Encounters with Aliens on this Day
September 16
1952 - The crew of a U.S. Navy P2V Neptune patrol plane, flying near Portland, Maine at 6:22 p.m. sighted a group of five unidentified lights and picked up a long thin blip on radar. Investigators considered whether the crew had sighted USAF KC-97 aircraft involved in a refueling operation, but decided that this was unlikely. The sighting lasted 20 minutes. (Source: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns).
1952 - At 7:30 p.m. three Air Force officers and two civilians at Warner-Robbins AFB, Georgia observed two unidentified white lights flying abreast, at a speed of 100 mph, for 15 minutes. (Source: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns).
1955 - Boisseuges, France. A young shepherd heard a whistling sound at 6:00 p.m. as a dark mass appeared to fall from the sky and a rush of air swept him from his feet. The object looked like a machine with an opening where a stairway became visible. Two occupants were seen. One was observed to have a reddish face, a baldhead and very fine teeth. The craft was round, about 3.5 meters in diameter and two meters high, and lighted with neon-like light. The occupants gathered some plants and flew away to the northwest. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 252).
1957 - At 7:30 p.m. in Smithfield, Australia Les McDonald, age 17, and Gladys Smith, age 14, saw a red light changing to green, spreading around them like a mist and covering an area about 100 meters in diameter. They became nearly paralyzed and "felt a warm glow." They had no fear, but were "merely cognizant of things as they were without [the ability] to react." This sensation lasted two minutes. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 258).
1965 - Pretoria, South Africa. Two witnesses in an approaching car, Lockem and De Klerk, watched in astonishment as a copper-colored disc-shaped UFO, 30 feet in diameter, lifted off from the road in front of them at 12:10 a.m., emitting flames from two tubes on the underside. The physical traces included a burned five foot diameter depression on the macadam road. (Source: NICAP UFO Investigator, September 1965, p. 5).
Pretoria, South Africa CE-II UFO Report - 1965
1989 - On this night a female employee of a local meat packing plant in Nikolayev, Russia had stepped outside for a quick break when a beam of light struck her from above. Looking up, she saw a hovering disc-shaped craft which the beam had emanated from. The object was about 40-60 meters in diameter. She reported that she felt no fear and indeed had a euphoric feeling as she began rising up nto the air towards the object. She also heard a voice extolling her to "fly with them." Other workers came to the scene and began yelling and ran towards the woman. The beam disappeared the the UFO flew away. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1989, citing Mikhail Gershtein, Immense Invasion).
1989 - On this night witnesses north of Zaostravka, Perm,
Russia watched several disc-shaped objects engaged in what looked
like an aerial battle or "dogfight" with another gold-colored disc. After
several explosions the electrical power in Zaostravka went off. The
gold-colored disc was seen crashing into a swamp. Several military
personnel tried to get near the crash site, but the isolated location
seemed impossible to access. The zone was declared off limits by the local
military, several families living nearby were displaced, and a barbwire
fence was installed in the area. Aircraft flying over the area afterwards
reported equipment malfunctions and were diverted to other flight paths.
The downed object was described as mushroom-shaped with a greenish-gold
dome and a matt black rim with a narrow base. (Source: Albert S. Rosales,
Humanoid Contact Database 1989, citing F. Bachurin, N. A. Subbotin and
Anton Anfalov).
Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 1 July 2009).
Compiled from the UFOCAT computer database.