+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  October 2 | | | | 1949 - On this day in Holland, Michigan a very bright disc flew into | | a cloud heading west, then exited the cloud from the same point | | and flew off rapidly to the east. (Source:Project Blue Book files | | counted in official statistics, case # 473). | | | | 1954 - There are 39 UFO and humanoid reports recorded in the UFOCAT | | database for this day. There is one from Denmark and one from the | | Orkney Islands of Great Britain. The rest are from France, which | | appears to have been at the center of a massive wave of UFO | | sightings. | | | | 1954 - In Levroux, France two single women (Janicki and Lacotte) | | independently reported to police that a luminous disc about three | | meters in diameter had flown very low over their village of Cerisier. | | (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 215; Michel Figeut | | & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres | | rapprochees en France, p. 106). | | | | 1954 - Two creatures were seen on the ground in Jonches, France. Two | | hours later a luminous red object was observed at the same spot, at a | | very low altitude. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. | | 215; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier | | complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 107). | | | | 1954 - In the immediate vicinity of the sighting on the day before | | (October 1) in Louhans, France, Mr. Nicolas saw a domed disc on the | | ground at 2:30 a.m. between the road and the railroad tracks. Through | | some openings in the object a strong yellow light shone. (Sources: | | Bourgogne Republicaine, October 3, 1954; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers | | and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 109; Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia, p. 215). | | | | 1954 - At 10:00 o'clock in the morning several people in the city of | | Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dome department, France saw a luminous, | | metallic object oscillating in the sky, then fly off rapidly to the | | north-northwest. (Source: Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le | | premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. | | 107). | | | | 1954 - In Vichy, Allier department, France at 6:30 p.m., bus | | passengers observed a luminous object rapidly traverse the sky flying | | in the direction of Cote St.-Amand. (Source: Michel Figeut & | | Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres | | rapprochees en France, p. 107). | | | | 1954 - At 8:00 p.m. in Poncey-sur-Lignon and the region of Cote-d'Or, | | France several persons observed a huge cigar-shaped luminous object | | that flew silently to the east. (Source: Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis | | Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees | | en France, p. 107). | | | | 1954 - At 8:00 p.m. in Croix d’Epine, Oise department, France Ernest | | Delattre, age 19, a mechanic, was riding home on his motor scooter | | when a brilliantly illuminated egg-shaped object landed on the left | | side of the road 15 meters away. He saw some short, dark shapes, | | “like potato bags” moving about the object. He sped up, then saw the | | object, which was the size of a small bus, take off. During the | | ascent the object's color changed from orange to blue. The object was | | observed by two other witnesses. As an additional note, Mr. | | Delattre fainted while telling his story (Sources: David F. Webb & | | Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-65 | | (A0267); Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, | | case # 215). | | | | 1954 - At 10:00 p.m. in Bergerac, Dordogne department, France a | | luminous mushroom-shaped object was seen in the garden by J. Labonne, | | who described it as "constructed of plexiglass." Three meters away | | moved a short shadowy figure that "slid over to the machine." The | | object rose into the sky, leaving behind a luminous trail. There were | | three imprints found in the ground and some black mushrooms. (Source: | | David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, | | case # A0268). | | | | 1954 - Near La Rochelle, France at 11:00 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. | | Guillemoteau saw a red glowing round object, five meters in diameter | | and 2.5 meters high, hovering for several minutes one meter above the | | ground. The UFO then rose vertically. Oily marks were found at the | | spot. (Note: Vallee lists the | | date as October 3rd, but Figuet & Ruchon believe this is in error and | | that October 2nd is the correct date). (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line | | Mystery, p. 131; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 216; Michel | | Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des | | rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 110). | | | | 1954 - At 11:45 p.m. Messrs. Domant and Gilcher saw a disc-shaped UFO | | in a field in Guebling, France. It was emitting a weak green glow. | | (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, | | p. 105; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 215). | | | | 1958 - An enormous object that first looked like a puff of smoke, | | then "like pickle with a flat bottom" was sighted in Stroudsburg, | | Pennsylvania at 5:29 p.m. At was a dull gray color. It went from | | appearing diaphanous to solid in appearance, then went black | | momentarily. A Project Blue Book "unidentified" case. (Source: | | Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 6089). | | | | Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania UFO - 1958 | | | | [Sketch of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania Cloud Cigar - 1958] | | | | 1961 - A pilot in flight and seven witnesses on the ground observed a | | lens-shaped disc of brightly polished aluminum over the Utah Central | | Airport in Salt Lake City, Utah at noon. It was seen against the | | mountains as a backdrop, and had an estimated diameter of 50-60 feet. | | It moved out of sight in seconds, covering a distance of 70 degrees, | | with a speed "beyond any known jet.." (Sources: Robert Gribble, MUFON | | UFO Journal, October 1991, p. 22; UNICAT, case # 531, citing James E. | | McDonald, 1968 Proceedings of the Scientific Subcommittee Hearings of | | the U.S. Congress, p. 49). | | | | 1963 - At 6:45 p.m. a black oval object was seen to come out of, and | | then re-enter a lone cloud in the sky over Audenshaw, Greater | | Manchester, England. (Source: Orbit, 1963, case # 324; J. Bernard | | Delair, Awareness, October 1977, p. 12). | | | | 1965 -  At 8:20 p.m. J. Centorino saw a dark UFO hovering over the | | power plant in Salem, Massachusetts. It was cigar-shaped with | | an off-centered hump and had a white light on each end. It swayed | | back-and-forth, inclined at a 45-degree angle. (Sources: Raymond E. | | Fowler case files, report dated October 5, 1965; Raymond E. Fowler, | | UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 94 & 334). | | | | Salem, Massachusetts UFO - 1965 | | | | [Sketch of Salem, Massachusetts UFO with Dome - 1965] | | | | 1966 - Mrs. Everett Steward, a flight attendant, was talking on the | | telephone from her home in Cincinnati, Ohio at 10:20 p.m. when she | | smelled a foul odor in the room. She went to her bedroom, where she | | had a feeling of being watched. Looking out the window, she saw an | | oval-shaped object with portholes and red, green, and white lights | | revolving around it. It was 75 feet in diameter and 100 feet above | | the ground. She woke her husband, who also saw it, and called her | | married daughter, Mrs. Janet Emery, a mile away. The Emerys also saw | | it, and a neighbor with binoculars could see that it had illuminated | | yellow square windows. Next, her daughter Janet went outdoors and saw | | the UFO eject a red ball, which maneuvered about while the first UFO | | took off southward. The red ball flew 100 feet over Jane's head. It | | too was oval shaped, and its underside was shiny like aluminum foil. | | It was "bigger than my cottage and yard combined." She also smelled | | the garbage like odor. Mrs. Steward went to bed, but the odor still | | persisted in the house. Sometime later that night the room was | | filled with a brilliant white light, which then vanished, and a globe | | of light about 21 inches in diameter appeared at the foot of her bed. | | Inside the globe were the images of five "non-human, hairless heads" | | with oval, sunken eyes. "Instead of noses, there were slits, and they | | had no mouths." Telepathically, they repeated several times that "we | | have made contact." Mrs Steward screamed, and the globe disappeared. | | She was so upset by the experience that she began psychiatric | | counseling and continued it for the next two years. (Sources: Leonard | | H. Stringfield, Situation Red: The UFO Siege, pp. 35-36 & 51-52; | | David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, | | case # 1966-41, citing Leonard H. Stringfield). | | | | 1967 - At 7:30 p.m. in Melville, New York P. E. Burkhardt, an | | aerospace computer systems engineer, and several teenagers witnessed | | a silver disc-shaped object with a set of rectangular-shaped lights | | that blinked on-and-off, revolving across the lower portion. | |  (Sources: NICAP case files, report dated October 3, 1967; Richard H. | | Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 11, | | 153). | | | | Melville, New York UFO - 2 October 1967 7:30 p.m. | | | | [Sketch of Melville, New York UFO - 1967] | | | | 1967 - At 8:20 p.m. in Ipswich, Massachusetts several witnesses | | spotted a domed disc or domed oval-shaped object that glowed yellow | | around it perimeter. It carried a red, a greenish blue, and a bright | | white light. At times it glowed red all over. It hovered, spun, and | | moved up-and-down. Dogs barked during the sighting. (Source: Raymond | | E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 350). | | | | Ipswich, Massachusetts UFO - 2 October 1967 8.20 p.m. | | | | [Ipswich, Massachusetts UFO - 1967] | | | | 1968 - In Lins, Sao Paolo State, Brazil at 6:20 a.m., while oiling | | his bulldozer’s engine, Sr. Doribio Pereira saw a golden colored | | cigar-shaped craft hovering a foot or so above the ground, only a few | | feet away,  Next he saw a man standing on a platform that extended | | from the base of the object, who drew a weapon resembling an electric | | drill from his sleeve. The being pointed it at the witness, and when | | it emitted a bright flash Pereira found himself paralyzed. He could | | see that inside the cigar, which had a “glass roof,” there was a man | | using some sort of keyboard with both hands, and outside the craft on | | an extended platform stood three more men. One of them was taking | | soil samples with a “conch shaped object.” Then the craft flashed a | | very vivid light three times, the platform retracted, and underneath | | the craft appeared “something like an electric polisher, rotating at | | high speed.” After that it took off with a slight sound. The men were | | described as thin, about 5’5” tall, and dressed in blue knee-length | | robes, hoods, and brown sandals with cross garters to the knees. | | Pereira, in a state of near shock, was given a lift to his home, and | | from there he reported to the Town Council. Because of his nervous | | state he was sent for a medical examination, during which Dr. Antonio | | Geris found him entirely normal. Officials of the Brazilian Air Force | | later subjected him to an intense interrogation. (Sources: Gordon | | Creighton, FSR, January-February 1969, p. 22; David F. Webb & Ted | | Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1968-70, | | citing Gordon Creighton). | | | | 1971 - Mr. Wazny, age 29, a retired U.S. Air Force airman sighted a | | huge, silent triangular craft with many lights southwest of Caro, | | Michigan at 6:20 p.m. It made sharp turns at a fantastic speed. | | (Source: NICAP UFO Investigator, December 1971, p. 3). | | | | 1975 - On this night in Fort Lee, New Jersey a single witness said an | | oval-shaped object with red and green lights that came close to | | witness after appearing at first as a bright light. It circled behind | | some trees, then passed the witness making a faint whirling sound. | | (Source: CUFOS News Bulletin, February 1976, p. 7). | | | | 1977 - At 11:00 p.m. a four-meter in diameter domed disc buzzed an | | amateur astronomer outside with a telescope in Auchey, Pas-de-Calais, | |  France passing only four meters overhead. (Source: Lumieres dans la | | Nuit, issue # 309). | | | | 1978 - At 11:15 a.m. four young boys in the Groendal Nature Reserve, | | Uitenhage, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa had been out hiking in | | an isolated area, and were now waiting to be picked up by their | | parents, when suddenly their attention was drawn to a glistening | | object in the distance. They next saw two men wearing shiny silvery | | outfits, standing just to the west of the object. The men were | | able to move across the difficult terrain in a gliding motion, and on | | on top of the hill they were joined by a third man that appeared to | | be carrying a small suitcase. The three men then glided towards a | | dividing fence and flew over it, and one stopped to look at the boys. | | The silver suit covered his forehead, so only his lower face was | | clear, but they could see he had gray skin. Finally, the men glided | | up a hill and seemed to disappear upon reaching the summit. During | | the incident the boys noticed a strange silence in the area and two | | of them felt disoriented. Possible ground traces were found on the | | site. (Sources: Cynthia Hind, MUFON UFO Journal, October 1978, p. 5; | | Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, January 1980, p. 7; David | | F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # | | A1976; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 904, | | citing Cynthia Hind, Phenomenon: 40 years of Flying Saucers). | | | | 1978 - Shortly before two o'clock in the afternoon in Unanderra, near | | Port Kembla, New South Wales, Australia a six-meter long non-metallic | | ovoid object flew over to the southwest, then zig-zagged quickly to | | the west over the mountains at Kiama. (Source: Australian CUFOS case | | files, report dated October 10, 1978). | | | | 1978 - At 7:15 p.m. seven triangular objects were sighted | | simultaneously in the sky over Kingstanding, West Midlands, England | | by many. (Source: D. N. Mansell, Awareness, April 1979, p. 13). | | | | 1981 - Helmstedt, Germany - At around 2:10 a.m. the witness was | | riding a bus through East Germany to Mittaguzeit in the East Berlin | | sector when he noticed two tall figures walking on the side of the | | road. They were oddly dressed, wearing silvery coveralls. They were | | also walking in a peculiar fashion, and he had never seen similar | | people before in the area. The bus continued on and he lost sight of | | them. The next day there were reports of bright lights over the area. | | (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1981, case # | | 183, citing Ulrich Magin). | | | | 1982 - At 5:00 p.m. ten college women, members of a volleyball team, | | saw an arrowhead or pentagon-shaped object with many multicolored | | lights while riding in their van onHighway 13, 18 miles north of | | Springfield,  Missouri. The object glided over nearby trees, and then | | hovered near their van. Its lights were white, yellow, and red, and | | it gave off white beams of light.  It finally moved away silently | | after 30 seconds. Three hours later ten people in a bus in Brighton, | | Missouri watched a silent manta ray-shaped object hovering nearby. It | | too had many lights, and tilted at an angle. Their sighting lasted | | two minutes.  (Source: (1) Boone County (AR) Headlight, October 7, | | 1982; (2) Erwin Polakoff, International UFO Reporter, January 1983, | | p. 12). | | | | 1995 - At 1:40 a.m. several women in Bolingbrook, Illinois saw an | | "orange or yellow arrow-shaped" object moving slowly through the sky | | to the west. It had a light on each side. (Source: Jay Rath, The | | I-Files: True Reports of Unexplained Phenomena in Illinois, p. 51, | | citing NUFORC). | | | | 1998 - Ms. J. Juanin watched a round, bright orange flashing | | light with small black dotted things on it in Beluran, Sabah, | | Malaysia that seemed to land two kilometers away. She watched it for | | five minutes until its lights turned off. The sky was dark with no | | moon. (Sources: George Filer, Filer's Files, 1998, issue 40; Joseph | | Trainor, UFO Roundup, Volume 3, No. 41) | | | | 2000 - Mr. and Mrs. Osborne sighted a dark gray cloud-like object, | | darker than the background clouds and not moving with the wind, over | | Crick, Northampton, England at 1:00 p.m. The object changed shape, | | making angular angles, and was watched through binoculars. (Source: | | UFO Magazine (UK), January 2001, p. 58). | | | | 2001 - At 6:55 a.m. several motorists in Sandyville, West Virginia | | spotted a blimp-like UFO with a smooth surface that was glowing | | bright red in the overcast daytime sky. A chevron-shaped object | | exited from a door in the bottom. There was no sound during the | | entire incident, which lasted five minutes. The two objects vanished | | at the same time. (Source: UFO Magazine (USA), February 2002, p. 21). | | | | 2004 - A large triangular object, close to the ground, was seen in | | South Attleboro, Massachusetts at 11:37 p.m. for about a minute. | | (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, | | October 2004 webpage). | | | | 2004 - A man was driving home at 5:30 a.m. in rural Tennessee when he | | noticed what first appeared to be a fire on a nearby ridge. As he | | drove he got closer and realized that it was not a fire at all but a | | series of three reddish-orange lights affixed to the bottom of a huge | | triangular craft. He neared an intersection and got out of his car to | | watch this metallic craft as it approached from the north and moved | | directly towards him. He became fearful and started to run from his | | car, but realized that there was nowhere to run. As the giant object | | passed overhead, it blocked out all the stars and he estimated its | | size to be some 300 feet in length. The bottom of the craft | | was illuminated from three flame-like symmetrical appendages, and | | there was a ribbed structure running across the bottom of the object. | | As it passed directly overhead he felt an energy that reverberated | | through his body. He stated that he felt many sensations all at once, | | but could find no description for what he actually felt. The object | | also made a pulsating or drumming noise which also passed throughout | | his body. After the object passed him, it suddenly turned west and | | moved behind some nearby hills. The witness reported a metallic taste | | in his mouth and a nose bleed. Later he found that his face and back | | were slightly sunburned and his hair was falling out, he also felt | | lethargic. He realized later that he had experienced 15 minutes of | | missing time. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database | | 2004, citing Kim Shaffer, Tennessee MUFON). | | | | 2005 - Three bright lights appeared at different times in Westfield, | | Massachusetts starting at 3:00 a.m. They moved in zig-zag patterns in | | the sky over a long period of time. (Source: Peter Davenport, | | National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, October 2005 webpage, | | reported uploaded October 11, 2005). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 5 July 2009) | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: animal reaction: dogs barking, arrowhead shaped UFOs; | | cigar-shaped UFOs, disc-shaped UFOs, domed discs, green UFOs, hoveri | | ng, humanoids, luminous UFOs, missing time, multi-year reports from M | | alaysia and Massachusetts, red UFOs, yellow beam of light, tall human | | oids wearing silvery coveralls, triangular UFOs, UFOs changing color, | | UFOs entering and leaving clouds, vertical ascent, zigzag maneuvers. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+