+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  November 12 | | | | 1885 - Cape Race, Atlantic Ocean - A huge sphere of fire was observed | | rising out of the ocean by witnesses aboard the ship "Siberian." It | | rose to an altitude of 16 meters, flew against the wind, and came | | close to the ship, then "dashed off" toward the southeast. The | | sighting lasted five minutes. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 181; Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible | | Residents, p. 27). | | | | 1953 - At 5 p.m. two silver discs exited a solidary white cloud in | | the sky, hover over the river bed in Ojai, California and then | | vanish. (Sources: APRO Bulletin, March 1954; Larry Hatch, U computer | | database). | | | | 1954 - A fisherman watched a three meter wide transparent globe | | descend at eight o'clock in the morning, stop and hover momentarily, | | and then dive into the canal in Arqua'Polesine, Italy leaving behind | | a cloud of vapor. At eleven o'clock that same morning a Brazilian | | priest working at the Vatican's Castel Gandolfo mountain residence in | | Italy had a close encounter with two UFOs. (Sources: Verga Maurizio, | | ITACAT Italian UFO Catalogue; Alberto Perego, FSR Case Histories, | | June 1973, p. 6). | | | | 1954 - A spherical UFO hovered for a long period over Louisville, | | Kentucky. U.S. Air Force jets chased it over Kentucky, Indiana and | | Ohio. It was also observed from the ground through a theodolite. | | (Source: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 134). | | | | 1955 - A clearly defined disc-shaped object flew over the Thames | | River at Goring, Oxfordshire, England, shooting sparks. (Source: UFO | | Nachtrichten, July 1957). | | | | 1958 - A brilliant blue glowing disc with two domes flew low over a | | main highway in Caracas, Venezuela at five o'clock in the morning. It | | made a sound like a jet. (Source: APRO Bulletin, May 1959). | | | | 1963 - On this night off the Argentine Coast of the South Atlantic, a | | UFO followed the Argentine Navy ship "Punta Medanos." Electronic | | interference was reported at the time. (Source: NICAP UFO | | Investigator, September 1965, p. 6; Frank Edwards, Flying | | Saucers--Serious Business, p. 120). | | | | 1966 - On this night a domed disc-shaped object with portholes | | hovered over Fort Ontario, New York and was witnessed by a radar | | operator. It shot straight up until it was gone from sight. (Source: | | Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. | | 152). | | 1966 - During the day five men digging a grave in a cemetery in | | Clendenin, West Virginia saw something that looked like "a brown | | human being" that flew from some nearby trees and maneuvered low over | | their heads. It was in sight for about a minute. (Source: John A. | | Keel, FSR, July-August 1968, p. 13; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, | | HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1966-53 (A0747), citing | | John Keel). | | | | 1967 - At nine o'clock in the morning an ovoid object came down | | slowly into a field of maize in Centeno, Santa Fe province, | | Argentina, its major axis vertical. It gave out orange bursts of | | flame, and disappeared behind some trees. No landing traces | | were found. (Source: Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, December | | 1973, p. 18). | | | | 1976 - Jose Maria Trejo and Juan Carrizosa Lujan were on sentry duty | | at Talavera La Real Air Force Base in Badajoz, Spain when at 1:45 | | a.m. they heard a very loud, penetrating whistle that continued for | | five minutes, stopped, and then started again. When it stopped the | | second time they saw a light in the sky in the direction of Badajoz, | | “like a flare,” which lit up a wide area beneath it. After about 20 | | seconds it vanished. A third sentry, Jose Hidalgo, joined them and | | accompanied by a guard dog they went to search the fuel stockpile | | area. They had gone about a thousand feet when they experienced a | | localized “whirlwind,” which alarmed them and caused them to load | | their rifles. Then they heard a sound like branches being broken in | | the direction of some nearby eucalyptus trees, so they released the | | guard dog. The dog charged off toward the trees, but after a few | | seconds came staggering back and whimpering. Four more times they | | ordered the dog to go to the trees, but each time he came back in the | | same manner. Then Trejo glimpsed a green light out of the corner of | | his eyes, and when he turned around he saw a luminous humanoid figure | | at least ten feet tall, only 50 feet away. The thick, luminous figure | | seemed to consist entirely of small points of light, and more intense | | around its periphery. The small head appeared to be covered by a | | helmet. The arms seemed to be crossed, and legs and feet could not be | | seen. Trejo tried to fire his rifle, but was unable to because he | | felt a sudden sensation of weakness, and collapsed to the ground. The | | other two men then caught sight of the entity and fired at it. | | Between the two of them they fired 40-50 shots. At the instant the | | firing began the apparition vanished. The other two men helped Trejo | | to his feet, and at this time all three heard the whistle again, | | coming from the direction of the eucalyptus trees. It lasted for | | 10-15 seconds and then ceased. At dawn 50 men searched the area. They | | found nothing. Particularly mystifying was the fact that they could | | not find a single spent cartridge case. Moreover, the adobe wall of | | the base, which was just behind where the being stood and should have | | been pockmarked with bullet holes, showed not a single | | bullet pockmark. A few days after the incident Trejo lost his vision, | | and then fell unconscious. He was hospitalized, but his hospital | | tests showed nothing abnormal. About two weeks later he again lost | | his vision for about 15 minutes. He was hospitalized for a month and | | during that time suffered from severe headaches. (Sources: Juan Jose | | Benitez, FSR, February 1978, p. 3; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, | | HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1976-99 (AA1686), | | citing Juan Jose Benitez; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters | | of the Fifth Kind, p. 231; Patrick Huyghe, Field Guide to | | Extraterrestrials, p. 118). | | | | 1976 - At 6:15 p.m. James Howard, age 15, and his friend Brian | | Hollis, age 14, observed an object with pulsating red, green, and | | blue lights, which stopped in the air and descended into some nearby | | woods in Tarboro, near Edgecombe, North Carolina. They were alarmed | | and ran home. Looking back, they saw a nine foot tall milky white | | figure wearing a diamond shaped red helmet, who came floating out of | | the woods about 150 yards away from them. Under the helmet its | | head appeared to be blackish gray, and its short legs seemed to have | | no feet. It stopped and seemed to look at the boys, then floated on | | and disappeared behind a nearby billboard. The entire incident | | lasted about 15 minutes. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, | | HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1976-76, citing MUFON). | | | | 1978 - At 1:30 a.m. in Saluzzo, Piedmonte, Italy a yellow and red | | domed disc-shaped object swooped down over the roadway and | | illuminated a car and the surrounding area, causing the car tape deck | | to stop working. It had four legs or landing gear appendages. | | (Sources: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, October 1979, | | p. 18; Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1981; UNICAT, case 115). | | | | 1978 - At 7:30 p.m. three red spherical UFOs approached Rome, Italy | | from the sea. One descended and crossed the flight path of incoming | | airliners. (Sources: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, March | | 1979, p. 13, citing Cronica, December 11, 1978; Allan Hendry, | | International UFO Reporter, October 1979, p. 18; Richard Hall, The | | UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, pp. 154 & 351). | | | | 1981 - At 6:00 p.m. NATO jets were scrambled from the Hortiati NATO | | Air Base in Macedonia, Greece in pursuit of UFOs tracked on military | | radar. UFOs played hide-and-seek with them, disappearing and then | | reappearing 45 minutes later. UFOs were also seen and reported in the | | villages of Kalokorio, Mihaniona, and Laina, as well as the cities of | | Gianitsa and Edessa. At 6:45 p.m. objects shaped like flaming | | parachutes, emitting powerful lights, hung in the sky over the city | | of Edessa, Greece for 30 minutes. Most city residents saw them, | | including some with binoculars. (Source: J. Allen Hynek, | | International UFO Reporter, January 1982, p. 11). | | | | 1987 - In Ringsted, Denmark an observer spotted a short child-like | | figure in a field at 8:20 p.m. Upon closer investigation he also saw | | a three meter in diameter glowing ball float up and then spin into | | the sky at high speed. The witness felt the short figure may have | | entered the ball shaped craft. (Sources: Larry Hatch, U computer | | database, case # 14570, citing SUFOI News, issue 11; Albert S. | | Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1987, case # 2500, citing Jan | | Aldrich, Project 1947). | | | | 1995 - Tim Edwards and his family photographed a pencil-shaped object | | in the western sky from Highway 17 in Hooper, Saquache County, | | Colorado at dusk. (Source: Christopher O'Brien, Enter the Valley, p. | | 311). | | | | 1995 - At 10:00 p.m. three poor quality Polaroids of a domed ovoid | | object near the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama were taken by | | a fisherman. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 17138). | | | | 2006 - The pilot of a Boeing 767 observed a fast moving light cross | | in front of his aircraft while flying over Gagetown, New Brunswick, | | Canada at 10:06 p.m. The aircraft's tactical collision avoidance | | system was triggered by the object. (Source: Geoff Dittman, 2006 | | Canadian UFO Survey, case # 685). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 31 August 2009). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: balls of light; disc-shaped | | UFOs; domed discs; EM electrical system effects; flying humanoids; m | | ulticolor UFOs; nautical UFOs (UFO entering or exiting bodies of wate | | r); ovoid UFOs; UFOs emerging from a solitary cloud; vertical ascent. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+