+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  November 2 | | | | 1885 - Scutari, Albania (then called Uskudar, a part of Ottoman | | Turkey). At dawn a luminous object circled the harbor at an altitude | | of 56 meters for 90 seconds. It illuminated the entire town with a | | bluish-green glow. It made several circles above the ferryboat pier | | then plunged into the sea. (Sources: Ivan Sanderson, Invisible | | Residents, p. 34; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of | | Landings, p. 181). | | | | 1951 - At 7:15 a.m. an American Airlines DC-4 passenger plane was | | followed by a bright green glowing cigar shaped object east of | | Abilene, Texas. The object paced the airliner for about one minute. | | It then burst into pieces that looked like red fireballs, which | | scattered in all directions. (Source: Donald E. Keyhoe, Aliens from | | Space…The Real Story of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 204). | | | | 1951 - Later that same night, two forest observers were driving in a | | canyon 50 kilometers north of the Mojave Desert in California when | | they saw around 11 p.m. a disc-shaped flying object in the southwest | | sky. They estimated the diameter to be about 30 feet. It was | | blue-green in color, with well-defined edges, but surrounded by a | | glow of same color. Stopping their jeep, they signaled to the object, | | which approached to within a few meters, then flew away, seeming to | | play with them. Eventually it vanished "like a magician's trick." | | (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; | | Donald E. Keyhoe, Aliens from Space…The Real Story of Unidentified | | Flying Objects, p. 204; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A | | Century of Landings, p. 196). | | | | 1954 - A green disc landed on a farm near Viomenil-Bataille, France | | at 6:15 a.m. It left no physical traces, but there were independent | | witnesses to the event, who reported seeing a second disc fly over | | heading quickly to the west. (Source: Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et | | l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 125). | | | | 1954 - At 10:30 a.m. Maurilio Braga Godoi left the Santo Amaro, | | Brazil streetcar terminal and started to walk home. The area was | | deserted at that hour, and when he arrived at a street corner he was | | surprised to see a large circular object sitting in an empty lot | | between two houses. The UFO was 90 to 120 feet in diameter and | | surrounded by a strange bluish-red or violet glow. Curious, he | | decided to investigate and approached. He soon realized it was much | | larger than he originally thought and became somewhat apprehensive. | | It was like nothing he had ever seen before and he thought about | | going to the police to report it. He felt like running but felt | | rooted to the ground. He tried to call for help but no sound would | | come from his mouth. This strange sensation persisted for awhile but | | finally left him. Godoi noticed that there was an open sliding door | | in the object, and he went in. He saw a large circular room | | illuminated by a soft light. He saw no lamps. There was no one in | | sight and the craft seemed to be deserted. At the center was an oddly | | shaped table and on it were charts and maps. One of these was a map | | of the South American continent and it had a glowing or | | phosphorescent quality. Upon closer examination he noticed little | | mushroom-shaped symbols scattered about the map. | | | | He had just finished scrutinizing the map when he looked up and | | confronted three men. They seemed normal in appearance except that | | they were less than five feet tall. They had dark brown skin, short | | black hair, and were dressed in one-piece garments like an overall, | | which were light gray in color. Each wore a belt around his waist | | which appeared to support an object that Godoi worried might be a | | weapon. They made no move toward Godoi, but stood staring at him, | | occasionally conversing among themselves in an unknown language. He | | noticed that the "K" sound was repeated quite often at the beginning | | of words more than other sounds.Bynowhisfear had returned and he | | tried to converse with them to convince them that he meant no harm, | | but they were expressionless and continued to stare at him intently. | | He suddenly became aware that, without intention, he was backing out | | of the craft, literally dragging his feet backwards one step after | | another. They made no attempt to stop him. When he reached the door | | he jumped to the ground and started to run away. When about 30 feet | | away he turned to look back and saw that the craft was now hovering | | about 30 feet above the ground, having at the bottom center a | | spinning "screw without end." The UFO climbed silently at high speed | | with a violet glow around its edges. The witness was examined by | | several psychiatrists in Sao Paulo who concluded that he showed no | | signs of mental illness. The case is listed as an "unknown" by the | | Brazilian Air Force. (Source: Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucer | | Occupants, pp. 198-199). | | | | 1957 - Five kilometers west of Canadian, Texas military and civilian | | witnesses reported seeing a submarine-shaped object at 3:30 a.m. It | | was red and white, two or three times as long as a car, and at ground | | level. It was about three meters in height. A figure was seen | | standing near this object, and there was something else that | | witnessed to a white signal flag. When a car stopped in the vicinity, | | a flash of light from the object coincided with the sudden failure of | | the car's headlights. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A | | Century of Landings, case 418). | | | | 1957 - Beginning at 10:50 p.m. in Levellend, Texas "...a number of | | motorists and police officers in different localities encountered at | | close range a luminous egg-shaped object estimated at about 200 feet | | in length. Several reports confirmed that when the object passed at | | close range car engines and lights failed. One report described how | | two men driving a truck watched as the object came near. The lights | | and engine failed, then the object passed directly over the vehicle | | with a sound like thunder and a rush of wind. The truck rocked from | | the blast and a lot of heat was felt. Later there were reports of | | apparently the same luminous object on the ground and taking off in | | other areas near Levelland. Reports of vehicle interference followed | | a similar pattern, with engines and lights returning to normal on the | | departure of the object." (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to | | Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 419). | | | | 1966 - In Parkersburg, West Virginia Mr. Woodrow Derenberger, a | | travelling salesman, saw a dark object ahead of him on the road. It | | was flat on the bottom and rounded on top. As he stopped the object | | came to within 20 cm of the road surface, and a man of dark | | complexion, dressed in a shirt and ordinary trousers that were both | | shiny blue in color, came out. He smiled at the witness who then | | thought that he received a telepathic message. The message described | | a hypothetical "other world" and suggested that the observation be | | reported to authorities. The man also promised to return. Several | | people who drove by the witness reported seeing a man speaking to | | him, as well as a strange vehicle nearby. (Source: Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 804). | | | | 1966 - During the evening Mrs. Mark deFriend, age 32, saw an object | | at ground level in front of her car in El Campo, Texas on this rainy | | night. It would leave the road and fly over the fields from time to | | time. The greenish-blue object flew back in front of her car, and | | then was lost to sight behind some trees. (Source: Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 803). | | | | 1967 - A woman working in her kitchen late on this night in Point | | Pleasant, West Virginia heard a loud squeaking sound coming from | | outside. She looked out and saw a huge shadow spread across the | | grass, and then a figure described as tall, man-shaped, and gray in | | color appeared. It glided quickly across a field and disappeared into | | the woods. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database | | 1967, case # 1405, citing John A. Keel, The Mothman Prophecies). | | | | 1967 - At 9:30 p.m. two 23-year-old Navajo Indians, Guy Tossie and | | Willy Begay, were driving south of Ririe, Idaho when they were | | blinded by a flash of white light. Their car engine stalled and came | | to a stop and immediately ahead of them, hovering just five feet off | | the ground, they saw a domed disc-shaped UFO 6-8 feet in diameter and | | perhaps three feet thick. On top was a transparent bubble dome, | | occupied by two small entities. The dome flipped open and one of the | | occupants floated out and to the ground, then approached the car. | | Through the UFO's flashing lights the men were able to see that the | | being was no more than three feet tall, and bald with ears set up | | high on his head. His facial skin looked scarred and wrinkled, "like | | a cantaloupe." His eyes were round and showed no pupils, and his | | mouth had lips so thin as to be barely visible. They saw no nose. He | | was wearing tight fitting coveralls and carried a pack on his back. | | | | To their horror, the being opened the car door and seated himself | | behind the wheel. Both of the men slid over to the right as far as | | they could as the car was towed, or driven, off the highway and out | | into a field of wheat stubble. As soon as the car's motion stopped a | | terrified Tossie jumped out of the right side of the car, and began | | running to the farmhouse of William Hammon a quarter of a mile away. | | As he ran, he found his shadow preceding him, as though a bright | | light were shining on him from behind. In the car, Begay cowered in | | the right side of the front seat as the little being attempted to | | communicate with him, twice saying something incomprehensible in a | | high, chirruping voice. Getting no response, the being got out of the | | car and joined the second being, and then the two floated into the | | UFO which took off and zig-zagged into the sky as it departed. | | | | Ririe, Idaho Close Encounter - 1967 | | | | [] | | | | At the Hammon farmhouse Tossie banged on the door screaming for help. | | The farmer and Bob his son admitted him, and it took a period of time | | to calm him sufficiently to get his story. By the time they | | accompanied him back to the field the object had departed and Begay | | was found in a state of near shock in the front seat. The farmer had | | to escort the youths by car their fear was so great. There were | | attendant sightings in the area, and cattle had been reportedly | | "spooked" on several farms that night. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted | | Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-112, | | citing Cpl. Thomas Harper & C. Reed Ricks, NICAP). | | | | 1968 - During a thunderstorm, a medical doctor in southern France was | | awakened at 3:55 a.m. by his crying 14-month-old son. He saw two | | luminous objects outside his house, and observed them coming close | | together and merging into one, about 180 meters away from his window. | | A vertical beam of light was aimed at him for a second as the object | | tilted, and then the display vanished with a flash, leaving a slowly | | dissolving cloud. Persistent nightmares and various physiological | | phenomena, including identical triangular shaped red marks appearing | | on both the father's and son's lower abdomens, were later recorded. | | (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, | | citing Aime Michel). | | | | 1971 – A famous UFO close encounter leaving physical evidence | | occurred on this day at a farm one mile northeast of Delphos, Kansas. | | Sixteen-year-old Ron Johnson was tending the family sheep with his | | dog at around seven p.m. when he saw a mushroom-shaped UFO appear in | | the night sky. The object was covered with multicolored lights on its | | metallic surface. It hovered only a few feet above the ground only 75 | | feet away from him in a sheep paddock. Ron estimated the craft's | | diameter at 6-8 feet. | | The teenager tried to get a closer look but under the brilliant | | luminance he was not able to make out any additional details. He | | described the craft as making a loud sound, "like an old washing | | machine which vibrates." The glow from the bottom of the UFO | | increased as it began to shoot up into the sky. Ron was temporarily | | blinded by the brightness of the craft as it ascended. After he | | regained his sight and composure, he ran back to the family house to | | alert the others. The bright glow was now high in the sky, as it | | began to vanish from sight altogether. | | | | Three family members came running around the side of the house to get | | a glimpse of the unusual object. They were shocked to see a glowing | | ring on the ground, right under where the craft had hovered. Ron’s | | mother touched the surface of the ground around the glow, and said it | | "felt strange, like a slick crust, as if the soil was crystallized." | | Her fingers went numb, like she had been given a local anesthetic. | | Seeing nothing else of the craft, the family finally went to bed for | | the night. | | | | (Continued.) At dawn the family returned to the sight of the glowing ring and to | | their surprise, it was still there. The inside and outside of the | | ring were damp from a rain shower, but the ring itself was completely | | dry. The ring had a crusty appearance, as though the rain had simply | | run off. Slightly over a month later, after a snow fall, the white | | ice had melted both inside and outside of the ring, but the ring | | itself maintained the snow drift. Investigators experimented with the | | ring by removing snow from a section of it and pouring water on the | | exposed part. The soil would not allow water to pass through. | | | | Further experimentation showed the ground under the ring to be dry to | | a depth of one foot. The ring itself was composed of a whitish | | substance, which was sent for laboratory analysis. The lab findings | | found that there were fibers in the soil of an organism called | | Actinomycetales actiniomycete nocardia, which is an intermediate | | organism between bacteria and fungus, and is “often found together | | with a fungus of the order Basidomycetes, which may fluoresce under | | certain conditions...” One possible interpretation is that | | high-energy stimulation triggered the spectacular growth of the | | Nocardia and of an existing fungus, and caused the latter to | | fluoresce. | | Phosphorous may also have been baked out of the soil and may have | | been the substance that numbed Mrs. Johnson’s fingers when she | | touched the ground. The experience of Ron Johnson is still considered | | one of the best documented "ground trace" UFO cases on record. | | (Sources: Ted R. Phillips, FSR Case Histories, February 1972, p. 4; | | Ted R. Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case | | 494; Clancy D. Tull, APRO Bulletin, March-April 1972, p. 8; Richard | | H. Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume II): A Thirty Year Report, p. 264). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 15 September 2004). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: car pacings, cigar-shaped UFOs; communication; disc-sha | | ped UFOs; glowing objects; human looking UFOnauts; maneuvering UFOs; | | Mothman, multi-year reports from Texas; ovoid UFOs, physiological aft | | ereffects: anomalous body marks; short human-appearing UFO occupants; | | small humanoids with wrinkled skin, telepathy; two UFOs merging into | | one; unintelligible language, vehicle EM ignition interference effec | | ts: engines and headlights; violet, blue-green or green colored UFOs. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+