+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  September 19 | | | | 1947 - A Humble Oil geophysicist in Grand Isle, Louisiana was testing | | radar to detect bad weather at 5:30 p.m. when his radar detected a | | UFO shooting to the southwest at a speed greater than 1,000 mph for | | less than a minute. (Source: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary | | Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 43, citing Houston Press, | | March 24, 1950). | | | | 1952 - Five men in a RAF Meteor aircraft, including John W. Kilburn, | | were flying at 5,000 feet altitude over Dishforth, North York, | | England when they sighted a UFO at 1,000 feet above their plane at | | 10:53 a.m. They described it as round and silvery, and it changed | | shape to something more elliptical. It was solid looking, and | | it swung like a pendulum as it lost altitude. Ten British officers | | had just deplaned from Operation Mainbrace at Dishforth Aerodrome | | when they spotted the same UFO. It appeared as a white, round, | | glimmering circular object, followed by the RAF Meteor jet aircraft | | two miles back. The UFO lost altitude, and then fluttered like a leaf | | in a pendulum-like motion. (Sources: Aime Michel, The Truth About | | Flying Saucers, p. 136; UNICAT, case # 413; Thomas M. Olsen, The | | Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case # 24; Michael David Hall, | | Captain Edward J. Ruppelt: Summer of the Saucers - 1952, p. 194). | | | | 1954 - At 4:30 p.m. five women in Col du Beal, Puy-de-Dome, France | | saw a flat gray, metallic disc-shaped object that hovered for 30 | | seconds, then accelerated rapidly and flew away to the northwest. | | (Source: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, | | p. 62).  | | | | 1954 - At 9:15 p.m. a policeman, Louis Moll, saw a bright light land | | on the heights in Oberdoff, Moselle department, France, then darken. | | The object was the size of a small bus. The light from the object | | became reddish, and he could see a black silhouetted figure moving | | around in front of it. After 40 seconds the object then rose up into | | the air again, and took on the appearance of a red ball. It flew off | | to the southeast. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the | | Straight Line Mystery, p. 63; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: | | Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-51 (A0250); Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 149). | | | | 1957 - A boomerang-shaped object bigger than a house was reported to | | have landed in Point Pleasant, New Jersey at 6:40 p.m. According to | | eyewitness accounts the grass had been flattened at the landing site. | | (Sources: Project Blue Book files; Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 258). | | | | 1961 - In perhaps the most famous UFO abduction story ever reported, | | Betty and Barney Hill, a biracial married couple active in the Civil | | Rights movement, were driving home from Montreal to their home in | | Portsmouth, New Hampshire late on this evening. When they reached | | Colebrook they noticed a bright lighted object in the sky that seemed | | to be pacing their car, and they continued to observe it as the drove | | along a desolate section of U.S. Route 3 through the White Mountains. | | Around Indian Head, New Hamsphire they stopped by the side of the | | road to take a closer look, and saw through binoculars a lenticular | | object with a double row of portholes and half a dozen dark figures | | working at control panels inside. One of the occupants seemed to | | stare directly at them. They became frightened and drove away. A | | "beeping sound" enveloped their car, and they felt a prickling | | sensation before losing consciousness. | | | | When they came to, they were driving near Ashland, New Hampshire. | | They arrived home in Portsmouth unable to account for about two | | hours. A series of nightmares and then a series of hypnosis sessions | | performed by a psychiatrist in Boston brought back memories of their | | abduction experience by the occupants of the UFO. They encountered | | six five-foot-tall entities with large eyes and heads. One acted as | | their guide or interpreter, and he communicated with them by | | telepathy. They were separated, stripped for a medical exam during | | which a needle was inserted in Betty Hill's navel and Barney's | | dentures were removed and examined. There was also a map of the stars | | seen at one point, and Betty asked to take an artifact as evidence of | | their experience, but was refused. (Sources: John Fuller, The | | Interrupted Journey, New York: Dial, 1966; Thomas M. Olsen, Reference | | for Outstanding UFO Reports, case 125; Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 524; UNICAT, case 328). | | | | Sketch of UFO seen by Betty and Barney Hill before their abduction | | near Lincoln, New Hampshire September 19, 1961 | | | | [Sketch of UFO seen by Betty and Barney Hill before their abduction | | near Lincoln, New Hampshire September 19, 1961] | | | | 1963 - Four children in Saskatoon, Saskachewan, Canada saw a bright | | oval object hover in a field and drop something. Approaching the | | site, they were confronted by a three meter tall man dressed in a | | white monk's suit, who held out his hands and made unintelligible | | sounds. The giant entity was semi-transparent and had no visible | | face. The children fled in panic. One girl was admitted to the | | hospital in shock. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A | | Century of Landings, case 581; John A. Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, | | p. 145; John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants and Critters, p. 44). | | | | 1967 - At 7:30 p.m. Aeroflot IL-14 airliner flying over Volgograd, | | Russia was buzzed by a UFO. The aircraft engines quit temporarily, | | but then restarted as the object shot off toward the east. Ten | | minutes later, a luminous crescent-shaped object was seen high in the | | sky by a group of scientists in Belgogradskaya District, Russia at | | 7:40 p.m. The object then began making a rapid descent. It had | | a cone-shaped tail. For 40 seconds it engaged in a falling leaf | | motion, turned red, then assumed a drop shape, and finally dissolved | | away and vanished. (Sources: Felix Zigel, unpublished manuscript, pp. | | 32-36; L. M. Gindilis, Observations of Anomalous Atmospheric | | Phenomena in the USSR, p. 37; Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the | | Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 193). | | | | 1968 - At 6:10 p.m. in the city of Bistrita, Romania a group of | | observers including a man named Rusu watched a disc-shaped object | | with three small lights hovering for five minutes. The object stayed | | in one place during heavy winds, and caused electromagnetic | | interference effects at a nearby radio station and also blocked TV | | reception. It flew off rapidly to the south. (Source: Ion Hobana & | | Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 144). | | | | 1968 - At 8:00 p.m. Mr. Tsekhanovich, a high trained observer, | | watched as a  bright pulsating orange ball descended over the ocean | | as it was being circled by four smaller balls of light near Gagra, | | Georgia. The large UFO became elongated and then vanished. One minute | | later there was a flash of light and all the remaining objects were | | gone as well. (Sources: Xenolog, August 1976, p. 13; Jacques Vallee, | | UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 138). | | | | 1970 - At 10:30 p.m. a two-meter in diameter halo of light hovered | | over a 22-year-old woman on a farm near Villalba del Alcores, | | Valladolid, Spain making a buzzing sound. Dogs on the farm acted | | stunned and disoriented. (Sources: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, | | Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 136; | | Stendek, June 1971, p. 5). | | | | 1971 - On this evening in Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires province, | | Argentina 19-year-old Osvaldo D'Annunzio had a close encounter of the | | second kind with a UFO that involved landing traces and physiological | | effects. (Source: UFO Nachtrichten, March 1972, citing an unnamed | | newspaper source; Data-Net Report, June 1972, p. 15.) | | | | 1972 - Mr. Jamieson took photographs as a brilliant disc-shaped | | object flipped 6-8 times in the sky over Broadmeadows North, a suburb | | of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia at 10:10 p.m. The object flew at | | fantastic speeds and was observed for more than 15 minutes. (Sources: | | APRO Bulletin, September-October 1972, p. 11; FSR, January-February | | 1973, p. 30). | | | | 1972 - At 5:00 p.m. a sphere with a  triangular tail landed in the | | city of Rosetto Abbruzzi, Italy. After about a minute it took off | | very fast. (Source: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT). | | | | 1973 - After midnight two successive F-4 jet interceptors flying | | above Tehran, Iran attempted to catch a radar-visual UFO that had | | been widely reported by civilians. Every time visual contact was made | | and the crews attempted to arm a missile and prepare to fire at it, | | the weapons systems electronics failed. (Source: Fund for UFO | | Research, citing DIA documents). | | | | 1973 - At 7:30 p.m. a shiny salad-bowl shaped domed disc hovered at | | low altitude over Dunkerque, Nord, France. It made no sound, and | | there were many witnesses at the border post. (Source: Larry Hatch, U | | computer database, case 10122; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 133). | | | | 1974 - At 12:45 a.m. Younic Le Bihan, age 20, was awakened by his | | parents to observe a UFO hovering outside their house in Riec sur | | Belon, France. The family was using binoculars to view it. The object | | resembled a boat; it had lights like portholes that emitted a very | | bright light that changed from orange to green, and on each side of | | the base was a red light. The object was estimated to be 30 feet wide | | and 22 feet high, and it hovered just two feet above the ground. Then | | the lights were extinguished, and the family saw a star-like light | | that quickly disappeared. Younic then observed three heavy set | | humanoid figures, about 5 1/2 foot tall, "waddling" toward them. The | | beings were dressed in metallic suits and appeared to be | | floating above the ground, and their faces were not visible. The | | family fled from their house in fear. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted | | Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1974-48, | | citing J. L. Brochard & Pascal Gireaudot). | | | | 1975 - In Les Mureaux, France at 10:30 p.m. a 22-meter long | | reddish-orange cigar-shaped object zig-zagged up the Seine River at | | only 5 meters altitude. The size and distance of the object was | | calculated by triangulation. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, January | | 1977). | | | | 1976 - Two Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom jets with AIM-9 missiles | | were scrambled to intercept a UFO, 40 nautical miles north of Tehran, | | Iran at 1:30 a.m. local time. They were vectored in by ground radar, | | and the UFO was described as a brightly luminous domed disc the size | | of a Boeing 707. A small object was shot by the larger disc toward | | the plane. First, the aircrafts' inertial navigation systems | | fluctuated and their radio communications were lost. When the pilot | | of the first aircraft, Houssain Perouzi, tried to fire one of his | | missiles at the UFO, their jet lost control of all its instruments. | | The second jet just lost weapons control. The disc was changing | | colors and shape when first detected; it next engaged in a series of | | sharp maneuvers. A third object descended vertically and landed in a | | desert area. The entire incident lasted two hours. (Sources: APRO | | Bulletin, September 1976, p. 1; Richard H. Hall, International UFO | | Reporter, March 1992, p. 4; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO | | Encounters, p. 50; UNICAT, case # 372; Richard F. Haines, citing a | | Joint Chiefs of Staff report dated July 19, 1978; Richard H. Hall, | | The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 20, 122, 244). | | | | 1976 - At 1:10 a.m. four crew members on a Boeing 707 airliner, | | Duarte, Alexio, Graca, and Santos, flying over the Atlantic Ocean | | between the Azores and Lisbon, Portugal at 35,000 feet altitude | | encountered an intense bluish light, which suddenly turned off, then | | became many less intense lights. There were three or four on top of | | the object, three smaller yellow lights below that, and two at the | | bottom of the object that looked like portholes. The minimum distance | | to the object was one mile. The duration of the sighting was five | | minutes. (Source: UNICAT, case # 790, citing Joaquim Fernandes, p. | | 163). | | | | 1976 - At 1:15 a.m. Eloi Weigert and Jose Pinto, captain and first | | officer of the Portuguese airline TAP, flying a Boeing 707 airliner | | at 4000 feet altitude and at a speed of 240 km/hour were five minutes | | after takeoff from Portela Airport in Lisbon, Portugal when they | | spotted a bluish white light in front of them. They immediately | | contacted the control tower because the UFO was hovering in front of | | them, but it then moved in another direction. The minimum distance to | | the object was only 200 meters. The white light (reported to be blue | | by the tower) accelerated fast to the north. The close encounter | | lasted 45 seconds. (Sources: Phenomenes Spatiaux, December 1976, | | p. 14; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 40; UNICAT, | | case # 789; Charles Bowen, FSR, April 1977, p. 31 & June 1977, p. 1; | | John Wallace Spencer, World Atlas of UFOs, p. 107). | | | | 1979 - The witness, a military man, awoke in the middle of the night | | in his home in Barrio La Gloria, Mendoza province, Argentina unable | | to sleep, so he lit a cigarette and walked to the kitchen, leaving | | his family still sleeping. He leaned on the kitchen window ledge, and | | when he pulled the curtain aside he was surprised to see a circular | | gray metallic object on the ground near his house. A short, | | human-like figure appeared next to the craft. He wore a very white | | outfit with what appeared to be a bright green visor over the eyes. | | The witness sensed some type of telepathic message, but could not | | recall its contents, and does not remember how the figure and the | | object left. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database | | 1979, case # 376, citing Richard Heiden, quoting R. Banchs). | | | | 1979 - At 7:00 p.m. four witnesses, including two 11-year-old boys | | with the surnames Lara and Moron, had a close encounter with a | | hovering, flashing, round red light in an empty lot in the | | neighborhood of Lujan de Cuyo, the city of Santa Ines, Mendoza | | province, Argentina. The object, which was emitting the flashing red | | light from the top of the craft, was 20 meters above ground at the | | time. After touching down on the ground, the object rose two meters | | into the air, and then landed again. Its color changed from red to | | white to blue. The UFO landed with a shrill sound, giving off rays of | | blue and white light. At the landing site were found five holes, | | three centimeters in diameter and two cm deep, with one of the holes | | in the center. These imprint marks were within a 50 cm circle marked | | on ground, which was compacted and hard.No unusual radioactivity was | | detected, but a policeman who touched the traces had his hand swell | | up. A general power blackout occurred in the area at the time, which | | was associated with the UFO landing. (Sources: Jane Thomas, UFO | | Newsclipping Service, November 1979, p. 11, citing Cronica, September | | 24, 1979; UNICAT, case # 461, citing Daniel Moreno, UFO Press, July | | 1983, p. 7). | | | | 1983 - At 9:00 p.m. 3 in a car in Tomkins Cove, Rockland County, New | | York had a close encounter with a 40 foot in diameter, disc-shaped | | object that was seen over some high tension lines. The UFO followed | | their car, making a humming sound. (Source: Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO | | Journal, December 1983, p. 4). | | | | 1986 - At 1:10 a.m. a seven-meter in diameter, bowl-shaped disc | | landed on the road on 5 thin legs in Fredensborg, Denmark. A tube of | | light extended from the object, then was retracted. (Source: | | Scandanavian UFO Information News, issue 11; Larry Hatch, U computer | | database, case # 14458). | | | | 1990 - An observation by a couple and their two children of an ovoid | | form of milky white color at the top of some trees, around 9:45 p.m. | | in Thann, Haut-Rhin department, France. (Source: GEIPAN, case # 67). | | | | 1990 - Gulf Breeze, Florida. Two witnesses at 9:30 a.m. watched a | | large red light that flew toward the west, stopped and hovered, | | ejected 6-8 red lights, and then switched off. This was followed with | | a loud boom. (Source: Donald Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1992, | | p. 17). | | | | 1992 - An armless, neckless black entity was seen in Jarradale, | | Western Australia one this day at around noon. A man and his son were | | out hunting for firewood, and were using a disused track into the | | bush, when the boy noticed a movement nearby and told his father. | | They then saw the tall, jet-black figure watching them from behind | | some trees. The figure ducked down, then bounded away into the bush | | in two great strides. The entity had no arms and on either side of | | its head it had two white patches where the eyes might have been. It | | did not have a neck and was estimated to have been 3 ½ meters tall, | | or almost nine feet. (Sources: Albert S. Rosales, 1992 Humanoid | | Sighting Reports database, case # 924, citing Keith Basterfield; | | Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15835). | | | | 1995 - At 5:57 a.m. a round object with a vertical ring | | (Saturn-shaped) was sighted at Stanford University in Palo Alto, | | California. It moved from east to west, flying on its edge. (Sources: | | Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle; Larry Hatch, | | U computer database, case # 17435). | | | | 1995 - Several bell-shaped objects were sighted near the airport in | | Johnson City, Tennessee on this evening at 10:46 p.m. Beams of light | | were directed toward the ground. The UFOs hovered and maneuvered; a | | complex event. (Sources: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting | | Center, Seattle; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17434). | | | | 1995 - The occurrence of anomalous radar echoes in the Central | | European surveillance area happened on this date. | | | | 1997 - A bronze, metallic, rectangular object with a narrow head and | | a small, fan-shaped horizontal tail was sighted in Orland Park, Cook | | County, Illinois at 5:40 a.m. It moved slowly, and made no sound. It | | had two rows of 8-12 lights; one row was red and the other one was | | blue. The tail also had a smaller row of penpendicular lights. | | (Sources:Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, | | September 1997 webpage; Jay Rath, The I-Files: True Reports of | | Unexplained Phenomena in Illinois, p. 80). | | | | 2000 - In Sherman Oaks, California at 9:30 a.m. a white object, | | shaped like the number "8", rose vertically very quickly across a | | great distance, and then disappeared. (Source: Peter Davenport, | | National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2000 webpage). | | | | 2001 - A huge, silvery, flying triangle went east at high speed in | | Woodward, Oklahoma at 9:38 a.m. It then stopped in midair without | | slowing and went invisible for two seconds. Next, it sped off to the | | west, stopped again, and then dropped straight down. Three loud sonic | | booms, followed by a roaring sound, were heard. The entire sighting | | lasted five minutes. (Source: George Filer, MUFON UFO Journal, | | November 2001, p. 14). | | | | 2003 - Over 50 witnesses at a fooball game in Onawa, Iowa at around | | 8:00 p.m. watched a light that separated into three other lights, and | | then formed a cross. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting | | Center, Seattle, September 2003 webpage). | | | | 2004 - A cigar-shaped object with windows and many colored lights | | hovered over Ile des Soeurs, Ile-de-Montreal, Quebec, Canada at 8:30 | | p.m. A second object flew up to it, and then entered the larger | | object. The incident lasted 90 minutes. Earlier that day a large | | silver, cigar-shaped object was seen moving rapidly through the | | daytime sky over Waynesburg and Canton, Ohio from the northeast to | | the southwest. These corroborating reports both occurred at 4:35 p.m. | | (Source: (1) Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 692; | | (2)Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September | | 2004 webpage). | | | | 2008 - A motorist in Lebanon, St. Clair County, Illinois reported | | that a triangle-shaped craft flew directly over his vehicle. The | | object was flying very low and very slow, and was in view for an | | estimated 10 minutes. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO | | Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2008 webpage, report uploaded | | October 31, 2008). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 19 September 2012). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: abduction; aircra | | ft UFO encounters; animal reaction: dogs disoriented; beeping sound; | | boomerang or V-shaped UFOs; cigar-shaped UFOs; crescent-shaped UFO; d | | isc-shaped UFOs; electromagnetic radio, avionics, and TV interference | | effects; falling leaf motion; Grey humanoids; humming sound; landing | | s with traces; metallic UFOs; missing time; multi-year reports from A | | rgentina, France and Illinois; oval UFOs; pendulum motion; photograph | | s; physiological effects: prickling sensation, swelling; power failur | | e associated with UFO landing; short humanoids; solid light beam; tel | | epathy; triangular UFOs; unintelligible language; very tall humanoid. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+