Encounters with Aliens on this Day
October 31
1952 - At 7:40 p.m. in Fayetteville, Georgia on highway 85 USAF Lt. James Allen watched an 80 foot long orange, blimp-shaped object. It flew at treetop level and crossed over Allen's car. As Lt. Allen's car passed underneath it his radio went completely dead. The UFO hovered for 20 seconds, then climbed up at a 45 degree angle and climbed out of sight at a tremendous speed in 30-40 seconds. The sighting lasted one minute. (Sources: U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 2200; J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 191; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 1; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns).
1954 - Mr. P. Petit and his employee, Mr. Tillier, with shop owner Mr. Pecquet, saw an oval object on the ground in Corrompu, Somme, France. When it took off the lights of a tractor went out. It measured about 4.5 meters (15 feet) in length and emitted a bright light similar to a welder's torch. It came back, turned, and flew off toward the southwest. It reportedly made the same noise as a swarm of bees. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 240, case 323; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 5).
1957 - At midnight in Longchaumois, France a businessman and his wife saw a large, lighted object with openings, which hovered, came to ground level, and took off with a great increase in brightness as it flew away at very high speed, but without noise. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 261, case 416, citing Aime Michel).
1957 - That evening in Lumberton, North Carolina a car engine failed as a UFO was observed. (Sources: Charlotte Observer, November 4, 1957; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 74; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 8).
1958 - At 3:50 p.m. an elliptical, aluminum object was first spotted flying at two kilometers altitude in Caledon East, Ontario but it quickly descended to just four meters above the ground. It flew up-and-down by sudden jumps at the ground level, less than 200 meters away, for five minutes. It had a red light at one end that changed to a fiery color, then the object exploded. The witness ran. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 473, citing US Air Force ATIC).
1959 - Two brothers with the last name of Hawkins were followed for 95 kilometers between Marton and Matamata, New Zealand by a luminous object that looked like a large street lamp. The UFO maneuvered around their car when they stopped near Oningaiti, New Zealand and it ascended vertically at daybreak. The incident began at 4:15 a.m. and continued until the break of day. (Source: Peter Rogerson, World-Wide Catalog of Type 1 Reports, in the Merseyside UFO Bulletin, citing Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1960, p. 17).
1963 - At 4:15 a.m. Jim Davidson saw an object about three meters long in Daylston, Victoria, Australia with orange and red lights. It approached his pickup truck, flew ahead of him, then flew off and seemed to land behind a hill. Two other witnesses independently reported a maneuvering light. (Sources: Sylvia Sutton, Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1964, p. 29; NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1964, p. 3; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 585).
1963 - At two p.m. a farmer, Sr. Issuo Oikiti, another adult, and a child saw a luminous object resembling a huge aluminium ball near the Peropava River in Iguape, Sao Paulo state, Brazil. It "writhed and struggled" in the air, hit a palm tree, changed direction while spinning, crossed to the other side of the river, and plunged into the water. The water seemed to boil after the object fell into the water. (Sources: APRO Bulletin, January-February 1964, pp. 1-2; Jim & Coral E. Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, p. 53; Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 74; Otto Binder, What We Really Know About Flying Saucers, p. 149; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 586).
1967 - At 9:30 p.m. a blue bell-shaped UFO directed an energy beam of some kind at a car being driven by a man named Spargo in Boyup Brook, Western Australia and halted its movement. (Sources: Hugill Joanna, FSR, July-August 1968, p. 15; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 38).
1971 - At 5:30 p.m. a silent, 25 meter diameter metallic saucer stopped 50 meters over a tractor northeast of Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The bottom of the object was revolving. The UFO tilted, then shot off toward the north. (Source: Phenomenes Spatiaux, September 1973, p. 27).
1978 - A group of ten youngsters were sitting around chatting in a field in Loose Valley, near Maidstone, Kent, England at around midnight. After about 45 minutes of talk a boy named Will leapt to his feet and began slapping his head, saying that there was a bee in his hair. He looked absolutely terrified. A girl named Dorothy and another witness then saw a tall, thin figure wearing a hat, "dancing" behind him. Will said later that it was as if a terrifically loud buzzing was coming up through the top of his head. However, only one other person present, Rachel, heard any buzzing. Partially satisfied that they had stumbled on a bee's nest they moved a distance away. As they moved Dorothy and Will saw a ring outlined in the grass that enclosed where they had been sitting. Eventually it started to rain, so the group headed for Rachel's house. As they left one of the young men turned around and saw the same thin black figure walk across the opening between some trees to where they had been sitting.
Later, while sitting in Rachel's bedroom, one of the young men looked at Will and saw an amorphous black blob drop out of his hair onto the bed. He was the only one who saw this. A few seconds later a black shape started whizzing around the room. The main movement was from bottom left to top right and getting larger during its flight. This created a great fright among those present. Altogether four witnessed this strange phenomenon. Later on the girls slept in a room together, and Rachel and Dorothy again saw a black blob in the curtains during the night. Upon awakening, one of the young men saw the thin black figure silhouetted against some wardrobe doors. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1978, citing Fortean Times Magazine On-line).
1983 - An F-5E interceptor was scrambled by the Brazilian Air Force as many witnesses in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil reported a silvery spot maneuvering over city at 5:10 p.m. The official explanation was balloon, but UFO researchers in Brazil don't accept it as plausible. (Source: Irene Granchi, APRO Bulletin, July 1984, p. 1).
1995 - At 7:00 p.m. in Tacoma, Washington a witness called the UFO Reporting Center to report a bright ball of light landing in a nearby field. Two hours later a second witness saw a nocturnal light zigzag through the sky and shoot off into the distance. (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle).
2001 - A huge triangular-shaped object with a white light in the center was seen traveling at a high speed across rainy sky at 8:30 p.m. in Ozaukee, Wisconsin. The witnesses saw rain pelting off the back of the UFO as it flew off, and then disappeared. (Source: UFO Magazine (USA), February 2002, p. 20).
Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 17 September 2004).
Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database.