+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  December 3 | | | | 1952 - In 1952 at 10:10 p.m. in the city of Bordeaux, France a long, bright | | cigar-shaped UFO moved slowly in the sky, then suddenly shot away, | | leaving a blue trail. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 131). | | | | 1953 - In 1953 at 6:02 p.m. Eastern Standard Time jets were scrambled from | | North Truro, Massachusetts in response to a radar bogey. Ground radar | | showed rapid changes in the UFO’s speed and altitude. At 7:35 p.m. a | | pulsating orange ovoid object was seen over Bellmore, New York. It | | made a sudden, ninety-degree turn and shot away at over 1800 miles | | per hour. Unidentified radar returns were also reported that day at | | Holloman AFB, New Mexico and Ellington AFB, Texas. (Sources: US Air | | Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, | | December 1953, cases 2, 3 and 4). | | | | 1954 - On this morning in 1954 in the town of Montebuono, Italy a 10 meter | | long cigar-shaped object passed overhead at 40-meters altitude. It | | had a large porthole on its side. It abruptly changed direction and | | shot straight up into the sky and away. (Source: Verga Maurizio, | | ITACAT - Italian UFO Catalogue). | | | | 1956 - In 1956 a disc paced a transport plane over Baltimore, Maryland for a | | short while, then broke away, spinning counterclockwise. The plane | | attempted to follow the UFO but was unable to keep up. (Source: | | Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Orbit, February 1957, p. 4). | | | | 1957 - In 1957 at 7 p.m. in Ellensburg, Washington a truck engine reportedly | | missed but did not stall in the presence of a UFO. Many residents of | | the Menastash Ridge area of Ellensburg saw a "strange ball of fire" | | for 20 minutes. A truck driver reported that the light hovered over | | his truck, causing the motor to cough and sputter. His engine did not | | stop completely, however, so he drove away. The night was misty, but | | the object was so bright that it lit up the sky as if it were | | daytime. (Sources: NICAP investigation files, Mark Rodeghier, UFO | | Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, case 85, citing Schopick). | | | | 1959 - In 1959 on a cloudy night on a farm near Chatton, New Zealand a disc | | flew in around 9:45 p.m. flying toward the northeast, stopped and | | then circled for 45 minutes. It gave off a bright glow around its | | rim. It was finally lost from sight behind the clouds. (Source: Larry | | Hatch, U computer database, citing Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History, | | 1959, volume 4). | | | | 1960 - In 1960, a man and his grandson were out duck hunting early in the | | morning near Atlantic City, New Jersey. They were sitting in a duck | | blind at around 6 a.m. when they saw a 20-meter wide disc approach to | | within 100 meters of their position. It glowed red and lit the | | ground, and moved with a jerky motion “like a bouncing ball.” It | | changed color from red to purple as it rose vertically into the sky, | | then flew off toward the southwest. (Source: George D. Fawcett, | | Flying Saucers, September 1961, p. 53). | | | | 1967 - On this day in 1967 three important UFO cases occurred. In the middle | | of the afternoon, airline crews and others near Cape Kamennyy, Russia | | watched a luminous sphere in the sky drop a red fireball and emit | | beams of light. | | | | 1967 – About one-and-a-half hours earlier, at around 2:30 a.m. | | Central Standard Time, a famous UFO abduction case occurred in | | Ashland, Nebraska. Mr. Herbert L. Schirmer, a 22-year-old police | | officer and military veteran, noticed a glow in a nearby paddock | | while driving his patrol car along a highway. He pulled in to | | investigate, then his patrol car engine and lights died. He noticed a | | silver disc about 30 feet in diameter, surrounded by a brilliant | | orange glow. He remembered that he tried to send a two-way radio | | message, but an orange and red beam directed at him made it | | impossible for him to move. He remembered being taken aboard the | | craft by four aliens about 4.5 to 5 feet tall with slanted eyes. They | | used language and telepathy to communicate with him. He experienced | | temporary amnesia for about 30 minutes, followed by headaches and | | other physiological effects. The case was thoroughly investigated by | | the Air Force sponsored University of Colorado UFO study, headed by | | Edward Condon, with mixed conclusions. Hypnosis was used to enhance | | memory recall, and the two psychological experts called in to | | evaluate the case developed opposite opinions. One believed the case | | was a hoax and Mr. Schirmer was a pathological liar, the other felt | | that Schirmer was totally sincere and found his account convincing. | | (Sources: NICAP Investigator, March 1968, p. 3; APRO Bulletin, | | November-December 1967, p. 3; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving | | Vehicle Interference, p. 39; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume | | II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 173). | | | | 1967 – That same night in Barcelona, Spain a “cactus-like” entity | | with four appendages—presumably two arms and two legs—was sighted. It | | left deep footprints in the soil. (Source: Vicente-Juan Ballester | | Olmos investigation files). | | | | 1973 – There were three close-encounter cases and numerous reports of | | nocturnal lights reported on this night in 1973 as well. A | | 26-year-old woman driving along Route 322 at 9 p.m. in Logan, New | | Jersey, in Gloucester County, first noticed a red glow, then a | | hamburger-shaped disc with a red light on top and a green light on | | the bottom. The UFO made a hissing sound, and emitted bright white | | jets of light from the sides when the object moved, like rocket | | thrusts. At 11:30 p.m. in Horton Bay, Michigan a glowing, | | mushroom-shaped UFO was seen over a highway intersection. It made no | | sound, and “just disappeared.” On that same night on a farm between | | Lincoln and Cole Camp, Missouri a farmer reported that a low flying | | UFO frightened his livestock. (Sources: Woodbury (NJ) Daily Times, | | December 5, 1973; Petoskey (MI) News Review, December 4, 1973; | | Warrensburg (MO) Star-Journal, December 11, 1973). | | | | 1978 - A brightly lit globular shaped object was seen flying at a low | | altitude over Leme, Brazil on this night. Several moving figures | | could be seen moving inside through a large opening. (Source: Albert | | S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing GEPUC Brazil). | | | | 1979 - On this night in 1979 in the province of Guadalajara, Spain | | veterinarian Dr. A. Cuesta was driving between Humanes and Yunque de | | Henares when a UFO began pacing his car and followed him for several | | kilometers. The craft positioned itself only 15 meters above his car, | | and emitted a blinding light, causing him to lose control and drive | | off the highway. On the same night at 10:25 p.m. in Clay County, | | Nebraska two teenage girls were driving west of Fairfield on highway | | 73 when they sighted a metallic domed disc-shaped UFO pursue their | | car for about five minutes at a distance of 400 meters. The UFO was | | about 10 meters in diameter. Their sketches of the object appear | | remarkably similar to those drawn by the two abductees in the Buff | | Ledge, Vermont case from 1968. (Sources: UFO Newsclipping Service, | | April 1980, p. 13, citing Mundo Diario, December 5, 1979; APRO | | Bulletin, April 1980, p. 6, citing Hastings Daily Times, December 14, | | 1979). | | | | 1980 – One year later, at 10:30 p.m. on Highway 57 in McLain, | | Mississippi Mr. and Mrs. Lowrey had the FM radio of their car quit, | | the car’s headlights dim, and the car heater quit when a luminous, | | blue-white ball of light came briefly over the right side of the | | car’s hood. They estimated the light to be about a foot in diameter | | and only a meter away. The seat belt alarm also came on during the | | encounter. (Source: Allan Hendry, International UFO Reporter, January | | 1981, p. 12). | | | | 1990 - In 1990 at 6:20 p.m. two dark triangle-shaped objects with rounded | | corners flew over the city of Noirmoutier on the French coast in | | sequence, flying south to north. Both have a red area in the center. | | At 9:10 p.m. a large metallic triangular raft with large lights flew | | low over the city of Cuincy, France. At 11:20 p.m. in Jozsa, Hungary | | a car with a single occupant stalled when it passed a short humanoid | | standing on the side of the road. The driver experienced twenty | | minutes of missing time. When the witness recovered consciousness, | | the car was facing in the opposite direction on the highway with no | | apparent damage. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issues 307, 308, and | | 326). | | | | 1994 - In 1994 at 11:00 o’clock in the evening two witnesses near the Garden | | State Parkway in Eatontown, New Jersey observed a silent, | | triangular-shaped craft in the sky. (Source: Paul Ferrughelli, | | Computer Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-1994, citing MUFON New Jersey). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 15 November 2005). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT database. | | | | Themes: abductions, abrupt change | | in speed and altitude, car pacings, cigar-shaped objects, disc-shape | | d UFOs, EM vehicle interference effects, hissing sound, inside UFO oc | | cupants, jerky motion, luminous UFOs, missing time, multi-year report | | s from southern New Jersey, red UFOs, triangular UFOs, vanishing UFO. | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+