UFO Reporting Center in | | Seattle to report that at around 9:00 p.m. in Live Oak, Florida a | | saucer-shaped object zapped energy from some powerlines while at the | | same time his pregnant mother received a mental message from the UFO | | not to pass on any information about the close encounter. (Source: | | Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, report uploaded May | | 11, 2005). | | | | 1966 - At 9:15 p.m. police officers Pastro and Thompson at Wanaque | | Reservoir in Wanaque, New Jersey observed a spherical object with a | | protrusion on one side emitting an extremely bright, blinding light | | that lit up the surrounding terrain. The UFO first hovered, and then | | moved around erratically at high speeds, making sharp turns and | | leaving a misty trail in its wake when it moved. (Source: NICAP UFO | | Investigator, Oct.-Nov. 1966, p. 6; NICAP case files, report by John | | Pagano; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Here and Now, p. 20). | | | | 1966 - At 9:30 p.m. an Air Force pilot and his wife driving on | | Interstate 93 in Medford, Massachusetts sighted a wheel and spoke | | like object in the sky. It had slow moving lights, like mirrors on a | | carousel with dark gaps in between. (Source: Raymond Fowler, UFOs: | | Interplanetary Visitors, p. 341, investigation report dated November | | 23, 1966). | | | | 1967 - At 12:45 a.m. Norman Cory was driving home in Lakewood, | | Colorado when he was flagged down by a tall man with a forked goatee. | | The man was well over six feet tall, and was wearing a jacket with | | four gold bars on each shoulder. The man talked to the witness | | without moving his lips, presumably by telepathy. He asked where the | | North Star was, and what the date was; in response to the answer, he | | replied, "In your primitive time." He then asked what the witness had | | in his mouth, and on being told it was a cigarette, he replied, "Oh, | | one of your primitive vices." He next asked about the car and said, | | "Oh, your primitive mode of transportation." When the witness asked | | him who he was and where he was from, the man replied, "I cannot tell | | you now, but my colleagues and I will return." Then the man walked | | about four feet away from the roadside and vanished. Norman then | | heard a noise and looked up and saw hovering overhead a red object | | the size of a football field. With a whining noise it went straight | | up, and then was joined by two more objects, and all three shot | | away at a tremendous speed.  (Sources: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, | | HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-102 (A0880), citing | | R. Leo Sprinkle; Lt. Col. A. P. Webb, Project Blue Book). | | | | 1967 - A forest fire lookout in Bow River Provincial Forest, Alberta, | | Canada saw an oval object with a rim around the circumference and a | | green light on top. The light rotated, and when the object moved it | | turned white. The object hovered, then moved off and disappeared | | emitting four blue flames as it departed. (Source: London (ON) | | Evening Free Press, October 16, 1967, copy in NICAP files). | | 1967 - At 7:00 p.m. three witnesses in Leek, Staffordshire, England | | using 7 x 50 binoculars saw a yellowish oval with a small dome on | | top, with a yellow light rotating around the dome. The object also | | had one red and two green body lights that pulsated on and off. As | | the lights pulsated, the color of the object changed from yellow to | | white. At 7:30 p.m. a similar object shot across the sky, stopped and | | joined the first object (rendezvous). Both objects were gradually | | obscured by clouds. (Source: Roger Stanway & Anthony Pace, UFOs | | Unidentified Undeniable, p. 16). | | | | 1967 - A cigar-shaped object was seen in the northwestern sky over | | Dublin, Ireland by several witnesses in the evening. (Source: Dermot | | Butler, Conspiracy of Silence: UFOs in Ireland, p. 18). | | | | 1970 - Two brightly lit, 25 foot in diameter disc-shaped objects | | buzzed a car in Bay City, Michigan at 2:15 a.m. The car radio | | developed interference as they flew over. (Source: APRO Bulletin, | | September-October 1970, p. 4). | | | | 1972 - Around noon two witnesses in Bontrask, Norrbotten, Sweden saw | | six tiny delta-shaped objects that flew 7 kilometers in 30 seconds. | | Three flew off to the north, and three flew off to the northwest. | | (Source: GICOFF Sweden, November 1972, p. 15). | | | | 1973 - On this evening, during a time period that was during the | | height of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, two police officers in | | Ljubljana, Yugoslavia watched a big fireball making maneuvers and | | turns in the sky for a few minutes. (Source: Awareness, January 1974, | | p. 9). | | | | 1973 - At 3:00 a.m. two oddly shaped objects flew over a chemical | | plant in Yazoo City, Mississippi causing a power outage. At 6:00 p.m. | | in Magnolia, Mississippi two witnesses, one named Brumfield, saw a | | round, shiny, metallic object on or near the ground. Something | | rectangular about the size of a small person emerged, perhaps a | | robot, and later re-entered, and the object took off. (Sources: | | Clarion (MS) Ledger, October 18, 1973; Richard H. Hall, The UFO | | Evidence, Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, p. 341). | | 1973 - Fifteen objects with colored lights buzzed rooftops in New | | Lebanon, Ohio at 7:30 p.m. By 8:00 p.m. there had been at least 15 | | different sightings of UFOs "covered with red, green and blue lights" | | reported in southwestern Ohio, zooming about at tree-top level. Most | | sightings occurred between Dayton and Cincinnati, and were all | | classified as "unofficial" reports by Wright-Patterson Air Force Base | | officials. None were detected on radar, apparently because they were | | flying too low. A New Lebanon Township, Ohio police officer reported | | his sighting shortly after 8 p.m. "He didn't want to say he saw it, | | but he said it," Montgomery County Sheriff's deputy Michael Sullivan | | reported. "The officer said it was oblong and covered with lights. It | | appeared stationary in the sky about treetop level for several | | minutes until he tried to shine his cruiser spot light on it," | | Sullivan said. "It then zoomed toward him and then shot straight up | | in the air... after he turned out his light...and disappeared." | | Sullivan said the UFO sightings lasted from a fleeting moment to | | twelve minutes. "They would be behind the trees and come up and fly | | away...as if you startled it or something," he said. A spokesman at | | Wright-Patterson AFB said there would be no attempt to investigate | | the sightings unless there was an "imminent danger." (Sources: | | UPI, Columbus Dispatch, October 11, 1973; Cincinnati Post, October | | 12, 1973; NICAP UFO Investigator, November 1973, p. 4). | | | | 1973 - At 11:00 p.m. in Avery Estates, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana | | a luminous red UFO passed overhead, causing a CB radio to stop | | working. It flew fast and straight to the southeast. (Source: Ralph | | Blum, Beyond Earth: Man's Contact with UFOs, p. 128). | | | | 1974 - Beginning at 10:45 p.m. a luminous triangular or delta-shaped | | object followed a plane flying 65 kilometers northwest of Gander, | | Newfoundland, Canada for 25 minutes; there was radar confirmation. | | (Sources: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 39; Donald | | Ledger, Maritime UFO Files, p. 102).  | | | | 1975 - On highway D45 east of Pierreclos, Saone-et-Loire department, | | France at ten p.m. a car's lights and engine died when a fuzzy | | looking 100 meter wide disc-shaped object hovered nearby, then rose | | vertically, and flew off to the southeast slowly. (Source: Lumieres | | dans la Nuit, May 1976). | | | | 1982 - Four hat-shaped saucer-shaped objects with flashing lights | | flew low and fast over San Carlos Sija, Guam at around 6 a.m. A radio | | died during the encounter. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, | | case # 14452). | | | | 1985 - A small crescent-shaped object with rounded, swept back or | | drooping wings flew silently over a farm in Statesville, North | | Carolina at 7:45 p.m. It had a convex window in the bottom center of | | the craft and was dark with a reddish glow. The sighting was made by | | a 37-year-old man, and lasted 30 seconds. (Source: MUFON | | investigation case files, case # 930412J, investigator Franklin B. | | Reams). | | | | 1985 - There were at least 60 unidentified radar returns from flying | | objects without transponders on this evening over Tucson, Arizona. | |  At one point a police helicopter engaged in a pursuit of at least | | one nocturnal light. (Source: Robert Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, | | case 1032). | | | | 1988 - A bus driver and seven passengers in Mundrabilla, Western | | Australia said that several bright nocturnal lights paced their bus | | for 10 minutes at 12:10 a.m. Their report was ridiculed by the news | | media. (Source: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 163). | | | | 1988 - In Akirkeby, Denmark a tractor's headlights flickered when a | | triangle of light passed overhead at around 6:00 p.m. The tractor | | functioned normally after the object had gone. (Source: Scandinavian | | UFO Information Newsletter, issue 12). | | | | 1989 - A pilot flying between Clarksdale and Memphis, Tennessee at | | 5:30 p.m. sighted a round, metallic object moving at 800-900 mph. He | | estimated the object was 3,000 feet off of his left wing. (Source: | | Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1991, p. 231; Dominique Weinstein, | | Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 46). | | | | 1990 - Five white discs flew over a racetrack in Paris, France at the | | speed of aircraft at 4:30 p.m., heading toward the southeast. | | (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 304). | | | | 1990 - Starting at 10:15 p.m. in Skibo, Minnesota at least four | | ground observers, including two police, saw 3-5 glowing lights in a | | forested area of northern Minnesota for more than an hour. Duluth Air | | Traffic Control radar picked up seven unidentified targets and | | a commercial pilot also corroborated the sighting of UFOs that | | alternately hovered and darted around. (Sources: MUFON investigation | | case files, case # 901206, investigator Richard C. Bauerlein; Richard | | H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, p. 341). | | | | 1992 - In Greenville, Virginia there was a close encounter by three | | witnesses--one independent of the other two--with a huge oval or | | cigar-shaped object at 7:00 p.m. flying several hundred feet above | | the ground. It was 150-200 feet in length and had three rectangular | | 20 foot long bright pink lights along the side. There was also | | another circular object that was reddish-pink in the center with | | rings of rainbow colors around its center. The circular or | | disc-shaped object with the rings of light was over the mountains; | | it dropped to a low altitude, and a jet roar was heard for four | | minutes. (Sources: MUFON investigation case files, case # 930802E, | | investigator Mark Blashak; Jerold R. Johnson, MUFON UFO Journal, | | November 1993, p. 12). | | | | 1992 - A ring of lights divided into two sections over the M56 | | highway in Streton, Cheshire, England at 11:00 p.m. (Source: UFO | | Newsclipping Service, January 1993). | | | | 1994 - A delta-shaped object hovered over a cornfield in Traverse | | City, Michigan at 8:05 p.m. It had searchlights that shone down on | | the ground. The object abruptly shot away. (Source: Curt Sutherly, | | UFO Mysteries: A Reporter Seeks the Truth, p. 194). | | | | 1995 - A large bright blue light buzzed a car on Interstate 43 | | southwest of Milwaukee, Wisconsin at 7:45 p.m., then dropped, turned, | | and crossed the highway. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO | | Reporting Center, Seattle). | | | | 1996 - At 12:10 in the afternoon Brian Norton sighted a white | | cigar-shaped object that left no vapor trail and flew silently over | | Del Norte, Colorado. At 11:30 p.m. healing arts students in Crestone, | | Colorado first sighted a rapidly zigagging light high in the sky | | headed from west to east. This was followed by a group of 10-12 | | blinking lights on the western horizon. (Sources: Christopher | | O'Brien, Enter the Valley, p. 302; Christopher O'Brien case files, | | case 449). | | | | 1997 - Muhand Faras, age 16, was walking home from school in | | Tulkarem, Israel on this late afternoon when he came upon a strange | | man-sized figure, dark green in color, with a strange growth on its | | face. The figure had two small hands with three fingers on each hand | | and long fingernails. The being made a threatening gesture towards | | Muhand, screamed something in an unintelligible language, and then | | flew up into the sky and vanished. At sunset a local engineer, Raid | | A'anam, saw a black creature in the sky. He told police investigators | | that he saw the outline of the figure, and that it was human looking | | with two arms and two legs. It flew fast over the area, quickly | | disappearing from sight. (Sources: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid | | Contact Database 1997, cases # 2732 & # 3774, citing Joseph Trainor, | | UFO Roundup website & Israeli UFO Research). | | | | 1998 - At 11:51 a.m. witnesses observed a 75-80 foot silver domed | | disc hovering approximately 75 feet over a bookstore in London, | | Ontario, Canada. The object then turned upside-down for 2-3 seconds, | | then righted itself. It next shot straight up to an altitude of 1/2 | | to 3/4 of a mile and resumed hovering until it blinked out after five | | minutes. (Source: Brian Vike, HBCCUFO). | | | | 2007 - At 9:00 p.m an oval-shaped object hovered and shot through the | | sky with very bright lights over Jensen Beach, Martin County, Florida | | for two minutes, and then vanished. (Source: Peter Davenport, | | National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Oct. 2007 webpage, report | | uploaded November 28, 2007). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 9 October 2009). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: aircraft UFO encounters; blue UFOs; car b | | uzzings; cigar-shaped UFOs; crescent-shaped UFOs; dark black dwarf hu | | manoids; disc-shaped UFOs; domed discs; dwarf humanoids; flying human | | oid; multi-year reports from Florida, France, Michigan & Wisconsin; n | | ear landings; oval-shaped UFOs; pendulum motion; power failures; rada | | r visual confirmations; radio interference; satellite UFOs exiting or | | orbiting larger UFO; silent UFOs; silvery UFOs; telepathy; triangula | | r UFOs; UFOs near power lines; unintelligible language; vehicle elect | | rical system interference effects; vertical ascent; zigzag maneuvers. | | | | © Donald A. 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