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TIMESTAMPS [loading] The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20071130081618/http://www.ufoinfo.com:80/onthisday/December16.html +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  December 16 | | | | 1950 – An unidentified object landed on the surface of Lake Michigan | | near Grand Haven, Michigan at 11:45 p.m. making the surface glow. It | | then sank beneath the surface. (Source: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A | | History. 1950: August-December, p. 67). | | | | 1952 – In Gisborne, New Zealand at ten o’clock in the evening some | | “angel hair” residue fell from a fast moving, luminous blue object | | that made erratic maneuvers in the sky and flew off quickly towards | | the east. (Source: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: | | November-December, p. 68). | | | | 1953 – At the test launch of a V-2 rocket at Point Mugu, California | | many ground observers watched a huge, fast moving white disc fly off | | toward the west. (Source: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: | | August-December, p. 64). | | | | 1954 – Taking a rest stop while driving along the Pan-American | | highway near San Carlos del Zulia, Venezuela, Jesus Paz left his two | | friends in their car and walked off a short distance to relieve | | himself. They heard him screaming and then saw him fall unconscious. | | A small hairy dwarf ran off from the spot to a flat, shiny hovering | | UFO. The machine shot off with a loud whistle. Jesus Paz had deep | | scratches on his body from the creature. (Source: Coral E. Lorenzen, | | Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer | | Space, p. 55). | | | | 1957 – Mrs. Mary M. Starr, a long-term resident of Old Saybrook, | | Connecticut and a graduate of Yale University with two degrees, was | | in the habit of spending all but two or three winter months in a two | | story beach house situated only a few hundred feet from Long Island | | Sound. At the beginning and end of the tourist season her home is the | | only building occupied in the vicinity, and marshy ground surrounds | | her property on three sides. On this night Mrs. Starr was awakened | | from a sound sleep sometime between two three a.m. by bright lights | | passing her bedroom window, which faces north. She looked out her | | east window and saw a fuselage-shaped craft coming to a stop just 10 | | feet from the hourse. It was 20 to 30 feet long, dark gray or black, | | with brightly lit square windows. The object hovered motionless, just | | five feet above the ground. It had no wings, fins, or other external | | structure. | | | | Behind the lighted windows were two humanoid forms that passed each | | other, walking in opposite directions. They appeared to be wearing | | yellow jackets, and each had his right hand raised. She thought at | | first they might be stewards, carrying trays, except that their heads | | were unusual. They were square or rectangular and a reddish orange in | | color. Their feet were out of view below the portholes. Then a third | | man entered from the left, and Mrs. Starr leaned forward to try to | | see his face more clearly. As she did so the portholes faded and the | | entire object began to glow with scintillating brilliance. | | Immediately, there rose from the nearer end a kind of antenna, about | | six inches long. It oscillated and sparkled. For almost five minutes | | the glow and the sparking continued, then the antenna lowered and the | | object began to move to the right, back in the direction from which | | it had come. It made a very sharp right-angle turn. Mrs. Starr | | thought it would hit her blue spruce but it did not. It had by now | | turned a dull bluish gray again, and instead of portholes small | | circular lights outlined the entire rim. It's shape now appeared to | | be oval, and as it dipped or "undulated" to follow the contour of a | | shallow depression just beyond the garden, she saw that it was very | | shallow in depth. Over the marsh it tilted steeply and shot up into | | the sky at the speed of a jet taking off, but in complete silence. | | | | Except for the figures, she had seen nothing inside the object. The | | men could not have been more than four feet tall at the most, given | | the size of the object as determined by occlusion of nearby objects. | | The U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book recorded the case as "little men | | in cigar." Project Blue Book filed a newspaper article on the case, | | but did not investigate. (Sources: Civilian Saucer Intelligence | | Newsletter, July 15, 1959; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A | | Century of Landings, case 451; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The | | Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 77). | | | | 1957 – Later that same night at around 8:45 p.m. an aluminum colored, | | disc-shaped UFO followed a train near Chrockatt de Sa in Minas Gerais | | State, Brazil for ten minutes, maneuvering back and forth from side | | to side of the train. It had a bright orange light. (Source: Loren E. | | Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: | | December, p. 53). | | | | 1965 – In Chineham, Basingstoke, England at 7:45 p.m. two police | | officers, J. Harwood and B. Gibbons, sighted a tadpole-shaped UFO | | with a large green dome on top and a red flaming tail two to three | | times its length. It passed overhead at an extreme speed. There were | | low lying clouds at the time and the UFO passed under the clouds. | | (Source: Gary Heseltine, UFO Magazine (UK), July 2003, p. 5, citing | | R. Chapman). | | | | 1967 - A man driving with his girlfriend late at night in Winterfold, | | Surrey, England had stopped his vehicle outside a deserted mansion in | | order to clean the windshield. His girlfriend meanwhile remained in | | the car. He noticed an acrid smell. He got back into the car and then | | noticed a strange figure looking at them from nearby. The humanoid | | was about four foot six inches tall and had a luminous, oblong-shaped | | head. Furthermore, the odor seemed to be coming from his direction. | | The figure approached and put an arm on the roof of the car. At this | | point the man and woman drove away at high speed. (Source: Albert S. | | Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1967, case # 1640, citing Fortean | | Times, issue # 10). | | | | 1977 – On a highway just north of Uzes, France at 10:00 p.m. | | witnesses on two separate motorbikes both had their bikes stall in | | the presence of a Saturn-shaped UFO with a red ring around it. The | | UFO crossed over highway D979 going east, then flew away to the west. | | At 11:25 p.m. in La Aurora, Uruguay there was a great flash in the | | northeastern sky, followed by a UFO gyrating downward as if out of | | control. Huge sparks fell to the ground, and the UFO descended as if | | going to land, but then suddenly rose up into the sky at tremendous | | speed. (Sources: Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1978; Bob Van Der | | Velde, APRO Bulletin, May 1982, p. 4). | | | | 1978 – At 2:30 a.m. in Francavilla, Italy a college coed saw an | | ovoid UFO surrounded by a white mist. She was standing in her living | | room by a balcony overlooking the sea when she noticed a gaseous | | form, white in color with two pulsating lights, a red one at one end, | | a green one at the other end. It descended onto the surface of the | | sea and became a very bright flourescent white light that reflected | | off the surface of the water. She attempted to wake her parents but | | they continued to sleep. She next noticed two short figures standing | | in the garden at the adjacent apartment. They were very thin with | | large squarish heads and large feet. Both were wearing dark gray | | tight-fitting uniforms. They turned a corner moving as if in slow | | motion and in a limping manner, disappearing down an alleyway. | | Moments later the bright white light, now very near the breakwater, | | vanished. (Sources: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 218; Maurizio | | Verga, ITACAT - Italian UFO Catalogue). | | | | 1978 – Over Calama, near the city of Antofagasta in northern | | Chile at shortly after midnight, a Chilean Air Force jet sighted and | | tried to intercept a huge luminous rectangular flying object. | | (Source: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 42 citing | | the MUFON UFO Journal, December 1978). | | | | 1978 – In Caracas, Venezuela in the early morning, predawn hours | | five UFOs emitted different colors, made a semi-circular turn, and | | then hovered over a mountain for several minutes before finally | | shooting away. (Source: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, March | | 1979, p. 14 citing Cronica, December 16, 1978). | | | | 1978 – At 5:30 a.m. at McCarran Airport in Las Vegas, Nevada a | | married couple and a child saw a disc-shaped object with glowing | | white lights. The UFO made several falling leaf movements. An airline | | pilot flying in the vicinity also reported that a UFO streaked by his | | airliner although the UFO did not appear on radar. (Source: Las Vegas | | (Nevada) Sun, December 17, 1978). | | | | 1978 – On this night on a road one-mile south of Abington, | | Indiana the witnesses’s car engine and radio went dead when a UFO | | appeared coming over the trees only ten feet above the ground. The | | aluminum colored UFO was shaped like a trapezoid with rounded | | corners, with two lights in the front and two on the bottom. (Source: | | Richmond (Indiana) Paladium Item, January 1979, p. 7). | | | | 1978 – In Saltillo, Mexico in the state of Coahuila a flying | | object exploded in the night, lighting up the sky with a violet | | color. The explosion was reportedly heard over a 1,000 square | | kilometer area. (Source: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, March | | 1979, p. 14 citing La Razon, December 22, 1978). | | | | 1981 - In the evening on this day in 1981 a disc with a white band in the | | middle appeared over Nigde, Turkey. The same or a similar object was | | seen over the city on multiple subsequent nights. (Source: Jerold R. | | Johnson, MUFON UFO Journal, February 1994, p. 18). | | | | 1992 – A man awoke on this night at 5:30 a.m. in his bedroom in | | Scotland and felt compelled to go to window. He saw a tall, | | tannish-gray being only two meters away. A powerful sense of fear | | overcame him, and he believed that the alien had come for his | | girlfriend, still asleep in the bed. He next experienced a loss of | | memory as to what happened next, and they both felt ill. (Source: | | Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, case 2860, citing | | A. Brough). | | | | 1996 – Two skiers at Stevens Pass in Washington watched an orange | | colored disc-shaped UFO appear in the sky during the evening. Over | | the next two minutes they then sighted two more of the objects. | | (Source: Francis L. Ridge, UFO Intelligence Newsletter). | | | | 1997 - On this night in Riachao De Jacuipe, Brazil a witness saw a | | bright light in a nearby field that increased rapidly in size as it | | approached. viewing through a pair of binoculars, the witness saw a | | humanoid silhouette within the light. It was without any features, | | and appeared to be silvery metallic in color, and emitting an orange | | beam of light. It and the light suddenly disappeared. (Source: Albert | | S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, citing Antonio Faleiro, | | Brazil). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 15 September 2004). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: acrid odor, angel hair residue, | | disc-shaped UFOs, EM vehicle ignition interference, erratic maneuvers | | , falling leaf motion, glowing UFOs, hairy dwarf, nautical UFO on lak | | e surface, ovoid UFOs, shiny metallic colored UFOs, Saturn-shaped UFO | | , short robot-like humanoid UFO occupants, short luminous humanoid, t | | all entity, UFO pacing a railroad train, whistling sound, white UFOs. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+