+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  September 9 | | | | 1922 - John Morris and William James in Barmouth, Wales saw an object | | fall into the ocean so slowly that they thought it might have been an | | airplane. A boat was sent out but nothing was found. (Source: Jacques | | Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 189; citing | | Charles Fort, The Books of Charles Fort, p. 639). | | | | 1952 - In Rabat, Morocco at 9:00 p.m. Mr. E. J. Colisimo, a civilian | | illustrator with USAF Intelligence, sighted a disc with lights along | | part of its circumference. It flew twice as fast as a T-33 jet | | trainer, in a slightly curved path for five seconds. (Source: Don | | Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1954 - A photograph of three disc-shaped UFOs was taken on this night | | at 2:20 a.m. by witnesses Gibbons and Ingram in Nelson, New Zealand. | | It  has been rated as a highly reliable unknown. (Sources: Leonard H. | | Stringfield, CRIFO Orbit, November 5, 1954, pp. 5-6; Richard Hall, | | The UFO Evidence, pp. 89-92; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for | | Outstanding UFO Reports, p. 3-30; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A | | Study of Multiple UFO, p. 95; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: | | September, pp. 13 & 15). | | | | 1955 - At noon on this day Mr. M. N. Dawkins, using binoculars, | | spotted a brown, almost square object near Alcoa, Tennessee that flew | | with a circular motion for 10-15 minutes. (Source: Don Berliner, | | Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1965 - Ms. Martindale in a residential area near Aldershot, | | Hampshire, England reported that at 8:40 p.m. her dog won't move but | | remained transfixed when a UFO with headlamps and rotating lights | | passed overhead. (Source: Gordon Creighton, FSR, January 1970, | | p. 28). | | | | 1966 - At 9:00 p.m. a man in Franklin Springs, New York saw a solid | | object, larger than an Army tank, descend from a cloud bank, slow | | down, and land with a soft whirring sound. It had lights all around | | it, with three horizontal bands of light-blue, red, and green. It | | disappeared into some woods. The sighting lasted 30 minutes. | | (Sources: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Don Berliner, | | Australasian Ufologist, April 1999, p. 53; Jacques Vallee, Passport | | to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 796). | | | | 1967 - At 7:45 p.m. Mrs. Ritchie and three children saw 18 red lights | | in a trapezoid pattern, only 1.5 feet above a rural road in | | Winchester, Connecticut. The object behind the light pattern was at | | least as tall as a telephone pole and as wide as the road (15 feet). | | It was close to a nearby microwave tower; it moved off the road, and | | vanished behind some trees. Ground marks were found. (Sources: Donald | | Johnson, APRO-Connecticut; Bill Ayer, NICAP; Edward U. Condon, | | Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 342; UNICAT, case | | # 680). | | | | 1968 - On this evening several US helicopter pilots and troops in | | Dong Ha, Vietnam had a close encounter with a fast moving object over | | the US Marine Corps Base. It had green and white lights and engaged | | in maneuvers for 20 minutes. (Source: George D. Fawcett, Flying | | Saucers magazine, April 1969, p. 24). | | | | 1968 - On this night a number of independent witnesses reported and | | described a close encounter with a UFO at Itaipu Beach near Niteroi, | | Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. It was a disc-shaped craft emitting | | orange light, and it made several low-level passes over the beach | | before briefly landing. One witness, Professor Sohail Saud, said he | | saw occupants inside the object, who were wearing helmets. Others | | said the object hovered 10 meters above the water, emitting a soft | | hum and spinning on its axis. (Sources: Walter Buhler, FSR Case | | Histories, February 1971, p. 11; Roberto Enrique Banchs, FSR, March | | 1971, p. 30; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of | | Humanoid Reports, case # 1968-65 (A0977)). | | | | 1970 - At 2:30 a.m. a hydroelectric dam security guard in Guanabara, | | Brazil was paralyzed after firing on a UFO with multicolored lights. | | He drew his revolver and fired at the object, and between the second | | and third shots he was struck by a violent flash that temporarily | | blinded him. His hearing was also impaired by a loud noise, and he | | needed to be hospitalized for treatment. (Source: Mrs. K. Smith, | | BUFORA Jouurnal, August 1971, p. 14). | | | | 1970 - At 9:30 p.m. a 12 meter diameter disc-shaped object landed on | | rectangular legs in a pasture in Ruelle-sur-Touvre, Charente, France. | | When it took off, it zig-zagged toward the north. Ground traces were | | found at the landing site. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, September | | 1975). | | | | 1972 - A revolving top-shaped object hovered over Glasgow, Scotland | | at 4:30 a.m. (Source: J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, Volume 9 | | (1978)). | | | | 1973 - Mr. and Mrs Ron McClure and seven others were watching for | | UFOs on Cradle Hill, in Warminster, England. At around 2:00 a.m. they | | saw an orange ball descend behind a copse. Walking toward the copse | | they encountered a man between 6.5 and 7 feet tall. He was wearing a | | two-piece garment of dark green denim like material with an "anorak" | | type hood that almost completely covered his face. He held a silver | | object resembling a flashlight. The man shouted in a resonant voice; | | "Move on! Go away!" McClure shouted, "Will you harm us?" There was no | | reply, he then asked, "Will you come back?" The answer was "Yes." | | Another member of the group followed this man into the copse, where | | he vanished while the witness attention was diverted for a moment. | | (Source: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of | | Humanoid Reports, case 1973-104, citing Scan Newsletter). | | | | 1973 - Around 4:00 a.m. Auburn, Alabama police officer Keith Broach | | had a close encounter with two UFOs. An airplane-sized object was | | seen changing colors, while a car-sized object came within 150 feet | | of the ground. The UFOs were also witnessed by a Lanett, Alabama | | police officer. (Source: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume | | II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 174). | | | | 1973 - On this night in Savannah, Georgia several youths reported | | that a UFO landed in Laurel Grove Cemetery, and ten creatures | | resembling "big, black hairy dogs" emerged from the landed UFO and | | ran through the cemetery. The UFO turned out its lights after | | landing. (Source: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue | | of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-22; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of | | The Humanoids). | | | | 1974 - At 9:30 p.m. a luminous UFO hovered over a radio tower in | | South Bar, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and then landed in a field. The | | witness was a Ms. K. Vernon. The UFO left behind ground marks at the | | landing site: a 35 foot wide burnt patch, and four landing pad | | indentations. (Sources: Sydney (NS) Post, November 8, 1974; Larry | | Hatch, U Computer Database, case # 10974). | | | | 1975 - Shortly before 9 p.m. a Ms. DelGouffe sighted a grayish ovoid | | or elliptical object emitting two white light beams in Jette, East | | Flanders, Belgium. It flew between the witness and the belltower of a | | church. Its computed size was 2 meters. It flew from the northwest to | | the southeast. If left no trail, nor did it have a halo. (Source: | | Robert Thiry, SOBEPS News, May 1976, p. 32). | | | | 1976 - A silver domed disc was seen spinning at an altitude of two | | kilometers over Yichun, China at 6:00 p.m. It spewed out a misty | | cloud, then flew off quickly to the northwest. (Source: Wendelle | | Stevens & Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, p. 89). | | | | 1976 - A small disc-shaped object, three meters in diameter, dropped | | four cables toward the ground in Vargem Grande, Minas Gerais | | State, Brazil at around two o'clock in the morning. A humanoid looped | | a hook from one over a man's leg, but he was able to escape. (Source: | | Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil--Where Next? | | p. 56). | | | | 1978 - There were three reports from Benevides, Para State, Brazil on | | this evening. At 7:20 p.m. a reddish-yellow light flew southwest to | | northwest at 12,000 feet altitude, 400 km/h, with a curving | | trajectory; it went out 2/3rds of way across the sky. At 8:25 p.m. | | another reddish-yellow light flew southwest to northeast at 9,000 | | feet altitude, emitting blue light rays; when overhead the light went | | out. At 9:10 p.m. a third reddish-yellow light was seen zigzagging | | from the southeast to the west at medium speed, 4000 feet altitude; | | it emitted two very strong flashes of blue light, and then went away | | at great speed. (Source: Bob Pratt, Operacao Prato, p. 55). | | | | 1979 - Four or five 6-pointed star-shaped objects paced a police | | Cessna airplane with three passengers flying 30 kilometers north of | | Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany at 9:30 p.m. They darted back and forth | | in front of the light plane, playing cat-and-mouse. (Source: | | Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases - Europe, p. 25). | | | | 1979 - A 28-year-old female medical technician suffered physiological | | effects from a close encounter with a UFO at 4:30 a.m. in Streamwood, | | Cook County, Illinois.  (Source: Allan Hendry, International UFO | | Reporter, November 1979, p. 12; UNICAT, case 97). | | | | 1979 - "Gee, that looks like a flying saucer," thought the | | 38-year-old witness in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois when he | | observed a silver disc moving directly overhead at 4:30 in the | | afternoon. His neighbors and the members of his family agreed. The | | silver disc had a black center on the underside and was distinct | | against the clear blue sky. Its angular size was about half that of | | the full moon. There was no noise as it moved south to northeast at | | high altitude. (Source: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, | | December 1979, p. 8). | | | | 1979 - At 8:30 p.m. (PDT) a group of geologists spotted a cone-shaped | | object that emitted a smaller box-shaped object northwest of | | Maricopa, California. The box then flew along the San Andreas fault | | line. (Source: Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1989, p. | | 15). | | | | 1991 - At 8 p.m. a disc-shaped object  hovered over a teenager for 15 | | minutes in Ibicuitinga, Ceara State, Brazil. The shirt he was wearing | | later disintegrated. (Source: Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and | | Death in Brazil--Where Next? p. 287). | | | | 1994 - In a bedroom visitation and possible abduction attempt, a man | | reported undescribed "aliens" in his room late at night in Saginaw, | | Michigan. They probed his esophagus or inserted something inside. | | (Source: Albert S. Rosales, 1994 Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, | | case # 2640, citing NUFORC). | | | | 1994 - On his way to work at 2:55 pm, driving 45 mph on highway 54 | | between Sharkey and Bloomfield, Indiana and with no other cars on the | | road, a 56-year-old man saw a gray, disc-shaped object pass | | silently in front of his vehicle from left to right. It "made a wide | | sweeping turn to the east" and went out of sight in 5 seconds. He | | estimated in flew at 300 mph, at only 300 feet altitude, and came | | within 500 feet of him. Later, military jets came over the area. | | (Source: T. David Spencer, MUFON UFO Journal, January 1995, p. 16, | | field investigator Thomas A. Vlaskamp).  | | | | 1994 - At 8:30 p.m. a huge, green and red lit, delta-shaped object | | with satellite objects was sighted in Racoon Lake, Indiana by five | | witnesses driving on US Highway 36. It emitted smaller luminous | | objects that darted around independently, and later took on these | | objects. Green balls of light came from the woods, and zigzagged over | | a house. The sightings lasted for over two and a half hours. | | (Sources: MUFON UFO Journal, December 1994, p. 12; Richard H. Hall, | | The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 68). | | | | 1997 - At eleven o'clock at night a woman stepped out of her mobile | | home onto her lattice-enclosed patio in Marshalltown, Iowa to get | | some fresh air. She sighted an object that was either landed on or | | hovering above her nextdoor neighbor's mobile home roof. She could | | see a large curved window with a thin strip down the middle, and | | there was a bright spotlight shining from the lower front of the | | object. She heard no sound. She then noticed a "pilot" with something | | like a form-fitting hood over his head, motionless. She could not | | distinguish any features. Two doors then swung open in the craft and | | several small entities exited. She could not see their shapes or how | | they moved. The bright light was directed at her and she thought she | | was being watched. Frightened, she went back inside her house and | | noticed that the beam was now illuminating the interior. She | | continued to watch the UFO as it moved around the trailer court, | | occasionally stopping, hovering, and shining its light on various | | mobile homes. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database | | 1997, case # 2904, citing Beverly Trout, MUFON; Beverly Trout, MUFON | | field investigation files, case # 971116aC). | | | | 2001 - At 2:15 a.m. a bright light moving across the city of Mount | | Gambier, South Australia approached the two witnesses who were ten | | kilometers southeast of the town. It changed color to a subdued | | orange. When it passed overhead at 300 meters altitude, it was seen | | to be a cylindrical object, with a speed estimated at 600 km/h. The | | sighting lasted three minutes. (Source: Keith Basterfield, South | | Australia UFO Reports - Project 1947 Website, citing AUFORN). | | | | 2001 - In Calgary, Alberta three witnesses reported a triangular | | group of orange lights were seen over the reservoir at 11:00 p.m., | | with a beam of light shining down from the object or objects. | | (Source: Geoff Dittman, 2001 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 295, citing | | Alberta UFO Study Group). | | | | 2002 - At 7:02 p.m. the U.S.Coast Guard in Boston received a report | | of a close encounter off of Moriches Bay, Long Island, New York by | | two males in a sailboat. A fishing boat skipper heard their dramatic | | UFO report to the USCG over the radio and relayed the report to the | | National UFO Reporting Center. (3 reports of this encounter were | | received at the Center). (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO | | Reporting Center, September 2002 webpage). | | | | 2004 - At 9:45 p.m. 15 glowing discs or orbs were seen and videoed in | | Sonora, California, moving in various directions, in tandem, one | | behind the other, and crossing pathes. One huge object in | | particulalr, a bright yellow or silver-white object, flew no more | | than 200 meters overhead, and moved very slowly to the northeast. | | (Source: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: | | Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 28). | | | | 2005 - Villagers in Mae Chan District, Chiang Rai Province, Thailand | | claimed they witnessed a dwarfish "alien" humanoid being that stood | | 70 centimeters tall and had a large head, large glowing eyes, and big | | ears. Over 10 residents of Huay Nam Rak Village in Mae Chan | | district's Tambon Janjawa said they saw the humanoid early in the | | morning in a rice paddy outside the village, and that he levitated or | | floated up into the sky when discovered. They insisted that what they | | saw could not have been a "Tweety Bird" toy balloon, as was | | conjectured by the news media. (Sources: The Nation (Bangkok, | | Thailand), Sept. 9, 2005; ufoevidence.org/cases/case490.htm). | | | | 2005 - A red crescent object, like a "half circle", was seen above | | the North York, Ontario airport, quickly moving in the western | | sky. (Source: Geoff Dittman, 2005 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 92, | | citing HBCC UFO). | | | | 2005 - At 9:00 p.m. seven witnesses in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario | | reported a low-flying object, flat, circular, and with blue-lights | | travelling at a great speed through the sky. (Sources: Geoff Dittman, | | 2005 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 93; Peter Davenport, National UFO | | Reporting Center, September 2005 webpage, report uploaded October 11, | | 2005). | | | | 2009 - There were two reports of boomerang shaped objects maneuvering | | in the daytime skies over Alabama on this day. The first report was | | at 8:17 a.m. from Franklin County, Alabama of a dark chevron or | | boomerang-shaped object maneuvering in daylight. The second report | | was at 5:05 p.m. from Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama of three | | silver boomerang shaped objects spotted in broad daylight. (Source: | | Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, September 2009 | | webpage, reports uploaded December 12, 2009 and February 14, 2010). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 5 September 2012). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: communication in English | | , disc-shaped UFOs, humming or whirring sound, flying humanoid, landi | | ngs with ground traces, multi-colored UFOs, multi-year reports from B | | razil and Southeast Asia; nautical UFOs (UFO entering or just above b | | ody of water), physiological effects: temporary blindess, paralysis a | | nd hearing impairment, square or rectangular UFOs, silent UFOs, small | | humanoids, tall humanoids, top-shaped UFO, UFOnauts wearing helmets. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+