+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | | December 27 | | | | 1954 - Alerted by some children to the presence of a UFO around ten | | o'clock in the morning, Elizabeth Klarer ran to a nearby hill in Mooi | | River, South Africa. Twenty yards away was a domed disc-shaped | | object, about 60 feet in diameter, that silently descended to 10-12 | | feet above the ground. It had a flat hull rotating around a flattish | | dome, which contained portholes. In one of the porthole windows she | | saw a man "with a thin face, aquiline nose, and high cheekbones," who | | looked at her with hypnotic intensity. Then, with a blast of hot air, | | the craft rose and shot away at tremendous speed. Ms. Klarer had a | | contactee experience 18 months later. (Sources: Cynthia Hind, Fate, | | August 1969; John Wallace Spencer, World Atlas of UFOs, p. 146; David | | F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case | | 1954-146 (A0359), citing Cynthia Hind). | | | | 1963 - A shiny white object was seen on the ground at Bank's Stables, | | Epping, England at four o'clock in the afternoon. It was about 3.5 | | meters long, a meter in height, and had something like a windshield | | more brilliant than the rest of the craft. When it took off it flew | | horizontally for 30 meters and was hidden from view. Grass was | | flattened over a circular area, and four ground marks were found | | suggesting imprints from landing gear. (Source: Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 593). | | | | 1969 – In the early hours after midnight Miss Mary Smith and her | | mother were in their parked car near Atlanta, Georgia talking. They | | were parked along the side of the road in the suburbs, and it was | | about two a.m. when her mother first noticed a black, saucer-shaped | | flying object with a flat bottom hovering some distance away. The | | bottom opened slowly and from it descended a “plastic bubble” with a | | glowing light inside. It drifted downward, and then separated into | | three glowing, arrow-shaped objects that came to rest in a parking | | lot across the street. Shortly afterwards they saw three dark | | humanoid forms at the spot. They looked like men with wide shoulders | | and narrow hips, but with arms shorter than normal. One was much | | larger than the others. All three were “sweeping furiously” with | | tools like lawn rakes over a spot about nine feet in diameter. What | | they swept up was put into a basket-shaped container in the center. | | At one point the larger figure chased after something to the edge of | | the street and caught it in his hand, picking it up and running back | | to put it in the basket. When two teenaged boys drove up in a car and | | saw the beings they drove into the parking lot. The figures then | | abruptly vanished. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: | | Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1969-57, citing Ted Phillips for | | MUFON). | | | | 1977 - Two very bright cones of bright light moved rapidly through | | the sky over Charlotte, North Carolina at 10:45 p.m., tracked by a | | Charlotte Police helicopter and appearing on radar. Allan Hendry, the | | investigator at the time for the Center for UFO Studies, suggested a | | prank balloon might be the explanation, but the UFO was too bright | | and emitted an energetic ball of light. (Sources: Charlotte Observer, | | December 31, 1977; APRO Bulletin, February 1978, p. 1; Allan Hendry, | | International UFO Reporter, March 1978, p. 8; Dominique Weinstein, | | Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 41). | | | | Charlotte, North Carolina Helicopter-UFO Encounter - 1977 | | | | [] | | | | 1980 - Bentwaters AFB, England - A famous close encounter landing with | | radar confirmation, and a possible encounter with humanoids occurred | | in the early morning hours between Bentwaters and Woodbridge RAF/USAF | | Bases. The case involved many military personnel, including the base | | commander, Colonel Halt. A nocturnal light had been sighted | | repeatedly over several nights prior to this encounter. On the night | | in question a 12 foot wide cone-shaped object was encountered near | | the ground outside the west gate of the Bentwaters base. According to | | several of the military witnesses, the UFO shone light beams into the | | nuclear weapons storage area, them landed or hovered quite close to | | the ground in the forest outside the base. A USAF security patrol | | outside the back gate of RAF Woodbridge likely had the closest | | encounter. The UFO they saw hovered at treetop level, and was | | described as being round with a red light on top and several blue | | lights underneath. It was surrounded by a yellow mist. It landed in a | | field, illuminating the ground, then shot up. Larry Warren, one of | | the military enlisted men present, claims that UFO occupants were | | seen on this occasion. At the same time, in nearby Martlesham in | | Suffolk county, a nocturnal light followed a car and then shot up | | into the air, causing a herd of cows to stampede. (Sources: Richard | | H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, pp. 26, | | 77, Jenny Randles, From Out of the Blue, p. 16; Illobrand von | | Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 15; Michael David Hall, UFOs: A | | Century of Sightings, p. 320; Peter Brookesmith, UFO: The Complete | | Sightings, p. 123). | | | | Bentwaters AFB, England Close Encounter - 1980 | | | | [] | | | | 1991 - On this evening five young witnesses watched a large silvery | | sphere land in a field very close to them in Longwy, France. Two | | human looking figures with blue eyes emerged from the sphere. They | | wore gray coveralls, and one figure was carrying something resembling | | a transparent cylindrical canister. That humanoid proceeded to walk | | around the object and collect various plant and soil samples, placing | | them inside the canister. After awhile the humanoids re-entered the | | sphere, which then rose up silently and shot away at high speed. | | Ground traces were found. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid | | Contact Database 1991, citing Ecol # 91, Denys Breysse Project | | Becassine). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 13 July 2005). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: cone-shaped UFOs, disc-sha | | ped UFOs, domed discs, ground imprints and circular flattened area, h | | umanoids with wide shoulders, inside occupant, landings, radar visual | | confirmations, sample collecting behavior, thin UFOnaut, white UFO.> | | | | < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+