+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  September 16 | | | | 1952 - The crew of a U.S. Navy P2V Neptune patrol plane, Boak, | | Prentis and Hara, flying near Portland, Maine at 6:22 p.m. sighted a | | dark elongated cigar and a group of five unidentified lights and | | picked up a long thin blip on radar. Investigators considered whether | | the crew had sighted a USAF KC-97 aircraft involved in a refueling | | operation, but decided that this was unlikely. The sighting lasted 20 | | minutes. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official | | statistics, case # 2099; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 146; | | Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Cominique Weinstein, | | Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 19; UNICAT, case # 746). | | | | 1952 - At 7:30 p.m. three Air Force officers and two civilians at | | Warner-Robbins AFB, Georgia observed two unidentified white lights | | flying abreast, at a speed of 100 mph, for 15 minutes. (Source: Don | | Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1954 - At 5:45 p.m. a metallic round flat object, was seen gliding | | along rapidly in calm air over Le Pin, Isere, France by four | | witnesses. (Source: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line | | Mystery, p. 50). | | | | 1954 - In Marion, Virginia a radio station transmitter failed as a | | round shiny UFO passed by the tower. (Source: Richard Hall, The UFO | | Evidence, p. 74). | | | | 1955 - Boisseuges, France. A young shepherd heard a whistling sound | | at 6:00 p.m. as a dark mass appeared to fall from the sky and a rush | | of air swept him from his feet. The object looked like a machine with | | an opening where a stairway became visible. Two occupants were seen. | | One was observed to have a reddish face, a baldhead, and very fine | | teeth. The craft was round, about 3.5 meters in diameter, and two | | meters high; it was lighted with a neon-like light. The occupants | | gathered some plants and flew away to the northwest. (Sources: | | Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 252 | | (case 375); Gamard Alain, UFO Register 1978 (volume 7), p. 44). | | | | 1957 - At 7:30 p.m. in Smithfield, Queensland, Australia Les | | McDonald, age 17, and Gladys Smith, age 14, saw a red light changing | | to green, spreading around them like a mist and covering an area | | about 100 meters in diameter. They became nearly paralyzed and "felt | | a warm glow." They had no fear, but were "merely cognizant of things | | as they were without [the ability] to react." This sensation lasted | | two minutes. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century | | of Landings, p. 258 (case 402), citing UFO Bulletin, December 1957). | | | | 1962 - On this night a rubber plantation worker in Vila Conceicao, | | near Barcelos, Amazonas, Brazil saw a round glowing object emitting | | sparks come down into a clearing in the plantation. Three humanoid | | beings jumped out, attacked another man, who happened to be a soccer | | referee, abducted him and took him away. They also stole 17 hens, six | | pigs, and two cows from the plantation. The UFO shot straight up into | | the sky when it took off. Neither the man nor the animals were | | ever returned. (Sources: APRO Bulletin, January 1963, p. 3; FSR, | | September 1970, p. 28; Brad Sparks, Computer Catalog of Abduction | | Cases (N=150), case 74; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions:  The | | Measure of a Mystery.  Volume 2: Catalogue of Cases, case # 262). | | | | 1965 - Pretoria, South Africa. Two police officer witnesses in an | | approaching car, Lockem and De Klerk, watched in astonishment as a | | copper-colored, domed disc-shaped UFO, 30 feet in diameter, lifted | | off from the road in front of them at 12:10 a.m., emitting flames | | from two tubes on the underside. The physical traces included a | | burned five foot diameter depression on the macadam road. (Sources: | | NICAP UFO Investigator, September 1965, p. 5; Richard H. Hall, The | | UFO Evidence, Volume II. A Thirty Year Report, pp. 171, 262). | | | | Pretoria, South Africa CE-II UFO Report - 1965 | | | | [Sketch of Pretoria, South Africa CE-II UFO Report - 1965] | | | | 1971 - Radar/visual confirmation. At 8:45 p.m. astronomers and many | | other witnesses in St. Michel, east of Manosque, Alpes-Haut-Provence, | | France saw a 12 meter diameter disc-shaped object make maneuvers and | | turns; it shot off to the northeast. (Source: Aime Michel, FSR Case | | Histories, February 1972, p. 2; GEPA Phenomenes Spatiaux, September | | 1971, p. 28, citing LDLN). | | | | 1973 -  At 7:30 p.m. a brightly glowing ellipse hovered near a house | | in Greilickville near Elmwood Township, Michigan. There were four | | witnesses, including Mr. Peacock. (Sources: Richard H. Hall, The UFO | | Evidence, Volume II:  A Thirty-Year Report, p. 341; J. Bernard | | Delair, UFO Register, volume 5 (1974), case 570). | | | | 1974 - At around 9:15 p.m. Mrs. Richards was driving north of St | | Helens, Tasmania, Australia with her two young children when she | | noticed the sky light up ahead of her. Crossing a bridge, the car | | then lost power and rolled to a stop. The entire electric system was | | out, even the heater, radio, headlights and dashboard lights, and an | | attempt to restart the car failed. Then "a deafening vibrating noise | | enveloped the car." As she and the children covered their ears, | | "painful electrical shocks began penetrating their bodies." This went | | on for about a minute. Next, the car filled with a "choking smell," | | and they evacuated the car and ran down the road to a house some | | distance away. The local resident noted their alarmed condition and | | took them in, and after a short while they all went back to check on | | their vehicle. The light had gone, and all that was unusual with the | | car was that its hood was hot. The car started normally, and they | | drove home. Coincidentally, Mrs. Richards husband was out waiting for | | them and saw lights in the sky and heard a distant roar. Although the | | children suffered no subsequent physiological effects, Mrs. Richards | | had swollen arms, fingers, and became numb on the right side of her | | face. (Sources: Saturday Evening Mercury, September 21, 1974; W. K. | | Roberts, FSR, February 1976, p. 22; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports | | Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 63; Keith Basterfield, UFO | | Research Australia, March 1982, p. 26). | | | | 1974 - On this afternoon west of Dargnies, Somme, France two domed | | discs were seen on the ground. "Men" were seen working outside the | | crafts. The objects took off rapidly to the west, and "lava rock" was | | found at the landing site. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue | | 339). | | | | 1978 - At 2:30 a.m. in Delano, Tennessee a witness saw two | | humanoid beings with what looked like flashlights in the yard. Then a | | pink-colored UFO descended, and the figures vanished. (Source: Larry | | Hatch, U computer database, case # 12827, citing International UFO | | Reporter, July 1979). | | | | 1981 - Mr. Burke, age 48, was driving between Nowra and Kangaroo | | Valley, New South Wales, Australia when his car was enveloped in a | | blazing light which allegedly melted his tape recorder. It also | | caused soreness in witness's leg and fingers. (Source: ACOS Bulletin, | | March 1982, p. 11). | | | | 1981 - At Charleston Lake, Ontario three members of a family watched | | three red spheres at 9 p.m. The first object came in over the lake at | | tree level, banked left over the water, and disappeared in the east. | | The other two stayed over water, then vanished "into thin air". | | (Source: Joe Graziano, APRO Bulletin, March 1982, p. 7). | | | | 1989 - Radioactive release occurred on this day at 8:20 a.m. at | | Chernobyl' Unit 4, Ukraine. A few hours later a doctor, Dr. I. | | Gospina, sighted an amber, elliptical UFO. She was able to discern | | its top and bottom. (Source: Paul Stonehill, The Soviet UFO Files, p. | | 68). | | | | 1989 - On this night a young female employee of a local meat packing | | plant in Nikolayev, Russia had stepped outside for a quick break at a | | tramway when a beam of light struck her from above. Looking up, she | | saw a hovering disc-shaped craft which the beam had emanated from. | | The object was about 40-60 meters in diameter. She reported that she | | felt no fear and indeed had a euphoric feeling as she began rising up | | into the air towards the object. She was levitated up to 160 feet and | | near to the UFO. She also heard a voice extolling her to "fly with | | them". Other workers came to the scene and began yelling and ran | | towards the woman.The witnesses screaming apparently had an effect, | | for the beam disappeared, she was returned to ground, and the UFO | | flew away. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet | | Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 10; Larry Hatch, U computer database, | | case # 14941; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, | | citing Mikhail Gershtein, Immense Invasion). | | | | 1989 - On this night witnesses north of Zaostravka, Perm, Russia | | watched several disc-shaped objects engaged in what looked like an | | aerial battle or "dogfight" with another gold-colored disc. After | | several explosions the electrical power in Zaostravka went off. The | | gold-colored disc was seen crashing into a swamp. Several military | | personnel tried to get near the crash site, but the isolated location | | seemed impossible to access. The zone was declared off limits by the | | local military, several families living nearby were displaced, and a | | barbwire fence was installed in the area. Aircraft flying over the | | area afterwards reported equipment malfunctions and were diverted to | | other flight paths. The downed object was described as | | mushroom-shaped with a greenish-gold dome and a matt black rim with a | | narrow base. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database | | 1989, citing F. Bachurin, N. A. Subbotin and Anton Anfalov). | | | | 1992 - At 12:30 a.m. on County Road 70 northeast of Elk River, | | Minnesota, Mr. Townsend, age 49, witnessed a huge gray, silent domed | | disc over a clearing in the midst of a rainstorm. He viewed it | | clearly when the lightning flashed. The main body of the craft was | | disc-shaped, like a plate upside down, with a smaller bowl on top. | | There were four round white lights spaced evenly around the bottom, | | and it had smaller green and red lights in between. An interesting | | feature was that the rain stopped one foot from top the top of the | | craft, as if the energy field surrounding the object was causing the | | rain to dissipate. (Sources: Gary Trash, MUFON field investigation | | case files, case # 120592C; Donald Ware, MUFON UFO Journal, February | | 1993, p. 16; Joni Astrup, UFO Newsclipping Service, December 1992, | | p. 1, citing Star News, September 30, 1992). | | | | 1994 - At 10:15 a.m. several children in school in Ruwa, Mashona | | East, Zimbabwe watched three silver discs or spheres disappear with a | | flash of light, then reappear three times. One of the objects landed | | and a small man emerged. He was one meter tall and pale with a | | scrawny neck, big eyes and long black hair. He wore a shiny tight | | black suit. There were a total of 62 witnesses, and the incident | | lasted eight minutes. In another account of the same or a parallel | | incident, at 10:18 in nearby Harare, Mashona East, Zimbabwe school | | children at a school in a rural area spotted an unknown craft that | | landed in the valley below, with black humanoids patroling outside. | | (Sources: (1) Cynthia Hind, UFO Afri News, January 1995; Cynthia | | Hind, MUFON UFO Journal, January 1995; (2) Peter Davenport, National | | UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 1994 webpage, report | | uploaded December 5, 2001).  | | | | 1994 - At 8:00 p.m. numerous witnesses observed a strange craft | | hovering over Metepec, Mexico. At about the same time Sara Cuevas | | filmed a disc-shaped craft hovering over the area. A few hours | | later she noticed a strange luminous being standing about 90 feet | | away from her in the middle of a nearby sugar cane field. She filmed | | the four-foot-tall humanoid as it slowly moved away. The next day, | | footprints and strange formations of flattened crop-formation | | depressions were found in the sugar cane field. Another witness came | | forward who had seen a luminous dome-shaped craft land in the field | | that same night. (Sources: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact | | Database 1994, case # 2283, citing Michael Hesemann, The Cosmic | | Connection; Carlos Alberto Guzman Rojas, Los OVNIs y la Aviacion | | Mexicana: 50 anos de encuentros con OVNIs en el espacio aereo | | mexicano, p. 175). | | | | 1995 - At around midnight, during the heavy rain and buffeting of | | Tropical Storm Marilyn, a local resident of Pozo, Campo Rico, Puerto | | Rico saw a strange five-foot creature with red glowing eyes. He fired | | at the being several times with his gun, but it sprouted small wings | | and flew away from the area. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, 1995 | | Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, case # 2303, citing Jorge Martin, | | Evidencia OVNI, issue # 8). | | | | 1996 - At around 5:00 a.m. a witness in a car noticed a shiny | | luminous point of unusual size in Corme Royal, Charente-Maritime, | | France, then saw an ovoid craft with three portholes emitting a | | strong orange light. It was stationary at an altitude from 30-40 | | meters and 300-400 meters from the road. (Source: GEIPAN, case 237). | | | | 1996 - The 6-year-old witness was sleeping on the floor of his | | brother's room in Windsor, North Carolina when at 4:15 a.m. he awoke, | | looked to his right, and saw a white face with a grayish tint that | | was apparently lying on the ground staring at him. It had large black | | eyes and an almond-shaped head, no ears, a slit for a mouth, and two | | holes for a nose. It seemed to be about 5 feet 8 inches tall. The | | witness could not move his neck much, so he could not see its entire | | figure. Both the alien and young boy stared at each other for at | | least five minutes. It didn't flinch or move. When the witness | | attempted to scream he couldn't. He could move his arms, but not his | | legs. He then heard a voice in his head that said, "Don't move it is | | already done" or something similar to that. Upon hearing that, the | | witness decided to defend himself and punched it directly at the | | face. As soon as his hand made contact with the creature, it | | disappeared. There appears to have been about an hour time lapse, and | | in the morning the witness found marks on his arm and later on his | | back. He remembers that while he was staring at the alien there | | appeared to be a white light aura surrounding him. He does not | | believe he was in his brother's room at that point. (Source: Albert | | S. Rosales, 1996 Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, citing direct | | communication with the witness). | | 1996 - On this evening 62-year-old Uri Sakhov was walking to the | | local post office in Nazareth, Israel when he suddenly heard a loud | | whizzing sound and felt hands grab his hair and shoulders. In an | | instant he found himself being pulled into an egg-shaped object. | | Inside he found himself in a strange crystal chamber surrounded by | | several small humanoids. These were described as 2 to 3 feet tall, | | with heads shaped like light bulbs and skinny limbs that made | | unintelligible noises. The leader was described as taller and green | | colored, wearing flowing robes. He was very slender and had a narrow | | vertical head, with eyes located on either side of it. One of the | | small humanoids stepped up to the witness and sprayed his face with a | | yellowish powder. Soon they were conducting numerous medical tests on | | Sakhov, which made him feel "horrible" and very uncomfortable. Midway | | through the tests he lost consciousness. When he recovered | | consciousness he found himself lying flat on his back in the middle | | of a soccer stadium, half a kilometer from his house. Feeling dizzy, | | he went home and noticed that he still had some of the yellow powder | | on his face. The powder was analyzed at a local hospital and it was | | found to be about 60 percent aluminum and different from any soil | | found in the area. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, 1996 Humanoid Sighting | | Reports Database, case # 2461, citing Barry Chamish). | | | | 1998 - In Serpent River, Ontario two witnesses observed a silver oval | | object hovering overhead (below the clouds) for a few seconds at 1:00 | | p.m. Then it moved further away and hovered again. It left at a high | | rate of speed. (Source: Geoff Dittman, 1998 Canadian UFO Survey, case | | # 111). | | | | 1999 - A rural Menomonie, Wisconsin couple and a Dunn Sheriff's | | Deputy watched an ovoid object in the sky early Thursday morning at | | 4:04 a.m. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, | | September 1999 webpage, citing the Leader Telegram). | | | | 2001 - At 4:45 a.m. a mushroom/lampshade shaped object, about | | six-eight feet across, was seen in Market Drayton, Shropshire, | | England. It was white with a very bright base. It moved very fast. | | (Source: British Ministry of Defense, case 2001-163). | | | | 2006 - A glowing cone-shaped UFO gave off heat and sound, and caused | | an electrical disturbance in Liberty, Kentucky at 1:00 a.m. (Source: | | Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, September 2006 | | webpage, report uploaded December 2006, p. 7). | | | | 2007 - At 4:00 a.m. a small, fast maneuvering ball of white | | light slowly descended from the sky to within 30 feet of a campsite | | in Bayfield Inlet, Ontario. It approached the witnesses, and when a | | flashlight was pointed at the light it reacted by moving away. | | (Sources: Chris Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 608; | | Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, September 2007 | | webpage, report uploaded October 8, 2007). | | | | 2007 - Anza Borrego State Park, California. Carl Mandeville | | (pseudonym) and his girlfriend had decided to go on an overnight | | backpacking adventure. Their destination was Mount Laguna, in the | | unincorporated area of San Diego, California. However, a forest fire | | in Julian closed off Route 78, so they took an alternative route and | | stumbled upon the Anza Borrego Desert State Park. They arrived at the | | park at 5:00 p.m. He had never hiked or backpacked at the park | | before, so Carl went to the visitor center and got the information he | | needed, and set off on his journey to Culp Valley Campground. Culp | | Valley campground is at approximately 3,500 feet in elevation. He and | | his girlfriend pulled into the campground, loaded their backpacks, | | and set off. They only backpacked about one mile out due to it being | | the evening. They set up a tent about 20 feet north of the trail. The | | tent was set up on a small slope looking down on the trail. | | | | At around 3:00 a.m. the moon had sunk behind the mountains | | surrounding the desert, and it was pitch black, and his girlfriend | | was sleeping. Unable to sleep Carl just lay there staring at the | | starry sky. Suddenly, he heard a man’s voice, he when he looked in | | the direction it was coming from he saw a green light being waved | | back and forth. He immediately thought it was the park ranger. The | | light was about 50 yards east from his tent, and he could tell that | | whoever it was was using the green light to guide somebody on the | | trail. The green light was coming closer and closer to their | | tent, probably not directly to the tent but down the trail. Abruptly, | | the green light disappeared and Carl panicked, because out of nowhere | | a massive amount of light lit up the trail 20 feet from where he was. | | He was terrified; nobody was talking at this point, and he didn’t | | hear footsteps--just saw a massive amount of white light. The light | | was getting closer. He immediately ducked down and lay low in his | | tent, very scared. He then peeked out of the tent and saw 12 to 15 | | humanoid figures that looked like people, but some were extremely | | tall, and the rest were really very short with large bald heads. The | | tall figures appeared to be wearing white, cloak-like outfits, and | | the short figures appeared to be naked. Terrified and with his heart | | pounding, Jeremy watched the beings walk very gracefully and slowly, | | turning their heads from left to right with each footstep. They were | | all holding metal rod-like implements which emitted a powerful white | | light. They seemed to ignore the tent and walked “peacefully” by. The | | witness remained lying still and as quiet as he could, as the | | beings walked by his tent. The light eventually faded as the beings | | continued down the trail and disappeared. Still terrified, he woke | | his girlfriend 10 minutes later. He waited because he didn’t want the | | beings to hear them talking. The next day, he told the ranger about | | what had happened, and the ranger wrote it down in a report, | | suspecting it was some type of religious cult. (Sources: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2007 | | webpage, report uploaded October 8, 2007; Albert S. Rosales, 2007 | | Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, confidential report from the | | witness). | | | | 2007 - At 7:33 p.m. three white circular objects in a triangular | | formation hovered above the hills between Glendale and Los Angeles, | | California for 15 minutes. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO | | Reporting Center, September 2007 webpage, report uploaded October 8, | | 2007). | | | | 2009 - Many lights, changing color and blinking randomly, merging and | | dividing, flying randomly and also in formation, were seen in Ajo, | | Arizona at 5:00 p.m. for 25 seconds. (Source: Peter Davenport, | | National UFO Reporting Center, September 2009 webpage, report | | uploaded December 12, 2009). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 13 September 2012). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: abductions; aerial battle betwee | | n UFOs; air displacement and rushing sound; close encounters with UFO | | s at campsites; disc-shaped UFOs; failed abduction attempt; Grey huma | | noids; humanoids collecting plant samples; levitation; light beam; lu | | minous humanoid; mist; multi-year reports from France, Ontario and so | | uthern California; ovoid UFOs; physiological effects: electric shock, | | paralysis, swelling of limbs, soreness in fingers, and numbness of f | | ace;radar/visual confirmation; reddish faced humanoids; short pallid | | humanoid; vehicle EM electrical system interference; whistling sound. | | | | © Donald A. 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