+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  September 30 | | | | 1954 - There are 20 UFO reports recorded in UFOCAT for this day in | | 1954: one humanoid report from Michigan, one luminous daylight disc | | from Holland, and the rest were from France. | | | | 1954 - While driving to work in Dearborn, Michigan Lawrence Cardenas, | | age 41, a laundry employee, saw 15 strange men wearing dark green | | uniforms along the side of the road to his right. They had cylinders | | on their shoulders, tight fitting skullcaps with pointed peaks in | | front, and heavy goggles. They were of medium height, and a taller | | man seemed to be their leader and giving them instructions. About 80 | | meters away from them was a 4-meter high craft with colored lights, | | flickering on and off. The witness drove away as fast as he could. | | (Source: Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 230; Jacques | | Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 213). | | | | 1954 - At one o'clock in the afternoon in Blanzy, France two | | bricklayers, Romain de Bastiani, age 21, and Bruno Burato, age 20, | | witnessed a partially yellow, partially maroon colored cigar-shaped | | object landed on the ground. They started to approach the three-meter | | long object when it took off from the ground with a whistling sound. | | The pointed section of the object was yellow; the rest of the object | | was reddish-brown. Two foot-like appendages extended to the ground | | from the fore section. (Note: Vallee | | incorrectly lists the date as October 1.) (Source: Le Figaro, October 2, 1954; Jacques | | Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 214; Michel | | Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des | | rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 94-95). | | | | 1954 - At 3:30 p.m. in Chereng, France, 10-year old Jean-Claude | | Delmotte, a school student, saw a three-meter diameter sphere at the | | edge of some woods, about 300 meters away. It was yellow-orange in | | color and quite bright. There were landing traces: a circle 1.5 | | meters in diameter and landing pad imprints 16 cm long. (Sources: La | | Voix du Nord, October 6, 1954; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, | | OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en | | France, pp. 95-96). | | | | 1954 - At 4:30 in the afternoon, Georges Gatay, construction | | supervisor, and seven construction workers in Marcilly-sur-Vienne, | | France saw a disc at ground level, with a humanoid standing next to | | it. Both vanished in a very odd manner. Physiological effects in all | | witnesses. (Sources: Michel Carrouges, Les apparitions de Martiens, | | pp. 123 & 125; France Soir, October 3, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport | | to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 213; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis | | Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees | | en France, pp. 96). | | | | 1954 - At sea between Brest and Roven, France on the Atlantic Ocean, | | the crew of the tanker "Port Lyautey" observed a UFO touch the | | surface of the sea. It then took off vertically, giving off a red | | flame before being lost to view. (Source: Le Figaro, October 2, 1954; | | France Soir, October 3, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A | | Century of Landings, p. 213; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: | | Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. | | 97). | | | | 1954 - Jean Andrieux, a ferry operator in Grand-Couronne, France and | | another witness, saw a large white sphere at 10:00 p.m. A smaller | | green sphere accompanied it and hung below, both object remaining | | stationary above the Seine River for 20 minutes. It eventually flew | | away to the southwest. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century | | of Landings, p. 213). | | | | 1954 - Mr. Celeste Simonutti was returning home at 10:00 p.m. near La | | Flotte-en-Re, on the Ile de Re, France when he saw a brilliant light | | and, fearing a fire, rushed to the scene. There he observed a | | luminous sphere 12 meters in diameter, hovering one meter above the | | ground. The object changed colors from red to blue, and took off. Two | | other witnesses also saw it leave. (Source: Sud-Ouest, October 2, | | 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 214; Michel Figeut & | | Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres | | rapprochees en France, pp. 98). | | | | 1956 - On this evening several UFOs were observed over Cherry Valley, | | Illinois by Mr. & Mrs. L. L Leonard, and afterward "angel hair", in | | the form of a spider web-like substance, was found floating to the | | ground. (Sources: Stringfield Leonard H. Stringfield, Inside Saucer | | Post...3-0 Blue, pp. 49-50; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 101; | | Jay Rath, The I-Files: True Reports of Unexplained Phenomena in | | Illinois, p. 57). | | | | 1961 - At around 9:04 a.m. local time, a weather observer at Indian | | Springs AFB, Nevada saw several objects on a 20 power theodolite at | | 133.4 degrees azimuth, 55 degrees elevation. The observer first saw | | one object that was white or metallic in color, round in shape, and | | the size of the head of a pin. Four smaller objects, traveling | | very fast, then came out from the first object. The Las Vegas AFS | | tracked a UFO on radar 45 miles southeast of Nellis AFB.  The object | | was tracked for approximately 45 minutes. (Sources: Project Blue Book | | files counted in official statistics, case 1961-466, James E. | | McDonald files; www.nicap.org). | | | | 1961 - At ten o'clock in the evening 16-year-old Dennis Bealor saw a | | large sphere of orange light on the road while riding his bicycle | | four miles south of La Porte, Indiana. It rose up into the sky while | | still ahead of him. He was so frightened that he lost control of his | | bike and ran off the road. (Sources: Hartle Orvil R. Hartle, A Carbon | | Experiment, p. 158; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of | | Landings, case # 525).  | | | | 1966 - A 60-foot wide Saturn-shaped UFO was seen northeast of | | Roosevelt Airport in Utah at 4:30 p.m. by three men. (Source: Frank | | Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, p. 36 case # A22). | | | | Roosevelt, Utah Daylight Disc - 1966 | | | | [Sketch of Roosevelt Airport, Utah Daylight Disc - 1966] | | | | 1968 - At around three a.m. Guy Lemargue, age 16, was walking with a | | friend on a small country road in Roncenay, Aude, France when they | | both saw, about 150 yards away, a disc-shaped red-orange luminous | | UFO, about 50 feet in diameter and feet in height, resting on legs. | | It had a row of portholes all around the edge. Beside it, several | | luminous entities of small stature were “maneuvering” with very | | strong lights sources in their hands, which they shone on the ground. | | They walked or floated two feet above the ground, and sometimes made | | sudden gliding leaps of a hundred yards. One creature approached to | | within 15 feet of the teens, and they reported that they could see | | that its hands were shaped like pincers or crab-like claws. Realizing | | that their presence had been detected, the boys ran away. (Sources: | | Luc Billion & Raoul Foin, Lumieres dans la Nuit, October 1973, p. 10; | | David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, | | case # 1968-99). | | | | 1968 - Starting at 8:15 p.m. two men in Bucharest, Romania watched a | | spherical object that changed shape to a dumbbell, then back to a | | sphere. It also changed colors. It maneuvered in the sky for 35-40 | | minutes, then shrank and vanished. (Source: Ion Hobana & Julien | | Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p.  | | | | qryOnThisDay | | | | 248). | | | | 1971 - At two a.m. Mr. Ron Foreman heard a loud noise outside | | followed by a "whoosh" come from outside his home in West Malling, | | Kent, England. His television cut out and the room lights went dim. | | He opened the back door and saw a seven foot tall "creature" standing | | there, clad in a silver suit and wearing a transparent helmet. It | | "glided" away over a fence, but later returned with a second entity, | | surrounded by a haze of light. Foreman went for the police. (Source: | | David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, | | case 1971-27, citing BUFORA Journal, Vol. 3 # 6). | | | | 1972 - SAM missiles were fired upon a luminous orange sphere that was | | at a very high altitude hovering over Hanoi, Vietnam in the broad | | daylight. It stayed in place for an hour and 20 minutes. (Sources: | | Saturday Evening Mercury (Tasmania), September 30, 1972; Australian | | FSR, December 1972, p. 10). | | | | 1973 - The witnesses, Claude Champoux, Florent Papillon and a man | | called J. R. were camping near a lake--Lac-aux-Bleuets, Quebec, | | Canada--when they heard a loud engine sound coming from a nearby | | field. When they went to look the men spotted an oval-shaped, | | metallic object on the ground. The UFO was silvery in color and | | emitted flourescent-like orange lights that changed colors to blue, | | and red. A strange humanoid figure, metallic or robot-like in | | appearance, stood next to the object. It was wearing either a | | reflective metallic suit or was itself made out of metal. The being's | | body emitted bright silvery flashes. While on the ground the object | | emitted a sound resembling that of a transformer. Soon the strange | | character disappeared inside the object, which then rose up, moving | | up and down like a yo-yo, it then accelerated and disappeared at high | | speed. They estimated the craft to have been about 600 feet in | | diameter. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1973, | | citing Gilles Cote & Marc Leduc, CASUFO). | | | | 1973 - At 9:30 p.m. a Franklin County, Ohio man found the landing | | site of an object he had seen hovering near his home earlier in the | | evening. The site was in a field of waist-high weeds about a | | quarter mile south of Hall Road, west of Outerbelt, Ohio. Weeds had | | been crushed to the ground in a semi-oval area 20 feet x 30 feet. | | There were no scorch marks. The object had swooped down in a zigzag | | pattern and dropped below trees. Several dozen other sightings were | | reported from the area. (Sources: Robert Gribble, UFO Reporting | | Center, case 82; Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p.  46). | | | | 1975 - At 3:30 a.m. two men, Philips and Brown, had a close encounter | | with a domed disc-shaped object hovering over a dairy farm seven | | miles south of Corning, California and illuminating the dairy "like | | daylight". It emitted a bright red light, and made a humming sound. | | Cows fled from area. The UFO hovered for 3-5 minutes, then took off | | and was out-of-sight "in the blink of an eye." An inside occupant was | | also seen. (Sources: Corning (CA) Daily Observer, October 16, 1975; | | Dwight Connelly, Skylook, October 1975, p. 14; Richard Hall, | | Uninvited Guests, p. 283; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume | | II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 19, 281). | | | | 1980 - At one o'clock in the morning in Rosedale, Victoria, Australia | | 54-year-old caretaker George Blackwell heard a screeching whistle, | | and then saw a 25 foot wide domed disc or top-shaped UFO | | withmulticolored body lights and a black tube appendage that landed | | on the ground at the cattle station called White Acres. He got to | | within 50 feet of it on his motorcycle before it took off with a wave | | of heat and an explosive sound, showering down debris, and left a | | black ring on the ground at the landing site. In addition, 10,000 | | gallons of water were missing from a nearby water tank. During the | | close encounter a horse galloped away and cattle bellowed, panicked | | and ran. Mr. Blackwell suffered from physiological effects including | | headaches and vomiting, and diarrhea that lasted for a week. | |  (Sources: Bill Chalker, APRO Bulletin, December 1981, p. 3;  Harry | | Griesberg, Frontiers of Science, July 1981, p. 17; UNICAT, case # 44; | | Bill Chalker, Australasian Ufologist, April 1993, p. 25; Richard | | Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 309). | | | | 1982 - At 8:15 p.m. four women in their thirties--Messina, | | LaMontagne, Poland, and LeClair--had a close encounter with a large | | metallic ovoid object with red lights while driving on a highway east | | of Exeter, New Hampshire. It was seen at treetop level. The women got | | out of the car and attempted to get closer. The sighting lasted four | | minutes. (Source: J. Allen Hynek, International UFO Reporter, January | | 1983, p. 4; UNICAT, case # 16). | | | | 1992 - At 5:15 a.m. Rose Mahony of Barnagearagh, Ireland saw a huge | | aerial craft with multicolored lights on its rim; she woke her | | two teenage children who also watched it. It flew off toward | | Dromkeal. John McManus of Dromkeal, Ireland reported he experienced | | an abduction from his bedroom by four 4-foot tall beings. He was | | taken into a circular room, which had an exam table like a couch. | | They jabbe him in the neck with a probe, which caused him an electric | | shock and he passed out. He woke up naked, with mud on his feet. | | (Source: Dermot Butler, Conspiracy of Silence: UFOs in Ireland, pp. | | 120-121). | | | | 1992 - At 6:30 p.m six witnesses in Miraima, Ceara State, Brazil saw | | a fiery ball of light that moved at six meters altitude over a | | railway bridge, then directed two beams of light into a nearby lake. | |  (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 15838, citing | | UBPDV, Causistica Brasileira de 1992, p. 11). | | | | 1992 - There were three reports of low level UFOs on this evening | | from North Carolina, and another from neighboring South Carolina. On | | Interstate 95 in Raeford, North Carolina a 36-year-old woman saw a 50 | | foot long gray rectangular craft, 20 times the apparent size of the | | Moon. It was seen at an estimated distance of 1500 feet, and had six | | lights on the bottom. It was followed by 20 smaller glowing ovoid | | objects, and the air got cold as the UFOs passed over. At 9:10 p.m. | | in Gastonia, North Carolina a 45-year-old man was in his backyard | | closing up his shop when he saw a glowing oval or fat cigar-shaped | | object flying at 2,500 feet altitude that had three bands of a bluish | | white corona around its mid-section. It had intense beams of light | | coming from the two ends. Five minutes later (9:15 p.m.) in Stanley, | | North Carolina a 38-year-old mechanic and his girlfriend were out | | stargazing when they spotted a bright, light yellow glowing | | cone-shaped UFO. It was surrounded by four misty white cigar-shaped | | nocturnal lights. Three minutes later (9:18 p.m.) in Moonville, South | | Carolina three witnesses saw a large cylinder with an orange glow and | | a yellow flame that flew overhead and to the east; it had 5 small | | lights around the object. (Sources: (1, 2, & 3) Donald M. Ware, MUFON | | UFO Journal, January 1993, pp. 15-17, citing field investigators | | Henry H. Morton & George D. Fawcett; (4) Jerold R. Johnson, MUFON UFO | | Journal, January 1994, p. 19 citing field investigator Michael S. | | Harrell). | | | | 1992 - At 10:30 p.m. an 81-year-old woman in Mount Katahdin Iron | | Works Park, Maine had a close encounter with an eight-foot | | wide circle of blinking lights at eye level near her window. The | | object was twice the apparent size of the Moon with a dozen lights. | | (Source: Arnold Dunning, MUFON UFO Journal, April 1993, p. 18). | | | | 1997 - Dr. Carlos Munoz and Enrique Bermudez were parked in an | | isolated wooded area near Punta Arenas, Chile at 11:30 p.m. They had | | stepped out of the car when they heard something moving close to | | them, and they could perceive small shadows nearby. They next saw a | | fluorescent tube of light in a vertical position, about 30 meters | | away. It was suspended about a meter from the ground. It was | | pulsating and was red andwhite in color. They ran to their car and | | grabbed a camcorder in a futile attempt to videotape the object. They | | got back in their car and started driving away, when suddenly they | | heard a loud engine noise and a black sports vehicle with tinted | | windows drove past them at high speed. Simultaneously, their | | vehicle's instruments malfunctioned. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, case | | # 2734, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Volume 2 # 38). | | | | 2008 - A yellow triangular object flew over Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | | at 12:35 a.m. It reportedly moved like a "puck on ice". (Source: | | Geoff Dittman, 2008 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 756, citing HBCCUFO). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 17 February 2010). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: Angel hair; animal reactions: hor | | se and cattle panic and run; disc-shaped UFOs; domed discs, EM effect | | : TV outage and vehicle electrical system; face masks or goggles; gre | | en ball-of-light; green uniforms; hovering; humanoids; luminous UFOs; | | multicolored UFOs; multi-year reports from France; nautical UFOs (UF | | Os seen entering water); physiological effects; orange UFOs; ovoid UF | | Os; robotic humanoid; Saturn-shaped UFO; shape changing UFO; silver s | | uits; spheres; tall humanoid; UFOs changing color; up-and-down motion | | ; yellow-orange UFOs; vertical takeoff; white UFOs; zigzag maneuvers. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+