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| [On This Day] |
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|  Encounters with Aliens on this Day |
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|  November 24 |
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| 1896 - Many witnesses in Red Bluff, California witnessed a light |
| maneuvering in the sky for several minutes at 7:00 p.m. In Visalia, |
| California several observers saw a "vessel" in the sky moving at the |
| speed of a train; it moved up-and-down and left-and-right, and |
| departed quickly to the northwest. At 11:30 p.m. two witnesses in |
| Tacoma, Washington watched a flying object beam vari-colored rays of |
| light in all directions. It then flew to the southeast and examined |
| the Mount Rainier mountain peak. (Sources: Oakland Tribune, November |
| 25, 1896; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. & Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries |
| of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, pp. 8-9; Loren E. Gross, The UFO |
| Wave of 1896, p. 21, 26). |
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| 1951 - At 3:53 p.m. a milky white object looking like a small |
| Northrop flying wing (V-shaped with no fuselage or tail) hovered in |
| the skies over Mankato, Minnesota. It flew over two Air National |
| Guard F-51 fighter aircraft being flown by pilots W. H. Fairbrother |
| and D. E. Stewart . A Project Blue Book "unidentified" case. |
| (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, |
| case # 1013; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 14; Jay |
| Rath, The M Files: True Reports of Minnesota's Unexplained Phenomena, |
| p. 43). |
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| 1952 - Annandale, Virginia. 6:30 p.m. Witness L. L. Brettner reported |
| seeing a round, glowing object that flew very fast, made right angle |
| turns, and reversed course during a 1 hour sighting. There was also a |
| second witness but the information about his or her sighting is |
| missing from the file. (Source: Don Berliner, Project Blue Book |
| Unknowns; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: November-December, |
| p. 42) |
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| 1954 - A woman astronomer named Marley, with a telescope in |
| Southampton, England saw a small white disc-shaped object fly to the |
| south at 12:15 a.m., and then suddenly turn 180 degrees to fly off |
| rapidly to the north. (Source: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of |
| the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1954: November-December, p. 29). |
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| 1957 - Army Captain Kohrtz in Kortedala, Goteborg, Sweden at 3:30 |
| p.m. watched with binoculars as an ovoid flying object spiraled |
| upwards towards the Moon, glowing on one side. (Source:  NICAP UFO |
| Investigator, Volume 1, Number 3; Karl Gosta Rehn). |
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| 1959 - At 1:00 p.m. Mrs. Sperring in New Ferry, Cheshire, England |
| watched a silver domed disc with a yellow illuminated dome. It was |
| spinning, and had flashing lights. It flew off to the |
| north-northeast. (Sources: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # |
| 5866; FSR, March 1960). |
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| 1960 - At 10:00 a.m. in Defiance, Ohio a physics professor driving in |
| a car, and his passenger, watched a silent 30-meter in diameter black |
| disc-shaped object that flew off to the northwest. It had clearly |
| defined edges. (Source: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 54). |
| |
| 1965 - James Allen Aldridge and his family heard a loud blast outside |
| their mobile home trailer in Cooper City, Florida and saw a flash in |
| the western sky at 18:45 p.m. Aldridge went to his barn to check on |
| his stock and there he saw a man about five feet tall, with wide |
| shoulders and a narrow waist. He shouted at the man but got no |
| response. His dog was shaking with fright at the sight of the strange |
| figure. Aldridge then drove off to get the police, but when they |
| returned they could find no one. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted |
| Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1965-67, citing |
| local police and a newspaper source dated November 25, 1965). |
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| 1966 - At 7:15 a.m. Mr. Thomas Ury was driving home when the |
| "Mothman", a bird-like creature six feet tall and with a ten foot |
| wingspan, circled over his car. He sped up to 70-75 miles per hour |
| but the creature kept up with his car. He had been close to the area |
| of the TNT dumpsite in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. That same night |
| Mary Myer, a newspaper reporter, saw the red eyes of "Mothman" when |
| she visited the abandoned power plant in Point Pleasant, West |
| Virginia where it had been seen before. (Sources: UPI, November 25, |
| 1966; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid |
| Reports, cases 1966-63 and 1966-62 (A0756); John A. Keel, FSR, |
| July-August 1968, p. 13; John A. Keel, The Mothman Prophesies, p. |
| 68). |
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| 1967 - At 2:30 p.m. Sr. Ugo Battaglia, a radio technician, and his |
| 14-year-old assistant Carlos Alberto do Nascimento, were in an eighth |
| floor apartment building repairing a phonograph in Rio de Janeiro, |
| Brazil when they heard a high-pitched sound. They looked out a window |
| facing the coastal hills and saw a brilliant metallic disc-shaped |
| object. It landed on a hill opposite the apartment building. The UFO |
| struck and shattered a tree as it came down. Underneath at either end |
| was a red light, and on top was a spinning cupola with slat windows. |
| Three men clad in white coveralls came out of the UFO, which hovered |
| just above the ground. They walked around it side by side with their |
| arms hanging by their sides. After about five minutes they returned |
| to the disc and disappeared underneath it. The two witnesses |
| continued their work and left the building at 2:55 p.m., noticing |
| that the disc was still in the same spot, but by the time they |
| reached a nearby corner the UFO was no longer in view. They had not |
| seen it depart. (Sources: Irene Granchi, APRO Bulletin, |
| November-December 1967, p. 3; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: |
| Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1967-117, citing Irene Granchi, |
| APRO; John A. Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 139; Richard H. Hall, |
| The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, p. 474). |
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| 1967 - At 9:30 a.m. EST a witness named King in Tuscumbia, Missouri |
| observed a silver banded, cone-shaped UFO that flew silently toward |
| the east, then circled 360 degrees three times before heading back to |
| the west. (Source: Ted R. Phillips, FSR Case Histories, December |
| 1971, p. 10). |
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| 1968 - On this evening five teenagers in Southall Ridge, near Ripley, |
| West Virginia saw a 150 foot in diameter domed disc over a house. It |
| landed in a nearby field, and was shot at. It dodged bullets from a |
| .22 caliber rifle. The first bullet made a "whomp" sound, like it had |
| hit a solid object, but the later bullets had no reported effect. |
| (Sources: Bob Teets, West Virginia UFOs: Close Encounters in the |
| Mountain State, p. 87; Richard F. Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of |
| the Fifth Kind, p. 123). |
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| 1970 - At seven o'clock in the evening a compact "cloud" UFO emitting |
| rays from the top was seen by hundreds in Belo Horizonte, Brazil |
| during a time when part of the city experienced a power outage. At |
| the same time Moyses Santos, a resident of the city, found himself |
| surrounded by half a dozen three-foot tall beings in his room "who |
| went around touching and upsetting everything." They floated about in |
| the air, and had a translucent quality. They "looked like ice." When |
| they got near a table lamp, they "lit up in many lights." One of them |
| handed Santos a piece of paper on which he drew a flying saucer, |
| without knowing why. The being then took the paper back. Finally they |
| disappeared by passing through the walls. He went outside in time to |
| see the UFO above the city, flooding the area with brilliant light. |
| Other sightings occurred about the same time in several Brazilian |
| cities. (Sources: Irene Granchi, APRO Bulletin, November-December |
| 1970, p. 3; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of |
| Humanoid Reports, case 1970-19, citing Irene Granchi, APRO).  |
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| 1970 -  That same evening two men in Centralia, Illinois had nearly |
| identical experiences with a UFO while driving home. At 5:45 p.m. Sam |
| Alli saw a glowing white-and-yellow globe hovering in the sky. It was |
| fuzzy at first but then became perfectly clear. It began to move in |
| circles, then rapid spurts. It slowed to a complete stop when he |
| turned into his driveway. The second witness, Larry Peterson, next |
| reported a similar experience. (Sources: Skylook, January 1971, p. 1; |
| Mrs. K. Smith, BUFORA Journal, August 1971, p. 21; Jay Rath, The |
| I-Files: True Reports of Unexplained Phenomena in Illinois, p. 56). |
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| 1973 - A photograph of a domed ovoid UFO was taken at 5:00 p.m. in |
| the Piedmont region of Italy. A 23-year-old man named Contin took the |
| photo of the object in Susa, Italy as it was making seemingly |
| impossible maneuvers. Jets were later seen chasing the object. |
| (Source: Gordon Creighton, FSR, October 1974, p. 27). |
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| 1974 -  According to the Spanish Air Force, at 7:50 p.m. a light |
| descended from 8,000 to 6,000 feet and paced a Fokker F-27 IB |
| aircraft for one minute while flying between Tenerife and Las Palmas |
| in the Canary Islands. The UFO disappeared when the airplane turned |
| toward the light. The visual sighting lasted for three minutes, while |
| radar returns were recorded at 8:20 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Independent |
| witnesses included a Spanish Air Force Lt. Colonel and his daughter |
| driving in a car. (Source: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, UNICAT |
| database, case 821). |
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| 1974 - On the same night a circular object paced a private aircraft |
| flying over Shabbona, Illiniois. It suddenly tipped and shot away. |
| The EM effect included a magnetic compass deflection.  (Source: |
| Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 50, citing MUFON UFO |
| Journal, November 1989). |
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| 1976 - A cone-shaped object with a light followed a truck on a |
| highway in New Albany, Indiana at 10:30 p.m. It went away when other |
| vehicles approached, but reappeared when they were gone and was seen |
| for more than an hour. It left by departing toward the east. There |
| were 13 witnesses to the close encounter. (Source: International UFO |
| Reporter, January 1977, p. 5). |
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| 1977 -  At 10:10 p.m. a UFO came out of the southwest, flying over a |
| ranch following some high tension power lines in the town of La |
| Aurora, Uruguay.  It changed colors and caused radio interference. |
| There was a 10 minute power failure in the city of Salto. (Source: |
| Bob Van Der Velde, APRO Bulletin, May 1982, p. 4). |
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| 1978 -  Sr. Gordillo and three friends were out hunting in the |
| pre-dawn hours around 3:30 a.m. in a wooded hilly region near the |
| River Guadiamar in Gerena Guadiamar, Sevilla province, Spain when |
| they all saw a red light on the ground in a nearby eucalyptus grove. |
| They all carried bright lanterns and continued looking for game. |
| They  crossed the river, and temporarily forgot about the red light |
| for a few minutes. They then noticed that the light was now in a |
| nearby clearing in the woods. Two of the witnesses approached the |
| area, while the others remained behind. The two men saw, partially |
| hidden by some trees, a large bowl-shaped or jug-shaped craft with a |
| red light on top and numerous multicolored lights on the front; it |
| rested on two shiny silvery legs. Next to the object stood a tall, |
| heavy set human-like figure, who appeared to be wearing a large round |
| black helmet with a glass visor over the face. His clothing was |
| silvery and he wore large boots. The being walked slowly back and |
| forth in front of the object, at one point approaching the witnesses |
| briefly. It made low humming noises. The men became frightened and |
| left the area. Large footprints were found at the site. (Sources: |
| APRO Bulletin, September 1979, p. 1; Lumieres dans la Nuit, September |
| 1979; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Enciclopedia De Los Encuentros |
| Cercanos Con Ovnis & UNICAT database case # 485, citing Stendek, |
| volume 37, number 1). |
| 1978 - Sr. D'Ambros, age 61, had gone into a nearby woods at 11:45 |
| a.m. near Gastagh, Italy to gather some firewood and had sat down on |
| a log to rest. He was horrified to suddenly see two strange looking |
| beings looking at him. The beings were hovering very close to the |
| ground. They were described as a meter tall and thin with large |
| pointed ears. One was shorter than the other. They had yellowish |
| skin, large smooth and bald elongated heads, long pointed noses and |
| large mouths with two long pointed fangs. They were clad in dark, |
| tight fitting coveralls that started below the knee and extended up |
| to their necks. They also had huge hands and feet with extremely long |
| fingers and nails. The shorter of the beings approached the witness |
| and began making sudden "sliding" moves around him, never touching |
| the ground. The witness screamed for help and asked who they were but |
| they only answered him with mumbling sounds. The taller creature now |
| approached and attempted to take the witness's pruning axe from him. |
| After a brief struggle the creatures fled into the woods. The witness |
| chased after them but lost sight of them. He then came upon a |
| clearing where a solid, metallic disc-shaped craft with a dome on top |
| rested on four legs. He saw a pair of long hands close a small trap |
| door on the dome, then the disc took off silently and at high speed |
| emitting a burst of red flame from its bottom. During the same time |
| other independent witnesses had watched a similar object maneuvering |
| over the area. Ground traces found in the area included a 12-foot |
| wide burnt circle, with vegetation whirled counterclockwise, U-shaped |
| imprints 20 cm long and 3 cm deep, and uprooted bushes. (Sources: |
| Antonio Chiumiento, International UFO Reporter, May 1983, p. 8; David |
| F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case |
| A2176, citing IUR; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A |
| Thirty-Year Report, p. 492). |
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| 1981 - Dale Spurlock saw a red pulsating domed disc at treetop level |
| while driving 10 miles south-southwest of Marshall near Darco, Texas |
| at 9:30 p.m. It was seen near a small lake and some power lines, and |
| had four colored lights--a row of red, blue, green, and amber |
| lights--at the base of the dome. It made no sound as it passed left |
| to right just above the tress, and then hovered. The object tilted, |
| and two strong headlights from the front of the UFO shown directly |
| down on his pickup truck. The object was revolving counterclockwise, |
| and left towards the east. The truck's electrical system (alternator |
| and battery) was damaged. (Sources: John Combest, International UFO |
| Reporter, May 1982, p. 5; Richard H. Hall, MUFON UFO Journal, |
| February 1984, p. 14; UNICAT database case # 027, citing John |
| Combest; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year |
| Report, pp. 205, 374 & 383. Sketch courtesy of Richard H. Hall). |
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| Dale |
| Spurlock's Close Encounter of the Second Kind, Marshall, Texas - 1981 |
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| [Sketch of Marshall, Texas Close Encounter of the Second Kind - 1981] |
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| 1987 - At 7:30 p.m. a woman and two teenagers driving in Gulf Breeze, |
| Florida saw a multicolored disc-shaped object pacing them at a |
| distance. The 30 foot in diameter object then stopped and hovered |
| over some woods. The witnesses stopped to watch it. It was spinning |
| and had a row of windows. A small red ball of light was emitted from |
| the underside of the UFO. Next, the disc moved laterally, and finally |
| ascended out of sight. The sighting lasted five minutes. (Sources: |
| Boots Eckerd, MUFON field investigation case files, case # 890406; |
| Dan Wright, MUFON UFO Journal, November 1989, p. 17). |
| |
| 1988 - A witness saw a six-foot tall humanoid figure near Hunge, |
| Sweden at 9:00 p.m. It wore a tight-fitting diver's suit and a |
| helmet. It suddenly vanished into thin air as the witness approached |
| it. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1988, case |
| #  2374, citing Andre Liljegren, AFU Newsletter, issue # 34). |
| |
| 1989 - Weathermen in Papa, Hungary observed four 50 meter wide orange |
| balls of light at 10:00 p.m. One shot off at 2,600 mph. Military jets |
| were scrambled to chase the UFOs, and there was radar confirmation of |
| the sighting. (Source: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1991, p. 234). |
| |
| 1990 - At 2:45 a.m. a police inspector in Hendale, England saw a |
| bright light split into a number of blue and white objects, which |
| flew south. At the same time two police officers saw a UFO over the |
| Bristol Channel. The UFO appeared on radar. (Source: Gary Heseltine, |
| Police Reports of UFOs, case # 143, citing The Sun Independent, |
| November 25, 1990). |
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| 1990 - At 6:15 p.m. a driver together with children in the car in |
| Comeray, France sighted a red football-shaped object surrounded by an |
| orange glowing waves.It flashed once every second. (Source: Larry |
| Hatch, U computer database, case # 15417; Lumieres dans la Nuit, |
| issue # 307). |
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| 1990 - At 11:37 p.m. a silent red UFO was photographed in Gulf |
| Breeze, Florida by three observers with 35 mm cameras and two more |
| witnesses with video cameras. (Source: Paul Ferrughelli, Computer |
| Catalog of UFO Reports, 1988-94, case # 978). |
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| 1991 - On this evening in North Port, Florida a former WW II fighter |
| pilot and his neighbor saw a cylindrical UFO pass over a house. It |
| was not well lit, it flew faster than a jet, and made no sound. |
| (Source: Timothy Good, Alien Update, p. 242, citing Sun Times, |
| November 27, 1991). |
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| 1993 - In Harlowton, Montana near Malmstrom Air Force Base witnesses |
| reported a 6-7 hour long event that began at around 7 p.m., during |
| which a triangle-shaped UFO, flying discs, and an immense cylindrical |
| object were observed clearly at close range and through binoculars. |
| (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, |
| November 1993 webpage, report uploaded September 12, 1999). |
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| 1995 - A local resident of Toa Baja, Puerto Rico reported |
| encountering a short, four-foot tall creature on this evening, |
| shortly after nearby residents also reported seeing a saucer-shaped |
| object crossing the skies. Around the same time several heifers were |
| found dead, lying in a perfect row in the middle of a lonely road. |
| (Source: Albert S. Rosales, 1995 Humanoid Sighting Reports database, |
| case # 3287, citing Scott Corrales, Chupacabras and Other Mysteries). |
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| 1996 - During a very stormy night in Houston, Texas a woman was |
| having trouble falling sleep and was very restless. At around 2:00 |
| a.m. she started feeling very strange, as if in some sort of a |
| trance. There was a window right above her bed, and it felt as if |
| something was pulling her from inside. At the same time some kind of |
| appartition appeared on the upper part of the closet door directly |
| across from the window. It appeared to be a reddish figure |
| with wings, or something on either side of its body, that was moving |
| up and down. She also saw a shadow pass by the window to the left of |
| the bed. The creature then vanished. Her husband did not see or |
| experience anything. A week after the incident, the witness suffered |
| a nervous breakdown. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, 1996 Humanoid |
| Sighting Reports database, case # 2649, citing UFO Sightings in New |
| Mexico and the World). |
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| 2004 - At two o'clock in the morning a V-shaped orange glowing object |
| was sighted in Yuma, Arizona that moved straight up until it became |
| impossible to see. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting |
| Center, Seattle, November 2004 webpage). |
| |
| 2004 - At 7:40 p.m. a bright orange light was seen in Houston, |
| British Columbia descending slowly, following the contour of the |
| mountain. (Source: Geoff Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # |
| 813, citing HBCCUFO). |
| |
| 2009 - A witness in Tracy, California reported seeing a red and blue |
| "V" shaped object flying through the sky and emitting a bright |
| LED-like light. At 6:10 p.m. EST another witness in Raleigh, North |
| Carolina observed a V-shaped object with white and red flashing |
| lights moving slowly over Falls Lake.(Source: Peter Davenport, |
| National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, November 2009 webpage, |
| reports uploaded December 12, 2009). |
| |
| Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 24 November 2012). |
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| Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. |
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| Themes |
| : aircraft UFO encounters; cone-shaped UFO; cylindrical UFOs; disc-sh |
| aped UFOs; domed discs; EM effects: electric power outages and vehicl |
| e electrical system damage; goblin-like humanoid entities; ground tra |
| ces; helmets; landings, light beams; Mothman reports; multicolored UF |
| Os; multi-year reports from Brazil, England, Florida, Illinois, Italy |
| and Sweden; silvery uniforms; transparent humanoids; white uniforms. |
| |
| © Donald A. Johnson |
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