+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  December 2 | | | | 1896 - On this day in 1896 an airship descended from the sky 15 miles | | north of Pacific Grove, California and landed on the Pacific Ocean. | | Three human occupants aboard guided it to shore and then hid it in | | the woods, according to the two witnesses. (Sources: San Francisco | | Call, December 3, 1896; Philip Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. | | 31; Jerome Clark, The Unidentified, p. 141). | | | | 1950 - A pearl white, spinning, glowing disc-shaped object closely | | paced a jeep along a road in Nanyuki, Kenya at 10:45 a.m. It | | reportedly made a buzzing noise like bees. This case is listed as a | | Project Blue Book "unknown." (Sources: Project Blue Book files | | counted in official statistics, case 845; Don Berliner, Project Blue | | Book Unknowns). | | | | 1950 - At around 9:00 p.m. a brilliant UFO maneuvered over Ellenton, | | South Carolina for ten minutes, the future site of the Savannah River | | hydrogen bomb production facility, not yet constructed. (Source: | | Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History - 1950 (volume 3), p. 62). | | | | 1956 - At 9:45 p.m. a luminous ovoid object maneuvered in the sky, | | descended, and then ascended to a somewhat higher altitude in Forest | | Lake, Minnesota. The witness, Mr. Moffett, chased it in his car. The | | UFO flew to the east slowly, then turned toward the south and flew | | away. (Source: Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Orbit, March 1957, p. | | 2). | | | | 1962 - A bright, light-bulb shaped object flew in toward the east, | | then angled off toward the north before it "arched" its way into a | | lake. It was seen by residents of twelve cities between Akron, Ohio | | and Syracuse, New York. (Source: Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible | | Residents, p. 226, citing the Conneaut News Herald). | | | | 1965 - A close encounter with electro-magnetic effects happened in El | | Paso, Texas on this day. (Source: Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers - | | Serious Business, p. 266). | | | | 1967 - At 9:30 p.m. a bullet or cone-shaped UFO hovered for two hours | | over the Baneasa airfield in the Bucuresti province of Romania. It | | then flew off to the north. There were many high quality military | | observers. (Source: Ion Hobana and Julien Weberbergh, UFOs from | | Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 176). | | | | 1973 - A luminous disc-shaped object maneuvered over the city of | | Brussels, Belgium shortly after midnight, flashing and glowing. It | | then faded in intensity to a bright star. It stayed visible for 75 | | minutes. (Source: FSR, July 1974, p. 32). | | | | 1973 - A box-shaped object approximately 8 feet in diameter was | | sighted by some fishermen in Bonneville Carteret, Normandy, France at | | 5:30 in the morning. It directed a beam of light upon their fishing | | nets. (Sources: Courier Ouest, December 7, 1973; Roland Godefroy, | | Phenomenes Spatiaux, December 1973, p. 19; FSR, July 1974, pp. | | 32-33). | | | | 1973 - At 6:00 p.m. several teenagers in Levittown, Pennsylvania | | observed a UFO with lights "flying funny" up and down the Delaware | | River. It had three flashing red lights, and made no sound. It next | | hovered in the sky for one minute, then vanished in the clear sky. At | | 6:35 p.m. several city residents of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | | watched a UFO over the Linden Avenue area of the city, including some | | who viewed it through binoculars. It looked like an acorn, with a | | green bottom. It was blinking slowly and was surrounded by a gray | | mist or haze. At 11:25 p.m. a cartographer and his wife saw UFO with | | four blinking white lights and a red light in the center while | | driving in northeast Philadelphia on Interstate 95. The object had a | | rectangular-shaped bottom, and a hat-shaped side view; it flew to the | | north, met up with a cluster of lights, and then flew off towards | | Bristol. (Sources: Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, December 3, 1973; | | J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, volume 5 (1974), cases #1088, 1090 & | | 1092; Matthew Graeber, Fate, May 2002, p. 27). | | | | 1973 - At 7 p.m. a strange, robot-like creature about four feet tall, | | with large round glowing eyes 18 inches wide, was seen in Korning | | Wood, Quebec, Canada at a distance of about 200 feet from the house | | of the witness. It possessed a large round head, long arms, and a | | bright red glow that emanated from behind its head. It disappeared | | behind the observer's house. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid | | Contact Database 1973, citing Marc Leduc, CASUFO). | | | | 1973 - A 150 foot wide disc hovered in front of the car of a Mr. & | | Mrs. Gerard while driving on the interstate highway near Wilsonville, | | Oregon this evening. The object spun in a circular motion, and | | traveled up the I-5 freeway. It had circular portholes two to three | | feet deep, one inverted C-shaped area with no lights, and a blue | | light on top. It went behind a hill and was gone from view. (Source: | | J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, volume 5 (1974), case #1174). | | | | 1974 - Stephen Jenkins of Croydon, Greater London, England woke up at | | 3 a.m. to hear clearly audible footsteps on the stairs. Two beings | | appeared on the landing. Their body texture was "something like | | closely compressed pulpy leaves." Their faces were reddish, with | | yellow eyes with hard black pupils. Around them was a translucent, | | faintly luminous "box like structure." In a moment they were gone. | | (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid | | Reports, case 1974-73, citing Stephen Jenkins, The Undiscovered | | Country). | | | | 1974 - Driving home near Frederick, Wisconsin at 10:30 p.m. William | | Bosak, a 69-year-old farmer, noticed something parked on the opposite | | side of the road ahead. Slowing down to look, his headlights | | illuminated an object with a curved, transparent front, behind which | | could be seen a figure visible from the waist up, with arms upraised | | over his head, as if in terror. The figure seemed to be a little | | taller than a tall man, and had a square face with hair "sticking | | straight out from the sides." It had long, narrow ears that stuck | | straight out, brown furry arms, and a hairy torso. The eyes were | | large and protruding. Frightened, Mr. Bosak sped up past the object, | | which was surrounded by a kind of fog. As he passed, the car | | "darkened, as if in shadow," or his headlights dimmed, and the | | witness heard a soft whooshing sound. No ground traces were found at | | the site the following day. (Sources: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, | | HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-58, citing Dewey | | Berscheid, Edward E. Lightner, and Jerome Clark; Mark Rodeghier, UFO | | Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 375; APRO Bulletin, | | February, 1975). | | | | 1975 - There were five separate reports of unmarked black helicopters | | flying around missile sites and nearby towns in Carter, Conrad, | | Fairfield, Great Falls, Montana and at the Fort Benton J-5 Missile | | Site in Chouteau County, Montana. (Source: Roberta Donovan, Mystery | | Stalks the Prairie, pp. 47-51; Great Falls Tribune, December 5, | | 1975). | | | | 1975 - Sandra Larson awoke at four o'clock in the morning to find two | | beings standing beside her bed in Fargo, North Dakota. They were the | | same type she had seen on August 26th: about six feet tall, brown | | vinyl like bodies with metallic looking arms, and mummy-like heads | | bandaged up in tape (with the eyes remaining visible). They floated | | her out through the bedroom wall to a field several blocks away, | | where they took her onboard a UFO. When she was taken from the craft | | they were in a desert landscape with white sand, lit by a celestial | | body resembling the moon. She was taken into a square building where | | a humanoid--she thought of him as a scientist--interrogated her using | | telepathy. Then she was taken home, again floating through a closed | | door into her house. She thought about taking a bath, and the | | entities asked her what "soap" was; she took them to her basement and | | gave them a cup of laundry detergent. (Sources: David F. Webb & Ted | | Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1975-60 | | (A1437), citing Jerome Clark, UFO Report, August 1976, p. 21; David | | F. Webb, Proceedings of the 1976 CUFOS Conference, p. 270). | | | | 1977 - A Waimata Valley, New Zealand farmer had awakened at three | | a.m. when he heard his dogs barking in the kennels. When he went | | outside he saw a 50-foot in diameter saucer-shaped object on the | | ground, about 100 feet away from his house. It was red in color and | | he could see it had two open doors or ports. Near his dog kennel were | | two silver-suited humanoid figures of slight build, about 4 feet 8 | | inches tall; they were carrying off one of his dogs, which appeared | | to be unconscious. He got his gun and opened fire on the creatures, | | hitting one. They dropped the animal and the figure that was hit | | staggered off into the bushes while the second one entered the | | object, which then took off. The dog was comatose for a few minutes, | | but later recovered. Friends visiting the farmer later found him in a | | state of shock, fearful that they would return for retribution. | | Footprints were found at the site. The incident also occurred during | | a rash of UFO sightings in the area. The next evening there were | | reports of hovering objects in Invercargill and Gore Matura, New | | Zealand at 10:20 p.m. and shortly after 11:00 p.m. (Sources: Allan | | Hendry, International UFO Reporter, June 1978, p. 2; Xenolog, March | | 1978, pp. 6-13; UNICAT, case # 166; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, | | HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-69 (A1772), | | citing David Conway, Gisborne Aerial Phenomenon Research Group). | | | | 1977 - Five 45-foot in diameter domed discs hovered over Roseville, | | Michigan at 12:20 a.m. Three more discs joined them. Two figures were | | seen inside each dome. All flew away to the northwest after a couple | | of minutes. (Source: NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1978). | | | | 1977 - A close encounter occurred in North Charleston, South Carolina | | at 9:30 a.m. with a disc-shaped UFO that caused gravity effects. | | (Sources: North Charleston (SC) Banner, December 7, 1977; APRO | | Bulletin, July 1978, p. 2). | | | | 1977 - A Ms. Crowl had a  close encounter with a UFO in Elysburg, | | Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. (Source: Shamokin (PA) | | News-Item, December 3, 1977). | | | | 1977 - On this day there were also a series of unexplained booms or | | skyquakes heard all along the eartern seaboard of the United States | | from South Carolina to New Jersey. The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory | | recorded reports from Asbury Park, Belmar, Farmingdale, Haledon, | | Hammonton, Hazlet, Howell, Long Branch, Mount Holly, Ocean County, | | Old Bridge, Oyster Creek, Point Pleasant, Red Bank, Toms River, and | | Wall Township, New Jersey as well as Charleston and other parts of | | South Carolina.  The earliest report in the day appears to have come | | from Charleston, South Carolina at 9:30 a.m. and the last report may | | have been at 3:45 p.m. in New Jersey. The Oyster Creek, New Jersey | | skyquake was heard near a nuclear power plant, which caused some | | concern. (Sources: Dallas (TX) Times-Herald, December 17, 1977; New | | York Times, December 20, 1977; George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of | | Anomalies, p. 800-821, citing U.S. Naval Research Laboratory). | | | | 1978 - A nine minute long videotape was made of a luminous object | | over Roanne, France on this evening. The luminous round object | | appeared over the tops of mountains, traced a big circle, and then | | remained still for several minutes. (Source: Jane Thomas, UFO | | Newsclipping Service, March 1979, p. 13, citing Cronica, December 4, | | 1978). | | | | 1978 - A photograph was taken of a disc-shaped object in Abu Dhabi, | | UAE by four young men, one named Salimeen. According to the report | | there were also physiological effects on the witnesses. (Source: APRO | | Bulletin, January 1979, p. 3). | | | | 1978 - Thirty-one year old Emilio Carrascosa Atienza saw an intense | | white light land 200 meters away from his car while he was driving in | | Chiva, Valencia, Spain at 11:00 p.m. Its brightness decreased as he | | approached the spot in his car. He then heard a penetrating foreign | | voice on his car radio, and next two reddish-orange balls of light | | appeared near the horizon before winking out. Dr. Willy Smith of the | | UNICAT project rated the witness as highly reliable. (Sources: | | Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 139; | | UNICAT, case # 502, citing Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, OVNIS y la | | Ciencia, p. 76). | | | | 1979 - While stopped for gas at night on the Corso Europa highway in | | Genoa, Italy F. Zanfretta, age 27, was approached by a tall figure | | with an oval-shaped head who wore a loose fitting windbreaker. At the | | same time a fog like mist surrounded the gas pumps and the figure | | ordered Zanfretta to accompany him. Zanfretta obeyed, and he was | | eventually taken onboard a craft which had landed in a wooded area | | near Marzano. While flying over the area he was reportedly shown the | | earth from outer space, looking like a marble free-floating in space. | | The occupants of the craft also showed him numerous photographs of | | friends and others, whom he did not know. He was also shown a large | | glass cylinder filled with a blue liquid, inside of which floated a | | huge hairy ape-like "Bigfoot" creature. In another container he saw a | | horrible creature resembling a prehistoric pterodactyl. In yet a | | third container he saw a large toad-like creature. While onboard the | | craft he met a tall green-colored reptilian like humanoid who called | | himself "Dargos", whom he had met on a previous occasion. The tall | | humanoid reportedly offered Zanfretta a transparent sphere that | | contained a rotating golden pyramid as proof of their existence, but | | Zanfretta refused to accept it. Allegedly, local residents reported a | | power outage near Marzano on this night. (Sources: Albert S. Rosales, | | Humanoid Contact Database 1979, citing CUN Genova; David F. Webb & | | Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2228). | | | | 1982 - A silent object beamed three lights down at 8 a.m., then | | followed a car in Bury St. Edmonds, Suffolk, England. There followed | | an RAF investigation of the incident. (Source: Timothy Good, Alien | | Contact, p. 38). | | | | 1987 - At 3:00 a.m. Ed Walters heard some strange voices outside his | | home in Gulf Breeze, Florida speaking Spanish. Thirty minutes later | | his dog started barking, so he went out on his porch to check and | | when he pulled a blind he saw a four foot tall Grey humanoid being | | with large almond-shaped eyes looking at him. The being wore wome | | type of shield over its eyes, chest, and lower body and was holding a | | lighted rod in its right hand. The creature turned around and ran | | towards a nearby open field. Ed Walters chased the creature, and was | | suddenly struck by a blue beam of light. He was unable to move his | | legs and fell to the ground, as if the beam was holding him down. | | When he was finally able to move, he ran back to the house and | | grabbed his camera and his gun. He photographed a large, bowl-shaped | | craft with darkened portholes and an illuminated orange ring on the | | bottom. He could also see a beam of blue light shining down from it | | onto the ground. (Sources: Donald Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, issue # | | 239; Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1990, p. 204; David F. Webb & Ted | | Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A2234; Albert | | S. Rosales, 1987 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 358, | | citing Donald Ware, Walt Andrus, and Charles D. Flannigan). | | | | 1988 - A brilliant light was first seen lakeside in Shelton, Mason | | County, Washington State by four witnesses at 7:00 p.m. Next, four | | dark boomerang or V-shaped craft, from 75 feet to 300 feet in | | width, passed slowly overhead at low altitude. They were as big as | | Boeing 747 airliners, according to the observers. (Source: Robert | | Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1989). | | | | 1990 - At 11:00 p.m. an Air Force officer observed a dark ovoid | | object move through the sky slowly at low altitude in Taillades, | | Vaucluse, France. Lights on the surface of the object changed | | position. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 307). | | | | 1993 - At 4:45 a.m. a flat-bottomed disc-shaped object flew over the | | witnesses' house in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at 150 feet altitude, | | making a whooshing sound. (Source: Francis L. Ridge, UFO Intelligence | | News). | | | | 1999 - A large shining cylindrical object with a flaming orange tail | | moved over Shanghai, China on this day, "scooting" above skyscrapers | | in the city. It made front page news, and was viewed by hundreds. | | (Source: UFO Magazine, March 2000, p. 17; April 2000, p. 33). | | | | 2000 - A witness in Selden, New York viewed a large, dark, silent | | triangular object with dim steady red lights at the triangle vertices | | at 10:50 p.m. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting | | Center, December 2000 webpage, report uploaded December 9, 2000). | | | | 2001 - In Torquay, Devonshire, England a disc-shaped object the size | | of a small room was observed at 6:15 p.m. It was spinning on its own | | axis. (Source: British Ministry of Defense, case 2001-185). | | | | 2002 - At 6:00 a.m. a woman in La Grange, Georgia saw a stationary | | blinking light through pine trees that flashed every 8 seconds. Her | | husband and two associates saw a triangular craft zip silently across | | the sky at 6:25 a.m. (Source: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, | | Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 62). | | | | 2003 - A bright, multi-colored, pulsating cigar-shaped object was | | observed near Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico at 9:00 p.m. (Source: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, December 2003 webpage). | | | | 2008 - In Oakland, Pennsylvania a flying disc-shaped object hovered | | at 12:40 p.m., then began to glide across the sky without making any | | noise. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | December 2008 webpage, report uploaded January 10, 2009). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 2 December 2012). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT database. | | | | Themes | | : animal reaction: dogs barking; bedroom visitation; boomerang or V-s | | haped UFOs; buzzing sound; cigar-shaped or cylindrical UFOs; disc-sha | | ped UFOs; domed discs; failed animal abduction; fog surrounding UFO; | | free will abduction; hovering UFOs; luminous UFOs; multi-year reports | | from England, France and Pennsylvania; nautical UFOs; nuclear facili | | ty; ovoid UFOs; red-faced humanoids surrounded by translucent box; sh | | ooting of alien entity; short robot-like humanoid; short slim humanoi | | ds; skyquakes; tall hairy humanoid; triangular UFOs; whooshing sound. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+