+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  November 18 | | | | 1951 - near Washington, D.C. The crew of a Capital Airlines DC-4, | | Flight 610, and Andrews AFB Senior air traffic controller Tom Selby | | witnessed an unidentified object with several lights at 3:20 a.m. It | | followed the DC-4 for about 20 minutes and then turned back. (Source: | | Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1952 - Nello Ferrari, 41, a farmer from Castelfranco, Italy found | | himself flooded with a reddish light on this morning when a large | | plate-shaped object flew ten meters above him. The 20-meter diameter | | disc was golden to copper in color. At the center of the bottom | | surface was a cylindrical section, about five meters wide, made up of | | a rapidly rotating part that produced a noise similar to an electric | | motor. On the upper surface was a transparent turret inside which | | three occupants were visible. The beings looked directly at him. They | | looked to be normal humans in appearance, and wore rubber coveralls | | and transparent facemasks. They spoke a few words, which were not | | understood. A loud metallic noise was heard; and the top part of the | | object lowered itself toward the lower plate. The sound gained | | intensity, and the craft flew up vertically at very high speed. | | (Sources: Il Tempo, July 12, 1963; Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 201). | | | | 1954 - At six o'clock in the morning a 12-year old girl in St. | | Maudan, Cotes-Nord, France saw a UFO looking like "a glowing boat" | | land in a nearby field. Three hairy dwarf humanoids emerged from the | | object and began to gather apples from the nearby orchard. (Sources: | | Lumieres dan la Nuit, issue #325; Larry Hatch, U computer database, | | case 4177; Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. | | 225). | | | | 1957 - In Maracaja, Brazil Farmers Joao Ernani and Pedro Zilli heard | | a strange humming sound at 10:30 a.m., then saw two aluminum-colored | | discs 200 meters away. Near them were six men of average height and | | slim build, dressed in "dark gray suits glued to their bodies." The | | discs were only about 3.5 meters wide, and hovered one meter above | | the ground. They rose with a sharp whistling sound, while coconut | | trees below them bent over double. Three more discs rose from behind | | the trees, and then all five flew away toward the Atlantic Ocean. | | (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, | | case 443). | | | | 1957 - An hour and a half later Mrs. Cynthia Appleton, age 27 and | | mother of two, saw the figure of a man appear near her fireplace in | | Aston, England at three o'clock in the afternoon at the same time | | that a whistling sound became audible. He was tall and fair, wore a | | tight-fitting plastic garment, and seemed to communicate with her | | through telepathy, indicating he was looking for titanium and was | | coming from a world of peace and harmony. He suddenly disappeared. | | Mrs. Appleton had subsequent contacts with similar entities. (Source: | | Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case | | 442). | | | | 1959 - At 6:25 a.m. in Crystal Springs, Mississippi Mr. J. M. Porter | | witnessed a row of red lights that flew slowly through the sky, and | | then sped up incredibly fast. His sighting lasted from 5-6 minutes. | | (Source: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1961 - A strange flying object streaked across the skies above the | | Theodore Goff farm on the afternoon of the 18th and left behind it a | | mysterious substance that defied explanation. The strange, seemingly | | metallic substance, came off the UFO in thin fibers and settled to | | earth, draping itself like a finely-knit shroud over Goff's fields, | | trees, machinery, and power lines. The farm is located near Chadron, | | Nebraska. | | | | "It was about three o'clock," Goff related, "and I had been working | | in my shed. I came outside and happened to look up and see this | | strange ball flying through the air. It was kind of rough and seemed | | to be rolling as it sped through the air. It was going faster than | | any airplane I ever saw and it just disappeared from sight when it | | got out of the sunlight. It made absolutely no noise." | | | | "Big chunks of it broke off and these fibers began settling down on | | everything. The ball was about as big around as a tractor tire, four | | feet in diameter or so and it came out of the southwest going | | northeast. At first I thought it was an airplane but when I really | | looked, I just didn't know what to think. It's hard to say how high | | up it was, maybe a thousand feet or more. The fibers cannot be seen | | with the naked eye except when they are in direct sunlight. Then, and | | only then, can you see them glistening ghostlike in the sun. They can | | be felt on the skin like spider webs, but they are much smaller in | | diameter than a spider web. A human hair seems like a rope compared | | to the fibers." | | | | "I didn't really notice the fibers much that day, but the next | | morning my fields and trees just glowed with the stuff when the sun | | hit them. You can pick one up, but you can't really tell if you have | | one unless the sun hits it just right. It's the strangest stuff I | | ever saw." | | Attempts to break the weird strings were to no avail. They seemingly | | could not be broken apart, but, when a hot cigarette was applied to | | one of the strings, it did break. The string did not, however, burst | | into flame or seem to burn. "They're so fine you just can't tell when | | you've got one," Goff said. "You can feel it, but you can't see it." | | (Source: Bob Gribble, Looking Back November 1961, National UFO | | Reporting Center website). | | | | 1966 - On this night in Point Pleasant, West Virginia police captain | | Paul Yoder and B. Enochs saw a huge bird-like creature, with big red | | eyes, in the "TNT" dump area. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, | | HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-59, citing John A. | | Keel). | | | | 1973 - On the previous evening Enrique Castillo of Fulanos de Tal, | | Colombia was again summoned telepathically to go to an isolated area | | for possible contact with "extraterrestrials." Hours went by, when at | | around three o'clock in the morning numerous illuminated objects | | appeared, one of which detached itself from the rest and slowly | | approached him in a zigzag fashion. It performed an astonishing | | series of maneuvers before landing on three supports about 60 meters | | away. The other lights disappeared. This craft was quite different | | from the one he had previous encountered, of a rather peculiar shape. | | A metallic ladder emerged, leaving a narrow, illuminated opening from | | which a human shaped silhouette could be seen. Castillo started to | | approach the craft but a deep voice ordered him to stop, and then | | beckoned him to approach slowly. Soon a human looking alien named | | Cyril, whom he had met on a previous occasion, met him at the | | doorway. He invited Castillo to walk up the six steps of the ladder. | | When Castillo extended his hand to greet him, he stepped back and | | motioned him to stop between the last step and the door. A very | | bright blue flash of light shone briefly, bathing Castillo's body. He | | understood that the blue light was part of a sterilization system. | | | | On board were two other very different beings with "avocado-shaped | | heads", dressed in one-piece, ample overalls. They smiled constantly. | | He went to greet them, but they just bowed without extending their | | hands. The little men were bald, with pale skin, seemingly completed | | coated with a film of oil. They were about 1.5 meters (4 feet) tall, | | well proportioned, with large normal eyes and normal ears, a large | | "Greek" nose, and prominent jaws. Cyril declared that these creatures | | came from Mercury. Castillo was incredulous because he knew there | | were immense temperatures contrasts on that planet. But he was told, | | "you would be astonished by the civilizations that have flourished | | there." Via a spiral stairway Castillo was taken to the second level, | | which he found rather cramped. Cyril announced that the craft was on | | its way to the "mother ship." One of the other beings took Castillo | | to a closet on the first floor and gestured to him to put on a | | uniform, which stretched to fit him perfectly. | | | | A gigantic craft came into view. A hatch opened, from which came an | | intense light. Inside the mother ship Castillo was led through | | several passageways and in one area he noticed an emblem, in high | | relief, of a winged serpent holding what looked like an egg. Inside | | this object Castillo also encountered toilet facilities. In the hall | | Castillo claims to have encountered yet another thoroughly | | unbelievable being, a giant man no less than three meters tall. His | | features were remarkably similar to those of a common terrestrial. | | His skin was grayish, his hands hairy with normal fingers, shaped at | | the tips like spatulas. He was dressed in a dull gray uniform. At one | | point Castillo boarded a smaller craft accompanied by Cyril and the | | two smaller humanoids. It took them on a ride to different places | | apparently on earth. Later back aboard the mother ship Castillo | | claims to have seen a robot, with some human features, and for the | | first time, women who wore tight-fitting suits and had decidedly | | feminine features. "Their golden hair framed the most beautiful faces | | I had ever seen," Castillo enthused. They were as tall as the men, | | perhaps 1.75 meters. Eventually Castillo was returned to an area not | | farm from Bogota, Columbia. He had been away for about 26 hours. | | (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1973, citing | | Timothy Good, Unearthly Disclosure). | | 1973 - On this evening four girls between the ages of 14 and 24 years | | old were accompanied as they drove from Tracy, Quebec toward Montreal | | by a luminous white flying ball of light. It was perhaps the size of | | a watermelon. It sometimes flew ahead of them and sometimes behind | | them, at a considerable distance. They passed through a cloud of red | | dust that obscured their vision, and shortly after emerging from the | | cloud they had to swerve to avoid a little man wearing dark clothing | | and a lappet helmet, who was standing on the white line in the middle | | of the road. He appeared to be sweeping with push-broom. He was short | | in stature and they could not see his face. After passing the | | "sweeper" they saw a car and three dark clad people beside the road. | | There were several other UFO sightings in this part of Quebec the | | same evening. (Source: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: | | Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-114, citing Claude MacDuff | | and Marc Leduc). | | | | 1982 - Late at night Andreas Schneider sighted a maneuvering | | disc-shaped object over Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands. | | He lost consciousness and had an out-of-body experience, feeling that | | his "astral" body was taken into the object. Inside he encountered | | several short beings with wrinkly rough gray skin and huge heads. The | | beings communicated by using telepathy and told Schneider they were | | from the planet "Humo." (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact | | Database 1982, case # 3180, citing S.I.B. Betelgeuse). | | | | 1993 - At 1:00 a.m. Ms. Kimmy Martin awoke with a start in Baca | | Chalets in the San Luis Valley of Colorado. She looked out into the | | gloomy night and felt somebody was watching her. Then something moved | | on her porch outside, and a group of Grey alien looking creatures | | peered in the window at her. She was not sure if they were really | | physically there or some form of apparition. Not frightened by their | | presence, she watched them for almost an hour, while they watched | | her. Finally she told the beings to go away and let her sleep, and | | the 20 or so visitors then trooped away obediently. (Source: Albert | | S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 2546, citing | | Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 25 June 2005). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: air displacement, bedroom visitation, disc-shaped UFO | | s, domed discs, fall of metallic "angel hair" like residue, free-will | | abduction, Grey humanoids, hairy dwarves, human looking UFO occupant | | s, materialization of entity in witness's house, Mothman, out-of-body | | experience (OBE) in presence of UFO, rubber coverall suits with face | | masks and helmets, short humanoids, spherical UFOs, telepathy, thin | | humanoids of average human height, vertical ascent, whistling sounds. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+