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| [On This Day] |
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|  Encounters with Aliens on this Day |
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|  December 24 |
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| 1903 - A priest named Ivanku Petrovszky saw a glistening ball of |
| light illuminate the countryside in Szuhabaranka, Hungary. The object |
| landed and shadowy figures returned to it. A man who had gone to a |
| well at the same time was never seen again. The case of his |
| disappearance was closed ten years later but still unsolved. (Source: |
| Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case |
| 255, citing the UFO Report Annual 1983, p. 43). |
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| 1944 - A red ball of light climbed to the altitude of a Beaufighter |
| from the 415TH NFS squadron while it was flying over Karisruhe, |
| Germany on this night. The two man crew, Baker and McFalls, watched |
| the light pace their aircraft for awhile and then climb away from |
| them. (Sources: Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the |
| Saucers, p 126; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. and Harold Dennault, Jr., |
| Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 117). |
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| 1953 - Ten silverly oval-shaped objects were sighted flying |
| horizontally over El Cajon, California at 8:04 a.m. Two Navy F-9F |
| Panther jets attempted to catch up with them but failed. The UFOs |
| were flying at 50,000' altitude at a speed in excess of 400 knots. |
| (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, |
| case #2840; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1953: August-December, |
| p. 71; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 22; Richard |
| F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 184). |
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| 1960 - A domed disc, estimated to be 20 feet in diameter, was seen |
| near a mountain top in Durango, Colorado at midnight. It had a ring |
| of lights around its rim. It pulsated and was in view for 15 minutes. |
| A dog panicked in an agitated reaction, and later died. (Source: |
| Durango Herald, December 28, 1960; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for |
| Outstanding UFO Reports, case 117, citing APRO Bulletin, January |
| 1961, p. 1; John A. Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 163; Kenneth |
| Larson, Flying Saucers, March 1970, p. 13: Otto Binder, What We |
| Really Know About Flying Saucers, p. 160). |
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| 1963 - At 7:25 p.m. in Rowarth, Cheshire, England a farmer named |
| Chandler had his car battery die while a UFO flew by. His cows also |
| became ill. (Sources: Orbit, April 23, 1963; Mark Rodeghier, UFO |
| Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 21). |
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| 1965 - At 6:36 p.m. a yellow colored flying object with three bright |
| spotlights was sighted by 13 young women working at a factory as it |
| flew from the northwest to the west over Gifu prefecture, Japan. It |
| kept changing its speed and apparent size as it flew. Fourteen |
| minutes later a disc shaped object with a flat bottom and two |
| spotlights flew toward the northeast on a horizontal trajectory. It |
| was seen for four minutes. (Source: Y. J. Matsumura, Flying Saucers, |
| October 1966, p. 39). |
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| 1967 - On this evening a couple driving near Tucson, Arizona saw a |
| blob of red light. The engine and headlights of their car then quit. |
| The light came near the car, passed overhead, and moved away to the |
| south. The engine and lights both came back on as it departed. Two |
| minutes before this sighting, both witnesses had seen a star-like |
| object fall to earth. (Source: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving |
| Vehicle Interference, case 230, citing CUFOS). |
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| 1970 - Two independent sets of photographs showing luminous balls of |
| light in motion were taken on this night in Alamogordo, New Mexico. |
| Three teenagers--Larsh, Neal, and Sellars--took a photograph of two |
| lights in parallel motion at 10:00 p.m. They had had sightings of |
| similar phenomena earlier in the week and were prepared to take a |
| time exposure on this night. They made their photograph using a |
| Pentax camera on a tripod. The two lights were also seen by another |
| resident, Hjalmar Bowlby, earlier that same evening. Remarkably, they |
| weren't the only ones who were able to catch an image of a UFO using |
| a camera that night. At 10:35 p.m. Jerry Mozer, also of Alamogordo, |
| New Mexico took a photo of a luminous point in motion, making an |
| abrupt change of course resulting in a "buttonhook" effect on the |
| image. Both photographs are reproduced below. (Sources: Alamogordo |
| Daily News, December 31, 1970 and January 3, 1971; Data-Net Report, |
| February 1971, p. 21). |
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| 1972 - The Romanian ship Maldoveanu while in the Atlantic Ocean off |
| Cape Chidley, Labrador, Canada sighted a UFO at 3:00 a.m. The object |
| continually changed shape and color, from round to oval, and from red |
| to yellow to a bluish white. (Source: Ion Hobana and Julien |
| Weverberg, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 279). |
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| 1975 - A huge disc covered the entire N19 highway in Bar-sur-Aube, |
| France. It vanished at 8:10 p.m. when a car approached. (Source: |
| Lumieres dans la Nuit, May 1976). |
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| 1975 - At 10:00 p.m. power circuit breakers were tripped four times |
| when a glowing ball of light came down near the ground in |
| Ploubazlanec, Cotes-du-Nord, France. A 0.2 meter area of burnt grass |
| was found at the site were it apparently touched down. (Source: |
| Jean-F. Boedec, Les OVNI en Bretagne: Anatomie d'un Phenomene, p. |
| 75). |
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| 1989 - At 5:50 p.m. a man in Sambreville, Belgium took a ten minute |
| video of a round white shape in the sky. It could be seen moving and |
| rotating slowly. An hour later, at 6:50 p.m., a woman made another |
| videotape, this time of a luminous globe in the sky over Nimy, |
| Belgium. The videotape shows a white ball with a black ring around it |
| and plasma. (Sources: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 303; Timothy Good, |
| The UFO Report 1991, p. 56). |
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| 1989 - At 11:00 p.m. a Russian L29 Trainer flying between Chelyabinsk |
| and Korkino, Russia sighted a yellowish white cigar-shaped object |
| flying at 8000 meters altitude. It vanished when the pilot attempted |
| to approach. (Sources: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1992, p. 61; |
| Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 46). |
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| 1992 - Twenty civilian witnesses and police southwest of Monroe, |
| Louisiana watched a silent, boomerang shaped UFO with bright beams of |
| light pass over cars in a forested area at 6:00 p.m. and bounce up |
| and down for six minutes. The object was videotapted by one of the |
| witnesses, a 39-year-old man. (Source: W. L. Garner, Jr., MUFON UFO |
| Journal, November 1993). |
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| Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 15 November 2005). |
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| Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database. |
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| Themes: aircraft UFO encounters, balls of light, boomeran |
| g-shaped UFOs, color changing UFOs, disappearance or permanent abduct |
| ion of a man, domed disc, landing traces, oval-shaped UFOs, photograp |
| hs, polymorphing UFOs, UFOs making abrupt maneuvers, unexplained anim |
| al deaths and illnesses, vehicle EM effects, videotapes, yellow UFOs. |
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