+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  November 23 | | | | 1896 - Several observers in Stockton, California witnessed a fast | | moving, bright light in the sky that had exited from a shadowy ovoid | | object at 10:10 p.m.; it dips low near buildings in the city. There | | were several other reports this evening from Antioch, Chico, Lathrop, | | Oakland, San Francisco, and San Jose, California. (Sources: Stockton | | (CA) Daily Independent, November 24, 1896; Larry Hatch, U computer | | database, case # 164, citing Loren E. Gross, The UFO Wave of 1896, p. | | 13). | | | | 1948 - An aerial encounter with a red UFO involving radar and visual | | confirmation occurred over Germany on this night at 10:20 p.m. | | Two U.S. Air Force Captains flying in a F-80 fighter, and a 1st Lt. | | from the 23rd Fighter Squadron on the ground at Furstenfeldbruck AFB | | saw the reddish star-like object to the east moving south over Munich | | at 200-500 mph, turning slightly southwest and then southeast. | | Captain Slater in the F-80 called the Racecard DF Radar Station which | | tracked the unidentified target at 27,000 feet and 30 miles to the | | south of Munich, climbing to 40,000 feet at 40 miles south of Munich, | | then circling around in a high speed ascent. (Sources: Donald E. | | Keyhoe, Flying Saucers Are Real, p. 162; Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on | | Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 68; Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, | | p. 237;  Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 10). | | | | 1950 - At 3:20 p.m. a disc-shaped UFO flew from the southwest to the | | northeast near Maxwell Air Force Base, then performed a flip over the | | city of Montgomery, Alabama. A second disc flew from the southwest to | | the northeast, then two more flew from the south to the north at a | | high rate of speed. town. There were three witnesses, and the entire | | event lasted nine minutes. (Source: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. | | 1950: August-December, p. 58). | | | | 1953 - The famous Kinross Air Force Base disappearance of an F-89 | | fighter plane occurred on this date. An F-89 was scrambled from | | Kinross AFB at 6:41 p.m. to pursue a UFO over Lake Michigan and the | | Upper Pennisula of Michigan. The radar blips of the UFO and the jet | | merged into one near Soo Locks and Keeneenaw Point, Michigan then the | | jet disappeared and the UFO flew away. An extensive air search and | | rescue found no trace of the missing aircraft, with the two airmen | | named Moncla and Wilson. The radio communication between the pilot | | and Air Traffic Controllers has never been released. The massive | | search and recovery effort went on for an extensive period of time, | | and failed to find any wreckage. (Sources: Sault Ste. Marie Evening | | News, November 24, 1953; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, | | p. 13; UNICAT, case # 670; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National | | Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 406; UNICAT | | database, case # 670). | | | | 1954 - At around five o'clock in the evening two young shepherds, M. | | G. and P. T., age 12, were returning to their flock in Colcerasa, | | Macerata, Italy when they noticed that the sheep had moved from were | | they had left them and that their sheep dog was barking. M. G. | | observed three “dark colored, animal like creatures” moving between | | some bushes and a couple of bonfires that the shepherds had lit | | earlier. They also saw what looked like a small barrel, 60-70 | | centimeters wide by 1.5 meters long. The edges of the object were | | flattened. M. G. was unable to view the beings clearly; they stood | | approximately 35 cm tall and had rather disproportionately large, | | flat-topped heads. They appeared to be dressed in dark shiny suits, | | as if made out of plastic. The creatures quickly retreated into the | | object, which quickly took off producing a hissing sound. When the | | object had reached an altitude of 20 meters it expelled a large | | fireball. This exploded just before touching the ground, and a strong | | gust of wind struck both boys. The object sported something like | | “antennae” situated on its forward section, which vibrated when the | | object lifted off. The craft zipped rapidly in an easterly direction | | and disappeared from view to the left of Mount La Cesa. Both boys | | ran home to relate what they had just seen. (Source: Albert S. | | Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 1602, citing Maurizio | | Verga, ITACAT). | | | | 1954 - On this afternoon three 10-year-old girls returning from | | school in Torpo, Norway--Anne & Tora Storedal and Tora Moy | | Hauge--found themselves being followed by a flying saucer. It came | | down to hover only 3 or 4 feet away from them. It was round, about 10 | | feet in diameter, and the bottom was black, trimmed with yellow spots | | which could have been lights, with a number of small, "red jags." The | | upper part was a transparent dome, and a man who was operating | | controls was visible inside. He wore black trousers, a black jacket, | | and immense red goggles over his eyes. He stared at one of the girls. | | When the craft rose it collided with a high-tension power line with a | | shower of sparks, and the girls ran away. They noticed a smell "like | | fried sausages." A "streak" was found in the snow, apparently left by | | the craft having brushed the surface of the snow covered ground. | | (Sources: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid | | Reports, case 1954-132 (A0345), citing Oddvar J. Larsen, CSI-New | | York). | | | | 1957 - In the desert 30 miles west of Tonopah, Nevada Joseph Long's | | car engine died at 6:10 a.m. He then heard a high-pitched whining | | sound and saw to his right four large, metallic Saturn-shaped craft | | resting on the ground 400 meters away. The objects were 50 feet in | | diameter, with a dome in the center and a rotating ring on the edge. | | He walked up to within 50 feet of the objects during the next 20 | | minutes, when the four objects slowly rose up and left the area, at | | which time he returned to his vehicle and the car engine could be | | restarted. The humming sound increased in pitch when the objects took | | off. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official | | statistics; J. Allen Hynek,  The Hynek UFO Report, p. 182; UNICAT | | database, case # 286, citing Hynek; Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 445; Richard F. Haines, Project | | Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 186; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports | | Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 13; Richard H. Hall, The UFO | | Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 1). | | | | Tonopah, Nevada Close Encounter of the Second Kind - 1957 | | | | [Sketch of Tonopah, Nevada Close Encounter - 1957] | | | | 1958 - At 11:35 p.m. Julio M. Ladaleto, an engineer, stopped when his | | car hit a can rolling on the road in Cojutepeque, El Salvador. He | | then observed an object about 35 meters away. It was shaped like a | | lamp shade with an upper transparent sphere emitting a bluish, | | pulsating light, 12 meters diameter, seven meters high, and resting | | on three half-spheres. An very tall occupant, 2.5 meters in height, | | was photographed by the witness as the crossed the road and appeared | | to inspect the craft. The UFOnaut wore a blue coverall and | | luminescent heelless boots, and had a bald head. The observation | | lasted 10 minutes, after which the object took off with a whining | | sound, sparks and smoke. The following day, before he had revealed | | anything about the case, Ladeleto was contacted by strange "newsmen" | | who appeared to know all the details of it. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 476; Coral & Jim | | Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 151). | | | | 1961 - In Sioux City, Iowa at  9:30 p.m. F. Braunger saw a bright red | | "star" fly straight and level for 15 seconds. (Sources: Project Blue | | Book files counted in official statistics, case # 7742; Don Berliner, | | Project Bluebook Unknowns). | | | | 1965 - At 9:30 p.m. a man named Quigley sighted a flourescent, blue | | cluster of lights tinged orange on the sides, about a mile away in | | the sky over Adelaide, South Australia. When he signaled with a | | flashlight a second time it moved closer. (Source: Michael Hervey, | | UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 174). | | | | 1967 -  Two UFOs with lights blinded a man while he was driving his | | truck at dusk in Ivangrad, Yugoslavia. One object hung close to | | ground for 15 minutes, then took off vertically. (Source: APRO | | Bulletin, November-December 1967, p. 7). | | | | 1969 - For 15 minutes beginning at 12:30 a.m. four witnesses watched | | and viewed through a telescope a glowing ovoid object over Kauri | | Mountain, New Zealand that moved up-and-down, side-to-side, and | | hovered. It departed by shooting straight up. (Source: FSR, March | | 1970, p. 32). | | | | 1972 - A class of college student observed a silent, wingless, | | dull-gray fuselage-shaped object fly over a forest in Acheres, | | Yvelines, France at 8:45 a.m. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer | | database, case # 9766, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 123). | | | | 1973 - A torpedo-shaped object flew quickly through the sky near | | the locks at Brunel Ward, Huntsville, Ontario. (Source: Huntsville | | Forester, November 29, 1973). | | | | 1975 -  A one-meter in diameter disc was spotted just over the | | highway D786 in Treguier, France. It  followed a car west, but turned | | back quickly to the east when the car approached the town. (Source: | | Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 11555, citing Jean Claude | | Bourret, La Nouveau Defi des OVNI, p. 164). | | | | 1975 - A domed disc-shaped object with three white lights and a | | smaller blinking red light in the center was sighted by a young | | couple in Chicago, Illinois at 4:50 p.m. on a clear evening. It | | hovered motionless for a few seconds, dropped down, hovered again, | | then moved to the east, hovered a third time, and finally moved | | rapidly off to the northwest. It made no sound and the witnesses were | | confident it was not a plane or helicopter. (Source: Fred Merritt, | | on-site case field investigation). | | | | 1976 - A lounge owner and a bartender watched a large domed object as | | it hovered over trees in Kenner, Louisiana on a clear night, flashing | | red, green, and white lights. The dome was three times the size of a | | helicopter, and it passed over their car at 3:30 a.m. It hovered for | | two minutes over the trees, then moved slowly toward Moisant Airport | | in the east. (Sources: International UFO Reporter, January 1977, | | p. 5; UNICAT, case # 233). | | | | 1977 - At 8:30 p.m. in the village of Colares, Para State, Brazil | | 35-year-old Anotnio Ferreira witnessed an "airship," red on the | | bottom, gray metallic on the top, and oval-cylindrical in shape. It | | was estimated to be 1500 meters distant, and it moved in small wavy | | pulsing actions, spinning as it went. At the same time 34-year-old | | pilot Ivaldo Viegas Pantoja was flying from Colarfes and spotted the | | dull metallic "airship" when his plane was at 60 meters altitude, and | | the UFO was at only 30 meters, 3000 meters away. It was small, | | perhaps only 1.5 meters in size, and going from southeast to east at | | 100 km/h. He reported being frightened by his encounter with the | | object. (Source: Bob Pratt, Operacion Prato, p. 34).  | | | | 1978 - At 6:30 p.m. a fluorescent, wedge-shaped UFO flew silently | | over an oil field in Abu Dhabi, UAE. There were 11 oil workers as | | witnesses. (Sources: Richard H. Hall, MUFON UFO  Journal, January | | 1979, p. 5, citing UPI; APRO Bulletin, January 1979, p. 3). | | | | 1978 - In the early evening a silver triangular object with two | | yellow lights paced a "Tristar" airliner from Heathrow Airport, Kent, | | England. It came back several times during the three minute | | encounter, and was tracked on radar. There were several independent | | witnesses. At 7:15 p.m. a man in Whitstable, Kent, England making | | weather observations at his home saw a silver, plate-shaped UFO, | | within a block of light gray vapor. The UFO was glistening silver, | | and emerged from the front of the mist. It showed great acceleration, | | and left a vapor trail. (Sources: (1) D. N. Mansell, Awareness, April | | 1979, p. 11; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 42; (2) | | UFO Newsclipping Service, January 1979, p. 11, citing | | Whitstable Times, November 24, 1978). | | | | 1978 - At 9:00 p.m. a cigar-shaped UFO flew over Gois, Coimbra, | | Portugal very rapidly to the north, radiating an orange glow. | | (Source: PORTUCAT, case 236, citing Diario de Coimbra). | | | | 1990 - A giant cigar-shaped object flew rapidly and silently to the | | north over Vumba, Manicaland, Zimbabwe. A flame was emitted from the | | rear end of the object. It had blinking and steady lights. (Source: | | Cynthia Hind, UFO AfriNews, issue 4, July 1991). | | | | 1991 -  On this day a hunter in Riga, Latvia shot at a UFO at close | | range, which changed color from gray to white and then | | dematerialized. (Source: Richard F. Haines, JUSA-CISAAF Translations, | | p. 150). | | | | 1992 -  A couple driving on an isolated road at 1:30 a.m. near the | | town of San German, Puerto Rico saw tall thin being walking on side | | of road. He was walking towards them, and was described as having a | | large head, which was covered by a black helmet, wide shoulders, and | | very long arms. At eye level there was a rectangular opening in the | | helmet, and they could see two large almond-shaped eyes. Around his | | neck was a golden colored collar. The startled witnessed decided to | | turn back and take another look, but the humanoid figure had already | | vanished. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1992, | | case # 285, citing Jorge Martin, Enigma, issue # 58). | | | | 1994 -  Six children in Plancher-les-Mines, France watched a silver | | domed disc maneuver, then hover low over a field. On the dome was a | | porthole, and inside a human-like head could be seen looking out. | | (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 330). | | | | 1995 -  Several independent witnesses reported watching a disc-shaped | | object flashing at low altitude over Lugo, Leon, Spain at 8:30 p.m. | | No figures were visible in its large, clear windows. (Source: Larry | | Hatch, U computer database, case # 17155). | | | | 1996 -  David L., a local cab driver, was taking several passengers | | home from a pub in Hallbankgate, Cumbria, England at around 1:40 a.m. | | when he observed a large green ball of light with a white ring | | around. The ball of light dropped from the sky and then hovered in | | some woods at a nearby farm. Later, after driving another group of | | passengers from the pub, he came up a hill and saw a tall figure | | emerging from a gate in a field on his right hand side. The figure | | wore a silver suit with some kind of helmet on his head. It was | | carrying what appeared to be a "white sheet" in front of him that he | | was not holding, but seemed to be stuck to his hands. Both David and | | his two passengers were extremely frightened and did not stop, | | driving quickly away from the area. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, | | Humanoid Contact Database 1996, case # 3127, citing British UFO | | Research Association). | | | | 1996 - At around 7 p.m. a witness in Indianapolis, Indiana drove | | under a large metallic top-shaped UFO at 300 feet altitude. It | | hovered silently. At 8:45 p.m. in Stockton, California--100 years to | | the night after the first airship sighting there--a large rotating | | sphere was seen by witnesses in four cars. (Source: Larry Hatch, U | | computer database, citing Francis L. Ridge, UFO Intelligence | | Newslatter, Volume 10 Issue 2). | | | | 2000 - Several high-quality witnesses in Atlanta, Georgia reported | | sighting waves of disc-shaped objects that flew against the wind and | | above the clouds in formations of two to twelve from 9:30 p.m. to | | 9:45 p.m. At least 50 UFOs were sighted moving toward the | | north-northeast for a total of about 15 minutes. (Sources: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, November 2000 archived | | webpage; George Filer, Filer's Files, 2000, issue # 49). | | | | 2003 - At 6 p.m. from Berkeley, California a huge illuminated object | | with flashing lights moved smoothly over the Bay Bridge toward | | Oakland. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | Seattle, November 2003 webpage). | | | | 2007 - Very bright underwater lights were seen in the ocean off East | | Falmouth, Massachusetts at 11:30 p.m. (Source: Peter Davenport, | | National UFO Reporting Center, November 2000 archived webpage, report | | uploaded March 4, 2008). | | | | 2007 - A triangular craft, with two horizontal level beams of lights, | | like "headlights," was seen from I-380, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, near the | | Eastern Iowa Airport at 11:03 p.m. (Source: Peter Davenport, National | | UFO Reporting Center, November 2000 archived webpage, report uploaded | | November 28, 2007). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 23 November 2012). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: air | | craft UFO encounters; black uniforms; blue UFO; cigar-shaped, fuselag | | e and torpedo-shaped UFOs; dematerialization of UFO; disc-shaped UFOs | | ; domes or domed discs, helmets; lampshade-shaped UFO; Man in Black ( | | MIB); multi-year reports from England, France and northern California | | ; ovoid UFOs; procession of UFOs; radar visual confirmations; triangu | | lar UFOs; very tall humanoid; whining sound; witness shooting at UFO. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+