+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  October 14 | | | | 1954 - At 12:15 a.m. five kilometers north of Nimes, France Mr. & | | Mrs. Dupuy saw an object shaped like a rugby ball resting on | | crutch-like landing gear. It was lit by a greenish light and had | | three portholes. (Source: Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le | | premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. | | 159-160, citing Le Provencal,  October 15, 1954). | | | | 1954 - At 3:40 a.m. a brilliant, yellow machine in the shape of a | | mushroom, two meters in height and four meters in diameter, was seen | | resting on railroad tracks in Saint-Pierre Halte, France by a baker's | | assistant from Calais. (Source: Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, | | OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en | | France, p. 160, citing La Croix, October 16, 1954; Aime Michel, A | | Propos des Soucoupes Volantes, p. 220). | | | | 1954 - Several witnesses including one named Chasseurs in | | Saint-Ambroix, Gard department, France saw seven small beings flee | | into a phosphorescent object when they were approached. It took off | | immediately. It is claimed that "unknown seeds" were found at the | | site. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of | | Landings, case # 250; Michel Carrouges, Les Apparitions de Martiens, | | p. 104).  | | | | 1954 - Shamsabad, Iran. At 6:30 a.m. a man coming out of his | | house saw a luminous object resembling a bright star. When he | | approached, he observed that it was a 5-meter long object, next | | to which a "short young man" was standing on a circular piece of | | metal, laughing at the witness's terrified expression. The witness | | was 20 meters away when the craft took off at unbelievable speed. | | (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, | | case # 251).  | | | | 1954 - At 3:30 p.m. in Erchin Wood in Lewarde, Nord department, | | France Casimir Starovski, a miner, met a strange being of small | | height and bulky figure with large slanted eyes. Its body was covered | | with fur. Its nose was flat, and it had thick lips. (Sources: Jacques | | Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 143; Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia, case # 252; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue | | of Humanoid Reports, case # A0301)  | | | | 1954 - At 6:15 p.m. a municipal employee, Jose Casella, was riding | | home in Biot, Alpes-Maritimes department, France when he suddenly | | found in front of him on the road an oval-shaped aluminum object | | about 5.5 m in diameter, 1 m high. As he applied the brakes, the | | object took off at very high speed. Sev- eral persons confirmed the | | sighting. The disk was gray, supported a dome, and emitted a soft | | whistle. It took off when Casella was only six meters away. (Sources: | | Paris Presse, October 21, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: | | A Century of Landings, case # 253; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, | | OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en | | France, pp. 160-161, citing Jimmy Guieu, Black-out sur les Soucoupes | | Volantes, p. 219). | | | | 1954 - At dusk, around 6:00 p.m., a farmer in Angles, Vendee | | department, France saw a bright object, which came almost to the | | ground. When he tried to approach it the object produced an intense | | "screen of light" and vanished without a noise. Several other persons | | in Angles also observed the scene. (Sources: La Croix, October 16, | | 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, | | case # 254). | | | | 1954 - At 6:30 p.m. a grocer and his wife, Mr. & Mrs. Vitre, | | inhabitants of the village of Chevigny-en-Valiere, together with some | | farmers, watched a fast luminous disc-shaped UFO maneuver and change | | colors over Rte. D111 in Meursanges, Cote-d'or department, France. | |  (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, | | p. 173; Aime Michel, A Propos des Soucoupes Volantes, p. 211). | | | | 1954 - At around 7:00 p.m. Messr. Duvivier, a farmer in Meral, | | Mayenne department, France observed an orange sphere land and he | | walked out to approach it. When he got close he found it was shaped | | like a flattened dome, 5.5 meters in diameter, and it gave off a | | blinding light, which illuminated the countryside for about 200 | | meters. It was also transparent, and a dark figure could be seen | | inside. After remaining at ground level for 10 minutes it left by | | flying to the north, while a bright cloudy misty material fell slowly | | to the ground at the site. When the witness arrived home he found his | | clothes were covered with a white film of adhesive substance, not | | unlike paraffin wax. (Sources: La Croix, October 16, 1954; Aime | | Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 174; Jacques | | Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 255; | | Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 97; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Flying | | Saucer Occupants, p. 31).  | | | | 1954 - Just after dark, around 7:00 p.m., in Saint-Germain-du-Bois, | | Saone-et-Loire department, France Mr. Lonjarret observed a luminous | | circular orange object on the ground near a corn field off of highway | | D91. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line | | Mystery, p. 175; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of | | Landings, case # 256, citing Quincy; Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et | | l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 24).  | | | | 1954 - In Chazey Wood, south of Gueugnon, Saone-et- Loire department, | | France at 7:30 p.m. Messrs. Jeannet and Garnier saw a reddish | | fireball fly low over their car as their engine and headlights died. | | (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, | | p. 175; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 130; Jacques | | Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 257). | | | | 1954  - Again in Chazey Wood, Saone-et-Loire department, France a | | short time later, Andre Cognard, who was coming from Gueugnon, was | | blinded by a light from a luminous disc-shaped object as it flew low | | over his car. The projected light beam was so bright and blinding | | that he was forced to stop his car. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy | | of a Phenomenon, p. 130; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A | | Century of Landings, case # 258; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, | | OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en | | France, pp. 163-164).  | | | | 1954 - Between Saint-Romain-sous-Gourdon and les Brosses-Tillots, | | Saone-et-Loire department, France Mr. B. saw a circular craft shaped | | like an upside-down plate just after dark. At the same time, the | | engine on his motorcycle stalled. After watching for some time, he | | pushed the motorcycle down the road, where it could be restarted. In | | the same area an engineer also saw a luminous object coming down | | rapidly. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line | | Mystery, p. 175; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 130; | | Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # | | 259; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 3919; Michel Carrouges, | | Les Apparitions de Martiens, p. 128).  | | | | 1954 - At 8:10 p.m. on the road between Thieulloy-la-Ville and | | Beauvais, Somme, France Mr. Covemacker saw an object fly over his car | | as the headlights died. It went on toward the north, seemingly | | following a train. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A | | Century of Landings, case # 259).  | | | | 1954 - At 8:50 p.m. an engineer, Mr. G. Mouillon from Genelard, was | | driving between Ciry-le-Noble and Montceau-les-Mines, Saone-et-Loire, | | France when he witnessed an enormous luminous object that descended | | toward the ground without any noise. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, | | Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 130; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, | | OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en | | France, pp. 166).  | | | | 1957 - Antonio Villas Boas, age 23, had his second UFO sighting prior | | to his famous UFO abduction, when at 9:45 p.m. he watched a blazing | | object, possibly disc shaped, play tag with him over a field on his | | family farm in Sao Francisco de Sales, Minas Gerais, Brazil. He was | | plowing the field with his brother on a tractor when they saw a red | | light at the edge of the field. He went toward it, but it shifted its | | position every time he got close. The object nearly touched down, | | and came down to a height of 100 meters. It vanished on the spot. The | | sighting lasted from ten to twenty minutes. (Sources: Olavo T. | | Fontes, Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1966, p. 23; Coral & Jim | | Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 62; Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 412). | | | | 1961 - At 12:15 p.m. a 200 meter long object descended onto Lake | | Superior near Two Harbors, Minnesota. It floated on the water for | | three minutes, then ascended and flew off toward the southeast. | | (Sources: APRO Bulletin, November 1961, p. 3; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, | | UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 230; Jay Rath, The M-Files: True Reports of | | Minnesota's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 50). | | | | 1969 - A half circle of bright "sparks" flashed at random on the | | leading edge of a dark object, that passed overhead at 3,000 feet | | altitude in Shirley, Massachusetts at 8:50 p.m. It left behind a | | vapor trail. (Source: Raymond E. Fowler case files, report dated | | October 20, 1969; Ray Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 356). | | | | Shirley, Massachusetts Nocturnal Object Fly-By - 1969 | | | | [Sketch of Shirley, Massachusetts UFO - 1969] | | | | 1971 - At 9 p.m. three men camping on the banks of the Trinity River | | near Hawkins Bar, California heard a deafening roar come from the | | opposite side of the river. They then saw several large, dark | | humanoid figures moving about. The campers stayed up the remainder of | | the night watching the black shapes moving around a campfire, making | | high-pitched whining noises and sounds of rapid-fire chatter. There | | had been numerous reports of UFOs and strange lights in the area. | | (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1971, case # | | 1057, citing Peter Guttilla, Saga UFO Report, September 1977). | | | | 1972 - In Rexville, Puerto Rico at 4:00 a.m. a witness named Martinez | | saw an ovoid object land. Some beings exited from the craft and took | | concrete blocks from the landing site. (Sources: Larry Hatch, U | | computer database, case # 9733; J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, | | volume 9 (1978)).  | | | | 1972 - Airman First Class Steven Briggs and Airman Dennis Hillsgeck, | | stationed at McChord Air Force Base in Pierce County, | | Washington, were instructed to check the tactical air navigational | | (TACAN) facility located eight miles east of air base. Upon their | | arrival at the site they opened the locked security fence surrounding | | it and entered the compound. Once inside, they began their systems | | check of the equipment. At around 2:00 p.m. Briggs heard a | | high-pitched engine sound coming from outside the building, so he | | went out to investigate. Once outside he observed a saucer-shaped | | object directly over the building. He then watched the object land | | just south of the compound. Startled, Briggs entered the building and | | summoned Hillsgeck. Back outside both men observed two "creatures" | | walking towards the fence. Briggs went back into the building and | | telephoned the base security police. He yelled that they needed | | help because "intruders" were attempting to enter the facility. Sgt. | | Holmes at the security desk dispatched Sgt. Dwight Reid and AIC | | Michael Tash to the scene. After 17 minutes they arrived and observed | | Briggs and Hillsgeck standing near their government vehicle; both | | appeared to be in a daze and neither could speak. An ambulance was | | summoned. Hillsgeck appeared to have burns around the face. Tash | | walked around the area and found ground marks in the soft dirt. | | Suddenly Reid yelled to Tash that an object was directly overhead, | | and indeed the saucer-shaped object was hovering just above the | | facility. Sgt. Reid attempted to communicate with the security police | | desk, but the radio would not work. Reid and Tash then got Briggs and | | Hillsgeck and drove them from the scene. One mile from the site Reid | | was able to communicate with security, and he requested assistance, | | declaring a "Covered Wagon" (a high security violation alert). Four | | additional security officers arrived, including Sgt. Darren Alexander | | and his dog "Champ." Approximately 400 yards south of the site, Sgt. | | Alexander was alerted by his dog to two creatures standing near a | | remote power station. Sgt. Alexander yelled for the creatures to | | stand and raise their hands, but instead both creatures moved towards | | Alexander, who noticed that one of them was holding somekind of an | | object he thought was a weapon. Sgt. Alexander then fired six rounds | | form his revolver. After firing the shots, Alexander returned to his | | vehicle and radioed that he had fired at the creatures. Soon another | | security alert team arrived. They conducted a search of the area and | | also observed the saucer sitting on the ground, directly east of the | | power station. They circled the craft and called for a supervisor, a | | Captain Henry Stone. When Stone arrived and walked toward the object | | it flew off in an easterly direction and was out of sight in a few | | seconds. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1972, | | citing report from Robert Collins, 2001). | | | | 1973 - In Dover, Delaware at 12:20 a.m. a brilliant yellow-orange UFO | | descended rapidly, and then hovered over the airport. A helicopter | | was sent up to investigate, which chased the UFO into Maryland. | | (Sources: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II:  A | | Thirty-Year Report, p. 174; Paris Flammonde, UFO Exist! p. 15). | | | | 1973 - Nancy, age 22, and her boyfriend Jim were camping at Phantom | | Lake, Wisconsin with another couple and the couple's baby. Nancy and | | Jim had just settled down in the camper for the night when they were | | awakened by a bright light shining in through the back window. Then | | the camper door suddenly burst open. They saw a bright saucer-shaped | | object about to land, descending in a zigzag motion. Once on the | | ground the glowing object disgorged a variety of figures, perhaps | | twenty. They could see a couple of male figures approaching their | | camper slowly. One appeared to be a black man. A second was similar | | to a swami, standing on one leg with his other leg wrapped around his | | head. A disembodied face appeared in the camper telling them not to | | be afraid. About seven of the men stood in a semi-circle, ten feet | | away form the van door. One of the seven had dark curly hair and was | | dressed in blue jeans and a red plaid shirt, and he held a German | | shepherd in each hand by a leash. The group stood there for about ten | | minutes, staring silently at the witnesses, who cowered inside the | | van in great fear. A man appeared carrying what looked like a scroll. | | Three more beings, different from the others and only four feet tall, | | came out of the "space ship" and moved about the area very quickly, | | "just sort of running around." They seemed to glow a whitish green | | color. One of these perched in a tree. | | | | While this strange assemblage was still present, Jim jumped out of | | the camper and warned their friends who were asleep in a nearby tent. | | They were unable to understand what all the excitement was about | | because they were unable to see either the "spaceship" or any of the | | beings. Jim hustled them into the camper, collected all their | | belongings, found his dog and, with the other couple driving, they | | took off. En route back to Milwaukee Nancy and Jim, riding in the | | rear of the camper, experienced a variety of strange phenomena, | | including a gloved hand apparition and a presence. Both Nancy and Jim | | became hysterical. The other couple perceived nothing unusual and | | believed their friends had gone crazy. They took them directly to a | | hospital emergency entrance upon returnning to Milwaukee. (Sources: | | David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher: HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid | | Reports, case 1973-120, citing Richard Heiden & Lee Jewell). | | | | 1973 - On this evening there were at least 80 reports of discs with | | red and green lights in central and western Ohio. These included | | reports made by both citizens and police from Union and Dayton in | | Montgomery County, Ohio. In Dayton, Ohio at 7:30 p.m. four "flattened | | footballs" were chased through the skies by military jets. There were | | over 50 witnesses. In Boston, Ohio a cow was missing from a pasture | | after a UFO landed there. (Sources: Richard H. Hall, The UFO | | Evidence, Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, p. 342; Fairborn (OH) | | Daily Herald, October 15, 1973). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 20 August 2009). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: apparitions, high-pi | | tched motor sounds, humanoid encounters at campsites, humanoid encoun | | ters at military facility, human-looking UFOnauts with German Shepard | | dogs, landings, nautical UFO: UFO seen landing on lake, short glowin | | g humanoids, vehicle EM ignition interference effects, zigzag motion. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+