+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  September 8 | | | | 1954 - A cigar-shaped object with a glowing underside was seen for 20 | | minutes in Stafford, England. It traveled in waves, moving every four | | minutes. It finally turned off its light. (Source: Loren E. Gross, | | UFOs: A History. 1954: September, p. 11). | | | | 1958 - Air Force Major Duich and several others at Offutt AFB, | | Nebraska saw a rocket-like UFO with a group of satellite objects for | | 20 minutes at 6:40 p.m. (Sources: NICAP UFO Investigator, May 1961, | | p. 4; Otto Binder, What We Really Know About Flying Saucers, p. 127, | | Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 15). | | | | 1961 - Disc was seen spinning over the radar hill at Laverton Royal | | Australian AFB, Victoria, Australia. It make an ascent for 90 | | seconds, then hovered while spinning again, and finally ascends and | | leaves. (Source: APRO Bulletin, November 1961). | | | | 1962 - A lens-shaped UFO with the appearance of burnished metal was | | sighted by an Argentine Navy pilot in Florista, Bahia State, | | Argentina. (Source: NICAP UFO Investigator, November 1962, p. 4). | | | | 1965 - An erratic moving, blurry object emitting green, red and & | | white light was seen at 10:00 p.m. in Tenterfield, New South Wales, | | Australia. Seen through binoculars there were aerial-like structures | | on the top. (Source: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern | | Hemisphere, p. 88). | | | | 1965 - At 9:15 p.m. local time a luminous object zigzagged away from | | the town of Beja, Portugal. (Source: Victor Lourenco, PORTUCAT, case | | 100). | | | | 1965 - On this evening after work, rubber latex gatherers in Alto | | Purus, Brazil witnessed a flying object resembling a near by them. | | They hid, and observed the craft as it flew away. (Sources: Gordon | | Creighton, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 43; Jacques | | Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 697, citing | | Lumieres dans la Nuit). | | | | 1965 - Children reported seeing a luminous object from which seven or | | eight Cyclops creatures, 80 cm tall, with only one eye, emerged. The | | same day a newsman was said to have seen an object land in the | | vicinity of Puno, Peru and to have made an unsuccessful attempt at | | communication. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A | | Century of Landings, case 698; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: | | Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0663). | | | | 1967 - Caracas, Venezuela - Miss Alicia Rivas Aguilar, age 23, was | | getting ready for bed at 2:30 a.m. when she noticed a strange looking | | being just outside her bedroom window. It seemed to be gesticulating | | but she did not get a good look because she began screaming and the | | creature flew off. Her brother in law and her parents saw the | | creature flying off over the neighborhood rooftops. It was surrounded | | by a yellow glow. Gumersindo Neiro, her brother in law, got the best | | view from his own room. When he heard her screaming he looked out his | | window and saw a little being shove off from the window sill. It | | "soared as if he were lighter than air, with its hands and feet | | pointed backwards." The creature flew eastward and out of sight among | | the tall buildings in that part of the city. They all said he was | | wearing a kind of metallic suit, and the odor of "melted iron" | | lingered in the air. (Sources: Jim & Coral Lorenzen, UFOs over the | | Americas, p. 81; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of | | Humanoid Reports, case 1967-93 (A0870), citing Horacio Gonzalez | | Ganteaume for APRO; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of | | Landings, case # 879). | | | | 1967 - In Newton, New Hampshire four witnesses saw a disc-shaped | | object with white flashing lights on the rim and a red light on top | | at 10:30 p.m. It passed back and forth in front of the witnesses. | | (Sources: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, p. 349; | | Richard.Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. | | 360, 373). | | | | Newton, New Hampshire - 1967 | | | | [Sketch of Newton, New Hampshire craft - 1967] | | | | 1968 - Just outside Beaminster, England seven witnesses in three | | separate cars heard a strange noise at 9:00 p.m. and the electrical | | systems of the cars completely failed and stayed inoperable for | | thirty minutes. The temperature gauge dropped precipitously in one | | car, and the hood of another car could not be opened. A compass spun | | wildly. (Sources: Dorset Evening Echo, September 11, 1968; Spacelink, | | January 1969; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle | | Interference, p. 43). | | | | 1968 - A 48-year-old woman and her adult son were driving near the | | city of Evansville, Indiana when she saw an object hovering over some | | railroad tracks. It was described as being an ugly brown | | metallic object resembling a harmonica, flat with smudges, which had | | top and bottom rows of waffle-like squares indented into the metal. | | It was the length of an airplane, and not tall enough to stand up | | inside. Itr hovered near the municipal airport. When they turned a | | corner some trees blocked their view, so they continued on. (Source: | | Francis L. Ridge, Regional Encounters, p. 36). | | | | 1971 - At 4:50 p.m. a white disc-shaped object zigzagged slowly into | | the wind over Vendhuile, Aisne, France. It made a 90 degree turn and | | flew away. It was completely silent. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer | | database, case # 9362, citing LDLN Lecteurs). | | | | 1971 - At 11:40 p.m. a well-defined cone-shaped object with a flat | | top, metallic silver in color, flew low over Clee Village, | | Shropshire, England, causing the two witnesses to feel fearful. It | | had three portholes of light and a convex row of small round lights. | | A red light shone from the top, and it emitted a light beam for five | | seconds. (Source: Mrs. K Smith, BUFORA Journal, January 1972, p. 17). | | | | 1973 - Two military police, Burns and Shade, at Hunter Air Force | | Base, Georgia observed a saucer-shaped object with flashing red | | and white lights at 2:20 a.m. It dove at their MP patrol vehicle | | repeatedly and then chased them at high speeds. (Sources: Augusta | | (GA) Chronicle-Herald, September 10, 1973; Leonard H. Stringfield, | | Situation Red: The UFO Siege, p. 6; Ralph Blum, Beyond Earth: Man's | | Contact with UFOs, p. 88; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume | | II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 77, 341). | | | | 1973 - At four o'clock in the morning a 20 foot wide lighted UFO | | passed over Lanett, Alabama at low altitude. News coverage of the | | sighting appeared in many local newspapers. (Source: J. Bernard | | Delair, UFO Register, volume 5 (1974), case 514). | | | | 1973 - A police officer in Savannah, Georgia was sent to investigate | | reports from residents of a UFO in the area. He saw a "large circular | | craft" with a spotlight and smaller flashing lights. (Sources: J. | | Bernard Delair, UFO Register, volume 5 (1974), case 516; Ralph Blum, | | Beyond Earth: Man's Contact with UFOs, p. 88; Richard H. Hall, The | | UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 174). | | | | 1974 - In Bizeneuille, Allier, France an intensely bright red dome, | | 12 meters in diameter, was sighted at a low level at 9:30 p.m. It | | emitted yellow beams of light. Manure sacks were scattered about | | where the object had been. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1975). | | | | 1974 - At around 10:30 p.m. and continuing until 1:30 a.m. the next | | morning, residents of Causses, Herault department, France saw an odd | | red-orange light, then a luminous sphere that rose from behind a | | hill. A married couple with their child were driving in town when | | they observed the sphere. The driver signaled the UFO by blinking the | | car headlights a couple of times, and it immediately shot toward them | | and stopped overhead emitting a humming sound, its light illuminating | | the terrain.After a while the object disappeared. This man and others | | in the area later saw a large, luminous orange-red disc-shaped object | | moving around near the ground, its light illuminating a dock, a | | distillery, grapevines and other terrain features. One witness noted | | that no light rays or beams were visible between the luminous object | | and the illuminated ground. Still later, nocturnal lights danced | | about in the sky all over the town. (Sources: Richard Hall, MUFON UFO | | Journal, September 1976, p. 6; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 147; | | Ouranos, No. 14, Second Quarter 1975, investigated by M. Grazzioli | | and M. De Cordova). | | | | 1974 - In Sioux City, Iowa a 16-year-old youth was awakened in his | | basement room at 3:30 a.m. by a loud noise like a sonic boom. A few | | minutes later he saw a bright purple light flashing outside his | | basement window, lighting up the interior of his room. The | | neighborhood dogs were carrying on, although the usually chirruping | | crickets in the basement were now silent. Three minutes after the | | purple light was seen a bright white light the size and shape of a | | baseball passed in front of the window. He heard a "scratching" sound | | on the screen door to the backyard, and the purple and white lights | | again came in through the window. Hearing a "tapping" nose outside, | | the witness got up and looked out and saw a three-foot tall figure | | carrying a purple light like a flashlight. He was standing between | | two garbage cans. The youth yelled and dashed upstairs, just as "an | | enormous gust of wind" hit the house. The sounds woke up two girls in | | the house. The following morning a dark scorched mark, three feet in | | diameter, was found on the concrete patio. (Source: David F. Webb & | | Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1974-47 | | (A1359), citing Dr. Lawrence Lacey for MUFON). | | | | 1976 - At 3:00 a.m. a 25 meter ovoid object hung in the sky low over | | a gully in Elephant Pass, Tasmania. A nocturnal light also hovered | | nearby the witness, and the witness reported feeling a tingling | | sensation. (Sources: Keith Basterfield, citing Tasmanian UFO | | Investigation Centre; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 12391, | | citing Jan Aldrich). | | | | 1976 - At around 10:00 p.m. two men in their twenties, Torres and | | Bedjara, driving in a truck on the highway between Ollachea | | and Ayaviri, Peru encountered a 30 meter wide saucer in the roadway. | | Two six foot tall, human-looking UFOnauts with flashlights examined | | the witnesses. (Source: International UFO Reporter, January 1977, | | p. 2). | | | | 1978 - At 3:37 a.m. in Venado Tuerto, Santa Fe State, Argentina a | | power blackout occurred, followed by an intense light. A domed | | oval-shaped object then hovered 50 meters above a witness named | | Torres; it was 10 meters in length. A luminous beam came from the | | object, and the witness felt a sensation of intense heat while the | | object oscillated smoothly in the air. He later had a sunburn as a | | result of his exposure to the beam. The power outage was documented | | as occurring at the same time. (Source: Jane Thomas, UFO Newsclipping | | Service, November 1978, p. 15, citing La Nacion, September 12, 1978). | | | | 1987 - On this night at 10:00 p.m. two security guards patrolling a | | section of a by-pass road under construction in Deepcar, | | Stocksbridge, South Yorkshire, England saw a hooded figure standing | | on an inaccessible bridge near the road junction. When they directed | | the headlights of their car upon the figure it suddenly vanished. | | Moments later both men saw what appeared to be a group of small | | children apparently dancing around an electricity pylon. Upon | | approaching the figures, they also suddenly vanished into thin air. | | No footprints or other traces were found on the muddy ground. | | (Sources: Paul Devereux, Earth Lights Revelation, p. 99; Albert S. | | Rosales, 1987 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 1625, citing | | Paul Devereux). | | | | 1990 - Security Police had several landings reported on this night at | | Sandia Labs, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, the world's largest | | atomic arsenal. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # | | 15249, citing MUFON UFO Journal, April 1992). | | | | 1996 - Several people in Piracicaba, Sao Paulo State, Brazil saw a | | triangular shaped craft land. A hatch opened and three occupants | | emerged and floated to the ground. These beings were described as | | only 1 foot, 10 inches tall, wearing coverall garments, and | | having very large heads far out of proportion to their bodies. | | (Source: Albert S. Rosales, 1996 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, | | case # 2482, citing Joseph Trainor, UFO Roundup, Volume 1, number | | 29). | | | | 2001 - At 9:15 p.m. a large hazy golden glowing ball, with 4 or 5 | | smaller starlike objects preceeding it, were seen traveling at a high | | speed. They went to the north, passing overhead in Manassas, | | Virginia. (Source: UFO Magazine (USA), December 2001, p. 26, citing | | NUFORC). | | | | 2004 - Two fuzzy orange triangles were seen zig-zagging in the sky | | over Grimsby, Humberside, England at 12:30 a.m. (Source: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, September 2004 webpage). | | | | 2007 - At 9:00 p.m. a V-shaped formation of reddish orange dots were | | sighted going west to east over St-Bruno, Quebec. (Source: Chris | | Rutkowski, 2007 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 572, citing NUFORC). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 4 September 2012). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. | | | | Th | | emes: cigar-shaped UFOs; compass deflection; disc-shaped UFOs; domed | | discs; erratic movement, flying humanoid; human-looking UFOnauts; hum | | ming; landings at nuclear weapons facility; light beams; luminous UFO | | s; multi-colored UFOs; orange UFO; pendulum motion; physiological eff | | ects: sensation of heat, sunburn, tingling sensation; short humanoids | | ; triangular UFOs; vehicle EM interference effects; zigzag maneuvers. | | | | © Donald A. Johnson | | | |  < Calendar | Home | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+