On This Day   Encounters with Aliens on this Day   October 6
1952 - A cigar-shaped object was seen in Oran, Algeria at 6:30
p.m. At 7:28 p.m. two witnesses onboard an Air France DC-4
flying over Draguignan, Var, France sighted a white
luminous object that looked like an elongated egg with a bluish-
white tail. (Sources: (1) Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal,
October 1987, p. 18; (2) Aime Michel, The World of Flying
Saucers, p. 145; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters,
p. 19).  1954 - In the predawn hours a 30-year-old mechanic,
Joseph Roy, was returning home by motorcycle on National Highway
51 from Reims to Rethel, France. Near the Isles-sur-Suippe he
noticed a sharp reddish gleam on the road ahead of him. It
suddenly disappeared, and when he arrived at the point where he
had seen the light he noticed an odd looking object in a field.
It was about three meters in length and had the form of a large
artillery shell with several portholes on the front. He was also
able to distinguish a vague dark silho