+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  December 17 | | | | 1949 - On this evening in 1949 two witnesses aboard a ferry in Puget Sound | | bound for Victoria, British Columbia from Seattle, Washington saw a | | nocturnal light zigzagging in the sky toward the northwest. It | | spiralled up into the night sky. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer | | database, citing Loren Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949 (volume 2), p. | | 61). | | | | 1952 – At 4:15 p.m. six people sighted two discs maneuvering over the | | coast and the city of San Diego, California. The objects moved at | | slow to very high speeds. (Source: U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book | | files counted in official statistics). | | | | 1953 – In Marseilles, France at 6:10 a.m. a huge white disc with a | | blue fringe flew off toward the southeast at an extremely fast speed. | | (Source: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: August-December, p. | | 68). | | | | 1953 - At 2:37 p.m. transair chief pilot Ulf Christiernsson and | | airline mechanic Johansson saw a nearly round, slightly elliptical | | UFO with a metallic shine flying close to the speed of sound in the | | opposite direction from their aircraft, while they were flying over | | Hassleholm, Sweden. The object was in sight for ten seconds. This | | case is a Project Blue Book unknown, but the possibility of the | | object having been a Russian drone was not fully discarded at the | | time. (Sources: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 121; Project Blue | | Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2838; Dominique | | Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 22; UNICAT, case # 769 citing | | Project Blue Book). | | | | 1954 – At 5:00 p.m. on a country road in Bersaillin, France in Jura | | department, a woodsman sighted a very bright light on the road, | | coming from a dark craft some 80 meters away. When the light became | | brighter the man felt an intense wave of heat and he thought that he | | would die. After a short while the light moved away. (Sources: | | Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case 355; | | Jacques Vallee, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 20). | | | | 1956 – At 3:20 p.m. at Itazuke AFB in Japan a brownish-golden colored | | UFO was sighted from the air by a pilot and co-pilot. It flew at a | | high rate of speed and was tracked on radar. Radio interference | | between the warplane and the base was also noted at the time. On that | | same night a humanoid encounter occurred in the United States. At | | about 9 p.m. in Conashaugh, Pennsylvania Ms. M. Carow, a 68-year-old | | woman, went out in her backyard with a flashlight and was surprised | | to see two dwarves. One was three feet tall, the other one three and | | a half feet tall. Both wore tight silver suits and helmets. The | | shorter one was stocky but the taller one was slender. She shone her | | flashlight on them for three minutes before they walked away. | | (Sources: (1) U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in | | official statistics; NICAP UFO Intestigator, August 1957; Donald E. | | Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, 104; UNICAT, case # 802; | | Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 28, citing | | International UFO Reporter; (2) Berthold E. Schwarz, FSR, | | September-October 1969, p. 16, citing Pike County Dispatch, April 17, | | 1958). | | | | 1958 – Fornells de Minorca, Baleares Islands, Spain. Mr. Galvez, a | | 55-year-old retired artillery sergeant was motorcycling on this | | Mediterranean Island when he observed a missile-shaped UFO 2.5 meters | | long flying only ten meter above some pine trees. It made a buzzing | | sound. There were some other witnesses nearby, according to Mr. | | Galvez. (Source: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 | | Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, p. 27, citing Eduardo Buelta | | as the field investigator). | | | | 1959 – On this day at eight o’clock in the morning four children on a | | school bus in Haverhill, Massachusetts saw a flash in the sky, then | | watched a silver, domed disc land in a field. A door in the craft | | opened and a humanoid occupant exited. (Source: Loren E. Gross, The | | Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: | | October-December). | | | | 1962 - A cylindrical object with two vertical projections was seen | | from Norfolk Island, New South Wales, Australia travelling from | | north-northeast to south-southwest. (Source: Michael Hervey, UFOs | | Over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 88). | | | | 1962 – In Milan, Italy at 2:20 a.m. Mr. Rizzi, a 37-year-old night | | watchman, heard a whistling sound and saw a silver metallic domed | | disc hovering just above the ground. The object was four or five | | meters wide and had a windowed turret on top. A three foot tall | | little man emerged from a door in the bottom of the craft. It pointed | | a finger at the witness who felt paralyzed. (Sources: Corrier Milan, | | December 19, 1962; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of | | Landings, case # 554; Leonard G. Cramp, Piece for a Jig-Saw, p. 124). | | | | 1963 - On or about this night in 1963 in Sauce Viejo, Argentina a railroad | | worker, Mr. C. Tulio Gallardo, saw lights appear outside his railroad | | coach at the same time that his radio and carbide lamp died. A | | luminous entity entered the coach, tore up the newspaper the witness | | had used to shield his eyes, grabbed an oilcan, and then left. Other | | passengers on an incoming train saw the entity leaving. (Source: | | Flying Saucer Review, January-February 1966, p. 25, citing La Gaceta, | | December 17, 1963). | | | | 1970 – At 5:10 a.m. in the town of St-Vit in Doubs, France several | | motorists saw a red disc descend low over some railroad tracks. | | (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 126). | | | | 1971 – At eight o’clock in the evening in Newark, Nottinghamshire, | | England a motorist’s car engine stopped but his car’s headlights | | stayed on. The driver then saw a huge gray sphere in the nearby | | field. He then saw a light move across the road and saw that the | | sphere had gone. The car could the be restarted. (Source: Mark | | Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 52). | | | | 1975 – In the city of Americana, in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil | | 16-year old Mr. Salles de Andrade encountered an intense beam of | | light while walking home at night and woke up the next day in a | | thicket, 28 kilometers away. He had no recollection for the time that | | he had been missing, but he had strange marks on his forehead and | | arms, and experienced headaches. (Source: Richard Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, | | August 1976, p. 19). | | | | 1977 – Shortly after four o’clock in the afternoon in Kenyon, Rhode | | Island a huge domed disc dropped silently toward the ground over a | | meadow and stopped, an estimated 400 feet above the ground. It had a | | small dome on the top of the object and three square windows. When | | the disc turned to a vertical position both cars in the vicinity | | stalled. The UFO gave off a bluish-white glow, and the witnessed | | experienced skin burns and rashes as a result of the intense light, | | and eye irritations after the encounter. (Sources: Donald R. Todd, | | APRO Bulletin, July-August 1978, p. 4; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports | | Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 72). | | | | 1977 – On that same night at 11:30 p.m. in St-Nazaire, Loire-Atlantic | | department, France a flaming disc-shaped UFO flew to the south and | | out to sea. The same or a similar object continued to hover offshore. | | (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, March 1978). | | | | 1978 – At 4:30 a.m. off the coast of Catania, Italy located on the | | Mediterranean island of Sicily, two people witness a small ovoid | | object take off from the sea in small, multiple jumps heading toward | | the west. At 7:00 a.m. in San Cataldo, also in Sicily, several | | independent witnesses watched a luminous disc land and take off | | again. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 214). | | | | 1978 – On the same night as the Sicily UFO landing, on the shoreline | | of Saint Ewe in Cornwall County, England a red mushroom-shaped UFO | | was seen at a low altitude, with a shaft of light reaching to the | | ground. The UFO was estimated to be 100 feet in diameter and had icy | | blue discs of light around the rim. A snowy white mist, apparently | | generated by the UFO concealed the ground beneath the object. | | (Source: UFO Newsclipping Service, February 1979, p. 13, citing the | | Dublin, Ireland Independent, December 24, 1978). | | | | 1982 - In 1982 at five p.m. at a military base in Malmby, Sweden Captain | | Bergstrom of the Swedish Army was out jogging and saw a huge “flying | | bus” with two other metallic disc-shaped objects escorting it. The | | three objects glided down to land in a clearing behind some trees. | | Two other witnesses watched the objects change color as they landed. | | (Source: Doris Graziano, APRO Bulletin, November 1984, p. 7). | | | | 1987 - In 1987 Ed Walters took several photographs of a disc-shaped UFO with | | lights at one o’clock in the morning in Gulf Breeze, Florida. An | | abduction of Mr. Walters may have occurred the same night. (Source: | | Edward Walters, Gulf Breeze Sightings, p. 73). | | | | 1996 - In 1996 a single witness reported that a flat-topped disc-shaped | | object hovered overhead in Redmond, Washington at 2:30 a.m. (Source: | | Francis L. Ridge, UFO Intelligence Newsletter). | | | | 1997 – In both Burlington and Colchester, Vermont witnesses called | | the UFO Reporting Center in Seattle, Washington to report that a | | large object passed overhead at 11:45 a.m. going toward the | | northeast. One person said that their radio was effected and didn’t | | work for ten minutes, the object estimated that the UFO was moving at | | 3,000 miles per hour. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO | | Reporting Center, Seattle). | | | | 1999 - Roberto Gomes Misson reported to the local police that on this | | evening he had encountered two one-meter tall humanoids on the road | | next to his house in Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. They | | were standing next to a huge hovering disc-shaped object. The object | | was about 15 meters (50 feet) in width and emitted red, blue, and | | orange lights. The police reportedly found ground traces at the | | landing site. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database | | 1999, citing Thiago Luiz Ticchetti, EBE-ET). | | | | 2000 - At 10:35 a.m. a 50 foot wide saucer-shaped object was seen by | | a mother and daughter on the ground east of Blanca, Colorado on the | | Trinchera Ranch in the San Luis Valley. A humanoid was seen outside | | of the object. (Source: Christopher O'Brien, Christopher O'Brien case | | files, case # 640). | | | | 2000 - At 6:00 p.m. a glowing yellow disc-shaped object was seen for | | 12 minutes north of San Francisco Bay in Sebastopol, California. | | (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, | | Dec. 2000 webpage, report uploaded Dec. 20, 2000). | | | | 2001 – A low flying, slow moving Saturn-shaped UFO flew to the south | | over the river at 7:30 p.m. in Brevard, Florida. (Source: UFO | | Magazine (USA), April 2002, p. 20, citing Filer’s Files). | | | | 2001 - Two bright blue lights were seen on a cigar-shaped craft that | | flew over St. Georges, Manitoba, Canada at 7:18 p.m. (Source: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, Dec. 2001 webpage, | | report uploaded May 24, 2005). | | | | 2005 - At 5:45 p.m. a slow moving, silent  triangular object with red | | lights was seen in Hockinson, Washington State. It was flying low to | | the ground and was quiet bright from a distance. It was in view for | | 90 seconds. At 9:30 p.m. a dark triangle-shaped object with V-shaped | | lights flew over the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Florida for | | three minutes. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting | | Center, Seattle, Dec. 2005 webpage, reports uploaded February | | 14, 2006). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 17 December 2009). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: | | cigar-shaped or cylindrical UFOs, domed discs, EM vehicle ignition in | | terference effects, humanoids standing next to 50 foot wide disc-shap | | ed UFOs, intense lights or light beams, landings, luminous entity, ma | | neuvering UFOs, multicolored UFOs, multi-year reports from Brazil, En | | gland, France and the Mediterranean islands, radio interference, silv | | er metallic UFOs, short humanoids, triangular UFOs, zigzag maneuvers. | | | | © Donald A. 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