Encounters with Aliens on this Day
November 8
1954 - 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. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 242).
1954 - In the Vacheresse Forest in Voussac, France a number of reliable persons 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. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 243).
1954 - 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).
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.
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."
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).
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).
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. (Source: 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. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 438).
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
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).
Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 31 October 2004).
Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database.