+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  September 17 | | | | 1897 - In the far eastern reaches of Siberia several people witnessed | | a round UFO flying toward the northwest. It was seen for five minutes | | in Antsiferova, Russia. (Sources: Luminieres dans la Nuit, issue # | | 204; FSR, January-February 1969, p. 27; Larry Hatch, U computer | | database, case # 214). | | | | 1952 - Mr. and Mrs. Ted Hollingsworth of Tucson, Arizona sighted two | | groups of three large, flat, shiny objects at 11:40 a.m. north of the | | city. The daylight objects flew in tight formations: the first group | | slowly, the second group faster. The sighting lasted for 2 minutes. | | (Source: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case | | # 2105; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: September-October, p. | | 36; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1954 - At 4:45 p.m. a silver bullet-shaped object was seen in the sky | | by over a thousand people including military witnesses near the | | Ciampino Airport, ten miles outside of Rome, Italy. It rotated from a | | horizontal orientation to vertical with the point down. It had an | | estimated altitude of 2500 feet and a speed of 150-180 miles per | | hour. It left a luminous vapor trail and was tracked on radar. At the | | same time in Pitigliano, Italy in Tuscany two hunters, Bacherini and | | Formiconi, heard a series of detonations and then saw a round white | | craft moving slowly with lateral oscillation as it advanced. It blew | | toward the southwest. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the | | Straight Line Mystery, p. 55-57; Richard Hall, UFO Reports from the | | Files of the CIA, p. 21). | | | | 1954 - At 7:15 p.m. a cigar-shaped object was seen through a 25x | | telescope and was witnessed by at least 11 people in | | Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dome, France. It was black with a luminous | | tail, and the trail was exceptionally luminous. (Source: Aime Michel, | | Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 57). | | | | 1954 - Between Cenon and Vouneuil, France at 10:30 p.m. Yves David, | | age 28, met a being in a diving suit who made friendly gestures. The | | being was very small and had a voice "inhuman and incomprehensible." | | The witness could not move throughout the encounter. He saw the | | creature enter a three-meter wide by one-meter tall object sitting on | | the road, and it took off "like lightning." It cast a greenish light | | as it did so. (Sources: Le Figaro, September 30, 1954; Aime Michel, | | Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 58; Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 210; David F. Webb & | | Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-50 | | (A0249), citing Aime Michel). | | | | 1955 - Pine Bush, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Bordes of New York City were | | fishing at night when they heard a loud splash and a "gurgling | | sound." They then saw a pink, iridescent, mushroom-shaped object rise | | about 70 cm out of the water, then sink back into the reservoir. | | Later, they saw the object again. It was about five meters long and | | surrounded by turbulence. After it took off it reversed direction | | several times without turning around and finally flew away at a high | | rate of speed. (Sources: Arthur Constance, The Inexplicable Sky, p. | | 226; Flying Saucer Review, May-June 1955; Ivan T. Sanderson, | | Invisible Residents, p. 226; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A | | Century of Landings, p. 252). | | | | 1966 - Mr. and Mrs. Ronald MacGilvary of Cranes Beach, Massachusetts | | saw a golden-white, luminous cigar-shaped object resting on the beach | | at 4:45 a.m. It had two or three bright lights that flew in and out | | of the craft. They moved around with an up-and-down skipping motion. | | It left after an hour. (Sources: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: | | Interplanetary Visitors, p. 341; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: | | A Century of Landings, case 798; NICAP UFO Investigator, November | | 1966, p. 4; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year | | Report, p. 414). | | | | Cranes Beach near Ipswich, Massachusetts - 1966 | | | | [Cranes Beach near Ipswich, Massachusetts - 1966] | | | | 1967 - At around 2:00 a.m. An anonymous witness observed an | | eight-foot tall humanoid in a wooded area near Langley, British | | Columbia, Canada. It was reported to be pink colored and covered with | | scaly skin. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue | | of Humanoid Reports, case A2085, citing John Brent Musgrave, UFO | | Occupants and Critters). | | | | 1975 - At 8:20 p.m. two women in their fifties were driving on a | | highway in Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts when they | | briefly glimpsed a large humanoid creature. They noticed that as they | | were traveling they were the only vehicle in the road, and there | | was total silence in the area. Suddenly, a very tall gray figure with | | bits of white hair appeared in front of the car. It had luminous | | oblong shaped eyes and what appeared to be white whiskers. The | | humanoid figure seemed to be in total "control" and had a "majestic" | | air to him. It also had a long tail that narrowed towards the end. | | The driver swerved to avoid hitting the creature, and temporarily ran | | off the road, so they did not see the humanoid depart.(Source: CUFOS | | case files, report dated May 6, 1976). | | | | 1976 - In Wingen, New South Wales, Australia at 3:30 a.m. a round, | | bright object with an intense blue glow passed only 12 feet over a | | car. The car engine stopped and the lights went out, and the | | speedometer needle jumped about even though the car was stationary. | | The driver, a 30-year-old man named Ryan, felt an intense heat from | | the object, and his watch stopped working. He also reported that his | | flashlight wouldn't work, even though it had new batteries. The UFO | | made a low humming sound. Trouble with the performance of the car | | persisted after the event. The close encounter lasted two minutes. | | (Sources: Mark Cashman, Project 1947 EM Effects Catalog website, | | citing UFO Research NSW; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving | | Vehicle Interference, p. 69, citing Australian CUFOS). | | | | 1978 - At the Maatsuyker Island Lighthouse, Tasmania, Australia | | electrical power failed twice at 9:20 p.m. when a big glowing light | | flew by south of the island. It was seen by four men at the | | lighthouse, including the main witness, a 47-year-old man named | | Burns. (Source: Australian CUFOS Files, case file NA781219). | | | | 1978 - In Torrita di Sienna, Tuscany, Italy at 8:15 p.m. two | | witnesses watched a bright sphere descend over the area the same time | | a electrical blackout occurred. Shortly after that a motorist, Sr. R. | | Faralli, a 25-year-old man driving a Fiat 127, was on his way home | | when his engine and lights went out, then a bright red object | | descended over the road just ahead of him and hovered. It was a domed | | disc, hat like in shape. He found he was paralyzed and could not | | move, as he watched a panel open and two humanoids emerge and float | | towards his vehicle. They were five feet tall and wore green | | coveralls and helmets with aerials and face masks, and they floated | | about four feet above the ground. They circled the car and appeared | | to inspect it. Their skin also appeared greenish. They re-entered the | | UFO, which took off with a flash of light and an explosive sound. The | | witness suffered eye irritation. (Sources: Roberto Pinotti, | | International UFO Reporter, October 1979, p. 15; Richard Hall, MUFON | | UFO Journal, issue # 153 (November 1980); Lumieres dans la Nuit, | | January 1981; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty | | Year Report, pp. 265, 270, 349, 491, 495; UNICAT, case # 111; Mark | | Cashman, Project 1947 EM Effects Catalog website; David F. Webb & Ted | | Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1968). | | | | Torrita di Siena, Italy Close Encounter - 1978 | | | | [] | | | | 1979 - At quarter past midnight in the Bavarian town of Eichstatt, | | Germany three pentagon-shaped UFOs were seen by many, including 10 | | police officers. One object hovered at 500 meters, then shot away. | | (Sources: MUFON UFO Journal, October 1981; Larry Hatch, U computer | | database, case 13306, citing MUFON). | | | | 1979 - At 7:30 a.m. a luminous white disc-shaped object was seen | | hovering over some trees in Vieille-Eglise, Pas-de-Calais, France; it | | shot away toward the northeast. Shortly after that three military | | interceptor jets converged on the location. (Source: Lumieres dans la | | Nuit, February 1981). | | | | 1981 - A woman by the name of Wharry reported sighting a disc-shaped | | object in Apple Valley, San Bernardino County, California at 8:00 | | p.m. It hovered, shot away and then came back. It was spinning, had | | colored lights, and was not far from George Air Force Base. (Source: | | Joe Graziano, APRO Bulletin, February 1982, p. 8). | | | | 1981 - At 9:00 p.m. in Kentfield, Marin County, California a huge | | disc-shaped object passed over homes, making a deep rumbling sound. | | (Source: Joe Graziano, APRO Bulletin, March 1982, p. 8). | | | | 1982 - At 11:03 p.m. a bright patch of light exploded into an orange | | fireball near the M.V. Strathdee, a Romanian registry ship sailing in | | the South Atlantic at the geographical coordinates -11.62 S 33.47 W. | | According to the article in the MUFON UFO Journal, it flashed rays of | | light and made no sound. A geiger counter reading indicated a | | radiation level of 5-7 rads. There were 16 witnesses. (Sources: | | William R. Corliss, Remarkable Luminous Phenomena in Nature, p. 283; | | MUFON UFO Journal, September 1984). | | | | 1984 - In Goshen, Connecticut a row of lights paced car on a rural | | road at 9:30 p.m. The configuration of lights in the row first turned | | into a U-shaped, and then into a delta.  They seemed to be part of | | one UFO, changing shape. (Source: George C. Andrews, | | Extra-Terrestrials Among Us, p. 301). | | | | 1989 - A bright white light paced a car driving on the A5 highway | | near Brinklow, Warkwick, England for more than five minutes. The | | driver and child passenger were named Goold. The driver believed she | | received a telepathic message from the UFO. (Source: Richard F. | | Haines, CE5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 160, citing FSR, | | March 1991, p. 22). | | | | 1992 - A 12-foot long metallic object with stubby wings, and a clear | | dome or cupola, buzzed UFO investigator Christopher O'Brien and his | | partner while driving seven miles north of Gardner, Colorado at 1:30 | | p.m. It made no sound. (Source: Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious | | Valley, p. 54). | | | | 1994 - At 11:45 p.m. a 17-year-old male reported having a close | | encounter with a pinkish, 25 foot diameter circular object that | | illuminated the ground in Memphis, Tennessee; it then rose to treetop | | level before flying off slowly to the southeast. It had a neon | | glow. (Sources: Robert McDowell, MUFON field investigation case | | files, case 950326C; T. David Spencer, MUFON UFO Journal, April 1996, | | p. 18). | | | | 1995 - At 12:30 a.m. a gray V-shaped flying wing moved silently | | overhead at a steady pace in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Source: | | Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17432, citing NUFORC). | | | | 1996 - Thousands including police saw a huge disc maneuver over Tel | | Aviv, Israel at two o'clock in the morning. The aerial display lasted | | two hours. (Sources: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 340; Michael | | Hesemann, UFOs: The Secret History). | | | | 2000 - At 8:55 p.m. a very large, wing-shaped object flew at a low | | altitude over Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. It flew very | | fast. It was completely silent, black in color, and had no running | | lights. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | Seattle, September 2000 webpage). | | | | 2004 - A submarine-shaped object with many lights was seen briefly in | | Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada at 3:30 a.m. It made a humming | | sound, and was mesmerising. There were two witnesses. (Source: Geoff | | Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 682). | | | | 2006 - At 3:30 a.m. a boomerang V-shaped object, very large, was seen | | at height in Las Vegas, Nevada. Although not flying at a low | | altitude, it was close enough to determine that it was not a | | commercial nor military aircraft. (Source: Peter Davenport, National | | UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2006 webpage, report | | uploaded October 30, 2006). | | | | 2007 - Independent lights forming a chevron passed silently over San | | Carlos, California at 11:15 p.m. at a very high altitude and at a | | very high rate of speed; each light shifted position. (Source: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2007 | | webpage, report uploaded October 8, 2007). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 14 August 2012). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: boome | | rang UFOs; cigar-shaped UFOs, disc-shaped UFOs; diving suit; golden c | | olored UFO; huge UFOs; landings; luminous UFOs; maneuvering formation | | s of UFOs, multi-year encounters in the Tuscany region of Italy; naut | | ical UFOs; paralysis; polymorphing UFO; satellite objects flying arou | | nd larger UFO; sensation of heat; telepathy; unintelligible language. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+