+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  October 4 | | | | 1954 - There are 41 UFO and humanoid reports on this date in UFOCAT, | | including six CE-III reports. One report is from Tel Aviv, Israel and | | one of the humanoid reports is from Salta, Argentina. The rest are | | from France, which was at the center of a massive wave of UFO | | sightings. | | | | 1954 - An object was said to have landed in the yard of Mr. Montagne, | | a railroad employee, in Limoges, France. (Sources: France-Soir, | | October 7, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of | | Landings, p. 216). | | | | 1954 - Andre Garcia and Andre Darzais were driving a truck between | | Lagrasse and Villemagne and were near the village of Lezignan, France | | when they saw a luminous object coming slowly to the ground. It | | measured about 10 meters in diameter and took off with a burst of | | light. (Sources: France-Soir, October 7, 1954; Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 217). | | | | 1954 - Mr. Garreau, a farmer in Chaleix, France saw an object the | | size of a carriage land in his field. Two men of normal height | | emerged through a sliding door. They wore khaki overalls and were of | | European type. They shook hands with the witness and said some thing | | like: "Paris? Nord?" (According to another version they spoke | | indistinct words.) They gave a pat on the back to Mr. Garreau's dog | | and took off at an amazing speed. (Sources: Liberation, October 7, | | 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. | | 217). | | | | 1954 - At 8:10 a.m. Mr. Lacambre, a forester, saw a little man or | | dwarf in a streambed 200 meters from his house in St-Perdoux, Lot, | | France. The being wore a wide leather belt or girdle, boots, and a | | tunic. He put water in a bottle, and some pebbles in a belt pouch; he | | then rose up into air and vanished. The creature had two pear-shaped | | boxes under his arms that may have assisted his ascent. Footprints | | were found at the site. (Source: Michel Figuet and Jean-Louis Ruchon, | | OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en | | France, pp. 116-117). | | | | 1954 - Several people noticed an object hovering near a hilltop in | | the evening in Tregon, France. They drove to the site, but it flew | | away. What seemed to have been the same object was seen at Megrit, 25 | | km to the southwest, hovering over a farm. It was described as | | metallic, flat, and emitting light. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying | | Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 139; Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 217). | | | | 1954 - Montceau-les-Mines, France. At 6:30 p.m. about 20 people, | | among them Remy Gaudicourt of Sanvignes, saw a circular, luminous | | object rise vertically from the vicinity of the railroad tracks. | | There were no traces found. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and | | the Straight Line Mystery, p. 138; Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 217; Michel Figuet and Jean-Louis | | Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees | | en France, pp. 118). | | | | 1954 - Villers-le-Tilleul, France. Ten year old Bertiaux saw an | | object at 6:40 p.m. "like a tent" with an unknown man nearby. | | (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, | | p. 217). | | | | 1954 - On a road in Lessard-le-National, France at 7:20 p.m., a | | silver cigar-shaped object stopped in a vertical position when | | illuminated by car headlights. Landing traces found nearby. (Source: | | Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 319). | | | | 1954 - At 7:30 p.m. a six-meter in diameter red, round, domed object, | | hovered 10-12 meters above the ground in Taupignac, France. Four | | little men, one meter tall (3.3 feet) exited. As the three male | | witnesses approached they quickly entered the object. The domed disc | | changed color from blue to orange and then to red, and made no noise | | as it took off. (Source: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight | | Line Mystery, p. 159). | | | | 1954 - At 10:00 p.m. Mr. Henry Leherisse, age 23, in Megrit, France | | saw two shadows moving about inside a flat luminous, metallic, | | three-meters wide object, that hovered 50 meters above his garage. | | (Source: newspaper clipping, October 7, 1954; Michel Figuet and | | Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres | | rapprochees en France, pp. 122). | | | | 1954 - Mrs. Fourneret, a housewife, ran away as an orange, circular | | object 3 meters in diameter that swung in midair and landed near her | | farm in Poncey-sur-Lignon, France. When Messrs. Girardot and Vincent | | arrived with rifles, they found that the earth had been "sucked up" | | over a quadrilateral area. Francois Bouiller confirmed he had seen a | | luminous object in flight. Extensive investigation by French Air | | Force and police. (Sources: Liberation, October 7, 1954; Aime Michel, | | Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 134; Jacques Vallee, | | Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 71; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: | | A Century of Landings, p. 217). | | | | 1955 - United States Senator Richard Russell, Head of the Senate | | Armed Services Committee, was on a high-level diplomatic mission to | | the Soviet Union and was traveling on the trans-Caucasus railway | | outside of Baku, Azerbaijan on this day in 1955. While on the train | | at 7:10 p.m. he and his aide saw a disc-shaped UFO slowly ascend to | | 6000 feet and then shoot to the North. A second disc appeared and | | maneuvered about the sky. (Source: Michael David Hall, UFOs: A | | Century of Sightings, p. 240). | | | | 1957 - Angel hair residue fell on Ichinoseki, Japan at 11:45 a.m. on | | this day. (Source: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. | | 101, citing Flying Saucer Review, January 1958). | | | | 1960 - Reverend and Mrs. Browning in Cressy, Tasmania observed a | | cigar-shaped object fly toward the west. Five 30' diameter domed | | discs joined the larger object, and all flew away rapidly to the east | | at 6:10 p.m. (Sources: James E. McDonald case investigation files; | | APRO Bulletin, September-October 1960, p. 4). | | | | 1967 - At 11:20 p.m. Atlantic Daylight Time at least one and most | | likely two separate UFOs dove or crashed into the ocean near Bon | | Portage Island, in the area of Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada. | | There were at least a dozen independent witnesses to the event. | | Canadian Navy divers searched the area for three days but found | | nothing. This followed a series of six UFO sightings across Quebec | | and Nova Scotia beginning at 7:19 p.m., when Air Canada Captain | | Pierre Guy Charbonneau, flying between Sherbrooke and St. Jean, | | sighted an orange rectangular object followed by a series of smaller | | lights, followed by a sizeable explosion near the large object that | | turned into a big white ball-shaped cloud. The cloud turned red, then | | violet, and then blue. Two minutes later there was another explosion | | that turned into a second sphere which was orange in color. Like the | | first one it too eventually faded to blue. The smaller lights on the | | "kite tail" broke formation with the rectangular object and began to | | dance around the spheres like fireflies. (Sources: Yarmouth Light | | Herald, October 12, 1967; Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, pp. | | 44-45; Don Ledger & Chris Styles, Dark Object: The world's only | | government documented UFO crash, pp. 9-13; 28-50, 151-162). | | | | 1973 - A man was driving on the Simi Freeway in Simi Valley, | | California during the afternoon when he saw a 30 by 350 foot | | triangular object in a dust cloud near the road. It was 80-100 feet | | away and was swaying back and forth 10 feet above the ground. An | | eight-foot hose dangled from the bottom of the object. A clear bubble | | three feet in diameter swiveled atop the UFO. As he watched a being | | crawled around from behind the machine, looked at the witness, and | | then scrambled out of sight. The humanoid was of normal stature but | | wore a silvery type of wet suit. The bubble began rotating faster and | | disappeared inside the object, which emitted a whirring noise. A fog | | enveloped the craft, which then disappeared. An unidentified woman | | witness had reported a similar sighting the week before. (Sources: | | David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher: HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid | | Reports, case 1973-28; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The | | Humanoids). | | | | 1979 - Garbage collector Aldo Natoli was on his way to work in Viggiu | | Varese, Italy at 3:20 a.m. when he spotted two strange figures | | suspended about 20 cm from the ground, and gesticulating animatedly | | among themselves without making a sound. Natoli stopped his Vespa | | motorscooter and continued observing the scene. The figures were thin | | and human-like, wearing dark blue, loose fitting coveralls. Their | | eyes were fluorescent and they had black hair. When the witness | | restarted his scooter, the figures disappeared into the darkness. The | | scooter then malfunctioned but moments later it started again. He | | then drove away from the area. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid | | Contact Database 1979, citing C.U.N.). | | | | 1979 - In the early evening a seven-year old boy in Handsworth, | | Sheffield, England watched a seven-foot-tall silvery figure that was | | apparently drilling a hole in the ground with a tube. The boy watched | | the figure until it suddenly spotted him. The figure then disappeared | | in a puff of pink smoke. Four non-human looking footprints were found | | at the site. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database | | 1979, citing Janet & Colin Bord, Modern Mysteries of Britain). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 02 September 2004). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: angel hair residue, cigar-shaped UFOs, dark blue unifo | | rms, domed disc-shaped UFOs, fog or smoke enveloping UFO, nautical UF | | Os, short humanoids, human-looking UFO occupants, hovering humanoids | | and UFOs, landings, landing traces and imprints, luminous UFOs, orang | | e colored UFOs, rectangular UFOs, swaying motion, tall humanoids, tri | | angular UFOs, UFOs crash into ocean, vanishing UFOs, vertical ascent. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+