Dear P-47 List,

I have sifted through tens of thousands of UFO reports from many
perspectives, and one impression I have gained is that there is something
remarkably strange about the similarity of UFOs encounters that occur on
the same month and day, in different years!

I haven't yet come up with a good working hypothesis for the cause of
this phenomenon, which I have nicknamed the "same time next year" syndrome.
But I am reasonably sure I may be onto something important. I would like to
invite you to judge whether I am deluding myself!

Here is some of the wild speculation that I have briefly entertained as a
possible cause for what I have been seeing in the data:

1) Perhaps with UFOs we are dealing with somekind of time traveling phenomenon
that winks out in one year and comes back in future years. It may not actually be
"gone" in the spatial sense, on in the temporal sense.  This sounds very far-
fetched, but I can cite you instances of places (so-called UFO hotspots) that have
the same or a similar object show up on the same date over multiple years, and
engage in the same type of behavior.

2) Perhaps UFOs are indeed extraterrestrial in origin, and because planetary orientations
need to be correct for travel, similar events tend to occur at the same time of the year,
maybe within a day or so each year.

3) Or perhaps we are faced with a "many worlds" phenomenon--one in which the UFO
occupants come from different versions of parallel Earths, but some constants or
spatial invariants are necessary for passage from one world to another.
One restraint might require entering and exiting parallel worlds from the
"same location" to avoid materializing in an adverse situation or solid rock.

4) Or we might be dealing with a psychological phenomenon where we humans are
predisposed to react to the same seasonal or geomagnetic stimuli that cause similar
kinds of hallucinations or delusions.

As Mark Twain once quipped, "Science is wonderful. You can get such a wholesale
return of conjecture from such a trifling investment of fact!"
But I have looked at a LOT of data--probably a good deal more than most of you,
my esteemed colleagues--so I am going to be presumptious and tell you that
my hunch is a hunch, but at least it is an educated hunch.

If you are skeptical about my assertion, so much the better! Be my sounding board
and check it out for yourselves. To this end I have begun writing a daily report of
incidents that occur on the same calendar day of the year. If you would like to get
on my free email distribution list, please let me know.

I will endeavor to complete a report for each day of the year. Due to time pressures,
some reports may be shorter than others, but I will do my best to send you a report
on the same anniversary of each calendar day. What follows is today's report as a
sample of what's to come:

Encounters with aliens on this day...

November 13th.

On this date in 1833 a series of incidents involving a luminous aerial object and the fall of mysterious jelly-like
substances were reported in New York, New Jersey and Ohio. At dawn in West Point, NY, a woman milking her
cow saw a luminous object descend "with a sposh" sound. She discovered a flattened, jelly-like transparent mass.
By 10:00 in the morning it had sublimed and disappeared. The same kind of jelly-like substance was found on the
ground in Newark and Rahway, New Jersey. In Poland, Ohio a luminous object in the northeastern sky, at dawn,
hovered for nearly an hour. It was described as very brilliant, and was shaped like a "pruning hook." Earlier, at a
short time after 2:00 a.m., a luminous object was also seen in the sky at Niagara Falls, New York. It was shaped like
a square table, remained stationary in the sky, and emitted rays of light. (Source: Gordon Lore, Jr., Mysteries of the
Skies: UFOs in Perspective, pp. 60-61.)

In 1939 a building foreman drove past a deserted farm and heard a high-pitched humming sound. He looked and
saw a gray, bell-shaped object hovering over a nearby field. It had dark windows on its side, and a curtain of green
light underneath, which retracted upwards as if solid. (Source: Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A
Preliminary Catalogue of  UFO reports in the Early 20th Century, p. 17.)

At both Opheim Army Base and Glasgow AFB in Montana in 1952, an unidentified flying object was picked up
on radar between 2:20 and 2:43 a.m. There was visual confirmation of the UFO by military personnel near Opheim.
 (Source: Project Blue Book, case 2220.)

In 1957 a UFO exploded over the State Hospital in Crownsville, Maryland at 9:10 in the morning. Fragments were
recovered and sent to the US Air Force for analysis. (Source: NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1958, p. 5.)
On this same date a UFO was seen high in the sky east of Port Broughton, South Australia. It drifted slowly toward
the northwest. (Source: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere, p. 160.)

In the year 1960 in La Londe, France, a domed disc-shaped UFO was spotted sitting on railroad tracks. It made
no sound, and shafts of orange light periodically shot out from the object. It rose vertically, folded its landing
gear, and shot off straight up. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, case 512.)

A man and woman were driving down a road in Cranleigh, England at half an hour past midnight in 1967 when they
encountered a heavy fog and were required to stop.  A face suddenly appeared in the car window, and an arm
reached up to the roof of their car. As they hurriedly drove off they could see the face and arm attached to a dark,
conical body, but they saw no legs. They also reported the odor of burnt food at the time of their encounter with the
entity. (Source: Flying Saucer Review, January 1968, p. 15.)  Later that evening an EM effects UFO close encounter
was reported in Arnheim, Holland. (Source: Flying Saucer Review, January 1968, p. 33.)

In 1971 in the desert of Lucerne Valley, California, three men were out on a hunting trip.  At 5:15 p.m. they saw a large,
yellowish-white light land in the distance, and a smaller light approach their campsite.  In the ensuing minutes they
heard twigs snap, and were startled by a loud unintelligible cry. They left their campsite in haste.  Returning to the
site during the daytime with UFO investigator Anne Druffel, they found 3 12"-14" circular imprints arranged in a
triangle 12' apart. (Source: NICAP UFO Investigator, October 1972, p. 2.)

In an apparent abduction attempt, in 1973 a UFO hovered over a car and "tall, thin, green occupants" tried to stop
it on highway 1470 two miles east of Poteet, Texas.  Paint peeled from the car due to something dripping from the UFO.
(Source: Austin Evening Statesman, November 14, 1973; David Webb, 1973: Year of the Humanoids, p. 20.)
Other reports of nocturnal lights seen flying in the sky that evening came from California, Yugoslavia, and Spain.

In 1974, close encounters occurred in Norwalk, Connecticut, Antigo, Wisconsin, and Rockford, Illinois. A cattle
mutilation case occurred south of Olney, Texas on the same day as a humanoid report from Antigo, Wisconsin.
(Source: George Eberhart, A Geo-Bilbliography of Anomalies, p. 359.)

On this night in 1975 a number of multi-colored nocturnal lights were reported in the midwestern and southern
United States. Sparkling white, red, and yellow lights flew in formation erratically in Whitewater, Wisconsin. Red,
green, and white lights were sighted in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, moving up-and-down and diagonally. In Fort
Atkinson, WI bright white lights that dimmed, disappeared, and then re-appeared were sighted. In Mobile, Alabama,
a UFO, changing colors, moved across the horizon.  A round silver object was seen moving slowly in the northwest
sky in Orlando, Florida. It suddenly disappeared. (Source: CUFOS News Bulletin, February 1976, p. 13.)

In 1976 in Chandlers Ford, England, a couple saw a silver-suited man near a supermarket, seven miles away from
another CE-3 report. (Source: FSR, February 1977, p. 6.)

On this evening in Silverton, England, in 1978,a large pulsating light buzzed four men in a car, forcing the driver
to stop the car. In Espanola, New Mexico, a mutilated cow was discovered. The rectum and udder had been removed
with surgical incisions. (Sources: UFO Newsclipping Service, January 1979, p. 11; Richard Hall, Zetetic Scholar,
Volume 50, p. 48.)

Another radar-visual encounter occurred in Greece in 1981. UFOs returned for the second night to the Hortiati
NATO Air Base, were picked up on radar, and witnessed by police in Thessaloniki.  NATO jets were scrambled
to intercept the unknowns, again without success. (Source: IUR, January 1982, p. 12.)

In 1989 Hungarian Air Force training flights were paced by orange UFOs near Kecskemet, Hungary. The UFOs
were not picked up on radar. (Source: FSR: December 1990.)

In 1991, at about  5:30 p.m., a couple driving a car in Douglas, Georgia saw a silver, triangular-shaped UFO with rounded
corners. It emitted an arc of white light. A second identical triangle the appeared, and the two UFOs circled a nearby
lake. The UFOs moved erratically, sometimes at a slow speed, sometimes very fast. (Source: MUFON Investigation
Files Database, case 930404J.)

A farmer at half an hour past midnight in on this day in 1993 was putting goats and chickens away in a barn,
when he heard noises from the bushes. He found one of his goats dead with puncture wounds, and with internal
organs missing. He then saw a short, hairy biped  run into the woods. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid
Contact Database, case #2661.)

Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D.
Compiled from cases in the UFOCAT database.

Themes that occur more than once: failed abduction attempts, maneuvering nocturnal multi-colored objects,
radar-visual reports, cattle/goat mutilations, and the fall of gelatinous or liquid substances.