+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  October 3 | | | | 1843 - Farmer Cooper saw three men flying through the sky over | | Warwick, Quebec. They were completely white. (Source: John Colombo, | | UFOs over Canada: Personal accounts of sightings and close | | encounters, p. 209). | | | | 1951 - At 9:27 p.m. military radar picked up a large sausage-shaped | | radar blip. It was tracked flying over Kadena AFB, Japan moving at | | 4,800 mph. Listed as a Project Blue Book "unidentified" case. | | (Source: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case | | 984). | | | | 1952 - At 1:30 a.m. a UFO zigzagged over Abidjan, Ivory Coast. That | | evening, at Cocoa Beach, Florida a white ovoid object hovered near | | Cape Canaveral for two and a half hours. (Source: Loren Gross, UFOs: | | A History. 1952: September-October, p. 61). | | | | 1954 - There are 81 UFO and humanoid reports recorded in UFOCAT for | | this day. There is one from India, one from Lebanon, one from Quebec, | | one from Switzerland, two each from England and Italy, and three from | | Austria. The rest are from France, which appears to be at the center | | of this massive wave of UFO sightings. | | | | 1954 - Angelo Girardo, 55, a stockyard employee, was going to work in | | Bressuire, France at dawn when he saw a circular craft with a | | three-meter diameter and a small figure wearing a diving suit, | | standing close by. The object took off at a fantastic speed. | | (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, | | p. 215; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier | | complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 111). | | | | 1954 - Between Rue and Quend, France on Route D27, near the village | | of Vron, Rene Coudette and B. Devoisin were riding bicycles with a | | third witness when they saw an orange object, shaped like a beehive, | | on the road ahead of them. A small strange "man" wearing a diving | | suit, about 0.9 meters (3 foot) tall, was standing close to it. When | | they got within 70 meters of it, the object took off very fast. Less | | than three hours later, the same or a similar orange object chased a | | car down a road in Quend for eight kilometers, then flew away toward | | the sea. The witness was a butcher named Georges Galant. (Sources: | | Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, pp. 118, | | 116; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. | | 216). | | | | 1954 - At 7:20 p.m. the crowd at a fair in Chereng, France saw a | | luminous object arrive very fast in the sky, stop in flight, emit | | sparks, and come down to ground level. As witnesses rushed to the | | spot it took off again. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the | | Straight Line Mystery, p. 113; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A | | Century of Landings, p. 216). | | | | 1954 - At 10:45 p.m. a circular craft was seen by Mr. Jean Allary, | | age 22, while riding a motorcycle between Montmoreau and Villebois | | Lavalette, France. It seemed to be gliding over the ground. It showed | | luminous spots and became completely illuminated when it took off. It | | was about 1.2 meters high. Grass was found flattened and scorched | | over an area seven meters across. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying | | Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 130; Jacques Vallee, | | Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 216; Michel Figeut & | | Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres | | rapprochees en France, p. 114). | | | | 1954 - Near La Rochelle, France at 11:00 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. | | Guillemoteau saw an object, five meters in diameter and 2.5 meters | | high, hovering for several minutes one meter above the ground. The | | UFO then rose vertically. Oily marks were found at the spot. | | (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, | | p. 131; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, | | p. 216). | | | | 1958 - At 3:20 a.m. in Owasco, Indiana four big, soft white | | elliptical lights, about 40 meters in diameter, maneuvered back and | | forth just above tree top level while changing color. (Source: NICAP | | UFO Investigator, August 1959, p. 3). | | | | Owasco, Indiana - 1958 | | | | [] | | | | 1967 - At 7:45 p.m. Kathy Skolem of Portland, Connecticut, age 13, | | saw an orange cloud bigger than the moon, which changed colors from | | pink to blue to green. This turned out to be a barium cloud | | experiment launched by NASA at 7:18 EDT from Wallops Island, | | Virginia. However, she then saw a white domed disc surrounded by a | | haze. It had lights around its rim, and it flew off toward the | | southeast. At 8:40 p.m. a glowing Saturn-shaped object with a fuzzy | | amber center flew over Cambridge, Massachusetts. It had white lights | | sparkling around its circumference. This too was not the barium cloud | | experiment, which they had seen earlier in the evening. (Sources: | | Donald A. Johnson, case investigation files; NICAP case investigation | | files). | | | | Portland, Connecticut Domed Disc - 3 Oct 1967 19.45h | | | | [] | | | | Cambridge, Massachusetts Domed Disc - 3 Oct 1967 20.40h | | | | [] | | | | 1971 - Mr. and Mrs. Cury where driving in Anapolis, Brazil at 1:40 | | a.m. when their car's engine made an odd sound and suddenly | | accelerated to 160 kph despite the driver's effort to slow it down. A | | large glowing sombrero-shaped object appeared in front of the car. It | | passed back and forth across the road, oscillated up and down, then | | sped away. On the same day two disc-shaped objects descended low over | | Rainbow Lake in Derry, New Hampshire. There were independent | | witnesses to the event, and other UFO sightings in the area. | | (Sources: APRO Bulletin, September-October 1971, p. 3; Mark | | Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 52; Hans | | Holzer, The UFOnauts, p. 168). | | | | 1973 - During a flurry of low-level UFO sightings in the area of | | North Melbourne, Australia, a man woke up in the middle of the night | | and noticed two figures standing in the shadows in front of his | | bedroom wall looking at him. They were described as humanoid and | | tall, and they appeared to be floating just above the floor. Both | | swayed gently from side to side. Both beings had large baldheads, | | slanted eyes, lipless mouths, and small flat noses. Their ears were | | pressed back against the side of their heads. No clothing details | | could be discerned. Moments later one of the beings opened his mouth | | and a high-pitched whine filled the room. At the same time both | | beings began to fade and disappeared. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, | | Humanoid Contact Database 1973, case # 868, citing George Alahouzos, | | FSR, Vol. 25 # 1). | | | | 1973 - A former aerospace photographer sighted a silver disc-shaped | | UFO making erratic maneuvers near SR177, northeast of Cape Girardeau, | | Missouri at 7:30 p.m. At 8:00 p.m. a UFO landed on a lake and lifted | | off from the water's surface in East Derry, New Hampshire. (Source: | | Harley Rutledge, Project Identification: The first scientific field | | study of UFO phenomena, p. 170). | | | | 1975 - On this night a large mass of white light, with smaller blue | | lights inside, hung stationary over Quincy, Massachusetts. (Source: | | CUFOS News Bulletin, February 1976, p. 7). | | | | 1976 - On this night a luminous object rose up from the road only | | twenty meters in front of an approaching car in Tonsberg, Norway. | | (Source: U computer database, case 11905). | | | | 1978 - Thousands of witnesses in Bogota, Colombia saw two UFOs in an | | unusually clear sky. One was shaped like a "croissant" and the other | | was cylinder-shaped. Both gave off an intense luminosity. Traffic | | halted throughout the city during the sighting. (Source: UFO | | Newsclipping Service, December 1978, p. 15). | | | | 1978 - At 9:37 p.m. a car driving over a mountain pass near Sayama | | City, Japan was suddenly illuminated. An orange beam of light came | | down from the sky and struck the Mr. Amano's two-year-old daughter's | | stomach. Then a short humanoid being with no obvious nose appeared | | and pressed a metallic object against his forehead. He began | | receiving telepathic communication from the being accompanied by a | | high-pitched noise. (Source: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: | | Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1977). | | | | 1983 - At two o'clock in the morning Debbie Tomey heard a voice call | | her in her bedroom at her home in suburban Indianapolis, Indiana. She | | saw a small ball of light fly through her hallway. Under hypnosis she | | recalled being drowsy, then being touched by a device clamped to her | | neck. She saw a short humanoid being, and then experienced an episode | | of missing time. When she regained consciousness she found herself | | outside her house. (Source: Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The | | Measure of a Mystery. Volume 1: Comparative Study of Abductions, case | | 195 (episode K). | | | | 1983 - At 8:00 p.m. nine amateur astronomers sighted at blue ovoid | | object orbited by smaller objects over Split, Croatia. (Source: MUFON | | UFO Journal, December 1983). | | | | 1989 - At 3:00 a.m. in Ochlocknee, Georgia two men observed a round | | object at tree top level, emitting small balls of light. (Source: | | Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalogue of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, case | | 992). | | | | 1996 - At approximately 8:00 p.m. local time a number of vehicles | | traveling on I-25 south of Springer, New Mexico were witness to a | | cigar-shaped object, estimated to be at least "two stories" tall and | | covered with very bizarre lights. The object was seen to descend out | | of the night sky and hover over an area near the highway. At least | | 4-5 automobiles, and two tractor-trailers had stopped along the | | highway and their passengers had gotten out of their vehicles to look | | at the object. At some point during the sighting the object | | extinguished its lights and apparently settled to the ground. One | | young person was emotionally upset by the event, and was still in a | | state of shock several hours later. (Source: Peter Davenport, | | National UFO Reporting Center website). | | | | 1996 - On this Thursday night numerous sightings of one or more | | blue-green "fireballs" streaking overhead were reported to various | | law-enforcement agencies in California. Some reports hinted at the | | possibility that the sightings were associated with several fires of | | unknown origin that had allegedly broken out as the object or objects | | passed overhead. Witnesses in at least four counties made reports to | | the California Emergency Management Office in Sacramento. One | | observer reported that he had seen a bluish or blue-green fireball | | descend almost vertically to the east of his location in Bakersfield. | | The object was observed for approximately 20-30 seconds, during which | | time it traversed an arc or approximately 30 degrees of angle. The | | object went below the horizon to the east. (Source: Peter Davenport, | | National UFO Reporting Center website). | | | | 1997 - At four in the afternoon Osmo Kurkela was walking home from | | school in Raahe, Finland when he saw a red light in the sky that was | | coming straight down towards him. It stopped ten meters from the | | witness then landed. The UFO was five meters long and ten meters | | wide. Three human-looking beings emerged and one of them appeared to | | be a woman. Osmo ran home and attempted to hide, but his next | | recollection was being taken from his home and into the object. A | | sperm sample was allegedly taken from the young man. (Source: Albert | | S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1997, case # 2840, citing UFO | | Sightings in New Mexico and the World). | | | | 1998 - A five-meter diameter disc flew low over the valley of the | | Tevere River in Rieti, Italy and skimmed the surface of the water. It | | flew off toward the southwest and was sighted again in Rome. (Source: | | Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup website, volume 3, no. 41). | | | | 2000 - A witness saw three lights chasing one another over Montreal, | | Quebec at 9:33 p.m. They zigzagged around the sky making no noise. | | (Source: UFO Research Manitoba, 2000 Canadian UFO Survey, case 187). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 16 September 2004). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes | | : abductions, cigar-shaped UFOs, disc-shaped UFOs, luminous UFOs, blu | | ish-green erratic maneuvers, fireballs, flying humanoids, human looki | | ng UFOnauts, nautical UFOs, orange UFOs, hovering, short humanoid, no | | rmal-sized humanoid, UFOs emitting sparks, landings, landing traces, | | multiple nautical UFO reports in New Hampshire, multi-year reports fr | | om New England, UFOs with satellite objects, zigzag motion in flight. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+