+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  August 31 | | | | 1948 - At 12:20 a.m. a large unknown object was sighted flying at | | 50,000 feet altitude over Mint Canyon, California. It trailed a | | column of flames. It was also reportedly seen at Muroc Field, now | | Edwards AFB. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1344, | | citing Charles Berlitz and William Moore, The Roswell Incident, p. | | 139). | | | | 1953 - A disc-shaped object flew toward the east in the sky over | | Vernon, France at 4:00 p.m. It shot up rapidly to a higher altitude, | | then stopped and circled. Two more discs engaged in wild maneuvers. | | (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 65; Loren E. | | Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: August-December, p. 17). | | | | 1954 - At 8:00 p.m. an Australian Navy Hawker Sea Fury II was paced | | on either side by two dark, 50 meter long cigar-shaped objects flying | | near Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia. The UFOs were tracked on | | radar for 10 minutes before shooting off toward the northeast. | | (Sources: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 24; Bill | | Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 82). | | | | 1954 - At 12:25 a.m. in the town of Kirkland Lake, Ontario Police | | Constable Grabovski saw a shiny ovoid UFO sail slowly through the sky | | headed north. It vanished in sparks, which were followed by a blue | | rain. (Source: Harold T. Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 219). | | | | 1954 - In Asnieres-le-Dijon, France a disc travelled through the sky | | at 12:50 p.m. from east to west at great speed without stopping. It | | changed color from red to orange tosilver. It was observed near | | military aircraft. In Orly, France at 7:30 p.m. two luminous orange | | objects at high altitude came from the west at high speed and crossed | | the sky rapidly flying toward the east. (Source: Aime Michel, Flying | | Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 31, citing C. Garreau). | | | | 1954 - At 8:50 p.m. a reddish yellow sphere flew very slowly at an | | estimated 5 mph to the north in Stafford, England. At 8:55 p.m. a | | sombrero-shaped saucer was sighted at Stone, Staffordshire, England. | | (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 3542, citing Gavin | | Gibbons, The Coming of the Space Ships, p. 58). | | | | 1955 - A large disc-shaped object with windows around the rim flew at | | a low altitude in Ponteland, Northumberland, England. It made a | | droning sound as it flew. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database). | | | | 1958 - Over La Verde, Buenos Aires province, Argentina an airplane's | | engine increased revolutions when a UFO was sighted. (Sources: | | Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 75; Dominique | | Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 49; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA | | Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 21, citing Leonard Cramp, | | Piece for a Jigsaw, p. 214). | | | | 1959 - At 9:30 p.m. two police officers on a pistol range in Barstow, | | California saw four huge brilliant disc-shaped objects following a | | jet aircraft. One of the UFOs makes a 90 degree turn, then flies away | | in a separate direction. (Source: APRO Bulletin, September 1959). | | | | 1961 - On this night two silver UFOs hovered over a railroad crossing | | in Usovo, Russia near Moscow. Several car engines stopped, and would | | only start up again when the UFOs took off. (Source: Lumieres dans la | | Nuit, April 1981). | | | | 1968 - In the early morning hours (3:42 a.m.) three witnesses in | | Mendoza, Argentina--among them two casino employees getting off | | work--stated that they observed five dwarfs with oversized heads, who | | emerged from a landed craft and traced undecipherable signs on the | | ground. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of | | Landings, case # 919, citing Le Figaro, September 2, 1968). | | | | 1968 - In Santiponce, Sevilla province, Spain at around eight p.m. | | four little girls, ages 4 to 8, saw a round object with green and | | white lights that "arrived from the sky and landed between two | | trees." It came down about 50 meters away. It was round with two | | black wheels and two small windows. Then the girls saw a tall man in | | black trousers and a black and brown shirt appear near the object; | | there was nothing unusual about his appearance. Later at the landing | | site was found a circle of pressed down grass. (Sources: Vicente-Juan | | Ballester Olmos, FSR, May 1973, p. 19; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, | | Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 70, ; | | David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, | | case 1968-63 (A0971), citing Manuel Llorente Osuna). | | | | 1968 - Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires, Argentina - Mrs. Emilia Larrude de | | Salazar was alone with her children at home this night when she heard | | very loud knocking at the front door at around eight p.m. Without | | opening the door, she pulled back a curtain and saw a very tall | | man-like figure over two meters (6.6 feet) in height, that appeared | | to have no hair or ears, and with a large mouth and teeth. The being | | wore a tight fitting dull black outfit and had very long dangling | | arms. The being's eyes also shone with a brilliant light. The stunned | | witness could not move and watched the strange figure move away | | backwards without taking his gaze off her. Emilia thought she could | | hear a muffled laugh coming from the figure. (Source: Albert S. | | Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1968, case # 3449, citing Eduardo | | A. Tucci & Alberto Giordano). | | | | 1972 - At ten o'clock in the morning a metallic oval-shaped UFO with | | a central dome moved over Route 128, a major beltway in the Boston | | metropolitan area, in Beverly, Massachusetts. It made a loud humming | | sound when it crossed over a bridge, and flew with an up-and-down | | motion. Many cars slowed and pulled over to look. the UFO carried a | | reddish-green light on top. (Source: Raymond E. Fowler, case | | investigation, report dated September 5, 1972; Raymond E. Fowler, | | UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 358). | | | | Beverly, Massachusetts Daytime UFO - 1972 | | | | [Sketch of Beverly, Massachusetts Daytime UFO] | | | | 1974 - On this night at Navegantes Beach, Santa Catarina State, | | Brazil Antonio De Azevedo, an angler, was on the beach with his wife | | when they saw a discoid object with multicolored lights land close | | beside them. It was shaped like "two plates with the rims stuck | | together." The vivid lights temporarily paralyzed the observers. From | | the object emerged three "strange short beings wearing greenish | | spacesuits". Their faces "seemed to reflect the green color of their | | clothes." Conversing in a strange language, they quickly "examined" | | the angler and his wife, then seized his wife and abducted her, | | taking her into the object, which took off at incredible speed. | | (Sources: Gordon Creighton, FSR, August 1975, p. 21, citing Diario | | Popular, September 3, 1974; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: | | Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1974-43 (A1355), citing Gordon | | Creighton, FSR, March 1975, p. 22; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO | | Abductions:  The Measure of a Mystery, case 265). | | | | 1977 - At shortly after midnight two college students, Rocco Cerullo, | | and Michael Giovanelli, were walking from Sturno, Italy to Frigento | | when they saw three red lights symmetrically arranged in the midst of | | some bushes overlooking the road, They also heard an intermittent | | "beep-beep" sound. Continuing on, near a quarry a mile from Sturno, | | they saw a figure over two meters tall that was wearing a silver, | | tight-fitting suit and helmet. Where the man's eyes should be there | | were two blinking orange lights. The witnesses fled back to Sturno | | where they found three friends, and all five returned by car. The | | group saw the strange being advancing and retreating with mechanical | | movements on a steep slope. He appeared to stand at an angle | | perpendicular to the slope. Some rocks were disturbed and rolled down | | the slope. The abandoned quarry appeared to be illuminated as if by a | | halo, and they became frightened and went back to Sturno, returning | | this time with two more witnesses. The tall humanoid was still there | | with emissions of intermittent light from its helmet. When one of | | them flashed a light at the figure, it emitted radio-like sounds. | | When it approached the car and the sounds ceased. It came as close as | | 15 feet, and beckoned, as though wanting the witnesses to follow. | | Finally, at about 12:30 a.m. it emitted a blinding light from its | | helmet and disappeared. The outline of an object with portholes had | | been seen further down the slope. After the flash the group fled back | | to the village. They returned again later that morning, and | | everything was gone. Trampled bushes were in evidence, and what | | looked like landing gear imprints were found in the quarry with three | | holes arranged in an isosceles triangle. (Sources: David F. Webb & | | Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1977-48 | | (A1756), citing Francesco Izzo; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 201; | | Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 12315, citing ITACAT; Fred | | Merritt, Leg-Mark Catalog). | | 1977 - In Mediania Alta Loiza, Puerto Rico at 8 p.m. two witnesses | | were sitting and chatting at the steps of their home when they | | suddenly noticed a disc-shaped craft flying above a nearby palm | | grove. The craft stopped to hover. It had a large white light on the | | bottom and a green and a blue flashing light, plus several brightly | | lit windows could be seen on its side. The object then shut off its | | lights and vanished. Later that night a woman had gone out in his | | yard to empty some cooking waste when she saw four little men wearing | | silvery outfits standing by a water faucet. They seemed to have short | | antennae like protrusions from their heads, large pointy ears, and | | were bald headed. They had small mouths and their necks were long and | | thin. They all had their arms crossed in front of their chest. The | | woman screamed and ran back inside her house to alert the others, but | | the little men had already gone when they came out. (Source: Albert | | S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1977, case # 267, citing Robiou | | Lamarche, Manifesto OVNI en Puerto Rico Santo Domingo Y Cuba). | | | | 1978 - Two men, Srs. De Cesare and Martin, were driving in a truck at | | two o'clock at night between San Juan and San Luis on Highway 147 in | | Argentina when they were circled closely by a group of UFOs. Their | | truck's engine stopped and they got out, throwing themselves to the | | ground and hiding among the roadside vegetation. The truck battery | | was totally discharged and the truck could not be restarted. At dawn | | dead goats and birds were found at the site. (Source: Jane Thomas, | | UFO Newsclipping Service, December 1978, p. 15, citing Cronica, | | October 1, 1978). | | | | 1978 - A unexplained cattle death and mutilation was discovered this | | morning five miles northeast of Mancos, Montezuma County, Colorado on | | the Bartel Ranch. A calf had been killed and mutilated. Its left eye, | | tongue, rectum, and sexual organs had been removed with surgical | | incisions. (Source: Richard Hall, Zetetic Scholar, p. 50, case 42, | | citing the Durango Herald, September 1, 1978). | | | | 1978 - A woman was sitting in her office on the tenth floor of an | | office building in London, England on the south bank of the Thames | | River at 7:00 p.m. when she glanced out a window and noticed an | | object moving at rooftop level. It was bright silver in color and was | | shaped like an elongated parachute. At the bottom was a man | | protruding from its tip. The parachute or cone-shaped object moved | | horizontally, then stopped briefly above a building. It finally went | | behind the National Theater and was not seen again. (Source: Albert | | S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, case # 999, citing P. | | Hardman, BUFORA Journal, Volume 8, No. 4). | | | | 1978 - At 9:50 p.m. two small lights descended from a hovering | | "silo-shaped" craft in Necochea, Buenos Aires province, Argentina. | | Their luminosity increased and decreased. After the two small lights | | emerged from the larger object and reached at point in the sky over a | | shed containing cars and machinery, and they just hung in the air for | | awhile. (Source: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping Service, October 1978, | | p. 15, citing Cronica, September 8, 1978). | | | | 1980 - A witness named Lister reported seeing a disc-shaped object | | making a humming noise between Ashbourne and Derby, England at 12:20 | | a.m. According to the report it maneuvered in the sky, and there were | | other independent witnesses. (Sources: UFO Newsclipping Service, | | March 1981, p. 12; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 13525, | | citing FSR). | | | | 1985 - A UFO, shape unknown, rose from the ground near US Highway 95 | | in Laughlin, Nevada at 10:00 p.m. It directed beams of light on cars | | and a house, and radio interference was reported. (Source: Robert | | Gribble, UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, case 1028). | | | | 1987 - At 10:55 p.m. a dark, domed disc-shaped UFO with a mast or | | antenna on top came down quickly over the high security Bangor | | submarine base housing, home of the Trident nuclear ballistic | | submarine fleet in Bangor, Washington and hovered over a playground. | | Two boys who were sons of military personnel, ages 8 and 10, were | | sitting on the swings and saw an occupant with a big head, big | | pointed "cat" ears, wrinkled skin, and a greenish complexion in an | | open hatch. It had a thin, spindly body, long webbed fingers and | | toes, and tabs or suction cups on the ends of the fingers and toes. | | It also had a wrinkled mouth "like an old grandma's." The boys | | estimated the being to be about six feet tall. It pointed a device | | that directed a beam of energy at the two boys on the swings, causing | | the levitation of the metal swings. The boys fled quickly into the | | home of one of them and got his mother, who saw a row of lights in | | the sky as the UFO took off and flew away. Mrs. Springsteen, the | | mother of one of the boys, then had the boys draw separate sketches | | of both the UFO and the alien, which were remarkably similar. | | (Source: Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. case investigation, report dated | | September 3, 1987; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of | | Humanoid Reports, case A2266). | | | | Bangor, Washington Humanoid Encounter - 1987 | | | | [Sketch forf Bangor, Washington Humanoid Encounter] | | | | (Artist's composite sketch by Rebecca Helen Johnson Woodaman). | | | | 1989 - At 9:00 p.m. EDT a mushroom-shaped UFO with a light hovered | | over a field in Butler, Pennsylvania. Two smaller objects with red | | lights emerged from it. Finally, all UFOs shot away at high speed. | | U.S. Air Force jets arrived one hour later. (Source: Richard Hall, | | The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 31). | | | | 1990 - At 2:00 a.m. Luis Javier Mango was on his way to his | | girlfriend's house in Barrio Supe, Berisso, Buenos Aires Province, | | Argentina riding on a friend's motorcycle, when he spotted about 100 | | yards ahead of him two short figures that quickly crossed from the | | road ahead of him. Both were about one meter tall, wearing what | | appeared to be black hooded smocks tight around the waist, and maybe | | an unseen belt. He could not make out any facial features, arms, or | | legs. One figure followed the other, and both quickly disappeared | | from sight. Further inquires revealed additional witnesses, and the | | possibility of four to five additional humanoids of similar | | appearance that floated just above the ground. (Source: Albert S. | | Rosales, 1990 Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, citing Proyecto | | CATENT). | | | | 1990 - At 3:00 a.m. five small gray-colored humanoids, with large | | heads and huge bright eyes, walked in front of parked cars in Lake | | Cartagena, Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, and then down a road. They had | | large pointed ears, with three toes on each foot and three fingers on | | each hand. Ten carloads of witnesses reportedly observed the five | | humanoids walking down the dirt road, heading in the direction of the | | Laguna Cartagena. One of the witnesses, Miguel Figueroa, pursued the | | beings in his car, but as he approached them, their eyes 'lit up", | | and he was somehow prevented from getting any closer. When the light | | dissipated, Figueroa again gave chase, and managed to get a better | | look. He described the figures as skinny and gray, varying between | | three and four feet in height, with pear-shaped heads, large slanted | | eyes, long pointed ears, long arms, with three fingers on each hand | | and three toes on their feet. The beings got away by running down a | | ravine. The following day, there were reports of discs flying out | | over the Laguna Cartagena. Small footprints were found in the area. | | (Sources: Albert S. Rosales, 1990 Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, | | case # 878, citing Magdalena Del Amo Freixedo, FSR, Vol. 36 # 4)  | | | | 1990 - In the Sukhaya Valley, Grodnensk region of Belarus a round UFO | | with a golden stripe around its circumference appeared in the sky on | | this night, and then landed in a field. Three humanoids wearing | | tight-fitting coveralls were briefly seen standing near the object. | | (Source: Albert S. Rosales, 1990 Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, | | citing "NLO", 1990, issue # 1). | | | | 1994 - At 9:30 p.m. six men around a campfire during a hunting trip | | in the woods near Mongo, Indiana saw a UFO behind some treetops. The | | domed disc-shaped object moved swiftly to a clearing, hovered for | | about 30 seconds, and quickly vanished from sight. They were able to | | take some photographs, which show an overexposure of a domed | | disc-shaped craft. (Sources: Francis L. Ridge, MUFON field | | investigation files, case 960103C; Michael David Hall, UFOs: A | | Century of Sightings, p. 331). | | | | 1995 - A large green luminous sphere hovered over Neath, Wales and | | then sped off toward the northwest NW leaving a vapor trail. (Source: | | UFO Newsclipping Service, January 1996). | | | | 2002 - A couple, Sergey and Natasha, saw a light appear in window of | | their kitchen in Kearny, New Jersey at 11:30 p.m. The light came from | | a brightly lit, disc-shaped object that was flying in the sky. It | | came out from behind a tree and crossed the part of the sky visible | | from their window. It was estimated to be larger than apassenger jet, | | moving west or norhwest and was moving fast. They observed it for | | 10-15 seconds. (Source: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's | | Files: Worldwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 21, citing Patrick | | Huyghe). | | | | 2003 - At 10:30 p.m. a white flying ball of light, too large to be a | | plane or satellite, flew in a zigzag pattern, disappeared and | | re-appeared in the sky over Ryan, Iowa. It made no sound, and was | | visible for about 5-10 seconds. (Source: Peter Davenport, National | | UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, August 2002 webpage). | | | | 2003 - At 10:44 p.m. PDT a disc-shaped object was seen circling in | | the sky over one spot, flashing red and green lights. It made no | | sound, and was seen for several minutes. (Source: Peter Davenport, | | National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle). | | | | 2010 - In Matawatchan, Ontario, Canada a cigar-shaped object was | | sighted at 7:20 p.m.; it flashed twice, separated into two spheres, | | joined as one ball of light, and then vanished! The entire event | | lasted 15 seconds. (Source:Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting | | Center, Seattle, August 2010 webpage, report updated November 21, | | 2010). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 23 August 2012). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: abduction, cigar-shaped UFOs, circ | | ling UFO, color-changing UFO, disc-shaped UFOs, domed discs, goblin-l | | ike humanoids, green UFO, humanoid with glowing eyes, humanoids with | | big pointed ears, human-looking UFOnaut, levitation, humming sounds, | | multi-year reports from England, ninety-degree turn, photographs, poi | | nted ears, short humanoids, sightings of humanoids by children, silve | | ry metallic UFOs, tall humanoids, up-and-down motion, vehicle EM effe | | cts: airplane engine increases RPM, car engines stall, zigzag motion. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+