+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  September 2 | | | | 1905 - An intensely dark object flew over Llangollen, Gwynedd, Wales | | at an altitude over two miles. (Source: Desmond Leslie, Flying | | Saucers Have Landed, p. 34). | | | | 1952 - At three o'clock in the morning Mr. Turason, a radar operator | | working for ground control at Midway Airport in Chicago, Illinois | | picked up 40 targets flying in miscellaneous directions, up to 175 | | mph. Two of the blips seemed to fly in formation with a DC-6 | | airliner. The radar sightings lasted a total of eight hours. | | (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, | | case 2025; UFOs: A History. 1952: September-October, p. 3; Don | | Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1952 - At 5:50 p.m. two military observers at Davis-Monthan AFB in | | Arizona saw seven large saucer-shaped objects, identical in | | appearance, in changing formations. When they changed direction for | | the last time all of them vanished. (Sources: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A | | History. September-October 1952, p. 7; Richard F. Haines, Project | | Delta, p. 183; UNICAT, case 744). | | | | 1953 - At 9:14 p.m. at Sidi Slimane AFB, Morocco pilot Lt. Col. | | William Moore and co-pilot Lt. J. H. McInnis, flying in a C-47 | | transport plane at 140 mph at 6000 feet altitude on a training | | mission, encountered a very bright light that appeared on a collision | | course with their aircraft. At the last minute the UFO levelled out. | | It subsequently made a 90 degree and then it executed a 180 degree | | turn. It descended to 700 feet or less, slowed and seemed to hover. | | (Sources: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 21; | | UNICAT, case #  767; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1954 - Twelve-year-old John Jacob Swain of Coldwater, Kansas had just | | finished driving a tractor at 10:00 p.m. when he saw a dark | | complexioned little man about the size of a five year old child | | crouching about 20 feet away. The man had pointed ears and a pointed | | nose, and wore shiny clothing. He also was carrying two two-foot long | | cylinders on his back. He ran or glided, apparently floating across | | the ground, to a 50 foot wide disc-shaped object hovering five feet | | above the ground. He jumped in and took off without tilting the | | saucer. Lights shone from windows or the craft as it flew off faster | | than a jet. At the site were found numerous pear-shaped footprints 2 | | inches wide x 4.5 inches in length, with very narrow heels. (Sources: | | Wichita Evening Eagle, September 8, 1954; Ted Phillips, Physical | | Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 677; David F. Webb & Ted | | Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-46, citing | | Sheriff Floyd Hadley & Rev. Albert Baller). | | | | 1956 - At 4:30 a.m. a six meter long ovoid UFO hovered 5 feet over a | | golf course in Dayton, Ohio. It illuminated an area 40 feet wide. The | | sighting lasted more than 30 minutes, but the UFO vanished when the | | 19-year-old witness shone a light on it. A Project Blue Book | | "unknown." (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official | | statistics, case 4379; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. | | 135; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. | | 13). | | | | 1958 - At nine o'clock several violent bluish-white flashes were seen | | at ground level in Docelles, France. The next day four deep | | rectangular imprints were found in the ground at the site. The | | imprints were five meters apart, and arranged in a square. (Source: | | Lumieres dans la Nuit, September 1976). | | | | 1960 - In the middle of the night Mr. & Mrs. Palmes noticed a large | | dark gray object, covered with tiles and as large as a three-storey | | building, in a nearby field while driving down a highway north of | | Bunnell, Florida. The UFO then came and hovered over road, only 30-50 | | feet away. The car's lights and engine died. The wife recalls seeing | | short people in tight-fitting uniforms, and her husband being in a | | trance. There was an undisclosed period of missing time. (Source: | | David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, | | case A0504, citing Norman Bean, Skylook, August 1975, p. 9). | | | | 1967 - At 1:30 a.m. Ms. Barbara Ward, awakened by her baby, glanced | | out her window on the Bentilee Estate, Stoke-on-Trent, England and | | saw, a very bright yellow object with an orange light on top in the | | adjacent field. It was shaped like an inverted saucer. It appeared to | | be on the ground or just above it, and its light fluctuated in | | intensity. She could hear no sound, though she was behind a glass | | window. She reported to investigators Roger Stanway and Anthony Pace | | that she "half imagined" she could see shadowy figures moving back | | and forth in front of the bright light generated by the object. She | | could not be certain because the bright light caused her eyes to | | strain when looking at the object. After watching for half an hour | | she became tired and went back to bed. The UFO had not moved during | | her observation. Subsequent examination of the field failed to reveal | | any traces. This sighting occurred during a spate of several UFO | | incidents in the same area. (Sources: Roger Stanway & Anthony Pace, | | UFOs Unidentified Undeniable, p. 11; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, | | HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-87 (A0863), citing | | Roger Stanway & Anthony Pace; UNICAT, case # 567). | | | | 1967 - On this night Nelson Gutierrez, a salesman, encountered a | | landed UFO on the Plains Highway, near the Hato Viejo farm outside of | | Caracas, Venezuela. A being emerged from the object, and according to | | press acounts the witness claimed to have taken a photograph of the | | being. A copy of this photograph was not made available, and the | | photographer's intent was to sell it when he had it developed. | | (Sources: Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 78; David | | F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case | | 1967-89, citing Jim & Carol Lorenzen, UFOs Over the Americas, p. 78; | | Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # | | 877). | | | | 1968 - A brilliant royal blue ball of light with a whitish-yellow | | outer ring hovered in the northwestern sky over Lockleys, South | | Australia for awhile, then dropped like a stone, veering to the left. | | It made no sound and left no smoke trail. (Source: Michael Hervey, | | UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 182). | | | | 1971 - On this night a 17-year-old woman named James witnessed a UFO | | hanging motionless in the sky for more than 30 minutes over Great | | Barr, England. It changed shape and color, and disappeared at high | | speed. It had green L-shapes with red light at each end. It became | | oblong, then cigar shaped. (Sources: Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, | | January 17, 1972, citing Birmingham Evening Mail, September 3, 1971; | | Flying Saucers, March 1972, p. 13; FSR, January-February 1972, p. | | 31). | | | | 1973 - On this evening Miss Liewragwong and another young girl living | | in the Klong Toey neighborhood of Bangkok, Thailand had a close | | encounter sighting of a disc-shaped UFO. (Source: Terry Colvin, FSR | | Case Histories, February 1974, p. 17, citing Bangkok Post, September | | 3, 1973). | | | | 1973 - On his way to work at 1:30 p.m. an older man driving south of | | Milroy, Indiana a man saw a green, domed disc-shaped object descend | | making a swishing sound, and he watched the object approach in his | | car's rearview mirror. The UFO scooped up his car like a forklift. | | The front and side windows were blacked out, and he could only see | | out through the rear window. He had 95 minutes of missing time during | | his abduction experience. (Sources: Richard Nottingham, MUFON field | | investigation case file database, case 951112aC; David F. Webb & Ted | | Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1220, citing | | Don Worley for MUFON). | | | | 1973 - Residents of Big Bear Lake, California reported a series of | | sightings starting at around 11:00 p.m. of unidentified objects with | | flashing lights. A hovering multi-colored object was observed, with a | | red color predominating. It was then revealed to be a red disc, which | | began moving in various directions, then accelerated and sped away | | toward the north. (Source: Big Bear News, September 27, 1973). | | | | 1975 - A silent, dark disc-shaped object was seen at 12:30 a.m. | | pulsating on the roadside of a highway in Chesterland, Ohio. It then | | hovered at treetop level, and shot straight up very quickly. (Source: | | FSR, April 1976, p. 25, citing CUFOS). | | | | 1976 - At 5:00 a.m. a UFO with multiple lights was involved in a | | close encounter in Jaca, Huesca, Spain. It moved toward the car of | | two of the witnesses, circled around it, and then moved over it. A | | truck driver was an independent witness. The UFO had a solid top, but | | indistinct bottom; it was 7-8 meters in diameter, and made a soft | | whistling sound. Physiological effects were reported. (Source: | | UNICAT, case # 455, citing Stendek, December 1981, p. 7). | | | | 1978 - A metallic-looking, cigar-shaped object was seen taking off | | from a field of maize at 8:10 a.m. in San Michele, Veneto, Italy. It | | made a hissing sound. An area of crushed and dehydrated plants was | | found at the landing site. It was 6.5 meters by 3 meters (20 feet x | | 10 feet). There were reportedly several witnesses, including the main | | witness, a 14-year-old named Pozzi. (Sources: FSR, March 1979, p. 6; | | Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, October 1979, p. 14; | | UNICAT, case # 108, citing Toselli, FSR;Richard H. Hall, The UFO | | Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 265, 349). | | | | 1978 - On this night Gene LeTourneau, a newspaper reporter, and | | his wife watched a box-shaped, noiseless object at Russell Pond in | | Maine. (Source: Portland Press Herald, September 13, 1978). | | | | 1979 - The witness, a surveyor, was out picking mushrooms at five | | o'clock in the afternoon in a wooded part of Petushka, Russia when he | | came upon a large, shiny, metallic looking mushroom-shaped craft on | | the ground. The bottom half of the craft emitted a soft pink light, | | and the top domed section was encased in an orange mist. The craft | | appeared to be spinning and emitting luminous flashes from its edges. | | Two short men emerged from the object. They were strongly built with | | broad shoulders and strong chests. They wore black tight-fitting | | suits that covered their entire bodies. The suits had two small slits | | at eye level. They were talking among themselves in a language that | | sounded more like the twittering of birds than anything else. They | | appeared to inspect the craft, and then were somehow sucked up inside | | it. The UFO subsequently took off. On the spot where the object had | | been resting the soil was found to be totally sterile with all living | | organisms completely absent. (Sources: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid | | Contact Database 1979, case # 835, citing Gordon Creighton, FSR, Vol. | | 27, number 5; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 13272). | | | | 1980 - At 9:30 a.m. a blimp-shaped object with eerie lights and odd | | maneuvers was seen in Texarkana, Arkansas by a doctor who was also a | | pilot; it vanished on the spot! (Sources: William D. Leet, MUFON UFO | | Journal, June 1982, p. 5; Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing | | MUFON). | | | | 1984 - A black, saucer-shaped UFO was seen for six minutes flipping | | around the Inner Harbor area of Baltimore, Maryland in slow motion. | | It was witnessed by many, including physicist Bruce Maccabee. | | (Source: Bruce Maccabee, MUFON UFO Journal, May 1985). | | | | 1994 - On this night on Dry Creek, the Greenhorn Mountains, Huerfano | | County, Colorado a local hunter was at his campsite when a large | | group of "aliens dressed in camo appeared", and before he could | | react, he was gassed, captured, and tied up. They never spoke to him, | | and never fed him. He claims he survived by eating grasshoppers. The | | camoflage wearing, human looking entities appeared to be conducting | | "some sort of maneuvers." The group then began boarding a small, | | silver colored flying object, and the witness was astonished when the | | object appeared to expand in size to accommodate them all. The object | | then took off, morphed into the shape of a bear, then morphed into "a | | three headed wolf", then turned into a cloud. Later, law enforcement | | personnel searched the area and found the witness's truck trashed, | | the remains of his campfire, and "his half-burnt clothes" scattered | | around the area. At the same time a second hunter was reported | | missing in the same area, but when he finally showed up, he "raced | | away in his truck without saying a word." a local hunter was captured | | by human-like alien beings, dressed in camoflauge. Small silver UFO | | grew in size, changed shape 2x. 2nd hunter also missing, wouldn't say | | why. (Sources: Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 254; | | Albert S. Rosales, 1994 Humanoid Contact Database, case # 2550, | | citing Christopher O'Brien). | | | | 1995 - At 10:30 p.m. at the Bay Bridge in Pensacola, Florida two | | witnesses watched a one foot in diameter red ball of light low over | | some trees shoot out and back a number of times, swinging back in | | forth in the sky in a pendulum motion. (Source: UFO Newsclipping | | Service, October 1995). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 29 August 2012). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: abductions, blue UFOs, broad-sh | | ouldered humanoids, dark UFOs, disc-shaped UFOs, domed discs, humanoi | | d with pointed ears, missing time, mists or fog surrounding UFO, mult | | i-year reports from England, radar sightings, shape changing UFO, sho | | rt humanoids, UFOs hovered 5 feet above ground, vanishing UFO, vehicl | | e EM ignition interference effects, vertical ascent, whistling sound. | | | | © Donald A. 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