+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  September 23 | | | | 1948 - At 9:40 a.m. a group at the Los Alamos, New Mexico airport saw | | a tilted, silver disc-shaped UFO with the apparent diameter of a dime | | at arm's length. Its estimated distance was 15 miles. (Source: Larry | | Hatch, U computer database, case 1347, citing Jerome Clark). | | | | 1948 - San Pablo, California. At twelve noon Sylvester Bentham and | | retired U.S. Army Colonel Horace Eakins observed two daylight UFOs: | | one a buff or gray rectangle with vertical lines, the other a | | translucent "amoeba" with a dark spot near the center. The arms of | | the "amoeba" undulated. Both objects traveled very fast. (Source: Don | | Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying | | Saucers: Top Secret, p. 90). | | | | 1951 - On this morning a total of seven F-86 fighters were scrambled | | to chase a UFO that remained over southern California for nearly | | ninety minutes. Two F-86 jet interceptors were scrambled from George | | AFB near Victorville, California then vectored by air defense GCI | | radar to a target off the Pacific Coast 30 miles west of Long Beach | | Airport, where the jets circled and then headed east toward Long | | Beach when the object was seen at 7:55 a.m. PDT at the 12 o'clock | | high position. It was in a left orbit at about 50,000 feet, above the | | F-86's. It appeared to be a bright silvery aircraft with highly swept | | back 45° wings. The F-86's tried to climb to intercept the object but | | it climbed away in response. Another two F-86's were scrambled from | | George AFB at about 8:00 a.m. as the first two were running low on | | fuel and broke off pursuit. The second pair of F-86's was vectored by | | GCI  radar to Camp Pendleton, arrived there at 8:10 a.m. at 43,000 | | feet, and spotted the object at the one o'clock high position back to | | the north toward Muroc/Edwards AFB, appearing to be at about | | 50,000-55,000 feet in a controlled orbit. It looked like a swept wing | | aircraft that sped up when the F-86's tried to close. The object was | | again found near March AFB, Riverside, California to the NNW but the | | jets broke off intercept because they were low on fuel at about 8:20 | | a.m., landing at 8:45. A third flight of two F-86's were scrambled | | from George AFB and saw the object shortly after takeoff, heading | | south. The F-86's made climbing turns up to 43,500 feet under the now | | round silvery object at 55,000 feet over the San Bernardino | | Mountains. They broke off the intercept at about 9:25 a.m. A seventh | | F-86 was scrambled to the south toward Long Beach but the UFO had | | gone. The Air Force explanation for the sightings was a balloon. | | (Sources: Project Grudge Report #1, November 11, 1951; Project Grudge | | Report #2, December 31, 1951; Edward J. Ruppelt, Unidentified Flying | | Objects, pp. 94-95; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer | | Space, p. 48; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 42; | | Kenneth Larson, Flying Saucers, June 1968, p. 44; Richard M. Dolan, | | UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up | | 1941-1973, p. 400; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. | | 14; Blue Book Archive Document Group NARA-PBB85 566 (566-568) - | | Francis Ridge, From Long Beach to Camp Pendleton - | | MAXW-PBB8-1583-1588,1596-1617 - Dan Wilson, Blue Book Archive | | Document Group MAXW-PBB8 1604 (1604-1649) & PBB2 273 - Fran Ridge The | | Report and the Flimsy Analysis - Francis Ridge The original Project | | Blue Book Special Report Document, p. 16; Analysis: Air Force | | Documents Supporting Negative Conclusion, Project Blue Book Special | | Report, pp. 44-47). | | 1952 - Gander Lake, Newfoundland, Canada. No time given. Pepperell | | AFB operations officer and seven other campers witnessed a bright | | white light, which reflected on the lake. It flew straight and level | | at 100 mph for ten minutes. (Source: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook | | UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1954 - At three o'clock in the morning an ovoid-shaped UFO was | | sighted on Highway N269 in Moussoulens, France. Two human-looking | | occupants exited the craft, gestured, then re-entered it and the | | object took off, flying to the north. (Source: Larry Hatch, U | | computer database, case 3617; Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture | | Rationaliste, p. 166). | | | | 1954 - In Gatlinburg, Tennessee at 9:45 a.m. Dave Owenby sighted two | | daylight UFOs. The two bright silver, wheel-shaped objects flew from | | north to south in trail formation for two minutes (Source: Don | | Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1954 - At 9:00 p.m. in Le Jou, France the Patient family witnessed | | the landing of a bright object that gave off a magnesium-like light, | | a red glow, and a narrow beam of light. It took off again a moment | | later and followed their car until they reached Fontland. Policemen | | in Plombieres and several other independent witnesses observed the | | object as it flew erratically over the area for 60 minutes. (Sources: | | Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 69; | | Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 210). | | | | 1954 - At the same time as the Patient family sighting, Mrs. | | Vignolles of Lencouacq, France saw a luminous object come down from | | the sky very rapidly. It made no noise as it landed in a nearby | | field, next to a church. It took off very fast a few seconds later. | | (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, | | p. 77; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. | | 211). | | | | 1955 - An eight meter wide gray colored plate-shaped disc flew at | | only 50 meters altitude over the town of Kreuzlingen, Switzerland on | | this day. It was rotating as it flew by, six cycles per second. It | | tilted upward and flew away. There were two witnesses. (Source: L. | | Zinstag, UFO Sichtungen, p. 21). | | | | 1960 - A Canadian ship reported that a cylindrical object with | | lighted portholes came down, hit the ocean, and sank off the north | | coast of Labrador. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A | | Century of Landings, case 509). | | | | 1962 - An abduction reportedly occurred near Franconia Notch in the | | White Mountains of New Hampshire. While driving on Route 3 at ten | | p.m. the male witness saw a large, lighted domed-oval craft, the same | | as he had seen in 1959. He parked his truck and walked into a blue | | beam. Inside the craft he met the same four entities as he had | | encountered three years before. He was shown controls, and watched | | others being abducted and medically examined. He was taken to a | | mother ship and returned in two hours. (Source: Morton Schafer, MUFON | | case file investigations, case 930403E). | | | | 1965 - A luminous UFO flew over the city of Cuernavaca, Mexico on | | this evening and caused three separate power failures. The domed | | object was seen by thousands, including the mayor. (Sources: NICAP | | UFO Investigator, December 1965, p. 3; Charles Bowen, Flying Saucer | | Review, January-February 1966, p. 14; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers - | | Serious Business, p. 259). | | | | 1967 - Four photographs were taken on this evening of an orange, | | flare-like light that flew in from the south over the Stafford, | | England railway station. It stopped above the station, shot up, | | vanished, reappeared, moved around in an odd manner, and then faded | | away. There was no sound. (Source: Roger H. Stanway & Pace, UFOs: | | Unidentified, Undeniable, p. 16). | | | | 1967 - At 1:37 p.m. Dr. B. Hand, a geology professor and a NICAP UFO | | investigator, sighted two silver cylinders moving against the wind in | | a bright blue sky over Amherst, Massachusetts. They made no sound as | | they went behind some low lying cumulus clouds and did not emerge. | | (Source: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 349). | | | | Amherst, Massachusetts - 1967 | | | | [Image] | | | | 1968 - A minister in Whitefield, Maine awoke at 2:30 a.m. EDT to see | | two pencil-shaped beams of light coming through his window from a | | reddish-orange saucer-shaped object hovering in the sky. It made no | | sound. (Source: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. | | 354). | | | | Whitefield, Maine - 1968 | | | | [] | | | | 1968 - Later that same evening at ten p.m. Mr. Battease looked out | | his bedroom window, six miles east of Roosevelt, Utah in Duchesne | | County, and saw a double convex disc that was slightly flatter on the | | bottom. It had red lights on top and was making a humming sound. The | | lights were steady and the disc moved at the speed of an airplane. | | (Source: Frank Salisbury, Utah UFO Display, Appendix case 68). | | | | 1971 - Three people saw a twelve foot by twelve foot by ten foot | | box-shaped object in an oilfield in Drumheller, Alberta, Canada at | | 4:30 p.m. It was not there a short time later. When they | | investigated, they found footprints that descended a steep ledge. | | (Sources: John Magor, Our UFO Visitors, p. 183; Ted Phillips, | | Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, p. 491). | | | | 1972 - Eight children reported watching a UFO maneuvering in the sky | | over Sudbury, Ontario for over an hour, beginning at around eight | | p.m. The object had a green dome and red and green body lights. | | (Sources: newspaper clipping dated September 25, 1972, Lumieres dans | | la Nuit, issue #127). | | | | 1973 - In Tyler, Texas a truck driver going to work this morning at | | five a.m. saw a small "airplane" change shape into a cigar, hover for | | awhile, and then change shape again into an elongated balloon with | | lights. He heard a "loop-loop-loop" thumping sound emanating from the | | object. A bright square light also swung from the object. (Source: | | John P. Timmerman, International UFO Reporter, July 2002, p. 24). | | | | 1973 - At 7:20 p.m. a huge object, described as a "flying | | oceanliner," was seen from a residential area of Fort Wayne, Indiana | | as it moved behind the treeline. It had five rows of lights of its | | side, and was seen for several minutes. (Source: Francis Ridge, | | Regional Encounters, p. 37). | | | | 1975 - An elongated fuselage-shaped object 15 meters long with | | several big, lighted portholes appeared over Cambrai, Nord, France at | | 10:30 p.m. It moved rapidly and vanished instantaneously when chased | | by a French Air Force Mirage III jet. It made four appearances. | | (Source: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 39). | | | | 1978 - At midnight two locksmiths watched a mysterious light | | pulsating and hovering silently above the ground near Biela Lake, | | Carpathia, Romania. It suddenly disappeared in plain sight. Around | | the same time an army private at a nearby military barracks was | | walking around some buildings when a two meter tall, dark man | | confronted him. The soldier ran into the barracks to get additional | | witnesses, but when they came back out he was unable to locate | | anyone. He saw the being again, later, standing against a window. | | (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # | | 1783, citing Boczor Iosif, Fate, September 1994). | | | | 1978 - Before dawn, during a road rally north of Viedma, Argentina | | one of the cars, a Citroen being driven by two men named Sr. Acevedo | | Ramirez and Sr. Moya, was approached from behind at high speed by a | | bright yellow luminous light, blinding the witnesses. They estimated | | the approaching object's speed at 300 kph. They felt their car | | levitated four meters from the ground and experienced the loss of | | steering, and the car's engine and lights died. As the light faded | | their car descended to the right shoulder of the road. However, they | | had experienced a two hour loss of time and were somewhere else along | | the road than they should have been. (Sources: Jane Thomas, UFO | | Newsclipping Service, November 1978, p. 15, citing Cronica, September | | 24, 1978; Richard Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, October 1978, p. 11; | | Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, pp. | | 204, 276, 350). | | | | 1978 - That morning a florist in the city of Rosario, Argentina saw a | | reddish-orange lighted sphere make several 90-degree turns impossible | | for any conventional aircraft. The object crossed over the Parana | | River into Entre Rios province. (Source: Jane Thomas, UFO | | Newsclipping Service, November 1978, p. 16, citing Cronica, September | | 27, 1978). | | | | 1979 - In Feignies, Nord, France a near collision occurred on the | | D136 highway between an automobile and a six-meter wide disc on the | | highway, at five o'clock in the morning. The UFO had portholes around | | its rim. It flew off toward the southwest into some trees. (Source: | | Lumieres dans la Nuit, December 1980). | | | | 1979 - A silver cigar-shaped object approached a cattle lot two miles | | north of Dexter, Iowa at 1:28 p.m. It was only 150 feet above the | | ground, had no wings or windows, and made no sound. It hovered in | | place for a few minutes so the witness, a 49-year-old contractor, got | | out of his truck and attempted to walk underneath it. It then moved | | off toward the northeast, moving rapidly, and rose slightly into the | | sky. (Source: International UFO Reporter, July 1979, p. 12). | | | | 1984 - At 7:30 p.m. several nocturnal lights buzzed fishermen fishing | | in the Parnaiba River in Maranhao State, Brazil. A door was heard to | | slam, and voices were heard. Footprints were found on the bank of the | | river. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search | | for Alien Contact, p. 182). | | | | 1984 - At 8:00 p.m. a large disc-shaped UFO followed a Piper airplane | | from Cordoba to Resistensia, Argentina. It reportedly maneuvered at | | great speed, and changed color from silver to orange. The plane's | | compass oscillated between 0.5 and 270 degrees, and there were | | several other variations noted in other onboard instruments. (Source: | | Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 51). | | | | 1989 - At 9 p.m. a boy named Torshin returning home late in the | | evening from school in Voronezh, Russia noticed a large round red | | object with a black, door-like hatch hovering close to the ground. It | | suddenly landed on four legs and the hatch opened. A ladder descended | | and a square, robot-like being emerged. The witness did not stay | | around. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: | | A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 202; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact | | Database 1989, case # 535, citing Gordon Creighton, in Timothy Good | | (ed.), The UFO Report 1991). | | | | 1996 - In Bouville, France a circular object was seen at 8:50 p.m. | | only 100 meters away. It had three square windows and a beam of light | | in the front. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 17426, | | citing Banque OVNI Reports, case 96). | | | | 1996 - Lyn and Jean, two women from Kennoway, Fife, Scotland had seen | | a huge triangular craft shining very bright beams of lights towards | | the ground at around 8 p.m. The object hovered over the area and was | | seen to bank slowly, revealing a large dome on top. On the underside | | they could see three small red lights on each apex. The craft shot | | away suddenly at the sound of an approaching aircraft. At 8:30 p.m. | | the witnesses again saw the huge triangle over the same location, | | shining down powerful beams of white light. | | | | The witnesses returned back to the area at 9:55 p.m. and watched a | | powerful blue glow appear over a nearby field at about treetop level. | | In order to get a better look they drove down a narrow lane and | | parked their vehicle. They then saw a large star-like object just | | above the blue glow that was pulsing while appearing to grow | | repeatedly larger and smaller. Suddenly they noticed the silhouettes | | of many small thin figures, moving about in the field. One of the | | figures was much taller than the others, around seven feet tall. | | Other small beings moved in among trees in the field, while a large | | black object sat on the ground. The figures appeared to be moving | | towards this object. At this point the witnesses became extremely | | frightened and drove away. | | | | They arrived at the home of one of them and borrowed some binoculars, | | after which they soon returned to the same location and again saw the | | blue light, still glowing, and they again saw the little beings | | moving about the trees. They also saw the very tall being again, | | standing with its back to them. Viewing the hovering object with | | binoculars, they could now tell that it was amber in color, with dark | | indentations all around it. It rotated slowly, occasionally turning | | on its axis. Dozens of small creatures were visible inside, | | apparently carrying small boxes and tubular canisters around. Taller | | figures were also seen and described as having brown skin and | | oriental shaped eyes. They seemed to be supervising a large group of | | the smaller beings. Using the binoculars they now spotted a large | | transparent illuminated capsule-shaped object, that rippled on the | | outside and had indentations like the crenulations of a brain. The | | object appeared to be resting on the ground, and there were some very | | small, thin beings inside it. Next to this object was another smaller | | one, identical to the first, but this one contained a very tall being | | with brown skin and narrow eyes. Another larger craft was also seen | | on the ground near the woods. There were lots of lights around it and | | dozens of small entities that appeared to be working in groups, | | coming and going from the woods. The witnesses also saw capsule | | shaped objects resembling cocoons coming out of the woods. These | | objects suddenly shot across the field towards the witnesses, | | hovering only a few feet from them. Each of the capsules contained a | | small entity. They were soon dozens of bubbles or capsules hovering | | near the two women. | | | | At this point the witnesses became disoriented and had vague memories | | of being touched by the small entities with probe-like devices. These | | small entities were described as having big dark eyes, big heads, and | | smiled at the witnesses. They communicated among themselves by making | | loud high-pitched noises. They remember leaving the area and | | returning home in a state of shock. Later, while checking the scene | | of the incident, UFO investigators found circular marks on the | | ground, burnt and dead vegetation, and branches from nearby trees | | covered in what appeared to be white spider web material. (Sources: | | Tony Todd, UFO Magazine (UK), Volume 15, No.15; Ron Halliday, UFO | | Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland's UFO Phenomenon, p. 162; | | Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case # 2562). | | | | 1999 - A silver-metallic, featureless disc dropped to 75 meters | | altitude over Interstate 75 near McDonough, Georgia on this night. It | | then moved off rapidly to the west and hovered there for a couple of | | minutes. (Source: George Filer, Filer's Files, volume 9, # 39). | | | | 2000 - Ms. Rosa Lopez was on her way home late one night at 3:25 a.m. | | near Sevilla, Spain when her vehicle entered a strange fog on the | | road. When she drove out of the fog she was surprised to see that it | | was almost five a.m. already, although it seemed only minutes had | | passed. Later, under hypnotic regression, she recounted encountering | | a huge metallic object on the road. Her car then stalled and stopped. | | Several short figures with large heads and huge eyes next surrounded | | her vehicle. She felt weak and helpless as the humanoids carried her | | into the UFO. She was questioned and put through what she thought was | | a "brain scanning" device. She was then taken back to her car, and | | she drove away apparently still under the control of the humanoids. | | She only seemed to snap out of it completely when she got home. | | (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case # | | 3935, citing Jose Manuel Garcia Bautista & Rafael Cabello Herrero). | | | | 2006 - A large triangular craft flew low over two witnesses traveling | | in a car in Ste. Adolphe, Manitoba at 8:30 p.m. No noise was heard | | coming from the object. (Source: Geoff Dittman, 2006 Canadian UFO | | Survey, case # 624). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 4 September 2007). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: abductions, car pacing, cy | | lindrical UFOs, daylight UFOs, disc-shaped UFOs, human-looking UFOnau | | ts, landings, levitation, light beams, luminous UFOs, missing time, m | | ulti-year reports from France, nautical UFO (UFO seen entering ocean) | | , nuclear facility, orange UFOs, ovoid UFOs, radar-visual confirmatio | | n, robot-like humanoid, shape changing UFO, silent UFOs, silvery UFOs | | , translocation or time distortion, wheel-shaped UFOs, zigzag motion. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+