+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  October 1 | | | | 1948 - At 9:00 p.m. an aerial encounter occurred on this day over | | Fargo, North Dakota between an F-51 fighter plane and a somewhat | | flattened white circular unidentified object, blinking on and off. | | The UFO made a head-on approach toward the F-51, then veered off, | | next made a 180 degree turn, then out climbed the performance | | aircraft, rising straight up until out of sight. Its close turns | | were tighter than could be made by the fighter plane. The encounter | | lasted 27 minutes. (Sources: Edward J. Ruppelt, True Magazine, May | | 1954; Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. | | 59; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 33; UNICAT, | | case # 532). | | | | 1954 - There are 26 UFO and humanoid reports recorded in UFOCAT for | | this day. There is one from the Assam region of India, two are from | | Italy, and the remainder are from France, which appears to have been | | at the center of a massive wave of UFO sightings. Notice how the humanoid cases | | tend to occur at intersections of the major great circle routes | | described by four or more points on a straight line. Below are some | | of the more interesting reports on this day: | | | | 1954 - A woman in Dhubri, Assam, India reported to police that she | | had seen a luminous disc leaving a long trail in the sky. It landed | | in a field, and then took off again. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, | | Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 132; Passport to Magonia: A | | Century of Landings, p. 214, case 169). | | | | 1954 - At 1:00 p.m. two bricklayers, Sebastiani and Buratto, | | approached a cigar-shaped object in Blanzy, Saone-Loire department, | | France that was sitting on the ground. It was three meters long, 80 | | cm wide, and it took off from the ground with a whistling sound. The | | pointed section of the object was yellow, the rest brown. From the | | fore part, two appendages extended to the ground. (Source: Jacques | | Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 214, case | | 170). | | | | 1954 - At 4:00 p.m. a man and his dog in Bry, Nord department, France | | were "paralyzed" and frozen in place when a luminous white object | | dove toward them, then climbed back into the sky. (Source: Jacques | | Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 214, case | | 171). | | | | 1954 - Two young men in Jussey, Haute-Saone department, France saw a | | luminous white disc moving in the sky at 7:00 p.m. It dove to the | | ground and two very tall beings, dressed in white, emerged from it | | and made gestures. The witnesses ran away in fear. (Sources: Jacques | | Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 214, case 173; | | Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet | | des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 104). | | | | 1954 - Near St. Jean d'Angely, France two businessmen, Messrs. Estier | | and Phelippeau, who were driving back from Royan at eight o'clock at | | night, saw a little man crossing the road in front of their car. When | | they stopped the car the figure disappeared into the woods. (Sources: | | Sud-Ouest, October 2, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A | | Century of Landings, p. 214, case 174; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis | | Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees | | en France, p. 105). | | | | 1954 - Mechanic Ernest Delattre, age 19, was riding home on his motor | | scooter between Lormaison and St-Crepin-Ibouvillers, France at eight | | o'clock when a brilliantly illuminated egg-shaped object landed on | | the left side of the road 15 meters away. He saw short, dark shapes | | "like potato bags" moving about the object. He sped up, saw the | | object, the size of a small bus, taking off while its color changed | | from orange to blue and then to grayish-blue. The witness fainted | | while telling his story. Two persons in neighboring villages | | independently reported observing the object. (Note: Vallee lists the | | date as October 2nd but Figuet & Ruchon believe the correct date is | | October 1st.) (Sources: Jacques | | Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 215; Michel | | Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des | | rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 104). | | | | 1954 - At 8:30 p.m. several inhabitants of St-Michel-sur-Meurthe, | | France saw a cigar-shaped object in the sky with very bright white | | lights fly towards the north. (Source: Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis | | Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees | | en France, p. 106). | | | | 1954 - In Branges, near Louhans in Saone-Loire department, France. | | While coming home at night around 10:00 p.m., Gilbert Prudent and one | | other witness saw a lighted object on the side of the road. It had a | | flat section and a sort of large "mushroom" on top (domed disc). As | | he approached it, the object became dark and took off vertically with | | a soft whistling sound. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 214, case 175; Michel Figuet & | | Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres | | rapprochees en France, p. 105). | | | | 1954 - Returning home from work in Bergerac, Dordogne department, | | France fireman Jean Dufix, age 26, saw an oval light in the sky at 10 | | o'clock. He first took it to be a shooting star, but later he was | | alarmed when his yard looked to be ablaze. Rushing outside, he saw a | | disc rise from the ground with a whistling sound. It flew off, became | | luminous again, and then shot off at a fantastic speed. His neighbor, | | Jean Labonne, age 61, also saw the disc resting on three legs in the | | yard. They estimated the disc was three meters (10 feet) in diameter. | | (Sources: Le Figaro, October 6, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia: A Century of Landings , p. 214, case 176). | | | | 1964 - At 12:50 p.m. a 24-foot diameter dark disc-shaped object | | passed over an industrial plant in Danvers, Massachusetts. It flew | | under a cloud at 2,500 altitude, at an estimated speed of 300 mph. | | (Source: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, pp. 21, | | 330). | | | | Danvers, Massachusetts Daylight Disc - 1964 | | | | [Sketch of Danvers, Massachusetts Daylight Disc - 1964] | | | | 1965 - Three school students, Santos Vallejos, Antonia Aparti, and | | Adela Sanchez were walking to General San Martin School, Aguas | | Blancas, Salta province, Argentina when they were attacked by small | | creatures with greenish skin. The children ran away, and arrived at | | the school in a state of terror. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 706, citing CODOVNI). | | | | 1967 - Valeriano Ruiz Fontes, a 28-year-old radio technician, | | observed an illuminated object at 10:30 p.m. in Tibidabo, Barcelona, | | Spain which he first took to be a large Jeep. However, It was | | hovering just above the ground about 700-800 yards away. It was about | | 14 feet long, with half a dozen oval illuminated windows, and had on | | top a square turret. Near the UFO were four people of normal stature | | wearing dark uniforms and bright helmets. Two of the beings climbed | | up the turret, manipulating or fixing some fittings there, while the | | other two were examined the underside of the object. After watching | | for about half an hour, the external lights were extinguished, | | showing only the illuminated portholes. The object then rose | | vertically with no noise to about 500 feet, showing yellow, red | | orange, and a triangle of blue-green lights, and took off at | | extremely high speed. (Sources: Antonio Ribera, FSR, May 1968, p. 26; | | David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, | | case # 1967-101 (A0879)). | | | | 1973 - On this night three teenagers in Anthony Hill, Tennessee saw a | | huge, hairy, robot-like creature that walked mechanically with its | | hand upraised. It had a large round head. An egg-shaped UFO was also | | seen at the same time. This occurred during a thunderstorm, and | | imprints were later found at the site. (Source: David F. Webb and Ted | | Bloecher: HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-27; David | | F. Webb, 1973, The Year of The Humanoids). | | | | 1975 - At around 8:00 p.m. two teenagers, Michio Hikawa and Takashi | | Furuya, were parked in a car at a scenic spot in Japan's Southern | | Alps near Hakushu, Japan when Furuya became agitated about a group of | | children resembling beggars near the car. Hikawa didn't see them. | | Among the figures Furuya saw were some resembling girls, about one | | meter tall, dressed in white. Pointing them out to his companion, | | Hikawa still was unable to see them, and turned on the car's | | headlights. When this happened the figures faded away, but their car | | was abruptly pulled backwards several times by an unseen force, | | eventhough the hand brake was on. Frightened, the two teenagers left | | the area. Hikawa suggested that the figures may have been "spacemen", | | and the pair returned to the scene later, where the same mass | | displacement effects occurred to the car again. Again fearful, the | | pair drove home. The car subsequently malfunctioned and required | | repairs, the result of a broken piston. Peculiar "hoof like" marks | | were observed on a window in the car following the encounter. There | | were no reports of UFOs seen. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, | | HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1975-44, citing Jun Ichi | | Takanashi for APRO). | | 1977 - At 7:00 p.m. two brothers were hunting in an uninhabited area | | near a quarry west of Libau, Manitoba, Canada when they saw a UFO | | that looked like an inverted bowl with two long extensions. It | | was 75-100 feet wide, 25 feet high, and 1/2 a mile away at 500 feet | | altitude. It made a humming noise, and moved away slowly. (Sources: | | Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, December 1977, p. 2; | | UNICAT, case # 188). | | | | 1987 - Marysville, Indiana. At 7:50 p.m. a black rectangular object | | was witnessed by a lone witness for 10 minutes while driving in a | | rural area. The UFO flew silently to the southwest, then toward the | | northwest, and finally further to the southwest. (Source: Francis L. | | Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 112). | | | | 1992 - Three men were in the backyard of a home in Clare, South | | Australia at 7:00 p.m. when they saw, at a low altitude in the | | northwestern sky, two lights travelling to the northeast. It resolved | | into a cigar-shaped object that was thicker in the middle, with a | | hazy glow surrounding it. It continued to fly to the northeast and | | was lost from sight behind some trees. | | | | 1993 - A large white ball of light flew from north to south over | | Nutter Fort, West Virginia at 7:00 p.m. It followed a car to | | Stonewood, then shot away quickly. (Source: Bob Teets, West Virginia | | UFOs: Close Encounters in the Mountain State, p. 162). | | | | 1995 - An orange disc-shaped object hovered over a house in | | Vacaville, California for a minute at 9:00 p.m., at only 100 feet | | altitude. At 10:30 p.m. an extremely bright disc-shaped object flew | | over a house in Austin, Texas heading north. It was the "size of a | | volleyball at arms length," and had a green tinge on top. (Source: | | Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle). | | | | 2000 - At 11:15 p.m. two objects were sighted over Jones Beach on | | Long Island in Nassau County, New York. A diamond-shaped UFO landed | | on the beach. It directed an intense red beam, then a blue-colored | | beam, at the witnesses' car, which caused the car with the three | | occupants to be lifted into the air. (Sources: Larry Hatch, U | | computer database, case 18144, citing George Filer, Filer's | | Files;Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, report | | uploaded December 2, 2000). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 30 July 2009). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Th | | emes: aircraft UFO encounters, cigar-shaped UFOs, disc-shaped UFOs, d | | omed discs, huge robot-like humanoid, humming sound, landings, lumino | | us white UFOs, oddly shaped short UFOnauts, ovoid UFOs, paralysis, re | | ctangular UFO, short humanoids, very tall humanoids, whistling sound. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+