+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  October 17 | | | | 1952 - At 12:50 a.m. in Oloron-Sainte-Marie, Alpes-Maritimes, France | | a whitish cylinder-shaped UFO hovered at a 45 degree angle in the sky | | with 30 other UFOs in front of it. Through binoculars the small | | objects were made out to be red spheres with a yellow ring around | | them. Angel hair filament material fell to the ground. The fibers | | resembled wool or nylon strands, except when balled together became | | gelatinous, and sublimed. (Source: Aime Michel, The Truth About | | Flying Saucers, p. 153; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 100; | | Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 62; Roberto Pinotti, FSR, | | May-June1970, p. 7; UNICAT, case 641) | | | | 1952 - At 9:15 p.m. in Taos, New Mexico four USAF officers observed a round, | | bright blue light moved from north to northeast at an elevation of 45 | | degrees for 2-3 seconds and then burnt out. (Source: Don Berliner, | | Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1952 - In Killeen, Texas two ministers, Reverends Greenwalt and | | Kluck, sighted ten lights, or a rectangle of lights, moving more or | | less straight and level through the sky for 5 seconds at 10:15 p.m. | | (Source: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1952 - At 11:00 p.m. in Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico a military | | witness sighted what looked like a white streamer move in an arc | | through the sky at an estimated 3,000 mph. The sighting lasted for 20 | | seconds. (Source: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1954 - Leon B., a city councilor in St-Cyr-sur-Mer, France saw a | | circular, orange craft take off from the ground. (Source: Jacques | | Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 232). | | | | 1954 - Manuel Madeira saw a landed object while out hunting in O | | Alvito, Portugal. It took off and flew away as he approached it, rose | | quickly into the sky, and was lost to sight. (Source: Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 232, case 278). | | | | 1954 - In Cabasson, France a 65-year-old man was hunting with his dog | | at 2:30 p.m. near the junction of the Brillance Canal and the Durance | | River. He saw a gray object, about four meters long and one meter | | high on the ground and 40 meters away. It had a dome from which two | | helmeted figures emerged. The witness fled, but his dog started | | toward the object. The dog soon retreated, walking awkwardly as if | | partially paralyzed. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A | | Century of Landings, p. 232, case 279; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, | | HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0310). | | | | 1954 - A man was returning from fishing along the canal at Reims, | | Marne, France in the earlty evening when he saw a brightly lit | | cigar-shaped object resting on the grass near the canal. As he | | approached he saw it was about 26 feet long and 7 feet high. From one | | end came “phosphorescent” lights, which reflected on the metallic | | hull of the object. A door appeared from which emerged three hairy | | dwarves, about 3 feet 9 inches tall, walking “crab-wise,” or | | sideways. Then an even smaller being, a little more than a meter tall | | appeared, whose lower legs appeared transparent. The witness tried to | | get closer, but the beings rushed back inside the object at | | surprising speed. Just then the witness was paralyzed by a red beam | | of light coming from a porthole in the craft, which turned | | yellow. The object took off and flew rapidly towards Tinquex. The | | witness was then able to recover his freedom of movement. (Sources: | | David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, | | case # 1954-31 (A0340); Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture | | Rationaliste, p. 206). | | | | 1954 - At 8:30 p.m. three witnesses in Dole Gray, Jura department, | | France reported watching a luminous object maneuver in the sky, | | changing colors for ten minutes. Each color lasted several minutes. | | It finally shot away at high speed. (Source: Aime Michel, Flying | | Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 187). | | | | 1954 - At 8:30 p.m. in Varigney, Haute-Saone department, France | | several witnesses, among them policeman Beuclair, saw a bright red | | dome-shaped object descend to ground level 20 meters away. The | | underside displayed red and white lights. (Sources: Aime Michel, | | Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 188; Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 232, case 280; Thomas | | M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case 56). | | | | 1954 - At 7:20 p.m. a luminous orb descended over Naples, Italy. It | | stopped and hovered just five meters above the ground. It rose again, | | then flew away to the north, generating a great deal of national | | excitement and press coverage. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer | | database, case # 3977). | | | | 1954 - Cape Massulo, Italy. On the Isle of Capri an artist, Raffael | | Castelle, saw a disc five meters in diameter land on the property of | | Curzio Malaparte on this night. Upon approaching it he discovered it | | was not a helicopter as he first thought, and he saw four dwarfs | | wearing coveralls emerge from it. After 30 minutes the craft made a | | soft whirring sound and rose vertically, leaving blue sparks. | | (Sources: France Soir, October 20, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 232-233, case # 281; David F. Webb | | & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case | | # 1954-103 (A0311) ). | | | | 1954 - At 10:00 p.m. several people in the town of Ascoli Pisceno, | | Marche, Italy witnessed an umbrella-shaped disc that slowed down, | | then shot straight up vertically. (Source: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT, | | citing Voce Adriatic). | | | | 1965 - A domed, disc-shaped object with red lights around the edge | | zig-zagged below the clouds in Tully, Queensland, Australia on this | | day. It had landing gear displayed underneath. At 7:45 p.m. a Mr. | | Cock witnessed a flight of seven UFOs which passed overhead, then | | circled the city of Cairns, Queensland. They did not keep in a | | perfect line, but 1-2 dropped out of place from time to time. They | | flew off to the west. (Source:  Michael Hervey, UFOs over the | | Southern Hemisphere, p. 152, 155). | | | | 1965 - At 7:15 p.m. a couple saw four disc-shaped objects flying in a | | half wing formation pass over La Jolla, California.  (Source: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, report uploaded April 16, | | 2005). | | | | 1966 - Two bright red lights with dim bluish white lights in between, | | which moved as if attached to one object, passed directly overhead in | | Chelmsford, Massachusetts at 9:05 p.m. (Source: Raymond E. Folwer, | | UFOs:  Interplanetary Visitors, p. 342). | | | | 1967 - On this day in Shillong, India an object at 500 feet altitude | | swooped down to ground level and damaged vegetation, then "sucked and | | churned the water" over a pond. It finally sped off. There were many | | witnesses to the event. (Source: Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible | | Residents, p. 228). | | | | 1967 - At 10:00 p.m. a large orange ball hovered over a corral in | | Roosevelt, Utah. In a few minutes it was joined by a second one. They | | left together flying to the east and out of sight. (Source: Frank B. | | Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, Appendix case 54). | | | | 1970 - A very large, shiny ovoid object like a giant mirror in the | | sky was observed for a few seconds over Castel, South Guernsey | | Island, The Channel Islands, Great Britain. It rapidly shrank down to | | a small ball and vanished. The sky then turned pink. There were three | | witnesses in their twenties, named Gavey and Page. The sighting | | lasted several seconds. (Sources: Guernsey Evening Post, October 19, | | 1970; FSR, January-February 1971, p. 32). | | | | 1971 - Two boys in Leicester, England reported that they witnessed an | | object in the sky that bobbed up-and-down starting at 6:30 p.m. It | | turned red in color when it ascended, then turned white when it | | descended. When white it was so bright it hurt their eyes. They | | watched for 10 minutes before it went behind a tree. (Source: Mrs. K. | | Smith, BUFORA Journal, July 1972, p. 28). | | | | 1973 - There are 113 cases recorded in the UFOCAT database of UFO | | reports and close encounters on this day and night. There was one | | from Sweden and two from England, and the rest were from the United | | States. The common perception was that the UFO wave was concentrated | | in the South and the Midwestern States, but there were 10 reports | | from California including six close encounters. The state with the | | most reports was Tennessee, with 16, followed by Ohio, with 15. | | Robert Gribble's UFO Reporting Center in Seattle, Washington received | | many reports, including a landing report with traces in Uniontown, | | Ohio at 7 p.m. and a vehicle interference CE-II report from Midland, | | Ohio at 8:30 p.m. At 7 p.m. CDT a car was also pursued south of | | Memphis, Tennessee by a metallic UFO emitting a beam of light. There | | were also aircraft UFO close encounters over Anaheim, California at 2 | | p.m.; Shreveport, Louisiana on this evening; and Johnson City, | | Tennessee at 9 p.m. | | | | 1973 - Shortly after midnight Pat Roach and her children Bonnie and | | Debbie were abducted and taken aboard a UFO in Lehi, Utah. They | | experienced 45 minutes of missing time; they found they had pin-prick | | like marks in a triangle on their arms, and recalled going through | | physical examinations. Debbie was ill at the time, and reportedly was | | healed as a result of her abduction experience. (Sources: John F. | | Schuessler, UFO-Related Human Physiological Effects, p. 57; Coral & | | Jim Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 340, based on | | investigation by James Harder). | | | | 1973 - At three o'clock in the morning a woman in Pikesville, | | Maryland was awakened by a sound like an explosion. She heard a loud | | humming sound, walked out onto her front porch. There she saw a red, | | transparent ovoid object, 15 feet long and 6-8 feet high. On top was | | a bubble. Inside she saw a human figure standing up. Eighteen hours | | later, at 9 p.m. in Warner Robins, Georgia a cigar-shaped object | | chased a vehicle, making a humming sound. (Source: David F. Webb & | | Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-38; | | David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids). | | | | 1973 - At 5:40 a.m. near Crooked Mountain, Pennsylvania a small | | circular object with rotating lights hovered over a car being driven | | by a 47-year-old man. It caused the interior of the car to heat up. | | The car spun around 180 degrees although the driver had not turned | | the steering wheel. (Sources: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving | | Vehicle Interference, p. 58; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, | | Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, p. 274). | | | | 1973 - A circular, copper-colored UFO hovered just off the ground in | | Watauga, Tennessee on this afternoon while a six foot tall being | | reached out of a doorway and tried to grab two children. It had two | | claw-like hands and blinking eyes. At least six other reports of UFOs | | came from the same area on the same day. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted | | Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-40; David | | F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids). | | 1973 - On this evening a silver colored, oval-shaped object landed on | | US Route 29 near Danielsville, Georgia about 300 feet ahead of Paul | | Brown's car, forcing him to make an immediate stop. Two small 4 1/2 | | foot tall beings clad in silver suits and white gloves appeared | | underneath the UFO. They had reddish faces and white hair. When Mr. | | Brown stepped halfway out of his car with a gun in his hand the | | beings turned and re-entered the craft, which took off with a | | whooshing sound. Brown fired several shots at it with no apparent | | effect. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of | | Humanoid Reports, case 1973-42; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The | | Humanoids). | | 1973 - A 50 foot wide UFO hovered two to three feet above Highway 82 | | near Eupora, Mississippi at twilight, seemingly suspended on a "beam | | of light." The primary witness's car lights and engine died when it | | was 100 yards from the craft. Another car stopped just behind him. A | | second UFO hovered about 60 feet above the first, illuminating it | | with a light. Both craft were similar in appearance, like inverted | | cups, and had greenish blue flashing lights. A catfish like creature | | came out from the top of the lower UFO, holding onto a handrail. It | | had gray, fish-like skin, a wide mouth, one glowing eye, flipper like | | feet and webbing between its legs like a "flying squirrel." It had | | feather like objects on its back, which opened and closed when it | | moved. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of | | Humanoid Reports, case 1973-44; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The | | Humanoids). | | 1973 - Two men were driving on Route 23 toward New York City from | | work when they saw a large, round, silver craft hovering over a field | | near Wayne, New Jersey. The UFO landed, so they stopped and got out | | of their car. But then the driver then got scared and he decided to | | drive off. The other man stayed behind and conversed with seven | | human-like beings, four men and three women, who got out of the UFO. | | (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid | | Reports, case 1973-39; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The | | Humanoids). | | 1973 - Later this same night Police Chief Jeff Greenhaw of Falkville, | | Alabama photographed a 5 1/2 foot tall being in a crinkly looking | | silvery suit after investigating a reported UFO landing. The Chief | | stopped his car in the road and the thing moved slowly like a robot | | toward the car. When 10 feet away it turned and began running. The | | Chief pursued it in his patrol car, but the being accelerated and | | disappeared when the car spun off the road. "He was running in a very | | odd manner, from side to side, arms down to his sides, and it looked | | as if he had springs under his feet to propel him. He could take 10 | | feet in one leap." The photo is regarded by some UFO investigators as | | a hoax, as showing a man wrapped in aluminum foil. (Source: David F. | | Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case | | 1973-41; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids). | | 1973 - Late on this night Clarence Patterson said he and his pickup | | truck were sucked up into a huge cigar-shaped object with a green | | light near Loxley, Alabama. He was pulled out of the truck by six | | robot-like beings that seemed to read his mind. The next thing he | | remembered he was back on the highway going about 90 mph in the | | truck. He may have been onboard for up to 30 minutes. A sulphur-like | | smell was noted during the encounter. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted | | Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-43; David | | F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The Humanoids). | | | | Akita, Japan Airport Golden Disc Sighting - 1976 | | | | [Sketch of Akita, Japan UFO - 1975] | | | | 1976 - At 10:40 a.m. at Akita Airport, Japan Captain Masara Saito, | | age 34, an airline pilot for Toa Airlines, situated in an airliner on | | the runway and preparing to takeoff, and the control tower observed a | | glowing yellow disc, like two plates rim-to-rim. It hovered to the | | south near the airport for five minutes, then flew away toward the | | sea. Over 50 people witnessed the UFO. The object was estimated to be | | 16 feet in diameter, at an estimated altitude of 1500 meters from the | | ground. "It was something I had never seen before," said Captain | | Saito. Tazawa Takumi, air traffic controller on duty, who observed | | the object through binoculars, said it looked like "two plates placed | | together, with the top one inverted." (Sources: Robert Gribble, MUFON | | UFO Journal, October 1991, p. 22; National Enquirer, January 4, 1977; | | Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, | | p. 134). | | | | 1977 - Uccle, Belgium. On this evening a blinding red nocturnal | | light hovered silently for an hour. Then it went to the west, turned | | to the north, and had two more nocturnal lights circling it. | | (Sources: International UFO Reporter, March 1978, p. 2; Richard F. | | Haines, Project Delta, p. 191, UNICAT, case # 176). | | | | 1981 - Abel Boro was hunting with his friend Ribamar Ferreira in the | | rain forest in Matoes, near Parnarama, Maranhao State, Brazil when | | they saw a bright star that descended and hovered over the two | | terrified men, focusing its light on Boro. He climbed a tree and | | Ferreira ran away. The object hovered over the tree, spinning around | | and doing something bad to Boro, who was shaking with fear. His body | | was glittering. When Ferreira came back with help, Boro was dead; his | | body was all white and he reportedly didn't have a drop of blood left | | in him. (Sources: John F. Schuessler, UFO-Related Human Physiological | | Effects, p. 95; National Enquirer, December 29, 1981; FSR, March | | 1989; Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien | | Contact, p. 188). | | | | 1983 - At 6:50 p.m. an oyster-shaped object passed over a house at | | 2000 feet altitude in Bedhampton, Hampshire, England. It was | | described as silent, very bright, with five lights by the two | | witnesses, two men named Woods and Waters. (Source: Doris Graziano, | | APRO Bulletin, July 1984, p. 8). | | | | 1992 - At 4:00 p.m. a large green, vertical, cylindrical object with | | thin legs was sighted moving north between Chichester and Midhurst, | | West Sussex, England. It moved slowly at 30 mph at only 100 feet | | altitude. (Source: UFO Newsclipping Service, January 1993). | | | | 1993 - At 10:00 a.m. an eleven-year-old girl and her cousin saw a | | gray, saucer-shaped object  with lights on the bottom in | | Connersville, Indiana. Three lights emerged from a fog and circled a | | field for three minutes. (Source: T. David Spencer & Donald Worley, | | MUFON UFO Journal, January 1995, p. 16). | | | | 1999 - At 8:25 p.m. two cylinder-shaped crafts were seen maneuvering | | over a road near Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Two vehicles stalled | | as the objects approached and several of the witnesses felt dizzy in | | the presence of the objects. The objects were silver in color and | | highly polished. Each object had a row of about 13 yellow-orange | | lights. There was also a blue haze around one of the objects. Also, | | at least two silhouettes of humanoid beings with large heads were | | seen in each of the crafts. The eyes of the beings were red and | | fiery, and were like slits. The UFOs did not land, but hovered just | | above the ground. There was a sudden sound like thunder, and the | | objects abruptly vanished. Scorch marks were reported to be found on | | the ground near where the objects had hovered. (Sources: Albert S. | | Rosales, 1999 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, citing Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle). | | | | 2005 - In Welland, Niagara County, Ontario three witnesses reported | | seeing a bright white light at 7:00 p.m., which when it approached | | turned out to be a triangular craft with three lights on the bottom. | | It made no noise, and had red, blue and little white lights on it. | | The object rose up into the clouds. The sighting lasted 15-20 | | seconds. (Sources: Geoff Dittman, 2005 Canadian UFO Survey, case # | | 101; Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, October 2005 | | webpage, report uploaded October 20, 2005). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 19 October 2012). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: abductions; aircraft UFO encounters; ange | | l hair residue; blue haze surrounding UFO; cigar-shaped or cylindrica | | l UFOs; death caused by UFO; disc-shaped UFOs; domed UFOs; EM ignitio | | n interference effects: car engines and lights died; Grey UFOnauts wi | | th fiery red eyes; healing from UFO abduction; human-looking humanoid | | s; humanoid with claws; humming sounds; levitation of car 180 degrees | | ; missing time; multi-year reports from England; ovoid UFOs; physiolo | | gical effects: dizziness, heat sensation, paralysis, and pin prick tr | | iangle marks on arms; red UFOs; robots; short humanoids; silvery suit | | s; sulphur odor; triangular or delta shaped UFOs; UFOnauts wearing he | | lmets; up-and-down bobbing motion; vertical ascent; zigzag maneuvers. | | | | © Donald A. 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