Date: Winter 1978
Location: North of Santiago Chile
Time: unknown
Summary: The witness was driving on a remote road when his vehicle suddenly stalled as a huge brightly lit object descended over the car. Several short man like beings emerged from the object and communicated via telepathy with the witness, taking him onboard the craft. He was made to lie down on a form fitting bed and skin samples were taken from him. Then a short rosy white skin woman with large blue eyes and blond hair appeared. She forced herself on the witness and had sexual intercourse with him. The witness later was released and suffered a burn on his scalp as the object shot away at high speed.
Source: Richard Heiden
Date: Winter 1978
Location: Mendoza Argentina
Time:night
Summary: In the farms surrounding this city a short hairy humanoid with a human-like face was reported seen by numerous witnesses. It reportedly attacked livestock, goats and fowl and a hunt for it by the locals prove fruitless. Around the same time a bizarre and very agile individual that wore a cape, carried a silvery cane and had phosphorescent eyes frightened several travelers near the city. A police patrol was astonished to see a tall lanky individual with a cape and a brilliant yellow light on his chest area execute a tremendous leap and fly over them disappearing into the night.
Source: Gustavo Fernandez
Date: Winter 1978
Location:California, exact location not given
Time:night
Summary: The six-year old witness was in his bedroom getting ready to go to sleep, when three dark, almost black beings walked past the doorway. The witness pretended to be asleep and noticed that the beings had dark blue skin, almond shaped black eyes and very small noses. They also had a sliver for a mouth and small lips. One of the beings came over and looked directly into the witness eyes, he then jerked his head out the witness view and this one now could see a grotesque being standing behind the door, this being begun to talk to the witness. The grotesque being had appendages protruding from his cheeks, chin, and forehead, the appendages moved like facial gestures. He spoke in English to the witness. The beings were about 5-feet tall, with a lumpy face and reddish orange skin. All the beings were thin and appeared to have thick skin. When the grotesque being stopped talking to the witness the other dark blue humanoids rushed towards him, he panicked and grabbed a fishing pole and began striking the beings who quickly ran outside and dispersed among the bushes. Suddenly a metallic disc shaped craft appeared and hovered over the bushes for a few seconds it then vanished, so did the humanoids.
Source:Unsolved UFO Sightings # 2
Date: Winter 1978
Location:Sevilla, Spain
Time:night
Summary:Antonia Aranda was suddenly awakened taking deep breaths of air. Opening her eyes she saw a 2-meter tall humanoid figure, wearing black and a helmet that covered its head standing before her. She felt a very cold and uncomfortable air that hit her face. She went back to sleep briefly and then opened her eyes again to see a metallic luminous sphere floating on top of her, the cold air apparently originated from the sphere. Seconds later the tall humanoid approached her and told her that he was “regenerating” her. Soon she fell sleep again. Soon after the incident the witness had additional anomalous experiences, including UFO sightings and more encounters with the black clad being. Electrical appliances did malfunctioned when she was around.
Source:Moises Garrido Vazquez.
Date: November 1978
Location:Lakeside California
Time:0200A
Summary:The witness awoke to get a glass of water. As he came out of the bedroom she saw an entity in the hall a few feet away from her. Also the living room behind the entity was brightly lit. Surprised she began moving towards the direction of the entity. As she did the entity moved away from her, toward the living room. The witness felt as she was looking at the back of the entity. It was about 4 1/2 feet tall and floated about one foot off the floor. It had a skinny, light gray colored body, and long skinny arms. It had no visible hair or clothing except around its head, where it wore a dull grayish white band about 1 1/2 inch wide, which had a white glow at the edges. The entity also appeared to be backlit with a luminescent glow similar to the headband. As the entity moved away from her, it appeared to move its arms up and down in a motion described as a slow motion imitation of flapping wings. The entity turned its head to the left, and the witness was able to see that it had large eyes. It then bowed its left arm at approximately the elbow level and touched the left wall. When it did this the elbow passed into the wall. At the site where it entered, red then blue light or sparks appeared. The entity continued to lean further into the wall and in this same manner its entire body followed the left arm, passing into the wall. The witness could not recall anything else following the entity’s disappearance.
Source: Minnesota Mufon
Date: November 1978
Location:Near Phoenix Arizona
Time:afternoon
Summary:Two women traveling back home on a lonely stretch of highway in the desert noticed a tall hitchhiker standing on the side of the road. They stopped to pick him up. He was described as clean-shaven with long blond hair and brilliant blue eyes and dressed casually. The man greeted them warmly and told them that “they” had been waiting. The witnesses next recalled the vehicle being floated up into an object that was hovering over the desert. Inside both women were separated and the main witness was suddenly surrounded by several short large headed humanoids with huge staring eyes and slit like mouths. They spoke to her by using telepathy and told her to lie on a table where she was examined and several samples were taken from her. She was then taken into a large room where there was a large window. Then an elderly bearded man wearing a robe entered the room. She conducted a short conversation with the man and next recalled waking up in her car on a lonely desert road with her friend.
Source:Brad Steiger, The UFO Abductors
Date: November 1978
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TRIER(RHINELAND-PALATINATE : GERMANY)
US serviceman Chris Owens was driving home with his pregnant wife Pam (19) and their infant son Brian, from visiting friends, when a large oval object, with a flashing red light, appeared over their car. They arrived home at 0010, with a gap of about 100minutes. Under hypnotic regression Pam recalled getting out of the car and then finding herself on a table in a room illuminated by a dim yellow light. Two beings about 2,5m tall, with large, hairless heads, rough green skin and large deep set eyes and alrge fingers came in. One of the beings inserted a needle into her navel. Speaking without moving their lips, they told her they were looking after Brian and reasuured her that they would not hurt Charles. Pam next recalled her, Charles and Brian stood next to the car. Four months later her baby girl was born normal.
- Hall 1988, p299 +Bartholomew and Howard 1998, p375 (case 188) both citing El Independiente22 January 1980.
- Evaluation: known only from this Argentine newspaper report. Press Hoax?
Date: November 1978
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SOUTHEND-ON-SEA (ESSEX : ENGLAND)
Sometime between September 1978 and January 1979, 10 year old Graham Skarrat was walking home from a friend’s house, when at the rear of Temple Sutton School in Eastern Avenue, he met another friend, who drew his attention to two luminous green figures with red protrusions on their heads on the opposite side of the road. The figures walked towards them, one slightly behind the other. The boys fled. Next day Graham noticed drawings in a school book similar to the figures he had seen.
Skylink 4, 4 citing investigation by Mike Riley and John Cochrane.
Evaluation: only reported in 1992. An obvious explanation would be a couple of friends playing tricks in Halloween style costumes.
Date: November 1978
Location:Austin, Texas
Time:5 p.m
Summary:November 1978, at 5 p.m., in Austin, Texas, USA, in which there was a “copper disc, about 20 feet across or “bigger than a car”, about fifty feet away, sometimes domed, else open like a wading pool, that revealed four seated humanoids, in tight suits and head covers, operating controls, looking at each other and at the witness. It was reportedly observed in partly cloudy weather by one male 29-year-old witness in a rural area for over 12 minutes. A whining sound was heard.
Source: MUFON
Date: November 1978
Location:Near Ceballos, Durango Mexico
Time:afternoon
Summary:In a desolate area known as “La Zona Del Silencio” where various strange phenomena has been reported, a journalist and his driver had become totally lost in the desert while looking for a research laboratory. As they reached an intersection of an unpaved road, the journalist saw three figures suddenly appear out of nowhere; these seemed human enough and resembled local peasants. The driver however drove by the trio apparently not able to see them. As they drove further along, the three figures suddenly appeared again. This time the journalist ordered his driver to stop and he did. After a brief conversation with the trio the witness was given exact directions on how to find the laboratory. Apparently during the encounter the driver was never able to see the three figures.
Source:Scott Corrales, Samizdat Vol. 2 # 2
Date: November 1978
Location:Yokosuka Japan
Time:evening
Summary:Near the US Navy base two construction workers were fishing off a rock seawall when suddenly a figure came out of the water nearby and stood still staring at them. The figure was described as huge about 3 meters in height and covered with thick scaly skin like a reptile. It had two large yellow eyes that seem to focus on the witnesses. No other information.
Source:Fabio Picasso, Strange Magazine # 8
Date: November 1978
Location:East Sussex, U-K.
Time:late at night
Summary:East Sussex, England, on November 1978, late at night, someone saw a strange humanoid figure, apparently wearing all black clothing, peering through a window, while her normally aggressive dog cowered in a corner of the room.
Source: Flying Saucer Review
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Location. Monterrey, Mexico
Date: November 1978
Time:night
Rolando Quiroga heard a loud buzzing sound coming from outside and looking out his bedroom window he was startle to see a beautiful silvery disc-shaped object ringed with luminous lighted windows hovering very close to his window. Inside the windows he could see numerous blue-clad blond human-like figures that apparently communicated with Quiroga by using telepathy. He was to have further contacts.
Source:UFO Com, Mexico “Contactados”
Date: November 1978: Rimini Italy Encounter
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Location. East Sussex England
Date: November 1978
Time:late night
The witness saw a strange humanoid figure, apparently wearing all black clothing, peering through a window, while her normally aggressive dog cowered in a corner of the room. No other information.
Source:Patricia B Grant, FSR Vol. 25 # 2
Date: November 1, 1978
Location:Pasadena, California
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Summary:a case of close encounter of the third kind
Source: David Webb
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November 1 1978, 1915hrs.
NESTLETON (ONTARIO : CANADA)
A teenage girl out jogging saw two lights, apparently on either end of an undefined dark object at a 30 degree elevation over a field just north of Highway 7A. There was a red light and a white, which after a moment was a replaced by a flashing red one. The object was the apparent size of a dime at arms’ length. She stopped to watch the thing, and it began to angle away to the east, passing over some trees. The witness then ran back into her house and closed the windows and doors, and watched, through a window, as the object went behind trees 400m away. After her parents had arrived home at 2005, they saw the object appear from the north and pass over at moderate altitude making a dull whirring sound. They saw an elongated dark shape with a red light on each end, one of which was flashing on and off. The mother, driving towards Blackstock, independently observed it. A farmer and his daughter, north-east of the presumed landing site also saw the thing as they went to their barn. A search for traces was futile.
David A Haisell in UFO Examiner 2, 4, p16 + Journal UFO 1, 2, p22.
Evaluation: blimp?
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November 2 1978, 1950hrs.
CASTLE EDEN(TYNE AND WEAR : ENGLAND)
A naval architect and his girlfriend, driving along the A19, observed a very low and bright star. Shortly afterward they got out of their car to watch a brilliant oval just above ground level in a field. It then took off vertically at high speed, revealing a circle of red and green lights on its underside, and moved off.
NUFON News 68, p9, citing CHRYSIS.
Date: November 4 1978
Location:Near Lima Peru
Time:early morning
Summary:Two men traveling in an area 3 miles from Lima saw a large domed circular object suddenly appear over their vehicle. The object was totally silent. It had a luminous blue light on the front and seemed to dive towards the car, whose driver had to brake to avoid a collision. Inside the luminous cupola two figures were seen moving back and forth. The craft then shot away at high speed and vanished.
Source:Denys Breysse, Project Becassine
Date: November 1978
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WEST BANK (BRITISH COLUMBIA : CANADA)
Dawn Smith (9), awakened by her mother going off to work saw a bright light in the still dark sky. There was an oblong object, with green lights down one side, beside which was a small light moving up and down and swaying side to side. A door opened in the side of the oblong and the small light went inside. As it did so, Dawn saw two dark figures standing in the opening. The oblong, less than half the angular diameter of the full moon also had an outline of red lights, of which three on top were particularly noticeable. The oblong went behind a cloud, then it came out, opened the door again, and an object with red, yellow and orange lights, and a hook on top, came out. Dawn went to the window for a better look, but the objects had gone. She phoned a friend who confirmed that she seemed very frightened.
- W. K. Allen in Canadian UFO Report 5, 2, p1, citing his own investigation.
Date: November 4, 1978
Location:Shelbyville, Michigan
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Summary:a case of close encounter of the third kind an unidentified object at close range and its occupants were observed by two witnesses indoors.
Source: David Webb
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GIULIANOVA (ABRUZZI : ITALY)
Mario Mara of the boat “Angelo Padre”, 8km off shore between Giulianova and Tortoerto, was on watch when the vessel was struck by a sort of flame coming from a large circular red light. The frightened crew switched on the engine snd left, while the light suddenly switched out.
CUN Provisional Catalogue 1978.
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HUDSON RIVER (NEW YORK : USA)
John Lee Phillips (50) had been watching TV when he heard a noise and went on to his terrace, where neighbours told him that a plane was crashing in the river. He saw a large multi-coloured sphere, emitting a pulsating yellow light, come low. Attorney Stephen Graymer saw a strange spherical object over Indian Point nuclear plant, losing altitude and diving into the river. Other witnesses included a private pilot, John Elone, flying from Tereboro Airport to JFK, and a 14 year old boy. There were altogether 17 witnesses. No planes from this area were missing.
UFO Update Fall 1979, p19.
Evaluation: landing of a sea plane?
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November 7 1978, 1900hrs.
PORTSDOWN (HAMPSHIRE : ENGLAND)
Kevin and Lynne Malling, with their seven year old daughter and five year old son, were driving towards Doxford when, as they approached Nelson’s Monument on Portsdown Hill, they saw a bright light that they first thought was a star. This descended from the direction of the Admiralty Surface Weapons Establishment. As the family drove on, they next saw two red lights, then a huge dome shape with luminous green lights, resembling windows, around the bottom. As they drove on, they found at this object was hovering above their car. They compared it with a building under construction, which they knew, estimating the thing’s diameter to be 60m. The object was only 6m above them. Kevin found that though the car was going downhill, with his foot on the accelerator. No speed could be gained. After hovering for a few seconds the object headed off towards Farehamat terrific speed. The thing appeared to be black, with a brilliant white searchlight on top, two red lights just below it, and numerous green lights on its underside, and was soundless. It was independently observed by Mrs Jessie Burley at South Porchester, about 3km away and Sidney Dyer some 5km away.
BUFORA Journal 8, 2, p14, citing investigation by Ernest Sears.
Hanson and Holloway 2013a, p142, citing above + Nick Maloret, B Handley + Price 1990.
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MALTBY (SOUTH YORKSHIRE : ENGLAND)
Damion Harte (24), a hairdresser and his wife were driving home from work when they observed a light rising from behind a church. They first thought that it was a firework rocket, but the object levelled off as a hazy mass of light, surrounded by a red glow and moved towards the village. They followed it for several minutes down country lanes as it seemed to slow down. It was then lost from sight temporarily behind a hill/ When it came into view again Damion saw it clearly as a row of two white and one red lights, with a surrounding hazy dome shape. He drove to within 60m of it, as it hovered just above the trees at 15m altitude. He switched his engine off and turned the window down but could hear no sound. His wife, who could not see it well, became frightened and urged him to drive away. As he did so she saw the thing spiral upwards and away, giving a clear view of its dome shape. It was three times the size of their jaguar car.
NUFON News 71, p4, citing investigation by SUFORS.
Date: November 8 1978
Location: San Benedetto del Tronto
Time: 5:30 p.m.
Summary: While fishing on board of the “Exodus”, three fishermen (Flaviano Mattiucci, Gennaro Mattiucci and Dino Focaracci) saw, at low altitude and for a few seconds, a red and yellow spherical light. After emerging from the sea it seemed to return into it, after rising and falling from the sky. About one hour later, the radar of another fishing boat, the “Andrea Padre”, reported a moving submerged object, which appeared to follow the vessel.
Source: Carl Feindt
Date: November 1978
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GREENFIELD(INDIANA : USA)
Mrs Cindy Bridges, going out to fetch some firewood, saw a big fiery light coming down towards a soya bean field. When she went to investigate, she started screaming for her sister, Mrs Cathy Wilfong, as she encountered a huge object, with one red and two white lights, and a sort of circle on the underside, which flew sideways behind the barn in slow motion. The object was about 36-42m long and made no sound. Cindy ran into the camper and Cathy ran to fetch her camera from the garage, but could not find it so ran back into the house, followed by Cindy. During this time their dog was barking. They phoned the sheriff and their mother, who lived 9.5km away. The latter observed the lights moving off as she got within 7km of the Wilfong residence. The sheriff’s department arrived 30 minutes later and said that the object was a helicopter.
Charles L Tucker in MUFON UFO Journal 142, p3
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Date: November 9 – December 14 1978
Location: vicinity of Kuwait
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Summary: A senior official of the Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) reported to the embassy that the UFO “…which first appeared over the northern oil fields seemingly did strange things to KOC’s automatic pumping equipment. This equipment is designed to shut itself down when there is some failure which may seriously damage the petroleum gathering and transmission system and it can only be restarted manually. At the time of the UFO’s appearance the pumping station automatically shut itself down and when the UFO vanished the system started itself up again. Eight UFOs were sighted between Nov. 9 and Dec. 14,1978, in the vicinity of an oil-gathering center near Kuwait City, Kuwait The government appointed a committee of experts from the Kuwait Institute For Scientific Research to investigate. An Institute representative, Ratib Abu Id, told U.S. embassy officials that they had rejected the idea of espionage devices and did not know enough about the subject to rule out spaceships.
Source: McCampbell; Hall, UFOEII Section IV
Date: November 9 1978
Location:Risdon Vale Tasmania Australia
Time:0315A
Summary:During a spate of encounters in the area, including a car pace, a twenty four year old taxi driver spotted a bizarre humanoid shape crossing Sugarloaf Road in front of him. The light green “triangle” shape was described as green in color about one and a half meters tall and 3/4 meters wide at the base, it tapered to a narrow top, appeared solid and was floating some point three metres off the ground. The shape drifted out into the road and at the same time the taxi radio emitted a high-pitched squeal as the driver broke hard stopping only 5 meters from the shape. The figure then just vanished into thin air. The noise was so loud it made his ears ring. At the same time there came a considerable amount of static on his car radio
Source:Tufoic UFO Tasmania 1980
Date: November 1978
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WATFORD CITY(NORTH DAKOTA : USA)
Barb Johnsrud was on the phone to a friend, while her son Kent was doing chores outside. He came to call his mother out, and they saw a light resembling a divided star in the sky. Barb went to get her binoculars, and soon after she went out again the thing descended rapidly, producing a rush of air like a storm. The thing was about triangular in shape, 12m diameter and travelling at about 40kph at an altitude of 15-18m. It had numerous blue lights and a central, larger, red one. The object moved off over the house.
Richard Stevens in UFO Update Fall 1979, p3,3 citing Del Shipman in Watford Guide 10 November 1978.
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SILVI MARINA (ABRUZZI : ITALY)
The commander (Nelson di Valentino), electronics expert (Mr Bellomo) and two crewmen of the harbour patrol vessel CP2018, some 6.5km off shore from Silvi Marina, saw a pale red rocket like light rising from the sea, 800m-1km away at a 45 degree angle, disappearing from sight after 4 seconds. The radar was working but detected nothing. The water was 23m deep at this point. They were ordered to approach carefully so they circled the area for 2 hours without seeing anything, but when the vessel approached the site where the light had been seen, the radar went blank and VHF communications were disrupted.
CUN Provisional Catalogue 1978.
Janet and Colin Bord in The Unexplained 85, p1687.
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ST LUNAIRE (NEWFOUNDLAND : CANADA)
Two women were driving between St Lunaire and St Anthony, when a bright yellow, snowshoe shaped object, with red, green and white lights revolving around its centre, came up behind their car, illuminating its interior. The passenger felt the interior of the car become heated and her arm became numb. The object followed them at speeds of up to 130kph, and was in view for about 25 minutes, during which it followed them for about 11km before it took off into the sky.
- David Haisell in Journal UFO 1, 3, p31.
Date: November 10 1978
Location:Strasbourg France
Time:22:00
Summary:I like to report an incident, which occurred 30 years ago, somewhere in October/November 1978. Together with a friend, we were traveling by car in the east part of France heading to Strasbourg. It was already night , might be 10PM or 11PM, 50-60 miles south of Strasbourg on a motorway and still we had to drive 1hour to our destination. We have been tiered already , so we decided to stop on a park place for to take a little rest and to eat a snack. It was a starlit night and while resting , we looked to the starry-sky. After a while, we recognized that out of the star-scene in the west of the starry-sky a bright lighting star dissolved out from the star-alliance and started to move. That light point ( approx. 30º above the horizon ), moved, even jumped very rapidly up and down, left and right, zigzag and perpendicular. e tried somehow to estimate/scale the magnitude of those movements by stretching or arm forward for to see how many fingers the movement ranged. So far I remember, the movement from the light-point covered approx. the width of 2-3 fingers on a stretched arm, crossed in less than a second. On the beginning from that “light-show” in the sky, we thought that an airplane or helicopter might be responsible for this , but we rejected this idea because: 1st the movement started from a fixed-position and 2nd the profile of movements was so incredible, rapidly in speed and rapidly in changing of move-directions. From our location we could not estimate how far away from us that light-point was , as according our first impression , that light-point appeared just as a bright star. We could not hear any noise, either. The light-point movements went on for some time and after a while we decided not to look further to that light-show in the sky and not to bother ourselves with things we cannot explain. Somehow deep impressed and confused we left the scene and continued to drive towards to Strasbourg. We promised ourselves not tell anyone about that event , because we thought that nobody will believe us and we feared of ridicule. However, 30 years past, but the memory on that night is for me still present as it was yesterday. I am reporting that case now, because internet does provide now the opportunity to share those experiences with an open-minded community. Maybe someone has a simple explanation for that .
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Date: November 11 1978
Location:Savigny Le Sec, Cote D’Or France
Time:0015A
Summary:The witness was driving along a wooded area when she saw a long light gray object on the ground nearby. About ten short figures were walking around the object. The beings had large bright eyes, large noses, no necks and wore light gray coveralls. The witness became frightened and drove away from the area.
Source:Denys Breysse, Project Becassine
Date: November 1978
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SALO (LOMBARDIA : ITALY)
A hunter, Goivanni Imberti, observed a powerful light rising at high speed from a valley floor.
CUN Provisional Catalogue 1978.
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Location. Near Bragg Creek Alberta Canada
Date: November 11 1978
Time:late evening
Four witnesses traveling by car in a snowy night noticed a bright white light approaching their vehicle. As it got closer they could see that it was a huge lighted object resembling a hovercraft. Numerous lighted square windows could be seen on the object. One of the witnesses was able to see several human like figures standing behind the windows. At one point the witnesses became disoriented and there appears to have been some time loss. One of the witnesses heard what appeared to be music coming from inside the craft. No other sound was detected.
Source:W K Allan, FSR Vol. # 4
Date: November 1978
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November 12 1978, 0130hrs.
SALUZZO (PIEMONTE : ITALY)
Roberto Comba was driving home when he observed a yellow shooting star, which descended and hovered over his car, illuminating the entire area. He now saw that it was a yellow red dome, with four bright legs and lights. Frightened, he sped home. He had his cassette recorder on at the time and raised the volume as he sped off. The next day the cassette recorder was no longer working, though the radio of his radio/cassette player was. The car was magnetised in a strange fashion. Three independent witnesses at Savigliano and Villastellone also saw the object descending over Saluzzo.
- CUN Provisional Catalogue 1978.
- International UFO Reporter 4, 3-4, p18.
Date: November 14 1978
Location:Donato Di Tagliacozzo Italy
Time:0530A
Summary:Laborer, Giuseppe Di Giovanni was out in the morning working in the fields when he noticed behind some bushes a large cylinder shaped object apparently sitting on the ground. It had several lighted square windows. Surprised he approached the object and looked inside one of the windows. Inside he saw two human like figures, one resembling a woman, no more than 80 cm in height. The woman resembled a beautiful fine feature doll. She looked at him and smiled. The other figure was a man with dark brown hair that stood still and expressionless like a statue. The witness then looked inside the other windows and saw the same scene; the doll like woman and the brown haired man. To the witness it felt like watching a television screen. The witness walked away then heard an explosion behind him, looking back he saw the object rise up and leave the area in absolute silence.
Source:Archivio S.U.F.
Date: November 15 1978
Location:East Islip Long Island New York
Time:1800
Summary:The witness was driving when a flash of light apparently rendered him unconscious, later that night he remembered five short gray skinned beings with large black eyes that approached the car then pushed down the window, he was then examined and walked through an unusual environment apparently to determine his endurance or stamina. The witness later found himself on the side of the road far from his car.
Source:Thomas E Bullard, UFO Abductions the Measure Of A mystery
Date: November 1978
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Date: November 16, 1978
Location:Piranhas, Brazil
Time:unknown
Summary:Witnesses saw three short humanoids wearing tight fitting yellow-gold outfits in a wooded area. No other information.
Source: GEPUC Brazil
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November 19 1978, 0330hrs.
CAMPOTOSTO (ABZURRI : ITALY)
A number of CBers noticed that their radios stopped working while a bright red ball hovered over them for a few seconds. It then moved out of sight to the south west.
CUN Provisional Catalogue 1978.
Date: November 20 1978
Location: near Rowlands Castle in Great Britain
Time: 6:00 PM. GMT
Summary: a mushroom-shaped UFO, bigger than a double-decker bus, with a blue flashing light on top, hovered over a car near Rowlands Castle. It shot off, circled around, and hovered over the car again for an additional ten seconds.
Source: UFO Newspaper Clipping Service, January 1979, p. 11
Date: November 1978
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WIARTON (ONTARIO : CANADA)
Brenda Nicol was driving into town when, after she had gone 800m, she observed an unusual bright light in the sky, travelling east to west and then turning to the north and descending. She observed it again about 1.2km further along, but thought it was a large aircraft and carried on to collect her 12 year old son from a hockey practice. On returning at 1905 they saw the red light again, changing to white and then blue. They lost sight of it behind the treeline and when it reappeared it was orange and red again. They stopped to watch and were joined by a man and two teenagers in another car. They now saw that there were two lights, which were circling and appeared to descend towards them, so that they could see that the lights were on a vague dark shape. Unnerved, Brenda and her son drove on and were travelling on a road 300m from the highway, when the boy saw the orange-red lights following them, joined for a couple of seconds or so by a blue light in front of the red ones. Brenda then picked up some friends and returned to the Pike River, where they saw an orange red light manoeuvre and then descend behind the trees. Meanwhile, back home, her boyfriend Tony Hamer and observed a large dull red light on a North Westtrajectory, travelling below the top of a cedar tree, though above the top of a 15m tall tree, 800m away. Police investigations were fruitless.
David Haisell in Journal UFO 1, 2, p23.
Date: November 20 1978
Location:Los Rios Arroyo Hondo Dominican Republic
Time:2100
Summary:The two original witnesses watched in the sky a luminous object descending towards an empty field across from their location; it was bright yellow in color and emitted different beams of light in several directions. Two luminous spheres one blue and the other yellow emerged from the object at the same time there was a total power failure in the area. The witnesses ran back into the house and alerted three other persons. From a second story balcony the witnesses now see at the location where the object had descended, two large faintly luminous twelve-foot tall conical figures. At this point they see a vehicle approach the scene and stop, then two dark human like figures ran towards the car and the two large luminous cones seem to glide and also approach the vehicle. Now loud metallic banging noises are heard coming from the location. After a few moments the noise stops and the conical figures have disappeared, they now see two luminous spheres leaving the area silently and very low to the ground.
Source:Robiou Lamarche, Manifesto Ovni en Puerto Rico Santo Domingo Y Cuba.
Date: November 21 1978
Location: Newfoundland
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Summary: Two airliner crews encountered disc with dome, structural features, emitting light beams
Source: sections III, IX
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November 21 1978. Night
CAIOLO (LOMBARDIA : ITALY)
Three youngsters saw a long bright trail above a mountain and then an elliptical phosphorescent body which hovered, landed in a field and then took off again.
CUN Provisional Catalogue 1978.
Date: November 22 1978
Location:Church Stowe England
Time:1730
Summary:Elsie Oakensen was driving on the A5 motorway two miles from her home when she became aware of a strange object hovering about 100 feet above the road surface. The object was described as being dumbbell shaped gray and plastic looking with a bright red light on the left sphere and a green light on the right sphere. The witness drove directly under the floating object and as she drove away she noticed that the object was still floating over the roadway. Her car suddenly seemed to slow down and as she reached a line of trees by the entrance of a farm the engine completely stalled. The witness suddenly found herself sitting in complete darkness and silence. As the witness sat in her vehicle a brilliant circle of pure white light illuminated the road by the passenger side of the car. It went out and seconds later further circles of light began appearing in different places around the vehicle, seemingly dancing around her car as if searching for something. Suddenly the witness found herself down the road with the engine running. She eventually reached her home and realized that the routine drive had taken longer than usual. Later under hypnosis the witness recalled sitting in her vehicle very frightened with a white light shining on her face. The radiating circles of light seemed to shrink in size. Suddenly out of the haze two shapes appeared. One is long and thin, the other more rectangular, they both then disappear then appear together again. Both shine through the haze, appearing to be silvery gray in color smooth and rounded. She also recalled feeling hot and her arms shaking. No other details were clearly recalled.
Source:Carl Nagaitis and Philip Mantle “Without Consent”
Date: November 22 1978
Location:Reze France
Time:1900
Summary:The witness was in her home and was about to close some window blinds when she noticed a row of lights approaching over a nearby parking lot. The lights approached to within 10 meters and became multicolored. A slight haze comes from the bottom of the lights and descends to the ground; it tilts suddenly and moves back up leaving a yellow trace of light behind. The witness feels attracted to the light and steps outside. A tall man like figure with large round eyes, a normal nose, and lipless mouth then confronts her. The being speaks to her telling her to remain quiet. At this point a neighbor comes by and greets the witness but apparently does not see the hovering light or the figure. As the neighbor leaves, the humanoid climbs back into the hovering light and bids farewell to the witness who runs inside in order to obtain additional witnesses, when she comes out both the humanoid and the light are gone.
Source:Denys Breysse, Project Becassine
Date: November 24, 1978: HUMANOID NEAR GERENA, SPAIN
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November 24 1978. Dawn.
ATRI (ABRUZZI : ITALY)
Gabriele Savini went to the stable to feed his animals when he saw a bright pulsating spherical disc, with a brighter stripe in the central part, descending slowly over his house, stopping a few metres above the ground. He grabbed a pitchfork and ran behind the sphere, but was knocked to the ground and fainted.
CUN Provisional Catalogue 1978
International UFO Reporter 4, 3-4, p9, citing an undated issue of Il Resto del Carlino.
Date: November 24 1978
Location: Near Gastagh Vicenza Italy
Time: 1145A
Summary: The witness had gone to a nearby copse to gather some firewood and had sat down on a branch to rest. He was suddenly horrified to see two strange beings looking at him. The beings were hovering very close to the ground. They were described as very short and thin, one shorter than the other. They had yellowish skin, large elongated heads, smooth and bald, long pointed noses and large mouths with two long pointed fangs. They were clad in dark tight fitting coveralls that started below the knee and up to their necks. They also had huge hands and feet with extremely long fingers and nails. The shorter of the beings approached the witness and began making sudden “sliding” moves around him, never touching the ground. The witness screamed for help and ask who they were but they only answered with mumbling sounds. The taller creature now approached and attempted to take the witness chopping ax from him. After a brief struggle the creatures fled into the woods. The witness chased after them but lost sight of them. He then came upon a clearing where a solid metallic disc shaped craft with a dome on top rested on four legs like protrusions. He saw a pair of long hands close a small trap door on the dome, then the disc took off silently and at high speed emitting a burst of red flame from its bottom. During the same time other independent witnesses had watched a similar object maneuvering over the area.
Source: Antonio Chiumento, FSR Vol. 28 # 6
Date: November 1978
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GERENA (SEVILLA : SPAIN)
Five friends were out hunting with flashlights in the area just east of the Guadiamar River in the area between the towns of Gerena, Anznalcollar and Olivares on this dark, rather cloudy but windless night, with good visibility, on part of the “La Pizana” estate, 3km south-west of Gerena. One of the party returned to the car, while the other four went into a thick grove of eucalyptus trees. These were Manuel Gordillo, Francisco Lopez Rivero, a gypsy and another man, Manuel drew the others’ attention to some red lights on something on the ground in the distance. They first thought it might have been a car, but after they had crossed the stream to the side where this object was, they saw it was something peculiar, but were too engrossed in their hunting to take much notice, but then became alarmed. Manuel led them closer to the wavering red light, and noticed someone walking around a row of lights. The lights were about 3m high, 4-5m across, were multicoloured and close to the ground. Manuel, who was stretched out on the ground, only saw the stranger from the waist, as he approached them, passing about 10m from the object, which was 30m away. The stranger was very tall, appeared to be wearing boots, and made a mumbling sound that sounded as though it was coming from a deep well. After it had advanced, it was lost to sight, but then reappeared and grabbed something. Francisco, who was further back, managed to see some more details. The object resembled a large inverted earthenware jar, with a red light on top, and towards the centre were several rows of green, orange-red, and yellow lights. It appeared to be standing on bright coloured silvery legs. Francisco only saw the upper half of the figure, which appeared to be wearing a sort of helmet with a visor. The helmet was dark, the rest of the suit silvery. The figure appeared to be at least 2m tall. When this figure approached for the second time, the group fled from the scene in panic. When investigators visited the site in January they found prints 42cm long, about 13m apart.
- APRO Bulletin 28, 3, p,1 quoting from Ignacio Deraude in Vimana 1, 4, p34, citing investigation by Ignacio Alonso et al.
Date: November 25 1978
Location: Kordel, Germany
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Summary: Pam Owens abduction case.
Source: MUFON investigation report
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November 25 1978, 2350hrs.
SANDFORD (TASMANIA : AUSTRALIA)
A woman was wakened by the sound of her dog barking and looked out of her window to see, in her front drive, a sort of “doorway” of white light, which illuminated that part of the driveway like day, though the rest of the surroundings were totally dark. A golden glow started to spread from this “doorway”, which really frightened her, but after two or three minutes the “door” vanished and all was darkness. Next day no traces were found.
Basterfield 1997 p71, 221, citing TUFOIC files.
Date: November 25 1978
Location: Atlantic Ocean
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Summary: While participating in a trans-Atlantic crossing during a yacht race, the skipper of the yacht “Salamandre” watched a very shiny white disc come down to right above the boat. The greenish-blue color surrounding the object was so brilliant that it was blinding. The UFO shot off at astonishing speed.
Source: UFO Newspaper Clipping Service, May 1979, p. 15
Date: November 25 1978
Location:Near Trier Germany
Time:2215
Summary:A family of three was driving home when they saw a rotating oval shaped object, with a red flashing light below, hovering above the car. They arrived home later than usual noticing a 20-minute missing time period. Later under hypnosis the wife recalled being lifted up into the object. She recalled lying on a table, paralyzed, only being able to move her eyes. There were two beings examining her, they were eight-foot tall with huge baldheads, huge deep-set eyes and greenish skin that seemed very rough in texture. The witness recalled the beings inserting a long needle just above the navel area. She was pregnant at the time. Her next memory was sitting in the car watching the object leave.
Source:Robert E Bartholomew, UFO Lore
Date: November 26, 1978: Cigar shaped object seen by several, including police officer
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GUADALAJARA (JALISCO : MEXICO)
Two luminous flying objects were seen by local residents and patrolman Francisco Diaz Cortez near here. One of these objects hovered about 10m above the ground and emitted a red light that turned on the car’ siren and made it spin round. The object descended rapidly behind some nearby hills and when Diaz gave chase he encountered another flying object. He and a colleague fired on the objects, which then took off, after rapidly emitting red lights.
EarthLink 3, 2, p7 citing San Diego Evening Tribune 28 November 1978.
Date: November 1978
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November 27 1978, 1655hrs.
CRANK (MERSEYSIDE : ENGLAND)
Two red lights, the apparent diameter of a 50p piece, 15m apart, rose from wood and headed towards two women, making a strange, soft sound. Behind the lights was an unusual dark shaped, which the women compared to a jellyfish. The thing then changed direction and flew off.
NUFON News 56, p9 citing investigation by Brian Fishwick.
Randles 1983b, p97.
Date: November 28 1978
Location:Channel Tasmania Australia
Time:0200A
Summary:A witness in a caravan is disturbed by noises outside, he goes out to investigate and sees two short squat figures nearby. The upper half of the figures is white, with some type of head cover; they seem to be moving their arms. The witness becomes frightened and goes back inside. No other information.
Source:Keith Roberts, Tufoic Tasmania
Date: November 1978
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November 28 1978, 0400hrs.
HOLMES CHAPEL (CHESHIRE : ENGLAND)
A 26 year old cinema projectionist and part time worker for a security company, who was regarded as reliant and observant, was driving from Stafford to Warringtonalong the M6. As he was passing close to the Holmes Chapel exit his attention was caught by a “shooting star”, which appeared to land in adjacent fields. Then he saw a very large, stationary light in the NW. Puzzled, he slowed, turned off the slip road, stopped and got out, leaving his van lights and radio on. A car raced by but he was unable to attract the driver’s attention. The light then came towards him at 50m altitude, and the witness stepped back into his van in panic. He heard the radio filled with static and turned it off. The van engine was not affected. The large object passed overhead on a SE course, taking 8 seconds to do so, allowing him to see the dark metallic looking, apparently bevelled underside, and what looked like a fin at the rear. From the front were projected two beams of light, angled up and down at 45 degrees, the lower one so bright that it cast a shadow on the ground. When the thing was directly overhead, the witness heard a faint buzzing, but the object was silent the rest of the time. The object curved away to the SE. The weather was cold with no cloud and wind. The witness was extremely shaken when he arrived home. Driving from Northwich 11 days previously he had seen two bright white lights in the sky, while his radio transmitter was filled with static.
- Martin Keatman in NUFON News 65, p9, citing investigation by Anthony Lakin.
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SANREMO (LIGURIA : ITALY)
Fishermen Sergio Castori and Giogrio Sparenzani were coming out from the sea 200m away, when they saw about 1.5km away from the shore, a whirlpool followed by a bright, very fast, light coming out of the sea.
CUN Provisional Catalogue 1978.
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November 28 1978, 2130hrs.
MADISON COUNTY(KENTUCKY : USA)
Vickie Allen and Lise Leger were driving down Log Cabin Road, when they were chased by a large object, flashing blue and white lights, which hovered over their car, causing it to stall. Other residents apparently reported seeing something.
MUFON UFO Journal 131, p13, citing Richmond (KY) Register 30 November 1978.
Date: November 29 1978
Location:Naples, Italy
Time:0045A
Summary:A woman heard someone banging on the window of her terrace, going to investigate she saw two humanoid figures about 1 meter in height, wearing round luminous helmets and wearing a dark loose fitting garment. The figures moved about in quick graceful movements. She yelled for her son but the figure suddenly vanished in plain sight.
Source:Chris Aubeck, Return to Magonia
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November 29 1978, 0145hrs.
NAPOLI (CAMPANIA : ITALY)
A woman was awakened by someone knocking on her window and saw two human shapes standing on her terrace. They were about 1m tall with thin arms and legs, bright spherical helmets and dark overalls. When he son arrived on the scene they were no longer there.
CUN Provisional Catalogue1978.
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Date: November 29 1978
Location: Richmond, KY
Time: 9:30 PM.
Summary: Three witnesses. A car had been chased down a rural road by a flashing UFO. At one time it shot a blue flame out of the front and the car stalled and the lights went out. After the car chase the object was seen to circle a house and surrounding fields at 100-300′ off the ground. It was cigar-shaped and about the size of the Goodyear blimp.
Source: MUJ-140,13
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November 30 1978, 0600hrs.
VENTIMIGLIA (LIGURIA : ITALY)
Dozens of fishermen between here and Capo Mele saw 6-9 very bright lights rising out of the sea. At the same time several people in Ventimiglia saw a bright noiseless object moving in the sky.
CUN Provisional Catalogue 1978.
Date: November 30, 1978
Location:Walsden, West Yorkshire, England
Time:18:00
Summary:in Walsden, West Yorkshire, England, on November 1978, late in the afternoon, Jenny had been horse riding and was returning home with her dog down the hillsides when something caused the animal to stop frolicking and, in a way it never did before or since, look up at the sky. Jenny followed his gaze and saw an object that she admits would have otherwise walked right underneath. It was a lens shaped craft with a neon blue body and windows or portholes on the edge. Surrounding it was a silver green mist or fog out of which it just seemed to emerge. Jenny says that she was transfixed by this majestic silence and was given an absolutely ecstatic feeling. As she staring at the object she sensed an alien voice tickling her mind during the altered state of consciousness she knew that she must have been in. The voice said plainly, “do not be afraid.” Instantly upon “sensing” this voice, she went from utter terror to “calm, peace and loving security.” Her next recollection was that time and space had become meaningless. Then, suddenly she knew that the object was about to leave and she felt terrible sadness. She pleaded for them to stay but she knew they had to go. She was told that she was not harmed and that she would be protected. Then the object split in two and trailing a shower of sparks, shot “like stones from a catapult” across the sky
Source: Jenny Randles, Alien Contacts and Abductions, The Real Story from the other side.
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