+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  December 1 | | | | 1953 - On this day in 1953, some gardeners in Strasbourg, France watched a | | brilliant disc move back and forth in the sky. It shot off to the | | south at a very high speed. (Source: Loren Gross, UFOs: A History | | 1953, p. 056). | | | | 1956 - In Valley City, North Dakota at 1:20 a.m. in 1956, a round, reddish | | UFO caused interference on a police radio while being observed. | | (Source: Project Blue Book). | | | | 1957 - In 1957 at 6:00 a.m. a huge cigar-shaped object with 8 shimmering | | lights on its side moved slowly through the morning sky in Yokohama, | | Japan. Later that same day a US Air Force plane circled at a low | | altitude as a 1 meter in diameter disc hovered above it. The disc | | vanished in plain sight. (Source: Loren Gross, UFOs: A History 1957 | | (Volume 10), pp. 1,4). | | | | 1958 - One year later, a wingless fuselage circled slowly at a high | | altitude east of Grants, New Mexico at 2:30 in the afternoon. Earlier | | that day, at 2:07 a.m., a round, white glowing object moved back and | | forth for 90 minutes new Lake Elsinore, California. The observers | | signaled the UFO with a flashlight, and it approached to within 10 | | feet, pacing their truck and emitting a high-pitched hum. They then | | saw a "well built" man run across the road in front of them. (Source: | | Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 90). | | | | 1966 - At 6:35 p.m. in Middleboro, Massachusetts an apparently | | oval-shaped object dove in front of the witness's car on Highway 25. | | It carried two large bright red pulsating lights. It stopped to hover | | silently over some woods just off the road. A curved shaped could be | | seen behind the lights. (Source: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: | | Interplanetary Visitors, p. 342). | | | | Middleboro, Massachusetts 1966 | | | | [] | | | | 1971 - In 1971 on this night in Minnesota more than 15 police and sheriff | | deputies in five towns, centered on Excelsior, Minnesota sighted a | | glowing sphere. The object changed color from red to green. It was | | sometimes silent and sometimes reported to be humming. One photograph | | was taken as it hovered over Chanhassen, Minnesota a few minutes | | before midnight. (Source: Jay Rath, The M-Files: True Reports of | | Minnesota's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 40). | | | | 1973 - In 1973, Mr. Marjapori was loading gravel at French Lake in | | Annandale, Louisiana at eight o'clock in the morning when he spotted | | a silver, cone-shaped UFO. The large end of the cone was revolving, | | and it was emitting silver streaks from the short end. It shot away | | to the southeast at a very high speed. At 7:00 that evening a shiny, | | silver cigar-shaped object descended and paced a car with a mother | | and daughter in Sugar Grove, Ohio. The UFO had a red light on one | | end, a green light on the other, and a pulsating white light in the | | center. It fixed a beam of light on the car and pursued it for 15 | | minutes. (Sources: Newspaper Clippings file, December 6, 1973; Geri | | Wilhelm, Skylook, February 1974, p. 9). | | | | 1974 - At 11:00 p.m. three persons in a parked car near Moose Jaw, | | Saskatchewan, Canada observed several bright lights that looked like | | they were on the perimeter of a large, dark flying object. The object | | hovered at a low altitude and moved up and down. On several occasions | | a light approached their vehicle at high speed and stopped about 20 | | feet away. These shooting lights were quite bright but dimmed upon | | stopping, then disappeared. The occupants of the vehicle felt a cold | | sensation when the lights approached. One of the witnesses saw two | | human-like figures walking near their car. They were wearing silvery | | outfits with face masks and helmets. Each helmet had a single | | antenna. As the UFO left the witnesses felt a strong rush of air and | | something strike their vehicle. At that moment they felt a strong | | sensation of heat. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact | | Database 1974, case # 2745, citing MUFON Canada, quoting the Canadian | | military). | | | | 1978 - In 1978 at 1:40 a.m., a small dark disc with a luminous underbody, | | estimated to be about 1.5 meters in diameter, flew slowly along the | | coast heading south in Giulianova, Italy. About four hours later, in | | Milan, Italy the entire electrical system of a car failed when a | | luminous, orange and green saucer-shaped UFO flew overhead. The | | object circled the car then rose vertically. The car functioned | | without trouble after the UFO left the scene. At 7:15 that same | | morning a silver triangle with yellow lights flew from the west to | | the east over Ruislip, England. (Sources: (1) Lumieres dans la Nuit | | and ITACAT; (2) Awareness, April 1979, p. 11). | | | | 1981 - On this night in 1981 a bullet-shaped object, a sphere, and several | | nocturnal lights were sighted flying to the north over Hessdalen | | Valley, Norway toward Trondheim. According to John Spencer, this | | report was the first of a four-year wave of reports from the | | Hessdalen Valley. (Source: John Spencer, UFO Encyclopedia, p. 143). | | | | 1987 - In the pre-dawn hours on this morning in 1987 on the outskirts of | | Ilkley Moor, West Yorkshire, England ex-constable and UFO abductee | | Mr. Spencer photographed a little man on the moors south of town. The | | ufonaut ran to a disc-shaped craft and took off. (Source: Jenny | | Randles, Flying Saucers and How to See Them, p. 108). | | | | 1989 - On this evening in 1989 a 51-year-old man and two other witnesses saw | | a UFO maneuver at about 600 feet altitude in Indianapolis, Indiana. | | It was escorted by what looked like four black, Huey-model | | helicopters. All five craft moved slowly into the distance until out | | of sight. (Source: Norma Croda, MUFON case investigation database, | | case # 900823). | | | | 1991 - Three young farm hands were playing cards late at night in a | | small shack on a farm in Laboulaye, Argentina when a bright light | | outside caught their attention. Frightened, they looked out and saw a | | huge luminous object resting nearby on the ground. About 15 small | | humanoid figures were walking about near the object. The beings wore | | helmets with lights on them, resembling those worn by miners, and | | seemed to be wearing small capes on their shoulders. The UFO and the | | short humanoids stayed in the area most of the night. The next | | morning a circular ground trace was found at the landing site. A dog | | reacted during the incident. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid | | Contact Database 1991, case # 2764, citing Carlos Iurchuk, FAO). | | | | 1992 - In 1992, in the town of Iaeger, McDowell county, West Virginia at | | 4:00 p.m., David Church saw a delta-shaped UFO fly overhead very | | slowly at about 250 feet altitude. It moved backwards, with the | | pointed end toward the rear. It had many multi-colored lights on the | | underside, lit up like a Christmas tree. (Source: Bob Teets, West | | Virginia UFOs: Close Encounters in the Mountain State, P. 67). | | | | 1993 - In 1993 at 8:45 p.m. in Baca Ranch, Colorado author and UFO | | investigator Christopher O'Brien videotaped 7 or 8 aircraft--probably | | helicopters--escorting a large unblinking flying sphere. Mr. O'Brien | | and another witness watched with the aid of night vision goggles as | | the objects maneuvered around and over the Sangre de Cristo | | mountains. An unblinking craft, escorted by three helicopters, was | | sighted an hour later near Gunnison, Colorado. (Sources: (1) | | Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 202; (2) Paul | | Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, case 1636). | | | | 1994 - In 1994 at 8:30 a.m., a Mr. Becker sighted a square-shaped UFO with a | | small dome on top in Leopoldshoefe, Germany. It had red, orange, | | violet, and green lights on its bottom, and it moved very slowly, | | making no noise, at approximately 70 meters altitude. (Source: | | Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases-Europe, p. 36). | | | | 1996 - According to Michael Hesemann, on this date in 1996 the Space Shuttle | | mission STS-80 filmed a UFO maneuvering in Earth orbit. (Source: | | Michael Hesemann, UFOs: The Secret History). | | | | 1996 - Late at night two coon hunters and their hunting dogs were | | parked on Leonard Road six miles south of Bethel, Ohio waiting for | | the right time to set their dogs loose. They released them and | | followed them into a harvested cornfield. As they approached the | | nearby power lines the dogs got very quiet, which was very uncommon | | for these dogs. When one of the hunters stepped into a clearing he | | was shocked to see a silvery saucer-shaped craft with a transparent | | cupola sitting on the ground. Nearby stood three humanoids wearing | | coverall uniforms. The beings were described as "Greys," short with | | slanted black eyes. One of them was slightly taller and had a much | | bigger head. As both the hunters and their dogs watched, the three | | humanoids ran to their saucer and entered through an open hatch. The | | object then rose straight up into the air and vanished. (Source: | | Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, case # 2474, citing | | Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Volume 1, # 41). | | | | 2001 - In 2001 at 9:20 p.m. near Tucumcari, Texas many people witnessed a | | brightly lit object move across the sky chased by F-16 fighters. The | | UFO changed directions several times. According to the witnesses, the | | jets fired missiles at the UFO and hit it, causing it to explode in | | the air. According to NORAD they witnesses the re-entry of a Russian | | satellite. (Source: UFO Magazine, April 2002, p. 20, citing Filer's | | Files). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 7 November 2004). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: back-a | | nd-forth motion, black helicopters, cigar or fuselage-shaped UFOs, di | | sc-shaped UFOs, delta-shaped UFOs, domed discs, Grey humanoids, hover | | ing UFOs, human-looking UFOnauts, humming sound, oval-shaped UFOs, ru | | sh of air, sensations of cold and heat, silent UFOs, silver colored U | | FOs, silvery uniforms, UFOs with green lights, UFO vehicle encounters | | including ignition system failure, vertical ascent, whooshing sound. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+