+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  December 28 | | | | 1952 -  A semi-circular cloud maneuvered and veered about in the sky | | over Beverly, Massachusetts at 6:00 p.m. It then rose vertically and | | was gone from sight. (Source: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: | | November-December, p. 73). | | | | 1954 - Traveling by car to Mendoza on Route # 143, a concert pianist | | and six others traveling together saw a brilliant glow at the side of | | the road near San Rafael Moreno, Argentina at 3:30 a.m. It was a | | luminous object about 100-200 meters away in a nearby field, and it | | was emitting a bluish light like that from a welding torch. According | | to the description by Professor Maria Luisa de Amaya, it had the form | | of two deep dishes placed together rim to rim. They could not make | | out any structural details. The witnesses stopped their car and got | | out, then walked toward the object. When they were about 50 meters | | away they noticed two human figures next to it. The beings were of | | normal height, wearing dark one piece diver's suits, with their heads | | covered with a kind of cowl. One of the humanoids was crouching next | | to the object. After he got up, the two individuals entered the UFO | | through a rectangular door. The object began to emit smoke from its | | central region and rose up vertically, stopping a few meters from the | | ground and throwing out two flickering red lights. Alarmed, the | | witnesses rushed back to their car and took off driving at high | | speed. The object pursued them for 20 minutes, until by the first | | light of dawn they could no longer see it. (Sources: Oscar A Uriondo, | | MUFON UFO Journal, September 1979, p. 10, David F. Webb & Ted | | Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-38, citing | | Roberto Banchs). | | | | 1958 - On this afternoon in Portglenone, Ireland a two-meter wide | | black flying object cut an oak tree in two, three meters above the | | ground and did not stop. The tree in question was 70 cm wide and 13 | | meters tall. The event was observed by a farmer named Bennett. | | (Sources: Flying Saucer Review, May 1959, p. 7; APRO Bulletin, March | | 1959; Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case 479). | | | | 1964 -  A 17 meter in diameter domed disc was spotted on the ground | | in Auckland, New Zealand at about 9:00 p.m. It had two rows of | | intense lights on the body of the craft, and a green light on the | | dome. The two female witnesses, Ms. Bender and Ms. Quinn, saw a door | | in the object open before they left. The sighting duration was four | | minutes. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of | | Landings, case 629, citing Spaceview; Bruce Cathie, Harmonic 33, | | p.105 ). | | | | 1967 -  At four o'clock in the morning on the Andalgala highway in | | Catamarca Province, Argentina Mr. & Mrs. Clerici watched a flying | | object that changed color from purple to green from time to time. The | | couple became frightened when the object followed them for a few | | minutes, then it ascended into the air. (Source: Oscar A. Uriondo, | | FSR Case Histories, August 1973, p. 10, citing La Razon newspaper, | | December 29, 1967). | | | | 1968 - The witness had been in Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia | | the area back in 1950 and at that time had experienced a peculiar | | incident, which left him with a scar. He returned to the site in | | December 1968 and saw a disc-shaped craft 40 feet in diameter and 10 | | feet high, and met its human looking occupant, who walked around the | | side of the object. The man had long hair, stood about 5' 6" tall, | | and wore silver colored shoes. The witness spoke with him in English | | for about three minutes, learning that the UFO occupant claimed to be | | from Saturn. The man seemed to be in a hurry to get away. He boarded, | | after which the craft rose off the ground and hovered momentarily at | | 15 feet before moving off and disappearing in the distance. (Sources: | | FSR, May-June 1969, p. 33; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: | | Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1968-83, citing Dr. N. Lindtner, | | UFO Investigation Center, Sydney). | | | | 1971 -  Three witnesses in a Boeing 727 airliner and Air Traffic | | Controllers reported several groups of red balls of light that jumped | | and maneuvered all over the mountainous area of San Martin de los | | Andes, Neuquen Province, Argentina beginning at 11:45 p.m. for the | | next 35 minutes. (Sources: APRO Bulletin, May 1972; Larry Hatch, U | | computer database, case 9455; Phenomenes Spatiaux, issue # 37). | | | | 1978 - At 11:48 p.m. security guard Fortunato Zanfretta was out on | | patrol of a housing complex in Marzano di Torriglia, Italy when he | | suddenly yelled over his radio that he had lost control of his | | vehicle, because it was speeding down a mountain road on its own | | accord. The car finally stopped and Mr. Zanfretta got out to | | investigate a strange light hovering nearby. He was later found | | incoherent next to his car. His pistol had been fired six times, and | | giant footprints were found at the site. Under hypnosis, he recalled | | that he had being taken onboard a UFO by giant humanoids and examined | | with strange devices. He was asked several questions by them and was | | told that they would be back soon. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, | | Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 140, citing Paolo Fiorino, UFO | | Universe, October-November 1991). | | | | 1978 - A luminous object surrounded by a red halo flew over L'Aquila, | | Italy on this night. It stopped several hundred meters over an | | electrical generating plant, according to two power plant | | technicians, and the generator stopped for five minutes while the | | central power plant instruments went "haywire." Several had to be | | adjusted. (Sources: Jane Thomas, UFO Newspaper Clipping Service, | | April 1979, p. 14, citing La Razon newspaper, December 30, 1978; | | Lumieres dans la Nuit, February 1979). | | | | 1978 - On or about this date at about 4:30 a.m. three men,  employees | | of a power company, were driving a company truck toward a bridge on | | the Rio Segundo between Arroyito and Transito, Cordoba Province, | | Argentina when they were approached by an intense light from a hill | | and suddenly found themselves teleported 15 kilometers further away | | from the bridge to the town of Transito. They believed no time had | | passed because their cigarettes were the same length as they had been | | when they neared the bridge. At some point, the men spotted a domed | | UFO, described as a flattened rhombus 25 meters in diameter that was | | revolving, and one of them apparently signaled the occupants of the | | craft. (Sources: Jane Thomas, UFO Newspaper Clipping Service, April | | 1979, p. 14, citing Cronica newspaper, December 29, 1978; David F. | | Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case | | A2000; MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 133). | | | | 1988 - A very controversial case occurred on this day over Puerto | | Rico near Cabo Rojo, east of Betances in Mayaguez province.  | | According to two male witnesses on the ground, at 7:45 p.m. two US | | Air Force F-14 fighter jets tried to intercept a very large | | triangular metallic looking UFO with brilliant yellow lights on the | | right tip and red lights on the left tip. The UFO veered to left, | | turned back, and then reduced speed. Both jets disappeared inside the | | UFO! The UFO then split into two and rose straight up vertically. | | (Sources: Philip J. Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 30; Richard | | F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 148; Bob | | Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next? p. | | 222; FSR, July 1991;  Jerome Clark, UFOs in the 1980s. The UFO | | Encyclopedia, Volume 1, p. 187). | | | | 1991 -  There was both airborne radar contact and visual confirmation | | of an echelon formation of three objects that flew over London, | | Ontario, Canada at 12:40 a.m. The case is rated as a high reliability | | unknown by the Canadian UFO Survey group. (Source: Richard F. Haines, | | Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 192). | | | | 1993 -  Witnesses in Willow Creek, Humboldt County, California | | reported that a UFO hovered silently over Berry Summit at 8:30 p.m. | | It had a square of lights on the bottom of the craft. (Source: UFO | | Newspaper Clipping Service, February 1994). | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 13 December 2007). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: aircraft disappe | | arance, apportation, black UFO, blue light, car pursuit, disc-shaped | | UFOs, domed discs, diver suits, giant UFOnauts, human-looking UFOnaut | | s, multi-year reports from Argentina, physical damage to tree caused | | by UFO, power failure associated with UFO, red UFOs, vertical ascent. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+