+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  September 13 | | | | 1948 - At seven o'clock in the evening a seminarian in Oristano, | | Sardegna, Italy watched as a domed disc-shaped object tilted in the | | air, so that two humanoid beings were visible inside its transparent | | dome. The object flew off to the east toward Madau. (Source: Larry | | Hatch, U computer database, case # 1346, citing a website). | | | | 1952 - At around 8:00 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. George Snitowski and their | | little girl suddenly found their car stalled in Frametown, West | | Virginia. An unpleasant odor filled the air, similar to the smell of | | ether mixed with sulphur. Mr. Snitowski thought a chemical plant | | might be burning in the area and walked towards a strong light | | visible in the woods, in spite of the noxious smell. Coming near it, | | he felt a prickling sensation throughout his body, had to stop, and | | then lost his balance several times as he returned to the car where | | he found his wife terrified, pointing at a giant creature. (Sources: | | Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 200; | | Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case # 1; | | David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, | | case # 1952-17, citing Paul Lieb, Jacques Vallee & Mark Hall; George | | D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers magazine, September 1972, p. 27). | | | | 1952 - On that same night in Allentown, Pennsylvania at 7:40 p.m., | | private pilot W.A. Hobler was flying his Beech Bonanza airplane when | | he sighted a flying object shaped like a fat football, fiery | | orange-red in color, descend and then pull up in front of his | | airplane. This encounter was very brief, and lasted only two 2 | | seconds. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official | | statistics, case #  2085; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO | | Unknowns; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: | | September-October, p. 28). | | | | 1955 - At 2:10 a.m. a silent red sphere flew across the sky to the | | northeast in St. Louis, Senegal, curving and spiraling. It made an | | ascent to a higher altitude, flew to the southeast, and then shot off | | to the west. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, November 1968). | | | | 1959 - At 1:05 a.m. Mr. R. H. Daubner of Gills Rock, Wisconsin | | observed a yellow ring of lights, with eight blue lights within it, | | and then five larger brilliant red lights. The object rose very fast | | vertically from a field three kilometers away, while making a | | pulsating jet noise. The tremendous pulsating noise hurt the ears of | | the witness. The encounter lasted ten minutes. (Sources: Project Blue | | Book files counted in official statistics, case # 6506; Don Berliner, | | Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | Gills Rock, Wisconsin UFO Landing - 1959 | | | | [Sketch of Gills Rock, Wisconsin UFO Landing - 1959] | | | | 1959 - Scott Mitchell was in the hallway of his home near Gills Rock, | | Wisconsin at around two o'clock in the afternoon when he saw a being | | with dark gray, wrinkled skin standing at the opposite end. The being | | communicated in a telepathic voice that went directly to the witness | | head, "Do not be afraid, we will not harm you." Frightened, he tried | | to run away but was paralyzed in his tracks, and time seemed to slow | | down around him. A greenish haze surrounded him and the being glided | | towards him. The witness then lost consciousness. His next memory was | | of waking up in the house in a back bedroom. The witness subsequently | | experienced further close encounters. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, | | Humanoid Contact Database 1959, citing UFOs and Aliens Among Us). | | | | 1959 - At four p.m. at least two control tower operators at Bunker | | Hill AFB, Indiana plus the pilot of a Mooney private aircraft sighted | | a pear-shaped object, colored white, cream, and metallic, with a | | trail under it. The UFO showed little movement during the three hour | | sighting. An intercept was attempted by a USAF T-33 jet trainer, but | | it failed to find the UFO in time. (Sources: Project Blue Book files | | counted in official statistics, case # 6507; Don Berliner, Project | | Bluebook UFO Unknowns). | | | | 1962 - Overfield, England. Myra Jones was driving between Overfield | | and Norris Hill at 11:20 p.m. when she spotted a luminous, gray | | object, larger than a car, with a dome on top. It was flying just | | above the ground at the height of the telephone poles, spinning | | slowly. There were dark spots visible on the underside of the object. | | It nearly touched the car, then gave a whistling sound and flew away. | | (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, | | case 546; citing Flying Saucer Review, November-December 1962). | | | | 1966 - At 7:30 a.m. a 12-year-old boy, Randy Rotenberger, saw | | a silvery-gray ellipsoid object with a clear bubble dome protruding | | from its top; it hovered about a mile away, then landed with a | | falling leaf motion near a farm between Gwinner and Stirum, North | | Dakota within 300 yards of him. It made a low-pitched whine during | | the five-minute sighting. It had tripod landing gear, two red lights, | | two white and one green light, and the transparent dome. A | | businessman from Gwinner and an Air Force Lt. Colonel went to the | | site and discovered three ground traces, apparently left by spherical | | objects, 18 centimeters deep, which were very compact. The ground | | imprint marks were in the arrangement of an isoceles triangle 7.9 m x | | 6.5 m x 6.5 m. Radiation measured at 0.1 milliroentgen (normal). The | | boy reported that the object "went away so fast that it vanished." | | (Sources: NICAP UFO Investigator, November 1966, p. 4; APRO Bulletin, | | July 1966, p. 1; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of | | Landings, case 797; Project Blue files counted in official | | statistics, case 10944; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; | | UNICAT, case 369). | | | | 1966 - The two astrononauts on Gemini XI, Dick Gordon and Pete | | Conrad, during their 18th orbit of the Earth, took a photograph of a | | unknown object in outer space while over the Greenwich Time Zone at | | 18.25 hours. (Sources: NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1977, p. 1; | | Margaret Sachs, Celestial Passengers, p. 183). | | | | 1967 - A very bright strobe light was seen, and then six red lights | | in a row appeared at the same spot and hovered over the Haddam Neck, | | Connecticut Yankee Nuclear Power Plant at 8:45 p.m. It was seen by | | Mrs. Rarey and her two children from their home across the | | Connecticut River in Haddam, Connecticut. The sighting lasted 15 | | minutes. (Source: Donald A. Johnson field investigation case files). | | | | 1972 - A rural family in Burlington, Colorado, who police said were | | responsible people, reported that a UFO "as big as a house" flew | | parallel to their car as they were driving down a country road at | | night. One of the witnesses said the object landed and took off twice | | in a nearby field. The object was round and  had "rays" or beam of | | light coming out of it. (Source: NICAP UFO Investigator, October | | 1972, p. 3). | | | | 1973 - While driving toward Ijui, Brazil at about 1:30 a.m., a group | | of motorists saw a luminous yellow egg-shaped object approach their | | car near the town of Gravatai and begin pacing them on the left side, | | some 2-3 kilometers away. When the driver blinked the headlights off | | and on, the object reproduced the same signals. The driver stopped | | the car and he and some passengers then got out, waving their arms. | | The object was very close to the ground and appeared to be about to | | land. They resumed their trip and after awhile the object, which | | continued to pace them, beamed a light in their direction. One of the | | passengers said she had the impression something or someone was | | trying to contact her mentally. (Source: Inforespace, August 1975, | | No. 22; translated from the French by Jacques Deschenes) | | | | 1986 - On this night, during a rash of UFO sightings in the region, | | Mrs. Lourdes Altamirano watched a huge luminous object descend and | | hover above a large tree in Ciudad Valles, San Luis Potosi State, | | Mexico. Several gigantic figures descended from the object and | | inspected the surroundings, at one point they showed interest in a | | large ceramic jar near the witness's house. She attempted to wake her | | husband but he remained asleep. After awhile, the beings reboarded | | their craft, which took off at high speed. (Source: Albert S. | | Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, citing Contacto OVNI). | | | | 1988 - At 10:45 p.m. a 39-year-old witness stepped outside his house | | in Chiloquin, Klamath County, Oregon and saw a multicolored, oval | | object moving away. He got his wife, daughter, and a telescope. They | | watched the object in the sky for more than an hour. They saw the | | same object "at distance" for the next two nights. (Source: Hernandez | | Jose L. Hernandez, MUFON field investigation case files database, | | case # 930508J). | | | | 1990 - At around 1:00 a.m. a mother awoke to tuck her young daughter | | under the blankets in Rudnyi, Kustanay region, Kazakhstan when she | | saw a luminous sphere through the balcony door on the upper level of | | house. A bright yellow beam, surrounded in a greenish glow, shone | | into the room from the sphere. The woman covered the young girl with | | the blanket and then heard a strong ringing in her ears and | | developed a strong headache. At this point she lost consciousness. | | After an hour or so she woke up, feeling a burning sensation on her | | stomach. She found a spot about ten centimeters in length and two | | centimeters wide on her stomach that appeared to be a burn scar. | | (Source: Albert S. Rosales, 1990 Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, | | citing UFOZONE Russia). | | 1990 - At 8:12 p.m. a local woman named Irina M. was returning home | | from work in Mahachkala, Dagestan, Russia when she looked at the sky | | and saw a fast moving yellow light, which was flying from the | | southwest to the east. It was moving faster than a normal aircraft, | | and she immediately thought it could be a UFO. The object began to | | descend at a high speed, noticeably increasing in size. It was round | | and silvery, and hovered in midair not too far away from the witness. | | Astounded, she next saw a humanoid figure floating next to the | | object. The figure was human-like, tall, slender, and with a pale | | young face without wrinkles. He also had what appeared to be very | | kind, blue eyes. The alien was dressed in a loose-fitting tunic, | | silver-white in color. The being stood in mid-air, gazing at the | | witness intently, and seemed to be encased in a bright halo of light. | | She became concerned, fearing that she might be abducted by the | | alien, and she rushed home to her children as fast as she could. Near | | her front door she looked back and saw the UFO departing, decreasing | | in size and vanishing in a few seconds. Apparently the only other | | witness to this event was a stray dog that frequented the area. | | (Source: Albert S. Rosales, 1990 Humanoid Sighting Reports Database, | | citing "Iks" UFO Newspaper, Mahachkala Dagestan, issue # 4, and Anton | | Anfalov). | | 1990 - On the same night as the CE-3 encounter in Dagestan, witnesses | | in Samara Province, Russia reported seeing a small luminous, white | | triangular-shaped craft flying above their rooftops. The object | | appeared to be transparent, and inside three dark human-like figures | | with large round heads could be seen. One figure was standing up, | | while the other two were seated behind what looked like a control | | panel. The object later became dark and landed outside a perimeter | | fence of the Volga-Ural Military Air Defense Radar Station. At around | | midnight, as armed guards approached the object, without warning it | | fired a powerful beam of concentrated energy that destroyed the radar | | antenna on top of their communications building. The steel in the | | radar unit was burned from a distance of 430 feet. A wristwatch | | reportedly slowed, and other strange physical effects were noted. | | Some of the sentries went missing temporarily, and could not account | | for their whereabouts. (Sources: Paul Stonehill, The Soviet UFO | | Files, p. 50; Antonio Huneeus, UFO Universe 1995, quoting Russian | | film, Cosmic Top Secret; Albert S. Rosales, 1990 Humanoid Sighting | | Reports Database, case # 1836, citing Antonio Huneeus). | | | | 1992 - In Albertville, Minnesota a 5-6 foot wide disc-shaped object | | with portholes was seen at 100 feet altitude, only 100 yards away. It | | had an estimated thickness of 1-2 feet. (Source: Joni Astrup, UFO | | Newsclipping Service, December 1992, p. 1, citing Star News, | | September 30, 1992). | | | | 1994 - Larry Gardea, while out bear hunting near Chacon, New Mexico | | heard a humming sound at 4:30 p.m., and witnessed a cow being dragged | | up a hill backwards into the underbrush. One cow was dead and | | mutilated, another one crippled, and a third missing. The hunter | | fired shots in the direction of the sound. (Source: Christopher | | O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 256, citing Linda Moulton Howe). | | | | 1994 - At 7:30 p.m. while driving on Highway 160 east of Del Norte, | | Colorado two people witnessed two orange streamers that crossed their | | path. The two flourescent orange streamers flew in tandem right in | | front of their van's windshield. They were four to six feet | | in length, six to eight feet apart. They crossed the highway at | | the same place as an ambulance's electrical system failure earlier in | | the month. Satellite TV in the area also failed. (Source:Christopher | | O'Brien, The Mysterious Valley, p. 256). | | | | 1994 - At 11:00 p.m. a silent formation of dark objects flew across | | the sky toward the southwest in Cheyenne, Wyoming. They were thought | | to be much too fast to have been geese. (Source: Larry Hatch, U | | computer database, case # 16525, citing R. Leo Sprinkle). | | | | 1995 - At 12:10 a.m. a bizarre, irregularly shaped object, only 300 | | feet away, shot beams of light down on a house in Corpus Christi, | | Texas. It had a pulsating light on top. (Source: Peter Davenport, | | National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, list of 1995 reports). | | | | 1995 - At 12:20 a.m. a yellow-white disc-shaped object moved south in | | the sky over Tallahasee, Florida. Its apparent size was larger than | | the full moon, and it had a halo surrounding it. (Source: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, list of 1995 | | reports). | | | | 1999 - Witnesses in Blanchardville, Wisconsin reported a shoot-out | | between Air National Guard F-16s and six maneuvering balls of light | | (BOLs) at 2:15 a.m., with one light emitting a ray that took out one | | of the jets. The jet reportedly crashed, and the pilot who ejected | | was treated for injuries. (Sources: George A. Filer, MUFON UFO | | Journal, January 2000, p. 17; UFO Magazine (US), March 2000, p. 16). | | | | 1999 - A tube-shaped UFO with a pointed rear end, brilliant white, | | sped east to west at 2200 km/h over Melbourne Reservoir, Victoria, | | Australia at 7:20 p.m. It was viewed for few seconds. The witness has | | worked in the aviation industry for many years, and attests that it | | was not a meteor or a conventional plane. (Source: Robert Frola, | | Australasian Ufologist, April 2000, p. 52 & January 2001, p. 46). | | | | 2000 - An EM vehicle ignition interference effect case occurred on | | this evening at 7:00 p.m. The witness's car engine shut off between | | Hagerstown and Sidling Hill, Maryland when an extremely bright light | | appeared above the car. The witness also had terrible migraine | | headache later that night. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO | | Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2000 archived webpage). | | | | 2001 - At 6:05 a.m. a formation of lights was seen moving low over | | Toronto, Ontario during a rainy day; this was during the no fly | | period two days after the World Trade Center attacks. (Source: Geoff | | Dittman, 2001 Canadian UFO Survey, case 298). | | | | 2003 - The Senior Curator/Royal Armouries Museum reported two | | circular flying objects in the sky over Heckmondwide, West Yorkshire, | | England at 9:40 p.m.; they were about half the apparent size of the | | moon, and were a very dull yellow. (Source: British Ministry of | | Defense, case 2003-075). | | | | 2003 - A witness reported seeing a dark triangular shape in Yelm, | | Washington at 12:30 p.m., moving slowly at treetop level without | | making any sound. It had white and red lights on the bottom. (Source: | | Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September | | 2003 archived webpage). | | | | 2003 - At midnight a 21-year-old woman walking her dog in Seaman, | | Ohio heard coyotes howling loudly during a sighting of a large | | stationary triangular craft. The color of the object's lights changed | | from  pinkish-red to blue, white and yellow. (Source: Joan Woodward, | | NICAP Category 4 - Animal Effects Cases, www.nicap.org). | | | | 2006 - The British Ministry of Defense received a report of | | a triangular object with lights flying over Whitehaven, Cumbria, | | England at 9:45 p.m. One of the lights was green, one was red, and | | the other two were amber. There was a strange droning noise as it | | passed overhead.(Source: British Ministry of Defense, case 2006-050). | | | | 2007 - At 8:10 p.m. eight white, cigar-shaped objects were | | photographed in Calgary, Alberta, Canada several times as they were | | descending rapidly to the southeast. (Source: Chris Rutkowski, 2007 | | Canadian UFO Survey, case # 598, citing ufoinfo.com). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 12 September 2012). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Themes: aircra | | ft UFO encounters; aerial combat between UFOs and military jets; anim | | al reaction: coyotes howling; car pacings; dark-gray humanoid with wr | | inkled skin; domed discs; domed-ovoid UFO; EM vehicle ignition effect | | s; giant Ufonauts; landing with triangular imprint pattern; missing t | | ime; multicolored UFOs; multi-year reports from Colorado, England and | | Wisconsin; UFOs over nuclear power plant; physiological effects: mig | | raine headache, paralysis, prickling sensation, and vertigo; pulsatin | | g jet noise; telepathy; time distortions; triangular UFOs; unexplaine | | d cattle death (cattle mutilation); UFO responds to headlight signal; | | unpleasant odor; vertical ascent; whining sound; wristwatch slowed. | | | | © Donald A. 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