+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  November 17 | | | | 1955 - At 6:10 a.m. in St. Louis, Missouri Mr. J. A. Mapes sighted | | twelve round, flat objects flying in a four-deep formation. They were | | silver on top and dark on the bottom. They tipped in pitched and | | rolled as they flew by. They were in sight for 45 seconds. (Source: | | Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1962 - At nine o'clock in the evening Mr. F. L. Swindale, a college | | graduate and ex-USMC Captain, saw three bright star-like lights | | approach, hover and bounce in the sky over Tampa, Florida. After | | 11-15 minutes they faded away. (Source: Don Berliner, Project | | Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1966 - At 1:30 a.m. Margaret Marchute saw on the ground in | | Collegeville, Pennsylvania a luminous object that seemed to be made | | of polished metal. After about half an hour a red flame shot upward | | from the object, then two very bright lights approached it from the | | distance. When these were near it something like a luminous balloon | | sprang up from it and hovered in the air. At this point she could see | | 3 or 4 figures moving about the large object on the ground, which was | | pulsating from dim to bright. They were dressed in a "gold shiny | | material." She watched them for about two hours before going to bed. | | (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid | | Reports, case 1966-56, citing NICAP). | | | | 1966 - In Gaffney, South Carolina police patrolmen A. G. Huskey and | | C. Hutchins rounded a corner and saw a dark, spherical machine with a | | flat rim land in front of their patrol car at four o'clock in the | | morning. They estimated it was seven meters in diameter and about | | twenty feet above the ground. Hutchins described it as being | | spherical, like a ball, with a wide, flat rim around it. There were | | no lights or portholes visible on it. It was completely dark, | | reflecting a dull gold color in the headlights of the police car. A | | small doorway opened noiselessly on the underside of the sphere and a | | short ladder dropped down. A small man dressed in a shiny gold suit | | emerged. White light poured out of the opening, but neither man could | | see anything in the interior. The small being descended the ladder | | and walked slowly and deliberately toward the two police officers. | | When the figure reached a point about fifteen to twenty feet from the | | two men, it stopped. | | | | "He didn't move stiffly," officer Hutchins said. "He moved just like | | anybody else, but kind of slow...like he was taking his time. He | | wasn't scared of us or anything like that." In appearance, the | | humanoid was about the size of a twelve-year-old boy, maybe four feet | | tall. He wore no helmet or headgear and was dressed in a gold suit | | with no buttons or zippers. His costume was shiny, like metal, in the | | reflection of the headlights, but it was not self-luminous. The | | humanoid asked numerous questions and ignored the witnesses when they | | asked any questions. Hutchins could not remember seeing the feet of | | the creature. It was standing on high grass and the feet must have | | been hidden. Both men could not really remember the full context of | | the "conversation". Hutchins claimed the alien spoke perfect English. | | "Didn't have any accent or anything. He acted like he knew exactly | | what he was saying and doing...didn't make any quick moves or false | | moves. He just stood there and talked to the witnesses." He wanted to | | know why both men were dressed alike. His speech was very precise. He | | pronounced each work very carefully. When asked where he was from, he | | just laughed. The meeting was brief, perhaps only two or three | | minutes. Then, Hutchins say, the creature announced, | | "I...will...return...in...two...days." He turned, walked slowly back | | to the ladder and climbed into the object. The door closed quietly | | and the craft began to make a soft whirring sound like an engine with | | a muffler on it. The object rose slowly and vanished into the sky. A | | local councilman found numerous footprints at the site where the | | little man had stood. There was no return visit by the alien. | | (Sources: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid | | Reports, case 1966-57, citing John A Keel; Jacques Vallee, Passport | | to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 805). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 31 October 2004). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: co | | mmunication with UFOnaut in English; hovering, bouncing, tipping or r | | olling behavior; human looking short UFOnaut; landing, multiple UFOs. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+