+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  December 5 | | | | 1557 - Above Tubingen, Germany fiery clouds circled in the sky around | | seven o'clock in the morning, from which emerged "large, tall and | | wide" hat-shaped objects. The glow cast upon the ground was yellow | | and "bloody". The hat-shaped flying objects were multicolored: black, | | red, blue, and green. (Sources: Larry Hatch, U computer database, | | case # 33; Jacques Vallee, Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact, | | p. 13). | | | | 1737 - An astronomer in Sheffield, England saw a dark red, luminous | | cloud that emitted intense beams of light (solid light). The light | | beams moved slowly, then stopped. He suddenly felt so hot that he had | | to remove his shirt outdoors. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of | | Phenomenon, p. 9; Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. | | 3). | | | | 1945 -  On this fateful day six U.S. Army Air Force planes, which | | took off from Fort Lauderdale Naval Air Station, Florida disappeared | | into the Atlantic Ocean Bermuda Triangle. Flight 19, a formation of | | five TBM avengers became disoriented while flying northeast from Fort | | Lauderdale, and made increasingly frantic radio calls announcing they | | were lost and calling for assistance. A huge rescue search operation | | caused more aboard a Martin Mariner sea rescue plane to be lost. | | (Sources: Miami Herald, December 6, 1945; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying | | Saucer Conspiracy, p. 293; Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. | | 125; Vincent H. Gaddis, Invisible Horizons, p. 175). | | | | 1948 - Flying east of Las Vegas, New Mexico a C-47 pilot and two | | others saw a huge luminous green fireball at 9:27 p.m., which | | appeared to maneuver. The same night 12 green fireballs seen | | traveling rapidly north to south by security guards at military | | installations from 1930 to 2330 hours, including guards at Sandia | | Base, New Mexico where atomic bombs were being assembled. (Sources: | | (1) Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 73; | | Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 11; Richard M. | | Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a | | Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 398; (2) Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on | | Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 48; Bruce Maccabee, UFO-FBI | | Connection: The Secret History of the Government's Cover-Up, p. 70). | | | | 1950 - A postman in the farming community of Newbliss, Monaghan | | County, Ireland watched at 1:00 p.m. as 8 "table knives" passed over | | at high altitude, weaving up and down. (Source: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: | | A History. 1950: August-December, p. 62). | | | | 1950 - On this afternoon a disc-shaped object was seen over the post | | office for 60 seconds in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. It flew to the east, | | then turned and flew off to the northwest. A separate witness saw it | | and reported it flew off to the west. (Source:  Loren E. Gross, UFOs: | | A History. 1950: August-December, p. 63). | | | | 1957 - At 12:10 p.m. a spinning disc-shaped object was sighted flying | | south by two railroad men in Jackson, Mississippi. After five minutes | | there was a big flash on the horizon, and a fireball appeared there, | | then shrank. In Tulsa, Oklahoma a doctor and a second witness watched | | a circular object hover at 10:30 p.m. for five minutes, then shoot | | off to the northwest. It had a glowing front edge.(Source: Loren E. | | Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1957: | | December, pp. 21-22). | | | | 1962 - A woman named Chapman had a close encounter with a UFO in | | Irlam, Greater Manchester, England at 6:45 p.m. (Source: Orbit, April | | 1962, p. 26). | | | | 1963 - Several hundred witnesses at a seaside resort in | | Carrasco, Montevideo, Uruguay saw an oval UFO, described as | | metallic-aluminum in appearance, hovering in the clear morning sky. | | The object "balanced gently in the air."  (Source: Richard H. Hall, | | The UFO Evidence, Volume 1, p. 141). | | | | 1966 - At 2:00 a.m. a dark disc-shaped object with lights around the | | rim passed over a car in a snowstorm in the mountains of Col d'Uzes, | | Gard, France. It flew at an estimated altitude of 150 meters, a speed | | of 300 kilometers per hour, and made no discernable sound. (Source: | | Lumieres dans la Nuit, November 1978). | | | | 1966 - Several witnesses had a close encounter with a UFO in | | Lakewood, New Jersey on this day. (Sources: Ocean County (NJ) | | Citizen, December 6, 1966; John A. Keel, Flying Saucer Review, | | March-April 1967, p. 8). | | | | 1968 - A cluster of flashing lights appeared just at dusk over Watts | | Bar Lake south of Kingston, Tennessee, and then moved skyward. | | (Source: Knoxville (TN) News-Sentinel, December 10, 1968). | | | | 1969 - While flying from Toronto Island Airport south over Lake | | Ontario a light was seen by two witnesses oscillating up and down, | | and was visible for 15 minutes. (Source: Dominique Weinstein, | | Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 37; Data-Net Report, March 1970, p. 11). | | | | 1970 - An older couple in their sixties were driving over a bridge on | | Highway 2 at 6:45 p.m. just outside Everett, Washington when they saw | | a deep red light near the surface of the river. The light passed over | | them and their car motor sputtered as it did so, the speed dropping | | from 40 mph to 5-10 mph. The light continued in a straight line to | | the north, then rose vertically at a high rate of speed. The car | | functioned normally afterwards. (Sources: Dr. Donald A. Johnson case | | investigation files; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle | | Interference, citing APRO). | | | | Everett, Washington Close Encounter - 1970 | | | | [image] | | | | 1971 - At 3:00 a.m. a funnel-shaped object followed a car through a | | forest south of Michery, Yonne, France. It eetours around a copse of | | woods, then made some sharp turns. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, | | October 1973). | | | | 1971 - Paulo Caetano Silveira's fourth "contact" experience occurred | | near the bridge over the Rio Carangula outside Itaperuna, Brazil at | | 7:00 p.m. He was invited inside the UFO and heard its occupants | | "jabbering" with each other unintelligibly, although he never | | observed their lips move. He did understand their message that they | | were on a mission of peace, preparing people for eventual contact. | | (Sources: Walter Buhler, UFO Encounters: FSR Special Edition No. 5, | | p. 21; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid | | Reports, case 1971-34, citing Dr. Walter Buhler). | | | | 1973 - In the pre-dawn hours a red disc-shaped object was seen over | | some marshes at a low altitude near Nimes, Gard, France. At dawn 65 | | bulls of the breed that supplies the French bull rings were found | | drowned in the river. (Sources: South China Morning Post, December | | 22, 1973; FSR, July 1974, p. 33). | | | | 1973 - At 5:30 p.m. a mother and her four teenage daughters first saw | | a flash of green light, then they saw a lime-green, domed | | cupcake-shaped object in a snow-covered soybean field while driving | | southwest of Underwood, Iowa. A search showed no landing traces in | | the snow. (Source: MUFON field investigation case file, field | | investigator Elmer Kral). | | | | 1973 - On this night a basketball coach and two other men in a car | | near Carnegie, Oklahoma drove toward some flashing lights, and saw a | | being on the roadside with green flashing lights on his shoulders. | | The being approached the car. He wore "blood red pants" and a | | welder's type mask with a red flashing light on top. Another man | | reported seeing the being and a glowing white light down a side road. | | (Sources: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Humanoid Report | | Catalogue, case 1973-79; David F. Webb, 1973: The Year of The | | Humanoids; Tulsa World, December 6, 1973). | | | | 1975 - An object that looked like a Ferris wheel on its side was | | sighted in Clarkston, Georgia on this night. It had yellow and amber | | colored lights spinning around it as the object moved forward. On | | that same night another flying object with two large clear lights in | | front, and a red light in the rear was encountered in Montville, New | | Jersey. A string of lights connected the three large lights and would | | change colors from red to green to brown to yellow. The UFO moved | | erratically, in rapid short spurts (Source: CUFOS News Bulletin, | | February 1976, pp. 11 & 14). | | | | 1976 - At 2:30 a.m. a 150-foot diameter disc zigzagged over an | | electrical power station for about an hour in Solleftea, | | Vasternorrland, Sweden. It had diffuse lights on its underside. | | (Source: International UFO Reporter, April 1977, p. 2, citing Nya | | Norrland, December 6, 1976). | | | | 1979 - At 5:55 p.m. three groups of six orbs exited a cigar-shaped | | object over Ansted, West Virginia. (Source: Allan Hendry, | | International UFO Reporter, January 1980, p. 4; APRO Bulletin, May | | 1980, p 8). | | | | 1984 - Several hundred witnessed a bright ovoid object fly east over | | Imperia, Alpes-Maritime, France and Genova, Italy at 11:30 a.m. | | giving off bursts of flashing light. (Sources: FSR, May 1985; MUFON | | UFO Journal, April 1985). | | | | 1987 - At 3:00 p.m. a cylindrical UFO flew dangerously close to an | | aircraft on landing approach, then followed the aircraft and hovered | | near the airport in Indianapolis, Indiana. The witness was driving | | east when he saw the prop plane as it broke through clouds at 4600 | | feet on landing approach. The vertical cylinder hovered at only 3-4 | | meters. (Source: Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 112). | | | | 1988 - A gray cigar-shaped object zigzagged over Gulf Breeze, Florida | | at 4:55 p.m. (Source: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer Catalog of UFO | | Reports, 1988-94, case # 475, citing UFO Newsclipping Service). | | | | 1989 - On this afternoon in Green Bay, Wisconsin a house was shaken | | violently. The woman witness photographed a silver disc-shaped object | | emitting balls of light. (Source: Ed Walters, UFO Abductions at Gulf | | Breeze, p. 285). | | | | 1993 - At 7:20 p.m. several white ovoid UFOs with counter-clockwise | | orbiting satellite balls of light covered a four-lane highway in | | Arras, Pas d' Calais, France for 15 minutes. (Source: Lumieres dans | | la Nuit, issue # 322). | | | | 1994 - At 3:50 a.m. two female witnesses, sleeping outdoors in | | Morphett Vale, South Australia, saw a disc-shaped object crossing the | | sky from east to west. It had no lights and made no sound. The UFO | | appeared to be spinning. (Source: Keith Basterfield, South Australia | | UFO Reports - Project 1947 Website, citing UFORSA, case 94027). | | | | 1994 - At 11:00 p.m. a large circular object, making no engine | | sounds, hovered 70 meters away from the witness in Sumter, South | | Carolina. It produced a light that made no shadows. After a short | | while hovering it began climbing at a steep rate. (Source: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, December 1994 webpage, | | entry posted January 28, 1999).  | | | | 1996 - A black, silent triangular UFO stopped over | | Belleville-sur-Saone, Ain, France at 9:30 p.m., and then turned | | toward Brou; rises in altitude and shoots toward the east. (Source: | | Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1977). | | | | 1999 - Mr. & Mrs. Vinsant of Birmingham, Alabama awoke to bright | | white lights illuminating their farmyard. The lights climbed into the | | sky. Two minutes later they heard a loud explosion. Mr. Vinsant | | walked outside and saw a large oval-shaped object with lights | | rotating around its circumference, that was hovering over a nearby | | mountain. It made no sound, and hovered over the mountain for 90 | | minutes. (Sources: George A. Filer, MUFON UFO Journal, January 2000, | | p. 17; UFO Magazine (USA), March 2000, p. 16). | | | | 1999 - On this evening at 10 p.m. Maria Alice Medina was sitting on | | her verandah in Pato Branco, Parana, Brazil drinking some coffee when | | she observed a short (1.20 meter tall) humanoid approach her. The | | being wore silvery coveralls and blue boots. His head was bald and he | | had large black eyes. The humanoid attempted to communicate with her | | by emitting strange sounds, but Maria was not able to understand. He | | then turned around and walked away into some nearby woods. Soon | | afterwards she saw a bright light rise from the woods and shoot up | | into space. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database | | 1999, citing Thiago Luiz Ticchetti). | | | | 2000 - Two witnesses in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota reported sighting a | | dark, triangular object with amber light fly over the city at 7:40 | | p.m. The craft had a smooth and continuous flight path except for a | | momentary jog or "twitch" to the left from the object's flight path. | | (Source: Craig R. Lang, MUFON Minnesota). | | | | 2003 - At 5:43 p.m. in Orillia, Ontario two orange balls of light | | were seen chasing each other, and then flew quickly into a cloud | | bank. (Source: Geoff Dittman, 2003 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 632). | | | | 2004 - Beginning at 10:20 and continuing for two hours, a bright | | shining object emitted multicolored beams of light over the city of | | Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. (Source: UFO Magazine (USA), February 2005, p. | | 73, citing NUFORC). | | | | 2004 - Four lighted chevron-shaped objects silently glided over Terre | | Haute, Indiana heading south at 4:25 a.m. (Source: UFO Magazine | | (USA), February 2005, p. 72, citing NUFORC). | | | | 2004 - At 7:15 p.m. in Acton, Ontario two oval-shaped lights | | hesitated, then flew over a house, moving off very quickly. At 10:00 | | p.m. in Strathroy, Ontario a slow moving diamond-shaped | | or triangle-shaped craft flew low overhead; it made no sound and | | had bright white lights on its tips and scrolling blue and red | | lights. (Source: Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, cases # 833 | | & 834). | | | | 2004 - Driving west on Interstate 88 in Bainbridge, Chenango County, | | New York a witness spotted a disc-shaped object hovering above a | | field at 9:35 p.m. It was silver gray in color with blinking | | yellowish orange lights evenly spaced all the way around it. It was | | estimated to be about 8 stories above the ground. (Source: UFO | | Magazine (USA), February 2005, p. 72, citing National UFO Reporting | | Center). | | | | 2006 - A disc-shaped object was sighted over High Prairie, Alberta, | | Canada at 6:00 p.m. It had two reddish orange lights on the outside | | of the middle of the craft, and three orange lights around the | | back.The craft made no noise and was estimated to be 10 to 18 feet | | wide. The witness estimated the object was only 75 metres away, and | | at an altitude of 50 to 75 meters high. (Sources: Peter Davenport, | | National UFO Reporting Center, December 7, 2006; Geoff Dittman, 2006 | | Canadian UFO Survey, case # 699). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 5 December 2012). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT database. | | | | Themes: cigar-sh | | aped UFOs, disc-shaped UFOs, green fireballs, robot-like humanoid, mu | | lticolored UFOs, multi-year reports from France and Ontario, oval-sha | | ped or ovoid UFOs, physiological effects: sensation of heat from ligh | | t beam, short humanoid, silent UFOs, spinning UFOs, triangular UFOs, | | vehicle EM interference effect, vertical ascent, unexplained animal d | | eaths associated with UFO, unintelligible language, zigzag maneuvers. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+