+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  December 7 | | | | 1872 - At King's Sutton in Banbury, England an object resembling a | | haystack flew on an irregular course at one o'clock in the morning. | | Sometimes flying very high, sometimes very low, it was accompanied by | | fire and dense smoke. It produced much the same effect as a tornado, | | felling trees and walls. It vanished suddenly. (Source: Jacques | | Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 2). | | | | 1896 - A large airship flew over the small town of Camptonville, Yuba | | County,California and landed nearby at 9:00 p.m. Five men went out to | | investigate, and found the ship with its sole occupant, a bearded man | | who appeared to be deaf and mute. Some written communication was | | attempted, in response the man produced an "alphabet" and spelled out | | a message saying he lived in the Montezuma Mountains with his wife | | and two children. He declined to answer any further questions, so the | | five men left. The craft was seen flying off the next day. (Sources: | | San Francisco Examiner, December 8, 1896; Jerome Clark, The | | Unidentified: Notes toward Solving the UFO Mystery, p. 142; Philip L. | | Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 12). | | | | 1951 - At 8:15 a.m. an Atomic Energy Commission guard named Collins | | at the Oak Ridge Nuclear Research Facility in Tennessee sighted a | | "canvas colored" square object, estimated to be 20 feet wide, that | | moved up and down twice. The case remained unexplained by the Air | | Force. (Source: Project Blue Book files counted in official | | statistics, case 1021; Project Grudge Report #3, January 1952, p. | | 31). | | | | 1951 - A pilot trainer and his student, flying in an aeronca 65CV | | airplane over Torrance, California sighted a shiny metallic | | football-shaped object in the sky at 10:21 a.m. The object seemed to | | be stationary at first, then it moved away. (Source: Dominique | | Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 15). | | | | 1954 - A 26-year-old man riding a bicycle near a farm in | | Gainchurizqueta, Irun, Spain saw an object land nearby. It came from | | the sea on a north to south flight path, and passed within six | | meters. It was round, three meters in diameter, with a headlight and | | four fins. Traces: ground marks and metallic samples. (Source: | | Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in | | Spain and Portugal, case 16). | | | | 1954 - At 1:15 p.m. a weather officer in Cape Province, South Africa | | using a theodolite, saw a white, semi-circular, flat object with a | | dome fly from west to east, then turned north. The sighting lasted | | seven minutes. A Project Blue Book "unidentified" case. (Sources: | | Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 3356). | | | | 1957 - Two disc-shaped objects maneuvered and circled in the sky over | | Brisbane, California at 7:10 p.m. One flew off to the west, one flew | | south toward Moffett Field. (Source: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth | | Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: December, p. 24). | | | | 1966 - On this night four women driving on Route 33 near Gallipolis, | | Ohio--the town just across the Ohio River from Point Pleasant, West | | Virginia--saw a brownish silver humanoid flying creature with glowing | | red eyes. (Sources: John A. Keel, FSR, July-August 1968, p. 13; David | | F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case | | 1966-72, citing John Keel). | | | | 1967 - On this evening near El Paso, Texas William C. Collins | | observed an unidentified object hovering about 200 feet in the air. | | There appeared to be a humanoid figure onboard the object. (Sources: | | NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1968, p. 3; David F. Webb & Ted | | Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-121, | | citing a newspaper source). | | | | 1970 - After finding huge mysterious footprints on their property in | | Vader, Washington three days before, a family watched a very bright | | object approach their house at 7:15 a.m. It seemed to have a central | | dome with a revolving ring around it and was deep orange in the | | center. The craft tilted slightly to one side, hovered briefly over | | some nearby power lines, then brightened while making a low sweep | | over the area. Two of the witnesses saw what appeared to be a gray | | colored "shape" drop from the object and scurry away into the woods | | before the UFO departed. Later that week a mysterious dark "prowler" | | was seen peering through windows. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, | | Humanoid Contact Database 1970, case #1480, citing Loren Coleman, | | Mysterious America). | | | | 1972 - A married couple named Willis saw a cylindrical light hovering | | while driving in Port Elizabeth, New Jersey at 8:50 p.m. It moved | | into some nearby woods as their car approached. Ground traces and a | | missing plug of earth were found in the woods, at the suspected | | landing site. (Sources: Atlantic City Press, December 13, 1972; | | Data-Net Report, March 1973, p. 13). | | | | 1977 - In Tatapouri, New Zealand a red, disc-shaped object came over | | land from the direction of the sea at 7:30 p.m. It followed a car | | with three people inside. The headlights on the car dimmed but did | | not go out during the sighting, which ended when the UFO veered off | | into the sky. When the witnesses arrived home, they found the car's | | battery had no water in it, even though it had been serviced only two | | days prior to the sighting. (Source: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports | | Involving Vehicle Interference, case 416, citing Spaceview, first | | quarter, 1978) | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 31 August 2009). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes | | : cylindrical UFO, disc-shaped UFOs, domed discs, flying humanoid, nu | | clear facility, orange UFO, short humanoids, UFO surrounded by smoke. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+