+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  December 8 | | | | 1957 – At 5:15 p.m. three U.S. military witnesses in Morocco, driving | | in the desert between Tiflet and Monor, sighted an elongated aerial | | object. It ascended into the sky, descended, then made a second | | ascent. Large and distant, the object shot off toward the south. This | | case is listed in the Project Blue Book files as case number 61 for | | the month of December, but is considered "explained" by the US Air | | Force as contrails. (Source: U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files | | counted in official statistics). | | | | 1957 – Later that day in Svea, Minnesota at four o’clock in the | | afternoon, a ten-meter diameter red disc roared through the sky, | | flying at only six meters above the ground. It was seen by many | | witnesses at it lit up the ground, moved through some woods, and then | | climbed into the sky, shooting away toward the west. (Source: | | newspaper clippings, December 12, 1957). | | | | 1957 – At the same time in Bonanza, Oregon two people claimed to have | | seen a luminous disc hovering over some hills at six kilometers | | altitude. It suddenly shot away toward the southwest at 800 | | kilometers per hour. (Source: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of | | the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History: December 1957, p.26). | | | | 1957 – At 5:30 p.m. near Woodward, Oklahoma Mr. and Mrs. Martin were | | driving through some woods with their child and were nearing a hill | | when a domed, disc-shaped UFO flew nearby and temporarily took | | control of their car. The UFO was described as about 16 meters in | | diameter with portholes around the rim. The electrical system of | | their 1954 Dodge Coronet failed when the UFO approached. They felt a | | hot blast of air and heard a high pitched sound at the same time. The | | car restarted by itself when the UFO flew away. (Sources: J. Allen | | Hynek investigation files; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving | | Vehicle Interference, case 86). | | | | 1957 – At nine o’clock in the evening the engine and headlights of | | two cars traveling between Coulee City and Soap Lake, Washington died | | when a huge, fiery UFO flew overhead from north to south. Strangely, | | the dome lights came on inside both cars during the engine and | | headlight failures, even though they weren't turned on. The cars | | remained stalled until the object had passed out of sight. There were | | eight witnesses. (Sources: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 75; | | Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 87, | | citing Schopick). | | | | 1965 - In 1965 in Beckington, Wiltshire, England a phantom automobile, | | shaped like a Land Rover but without wheels, passed the witness’s | | car. It made a whining noise, then vanished. (Source: Larry Hatch, U | | database, case #7027). | | | | 1966 - At 6:30 a.m. Charles Hern and his wife were walking their dog | | in Cheshire, Ohio when they noticed a red light on the opposite bank | | of Kyger Creek. Several short men could be seen moving about. Two | | other witnesses joined them, and then red and orange lights began | | flashing on and off. A beam of light seemed to be constantly directed | | at the water. Finally the lights went out and a bright greenish light | | came on. Then the craft shot up into the air and disappeared into the | | sky. (Sources: APRO Bulletin, November-December 1966, p. 10; David F. | | Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case | | A0767; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1966, case # | | 1398, citing John Keel, The Mothman Prophecies, p. 83). | | | | 1975 – In Tranmere, South Australia a mother and daughter heard a | | strange noise at 2:45 a.m. The next morning they discovered that | | something had apparently landed on and crushed some of their | | strawberry plants. They found two 0.9-meter diameter areas in which | | the plants were flattened and swirled in a counter-clockwise | | direction. (Source: Richard Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1976, | | p. 19) | | | | 1975 – A photograph of a metallic, domed disc was taken at two | | o’clock in the afternoon by a man in Nagoya, Japan. (Source: Wendell | | Stevens and Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, p. 319). | | | | 1975 – At 5:30 p.m. in Palais-sur-Vienne, France a huge ball of light | | was seen hovering by some high tension electrical power lines. The | | light vanished after several seconds. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, | | January 1976). | | | | 1975 – In a pasture in Cascade County near Simms, Montana nocturnal | | lights were seen to have landed near the carcass of a dead calf two | | nights in a row. On this, the second night, the calf’s carcass was | | later found mutilated. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Messengers of | | Deception, p. 183). | | | | 1975 – On this night in the Siskiyou Mountains of California five | | young men witnessed a greenish cloud-shaped object slide over a cut | | in a mountain low over the tops of tree stumps in a clear cut area. | | Inside the greenish glow they could see the outline of a man. | | (Sources: Paul C. Cerny, UFO case investigation files; San Francisco | | Examiner & Chronicle, April 4, 1976). | | | | 1978 - In 1978 a seven-meter diameter domed disc hovered over a road in | | Portegrandi, Italy at 1:30 a.m. It had four windows on its side and | | emitted rays of light. At 2:45 a.m. on a road in Catanzaro, Italy | | three policemen saw a luminous domed object tilt over the roadway. It | | shot away from them when they hit it with a spotlight. Later that | | evening at 11:30 p.m. two young men were walking along a mountainside | | path in Milanere, Torino, Italy when they sighted a bluish white | | light among the trees. One of the men approached the pear-shaped | | light and he suddenly vanished. The bright light then took off into | | the sky. The other man went for help and a rescue party searched for | | the missing man. He was found unconscious, cold, and weak. He had | | been missing for thirty minutes. Light bothered his eyes, and a scar | | was found on his leg. All that he could remember was seeing three to | | four figures with large pumpkin shaped heads standing in front of the | | light. He was paralyzed, and vaguely remembered odd lights and sounds | | and the feeling of being touched. (Sources: Lumieres dans la Nuit, | | issues 212, 214; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, | | case # 137, citing Paolo Fiorino, UFO Universe, October-November | | 1991). | | | | 1981 - In 1981 an enormous UFO shaped like an orange ball, and estimated to | | be 750 feet in length, made a number of turns in the sky south of | | Reserve, New Mexico at 7:30 p.m. and then executed a ninety-degree | | turn near Luna Mountain. The five witnesses said they saw a jet | | aircraft chase the UFO out of sight. (Source: International UFO | | Reporter, June 1982, p. 15). | | | | 1989 - At 4:30 a.m. a security guard name Arias was patrolling the | | Colonial Palms shopping mall in Miami, Florida just south of the city | | when he encountered three very tall beings standing in the parking | | lot area. The humanoids were described as being at least seven feet, | | five inches tall, thin, with large heads and huge cat-like eyes. The | | guard ran to the closest payphone and dialed the emergency number. A | | police unit was dispatched but a search of the immediate vicinity | | failed to find anything. (Sources: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1991, | | p. 234; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, case # | | 447, citing Miami Herald). | | | | 1989 - In 1989 a number of nocturnal lights were seen over the city of San | | Diego, California for about 30 minutes. One UFO buzzed a pickup | | truck. The witnesses said it had an octagon shape with a V-shape at | | the rear edge of the object. (Source: Timothy Good, The UFO Report | | 1991, p. 235). | | | | 1999 – According to UFO Magazine published in England, a 15-meter by | | 6-meter crater was found near a dam in Guyra, New South Wales, | | Australia. Apparently a mysterious flying object struck the dam at a | | 45-degree angle and then skidded before sinking into the mud. The | | police in the area set up a one-mile wide exclusion zone. (Source: | | UFO Magazine (UK), May 2000, p. 70). | | | | 1999 – On this same day at 7:45 in the morning, an executive in | | Mexico City, Mexico videotaped an oval-shaped UFO with the telescopic | | zoom lens of his video camera. The object reflected the morning | | sunlight, and after four minutes it emitted a bright beam of light | | from its center. The color of the light changed from yellow to red to | | white. (Source: George A. Filer, MUFON UFO Journal, January 2000, | | p.19, citing J. Rense). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 15 November 2005). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: abductions, apparition of a humanoid fig | | ure, bluish white UFOs, car pursuits, cattle mutilation, disc-shaped | | UFOs, domed UFOs, EM ignition and headlight interference, high strang | | eness cases, humanoids with pumpkin heads, mountainous terrain, noctu | | rnal lights, phantom automobile, photographs and videotapes of UFOs, | | shooting away, short humanoids, tall thin humanoids with large heads. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+