+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  November 24 | | | | 1896 - Many witnesses in Red Bluff, California witnessed a light | | maneuvering in the sky for several minutes at 7:00 p.m. In Visalia, | | California several observers saw a "vessel" in the sky moving at the | | speed of a train; it moved up-and-down and left-and-right, and | | departed quickly to the northwest. At 11:30 p.m. two witnesses in | | Tacoma, Washington watched a flying object beam vari-colored rays of | | light in all directions. It then flew to the southeast and examined | | the Mount Rainier mountain peak. (Sources: Oakland Tribune, November | | 25, 1896; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. & Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries | | of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, pp. 8-9; Loren E. Gross, The UFO | | Wave of 1896, p. 21, 26). | | | | 1951 - At 3:53 p.m. a milky white object looking like a small | | Northrop flying wing (V-shaped with no fuselage or tail) hovered in | | the skies over Mankato, Minnesota. It flew over two Air National | | Guard F-51 fighter aircraft being flown by pilots W. H. Fairbrother | | and D. E. Stewart . A Project Blue Book "unidentified" case. | | (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, | | case # 1013; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 14; Jay | | Rath, The M Files: True Reports of Minnesota's Unexplained Phenomena, | | p. 43). | | | | 1952 - Annandale, Virginia. 6:30 p.m. Witness L. L. Brettner reported | | seeing a round, glowing object that flew very fast, made right angle | | turns, and reversed course during a 1 hour sighting. There was also a | | second witness but the information about his or her sighting is | | missing from the file. (Source: Don Berliner, Project Blue Book | | Unknowns; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: November-December, | | p. 42) | | | | 1954 - A woman astronomer named Marley, with a telescope in | | Southampton, England saw a small white disc-shaped object fly to the | | south at 12:15 a.m., and then suddenly turn 180 degrees to fly off | | rapidly to the north. (Source: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of | | the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1954: November-December, p. 29). | | | | 1957 - Army Captain Kohrtz in Kortedala, Goteborg, Sweden at 3:30 | | p.m. watched with binoculars as an ovoid flying object spiraled | | upwards towards the Moon, glowing on one side. (Source:  NICAP UFO | | Investigator, Volume 1, Number 3; Karl Gosta Rehn). | | | | 1959 - At 1:00 p.m. Mrs. Sperring in New Ferry, Cheshire, England | | watched a silver domed disc with a yellow illuminated dome. It was | | spinning, and had flashing lights. It flew off to the | | north-northeast. (Sources: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # | | 5866; FSR, March 1960). | | | | 1960 - At 10:00 a.m. in Defiance, Ohio a physics professor driving in | | a car, and his passenger, watched a silent 30-meter in diameter black | | disc-shaped object that flew off to the northwest. It had clearly | | defined edges. (Source: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 54). | | | | 1965 - James Allen Aldridge and his family heard a loud blast outside | | their mobile home trailer in Cooper City, Florida and saw a flash in | | the western sky at 18:45 p.m. Aldridge went to his barn to check on | | his stock and there he saw a man about five feet tall, with wide | | shoulders and a narrow waist. He shouted at the man but got no | | response. His dog was shaking with fright at the sight of the strange | | figure. Aldridge then drove off to get the police, but when they | | returned they could find no one. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted | | Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1965-67, citing | | local police and a newspaper source dated November 25, 1965). | | | | 1966 - At 7:15 a.m. Mr. Thomas Ury was driving home when the | | "Mothman", a bird-like creature six feet tall and with a ten foot | | wingspan, circled over his car. He sped up to 70-75 miles per hour | | but the creature kept up with his car. He had been close to the area | | of the TNT dumpsite in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. That same night | | Mary Myer, a newspaper reporter, saw the red eyes of "Mothman" when | | she visited the abandoned power plant in Point Pleasant, West | | Virginia where it had been seen before. (Sources: UPI, November 25, | | 1966; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid | | Reports, cases 1966-63 and 1966-62 (A0756); John A. Keel, FSR, | | July-August 1968, p. 13; John A. Keel, The Mothman Prophesies, p. | | 68). | | | | 1967 - At 2:30 p.m. Sr. Ugo Battaglia, a radio technician, and his | | 14-year-old assistant Carlos Alberto do Nascimento, were in an eighth | | floor apartment building repairing a phonograph in Rio de Janeiro, | | Brazil when they heard a high-pitched sound. They looked out a window | | facing the coastal hills and saw a brilliant metallic disc-shaped | | object. It landed on a hill opposite the apartment building. The UFO | | struck and shattered a tree as it came down. Underneath at either end | | was a red light, and on top was a spinning cupola with slat windows. | | Three men clad in white coveralls came out of the UFO, which hovered | | just above the ground. They walked around it side by side with their | | arms hanging by their sides. After about five minutes they returned | | to the disc and disappeared underneath it. The two witnesses | | continued their work and left the building at 2:55 p.m., noticing | | that the disc was still in the same spot, but by the time they | | reached a nearby corner the UFO was no longer in view. They had not | | seen it depart. (Sources: Irene Granchi, APRO Bulletin, | | November-December 1967, p. 3; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: | | Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-117, citing Irene Granchi, | | APRO; John A. Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 139; Richard H. Hall, | | The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 474). | | | | 1967 - At 9:30 a.m. EST a witness named King in Tuscumbia, Missouri | | observed a silver banded, cone-shaped UFO that flew silently toward | | the east, then circled 360 degrees three times before heading back to | | the west. (Source: Ted R. Phillips, FSR Case Histories, December | | 1971, p. 10). | | | | 1968 - On this evening five teenagers in Southall Ridge, near Ripley, | | West Virginia saw a 150 foot in diameter domed disc over a house. It | | landed in a nearby field, and was shot at. It dodged bullets from a | | .22 caliber rifle. The first bullet made a "whomp" sound, like it had | | hit a solid object, but the later bullets had no reported effect. | | (Sources: Bob Teets, West Virginia UFOs: Close Encounters in the | | Mountain State, p. 87; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of | | the Fifth Kind, p. 123). | | | | 1970 - At seven o'clock in the evening a compact "cloud" UFO emitting | | rays from the top was seen by hundreds in Belo Horizonte, Brazil | | during a time when part of the city experienced a power outage. At | | the same time Moyses Santos, a resident of the city, found himself | | surrounded by half a dozen three-foot tall beings in his room "who | | went around touching and upsetting everything." They floated about in | | the air, and had a translucent quality. They "looked like ice." When | | they got near a table lamp, they "lit up in many lights." One of them | | handed Santos a piece of paper on which he drew a flying saucer, | | without knowing why. The being then took the paper back. Finally they | | disappeared by passing through the walls. He went outside in time to | | see the UFO above the city, flooding the area with brilliant light. | | Other sightings occurred about the same time in several Brazilian | | cities. (Sources: Irene Granchi, APRO Bulletin, November-December | | 1970, p. 3; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of | | Humanoid Reports, case 1970-19, citing Irene Granchi, APRO).  | | | | 1970 -  That same evening two men in Centralia, Illinois had nearly | | identical experiences with a UFO while driving home. At 5:45 p.m. Sam | | Alli saw a glowing white-and-yellow globe hovering in the sky. It was | | fuzzy at first but then became perfectly clear. It began to move in | | circles, then rapid spurts. It slowed to a complete stop when he | | turned into his driveway. The second witness, Larry Peterson, next | | reported a similar experience. (Sources: Skylook, January 1971, p. 1; | | Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, August 1971, p. 21; Jay Rath, The | | I-Files: True Reports of Unexplained Phenomena in Illinois, p. 56). | | | | 1973 - A photograph of a domed ovoid UFO was taken at 5:00 p.m. in | | the Piedmont region of Italy. A 23-year-old man named Contin took the | | photo of the object in Susa, Italy as it was making seemingly | | impossible maneuvers. Jets were later seen chasing the object. | | (Source: Gordon Creighton, FSR, October 1974, p. 27). | | | | 1974 -  According to the Spanish Air Force, at 7:50 p.m. a light | | descended from 8,000 to 6,000 feet and paced a Fokker F-27 IB | | aircraft for one minute while flying between Tenerife and Las Palmas | | in the Canary Islands. The UFO disappeared when the airplane turned | | toward the light. The visual sighting lasted for three minutes, while | | radar returns were recorded at 8:20 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Independent | | witnesses included a Spanish Air Force Lt. Colonel and his daughter | | driving in a car. (Source: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, UNICAT | | database, case 821). | | | | 1974 - On the same night a circular object paced a private aircraft | | flying over Shabbona, Illiniois. It suddenly tipped and shot away. | | The EM effect included a magnetic compass deflection.  (Source: | | Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 50, citing MUFON UFO | | Journal, November 1989). | | | | 1976 - A cone-shaped object with a light followed a truck on a | | highway in New Albany, Indiana at 10:30 p.m. It went away when other | | vehicles approached, but reappeared when they were gone and was seen | | for more than an hour. It left by departing toward the east. There | | were 13 witnesses to the close encounter. (Source: International UFO | | Reporter, January 1977, p. 5). | | | | 1977 -  At 10:10 p.m. a UFO came out of the southwest, flying over a | | ranch following some high tension power lines in the town of La | | Aurora, Uruguay.  It changed colors and caused radio interference. | | There was a 10 minute power failure in the city of Salto. (Source: | | Bob Van Der Velde, APRO Bulletin, May 1982, p. 4). | | | | 1978 -  Sr. Gordillo and three friends were out hunting in the | | pre-dawn hours around 3:30 a.m. in a wooded hilly region near the | | River Guadiamar in Gerena Guadiamar, Sevilla province, Spain when | | they all saw a red light on the ground in a nearby eucalyptus grove. | | They all carried bright lanterns and continued looking for game. | | They  crossed the river, and temporarily forgot about the red light | | for a few minutes. They then noticed that the light was now in a | | nearby clearing in the woods. Two of the witnesses approached the | | area, while the others remained behind. The two men saw, partially | | hidden by some trees, a large bowl-shaped or jug-shaped craft with a | | red light on top and numerous multicolored lights on the front; it | | rested on two shiny silvery legs. Next to the object stood a tall, | | heavy set human-like figure, who appeared to be wearing a large round | | black helmet with a glass visor over the face. His clothing was | | silvery and he wore large boots. The being walked slowly back and | | forth in front of the object, at one point approaching the witnesses | | briefly. It made low humming noises. The men became frightened and | | left the area. Large footprints were found at the site. (Sources: | | APRO Bulletin, September 1979, p. 1; Lumieres dans la Nuit, September | | 1979; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Enciclopedia De Los Encuentros | | Cercanos Con Ovnis & UNICAT database case # 485, citing Stendek, | | volume 37, number 1). | | 1978 - Sr. D'Ambros, age 61, had gone into a nearby woods at 11:45 | | a.m. near Gastagh, Italy to gather some firewood and had sat down on | | a log to rest. He was horrified to suddenly see two strange looking | | beings looking at him. The beings were hovering very close to the | | ground. They were described as a meter tall and thin with large | | pointed ears. One was shorter than the other. They had yellowish | | skin, large smooth and bald elongated heads, long pointed noses and | | large mouths with two long pointed fangs. They were clad in dark, | | tight fitting coveralls that started below the knee and extended up | | to their necks. They also had huge hands and feet with extremely long | | fingers and nails. The shorter of the beings approached the witness | | and began making sudden "sliding" moves around him, never touching | | the ground. The witness screamed for help and asked who they were but | | they only answered him with mumbling sounds. The taller creature now | | approached and attempted to take the witness's pruning axe from him. | | After a brief struggle the creatures fled into the woods. The witness | | chased after them but lost sight of them. He then came upon a | | clearing where a solid, metallic disc-shaped craft with a dome on top | | rested on four legs. He saw a pair of long hands close a small trap | | door on the dome, then the disc took off silently and at high speed | | emitting a burst of red flame from its bottom. During the same time | | other independent witnesses had watched a similar object maneuvering | | over the area. Ground traces found in the area included a 12-foot | | wide burnt circle, with vegetation whirled counterclockwise, U-shaped | | imprints 20 cm long and 3 cm deep, and uprooted bushes. (Sources: | | Antonio Chiumiento, International UFO Reporter, May 1983, p. 8; David | | F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case | | A2176, citing IUR; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A | | Thirty-Year Report, p. 492). | | | | 1981 - Dale Spurlock saw a red pulsating domed disc at treetop level | | while driving 10 miles south-southwest of Marshall near Darco, Texas | | at 9:30 p.m. It was seen near a small lake and some power lines, and | | had four colored lights--a row of red, blue, green, and amber | | lights--at the base of the dome. It made no sound as it passed left | | to right just above the tress, and then hovered. The object tilted, | | and two strong headlights from the front of the UFO shown directly | | down on his pickup truck. The object was revolving counterclockwise, | | and left towards the east. The truck's electrical system (alternator | | and battery) was damaged. (Sources: John Combest, International UFO | | Reporter, May 1982, p. 5; Richard H. Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, | | February 1984, p. 14; UNICAT database case # 027, citing John | | Combest; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year | | Report, pp. 205, 374 & 383. Sketch courtesy of Richard H. Hall). | | | | Dale | | Spurlock's Close Encounter of the Second Kind, Marshall, Texas - 1981 | | | | [Sketch of Marshall, Texas Close Encounter of the Second Kind - 1981] | | | | 1987 - At 7:30 p.m. a woman and two teenagers driving in Gulf Breeze, | | Florida saw a multicolored disc-shaped object pacing them at a | | distance. The 30 foot in diameter object then stopped and hovered | | over some woods. The witnesses stopped to watch it. It was spinning | | and had a row of windows. A small red ball of light was emitted from | | the underside of the UFO. Next, the disc moved laterally, and finally | | ascended out of sight. The sighting lasted five minutes. (Sources: | | Boots Eckerd, MUFON field investigation case files, case # 890406; | | Dan Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1989, p. 17). | | | | 1988 - A witness saw a six-foot tall humanoid figure near Hunge, | | Sweden at 9:00 p.m. It wore a tight-fitting diver's suit and a | | helmet. It suddenly vanished into thin air as the witness approached | | it. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1988, case | | #  2374, citing Andre Liljegren, AFU Newsletter, issue # 34). | | | | 1989 - Weathermen in Papa, Hungary observed four 50 meter wide orange | | balls of light at 10:00 p.m. One shot off at 2,600 mph. Military jets | | were scrambled to chase the UFOs, and there was radar confirmation of | | the sighting. (Source: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1991, p. 234). | | | | 1990 - At 2:45 a.m. a police inspector in Hendale, England saw a | | bright light split into a number of blue and white objects, which | | flew south. At the same time two police officers saw a UFO over the | | Bristol Channel. The UFO appeared on radar. (Source: Gary Heseltine, | | Police Reports of UFOs, case # 143, citing The Sun Independent, | | November 25, 1990). | | | | 1990 - At 6:15 p.m. a driver together with children in the car in | | Comeray, France sighted a red football-shaped object surrounded by an | | orange glowing waves.It flashed once every second. (Source: Larry | | Hatch, U computer database, case # 15417; Lumieres dans la Nuit, | | issue # 307). | | | | 1990 - At 11:37 p.m. a silent red UFO was photographed in Gulf | | Breeze, Florida by three observers with 35 mm cameras and two more | | witnesses with video cameras. (Source: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer | | Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case # 978). | | | | 1991 - On this evening in North Port, Florida a former WW II fighter | | pilot and his neighbor saw a cylindrical UFO pass over a house. It | | was not well lit, it flew faster than a jet, and made no sound. | | (Source: Timothy Good, Alien Update, p. 242, citing Sun Times, | | November 27, 1991). | | | | 1993 - In Harlowton, Montana near Malmstrom Air Force Base witnesses | | reported a 6-7 hour long event that began at around 7 p.m., during | | which a triangle-shaped UFO, flying discs, and an immense cylindrical | | object were observed clearly at close range and through binoculars. | | (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, | | November 1993 webpage, report uploaded September 12, 1999). | | | | 1995 - A local resident of Toa Baja, Puerto Rico reported | | encountering a short, four-foot tall creature on this evening, | | shortly after nearby residents also reported seeing a saucer-shaped | | object crossing the skies. Around the same time several heifers were | | found dead, lying in a perfect row in the middle of a lonely road. | | (Source: Albert S. Rosales, 1995 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, | | case # 3287, citing Scott Corrales, Chupacabras and Other Mysteries). | | | | 1996 - During a very stormy night in Houston, Texas a woman was | | having trouble falling sleep and was very restless. At around 2:00 | | a.m. she started feeling very strange, as if in some sort of a | | trance. There was a window right above her bed, and it felt as if | | something was pulling her from inside. At the same time some kind of | | appartition appeared on the upper part of the closet door directly | | across from the window. It appeared to be a reddish figure | | with wings, or something on either side of its body, that was moving | | up and down. She also saw a shadow pass by the window to the left of | | the bed. The creature then vanished. Her husband did not see or | | experience anything. A week after the incident, the witness suffered | | a nervous breakdown. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, 1996 Humanoid | | Sighting Reports database, case # 2649, citing UFO Sightings in New | | Mexico and the World). | | | | 2004 - At two o'clock in the morning a V-shaped orange glowing object | | was sighted in Yuma, Arizona that moved straight up until it became | | impossible to see. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting | | Center, Seattle, November 2004 webpage). | | | | 2004 - At 7:40 p.m. a bright orange light was seen in Houston, | | British Columbia descending slowly, following the contour of the | | mountain. (Source: Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # | | 813, citing HBCCUFO). | | | | 2009 - A witness in Tracy, California reported seeing a red and blue | | "V" shaped object flying through the sky and emitting a bright | | LED-like light. At 6:10 p.m. EST another witness in Raleigh, North | | Carolina observed a V-shaped object with white and red flashing | | lights moving slowly over Falls Lake.(Source: Peter Davenport, | | National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, November 2009 webpage, | | reports uploaded December 12, 2009). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 24 November 2012). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes | | : aircraft UFO encounters; cone-shaped UFO; cylindrical UFOs; disc-sh | | aped UFOs; domed discs; EM effects: electric power outages and vehicl | | e electrical system damage; goblin-like humanoid entities; ground tra | | ces; helmets; landings, light beams; Mothman reports; multicolored UF | | Os; multi-year reports from Brazil, England, Florida, Illinois, Italy | | and Sweden; silvery uniforms; transparent humanoids; white uniforms. | | | | © Donald A. 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