+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  December 21 | | | | 1955 – From her bedroom window in Washburn, Maine Mrs. Jacobs watched | | a reddish-orange glare resolve into a golden domed elliptical saucer | | at eleven o’clock at night. In the lower part of the dome she could | | see figures moving about, like people "walking in front of a light." | | The experience made her feel nauseous, and at the same time she had a | | definite feeling of being watched. (Sources: Otto Binder, What We | | Really Know About Flying Saucers, p. 19; Project Blue Book cases | | counted in official statistics, case no. 3893; Thomas M. Olsen, The | | Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, p. 71). | | | | 1957 - In 1957 in Bryson City, North Carolina a 20-meter-long cigar-shaped | | object flew slowly to the east, then circled the valley at around | | nine o’clock in the evening. It had a very distinct outline. (Source: | | Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A | | History, 1957: December, p. 63). | | | | 1957 - At 6:30 p.m. Mrs. Mendonca and five other persons in Ponta | | Poran, Brazil saw a light in the southern sky, which later appeared | | as two spherical objects coming closer to them on an oscillating | | course. One of the UFOs hovered close to their car while the other | | circled. They were shaped like a sphere surrounded by a flat ring, | | and chased the car for two hours over the deserted road. The | | estimated diameter of each was five meters. (Source: Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 452). | | | | 1961 – At 4:35 p.m. two cloud cigars maneuvered within sight of an | | airliner and then paced the DC-4 aircraft near Aso-san, Japan. One of | | the objects emitted a ball of light. The pilot, Mr. Matsumura, took | | photographs. That night at 9:45 local time in Lafayette, Indiana a | | 2.5 meter diameter disc dove at a car being driven by a | | twenty-year-old man named Hislope and then flew away. (Sources: | | Yusuke J. Matsumura, Flying Saucers, October 1965, p. 29; Coral E. | | Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from | | Outer Space, p. 213; Indiana Journal, December 28, 1961). | | | | 1962 – Color motion pictures were taken of a UFO near Angel Falls, | | Venezuela—the world’s tallest water fall—on a cloudy afternoon at | | 12:15 p.m. (Source: NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1963, p. 5). | | | | 1964 – A gunsmith had a close encounter with a beehive-shaped UFO in | | rural Fisherville, Virginia. At five o’clock in the afternoon Mr. | | Burns was driving east on highway Route 250 east of Staunton when a | | 125-foot wide, beehive-shaped UFO slowly crossed the roadway ahead of | | him, causing his car to stall. As the metallic looking UFO descended | | it narrowly missed hitting some power lines. There was a bluish glow | | from the bottom. As it left, it rose to about 200 feet in altitude, | | tilted slightly, then disappeared quickly into the northeast. The car | | could then be restarted. Geiger counter tests showed abnormally high | | radioactivity in the area. (Sources: Donald B. Hanlon, Flying Saucer | | Review, March-April 1966, p. 14; Gordon I. R. Lore and Harold H. | | Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 171; | | Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 136; | | Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume II): A Thirty Year Report, p. | | 3). | | | | 1964 Fisherville, Virginia UFO Close Encounter | | | | [] | | | | 1967 – A ship enroute from Auckland, New Zealand to Guam was sailing | | past the Loyalty Islands at 11:33 a.m. when crewmembers sighted a | | beam of light like a powerful searchlight extending vertically upward | | from some clouds on the horizon. The beam extension was 35 degrees of | | arc in length. The beam seemed to emanate from a small cloud a few | | degrees above the horizon. (Source: William R. Corliss: Remarkable | | Luminous Phenomena in Nature, p. 283). | | | | 1971 – At around 11 p.m. a disc-shaped UFO along the roadside of | | Highway 116 in Mossoro, Brazil in the state of Rio Grande do Norte | | shot sparks from a tube for ten minutes. It then ascended into the | | sky and flew off toward the ocean. (Source: Gordon Creighton, FSR | | Case Histories, August 1972, p. 13). | | | | 1977 – A green glow was first seen by a married couple in Fort | | Mitchell, Kentucky at shortly after one o’clock at night. This was | | followed by the sighting of a 12-foot-long ovoid UFO moving at a low | | altitude, at an estimated distance of only 75 feet. The UFO ascended | | slowly, then show away fast into the nearby woods. That same night | | there were several reports of mystery booms being heard in | | Burlington, Atlantic, and Bergen Counties in New Jersey. (Sources: | | Leonard Stringfield, MUFON UFO Journal, January 1978, p. 9; Francis | | Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 63; George Eberhart, A | | Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, pp. 808, 811, and 820, citing the US | | Naval Research Laboratory). | | | | 1978 - In 1978 there were a series of UFO reports from throughout Argentina. | | At shortly after two o’clock in the morning several witnesses in | | Resistencia, Argentina saw 6-7 objects moving in formation through | | the sky at great speed. The UFOs were radiating a bright, light blue | | light but made no sound. Power outages were reported throughout the | | city. At 2:45 a.m. a very large glowing disc-shaped UFO headed a | | formation of three other craft that flew from north to south at an | | estimated 1000 meters altitude in La Rioja, Argentina. They | | reportedly lit up the sky like day. Each object was white in color | | with a green halo, and they left behind a bluish trail. A truck | | driver said his truck’s radio stopped working at the time. Ten | | minutes later a giant light was observed in the western sky in Santa | | Fe, Argentina. It was blue and green in color, and spewed fiery | | particles, resembling “an airplane on fire.” Smaller objects | | surrounded it. (Sources: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, March | | 1979, pp. 14-15, citing La Razon, December 22, 1978 and El | | Independencie, December 22, 1978). | | | | 1981 - In the evening on this day in 1981 a Turkish Army captain and several | | townspeople watched a silent glittering ovoid object illuminate a | | large engine factory complex with a bright green colored light in | | Aksaray, Turkey. It flew at an estimated 800 to 1000 feet altitude, | | and shot away to the southwest. (Source: Sarikaya Haluk Egeman, | | International UFO Reporter, January 1983, p. 9). | | | | 1982 – Two UFO car pursuits occurred in the same twenty-four hour | | period on opposite sides of the globe. At 1:50 p.m. an orange light | | followed a car down a highway in Maddington, Western Australia. The | | UFO would hide when the car slowed down, then come back and pace the | | car when the driver sped up. In Penthereaz, Switzerland at 9:00 p.m. | | a small glowing sphere followed a car for ten minutes and lit up the | | vehicle’s interior. The luminous ball was estimated to be only 12 | | centimeters in diameter. (Sources: Australian Center for UFO Studies; | | Bruno Mancusi, SWICAT Swiss UFO catalogue). | | | | 1992 - On this night in 1992 a domed, disc-shaped UFO directed a red beam of | | light into the river in Garland, McDowell County, West Virginia. | | According to the 15-year-old teenager who witnessed this, when the | | red beam turned off the high-pitched noise coming from the object | | stopped. There were also several other discs present in the sky at | | the same time. (Source: Bob Teets, West Virginia UFOs: Close | | Encounters in the Mountain State, p. 75, citing investigation by D. | | Church). | | | | 1999 – At 6:45 a.m. an ovoid UFO was seen zigzagging in the sky | | between Toledo and Salkum in Washington State. At 5:00 p.m. another | | light was seen zigzagging through the sky over Portland, Oregon. At | | 8:00 o’clock in the evening a brightly colored disc was seen hovering | | and changing colors over Lakewood, Colorado. (Source: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, WA). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 15 November 2005). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: ca | | r pursuits, cigar-shaped UFOs, disc-shaped UFOs, EM vehicle ignition | | interference effects, oscillating motion, ovoid UFOs, RF radio interf | | erence, skyquakes, spheres, unusual cloud UFOs, zigzagging maneuvers. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+