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| [On This Day] |
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|  Encounters with Aliens on this Day |
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|  November 8 |
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| 1954 - At 1:00 a.m. a man in Croydon, London, England was  outside |
| looking after his rabbits when a small disc-shaped object flew over. |
| The next day he became sick to his stomach and ended up in the |
| hospital. (Source: Jenny Randles, Alien Contacts and Abductions, p. |
| 70). |
| |
| 1954 - At 10:30 a.m. a crowd of about 150 people jumped barriers to |
| get closer to a luminous craft that had landed in the stadium in |
| Monza, Italy. The object rested on three legs and had a dome emitting |
| a blinding white light and supported an antenna. Two small figures |
| dressed in white and gray, wearing transparent helmets, were seen. |
| They spoke with guttural sounds. One of them had a black face with |
| sort of trunk. When a man sicced a boxer dog onto the dwarfs, the |
| animal turned around and bit him. The object rose with a shrill sound |
| and vanished rapidly. Probable fabrication according to Italian |
| researchers on the Project 1947 list. (Sources: Harold Wilkins, |
| Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 237; Jacques Vallee, Passport to |
| Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 242, case 331). |
| |
| 1954 - At 6:00 p.m. a number of people in the Vacheresse Forest in |
| Voussac, France reported seeing a luminous sphere land at the edge of |
| the forest and then become dark. The next morning, an investigation |
| disclosed that an area 4 or 5 meters in diameter had no leaves, while |
| the ground elsewhere was covered with them. The earth seemed to have |
| been dug up. (Sources: Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. |
| 238; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. |
| 243, case 332). |
| |
| 1954 - At dusk in La Tessoualle, France Andre Chaillou felt |
| pricklings in his hands, "in spite of his gloves," when a blue disc |
| came close to his motorcycle and his electrical system failed. He was |
| unable to move or articulate a word for several minutes. As soon as |
| the blue light was turned off, he started again and went near the |
| light when it reappeared 200 meters away. He saw the object, a cone |
| 5.5 meters in size, rise vertically with a soft whistling, then fly |
| horizontally to the north. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to |
| Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 243, case 333). |
| |
| 1956 - A UFO flap covering the states of North Dakota, South Dakota, |
| and Minnesota began on November 8, 1956. The sightings occurred |
| during nearly every hour of the day and night and continued until |
| December 2, 1956. More than 85 separate sighting reports from some 60 |
| different localities were received from this three state area. Due to |
| the unusually large number of reports, it was possible in some |
| instances to determine that the same UFO or UFOs were seen in widely |
| separate places. At other times the sighting reports suggested that a |
| large number of different objects were aloft at the same time. |
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| The flurry of UFO reports began with a sighting in Dickinson, South |
| Dakota. Farmer Laudie Dvorak was driving into his farmyard about 8:30 |
| p.m., on this date when he glanced up and saw what at first appeared |
| to be a falling star, off to the north. But in a few seconds it |
| seemed to be "right in front of me." He thought it might be an |
| airplane, but it wasn't. "It went too fast," Dvorak said, "even for a |
| jet - maybe 800 to 1000 miles per hour. It was just a streak through |
| the buttes as it approached from the north and traveled in a |
| southerly direction." (Source: Bob Gribble, Looking Back November |
| 1956, National UFO Reporting Center website). |
| |
| 1956 - While the UFOs were busy over the northern Plain States they |
| surprised a few people in southern Florida as well. About nine a.m. |
| on November 8th, several witnesses in Coco Beach, Florida observed |
| two UFOs move in behind an F-100 jet fighter. Through 7x50 |
| binoculars, and also with the naked eye, they watched as the jet |
| moved across the sky at about 1250 miles per hour. The UFO came up |
| fast and the jet pilot made a tight turn, but couldn't catch the |
| object. It was learned later that the same object was seen earlier |
| pursuing a rocket launched from Cape Canaveral. |
| |
| About two hours after the UFO pursued the jet and rocket, a |
| mysterious object which apparently played tag off the tip of Florida |
| for several minutes before shooting into space at 4000 miles per hour |
| was reported by a Pan American World Airways radar expert. Donald |
| Freestone said he picked up the UFO while testing weather radar |
| equipment in the FAA shops at Miami International Airport. Surprised |
| by the unexpected target return on the screen, he called fellow |
| employees. Six of his colleagues confirmed the finding. None knew |
| what it was. "I didn't believe in such things before," said |
| Freestone. "But after this happened, I got some books and read up on |
| it. Now I'm convinced it was something that is out of our experience, |
| so far as aircraft is concerned." |
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| Freestone said the UFO was "four to five times larger than any |
| aircraft observed in the past." It appeared to be egg-shaped or |
| oval-shaped, and to have a double pattern resembling an hourglass or |
| figure eight. The radar expert said he was working on a Bendix RDR-lA |
| weather radar which FAA uses in some planes to spot bad weather |
| ahead. It is capable of "seeing" storms and thunderstorms 150 miles |
| in the path of planes. With the radar at "zero tilt" - that is, |
| pointed straight out, Freestone first saw the UFO. "It appeared at |
| approximately 65 miles southwest of Miami, at an altitude of between |
| 7000 and 8000 feet. It disappeared and reappeared several times. I |
| found that by turning the antenna tilt up, it could be brought back |
| on the screen. It disappeared once at 70 miles and reappeared at |
| about 55 miles, then moved back to 70 miles. The speed was estimated |
| at 550 to 650 miles per hour." |
| |
| "It then moved in to 50 miles and remained stationary for two to |
| three minutes. Then it began going off in the south-southwest |
| direction it had come from. One time it was noticed that the target |
| moved 20 miles in about six sweeps or rotations of the antenna, which |
| rotates at a speed of 20 times a minute. (Calculations indicate that |
| this showed a flying speed of about 4000 miles per hour.) The object |
| was last observed at about 100 miles from Miami, still moving |
| south-southwest. It was on the radar screen for about 20 minutes from |
| 11:15 a.m. to 11:35 a.m. From the returns the target appeared fairly |
| large, being four to five times larger than any normal aircraft. It |
| had a definite shape and moved on a definite course. Homestead Air |
| Force Base, south of Miami, Florida was placed on an "alert status." |
| (Source: Bob Gribble, Looking Back, November 1956, National UFO |
| Reporting Center website). |
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| 1957 - In Edinburgh, Scotland fourteen people, including Mrs. Maty |
| Home, reported to the police that a disc-shaped object followed their |
| truck, dived toward it, came within 20 meters of them, and then left |
| toward the sea, leaving a double vapor trail. (Source: Jacques |
| Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 435). |
| |
| 1957 - At 2:00 a.m. a cigar-shaped object, 70 meters long, was |
| observed less than seven meters above the ground in Sloanville, New |
| York. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of |
| Landings, case 437). |
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| 1957 - At 2:30 p.m. Hank Mollohan and eight other persons saw an |
| elongated object land in Holly, West Virginia. It was 12 meters long |
| and had several portholes from which fire and smoke appeared to be |
| coming. It swung at low altitude and then dropped to the ground. |
| People seemed to be moving around outside the landed UFO, but the |
| witnesses were driven away by a hard rain. (Sources: Alexander |
| Mebane, "1957 Saucer Wave in the US," in Aime Michel, Flying Saucers |
| and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 265; Jacques Vallee, Passport to |
| Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 436). |
| |
| 1957 - On the same night Paul Rutledge saw an object 16 meters long |
| flying over his garage in Waterloo, Iowa. The top part was bright and |
| there were two figures visible inside. (Sources: Alexander Mebane, |
| "1957 Saucer Wave in the US," in Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the |
| Straight Line Mystery, p. 265; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A |
| Century of Landings, case 438). |
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| 1959 - On this morning a cigar-shaped UFO followed a gasoline tanker |
| truck for miles in Austin, Texas. It dropped down and sprayed |
| the highway with fog. Later, it was realized that the driver had |
| experienced approximately 40 minutes of missing time. (Source: Larry |
| Hatch,U computer database, case # 5860, citing Loren E. Gross, The |
| Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1959: |
| October-December, p. 34). |
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| 1967 - On this night a humanoid creature described by police as a |
| "mini-skirted" vampire reportedly terrorized locals on the beach |
| along the Amazon River in Manaus, Brazil. Several people who were |
| attacked described the creature as looking like a blond haired woman |
| with sharp pointed teeth, wearing a mini-skirt and black stockings. |
| Two small round marks were said to have been found near the jugular |
| vein of a child that was bitten. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid |
| Contact Database 1967, case # 3031, citing Jacques Bergier for INFO). |
| |
| 1968 - At 8:05 p.m. a metallic looking lenticular disc "like two |
| round basins placed face to face" Swooped down over the town of |
| Taguatinga, Brazil near Brasilia. It had lights and portholes around |
| the rim and the lower portion was spinning. (Source: Walter Buhler, |
| FSR Case Histories, April 1971, p. 12). |
| |
| Taguatinga, Brazil 1968 |
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| [Sketch for Taguatinga, Brazil 1968] |
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| 1973 - At 12:30 a.m. a motorist driving on I-10 east of Blythe, |
| California observed a circular object in the sky with red, green, and |
| amber lights that moved up-and-down and side-to-side. (Source: |
| Fontana (CA) Herald-News, November 9, 1973) |
| |
| 1973 - Joan Scofield reported that her family dog was greatly |
| agitated when her family of six observed two low flying, brilliant |
| red lights that flew over their home in Falmouth, Nova Scotia and |
| circled back at 6:15 p.m. (Source: Donald Ledger, Maritime UFO Files, |
| p. 97; Joan Woodward, NICAP Category 4 - Animal Effects Cases, p 5, |
| case 19). |
| |
| 1974 - Jose Maria Cravero and another aviator observed a UFO at close |
| range close to Talavera Air Base near Badajoz, Spain three days |
| earlier. On this night Sr. Cravero returned to the site and witnessed |
| a strange, evasive human-looking entity walking along the side of the |
| road near the UFO landing site. The being had slanted eyes, no nose, |
| and was wearing a brown jacket, black trousers, and what looked like |
| a "Roman helmet" on his head. The body was tall and slender, but he |
| could tell no further details about the beings arms or legs. Cravero |
| was impressed by the furtive, evasive nature of the being. (Source: |
| Gordon Creighton, FSR, March 1975, p. 32; Ted Bloecher, 1975 MUFON |
| UFO Conference Proceedings, p. 62; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, |
| HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1974-52). |
| |
| 1975 - Two F-106 fighter jets were scrambled out of Malmstrom Air |
| Force Base in Great Falls, Montana at 7:45 Z. At 2:53 a.m. local time |
| a visual sighting of at least one low level noctural light was made |
| by the Sabotage Alert Teams on the ground. The radar target was at |
| 300 feet altitude, and the weather station reported no anomalous |
| propagation. Targets would turn out their lights whenever the jets |
| approached. (Sources: US Air Force Air Command Center report dated |
| November 8, 1975; Richard Sigismonde, International UFO Reporter, |
| March 1983, p. 7; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 132; UNICAT, |
| case # 15). |
| |
| 1975 - At 1:00 a.m. campers in the Catskill Mountains, New York had |
| an abduction experience with one hour of missing time. Campers at the |
| Pepactin Reservoir in Ulster County first saw a luminous "sled" with |
| hoops on top descend. "Rabbits" approach tent (screen memory?). 60 |
| min missing time. |
| |
| 1975 - On November 1st a mineralogist walking near Vauchingnon, |
| France happened upon some peculiar tracks in the grass of the |
| prairie. These circular tracks were six inches across and nearly an |
| inch deep, as if made by a heavy biped taking long strides, which ran |
| for some distance. He wanted to photograph them, but because it was |
| getting late in the afternoon he decided to come back later. He |
| returned with a friend on this afternoon. Before they located the |
| tracks they saw two quasi-human figures about five feet tall, dressed |
| in dark blue or black, emerge from a copse of woods 50 meters away. |
| These beings had very long arms and were taking extraordinarily long |
| strides. They began to ascend a very steep slope, and the |
| mineralogist's friend ran after them, but the beings climbed the |
| slope so quickly that they easily escaped from view and were lost in |
| some bushes ont he hill. The main witness reported that no human |
| athlete, in his opinion, could have duplicated their performance. A |
| few seconds later a white station wagon with dark painted windows |
| came into view on a little traveled road further up the slope, then |
| took off again at high speed. Immediately afterwards, a small blue |
| car did exactly the same thing. Although the bushes blocked their |
| view, the witnesses believed that these two vehicles had picked up |
| the humanoids. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Blocher, HUMCAT: |
| Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1975-63, citing Joel Mesnard & |
| Hean Marie Bigorne). |
| |
| 1975 - At 8:20 p.m. Strategic Air Command reported a UFO 20 miles |
| southeast of Lewistown, Montana. It was an orange-white, disc-shaped |
| object. NORAD radar was unable to get a height check. (Source: Fund |
| for UFO Research report, p. 100).  |
| |
| 1976 - At 3:30 p.m. an engineer was driving with three other people |
| in Givet, Ardennes, France when they spotted what appeared to be a |
| landed, domed, disc-shaped object. It was hovering on three legs 30 |
| meters away. It had a flat bottom and a transparent dome or cupola |
| which showed the "busts" of two large heads. They stopped the car to |
| observe the object, but were hit by a blast of heat as the object |
| departed. The object had been hovering just above the ground, never |
| quite touching down, although it did have rectangular footplates. The |
| grass was crushed over an eight meter diameter area, and the sighting |
| has lasted no more than five minutes. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted |
| Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1976-12, |
| citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 76).  |
| |
| 1976 - A close encounter occurred in North Belmont, North Carolina at |
| 8:45 p.m. Two 14-year-old girls reported a 25 foot in diameter |
| disc-shaped object with flashing red lights and a steady white light, |
| making a beeping noise. (Source: International UFO Reporter, December |
| 1976, p. 11). |
| |
| 1979 - On this day a round, silvery object with flashing lights was |
| seen by two women at a bus stop in Pentland Hills, Borders, Scotland. |
| It briefly hovered, then shot off at high speed toward Dechmont Law. |
| At 5:50 p.m. five women in Livingston watched a circle of lights that |
| slowly rotated. At 7:50 p.m. a dome shaped UFO was seen at 400 meters |
| distance in Bellsquarry, Livingston, Lothian, Scotland. It glowed |
| white with pulsating blue and red lights on either side. The two |
| witnesses watched it for several minutes. (Source: Ron Halliday, UFO |
| Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland's UFO Phenomenon, pp.12- |
| 13). |
| |
| 1981 - At around 3 p.m. a 15 meter long metallic ovoid landed 15 |
| meters away from six teenagers in Praglia, Liguria, Italy. The six |
| boys were racing dirt bikes near a lake when one of them fell and hit |
| his head. Two of the boys went to assist him, when suddenly a bright |
| green light was seen descending over the surface of the lake. Inside |
| the light appeared to be a gray metallic, oval-shaped craft that |
| descended on telescopic like landing gear near the witnesses. A door |
| became visible, and a tall, human-looking UFOnaut emerged. His arms |
| seemed to be extended up into the air. He wore losse fitting, silvery |
| coveralls. His arms appeared to be very long, and his feet resembled |
| oval appendages. The being seemed to have no neck, and a triangular |
| shaped head with normal looking eyes. The humanoid proceeded to walk |
| towards the lake, and then to walk on the surface of the water. A few |
| moments later he walked back into the object, which took off at high |
| speed, disturbing the surface of the lake. (Sources: Albert S. |
| Rosales, 1981 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, case # 1523; Larry |
| Hatch, U computer database, case # 14312, citing Maurizio Verga, |
| ITACAT). |
| |
| 1981 - At 6 p.m. Mrs. A. S. Carew witnessed a cone-shaped object that |
| flew horizontally from northeast to southwest in Mtepatepa, Zimbabwe. |
| A smaller shape was ejected from the front of the larger object, then |
| another and another. Several explosions were heard later. (Source: |
| Cynthia Hind, UFO AfriNews, June 1989, p. 32). |
| |
| 1993 - The witness recalled being transported from her bedroom in |
| Merced, California late on this night in a beam of light to a huge |
| triangular craft. Once inside she was taken to an exam by several |
| short Grey humanoids with large black almond-shaped eyes. The beings |
| took flesh samples from her legs and back, leaving scoop marks. She |
| was returned safely to her bedroom. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, |
| Humanoid Contact Database 1993, case # 1695, citing UFO Newsclipping |
| Service, issue # 295). |
| |
| 1994 - A silver cigar-shaped object with two rectangular windows was |
| sighted north of Bradshaw, West Virginia at 11:15 a.m. by several |
| witnesses. It made a roaring sound. (Source: West Virginia UFO |
| Newsletter, issue 1). |
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| 1995 - A man in Manson, Washington reported encountering two humanoid |
| figures in his apartment at 11:40 a.m. The beings pointed a flashing |
| device at the witnessed, then disappeared by walking through the |
| wall. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, 1995 Humanoid Sighting Reports |
| database, case # 2140, citing Peter Davenport, NUFORC). |
| |
| 1995 - On this night Mr. J. Curran of Polbeth, Bathgate, Lothian, |
| Scotland watched and videotapted as an orange circle in the sky |
| polymorphed into a delta-shaped UFO, then back into a sphere. |
| Photometric analysis suggests that the circle showed an out-of-focus |
| object. Later, John S., age 45, of West Lothian, Scotland saw what |
| looked like "a new type of ship. It looked like a giant Frisbee" |
| between the Forth Canal and the Clyde Canal. The occupants were like |
| the Greys, except their eyes were rounder. He had previously been |
| involved in an abduction experience. (Source: Ron Halliday, UFO |
| Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland's UFO Phenomenon, pp. 30, |
| 51). |
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| 2004 - On this evening Terry McDonald, driving home in Crane River, |
| Manitoba, Canada had a bright light closely following his truck. His |
| truck engine intermittently lost power over the course of one |
| kilometer. A Kenora, Ontario resident saw a saucer-like object |
| hovering only 18 meters above the ground. He observed the saucer for |
| nearly an hour before it moved fairly slowly across the treetops. |
| (Source: George A. Filer & David Twichell, Filer's Files: Worldwide |
| Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 47, citing Chris Rutkowski, and Geoff |
| Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case 783). |
| |
| 2004 - A man named Triguez was staying overnight at his grandmother's |
| house in Lavaderos, Hormigueros, Puerto Rico when he awoke at four |
| a.m. and looked out the window to see a strange oval-shaped craft on |
| the ground in a nearby field. The craft appeared crystal like in |
| appearance and had small lights around the edges. It emitted a |
| strange sound and greenish flashes of light. He observed the object |
| for awhile, and then noticed an opening in the object which had |
| become visible, from which he briefly saw a figure descend down what |
| appeared to be steps. He could not make out any other details. The |
| craft soon vanished. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, 2004 Humanoid |
| Contact Database, citing Lucy Guzman, http://www.ovni.net). |
| |
| 2009 - A missing time case from Rubidoux, Riverside County, |
| California was reported to the National UFO Reporting Center. It |
| occurred overnight and lasted for two hours. (Source: Peter |
| Davenport, November 2009 webpage, report uploaded December 12, 2009) |
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| Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 8 November 2012). |
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| Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. |
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| Themes: a |
| bductions; animal reaction: dog agitated; cigar-shaped UFOs; disc-sha |
| ped UFOs; domed discs; fog or mist associated with UFO; Grey UFOnauts |
| ; ground traces; inside occupants; landings; missing time; oval or ov |
| oid UFOs; landings; multicolored UFOs; multi-year reports from southe |
| rn California, England, France, Italy and Scotland; physiological eff |
| ects: stomach sickness, paralysis; short humanoids; tripod landing ge |
| ar; UFOs near nuclear missile site; UFO paces rocket launching; vehic |
| le EM ignition interference effects; whistling sound; white uniforms. |
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| © Donald A. Johnson |
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