+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  October 13 | | | | 1917 - Approximately 70,000 people crowded the fields surrounding the | | Cova da Iria, a grotto in Fatima, Portugal to witness a promised | | miracle. Miraculous events and apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary | | had been occurring monthly on the 13th of every month since three | | children--Lucia, Jesus and Marto-- had first met a mysterious lady in | | blue there in May. Not many of those in the crowd, even those close | | to the three children, were able to witness the apparition of the | | Lady on this day, but it is reported that everyone present saw | | "something." The most common description was of a "gyrating sun" that | | became a silver disc, and emitted bright rainbow shafts of light, | | changing colors in succession from red to violet to blue to yellow. | | The flat silver disc plunged downward toward earth in a zigzag | | fashion. Catholics present interpreted these events as a sign from | | God, and the religious event was later sanctioned as a miracle by the | | Roman Catholic Church. The prophesies revealed that day have been | | kept secret by the Vatican, but reportedly involve the assassination | | of "the last Pope." (Sources: Richard H. Hall, From Airships to | | Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th | | Century (1900-1946), p. 12; John A. Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. | | 259; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 149; Jacques Vallee, | | The Invisible College, p. 143). | | | | 1953 - Four maneuvering, nocturnal UFOs and the fall of "angel hair" | | was reported to have occurred in Pleasant Hill, California this | | night. (Source: Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 201). | | | | 1954 - At 10:05 a.m. a weather observer in Nouasseur, French Morocco, | | following a balloon in his theodolite, saw a round, flat, silver | | object fly straight and level. (Source: Don Berliner, Project Blue Book | | Unknowns). | | | | 1954 - At 4:30 p.m. in Graulhet, Tarn department, France, numerous | | witnesses consistently reported that a white object flew southward at | | full speed without leaving a vapor trail and then exploded. At the | | same time a circular object, much smaller and silvery, seemed to | | spurt out of the mass of debris and continue straight toward the | | south. The burst of fragments scattered throughout the sky and fell | | gently down like shreds of paper or cloth. The debris, which | | resembled silvery filaments clinging together like cobwebs, "wilted | | away" when handled. This volatile "angel hair" dropped by UFOs, | | usually in the month of October, has been described many times since | | 1947. (Source: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line | | Mystery, p. 170). | | | | 1954 - Three hours later in Crocq, France, at Donjon de Montlaur, J. | | Dubois and four other witnesses saw a round craft maneuver, giving | | off a blinding light. It had some openings or portholes, and seemed | | to come down and land far away from them. (Source: Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia, p. 227). | | | | 1954 - On that same night Messrs. Olivier and Perano and a third man | | in Bourrasole, France saw a reddish disc about 4 meters in diameter | | with a small humanoid close by. The being stood about 1.2 meters (5 | | feet) tall, wearing a diving suit. "His head was large with respect | | to the rest of the body and he had two enormous eyes. The suit was | | bright and shiny like glass." The Disc was surrounded by a sort of | | misty glow. One of the witnesses came within 20 meters of it and | | found himself paralyzed. The craft took off, throwing the man who | | stood closest to the ground, and rose into the sky very fast. | | (Sources: La Croix, October 16, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia, p. 227). | | | | 1957 - On this night Antonio Villas Boas witnessed a UFO making | | complex maneuvers in the sky above his family's farmhouse in Sao | | Francisco de Sales, Brazil. This is three nights prior to his famous | | abduction experience, which occurred in the early morning hours of | | October 16. (Source: Olavo T. Fontes, APRO Bulletin, July 1966, p. | | 5). | | | | 1967 - On this day in Le Mas, France (Lozere department) at 12:45 | | p.m., a young woman saw three small beings dressed in copper-red | | suits. Other observers saw only a compass needle deviate and a brief | | apparition of a line of six luminous discs. (Source: David F. Webb | | and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of humanoid reports, citing | | Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1968, p. 19). | | | | 1969 - At 10:00 p.m. a round object flew over Vancouver, British | | Columbia. The witness reported seeing several men inside. (Source: | | John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants and Critters, p. 49). | | | | 1971 - In the afternoon in Kladar, Bosnia (then part of Yugoslavia) a | | cloud of dense "flying smoke" one kilometer long and 1 meter wide | | moved in an undulating wave across the sky. (Source: Awareness, | | October 1977, p. 10, citing J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, volume | | 3, 1972, case no. 121). | | | | 1972 - At 2:30 a.m., in the old part of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Sr. | | Joaquin Mercado and his wife watched a triangular formation of lights | | move back and forth in the sky from the terrace of their apartment. | | In the early morning of the same day, twenty hospital employees of | | the Aguadilla Hospital and others saw several UFOs maneuvering in the | | skies. The hospital supervisor, Sra. Rosa G. de Castro, told | | reporters that she had seen the dish-shaped objects, with a cone on | | the upper part, very clearly. They had lights rotating around their | | peripheries. At one point she saw something shoot out from one of | | them towards the ground, and then come back up again. (Source: Gordon | | Creighton, FSR Case Histories, December 1973, pp. 11-14). | | | | 1973 - Photographs of nighttime lights and objects were taken in | | Tennessee and West Virginia, in the midst of the largest wave of UFO | | sightings since 1967. In Elkhorn, West Virginia a photograph was | | taken of a huge object, flashing regularly every one-third of second, | | which flew toward the southeast. (Source: Ted Spickler, MUFON UFO | | Journal, June 1977, p. 3). | | | | 1983 - In Gaffney, South Carolina, a married couple awoke at 12:30 | | a.m. to the sound of a siren, then witnessed a glowing orange-yellow | | UFO only twenty feet above their neighbor's house. Dogs barked. The | | UFO, estimated as the size of Winnebago, had two beams of light | | coming from the bottom. It crossed some power lines and headed to the | | east toward the nuclear power plant. (Sources: George D. Fawcett case | | investigations file; UFO Magazine, June 1990, p. 33). | | | | 1989 - Several UFO sightings and a report of humanoids occurred | | during this day. At 10:20 a.m. in Langenburg, Saskatchewan, Canada a | | silver disc hovered over a garage, moved away to the north, then came | | back to hover over a barn. A 22-year-old man out driving to meet a | | friend in the city of Pensacola, Florida at 8:30 p.m. saw a white, | | rectangular object hovering near the approaching intersection. He | | lost sight of it when he drove through the intersection because some | | trees blocked his view. In Welch, Oklahoma a family of six out | | driving in the evening on US Route 59 south of town saw two UFOs and | | two nine-foot-tall luminous green beings, near a disc-shaped object | | blocking the road. (Sources: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1991, p. | | 231; Rex and Carol Salisberry, MUFON case investigations file, case # | | 891007E; UFO Magazine, June 1990, p. 31). | | | | 1997 - near Gundagai, New South Wales -- On this Monday at | | approximately 6 p.m. a married couple were traveling by car to | | Victoria along the Hume Freeway. The weather was clear and there were | | no clouds in the sky. It was warm and previously there had been a | | strong north wind, but it had subsided. The witnesses were traveling | | toward the west and were approximately 100 kilometers north of | | Gundagai, Australia. As they came over the top of a hill, they | | noticed a light directly in front of them at about 25 to 30 degrees | | above the horizon and to the left of the first object. Neither object | | appeared to be moving. | | | | They watched the objects for the next 30 minutes while driving toward | | the objects. The distance to the objects had decreased to | | approximately one mile. They were then able to see that one was | | triangular and the other was a sphere with a ring around it. The | | objects began to throw flames from underneath, similar to rockets, | | although at first neither seemed to move. They stopped the car and | | got out and the UFOs started to move. The higher object was moving | | away much faster than the lower one. | | | | The witnesses got out their camera and took three photographs as the | | UFOs moved higher into the sky. The top object veered to the right | | while the lower one veered left. They remained lit by the sun while | | the witnesses were already in the gathering darkness. Both objects | | turned into black balls as the flames were emitted and remained that | | way. The total observation time was approximately 45 minutes. The | | photographs showed many details. The RAAF and Australian Army | | provided information that discounts the possibilities that these | | objects were jets, missiles or rockets. (Source: James Owen case | | investigation files, Victorian UFO Research Society website). | | | | 1997 - On the same day as the Australian sighting, four lights in a | | row approached a car from behind, being driven by a 30-year-old woman | | at 8:30 p.m. in Struthers, Scotland. The witness drove at speeds of | | 90 miles per hour in an attempt to get away, and she does not | | remember how she got past a sharp bend in road. Possible missing time | | of about ten minutes. (Source: Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret | | History of Scotland's UFO Phenomenon, p. 156). | | | | 2000 - At 12:30 a.m. a multicolored UFO zigzagged around the sky over | | Kelowna, British Columbia and made a loud rumbling noise. (Source: | | Geoff Dittman, Canadian UFO Survey 2000, citing UFOBC case | | investigation files). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised August 31, 2009). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: Angel hair residue | | , disc-shaped UFOs, maneuvers, Saturn-shaped UFOs, smoke or cloud, tr | | iangular UFOs, photographs, short humanoids with large heads, very ta | | ll humanoids, shiny diver suits, luminous green suits, zigzag motion. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+