+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  September 7 | | | | 1820 - At 8:00 p.m. many observers in Embrun, Hautes-Alpes, France | | watched flying saucers maneuver with military precision during a | | lunar eclipse, making 90 degree turns and other maneuvers, for five | | minutes. (Sources: Charles Fort, Book of the Damned; Ray Palmer, | | Flying Saucers magazine, November 1973, p. 36; Desmond Leslie & | | George Adamski, Flying Saucers Have Landed, p. 24). | | | | 1952 - In San Antonio, Texas at 10:30 p.m. Chemist J. W. Gibson and | | others watched an orange object or light (the color of iron heated to | | 2,000º F) explode into view. It was seen for 3-20 seconds by various | | observers. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official | | statistics, case #2049; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1953 - While flying over Vandalia, Ohio at eight p.m. two onboard a | | U.S. Navy FG1D research aircraft sighted a white light that shot up | | and away vertically. (Sources: Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO News, | | September 1954, p. 5; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. | | 48; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 32). | | | | 1954 - At 12:30 a.m. three members of the Chovel family saw an | | orange-red disc with a luminous plume coming from the opposite side | | of its direction of movement above some railroad tracks in | | Origny-en-Theirache, Aisne department, France. It changed direction | | suddenly, rose, then hovered, and finally flew off to the west. | | (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, | | p. 38; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier | | Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 73). | | | | 1954 - Between Harponville and Contay, Somme department, France two | | bricklayers, Emile Renard, age 27, and Yves DeGillerboz, age 23, saw | | a bluish-gray object floating in midair over a field at 7:15 a.m. "It | | looked like an unfinished haystack, with a plate turned upside down | | on top of it." When they tried to approach it took off. It had a | | diameter of ten meters (33 feet), and they noticed it had a kind of | | door. The observation lasted over three minutes, at which point the | | object released some smoke as it departed straight up. (Sources: Le | | Figaro, September 9, 1954; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the | | Straight Line Mystery, p. 35; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, | | pp. 208-209). | | | | 1954 - At eight o'clock in the evening three members of the Guibert | | family in the city of Marseille, France sighted a red luminous | | spherical object that hovered for 30 seconds, then flew in a | | complicated course. It was seen through binoculars, and swayed when | | it turned. The entire sighting lasted seven minutes. (Sources: Aime | | Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 39; Michel | | Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des | | Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 73). | | | | 1955 - At 8:00 a.m. GMT a teacher and ten students aboard a school | | bus in Dunoon, Scotland, UK sighted five shiny, metallic saucers that | | reflect sunlight as they flew. (Source: APRO Bulletin, January 1956). | | | | 1955 - Washington, D.C. Two photographers and an engraving plate | | maker for the Army Map Service sighted a glowing round object that | | flew in an arc through the sky for one minute at 6:30 a.m. EST. | | (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, | | case #3750; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1956 - In Moneymore, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom at noon on this | | day a three-foot long cigar-shaped UFO landed in a nearby bog. The | | witness, a Mr. Hutchinson, attempted to capture it, but it began | | spinning and rose out of sight. It had three red stripes around the | | center, and a saucer-shaped base. (Source: APRO Bulletin, March-April | | 1963, p. 6). | | | | 1956 - A fast moving, brilliant domed disc with windows was seen in | | the night sky by many separate witnesses southeast of Chihuahua, | | Mexico. It was estimated to be about four meters in diameter. | | (Source: APRO Bulletin, September-October 1956). | | | | 1956 - An attorney and two ranch hands on a ranch 40 miles south of | | Twin Falls, Idaho reported watching a 200-foot diameter saucer-shaped | | object land near a steer. When it sped off the steer was gone. | | (Source: FSR, July-August 1970, p. 35). | | | | 1959 - At 2:30 a.m. while driving along highway 559 in Wallingford, | | Kentucky a postman saw an elliptical shape hovering just over the | | ground. It rose vertically emitting a blast of flame, and then sped | | away horizontally. There was a 30 cm wide stained ring on the ground | | enclosing a 4-meter diameter circle. At 9:05 p.m. north of Lexington, | | Kentucky five glowing ovoid objects dived and maneuvered toward the | | east and west, making extremely fast, sharp turns. (Sources: NICAP | | UFO Investigator, March 1960, p. 5; Project Blue Book files counted | | in official statistics; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A | | Century of Landings, case # 497). | | | | 1964 - A silver colored, egg-shaped object with two rows of windows | | was sighted at night over Daytona Beach, Florida. It was estimated to | | be over 200 feet long. Inside 12 "large people" could be seen moving | | about. The witness was familiar with blimps and aircraft. (Source: | | Ted Bloecher investigation files, case investigation dated February | | 11, 1965). | | | | 1965 - In Warminster, England a British Army major reported that his | | headlights flickered and his car engine stopped when a UFO hovered | | 1500 feet overhead. The object rose vertically when it departed, | | making a tremendous noise. (Source: Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle | | Interference Project Report, p. 31, case 2). | | | | 1965 - At 9:00 p.m. in San Joaquin, Peru more than 200 witnesses | | saw two objects come to ground level, leaving behind crater-like | | depressions. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century | | of Landings, case # 696). | | | | 1966 - A bright light zigzagged over the city of Beja, Portugal at | | midnight. At 8:00 p.m. Mrs. E. Bruns and her two children observed an | | elongated object about 15 km east of Durand, Wisconsin. It was about | | 10 meters long with revolving lights and hovered one meter above | | theground, making a deafening noise. After 30 seconds it tilted at an | | angle and took off. At 9:25 p.m. a UFO with red, blue and white | | lights bobbed, hovered, darted, and went away and came back several | | times over a 45 minute period in the city of Eau Claire, Wisconsin. | | It was observed by police and a newspaper reporter. At 11:25 a UFO | | the size of a house landed 1.5 miles away from the witness northwest | | of Vernal, Utah. It had a bluish-white light in the dome and | | pulsating red and yellow lights. (Sources: (1) Vicente-Juan Ballester | | Olmos; Victor Lourenco, PORTUCAT computer catalogue of Portuguese UFO | | reports citing Diario Noticio, September 9, 1966; Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 795, (3) Frank | | Edwards, Flying Saucers-Here and Now! p. 112; (4) Frank Salisbury, | | The Utah UFO Display, p. 19). | | | | 1966 - At 11:25 p.m Mr. V. Massey watched as a disc-shaped UFO landed | | remotely 1.5 miles away, northwest of Vernal, Utah. It was estimated | | to be the size of a house, with a bluish-white light in the dome. It | | landed on the ground and was pulsating reddish orange and yellow. | | (Source: Frank Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, case A13). | | | | UFO Landing Northwest of Vernal, Utah - 1966 | | | | [Sketch of UFO seen in Vernal, Utah - 1966] | | | | 1967 - At 7:30 in the morning in Huanta, Chile a 50-meter wide silver | | disc hovered, maneuvered, and then shot away at high speed. It was | | observed by several soldiers. In Toronto, Ontario a woman reported | | meeting a man wearing an "astronaut suit." He gave her a stone with a | | high nickel content. At 10:45 p.m. a taxi cab driver four kilometers | | outside of Arriondas, Spain saw a phosphorescent tube-like object | | land nearly 30 meters away. It had a rectangular tube structure | | approximately 4.5 meters in width, and made a sound like a | | refrigerator. (Sources: (1) Roberto Banchs, Las evidencias del | | fenomeno OVNI; (2) Albert Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case | | 1968-150; (3) Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I | | Events in Spain and Portugal, case 76). | | | | 1968 - A woman in Toronto, Ontario reported meeting a being wearing | | an "astronaut suit" who gave her a stone of a very high nickel | | content and a unique alloy composition. It was hinted that the | | extraterrestrial also had sex with the witness. (Source: Albert S. | | Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, citing Jean Ferguson, | | Enigmas of Time Present). | | | | 1970 - After an argument with her mother in Sao Joa da Boa Vista, Sao | | Paulo, Brazil 17-year-old Valeria was upset and drove away from her | | house with her brother. They parked the car in an isolated area at | | 7:30 p.m. to smoke cigarettes and relax. They soon heard a loud | | buzzing sound similar to those emitted by crickets. The sound rose in | | intensity until it became unbearable. At that moment Valeria's mind | | seemed to go blank and she did not come to until 10:15 p.m. After the | | incident Valeria suffered from strange dreams of lights. | | | | During a hypnotic regression session she remembered being in the car | | and hearing the loud humming sound. Moments later she found herself | | inside a room illuminated by an orange light. The room was very cold | | and she felt a tingling sensation on her hands. She was lying on top | | of a "bed" and she could not move her head. At first she could only | | see what appeared to be luminous spheres floating around her. | | Suddenly she felt someone holding down her hands. A figure then stood | | in front of her. She described the figure as short, with a large | | hairless head and dark eyes. Soon a sort of cable with what appeared | | to be a needle on its tip was introduced into her nose. The needle | | emitted a greenish liquid. A small implant was also apparently | | inserted between her eyes. Moments later a small cut was made on one | | of her big toes, but she did not bleed or felt any pain. A voice in | | her head told her that she was being implanted in order to facilitate | | future contacts. Soon one of the short humanoids approached her and | | took her on an "astral" journey. Both traveled through the solar | | system, around Saturn and the Sun and even inside the earth's | | interior. Soon awoke back in the car. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, | | Humanoid Contact Database 1970, citing Pablo Villarrubia & Mario | | Rangel). | | | | 1971 - On this night at Colwyn Bay, Wales, United Kingdom an | | oval-shaped light, partially obscured by haze, was seen moving toward | | the northwest over the Irish Sea. Two witnesses watched it for 20-30 | | minutes. Several schoolboys also saw it. (Source: BUFORA Journal, | | January 1972, p. 18). | | | | 1972 - Two men, Gerard Petit and F. Tantot, in Taize, Saone-Loire | | department, France first sighted a phosphorescent green light in the | | sky just before midnight. As it came closer it became a disc-shaped | | platform three meters in diameter, with four lime green, solid | | looking luminous pylons or legs, giving the object the appearance of | | a stool. It hovered just 10 meters in the air. Mr. Tantot would go on | | to have two more UFO sightings on 11 and 13 September 1972. | | (Sources: Henry-Jean Besset, Phenomenes Spatiaux, March 1973, p. 18; | | Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet | | des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 396-397). | | | | 1972 - At 9:45 p.m. a bright ovoid shaped UFO followed a car with two | | people home along Highway 203 near Beausejour, Manitoba. It paced the | | car at a low altitude and flew quite close, and then hovered over | | their house, spinning. It left by shooting off toward the east. | | (Source: Data-Net Report, November 1972, p. 18). | | | | 1974 - At 11:30 p.m. in Hergies, Nord department, France a flashlight | | stopped working when a farmer approached his cowshed. His dogs | | started howling, and the area became lit up, revealing a circular | | dark mass hovering 15 meters up in the air. A white beam of light | | came down to the ground, and the main witness felt an electric shock. | | Three disc-shaped objects flew off to the east, making no sound. The | | flashlight functioned normally after the close encounter. There was a | | total of six witnesses from three families and the incident lasted 15 | | minutes. (Sources:Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier | | Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. | | 517-518; Jean-Marie Bigorne, SOBEPS News, January 1976, p. 9; Larry | | Hatch, U computer database, case # 10970, citing Lumieres dans la | | Nuit, May 1976, issue # 156). | | | | 1974 - A calf was found mutilated in Pierce County, Nebraska. The | | blood had been drained from the animal and the sexual organs removed. | | A Bigfoot sighting was reported the previous day in Jefferson, South | | Dakota. (Source: Richard Hall, Zetetic Scholar, p. 49, case 6). | | | | 1975 - A black heifer calf was found mutilated in Kiowa, Colorado. | | The incisions appeared to be of a surgical nature, and the rectum had | | been removed. (Source: Richard Hall, Zetetic Scholar, p. 50, case | | 21). | | | | 1977 - Five members of a family, traveling in a car south of the city | | of Havelock North, New Zealand at 9:40 p.m., sighted a cigar-shaped, | | solid-appearing object moving parallel to the road. It gave off a | | brilliant, hot, bluish light from its leading edge, which seemed to | | reflect off the rest of the body of the craft. (Source: MUFON UFO | | Journal, March 1978, p. 18). | | | | 1977 - In N'Djamena, Chad at eight o'clock in the evening a luminous | | cloudy object flew over from the north to the south. Twelve blasts or | | explosions were heard. At nine p.m. a loud "krim-krim" sound was | | heard. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, November 1977). | | | | 1977 - At 10:24 p.m. a nocturnal light with a vague outline made | | several passes at a car in Tooele, Utah. The UFO made a 90-degree | | turn to the west, then another back to the east, and left going | | toward the northeast. (Source: International UFO Reporter, October | | 1977, p. 3). | | | | 1980 - A couple out elk hunting, Mr. & Mrs. Gautreau, awoke three | | hours late, the wife with a sore mouth. Through hypnosis it was | | revealed that they had been abducted by three alien being. The beings | | were described as thin in build and had large heads and eyes; they | | stood between 5'7" and 6 feet tall. The abduction occurred at four | | o'clock in the morning at McGuire's Ranch, Wyoming. (Source: Thomas | | E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 113). | | | | 1986 - In Forest Row, England, UK a slow moving, silent, glowing ball | | of orange light flew from west to east over a golf course at ten | | minutes past midnight. At 9:40 p.m. east of Vanderbilt, Pennsylvania | | a glowing ball of light rose from a field and paced a car on SR | | highway 201 for three minutes. During the pursuit the FM radio on the | | car emitted nothing but static. (Sources: Robert Gribble, UFO | | Reporting Center, Seattle, cases 1185 and 1619). | | | | 1990 - A UFO shaped like an octagonal donut hovered over a car in | | Culver, Indiana at 10:30 p.m. It had colored lights in the corners, | | and vanished in place. (Source: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalogue | | of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, case 962). | | | | 1993 - At Ile de Groix, Morbihan department, France a delta-shaped | | craft hovered low over a field at 8:50 p.m. Directly under the object | | several small, thin, shadowy figures were seen gliding about just | | above the ground. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 323). | | | | 1994 - At 10:15 p.m. a pilot sighted a big black triangular | | object, 80 meters long, that had big yellow-white lights in the | | corners and a red light in the center near the coast of Corsica in | | the town of Bravone, Corse-Sud department, France. It made a 90 | | degree turn, revealing two more small flashing lights on the back of | | the object. (Source: Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, | | p. 35). | | | | 1994 - A UFO was sighted over Gulf Breeze, Florida at 2:30 a.m. It | | dropped down, zigzagged, and then shot straight up. (Source: MUFON | | UFO Journal, November 1994). | | | | 1994 - A white light zigzagged across the sky from west to east in | | Baca Chalets, Colorado at 8:25 p.m. One and a half hours later a | | large luminous UFO, described to be as big as a room, drifted slowly | | over a nearby trailer in a trailer park in Taos, New Mexico. | | (Sources: Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 255; | | Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #330). | | | | 1995 - On this evening in Campo Rico, Canovanas, Puerto Rico a | | five-foot tall humanoid creature attacked a police officer's Chow | | Chow dog. The officer fired his pistol at the creature, which doubled | | into a ball, bounced against a wall, and ran away at a high speed. A | | mutilated goat was found in the area the next day. On the same night | | Misael Negron observed a strange creature standing on his second | | story balcony for about ten minutes. He described the creature as | | about five feet tall, with dark skin, a round head and pointy chin, | | large red eyes, no ears and what appeared to be two long fangs coming | | out of its mouth. It had a thin neck and thin arms with three | | fingered hands that had sharp claws. (Source: Albert Rosales, | | Humanoid Contact Database, cases 2299 & 2300, citing Jorge Martin, | | Evidencia OVNI, issue # 8). | | | | 1996 - At 10:50 a.m. a triangular UFO with orange lights circled a | | group of witnesses in West Manchester, Ohio four times. It made | | humming and buzzing sounds, and flew off toward the south. (Source: | | Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September | | 1996 web page). | | | | 1997 - In Paris, France at 1:43 a.m. a witness observed from his | | balcony a huge (700 meter) triangular object with two blue flames | | and a green flame that approached slowly on a linear trajectory. | | Duration 12 seconds. There was no noise, but he felt body vibrations | | as it flew over. (Source: GEIPAN, case # 266). | | | | 1997 - At 12:15 p.m. in Connecticut an orange UFO approached a group | | of witnesses, hovered over some trees about 50 meters away, and then | | shot away. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | Seattle, September 1997 web page). | | | | 1997 - According to an "ex-KGB source" a cylindrical craft allegedly | | exploded into small pieces over Illinois in the USA on this date. A | | special U.S. military recovery team reputedly was sent and recovered | | these fragments as well as the mutilated remains of alien bodies. | | (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, citing | | Anton Anfalov, Moscow). | | | | 2001 - In Toussus le Noble, Yveslines department, France three | | carbonized circles of vegetation between 30 and 40 centimeters in | | diameter were found in a field, forming an isosceles triangle. | | (Source: GEIPAN, case # 347). | | | | 2003 - In Luton, Bedfordshire, England a metallic sphere hovered 150 | | feet above a home, emitting sparks like a Van der Graff generator, | | then shot straight up very fast. (Source:Peter Davenport, National | | UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2003 web page). | | | | 2004 - At 7:00 p.m. a mother and son were driving west together in | | Spokane, Washington and saw a triangle object just as the sun was | | setting. It was half the apparent size of the Moon. It hovered for a | | long while, and they watched it for 8 minutes before it went out of | | sight. "It looked like a jet with a very short contrail heading north | | at an odd angle toward the ground. (Source: George A. Filer & David | | E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. | | 65, citing Brian Vike, HBCC UFO). | | | | 2005 - A boomerang shaped object, white with multiple colors on the | | bottom, was seen over Williamsport, Pennsylvania for about an hour | | beginning around two p.m. It took off sideways at blinding speed | | while other objects were suspended in air below it. (Source: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2005 web | | page, report uploaded October 11, 2005). | | | | 2005 - In Big Sur, California at 2:00 a.m. a witness spotted a large, | | bright, diamond-shaped object, initially stationary, that moved | | quickly across a large area of the sky, dropping "balls of light", | | before accelerating into outer space. (Source: Peter Davenport, | | National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2005 web page, | | report uploaded October 11, 2005). | | | | 2007 - In Victoria, British Columbia at 9:30 p.m. an object like a | | dome with a flat bottom was first seen hovering, then completely | | vanished. (Source: Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # | | 568). | | | | 2008 - At 11:00 p.m. CDT a witness sighted a black triangle with | | three white lights and one red light over Council Bluffs, Iowa. It | | hovered, moved slowly, then made a turn, and made only a little | | sound. Another large triangle-shaped UFO was observed over Tacoma, | | Washington by three witnesses at 10:15 p.m. PDT. (Source: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, September 2008 webpage, | | reports uploaded October 31, 2008). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 30 August 2012). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: abductions; cattle and other animal abductions and muti | | lations; animal reactions: dogs howled; cigar-shaped UFOs; domed disc | | s; explosion and military retrieval of UFO wreckage; hovering UFOs; h | | umming sound; implant; landings; low level UFOs; luminous UFOs; maneu | | vering UFOs; metallic (nickel) artifact; missing time; multi-colored | | UFOs; multi-year reports from Florida, France and Pennsylvania; orang | | e UFOs; ovoid UFOs; physiological effects: electric shock; smoke or f | | og; thin UFOnauts; triangular or delta UFOs, UFOs with rows of window | | s; vehicle EM interference effect; vertical ascent, zigzag maneuvers. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+