+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  October 5 | | | | 1914 - At Silver Bell Siding in Tasmania, Australia a lighted object | | appeared traveling from MacQuarie Heads to Mount Dundas. Two lights | | were distinctly visible, and intermittent rays of light were thrown | | to the ground. (Source: Australasian Ufologist, January 2001, p. 43). | | | | 1950 - While flying over Van Nuys, California at 7:32 p.m., a CAL | | airliner had a near collision with a luminous object that looked like | | a flying wing without a fuselage. (Source: San Francisco Chronicle, | | October 7, 1950). | | | | 1954 - There are 43 UFO reports recorded for this date in UFOCAT, | | including nine close encounters. Five reports are from North Africa, | | one each from Germany and Italy, and the rest are from France, which | | was at the center of a massive wave of UFO sightings. | | | | 1954 - Roverbello, Italy. A red clad being who spoke an unknown | | language approached a fisherman. It quickly left when the witness | | called to his wife. (Source: Newspaper clipping, October 7, 1954; | | Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 218). | | | | 1954 - Loctudy, France. At 4:00 a.m. a baker, Mr. P. Lucas, was | | draining water from a well when he noticed an object some distance | | away. It was circular and about three meters in diameter. From it | | emerged a dwarf with an oval-shaped face, covered with hair, and big | | eyes "as large as raven eggs." The short being touched him on the | | shoulder and spoke to him in an unknown language. The dwarf then went | | away and the object took off. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia, p. 218). | | | | 1954 - An Egyptian military officer in Behnay, Egypt photographed a | | "rotating saucer." (Source: Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers | | Uncensored, p. 232). | | | | 1954 - At 6:30 a.m., east of Le Mans, France on Route N23, some | | Renault employees were going to work when they saw by the road a | | luminous object on the ground and felt a prickling sensation and a | | form of paralysis. The glowing UFO emitted a burst of green light and | | flew away, very low over the fields. (Source: Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia, p. 218). | | | | 1954 - Mertrud, France. A road crew member, Mr. Narcy, saw an object | | near the road between Voillecomte and La Neuville at 7:15 a.m. In a | | report to the police, he stated he saw a hairy dwarf wearing an | | orange tight fitting jacket climb aboard the craft, which consisted | | of a cigar-shaped section under a flat disk. Between the two sections | | was a kind of porthole through which the entity entered the object. | | Traces were found at the site. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia, p. 218). | | | | 1954 - In Wassy, France a golden-orange sphere with a dome on top | | plunged to the ground and bounced several times across a field this | | morning. The witness, Mr. G. Oldut, saw a one-meter tall dwarf emerge | | and then re-enter the craft. It rose up into the sky and disappeared. | | (Source: Paris Radar, October 17, 1954; David F. Webb and Ted | | Bloecher, HUMCAT Humanoid Report Database). | | | | 1954 - At 11:45 a.m. in Bordeaux, France, five people saw two bright | | metallic discs fly over a factory. (Source: Michel Figeut & | | Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres | | rapprochees en France, p. 125). | | | | 1954 - Ten kilometers from Beaumont, France several people saw an | | flying object coming toward them and getting brighter at 3:45 in the | | afternoon. When it was about 150 meters away they felt "a strange | | sensation" and found themselves unable to move. The object left a | | smell compared to that of nitrobenzene. (Source: Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia, p. 218). | | | | 1954 - A farmer saw a humanoid occupant inside a UFO on this evening | | in Cote du Nord, France. (Source: Jimmy Guieu, Fying Saucers come | | from another world, p. 195; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, | | p. 217). | | | | 1957 - Sao Francisco de Sales, Brazil. Antonio Villas-Boas could not | | sleep because of the heat, so he opened the shudders on his house and | | saw a silvery glow in the yard. The light began to move and left | | going over his house. (Source: Flying Saucer Review, July-August | | 1966; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 259). | | | | 1959 - Admiral Hyman Rickover's submarine the SSN Sea Dragon detected | | an unidentified submerged object outside Portsmouth, New Hampshire | | harbor on this day. (Source: George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of | | Anomalies, p. 994). | | | | 1965 - Fout saucer-shaped objects, the size of airliners, flew over | | Ballarat, Victoria, Australia in a diamond formation. (Source: | | Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 118). On this | | same day sheriff deputies in Coldwater, Michigan saw a | | yellowish-white UFO hovering and moving around in the sky. It shot | | straight up at high speed as it departed. (Source: Richard Hall, The | | UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-year Report, p. 171). | | | | 1966 - A boy in Potomac, Maryland saw a disc-shaped object with a | | transparent dome and a row of lights, at ground level. It rose at | | high speed, emitting a "heat wave," and was lost in the clouds. | | (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, | | case 800). | | | | 1970 - At 4:00 a.m. at the Sturgeon Bay Hospital in Wisconsin, a | | nurse was called by an upset patient. He said he saw "monkeys" | | outside his window, swinging from the trees and sitting on the window | | ledge. She opened the drapes and saw a hovering yellowish-green, | | balloon-shaped object emitting a white light beam. At 4:15 a.m. a red | | object with beams of bright light was sighted in Walsh, Illinois. | | (Source: APRO Bulletin, September-October 1970, p. 4; | | November-December, p. 1). | | | | 1970 - At 6:10 a.m. in Sheerwater, Nova Scotia radar picked up an | | unidentified flying object, and an orange, yellow, and green object | | trailing white smoke and emitting a high-pitched whine. Horses were | | frightened by the presence of the UFO. At 9:00 a.m. a 59-year-old | | woman in saw a luminous orange object descend very low over some | | houses in Montreal, Quebec. She described the object as a very | | luminous orange circle surrounded by a sparkling white halo. Inside | | the circle she saw a small black object pivoting upon itself. During | | this time she realized that she was paralyzed and couldn't move. | | After a minute the object ascended rapidly into the sky, leaving a | | long trail behind it. She wanted to get some air and stepped out onto | | her balcony. She confronted a very heavy mist and a strong odor, | | which had a choking effect upon her. She went back inside, fainted, | | came to 10-15 minutes later with her eyes burning, her head feeling | | hot and heavy, and quite stunned. She felt electrical jolts in her | | body, and her hair had turned yellow in color. Her diabetes also | | manifested itself in an alarming fashion. UFO report involving | | physiological effects occurred in Quebec City, Quebec. At 9:00 p.m. | | that night in Saint-Romuald, Quebec two witnesses saw a elongated, | | luminous flying object. Their car radio had heavy static during the | | sighting. (Sources: FSR, November-December 1970, p. 29; Montreal Le | | Petit Journal, November 10, 1971). | | | | 1972 - In Remans, Belgium at 1 o'clock in the morning a 20-meter in | | diameter disc hovered over a car, illuminating the car's interior and | | the surrounding area in a green color, It flew off toward the | | south-southwest, but came back again at 4:40 a.m. and landed. Later | | that evening in Verdugo, California three discs flew at a low | | altitude toward the south. They had red glowing rims. (Sources: | | Lumieres dans la Nuit, November 1973; NICAP UFO Investigator, January | | 1973, p. 3). | | | | 1973 - At 1:30 a.m. an X-shaped UFO buzzed a car in Launac, France. | | It ascended and flew off to the horizon within seconds. It made no | | sound during this close encounter. At 5:20 a.m. in Nohant-en-Gout, | | France there was another case involving fog or mist. A motorcycle | | stalled as a luminous ovoid object approached and hovered, with smoke | | or fog underneath. A being two-meters tall appeared suddenly, put a | | hand on the witness's shoulder. The creature was wearing a large | | helmet and had slit eyes. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, December | | 1974). | | | | 1973 - Another case involving a UFO and mist or fog occurred in | | Oracle Junction, Arizona on this day. At 6:20 p.m. in Laurel, Indiana | | a disc the size of a house, with three segments on the bottom, | | hovered for three minutes. At 7:20 p.m. hundreds of phone calls were | | received by the police in Connersville, Indiana about a circle of | | light that was seen in the sky making several passes over the area at | | high speeds and a low altitude. A third case of this day involving a | | UFO surrounded by mist or vapor occurred in El Centro, California. At | | 8:00 p.m. a large, disc-shaped object surrounded by glistening vapor | | rose to 1200 feet altitude, turned, then shot away leaving a vapor | | trail. (Sources: Bob Gribble, National UFO Reporting Center, case | | 0095 for 1973; George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. | | 676; Francis Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 38; APRO Bulletin, | | January-February 1976, p. 1). | | | | 1973 - At 3:35 a.m. Helen Hoag of North Miami, Florida--who had | | previously seen mysterious multi-colored lights outside her | | window--decided to make an attempt to communicate with them using | | telepathy. Moments later she unexpectedly found herself inside a | | circular control room, onboard a V-shaped craft. A beautiful tall | | blond woman greeted her. She wore shiny pale-blue pants, a jeweled | | scarf, and a headband. The woman introduced herself then a taller man | | wearing a silvery white suit appeared and introduced himself as the | | captain. There was a metallic pole in the center of the craft that | | flashed in multi-colored hues of light; and it seemed to be part of | | the flight control mechanism. She was taken to a soft contour chair | | and given a peach-colored liquid to drink. She was later shown a huge | | viewing screen on which she was given different messages. (Sources: | | Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1973, case # 1379; Glenn | | McWane & David Graham, The New UFO Sightings). | | | | 1976 - A farmer in Torrita, Victoria found two circles seven meters | | apart, each 5.5 meters in diameter. The grass inside the circles had | | been swirled and burnt. At 9:40 p.m. in Drumchapel, Scotland Mr. B. | | Goodwin watched a silver ball descend and then as it approached the | | ground it swung back-and-forth in a pendulum motion. The UFO suddenly | | shot straight up and disappeared into the night sky. (Sources: | | Australasian Ufologist, April 1993, p. 24; Ron Halliday, UFO | | Scotland: The secret history of Scotland's UFO phenomenon, p. 59). | | | | 1978 - In Palpala, Argentina at 8 o'clock in the evening, two | | witnesses, Barrionuevo and Mercado, saw an alien being with a light | | attached to its chest through a kitchen window. It was very tall, | | with ugly eyes, a face marked as if with scratches, a reddish-orange | | neck, and white hair. (Source: UFO Newsclipping Service, December | | 1978, p. 15). | | | | 1980 - On this night near Ta Kang, China several sailors off the | | coast in a ship on the Yellow Sea, including a witness named Hung, | | saw a reddish cone-shaped object with an intense bluish-green | | electric-arc glow fly overhead. It was close enough that they were | | able to feel heat from the object. (Source: FSR, March 1983, p. 24). | | | | 1981 - One of the events following the Breiland abduction occurred on | | this day in Victoria, British Columbia. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon | | two men, dressed in dark clothes, visited the abductee. They were | | stiff and expressionless, their eyes were unblinking and they talked | | and walked mechanically. Their eyes also appeared not to reflect | | light. They seemed unaccustomed to typical manners or customs. After | | they left they vanished without leaving footprints on the ground. | | (Source: Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery. | | Volume I: Comparative Study of Abductions, p. 202.) | | | | 1984 - Astronomer and UFO expert J. Allen Hynek, accompanied by field | | investigators Philip Imbrogno and Dennis, saw a "Ferris wheel" shaped | | UFO in the sky in Hudson Valley, New York that turned on its side and | | then disappeared. (Source: J. Allen Hynek, Philip J. Imbrogno & Bob | | Pratt, Night Seige: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, p. 151). | | | | 1985 - Whitley Streiber reported that he was abducted on this night | | near Middletown, New York. He remembered fog and a blue light before | | the missing time experience. (Source: Whitley Streiber, Communion, p. | | 9). | | | | 1989 - Cars were chased in Portland, Victoria, Australia by a cluster | | of very bright lights. The UFO continued to the east out over the | | sea. (Source: FSR, March 1990). | | | | 1991 - On this night in Szecsenyfelfalu, Hungary a luminous sphere | | followed a truck home. It then emitted green beams of light, and | | changed its shape into an ovoid object. A video of a UFO was taken on | | this same night in Gulf Breeze, Florida. Thirty residents and a team | | of MUFON investigators saw a red sphere, and took photographs and | | videos (Source: Phenomena, issue no. 6; Paul Ferrughelli, Computer | | Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, case 1161). | | | | 1995 - At 10 o'clock in the morning a metallic, rectangular object | | was seen hovering over the desert outside of Chinle, Arizona. It was | | sighted again four times. Eleven aircraft seemed to be chasing it. | | Later that evening, a large cigar-shaped craft with bright lights | | hovered over the desert north of Las Vegas, Nevada at 7:00 p.m. | | (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, 1995 | | report). | | | | 1996 - A huge pyramid-shaped object was seem from an Embraer-712 | | aircraft 35 miles east of Pelotas Airport, Brazil at 10:30 a.m. A | | disc was seen emerging vertically from the top of the bigger object. | | (Source: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p 48). | | | | 2000 - At 9:10 p.m. an object resembling a giant disc "with a bite | | taken out of the bottom," with yellow, orange and blue lights, | | markings, and a dark circle in the center, hovered over some woods in | | Middleton Wood, England. A videotape was made as the object seemed to | | expand and get smaller. It also emitted pulses of light. Later in | | Bradford, England at 10:40 p.m. a large UFO was viewed through | | binoculars as it stood almost upright with bright lights at each end. | | It had white and amber lights, and a red strobe light was running up | | and down the length of the objects between the ends. It passed behind | | a church tower at a fairly low altitude. (Source: UFO Magazine (UK), | | January 2001, pp. 58-59). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 14 August 2004). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: animal reactions, blue light beam, car pursuits, metallic | | disc-shaped UFOs, dome-discs, Ferris wheel UFOs, free-will abduction | | , green glow, hairy dwarf humanoids, human-looking UFO occupants, lig | | ht beams, luminous UFOs, Men-in-Black, mist or fog, multi-colored UFO | | s, odor, orange UFOs, orange or red-clad humanoids, paralysis, pendul | | um motion, prickling sensation, red UFOs, shape-changing UFO, telepat | | hy, unknown language, very tall humanoids, videotapes, whining sound. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+