+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  December 18 | | | | 1933 -  At ten o'clock in the morning hundreds of witnesses in | | Onkerzeele, Belgium watched a Fatima like solar apparition, with | | sparks and flames from a dancing "Sun". (Source: Larry Hatch, U | | computer database, citing SOS-OVNI France, Phenomena magazine, issue | | # 12).  | | | | 1950 - At 8:39 a.m. a circular light changed shape and brilliance as | | it hovered over Oak Ridge AEC Laboratories, Tennessee. It faded to a | | star, then flew away to the northwest. There was radar confirmation | | of the sighting from the nearby McGhee Air Force Base. (Source: Bruce | | S Maccabee, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1978, pp. 11, 15). | | | | 1954 - At 3:45 a.m. several hundred people, including sentries | | guarding the Catete Palace in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil witnessed | | a yellow glowing ovoid object that slowed from a high speed and | | stopped in just three seconds, and then hovered for 20 minutes. It | | illuminated the surface of the water in Guanabara Bay, and finally | | climbed up at an oblique angle, and was gone in 4-5 seconds. Two | | small jets of exhaust were seen flowing from the lower part of the | | object while it was accelerating. (Source: UNICAT, case 557, citing | | Colonel Adil de Oliveira, Brazilian Government report dated October | | 1956; APRO Bulletin, July 1957). | | | | 1957 - A huge flying saucer flew over Oacoma, South Dakota at 5:40 | | a.m. (Sources: Max Miller, Saucers, March 1958; Larry Hatch, U | | computer database, case # 5385). | | | | 1957 - A white light source glided overhead in Sarasota, Florida. | | There were many witnesses and TV interference was noted at the time. | | (Sources: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, pp. 75, 147; George D. | | Fawcett, Flying Saucers, December 1967, p. 24). | | | | 1966 - At 4:40 p.m. a 23-year-old man at the eastern shore of Lake | | Tiorati in Bear Mountain State Park, Orange County, New York looked | | up and saw a silver-brown domed disc-shaped object in the western sky | | at 45° elevation, heading northeast. It was wobbling and noiseless. | | He was able to take a photograph of the object before it disappeared | | over and behind a fire tower on a 1,320 foot hill about half a mile | | away. (Sources: NICAP case investigation files; J. Allen Hynek, The | | Hynek UFO Report, pp. 239-245). | | | | 1968 – A man and woman in their late twenties were driving together | | in a car five miles north of Wairakei, New Zealand at around 11:45 | | p.m. when they drove by a tall being around six feet tall. The man | | wore a shiny dark blue or black loose fitting one-piece suit that was | | tucked in at the boots. The being also wore gloves, a belt, and a | | cylindrical helmet with a clear visor. (Source: Anthony J. Brunt, | | FSR, July-August 1969, p. 29). | | | | 1975 – At 7:45 a.m. a "dah-dit" noise accompanied the slow ascent of | | an eight-meter wide, gray domed disc over a residential area of Ancy, | | France. The object had square shaped windows. It flew away toward the | | southeast. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1976). | | | | A aircraft flying near Maelifelli, Iceland on this day in 1976 picked | | up a clear radar image of a UFO at a distance of 100 miles and flying | | at 18,000 feet altitude. They tracked the UFO for one minute as it | | rushed below and passed their plane at a speed of 3,600 miles per | | hour. (Source: International UFO Reporter, March 1977, p. 2). | | | | 1976 – At 12:55 a.m. on Soda Springs Mountain Road in Caribou County, | | Idaho three police officers had a close encounter with a 30-foot | | diameter oval-shaped UFO. The object was devoid of seams or windows, | | and had the bulk of three to four cars. It emitted a light green | | light and hovered only 60 feet away from them. It made no sound when | | hovering, but made a whistling "wind" sound when in motion. (Sources: | | J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies case investigations file, | | December 1976; International UFO Reporter, February 1977, p. 6). | | | | 1976 – Twenty-two hours later at 10:30 p.m. six witnesses, twenty | | miles south of Miami, Florida watched an oval glow with a disc-shaped | | object inside fly to the south, passing over their heads at only 150 | | feet. The object turned and flew away to the west. (Sources: J. Allen | | Hynek Center for UFO Studies case investigations file, December 1976; | | International UFO Reporter, February 1977, p. 5). | | | | 1977 – In Guadalajara, Spain a 34-year-old man, Mr. Miguel Herrero | | Sierra was driving his pickup truck down a road at a few minutes past | | midnight when the vehicle’s lights, engine, and radio suddenly died. | | He pulled to the side of the road but couldn't find anything wrong | | with the car. He decided to wait in the truck for help. A man dressed | | in a diver’s suit approached and told him through telepathy to come | | aboard a hat-shaped UFO, under which there was a cylindrical chamber | | that extended to the ground. Inside the object was a 14-meter wide | | circular room with smooth walls. Mr. Herrero stayed inside for | | approximately three hours, communicating telepathically with the | | occupants of the craft. He was released later, and discovered that he | | had a small puncture wound on his arm, as if they had taken a blood | | sample from him although he did not recall them doing so. (Source: | | Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1978, p. 15, citing | | Cronica, January 26, 1978; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: | | Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1977-57). | | | | 1977 – On the same night, at four o’clock in the morning Central | | Standard Time, three 16-year-old girls saw a frightening monster | | while driving 15 miles north of Zoto del Marina, Mexico. (Source: | | letter from one of the witnesses to the J. Allen Hynek, Center for | | UFO Studies, dated August 9, 1978). | | | | 1980 – Several witnesses on a farm in Colesburg, Eastern Cape, South | | Africa watched an odd glowing cloud-like object with a hazy funnel of | | light that reached downward to the ground for five minutes on an | | otherwise clear night. (Source: Cynthia Hind, MUFON UFO Journal, May | | 1981, p. 8). | | | | 1980 – On the same night on a farm in Sao Jose do Rio Preto, Brazil, | | four men and women watched farm animals (cows and horses) panic and | | run from a 10-inch wide flying silver sphere that flew around for 30 | | seconds. (Source: Cynthia Newby Luce, MUFON investigation files | | database, case #931248J). | | | | 1988 - At 2:45 a.m. four gendarmes in Le Vigan, Gard, France | | traveling in two vehicles observed a strange form hovering low ahead | | of them, composed of superimposed red luminous rectangles. The object | | was 7-8 meters above the center of the road. (Source: GEIPAN, case # | | 24). | | | | 1992 – Several people at the local Dairy Queen in Iaeger, West | | Virginia saw a large diamond-shaped UFO with a squared back fly over | | toward the southwest at 7:10 p.m. (Source: Bob Teets, West Virginia | | UFOs: Close Encounters in the Mountain State, p. 61, citing field | | investigator D. Church). | | | | 1996 – Two witnesses in Eugene, Oregon saw a nocturnal light | | zigzagging at a high altitude and making ninety-degree turns at 4:30 | | a.m. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | Seattle). | | | | 1997 - In Oxnard, California at 10:50 p.m. a large cigar-shaped | | object followed the power lines; continuing on, it went out to sea. | | (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, | | Dec. 2007 webpage). | | | | 2001 - Two gray plumes of smoke were first seen in the sky over | | Stockport Railway Station in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. | | A gray triangular object was then witnessed in the sky. Later that | | evening, at 8:00 p.m., a circular red light was seen high up in the | | sky moving quickly. It slowed down, accelerated, and then wobbled | | from side to side. At 8:50 in Crawley, West Sussex, England an object | | looking like a rounded triangle was sighted. It was longer at one | | point, with a giant light in the center. (Source: British Ministry of | | Defence, cases 189-199 for 2001). | | | | 2004 - Several strange lights were seen from Cau-Cau, Horcon, Chile | | starting at 8:30 p.m., engaging in complex maneuvers. A dot was first | | seen, then a vertical line that turned to the left. Contrails left in | | the wake of the objects and their irregular, sudden | | maneuvers suggested they were not conventional aircraft. Photographs | | were reportedly taken. (Source: Scott Corrales, ufoinfo.com, report | | dated December 31, 2004). | | | | 2005 - At 11:00 p.m. a farmer in Knox, Indiana had a close encounter | | with a saucer-shaped craft hovering over his nearby field. It was | | about 50 feet in the air. It had a red and blue light, and made no | | sound. After hovering for three minutes it flew off to the west. | | (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, | | Dec. 2005 webpage, report uploaded February 14, 2006). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 18 December 2009). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes – animal rea | | ction, diamond-shaped UFO, disc-shaped UFOs, domed discs, funnel of l | | ight, glowing UFOs, high speed UFOs, human-looking UFOnaut wearing co | | verall and cylindrical helmet, monster, oval-shaped or ovoid UFOs, ra | | dar-visual UFO report, rectangular or diamond shaped UFOs, telepathy, | | triangular UFOs, UFO photographs, whistling sound, zigzag maneuvers. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+