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| [On This Day] |
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|  Encounters with Aliens on this Day |
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|  September 17 |
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| 1897 - In the far eastern reaches of Siberia several people witnessed |
| a round UFO flying toward the northwest. It was seen for five minutes |
| in Antsiferova, Russia. (Sources: Luminieres dans la Nuit, issue # |
| 204; FSR, January-February 1969, p. 27; Larry Hatch, U computer |
| database, case # 214). |
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| 1952 - Mr. and Mrs. Ted Hollingsworth of Tucson, Arizona sighted two |
| groups of three large, flat, shiny objects at 11:40 a.m. north of the |
| city. The daylight objects flew in tight formations: the first group |
| slowly, the second group faster. The sighting lasted for 2 minutes. |
| (Source: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case |
| # 2105; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1952: September-October, p. |
| 36; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns). |
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| 1954 - At 4:45 p.m. a silver bullet-shaped object was seen in the sky |
| by over a thousand people including military witnesses near the |
| Ciampino Airport, ten miles outside of Rome, Italy. It rotated from a |
| horizontal orientation to vertical with the point down. It had an |
| estimated altitude of 2500 feet and a speed of 150-180 miles per |
| hour. It left a luminous vapor trail and was tracked on radar. At the |
| same time in Pitigliano, Italy in Tuscany two hunters, Bacherini and |
| Formiconi, heard a series of detonations and then saw a round white |
| craft moving slowly with lateral oscillation as it advanced. It blew |
| toward the southwest. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the |
| Straight Line Mystery, p. 55-57; Richard Hall, UFO Reports from the |
| Files of the CIA, p. 21). |
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| 1954 - At 7:15 p.m. a cigar-shaped object was seen through a 25x |
| telescope and was witnessed by at least 11 people in |
| Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dome, France. It was black with a luminous |
| tail, and the trail was exceptionally luminous. (Source: Aime Michel, |
| Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 57). |
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| 1954 - Between Cenon and Vouneuil, France at 10:30 p.m. Yves David, |
| age 28, met a being in a diving suit who made friendly gestures. The |
| being was very small and had a voice "inhuman and incomprehensible." |
| The witness could not move throughout the encounter. He saw the |
| creature enter a three-meter wide by one-meter tall object sitting on |
| the road, and it took off "like lightning." It cast a greenish light |
| as it did so. (Sources: Le Figaro, September 30, 1954; Aime Michel, |
| Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 58; Jacques Vallee, |
| Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 210; David F. Webb & |
| Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-50 |
| (A0249), citing Aime Michel). |
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| 1955 - Pine Bush, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Bordes of New York City were |
| fishing at night when they heard a loud splash and a "gurgling |
| sound." They then saw a pink, iridescent, mushroom-shaped object rise |
| about 70 cm out of the water, then sink back into the reservoir. |
| Later, they saw the object again. It was about five meters long and |
| surrounded by turbulence. After it took off it reversed direction |
| several times without turning around and finally flew away at a high |
| rate of speed. (Sources: Arthur Constance, The Inexplicable Sky, p. |
| 226; Flying Saucer Review, May-June 1955; Ivan T. Sanderson, |
| Invisible Residents, p. 226; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A |
| Century of Landings, p. 252). |
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| 1966 - Mr. and Mrs. Ronald MacGilvary of Cranes Beach, Massachusetts |
| saw a golden-white, luminous cigar-shaped object resting on the beach |
| at 4:45 a.m. It had two or three bright lights that flew in and out |
| of the craft. They moved around with an up-and-down skipping motion. |
| It left after an hour. (Sources: Raymond E. Fowler, UFOs: |
| Interplanetary Visitors, p. 341; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: |
| A Century of Landings, case 798; NICAP UFO Investigator, November |
| 1966, p. 4; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year |
| Report, p. 414). |
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| Cranes Beach near Ipswich, Massachusetts - 1966 |
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| [Cranes Beach near Ipswich, Massachusetts - 1966] |
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| 1967 - At around 2:00 a.m. An anonymous witness observed an |
| eight-foot tall humanoid in a wooded area near Langley, British |
| Columbia, Canada. It was reported to be pink colored and covered with |
| scaly skin. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue |
| of Humanoid Reports, case A2085, citing John Brent Musgrave, UFO |
| Occupants and Critters). |
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| 1975 - At 8:20 p.m. two women in their fifties were driving on a |
| highway in Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts when they |
| briefly glimpsed a large humanoid creature. They noticed that as they |
| were traveling they were the only vehicle in the road, and there |
| was total silence in the area. Suddenly, a very tall gray figure with |
| bits of white hair appeared in front of the car. It had luminous |
| oblong shaped eyes and what appeared to be white whiskers. The |
| humanoid figure seemed to be in total "control" and had a "majestic" |
| air to him. It also had a long tail that narrowed towards the end. |
| The driver swerved to avoid hitting the creature, and temporarily ran |
| off the road, so they did not see the humanoid depart.(Source: CUFOS |
| case files, report dated May 6, 1976). |
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| 1976 - In Wingen, New South Wales, Australia at 3:30 a.m. a round, |
| bright object with an intense blue glow passed only 12 feet over a |
| car. The car engine stopped and the lights went out, and the |
| speedometer needle jumped about even though the car was stationary. |
| The driver, a 30-year-old man named Ryan, felt an intense heat from |
| the object, and his watch stopped working. He also reported that his |
| flashlight wouldn't work, even though it had new batteries. The UFO |
| made a low humming sound. Trouble with the performance of the car |
| persisted after the event. The close encounter lasted two minutes. |
| (Sources: Mark Cashman, Project 1947 EM Effects Catalog website, |
| citing UFO Research NSW; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving |
| Vehicle Interference, p. 69, citing Australian CUFOS). |
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| 1978 - At the Maatsuyker Island Lighthouse, Tasmania, Australia |
| electrical power failed twice at 9:20 p.m. when a big glowing light |
| flew by south of the island. It was seen by four men at the |
| lighthouse, including the main witness, a 47-year-old man named |
| Burns. (Source: Australian CUFOS Files, case file NA781219). |
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| 1978 - In Torrita di Sienna, Tuscany, Italy at 8:15 p.m. two |
| witnesses watched a bright sphere descend over the area the same time |
| a electrical blackout occurred. Shortly after that a motorist, Sr. R. |
| Faralli, a 25-year-old man driving a Fiat 127, was on his way home |
| when his engine and lights went out, then a bright red object |
| descended over the road just ahead of him and hovered. It was a domed |
| disc, hat like in shape. He found he was paralyzed and could not |
| move, as he watched a panel open and two humanoids emerge and float |
| towards his vehicle. They were five feet tall and wore green |
| coveralls and helmets with aerials and face masks, and they floated |
| about four feet above the ground. They circled the car and appeared |
| to inspect it. Their skin also appeared greenish. They re-entered the |
| UFO, which took off with a flash of light and an explosive sound. The |
| witness suffered eye irritation. (Sources: Roberto Pinotti, |
| International UFO Reporter, October 1979, p. 15; Richard Hall, MUFON |
| UFO Journal, issue # 153 (November 1980); Lumieres dans la Nuit, |
| January 1981; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty |
| Year Report, pp. 265, 270, 349, 491, 495; UNICAT, case # 111; Mark |
| Cashman, Project 1947 EM Effects Catalog website; David F. Webb & Ted |
| Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1968). |
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| Torrita di Siena, Italy Close Encounter - 1978 |
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| 1979 - At quarter past midnight in the Bavarian town of Eichstatt, |
| Germany three pentagon-shaped UFOs were seen by many, including 10 |
| police officers. One object hovered at 500 meters, then shot away. |
| (Sources: MUFON UFO Journal, October 1981; Larry Hatch, U computer |
| database, case 13306, citing MUFON). |
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| 1979 - At 7:30 a.m. a luminous white disc-shaped object was seen |
| hovering over some trees in Vieille-Eglise, Pas-de-Calais, France; it |
| shot away toward the northeast. Shortly after that three military |
| interceptor jets converged on the location. (Source: Lumieres dans la |
| Nuit, February 1981). |
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| 1981 - A woman by the name of Wharry reported sighting a disc-shaped |
| object in Apple Valley, San Bernardino County, California at 8:00 |
| p.m. It hovered, shot away and then came back. It was spinning, had |
| colored lights, and was not far from George Air Force Base. (Source: |
| Joe Graziano, APRO Bulletin, February 1982, p. 8). |
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| 1981 - At 9:00 p.m. in Kentfield, Marin County, California a huge |
| disc-shaped object passed over homes, making a deep rumbling sound. |
| (Source: Joe Graziano, APRO Bulletin, March 1982, p. 8). |
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| 1982 - At 11:03 p.m. a bright patch of light exploded into an orange |
| fireball near the M.V. Strathdee, a Romanian registry ship sailing in |
| the South Atlantic at the geographical coordinates -11.62 S 33.47 W. |
| According to the article in the MUFON UFO Journal, it flashed rays of |
| light and made no sound. A geiger counter reading indicated a |
| radiation level of 5-7 rads. There were 16 witnesses. (Sources: |
| William R. Corliss, Remarkable Luminous Phenomena in Nature, p. 283; |
| MUFON UFO Journal, September 1984). |
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| 1984 - In Goshen, Connecticut a row of lights paced car on a rural |
| road at 9:30 p.m. The configuration of lights in the row first turned |
| into a U-shaped, and then into a delta.  They seemed to be part of |
| one UFO, changing shape. (Source: George C. Andrews, |
| Extra-Terrestrials Among Us, p. 301). |
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| 1989 - A bright white light paced a car driving on the A5 highway |
| near Brinklow, Warkwick, England for more than five minutes. The |
| driver and child passenger were named Goold. The driver believed she |
| received a telepathic message from the UFO. (Source: Richard F. |
| Haines, CE5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, p. 160, citing FSR, |
| March 1991, p. 22). |
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| 1992 - A 12-foot long metallic object with stubby wings, and a clear |
| dome or cupola, buzzed UFO investigator Christopher O'Brien and his |
| partner while driving seven miles north of Gardner, Colorado at 1:30 |
| p.m. It made no sound. (Source: Christopher O'Brien, The Mysterious |
| Valley, p. 54). |
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| 1994 - At 11:45 p.m. a 17-year-old male reported having a close |
| encounter with a pinkish, 25 foot diameter circular object that |
| illuminated the ground in Memphis, Tennessee; it then rose to treetop |
| level before flying off slowly to the southeast. It had a neon |
| glow. (Sources: Robert McDowell, MUFON field investigation case |
| files, case 950326C; T. David Spencer, MUFON UFO Journal, April 1996, |
| p. 18). |
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| 1995 - At 12:30 a.m. a gray V-shaped flying wing moved silently |
| overhead at a steady pace in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Source: |
| Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 17432, citing NUFORC). |
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| 1996 - Thousands including police saw a huge disc maneuver over Tel |
| Aviv, Israel at two o'clock in the morning. The aerial display lasted |
| two hours. (Sources: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 340; Michael |
| Hesemann, UFOs: The Secret History). |
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| 2000 - At 8:55 p.m. a very large, wing-shaped object flew at a low |
| altitude over Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. It flew very |
| fast. It was completely silent, black in color, and had no running |
| lights. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, |
| Seattle, September 2000 webpage). |
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| 2004 - A submarine-shaped object with many lights was seen briefly in |
| Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada at 3:30 a.m. It made a humming |
| sound, and was mesmerising. There were two witnesses. (Source: Geoff |
| Dittman, 2004 Canadian UFO Survey, case # 682). |
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| 2006 - At 3:30 a.m. a boomerang V-shaped object, very large, was seen |
| at height in Las Vegas, Nevada. Although not flying at a low |
| altitude, it was close enough to determine that it was not a |
| commercial nor military aircraft. (Source: Peter Davenport, National |
| UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2006 webpage, report |
| uploaded October 30, 2006). |
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| 2007 - Independent lights forming a chevron passed silently over San |
| Carlos, California at 11:15 p.m. at a very high altitude and at a |
| very high rate of speed; each light shifted position. (Source: Peter |
| Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 2007 |
| webpage, report uploaded October 8, 2007). |
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| Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 14 August 2012). |
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| Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. |
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| Themes: boome |
| rang UFOs; cigar-shaped UFOs, disc-shaped UFOs; diving suit; golden c |
| olored UFO; huge UFOs; landings; luminous UFOs; maneuvering formation |
| s of UFOs, multi-year encounters in the Tuscany region of Italy; naut |
| ical UFOs; paralysis; polymorphing UFO; satellite objects flying arou |
| nd larger UFO; sensation of heat; telepathy; unintelligible language. |
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| © Donald A. Johnson |
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