+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  October 8 | | | | 1952 - A thin, silver disc-shaped craft hovered and wobbled 500 | | meters over the heads of three witnesses in Guimiliau, Finistere | | department, France on this afternoon at 1:00 p.m. It made a whistling | | sound as it shot away. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 131). | | | | 1953 - A glowing disc flew at high speed over Akron, Ohio at 8:40 | | p.m. (Source: APRO Bulletin, May 1954). | | | | 1954 - Mr. Ghaseme Fili, of Amireah Street, Teheran, Iran was on the | | balcony of the second floor of his house at 2:30 a.m. when he saw a | | luminous, white flying object stop in mid-air, only 20 meters away | | from him. Lights shone from the rear and the sides of the craft, and | | inside there was a small man dressed in black, wearing a mask or | | breathing apparatus that resembled the trunk of an elephant. "I was | | standing with both hands on the bar of my balcony, looking with | | astonishment at this strange object, when I suddenly felt as though I | | were being drawn up toward the object by a magnet." Mr. Fili cried | | out in terror and woke up his neighbors. The object shot straight up, | | emitting sparks, and it was lost to sight almost immediately. | | (Sources: Gordon Creighton, Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1967, | | p. 23; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, | | case # 211). | | | | 1954 - In the predawn hours a motorcyclist, R. Ott, riding through | | farm county in Jettingen, Haut-Rhin department, France saw a 10 foot | | wide mushroom-shaped object with an open 5 foot by 2 foot wide | | doorway near the ground. He saw no UFO occupants, but after driving | | by he was struck by a powerful beam of light. (Sources: Aime Michel, | | Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 143; Jacques Vallee, | | The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 13; David F. Webb & Ted | | Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0283, citing | | Mulhouse Alsace, October 9, 1954). | | | | 1954 - At 7:00 a.m in the town of Stintino on the island of Sardegna, | | Italy a single witness named Milia watched a white UFO that looked | | like "an oval sail" descend to five feet above the ground about 60 | | feet away. Attached to it was a man dressed in black, who wore a | | helmet. When the UFOnaut saw the witness, the witness claims he threw | | out some pamphlets that were written in an unknown language. | | (Source:David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid | | Reports, case # A0284). | | | | 1954 - At 9:15 p.m., on the road to Boulogne in Pas de Calais | | department, France a bluish domed disc-shaped object dove toward the | | ground, became white and then flew away. (Source: Aime Michel, Flying | | Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 154; Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 212). | | | | 1954 - At 11:00 p.m. in St. Claude, Charente, France a human | | silhouette was seen standing motionless near where a luminous ovoid | | shaped UFO had landed. Strip of burnt, crushed grass found at spot, | | trodden down. (Sources: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: | | Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1690, citing Charente Libre, | | October 11, 1954; Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture | | Rationaliste, p. 189). | | | | 1954 - At 11:15 p.m. an orange disc-shaped object danced "arabesques" | | in the sky over the city of Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France. (Sources: | | Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 3823; Michel Figuet & | | Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres | | Rapprochees en France, p. 135). | | | | 1955 - R. D. Prather and H. Ahern sighted a round, silverly white | | flying object at 4:38 p.m. in Loogootee, Indiana that zoomed through | | the sky at a speed in excess of 1,000 m.p.h. (Sources: Project Blue | | Book files counted in official statistics, case # 3800; Don Berliner, | | Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns).  | | | | 1957 - At three o'clock in the afternoon two couples going | | from Nabouwalu to Nawaca in the Fiji Islands by motor boat saw a | | white colored object descend from the sky. They thought it was a | | plane in trouble so they went closer. Instead of plane wreakage they | | found the object hovering seven meters above the water, and a figure | | onboard the craft then aimed a beam of energy at them that was | | very bright and made them feel weak. The figure disappeared suddenly, | | and the object took off vertically at high speed. (Sources: Jacques & | | Janine Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 18; Jacques | | Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 408). | | | | 1957 - At 7:05 a.m. a bright silver object flew at great speed over | | the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts. The witness, Mr. J. Flynn, was | | flying in a Pan Am DC-7C airliner over Norfolk County at the time of | | his sighting. (Sources: George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of | | Anomalies, p. 967, citing New York World Telegram & Sun, October 8, | | 1957; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 42). | | | | 1957 - At 9:17 a.m. two U.S. Army sergeants outside of Seattle, | | Washington observed two flat, round, white objects that flew in trail | | formation along an irregular path, frequently banking during the | | 25-30 seconds of their sighting. (Sources: Project Blue Book files | | counted in official statistics, case # 5003; Don Berliner, Project | | Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1965 - In Heytesbury, Wiltshire, England a Ms. Randall's car motor | | and headlights died at 12:25 a.m. The witness then saw two objects in | | the sky, one of which was close while the other was hovering in the | | sky. The second object took off to a higher altitude, and changed | | color from orange to red while doing so, then emitted red and blue | | sparks. The witness also thought she saw two beings by the roadside. | | (Sources: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, | | p. 26; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid | | Reports, case # A0679). | | | | 1965 - In the early evening after work, rubber plantation latex | | collectors in Alto Purus, Brazil saw evening an object resembling a | | huge wheel coming down to land near them. They described it as | | intensely bright with two flaming openings in the front. They quickly | | went into hiding, and observed the craft as it flew away. (Source: | | Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 84). | | | | 1965 - A child in Puno, Peru reported seeing a luminous object at ten | | o'clock in the evening, from which seven 80 cm tall creatures with | | only one eye emerged. On the same day a newsman was said to have seen | | another object land in the vicinity of Puno, and to have made an | | unsuccesful attempt at communication. (Source: Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings). | | | | 1966 - At 7:00 p.m. in Tenby, England a blue luminous cloud cigar | | circled, hovered, and emitted a dark object that flew off to the | | southwest. The larger object sped off to the east.  (Source: F. W. | | Holiday, FSR, July-August 1972, p. 3). | | | | 1966 - A red and white object was observed at treetop level from | | Highway 44 in Rushville, Indiana making a "screaming | | sound." TV interference was reported, and German shepard dogs howled | | during the six minute close encounter. (Source: Donald Worley, APRO | | Bulletin, November-December 1966, p. 4). | | | | 1967 - At 9:00 p.m. in Elk Garden, West Virginia a turtle-shaped disc | | flew over a cemetery shortly after a funeral at only six feet above | | the ground. (Source: Bob Teets, West Virginia UFOs: Close Encounters | | in the Mountain State, p. 191). | | | | 1967 - Dr. John Altshuler came to Alamosa County, Colorado to examine | | the carcass of the horse "Lady" thought to have been killed and | | mutilated by UFOs, and was abducted this night while camping at the | | Sand Dunes National Monument. (Source: Christopher O'Brien, case | | files, citing Valley Courier, October 9, 1975). | | | | 1968 - On this night in Asbestos, Quebec, Canada Mr. Bellerose, his | | wife, his brother in law, and his sister in law saw a rectangular | | green shape in the sky. After some minutes “a real saucer” came out | | of a cloud, with a yellow-orange light around it and three circular | | lights beneath it. The two men got into a car and followed the UFO | | toward St. Claude; watching from the home, the women distinctly saw | | humanoids walk from the object and seemingly float into space. | | (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid | | Reports, case 1968-101, citing Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & | | Science, issue # 54). | | | | 1968 - In Medulla, Florida a terrified dog crashed through a screen | | porch to hide from a domed disc-shaped UFO dropping sparks at treetop | | level and see-sawing in a rocking motion in the sky, only 150 feet | | away from the house. Two occupants wearing tight rubbery suits and | | headgear were visible inside the UFO. (Sources: Lakeland Ledger, | | November 11, 1968; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, June 1969, p. | | 13). | | | | 1969 - A large Saturn-shaped object was viewed through a telescope in | | Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France at 4:10 a.m. It had small satellite | | lights orbiting it in both clockwise and counter-clockwise | | directions. It shot to the north, then flew away to the south. | | (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 104). | | | | 1972 - A security guard had a nocturnal close encounter with a 100 | | foot in diameter domed disc that hovered 300 feet over a factory in | | Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. The UFO made a humming noise, | | tilted and then shot straight up. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer | | database, case # 9722). | | | | 1978 - At 2:00 a.m. a multi-colored disc-shaped object hovered north | | of Ord, Nebraska at a low altitude (75m) while making a loud buzzing | | sound. The object beams two tentacled figures down to the ground, who | | collect soil and plant samples. (Source: Allan Hendry, International | | UFO Reporter, July 1979, p. 15). | | | | 1978 - At 7:00 a.m. seven separate witnesses in Jenkins, Missouri, | | including a 71-year-old couple, watched two ovoid objects, one on the | | ground, for two hours. At its closest the nearest object was 180 feet | | away, and left behind ground traces. (Sources: Allan Hendry, | | International UFO Reporter, December1978, p. 11; citing Ted Phillips; | | UNICAT, case # 135; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of | | Multiple UFO, p. 191; Joplin Globe, October 24, 1978). | | | | 1978 - A cattle mutilation was reported in Avoca, Arkansas. (Source: | | George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 373, citing | | Robers (AR) Daily News, October 9, 1978). | | | | 1978 - A hat-shaped disc was photographed at 5:30 in the afternoon | | over a camp in Gobernador Virasoro, Corrientes, Argentina. The object | | resembled an inverted dish or narrow-brimmed hat. (Source: Jane | | Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, February 1979, p. 14, citing | | Clarin, November 2, 1978). | | | | 1978 - A man was driving with his sleeping wife through Lowton, | | Greater Manchester, England when at 11:30 p.m. a figure suddenly | | appeared in his headlights, standing in the middle of a grassy median | | strip in the center of the highway. The figure was human like but | | over six feet tall and was wearing a shiny silvery uniform. The | | figure was also encased in an orange glow. The man drove on but could | | still see the orange glow in the roadway when he looked back. Earlier | | in the same area other witnesses had seen a large lighted object with | | a silvery dome, and reported that three bumps underneath the object | | descended slowly towards the road. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, | | Humanoid Contact Database, case # 763, citing Peter Hough & Stephen | | Balon in Northern UFO News, issue # 55). | | | | 1981 - At 6:40 p.m. a one-meter wide red disc-shaped object flew | | slowly over the town of Linkou, Heilongjiang province, China from | | east to west at 350 meters altitude. Its estimated distance was 2500 | | meters. It was rotating and gave off an intense glow. (Source: | | Wendelle C. Stevens & Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, p. 234). | | | | 1981 - Three people driving in a car through Salen Forest on the | | Island of Mull, Highland, Scotland encountered a sudden fog around | | the middle of the day. The mist appeared to come from nowhere, and | | seemed to attach itself to the car. They felt a vibration and a | | sensation of heavy pressure, witnessed a blurred silvery shape, and | | after that experienced several hours of missing time.Three watches | | and a clock stopped working. The contents of the car trunk was found | | strewn about. (Sources: Jenny Randles, Alien Contacts and Abductions, | | p. 119; Jenny Randles, Time Storms: Amazing Evidence for Time Warps, | | Space Rifts, and Time Travel, p. 70). | | | | 1981 - On this day at around eleven o'clock in the morning a famous | | color UFO photograph of a silvery disc-shaped object with a clear | | bubble dome was taken thirty miles north of Kelsey Bay on the eastern | | side of Vancouver Island, British Columbia by Ms. Hannah McRoberts. | | The 25-year-old woman was traveling with family and took a photograph | | of a mountain at the time and did not observe the UFO when she | | snapped the picture.The resulting photograph shows an object to the | | right of and above the peak and a plume of cloud. The photograph has | | been judged authentic by Dr. Richard F. Haines and Dr. James Harder, | | among others. (Sources: Gordon Creighton, FSR, December 1983, p. 16 | | citing Bill Allan; UNICAT, case # 593; Richard H. Hall, The UFO | | Evidence, Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, p. 295). | | | | Kelsey Bay, Vancouver Isla | | nd UFO Photograph by Hannah McRoberts - October 8, 1981 at 11:00 a.m. | | | | [Photograph of domed disc Vancouver Island BC - 1981] | | | | For photo see: | | http://www.ufoevidence.org/photographs/section/1980s/Photo43.htm | | (opens in new tab/window) | | | | 1984 - At 7:40 a.m. a four foot tall furry being wearing a helmet was | | seen on the ground in Prato Principato, Compania, Italy carrying a | | forked tool. A box-shaped UFO took off vertically and flew off | | rapidly to the southwest. (Sources: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 261; | | Maurizio Verga, ITACAT). | | | | 1987 - On this night a round UFO ran an Ohio family off the road | | while driving in Grahams Forge, Virginia. The object made no sound | | and sped away to the north after buzzing their car. (Source: Danny B. | | Gordon, Don't Look Up! The Real Story Behind the Virginia UFO | | Sightings, p. 18). | | | | 1989 - A saucer-shaped UFO flew low over Sungai Petani, Malaysia at | | 8:10 p.m. (Source: Ahmad Jamaludin, Centre for Malaysian UFO Studies | | website). | | | | 1989 - At 11:00 p.m. Anna L was returning home with her husband in | | Primorskiy Kray, Vladivostok, Russia when she fell to the pavement, | | spinning and yelling in a panic, “Please don’t take me, I do not want | | to fly away, leave me alone, don’t touch me!” Something invisible | | appeared to be pulling Anna by her arms and legs. Her husband tried | | to calm her and yelled at her that there was no one around. He then | | tried to pick her up, but to his surprise she proved to be unusually | | heavy and he was unable to lift her. A crowd gathered, including some | | local militia, and the police thought her husband had struck her and | | they wanted to arrest him. At this point Anna calmed down and was | | able to rise from the pavement. In the morning she felt extremely | | depressed, and her temperature rose to 38.5 degrees. She then | | described what she believed had happened to her: She remembered | | walking with her husband when suddenly everything around her became | | black; the road, posts, and houses had all vanished and a black | | void surrounded her. From this void emerged three enormous figures | | over two meters in height, wearing silvery clothing. She next heard a | | loud rumbling noise, resembling something that would be made by | | machinery. After approaching her the figures pulled her by her arms, | | but she resisted and began screaming at them. She finally began to | | fade out of consciousness, and her body seemed to disappear. She came | | to the next morning. Doctors could find no bruises nor abrasions on | | her arms, and strangely her clothing did not have any traces of mud | | on them eventhough she had fallen in a puddle of water when she | | claimed to have struggled with the invisible entities. (Source: | | Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, citing Vladivostok | | Ufological Association). | | | | 1989 - At 11:05 p.m. a witness reported that a huge white light | | appeared over Londonderry, New Hampshire and changed color into | | a dull red, and then back to a dull white light. A second witness saw | | that the light was actually a triangular object with a big | | rectangular white light on the back end and a red light near the | | apex. It moved slowly, making a roaring sound, and was definitely | | larger than a house. Its estimated altitude was 2000 feet and its | | distance 3000 feet. (Source: Cheryl L. Powell, MUFON investigation | | files, case 900719). | | | | 1990 - Russian Air Force jet fighters were scrambled after radar | | contact was reported with two bogeys over T'Bilisi, Georgia at 11:22 | | a.m. The pilots saw two cigar-shaped objects, the first one reported | | to be two kilometers long and the second one 400 meters long. These | | huge objects moved horizontally at great speed. There was both ground | | and airborne radar contact with the targets, and the incident lasted | | 20 minutes. (Sources: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 72; | | Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 46; Richard F. | | Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 192). | | | | 1992 - An ovoid UFO silently hovered over a park in Barnsley, South | | Yorkshire, England at 6:45 p.m. for 70 minutes. It shot away faster | | than any plane, according to the four teenage witnesses. (Source: UFO | | Newsclipping Service, February 1993). | | | | 1992 - Late on this evening a woman reportedly had an abduction | | experience in Gardendale, Alabama. Leah Haley saw a moon-like | | object outside her house, and when she saw the real moon | | and recognized the second object wasn't it, a beam of light engulfed | | her and transported her onboard the craft. She then claims that she | | found herself in a "contemporary" looking room with tables adorned | | with crystal figurines. She also saw slips of paper underneath the | | figurines, with the names of other people to be abducted that night. | | A female, human-looking alien then came into the room. She had short | | brown hair and wore a red and gold blouse with black trim. She | | told the witness that her people "were trapped in a time dimension | | and needed our help to get out." From her limited recollection she | | recalled that the beings then performed some painful physical exam | | procedures on her that she was made to forget. (Source: Albert S. | | Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 2071, citing a published | | article by Leah Haley). | | | | 1993 - A disc-shaped object with white and green lights on its | | surface lit part of the sky over Langold, Nottingham, England at 7:15 | | p.m. Many more witnesses reported seeing orange nocturnal lights. | | (Source: UFO Newsclipping Service, February 1994). | | | | 1993 - A fifty foot in diameter disc-shaped object hovered over the | | Lake Wylie reservoir in North Carolina at 3:45 a.m. It had more than | | 30 red lights and flew at treetop level, and made a sound like a jet. | | (Source: UFO Newsclipping Service, April 1994). | | | | 1994 - A police officer watched two bright lights descend into a | | cornfield near O'Fallon, Missouri at 3:40 a.m. He reported having | | headaches and blurred vision afterwards.  (Source: Larry Hatch, U | | computer database, case # 16556, citing Actaeon Advisor, issue # 3). | | | | 1995 - A witness in a truck near Luke Air Force Base outside of | | Phoenix, Arizona sighted a reddish orange ball of light at 7:00 p.m. | | It flared up, then dimmed, and then rose vertically into the night | | sky until gone from sight. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO | | Reporting Center). | | | | 2003 - A huge triangular object moved silently through the sky over | | Ringgold, Virginia at five o'clock in the evening. It was close | | enough that the witness could clearly discern its three dimensional | | appearance. (Source:Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | October 2003 webpage). | | | | 2005 - An oval flying object resembling a shiny mylar balloon but | | oriented horizontally flew over Buena Park, California at 8:01 p.m. | | It had a red light underneath the body of the craft. (Source: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, report uploaded October 11, | | 2005). | | | | 2006 - A black disc-shaped object rose from behind a mountain in | | Anchorage, Alaska at 2:02 p.m. It stopped, then moved off quickly to | | the south against a heavy wind. (Source: Peter Davenport, National | | UFO Reporting Center, report uploaded October 30, 2006). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 7 October 2009). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: abductions, aircraft UFO encounters, ani | | mal reactions: dogs howled, another dog ran and hid, car buzzing, cig | | ar-shaped UFOs, cyclops humanoids, daylight discs, domed discs, energ | | y beam used as a weapon, failed abduction attempt, levitation, maneuv | | ering UFOs, missing time, multi-year reports from France and England, | | ovoid UFOs, physiological effects: weakness and paralysis, pendulum | | motion, round UFOs, triangular UFOs, TV interference associated with | | UFOs, unexplained animal deaths (UAD): cattle and horse mutilations, | | vehicle EM ignition interference effect, vertical ascent, white UFOs. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+