Most people in UFO circles are aware of the UFO wave of 1947 that, essentially, kick-started the Modern UFO Era, as well as the subsequent waves that followed throughout the fifties and sixties. Likewise, many are aware of the waves of airship sightings that swept the United States, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. There are, though, many other UFO waves, sometimes specific to a particular country, that have flared up since the second half of the twentieth century, all of which are as intriguing as they are unique.
Perhaps a good place to start with these all-but-forgotten UFO waves would be with a series of strange aerial encounters that took place just over two decades before the start of the Modern UFO Era in the summer of 1926 over Maitland in Canada. The first of these sightings was documented in an article that appeared in the July 7th, 1926 edition of the Courier and Freeman newspaper. The article detailed several sightings of strange objects that had been made in the previous weeks, with many of the details being remarkably similar to the reports that would be made over the decades that would follow. Reports of strange objects over Maitland had been swirling for several months, with the first of these coming from the communities on the outskirts of the city. The details of these reports were remarkably similar to each other, including the detail of some kind of “searchlight” stretching down to the ground from the underside of these strange crafts. One witness, Peter Cunningham, a local farmer, stated that these lights “moved rapidly” and seemed to be “attached to a flying machine of some description”.
Another farmer, who wished to remain anonymous and who was from the nearby town of Prescott, claimed to have seen a strange light moving over his farm one evening. He stated that “the head one” seemed to have some kind of “powerful searchlight” that was “turned downward”. He also claimed, like many other witnesses during the Maitland UFO wave, that the lights appeared to be looking for someone, or something, on the ground. Moreover, Cunningham further claimed that this searchlight caused his cattle and horses to become extremely anxious and agitated. It is also interesting to note that Cunningham, again, similar to many of the other reports, claimed that this object moved in complete silence.
One of the strangest and most interesting reports of the Maitland UFO wave unfolded in the Brockville region of the city. An anonymous woman claimed that she had seen bizarre lights near her home on two separate occasions. Each time, the lights hovered directly above her house at an altitude of no more than several hundred feet. However, unlike many of the other reports, she claimed to have seen a humanoid figure that appeared to be “enveloped” in the light and who appeared to be holding an object that appeared similar to a rifle. This last detail, incidentally, has caused many people to suggest that this, and perhaps many of the other sightings of the 1926 wave, were, in fact, bootleggers looking to smuggle alcohol across the border to the United States, which was still under the Prohibition laws.
Three decades later in Japan, a surge of sightings was reported throughout 1958, with a hefty concentration unfolding throughout the summer. In mid-July, for example, multiple people witnessed an “object resembling a flying saucer” fly directly over Chitose Air Base near Hokkaido. The encounter began at a little after 9 pm on the evening of July 17th, when a security guard noticed a strange object approaching the base. Not long after, a soldier in the base’s control tower noticed what he later described as a “reddish star-like object” heading in their direction at an altitude of around 300 feet. Moreover, as well as the two visual sightings, radar operators soon declared the anomaly to be on their screens. When news of the sighting leaked out into the wider public arena, the base was asked to comment further by members of the media and UFO investigators. Interestingly or not, a spokesperson simply stated that “no such incident occurred” and refused to comment further.
While the summer certainly saw the UFO wave of Japan reach its peak, there had been a noticeable increase in UFO reports since the start of the year. On the evening of January 31st, for example, several United States Air Force pilots reported seeing “12 yellow-orange lights” flying in formations of three just outside Tokyo.
Several weeks later, on the evening of February 19th, at a United States military base in Asoiwayama near Hokkaido, several military personnel, who themselves were in the middle of a training exercise concerning monitoring Soviet targets, suddenly noticed a “strange return” on the radar systems. Whatever the anomalous object was, it was over the Sea of Japan. Moreover, it seemed to be expanding, eventually covering an area that was 25 miles wide and 65 miles in length. Stranger still, the mammoth object then rose from an altitude of around 3000 feet to one of 46,000 feet. At some point during the incident, the military personnel realized that the five Soviet military jets they had been tasked with watching were also aware of the aerial anomaly, with each jet approaching the object before turning away. It is worth noting that a “mock atomic battle” was in motion in the region at the time of the sighting, leading some investigators to suggest that it was this military exercise that had drawn the interest of the intelligence behind these objects.
It is also worth our time exploring a sighting that took place in early 1959, an incident documented by Timothy Good in his book Above Top Secret. Good came into possession of the account through a source who had been given it by a former colonel in the United States military. Moreover, in what is perhaps a clear indication of the military’s awareness following the wave of sightings the previous year, “four F-106 Delta Dart jets stationed in Okinawa and Misawa had been instrumented to track and fire on unidentified flying objects”. In fact, according to the witness, who was serving as a Weather Officer at a military facility just outside Tokyo, on the day in question, two of these jets stationed at Misawa were scrambled to intercept just such an unidentified object. One of these jets, however, suffered a serious malfunction before even leaving the runway, meaning that only one jet went off in pursuit of the aerial anomaly. The witness listened to the entire episode from the command center as it unfolded.
According to the witness report, the pilot was vectored toward the object by those in the control tower. A short time later, the pilot reported that he “had it in sight”, describing it as a “circular, metallic object” with a “cockpit on (the) top”. He then asked if he should “make a firing pass”. The control requested permission to fire from the Pentagon, which was granted. The pilot acted on his orders and fired his missiles at the strange craft. Moments later, however, his voice came over the radio, and it was a mixture of confusion and fright. He stated that the missiles had connected with their target and detonated, but “did not hit”. He elaborated that they “detonated just at the edge of it – like an invisible shield”. Then, things turned even stranger – and decidedly more ominous.
Over the radio, the pilot stated that the object appeared to be turning and had turned on “some kind of beam”. The next time he spoke, the terror in his voice was evident, as he blurted out, “They’re coming after me!” With that, the pilot put his plane into an immediate dive in an effort to outrun the craft. As soon as he did so, however, the object moved in the same direction, and it was closing in fast. Within moments, the two objects became one on the screen, with radar operators stating that there was “no separation” between the two objects. Then, the blip simply disappeared from the radar screen. Despite searches of the area taking place for several days, the witness stated that “they never did find anything”.
One other point of interest during the 1958 Japanese UFO wave was the emergence of a group that called themselves The Cosmic Brotherhood, and who claimed to have made contact with an extraterrestrial race with a device named the Master Unit Communicator. This device, they claimed, converted “sound waves to light waves and vice-versa”. They further detailed how they conducted these communication experiments on the top of Mount Takeo, just outside of Tokyo. Of course, how genuine and accurate these claims actually were remains open to debate.
A decade later, throughout 1968, Canada not only experienced a UFO wave, but a wave of encounters with humanoid entities. One of the first of these encounters unfolded in Saskatchewan on the evening of January 10th near the Carrot River. According to the report, on the night in question, the two witnesses were sitting in their parked vehicle close to the river when they noticed a strange light moving ahead of them. Moreover, as it moved, the object appeared to flash a bright blue color. They watched it for several moments, noticing that it disappeared and then reappeared in a different location, and did this several times. After 10 minutes, the object began changing colors, while at the same time, they could hear a bizarre “thumping” sound that seemed to come from the nearby forest.
Then, moments later, the two witnesses saw “several objects” pass in front of their line of sight. However, rather than being some kind of mechanical vehicle, the witnesses had the distinct impression that they were, in fact, “some kind of animal”. Eventually, when it was almost 1 am, the couple started the car engine and set out for home. However, it didn’t take them long to realize that the glowing object was following them, moving erratically as it did so. They eventually brought the craft to a stop outside their home, but remained in the vehicle, watching the glowing light for several more moments.
The next thing they realized, the object was heading straight towards them. As it did so, it disappeared for a second or two before reappearing again in a different location. As this was happening, they noticed a bizarre formation of ice appear all over the car. Stranger still, within the ice was the clear outline of what appeared to be a human face. They eventually left the vehicle and went inside the house. Whether the face in the ice was an attempt at some kind of communication remains unclear.
Just under three weeks later, on January 29th at Keats Island in British Columbia, another equally strange encounter unfolded. On the afternoon in question, after having witnessed several objects from her lonely cabin over the previous days, an anonymous female witness looked out once more at a strange but captivating display of lights overhead over a nearby lake. On this day, though, not long after she first noticed the glowing objects, “two men in neat, dark coveralls” suddenly appeared and knocked on her door. The two men claimed they were “from the water company”, but the woman was not convinced, recalling how they appeared nervous and awkward. Stranger still, after the brief conversation, the two men simply turned around and left very suddenly. In fact, the witness recalled it was almost as if they simply disappeared.
Several months later, in early April, an even more remarkable incident unfolded. On the night in question, at a little after 8 pm, in the Chicoutimi region of Quebec, Mrs. Tremblay was walking from her home to a nearby restaurant. As she walked, she dropped her bag and knelt to retrieve it from the path. As she did so, however, she noticed a “hovering UFO” a short distance away, hovering overhead. She rose back to her feet, keeping the object in focus, noticing that a strange beam of light came from the object, as if it was scanning the ground below. Her intrigue turned to concern when the light set out in her direction, and a moment later, more out of instinct than anything else, she closed her eyes. When she opened them a second later, the craft was no longer there.
At this point, Mrs. Tremblay was more than unsettled by the bizarre events and decided to turn around and return home. Moments later, her house was in her sights. However, before she opened the door to the property, she became aware of “something white and human-like” in the shadows a short distance from her. She remained where she was and stared into the darkness. As her eyes adjusted to the shadows, she could make out what appeared to be the outline of a human form, approximately the size of a child. Although she couldn’t make out any of the facial details, she could clearly see that the humanoid had glowing blue eyes. Moreover, it was seemingly staring straight at her. Then, with no warning whatsoever, the figure vanished before her eyes.
These encounters only increased as spring gave way to summer. One of the earliest of these summer incidents (the exact date is not known) occurred in Sarnia, Ontario. The witness, a 10-year-old child, had been asked by their parents to switch off the outside lights at the back door of the property. As they were doing so, however, they noticed a “glowing white humanoid” standing a short distance away from the house. The young girl remained at the window by the back door and watched the strange figure. After several moments, it stood upright, revealing itself to be at least six feet in height. This movement caused fright to take over the witness, and she screamed as she ran to the living room to her parents. Although her father ventured outside and searched the area with his flashlight (he found nothing out of the ordinary), her parents essentially dismissed her claims as nothing but an overactive imagination.
Interestingly, at approximately the same time, at around 9:30 pm in Quebec, Mrs. BL and Mrs. AB were returning home after an afternoon and evening of shopping, the full moon providing extra lighting as they walked past a vacant lot. Then, without warning, the brilliant light of the Moon suddenly went out, plunging them into an environment lit only by the (by comparison) dull streetlamps. Just as the women adjusted to the lack of moonlight, its bright glow returned. Instinctively, the two women looked upwards, and were more than shocked to see “two figures floating several feet above the ground”. Moreover, the two figures appeared to be heading toward them. The figures both wore the same style, tight-fitting one-piece suit, and both had the same disturbing “expressionless” look on their face. Before the figures could get any closer to the two women, they turned and ran in the opposite direction, not stopping until the strange entities were out of sight.
Another curious encounter took place in late July in the Burnaby region of British Columbia. On the night in question, Joan Howard was drifting off to sleep when she suddenly heard the sound of two voices speaking in German. Moreover, from what she could hear, they were speaking about her. Joan later stated that she believed these voices belonged to her spirit guides, both of whom were Germans who had been “killed in World War Two”. With this in mind, she simply returned to sleep. Whether Joan was accurate in this assessment is open to debate. What is certain, however, is that these voices were simply the start of a bizarre and thought-provoking encounter.
She awoke a short time later and immediately realized she was no longer in her bedroom. Instead, she was in an environment that looked “a cross between the Moon and Mars”. Multiple figures dressed in clothing that looked like “space suits” moved around her, while in the background, she could see several tall, futuristic-looking buildings. Then, one of the figures approached her and immediately began asking her questions. To her amazement, she could understand the questions and began answering them. As this was happening, and perhaps suggesting she was in some kind of trance or state, several other figures carried out experiments and procedures on her body. It was at this point that she realized she was “looking down” on her body, as if she were in the middle of an out-of-body experience. Incidentally or not, almost as soon as this realization came to her, she felt herself rush back into her physical body. One last point of interest is that Joan claimed to receive further visions and downloads of information each night for several weeks following the incident, elaborating that the entities behind these visions and downloads were “instructors of the universe”.
At around 9 pm on the evening of July 2nd, three encounters unfolded with very similar details, with two of the encounters taking place in the same location. The first of these occurred in Ontario when several residents reported seeing a “bright object” land in a field. Even stranger, “several shadowy beings” emerged from this object and entered several of the nearby homes. Unfortunately, there are other details about these events. At around the same time, though, in Quebec, a local woman saw a green, hat-shaped object pass by her home. She immediately went to the window and was shocked to see around “20 small men, all of green color” through a window on the side of the strange object. Once more, there are no further details of the incident, so it is unclear if the object physically landed or simply carried on into the distance.
Half an hour later, also in Quebec, Constable Michaud and his colleague were on routine patrol when they witnessed “two naked little men”, each around three feet in height, running through the drainage system. Moreover, when the two officers set out in pursuit of the strange figures, several members of the public witnessed it, with several of them stating that the two figures simply disappeared into thin air.
Quebec would have several more similar encounters during the summer. On the evening of July 22nd, for example, in St. Bruno, six young girls claimed to have witnessed a bizarre figure appear in front of them, as if it were a ghostly apparition. Two of the witnesses even claimed to have heard a strange “soft and slow” voice appear in their heads at the same time. On the same night, this time in St. Basile, a young boy reported seeing a strange man who appeared to be “walking in the sky”.
Four days later, at around 3 pm on July 26th, two young boys were close to a local airport hangar when they witnessed a “three-foot grey-skinned humanoid” a short distance away. After several moments, the strange entity seemed to realize the two boys were looking at it and immediately turned and ran toward another, almost identical creature. Moments later, both of the creatures turned and ran into the distance, the two boys noticing that their movements were “stiff”.
Two days later, at around 9 pm on July 28th, in the St. Stanislas De Kostka region, five residents witnessed “two circular objects with brilliant red halos” overhead. Several moments later, one of the objects descended and appeared to land close by. With a single flashlight between them, the group decided to investigate further. Upon arriving where they believed the object had landed, they were confronted with the sight of a bizarre humanoid, around four feet tall, with a large head and no visible neck. The group immediately turned and ran back in the direction they had come and back to the house they were staying in. Not long after they arrived back at the property, however, the creature suddenly appeared at one of the windows, knocking on it several times. It remained there for several minutes before retreating from the house and returning into the darkness of the night. A short time later, the witnesses saw the object rise into the air and disappear into the night sky.
Around a week later, at around 5 am in the early hours of August 4th in Quebec, three friends, Guy Gagne, Jean-Guy Girouard, and Carol Marquiseach, were returning home after spending the night at an all-night fair when they noticed a “strange creature” walking by the roadside that appeared to be injured, with the witnesses later stating that it “used its hands to balance itself like a monkey”. The three friends watched the creature for several moments as it steadied itself against a lamppost. Then, without any warning whatsoever, it leaped high into the air and disappeared. A moment later, it reappeared, this time on the other side of the road. The three friends later calculated that the creature had jumped over 30 feet from its original standing position (a detail, incidentally, reminiscent of accounts of Spring-Heeled Jack, who terrorized many residents of Victorian England throughout the nineteenth century).
Interestingly, at the same time as the wave of humanoid encounters in Canada, on the other side of the Atlantic in Spain, a similar wave was experienced, with the key difference being that many of these humanoids were described as Reptilian. One of the most intriguing of these unfolded on August 31st in the La Yesa mountain range near Valencia. At around 4 pm on the afternoon in question, three friends and adventure seekers were in the area and decided to stop to rest and have something to eat. Moments after they stopped, they witnessed a strange and sudden “flash” overhead. However, as none of the three had any interest in UFOs, they all paid little attention to this aerial anomaly, at least to begin with. Several moments later, though, when one of the group – Mateo Chover – walked to the edge of where they were resting to relieve himself, he saw a strange, grey-skinned, muscular humanoid entity near a tree a short distance away. Moreover, the face of this bizarre creature was reptilian in nature, with eyes that seemed to glow red. Even more alarming, where its hands should have been were razor-sharp claws, a white helmet with a visor in one claw. The creature wore some kind of coverall, white boots, and some kind of “metallic box” on its back. He was certain the creature was not aware of his presence; instead, it appeared to be waiting for someone or something.
His two friends were now aware of his prolonged absence and so set out in his direction. He quietly motioned for them to remain quiet as they approached. They joined him, and for several moments, all three of them watched the strange creature. In fact, they were so focused on the reptilian entity that they hardly noticed the “black, metallic, cylindrical object” appeared overhead at an altitude of around 20 feet. Despite the close proximity of the object, none of the group could hear a single sound come from it.
At this point, a wave of fear swept over the three friends, and all three of them threw themselves to the ground to keep out of sight. As they were contemplating how they could move away from the edge of the clearing without being seen, a loud metallic sound broke the silence, quickly followed by a bright flash of light overhead. Still fearing what was unfolding, the trio remained where they were for several more minutes before finally raising their heads to view the scene in front of them. Much to their relief, the menacing creature and the hovering UFO were no longer there. They took several moments to compose themselves and then ventured to the area where the strange creature had been standing. They immediately noticed the damage to the tree, as well as a strong smell of sulfur. Perhaps most remarkable of all, though, were the large footprints that were still visible on the ground. They later estimated that the footprints were the approximate equivalent of a size 16 (50) shoe. They further estimated that the creature was at least seven feet tall and likely weighed between 20 and 25 stone.
The three witnesses then investigated the immediate area around the scene, eventually finding the entrance to a cave. They initially contemplated if the creature might have taken cover in the cave. However, after exploring the entrance for several minutes, they concluded that the vegetation was too thick for them to gain access to the cave, although we might consider if this overgrown vegetation was part of a cover for the entrance. Ultimately, the three friends decided to report what they had seen to the local police. To their shock, the officer they spoke with simply offered that “many other people had seen them” and that these strange creatures were “normal” for this part of Spain.
Whether there is a connection or not, only three nights previously, at around 7:30 pm on August 28th, retired police officer, Pedro Galvez, had his own interesting encounter. He was walking through fields close to his home when his entire vision was filled with a bright light. He looked upwards and saw a bizarre object descending out of the early evening sky. He later described this object as looking similar to a tire with a large beam of light shining upwards from the middle of it. Then, as the object moved across the field, the beam of light swung downward and struck Galvez in the face, temporarily blinding him. By the time his sight returned, he could see the craft had almost reached the ground. From this proximity, he could see several windows in the side of the object, from which a bright glow emanated. Suddenly, three small objects were hurled to the ground from the craft, but were then gathered back up several moments later (we might suspect these “objects” were taking some kind of ground sample). After several more moments, the object rose into the air before heading off into the distance with great speed.
Four years later, in 1972, a wave of UFO encounters spread throughout South Africa, with one of the most intriguing occurring on the evening of June 26th at Fort Beaufort in Cape Province. On the evening in question, farmer Bernardus Smith was working in one of his fields, checking on the irrigation system, when he noticed one of his workers rushing in his direction. The worker blurted out that he had noticed smoke rising into the air in the distance. When he had gone to investigate, he had discovered a “shiny object with a star on top” that shot suddenly upwards out of the trees before coming to a sudden stop and hovering overhead. The farmer followed his worker and was more than shocked to see the hovering craft exactly where his worker had said it would be. He later reported that it glowed several different colors, from red to green and then to yellow. The farmer rushed home to call the local police before returning to the location with his rifle and firing several shots. When the police arrived, they too opened fire on the craft. However, the object simply rose into the air and disappeared from the location, seemingly sustaining no damage whatsoever.
Several months earlier, at around 7 pm on the evening of February 12th, in Durban, several residents reported seeing a disc-shaped object hovering directly over the town before disappearing into the distance. The following night, at around 8:30 pm, this time in the Forest Hills region, several residents reported seeing a strange formation of egg-shaped objects passing overhead at considerable speed. In Inanda on the same evening and at the same time, several witnesses claimed to have seen an “ovoid-shaped” object appear, disappear, and then reappear several times in a 15-minute period before heading off into the distance.
Several weeks later, on the evening of April 1st in the district of East London, several “unusual objects” were reported by multiple residents who claimed they performed maneuvers unlike any conventional aircraft. Around six weeks later, on May 18th, a bizarre object was seen making equally bizarre moves in the skies overhead, with another almost identical sighting was reported over Vryburg Molopo Road unfolding at around 10 pm on the evening of June 5th.
At around 8 pm on the evening of July, as a commercial airliner made its way over Durban, a strange light approached it and remained alongside it for several moments. Then, without warning, the glowing object suddenly shot off into the distance. On the same evening over Johannesburg, approximately an hour later, an almost identical object passed by a Boeing 727 just after it had begun its descent to land.
The following evening, beginning at 7 pm over Port Elizabeth, multiple residents of the city reported seeing strange objects overhead, with many of the reports stating these objects were of different shapes and sizes. Only 15 minutes later, over Braeside, several residents claimed to have seen a disc-shaped object performing almost impossible turns in the early evening sky. In the early hours of July 5th, in King William’s Town, several residents witnessed a “sailor cap-shaped” object descend and land in a nearby field before suddenly rising into the air and taking off again. In fact, throughout most of July, sightings across South Africa were reported every night, and while the sightings began to slow down as August unfolded, there were still some intriguing encounters.
On the evening of August 16th, for example, in Roosboom, a truly strange “creature with a square head” and flames around his feet was seen taking off from the ground before speeding through the air. Around a week later, in the same location, a sighting of a humanoid figure that wore a shiny white suit and was around 11 feet tall was witnessed moving through the sky, a strange, white fog seeming to envelope it as it did so.
In mid-November, several reports of strange aerial anomalies were reported over Rosmead, while the following day, an almost identical object was reported passing over Rosmead School. Just short of a week later, on the evening of November 17th in Middelburg, Gert Pretorius and his wife were driving on the outskirts of the city when they suddenly noticed a round, glowing object descend out of the night sky. It eventually came to a stop a short distance above the ground several feet in front of them, forcing them to bring their vehicle to a stop. Moments later, they saw two strange figures emerge from the craft, each standing around two to three feet tall and shining a strange red color. They seemed to have something akin to a flashlight in their hands, as well as a backpack on their backs. The flashlight was extremely bright, making wherever the figures shone appear like day. Then, without warning, the flashlight went out, and a moment later, the strange craft rose into the air and disappeared into the night sky with a great sky.
Just over two decades later, throughout 1993, a wave of UFO sightings unfolded over Israel, many of which received considerable news coverage. One of the most intriguing of these occurred at around 3 am in the early hours of March 30th and comes to us from the research files of humanoid researcher Albert Rosales. According to the report, Aviva Carmel awoke in her bed with a sudden and unexplainable urge to go outside, something she immediately gave in to. Once outside, she could see a huge “silver metallic craft” that was hovering almost directly overhead. Aviva continued to watch as the strange object landed close by. She remained where she was for several moments before deciding it was safe enough for her to approach the strange craft and take a closer look.
Before she could reach the object, though, she noticed a bizarre seven-foot-tall humanoid standing in front of it. The figure was wearing a skin-tight garment that appeared to be made of a material that was similar to foil, as well as wearing a helmet on its head with a dark visor covering its face. She remained where she was for several moments before eventually deciding to discreetly return to the house. The following day, however, she returned to the scene and discovered definite markings on the ground where the strange object had been. Moreover, within the parameters of these markings, all of the grass and vegetation was dead.
Just over two months later, also in Kadima, in the early hours of May 13th, Danny Rotem awoke suddenly. Similar to Aviva Carmel, he had a sudden urge to get out of bed, get dressed, enter his car, and start driving. He did so, and as he was driving along a quiet road with a forest running alongside it, he noticed a strange egg-shaped craft on the ground ahead of him. Although he didn’t understand why, he brought the car to a stop, turned off the engine, and got out of the vehicle before he set out walking towards the strange object. Before he reached it, however, a strange figure suddenly appeared in front of him. This figure was around two to three feet in height and told Danny, directly into his mind, that “we were waiting for you”. Once more, without fully understanding why he was doing so, Danny followed this figure towards the landed craft.
The next thing he realized, he was standing inside the craft (it is interesting to note that he had no memory of physically entering the object, something that shows up in many other alien abduction cases). Moreover, the room appeared to be much larger than the dimensions of the craft from the outside would suggest. He also recalled seeing a large pillar that stretched from the ceiling to the floor in the middle of the room, another detail that also shows up in many other alien abduction reports.
He looked around the room and claimed he counted no less than 13 figures in the room. Two of these figures approached him and led him to some kind of side-chamber. Once more, a voice appeared inside his head, telling him that he was “on a mission” and that he would “know what it is in time”. One of the creatures stepped forward and made a small incision in his wrist. The next thing he knew, he was waking up sitting in the driver’s seat of his car.
Just over two weeks later, in the early hours of May 30th in Bourgata, Hannah Somech awoke at a little after 3 am to the sound of her dog barking outside. She got out of bed, made her way downstairs, and over to the kitchen window. As she looked out, and much to her horror, she saw the dog “fly through the air” and slam into the garden wall. Determined to go to the dog’s aid, she immediately went to the door and pulled it open. However, when she tried to step outside, she was prevented from doing so by some kind of “invisible wall” in front of her. On the other side of this invisible divide, she suddenly became aware of a humanoid figure wearing bright orange overalls and standing at least eight feet tall. She recalled that, in her mind, she contemplated if the man was a prisoner who was attempting to rob the house. Almost as soon as she thought this, a voice appeared in her mind that was seemingly a resentful question that asked her, “You think I am a thief?” A moment later, the strange incident turned even stranger.
The next thing she realized, Hannah was screaming out loud at the menacing figure, asking what it had done to her dog. The response once more came directly into her mind, with the figure seemingly stating that the dog had “disturbed” him, just as “she was doing now”. Then, as an afterthought, the figure stated that it could “crush her but didn’t want to”. At this point, Hannah turned and ran back to her bedroom to wake her husband. By the time they returned to the door, however, the creature was no longer there. The couple did search their yard and discovered footprints that were equivalent to a size 16 shoe in the garden, very similar, incidentally, to the footprint the three adventurers discovered in Spain. With this in mind, then, might we contemplate if this creature was, in fact, a reptilian entity? Ultimately, the incident remains a complete mystery.
Around the same time as the above sighting, this time in Rishon Le Zion, a local resident reported seeing an eight-foot-tall humanoid wearing “silver coveralls” suddenly materialize in their bedroom. It remained there for several moments before it floated out of the apartment, even going through the wall as if it were a ghost. The witness then looked outside and saw the strange figure float towards a mushroom or disc-shaped object. As it reached it, a “hatch” opened in the side of the craft, and two other strange beings emerged. It isn’t clear what happened next, although we might assume the humanoid entered the craft before it disappeared.
In more recent times, during the summer of 2008, a bizarre UFO wave struck Bucks County, a town around 30 miles north of Philadelphia. One of the most mind-blowing of these UFO encounters unfolded on the night of June 3rd, when retired contractor and businessman, Cliff Taylor, was walking his dog, Rusty, around the quiet urban neighborhoods. Although the walk was uneventful, though pleasant. Several hours later, when Cliff and the rest of the family were asleep, the night would take a remarkable turn. Cliff and his wife slept in separate bedrooms due to Cliff’s chronic snoring. Rusty slept at the bottom of Cliff’s bed, as he was this particular night. At around 4 am, however, Cliff awoke to the sound of Rusty’s agitated barks. He immediately noticed some kind of flashing outside the property, as well as the presence of a strange mist. He leaped from his bed and went straight to the window.
He stared through the thick fog-like mist outside and was able to make out what appeared to be a solid hexagon-shaped craft. Moments later, the aerial anomaly emerged from the mist. Interestingly, Cliff later described the movement of the object as being stop-start, as if he were watching an old cinefilm that had every other frame removed. He stated that the object was approximately the size of a modern sports stadium and appeared to move in absolute silence. Realizing he was watching something truly out of the ordinary unfold, he called out to his wife. She did eventually arrive at the window, but the object had disappeared. Needless to say, she dismissed his claims and returned to bed. Cliff felt a huge sense of frustration, certain that he had seen something very real. Despite making several calls to the police and the newspaper, Cliff could find no other reports. Several weeks later, though, the craft returned.
At around 4 am in the early hours of July 27th, Cliff once more awoke to the agitated barks of Rusty. This time, an intense electrical storm raged outside, sending random flashes of light across his bedroom. Sensing something strange was afoot once more, he immediately made his way to the window and looked outside. There in front of him was the huge mothership-type craft he had seen several weeks earlier. It was as he watched the mammoth craft that he realized what he thought had been lightning was actually intense flashing lights on the underside of the object.
At this point, Cliff rushed to the front door of the house and ran outside. As he stared up at the craft, he realized for the first time that the mothership was, in fact, five or six individual vehicles that were somehow linked together. He later stated that each of these individual crafts was at least the size of a commercial airliner. The object eventually disappeared into the distance once more. Cliff Taylor, however, was now certain that what he had seen, on both occasions, was a vehicle that appeared to be of otherworldly origin.
It is interesting to contemplate why such a craft – or combination of crafts – should appear in the exact spot twice in several weeks. Is there some kind of portal or gateway close to the Taylor property, one that allows access from one realm of existence to another? Or could there be some kind of extraterrestrial, or even top-secret military base close by? Or could it be that there is something, unknown to us, of intense interest to the intelligence behind this strange craft? Of course, there were many more sightings of strange objects in Bucks County in 2008, so we might consider where the sightings of Cliff Taylor sit within this wave of sightings.
One of the first significant sightings of the 2008 Bucks County wave unfolded several months earlier, at around 10 pm on March 28th in the Montgomery County region. On the night in question, a resident was walking his dog when he noticed a strange object moving at a particularly fast pace. He watched the object for several moments before continuing on his walk. Several minutes later, however, he became aware of “four unusual looking shapes” that appeared to be heading towards him. Moreover, these four objects were moving at a significantly lower altitude than the object he had seen several minutes earlier. He noted that these objects were seemingly moving in complete silence, and each had a flashing red light at the top. The objects got closer and closer. At the last moment, however, they suddenly changed their direction and headed away from them.
At this point, the witness was more than unsettled and quickly made his way home, immediately informing his wife of what he had just witnessed. As he did so, he made his way to the window and looked outside. He was more than shocked to see the four objects, seemingly circling overhead above his house. He called out to his wife, telling her to look outside the window. She did so and saw the bizarre display for herself. Their son joined them moments later and also saw the four strange objects. All three of them agreed that the object appeared to be “looking for something” on the ground. They remained visible for almost 15 minutes before finally heading off into the distance. When they did, the family came away from the window, thinking the night’s events were over. However, moments later, the roaring sound of several military jets passed overhead. Of course, whether the jets’ presence was pure coincidence or not remains open to debate.
Another significant sighting occurred on the evening of April 20th in the Falls Township area, when a local woman woke in her apartment to hear her dog growling intensely. She noticed that the dog’s attention was on the sliding doors at the back of the room. Moments later, she heard an ominous “ripping” sound, “like someone was ripping someone’s (window) screen”. At this point, she got out of bed and looked out of the window, noticing “an object hovering around the sky”. She immediately backed away from the window, stating later that she “thought I would be sucked up, that’s how believable it was”. She decided to wake her husband, and they both watched the object from the apartment window. It remained visible for almost half an hour before it simply vanished.
Only three nights later, during a baseball game in Newtown, multiple people saw an “orange fireball” scream out of the sky. The night after that, on April 24th, near the Lincoln Highway, a resident was smoking a cigar on the deck of his property when he noticed an “egg-shaped UFO” flying in a straight line directly above the road. Then, as the man looked on in awe, the object suddenly dropped “straight down like an elevator” before it hovered for several moments just below the clouds. After several moments, it shot off into the distance, disappearing within seconds. Multiple other sightings of a very similar nature were reported over the following weeks, with one witness stating they saw a “disc-shaped object fly out of the clouds” from the downtown Bucks County apartment. Even stranger, a Bucks County police officer reported seeing an object shaped like a “sideways comma” moving silently across the sky before it morphed into a shape he simply couldn’t describe.
At around 4:20 am on the morning of June 3rd, a local man was sleeping when, for reasons he couldn’t fully explain, he suddenly awoke and felt a compulsion to walk over to his bedroom window. When he looked outside, he could see what looked like a “small cloud” that appeared to be heading in his direction. As this cloud got closer, he realized it was a solid object that looked like an “elongated hexagon”. He later stated that the object was approximately 100 feet by 100 feet and was flying at an altitude of around 500 feet. The object circled his house, remaining completely silent as it did so. Then, without warning, the object ascended into the sky with great speed.
A similar encounter unfolded several weeks later on the evening of June 23rd, when a Bucks County resident was taking pictures of “weird cloud formations”. When she viewed the pictures later that evening, however, she noticed that the cloud formations looked more akin to some kind of “vortexes”, perhaps the remains of a portal that an anomalous craft had just passed through. Of further interest, the witness reported seeing several black helicopters in the sky as she was taking the pictures. Only two days later, at around 1 am on June 25th, a “boomerang-shaped object” with blue, white, and green lights was reported by a resident who happened to be standing on his front porch. The witness claimed that a strange sound alerted them to something strange taking place, a sound that was “similar to a passenger jet but not as low and at a higher pitch”. The sound caused them to look upwards, which is when they noticed the strange craft moving across the sky “fairly low to the ground” and at a “fairly slow pace”. They noticed that the object had white lights on its underside that were evenly spaced out and contained a “football-shaped body”. On the evening of July 2nd, multiple people witnessed strange lights hovering directly over the Oxford Valley Mall, while on the same evening, multiple people also reported an orange light that was “falling from the sky” over I-95 between Bucks County and Philadelphia.
In the early hours of July 8th, several reports came from Bucks County residents of two orange lights, both different sizes, hovering overhead. On the same evening, multiple reports of a “pink light with blue fog” as well as “three other bright lights” were received. Two nights later, on July 10th, multiple residents witnessed a bizarre craft that appeared to be sending “fairy dust” down to the ground. At just before noon on July 16th in Philadelphia County, a resident noticed a bizarre “H-shaped object” hovering overhead. She watched the object for several minutes before it disappeared behind the trees at the roadside. When she reported the sighting later, she stated that the object was completely silent and moved much more slowly than one might expect. Moreover, she claimed that the craft reminded her of an X-Wing fighter from the Star Wars movies.
Undoubtedly, one of the most intriguing sightings occurred at around 10 pm on August 3rd, close to Philadelphia International Airport. The witness was on their apartment balcony when they noticed a strange “humming sound” coming from above them. Moments later, he could see a “bright ball of light” moving across the sky at a significant pace. He noticed immediately that the glowing object was moving much slowly than an airplane would, making him realize that he was seeing something completely out of the ordinary.
As the fall of 2008 turned into winter, sightings of these strange objects began to slow dramatically. During a MUFON conference in January 2009, it was noted that sightings in Bucks County had tripled during the calendar year of 2008. It is important to note, however, that sightings of strange aerial objects continue in Bucks County, as well as the entire state of Pennsylvania, today. It is also interesting to note, although we won’t detail them here, that during the Bucks County UFO wave of 2008, reports of Bigfoot encounters also increased, most often in the same (relative) locations as the UFO reports.
It is important to note that the waves we have highlighted here are but some of the many lesser-known and almost forgotten UFO waves from history. The fact is, there are more flare-ups and surges of sightings of strange aerial objects around the planet than many people might think. Indeed, there are most likely many more that have yet to be recognized, hidden in plain sight as random encounters that are not connected. In fact, it is very likely that if every single UFO report were recorded, correlated, and placed in some kind of global database, we might find that these UFO waves are not waves at all, but a constant barrage of strange objects traversing our skies.
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