+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  October 15 | | | | 1948 – At 11:05 p.m. U.S. Air Force pilot Halter and radar operator | | Hemphill in a propeller driven P-61 "Black Widow" night fighter | | tracked up to six objects on radar over Fusuoka, Japan. The six | | bogeys were seen on the radar by Hemphill, and his radar picked up | | the targets five miles ahead of the plane. Only one of the bogeys was | | seen visually. It was a dull or dark object, shaped like a bullet or | | dirigible with a flat bottom and with a heel-shaped clipped tail end. | | Pilot Halter attempted to close on the visual object, but it | | dove below the F-61, then reappeared, and finally took off with a | | burst of speed. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official | | statistics, case # 218; J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 135; | | UNICAT, case # 273; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1950 – In Oak Ridge, Tennessee at 3:20 p.m. Atomic Energy Commission | | Troopers Rymer, J. Moneymaker, and Capt. Zarzecki sighted two shiny | | silver objects shaped like bullets. They dove in the sky leaving a | | smoke trail and one vanished. The other hovered at a low altitude | | only 50 feet away, then left and returned several more times, but | | somewhat further away. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in | | official statistics, case # 819; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO | | Unknowns; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1833). | | | | 1950 - At 4:20 p.m. a pilot named Daniel, flying from Pope Air Force | | Base, North Carolina sighted four metallic spheres, 100 feet | | diameter, that flew in a perfect line formation. (Sources: Project | | Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 821; Loren E. | | Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: August-December, p. 39). | | | | 1952 - At 7:10 p.m. beings with helmets and masks were seen through | | lighted windows in a craft on the ground at the Le Vigan Airport, | | Gard, France. The cigar-shaped object was 30 meters long, 6 meters in | | diameter, and had a rounded forward section. A fog was noted at both | | ends of the object. (Sources:Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, | | p. 62 & 141; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of | | Landings, case # 103). | | | | 1953 - At 10:10 a.m. a saucer maneuvered at 45,000 feet for 40 | | seconds over the General Mills Research Laboratory in Minneapolis, | | Minnesota, and was viewed through a theodolite by three scientists. | | (Source: J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 113; UNICAT, case # | | 265). | | | | 1954 – Near the community swimming pool in Saint-Assiscle, Perpignan, | | France Damien Figueres, age 56, was walking with his dogs when a red | | luminous sphere landed 30 meters away. A humanoid being in a diving | | suit got out and walked around it. The dogs barked at him. The being | | then boarded the craft and it flew away in silence. (Sources: Jacques | | Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 229, case # | | 261; Michel Carrouges, Les Apparitions de Martiens, p. 120). | | | | 1954 – In Boaria, Italy a farmer was leading his cows to a pond when | | he suddenly saw an object fly over his house. The cows panicked and | | ran away, knocking a girl to the ground, while the object emitted a | | burst of light. The farmer ran to the house and then fainted. Three | | other persons saw the craft depart. It was dark in color but | | surrounded by short blue and yellow flames. It was egg-shaped, flew | | at 15 meters above the ground, and emitted intense heat. The little | | pond was found desiccated, and haystacks caught fire as it flew over | | while the cattle suffered burns. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 229-230, case # 262). | | | | 1954 – St.-Pierre-Halte, France. At 3:40 a.m. a baker saw a brilliant | | yellow craft descend rapidly and land on some railroad tracks. It was | | mushroom shaped, about four meters diameter, and two meters high. | | (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, | | p. 180; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, | | p. 230). | | | | 1954 – In Luino, Italy an ovoid object made a pass over a range of | | trees; two of the trees caught fire. (Source: Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 230, case # 264). | | | | 1954 – On this afternoon in Po-di-Gnocca, Italy farmers saw a | | disc-shaped object land, then take off vertically. At the site was | | found a deep crater about 6 m in diameter. Poplar trees were | | partially burned. Official investigation. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying | | Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 181; Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 230, case # 265). | | | | 1954 – At 7:50 p.m. at the Courbessac Airfield in Nimes, France a | | yellow, cigar-shaped object with brilliant portholes, 30 m long, 6 m | | diameter, was seen on the ground. Figures with helmets covering their | | heads could be seen inside. A sort of haze was observed at both ends | | of the craft. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century | | of Landings, p. 230, case # 266). | | | | 1954 – On this night Ms. Pat Hennessey ran away when she saw an | | object land on the road near Chalkwell Park, Southend, England. It | | had vanished silently when she looked back. (Sources: Aime Michel, | | Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 182; Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 230, case # 267). | | | | Starting on this date in 1954 and for the next two nights, fifty | | objects with illuminated bottoms were seen flying very fast in a | | V-formation on successive nights over Kingfisher, Oklahoma at around | | 8:45 p.m. (Source: Project Blue Book files counted in official | | statistics, case # 3269; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns, | | p. 24). | | | | 1954 – A steelworker in Isbergues, France observed a luminous sphere | | land in the countryside on this night. After landing it then emitted | | lights of various colors. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and | | the Straight Line Mystery, p. 181; Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 230, case # 268). | | | | 1954 – While driving at night in Fouesnant, France truck driver Rene | | Le Viol saw a flat craft, -shaped like an inverted plate, fly very | | low toward the sea. A second disc followed shortly afterward. Both | | emitted a red glow. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the | | Straight Line Mystery, p. 182; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A | | Century of Landings, p. 230, case # 269). | | | | 1954 - At 9:00 p.m. a cigar-shaped object landed in Saint Privat, | | Vallongue, Lozere department, France. It took off vertically making | | a whistle sound and blazing red in color. (Source: Jean Sider, | | Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 107). | | | | 1954 - At 9:00 p.m. a fireball was seen by two witnesses driving in a | | car as it zig-zagged over the N68 highway between Niffer and Kembs, | | France | | | | nThisDay | | | | . It headed off to the southeast toward the Rhine River. (Source: | | Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 182). | | | | 1955 - In a forest east-southeast of Wissembourg, Bas-Rhin, France a | | huge, 400 meter long UFO was seen flying only six meters over some | | oak trees by a witness while driving on highway D3. It had 76 | | porthole-shaped windows in three rows. (Source: Lumieres dans la | | Nuit, February 1977). | | | | 1957 – On this day while working outside, Mr. Moudy, a farmer, | | observed a silvery disc that hovered above his tractor in Covington, | | Indiana. The tractor engine failed when the object took off. (Source: | | Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 260, | | case # 413). | | | | 1966 - Jerry H. Simons had a close encounter with an orange domed | | disc-shaped object while driving at Split Rock Pond, New Jersey at | | 4:30 a.m. The UFO emitted a brilliant light beam. The engine and | | lights of his car died, and although the engine restarted | | spontaneously there was permanent damage to the mechanics.  His | | physiological effects included chronic illness, fatigue, anorexia, | | weight loss, weakness, and chills. (Source: Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., | | UFOs: A New Look, p. 9). | | | | Split Rock Pond, New Jersey CE-II - 15 October 1966 at 4.30 a.m. | | | | [Sketch of Split Rock Pond, New Jersey UFO - 1966] | | | | 1968 - Driving across the desert near Kingman, Arizona with a | | hitchhiker at around 3:00 a.m., Michael Watts saw a "falling star" | | that stopped in midair, and then shot back up into the sky. The two | | men then stopped the car and got out to investigate a distant light | | source on the ground. When they walked up to it the light on the | | ground proved to be four lights, one of which took off into the air. | | Nearby they could dimly see two four-foot-tall beings with large | | heads and abnormally long arms, and heard a sound like digging. The | | hitchhiker then suggested they go back to the car for a gun, and the | | figures vanished. Other maneuvering lights were then observed. Then | | something sounding like a train passed by at a distance: it had a | | string of lighted windows in which silhouettes of passengers sitting | | up inside were visible. After this, a dark lens-shaped object having | | a flat dome on top and a row of pulsating multi-colored lights around | | the edge approached them quite closely. As the dawn approached and it | | became possible to see better, the remaining lights on the ground | | could be seen to be connected to a palely lit cigar-shaped object. | | Watts believes he may have experienced a memory lapse at this point. | | Cloven footprints were found at the site where the beings had been | | seen. The hitchhiker could not be identified and was therefore | | unavailable for an interview by the investigators. (Sources: Michael | | Schutz & Loren Reichert, Skylook, August 1975, p. 10; David F. Webb & | | Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1968-73, | | citing Michael Schutz & Loren Reichert). | | | | 1973 - A man in Omro, Wisconsin was awakened sometime after midnight | | by a brief, high-pitched sound. His bedroom was lit up by a bright, | | orange-red glow, and he saw three 4-5 foot tall humanoids | | materialize. They had baldheads; grayish white wrinkled skin and | | rounded ears. They moved mechanically. The witness passed out and | | then came to on the floor, propped against the wall, unable to move. | | The entities were examining him with an oval object that showed the | | bones of his legs when it passed over them. He had a severe headache | | and passed out again as a being reached toward him. He awakened | | toward dawn on the floor. He found the lights were left on the | | bedroom, and the bed sheets folded neatly back. (Sources: David F. | | Webb and Ted Bloecher: HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case | | 1973-32; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids). | | 1973 - Late on this night a female witness and her sister observed a | | huge light maneuvering over Connersville, Indiana. The light darted | | across the sky and began to descend near them. She ran up to the | | craft and remembered seeing three large windows. In one window stood | | a very short humanoid with protruding eyes and four fingers on each | | hand. He wore a tight-fitting outfit with a hood. Other people had | | gathered to see the UFO and stood around as if in a trance. The | | witness was taken inside and glided around with the short humanoid | | next to her. She remembered seeing two other humanoids sitting at a | | control panel, and three cubicles as well as beautiful curved walls | | inside the craft. (Sources: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact | | Database 1973, case # 972, citing Don Worley, UFO Newsclipping | | Service, issue # 257). | | | | 1973 - Awakened by the barking of their dogs late on this night, a | | farm family living near Berea, Tennessee saw lights from a UFO in the | | woods. Mr. James Cline saw a being with a glowing white head cross | | the road 50 feet away from him. Claw-like tracks were found in the | | dirt road later, as well as "landing marks" two feet long by 12 feet | | wide where the UFO had been. (Sources: David F. Webb and Ted | | Bloecher: HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-33; David | | F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids). | | | | 1974 - In Ramona, California five young people from the Overfelt and | | Nelson families saw a round UFO making a humming noise maneuver in | | the sky for several minutes, and then land. Many types of animals (a | | horse, a dog, a goat, chickens, and a cat) reacted to the landed | | object. Compass deflection was reported, as well as TV and radio | | interference. (Sources: George D. Fawcett, Official UFO, August 1975, | | p. 12; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 11024, citing the | | MUFON UFO Journal, October 1989, p. 24). | | | | 1976 - Paul Bennett was playing with five friends near Westfield | | Grove in Wrose, Yorkshire, England at around 7:30 in the evening when | | he saw “a little black creature about two-foot tall” standing at the | | edge of the road. The short humanoid creature then ran with little | | short paces across the road and up Westfield Grove. Its head was | | “squashed” like a tomato, and it had no feet or toes; its legs | | extended straight to their extremities; similarly, its thin arms were | | lacking hands and fingers. There were no facial features visible, | | neither ears nor hair. None of the other boys appeared to have seen | | it, and most of them made fun of Paul when he told them. One of them, | | Michael McDermott, did assist Paul in a search for some evidence of | | the little creature, and they found a set of 30 small circular | | footprints leading from a puddle along the route taken by the being. | | McDermott claimed he heard a faint whistling sound and someone | | calling Bennett’s name. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, | | HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1976-97 (A1867), | | citing Nigel Watson & Roger Hebb, MUFOB). | | | | 1976 - At 6:20 p.m. in the mountains of Auribeau, Alpes-Maritimes, | | France three witnesses sighted an eight-meter wide disc-shaped object | | that flew toward the south, and then circled a tower on a hilltop. It | | had two white beams of light. It finally flew off towards the sea. | | (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1977). | | | | 1976 - Driving home from friend's apartment near midnight in the | | suburbs of Burgoberbach, France, an 18-year-old woman had a close | | encounter with a disc-shaped object that made no sound. The UFO had | | two rows of lights: the top row was red and the bottom row was white. | | There was no moon nor stars visible in the sky at the time. (Source: | | Carol & Rex Salisberry, MUFON case files, case # 891006c). | | | | 1977 - In Colares, Para State, Brazil Raimundo Galvao Trindade, age | | 36, saw an orange light outside in the sky at 4:00 a.m. He next felt | | as if he had been pricked by a needle in the leg from a beam of | | energy. His subsequent symptoms included weakness, a headache, | | dizziness, and a red area on his thigh. (Source: Bob Pratt, Operacao | | Prato, p. 14). | | | | 1977 - At 8:00 p.m in Zugliano, Veneto, Italy a huge luminous | | disc-shaped object descended into a field, and then stayed on the | | ground for several minutes. A metallic noise was heard, and the | | object suddenly took off. (Source: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT). | | | | 1978 - At 7:30 a.m. the witness, a 50-year-old important Communist | | Party politician, was alone in a wooded area in Jaraba, Zaragoza, | | Spain attempting to photograph some eagle nests, when suddenly all | | sounds in the area ceased. He then began walking and next heard a | | weak whistling sound. He started to feel nauseated with a metallic | | taste in his mouth, and his wristwatch felt hot to the touch. When he | | turned around, he saw in clearing a 5 meter metallic dome-shaped | | craft whose perimeter was which surrounded by small antennae like | | protrusions. Next to the object stood two very tall men, 1.90 meters | | in height, with blond hair wearing blue-gray outfits and wide belts. | | One was leaning over a metallic tube apparently stuck on the ground. | | The other carried a box with a small sphere on top. The one holding | | the tube motioned to the witness to approach. The man felt a wave of | | heat as he approached to within 20 meters, so he stopped | | and frightened, yelled at them. He heard his own voice in a | | strange, weirdly distorted manner. The two UFOnauts then walked back | | over to the object and got aboard. The whistling sound now | | intensified and the witness felt an electric shock on the back of his | | neck and strange vibrations on the ground. The craft lifted up and | | flew out of sight while the whistling sound increased. He managed to | | take a photograph of the object as it departed, and a hole was found | | in the ground at the scene. UFO investigators found the witness to be | | well qualified but uncooperative, seeking to avoid publicity. | | (Sources: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid | | Reports, case # A2174; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database | | 1978, case # 101, citing Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos & Fernandez | | Peri, Enciclopedia de Los Encuentros Cercanos con Ovnis). | | | | 1978 - At 7:40 p.m. in Caumont, Vaucluse department, France a domed | | disc-shaped object buzzed two witnesses in a car at 80 meters | | altitude. It had a ring of red lights around its rim. It vanished | | quickly. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, December 1978). | | | | 1978 - On this night a doctor named Rotela and his family were | | followed by a luminous yellow-orange object about 2 feet in diameter, | | until their car became bogged down. The ball of light then landed | | near the Salado River, 30 kilometers from Gobernador Crespo, Santa Fe | | province, Argentina. (Source: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, | | January 1979, p. 15, citing La Nacion, October 20, 1978). | | | | 1994 - At 8:10 p.m. a disc-shaped object witnessed by three teenagers | | dropped down near a military communication center in La Farlede, Var | | department, France. It vanished for awhile, then rose up into the sky | | at high speed. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 330). | | | | 1995 - In Yellowknife, North West Territory, Canada a golden colored, | | square object moved slowly over a witness at 2:30 p.m, making | | a humming noise. (Source: Frank Ducks, 1995 Canadian UFO Survey, case | | # 137, citing Alberta UFO Research Assn.). | | | | 1996 - A couple driving in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada around | | 11:00 p.m. saw three triangular objects flying in N. One object aimed | | an intense white beam at their car and bathed it in intense light for | | "at least 20 minutes." There was a third independent witness and | | dozens of other people in the region reported UFOs that night. | | Airports said there were no planes in area at that time. (Source: | | Mark Rodeghier, International UFO Reporter, Summer 1997, p. 32). | | | | 1997 - Duncan, Oklahoma - At 2:15 a.m. the witness suddenly awoke | | feeling a strange presence in his bedroom. An odd feeling swept | | through his body, forcing him to close his eyes. His next memory was | | of being awake at 5:15 a.m. with a strange presence still in the | | room, and he once again felt forced to close his eyelids. When he | | woke up in the morning he was able to recall standing naked in an | | oval-shaped metal room with small windows in the top right hand | | corner. Directly behind him there was a large door where the two oval | | walls met. In the middle of the room there was an odd looking | | operating table with two needle devices on robotic arms sticking out | | of the side. This was the only apparent object in the room. | | | | Afraid, he began banging on the large door demanding to be let out. | | He could hear voices in the background. He was then told by an angry | | male voice, in his head, to either lay down on the table or someone | | he loved would get hurt. He did as he was told. He was then asked to | | lay down in such a manner that his left lower back was exposed to the | | two needles. At the base of the needle there was a triangle-shaped | | piece of metal and two rectangle designs on both sides. He was then | | told by a friendly female voice that he would feel no pain but would | | feel his legs go numb, and would feel paralyzed and unable to move. | | The robotic arm moved closer to his back and plunged the needle into | | his back. He felt the clear liquid being injected into his body. He | | then felt paralyzed, and after a minute the needle device began | | sucking instead of injecting. It then moved back and the second | | needle performed the same operation. He woke up the next morning | | feeling some pain in his lower back with a triangular shaped imprint | | on it. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, | | case # 3202, citing Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | Seattle). | | | | 2000 - At 7:00 p.m. a disc-shaped object was seen on the ground in | | Strawberry, Gila county, Arizona and viewed at length with the scope | | from a deer rifle. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting | | Center, October 2000 webpage). | | | | 2000 - There were two apparent abductions involving missing time in | | the United States on this day, and they both were reported to the | | National UFO Reporting Center in Seattle by the percepients. The | | first was in Del Valle, Texas and occurred at around 2:30 a.m. A | | woman was awakened by a loud noise that seemed to be getting louder | | and approaching her house from above, as if a flying object was | | coming down in a vertical descent. For some reason she continued to | | stay in bed, terrified and shaking but unable to move. She suddenly | | became aware of a presence, and when she turned her heard she saw | | several figures in the room: two of them took hold of her shoulders, | | one on each side. She then felt warm and was stood straight up. Next, | | she was floated across the floor and out the front door, accompanied | | by a bright white light. The beings were short with large | | heads, large black eyes and long dangling arms. Her next memory was | | being back in her bedroom at 4:30 a.m. She again heard the loud | | noise, but this time it seemed to be leaving the area. She also | | noticed a strong odor in the room that went away after a few moments. | | (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 2000, citing | | Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle). | | 2000 - The second apparent abduction and missing time experience | | occurred at eleven o'clock that night in Martins Ferry, Ohio. A man | | was sleeping when he was jolted awake by the sound of the bedroom | | window being pried open. When his eyes came into focus, he saw two | | figures already inside the room and a third coming inside. The | | figures appeared to be slightly luminous. The terrified witness could | | not speak, and began to sway back and forth on his bed. One of the | | figures then became dark and apparently approached the witness. He | | now felt hands around his mouth, and was lifted up. He then became | | unconscious, and could not remember anything else of the incident. | | The next day his neighbor mentioned something about seeing a strange | | object on the ground in a nearby field. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, | | Humanoid Contact Database 2000, case # 3590, citing Peter Davenport, | | National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle). | | | | 2004 - The leader of Mirage 4 military jets was alerted by one of his | | fellow crew members to a bogey at the 5 o'clock position while flying | | over France at 8:10 a.m. There were a total of three airborne | | witnesses to the UFO, but there was no radar trace by air traffic | | controllers on the ground. (Source: GEIPAN, case # 399). | | | | 2007 - In Worchester, Massachusetts at 3:00 p.m. a very bright silver | | circular object hung stationary in the sky, about 500 feet up in the | | air for 15 to 20 seconds, then vanished. It was estimated to be 60 to | | 70 feet in diameter. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting | | Center, Seattle, October 2007 webpage, report uploaded March 4, | | 2008). | | | | 2007 - A spherical metallic object was seen in broad daylight above | | University Hospital for 22 minutes in Aurora, Colorado. (Source: | | Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2007 | | webpage, report uploaded November 28, 2007). | | | | 2007 - At 7:15 p.m. in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada a big, red | | irregularly shaped ship with claws was sighted, and the witness's MP3 | | player stopped working. The witness also heard four loud bangs | | associated with the object. (Source: Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian | | UFO Survey, case # 667, citing NUFORC). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 21 August 2009). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: abductions; animal rea | | ctions: dogs barking and cows, horse, chickens and cat panicking; bed | | room visitation; cigar-shaped UFOs; disc-shaped UFOs; diver suits; do | | med discs; Grey aliens; ground marks and traces; humming noise; landi | | ngs; missing time; multi-year reports from France, Indiana, Italy and | | Oklahoma; Nordic UFOnauts; orange UFOs; OZ effect (strange absence o | | f sound); physical and physiological effects: burns and heat, chronic | | illness, fatigue, headaches, anorexia, weight loss, weakness, and ch | | ills; radar-visual sightings; short glowing humanoids; short humanoid | | s with bulging eyes; triangular body marks; vehicle EM ignition inter | | ference effects; vertical ascent; V formation of lights; yellow UFOs. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+