Aliens 2: Alien spacecraft encounters

It took many years for humans to develop anti-gravity craft based on ET technology acquired as of the 1947 Roswell ET spacecraft crashes when humans deliberately interfered with the crafts’ navigation / propulsion systems by means of radar. As is noted in the post Aliens 3, flying disc simulators for training human pilots to fly ET-type craft started operating in the early 1960s and test flights of ET-type craft started in the 1980s. As a firm date reference, it seems that the first recorded sighting of a man-made ET-type craft might have been the craft seen in Rendlesham Forest (UK) on 26 and 27 December 1980.^1,2

Therefore it seems safe to assume that any ET-type craft seen before 1980 were of ET origin and controlled by ETs. With careful evaluation of subsequent ET-type craft sightings it should be possible to exclude most / all man-made anti-gravity craft sightings and continue focusing on genuine ET craft sightings as I have tried to do.

Following are the main points of 25 incidents from the above-mentioned list of 145 such events. A link to the full list (includes links to source material and photographs / video) is in the Appendix. The 25 example cases are presented below in date order.

1. USA, 25 February 1942
In the early morning of 25 February 1942, suddenly out of nowhere, a huge object of unknown origin levelled off at a lower altitude. The object continued on a trajectory east toward the city of Los Angeles at ultra high speed, barely skimming the water. The object reduced it’s speed to a near crawl some 50 miles out, turning inland near Point Dume. The air raid warning system regional controller ordered the anti-aircraft batteries to go to Green Alert — “ready to fire.” At 2:15 am the controller ordered the whole warning system into operation. At 3:06 am, at least four Santa Monica area anti-aircraft batteries turned inland and started firing over the city and Baldwin Hills. Suddenly “the air over Los Angeles erupted like a volcano.” For the next three hours it was nothing but confusion with swarms of planes of all possible sizes reported, numbering from one to several hundred, travelling at altitudes from a few thousand feet to more than 20,000, and flying at speeds from very slow to hundreds of miles per hour.

However, despite the fact that 1,440 rounds of anti-aircraft ammunition had been expended, the UFO seemed impervious to the barrage and it eventually left with no sign of damage.

2. Indonesia, 10 August 1944
Shortly after midnight on 10 August 1944, Captain Alvah M. Reida of the 486th Bomb Group, 792nd Squadron, was flying a B-29 Bomber from Ceylon to Palembang. The right gunner and copilot reported a bright red or orange spherical object pacing the plane about 500 yards off the starboard wing. It was about 5 or 6 feet in diameter and seemed to vibrate constantly. Captain Reida attempted evasive action, but the object followed every manoeuvrer for about eight minutes, then suddenly made an abrupt 90 degree turn and accelerated away rapidly.

Note: This type of UFO was often seen by Allied aircraft pilots during World War II. It was referred to as a Foo Fighter. Military censorship kept reports of these phenomena out of the newspapers until December 1944.

3. India, 15 March 1951
At 10:20 am in New Delhi, members of a flying club, including the chief aerial engineer George F. Floate, witnessed a swirly white cloud appear in the sky from north to south at about 4,000 feet. The cloud was about 700 feet long and increasing in length. At the end of it a metallic cigar-shaped object about 100 feet long (about the size of a C-47 fuselage) appeared. The object was seen by 25 flying club members.

It headed south for about three minutes and then made a loop, coming back over the airfield. At the top of the loop it was out of sight but came back into sight during the dive. The object left a white exhaust which turned black when it accelerated to about 1,000 mph during the loop. After recovering straight and level flight, the object proceeded to the south-west until out of sight. It was observed for a total time of about seven minutes.

4. UK, 21 October 1952
In the afternoon of 21 October 1952, RAF pilots Flt Lt Michael Swiney and Lt David Crofts, in a Gloster Meteor, saw three white disc-shaped objects at 35,000 feet near RAF Little Rissington, a base in eastern Gloucestershire. The pilots noted that the shape of the saucer shape was perfectly circular. Flt Lt Swiney reported the sighting of the three saucer objects to his Ground Control at RAF Sopley and abruptly cancelled the training flight. Lt Crofts asked whether to pursue the three objects, but Flt Lt Swiney declined. The three objects crossed over the Meteor’s path, from left to right and remained on that side. In a fraction of a second, the objects disappeared.

ATCC Gloucester (RAF Staverton, now Gloucestershire Airport) confirmed the three objects that the pilots had seen. Two Meteor F.8 aircraft of RAF Fighter Command were scrambled to intercept the objects but the fighter aircraft did not make contact with the objects. The RAF Southern Sector, based in Wiltshire, had detected three objects entering their airspace at 3,000 mph.

5. Papua New Guinea, 23 August 1953
At about 11:00 am on 23 August 1953, Port Moresby, T. P. Drury (Deputy Minister of Civil Aviation) and his wife noticed a wisp of a cloud suddenly appear in the blue sky from nowhere and rapidly build up into a thick white mass of cumulus. There were no other clouds in the sky and there seemed nothing to account for it. Drury filmed this event and what happened next.

Suddenly, an object like a silver dart shot out of the cloud. It was elongated in shape like a bullet. It was very clear-cut, sharp in front but apparently truncated behind, though the tail may have been hidden by the vapour trail. No wings or fins were visible. It shot out of the cloud upwards at an angle of about 45 degrees and was travelling at least five times as fast as a jet plane travelling at the speed of sound. It never slackened speed or changed direction, but simply faded upwards into the blue and its vapour faded after it. The vapour trail was very clear, dense, white and billowing. In spite of the supersonic speed and nearness of the object, there was no sound whatever.

Air Traffic Control at Jackson’s Airport could not explain the sighting in terms of known aircraft and the RAAF was also unable to account for it. Drury’s film was later sent all over the world but no-one could explain the object.

6. France, 10 September 1954
At about 22:30 on the night of 10 September 1954, railway worker Marius Dewilde went outside to investigate the reason for his dog’s barking. He walked to the nearby railway tracks, where he saw an object about six or seven metres away from him and two small humanoid figures. Suddenly the object emitted a light beam that paralysed him. He then saw a door open in the object, the two beings board it, and the craft rise toward the sky while changing its colours.

When he recovered from the paralysis, Dewilde went home and told his wife and then his neighbour about what he had just witnessed. He then informed the local police and police officers visited his home. Upon approach to the incident location, Dewilde became sick and could not proceed further. Also, objects which are energized by battery, like Dewilde’s flashlight and telephone, stopped working.

The following day, as people investigated the incident scene, an approaching train produced a very loud noise as it passed by, causing the train to stop. A six-metre depression was found on the exact spot where the object had landed and this had caused the noise. Also, the small rocks under the train tracks were all carbonized on the depression and the sleepers between the steel lines featured symmetric marks.

Following the incident, three cows in nearby farms were found dead. Autopsies on the animals revealed that their blood had been totally removed. Several local people claimed sightings of objects and creatures similar to the ones witnessed by Dewilde. Dewilde suffered respiratory problems after the incident and his dog died three days after exposure to the ET craft.

7. Italy, 28 October 1954
On 27 October 1954, UFOs stopped a professional football match just after half-time in front of ten-thousand fans at Stadio Artemi Franchi, Florence. The spectators stopped watching the match and the footballers stopped playing. Everyone looked up at objects shaped like Cuban cigars moving across the sky. They were dropping what was variously described as similar to silver glitter, cotton wool or cobwebs and angel hair. The newspaper La Nazione referred to this substance as glass fibres. After a short period of time the material disintegrated, e.g. a 10 year-old boy described seeing the roofs of houses in Florence covered in this white substance for one hour in broad daylight and then the substance seemed to evaporate.

Also, the substance disintegrated on contact and was therefore hard to collect. However Giorgio Batini, a journalist at La Nazione, and other people, managed to gather samples of the material. They took the samples to the Institute of Chemical Analysis at the University of Florence. The laboratory (led by respected scientist Prof Giovanni Canneri) subjected the material to spectrographic analysis and concluded that it contained the elements boron, silicon, calcium and magnesium, and that it was not radioactive.

There were numerous UFO sightings in many towns across Tuscany that day and over the days that followed.

8. UK, 17 July 1955
On 17 July 1955 at noon, in Bexleyheath in London, a 30 foot-wide saucer-shaped object was seen hovering a few feet above a street in broad daylight by Margaret Fry and her doctor. Car engines near the object stalled. The aircraft made a humming noise. It landed at the junction of Ashbourne Road and Whitfield Road, hovered over Bedonwell Primary School (now Bedonwell Junior School) for about one minute, and finally shot off into the sky. The object was seen by about thirty people. Another UFO landed a few streets away at the same time. A similar object was seen in Bexleyheath in 1952.

9. UK, 13 August 1956
On a dry and largely clear night, USAF radar picked up 12 to 15 objects over East Anglia. One object was tracked at more than 4,000 mph by USAF GCA radar at RAF Bentwaters. The objects sometimes travelled in formation, then converged to form a larger object and performed sharp turns. One object was tracked for 26 miles. It hovered for five minutes then flew off. At 10 pm an object was tracked at 12,000 mph. RAF de Havilland Venoms from RAF Waterbeach had sightings of the objects and ground personnel at Lakenheath made visual sightings of several luminous objects, including two which arrived, made a sharp change in course, and appeared to merge before moving off.

The sequence of events is recorded in the original Project Blue Book file by the USAF, subsequently analysed by the Condon Committee and by atmospheric physicist James E. McDonald. The final phase of the incident was described in some detail by Technical Sergeant Forrest Perkins, who was the Watch Supervisor in the Lakenheath Radar Air Traffic Control centre and who wrote directly to the Condon Committee in 1968.

10. Argentina, 1 December 1965
Staff at the Adhara Observatory photographed the moon in fixed intervals. Some photos revealed disc-shaped objects flying in front of the moon.

11. Canada, 4 October 1967
On the night of 4 October 1967, several people saw orange lights over the sea near the small fishing village Shag Harbour and one of the lights went into the water. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Constable Ron Pound investigated and also saw the lights. Pound saw a yellow light slowly moving on the water, leaving a yellowish foam in its wake. Fishermen on boats saw the lights and at close range they confirmed that one of the objects left a yellow foam in its wake.

For several days thereafter, divers from HMCS Granby (a minesweeper in the Royal Canadian Navy) searched the bottom of the ocean where the incident occurred. Their findings were not released but the following is known: The object was detected with hydrophones and naval vessels were positioned over it, after entering the waters of Shag Harbour the object travelled underwater for about 25 miles to a place called Government Point (near a top-secret NATO submarine detection base), after a few days a second USO (unidentified submerged object) joined the first, the second craft assisted the original USO, and eventually the two underwater craft surfaced and flew away.

12. Finland, 12 April 1969
Two pilots in Pori, Finland, named Jouko Kuronen and Tarmo Tukeva reported seven plate-shaped objects in a formation that flew at “ällistyttävällä” (incredible) speeds. The objects were later detected via radar nearly 200 kilometers away in Vaasa. This sighting was acknowledged by the Finnish Air Force and published in Ruotuväki (2012), the Finnish Defense Forces’ magazine.

13. South Africa, 26 June 1971
Bennie Smit, owner of Braeside farm near Fort Beaufort in the eastern Cape, fired shots at an unknown object during the morning of 26 June 1971. He was alerted to it by his labourer, Boer de Klerk, who at 9:00 noticed a fireball of some 2.5 feet (0.76 m) in diameter, moving about at treetop height. Smit accurately fired eight shots at it, but these had no visible effect. The object reacted to their presence by moving away.

Police sergeant Piet Kitching and police station commander P. R. van Rensburg arrived at 10:00 and fired additional shots. They stated that the object had been changing its colour up to this point, but now assumed the appearance of a gunmetal grey, and was somewhat like an oval-shaped 44-gallon drum. When Smit fired two final shots from a mere 10 to 18 m distance, the object lifted off, entering impenetrable woods where it could be heard crashing through the undergrowth. Smit had a final sighting after 12 noon, but subsequently heard its sound at night. Six council members at Fort Beaufort also reported watching the object though binoculars. Three sets of three imprints of its supposed landing gear were found in hard clay. The Grahamstown army regiment was said to have investigated the site.

14. Italy, 30 November 1973
Pilot Riccardo Marano was about to land at Caselle Airport, Turin, in a Piper Navajo, when the controller notified him that there was a UFO about 400 meters (1,320 feet) above the runway. He looked and saw a luminous, multicoloured ball of light changing from violet to blue to dark red. “When I got closer and had a better view,” he said, “the object at once made off, flying in a most irregular fashion, manoeuvring in a way I have seen no plane do, making fantastic lateral deviations, and sudden vast jumps to and fro, as if it enjoyed playing hide-and-seek. Its speed was as high as 900 km per hour (540 mph).”

The UFO was also seen by (a) Col. Rustichelli (commandant of the Caselle military airfield) on his own radar screen (“It was something solid, lit up, like a plane on my radar”), (b) Commander Tranquillo, pilot of an Alitalia Air Line DC-9 en route from Turin to Rome (he called to the control tower: “I see a shining thing giving out intermittent flashes of light, four miles from me. I dare not approach. I give way.”) and (c) Commander Mezzalami (in another Alitalia DC-9, “I was able to observe the object — notified by the control tower just as I was about to touch down. I had a good view of it.”).

15. Canada, 13 May 1975
“Charlie Red Star” was a glowing red plasma-looking ball seen by hundreds of people on many occasions. A firm date given for one of these sightings is 13 May 1975. The object visited a small town called Carman, Manitoba, almost every night in 1975. Winnipeg TV station captured footage of Charlie Red Star and Grant Cameron (author of Charlies Red Star: True Reports of One of North America’s Biggest UFO Sightings) witnessed Charlie Red Star multiple times at night, including a very close encounter when the red ball flew in front of his car.

According to Cameron, the UFO encounters may be related to ballistic missiles that were secretly installed in that area at the beginning of 1975, because after the weapons were removed in November 1975, the Charlie Red Star visits stopped.

16. Canada, 26 October 1978
Twelve people in Clarenville saw a UFO in the early morning. The object was oval-shaped with a fin on its tail and had blue, red and yellow flashing lights. The craft emitted no sound. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police were called and then Constable James Blackwood witnessed the UFO hover about 100 feet (30.5 m) above the water for about two hours before leaving at the speed of a shooting star. Blackwood used a telescope specialized for drug surveillance to observe the UFO and other eyewitnesses used binoculars. When Blackwood flicked on his car’s flashing blue and red lights, the object in the sky reacted by imitating the pattern of flashing lights.

In addition to the eyewitness reports, this object was tracked by the Department of National Defense, Gander, NF.

17. Korea, 31 March 1980
On 31 March 1980 four Korean pilots were given orders to chase an Unidentified Flying Object. Korean Air Vice Marshal Im Byungsun spoke of closely witnessing an object flying at a trajectory that was rendered impossible by the limits of man-made technology. He stated, “The Unidentified Flying Object was disc-shaped and as big as three McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom IIs. It was strongly emitting sparks and lights from the core. The colour was similar to what one would see in oxy-fuel welding.” The sighting was further corroborated by Air Force colonel Lee Seungbae and Air force colonel Park Osang.

18. France, 8 January 1981
At about 5 pm on the afternoon of 8 January1981, while working on his farm in the Var region of south-eastern France, a man called Nicolai heard a faint whistling. He then saw a device in the air at the height of a big pine tree at the edge of the property. The device landed with the impact of a boulder hitting the ground (it was later determined that the ground had been compressed by a pressure of about 4 or 5 tons). Then it took off, tilted, and travelled at lightning speed toward the north-east.

Nicolai was only about 30 metres from the landed craft and described it in detail: the shape of two saucers, one inverted on top of the other, a ridge all the way around its circumference; 1.5 metres in height; the colour of lead; and underneath were what looked like two circular trapdoors and two reactors or feet which extended about 20 cm below the body. After the object left, Nicolai went to the landing spot and noticed a circle about two metres in diameter. At certain places along the circumference of the circle were traces like abrasions.

Physical traces left on the ground were collected by the Gendarmerie within 24 hours and later analysed in several French government laboratories. Extensive evidence of anomalous activity was detected. GEPAN (a department of the French Space Agency responsible for the investigation of UFO reports) also reconstructed the trajectory and duration.

Scientific analysis of the circular trace revealed that it was 2.4 metres in diameter in the form of a 0.2 metre wide ring, lighter in colour than the surrounding dirt, and formed by an extremely localized force applied in a nearly circular pattern. Also, analysis of resident alfalfa near the landing site showed chlorophyll levels between 30% and 50% lower than expected.

19. Indonesia, 27 August 1992
A UFO passed over Ngurah Rai Airport on 27 August 1992. It was first spotted by Japanese people Masumisan and Mamisun at 7:15 pm. The UFO was then witnessed by the entire group of Japanese tourists along with Prayogo, Executive Director of Equator Divepro. The UFO was flat and seen swinging in the air with four bright yellowish lights. Two were brightly glowing above and two below. The object disappeared from view after four minutes. All the tourists’ cameras and video recorders jammed during this incident.

20. South Africa, 30 March 1995
This incident was documented in the 2 April 1995 edition of the Afrikaanse Sonntagszeitung Rapport newspaper. At about 8:30 am on 30 March 1995 in the Groot Marico region of Transvaal, 45 year-old farmer Jan Pienaar was driving his truck on a remote country road. The engine of his truck came to an abrupt halt. He then saw a strange disc-shaped object overhead with what he thought was a hole in its hull. He continued watching the vehicle as it landed at the roadside, eventually resting on three landing pods. The craft covered almost the entire road and seemed to be almost 10 metres high. Pienaar described the craft as translucent and lustrous, as though it was fabricated from a type of stainless steel, in the shape of two inverted soup plates with a pudding bowl on top. He also noted that the craft had several windows or portholes, its hull was lit up by a red-violet-green-yellow glow, and it emitted a strange buzzing sound.

Pienaar exited the truck with the intention of walking toward the object. However he found himself stuck to the spot and unable to move for almost five minutes. He said that it felt as though a magnet held him to the spot.

Suddenly the craft rose vertically into the air, slowly at first and then at the speed of lightning. Pienaar was then able to start his truck engine and drive to a nearby farm from where he reported the incident to the police. The police told him that they had received several reports of sightings of a similar object the previous evening in multiple locations in the region.

Pienaar and another farmer, Chap Smit, then drove back to the spot where he had seen the strange craft. Upon arrival they noticed that the ground was much too hot to touch and that there was a chloroform-like odour in the area.

21. Brazil, 5 October 1996
While flying in his own plane, at 10:15 am businessman Haroldo Westendorff encountered a huge unidentified aerial object. He flew his aircraft very close to the object and observed it for more than ten minutes. The object had a base the size of a football stadium (about 100 metres in diameter), was 50 to 60 metres high, and shaped like a cone with eight corners. Suddenly the top of the UFO opened, a flying saucer exited vertically, the saucer tilted at 45 degrees and then it shot upward at great speed.

In response to Westendorff’s radio report while flying around the UFO, Airton Mendes da Silva (Infraero operator in the control room of the Empresa Brasileira de Infra-Estrutura Airport) and his assistants Gilberto Martins dos Santos and Jorge Renato S. Dutra went outside and saw the object in the East sector towards runway 15/33.

22. USA, 7 November 2006
At approximately 16:15 CST on 7 November 2006, federal authorities at Chicago O’Hare International Airport received a report that twelve airport employees were witnessing a metallic, saucer-shaped craft hovering over Gate C-17. The object was first spotted by a ramp employee who was pushing back United Airlines Flight 446. The employee told Flight 446’s crew of the object above their aircraft. The object was also witnessed by pilots, airline management and mechanics. No air traffic controllers saw the object and it did not show up on radar. The disc was visible for about five minutes.

Witnesses described the object as completely silent, 6 to 24 feet (1.8 to 7.3 m) in diameter and dark grey in colour. Several independent witnesses outside the airport also saw the object. One described a disc-shaped craft hovering over the airport and said it shot through the clouds at high velocity, leaving a clear blue hole in the cloud layer.

The National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP) published a 155-page report on the sighting and called for a government inquiry and improved energy-sensing technologies: “Anytime an airborne object can hover for several minutes over a busy airport but not be registered on radar or seen visually from the control tower, constitutes a potential threat to flight safety.”

23. Mexico, 2 May 2009
At about 5:15 pm on 2 May 2009, in daylight against a blue sky in the Valle Dorado area, Pedro Hernandez filmed a yellowish, jelly-like object releasing about 20 to 30 smaller objects along a horizontal axis running to the left and to the right of the object. The film was aired on Mexican TV in May 2009.

Some weeks later, another film of the same event emerged. It was shot by Alfredo Carrillo, who was clearly on the other side of the object. Hernandez’s film was shot with the sun reflecting off the object, whereas Carrillo’s film was shot looking more in the direction of the sun, i.e. the objects appeared more as silhouettes.

24. USA, 20 January 2015
Videos filmed by Navy pilots show two encounters with flying objects. One was captured by a plane’s camera off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida on 20 January 2015. The footage shows an object tilting like a spinning top moving against the wind. A pilot refers to a fleet of objects. The second video was taken a few weeks later. The objects persisted, showing up at 30,000 feet, 20,000 feet, even sea level. They could accelerate, slow down and then hit hypersonic speeds. Lieutenant Accoin said he interacted twice with the objects. The first time, after picking up the object on his radar, he set his plane to merge with it, flying 1,000 feet below it. He said he should have been able to see it with his helmet camera but could not, even though his radar told him it was there.

A few days later, Lieutenant Accoin said a training missile on his jet locked on the object and his infrared camera also picked it up. However, “I could not pick it up visually.” The pilots said that the video showed objects accelerating to hypersonic speed, making sudden stops and instantaneous turns — something beyond the physical limits of a human crew.

25. USA, 21 February 2021
Shortly after noon, a pilot at an altitude of 37,000 feet reported seeing a long cylindrical object that almost looked like a “cruise missile type of thing” moving really fast right over the top of them according to published audio. American Airlines confirmed that the radio transmission came from flight 2292. FAA a few days later stated: “A pilot reported seeing an object over New Mexico shortly after noon local time on Sunday 21 February 2021.”