+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  October 23 | | | | 1822 - On this day in Berlin, Germany Astronomer Pastorff watched two | | disc pass in front of the face of the Sun. (Source: Larry Hatch, U | | computer database, case no. 81). | | | | 1949 - In Norwood, Hamilton County, Ohio outside of Cincinnati a | | black-and-white motion picture film was made showing a large | | disc-shaped craft hovering in a searchlight beam; it emitted five | | triangular or delta-shaped objects. The entire event began at 7:15 | | p.m., lasted over 210 minutes, and was witnessed by more than 50 | | people.  (Sources: Leonard H. Stringfield, Inside Saucer Post...3-0 | | Blue, p. 72; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 88). | | | | 1950 - A retired USAF pilot watched a metallic blimp with three | | portholes hover for five seconds over Bonlee, North Carolina. He lost | | sight of it but saw it again after 40 seconds. (Source: Project Blue | | Book files counted in official statistics, case no. 824). | | | | 1954 - At one o'clock in the morning two persons in a car saw an | | object resting by the side of the road in San Giovanni Vesuviano, | | Italy. They stopped and walked toward the craft, which was two meters | | in diameter. As they approached it suddenly changed its clear light | | into a red glow and took off. (Source: Il Tempo, October 23, 1954; | | Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 237, | | case 302). | | | | 1954 - At 1:30 a.m. EDT in Cincinnati, Ohio a witness heard his radio | | shriek and his dog began barking. He looked out and saw a huge silent | | red disc surrounded by halo circles. (Source: Leonard Stringfield, | | CRIFO Newsletter, December 1954, p. 5). | | | | 1954 - A farmer named Carmelo Papotto in Tripoli, Libya saw a flying | | craft descend to ground level at 3:00 a.m. It hovered about 50 meters | | away, making a sound like that of an air compressor. It was an | | egg-shaped machine with six wheels and complex machinery. The top | | half was transparent and flooded with a bright white light. Aboard | | were six men in yellowish coveralls; they looked human and had on | | facemasks. When he touched part of the craft he got a strong electric | | shock. One of the occupants motioned for him to stay away. For the | | next twenty minutes the witness was able to observe the six men, | | apparently busy with their instruments. Reliable investigations were | | made. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of | | Landings, p. 237, case 303; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: | | Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-113). | | | | 1954 - At 5:10 a.m. a brilliant crescent-shaped object landed in | | Ernemont, France. Three shadowy figures exited the object and went in | | different directions. This was followed by a power outage. (Source: | | Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4044). | | | | 1954 - On this afternoon baker M. Lelu was in his vehicle on Route | | 101 in Trondes, France and had come to a bend on the road when he | | spotted two phosphorescent points of light near a glade. He | | approached the area, thinking it was another car, when he saw a tall | | blond haired man standing immobile in a nearby field. Thinking that | | the figure might be an extraterrestrial he drove away from the area | | in order to get additional witnesses. Later, the harassed owner of | | the field claimed that the mysterious blond figure was merely a | | Polish farmer, but this was never confirmed. (Source: Albert S. | | Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, citing Raoul Robe, Regional | | Catalogue). | | | | 1954 - Mrs. Boeuf was coming out of her farmhouse in the evening in | | St. Hilaire-des-Loges, Vendee, France when she saw a luminous disc | | hovering in the sky and called to her family. When everyone saw the | | object come closer they locked all the doors and spent a sleepless | | night inside. They did not observe the object's departure, but | | noticed an unnatural silence that pervaded the area. (Sources: | | France-Soir, October 26, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A | | Century of Landings, p. 237, case 301). | | | | 1954 - That same night a big, bifurcated "black radish" shaped | | creature was seen walking around Wittenheim, Haut-Rhin department, | | France. Mr. Muller, a policeman, saw the being in his garden. There | | were three other witnesses. (Sources: Paris Radar, October 31, | | 1954; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid | | Reports, case 1954-114). | | | | 1957 - Strands of "angel hair" as long as fifty feet fell over a 110 | | mile-long area from Portales to Hobbs, New Mexico. (Source: Civilian | | Saucer Intelligence-New York). | | | | 1959 - A strange buzzing sound was heard when a luminous | | saucer-shaped object flew over Cordoba, Argentina at 8:00 p.m. It | | flew off to the northwest. (Source: APRO Bulletin, November 1959). | | | | 1965 - James Townsend, age 19, a radio announcer for KEYL Radio, had | | a close encounter with a UFO and three creatures at about 7:15 p.m. | | on a road about four miles east of Long Prairie, Minnesota. As he was | | driving around a curve in the road he saw an upright, rocket-like | | object straddling the road. It was about 30 or 40 feet high and about | | 10 feet in diameter, resting on legs or fins. His car engine stalled, | | the lights and radio went out, and he slammed on the brakes and | | stopped twenty feet in front of it. His first thought was to knock it | | over with the car so he would have some evidence, but the engine had | | already stalled. Then he got out with the idea of trying to push it | | over by hand. | | | | "When I got to the front of my car, three creatures that looked like | | individual tin cans on tripods, and were six inches tall, came from | | behind the rocket. They didn't have eyes that I could see, but I knew | | they were looking at me. I stopped. I didn't have any desire to get | | closer. There was no sound--just dead silence. It seemed like ages as | | we looked at each other. Then they went up into the rocket, which had | | a bright colorless light glowing out of the bottom. There was a loud | | hum. The rocket went up and disappeared. When the light on the bottom | | went out after it was in the air, my car radio and light came on, and | | my engine started without having to touch the starter." | | | | Townsend said his car had an automatic transmission and he had placed | | the selector lever in "park." Townsend said his heart was pounding | | and his legs were like rubber. He drove at high speed back to Long | | Prairie to report his close encounter. Townsend said the craft took | | off, looking "just like a flashlight that is turned on and then | | lifted up from the table with the light at the bottom." That night | | several hunters in the Long Prairie area claimed to have seen a | | strong light above them that lit up the ground. Other hunters | | reported seeing a lighted object circle around and around in the sky | | over their farm. (Sources: Bob Gribble, Looking Back October 1965, | | National UFO Reporting Center website; Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 712, citing Flying Saucer | | Review). | | | | 1966 - In Adelaide, South Australia at 2:30 a.m. a bright oval-shaped | | object with a cone shape beneath it hung stationary in the sky at | | 20-degrees elevation above the horizon. It glowed a bright | | orange-yellow color. A "sodium-light" yellow colored object flew | | toward the northeast over Burnside, South Australia at 8:25 p.m. | | After four minutes of flight it slowed down and turned toward the | | north. It descended, gained speed and was gone by 8:35 p.m. (Source: | | Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 177). | | | | 1969 - A dark or invisible object with lights fore and aft hovered | | over the beach at Highcliffe, England at night. It turned and flew | | away. (Source: FSR, March 1970, p. 31). | | | | 1972 - An odd humming sound was heard in Balboa Park in San Diego, | | California. Although he couldn't see anything, the witness took | | photographs of a canyon in the direction from which the noise | | originated. On the developed photographs there was an image of an | | ovoid object. (Source: Contact UK; UFO Register, volume 9, 1978). | | | | 1972 - At around 6 p.m. a yellow and red bullet-shaped UFO approached | | an airliner that was flying 160 miles northeast of Churchill, | | Manitoba. There was a very intense beam coming from in front of the | | object. and exhaust with orange sparks coming from the rear. The | | airliner's radio failed to work during the encounter. Finally, a fog | | appeared from nowhere, obscuring the object. There were 15 witnesses, | | including 40-year-old Daryl Brown. The encounter lasted three | | minutes. (Source: UNICAT database, case #492, citing Jeff Holt, UFO | | Quebec). | | | | 1973 - In the morning in Russell Springs, Kentucky a woman | | encountered two three-foot tall, reddish-skinned humanoids who were | | near her house. The beings were first seen in her carport, and they | | walked around the side of the house and entered a washtub-shaped | | craft sitting on the ground, which then rose over the house and | | disappeared. The little men were reddish and walked as if on tiptoes. | | The ground was disturbed where the craft had been sitting. (Sources: | | Russell Springs (KY) Times Journal, October 24, 1973; David F. Webb & | | Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-57; | | David F. Webb, 1973, The Year of The Humanoids; Ted Phillips, | | Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, p. 95; Richard Hall, | | The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 344). | | | | 1973 - Angel hair residue fell on Midway, Texas and was analyzed by | | the University of Texas. The residue was consistent with Dictyna | | spider web, but the sample did contain some rare elements such as | | zinc and lanthanum, so it could have resulted from the mixture of | | crebellate spider web with some other mystery substance. (Source: | | International UFO Reporter, October 2001, p. 14). | | | | 1973 - On this night near Dobson, North Carolina David Simpson's car | | engine stopped and the headlights went out when an oval-shaped UFO, | | 12 feet wide by 8 feet high, landed near his car. A humanoid with | | eyes "like balls of fire" peered through his window. Afterwards the | | car's engine and lights came back on spontaneously without his having | | to touch the ignition switch. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, | | HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1973-58; David F. Webb, | | 1973, The Year of The Humanoids). | | 1975 - At 9:00 p.m. a cigar-shaped object flew low over a car in | | Fairfield, Ohio. It extended a rod with four small orange balls at | | the tip. In York, Pennsylvania four orange lights in a delta | | formation traveled slowly and silently over the city. At 9:45 p.m. | | two UFO witnesses in Phoenix, Maryland experienced an episode of | | missing time. (Sources: J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies case | | investigation files; George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of | | Anomalies, p. 796). | | | | 1978 - At an open-air motion picture film showing in Kansu Province | | in China, several Chinese Air Force pilots sighted a large, bright | | rectangular object at an estimated 21,000-foot altitude. They watched | | it for two to three minutes. They said it carried intensely bright | | lights. (Source: FSR, March 1983, p. 24). | | | | 1978 - Two photographs were taken at night of an object shaped like a | | "priest's hat" in Pescara, Italy. It had a very brilliant center with | | crab-colored edges. (Source: UFO Newsclipping Service, February 1979, | | p. 15). | | | | 1980 - A high school band was holding practice in the evening at a | | playing field between Clifton and Morenci, Arizona. They sighted a | | string of lights shaped in a triangular pattern hovering above them. | | It would move and stop, then move and stop again. At 8:55 p.m. in | | Morenci, Arizona a crew of maintenance workers at a copper smelting | | plant saw a UFO with 12 red lights and a big searchlight on the | | front. (Source: Philip Imbrogno, Contact of the 5th Kind, pp. 21-22). | | | | 1984 - At 8:30 p.m. a disc-shaped object with an amber light on the | | bottom and red lights in a circle on top of the disc buzzed a witness | | driving in a car north of Tyrone, Pennsylvania. (Source: APRO | | Bulletin, January 1986, p. 8). | | | | 1987 - Danny Gordon and two friends were driving out from Wytheville | | toward Fort Chiswell, Virginia on Interstate 81 at 7:30 p.m. looking | | for UFOs that had been sighted in the area. They saw a large V-shaped | | object make a 90-degree turn over the highway. It flew silently | | overhead, changing light colors as if signaling the witnesses. | | (Source: Danny Gordon, Don't Look Up: The real story behind the | | Virginia UFO sightings, p. 54). | | | | 1992 - Motorists pulled off road to watch yellow ball of light at | | 12:45 a.m. west of Lake San Marcos in San Diego County, California. | | The nocturnal light hovered over the road for two minutes, then shot | | straight up. (Source: UFO Newsclipping Service, January 1993). | | | | 1993 - When Kelly Cahill awoke at 4:30 a.m. in her bed in Gippsland, | | Victoria, Australia she saw a dark, seven foot tall slender being, | | that appeared to be naked, leaning over her with its head near | | Kelly's stomach, as if about to kiss her navel. She screamed, it | | startled, jumped back, and then vanished. The being had a head much | | larger than normal, long thin arms and an out of proportion abdomen | | in relation to its thin frame. (Sources: Kelly Cahill, Encounter, p. | | 170; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 1886, | | citing Bill Chalker, International UFO Reporter, Vol. 19, # 5). | | | | 1997 - A dark, gray cylindrical object about 100 meters wide and 40 | | meters tall was seen 20 miles away from Billings, Montana at 4:30 | | p.m. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | Seattle). | | | | 1999 - Several glowing silver orbs hovered over the Yorkshire moors | | near Keighley, West Yorkshire, England. They were the color of silver | | ball-bearings with rings of lights. (Source: UFO Magazine, January | | 2000, p. 13). | | | | 1999 - In Haywood, California at shortly after 9:00 p.m. a vertical | | column with three lights in a line moved silently across the sky. It | | disappeared behind a cloud and did not reappear on the other side. | | (Source:Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, | | October 1999 webpage). | | | | 2002 - In Woodbridge, Suffolk, England a large silver triangle-shaped | | object was sighted at 7:04 a.m., which then changed shape. It was | | clouded in a pink and green haze. (Source: British Ministry of | | Defence case files, case 2002-077). | | | | 2003 - At 10:48 p.m. the pilot, co-pilot, load master, and flight | | engineer onboard an Airbus 310-200 cargo flight flying over Slane, | | Ireland saw a glaring red UFO accelerate, shoot vertically, and then | | disappear from sight at 7000 feet altitude. Twenty-seven minutes | | later a KLM 747-400 flying 38 nautical miles off the west coast of | | Ireland at 41,000 feet was paced by a bright red UFO. It stopped | | mid-air at the same altitude as the Dutch airliner, copied the 747's | | maneuvers, and then over Sligo changed course and sped away. (Source: | | Dermot Butler, Conspiracy of Silence: UFOs in Ireland, pp. 44 & 45). | | | | 2007 - A triangular craft hovered right above a house in | | Williamsville, Niagara County, New York for 20 seconds. The homeowner | | reported that it looked like it was searching for something. (Source: | | Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2007 | | webpage, report uploaded March 4, 2008). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 28 August 2009). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: bullet or cigar-shaped UFOs; disc-shaped UFOs; EM ignition i | | nterference effects; landings; luminous UFOs; multi-year reports from | | North Carolina, Ohio, and San Diego, California; orange UFOs; ovoid | | UFOs; rocket-shaped UFOs; small tin can shaped robots; tall dark huma | | noid; unnatural silence (OZ effect); vertical cigar; vertical ascent. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+