+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  December 24 | | | | 1903 - A priest named Ivanku Petrovszky saw a glistening ball of | | light illuminate the countryside in Szuhabaranka, Hungary. The object | | landed and shadowy figures returned to it. A man who had gone to a | | well at the same time was never seen again. The case of his | | disappearance was closed ten years later but still unsolved. (Source: | | Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case | | 255, citing the UFO Report Annual 1983, p. 43). | | | | 1944 - A red ball of light climbed to the altitude of a Beaufighter | | from the 415TH NFS squadron while it was flying over Karisruhe, | | Germany on this night. The two man crew, Baker and McFalls, watched | | the light pace their aircraft for awhile and then climb away from | | them. (Sources: Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the | | Saucers, p 126; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. and Harold Dennault, Jr., | | Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 117). | | | | 1953 - Ten silverly oval-shaped objects were sighted flying | | horizontally over El Cajon, California at 8:04 a.m. Two Navy F-9F | | Panther jets attempted to catch up with them but failed. The UFOs | | were flying at 50,000' altitude at a speed in excess of 400 knots. | | (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, | | case #2840; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: August-December, | | p. 71; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 22; Richard | | F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 184). | | | | 1960 - A domed disc, estimated to be 20 feet in diameter, was seen | | near a mountain top in Durango, Colorado at midnight. It had a ring | | of lights around its rim. It pulsated and was in view for 15 minutes. | | A dog panicked in an agitated reaction, and later died. (Source: | | Durango Herald, December 28, 1960; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for | | Outstanding UFO Reports, case 117, citing APRO Bulletin, January | | 1961, p. 1; John A. Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 163; Kenneth | | Larson, Flying Saucers, March 1970, p. 13: Otto Binder, What We | | Really Know About Flying Saucers, p. 160). | | | | 1963 - At 7:25 p.m. in Rowarth, Cheshire, England a farmer named | | Chandler had his car battery die while a UFO flew by. His cows also | | became ill. (Sources: Orbit, April 23, 1963; Mark Rodeghier, UFO | | Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 21). | | | | 1965 - At 6:36 p.m. a yellow colored flying object with three bright | | spotlights was sighted by 13 young women working at a factory as it | | flew from the northwest to the west over Gifu prefecture, Japan. It | | kept changing its speed and apparent size as it flew. Fourteen | | minutes later a disc shaped object with a flat bottom and two | | spotlights flew toward the northeast on a horizontal trajectory. It | | was seen for four minutes. (Source: Y. J. Matsumura, Flying Saucers, | | October 1966, p. 39). | | | | 1967 - On this evening a couple driving near Tucson, Arizona saw a | | blob of red light. The engine and headlights of their car then quit. | | The light came near the car, passed overhead, and moved away to the | | south. The engine and lights both came back on as it departed. Two | | minutes before this sighting, both witnesses had seen a star-like | | object fall to earth. (Source: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving | | Vehicle Interference, case 230, citing CUFOS). | | | | 1970 - Two independent sets of photographs showing luminous balls of | | light in motion were taken on this night in Alamogordo, New Mexico. | | Three teenagers--Larsh, Neal, and Sellars--took a photograph of two | | lights in parallel motion at 10:00 p.m. They had had sightings of | | similar phenomena earlier in the week and were prepared to take a | | time exposure on this night. They made their photograph using a | | Pentax camera on a tripod. The two lights were also seen by another | | resident, Hjalmar Bowlby, earlier that same evening. Remarkably, they | | weren't the only ones who were able to catch an image of a UFO using | | a camera that night. At 10:35 p.m. Jerry Mozer, also of Alamogordo, | | New Mexico took a photo of a luminous point in motion, making an | | abrupt change of course resulting in a "buttonhook" effect on the | | image. Both photographs are reproduced below. (Sources: Alamogordo | | Daily News, December 31, 1970 and January 3, 1971; Data-Net Report, | | February 1971, p. 21). | | | | 1972 - The Romanian ship Maldoveanu while in the Atlantic Ocean off | | Cape Chidley, Labrador, Canada sighted a UFO at 3:00 a.m. The object | | continually changed shape and color, from round to oval, and from red | | to yellow to a bluish white. (Source: Ion Hobana and Julien | | Weverberg, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 279). | | | | 1975 - A huge disc covered the entire N19 highway in Bar-sur-Aube, | | France. It vanished at 8:10 p.m. when a car approached. (Source: | | Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1976). | | | | 1975 - At 10:00 p.m. power circuit breakers were tripped four times | | when a glowing ball of light came down near the ground in | | Ploubazlanec, Cotes-du-Nord, France. A 0.2 meter area of burnt grass | | was found at the site were it apparently touched down. (Source: | | Jean-F. Boedec, Les OVNI en Bretagne: Anatomie d'un Phenomene, p. | | 75). | | | | 1989 - At 5:50 p.m. a man in Sambreville, Belgium took a ten minute | | video of a round white shape in the sky. It could be seen moving and | | rotating slowly. An hour later, at 6:50 p.m., a woman made another | | videotape, this time of a luminous globe in the sky over Nimy, | | Belgium. The videotape shows a white ball with a black ring around it | | and plasma. (Sources: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 303; Timothy Good, | | The UFO Report 1991, p. 56). | | | | 1989 - At 11:00 p.m. a Russian L29 Trainer flying between Chelyabinsk | | and Korkino, Russia sighted a yellowish white cigar-shaped object | | flying at 8000 meters altitude. It vanished when the pilot attempted | | to approach. (Sources: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 61; | | Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 46). | | | | 1992 - Twenty civilian witnesses and police southwest of Monroe, | | Louisiana watched a silent, boomerang shaped UFO with bright beams of | | light pass over cars in a forested area at 6:00 p.m. and bounce up | | and down for six minutes. The object was videotapted by one of the | | witnesses, a 39-year-old man. (Source: W. L. Garner, Jr., MUFON UFO | | Journal, November 1993). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 15 November 2005). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: aircraft UFO encounters, balls of light, boomeran | | g-shaped UFOs, color changing UFOs, disappearance or permanent abduct | | ion of a man, domed disc, landing traces, oval-shaped UFOs, photograp | | hs, polymorphing UFOs, UFOs making abrupt maneuvers, unexplained anim | | al deaths and illnesses, vehicle EM effects, videotapes, yellow UFOs. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+