+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  December 19 | | | | 1954 – UFOs shot through the sky over Vienna, Austria. There were | | many reports including several from police witnesses. (Source: | | Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 122). | | | | 1954 – On the same night in Cartaya, Huelva Province, Spain a | | circular craft landed 50 meters away from two witnesses. As the | | witnesses walked towards it the UFO rose up to a very high altitude | | and flew away toward Portugal, making a great deal of noise. (Source: | | Newspaper clipping dated December 20, 1954). | | | | 1954 – At eleven o’clock in the evening Mr. Parra, an 18-year-old | | resident of Valencia, Venezuela watched a disc-shaped UFO land and | | six three foot tall humanoids disembarked and set about collecting | | vegetation samples. When he attempted to approach he was paralyzed. | | The UFO left behind ground traces. (Source: Newspaper clipping dated | | December 21, 1954). | | | | 1962 – Verbania, Italy. At 7:15 a.m. three men in a boat saw two | | classic-shaped discoid objects fly over the lake known as Lago | | Maggiore at only 20 meters altitude. The UFOs rose vertically and | | flew off. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of | | Landings, case 555). | | | | 1969 - In 1969 a car with its male driver was lifted up off the highway for | | a short distance in Quincy, Illinois (Source: Skylook, May 7, 1971). | | | | 1969 – In Saddle River, New Jersey police officers watched several | | pairs of UFOs fly over slowly from the west to the east at 11 o’clock | | at night. They viewed the lighted objects through binoculars. They | | described the UFOs as having an X-shaped arrangement of lights on the | | bottom. (Source: Data-Net Report, March 1970, p. 11, citing Ringwood | | Herald). | | | | 1973 – A famous well-investigated close encounter of the third kind | | report occurred on this night in Vilvoorde, Belgium. A 28-year-old | | man awoke at 2:00 a.m. and saw in the yard behind his house a short | | entity about 1.1 meters tall dressed in a luminous green space suit | | and helmet. The being carried a device with a long handle and a base | | that looked similar to a vacuum cleaner. He walked up the side of a | | wall. The domed disc UFO was about six meters in diameter, and had an | | insignia shaped like a black circle with a diagonal lightning flash | | through it. (Source: Jean-Luc Vertongen, FSR, April 1975, p. 13, | | citing Inforespace). | | | | 1973 – At 11:00 p.m. later that night two large square objects | | hovered, maneuvered, and made a loop in the sky over Charmeil | | Airport, France. They flew away and came back briefly, then left | | going toward the east. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 136). | | | | 1973 – Red and blue lights moved through the sky, stopped, and then | | reversed direction abruptly over the city of Grand Island, Nebraska | | at 9:45 p.m. local time. On the same night a photograph of a UFO was | | taken in Chilton, Texas. (Sources: (1) Elmer Kral, MUFON field | | investigation files, report dated December 19, 1973; (2) J. Bernard | | Delair, UFO Register (Volume 5), 1974, case 1144, citing Saga UFO | | Report). | | | | 1976 – At two o’clock in the morning in Bourke, New South Wales, | | Australia. Mr. Mann, 26-years-old, suffered lasting physiological | | effects from a UFO. (Source: Australian Centre for UFO Studies, case | | investigation files, report dated April 7, 1978) | | | | 1976 – On this night in Salters Point, Western Australia two men, | | Brennan and Gibbs, heard a whirring sound and then sighted a two-foot | | wide disc-shaped UFO that flew behind a house at only 30 feet | | altitude. It then shot away toward the west. (Source: International | | UFO Reporter, February 1977, p. 2). | | | | 1976 – At 6:20 p.m. in Concord, California a 53-year-old man sighted | | a nocturnal light zigzagging toward the north, then circle and | | reverse direction. It moved at a slow speed at first, then sped up, | | and finally shot away to the west. (Source: J. Allen Hynek Center for | | UFO Studies, case investigation files, December 1976). | | | | 1978 - In Montebello di Bertona, Italy at 6:00 a.m. a single witness | | reported that a UFO shaped like a cylindrical “space capsule” landed | | and then lifted off again. It had rotating lights. (Source: Lumieres | | dans la Nuit, issue 216). | | | | 1978 - At 6:00 a.m. local time a silver wing-shaped UFO hung over | | Flattop Mountain south of Alamosa, Colorado for about three hours. It | | was viewed through binoculars and seen by several Mountain Bell | | Telephone employees. (Source: Alamosa Valley Courier, December 20, | | 1978). | | | | 1979 – At 7:00 a.m. a white, egg-shaped UFO—one meter in | | diameter—landed in an upright orientation in a yard in Lunel, France. | | It was then seen moving down the driveway at ground level by three | | witnesses. That same night southwest of Gainesville, Florida a large | | bright disc chased a car down a road, hovered over a house, then shot | | away at a high rate of speed heading south. (Sources: Lumieres dans | | la Nuit, April 1980; MUFON UFO Journal, March 1980). | | | | 1981 – At 8:10 p.m. two witnesses in Oliveto Lucano, Italy saw a | | two-meter wide spinning luminous ball of light fly over a church at | | 20 meters altitude and move off behind some buildings in the town. | | (Source: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Italian UFO Catalogue). | | | | 1981 – That same night at 10 p.m. in Aguas Claras, Brazil a car was | | stalled by a UFO. A bullet shaped UFO sat on the roadway in front of | | the stalled car. It rose up, then came back and followed the car into | | town. There were two witnesses in the car and other independent | | witnesses to the event. (Sources: MUFON UFO Journal, February 1987; | | Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #13812). | | | | Early in the afternoon on this date in 1996 a silver gray metallic | | object struck the top of a Boeing-757 cockpit belonging to a Chinese | | Southern Airlines aircraft on a flight between Beijing and Wuhei, | | China cracking the outer windshield. The plane made an emergency | | landing. (Sources: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. | | 48, citing J. Trainor, UFO Roundup). | | | | 1998 – On this night a roaring sound awoke a man in Stra, Italy to | | the close presence outside his home of a bright aerial object with | | several windows. The UFO was about 10 meters in diameter. Two | | three-foot tall beings were seen outside the craft. They wore gray | | coveralls and moved in a mechanical manner. Landing traces found at | | the site consisted of a circle with three holes arranged in an | | equilateral triangle. The sides of the triangle were 4.1 meters in | | length. (Source: Ted R. Phillips, case investigation files, C005, | | citing M. Verga). | | | | 1999 – On this night in Copenhagen, Denmark a large, red, luminous | | bowl-shaped UFO with a tail like a parabola flew across the sky from | | the northwest to the southeast in 3 minutes. (Source: UFO Magazine | | (USA), March 2000, p. 17). | | | | 2001 – A four minute long videotape was shot at 1:20 p.m. in | | Nezahualcoyotl, Mexico of a dark, domed ovoid object. It had a | | peculiar knob shape on the bottom of the object. It shot off with | | extreme acceleration. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case | | 17849, citing J. Trainor, UFO Roundup). | | | | 2001 – The second sighting of a triangular-shaped UFO was made by a | | witness in Mouscron, Belgium an 10:10 a.m. This daylight sighting was | | of a triangular-shaped wedge with three blue lights in the corner, | | and yellow light in the center, and a red light on the side. (Source: | | Michel Bougard, Inforespace, June 2002, p. 40). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 29 September 2004). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes – car pursuits, coverall uniforms, dis | | c-shaped UFOs, domed discs and ovoids, early morning close encounters | | , glowing objects, humanoids, lasting physiological effects, levitati | | on, multicolored UFOs, multi-year UFO reports from Italy, noisy UFOs, | | police witnesses, roaring sound, short one-meter tall UFOnauts, squa | | re-shaped UFOs, triangular ground mark pattern, triangular wedge-shap | | ed UFO, vertical ascent, videotape, whirring sound, zigzag maneuvers. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+